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

__>2 WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 dgeport Welfare ep t Graft Charges nk and File S. P. Workers Join in Demand for More Relief; M cLevy in Shameless Horsetrading With Republicans ficial, high in the circles of By HOW. ARD BOLDT| BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—“By political hors rading,” an the Socialist Party of Bridge- rt, said, “Socialist Mayor McLevy is attempting to smash e investigation into the crooked practices of the Welfare yartment.” ‘McLevy,” he continued, a deal with the Repub- «machine, by which he is ‘ng political support, is direct- Sponsible for the whitewas! {@gus P. Thorne of charges ise of the $900,000 Welfare Bond 2 of June 5, 1933.” Herbert Benjamin, national or- anizer of the Unempioyment ‘euncils, will speak at Bridgeport, tedman’s Hall, 67 Madison Ave., riday, June 29th, at 7:30 p.m. The charges against Thorne, di- ‘ector of the Department of Wel-| ‘are since 1917, grew out of an widiting made of the books and ac- | sounts of the Welfare Department 2y Phillip Covitt, accountant. Covitt | was later removed, and another group of accountants, appointed for @e purpose of giving Thorne aj) slean slate, were appointed. Today, | the charges of misappropriation of funds have been dropped, and the ‘ase is dragging through the courts om the matter of conservatorships through which Thorne is wriggling. ‘On January 10, 1933, the Senate j Progressive American cities.” Relief on Starvation Basis Relief to the unemployed of Bridgeport is at the lowest starva-| tion minimum, granted on a forced labor basis. Each family head is made to work 24 hours a week in return for $5.60 cash and a “com- missary” box of groceries. No rents, gas, electricity, etc. are paid ex- cept in the most unusual cases. The grocery box for a family of five on the “Italian Diet” is sup- posed to contain macaroni, toma~- toes, cheese, dried beans, coffee, to- | mato paste, sugar, salt pork, soap, onions, cabbage, salt, cotton seed oil, | |} one can milk, bacon, and eggs, for | which the working members of the families on relief are charged $2.65 | Actually, the food cost the city $1.95 at wholesale prices, and a survey of | | chain stores shows that the same food can be bought for much less. Against the forced labor “cash and commissary” relief, the rank and file workers on the relief jobs are demanding minimum guaran- | teed wages of $12 for three 8-hour days, and union rates for skilled workers. Especial discrimination, which is amd House of Representatives of| brazenly denied by relief officials, the: State Assemply:.approved the Substitute | for Senate Bill Nnumber 2, “to ed sue ‘Public Welfare Bonds’ of such @enominations as it chose and bear- ing interest payable semi-annually, | not in excess of five per cent, to/ am amount not exceeding $900,000.” | Section 2 of the act reads: “The | entire proceeds of said bonds shall | be used exclusively for the purpose | of providing future direct necessary | relief, care and maintenance for| meéedy persons.” | On Feb. 14, the Common Council of Bridgeport unanimously approved | a resolution to issue $900,000 of| “Public Welfare Bonds” in denomi- | nations of $1,000 each, dated Feb. 15 and bearing interest at the rate of} 4% per cent. But the bankers re- | fused to take up the issue, and it) was voted to issue the bonds on} ‘March 20, 1933 as of April 1, 1933. Still the bankers refused to take up the issue. Again on April 17 it) resolved to change the date of | me to April 15, and to sell $300,000. | The bonds were not sold. | On May 4, 1933, the General As- | 2mbly amended the original act by | 1 amendment to Section 4 provid- | 3 for 6 per cent interest, and on ‘y_22, 1933, the Common Council | Bridgeport voted to issue the} 1,000 bonds to be dated May 1, ‘ing interest at 6 per cent. N. Y. Bankers Involved a June 5, 1933, the Common cil approved the award of the 00 Public Welfare Bonds to velt & Sons of New York City, | Aldrich & Co., and G. L. Aus- | Oo. of Hartford at the 6 per| te of interest. The bankers | sreby given an additional) nually in interest. | graft fills the entire Welfare Department, alist administration of IcLevy has taken no steps ise the miserably inade- elief which is given in re- for forced labor; but Me- has even held out the pros- of further relief cuts. ‘turning from the Socialist sy convention in Detroit, Mc- -¥y delivered his first annual age to the Common Council. A: er citing a probable “deficit” ‘ot $110,000 holding the prospect of future additional taxation for the small home owners, McLevy, thrust- ng all care for the unemployed onto Vashington, said: “The number of ee: seeking relief is