The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1934, Page 2

Page Two DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, T Robless to Hit! | Police Terror At Mass Meet: BULLETIN A committee of seven from the Committee of One Hundred to protest police brutality was re- fused an audience with Mayor La Guardia at 5 p.m. last night. La Guardia, who had conferred with police earlier in the day, and who had previously been notified of the appointment, was stopped by the committee as he left the City | Hall. “I make appointments here.” La Guardia told the delezation, ‘and you can tell that to the rest of your agitators.” Assuming the air of a czar, he turned on his heel and, surrounded by his min- ions, left in his ear. NEW YORK—LaGuardia’s cops matched y in clubbing unemploye ers at the demon- stration at 50 Lafayette St. Satur- day when at a signal from Mag- ate McGee of Criminal Court Sunday, scores of police clambered over seats, slugged the workers at-| tending the trial, forced them to} the street, and in a'series of attacks, slugged women and men alike, and lunged vicious kicks at the groins of} those lying prostrate on the street In this third attack in two days by New York's “finest,” (next to the) Nazis the largest aggregate group} of sadists of any police force in the world) even the New York capitalist press is forced to caustic comment “Berserk Cops Beat Couple at Red Trial,” reads the headline in the New York News. “Woman kicked; husband felled; teacher is knocked out,” reads the sub-head of the New York American. “Police brutality, so often charged) by jobless demonstrators, was a Shocking reality yesterday morning in the street outside Tombs Court,” reads the Daily News story. The Times, printing only “news that’s fit to print,” gives one lying paragraph to the assault, stating “Patrolman Dobier seized the woman and she fell to the side- walk, Then two detectives bent over her, as if to help her to her feet.” This new attack upon the unem- ployed of New York exposes the re- lief policy of the LaGuardia admin- istration in its true light. No longer able to put off the unemployed with empty demagogy, LaGuardia is at- tempting to smash the rising mili- tancy with open and unrestrained terror. Home Relief Bureau applications continue to soar, until during the first of May, 1,925 new applications are made each day. In the face of} growing demand and need for relief, the LaGuardia administration seeks} to slash 20,000 from the relief roils by June 1. Another 20,000 “work re- lief” employes face firing on June 1. Instructions to Home Relief super- visors state that no rents will be paid for the month of May. The International Labor Defense and the United Defense Committee today appealed to all witnesses to the police..clubbing of the unem- ployed at the demonstration Satur- day, and all workers who witnessed the brutal assault upon the workers in the court room Sunday to appear in Tombs Court, Franklin and Cen- ter Sts., today at 9 am. The ILD urges all workers and all workers’ organizations to go to Mavror La- Guardia and Police Commissioner O’Ryan demanding a public inves-| tigation of the police brutality. Demonstrate June 2 The Committee of One Hundred and all affiliated organizations in an emergency meeting on Sunday called for a mass mobilization of all workers at 50 Lafayette St., Satur- day, June 2, at 10 a.m., to again de- mand that the Welfare officials meet with the elected delegates of the un- employed workers. The demands of the workers are> no cutting of relief, rescinding of the order to cut off 20,000 from Home Relief, no firings of relief work; payment of rents, ete. The Unemployment Councils and the Relief Workers League are continuing to send mass delegations to the Home Relief Bureaus to mob- ilize the workers for the demonstrat- tion on Saturday, June 2, at 10 a.m Pack the Court Room today! Demonstrate at 50 Lafayette St, Sat., Tune 2, at 10 a.m. WOCOLONA, All those interested in renting tents for this summer please at- tend a meeting to be held on Thursday, May 31st at 8 P. M., at 114 West 14th Street. to Ta Darrow N.R.A. Repor Browder k on NEW YORK.