The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 3

= DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDN AY, DECEMBER 19, 1934 Page 3 WEST COAST SEAMEN WIN STRIKE ON LUCKENBACH STEAMSHIPS THREE STATES CALL LOCAL MEETINGS OF YOUTH GROUPS WAGE CONCESSIONS | WON ON VESSELS— IN SEATTLE PORT Everett Longshoremen Win Union Control of Hiring Hall—Seamen Meet in Gulf Port To Protest Against Wage Scale Plan SEATTLE, Dec. 18.—The Luckenbach seamen’s strike is won! This rank and file victory was won on two fronts— against the bosses and over the heads of Olander, Fureseth and Gill, reactionary International Seamen’s Union heads. Concessions are, average inter- ?-~ coastal wages: for sailors, $50 per month; firemen, $60; proportionate increases in all other departments. Warning against Olander’s be- trayal of the concessions was sounded by Walter Stack, Marine Workers’ Industrial Union organ- izer, who stated Olander already has cut the original demands of last summer's strike to $57.50 for able-bodied seamen. Ship committees must be set up immediately to maintain these gains, Stack said, and prepare to force action on the original de- mands through united action by Jan. 1. Crews on Luckenbach ships not yet in port, and those who signed on in New York should demand re- signing here at $50 pending action on original demands, Stack said. The strike was carried to the floor of the Central Labor Council last week, when a delegate de- manded the I. S. U. officials be censored for their conduct. An- swering the boasting of a represen- tative of the M. F. O. W., this dele- gate stated: “If the officials had been sincere they would have been helping to win the strike, not try- ing to break it.” Stack in Court SEATTLE, Dec. 18—Walter Stack, Marine Workers’ Industrial Union organizer, went on trial here in Superior Court, appealing a six months “vagrancy” sentence handed down by Police Court Judge Bell Oct, 17. ‘The trial is expected to continue several days, “I thought I put you away for good,” said Bell in passing sentence, referring to a previous conviction of three months given Stack during the maritime strike. “il put you away this time! You aro -1 organizer of trouble!” This blow is aimed primarily at the inilitant Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union by the ruling class, who think that with Stack out of the way the union can easily be broken. Stack was threatened by members of the red squad for his activity in the Luckenbach strike, just won| Dockers Score Victory EVERETT, Dec, 18—The ILA. here has scored a tremendous vic~ tory on the most controversial sub- ject of the whole waterfront struggle —the hiring hall and union control, Everett’s new waterfront hiring hall will be in the building owned by the Dwyer estate at Grand and California let under a three year lease to the Everett local, Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association. According to information received several days ago, that is the main point of the agreement drawn up between representatives of the ILA. and-of the employers. In addition, all charges and alter- ations in the hall are being made by the local as the men see fit, As in the usual “joint” halls set up since the strike, expenses of light, rent, fuel, water, janitor are to be split 50-50. Seamen Pretest Wage Scale NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. meee meeting of one hundred and fifty seamen, called by the Waterfront Unemployment Council, has written Victor Olander, national secretary of the International Seamen's Union, protesting against his ac- ceptance of a wage scale of $57.50 a month for able bodied seamen. The meeting voted unanimously, demanding: 1) no reduction in the original demands of the seamen without approval of the seamen; 2) the same wages and conditions for the seamen of the West Coast, East and Gulf ports, the Gulf to be in- cluded in negotiations; 3) any de- cisions are to be submitted to a vote of all seamen except scabs, regard~- Jess of union affiliation; 4) any agreement negotiated must guaran- tee Centralized Shipping Bureaus in each port, controlled by elected com- mittees of the seamen, and the right of the seamen to belong to unions of their own choosing. 5) $75.00 a month scale for able-bodied seamen, with the rest of the crew getting wages in proportion. The seamen demand an answer to the demands by January 1, 1935. The Furrier Workers Industrial Union, N. Y¥. City contributed again to the Daily Worker fund, $21.30, Has your union sent the maximum funds to help put the Daily Worker drive over the top? AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Detroit, Mich. ‘Wm. Weinstone, District Organizer of the Communist Party will speak on “Karl Marx: His Life and Works,” Thursday, Dec, 20, at 8:30 p.m. at Maccebees Auditorium, Woodward at Putnam. Sponsored by John Reed Club ef Detroit. Admission 25. East St. Louis, Mo. Benefit Banquet, Sunday, Dec. 23, Tp.m., at Yeciss Hall, 537 Collinsville St. Admission to banquet, 25¢ per Plate. Ohio Jobless Plan Is Seen As Anti-Labor | Gives Factory Owners Chance To Run Away From Unions COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 18.