increasing in alarming rate. Present in- tions are that the estimated iget of $1,500,000 for unemploy- “gy and welfare relief will fall far + Of the actual requirements. It mperative that every effort Id pe made to get further aid) ‘the Federal Government.” For dorcing the “Socialist” hunger program on the unemployed, Mc- “Levy commented on the efficiency of the radio equipment of the Po- ze Department “which now brings Police Department of Bridge- up to the standard of most | NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union - WORKERS WELCOME — | NEW CHINA CAFETERIA (sty Chinese and American Dishes URE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 3 Broadway bet. 13tn # 11th st. Allerton Avenue Comrades! @ Modern Bakery $ first to settle Bread Strike i first to sign with the Workers’ Industrial Union . ALLERTON AVE. jan and Oriental Kitchen Comradely Atmosphere ‘LLAGE BAR SECOND AVENUE Street, New York City of Connecticut in General | is practiced against unemployed Ne- gro workers, Faced with an endless round of evictions, about 35 Negro families moved to Chopsey Hill, | where they cultivate small patches of land. Although inside the city limits, no sewage, gas, electricity or water supply is provided them. These Negro families live in shacks made of tin, packing boxes and tar paper. For water they are forced to dig shallow wells in the marshy land. ‘The city makes absolutely no provision for providing fuel or even kerosene for lamps. “The relief boxes,” one Negro worker said, “aren't hardly worth taking. They provide about two meals, the rest is just’ junk—lots o: cheap broken rice, dried beans, lard, and a little oleomargarine. Abso- lutely nothing to provide a decent standard of health.” Socialist Groups with Republicans On the relief question, with ever growing numbers daily demanding relief, and with the present relief | clients, faced with flagrant corrup- | tion in the Welfare Department BEFORE AND AFTER. That thick bundle under his left arm is what he carries from the press- room now when he starts on his route. He’s pushing away the skinny pile he started out with any night a few months ago. This is Red Builder Lamb—who started a route in Greenwich Village last October, He had 4 charter sub- seribers. When the leaves came again, 84 workers, writers, artists, professional people, were on his route, Here’s an idea of how he pushed the “Daily” into 80 more homes. Priest on Board To ‘Mediate’ Strike (Continued from Page 1) ting the “co-operation” of police in “cleaning up” militant wings of | unions and who just a year ago tricked striking Western Pennsyl- |vania miners back to work under |a settlement so raw that within a |month twice as many were on strike again. Dunne Exposes Strikebreakers William F. Dunne, of the Na- tional Committee of the Trade Union Unity League, in Washington with a militant steel delegation, re- vealed the strikebreaking history of the new Roosevelt Board chairman, Dunne commented: An Old Strikebreaker | “The Rt. Rev. Edward J. Hanna was auxiliary Bishop of San Fran- cisco during 1912-1913. His church had heavy investments in Pacific Gas and Electric stock—an amount estimated at that time at some | $3,000,000. The church functionary took a leading part in breaking the strike of the Electrical Worker: Union, of which I was an officer at that time, against the P. G. and E. Strike-breaking local organizations | were formed with the co-operation | of the Rev. Hanna.” | President ‘Roosevelt took this | drastic action against the historic | Pacific Coast strike under the au- while their relief is systematically | thority of the new Roosevelt com- cut, demanding more and adequate relief, hinges McLevy's political future. To consolidate his position he is indulging in the most shady of political horse trading with the Republican politicians. Already, because of the relief situation, one Socialist Party Club has broken with the McLevy ma- chine. New grievances arise among the rank and file of the Socialist Party. Rank and file members are | openly speaking at Communist Party meetings and taking part in Communist Party demonstrations. While McLevy reviewed the military parade on Memorial Day, Socialist |.rank and file party members joined | in the National Youth Day dem- onst#ation against war. While Mc- Levy takes the stand against Sam Kreiger, arrested when McLevy or- dered the police to attack a dem-| onstration of city-employed snow | shovelers demanding their back pay | on March 5, Socialist rank and file | party members joined with the workers in packing the court. While McLevy is joining with the Repub- | licans in smashing the Welfare De- | partment investigations, rank and| file Socialists are joining with the | Communists in raising the workers’ | slogans — “Oust the grafters and | feed the workers.” | — | SLIPPER SHOP CONFERENCE, JUNE 39] NEW YORK.