The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 2

{ | i Page 2 Arkansas Bill Would Outlaw All Criticism Lower Hows Passes Measure Against Militant Papers 22- LITTLE ROCK, A The Lower House of the ture has passed a bi , punishabl onment Fel Arka: 1 passed the house, after sharp debate, by 63 to 22. Op- ponents demanded protection of the right of free speech and free press The bill is the lat Phase in the campaign, including lynch vio- lence, of the big landlords and State and county officials to crush the struggles of Negro and white share- croppers against eviction from the land, and of unemployed on relief projects, who are striking for enough foad for their families. It is di- rected especially at the organizers of the unions leading these strug- gles, and sympathetic groups and institutions. The Legislature recent- ly appointed a committee vestigate Commonwealth Mena, Ark., as a result of aid given by its faculty and students to the struggling share-croppers and re- lief workers, Strike Call Put Off Again (Continued from Page 1) the Labor Lyceum, East 84th Street, today, Bambrick said. Commenting on Merritt’s refusal to continue negotiations, Bambrick said: In the Bronx, where 600 shop stewards voted for a general strike at a meeting on Wednesday night, Louis Cooper, president of 10-B, the Bronx local, announced another “truce” with landlords, this one to last ten days. Byven if a strike call is finally is- sued in the Bronx, where 12,000 building workers are impatiently awaiting the signal for a general walkout, only sections of the Bronx will be called out, Cooper said, in conformance with the theory of union leaders that a “staggered” strike call is the most “effective.” A similar situation prevails in Manhattan, in Brooklyn and in Queens, The last conference between Man- hattan union officials and realty representatives, whieh ended at 3 am. yesterday, proved only that the continued postponement of a general strike cali has weakened the position of the union to such an extent that some of the most powerful realty groups in the city are openly refusing to enter into any further conferences. Walter Gordon Merritt, notorious open shop attorney who is counsel for the Midtown Realty Association, stalked out of a conference at the Hotel Holland yesterday after a half hour of negotiations, during which he refused to seriously dis- cuss any of the union’s demands. “On Wednesday afternoon Mr. Merritt was anxious to break off direct negotiations five minuies after negotiations started. I say unequivocally that the man does not want peace. He does not want the owners and representatives of the men to meet one another. That would mean an early settlement; and what good is an open shop attorney if peace is achieved through representatives of the workers and employers who get to- gether in settling a matter in one | hour. The worthy gentleman thrives on industrial war. Without | industrial war he would cease to exist. Therefore, failing to break off in five minutes, he tried to seize every opportunity to cause a split, and, finally, used a so-called con- ference with owners as a pretext to get out of the room, he left, stat- ing that he wished to confer with his principals for about half an| hour. He left the room and failed to return, leaving the union offi- cers waiting for five and a half hours. “Merritt, using the flimsiest pre- text, has accomplished what he set out to do, the breaking off of direct negotiations. He desires trouble, he desires industrial warfare. He has an almost perfect record in ac- complishing this objective of his, which usually nets him large fees, eyen though everybody loses, the worker, the employer and the gen- eral public.” In the Bronx, Cooper postponed the strike call, set for 11 a.m. yes- | terday, when Borough President Lyons of the Bronx, interceding for the landlords, called a confer- ence in his office atiended by Bronx union officials and. representatives of the Bronx Real Estate Board. Cooper, speaking in the name of the union, presented demands of $35 for handymen, $34 for elevator op- erators and $24 each for porters and firemen, weekly, with a forty- eight hour working week. When the realtors refused these demands point blank, Cooper lowered them to $80 a month for the larger apart- | ments and $70 for the smalier ones, a fifty-four hour week for daymen and sixty-six hour week for night men, and a “preferential” shop, that is, a promise that union men who are discharged will be replaced by other union men. Refused Them ‘The landlords’ representatives re- fused to accept even these condi- | tions, but agreed to present them | to still other realty groups. Meanwhile, building service work- | ers throughout the city were. de- | manding explanations of why the} strike call is being continuously | out the country studiously avoided | Workers’ Industrial Union were ar- Shelved to some future date, and | mention of the I. L. D. in their ac-| rested late Thursday evening at a workers in other unions, notably | counts of the hearing, and sought | mass picket demonstration in front the teamsters, needle workers and | by implication to give the impres- of the store led by fifty members | fur workers unions, are sending ex- | sion that. Leibowitz. was in full of the union. pressions of solidarity to the build- ing workers, the Needle and Fur | Workers’ Industrial Unions pledg- | ing to strike in any building called on strike union. ~ ‘ ‘ ( DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 MELLON’S Secretary of Treasury Ph Fraud and Trickery While in Office The spectacle of billionaire lord of aluminum empire, ex-Secretary of the Treas- iving through trickery and information to plunder the t°and the people is now nrolling at Pittsburgh where he is ig sued for back taxes. ew Mellon, with defrauding of $3,000,000 in taxes on his huge income. In 1931 while Hoover and ballyhooing that prosper the corner, he wa short” for large Mellon was also. making sales in order to avoid paying in- come taxes. Through chalking up itious losses he was able to get with $3,000,000. Bought Job fer $1,500,000 This steal was the culmination of his domination of the treasury in the interests of the rich. Mellon had been made Secretary of the Treasury in 1921 after he had given the Republican Party a> eontribu- tion of $1,500,000: in the campaign | of 1920. His job was to see that the excess he were . Profits tax on big incomes was done away with, and to make large re- funds to the big corporations. He did his job very well. Under the Mellon regime the Bureau .of Internal. Revenue. was | turned into a machine that ground out. billions in refunds. Anna Rochester estimated that Mellon was responsible for refunds to the capitalist..class totalling in the neighborhood of $3,000,000,000. The United States Steel Corporation re- ceived one refund of $96,384,000, And Mellon returned almost $15,- | profits of Mellon and his fellow) Frank J. Taylor, will mcan that all real estate owners will} have to pay $2.71 for each $100 of ® 000,000 to his own corporations, in- Beaver Falls Jobless Unite BEAVER FALLS, Pa., Feb. 22.— Preparations are under way here to unite the workers on relief jobs with those on home relief, to force in- creases of 5@ per cent in cash re- lief and wages on relief jobs, it was learned yesterday from the Unem- ployment Council. These preparations are the result | of a meeting held here recently at which an official of the Relief Works Division and representatives of the Council spoke, The 350 workers who attended unanimously endorsed | the demands for 50° per cent in- creases in relief raised by the Un- employment Council, Among other demands endorsed were the ending of discrimination and for free med- ical attention for the unemployed. | The workers declared their will- ingness to not -only endorse these demands, but to put up a fight to see that they are granted. Scottsboro Foes Lie (Continued from Page 1) | tional authority, had begun his ar- gument of the constitutional law in both cases, which was concluded Monday, Feb. 18. | Joint Argument The cases were argued jointly, by agreement between the attorneys, concurred in by the International Labor Defense after Attorney Leibo- witz secured a retainer from Clar- ence Norris, in January, 1935. The I. L, D, agreed to this arrangement in pursuance of its consistent policy of avoiding any division in the de-| fense forces, or act against the best interests of the Scottsboro boys. | A distorted story of the hearing, | apparently emanating from the §0- | called “American Scottsboro Com- mittee,” and published in many/| Negro newspapers, stated that “upon | invitation of Attorney Leibowitz, At- | torney Walter H, Pollak presented a brief argument on some of the| points of constitutional law in- volved,” with the obvious intention | of giving the impression that the eases were not argued jointly, As a} matter of fact, the entire argument | on the constitutional questions was | made by Mr. Pollak, Mr. Leibowitz’s | part in the appeal being limited to @ presentation of the facts involved. | The brief used in the Norris case | was prepared by Messrs. Pollak and | Osmand K. Fraenkel, attorneys re-| tained by the International Labor} Defense, the names of Leibowitz and General George W. Chamlee being | merely. substituted on the cover | after Leibowitz obtained a retainer | from Clarence Norris. The “Associated Negro Press,” in| an astounding display of editorial | venom for a supposedly. impartial | news service, the previous week stated that the I. L. D. had “bowed | and scraped’ its way out” of the! Scottsboro case, when Leibowitz’s | name was substituted for that of Pollak on the appeal brief. News Service Slanders Defense Previous stories sent out by that servicé, during the last few months, have been full of similar venomous | slanders and distortions in regard to the Scottsboro defense and the I. L. D., as though the service were trying, in its own field, to out- Hearst the famous anti-labor and anti-Negro publisher. Several