The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 Page 3 STEEL WORKERS INDIGNANT AT TIGHE’S EXPULSION POLICIES Rank and File Group ‘Raises $1,000 Is Made Firm By Onslaught Lodges Put Organizing Program of Parley Into Effect (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 8—A Wave of resentment and indignation is rapidly spreading among the membership of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) and unorgan- ized and steel workers against the expulsion policies of the Tighe ma- chine. Tighe, president of the A. A., has hoped to demoralize the rank and file movement through his expul- | sion threats, but just the opposite is | taking place. The leaders of many | A. A. lodges and rank and file mem- | bers are letting it to be known that they will reject any proposed expul- sions at their next lodge and dis- trict meetings Meanwhile the militant forces in the Amalgamated are rapidly put- ting into effect the decisions of the | Feb. 3 conference of A. A. lodges, in | regards to the organization drive. : Clarence Irwin, chairman of the Na- | tional Organizational Committee set | up by | sent the Feb. 3 conference, has out a bulletin of instructions | to all A. A. lodges in the country on how to set up the machinery for | the organization drive in the steel i industry. The National Organiza- tional Committee will meet this Sunday in Massillon, Ohio, where | the organization campaign will be main point on the order of business. An Offensive Against Expulsions At the same time the rank and file for took the offensive against the expulsion policies not only through mobilizing the membership but at the same time demanding the im- mediate intervention of the Execu- tive Council of the A. F. of L, The following telegram was sent by Irwin to William Green: “Re- spectfully urge you use all influence possible to halt threatened expul- sions campaign in Amalgamated As- sociation. Tighe’s proposed action would destroy our union and have bed effect upon entire organized labor movement. Charges that we e79_scezssion! or disloyal to the A, F. of L. are disproved by the ac- t of Sunday's conference. Our sincere desire is to build a strong | steel workers union in and part of the American Federation of Labor. In this we have been balked by the incompetency of the superannuated ! Tighe regime. We are ready to stand an impartial investigation at any tims and for the benefit of the American labor movement we urge your immediate intervention. Our committee is ready to mest with you at any time. (Signed) CLARENCE IRWIN.” Green’s Wire Green has sent the following reply, “Regret to learn of differences hav- ing arisen between officers Amal- gemated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and those you rep- resent as referred to in your tele- gram of Feb. 6. Suggest you con- fev with President Tighe and as- sociates and endeavor to reach a settlement of difficulties.” A committee headed by Bil. Spang, president of the First District (Pitts- burgh) called on Tighe yesterday. He met the committee with police and refused to confer. In reply to Green’s telegram Clar- | ence Irwin had sent the following telegram to Green: “Although past policies and present practices leave put little hope of expecting any- thing from a conference with Presi- dent Tighe, following your advice, committee asks conference with Tighe tomorrow to urge withdrawal of expulsion threats and assistance in organization drive. These threats hove aroused great resentment among members and also prospective memo: making organizing work mele a Urge hearing before Executive Council for our committee in regard to organization drive to build A. 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Rank and File Organ- izers in South The Committee to Support Southern Textile Organization at 8 West 29th Street, has sent $1,000 for maintainance of rank and file textile organizers in the South, since its formation in May, 1934, H. J. Berman, executive secretary, reported yesterday. The committee now has a membership of forty, composed of architects, doctors, lawyer, teachers, writers, office and research workers. The rapid development of the committee, and its accomplishments since it was formed, Berman stated, gives further evidence of the grow- ing realization among professionals that their interests are in common with the working class. The com- mittee was formed to aid the rank and file organizers in the South, and to publicize working and living conditions there. The committee publishes @ monthly * “Southern Textile Bul- letin” which contains news and comment of the methods of ex- ploitation in the South. Among the contributors are Robert Dunn, Harold Ward, Myra Page, Lois Mac- Donald, and many others. A re- search sub-committee which feeds the bulletin has undertaken such studies as, textiles and war, the status of the Negro in the textile industry, the history of the textile industry, in the South, and south- ern housing conditions. Berman reports, that the com- mittee started in June with a com- mitment of $112 a month, the amount has now been raised to $146 a month, which is supporting three full time and one part-time’ organizer. The committee's efforts were taxed to a still greater degree since the general textile strike. Black- listing, evictions and increased ter- ror must be publicised. The cases of Fred MacMahan serving a sen- tence on a chain gang, and of six Burlington workers convicted on framed charges of dynamiting are outstanding examples of the terror in the South. On Friday, Feb. 15, the committee is arranging a Harlem Review and Dance at Webster Hall, 119 East llth Street, for the benefit of its fund, Dockers Seek To Limit Load! BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 8.—Boston longshoremen, in view of the attack on the waterfront workers in New York, are preparing to take strong steps for winning a limited load of 1,500 pounds and double overtime pay for meal hours. A leaflet has been issued by the rank and file action committee calling on the longshoremen to refuse to work on meal hours and to begin by forcing at least a few individual ships to cut down drastically on the loads. To date a deadlock exists between the union and the shipowners with no agreement on conditions reached because of the unwillingness of the shipowners to give in on these two burning demands. ‘Security’ Measures Cannot Aid Recovery, John Strachey Says CHICAGO, (FP). — President Roosevelt failed to effect recov- ery by the NRA and he wifl fail equally to bring it on by his social security program, declared John Strachey, English author of the “Coming Struggle for Power” to a capacity Chicago Forum audience. Under the NRA wages rose 8.7 per cent but prices rose 9.6 per cent, bringing a net cut of 1.1 per cent in real wages, Strachey showed. Purchasing power through old age pensions and other social insurance payments will be so small and most of it. will be taken so relentlessly out of those now employed that recovery cannot be found there either, he argued. Strachey said the relations between capitalists and workers and relations between the capitalist nations are getting more violent year by year. The capitalist system is based on vio- lence, he asserted. Cold Grips Europe; Avalanches Kill 19 As Blizzards Rage GENEVA, Feb. 8 (UP).—Bliz- zards, avalanches and bitter cold that sent wolves into isolated vil- lages were reported over Europe and Asia today. Grip and influenza were preva- Jent in Poland, Roumania, Spain and France. Fifteen persons have been killed in recent days in Switzer- Jand by avalanches. A similar situation was reported from Italy and Austria. Some main line railways were blocked. Blizzards in Czechslovakia brought snow- slides that killed at least four persons. Wolves menaced villages in the Puerta areas and Preiras regions in Spain and Jalalbad, India Court Affirms Long Terms For Anti-Nazis (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 8—The State Supreme Court upheld the conviction of twenty Milwaukee workers who were sentenced to prison terms for participating in a occasion of a visit of the German Ambassador Hang Luther, to Mil- waukee in September 1933. Among those sentenced are Fred Bassett to six months; Harry Yaris to four months; Lil Husa, to two months and I. Kiss to four months. All the others will have to serve 30 days to pay a fine amount- ing or fifty dollars each. Workers are asked to send protests to Gov- ernor Phillip La Follette, at Madi- son, Wisconsin. Workers Pick Unity Ticket CIMARRON, N. M., Feb, 7—A United Front Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Ticket has been placed on the ballot for the school board elections here on Feb. 12. Demands include abolition of dis- crimination against Spanish-Amer- ican workers on school construction and repairs, union wages for skilled workers and a minimum wage of fifty cents an hour for unskilled labor; and the following benefits for children of unemployed workers and poor farmers at the expense of the school district and State; school supplies, including text books, paper, pencils, etc., shoes and warm winter clothing; fresh milk for the younger children, and hot lunches at noon; free and adequate medical, dental and optical attention. The workers’ and farmers’ can date proposed that the funds nec- essary for this program be raised by taxation of the property of the Phelps Dodge Mining Company, the Santa Fe Railroad, and large land- lords’ estates, and that sales taxes and taxation of small owners and farmers be abolished. Collective Farms Plan Hydro-Electric Plants MOSCOW, Feb. 8.