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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
FIGHT HIGH RENTS
ON THE EAST SIDE
Tenants at 1884 E. 9Th
Organize a League

NEW YORK. Fighting against
dispossess notices the tenants OF 1884
East 9th Street will hold a demon
stration to rally the neighborhood
for struggle against high rents and
evictions, Monday at Z D. nj.
The tenants of 1874 East 9th Street
had recently organized a group of
the Tenants League and made de-
mands upon the landlady for lower
rents and repairs to the apartments.
The Tenants League had issued .
leaflet to the neighborfood pointing
out that the high rents that the
workers paid deprived them of buy
ing better and more food and cloth
ing.
The Tenants League OF the neigh
borhood meets every Monday at 8
p. M, 1874 East 7th Street,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06

bosses organizat tom, had been called
for Thursday at the Hotel PennSyl-
vania for the purpose of consider
ing the labor and other situations
that have recently developed as a
burden"
The police were called in not only
by the bosses, but by Morris Kam-
man, president of the International
Fur Workers Union, and it is to
work out better means of combat
ing the rank and file movement that
the manufacturers are calling their
meeting, at which Kaufman will
have his representatives.
The Industrial Union calls on all
fur workers to join the picket lines
in the fur market today to help
spread the strike against rotten con-
ditions Additional shops are COM
ing out and the organization drive
is going ahead rapidly. All out on
the mass picket lines Defeat the
bosses and their takers, Kaufman &
Co.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
Stadium Concerts

The first three programs for the
season of Stadium concerts under
Willem van Hoogstraten are as fol-
lows:
Tuesday, July z: Overture to The
Flying Dutchman," Wagner; Don
Juan, Strauss; Passacaglia and
Fugue in c minor, Bach, transcribed
for orchestra by Respighi; and Sym
phony No. in c minor, Beethoven.
Wednesday, July 8; Symphony No.
4 in F minor, Tchaikovsky; Suite
from "The Fire Bird" Stravinsky;
Waltz, Tales from the Vienna
Woods Johann Strauss; and "Tri-
ana" Albeniz, orchestrated by Arbos.
Thursday, July g.: Symphony No.
3 in F major, Brahms: Prelude to
"Lohengrin," Wagner; ION Hearing
the First Cuckoo in Spring" Delius;
Rhapsody "Espagne," Chabrier; and
1872" Overture, Tchaikovsky.
Van Hoogstraten's three weeks will
be studded by such events as the
Hall johnson Negro Choir on July
II and 10, the appearances of Anna
Duncan on July 16 and II, and the
performance of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony on July % and "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
Downtown Council of
JObless Prepares for
July 7 Demonstration

NEW YORK.-The Downtown IN
employed Council yesterday forced
two gyp agencies to refund workers
who were misled about jobs.
The Council in q week end of &C
Invites on behalf of the striking min
ers collected $20.31 at three outdoor
meetings.
An open air meeting of the Coun-
Gil will be held at Seventh Street
and Avenue A, Thursday evening.
Another meeting will be held earlier
in the day at II a. m. at Leonard
and Church Streets.
The Council has outlined plans to
mobilize the iobless workers of down
town Manhattan for the demonstra-
ton at City Hall, July 7, at $50 o.
m. against the cessation Of all char
ity relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
DELEGATES FOR
vel MEET COME

NEW YORK.-Young worker dele
gates to the Sixth National Conven-
ton of the Young Communist
League, which opens here on July
10, are already on their way here,
travelling by freight car and auto.
The first delegate to arrive was
the Seattle delegate. Travelling the
thousands of miles across the coun-
try in side-door Pullmans he re-
marks especially upon the large
number of young workers and farm
ers who have been forced to leave
home in search of job, many of
whom have become hoboes
The delegation elected by the Chi
cago League includes young pack
ing house worker, and also steel
worker from Gary, Ind A number
of young miners who are now &C
tive in the coal strike will also be
present at the convention.
The first session of the convention
will take place at mass meeting
at Central Opera House, 9th Street
and 3rd Avenue, on Friday, July IL,
at 8 p. m. Among the speakers will
be representatives of the Central
Committee of the Party, and the Ma
tional Committee of the Y. c. L..
Admission Will be IS cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
ATTACK WORKERS
PRESS ONCE MORE
Mailing Privileges Are
Taken From NY It'd

