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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
LODGING HOUSES
SCAB AGENCIES
Worker Tells Story of
Discrimination

NEW YORK.-The strike breaking
role Of he City Lodging House was
brought to light yesterday when an
unemployed worker had his registra-
ton card withdrawn because he re-
fused to work on the pier where a
strike is now going on.
This worker, who refused to declare
his name for fear of further discrim-
inaion, related story which throws
some ligh on the activity of the City
Lodging House of East River Pier.
According to this story, which one
has no reason to doubt, a worker
who is homeless and in dire distress,
in order to ge some assistance by
the City Lodging House, must first
declare his name, his wife's name if
he has any, the name of his nearest
relatives, etc. In addition he must
state his religion and his legal" dom
icile. After he does all this, he re-
ceives a registration card if, upon
investigation, it is found out that the
applicant has no criminal record"
or that he has no militant past.
Once a worker succeeds in getting
a registration card, he is introduced
to a bed where he has the pleasure
of being kept constantly alert by an
army of bloodthirsty bedbugs working
under the speed-up system. Then he
receives some soup, or what is sup
posed to be soup.
LAS it appears to me and to many
others like me" the worker declared,
the Lodging House is merely a
screen which has the function of
hiding regular scab agency, AS a
matter of fact no one gets anything
in the Lodging House unless he is
willing to work here and there, on
the pier, for a non-union wage"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
ScGttsborO Protest
Meeting in Brooklyn
This Sunday Night

Negro and white workers Of Brook
Ign will hold a protest meeting
against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts
this Sunday evening, O'Clock at
1873 43 Street, Brooklyn. The meet
ing is arranged by the Boro Park
Ella May Branch Of the international
Labor Defense.
An interesting program has been
arranged. Cecil Hope, National Negro
director of the I. L. D. will speak on
the Scottsboro frame-up and the
world fight of the workers to save
the boys. A report on the visit of
the Eastern students delegation to
Kentucky will be given by two of the
student delegates. An added attrac-
ton will be the presentation OF
Langston Hughes play, "Scottsboro
Limited" A small admission of Is
cents is charged The receipts OF
the meeting will go to the Scottsboro
Defense Fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22

am confident that neither Governor
Rolph nor California have heard the
last of this"
Amos Pinchot, New York lawyer
and brother of Gov. Pinchot of Penn
sylvania whose troops have been used
against miners striking against star
walton, admitted that Mooney is the
victim of a wicked and cynical
frame-up," but attempted to cover
up he class content of the frame-up
He said:
"Rolph's decision against Mooney
is one of the most unjust and ground
less decisions in the political history
of a generation. The men who are
responsible for it know that Mooney
was innocent, as everybody else does.
1t was wicked and cynical frame-up
and still is"
Oswald Garrison Willard, editor of
the Nation, expressed alarm that this
naked exposure of class justice would
produce an atmosphere of revolu-
ton in America" He said;
ut seems to me that Gov Rolph's
decision is nothing less than mon
strous 1t has seemed for several
years that there could be no question
whatever of this mans innocence.
am very much afraid that the deci-
sion is marked by the same spirit that
sent two other innocent men to their
deaths-Sacco and anzetti. 1t will
take only few more cases like this
terrible miscarriage of justice, in my
opinion, to produce an atmosphere of
revolution in America. 1t cries out
to high heaven for redress. dis
graces every American"
Thus the great liberal editor of
the Nation attempts to cover up the
deliberate crime of the ruling class
by speaking of MONEYS frame-up
and railroading to prison and of
Rolph's decision as if it were an acct
dental miscarriage of justice, and
speaks of it as a disgrace to every
American in an effort to conceal the
criminal responsibility of the ruling
class for this crime against Tom
Mooney and the toiling masses of
America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
Hathaway To Speak
On "May Day" At
Next Sunday Forum

NEW YORK. - May Day, 1882"
will be the timely topic at the Work
ers Forum, this Sunday, April "a, at
8 pm. at IS E. 18th st, second floor.
The speaker will be c. Hathaway.
The historical background of May
Day, the collapse of the Second In
ternational and May Day, the devel-
opment of May Day after the war
and especially the tasks confronting
May Day at the present time, will be
discussed. Workers are urged to at
tend this important lecture and bring
their friends along.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
CALL WORKERS TO RISE TO NEW
STRUGGLES FOR MONEYS RELEASE