—The collective farms of the Cabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Region have decided to harness the numerous mountain torrents by constructing fifty hydro-electric power stations, which will introduce electric lights into all the regional kolkhoz buildings and provide the mills with electric current. In Naltchik, the central town of the region, a plant will be installed for the production of tur- bines and other machinery for the electrification of the collective farms in the entire area. Votes Against Recognition BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 8 (UP). —The Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 87 to 73, rejected a proposal yesterday to resume diplomatic re- lations with the Soviet Union. ’Frisco ‘Dakar In Reprisals on SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 8— “We'll serve you as we always have,” said John O'Connell, reactionary secretary-treasurer of the Central Labor Council, as he, Edward Van- derleur, and other re-elected offi- cers were installed at a meeting here. But no sooner was the official ceremony over than these betrayers of the general strike launched an attack to “purge” the council of “reds,” as their re-election this time was opposed by a rank and file slate which polled as high as 81 votes. As the first on the list they picked on Emille Rabin, of the Cleaners and Dyers Federal Local, who was on the rank and file slate, by refusing to accept his delegates fee, and requesting the local to ask for his resignation. Body Officials Rank and File A stormy discussion developed on the floor of the Council, when Fred United Feont GroupstoFight For Roumain Jailing of Haitian Writer Arouses Mass Protest The protest against the imprison- ment of Jacques Roumain, famous Haitian writer and revolutionist, is gaining momentum, the Committee for the Release of Jacques Roumain declared in a statement The steps taken at the first meet- ing of the Committee to arouse mass protest against the injustice done Jacques Roumain and seven fellow-prisoners have already united eighteen organizations, whose dele- gates will participate in the future work of the Committee. It is ex- pected that the meeting called for Monday evening, Feb. 11, at 8 o'clock in Studio 45, 51 West Tenth Street, will be even larger than that. held last week. Jacques Roumain, highly esteemed in Prance, beloved by the oppressed masses of his native country, and feared by the reactionary govern- ment there, was sentenced to three years imprisonment last October. From a recent visitor to Haiti it was learned that the talented young author was now suffering from malaria in a vermin-ridden prison. While the Committee is not affili- ated with any particular group, delegates from organizations repre- senting hundreds of workers, writ- ers, and artists, will be sent to pro- test to the Haitian Consul on Thurs- day, Feb. 14 at noon, Individuals and organizations are urged to send letters and telegrams 7 of protest to the Haiti 5 anti-fascist demonstration on the! bat EE tole Broad Street, or to Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, or to Albert Blanchet, Haitian Min- ister in Washington. bade aia Morris Weiner In Detroit (Detroit Daily Worker Bureau) DETROIT, Feb, 8.—A further step forward in the united front that has been set up in the effort to defeat the murder frame-up of , Morris Weiner, member of Jewish Bakers Union 78 (A. F. of L.) and to prevent the union from being destroyed was taken at a confer- jence at which twenty-one organi- zations were represented. Among the organizations were the Jewish Branch of the Socialist Party, the Jewish Branch of the Communist Party, all branches of the Workmen's Circle, all branches of the International Workers Order, Jewish Anarchist Group, Interna- tional Labor Defense, Jewish Bakers Union 78, and Painters Union 42. The conference decided to start visiting all Jewish organizations in the city in