—Aboli- tion of direct cash relief in favor of | the so-called “work relief” plan is the basis for the reorganization of unemployment relief on a nation- wide scale proposed by Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, and now being concretely worked out by President Roosevelt and his advisers. The plan which calls for the Placement of all unemployed on subsistence farms and in “produc- tion-for-use” factories, unknown to the general public, has been in op- eration for some time. The .Ohio Production Units, a forced labor system for the unemployed of that state, has been in operation as one of Hopkins’ experiments for his new Plan, If this plan is adopted, only those who will work in the “produc- tion-for-use” factories or on the subsistence farms will be eligible for government relief. Paid in Serip Ohio Production Units, a work re- lief project, operates factories with unemployed labor, paying its work- ers wages corresponding to their “budgetary needs” (on home relief) averaging $18 a month for a family of four in Ohio. While work- ers are permitted to work overtime, they are paid for this time in book- keeping credits, scrip, or are allowed to apply their overtime on purchases of products produced in other gov- ernment “production-for-use” fac- tories. The Ohio Plan, as the system is currently known, takes over idle factories, abates the taxes of the owners and pays the owners rent} on a contractual basis (that nets him a greater profit than he would be likely to get if he were running the factory on : commercial basis and paying his workers a living wage) which permits the owner to} take back his factory in good run- ning order as soon as he thinks he can produce profitably for the com- mercial market. Constitutes Strikebreaking Such a system constitutes a direct Glass Strike Pact Is Secret After Month ew Union Head Silent | on Terms Though He Ended Walkout PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 18.—Al]- though President Glenn McCabe, of the Federation of Flat Glass Work- ers (A. F, of L.), announced that an agreeable settlement with the major window glass companies had | been reached at the time the glass | workers’ strike was called off a month ago, inquiry fails to bring to light anything resembling an agreement and the statements of - VOTE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 Dail carr orcas cou 50 East 1 New (Cut out and sign BAL I have read the Worker: Insurance Bill and vote glass workers brand McCabe's an- nouncement a brazen lie. | McCabe, shoved into the presi- | L., at the time the union was or- out any vote of the membership of 5,000, and is now doing the work of the glass employers in telling the union not to strike or ask for higher | wages. | At a meeting of the Arnold local | last week McCabe appeared and in- | formed the 400 employed at the American Window Glass Co., that the company “cannot afford” to pay more wages unless the price of | window glass is raised generally. Negotiations with the union, under McCabe's guidance, were broken off on that basis. A meeting of glass manufacturers is scheduled in Pittsburgh next week, and a committee from the union will attend to demand the increase, but their top leaders have told the committee not to ask this unless the conference decides to raise glass prices. With the collaboration of the American Federation of Labor the glass workers are still split on a craft basis. From the Cutters’ League, including the highest paid of the flat glass workers, who form a sort of aristocracy, McCabe was designated as president of the Fed- eration, which was to be the new industrial union. But the cutters still meet and operate separately, and there is no guarantee that they would come out if the Federation | struck. | cages ee eee, |Starvation Threatens /900 Families As Relief Gives Out in Little Rock | LITTLE ROOK, Ark., Dec. 18.— |Nine hundred families here, in |which no one is able to work be- cause of sickness or old age, face starvation after Dec. 24, unless the city and county authorities stop evading the issue as they did at a meeting last week, and vote the funds necessary to keep them on re- | Hef. These families have been living on the munificent sum of $3.08 per month, but now that the funds, raised by a voluntary tax on utility bills, has been depleted, none of the local officials will take the respon- sibility for their care. Frank Gregg, a grocer, who supplies the food or- ders, said at the hearing that the plans to give these families 50 cents a week until the first of the year was a crime, The average purchase on a 50-cent order is a 30-cent sack ef corn meal and 20-conts for salt strikebreaking