The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1934, Page 5

PROTESTS ROLL UP AGAINST GREEN’S ANTI-RE D LETTER DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1934 Evades Issue | On Frankfield |\Demand for Freedom) Gov. Pinchot (Chicago A. F. of L. Local Contributes | | School Board | Seeks ‘Reds’ ' Teachers Win Their Danger Seen To the ‘Daily’ Drive Demands in Strike | By Begun In Meeting Called in Chicago for November 3; | of Organizer Not “The interests of Communism are not the interests of Terre Haute Worker Leader Who Calls for Unity s Acclaim Communist Considered (Daily Worker SHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 31. | Midwest Bureau) : | — Protest actions against | GLASSPORT, Pa., Oct. 31—The “liberality” of Governor Pinchot has been placed on the spot by the | Unemployment Council of Glass- | Green’s recent anti-Red incitement are rolling up a mass |port in regard to his position on answer to the burocrats, from rank and file union men |the freeing of Frankfeld and Egan, |posses never had a more devoted throughout the states of Illinois and Indiana. | On Nov. 3 at 8 p. m., Peoples’ Auditorium, 2457 W. | Chicago Avenue, will be packed by such a meeting. Prominent Com- munist Party members will rip to shreds the demagogy of. Green and his fellow misleaders. The clear role of the Communis: Party as the best fighting force in the trade union movement will be proved. Terre Haute Meeting Hundréds of miles away, in Terre Haute, Indiana, Bill Gebert, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party, last week issued a ringing challenge for unity of all workers agains: the anti-working class poli- cies of Green and company. Speaking at a Debs Memorial meeting, called by the Debs Educa- tional Society and endorsed by the town’s Central Labor Union, Gebert won tremendous response. Even the local capitalist press was unable to completely hide the power of his speech. Reporting the meeting, the Terre Haute Star said: “The meet- ing ended with the fiery address of B. K. Gebert, Chicago Communist, a brilliant speaker, who pleaded for unity of all workers. “The spirit of Eugene Debs—the courageous, eloquent spirit of that Terre Haute railroad fireman who carried Socialism into politics—lis- tened while men the living Debs hhad known preached class enmity.” (Class struggle—D.W.) The Central Labor Union of Terre Haute is now arranging an anti- war and anti-fascist meeting for Noy. 12. A speaker has been in- vited from the American League Against War and Fascism. This answer to the famous anti- Communist manifesio of Green is echoed by significant actions among the trade unionists of Chicago. Lo- cal No. 637 of the Painters’ Union overwhelmingly rejected this letter. Two A. F. of L, locals in the Calu- mét Region have taken similar ac- tion. A large vote was rolled up in the Chicago Federation of Labor against publication of the mani- festo in the Chicago A. F. of L. paper. Only strenuous efforts by the Fitzpatrick machine defeated this rank and file expression of unity. In its call for the Noy. 2 meet- Two Negroes Convicted in Terror Drive LL.D. Urges Protests on Conviction of Workers | In Niagara Falls NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y., Oct. 25. —Verdicts of “guilty” were handed down by a jury here today against Alphonse Davis, 22-year-old Negro worker framed on a flimsy “rape” charge, and against William Fisher, Negro worker, who was almost beaten to death in an attack on an I. L. D. meeting called in sup- | port of the Davis defense, and framed on a charge of “assault at battery.” Davis faces a possible sentence of twenty years, and Fisher of five, when they come up on Friday be- fore Judge Harcourt here. The frame-up against Davis was | completely exposed by the I. L. D., and police officials have been carry- ing on a vigorous lynch-incitement campaign to bolster up their prose- cution. tack upon the I. L. D. meeting, at which Fisher was beaten while trying to protect two girl I. L. D. members from the blackjacks of the gangsters organized by the Police, was part of this campaign. Several other supporters of the defense have been framed on vari- ous charges and sentenced to the workhouse, including Stanley Chmiell, I. L. D. attorney in the case, and George Hart, district sec- retary of the I. L. D. Protests and telegrams against the conviction, demanding the freedom of Davis and Fisher, should be sent immediately to Judge Harcourt, County Court, Lockport, N. Y. | requesting pardons The police-protected at- | working class leaders of Western Pennsylvania who have been framed to long prison terms for their activities in leading the fight jfor unemployment insurance. The Council here, ,upon the unanimous adoption of a resolution of protest, sent a communication to Governor Pinchot demanding that he free Frankfeld and cause the conviction against Egan to be dropped. A few days later they received the following reply from the G. O. P.