—Earl secretary o Browde ve., un ict Committee of the Commu rty Pravda’ Discusses‘ Soviet and League 1) (Continued f Page h the} tion of peace, ci ng fo greatest irritation those coun- tries whose governing circles set themselves the objective of force | and a military solution of the im- | perialist contradictions. “In his speech, the French Min- | ister of Foreign Affairs also men tioned France's interest, and the invitation to the U.S.S.R. to join) the League of Nations. In a num- ber of other countries, mainly small ones, fearing that they will be unable to resist involvement in the conflict between the big im- perialist powers, and become vic- tims of these conflicts, recer the idea has acquired increasinz popularity that only the partici- pation of the USSR. in the League of Nations could convert it from an_ organization which | separate great powers try to ufi-| lize for their imperialist aims, into an organ at least somewhat facili- tating the struggle against the war danger. “Actually Japan and Germany, leaving the League of Nations, are | namely, countries Which do not even consider it necessary to hide their determination by rearma- ment to realize annexations and wars. Their imperialist appetites put forward the question whether the League of Nations cannot to a certain extent, become a gathering place for forces, which, regardless of motive, are prepared at present to retard a bloody solution of the contradiction, facilitate at least the relative strengthening of peace. “The dialectics of the develop- ment of imperialist contradiction which led to the fact that the old League of Nations, which was planned as an instrument for the enslavement of small, dependent} and colonial countries, and prepa- rations for anti-Soviet intervention, | turned out, in the process of the struggle of imperialist groupings as an arena in which, as Litvinoff stated at the last session of the Central Executive Committee of the USS.R.: “Apparently. that trend — is triumphing which is interested in the preservation of peace. This perhaps explains the profound change noticeable in the compo- sition of the League.” “Even before the speech of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, | a turbulent discussion commenced in the international press around the project of inviting the U. S. S. R. to join the League of Nations. Imperialists Fear Soviet Peace Policy “Opponents to this invitation, primarily, turned out to be coun- tries which recently left this body, because to a certain extent it ham- pered the fulfillment of their ag- er ive intentions. It is very cu- rious that the press, precisely in these countries, commenced an aim- less discussion of the subject of the conditions of invitation, or accept- ance of the U. S. S. R. of the League of Nations. This discussion was without object because the question of invitation or non-invitation of the Soviet Union in the League in general does not depend on these countries. The question of the ac- ceptance or non-acceptance of a} possible invitation will be decided only by the Soviet Union, based en- tirely upon the interests of the struggle for peace. “The very presentation of the question of invitation to the Soviet, Union to join the League of Na- tions is new proof of the growth and international importance, of the prestige of the Soyiet Union, the country of the victorious con- struction of the socialist society, the country whose uncrushable power is the most important power for peace. “The forces striving to destroy this peace are afraid, not without reason, of the growing international importance of the Soviet Union. These forces who are striving by a military explosion of their contra- dictions, regard the U. S. S. R., as retarding them as long as possible, because it is the leading force in FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION —Calls All Worke BIRO BIDJAN in MADISON SQUARE GARDEN June 2nd, 1934 @ The National Committee of the Friends of ‘Tie Soviet Union heartily endorses the celebration of the granting of autonomy to Biro-Bidjan, to be held in Madison Square Garden on June 2. It is with joy that we were informed of the complete autonomy given to the Jewish republic of the vart of the Soviet Government, is of course in line with its steadfast policy to completely liberate all National minorities within its borders. Workers and farmers of America, Negro and white, all friends of the Soviet Union, are urged to join in the celebration of the historic step taken in granting republic of Biro-Bidijan, Admission 25c, 50c, 75¢ and $1.00 Stations BRONX: Workers Cooperative Colony, Restaurant, 2300 Bronx Park E., Bronx; Rap- paport & Cutler, 1327 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, N. Y. MANHATTAN: Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union, 131 W. 28th St., New York; Workers Bock Shop, 50 E. 13th St., New York; Morning Freiheit, 35 E. 12th St., New York; Jewish Workers University, 108 E. 14th St., New York: Icor, 799 soadway, New York, Room 514; Friends of the Soviet Union, Room’ 238, Women's Council, Roem 535; Internationsl Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York. 799 Broadway, New York: TROOKLYN: Gridstein's Book 253 Crean View Ave. Bri -and 86th 8t.. Bath Beach. Store hton Beach 38 Sutter Ave., Brownsville; Bresiau's Restaurant, rs to the Grand— CELEBRATION Biro Bidjan. This decision, on autonomy to the Jewish Soviet. 