Negro newspapers used’ | such headlines as “I. L. D. Gives Up Scottsboro Defense” and “I. L. D. Gets Out of Scottsboro Case,” in connection with this A. N. P. story, tained in the story did not justify, these lies. | Other Negro newspapers through- charge of the appeals. Still others followed the lead giv- | en by the white lynch-press in fail- | ing to even make mention of the} by the building workers’ | case in their editions following the| will participate in the picketing, it | hearing MILLION indered People Through cluding a personal refund of $405,- 000. | Open Thievery | the current trial the open} cl ster of this thievery came out, Mellon, it was disclésed, hired a government tax expert to be his tax ] He installed this man in the Treasury Building, although he | was no longer a government em- | ployee, and gave him-a government | office for his own use. : The appa- | 1s of the treasury department was | openly used to inerease the | of Mellon. And in the crisis | years, while millions were starving, while Mellon was paying women workers in his aluminum plants 18 cents an hour, this billionaire was stealing an additional. . $3,000,000 through tax frauds. During the two crisis years of 1930-1931, the Mellon -interests made profits of over $70,000,000, but their workers were thrown out to starve, ‘Today Mellon is one of the most ac- tive capitalists fighting higher wages; lower hours and better con- ditions. The New Deal which “ex- poses” his tax frauds helped him increase his profits. . enormously, helped him fetter his workers to lower standards of. living. The government’s prosecution of Mellon was done to make political capital, to keep up the illusion that the New Deal will drive the “money | changers oyt of the temple of our | national life,’ to use Roosevelt's | demagogic phrase. But Mellon like Insull, and Mitchell of the National City Bank, will not really be harmed. In fact, the Roosevelt ad- ministration at the very moment that it is going through the motions of attacking him, is doing every- thing. in its power to increase the monopolists, Garden Rally | Against War (Continued from Page 1) | fare against the Soviet Union must be stopped. The present admin- | istration which was wise enough to | see the necessity of recognizing | Russia with its 160,000,000 in- | habitants, its stable government, | and its potentially valuable market, | must feel the weight of public | opinion not only for maintaining our present relations but in| strengthening and cementing them. | “To expose this campaign—the | sinister groups which direct and the predatory motives which inspire it— is an immediate and urgent task. It must be undertaken by all those who see the intimate connection be- tween reaction at home and im- perialism abroad. Educators and ministers, professional men and wo- | men, and, above all, the industrial | and agricultural workers of the United States, must block this at- tempt to divert attention from genyine economic and social issues into spurious channels. Unity Against War-Mongers “Soviet-- American friendship with all its implications for the maintenance of Id must | This year the total assessed valua-| the Board of Aldermen at a special | He Aateniba ‘agate tikes ebb dt | meeting on March 1, the statutory | be defended against those who did | ‘nothing to create it and would do|_ everything to destroy it. The trouble makers and war-mongers, whether | against Soviet Russia or any other | country, must be met by a united front which is not to be stampeded by ‘Red’ menace scares or intim- idated by a ‘yellow’ press.” Similar denunciations of the breaking off of U. S.-Soviet nego- tiations and calls for support of Monday's demonstration came from Harry F. Ward, of the Union Theo- logical Seminary, national chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism; from Robert W. Dunn, director of the Labor Re- search Association; Louis Lozowick, outstanding American artist; Mor- decai Gorelik, noted theatrical de- signer, and scores of other Amer- ican writers, educators and editors. Unions Act H. H. Baxter, secretary of the | Marine Workers Industrial Union, joined the other New York organ- | izations in calling on the members of the union to come en masse to the meeting. A similar call was issued by the Left Wing Group of Local 22 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In addition to the 250,000 copies | of the special broadside issued by “Soviet Russia. Today,” Icor yester- day announced that it planned to circulate 25,000 leaflets of its own, calling for mass attendance at the meeting. The Ukrainian workers’ organizations are issuing an .addi- tional 10,000 leaflets. Hundreds of volunteers are still | needed to distribute the special | issue of “Soviet Russia Today.” Volunteers should report to the F. S. U., 80 East 11th Street, all day today and “Monday. PicketOhrbach AtNoon Today A call to all workers to take part in the mass picket demonstfation | in front of Obrbach’s department | store on Union