- crusading governor's office. | “Your communication of recent date addressed to the Governor, for Phillip | Frankfeld and James Egan of Al- legheny County, has been re- | ceived. | | “For your information, how- | ever, the Governor has no direct control over the District Attorney of Allegheny County, and no au- | thority whatever to order the re- lease of any prisoners. Pardons can be granted only upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons. “Sincerely, “RICHARD CEAGY, Clerk.” But if the Governor's office im- | agined such a weak evasion would | stop the demands of the workers that their leaders be released, they soon discovered that they were badly mistaken. For the next day, a second missive was sent to the} Governor, which read as follows: “Mr. Pinchot— “We have received your com- | munication stating that you have | no authority to act without the recommendation of the board of pardons in regard to our demands for the immediate release of Phil Frankfeld and Jim Egan. “You say that you must have a recommendation from this board, which is obviously not comprised of working class people. “The voice of the common peo- ple, the workers, the unemployed —whose champion you and your wife have repeatedly claimed to be—must mean nothing to you! “We again demand the free- dom of Frankfeld and Egan! The working class is determined that there will be no Tom Mooneys in Pennsylvania. labor!” | William Green has said. | | But, somehow, Bill’s celestial orders to expel the Com- munists (Bill’s definition for all militant being kicked around in sad f: A. F. of L. workers are learning ¢— that no man ever bzoke a strike better than Bill and that the big | friend to collaborate with. Bill has come upon a day when American workers are learning about the} fearlessness and honesty of Com-| munists in workers’ struggles. Woud you like to throw out the] Communists, Bill? Listen! This} comes from Chicago. A. F. of L, Contribution “Enclosed you will find a check of five dollars (for the $60,000 fund), which we, the progressive group of bakers of Local 237, A. F. of L., are sending to you. Of course, we feel that this is a very. small amount right now, but we are not forgetting our Daily Worker—and in the very near | future we shail mail some more.” Or perhaps you would like to listen to a marine worker, Bill? His name is Wilmer Erickson, of Toledo, Ohio, “Seeing the progress (against odds) that the M.W.1.U. has made here on the Jakes in their first year of activity,” he writes, “I send one dollar to the $60,000 drive (sorry I can’t send more just now) for the one newspaper in this country that is the fly in the soup of all ship owners and labor fakers. Yours for a bigger and better Daily Worker.” A bigger and better Daily Worker is what Mr. William Green and his cronies see in all their nightmares. One can do them no better favor | than not to contribute to the $60,000 drive. To contribute means to push them another step towards their downfall. It means to push them and the whole system which uses them to mislead the working class. “Daily” Needed Everywhere “There is no end to what we can accomplish here in Mahanoy City —with the aid of the Daily Worker,” |writes Joe Stensky from Pennsyl- vania, sending $15 in the name of the “Modern Workers’ League.” But workers) are ashion by A. F. of L. locals. | the need for the Daily Worker reaches no end in any other city | or village. | “Nothing is more refreshing,” continues Comrade Stensky, “than | to read a paper that is devoid of | all hypocrisy, scandal, gossip, gos- pel-sharking ... that is making an honest effort to educate and | raise the standard of living of the | working masses.” | ‘The Daily Worker is the only} daily English newspaper which un- | compromisingly strives to educate} the masses to the revolutionary way | jout, to a happy standard of living. It can do this, however, only if the | working class keeps it in publica- tion by contributing to its financial | campaigns. Words Not Enough “Greeting the growth of the | Daily Worker in words alone is | not enough,” declares the Bul- garian Workers Club of Wauke- gan,, Ill. “Here is $5.00 as our first contribution raised at an affair for the Daily Worker and the Bulgarian language organ of the Communist Party, ‘Saznanie.’ “We appeal to every other group of workers to raise as much as possible to make the Daily Worker a real leader, organizer and unifier of the working class in every cor- In Colleges, Check on Students To Be Made by School Heads The Board of Exami New York City school sy announced through Dr. G. J. Smith, that to make “more sea: Nn | regarding the personal traits of | teacher candidates” in the colleges. It is unfortunate, according to Dr. | Smith’s latest announcement, that colleges in the past have not kept an adequate account of their stu- dents’ activities in riots and un- seemly demonstrations of one kind | or another. | The Board of Education is thus, extending its red hunt. The start was made last summer whei helped push through the react: ary bill requiring all teach take an oath of loyalty. Folloy this it asked the Bo of min- ers to inquire into the “loyalty” of candidates for licenses