The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 2

Page Two D AILY WORK Yorkville Anti-Nazi lsc Entire Meet Will Demand Thaelmann Freedom Protest Also Aimed At Activities of N. Y. Nazis NEW YORK.—Anti-fascist workers of all will gather this evening at 7:30 at Karl Schurz Park, 86th Street and Avenue A., to demonstrate against the Nazi terror, the imprisonment mann and thousands of others in German torture camps. This was announced late yester- day by the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism which, together with a number of supporting organizations, has ar- ranged the anti-fascist rally. Among the organizations which have given ig and called upon their ships to attend the rally, are the Anti-Fascist Action, the Jewish Workers and People’s Committee Against Pascism and Anti-Semitism. the National Student League and other groups. After trying again to see Mayor LaGuardia and President Deutsch of the Board of Aldermen, the com- mittee yesterday called on Police Commissioner O’Ryan. Deputy Com- missioner Fowler informed them that he was out of town, and added that the previous decision to refuse a permit for the parade would have to stand. He continued on the same line he had taken in previous inter- views about “invading enemy terri- tory” and “inviting disorder.” Fow- Jer added this time, that many of the Nazis in Yorkville were armed, declaring that in searches revolvers had been found in their homes, but | that the police were unable to do anything about this, since they had produced licenses. The demonstration tonight, which follows a series of preparatory meet- ings and rallies throughout the city, is being held on the anniversary of | the burning of Marxist and other books by the bestial Nazi regime in Germany. class organizations trade unions and youth organiza- tions, are urged to attend in mass. 1200 Demonstrate For Picket Right In Buffalo Strike Strikers, Sympathetic Workers Mass To Hit Brutality (Special to the Daily Worker.) nationalities | | 2 Arrest 3 in Yonkers |, Strike of Teamsters || As Cops Fire on Men YONKERS, N. Y.—Police here arrested three strikers Tuesday after a scrimmage broke out be- tween the teamsters and drivers who have been on strike for a week, and the police. The excuse of the police is that the strikers hurled rocks at a truck of the Delaware Coal Co., |] which was being driven out by a scab and which was guarded with two policemen. The officers fired at the group of strikers and made three arrests. Cops Try to Keep Seamen Off USSR Ship Protest to Baltimore Editor Makes Him Take Back Lies Budd Wheel Night Shift Fire 300 at Chevrolet Plant Two on | Monday (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, May 9%-—-The entire night shift of the Budd Wheel Com- pany was discontinued yesterday, most of the workers being laid off while some were transferred to the day shift. Layoffs are also increas- ing at the Chevrolet, Midland Steel Products, and other plants. On Monday, 300 were laid off at Plant} 2 of Chevrolet alone. The layoffs| are being used by the companies to speed up the remaining workers in order to maintain production. The Auto Workers Union is issu- ing leaflets at various shops calling on the workers to demand two weeks lay off pay and the passage) of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598). | In order to prevent any struggle ‘against the lay offs, the Detroit News yesterday carried a front- page story from Washington with the headline: “Act to cut lay offs in auto industries.” The story, which is in the form of an inte view with Gen. Johnson, is actually a rehash of a similar piece that ap- peared in the Detroit Times over a month ago. At that time it was {as an interview with Dr, Leo Wol-| | man, chairman of the Automobile , Labor Board. The Detroit News ar- ticle is thinly-concealed manufac- | turers’ propaganda, talking vaguely | about steps that are discussed even Gutters of New York h del STATION CLOSED By MARGUERITE YOUNG |More vaguely to eliminate seasonal | unemployment. Johnson cited two (Special to the Daily Worker) plots te s so-calle ans whic! are eing BALTIMORE, May 9—Protests by | “considered:” (1) The elimination the Western Maryland Railroad,’ of auto shows and the bringing out which shipped scabs in to break the of new models in the late Summer | Norfolk Longshoremen’s strike last and early Fall; (2) The staggering week, brought out the Baltimore! announcement of new models by six Police from the inspector down to-| companies over the entire year. day to keep the unemployed seamen | It is clear that these plans even from crossing the road's “Private! ir nut into operation, will not in- Property” to board the Soviet ship crease employment but are intended Comsomol. | to stagger the work in an effort to The seamen marched en masse to'prevent any organized struggle “BOARD OF EDUCATION “The City of New York. “Dear Parents: See that your child drinks from one pint to a quart of milk, eats fresh fruits, vegetables and an egg every day. Cod liver oil, or some other form of Vitamin D is also of special value. These are the ‘protective foods’ which help to maiatain good nutrition. ‘May I count upon you to help us make every school child and those of pre-school age, 100 per cent fit—well nourished, keen of sight and hearing, free from dental defects, sound in heart, lungs and limb, and mentally and emotionally adjusted to life, “Very truly, “HAROLD G. CAMPBELL, “Superintendent of Schools,” Soviet Union Grants Jewish Autonomy to Biro-Bidjan Area | Seamen’s Article by Marguerite Young To Appear Tomorrow The third article of the series “Labor Rouses the Waterfront,” which deals with f waterfront relief in re and after ¥ led to appear unavoidably delayed, appear in tomorrow's Following this article, the fourth in the series, “Who's Who in the Seamen’s Movement,” will ap- year. Mobilize All | Japan Plants | for War Tes | |Far Flung Maneuvers Planned as War Comes Nearer the conditions jaltimore (Special to the Daily Worker) | Japanese military authorities de- | cided in the near future to conduct a test of the mobilization of in- | dustry with the aim of determining its maximum productive capacity in war time. From June 26, for four days, simultaneously with air maneuvers at Osaka, military authorities will conduct a test mobilization of all {Osaka factories producing arms equipment and food for army re- quirements. Osaka is the leading industrial center of Japan. ank Merriwellvs. BabeRuth NCE proposed to Gilbert ‘Fr | I write his biography. | Alger, Jr., was nea Patten, the original Burt L. tandish, the author of the Frank Merriwell series, that At that time a biography of Horatio ng publication, and one of Patten would | have been a successful complement. It was, indeed, surps |ing that both these individu- |als had so far been over- looked by the worthies of the pen. They heroes, for more than a third of a century, for nearly all the lit- erature-flamished boys in the coun- | t cigar or stationery store had produced | ae due to him, I believe, th at every boy wanted to be & pitcher on the baseball team. It was not until Babe Ruth be- came the home- run king that the mode changed to bat- ting. With the ad- | i\ the latest installment of the| Babe Ruth vent of the exploits of the dashing Frank or to/ Babe, began the decline of Frank. pore over again the inspiring tale! Patten, by his emphasis on base- |of the fiddler or bootblack who was | ball, served as one of the most ace | honest, persevering and industrious | tive propagandists for the indus- and married the boss's daughter, to| try; and in the end the one feally become a millionaire in the end./ captivating figure created by base- More boys pictured themselves in| ball captured the interest of most the romantic shoes of Merriwell or|of Patten’s readers. In the 1920's | of one of Alger’s heroes than those} youth grew up old and quickly esti- who pictured thems¢lves as John L.| mated the false content of Patten’s Sullivan. Alger wrote books on end/and Alger’s scenes; and for ath- and Standish or Patten produced a /letic idols they had live characters. book a week for 20 years. |In the 1920's the ballyhoo of the hewspapers in the sports field Patten, however, intended to write | ; His nah. samolte, ond lake reached its zenith. The Dempseys, |to buy TOKIO, May 9 (Via Shanghai) —; Members of all working | the dock after the Baltimore Sun improved upon the slander tech | nique of the capitalist press in the! Soviet ship “KIM” incident. | Following today’s event, they |marched to the newspaper office, | sent a committee in to see the City | against the layoffs. | The interview with Johnson also| pie a ESS quotes him as saying that the refugees who are invited to partici- Works Councils proposed by Roose-| pate in building up an autonomous | velt in the auto settlement is the| Jewish Republic in Biro-Bidjan.” | only set-up which the N. R. A. pro- Limitless Opportunities | vides for, while the majority rule} They cited the folowing words| (Continued from Page 1) | Factories participating in the test/ mobilization will receive war office} orders at the end of May.. | the shine and selling power of his The newspapers here report the) effort, my idea met with his mis- forthcoming big maneuvers of the| givings. Eventually I dropped the air forces and the fleet near the| project. Patten never wrote his Island of Hokkaido. Simultaneously) autobiography and I contented my- | big air maneuvers, with the partici-| self with merely writing a piece |pation of numbers of planes and| about him in the New York World. | new types of armaments, will com-|T did not hear about him again till mence at Formosa, off the Chinese!T came across a publicity release, | coast, near the Province of Fukien.