—The Slipper Dept. of the | United Shoe and Leather Workers Union is calling all general shop chairmen, branch chairmen and Council members from slipper shops to attend conference on Saturday, Sune 30 at 11 a.m. at union headquarters, 26 W. 15th St. N.¥.C. (Editor’s Note: This is the third of a series of articles by Bill Dunne on terror, particularly the campaign against the unemployed in New York City, unleashed by the LaGuardia administration.) | III By BILL DUNNE HE New York Post has made an effort to ridicule the city police force and its “Red List’—it has tried to pooh-pooh the seriousness of the attitude of the poiice and the LaGuardia administration toward the unemployed by playing up the prominent character of the people whose names were recorded in the Dilling manual. We have characterized the list of names as a fascist collection. Well- known people, writers, etc., whose mames were included have treated the matter jocosely. But the organizations which have a fascist program and are engaged in organizing campaigns of violence in cooperation with the authorities against striking workers and the unemployed, take the list quite seri- ously. Democretic-minded liberals never take the n. ace of fascism | seriously until they feel its clubs} and see the doors of its torture cells opening for them. West Coast Fascists On the Pacific Coast, in the Puget Sound area (Seattle, Tacoma, etc.),,; out these Communists whe are | on the subject of radicalism it is ’ |pulsory arbitration act which was substituted for the Wagner bill. The creation of the longshore- }men’s labor board co-incided with |news that National Guardsmen were standing-by in San Francisco. At the same time the Roosevelt administration received word from the National Labor Board’s agent, Major John D. Moore, in Milwau- kee, that the Railway Carmen's strike looked “hopeful” for settle- ment. Moore sadly reported, how- ever, that there is still “rioting’— which is the strike-breaker’s word for mass struggle against strike- breaking. Silent on Steel In the midst of these develop- ments, President Roosevelt told the press that he is not ready to talk about the steel situation, but will do so after ig Secretary of La- bor Frances Perkins. Asked to com- ment upon the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union proposals for meeting steel workers’ griev- | ances by drastic democratization of elections in the steel industry, Roosevelt declared he had not seen these. They were published in vir- tually every newspaper in the coun- try, in addition to being presented directly to a Labor Department of- ficial acting for Secretary Perkins. Green Makes Gesture President Green of the A. F. of L. issued a statement today com- plaining against the American Steel and Iron Institute's an- nouncements of alleked anti-strike results of its own strike polls among From Coast to Coast --- there is an organization known as the American Vigilantes. It is at present engaged in a drive against Communists and in assisting at- tempts to break the marine trans- port strike. The American Vigilantes is fascist in program and activity. In order to show tho direct connec- tion between the terroristic cam- paign of the LaGuardia administra- tion against the unemployed, their organizations and leaders and against the Communists, we quote at some length from a bulletin is- sued on June 6 by tho American Vigilantes in Seattle: “And this from M.W.LU. Voice, published in New York, Vol. VI, No. 10, June 1934: ‘The strike is growing in militancy and strength every day. The chief danger is the threat by LL.A. officials to make an agreement regardless of their members and use government ter- ror to drive them back to work. The strikers should be well pre- pared for such a sell-out and re- sist it vigorously. That they understand their leaders is shown by the fact that they made the Western Worker, official organ of the Communist Party, their offi- cial strike bulletin and bring it ont daiiy.’ “We nope that the many real Americans among the strikers will clean their own house and throw — , a OLD WAY TO GET NEW NAMES. Before a subscriber on this Red Builder's route is very old, Lamb has asked for the names of prospects. Here he is putting it up to a new reader: “What friends would probably want to subscribe to the Daily Worker?” The picture proves he gets the names. If he didn’t carry around that pencil and notebook—and that question —his route would still be pretty close to 4 subscribers instead of 84. That bundle of “Dailies” in the left picture wouldn’t have grown 5 inches, NEW SUBSCRIBERS? HERE'S EVIDENCE. He’s on his way! And he’s prompt and dependable, Those “Dailies” get stuffed into the mail- boxes on time. Six months ago those same boxes didn’t get a daily ration of working class newspaper. They were filled with overdue bills, job-dismissal notices, and adver- tisement from laundries. And Lamb doesn’t forget to collect each week. He soon found out that sub- scribers sometimes didn’t have 36 or 54 cents—but they could usually dig up a week's fee, 18 cents to anybody. YOU'D LAUGH TOO! A smile is part of Red Builder Lamb's equipment for selling the “Daily.” No, he doesn’t always laugh out loud like this, It just so happens that the girl who’s bought the Paper agrees with him that Burck’s cartoon is a very funny cartoon. Burck draws Roosevelt the wage slasher very well. He doesn’t do bad by the blue eagle and Hitler's murder pals either. Here’s one Red Builder proving there’s some- thing in the “Daily” to shout be- sides headlines! j anti-union legislation incorporated Wagner bill—and the personnel and its workers. Dunne commented: “Phe time to have made such statements was during the period when the steel companies were organizing and carrying through their own elections—before and during the recent A. A, conven- tion where Green, under instruc- tions from the Roosevelt admini- stration, used its authority and his own as President of the A. F. of L., to strangle the proposed strike against company unions and for recognition of genuine unions. “Green’s statement, which raised no new issues, makes no new proposals, and cites no new evidence of steel company ty- ranny, is palpably issued in an attempt to tone down the serious situation created for N.R.A. by the detailed proposals made by the S.M.W.I.U. delegation Mon- day, and to distract steel workers’ attention from them to vague generalities.” Steel Board Next It was assumed by observers gen- erally in Washington, that Presi- dent Roosevelt will name a steel labor board similar to the long- shoremen’s board. As Dunne point- ed out: “The auto settlement set the standard for the anti-strike, in the condensed version of the political character of boards ap- pointed under this act from now on may be expected to be deter- mined largely by the same anti- strike, anti-union legislation incor- porated in the condensed version of the Wagner bill—and the per- sonnel and political character of boards appointed under this act from now on may be expected to be determined largely by the same anti-strike, anti-union considera- tions. Witness the appointments to the longshoremen’s board, whose first job is to break the strike on the Pacific Coast,” with a settle- ment favorable to the employers. Established by executive order of President Roosevelt, under the au- thority both of the N.LR.A. and of the new Wagner substitute, the Longshoremen’s Labor Board has vast powers “in connection with the Pacific Coast strike and the labor problems relating thereto,” the or- der declares. It empowers the board to hire as many as 15 em- ployees, and provides $21 per day for members who are not govern- ment officials. It authorizes the board to act under the Wagner substitute, which sets penalties for anyone “interfering” with the work or commands of the board. Spe- cifically, the Roosevelt order au- thorizes the Longshoremen’s Labor Board to do the following: 1—“Investigate issues, facts, practices and activities of em- ployers or employees that are purdening or threatening to ob- struct the free flow of com- merce. 2—“Hear, make findings of facts and take appropriate af- firmative action regarding com- piaints of discrimination against or discharge of employees”; 3—“To act as voluntary arbi- By BILL leading them to destruction. It is a matter of life and death for or- ganized labor to do so. Perhaps by the time this is written they will have done so... . [Vain hope— B. D.] We hope so, but if not, STAND BY. Therefore, we say, look over your equipment. Cap- tains and lieutenants, get your lists of telephone numbers and addresses up to date, be sure all your men know their mobilization »point.” It is not possible to mistake the fascist and military character of such statements. The A. V. bulletin continues: “If you get confused by the myriad of different yellow, pink and red organizations in this country, and the many names under which the different Com- munist organizations hide their identities, or if you want a thumb- nail history of the various radical and Communist lecturers who go about extracting a good living from the country whose govern- ment they would overthrow, we recommend you send 75 cents to Elizabeth Dilling, Chicago, for a copy of ‘The Red Network,’ a 350 page book, just