an effort to enlist their support. Weiner has been framed on a charge of having killed the son of Joseph Haftka, bakery owner, the night of Dec. 12. Though Haftka admitted immediately after the kill- ing that he could not identify the Slayer, eight days later a great light dawned upon him and he “identi- fied” young Weiner. The Jewish Masters Bakers Association is ex- ploiting the killing in an effort to; whip up public sentiment against the union and to attack the living standards of the workers. The trial of Weiner, who has been held with- out bail, is scheduled to start Feb. In addition to this brazen frame- up, twenty-two other members of the Jewish Bakers Union have been charged with conspiracy to obstruct a business. Their trial has been postponed till Feb. 16. Workers’ Enemies Exposed Robert E. Johnson and Cicero Willoughby, of Columbus, Ohio, have been expelled from the Com- munist Party as defenders and as- sociates of exposed enemies of the working class (Carskadon and Dyla, see Daily Worker of Sept. 28, 1934) and for trying to disrupt the Party and the unemployed movement. ROBERT §E. JOHNSON (also known as Turner in Chicago, in 1933), threatened to turn over a worker to the police and tried to intimidate Negro workers, members of the Unemployed Council, His whole effort to gain leadership in the Unemployed Council has been with the aim of turthering his dis- ruptive activity and creating confu- sion in the ranks of the unem- West, of the Window Gleaners Lo- | Ploved cal, moved that the Council should not permit the Labor Clarion, its official organ, to print partisan ar- ticles, pointing to an editorial at- tacking the ~ank and file candidates, and threatening their expulsion. The motion was seconded from several parts of the hall, O’Connell launched a bitter attack against the bulletins issued by the rank and file groups of teamsters, and chauf- feurs, and other locals, The bulletin O'Connell referred to called for a vote against those who betrayed the general strike, After the machine stated its po- sition, Chairman Vandeleur sud- denly discovered that “no one had seconded” the motion and ruled it out of order, loyed. CICERO WILLOUGHBY, who was formerly an insurance agent, but now unemployed, and who him- self admits to have been a secret service operative at one time, util- ized his position as organizer of the Unemployed Council to carry on dis- ruptive activity. His whole history in the working class movement has been that of a careerist, who has repeatedly refused- to work collec- tively with others or accept counsel or correction. He has continuously indulged in disruptive remarks at meetings and in open slanders of working class leaders in Columbus. Description: He is an American Negro, 57 years old; height 5 ft. 9 in.; weight 140 pounds; brown eyes and high forehead. lynchin National Guards were in front of the jail at Cleveland, Miss, There was also a mob there bent on i James Coyner, Negro, charged with the murder of Mrs. Aurelius Turner. Election Boar Bars Workers From Hearing CHICAGO, Feb. 8—The Commu- nist Party here has called on all available sympathetic forces as well as its own membership to devote every available ounce of energy and every minute of time to the collec- tion of nominating signatures for candidates in the aldermanic elec- tions between now and Feb. 17. The groundless challenges of the nominating petitions, railroaded through with the approval of the Democratic election commissioners who are conspiring to keep all save their own nominees off the ballot, makes an intensive signature drive imperative, the Communist Party election campaign committee points out. The hearings on the challenges which have been in progress before the election board during the past few days, have been a bitter joke The commissioners in charge have refused to hear any testimony of the hundreds of witnesses called on behalf of the challenged candidates. There was a real commotion in court when the several hundred wit- nesses called in on the George Racz case, workers who travelled for miles to testify in behalf of their can- didate, were not allowed to testify. The Communist Party, which is supporting these workers’ candi- dates, is the only fighter for the democratic rights of the people. These attacks against the Alder- manic petitions already indicate what workers are to expect in con- nection with the Mayoralty peti- tions, To meet the objections to the petitions the workers’ candidates must have the maximum number of signatures. The