Square at 12:30 to-| day was issued yesterday by the Office Workers Union. -The demonstration today will be | though even. the distortion con-| Preceded by a mass meeting at |) strike headquarters, 220 East Four- | teenth Street. Eight members of the Marine They were paroled | in the custody of an attorney for | the International Labor Defense. At least three hundred members | of the National Students League | Martin, to support the strike. | FASCIST GROU INTENSIFY ACTIVITY This is a picture of the headquarters of a fascist organization in Chicago that is pressing its campaign of terror against white and Negro | workers. Tax Burde Small Home-Owners; 2.71 Rate Held No Relief in Favor ae Leike Manhattan ‘Pay Rise Pact Discrimination " Staggers | CATTARO AHOY! [Youth Reserve for Benefit Performance Wednesday Night By William R, Ensign She was trim in the bow, boys And broad in the stern. Heigh, ho! Blow the man down. She may not come from Radcliff highway ™ but sweetheart—or if she ever has any intention of being such—she’ll make port at the Civic Repertory Theatre next Wednesday night, Feb, 27. For that’s Marine Workers In- dustrial Union night at the “Sail- ors of Cattaro.” The lads on the | wrong side of the footlights will be faced by the toughest bunch of | critics they've ever had, These lads are going to sniff the theatre air suspiciously.and if they don’t detect the odor of oakum—actors, beware! The affair, one of the last before “Sailors of Cattaro” goes off the boards, will be for the benefit of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. According to Roy Hudson, six-foot seaman who heads the or- ganization, all the proceeds of the performance will go to the natjonal Committee of the union for organ- if she’s a sailor’s-| ization work among seamen. One | of the lines that the union is try- ing hard to organize is the Ward Line—or what's left of it. Tickets, Roy said, can be gotten at the Workers Bookshop, 50 East 13th Street, the office of the M.W. | office of the Civie Repertory, 14th Street, near 6th Avenye. “Get your ticket now,” Hudson urged. “If anything should get the | unstinting support of labor and the professionals of New York, it's this. You not only see a good show but you help the union. And look,” he concluded, “look at the company you're going to be } in” | Roy will be there. Your corre- | Spondent, naval authority for the Daily Worker with a profound knowledge arising from the ex- | perience of two summers’ rowing on. | Central Park, will be there. A bunch | of other sailors and their sweet- hearts will be there. You be there, too! Heigh-ho! Blow the man down! Corporation Is Charged—Political Repercussions Expected | By Simon ISCRIMINATION in favor of the large banks and realty | operators as against the small home-owners is implicit in| the new tax rate of 2.71, it The new tax rate, announced assessed valuation in 1935. The present figure is an increase of 15 points oyer the 1934 rate of 2.56. The figure does not include the taxes for local improvements, which vary from borough to borough. Protests are expected from long- suffering Queens home-owners, mostly lower middle class and} skilled working people. The Queens | tax rate is 2.86, three points higher | than that of last year, The extra 15 points is accounted for by spe- cial borough assessments, a good deal of which go to improve roads leading up to or passing near prop- | erties of the Halleran Brothers, one | of whom, John J., is the Commis- sioner of Public Works and well-| known to be the power behind the throne of Borough President George a U. Harvey. Bronx Rate Jumps Brooklyn and Richmond tax rates are 2.81 and 2.80 respectively, the same as in the year previous. Man~ | hattan tax rate jumped to 2.82 as | last year. against 2.72 last year. Bronx tax- | | Paye®s will pay at the rate of: 2.79, or even stationary incomes—not to| as against 2.71 of 1934. Administration sources argue that | while the tax rate has been jumped | payments or to receive loans from | |15 points, real estate owners have| the Home Owners Loan Corpora- | been given relief through slashes in| tion, a perspective of unrest among the assessed valuation of property. | “The total assessed valuation of tax- | able property for 1934 was $17,149,- 226,557,” Comptroller Frank J. Tay- | _.|lor said upon announcing the new! administration expects. tax rate for 1935 early this week. | tions amount. to $16,649,771,199. | However, the greatest relief has | 325,000 Aid Cuba Strike (Continued from Page 1) teachers, the students have added a series of political demands, in- cluding the resignation of President Mendieta, the withdrawal of U. 8. Ambassador Caflery, the abolition of the emergency courts and the restoration of the constitutional guarantees, ‘The Cuban revolution is drawing | near, The blows struck by this gen- eral strike, which threatens to draw in the whole Cuban masses, has struck fear into the hearts of the exploiters. Eyen the bourgeois press | is compelled to admit that the character of the present events in| Cuba is similar to “the falling rocks | preceding an approaching aya- lanche.” The tremendous militancy of the Cuban masses has even forced the bourgeois and ~ petty bourgeois opposition to the existing government, headed by Grau San Communists in Front The Communist Party and the Young Communist League of Cuba is in the front line of this struggle, working to forge a powerful iron front for the struggle for national liberation by organizing and broad- ening the struggles of the masses for their immediate needs. Before and over this militant revolutionary struggle of the Cuban masses to free themselves looms the dark cloud of an armed American intervention. There is not a moment to lose. very honest American. worker, farmer, student and intellectual must struggle with all his might against the danger of an intervention to maintain the Cuban people under the slavery of their foreign and native oppressors, Workers, raise the question of struggle against the danger of American intervention in every place of work. Students, pass resolutions of solidarity with the striking Cuban students and work- ers. Everyone, flood the State De- partment with the demand “Hands off Cuba!” These are the first steps for the defeat of American intervention. Bleachery Workers Strike ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Feb. 22 (UP).—Demanding a 20 per cent in- crease over the 45 cents an hour wage they now receive, 125 workers at the Uman bleachery plant went on strike today. W. Gerson is felt in informed quarters. | on Wednesday by Comptroller been given to large realty operat- | ors and, in particular, a number | of Rockefeller-controjled proper-+ ties. The Standard Oil Building, | 26 Broadway, had its assessed val- | uation reduced a quarter of a mil- | lion dollars under the figure of | last year, when it stood at $11,- 400,000. The Irving Trust Buil ing, 1 Wall Street, had its valua- tion cut from $20,000,000 to $19,500,000, | The large corporation buildings, | many of which made great profits in| the last year, and could therefore | absorb an increase paid virtually the same as last year. Small home- owners with reduced incomes got no relief, it is pointed out. Home-Owners Stuck Again A Queens taxpayer who owned! home assessed at $6,000 in| 1934, paid $169.80 in taxes then.) | With the reduction in the assess- ment taken into account, he still must pay, it is estimated, $167.82 in 1935,.r practically the same as | With rising prices and lowered— | speak of the mass unemployment | and the inability to meet mortgage | small home-owners opens up. This, | according to many observers, will) have its political repercussions | Sooner than the New York Fusion The tax rate will be voted on by | date for adoption. Auto Strike Threatened (Continued from Page 1) day, Dillon carefully avoided the term “strike.” Dillon, who had previously told the United Press that the manufacturers were “in- viting” strike by their stand, said, “Nothing shall now stop the work- ers from carrying through plans for securing correction of grievances | through the only agency available to them—the unions of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor.” Conditions Reported Dillon’s statements grew out of the manufacturers’ complete de- nial of the charges made in the Leon Henderson report. Jn their denial, the Automobile Manufac- turers Association, through its vice- president Pyke Johnson, slandered the A. F. of L., which made charges that every automobile worker in | Detroit, Flint and other centers know, The report pointed to the killing speed-up, discrimination and firings. “They (the auto manufacturers) claim there is no speed-up; they claim there is no discrimination against older workers,” Dillon said. “But these conditions are far too | well known to workers for them to | be fooled by meaningless phrases.” Dillon blamed the manufacturers for the unemployment and misery, and pointed to the relief lists in Detroit, which are swollen with able-bodied automobile workers who have been discharged by the plants in their drive to sap the energy of the young men and throw them on the serap-heap after a few years of killing speed-up. Youth Called to Attend | Soviet Union Defense Demonstration Monday The District Secretariat of the New York District, Young Commu- nist League, has issued a call for all members of the Y. C. L. to attend the mass demonstration for the de- fense of the Soviet. Union, The demonstration: will be held Monday night at Madison Square Garden, under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, All unit meetings for this night are to |be called off. The youth of New Strikers are picketing the build- was announced yesterday, ing York are urged to attend this | fund. FurUnionWins Representatives of the Fur Dressers and Dyers Industrial Union and the employers’ Pur Dyers Council reached an agreement for a new contract in a conference held on Tuesday. Among other points, the 36-hour week and a general 12.5 per cent