|for his radio debut, in the New The plan for the maneuvers pro-| York Times a couple of weeks ago, vides for the mobilization of the en-| which quoted my old article in the | tire civilian population. |World. The sage of Merriwell was | being established on the air-waves. btog- raphy would have detracted from ‘Reign of Terror in pix s,s: 20" some. ‘mediaeval vaporings of a credulous life of a saint. One can see that the radio imprésarios have chosen Birmingham, Tw and groups, | | Editor to protest while the ranks! scheme which the National Labor | remained outside singing and boo-| Board had been using to fool the| ing the newspaper's lies, and won| workers’ is illegal under the N. R. A. the editor's promise to print their Johnson thus reaffirms the govern- statement tomorrow. Their resolu-; ment’s stamp of approval on the| tion, adopted unanimously in mass | company union plan which was ac-| meeting, declared: “We seamen pro-' cepted by the A. F. of L. officials. test against these vicious lies and! F A are prepared at any and all times! iy Sa a ee ie to sacrifice our lives for the work-| Secretary of Labor Perkins, who ing class in the interests of the| joined the campaign to smash the | Workers’ Fatherland and for the: srowing struggles of the auto | defense of the Soviet Union.” | workers against layoffs. Perkins’ | The second mate of the Kom-| statement, issued in Washington | somol told the seamen today, “The| on the heels of a similar state- | railroad is protesting against a large crowd coming across its docks.” | Captain Robert Cepurit, skipper! would solve the unemployment of the ship, earlier had wired An-| problem. Just like Johnson, this ton Becker, secretary of the a et darling of liberals dodges burning |more Branch of the Marine Work-!' issues of layoff, pay and unem- \ers’ Union: “Replying to your tele-| ment of Gen. Johnson, makes the | demagogic claim that spreading production over the entire year ployment insurance, as well as | of the Arab population, a bitter- | | by the present government, would BUFFALO, N. Y.. May 9.—Twelve | gram, there are no restrictions vis- hundred aircraft workers. striking | iting my ship except for the danger | under the leadership of the Aero-|to visitors while the ship is dis-; nautical Workers Union. and sym- pathetic workers massed today in McKinley Square in front of the City Hall here to demand the end of police brutality and for the re- moval of the armed thugs attack- ing the picket lines. A committee was elected to place these demands before Mayor Zimmerman. Police Chief Higgins and Sheriff Offer- man The Marine Workers Industrial Union marched in a body from their headquarters bearing placards reading. “Marine Workers Support Aircraft Strike.” “Protest Police Brutality” and similar slogans. Speakers at the meeting included | Chancey Cook. President of the Aeronautical Workers. Union; Isa. dore Greenberg. Union Attorn McCueston of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union; Mrs. Wroble, strikers’ wife, who was beaten un- conscious on the picket line, and Henry Kuhlman, Communist candi- date for Mayor last year. The committee elected at the meeting reported back that the of- ficials had dodged them and re- fused to be interviewed. Greenberg called for the continuing of mass picketing and for packed courtrooms during the trial of the arrested pickets. West, speaking for the Young Communist League, urged the youth to support the strike, pointing out that the strike hampered the war plans ef the “New Deal.” Workers booed the statement of the police captain that the police sympathized with the strike. Yesterday the foreman of the plant and company-paid tools can- vassed the homes of the strikers in the attempt to recruit scabs. The company expected two to three hun- dred workers to go back under this pressure, but only six workers re- | turned to work. A conference will be called to rally mass support for the strike among the workers of the city. Wisconsin 7-0288 Dr. N.S. Hanoka Dental Surgeon 261 West 41st Street New York City 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 | DR. EMIL EICHEL ' DENTIST ' 150 E, 93rd St. New York City Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8838 Bours: 9 4. m. to 8 p.m. Sun. 9 tol Member Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fond | charging.” \ An Outright Lie | Becker had telegraphed the cap- | tain inquiring about visiting regu-' lations after the Sun reported today | headlined: “Unemployed Seamen; | Not Wanted On Soviet Ship.” This was an outright lie, cooked up from} | the fact that a few seamen yester- day were chased off the dock by | the police. It was another step in} |the campaign the entire capitalist | press of this city is conducting to| | smash the unemployed seamen'’s or- | | ganization and worker-controlled employment agency. These seamen, whose heroic mili- |tancy won them self-determination of Federal unemployment relief to| seamen, remain organized although |the government cut off their sup- |plies in response to acknowledged protests by shipowners, American Federation of Labor officials, the U.! S. Shipping Board and others. Re- maining solid, they have succeeded in