petitions must meet all the requirements. The backing of the Communist Party petitions by 90,000 Chicago workers will be the best guarantee that the bosses will not dare to rule the workers’ candidates off the ballot. ‘Daily: Sub Drive Mounts Steadily mounting action is tell- ing in the Daily Worker subscrip- | | tion drive. Sixty per cent more subscriptions than were received the previous week were recorded from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6. The total of new sub- scriptions is now up to seven hun- dred. This, of course, is not an extraor- dinary score. almost 250 subscriptions were re- ceived last week, while 155 came in the week before, is proof that the Communist Party districts in the country are getting down to the task. | subs. Last wek it brought in 39. | But Chicago, which is now tied | with Detroit for eighth place, and | Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh can certainly do better than they are doing. They are concentration districts and a prime field for the Daily Worker. And they have had time to map out a full campaign. Boston, which has pledged itself to get at least 125 per cent of its quota, will have its district-wide Daily Worker conference to lay out the organizational measures for Communist Party units and mass organizations, tomorrow at 919 Washington Street, at 11 a.m. 1,600 on Strike in Iowa WATERLOO, Iowa, Feb. 8.—Six- teen hundred packing house work- ers are out on strike. Numerous ar- rests have taken place. Two strikers have been held in jail. Legislature Urges Bonus ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 8. (UP) —By a unanimous vote, the Georgia Sen- ate today memoralized Congress to |pass legislation providing for im- mediate payment of the soldiers bonus. | New Group in California Also Trying to Enroll Ex-Socialists By Harold J. Ashe LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8.—Crusad- ers of the Common Cause is the latest organization to blossom forth in southern California The avowed purpose of the or- ganization, as explained by Dr. Hor- ace Lackey, who describes himself as an “interested observer,” are to co- ordinate the activities of “social and economic groups in southern Cali- fornia and throughout the country who are seeking a far-reaching and fundamental change in our economic structure.” Concretely, the organization is seeking to corral Utopians, Epics, Christian Epics, Technocrats, co- operatives, Federal Co-operators, ete., in support of an economic and “definitely political” program which they can all endorse. T first learned aboust Crusaders of the Common Cause, due to agitation of Stanley Rogers, until recently (if not still) member of the State Ex- ecutive Committee of the Socialist Party of California. Rogers was try- ing to recruit former Socialist mem- bers into the C. C. C. Said young Rogers: “I had to get out of the Socialist Party when they passed the new declaration of prin- ciples. It’s too radical and I can’t subscribe to it.” Rogers is known for his anti-Communist proclivities: right-wingers. Rogers further characterized the Crusaders of the Common Cause as a “purely American” organization, of Americans seeking a peaceful way out of the crisis. Dr. Lackey echoed Rogers’ views. The doctor explained that the or- ganization recognizes that there will never be re-employment under the present system, but that they are friendly to the present national ad- ministration and hope that out of “the divsion of opinion and author- jity” within the administration and |! with the organized help of “progres- | sive groups,” an economic and poli- tical change can come about “with- out a revolution.” | “We have many prominent people in the movement,” said Lackey, “but | at this time we do not want to re- veal their names, although in many cases we have their permission to do so, We do not know that if we re- veal our membership, the business interests will immediately bring pressure to bear on them and the newspapers will immediately attack them and, if possible, hold them up to ridicule.” Thus, the usual hypoc- risy about persecution of these harmless advocates of a “new social order.” Although the organization is sup- posed to be for purposes of co- ordination, it is seeking membership “along Utopian lines” and the mem- bership is “growing by geometrical | nized that there is and would be a great over-lapping of membership | with Epies, Utopians, etc. | pie Paty Diphtheria Fells 66 | prepared drastic measures to pre- vent an epidemic of diphtheria to- | day after 61 pupils and five teachers | were placed in quarantine as car- |riers of the disease and another | case was reported. He is a right-winger even among! ‘Crusaders’ Seek to Unite Utopians and Technocrats On Relief Job At Fort Smith FORT SMITH, Ark., Jan. 8.