who applied to take the examinations. The preparation for a loyalty quizz to} be given to college students to eliminate them even from applying for teaching examinations as the | next step. Such a quizz is in prepa- | ration, Protests against this vicious fas- cist drive to crush all independent opinion among teachers is being felt at the Board. In answer to} ng of their demands, month strike of school teachers '| of Old Forge was ended last Sat- urday night successfully by an agreement with the school board which granted the teachers most | J.C Quizz Communist Candidate Exposes Lehman, McGoldrick The supervisory-dominated Joint Committee which led the teachers | of New York City to defeat in two | pay fights, has begun its third cam- |paign of misleading teachers with = |the publication of replies received to four months || from the candidates for election on t dy employment teaching ex- | eight questions which concern Be cle een, a] teacher interests. | Dominated by principals and first Jassistants who led the fight in | order to behead it when it grows | too militant, the Joint Committee Tc Union Votes bd W 4 | recently sent out the questionnaire Un 1 ty ith | which calls for “yes” and “no” an- The teachers’ strike began last the local Board of lismissed some teach- ‘or organizing a campaign ‘over back Z whe: May ers as substitutes with a gui tee of three r he ‘ | swers. The “yes-men” democratic, UTA on Bill epublican and socialist have thus Ccoperation with the Unemployed Teachers Association was voted over | the heads of the Teachers Union| at a meeting held last week which | Linvinville’s autocratic decision.) Fought bitterly by the Legislative | Representative, Dr. Lefkowitz, the membership voted to aid the un- employed tenchers in their fight been enabled to promise the teach- ers everything that they can wish for, with one exception—McGold- rick. Furlough May Be Extended “I am confident that if the 1935 budget can be worked out along the employes in 1935 will not be neces- sary,” says the “honest” controller. In view of the fact that the budget as planned is unbalanced, and since these, Dr. Smith was forced to an- nounce hypocritically last Friday that “We're not a board of inqui- | sition and we're not heresy hunt- | ing.” That the entire campaign of suppression is directed to the pur- Pose of forcing the teachers to ac- cept without protest the coming ner of the United States.” The existence and growth of the “Daily” depends upon such contri- butions from every corner of the country. No matter how small, in-| dividuals and workers’ groups should not hesitate to send them in. Quarters, half dollars, dollars— | the budget makers feel every ob- | ligation to provide payments to the the year also supported the rank | 0@kers by balancing it at the ex- and file inits fignt to seat Taidove | Sense Of: the ciey empi es ae Begun, who had been illegally ruled | piece of “frankness wl fool no off the ballot and who was elected|@. McGoldrick, whose present in spite of this by a write-in vote, | Position forces him to be so direct, by voting for a special meeting at | found himself saying the same against the duel job evil. This first delegate assembly of these preserve the life of the work-| ing class’s greatest guide. Individual readers and workers’ groups, con- tribute NOW! NOTE: Sections, units, organi- | zations, readers are urged to send in immediately full reports of their activities in the drive for $60,000. With the new eight-page paper, space has been provided to publish these each day.—Editor. W.LT. to Give Two Showings For Campaign Gold to Speak At Five Rallies: In C. P. Drive jalthough it had made the an-| economy drive in the schools is made plain by his reference to the militant demonstration which pro- tested last year the frame-up of Isidore Blumberg, who succeeded at that time in exposing the drive to| cut salaries. The failure of the Board of Ex- aminers to issue the complete quizz | nouncement over a week ago, shows | the effect of the protests that have | been made against it. The entire campaign against freedom of ex~ pression is proceeding slowly in the | face of the growing resistance to it | among the teachers, Teachers Ask which this would be taken up. The | bitterness of the fight on coopera- | tion with the U. T. A. as well as on | the matter of seating Begun showed | that the bureaucracy was deter- mined more than ever to keep the | its own union. A rank and file motion was made | to work together with the U. T. A. in fighting for an anti-multiple job bill in the legislature. This was bitterly fought by Lefkowitz, despite the well-known fact that the U. T. A. had been in the forefront of the struggle to get jobs for the un- employed teachers. Chairman Lin- ville resorted to a parliamentary trick of demanding a two-third vote to pass the motion. This exposed his “liberalism” to the newly elected delegates and they refused to up- rank and file of its membership | from expressing its desires within | answer to a question put to him two weeks ago at a meeting of the Classroom