off the press, which is a ‘Who's Who’ of radicals, with a complete and well indexed list of all radical organizations in the United States. As a reference book Painters Gh cvlit Remove Dead Weight from Union Tomorrow By M. KLEIN Acting General Secretary of the Alteration Painters Union NEW YORK. — Tomorrow the members of the Brotherhood of Painters will be called upon to vote for officers to administer the affairs of the union during the coming year. This election has aroused widespread interest amongst the masses of the painters not only of the Brotherhood but also among the membership of the Alteration Painters Union as well as the un- organized painters. In this elec- tion some of the most vital issues confronting the masses of painters have been brought to the fore front. The members of the Brotherhood have for years been a prey to the most ruthless gang of racketeers. Strikes were sold out and conditions won by the workers though strug- gles were undermined. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of dol- Jars extorted from the workers in the forms of dues and taxes to racketeers under the leadership of Zausner, they collected thousands of dollars in graft. Racketeers Spell Ruin The workers have long realized that the dead weight of this rack- eteer outfit has spelled’ ruin to the thousands of painters and their families. They have realized that as @ result of the stronghold of this corrupt machine, thousands of painters have remained unorgan- ized and in order to protect their interests, were forced to organize into the Alteration Painters Union which since its existence has fought to defend the interest of the work- ers and has succeeded in gaining many improvements of conditions. The Alteration Painters Union from the very first day of its exist- ence has fought for unity in the ranks of the workers and has di- rected itself time and again to the Brotherhood for united action in defense of the interest of the workers, The racketeers in control on the Brotherhood have turned down our proposals for unity and instead of uniting with us, they have made a united front with the bosses against both the members of the Brotherhood and the members of the Alteration Painters. The revolt in the ranks of the members of the Brotherhood trator upon request.” The board will cease to function when “in the opinion of the Presi- dent” it has “completed all the duties it is authorized to per- form.” In addition to these actions, the Roosevelt government today added powerful anti-strike propaganda to the forces at work against the Pa- cific strike; the Navy Department issued a statement explaining that the strike is “interfering” with the transportation of Navy officers and their wives between the West Coast and Far Eastern points, DUNNE invaluable.” So, Mr. J. David Stern, publisher of the New York Post and personal friend (Dave, to you”) of President Roosevelt (Frank, to you, Dave”), there is nothing casual or accidental about the “Red List” of Mayor La- Guardia and Police Commissioner O'Ryan’s secret spy squad. Neither is it just a coincidence that the magazine “Today,” edited by Professor Raymond Moley, one of Roosevelt's “most intimate ad- visers,” and financed by Vincent Astor, multi-millionaire friend of President Roosevelt, gave the signal for the opening of the campaign of espionage and brutality against Communists, the unemployed, their leaders and organizations on May 26, as we have seen. Linked With Jobless Aid As unemployment relief is re- duced, as the state and city ad- ministrations, reluctant to tax the wealthy residents enough to iur- nish guaranteeing a decent stand- ard of living, as the percentage of velief furnished by federal funds becomes larger, more and more the Roosevelt regime steps in, “unoffi- cially” as in the case of Moley and “Today,” or officially and directly through its relief machinery, to cut down relief allotments and suppress the struggles of the unemployed re- sisting being driven to a still low level of pauperism, . a against the racketeers and their class collaboration policies has been growing continuously. In this election, the program and candidate put forward by the rank and file hav2 the mass support of the painters. This program calls for rank and file control of the organization for the mobilization of the painters to fight for the 30 hour week, increase in wages, unemployment insurance, for shop committees to guarantee the en- forcement of the agreements and for a united struggle of all work- ers against the bosses. This program which deals with the real needs of the members of the Brotherhood, must receive the ‘most enthusiastic support of all workers regardless of their views or opinions. The election