'All labor must rise to new
struggles for the release of Tom
Mooney, the Scottsboro boys and all
class war prisoners in militant, mass
reply to the murderous decision of
Governor James Rolph, Jr., of Cali
fornia, keeping the prison doors
closed on Mooney, sixteen years in
prison." declared j. Louis Engdahl,
General Secretary, International La
Dor Defense, that has waged a world
wide campaign for his release.
THE International Labor Defense
calls on ali workers to give its reply
to the whole boss class, for which the
infamous Rolph speaks, by swelling
to mighty proportions the Interna-
tional May Day demonstrations May
First. The Mooney issue stands out
clearer than ever today in all of it's
class implications. Rolphs decision
to continue the brutal prison torture
of Tom Mooney, until death, cannot
be separated from the judicial lynch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
BURO CHECKS FOR
RENT REFUSED
Bronx Workers To
Demand Cash Aid

The unemployed workers today are
faced with more starvation than
ever. On Monday, April 18th, an I'M
employed Irish worker by the name
of Lonergan, of $50 East 136th Street,
was evicted. The Lower Bronx I'm
employed Council held an open air
meeting and modified the workers
in the neighborhood, who went to
the Home Relief Bureau to have this
workers rent paid. They told the
Council to look for an apartment
where the landlord would take the
Home Relief check. Every landlord
in the neighborhood refused to accept
the check, therefore he woman was
forced to put her furniture in storage
and go to the Municipal Lodging
House.
The unemployed workers demand
that not only should the Home Relief
Bureau stay open, but the Home Re
lief Bureau give cash relief, and not
fake checks. On Tuesday, April 18th,
an open air meeting was held on
10th Street and st. AIMS Avenue.
Five hundred workers participated.
Police on horseback tried to break
up the meeting and arrest the speak
ers. All the workers followed the
police for about two blocks and the
police had to- let the speakers go.
The workers are mobilizing for the
City Hall demonstration on Thurs
day. Their spirit is militan. The
workers resisted the police.
Evictions are taking place daily.
There were five evictions in the vi
cinity of he Unemployed Council. No
landlord would accept the Home Re-
lief Bureaus check. The Lower
Bronx Unemployed Council is mobil-
izing all the families to go to the
demonstration at City Hall on Thurs
day, Hundreds of workers from the
park are going to the demonstration
under the banners and leadership Of
the Lower Bronx Unemployed Coun-
Gil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22

that there was "tOO much unem-
plOyment to strike"
At the same time Ryan is agreeing
to a 20 cent cut on the Morgan
docks in Baltimore, he pretends to
be leading a strike against a 10 cent
cut on the Morgan docks in New
York.
Meanwhile the organizers of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
under whose leadership the dockers
first came out on strike, are expos
ing the whole sellout scheme through
leaflets and orally on the docks and
are calling on the workers to mass
picket under rank and file leader
ship of dockers elected by the strik-
erS.
why don't Ryan send his gang
sters out to stop the scabs instead
of sending them against the men
from the Marine Workers Indus
trial UniOn?" declared one striking
Negro IOngshoreman while discuss
ing the problem of scabs.
All during the strike Ryan's thugs
exerted the utmost terror against
members Of the Marine Workers
Union, but have not raised a finger
against the scabs,
AT the last meeting called by Ryan
he set up a local for the purpose Of
extracting money from the lockers.
In the elections that followed, the
men overwhelmingly voted for two
rank and file longshoremen and
elected president and vice-president.
Ryan, however, denied the workers
the right to elect the secretary treas
urer. Hussy, one of Ryan's bench
men. was appointed by Ryan himself
for this job, which is the key position
in the union.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union issued a call this morning for
the masses of longshoremen to take
the situation in their own hands and
force mass picketing on the docks
over the heads of Ryan and his
gangsters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
". |. R. CHILDRENS
CENTER OPENED
30 Children Fed At
Opening