increase for all workers was agreed upon. This tentative agreement will be | submitied to the membership of | both organizations for ratification. | There seems to be a strong likeli- hood that the agreement will be) ratified. | It is significant that despite the | efforts of the Dickstein Committee | to encourage the employers to break the existing Unemployment Fund, that they will continue to pay three | per cent of their payrolls into the Mine Leaders Threatened (Continued from Page 1) tion to counter the move. company’s | Maloney Heads List The list of names is headed by Thomas Maloney, district president, | but includes mostly active rank and | file local officials, This move of the company was given wide publicity through the local press, along with the an- nouncement that the collieries would resume operation this morn- ing. Although the company paved the way for re-opening with intense soliciting of scabs during the five- day standstill, and with the frame- up of workers and the reign of ter- ror, this morning showed that the tie-up remains effective. Most pickets report the same scabs as were reported prior to the | five-day shutdown. At the Lance Colliery, where the | company expected a _ significant break, a large number of State Troopers lined the stretch of high- way leading to the mine, but very few of the twelve hundred in the normal force reported for work. Lovestoneite a Scab Among the Lance scabs were Frank Vritarich, member of the Central Commitiee of the Love- stone renegade group, and with him Joe Stanley, also a Lovestoneite. Vritarich, a member of the U. M. W. A., works with those U. M. W. A. officials who are busy soliciting seabs since the strike was called. He was always displayed by the Lovestoneites as their “proletarian face.” His reason for scabbing, he says, is because he is against “dual | unionism.” Virtually all the seven- | teen thousand Glen Alden miners | happen to be members of the new union, the Anthracite Miners, Most of the 185 Wanamie fam- ilies in company houses have re- ceived eviction notices. Attempts to oust these workers is expected at any moment. A delegation from the Wanamie local went to Harris- burg to plead for protection, but was only given advice on injunction proceedings that might stay evic- tion. Meanwhile the workers are disgusted with the do-nothing pol- icy of the district officials, who have been blocked by the boss-con- trolled courts from every move of preparing protest against loss of their homes with united action of all living in Wanamie. Cyril Washko of Hanover was placed on $10,000 bail yesterday, charged with participating with six other workers who are framed as dynamiters, The only witness against him is a State policeman. Silent On Purpose Maloney is still silent on the pur- pose of the meeting of all District 1 local presidents and_ secretaries, called for Sunday night, but the miners everywhere express the hope thet better organization of the leadership for the strike will result. The strikers are in a very angry mood, for the most part, at the failure of the union heads to give |leadership or to issue a statement on the company’s announced re- oponing, contempt proceedings and frame-up of seven workers on dyna- miting charges. There is no strike bulletin and the Daily Worker has been the only source of information to the workers. The strikers ate generally ex- pressing more support for the policy of united action of all miners in the Anthracite, advanced by the rank and file, as they now see it does not mean united action with the Lewis-Boylan scab herders but meeting with the rank and file of the U. M. W. A, Hearing Set _ In Farm Case (Spepial to the Daily Worker) |. BISMARCK, N. Dak, Feb. 22.— A hearing has been set for Monday, |Feb. 25' before U. S. Commissioner |S. A. Floren in the cases of Kay |Heikkila, District Organizer of the |Communist Party, and Henry Wal- lace, charged with “contempt of |court” because of protests sent the U. 8. Federal Court at Minot against the prosecution of farmers arrested for taking part in actions to prevent the forced mortgage sales of farms. Heikkila and Wallace were re- leased yesterday on bail of $2,500 and $1,000 respectively. The speci- fie charge against them is viola- tion of Section 135, U. S. Penal Code by “trying to interfere, im- pede and intimidate a Federal Court.” Launch Fight On Sales Tax Three conferences have been called by the United Council of Working Class Women to war against the LaGuardia sales tax and the high cost of living. Today women workers of the middie and lower Bronx will meet at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Avenue, at 1 o'clock. At the same time a similar conference for Brownsville workers will be held at Columbia Hall, 522 Stone Avenue, Brooklyn, An upper Bronx conference will take place tomorrow at 12:30 at 759 Allerton Avenue. The conferences will push the or- ganization of a broad united front movement of all women workers against the burden of the 2 per cent Sales tax, added