of the rank and file leadership on the basis of this program will go a long way toward eliminating the evils from which the painters have been suffering for many years and will help to unite the ranks of all painters on the basis of @ common program for the improve- ment of the conditions in the trade. The members of the Brotherhood must realize that the elimination of the misleaders, who are respon- sible for the split in the ranks of the painters and have stood in the way of unity in the trade, with the election of an honest rank and file leadership will be an impor- tant step towards developing one fighting union, controlled by the painters for their own interest. N.Y. Workers Mass In City Hall Park For Jobless Bill 3 Congressmen to Back Demands of Delegation to Mayor LaGuardia NEW YORK.—A mighty demand for unemployment insurance as ex- emplified in the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill, will be made tomorrow when work- ers mobilized by fraternal organi- zations gather at City Hall Park at 130 p. m. The demonstration is called by the Fraternal Federation for So- cial Insurance of New York. A del- egation of 25 will meet with Mayor LaGuardia to present demands for social insurance. Three U. S, Congressmen, Repre- sentatives Sirovitch, Rudd and Cel- ler, have signified their intentions to accompany the delegation to the Mayor and lend their support to the demands. : California’s LaGuardia (E campaign of suppression and brutality against both unem- ployed and striking workers is on a front stretching from coast to coast. It is nationwide in its scope. There is scarcely any difference between the recent statement of the succes- sor to Governor Rolph of California, Merriam, even in language, and cer- tainly not in its provocative char- acter and in being directed against Communists, and the statements of LaGuardia, O’Ryan, Professor Moley, the Socialist Party writer Coleman, the Herald-Tribune, the New York Mirror, ete.; Governor Merriam said: “These public enemies deliber- ately proveke demonstrations and incite alarms at a time when peace and civil tranquility are the su- preme requisites in our battle for national recovery. Their alien creed of violence and sabotage strikes venomousily at the heart of constitutional democracy.” “Among us, a horde of irres- ponsibie professional agitators, mostly aliens, are trafficking shametessly in the agonies of these stressful times. They are seeking revolution, not reform; to make conditions wors2, not better...” “We haye adcquate laws on the statute books to deal cffoctively with both violence and incitement. “hey will be enforced.” “Roving bands of foreign agi- ‘40,000 Stop Cars in Milwaukee Strike (Continued from Page 1) o'clock last night as a result of the! mass picketing which began at all strategic points at 6 pm. All car| and bus service was halted by the| mass picketing. Tens of thousands of workers, sympathizers and strikers are massed in front of barns through-| out the city. Three more cars were | wrecked at the Kinnickinnic, South Side station, when pickets closed in| on the barns. There the first tear gas bombs were hurled in the strike, driving thousands back. Eight more | were arrested and two cops laid cold. Water Hose Used | At Fond du Lac Ave. barns provo- cative tactics were used by the util-| ity company, when high pressure | streams of water came shooting} over the stone walls surrounding | the plant. Angered, pickets began | clambering up the walls and were met by the clubs of company thugs. | Workers Defend Themselves | Workers picked up stones and de- fended themselves, and, angered, smashed the huge windows in a large car waiting station nearby. A police sygad car was tipped over and wrecked with the cops under- neath. Clubs, blackjacks and gas bombs are being used freely by the well trained Socialist police force, Mayor Hoan and all the Social- ist city officials have not issued a word as yet on the strike situa- tion. The latest leaflet issued by the Communist Party is headed: “Why Is Mayor Hoan Silent?” It calls for a huge strike solidarity mass meeting to be held Thursday under | the auspices of the Communist | Party, Unemployment Councils, the | Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and the International Labor Defense. | The street car and power strike is obviously growing in strength and militancy. Many cars are being prevented from leaving their sta- tions. When motormen leave the cars stand on the tracks and join the strikers, they are cheered by sympathizers. The latest leaflet issued by the Communist Party calls upon the public not to scab by riding the cars. Public Backs Strikers Thousands are walking and have turned in their car passes