Teacher Groups. Program of Communist Candidate Isidore Begun, who preceded Mc= Goldrick on that occasion and gave the only honest answer to questions on pay cuts, was not “honored” by the receipt of the Joint Committee’s questionnaire. Asked why they failed to send the Communist candidates the questions, Begun smiled. “Of course, they would not send us one, Their purpose is to blind the teach ers to the real answer, which only the Communist candidates can give. They have made it easy for all of the candidates to answer ‘yes’. The Communist candidates would have made it hard for them to publish the answer—they cannot afford to publish the truth.” Begun has al- School Board “ ; jhold his decision and overwhelm-| ready pointed out to the teachers ing, the Communis; Party states: (Signed) SAMUEL ANTICO, “We are part of the working class, and whether in trade unions, in the shops or among the unem- ployed, our aim is to get better conditions for the workers. The Communist Party calls upon the workers of the A. F. of L. to de- fend their rights in the trade unions, to prevent the expulsion of Communists and militant workers who are defending their interests in the trade unions.” Relief Ruling In California To Cut Wages By a Worker Correspondent SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Oct. 29.—Any unemployed workers who refuse any job offered regardless of the hourly rate will be immediately cut off the relief lists, Harold P. Thoreson, county relief director, declared to the San Bernardino County Workers and Relief Asso- ciation here last week. Thoreson’s statement, made at the Labor Temple, which, he said, was necessary to prevent the loss of any perishable crops, is as fol- lows: “The S. E. R. A. is going to in- sist in the near future that when work from outside sources is offered which equals the amount of or ex- ceeds the amount of the budget, regardless of the hourly rate, is re- fused, the party will be taken off 8. E. R. A. rolls. Your alternative in this matter is to strike—then you can be put back on the relief rolls of the S. E. R, A.” In order that Thoreson might not be misunderstood, one of the work- ers present put an illustration be- foer Thoreson, which, he said, con- veyed his meaning exactly. “My budget,” the worker said, “amounts to $32.01 a month. Do you mean that if a farmer offers a job at twenty-five cents an hour for a thirty-hour week, the job to pay $32.50 for 130 hours work a month, I am forced to take this or be cut off relief?” Thoreson said that this illus- trated the new ruling, but for the workers not to “make too much noise about it to the extent that it might make trouble.” Relief Lists at All-Time High in Pittsburgh Area PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 31— ‘With an all-time high of 15,000 cases on the Allegheny County re- lief lists already reached, families are being added at the rate of 100 a day, according to George P. Milis, director of the county relief board, which includes Pittsburgh, McKees- port, Clairton, Homstead, Duquesne snd other steel centers. French Army Is All Set To Grab Saar PARIS, Oct. 31—In the event that Hitler attempts to wrest the valuable coal and iron deposits of the Saar region from French con- trol either before or after the plebiscite to be held Jan. 13, the armies of France ate fully prepared on this pretext for instant armed intervention, the Minister of War, Marshal Henri Petain, assured the Finance Commission of the Cham- ber of Deputies. Petain outlined elaborate plans for the seizure of the politically and economically strategic Saar Basin, Instructions to the Twen- tieth Corps at Nancy and the Sixth Corps at Metz order these forces to be held in immediate readiness. The Minister of War, who was to have retired weeks ago from active military service, but who was or- dered to continue as Marshal of the French armies because of the nearness of the Saar plebiscite, is now completing the full “moderni- zation” and preparedness of the country’s armed forces. 2 Chicago Shut-Downs Add 35,000 to Jobless CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 31. — Al- though the financial pages of the local newspapers report a slight rise in steel production, the Il- lnois Steel Company, the largest plant in the South Chicago area, closed down completely last week, throwing 5,000 workers out of em- ployment. After a hilarious Hallowe’en, the Worlds Fair here will close its gates throwing 30,000 out of jobs. About 15,000 will be employed temporarily cleaning up the debris, One Killed, Two Injured On Forced Labor Work BESSEMER, Pa., Oct. 31—Forced to work as a means of paying back rent for company-owned houses in which they lived, John Sankovich is dead and Wayne Puromaki and Alex Brentin sustained shock and injuries when the wall of a sewer ditch they were digging for the Bessemer Limestone and Cement Company cave in. NEW WING PROMISED A renewed demand for speed on the addition of a wing to P. S. 225, Brooklyn, brought a promise of ac- tion from the chairman of the Board of Education building and sites