agency because! meat, he explained, whenever a manufacturer finds his! plant so well organized that he is forced to pay decent wages, he can simply turn’ over the plant to Ohio| i Production Units. | Theoretically the unemployed workers in these “production-for- use” factories are allowed to organ- ize, But this is aot an actuality for erganized workers would immediate- ly demand a living wage, which is incompatible, in the eyes of the gov- ernment, with this scheme, a scheme that calls for the utilization of the unemployed at subsistence wages. If every reader contributed $1, or got two or three friends to raise a dollar bill collectively, the $60,000 mark would be reached immediately. today! Send dollar bills 'HE front pages of the New York bourgeois press of last Thursday carried revelations of two inquiry commissions that put the Stavisky scandal in the shade. The muni- tions inquiry in Washington dis- closed that while the American boys were bleeding on the battlefields of France, the munition makers made ofits of 800 per cent during the World War, and millionaires grew like mushrooms, And here is the tragic comedy! These same vul- tures who profited from the war, who made 800 per cent in profits, sucked from the blocd of those who were fighting for “democracy,” are the backstage rulers of the country. How can we explain such a con- tradiction that these rulers are to- day being investigated by an In- quiry Commission? While, through such a commission, the government wants to bluff the American masses, showing the face of “liberalism,” it is precisely under the mask of this comedy that a War Board is being set up for the purpose of speeding | war preparations, from which du Pont and Co, will again get new billions and the American boys, new bullets. In the city of New York, an in- quiry into the administration of the Welfare Department shows that thousands of pounds of veal, cab- bage and potatoes were left to rot on the piers; and from the lips of % | Unemployed Leader Arrested in Kenosha KENOSHA, Wis., Dec. 18.—Mike Kunza, militant leader of the Ken- osha Relief Workers Association, was railroaded to 90 days in the County dail by Municipal Judge Calvin Stewart. st the conclusion of his trial last Friday. Kunza had been arrested twice in recent weeks on “disorderly con- duct” charges, for fighting for decent relief. He had gone to the clothing department in the court house to see that those waiting for clothing were being properly cared for. The police, in each case, had not dared to arrest him in the presence of the workers waiting in line, but waited to get him alone. Mr. Hodson and the Mayor of New) Tork we have the most candid ex- planation of such a crime. Mr. Hod- son, in so many words, says that it is not his business to over-step the allotment of relief given to the | unemployed, which corresponds to the barest minimum. Why should the Welfare Depart- made 800 per cent profits, and who, | class, hoping to save his skin in ment be overburdened with some jin a few months became million- ‘case the United States would turn ‘aires, while tens and tens of thou-' new task? The problem is to keep the unemployed just alive. The distribution of more potatoes, more cabbage and meat would have stim- ulated the appetites of the masses on relief. And the Mayor of New York, the “liberal” Mr. LaGuardia, | explains that the problem was not | to give more relief than was previ- ously decided upon, but through the purchase of potatoes and cabbage, the T. E. R. A. was aiming to help the producers. Here we are. The inquiry shows that these people with big fat salaries, who live in| luxury are well fed, well dressed, moving from banquet to banquet, | with endless numbers of courses, consider the unemployed in a cate- ' gory of lower animals, that must live on a minimum of*cabbage and potatoes. The diet is probably the outcome of consultations with ex- pert veterinarians concerning the diet of dogs, cats or the diet for the various animals kept in the New York Zoo. | While such rottenness is revealed, , dency of the Federation by Frank | Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of | ganized, called off the strike with- | FOR C] Name This ballot is sponsored by the »2Worker | America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper | e706 oF EOMNURIT UV ARATIORAD | | 3th Street York this ballot today) LOT 's’ Unemployment and Social O AGAINST | | Address City a Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Sie he dae FERA Pickets Get Terms 9 Held on ‘Riot? Charge Are Freed—ILD Plans Appeal for Others DENVER, Colo, Dec. 18—Sen- tences ranging from two to six months in prison and $200 fine have been imposed on Henry Brown, Wil- liam Golden. James Jobes, Clarence Anderson, Gene Corish and Elihu Preston, F. E. R. A. pickets arrested following a police attack on a mass picket line here on Oct. 30. The other nine workers held on charges of “riot” were acquitted. The workers on the F. E, R. A. projects in nearby Arapahoe Coun- ty had struck against a 51 per cent cut in wages, favoritism in relief and the administration of relief un- der State Relief Director Shawver. Under the leadership of the Colo- rado Workers Union, the 690 s ers marched on Denver projects in a mighty flying squadron. The firsi project visited came out. At the next job, the Platte River project, police opened fire. Henry Brown, Perjury Charge Made Against Prosecutor In Syndicalism Trial tion Agents Tampered couraged Newspapers (Special to the ney McAllister and Assistant Dep- | uty D. A, Buchler, and called for a mistrial on grounds of a packed jury. Gallagher also demanded that Judge Dal M. Lemmon cite Sacra- | mento newspapers for distorted re- | ports of trial proceedings in playing up McAllister’s fantastic claims of “Red threats” to jurors, despite the collapse of that attempted frame-up and the revelation of close rela- tions between Juror Mrs. Rose and McAllister and Buchler, who were frequent recipients of gifts of ducks from Mrs. Rose. Local news- | papers omitted these facts, and in- sinuated that Communists had tampered with the veniremen. The defense further demanded that the court question Jury Com- missioner Le Grave, Deputy Sheriff Baker and others, including a “mystery” woman, on reports that visitors had threatened Mrs. Nix, a juror, whose connections with “Red” Hynes of the Los Angeles police “red squad” were exposed last week. All motions by the defense were denied by Judge Lemmen. The class character of the prose- cution of the defendants was clearly brought out during the past few days in the questions of both the defense and the prosecution to prospective jurors. In questioning one of the prospective jurors, the prosecution gave the following sig- nificant distortion of the Commu- nist analysis of capitalist corrup- | tion and greed and the robbery of the toiling masses: Share Croppers Union | Member Framed Up On Accusation of Rape MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 18— Jim Carter, militant Negro and a| member of the Share Croppers | Union, is held in Lowens County dail on a trumped up charge of! By Jack Crane With Jurors and En- | to Print False Reports | | | | Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 18.—Following the sensa- tional exposure of the prosecution’s tampering with the jury panel in the trial here of 18 workers on charges of criminal syndicalism, Leo Gallagher, International Labor Defense at- torney yesterday demanded that the court institute proceedings against District Attor-@ perjury that the country is rotten,” the prosecution asked, “would that prejudice you against these peo- ple?” Gallagher objected, and put the question to the effect that the de- fendants believe that the country is good and can be converted into a paradise for the masses, but that this is opposed by a small group of capitalists; therefore to accomplish a change to a workers’ and farmers’ government, the toiling masses must throw the capitalists off their backs. In answer to a challenge by the district attorney on the Communist position on the Negro question, Gallagher explained that the Com- munists fight for full equality for the Negro people, including the right of the Negroes in the “Black Belt” of the South to govern the territories in which they constitute a majority of the population. Caro- line Decker, one of the defendants, asked Juror King, “If you should learn that the organization in the indictment fights for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys would that prejudice you against me?” The prosecution immediately objected, and was sustained by Judge Lem- mon. Judge Lemmon also ignored a challenge by Albert Hougardy, an- other defendant, on the exclusion of Negro and Mexican workers from the two regular and four special jury panels called so far. The fourth special panel was ex- hausted today before the jury was completed, and another special “Because the defendants believe | panel will be called. vattempting to 1 rape a ‘white girl, al- | though the girl in question is re- | ported to have denied the charge. An attempt was made to lynch Carter before he was taken to the jail, and a letter smuggled out of jail reports that the jailers have threatened to turn him over to the landowners’ lynch gangs which are engaged in a systematic campaign of terror against all known mem- bers of the Share Croppers Union. By F. B. and by the exponents of the ruling class itself, the Conference on Crime is discussing how best to destroy the Dillingers, the Baby Face Nel- sons and Co., who are products of the present rotten society. What are the Dillingers and Nelsons in comparison with the people who | sands of the flower of American | youth were slaughtered in the trenches of France? The sale of deadly weapons to the “enemy” shows that gold and profits have | no fatherland! ) What are the Dillingers and Nel- Sons in comparison with the gen-/Co. are launching their attacks? It tlemen who cannot be bothered if i | thousands of pounds of cabbage, ‘in the daily struggle for better con- meat and potatoes rot while work- | ers are starving!’ And yet, when | the workers of New York protest | against the taxes, protest because during the day, in buying a num- jber of articles of necessity which!out for the masses—the way to a are more than 12 cents, and are thereby forced to pay out nickels they can ill afford out of their meagre budget, Mayor LaGuardia calls them “bread snatchers.” And this on the same day that the capi- talist press printed the latest sta- tistics in the papers on the growth of millionaires in this country. And ‘while these rotten things are going on, the chambers of commerce come out with the proposal of saving the United States from the destruction of the Communists. And Mr. Dick- stein, following the politics of those Jews who were licking the boots of the Czar, while Jewish blood was spilt all over Russia, wants to be the hero and savior.of the ruling fascist, What do the Communists do? What do the Communists want? Why all the hullabaloo about our Party? What are the crimes of the Communists against which the chambers of commerce, the Fishs, the Matthew Wolls, Dickstein and is that the Party leads the workers ditions, that mercilessly exposes the rottenness of this society, that is fighting for unemployment insur- ance, for more adequate relief, that, in the final analysis, shows the way Soviet America as the only solu- tion to get rid of the chambers of commerce who are so busy working out schemes how to raise profits, and lower the standard of living of the masses; to get rid of the! war makers, to get rid of a class of parasites. And in doing so, is the | Communist Party aiming at the {one of the convicted men, who is | president of the Englewood local of |the Colorado Workers Union, was | |shot in the hip. | The ‘trial, which has just been concluded, Defense. Relief Slash Court Ignores Gallagher’s Proof That Prosecu- | yrks Behind Ouster Charge (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 18— Ten cents out of every relief dollar in Ohio goes to pay the salaries of the officials and the cost of admin- istration, admitted Governor-elect Martin L. Davey, to justify the in- tended ouster of Adjt.-Gen. Frank D. Henderson, present Ohio Relief | Administrator, whom he wanis to replace with one of his own hench- men. Davey charged that relief work- ers, who in most of the cases owe their appointments to political pull | and are totally unfamiliar with the work they are supposed to perform. are receiving executive salaries and | that the administration expenses are also totally out of proportion to the money actually spent on relief. It was brought out. that the cost of administering the relief in Ohio was $828,212 for the month of Octo- ber, or 9.8 per cent of the total money expended. Charges for gas- | oline, office, electricity, travelling expenses, office supplies and print- ing, alone amounted to $175,309 for the month. Behind these official accusations of excessive relief administration costs lies the threat of more relief cuts for the unemployed. The coat+ ing of official pallaver about “re- lief costs,” the unemployed feel, will be laid bare for a slash similar to the threatened dropping of “unem- ployables” from the relief rolls. The Cleveland Unemployment Councils and the Small Home and Land Owners Federation have calied for a city-wide relief march on Sat- urday, Dec, 22 at 1 p.m. from the Public Square to the City Hall to demand increased relief and an emergency winter relief allowance of $40 in cash for each unemployed family and $15 for single persons. Socialist Participation In Cleveland Meeting Announced in Error CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 18.—The gymnastic presentation at the cele- | bration of the 17th anniversary of the Russian Revolution here was offered not by the D.TJ., a So- cialist youth organization, as an- nounced by the arrangements com- mittee, but by the Corlett Progres- sive Club." The error occurred be- cause some individuals who took part in the performance are mem- bers of both clubs. Investigations Reveal Parasitism of American Capitalism It shows, on the contrary, of be- ing the best champion of the Amer- ican tradition of liberty, which teaches that when it becomes necessary the American people have the right to change their govern- ment, and even rescrt to the use of arms. Certainly, a Soviet America, in which the workers, the large ma- jority, will rule, would not use silk gloves on these parasites who allow potatoes, meat and cabbage to rot while workers are starving; and those people that sucked profits from the blood of those who were fighting on the battlefields. If by liberty, the chambers of commerce and the Dicksteins mean the