NEW YORK, July 3-The militant
Scandinavian weekly newspaper NY.
It'd was recently notified by the U.
S. Post Offics that its second class
mailing rights had been withdrawn.
The reason given was that the April
18th copy Of the paper was "unmail
able Why it. was unavailable was
not stated nor was any special ar
ticle referred to as the reason why
it could not go through the mails.
Here we see the Fish Committee
in action not waiting to get its pro-
posals through Congress but going
right ahead with its program of sup
pressing the spokesman OF the revo-
lutionary movement The paper has
been violently attacked by reaction
airy misleaders in Scandinavian mass
organizations, especially by the fas-
ciSt group in control of the LOOT.
against whom the revolutionary
workers have carried on very mill
tant fight. One of these reaction
aries wrote a violent article against
the NY. It'd in his fascist sheet re-
Gently where he appealed to some
one" to report the revolutionary
Scandinavian paper to the post Of
flee so that it should no longer be
able to come out as the leader
against the reactionary Scandinav-
ians and to mobilize the workers
against the war danger
Scandinavian workers from all
over the country are rallying to the
support of the paper and it will be
kept up in spite of all the difficult
ties that confront it at the present
TIME. The workers must be rallied
to protest against this systematic
suppression of the workers press so
that the ruling class will know that
we are not going to stand by idly
and see them prohibit our papers
one after the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
BR'KLYN POLICE
FRAME Up NEGRO
Z. L. D. Investigating
Case

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS robbery
had been committed by colored
man on Tompkin Avenue, Chester
Gourdine, 22-year old Negro worker,
of 734 De Kalb Avenue, was arrested
by police on Fulton Street while on
his way home from a party Gour-
dine happened to be the first colored
worker the police got their hands on,
Failing to have him identified by
the store-keeper who had been rob-
bed, the police took young Gourdine
to the station house where he was
subjected to vicious beating up and
the worst indignities, being kicked in
the ribs and the abdomen and his
face ducked in the dirty toilet bowl.
After this, a policeman, officer An
thony Tattani, and a detective, went
to the youths house at $3.50 in the
morning, forcing themselves in past
Gourdine's mother who had opened
the door, and pulling their guns
when Mrs Gourdine's two other sons
and 17-year old daughter reused out
of bed challenged the police treat
ment of their mother They found
nothing in the home.
In court the next day young Gour-
dine was held in $4,000 bail for the
Grand Jury. His mother screaming
at the sight Of his battered face was
elected from the court. The two Of
ficerS gave the most conflictin gevid-
ence, one claiming that he had seen
Gourdine running on Fulton Avenue,
while the other officer testified he
had seen him walking.
The store keeper had been robbed
of a small tin box of collar buttons.
One officer testified the box was
found in an ash can. The other Of
ficer declared it was found on the
sidewalk. When they presented the
collar buttons to the Grand Jury,
Jney were IN a PdrlS IdTteI poA anu
not in the tin box.
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights. of which Gourdine's mother
is a member has brought the case
to the attention of the District Of
flee of the international Labor De-
tense. The I. L. D. realizing that it
Is a plainly a case of a frame-up
and of Negro oppression is taking up
the matter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
Miners Will Tell of
Strike Struggle

The Workers International Relief
with the cooperation of the Hungar-
ian Workers Club and the Finnish
Workers Club has arranged two mass
meetings. The first will be held on
Wednesday at the Finnish Workers
Club at Is West 126th Street, at 8
p. m. and the second on Thursday
at the Hungarian Workers Club, $50
East 31st Street, at 8 p. m. On the
program are included the presenta-
ton of the Soviet film, From Volga
to Gastonia" and two miners will
give an account of conditions the
strikers are undergoing. Bring your
fellow workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
ALL FRAMES FOUR
FOOD ORGANIZERS
Try Break Campaign
of the F.W.I.U.