NEW YORK.-The opening of the
first Children's Center of the Work
ers International Relief at 450 West
53rd Street was marked with the
greatest enthusiasm. Eighty Negro
and white children of unemployed
workers were given their first ex-
perience in solidarity support when
they received milk and sandwiches
and obtained their first copy of
1.-THE Young Pioneer"
Speaking in the name of the
Unemployed Council Chairman Nc
Donald of the Block Committee of
53rd Street officially welcomed the
w. I. R. into the territory and called
upon all workers and their children
to carry on mass fight for unemploy-
ment and immediate relief.
Crowds Of workers clustered about
the door of the Center and many
edged their way into the packed
room. Vigorous mods of approval and
applause climaxed each point in the
class struggle program presented
by the speakers.
A meeting of the parents of the
children will be held Friday evening,
p. m. at 453 West 53rd Street to
establish new branch of the Work
ers International Relief to carry on
the work in the territory and to
mobilize the workers for a sharper
struggle for all demands of the I'M
employed.
The Workers International Relief
urges workers and their organiza-
tons to contribute food and funds to
the campaign against child misery so
that centers can be opened in every
neighborhood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
Marine Union Exposes liza
Sellout OfN.Y. Dock Strikers

NEW YORK. - Joseph P, Ryan,
president of the international Long
shoremen's Association, and a COM
pany of armed thugs, under the
leadership Of the well known under
world racketeer Frankie Madden, in
tensified the reign of terror on the
west side docks yesterday and were
successful in hating mass picketing
which the rank and file of lockers
have demanded since the beginning
of the dock strike which commenced
here last Friday.
While several ships of the four
lines effected were being loaded by
scabs, Ryan and his gang told the
lockers that the strike is in the
bag" and that mass picketing is IN
necessary. It should be clear to all
longshoremen that Ryan is not out
to fight the wage-cut, but is merely
on the docks to collect dues from
the strikers, and thus add to his
racket, and to sell the strike out,
DOckers Betrayed in Baltimore
The latest reports from Baltimore
show definitely that Ryan, still up
to his old tricks, is out to help the
shipowners slash the pay OF the
dockers.
On Tuesday, April 10, the long
shoremen on the Morgan Line
docks in Baltimore, which are or
ganized by the international Long
shOremen's Association, got cut
of 20 cents an hour in wages. The
lockers were ready to go out on
strike, but Ryan's henchmen Or
dered them back to work, stating
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
Worker jailed For
Protesting Before
Home Relief Bureau

NEW YORK. - Jacob Rosen, 23-
years old worker, was sentenced to
serve Is days in the workhouse for
his part in the demonstration held
last Friday in front of the Home Re
lief Bureau in Public School 70, SO
First Street.
Three other workers were found
guilty with Rosen but received su5-
pended sentence. All four were held
in jail for five days without bail be-
fore their case came to Court.
In sentencing Rosen, Magistrate
William C. Dodge of the Essex
Market Court said: IF W chad a
law like they have in Delaware,
where a prisoner can be sentenced to
the whipping post, I would sentence
you to receive 100 lashes."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22

NEW YORK.-Ten years of strug-
gle against war, hunger and terror
will be celebrated tonight at the
Tenth Anniversary of the Young
Communist League at Central Opera
House. A program has been arranged
for the evening to dramatic the de-
velopment Of the fighting vanguard
Of the young workers since 1921.
The Young Communist League de-
veloped directly in the struggles
against the misleaders Of the Social
list Party, who betrayed the American
workers into war. The Young Com
munist League was Immediately COM
posed of those young workers who
were ready for the revolutionary way
out of the bosses war, and for sup
port Of the Bolshevik Revolution. In
the ten years of its existence it has
led many bitter struggles of the
working youth, educated leading
cadreS for the Communist Party; and
developed tn ebeginnings of mass Or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
What's On .
FRIDAY