lib- erty of the bankers, the industrial- ists, to exploit the masses to the bone—then, yes, we are for the de- struction of such liberties. We are for the achievement of real liberty of the toiling masses, their libera- tion from a system based on ex- ploitation. In the United States, there is everything to give happiness to the working masses. It is only a Soviet regime thet would oven the ware- houses, that’ would cut down the hours of work, that would everyone the security of a job, that would put an end to rack- destruction of the American lib- erties? etcering. It is significant that tho Dick- was marked by the| | | judge's threat to send the defense! Newark Ledger, declared last night | CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. | attorney to jail. An appeal is being | that there is “nothing to mediate”) ‘ional youth congress will be held | planned by the International Labor} in answer to the offer of the Re- would not handle with silk gloves | give + Youth Organizations in Youth Congress in during the next few days in Youth Congress to be held in Credentials are pouring i ganizations for the Regional Co: Ledger Boss Dodges Offer Of Mediation Labor Parade Planned To Rally Suppert for Newark Newsmen NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 18.—After stalling for more than a week, Lucius T, Russell, publisher of the | gional Labor Board of New York to |mediate the strike of his editorial | workers, This is being answered by prepa- rations for a great mass labor march in support of the strikers, on Sunday at 3 pm., from Wash- ington Park. Every labor organiza- tion in the city has been canvassed to participate in the event which is to be made into a demonstration for | unionism, The parade will proceed jdown Broad Street to Branford Place, up Branford to Washington, | then back to the Newark Ledger of- ice, and will end at the strike head- quarters of the Guild, 78 Bank Street, which is next door to the Ledger. The strike committee points out that the Ledger strike has been en- dorsed by organized labor and in- |vited all unions to participate. The | strike of the forty-four editorial workers, which is now in its fifth week, has evoked enthusiastic soli- darity from every part of the coun- | try, as shown by the list of contri- butions sent until Dec. 13 and pub- |lished in the Reporter, issued by | the kers. A total of $4,429.36 for | the str relief fund came in from | Guilds haying a membership of | 4,830. Support continues to pour in jand the strikers remain as deter- | mined as ever. 500 Held, Homes taoted In Anti-Red Campaign | In Bulgarian Cities | SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. garian fascism continued its at- tempt to crush the Communist Party here by mass seizures total- ling over 500 persons. The imme- diate provccation for the arrests was the lying report spread by the government that an attempt was being made “to set up a Commu- nistic state.” Homes of suspected workers at Kaskovo were raided and wholesale beatings and looting took place on the use of searching for ammu- The Communist leader, vas arrested. Recently six 18.—Bul- Communists, five of them soldiers, | were hung and their bodies muti- Jated for having led mass actions in the struggle against the terrorism of the Bulgarian fascists. Rail Workers Receive Pay Cut Restoration WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18.— One million railroad workers are to reccive a five per cent increase in wages beginning Jan. 1. This is a partial return of the 10 per cent wege cut imposed upon the workers in 1932, which according to the agreement the carriers made with the officials of the union last April is to be returned in parts. stein Committee was ostensibly set up to expose fascist activities. ‘Those workers who still have illu- | sions in bourgeois democracy and constitutionalism should have their eyes opened by all this trickery of using the pretext of “investigating fascism” as a cover for inciting at- tacks upon the Communist Party end all militant workers’ organiza- | tions. ; If the chambers of commerce and the various Dicksteins are so busy today launching their venomous spears against the Communist Party, it is because they feel the crescendo of the revolt going on , among the American masses, who more and more understand that a radical change has to be made, not in the direction of destroying the | |Communist Party, which exposes ; the rottenness of this system, which is leading the masses toward a bet- |ter society, that will give final happiness to the people, but against the causes of the rottenness that are exposed daily, and against ele- ments that are producing them. Yes, the day is not far off when a of the prototypes of a past so- ciety, like Dickstein, would be preserved as objects for histozical study for the new gen- eration, and others, | New York, Chicago and ewark To Meet in Preparation for National