NEW YORK.-In an attempt to
break the organization campaign of
the Food Workers Industrial Union
officials of the A. F. of L., Local 1913,
Grocery and Dairy Clerks, together
with Tammany detectives, have ar
rested and are framing active work
ers on charges of felonious assault.
Louis Nudelman, Sam WeiSman,
ex-Secretary of the F. w. I. u; Abe
Meyer, member of the Executive
Council Of the F. w T.. and Morris
Goldmark, member of the F.WIU..
are the workers held on charges of
felonious assault, the latter three on
$1,000 bail each.
Philip Rothberg, with a select gang
of the A, F. of L.. attempted to ter
rorlze members of the F.WIU. in
thenewly- opened Paramount Market,
which has an agreement with the
F.W.I.U, The workers resisted the
attempts of the A. F. of l.. clique
to buldgeon them out of the Indus
trial Union.
Resorting to the police, the A. F.
OF l.. strong-arm officials, with Hell
Ter acting as their chief detective, ar
rested the most active workers of
the FW.I.U.
This is preparatory for decision
against the Food Workers Industrial
Union in the injunction taken by the
A. F. of Il. Local 1913 and which was
argued before Judge Black of the
Supreme Court in the Bronx.
The Food Workers Industrial
Union has called on its members to
strengthen the drive for organiza-
ton of shops, to hit back against
the gangsterism of the A. F. of L.
racketeer clique by intensified work
and organization of strikes to win
better conditions for the food work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
WORKER RESIGNS
FROM NAACP
Disgusted With It's
TraitOrOus Role


BROOKLYN. - Mrs. Julia A.
SwindeI, an active member and sup
porter Of the N A. A. c. P. has re-
signed from that organization on ac-
count of the betrayal by its leaders
of the Scottsboro boys. Mrs. Swim
dell has issued the following state
ment:
i have always been defending the
N A. A. C. P, but now 1 have found
out (since the case of the Scots
boro boys they are affiliated with
the crackers of the South, so I with
draw my affiliation with them, and
become and active and conscientious
member Of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights and of the Inter
national Labor Defense. The N. A.
A. c. P. has been exposed with the
help of Mrs. Wright mother of two
of the Scottsboro boys and william
Patterson at a meeting at DR.. Har-
tens church which helped me change
my views.
And so, now, I appeal TO the Ne
gro workers who have been miSlead
by the N. A. A. c. P into believing
that they can get justice by the Ala
bama Courts. to turn their support.
morally and financially, to those Or
CARNATIONS which are carrying on
the struggle. I appeal to the Negro
women especially to support the I. L..
D, and the i. s. NJ r. by participat-
ing in all Of their activities in de-
Tense of the 9 Negro boys"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
ENGLANDER BED
WORKERS STRIKE
Received Wage Cuts,
Strike Spreading

BROOKLYN. - When workers of
the Highlander Bed Spring Co. at
johnson and Stewart Avenue were
given a wage cut ranging from 5
per cent to Is per cent. Is workers
in the key department walked out
on strike. They were joined by 10
girls who got a 10 per cent cut.
On July with the help Of the
Metal Workers industrial League or
ganizers picket line was thrown
around the plant. This line was kept
up in fifteen minutes shifts After
the lunch hour at II o'clock, the
second, third and fourth floor came
out and joined the strike. The bos-
ses began to get panicky and asked
that the strikers get a committee
elected to which they could speak
in conference. A committee of four
was elected by the strikers. The de-
mands that they set before the bos-
ses were: the return of the wage cut,
no discrimination against any of the
strikers, and also, in order to make
sure that the bosses would not put
over any more crooked deals, the rec
ognition of the shop committee. The
bosses wanted to only take back half
the wage cut. The strikers voted I'M
animously against this.
On Monday, July s, the entire
three hundred workers in the shop
have promised to remain out and
Join the strike. AT present there are
one hundred to a hundred and ten
strikers out There will be big
picket line on Monday at 7 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
NAACP REFUSES
FLOOR TO MOTHER
SC0TTSBORO BOY

PITTSBURGH, July 5-Completely
exposing their hypocrisy in the
Scottsboro case and their traitorous
betrayal of the fight to free the nine
Negro boys, the N. A. A. C. P. lead
arS denied the floor at their con-
rention in this city to Mrs. jamie
Patterson. mother of 17-year old
haywood Patterson, one of the eighth
scottsboro boys railroaded to the
electric chair in mmderous frame
up by the boss courts of Alabama.
This is the second time that one
Of the mothers Of the ScottSboro
boys has been refused permission to
speak at meeting held by the Ma
5ional Association for the Advance
nent of Colored People. On Sunday,
June %, Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of
swo OF the boys. was denied the floor
at mass meeting held by the n. A.
A. C. P. at Salem Church, in Harlem,
New York
The request that Mrs. Patterson
be permitted to address the conven-
zion was made by Ben Caruthers,
local secretary Of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights. The
chairman in refusing permission to
Mrs, Patterson TO tell the facts of
the Scottsboro case offered the lame
excuse that the program had been
already arranged. The real reason
for the refusal was the knowledge on
the part Of the N. A. A. C. P. leaders
that Mrs. Patterson intended to eX-
, use their traitorous betrayal Of her
i)n and the other eight boys and to
3ncture the bubble of their pretense
that they are defending the boys.
The few workers present at the
N. A. A. C. P.s convention were in
dignant at this new evidence of the
complete lineup of these traitors
with the Southern boss lynchers who
are attempting to carry through the
legal massacre of the Scottsboro
children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
Bosses Fear Rank and File
Struggle in Fur Industry

