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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
CARNIVAL BOAT" AT HIPPO
DROME.

Beginning Saturday the Hippo
drome will offer the first New York
presentation of Carnival Boat, a
new RKO-Radio picture, featuring
Bill Boyd, Ginger Rogers and Ho-
bart BosWorth. Carnival Boat, is
from an original story by Marion
jackson and Don Ryan. The screen
play was written by James Seymour
and directed by Albert Rogell. Dave
Apollon, and his new revue, will be
the stage feature at the Hippodrome.
Other stage acts are Danzi Goodell,
Nora williams and his Mexican Sc
renaders; Wilson brothers; Webb and
Lane, with vi Maye; Gerald Grit
fin: Wan Wan San troup, and Little
PipifaX.
Ben Lyon, screen actor, will make
his first New York stage appearance
at the RKO Seth st. Theatre, this
Saturday to Tuesday, and at Keith's
Flushing, Wednesday to Friday. Lyon
appeared recently in Lady With a
Past"
Other RKO vaudeville theatres will
present the following headline acts:
Texas Guinan and Her Gang of 80
at the Coliseum, this Saturday; the
New York University Glee Club OF
80 trained voices, and Georges Car
pentier, will headline the bill at the
Fordham, Saturday to Tuesdya; and
Leon Janney will make his first
Bronx appearance at the Fordham
next Wednesday to Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Commune Meets
To Spur Fight for
ScOttSbOro Boys

NEW YORK, N. Y, March IT,
March Is is the anniversary of the
arrest Of the nine Scottsboro boys!
The working class of the world,
which has already roared its protest
of this outrage committed against
young Negro workers, will remember
them in thousands Of demonstrations
on March 10, anniversary Of the Paris
Commune.
On march Is, 1881, nine young Ne
groes were taken from freight train
at Paint Rock, Ala, and framed with
a rape charge on two girls riding a
box car in overalls. The girls were
themselves victims of capitalist ex-
ploitation: mill workers who could not
live on the starvation wages Of the
bosses and had taken to prostitution
to survive.
Yet the capitalist courts took these
two girls, whom they were willing to
starve and ruin, and used them to
stir up race prejudice against the en-
tire Negro race. In this way, by split
ting the ranks of Negro and white
workers, the owners of Southern in
dustry seek to keep the Negro-and
his white fellow worker too-in per-
petual peonage.
That white workers as we'll as Ne
groes are victims OF boss frame-ups is
shown in the fate of Tom Mooney,
now spending his sixteenth year be-
hind the thick walls of San Quentin.
Though the whole world knows Of MS
innocence, Governor Rolph refuses to
release him. He is now counting on
the militant workers to free him.
The International Labor Defense
asks that workers write to the Scots
boro prisoners on March 10 to show
their working-clas solidarity. The
boys want to hear from workers,
whose power and loyalty they have
already felt. Letters should be adj
dressed to Ozie Powell, Eugene Will
liams, Andy Wright, Willie Robert
son, DIN Montgomery Charlie
Weems, Haywood Patterson, Clarence
Norris, all at Kilby Prison, Montgom-
cry, Ala, and to Roy Wright. at the
Birmingham County Jail, Birming
ham, Ala.
Letters entering the dean house
at Kilby are rigidly censored and
must be written with this in mind,
the LID. states, or they will never
reach the boys. Also, the LID. urges
that stamps and stationery be sent
the boys so that they can correspond
with workers, as they are eager to do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
RENT STRIKERS
PICKET TODAY
Call on Neighbors to
Join the Lines

NEW YORK.-The tenants of the
Longfellow Ave. rent strike, scene OF
mass evictions and police martial
law, are calling on the neighbors to
join the picket line tomorrow and
show the landlord that working class
solidarity is stronger than the land
lords terror.
The picket line will start tomorrow
morning on Longfellow Ave. between
174th and 175th SITS. At IL noon and
at 6 pm. there will be big open air
meetings held at the corner Of 174th
st. and Longfellow Ave.
Spread the rent strike for lower
rents into every workers housed De-
mand free rent for all unemployed;
free gas and electricity for the I'M
employed; carry the fight further for
Unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
WORKERS RALLY
AGAINST BLOCK
AID SCHEME
Prepare to Fight for
Real Relief; Call
Meet Tonight

NEW YORK.-The Unemployed
Council of Greater New York is mob
ilizing all workers organizations for
an intensive whirlwind campaign OF
organization to combat the vicious
schemes of the fake relief agencies
known as the "Block-Aid System"
The bosses agencies are preparing
for the closing down Of even the
present misery relief by the end Of
March. More than half of the work
ers on relief payrollS of the Emer-
gency Work Bureau will be fired by
April. Already the Home Relief Bu-
reau has cut down its relief checks
to a maximum OF IS and is issuing
the monty once in two or three weeks.
To create false hopes among the
workers and prevent mass resentment
taking organized form, the "Block-
Aid plan was started. This plan
calls for the organization of Block
Committees, under the strict con-
troll Of Tammany politicians and big
businessmen. They are stealing the
fighting form Of organization of the
Unemployed Councils to have firm
grip on the masses, to save the bosses
the cost of unemployment relief.
AN EMERGENCY ORGANIzA-
TION MEETING of all workers or
CARNATIONS and INDIVIDUAL VOL
UNTEERS to arouse the workers to
the menace of the "Block-Aiders"
and to form real workers Block Com
mitteeS to fight for relief at the
bosses expense, is called for tonight
Thursday by the Unemployed
Council of Greater New York. 1t
will take place at AIS w. 53rd st, at
8 pm. FmctionarieS of all workers
organizations and responsible mem
bers are urged to attend or send rep
resentatives.
An intensive whirlwind drive in a
selected concentration area will be
mapped out. The plan for the next
ten days includes the distribution OF
one quarter of a million leaflets, the
visiting of workers homes by 1000
volunteers, and the staging of a
torchlight parade on Friday, March
25. Every union, club and council
will be assigned its task in the cam
paign to counterfeit the Blockade
ers" plan of spying, suppression, hum
ger and war preparations by inten-
sive building of fighting workers
Block Committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
REFUSED AID BY
RELIEF BUREAU
Those Who Come Alone
Turned Down

NEW YORK, N. 1.-TWO single
workers, Alex Chernetsky and Max
Scutsky won relief today from the
Home Relief Bureau at Houston and
Essex Sts., when they went with a
committee Of the Downtown Unem-
ployed Council and raised hell as
the worker said. This victory is sig
nificant because the Home Relief
Bureau in the past has been refusing
any relief whatsoever to single work
ers.
The two workers we're given food
cars for a week and had their room
rent paid for one month. Single work
ers are usually told to sleep in the
Municipal flop house.
At the same time the case of Mrs.
Rach, pregnant woman with three
children, one still in the cradle, again
exposes that the Home Relief Bu-
reau is condemning workers to starry
alton and death, when they appeal
individually.
This workers wife and her chill
dren, registered at the bureau for
some time, we're thrown into the
street yesterday in the bitter cold,
waiting for the bureau to take care
of them. At pm. last night she and
her children we're still in the street
wondering where they could spend
the night. The Unemployed Council
is taking up her case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
WORKERS BALK
AT NEW ILGWU
SELLOUT SCHEME
Shout Disapproval AS
Officials Agree on
Pay-Cut

The McGreedy, Dubinsky, Green
burg clique in continuing their policy
of betraying the workers, have just
concluded wage~cut agreement for
the workers in locals 66 and Al OF
the ILG.UW.U.
Both of these locals which were
in a critical condition, local Al hav-
ing collapsed entirely because the
workers refused to pay dues, we're
merged by ten union officials and
were called out on a fake strike on
March z. None OF the workers, how
ever, answered the call. Thereupon
the bosses gave the workers checks
to pay their unino dues and drove
them out of the shops.
These workers we're herded into the
Webster Hall by the company union
officials. At this meeting the senti-
ment Of the dressmakers was one of
anger and protest against the sell
out. Many of the workers got up and
walked out; others shouted their dis
approval of the agreement.
The agreement, upon which no vote
was taken, reduced the wages of the
dressmakers all along the line. Tuck
ers who previously received s55 must
now according to the agreement work
for $40. The pleaters were cut from
s35 to $22. Stitchers who got $50
will receive under the agreement $18
to sos. There wasl no change Of
hours, the officials promising shorter
hours in 1888 providing 80 per cent
of the trade is organized in the COM
pany union.
All workers who demanded the
floor during the meeting in Webster
Hall we're called out of order. Strong
arm men were stationed throughout
the hall. Only through the use OF
strong arm tactics was it possible for
the international officials to disband
the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
JAIL Il IN CUBA:
NJ We TO SMASH
TOBACCO STRIKE
Newsboys Riot at Rise
In Prices