gaining the relief officials’ prom- ise to again finance the seamen’s! | project on the waterfront, with rec- | |ognition of seamen’s “Advisory”| |committees. The relief officials, | however, are discriminating against | militant marine workers and are’ shipping men from their own tran- sient bureau in an effort to break, |up the seamen’s centralized ship- |ping bureau. The men remain solid /in heroic revolutionary spirit andj discipline. | Inspector Thomas Mooney of the | Baltimore police met the seamen on the railroad dock where the Kom- somol is tied up, and said, “Wait a minute, this is private property. They don’t want you crossing here. The captain of the ship doesn’t want you.” Who Says So? | “Who says so, about the captain?” | the seamen asked, naming a com- | mittee to see the captain. Nine; |uniformed and about 15 plain-| clothes police and private company dicks stood around. The inspector agreed to get a representative from! |the ship. The second mate came. | Walter Stack, of the union, pro-| | tested: “We know the captain will’ | be subject to pressure this company puts on him, and that the company will try to use Soviet-American re- | lations as a weapon to prevent any | show of international working-class solidarity.” The mate spoke in Russian, A storekeeper, standing nearby, agreed | to interpret. He said he didn’t hear the mate say the company was pro- testing—he only heard, “We don’t want any demonstrations—can you come back while this ship is not being worked?” But one of the marine workers also understood Russian, having sailed on Soviet ships, and he supplied the full translation. When the committee; reported to the men, they turned in perfect order and marched away, singing and cheering the Soviet ship. Then they walked the several miles distance to the Sun. | | | | 4 terrific speed-up which is con- antly squeezing workers out of jobs. | 3,000 Cheer Vets in N.Y. As Men Leave: For Washington (Continued from Page 1) | ing, and the coming National Con- vention, were eagerly seized by the vets as they pulled out for Wash- ington. More contingents of vets will leave | New York svery day from Post 1 of | the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League at 203 E. 15th St., Manhattan. Ac-| companying the contingent were two | uniformed nurses from the Nurses | of Lord Marley, member of the} British House ‘of Lords and World| Chairman of the Committee to Aid| Victims of German Fascism, who| visited Biro-Bidjan in October, 1933: “The number of Jews who could | be received in Biro-Bidjan is quite unlimited and there is no problem of an existing local population to be dealt with. Whereas in Pales- tine the number of Jews able to | be received is strictly limited, there is a widespread and increas- ingly bitter opposition on the part ness which, it has been laid down be intensified if there were ex- cessive Jewish immigration. “So strong is this feeling that the British government has oniy consented to participate in the work of the high commissioner (appointed by the League of Na- tions to deal with refugees—Jew- MICHAEL KALININ, President of the Council of Peopie’s Com- missars of the Soviet Union, who signed the decree establishing the Jewish national autonomy of the Biro Bidjan region, | were banished to Northern Siberia.” | ish and others—coming from Ger- many) provided that Palestine is excluded from his field of action | in finding new homes for the | refugees. | “None of these difficulties arise | with regard to Biro-Bidjan, and the Soviet Government has of- fered free transport, free land to suitable Jewish families who are willing and desirous of going to | Biro-Bidjan, who are ready to take part in the normal commu- nal life of the area... .” In a pamphlet published recently by Icor, Lord Marley refutes the many lies spread by petty-bourgeois Jewish nationalist groups about this “arid” and “bleak” territory to! which the Jewish people of the So- | viet Union are “banished as, in the) days of the Czar, revolutionists Marley, who spent some time in and Hospital League. | travelling through Biro-Bidjan, de-| More than a thousand copies of | clares: the “Liberator,” organ of the League| “The country consists of wide of Struggle for Negro Rights, were valleys either completely open or taken along to Washington by Sol) lightly wooded with low hills on | Harper, one of the commandants of the New York contingent, and a leading member of the LS.N.R. | Among the organizations repre- | sented by vets in the contingent) were the American Legion, the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, the Dis- abled Veterans of America, and the Independent Crippled War Veterans, isa NEW YORK.