and de- manded their money back. Most cars are almost empty and many housewives are protesting by burn- ing only candles and oil lamps. Women are playing a very militant role as-pickets. In Tuesday’s dem- onstration 43 cars were wrecked by pickets at the South Side barns. Trolley wires are being cut andiron bars thrown on the tracks. Cars are heing run by older men for the most part, who are afraid of losing their prospective pension, and by seabs trained for weeks by the com- pany. One to four “guards” ride on each car—these are a combination of thugs and police who are re- tired on pension. Socialist Leaders Do Not Support Strike Socialist city officials have issued no orders or protest against city police guarding company property and the use of the city police against strikers and pickets. The $8,000 spent by the company for wire screening to armor the street cars and barns is to be taken out of carmen’s bonus. Newspapers, the company and union officials all have raised the red scare in their efforts to smash the strike. When sympathizers and pickets rushed to the South Side police station to protest against the arrest of a picket they were met with guns and told to “stand back unless they wanted something they weren’t looking for.’”’ Spreads to Bus Drivers When 76 bus drivers suddenly walked out on one line, the com- pany was caught by surprise, with no scabs ready. At the Lakeside Power Plant, key of power in Southern Wisconsin, employes are virtual prisoners. The plant is strongly fortified and guarded. The men are not allowed to speak to each other and no news- papers are permitted in the plant. Six men got out of the plant Tues- day and due to mass pressure on Wednesday 16 more got out. The company has gas bombs, billies, clubs, etc., stored in the main build- ing. Pickets reported seeing the repair truck men handed guns by officials. Officials of the company union are | tators shall not be permitied to undermine the American ideal of human liberty and ordered freedom under law. Order and constitutional government will be maintained.” “On citizens of California there sis the destructive machinations of organized Communism; to make known, in every relationship of their daily lives, that they will not countenance violence and sabo- tage.” Connected With Recovery Program Is it not clear that the police drive against unemployed and Strikers and the growing campaign violence against workers, with the Communist Party as its main target, since it alone exposes the monopoly capital, hunger, war and fascist character of the New Deal, results directly from the Roose- velt program of “national re- covery” which is based on a star- vation standard of living for the toiling section of the population? LaGuardia and O’Ryan do not work alone. The respectable dilet- tante “radicals’’ whose names are on the “Red List’? may laugh it off. But for the millions of the working class, employed and un- employed, faced with rising liv- ing costs, reduced relief and de- creasing real wages, it is not a humorous but a fighting issue. ‘ rests a patriotic obligation to re- |} preparing to ash the militia. Senator Wagne. Major Moore, strik National Labor Bc the electric compan. arbitration 'f the stri: work first. Brooklyn Machi To Speak on L NEW YORK.—A. Ok chinist in the Brookly. Yard, who recently return a delegation of workers fr Soviet Union, will speak +, 8 p. m., at Shields Assembl, State St, corner Smith, Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Olson, who is a member of International Association of ) | chinists, will tell of his trip a of the conditions of workers U.S. S, R. The meeting is ur der the auspices of the Steel ar | Metal Workers Industrial Unic and the Friends of the Soviet Union. BUILDING MAINTENANCE MEN MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK—A special joint meeting of all members of the Building Maintenance Workers Union and the Independent Build- ing Service Employees Union will be held tonight at 269 W. 25th St., to ratify the amalgamation of the unions which took place at a con- ference held June 18. FURRIER CHOIR UNDER WAY NEW YORK.—The second rehearsal of the Furriers’ Choir will take place Thurs- | day, 5 P.M. in the Spartacus clubrooms, 269 W. 25th St. under the instructorship of Malamut. YOUTH SECTION OF I.W.0. HOLDS RALLY CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The Youth Section of the International Workers Order will hold a rally at Gordon Park, Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m. Adm. free to members. 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. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. 6. After 6 P.M. 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