799 Broadway, New York, Male) n's Bock Store, 20th Ave, the struggle for peace. 8 \ iy or- nployment worker ashing aside legalistic ob- s placed by Attorney Har- for the Auto-Lite Co. and despite efforts of Judge St squelch him, he presented e Unemployment Coun- wed how its efforts ned to organize the joint struggle of unemployed and employed to raise the living stan-| dards of all workers. Ostheimer, | repeating the speech he made on the picket line, said The N. R. A. is the injunction | of the capitalist class aga the orkers. Section 7A is not intended to give the workers the right to or- ganize, but is an open ofiensive of he bosses to smash the unions. The v. R. A. is a move to introduce m, and injunctions are a part and parcel of its machinery. The Unemployment Council calls fer mass picketing and violation of the junction.” Ramsey Caused Workers Arrest sth’ mer revealed it was Thomas Ramsey, business agent of the A. F. of L. Federal Union leading: the Auto-Lite strike, who pointed him | out to Sheriff Krieger on the picket line, thus causing his arrest. President of Auto-Lite Subpoenaed | Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney for the Civil Liberties Union, here | to defend Louis F, Budenz, Secre- | tary of American Workers Party,| one of those up for trial, agreed | to collaborate with Attorney Lamb of the International Labor Defense in joint defense. Hays has subpoenaed C. O. Mi-) niger President of the Auto-Lite, | and J. A. Minch, Vice-President, as witnesses to prove the company was paying wages even below the open shop Automotive Parts N. R.| A. code and was using the injunc- tion’s weapon to prevent workers from organizing in unions of their own choice. Police Terror Brought Ont Harrington, company lawyer, fought bitterly to prevent testimony from being introduced to show police have been invading workers’ homes and rounding up anybody suspected of radical tendencies, bu this was finally allowed. Ostheimer | declared members of the Unemploy- | ment Council have been thrown} into jail for venturing within sev- | eral blocks of Auto-Lite plant. “The company has hired dep- | uties,” Ostheimer said, “Who | have thrown gas bombs and | beaten workers; they have brought | in National Guards who have killed and wounded workers, using dum-dum bullets, and created a general state of terror against the Toledo working class.” Two other defendants, Budenz and Sam Pollock, Educational Di- rector of the Lucas County Unem- ployed League, also testified. Bu- denz, repeating speech he made to} the workers on the picket line, | based his opposition to the injunc- tion entirely on legalistic grounds, that the injunction violates the law. Both, he and Pollock told of events leading up to the attack on | the picket line last Wednesday by! company-paid deputies using gas| bombs and steel slugs, which re- Sulted in arousing the entire work- ing class and calling in of the Na- tional Guards to mow them down. Minor Speaking During the noon recess a meeting was called by the Unemployment Council, the I. L. D. and Commu- nist Party, in Court House Square meeting now going on with Robert Minor representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, speaking. A militant spirit prevails. Others who have ,spoken are A. Onda, State Secretary, Unemploy- ment Councils, and Sam _ Stein, State Secretary of the I. L. D. I. 0. Ford, Communist candidate for Governor, also is slated to speak. Eddie Blakely, Young Communist League Section Organizer, is sched- uled to come up for trial this after- noon. This afternoon about 50 workers, who were arrested after the National Guards attack Satur- day night, also come up for trial in police court. Among them is I. Greenberg, member of the National By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK.—Worried over the growing strike sentiment among seamen, firemen, cooks and stewards on the ships sailing out of the big Atlantic harbors and Gulf ports, the Seafarers’ Council, an organiza- tion of waterfront labor misleaders, sent a hurried telegram last Sun- day to President Roosevelt, urging him to force through the shipown- ers’ code, the chief object of which is to outlaw strikes. The strike sentiment, which is spreasing from ship to ship, is crystalizing around the code of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and has reached a point where a general walkout looms all along the east coast and in the Gulf of Mex- ico. The telegram sent to Roosevelt by the Seafarers’ Council says: “Unrest of seamen in the Port of New York approaching the point of strike due to the fact of shin- ping erde now delayed more than eleven months. Unless code is adopted at once strike in New York unavoidable. Leaders of unions unable to hold men much longer. Danger of strike spread- ing to entire Atlantic and Guif coasts. Both ships and harbor craft will be involved. If a strike of seamen, firemen, cooks, stew- ards and licensed officers of sea- going vessels and officers and crews of towboats and other craft is to be prevented it is necessary that a 1 shipping code be made without further delay. Appealing te you on behalf of workers to prevent trouble.” Among the signers of the tele- Y me Daily Worker. PRISONER: CRIME! tn. by del ‘One Shot on Docks | In New Orleans (Continued from Page 1) y two blocks from the waterfront | Despite this edict strikers rushed a} police cordon, broke down a barrier) and boarded the lumber ship Noyo, |cleaning it of strikebreake: | Two Oakland lumber mills have| closed down as a result of the strike, and a large San Francisco mill an- |nounces that it will do the same. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 25 (By |Mail)\—The Los Angeles Times ad- | rday that where radical R » ‘kKers to win are NAME of PRISONER: Mother crime: Qemondlialid | | Seamen and Dockers | Picket in Baltimore “Police have rounded up many dangerous crim- inals since Commissioner O’Ryan’s widely-heralded crime drive.”"—NEWS ITEM. Mass Meet and March at Rutgers Sq. Wednesday NEW YORK.—East Side workers will mass at Rutgers Square Wed- nesday. May 30, and at 5 p.m. start a march to the home of Congress- man Dickstein of the 12th Con- gressional District, at 306 E. Broad- way, demanding that he endorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) and sign the mo- tion to release the bill from the House Committee on Labor. The line of march will pass the Gold Dust Lodge and be joined by the flop house unemployed. Harry Raymond, Daily Worker staff writer, William Wattenburg of Columbia University, Joseph Brandt, C. P. section organizer, and Jack Anyon of the Relief Workers League will be the main speakers. Milton Stone will preside. Executive Board, of the Auto Work- ers Union. Mrs. Yetta Land, Cleve- land I. L. D. Attorney, will defend him. This morning at the shop gate an enthusiastic meeting was held at the Chevrolet Plant by the Auto Workers Union in preparation for strike action. The meeting of the Chevrolet workers takes place to- night. Thousands of leaflets, issued by the Unemployment Councils and the A. W. U. are being distributed calling on the workers to send del~ egates to tomorrow night's United Front conference and to elect rank and file committees in every shop to lead the general strike. The leaf- let exposes the treacherous delay tactics of the A. F. of L. leaders and calls for united struggle for the following demands: Immediate withdraw of Na- tional Guards, unconditional re- lease of the arrested workers, for the right to organize, strike and picket for support to the Auto- Lite, Bingham Stamping and Logan Gear strikers, removal and prosecution of Sheriff Krieger, for passage of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), and against the murder of the workers, for compensation to their families of those killed and wounded. Yesterday two workers, one of them a Negro, were arrested in the battle zone for selling the Daily Worker. The A. F. L. leaders, ai the meet- ing of the Edison Company workers yesterday, who had voted to strike today, succeeded in postponing ac- tion till Thursday, while Govern- ment mediators work overtime to smash the struggle. If general strike is to come, Toledo workers will have to override A, F. of L, mis- leaders and take matters into their own hands. Nat'l Youth Day Parades To Hit War and Fascism (Continued from Page 1) Day demonstration. Workers and organizations are urged to protest. ay as ee Force Permit in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, May 28. — A week of protests forced the Fair- mount Park Commission to grant a permit to hold the National Youth Day Demonstration on Reyburn Plaza Wednesday. The Commission had granted a permit, but withdrew it last Mon- day after a conference of delegates from 29 youth organizations had voted to become the permanent, youth section of the Philadelphia League Against War and Fascism. The Commission had seized on the opposition and withdrawal of the Trotzky-renegades and Y.P.S.L.'s to rescind the permit. The demonstration will be pre- ceded by a street run from 13th and Thompson to the Plaza, where young workers and students will gather at 1 p.m, Biceaas St. Louis Workers Parade ST. LOUIS, May 28.