on to the inflated costs of clothing and other neces- sities, Petitions calling for the immed- iate repeal of the sales tax have been circulated from house to house and in the market places and will be presented to Mayor LaGuardia. The conferences aim to interest consumers in the movement to re- move the sales tax, scale down the high cogts of gas, electricity, food, ete. Organizations will be urged to call mass meetings and send delegations to local aldermen demanding the repeal of the tax. A committee of 15 will be elected to coordinate the plans adopted at the conference. Hathaway-Barnes Debate Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Harry Elmer Barnes will debate tonight on “Can Roosevelt Save American Capital- ism?” in the Y. M, H.'A. Audito- rium, High and Kinney Streets, Newark, N. J., at 8:30 pm. A. J. Isserman, I. L. D. lawyer and spe- cial counsel to the State Federation of Labor, will be chairman, |1.U., 140 Broad Street, or at the. box | |Marine Union Urges Supporters to Get Aboard Asked By W ar } Body in House |C. C.-C, Camps Flooded With Propaganda for War Revealing still further the mili- | tary intent behind the setting up of | the C. C. C. Camps, Chief of Staff Genere] Douglas MacArthur has | been asked by the House Military Committce to draw up a bill which will drive the C. C. C. boys into the army reserve. One hundred thous | Sand young fellows are to be given | two months of intensive war traine ing. The government is prepared to spend $7,000,000 on this new proje ect. The fact that this-idea origi« | mated in Congress indicates that the machinery for pushing the bill | through is all set and well-oiled. | Floed of Propaganda | In preparation for the passage of | this bill a flood of propaganda has | been released in the camp paper, | “Happy Days,” the daily press and army journals, calling for “guns for the boys.” The next step was an | nounced by MacArthur, who says! |“The young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps, toughened .by | work in the forest camps, would make ideal recruits for a short in- | tensive training course.” The young men, according to his | latest plan, would be paid $24 a | year to bind them to the War De- | partment. Although it is stated that | the only obligation the fellows. | would have would be reporting reg | ularly and taking physical examina- tions periodically, it cannot be de- nied any longer that the camps are institutions leading towards the army of American imperialism. Campaign Against It The Youth Section, American | League Against War and Fascism, | has for some time been carrying on a campaign against the militariza- {tion of the camps. A proof of the | effectiveness of its campaign is the remark in a -recent issue of the “Army and Navy Journal”: “So far they,” referring to radicals and pro- | gressives, “have been able to keep military training out of the C. C. C.” The Youth Section of the Ameri- | can League condemned these steps | toward conscripting new army re- serves from the C. C, C. camps in an | appeal which it issued yesterday, ‘The Youth Section urged i:-tensified action on the part of all its affili- | ates and branches in circulating pe- | titions calling for withdrawal of | army officers from camps and the | rapid substitution of the entire set- | up by an adequate system of unem- | ployment insurance. N.B.C. Pickets Get Varied Sentences Of eighteen pickets arrested last Thursday after fifty policemen had attacked them at the National Bis- cuit Company plant, 449 West Fourteenth Street, while the pick- ets were defending themselves | against strikebreakers armed with | clubs and iron bars, eight had their cases dismissed, six were given suspended sentences, two had their cases ajourned till March 1, and one to Mazch 6 at Jefferson Market Court yesterday. Strikers defended themselves so vigorously that the police had to call for reinforcements. Eleven of those arrested were strikers. All of them were held on charges of “disorderly conduct” except one baker, who was charged with assault. z Placards carried by the strikers bore the legend: 000 union em- | ployees locked out by the National | Biscuit Company. Cold storage and |mon-union labor make crackers | shipped to your grocer. Your co- | operation is requested by the In- | side Bakery Workers Federal Union, | 19585, affiliated with the American | Federation of Labor,” (RUSSIA) END a Torgsin Order to your relatives and friends in the Soviet inion and enable them to buy at the Torgin Stores located in every larger city of These stores carry the U.S.S. R. about 15,000 different domestic and imported articles of high quality; CLOTHING, SHOES, rubbers, shirts, underwear, hosiery; FLOUR, sugar, dried and canned vegetables, butter, coffee, and other FOOD STUFFS; household goods, tobaccos, etc. : TO PLACES WH ERE THERE ARE NO TORGSIN STORES, THE MERCHANDISE IS MAILED PROMPTLY BY PARCEL POST. Prices compare favorably with those in America For Torgsin Orders { see your local bank | or authorized agent