Washington Jan. 3 Regional youth congresses will be held in several states preparation for the National Washington, D. C., Jan. 3 to 5. n from hundreds of youth or- ngress on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, Vin New York City at the Union | M. E. Church, 229 West 48th Street, | and the congress promises to be the | broadest gathering of youth in the history of New York. The congress will open with a mass meeting Dec. 21 at the Central Opera House, 67th Street and Third Avenue, with round table di: sions the next day on problems of y h in try and agriculture, unem- by) mt and social insurance, the international situation, crisis in education and child welfare, and racial relations. On Sunday there | will be a symposium on “Political | Trends,” with discussion and action on resolutions. | YOUTH TO MEET 18—A re- here on Dec, 22 at the Y.W.C.A., 59 East Monroe Street. The arrange | ments committee includes represen- ;tatives of the Industrial Girls | League of the Y. W. C. A., the City | Wide Council of the Business and | Professional Women of the Y. W. \c. A. the Internati 1 Negro | Movement, Young Circle League, Young People’s Socialist League, | Unemployment Coun Young | Communist League, the Workers, | Committee on Unemployment, and many other organizations. A welcoming mass meeting to the | delegates will be held December 21 | at the New England Congregational ; Church, 19 W. Delaware, with a | symposium by representatives of the | Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Communist parties on the topic | “What is the attitude of my party | towards the program of the Amer- ican Youth Congress.” | NEWARK CALLS PARLEY NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 18.—A sec- }ond Regional Youth Congress in | preparation for the National Youth | Congress will be held here Dec. 29 | and 30 at 899-901 Broad Street. The congress will open with a mammoth }mass mecting at which well-known | youth leaders will speak. On the | arrangements committee for the | Congress are representatives of the Boy Scouts, Court Street Y.M. C, A, | Youth, Division of the American Jewish Congress, New Jersey College for Women and 17 other organiza- tions. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 18— |The regional conference of the | American Youth Congress held here | Saturday carried forward the united | front achieved last August by bring- |ing together about fifty delegates | from numerous youth organizations |in New Haven, including the YM. |C.A., Y,W.C.A., Y.M.H.A., the local |Community College (F.E.R.A.), the | Young Circle League and the Young | Communist League. The confer- ence took place at the local Y.M.C.A, | and was sponsored by a provisional | committee with the aid of the Na- | tional Continuations Committee in | New York. | ‘The conference heard a report of | the origin and work of the Amer- jican Youth Congress by Theodore | Draper who represented the Na- tional Continuations Committee, | After considering the program of |the Congress in seminars, reports | were brought in te a general ses- | Sion. The plenary session voted to support the original program with jonly minor changes and elected a | continuations committse of eleven |to broaden and intensify the work. | Plans are being made to get a |maximum number of New Haven , delegates sent to the Washington | National Youth Congress on Jan- | uary 3, 4 and 5 where dalegates from ;the whoie country will gather to |make plans how to carry the pro= | gram of the Congress into action. | During a membership meeting of your organization, ask for the | floor and make an appeal for a eoliection for the Daily Worker | Fund. Over $4,000 are still needed to complete the quota. WHAT’S ON | Philadelphia, Pa. Corliss Lamont will lecture on “The Soviet Union and Religion,” Friday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m. at Musicians Hall 4220 N. 18th St. Admisison 30c at oor. Mass Meeting and send off for Dele- gates to National Congress for So- cial and Unemployment Insurance, Priday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m. at Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian streets. Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother Bloor, William N. Jones, Freiheit Gee Pe Farein, Workers’ Harmonica and. John Reed Club presents Michael Gold, author of “Jews Without Money,” on “The Crisis in Modern Literature” Thursday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. sharp at Musicians’ Hall, 120 N. 18th St. Adm. 30c. Detroit, Mich. Dence at “Rainbow Gardens,” 6515 Chene St., Friday evening, Dec. 21. Jimmie Davenport and his 13-piece Harlem Orchestra will play for dancing from 8 p.m. until dawn Auspices, Scottsboro Defense Comm, Boston, Mass. Scottsboro Mass Meeting, 8 iP. Thy Wednesday evening, Dec. 19 at Works ers Center, 36 Causway Street, West End. Auspices, West End Unit of Communist Party. Interesting speake ers, Adm. free, . *