NEW YO r K-FearfuI of the
growing militancy of the workers in
5he fur trade and the widespread
picketing that is taking place under
the leadership of the Industrial
Union, the fur bosses are calling a
meeting Thursday TO meet the stu
alton"
The Womens Wear Daily. report
ing that the bosses have called in
the police to combat the picketing Of
large numbers Of workers in the fur
market, says;
"A general membership meeting of
the Associated Fur Coat and Trim
ming Manufactures, Inc. ,the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
PROTEST MEET in
HARLEM THURS.

NEW YORK.-As part of the
nationwide protests on July 9
against the horrible frame-up and
planned legal lynching of the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys, the local
Scottsboro United Front Defense
Committee is holding a mass protest
meeting in this city on that eve
ming. The meeting will be held at
st. Luke's Hall, 125 w. 130th st.
A leaflet issued for the meeting
declares:
1.-THE lynch judge, Judge Hawkins
of the Scottsboro, Alabama, court,
has denied the boys a new trial.
Judge Hawkins is carrying out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06
What's On
atONDAY

Workers Exservicemen'S League y. =
VIII hold an open air meeting at
125th Street and 5th Avenue at s
D. m. All worker ex- servicemen are
urged to attend,
Get Your Tickets Vow
For the farewell Banquet and En-
tertainment rendered by the BronS-
VILE Workers Youth Center on Sat
urday, July II. at m. given in
honor Of a group of members leav-
ing for the Soviet Union, TO take
place at Neptune Hotel, 524 Neptune
Avenue, Coney Island. Tickets can
be gotten al 1o5 Thatford Avenue.
Tenants League
Open air meeting at Arlington and
Holland AYES, Bronx, at $50 p. M
New Headquarters
Of the Downtown Unemployed
Council now located at 1874 E. 18th
St The Council meets daily at 1870
pm.
Council 10 Bath Beach
Will have q lecture on Negro
Problems" with Otto Hall. at $50
pm. at As BAY 2Sth St, Brooklyn.
Downtown Unemployed Council
Open-air meets, 6 pm. to pm"
at Stanton and Ridge SITS. From S-11
. m, 9TH ST. and Ave. 3.
EEDNEsDAI
Miners Relief Affair
mass meeting will be held 4 the
Finnish Workers Club, IS w. l26th
st. at pm Motion picture. "Nolga
10 Gastonis," will be shown. Two
striking miners from the Pittsburgh
Mine area viii give vivid account
OF the condition or the workers
there Every worker should try to
come along and bring his shopmate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06


the orders of the bosses, who are de-
tern1ined TO railroad these boys to
the electric chair so as to strike
new terror into the masses Of the
Negro workers and poor farmers oty
this country. N
1.-THE N. A. A. c. P. leaders anos
all those who are opposing the cam
paign of the Scottsboro United Front
Committee to save these boys are
helping the bosses to legally murder
these nine boys who are entirely in
nocent.
These boys are innocent and they
shall not die!
THE organized strength Of the
whole working class can save them!'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-06

Read John Dos Passes on Scots
boro in the July Labor Defender.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
of several embassies in Washing

ton.
Two Tracks Open
For the lover of sports, Miami's
winter program is complete in
every detail. Che horses will run
at two tracks. GreyhoundS will
flash around the oval at three
courses. There will be golf tour
naments with internationally
known stars and an international
tennis tournament. The nineteenth
annual BiScayne Bay Regatta
will be run off in March. Several
fights Of major caliber are under
consideration.
The "bangtailS" will be seen as
usual at Hialeah Park, where the
Miami Jockey Club plans As
day meeting. This event will be
supplemented by another meeting
to be run at the Gables Racing
Associations Tropical Park plant
in Coral Gables. Permission to
operate the two tracks, together
with a third not yet constructed,
was granted at a special election
in October which approved pari-
mutuel system of wagering as pro-
vided in Florida's racing law
adopted by the State legislature
last summer.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
LUXURY. TRAINS
SET FOR TRIPS
,TOFLOR|DA
Fine Equipment on All Splendid
Specials From Washing
ton to Southland