—Flat refusal was the answer given by LaGuardia’s secretary to the war veterans on their request that they be permit-| ted to march to City Hall yesterday on their way to Washington. The reason given to these vets,| who marched dgwn Fifth Ave. when | they returned from the battlefields of the last imperialist war, was that the Chamber of Commerce and the Grand Jury objected to such pa- rades. A delegation of vets was told that) LaGuardia could give no opinion on the vets’ Three-Point Program be- cause “that was a Federal matter.” ‘The delegation wrung a promise that | no vet now going to Washington would be taken off the city relie: rolls. . Workers Strike at the Brooklyn Robe Co. NEW YORK—The Bathrobe) Workers’ Union is conducting a strike against the firm of Goldstein Robe Co., 103 Thatford St., Brook- lyn, because of a refusal to grant ‘wage increases. | Tomorrow after work there will be an important meeting of the bathrobe workers at Irving Plaza Hall. | MASS MEETING ON ©. P, CONVENTION CLEVELAND, May 8A mass meeting on the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party will be held Friday, & pm. at 14,101 Kinaman Pl, under the auspices of the Communist Party, Section either side covered with fir, oak and birch and with thick undergrowth. The whole effect is very beautiful and the natural growth of flowers, of which there are 250 varieties, has rendered possible the wide organiza- tion of bee farms (each consisting of about 1,000 hives), from which the honey is produced, which is so well known in the Far East. “The soil is fertile and produces good crops; there is plenty of water, in some cases too much; but drain- age operations have already been carried out and the possibility of flooding in the argicultural areas is now no longer a danger. The cli- mate is extremely healthy. In sum- mer it is hot, but not too hot for comfort in winter it is cold with snow, but with a brilliant sunshine similar to conditions in Switzerland. The rainy season is concentrated into about six weeks, round about the month of July, and the rest of the year sunshine can be counted on as normal.” In granting autonomy to this fruitful region, the Soviet Union is continuing a policy which is basic to its Marxist-Leninist principles. Lenin, as far back as 1914-1917, de- clared in “The Imperialist War’: “Imperialism is the period of an increasing of the na- tions of the whole world by a handful of ‘great’ nations; the struggle for a Socialist interna- tional revolution against im- perialism is therefore impossible without the recognition of the rights of nations to self-determin- ation. ‘No peoples oppressing other peoples can be free’ (Marx and Engels). No proletariat recon- ciling itself to the least violation by ‘its’ nation of the rights of other nations can be Socialist.” This policy was again, and more specifically, stated in the famous decree of Noy. 15, 1917, in which the Soviet Government established the that time People’s Commissar of Nationalities). The dictatorship of the proletariat already achieved, the decree stated: “The workers have been freed from the tyranny and caprice of the capitalists, for from now on the control of the enterprises and fac- tories by the workers has been |established. All that is living and vital has been freed from hated bondage, “Now there remain only the nationalities of Russia, who have suffered and still suffer from op- pression and tyranny. Their free- dom must immediately be worked for, and it must be brought about resolutely and irrevocably.” “A book recently published here by International Publishers—A. Rysa- koff's “The National Policy of the Soviet Union”—is indispensable for anyone who desires to understand the policy and actions of the U. S. S. R. in this field. It sets forth the principles which guide the country and which are necessary to those who would combat white chauvin- ism and petty-bourgeois nationalism in the United States. In his introduction to Rysakoff's | book, P. Glading declares that ‘One would have to be quite naive to ex- pect the League of Nations [mem- tioned by Lord Marley above—E.R.] to appear as the champion of op- pressed national minorities in gen- eral. ... The League of Nations is itself an imperialist device for oppressing and deluding the na- tional minorities in the colonial and semi-colonial countries.” The crass imperialist nature of the League of Nations’ activities makes the new Soviet decree in re- gard to Biro-Bidjan (particularly in this period of the spread of world reaction, when the Nazi terror at- tacks the Jewish people with relent- Jess cruelty and virulence) of notable import to all struggling minorities. From its very inception, the So- viet Union has striven with all its energies to stimulate and encourage the native talents and creative as- pirations, economic, political, cul- (Continued from Page 1) | Mine Mill and Smelter Union have} already made an agreement with} the employers that they will not conduct picketing. The power lines of the De Bardeleben Coal Com-| | pany were wrecked. The Southern} Railway trestle near coal valley was also wrecked, as was the trestle on the Southern Railway, between} Oakman and Coal B Valley. | | A reign of terror against militant | workers and against the Communist Party is being prepared in