FRIDAY
English Branch SIS, 1. W. o. will have
a discussion at 140 Neptune Avenue.
Brighton Beach, at $50 p. m. Subject
''The War Danger"
Oakley Johnson will lecture on PRO
letarisn Literature VS.. Bourgeois Lltera-
ture at the fremont Workers Club, 2o75
Clinton Avenue Bronx, at p m,
The MapIeton workers Club will have a
lecture at 672O goth Avenue, Brooklyn at
$50 p. m: Subject; THE Situation in the
Far East"
An important meeting of the Tom
Mooney Branch, I. L. D. will be held at
dlS East 18th street, at p. m.
A rehearsal of the wIR English chorus
will be held at 7.45 at 16 West 2lst Street
A very important meeting Of the Drug
store workers Of the Medical Workers In
austrisl League will be held at ls West 2lst
street, at p. m.
comrsde Taiini will lecture on Proletarian
Literature at 1857 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, at $50 p. m.
Comrade A. T. Cutler will sneak on
PLANNED Economy in the Soviet Union
st Paradise Manor, II West Mount Eden
Avenue, Bronx, at $50 p. m. under the
auspices OF the West Bronx Branch Of the
FsU.
Comrade s. Sklaroff will speak on "War
Preparations and the Soviet Union" at
1878 4Srd Street, Brooklyn, at 8 D. m.
under the auspices of the Boro Park
Workers Club and South Brooklyn Branch
Of the FSU.
A mass anti-war mobilization meeting
will be held at Ambassador Hall. l72nd
Street and Claremont Parkway Bronx, at
.. m, under the auspices Of the FsU and
the John Reed Club.
A fraction meeting Of the food clerks sec
tiou Of the Food Workers Industrial Union
VIII be held at D. m. in Room 202
Workers Center, IS East 18th Street.
The Friends OF the Soviet Union, Newark
Branch will hold its first poem meeting
and lecture az the Newark Labor Lyceum
sos S. 14th Street, at $50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
SCANDAL FOR SALE" AT THE
HIPPODROME

Nina Olivette young star of the
musical comedy stage heads the Hip
podrome stage program beginning
Saturday with Annnei, Judy and
zeke and three Georgia crackers.
Other stage acts include: King
Brothrs and Culley Harry Foster
WEIGH, Wally Jackson and Edgar
Garner, assisted by Edith O'Hallissey,
Col Fred Lindsay and Jungeland a
fantasy of African pastimes.
Scandal for Sale" the screen
adoption of Emile Grauvreaus novel
Hot News" featuring Charles Bick-
ford, Rose Hobart and Pat O'Brien is
the film feature. AS an added feature,
the Hippodrome will show Zane
Grey in South Sea Adventures"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
To All TUUC Unions
Mass and Fraternal
Organizations, Clubs

Within a week final instructions
viii be issued for the May Day
Demonstration. However, Organi-
cations participating in the May
Day demonstration must at once
get in touch with the May Day
United Front Committee. We can
only have an effective demOnstra-
ton and march if all material now
available at the United Front May
Day headquarters is distributed.
This should be taken very serious
ly. Trade unions and mass organ
izations are all issuing their own
leaflets, which is very important.
The United Front May Day Com
mittee, however, has buttons,
stickers, posters and leaflets, which
must be distributed and sold.
We urgently call upon the Or
CARNATIONS to send up their COM
mittee and get the material herein
mentioned for distribution. At the
same ime, the organizations will
receive instructions from the head
quarters of the United Front May
Day Committee, 5 East 18th Street.
as to the time of march. and
where the organizations are to
assemble. Organizations mus get
in touch with us about the bands
of music. We must determine how
many bands we are have, how
much the organizations can con-
tribute, and how many Organiza-
tions are willing to have bands for
themselves.
UNITED FRONT
MAY DAY COMMITTEE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
Dresser DenOunces Infamous
ROlph Decision on Mooney

NEW YORK. - Theodore Dresser,
outstanding American novelist, last
night denounced the infamous deci-
sion of Gov. James Rolph, Jr., of
California, denying a pardon to inno-
cent Tom Mooney. Dresser stated:
SLOWLY but surely this will drive
into the consciousness of multitudes
in America that law and justice are
corporation controlled and directed
and that nothing less than ma
tional change viii bring equity for
anyone"
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, the
great liberal" president of Columbia
University, refused to comment on
the brutal decision. He said, Il do
not choose to make any statement"
Bruce Bliven, editor of the New
Republic, professed himself as amazed
at the decision and admitted that
California justice stands disgraced
before the eyes of the whole world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
ANNIVERSARY
us. Officers Given
Reprimand; Failed
Mobilization Can