committee last week. Mrs. Amelia Deutsch of the Brighton Parents, Teachers, Students’ Com- mittee speaking for the delegation, demanded to know why a number of projects lower on the list had been approved while the new According to official figures, 175,- 000 are now unemployed in the county, wing which was third had been passed over, The chairman prom- ised action. “Sec'y, Glassport U. C.” Strengthen Picket Lines Dyers Urged LODI, N. J., Oct. 31—A call to the striking dye workers here to} answer the breaking off of nego- tiations by the employers by| strengthening the picket lines, was| issued by the Communist Party of Passaic area today. The Commu- nist Party’s statement calls atten- tion to the fact that in the face of the employers’ breaking off of negotiations, the union officials have not called a shop delegates meeting. The statement calls on the workers to. demand an im- mediate shop delegates meeting to discuss the problems of the strike. The strikers should demand cash relief from the Emergency Relief Administration for the duration of the strike, the Communist Party declares. The strikers are urged to appeal to the entire working class of the Lodi-Passaic area for sup- port of the strike, and calls on the union to initiate a United Labor Conference to organize such sup- port. The Communist Party demands an explanation from the union leaders as to why they prevented the Women’s Council of Passaic} from serving sandwiches and coffee to the strikers. By this action the leaders deprived the strikers of food which was offered in the spirit of working class solidarity. There will be an open air elec- tion rally of the Communist Party Thursay, Nov. 1, at eleven o'clock in the morning at 468 Passaic St., Lodi (near the bridge). Moe Brown, Paterson textile worker and Communist candidate for Goy- ernor, Frank Carlson and others will speak, §. Saller, Communist candidate for Congress in Bergen County, is active in the strike in Lodi. Philadelphia Jobless Remove Police Guards From Welfare Station PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 31— Members of the Unemployment Councils forced the removal of all police from the relief station at Seventeenth and Allegheny Sts. and the removal of Miss Lee, who had served an ultimatum, to get a job or be cut off relief, to James Higgins, 19-year old crippled and mute Negro boy. The committee pointed out that the unemployed would not tolerate any such ultimatums that the boy be cut off relief while 400,000 are jobless in the city, and further de- manded that all victimization and terror against the Negro jobless be The Workers’ Laboratory Theatre will make its election campaign work at the “Vote Communist” banquet on Friday and the election rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden. These appearances will conclude weeks of strenuous effort in behalf of the Communist State Election Ticket. The W.L.T. Puppet Theatre has made hundreds of appearances at election rallies. Every vhere theit election skit was well veceived by large audiences of wor: The election campaign aci.vity has made the theatre troupe itself “Vote Communist” conscious, according to the W.L.T. executive committee, and it is conducting a series of political symposiums at which the Commu- nist platform is being presented to theatrical workers. Authorities Launch Drive on Militant Studenis In West LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 31.—A drive to expel radical and liberal students was begun today by authorities of the University of California, Los Angles branch, Stimulated by fascist elements for a long time, the campaign came to a head when students began ‘circulating an initiative petition to hold a political symposium. De- spite incitements from the univer- sity authorities the Student Coun- cil refused to smash this move- ment. Last Friday night the notorious Los Angeles “Red Squad” broke up a meeting to consider a petition against the R.O.T.C. (Reserve Of- ficers’ Training Corps). The squad marched around the building in an effort to intimidate the students. Provost Moore of the Los An- geles branch of the university has repeatedly issued virulent “anti- Red“ statements similar to those of President Sproul of the Univer- sity of California in Berkeley. Ray Carlson Deported For Militant Action SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 31—Ray Carlson, a militant Swedish worker, was deported from Spokane as part of the Roosevelt drive against the foreign born. He left on Oct. 25th, on the first lap of his forced jour- ney to Sweden, Comrade Carlson was accom- panied by his wife and small son, innocent victims of the govern- ment’s terror campaign against militant workers. Fifty members of the Communist Party and the In- ternational Labor Defense, came to see them off, as well as a truck- load of cops, Oscar Mannisto of Astoria, Ore- gon, and John Ujich, of Tacoma, Washington were other workers of the prison train. As the train Pulled out the deported workers gave the Red Front salute to their stopped. comrades at the station. Ben