Every year the Atlantic
Coast Line seems to bring the
Florida and other Southern
resorts nearer to Washington.
For example, on January 4 the
famous Florida Special will cele.
brate its forty-fifth birthday as
the first electric.lighted and yes,
tibuled all-Pullman train in the
world by returning to service as
the first and only train to make
Miami from Washington in "a
hours and so minutes, leaving
Washington 500 p. m, arriving
North Charleston 7:l0 a. M,
Palm Beach 7:29 p. m. and Mi
ami 9:10 p. m. the following day.
The Florida Special gives equip
ment and service de luxe to the
nth" degree.
Miamian's Trip
The Miamian will make its
first trip of the season December
Is, leaving Washington at $50
D. nj. and arriving ct Palm
Beach and Miami in ample time
for a surf bath before dinner the
following afternoon. The equip
ment is all.Pullman, observation,
club and dining-cars and sleeping
cars.
The Gulf Coast Limited will
also be inaugurated December 16
and will carry through sleeping
cars direct to st. Petersburg,
Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Sc
bring, DeLand, Orlando, Lake
land. Gainesville, Ocala, etc.
The Gulf Coast Limited reaches
West Coast Florida resorts in
midafternoon, in time for nine
holes or more Of golf before din
ner the next evening.
The equipment also includes a
library lounge and dining-cars.
A through coach will be carried
between Washington and st. Pc
terSburg. The Gulf Coast Linn
tied may be recommended to
travellers visiting Florida for the
first time as it's route south OF
Jacksonville is through a most
beautiful section Of the State.
and every Florida mile is by
daylight in both directions.
Everglades Restored
The Everglades will be restored
December 16. leaving Washington
at $50 a. m. and passing through
the historic sections of Virginia
and North Carolina before night.
1t carries dining-car. coaches and
sleeping-car for both coasts of
Florida. reaching destinations the
following afternoon.
The Palmetto Limited will be
extended south of Charleston and
will carry daily through sleeping
cars from Washington for Alt
gusta. Charleston. Savannah,
Thomasville and Brunswick, Ga.
(Sea Island Beach,. Dining-car
and coach service provided.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Hotels All Ready
At Miami Beach

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. =.
Anticipating the holiday festivi-
ties planned at Miami Beach and
the subsequent national sports
and social events scheduled. the
Roney Plaza Hotel on the ocean
front is one of the first of the
seasonal institutions to open.
Others. including the Miami Bit
more Country Club at Coral Ga
bles, will follow within the next
few weeks. Among the everts
scheduled for the Miami area are
a national golf tournament, the
regatta in Biscayne Bay and the
Sunshine Fashion Show in the
RoneY Plaza gardens.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Cuban Army Planes
Due at Miami Races

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. ).-Several
members of the Cuban army air
corps ale expected to fly to Miami
to participate in the fourth annual
All-American Air Races, January
Z, and g. r. v. Waters. president
of the Greater Miami Airport Asso-
ciation. announced on his return
here with Mayor r. B. Gautier,
after visit in Havana. About six
Cuban army planes are in the
squadron expected here for the
races. Mayor Gautier extended a
personal invitation tc Mayor Tirso
Mesa of Havana to % end the air
meet.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
NEW YORK TOURISTS

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Dec.
l0.-One-sixth of the tourists to
register annually here are 1rom
New York State.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
5000 Air Passengers
MOnthLu in Miami

MIAMI, Fla. Dec. AN aver
age of 1000 passengers monthly
passed through the Pan-American
Always terminal at Miami last
season. Arthur E. Curtiss. traffic
manager, announced. An addi-
tional 1000 passengers were cared
for at the Pan-American seaplane
base at Dinner Key each month.
Augmented service to Miami from
South and Central America. the
West Indies and the Bahama has
been announced for this season.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
$50 Military Planes
ErDected at Circus

MIAMI, Fla. Dec. More
military planes are expected to
attend the Fourth Annual Miami
All-American Air Meet, January
z, 8 and 9. than ever attended
any other air meet in the United
States. r. v. Waters, chairman of
the Greater Miami Airport Asso-
citation, said he expected approx
mately $50 Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps fliers to take part in
the meet. The Navy Department
will send the aircraft carrier
Langley and the aircraft tender
Wright with their full compile
ment of planes to Miami for the
races.