— With the protest against the arrival of Hans Luther, Nazi Ambassador, as its main slogan, the National Youth Day demonstration against war and fascism will be held Wednesday, 10 a.m., at Leonard and Easton, from where young workers and students will march north on Grand to Fair- grounds Park, where there will be speeches and athletic events. A per- mit was forced from city officials. Luther arrives to speak at the National Saengerfest held by Ger- man fascist groups here. There will be a protest demonstration before his hotel, 12th and Lucas, on Thurs- day. The Cuban Knights Club, Union Boosters, Young Democrats, Y. M. H. A. groups, Young Communist: League, trade union groups, and others are expected to participate, The Young Peoples Socialist League has instructed its members to stay away. Ch ae eee Three Parades in Cleveland CLEVELAND, May 27.—Three pa- rades will rally the young workers and students into one large demon- stration against war and fascism here on National Youth Day, May 30, at the Public Square at 2:30 p.m. The parades will start promptly at 1:30 from 55th St. and Scovill, 55th St. and St. Clair, and W. 25th St. and Market Square. “Where radical unionism is weake: shipping suffered least from the strike,” admitted the Times editorially on May |Ryan Attempts to Move Ships SEATTLE, Wash., May 28.—In an attempt to break the longshore | and seamen’'s strike, Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, has proposed that all ships bound for Alaska be released. The Marine Workers Industrial Union. is urging the men not to fall into Ryan’s trap and to vote against the proposal. eR CRD BALTIMORE, Md. May 28.— Police arrested Walter Stack, sec- retary of the Waterfront Unem- ployed Council, and four other seamen, when seamen _ revolted against a government forced labor plan and began picketing the re- lief project, and lumber handlers struck under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union a block away from the project. The government relief officials attempted to get the unemployed seamen to work for 90 cents a week. Scabs recruited by the company were turned back by pickets. Po- lice attacked the pickets. Seamen an longshoremen fought back sticks as the police drew and arrested Stack and four others. The increase of terror on the watefront is making the seamen more militant. At the last regular meeting of the I.L.A. the member- | ship voted for proposals for the ro- j tary hiring system and the 30- | hour week as suggested by the Ma. rine Workers Industrial Union. Thursday has been set for the date of the strike if these de- mands are not met by the ship- owners. The lumber handlers have | agreed to return to work on the | basis of a 5-cent an hour increase in wages, time and a half for overtime and recognition of the union. The strike started last Thursday. with * * Condemn J. L. A. Leader NORFOLK, May 28.—Local 1221, ILL.A., of Norfolk, at a meeting of its local roundly condemned the | scab policy of George W. Millner, third vice-president of the LL.A., in charge of the port of Hampton Roads. George Millner, who always worked against the interests of the longshoremen, came to the rescue of the dock owners in the recent strike of about 1,000 Norfolk and Portsmouth (Va.) Negro dock workers. On May 3, the first day of the strike, the Portsmouth Star quoted Millner as follows: “Millner de- clared in a statement this morn- ing that every available man and facility of his association in this port would be placed at the dis- posal of the piers affected to ex- pedite the handling of freight in the face of the Marine Workers Industrial Union strike.” EXCURSION POSTPONED NEW, YORK.—The American Brownsville and Hinsdale Youth Clubs Boat Ride has been postponed because of rain, Tt will be held instead Saturday, July 7. All having tickets should report téveither club to have them exchanged. ©. P. UNIT HOLDS PARTY NEW YORK:—Unit 423 of the Communist Party will hold a party and dance at the L.W.O. Hall, 415 Lenox Ave. on Tuesday evening, May 29th. Members of the cast of “‘Stevedore’’ will be present, and an- other attraction for entertainment will be R. Washington and his Royal Savannahans Orchestra. Donations 25c. ® Seafarers Council Sends Frantic Appeal to Roose- velt Asking That N.R.A. Stop Seamen From Striking Atlantic Ships gram is the notorius Gus Brown, leader of the Internaitonal Sea- men’s Union; Bert (the Weeper) Todd of the United Licensed Of- ficers, and Wm. Maher, who has a long record of selling out the tow- boatmen in New York harbor. Would Pin Faith on N. R. A. These worthies are the leading lights in the Seafarers’ Council. They have been spreading propa- ganda for a year among the seamen, telling them that the N. R. A. would solve all their difficulties and have advised them to accept the N. R. A. In an attempt to explain away the starvation wages put forth in the Shipowners’ Code, the Seafarers’ Council says that “the Master Code simply outlines the machinery which will operate the divisional codes” and then “after the Master Code is signed we expect that col- lective bargaining on wages and working conditions will take place.” Against Right to Strike Indeed, the Shipowners’ code, which these gentlemen support so vigorously, would take away the right to strike through its arbitra tion clause, which would set up a so-called National Shipping Labor Board, the arbitrary decisions of which would be binding on all sea- men. The board would have on it only LS. U. leaders as representatives of the seamen. The following sections of the Shipowners reveal clearly its strike- breaking mechanism: “Obligation of parties. No stoppage of work or lockout shall take place until dispute or dif- ferences between shipowners and seamen have been referred to and dealt with by the Port Consult- ants, the District Sections, and, if necessary by the National Board. “No indemnity, strike pay, as- sistance, direct or indirect shall be afforded by either organization of by any official or individual member thereof to any persons failing fo submit a difference or dispute for adjustment as herein provided or acting in violation with any decisions made in ac- pep with these rules and regula- ions. “The disputed question shall be submitted to an arbitrator. The decision of such arbitrator shall be final.” The code further upholds the blacklist system by giving ship- owners the right to select their own crews. It is clear what would happen to organized labor aboard the ships if seamen permit the Seafarers’ Council to saddle on them such a slave code. The crews would be tied hand and foot to the N. R. A. ( Strike Sentiment Spreads Among Seamen in N.Y. with their best weapon, the strike weapon, thrown over the side. Must Strengthen Ship Committees The best way for seamen to smash this strike-breaking code is to strengthen their ship commit- tees where they exist, to build new ones where they do not exist and to spread the strike movement to every port. The seamen have already worked out their own code, the code of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The points of this code are clear: 1—The 1929 Shipping Board wage scale. 2—Three watches and the 8- hour day in all departments. 3—Seventy-five cents an hour for overtime for the crew and $1.25 an hour for overtime for all licensed men. 4—The 1921 manning. scale, 5—A centralized shipping bu- reau controlled by the rank and file seamen, 6—The right to organize and strike. 7—Payment in gold in all for- eign ports. 8—Unemployment insurance for all unemployed seamen to be paid by the government and the ship- owners. These are the demands put for- ward by ships’ crews in all ports on where the spreading. Smash the Seafarers’ Council! Seamen of the I, S, U, and the M. W. I. U.! Unite and strike for the code of the rank and file seamen!, strike sentiment is ke the] the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf WILLIAM FUCKS Boxing and the Negro N NO SPORT in the United States is the hi }4 gro so filled with the brutality and per: ploiters as it is in profession bers and with less difficulty t sport. | blood and the chances to grind |him are infinite. The enter- prise is no phenomenon of in- tegrity, of course, where the white brother himself is concerned; the white boxer is cheated; his am bitions—often honest—are castrated; he is subjected to every form of} degradation. Yet, in professional boxing, where religious intolerance and even patriotism play minor and covert parts, because all n nalities are blended in the bo: ice, the Negro, though his money is good at the door and rarely discriminated | against, stands as a victim of prej-| udice. This prejudice is a reflection of the ideas propagated by the ‘superior’ whites who rule this country. It has found ground in many of the followers of the game. The sports writers frequently refer to the im- partial white boy who sat in a gal- lery seat, watching two Negroes| whose first names were Joe, and shouted: “Murder ‘im, Joe; murder ‘im.” The sports pages are filled! with passionate theses on the su-| periority of one yacht over another | and dramatic stories of a society| woman laying herself out on her| horse, but on the question of such| chauvinism they are, of course, dis-| creetly silent where not actualy aid and abetting in the vile propaganda. | CAUSE the promoters and the managers bleed them and the newspapers and customers pay no attention to their cross, the Negro| boxers themselves, therefore, all hope} apparently useless, succumb to every threat, blandishment or petty re- ward offered them. The record of Negro boxers is filled with fraud- ulent bouts. If they are not “good boys,” they receive no matches. George Godfrey, a powerful Negro fighter,, who might have _been| heavyweight champion, was forced) to fake many of his contests. He! Here he offers Tes Ooo are y of the Ne. of his e It is not strange al boxing. that he is permitted to enter the prize-ring in greater num- han in any other professional that became so adept at faki: finally he became a wr: Sam Langford was compelled fake; Joe Jeanette was; Joe Walcott, Joe n, all were in sim- positions, The boxing commissions give Ne= roes no protection. They are thef prime literally andij e-ring. The occasionally pre- doddering or inexperienced vent a white fighter from entering a ring, but the Negro is allowed to have himself annihilated. can use the moncy. The referees show him little mercy. Negroes are treated flagrantly enough to bar certain referees from the ring for- ever if their offenses were com- mitted against white boys. His manager INCE 1890 there have been ten heavyweight champions—only one has been a Negro. While he held the title men.in charge of the pro- fession did leep, but thought of a e.” There have been no Negro light-heayyweight cham- pions. Out of 13 miadleweigcht champions—only one has been a Negro. Out of 16 welterweight champions—only two Negrees. There have been 13 lightweight champions —only one Negro. Fifteen feather weight champions—two Negroes. Seventeen bantamweight champions —two Negroes. (George Dixon held the bantamweight and feather- weight titles.) Flyweight champions —no Negroes. The Negro champions all suffer, They acquire titles by, not because of, their ability; generally because they are contracted with the proper personages. Those humanitarians, not the Negroes, profit by the cham= pionships. It is no unusual occurs rence for a Negro champion to pare cel out three-quarters of his purse, Eventually, however, everything is peeled from him. And how many benefits have been run for destitute colored fighters? ©. P.. CLEVELAND TO HOLD PICNIC CLEVELAND, Ohio.-The annual Com- munist Party Picnic of District No. 6 will be held at Haag’s Groy Road, A very good prog ing arranged. Look for more details in this Paper soon. The Daily Worker gives you the truth about the Soviet Union, the truth about working-class strikes in the United States and abroad. Subscribe to the Daily Worker today, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-2 P.M 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. {ill at 179” ST.KY at 106tp ST.NY 1m ~— WORKERS WELCOME — NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes PURE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway bet. 13th & 14th st. DECORATION DAY WEEK Bunins’ Satirical Puppet Show Miriam Blecker Dance Recital Innovation Juanita Lewis Negro and Soviet Songs Jack Stachel “Great Strike Wave” Carl Brodsky “Who Fights for Social- ism in the U. S. A.?” Swim! Sports! Dance! 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Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT rownsville Comrades Itt at | WINGS Chinese-American Restaurant LUNCH znd DINNER—25e 107 Rockaway Ave. | Near I, R. T. i FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS from 2700 Bronx Park East. EStabrook 8+1400 Folding Chairs Cheap Also Office Furniture KALMUS, 35 W. 26th Street Sokal Cafeteria 1689 PITKIN AVENUE “~~~ On the Beautiful Boat “Claremont? Spend the Day at Hook Mountain Return by Moonlight, Saturday, June 9th Dancing — Entertainment = Baseball — Tennis ~ Swimming, Ete. Auspices:; DISTRICT DAILY WORKER Boat leaves Pier ‘A’ Battery Park at 1 PM. Tickets in advance #1, at Pier $1.28, Tickets available at all Workers Bookshoy