— More than 1,500 workers and farm- ers struck here Wednesday against a 20-cent hourly relief wage and closed all of the forty-two relief projects. The strike followed re duction of relief wages from thirty to twenty cents an hour on Feb. 1 and the announcement by Cou | Relief Administrator F. P. Kirk that all relief work must end after Feb. 10. Starting last Saturday, the walk- out spread rapidly as the workers organized flying squadrons of min- ers who called upon the other work- ers to join them in the strike, There was no disorder; the men main- tained perfect discipline; the sen- |timent for strike was unanimous. Full responsobility for the wage slash rests upon the Roosevelt ad- ministration, which on Nov, 22 or- dered that the thirty-cent an hour minimum wage rate on Federal projects be dropped. 300 Strike in Colorado GREELEY, Colo., Feb. 8—Three hundred relief workers went out on strike yesterday in Weld County when wages were slashed from forty to thirty cents an hour. The men jare now demanding fifty cents an hour wage rates. As the strike spread, leaders pre- dicted that 1,000 workers would be out within twenty-four hours, Dr. Ward W ill Lorinee On Menace of Fascism ‘in Chicago on Tuesday CHICAGO, Feb. 8.--Under joint auspices of the Christian Social Ac- and the Chicago Section of the American Lezizue Against War and Fascism, Dr. Harry F. Ward, chairman of the American League, will speak in Chicago Tuesday evening, Feb. 12 on, “The Fascist Menace in the United States.” The meeting, to be held at the K. A. M. Temple, 4959 tion Movement | large committee of prominent trade unionists, rabbis, and liberals, both Negro and white Among the sponsors are: Clarence | Darrow, Rabbi Louis L. Mann, Al | Hamilton, National Chairman of the Student League for Industrial Democracy; Annetta Dieckmann, Industrial Secretary, YW.C.A.; Rev. | Blaine Kirkpatrick, Herbert New- | ton, Communist eandidate for City Clerk; Rev. A. Weyman Ward. prominent Negro minister; and | Florence Curtis Hanson, secretary But the fact that | proportions.” Lackey said he recog-/| treasurer of the American Federa- tion of Teachers. | East Dockers Aid West BOSTON, Mass. Feb. 8—The Boston District Council of the In- Chicago is an illustration.| .HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 8—(U./ ternational Longshoremen’s Asso- The week of Jan, 24 it secured 21) P.)—Harrisburg health authorities | ciation, passed a motion to assess each member of all its locals here | with 50 cents, the proceeds to go towards the defense of the members of the union of Portland, Oregon, framed for the murder of a scab during the recent west coast strike Against Jim- BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.—The fight | against the hideous conditions ob- | taining at the Jim Crow Chelten- ham Reformatory for Colored Boys will be carried forward at a united front conference Sunday, Feb. 10, at 1 p.m. in the Sharp Street Com- munity House, Etting and Dolphin Streets, The conference, called by the Abolish Cheltenham Committee, is aimed to unite all organizations and individuals who are demanding the | abolition of prison rule and shock- ing conditions at Cheltenham into one unified powerful movement. The conference is expected to develop protest actions throughout the city and to carry the fight to the gov- Conference Will Unite Fight Crow Boys’ Jail ernor and State legislature. Numerous organizations, including the Urban League of Baltimore, the People’s Unemployment League and the Baptist Ministers’ Union, are reported to have elected delegates to the conference. The conference will also be open to visitors. Mrs. Maude P. Bell, secretary of the Abolish Cheltenham Committee, spoke over WCBM last night on conditions at Cheltenham. The Young Worker, published in New York City, is now running a series of articles on the horrible condi- tions at the reformatory, which in- clude brutal beatings of the boys, hunger diets, forced unpaid labor and speed-up. ENTER 1,500 Walkout ; ; Drexel Avenue, is sponsored by al Seamen Steal Against $1 Pay In Cleveland Union Teamsters, Clerks Support Walkout of Relief Workers Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 8.