Gold, general secretary of | the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union and Communist candi- date for Assembly in the 7th A. D., Will be the main speaker at an elec- | tion rally to be held tomorrow night at the corners of Tremont and Pros- ipect Aves, Following his appearance there | jhe will represent the Communist |Patty at an election symposium at Ambassador Hali under the aus- pices of the local Women’s Council. On Monday evening, Gold will speak at three outdoor rallies to be | held at 187th Street and Cambrell- ing Avenues, Tremont and Prospect Avenues, and 180th Street and Daly Avenue, respectively. Besides Gold, local candidates | will speak at all these meetings. Savage Cuts in Jobs and Pay Madein Illinois, CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 31.—Wages | and unemployment, in Illinois in- dustry are lower than a year ago, the monthly review of the State Department of Labor for Septem- ber reveals. Compared with August of this | year, payroll cuts were especially savage. The steel industry slashed payrolls 10.2 per cent and jobs 4.1 per cent; cars and locomotives trimmed payrolls 35.8 pér cent and jobs 27.8 per cent. Other indus- tries showed similar paring of the payrolls and jobs. In the fur and leather goods industries, 21.6 per cent was cut off the payrolls while jobs were pared 10.6 per cent; the boot and shoe industry slashed payrolls 37.2 per cent and cut 16.5) per cent off jobs; printing reduced payrolls 13 per cent and jobs 9 per cent, While these figures show savage cuts in pay and jobs for the one~ month period from August to September, a comparison with September a year ago shows a tremendous cut. In the iron and steel industry jobs were up 12 Points, but payrolls were down 2.1 points; in the boot and shoe trades employment was down 18.2 points and payrolls down 27.8 points with the weekly average pay at $11.31. In the fruit and vegetable can- ning industry where employment was up 22.2 points, total payrolls were 2.7 points lower than a year ago to an average of $7.49 a week. Compared with August of this year, total average payrolis for Il- linois factory workers dropped 3 per cent while employment was up 22 per cent, a noticable cut in wages and application of the share- the-work stagger scheme, since more workers had to divide a smaller total payroll. Unless Every Section and Unit in the Party Throws Its Forces Vigor- ously Into the Circulation Drive, the Daily Worker Remains Un- |ingly passed the motion to invite|the utterly false promises of the jae U. T. A. to a joint conference on the anti-multiple job bill. Co- Full Sick Pay Demands for the return of full operation with the Classroom Teacher Groups on the samé bill | was defeated. sick pay continue pouring in upon {the Board of Education, which last Christmas cut the illness refund in half while the teachers were away for the holidays. The hardship to j the teachers as well as the danger | to pupils whose teachers come to School ill because they cannot af- ford to stay home and suffer the loss in pay has aroused widespread resentment, and a determined cam- paign for full sick pay refunds is in full swing. Among the latest resolutions is that of the Tilden Parent-Teacher Association which has also asked for the appointment of the 500 sub- stitutes. This like the numerous resolutions from individual schools cites the harm done to teachers and pupils and points out that no other | city employes have been victimized | in this way for the sake of “econ- omy.” Other organigations which have gone on record as demanding full illness refunds are the High School Teachers’ Association, Teachers Union, and the Classroom Teacher Groups, which have sent pe- titions to the schools to be filled out by the teachers and sent to the Board of Education. School Head Deprives Children of Food Hunger used as a disciplinary measure against small children in an East Side school was charged last week against the principal of Public School No. 14 in East 27th Street, near Third Avenue. Accord- ing to the charges, Miss Moore, the principal, ordered the food taken away from the children because they had been noisy. The children were turned out of the lunchroom for the day. According to the account in the press, protest was made against this brutal order by one of the workers in the lunchroom who carried out the order to deprive the children of their lunch, with tears in her eyes. One of the children said that he had eaten nothing but a glass of milk that whole day. The children are entitled, accord- ing to George H. Chatfield, director of the Bureau of Attendance of the Board of Education, to the free food. He has ordered an investiga- tion by the district superintendent, tion which is widespread among the schools. Parents can prevent the investigation from being useless by demanding that the director hold an open trial of the principal. UPHOLSTERERS WIN who will probably hush up a situa- | Funds for Jobs Easy, U.T. A. ‘Shows Mayor That the Mayor has at his disposal |excellent and quick ways of set- | tling the “knotty” problem of reduc- ing salaries of the political ap- pointees at the Board of Education was made public yesterday in a let- ter sent to him by the Unemployed Teachers Association. Recommending immediate action, the communication reminds the Mayor that his power to “abolish unnecessary positions” under Sec- tion 1101 of the State Education Jaw could immediately help mater- jally to cut the budget in this di- rection. Resistance by the Board of Education to such a move could be met by ordering an investigation of the charges made in the Wall- stein Report with respect to the “collusion and fraud,” and “im- proper professional conduct” that has been charged against members of the Board in connection with the purchase of school property, Sec- tion 1096 empowers the Mayor to remove officials of the Board against whom such charges are proved. Commenting on the danger to the teachers from recent attacks on salary and tenure, the letter urges the city administration to sponsor state legislation to strengthen salary and tenure such as has been recom- mended by the Teachers’ College experts and by the American Civil Liberties Union. The letter, signed by Isidore Be- gun, chairman of the executive board, asks for the appointment of unemployed teachers with the money saved by throwing out the political hacks at the Board of Education. Safeguards Demanded For School Children By Parents in Bronx Demanding safety for children on their way to school, the Bronx League for the Protection of Chil- ‘dren sent resolutions to the Board of Education, which were passed at ‘a mass meeting of Bronx parents. Asking for the installation of traffic lights and traffic patrolmen at school intersections, and for ad- ditional playground facilities, the resolutions state, “thousands of children are being forced to cross dangerous traffic lanes and walk SAN FRANCISCO, (F.P.).—The three-week strike of upholstery long distances to school.” The resolutions also demanded the con- workers on the Pacific Coast is|struction of new junior high schools near settlement, with 75 per cent/which will permit the smaller chil- of San Francisco workers back on/|dren who have been transferred to the job at increased wages. Efforts|!make room for the junior high are being made to settle the strike|school, to attend schools near their known to Thousands of Workers. in other cities on the same basis.|homes with greater safety. capitalist parties, for none of them is in the position to fight for the complete suspension of payments to thé bankers and for increases on all incomhes over $3,000, which would release all the money that was ne~ cessary for éducational purposes. Lehman Promises Again Asked what he thought of Gov- ernor Lehman’s promise of full State aid, Begun said quickly, his eyes full of contempt: “Yes. How likely that is. It was Lehman, himself, who cut State aid from the 1934 budget, This banker-Governot, who is re- sponsible for raising the price of milk for the children of the State, is the very man who signéd the Bankers’ Four-Year Afreement, which resulted in the immediate cuts in pay and which will cause the extension of the furlough for next year. The teachers can very definitely expect the downward re- vision of the Friedsam Act, which provides State aid, if he has any- thing to offer in the way of ‘help’ to education.” Warns of Betrayals by Joint Com- mittee Commenting on the Joint Com- mittee, Begun pointed out that the extension of the furlough was clear from the position taken by McGold- rick. yet the Joint Committee, which is supposed to defend the teacher, has done nothing to begin the fight, “In the face of editorials in the capitalist press. which have been urging both the suspension of the mandatory increments and the fur- lough, this bunch of supervisors is busy occupying the attention of the teachers with these false promises of the candidates.” Patriotism Courses Are Ordered by Regents for All High Schools Courses in patriotism will here- after have to be taken by every high school student who wishes to receive his diploma, according to the latest ruling of the State Board of Regents. This action was taken at the recommendation of the Legis- lature, which passed a joint resolu- tion last summer to that effect; the committee on American citl- zenship of the American Bar Asso« ciation also recommended it in a report. While the action applies speci- fically to high schools, pupils of eight years of age will get larger doses of patriotism than ever. This is indicated by the pledge of the Board of Regents to carry out to the utmost the provisions of the education law which requires them to receive instruction in patriotism and citizenship. The Board of Regents, at whose head is Owen D. Young, utilities magnate, also recommended simi- lar action to colleges. The present action applies to private as well as public schools. Urge Members of Your Union to Read the Daily Worker! Put the Daily Worker First on Your Political Calendar! Workers, Exercise Your Franchise Nov. 6. But Do So in Your Own Class Interests. Vote 4 Communist!