Birming- | ham. Six workers were arrested in Birmingham and are being tried on | | charges of “vagrancy,” tomorrow in) Judge Abernathy’s court. charged with “vagrancy” are Jean | Myers, Negro woman representing \the International Workers Order, | and five white workers, Blaine Owen, Harold Ralston, Carl Wilson, R. 8. Harris, and Holland Williams. The charge against Jean Myers is being pressed first because she is a Negro. The International La- bor Defense, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League are providing legal defense and de- veloping a mass protest against the arrests. Six hundred workers on relief jobs at Gadsden are being held under \guard. The Birmingham Post, trying | to develop a “red scare” and fas- cist terror against the Communists, reports that Communists are; “threatening violence” there. Three hundred Department of Public Works workers struck yesterday and one hundred and ten struck in Fairfield, the heart of the T. C, I. territory. The three Britling gafeterias, the Butchers Hill A and P are on strike. White students of Birmingham, Southern and Howard College are being recruited as scabs. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. coal miners have offered their un- conditional assistance to the ore strikers. The six arrested workers, after asking for their constitutional rights, were told by Assistance Chief of Police McDuff, “S--t on your con- stitutional rights.” Resolutions are being introduced into all workers’ organizations, including union and strike meetings, denouncing the ar- rests as an attempt to terrorize the workers out of fighting for higher wages and union recognition. The resolutions demand the immediate unconditional release of all six ar- rested workers, the right of free speech and assembly without police interference, the immediate removal of McDuff for denial of constitu- tional rights he is sworn to uphold, and demanding recognition of the labor unions in all Alabama enter- prises. The statement of the Communist Party on the arrests, in a leaflet distributed today, emphasizes that the raids and arrests came as the result. of the fear of the employers of the growing strike movement of the workers, and because of the splendid May Day demonstration, tural, of its many nationalities.| which took place in spite of the eee aan aan eat greatest peace time mobilization of Lozowick, Harry F. Ward, Avram Yarmolinsky, Ella Winter and num- berless others who have travelled widely in the U. S. 8. R. have given ample testimony to its success in this field. To the great number of nation- alities which today proudly take part in Socialist construction as autonomous republics in the Soviet Union, leading the revolutionary advance of the world proletariat, the autonomous region of Biro- Bidjan is-now added, a beacon light to the oppressed Jewish people in a decaying and malignant capitalist world, proof that only under So- cialism is real freedom—not the freedom to which every exploiter equality of its nations. This decree 3. Discussion will follow. Admission free. is signed by Lenin and Stalin (at and pervert gives lip-service—pos- sible. Jenke forces ever seen in Birming- m. The Communist Party’s statement points out that the workers of Bir- mingham cannot be stopped if their fight for better wages and conditions by the terror launched against them. They do not have rabbits’ blood in their veins, The city firemen of Birmingham are demanding wage increases to $45 a month. The coal miners have found that the N. R. A. “raise” on which they returned to work, has become a pay cut, because the em- ployers are now making enormous allowances for washer losses. SECTION 3 MOBILIZATION NEW YORK—All members of Section 3 must come to West 18th St. and 11th Ave, at 12 noon today. Killed, Six Jailed = the subject unerringly. Merriwell and the Alger heroes are exactly the ype held up as beautiful examples by the beautiful characters who to fill the minds of impressionables with golden dreams of what virtue men were honest and troubled in their volumes and always repaid a kindly deed. Lofty men, blessed with more than their share hearts. The villains were rarely they were recruited from the work~ ing class. It happened, furthermore, that not only did the poor boy rise to eminence on his own account but usually the end of the book proved Those | that he was actually of aristocratic | | Parentage. Neither Patten nor Al- ger ever ventured to give any kind of authentic picture of the life con- temporary with their heroes. Their figures were the boldest clay. Yet, Patten told me that he sent Merri- well to Yale because he considered Princeton and Harvard the seats of the aristocracy. Pha wea | ERRIWELL, of course, was pri- marily an athletic hero. He was the greatest baseball player, foot- | ball player, basketball player, rower Capitalist Press Again Incites Race Hatred With Lies “NegroAttack” on White Woman Like Central Park Fake NEW YORK, May 9.