—One hundred and fifty transient work- here against the $1 a forced labor of the relief of- struck week ficials. The men struck in response all of the United Committee reed Labor, comprised of transient workers. r re demanding 60s an hour for all work and a thirty- nour week on all jobs. Delegations of the strikers were conferring with er! the relief officials late this after- noon Officials in a breaking ef- fort tried to ru he, afternoon shift off on a special city job shovel- ing snow, before the strike comm tee could call them out. The on men in charge of the city trucks re- fused to take the men out when they heard that the strike call was going to be made. Workers employed in administra- tive work also struck later in the ay. Trade unions throughout the city are flooding the officials with resolutions demanding the granting of the strikers demands Delegate Sullivan of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union is being pressed by his members to call a eeting to have the Union join the strike. The local da resolution previously supporting the call for strike but actual action is being sabotaged by Sullivan. He beat up an old sea man, who for 22 years has bee! member of the I. S. U. and the membership is demanding his ouster. The member had person- ally gone to ask him to join the strike. Neumann’s Extradition Protested by Workers | ZURICH, Feb. 8—The Swiss Fed- eral Counril is being swamped by protests against the extradition of Heinz Neumann, German Commu- nist leader, to Hitier prison officials. Among others protests were receiv ed from the Spanish Committee Against War and Fascism, the Dutch Ossietzky Committee, and from a Copenhagen meeting com- memorating the death of Lenin, at which 2,500 workers were present, ‘The general meeting of the Inter- laken (Switzerland) textile workers also voted a protest Subscriptions are the important need of the Daily Worker. Get subs from shopmates, members in your trade union or fraternal or- ganization. WHAT’ S © Philadelphia, Pa. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Friday, Feb, 22 at Ambassador Hal 1704 N. Broad St.: Nadia Chilkov na series of revolutionary dan well known violinist; entire Frei Gesang Ferein chorus; — excel dance orchestra. Adm. at door, ‘ough organizations N. &th St., Room 207, Development United in the Fascist States Exposed! Hear John L. Spi on ‘Wall Street Pascist Conspirat on i Tuesd 12 at B pm. at Il, Broad and Ma: Auspices, LL.D. Adm. 2c Unit 108 is daving one o! swanky affairs again on Saturda’ 2342 S. 8th St, Price 10c. Everyone is ted. and Entertainment given by u Feb. 10, at St. Lively benefit. Dise Adm. 106. F.8.U. . 126 8. sth St, at 8 , Feb. 10. Dancing, cussion. Auspit nia Br. F.S.U. Adi | program, refreshments, trict Training School. vill be held at the Scott Nearing, just returned from ‘ope and the Soviet Union, will ure on Fascism and Comniunism on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8:30 p.m. at the Olympia Arena, Broad Sti. b Bainbridge. Adm. 38¢. Organizations: Do not arrange af- fairs for Saturday, March 30. The District Pioneer Council is holding an “April Fool's Festival’ at Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Ave., 150 children will participate in a play called “Workers World's Fair,” = satire on the Chicago World’s Fair. Also a scene from Haps’ “Strike Me Red.” National speaker. Boston, wiaas. for Communist Party at New Internati Wenonah 8&t., Roxbury to Saturday, Feb, 13 to 16) Additional features to Razaar main program every evening. Eats, bargains, entertainments. Chicago, Ill. Organizations Attention! The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. An excellent pro- gram has been arranged. Kindly keep this date open. Theatre Collective Three-Hour Program of Theatre, Music and Dance, following by dancing to 3 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 16 at 8:30 p.m. at People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. Adm. 35¢; 100 tickets at 25c. Newark, N. J. Cabaret Night—Sat., Feb. 9th, 8:30 p.m. at 901 Broad St. Negro Orch. —Special entertainment. Subs. 35¢, incl. wardrobe. Arranged by Jack London Club of Newark. Detroit, Mich. Detroit League Against War and Fascism presents the film “Thael- mann,” Fighter Against Pascism, In- ternational Sound Film with Diml+ trov, Barbusse, German Anti-Fascist: Dimitrov in Action in Nazi Court, Jericho Temple, Joy Road, near Law= ton, on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m, Chauve Souris, THE DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST