The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1934, Page 3

ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY Page Thread HERNDON TO SPEAK TO N. Y. YOUTH FOR ANTI-WAR CONGRESS Philadelphia Opens 3 _*\Jobless Will Hopkins Withholds i Demonstrate | Intense Campaign Ten d4| Funds to Jobless Weirton Case |™ me Dore Put Off Once More by U.S. Company Union Issue In Cleveland! |To Mass at City Hall on 4 For 125 Delegates First Youth Mass Meeting Called By League Against War and Fascism for Thursday—Part of Proceeds for Herndon-Scottsboro Fund , NEW YORK. — The first mass meeting of the New York (City Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism has been called for Thursday, Sept. 6, in ration for the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism to be held in Chicago, September 28, 29, and ‘The’ mésting Will) be. held 6 pre} 30. the “Star Casino, 105 E. 107th St. Angelo Herndon, victim of fas- is Own experiences to show that fe terror in America, will describe | jascism exists openly in this coun- | try and must be fought. Other ‘ Speakers include “Mother” Ella} { Reeve Bloor, 73-year-old labor leader; Norman Tallentire, secre- tary of the City Central Commit- tee of the American ‘League; James Wechsler, editor of the Columbia Spectator, Columbia University; Joseph Cohen of the National Stu- dent League; the Rey.. Kenneth Kingston of Glen Cove, L. 1; Leo Thompson, national organizer of the Trade Union Unity League, and Irving Louchter of the Carlisle Young Circle Club. Among the organizations partici- pating are the youth sections of the I. W. O, Y. C. L., Young America, Shipping Clerks Union, Office Workers’ Union, United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and four Young Circle League branches which are affiliated to the Ameri- an League. Twenty-five per cent of the pro- eeds from the meeting will go to he Herndon-Scottsboro Defense Fund. Also part of the funds raised will be used to defray the expenses of a youth delegate from Cuba to the Congress in Chicago. Charles Cartell, executive secre- tary of the New York City Youth Section of the American League, will act as chairman. Music will be provided by the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief Fund. Tickets can be purchased in ad- vance at the city office of the Amer- ‘ican League, 213 Fourth Ave. Philadelphia Seeks to Send 125 Delegates PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2—The Philadelphia Committee of the League Against War and Fascism has initiated an. intensive cam- paign to popularize the second U. 8, Congress Against War and Fascism to be held in Chicago Sept. 28, 29 and 30, Four hundred calls have been is- ft to-every kind of organizations: T. U. U. L, A, F. of L.: and inde- pendent trade unions, religious Jpodies, veterans’, women’s and fra- ternal organizations, peace societies, the Socialist, American Workers and Communist Parties, Young People’s Socialist League, Young Communist League, and other organizations, as well as to individuals. x Delegates from Philadelphia will Jeave by a special Pennsylvania Railroad car from Philadelphia, at special rates obtained by the league. Delegates and visitors may avail themselves of this rate of $17.40 for the round trip. Further details may be obtained from the League Against War and Fascism, Room 608 Flanders Building, 15th and Walnut Sts. The City Committee of the League, at its last meeting, pledged itself to send at least one delegate from the marine workers, the long- shoremen and the Unemployment | Councils. The same meeting adopted a resolution protesting the recent sentencing of six anti-fascists, ar- rested at a “Free Thaelmann” demonstration, and sent the resolu- tion to Judge Otto Helligman, who sentenced them. : The Trade Union Unity League ill hold a dance on Sept. 21, at artick Hall, 512 S. Eighth St., to finance the sending of trade union \Jaelegates to the Congress. | The League has organized a \speakers’ Bureau and invited all or- ganizations to make use of it for ‘jectures and meetings. | ‘The committee expects 125 dele- ‘gates from this city to attend the ‘Congress in Chicago. A vast amount of work is involved in carrying ‘through the preparations. The League appeals for volunteer work- ers to help in this work. Volun- teers are asked to get in touch with the League office, Room 608 Flan- ders Building. Packard, S.P. Leader, Joins the Democrats After Sinclair Victory PASADENA, Cal., Sept. 2—John |e, Packard, a member of the Na- tional Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, and well-known California leader of the organiza- sion, has climbed aboard the Roose- yelt. bandwagon. His conversion :o the Democratic Party, following '|the overwhelming victory of the ex- ‘socialist, Upton Sinclair, in the posal primary race for gov- prnorship, was announced here this f oon. . Meackard stated he had “accepted "the general invitation extended by President Roosevelt” and had re- signed from the Socialist Party to become a “New Dealer.” , a close friend of Sin- slair, based his statement of resig- nation on Roosevelt's address of yesterday to his neighbors, in which the president pleaded for national unity. Roosevelt has, Packard de- dared, a “big program that ‘has hothing to do with party, that is} the crying to be square with Republi- tans, ocrats, Socialists and 497 Signatures, $20 Raised in Coal Camps for Herndon and Nine NEW YORK.—Four hundred and ninety-seven signatures, de- manding that President Roose- velt free the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, were collected by a Daily Worker reader in the coal-camps of West Virginia, who received a collection and signature list from the national office of the International Labor Defense in its campaign to raise the $15,000 necessary to appeal these cases and to mobilize mass pressure to force the free- dom of these classwar prisoners. The Daily Worker reader, im- mediately upon receipt of the appeal by the I. L. D., began to collect pennies and signatures, I.L.D. Appeals For Funds In Fight on KKK Farm Workers Beaten, Jailed, As Planters Unleash Terrorism NEW YORK.—An appeal for funds to help the I. L. D, in Florida fight against the growing fascist terror centering in Orange and Polk Counties, where a most mili- tant struggle is being carried on against attacks by the K. K. K,,/ the American Legion and the police, | was issued yesterday by the national office of the International Labor Defense. It was in this region, it was pointed out, that Frank Norman, I. L. D. organizer, was kidnaped by K.K.K. thugs, on May 11, and mur- dered. A systematic reign of terror has been carried on in the citrus region in an attempt to smash the militant working-class organiza- tions, and especially the Citrus Workers’ Union, an independent | union. The latest example of this terror comes in the arrest and conviction for “vagrancy” of two sympathizers of the workers’ movement. Leon and Lillian Bland, who, although they actually own and operate & small laundry, have been railroaded on a charge of being “without vis- ible means of support.” Funds for the expenses of their appeal, which comes up on Sept. 5, should be rushed to the national of- fice of the I. L. D., Room 430, 80 E. lith St., New York City. Crown Heights Election Conference Arranged NEW YORK.—A call for an elec- tion campaign conference has been issued to all workers and mass or- ganizations by the Communist Party in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which embraces the fifth, sixth, eleventh, seventeenth and eighteenth Assem- bly districts. The conference is to be held Sept. 6 at 261 Schenectady Avenue, The Seventeenth A.D., which has a Negro population of 75,000 has been chosen by the Party as a con- centration district in the campaign. In addition to its general program, the Party is raising the following specific demands for this neighbor- hood: Destruction of fire-trap dwellings and the building of new houses for workers at low rentals; construction of new schools in the Negro neigh- borhoods and new playground and recreational facilities, Officers Give Negro To Georgia Lynch Mob SAV. AH, Ga, Sept. 2— George ite, Negro worker, was lynched near here last Friday by a band of masked, armed men travel- ing in high-powered automobiles. His body has not been found, and is believed to have been buried in a Nearby swamp. White, who was arrested on “sus- Picion” of “attempting to attack a white woman,” was turned over to the lynchers by law officers who were “taking him to Savannah” from the Liberty County jail. No reason has been given by officials for his removal from the county jail. Unless Every Section and Unit in Party Throws Its Forces Vigor- ously Into the Circulation Drive, the Daily Worker Remains Un- known to Thousands of Workers, Postponed Three More Months PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2. — The Roosevelt government has just ar- ranged for a postponement of two to three months in the matter of “fighting” or an injunction to “re- strain the Weirton Steel Company from forcing its workers into a company union. The suit of the Government against the Weirton Steel Company, begun several months ago to quiet the intense anger of the steel workers, who hed been tricked back to work by the promises of Roose- velt, was to have come up on Sep- tember 6. Instead of acting on this day, the Government has now with- drawn the company union issue from the courts altogether, and has decided to let the N. R. A. Labor Board decide the matter two or three months from now It is significant that the petition to the Labor Board was not made by federal attorneys, but by Charl- ton Ogburn, attorney for the Amal- gamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.), who worked closely with the government forces to bring about the postpone- ment. The government's instant withdrawal of the election issue from the federal suit shows the connection. With the help of the National Steel Board, the government and the American Federation of Labor are striving to prove to certain re- calcitrant elements among the steel trust that the A. F. of L. unions can be as efficient as company unions in betraying the interests of the workers and upholding those of the employers. The National Labor Board for the steel industry is thus seen to exist, not only for the purpose of be- traying the workers under election and arbitration devices, but also to prove to the steel captains that the whole doctrine of the New Deal is a fascist, employers’ doctrine and is deserving of their support. Need- less to say, the A. A. leadership is anxious to go to any lengths in helping establish this proof, 4 Political Prisoners in Welfare Island Jail Visited by Delegation NEW YORK — Four class-war prisoners, doing time at Welfare Island for militant labor activities, were visited Monday by a delega- tion of seven representing the Polit- ical Prisoners Club and the National Committee for the Defense of Polit- ical Prisoners. ‘The delegation, which was led by Leon Blum, had a half-hour inter- view with Abe Berliner of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; William Straus of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union; Manuel Lopez of the Food Workers Industrial Union, and Harry Fox of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. Carney, of the Altera- tion Painters Union, was confined in the prison hospital and efforts to see him were unsuccessful. The purpose of the visit was to encourage the men in the formation within the prison of a branch of the Political Prisoners Club, and to get first hand information of the treatment they are receiving. Due to the efforts of the National Committee and the International Labor Defense, the prisoners re- ported, they were now allowed to receive working class literature. Other conditions, including food, medical attention and so forth, are still very bad, they said. Four-Year Free College To Be Demanded at NSL Conference in Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 2—Demands for a four-year freé city college course in Chicago will be raised at the pre- liminary conference against educa- tional retrenchment called by the National Student League, to be held Wednesday, 8 p. m., at the Jewish Peoples Institute, Every youth organization on the West Side is being urged to send delegates to the conference on the basis of one to every ten members in the organization. : In July, 1933, Crane College, the only free city college in Chicago, was closed in accordance with the retrenchment policy of the city administration. A protest strike of students failed to force the Board of Education to rescind all the cuts because of the lack of organi- zation on the part of the students and youth of Chicago. As a result of the protest, however, the Board promised to establish three junior Colleges, housing them in already over-crowded high school buildings :and without necessary equipment. Relief Men on Three Projects Are Laid Off NEW YORK.—Relief workers on at least three city projects, Bryant | Park, Central Park and the For- sythe Street job, were sent home from the jobs Friday. No reason was given for‘the layoff. Telephone calls made by the Daily Worker at the Works Depart- ment yesterday could establish no reason for the layoff. Four secre- taries of various relief officials stated that the officials were out. At the office of the Parks De- partment, no reason was given for the layoff, although Parks Depart- ment officials declared that “the men would be permitted to make up the time lost next week.” “A moonshine distillery information written te the President’s wife.” —News Item. was raided on the basis of Alawititank Strike ‘Near Defeat As A.F.L. Heads Urge Return (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Sept. 2. —The strike of 8,700 aluminum workers here approached defeat last night as Boris Shiskin, A. F. of L. union leader, reporting on the Washington negotiations with the Labor Board, urged the strikers to return to work and accept N. R. A. “arbitration.” The position which A, F. of L. leaders have adopted is in sharp contrast to the sentiment of the strikers, who approved heartily a leaflet issued by the Communist Party yesterday calling for estab- lishment of a rank and file strike committee and no return to work without recognition and a 50-cent minimum, Accept “Arbitration” Meanwhile, the A. F. of L. offi- cials are preventing any mass pic- keting and preparing to put over their arbitration sellout at con- ferences with which are to be resumed in Pitts- burgh next Wednesday. The “progress” of the A. F. of L. strike negotiations, under the care- ful guidance of Shishkin and Dave Williams, A. F. of L. organizer, has been in three visible steps: 1—The suppression of the wage- increase and 50-cent minimum de- mands, which aluminum workers approved June 14, and substitution of Williams’ ‘“11-point proposals,” asking for an “open shop agree- company officials,’ ment with anti-strike clause serted.” 2—The Green-A. F. of L. leaders’ acceptance of a 5-point strike- breaking plan advanced by Federal Conciliator Fred Keightly, providing for labor arbitration if no agree- ment could be concluded within ten days after an immediate return to work; the scrapping of even Will- iams’ 11-point anti-strike plan. 3—The open transition to the policy which the A. F. of L. mis- leaders have followed underhanded- ly from the first, which appeared during the Washington conference —the demand that the whole con- troversy be submitted to Labor Board arbitration after company officials refused to accede to the checkoff in return for abandon- ment of all other union demands. in- Ignore Strike Demands The company, feeling safe with huge stocks ahead, has at no time yet conferred on the question of the union’s demands, but solely on what matters it may “properly” submit to arbitration, and will con- tinue discussions only on this basis. In short, the aluminum workers have been tricked by A. F. of L. officials until, from a strike origin- ally called for higher wages and recognition, their walkout has been transformed into a strike to have the Labor Board break it and dic- tate the terms of an “agreement.” TERA Reports Rise in State Relief Lists NEW YORK.—Sixteen per cent of the entire population of the State of New York received emer- gency relief during the month of July, according to a report of the State Emergency Relief Adminis- tration just published. Federal, State and local funds expended for home and work relief, the report stated, were for 497,906 families of 1,998,600 persons, the report continued. Of the almost two million persons on the relief lists throughout the state in July, 844.500, or 42 per cent were children under 16 years of age. In addition, the Transient Bu- yéaus spent a total of $181,155 for the care of 1,124 families of 4,255 individuals, 23,066 homeless men and 375 homeless women. Yesterday’s report by the T. E. R. A. shows that more than half a milion more unemployed were on | the relief list in July, 1934 than in July, 1933. Mrs. Tasker Tells Of Croppers’ Fight In South for Union BROOKLYN.—The growth of the Alabama Share Croppers Union, the heroic struggles of Negro crop- pers and the work of the Commu- nist Party in rallying white farm- ers to their support, were graphi- cally described by Mrs. Capitolia Tasker, Alabama share cropper, at a meeting of the Crown Heights section of the Communist Party last Tuesday. Mrs, Tasker described the miser- able conditions of the croppers, and their resistance to plundering land- lords in the face of a fascist terror campaign. The audience expressed its en- thusiasm by adopting pledges to fulfill tasks set by the Section in the Negro section. These tasks in- clude doubling C. P. membership, doubling Daily Worker and Negro Liberator sales, the building up of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and the International Labor Defense by Nov. 7. Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Guild Wins Contract: After Strike Threat’! NEW YORK. — The New York Newspaper Guild won a partial vic- tory for discharged employes of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, Thursday night, when company officials yielded to strike threats of members of the Bulletin unit of the Guild and signed a “preferential” Guild con- tract. The agreement goes into ef- fect Oct. 1. Meeting with a committee of ten representing the Guild, Mrs. Jaboc Landau, wife of the owner, agreed to sign the “preferential” contract and rehire the discharged men with the first increase in staff. The con- tract also provided or the estab- lishment of the five-day, forty-hour week in place of the six-day, forty- eight-hour week. A “preferential” contract means that all editorial workers to be hired in. the paper will be called for through the Guild. Should the Guild be unable to supply the needed men on call, the reporters hired independently by the newspaper are to become Guild members. The question of minimum wages was left for further negotia- tion. The Bulletin unit of the New York Newspaper Guild had voted to strike for reinstatement of three men, discharged for Guild activities. Highest Death Rate Among Stable Hands; Teachers Least Hit NEW ORLEANS (FP).—The ef- fect of a man’s job on the length of his life is revealed in a report released Saturday by the New Or- leans Tuberculosis and Public Health Association. The highest death rate from all causes, for working men 15 to 64 years old, was found among hostlers and stable hands—36.22 deaths per 1,000 employed. In com- parison, one of the lowest figures, 2.69, applied to college professors. Employes in dusty trades, those usually exposed to high tempera- tures, to excessive moisture or to bad weather conditions generally, are among the workers subjected to the greatest risk, according to the report. The effect of different standards of living as implied by certain occu- pations was also said to be obvious. The lowest tuberculosis death rate was found in the highest economic bracket and the highest in the low- est social-economic group, | Sept. 10 in Meeting |gro and foreign-born, women and | with Councilmen CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 2. Cleveland Unemployment Cour have called upon all workers, ployed and unemployed, to mass at} the City Hall next Monday evening | at 7 o'clock when a committee of] twenty-five workers, elected at the| Aug. 19, unemployed conference, will | present the jobless’ demands to the City Council. The demands were adopted by | 176 delegates representing 28 or-| ganizations participating in the | conference. The demands adopted | call for: 1—A thirty-hour week at union| Wages on all relief jobs. | 2—Cash payment of ail rents for | unemployed workers; an end to all evictions and foreclosures, 3—No discrimination against Ne- young workers, 4—Removal of all police from the relief stations, 5—Water, gas and electricity to be | supplied to all unemployed. 6—Endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill by the City Council. Parents Will Protest Transfer of Children at Meeting Tomorrow) NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to protest the transfer of 1,000 chil- dren out of P. S, 66, the Bronx, to| distant schools situated across dan- gerous intersections will be held| tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock at} 1304 Southern Boulevard. The | meeting was called by a Provisional Committee of Parents elected at a meeting last Wednesday, School authorities have consis- | tently refused to hear the protests} of the parents. A delegation of forty who called on Dr. Campbell, Superintendent of Schools, to pre- sent their complaint was not al- lowed to enter the Board of Educa- tion building. A committee of four which went upstairs was told that Dr. Campbell was too busy and was forcibly ejected from the building. Sentiment of the parents, as ex- pressed in Wednesday’s meeting, was in favor of refusing to send their children to any other school except P. S. 65. Since the transfer of the children was occasioned by the need for an annex for James Monroe High School, the demand has been raised that the James Monroe students be given a new building. I. L. D. Sends Prolesta Against Imprisonment of American in Poland NEW YORK.—Protest against the arrest in Warsaw, Poland, of Thad- deus Kirylak Kurowski, an American citizen who went there as delegate of the Polish Chamber of Labor to a world congress of Polish language organizations, was made by the In- srnational Labor Defense in a let- ter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and in telegrams to the Polish Ambascador ‘in Washington and the Polish consulate in New York. The LL.D. in a letter signed by Anna Damon, acting National Sec- retary, demanded of the state de- pertment an investigation of Kur- owski's arrest and detention, ap- parently without charges, through the American consulate in Warsaw, looking to Kurowski’s release. Kurowski, according to advices re- ceived by the International Labor Defense here, was denied admission to the Congress, and on August 13 arrested as he was about to as- semble a meeting called by friends, to explain the message he had brought from the Polish Chamber of Labor of the United States to the world congress. So far as could be ascertained, no charges haye been placed against him, but he is still held. | The I. L. D. is planning a mass campaign together with the Polish workers’ organizations of the coun- try, has called for a flood of pro- tests against the arrest of Kurowski, to be sent to Secretary of State Hull at Washington, to the Polish Am- bassador, Stanislaw Patek, at Wash- ington, and to the various Polish consulates, especially in New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh. The I. L. D. will organize delegations to the consulates in these cities, it was announced, to demand Kurowski's freedom. Pittsburgh Truckmen Jailed After Stopping Seab-Driven Trucks PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 2.— Seven striking meat truck drivers were held for ceurt yesterday morn- ing under $500 bail for stopping a scab-driven truck of the Swift Com- pany yesterday and removing the driver. Forty-four trucks of the Swift Company’s North Side and South Side plants, and the St. Louis In- dependent Packing Company in East Liberty, are tied up by the strike of drivers for a wage increase and recognition of the union. Two other strikers have been ar- rested for attacking armed thugs who were escorting a scab truck. All the arrested drivers were charged with inciting to riot. The city administration is furn- ishing armed escorts whenever the company attempts to move a truck; *| freed on bond, In Pennsylvania Relief Director Biddle Announces AH Relief Payments to Unemployed Numbering 1,300,000 Will Cease PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. Pennsylvania for the month Next Week 2.—While relief financing im of September is being made a political football between the Democratic and Republican parties, 1,300,000 persons on in Coast Strike Cos Taxpayers $384,000 SAN FRA) (FP). — It cost. California 34,000 to call out the state militia in the re- co, as Te- te officials when they approved vouchers on behalf of the military forces. The ex- penses cover pay, supplies and food for 4,000 militiamen The cost to San Francisco for |} special police hired over the three-month period of the strike || exceeds $150,000. The expenditures threaten to || cent maritime unbalance the city’s budget and || throw the state treasury further || in the red. | K.W.LU. Wins ALL Demands' In7 Knit Shops. All Knitwear Workers Called to Meet Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Seven more shops, closed tight as a drum since the general walkout of knitgoods work- ers, settled late last week with the Knitgoods Workers Industrial Union on the basis of the demands of the union. The employers agreed to the 35-hour week, wage increases, legal holidays and a number of the| other conditions stipulated by the union, Among the shops which signed union contracts are the Gloray Knitting Mills and the Knitwear Mills, the latter an open shop which was working on a 40-hour schedule prior to the strike. Despite the settlement effected by President Dubinsky of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- ers Union and the Regional Labor Board, a number of shops are still striking, with the workers deter- mined not go back until their con- ditions are met. The Knitgoods Workers Industrial Union is calling a special meeting of all knitters, hand, flat power, circular and links, regardless of union affiliation as well as those who are unemployed, tomorrow at 6:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Fifteenth St. and Irving Place, City. Unemployed hand knitters are asked to come to the office of the Union, 131 W. 28th St., New York City on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 11 a. m. in order to prepare for the mass meeting. Florida Couple, Jailed On Vagrancy Charge, Freed in $50 Bail Bond ORLANDO, Fia., Aug. 31. — Ar- rested on trumped-up charges of “vagrancy,” and sentenced in rail- road fashion to sixty days in the city stockade, Leon and Lillian Bland will appear in court again on September 5 in an appeal of their case, following their release | on $50 bond raised from local sym- pathizers. The arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Bland is part of the drive being made in Orange County by the combined forces of the American Legion, the Ku Klux Kian, the “Secret Six” and the police, who have announced they are going to stamp out the “red menace” in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Bland, who own} and together work a small laundry | in Winter Park, about two miles from Orlando, were arrested here | Aug. 17, and following their sum- | mary sentence, served seven days in the city stockade before being ‘The charges were loitering on the } “vagrancy and streets without visible means of} support.” Protests against this frame-up should be sent to Mayor S. Y. Way and Sheriff Harry Hand, both at Orlando. the relief rolls throughout Hopkins, Federal relie# has declared thet no be allo« State matche: for dollar. rT inc! refused to call the special In the Pittsburgh area alone, tha 50,000 families now on relief face absolute starvation, and immediate dollar has | eviction orders hang over the heads of 700 families, Since May, Pennsylvania has had no funds of its own for relief. Last winter, Pinchot succeeded in passe ing through the Legislature a bill providing that revenue from the | state’s liquor taxes alone should ap- ply to relief. The estimated $20,< | 000,000 from this source did not. materialize, State Relief Administrator Erie | H. Biddle declared Saturday that all work relief throughout the State had been “tapered off,” and out of the federal funds of $21,000,000 for July and August, enough money re= mained to extend food relief pa: ments only for the current week, Asked if that meant that relief throughout the state would be cut off entirely after this week, he de- clared, “That is right.” In Philadelphia, tess than 300 re- main on the relief work payroll today, and most of these work in an administrative capacity. Oher parts of the State have seen the entire work relief program dropped. In discussing the new works program which was scheduled to start in Pennsylvania on Sept. 15, Biddle de« clared that the future of the new- works plan was now “uncertain,” Workers in Madison Break Down Jim-Crow Regulation at Picnic MADISON, Ill, Sept. 2.—Six hun- dred white and Negro ‘workers at the Communist Party picnic last Sunday smashed an attempt by the management of Eagles Park, where the picnic was held, to institute Jim-Crowism and drive the Negro workers from the grounds. The park has been the scene of” many working-class picnics, but; only last Sunday did the park manager, following the lines laid down by the state authorities in at- tacking the Communist Party and,, the unity of Negro and white work- ers, raise objections to the fratere nization of white and Negro work- ers. The committee called the pick- nickers together and stated the de-_ mands of the park management and the position of the Communist Party. The meeting voted unant- mously against the chauvinist de- mands of the manager. The mane agement backed down. ig Angelo Herndon Will Speak at Mass Rally In Brooklyn Tomorrow NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to greet Angelo Herndon will be held tomorrow night .at 8 o’clock at the. | Crystal Palace, 143 McKibben Street, Brooklyn. Herndon, who was recently re leased from Fulton Tower jail, At-. lanta, Ga. on $15,000 bail raised by workers throughout the country, will tell of the struggles in the South to unite the Negro and white workers in the fight against star- vation, lynching, and for the naq« tional liberation of the Negro people, WANTED! Men and women, now unemployed, to give fell time to selling sub- seriptions te the magazine “Soviet Russia Todey.” Easy to sell, maga- tine already has largest cireulation in movement. New plan, with ex- ceedingly generous commission makes satisfactory earnings possible to serious workers. Out of town write, Others apply 10 A. M. Room 229, 799 Broadway, Williams. MASS SINGING CONCERTS North Beach Picnic Park Astoria, L, I. Admission 25¢ LABOR DAY MONDAY; Sept. 3,1934 |: 10 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT, © DANCING but strikers, members of A. F. of L. Truck Drivers Local 249, have tied up shipment almost 100 per cent, cP SE Directions: LR.T. o= BM.T. subways or 2nd Ave. “L” to Ditmars A¥e,, Astoria; buses to parks i ‘ : é :