—That the capitalist press is again inciting race hatred is seen in the sensational stories being carried today about a Negro “gorlla man” and “hammer man” who is accused of assaulting Mrs. Angelina Barbieri of 24 Flush- ing Ave., Brooklyn. The stories are reminiscent of the Central Park blood-curdling of the newspapers less than a year ago, when a non-existent Negro was ac- cused of having attacked a number of women. Innocent Negro workers were dragged in and beaten by the police for the benefit of the boss- controlled press. A series of ter- roristic campaigns was begun by the police against all Negroes who ven- ‘tured in or near Central Park. In , the end the police were forced to Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, that the story was a whole fabrication, engineered in the back-rooms of the Police De- partment. These organizations forced the Commissioner to apologize publicly for the murderous scheme. ‘The attack on Mrs, Barbieri is re- ported as the third one to have been committed. It bears all the ear- marks of the traditional frame-ups of southern rapes. A radio alarm has been broadcast and 35 detectives have been or- dered, according to the newspapers, to search for the “attacker.” The , Negro and white workers must see | to it that the bosses’ police do not use the Negroes of Brooklyn as they did their New York brothers when the last “attacks” were broadcast. 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When he hit two homers less than a week ago every sports page in New York, and, for all T know, throughout the country, featured the news in the head- lines, and followed quickly after with the information that he was now tied for the lead in both leagues. He has been buried year after year and I myself have mourned him in print twice, but he still remains the glamorous, incomparable Babe, getting $35,- 000 a year and worth it, if we consider, like the baseball mag- nates, what he draws in at the | box-office. The great debate over the “live” |ball, which might have been ex- |pected to lower the standing of |home-run hitters in the judgment |of the baseball fans, never affected his popularity. * . E will go, of course, eventually, a3 we all go, but, I think, unlike Frank Merriwell and the Alger stuffed ones, he will not be forgot- ten. (Who reads Merriwell and Al- ger now? The history of sports after the proletarian revolution will perforce chronicle his deeds. Christy Mathewson, whose pitching is hard to belittle, was not his equal either in color or in value at the box- office. Ty Cobb has received many & laurel, but Babe is a better all- around man than Cobb was. Ruth was once, too, a superior pitcher and as a right fielder he is second to none. They used to couple his name with McGraw’s as having done most for professonal baseball. But McGraw’s contributions were | puny n comparison with his. Mc- | Graw was a hard-boiled soul who could think baseball. Babe Ruth is |@ synonym for baseball. | Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE | St. Louis 110 000 208—9 14 8 |New York 004 400 000-8 7 1 |__Weaver, Wells, Knott, Blaeholder and Hemsley; Van Atta, Uhle and Dickey. Detroit 022 000 0004 9 4 Beston 040 010 O0x—5 7 & Larking, Sorrell, Hogsett and Cochrane; | Rhodes, Ostermuciter and Legett, Hinkle, | chicago 002 041 010-8 13 0 Washington 000 000 100-1 3 1 Gaston and Ruel; Burke, Prim, Linke and Klumpp. Cleveland 000 100 111 0-4 12 3 Philadelphia 111 000 010 1-8 9 1 Pearson, C. Brown, Hardner and Spen- cer, Myatt; Marcum, Dietrich, Kline and Berry. | NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 000 000-0 5 6 St. Louis 121 000 00x—4 10 1 Salveson, Castleman, Smith and Man- cuso; J. Dean and V. Davif. Brooklyn 104 002 020— 915 3 Chicago 033 040 0Ox—10 20 1 Beck, Perkins, Lucas and Lopez, Ber- ress; Bush, Root and Hartnett. Boston 210 030 112—10 18 8 Cincinnati 010 010 100— 3 12 2 Brandt and Spohrer; Kolp, Syl Johnson, Benton, Lindsey, Shaute and Lombardi. Philadelphia 902 010 201-6 11 8 Pittsburgh 090 000 200-2 7 0 Devis, and Todd; Lucas, and Grace, Padden. AFL Workers Shout To Hear Strikers LONG ISLAND CITY.—The strike at the Garside Shoe factory con- tinued yesterday and at a meeting of the Boct and Shoe Fitters local a call was distributed by the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union urging the workers of the local to le Shoe a demand came from the floor to permit committee of strikers to address the members. All fitters arose in support of this demand, Danner, the strikebreaker, and Sil- verman, another leader of the union, rejected this demand. The workers shouted them down. A committee was elected to in- ee the repre upon which was placed the notorious Sazarsky and Heid, agents of the I. Miller Co. A general membership meeting of the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers Union will be held tonight at 5:30 p.m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Irv- ing Place and 15th St., N. ¥.C. All members are urged to attend this meeting, 7 ' } { ' \ ao y