CLEVELAND, OhiO.-The recent
mobilization call from Columbus,
Ohio, did not go over so well, ac-
cOrding to some of the Reserve
officers. Seven thousand Reserve
officers were instructed to hold
themselves ready and TO report by
wire twice weekly at the govern
ment's expense, This was during
the tense moments of the battle
at Shanghai. Discussion among
the officers has brought out the
fact that as many as 5000 were
reprimanded for failure to report,
since they did not care to leave
this country for any war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
Bazaar For vida
Obrera" Saturday

NEW YORK, N, Y.--Comrades and
workers who like real entertainment
are urged to come to the Vida
Obera" Bazaar next Saturday and
Sunday at 1888 Madison Avenue
CUkrainian HalD.
Tango, Runba Apache Dance ETC.,
will be some Of the features of the
Bazaar. Do not fail to see and hear
The Peanut Vender" and Mama
Inez." Help to build the Spanish
organ of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
NEEDLE WORKERS PREPARE FOR
MAY DAY

NEW YORK. All active needle
trades workers are urged to report at
the Office of the union, 1871 West 18th
Street, Saturday, at pm, to make
arrangements for the needle trades
section OF the May Day Parade and
Demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
Czech Miners Call
Off Strike Winning
Release of Arrested
Gable BY InprecorrN

PRAGUE, April 20. 49, Yesterdays
conference of the striking miners of
Northern Bohemia decided that the
miners should return to work today
having received a promise that the
arrested strikers would be released
speedily and that there would be
no victimization in the pits. The
strike was under revolutionary lead
ership all the time. Certain gains
were won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22

ing prepared for the Scottsboro boys,
the savage war against the Kentucky
coal miners, the lynching of Negroes,
the deportation of foregin- born, the
feverish war preparations of the
Hoover-Hunger government. The
growing solidarity of the working
class, however, will grow in strength.
Labor will strike back 1t will fight
more militantly than ever for the
release of Mooney and all working
class fighters who languish in
prison."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
PROF. JOHNSON TO SPEAK ON
PERSECUTION OF FOREIGNERS

NEW YORK. 49, Professor Oakley
johnson will speak at the headquar-
tiers of the Yugoslav Club, 131 West
2lst Street, on Sunday, April Oath,
pm.
johnson will report on the protec-
ton of foreign-born delegation which
testified before the immigration COM
mittee of Congress.
All workers are called to attend
this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
DRESSNIAKER SHOP DELEGATES
MEET MONDAY

NEW YORK.-The first meeting of
the dressmakers' Shop Delegate Coun-
Gil will be held in the Office of the
Industrial Union, 1871 West 28th
Street, Monday, at pm. Shop dele
gates and chairmen should not fail
to attend this important meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
PAINTERS APPRECIATE DAILY
WORKER

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The workers
Of the Hunts Point Painting and
Decorating Co. addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Daily" EN-
closed find So as a donation for the
help "The Daily Worker" gave the
Hunts Point shop workers in their
strike"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
BR0DSKY TO SPEAK ON WAR
OR PEACE"

NEW YORK. - Carl Brodsky will
speak i'll Boro Park Workers Club at
1873 43rd Street, Brooklyn, this COM
ing Friday, at pm.
He will speak on "War or Peace"
and all workers are urged to be there
in order not to lose the opportunity
OF being elucidated on this import
ant subject
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22

The Friends of the Soviet Union is
cooperating in the first of series
of large Anti-War Meetings which
will be held at the Ambassador Hall
Claremont Parkway, and 172nd ST.,
Friday, April %. Liston Oak, man
aging editor of Soviet Russia Today"
Oakley johnson. of City College.
Joseph COLON, writer, as well as
John Reed Club cartoonists, will add
dress the meeting. Secretaries of
Bronx organizations are being asked
TO send delegates to sit on the plat
form on Friday and thus manifest
the real spirit of the United Front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
OUT OF WORK. KILLS SELF

CLEVELAND, Ohio Frank Weav-
er, As, a roomer at 3O43 Cedar Avenue
room, shot and killed with .38 cal
iber revolver, according to police
Dependency over unemployment
was blamed. Plain Dealer.