NEW YoRK.-Attempts to smash
a strike Of $4,000 cigarette workers
were made Tuesday when the
Bloody Machado government of
Cuba agent Of the National City
Bank of New York, arrested eleven
strike leaders and prepared to
frame them up on a charge of
trying to set fire to the AugiIitas
Cigarette Factory"
The workers had been distribut-
ing thousands of leaflets calling
for boycott of the cigarettes from
scab plants, The strike had been
on for over two months, with the
workers fighting a lockout Of the
bosses, the object Of the lockout
being an attempt 10 force a wage
cut.
All arrested strikers are being
turned over to the military author
tiles, which In Cuba means their
lives are In great danger.
On the same day that the arrest
Of the eleven cigarette strike lead
ers took place, riots occurred in
front Of the newspaper Offices in
Havana when the capitalist news
papers raised their price to the
newsbOyS. The newsboys roamed
the streets destroying all copies of
Ell Pals and Information, boss
newspapers. Police dubbed the
rioting newsboys but were unable
to smash the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Czech Communists
Make Great Gains
In Local Elections
(Inprecorr Press SerYicel

PRAGUE,-On Sunday, elections
took place in a number of munich
palities in Czechoslovakia. Every
where the Communist Party had fine
successes to book. In Parkan, where
worker was shot dead by the police
while FASTING up Communist election
posters, the Communist candidates
practically swept the board. The
Communist poll was practically dou-
Bile the poll at the previous election
in 1927. In Pardubitz the Commun-
ist poll increased by so per cent. In
zamberk the Communist gains to-
tailed go per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Czech Communist
Deprived of Seat

PRAGUE.-The election commit
tee of the Czechoslovakian parlia-
ment has declared the seat of the
Communist deputy Major to be va
cant, Comrade Major was sentenced
to 16 months hard labor and to the
loss of all civil rights in connection
with the massacre in Kossuth. The
election committee based its decision
on the court verdict and offered no
reasons of its own. There is no pos
Sibility Of appeal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
To Discuss War On
China In Harlem
Meeting Thursday

The robber war of Japanese i'm
perialism against China viii be dis
cussed at meeting Thursday even
ing, March II, at the Lafayette Hall,
l65 West l31 Street, at o'clock.
The meeting is arranged by the
Harlem group of the League of Strug
gle for Negro Rights. 1t will be adj
dressed by Chinese speare, H, S.
Chan. All Harlem workers are urged
to attend this meeting and learn the
true role of Japanese imperialism as
the spearhead of world imperialism
in the armed intervention against the
Chinese Revolution and the war
moves against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Attempt to Stop
Youngstown Anti
War Conference

A resolution was submitted to the
Youngstown City Council at it's meet
ing on March 7, to prevent the Com
munists from meeting on school
property March II for a conference
against war" The City Council how
ever, did not act on the protest but
referred 1t to the superintendent Of
schools. The Communist Party has
rented the school auditorium for its
united front conference against war
and the above to muzzle the working
class protest against war.
The Communist Party calls upon
all working-class organizations TO
take note Of the above actions to stop
the campaign against war and send
delegates TO the conference which
will take place on March II, 8 p. m
at the Central High School Audi
forum, Wood and Wick st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Lower Bronx Council
Lead Struggle from
New Headquarters


The Lower Bronx Unemployed
Council has moved into new head
quarters at 621 East 136th st. 1t has
already won victory at COL lax Ter
race where the landlord was forced
to recognize the concession he pro-
missed and also other demands Of the
tenants
The council has modified all the
house and block committees for a
mass demonstration in front Of Public
School 9, the Home Relief Bureau, on
Thurs, March 81, at 2 p. m. to de-
mand immediate and adequate re-
lief from the Home Relief Bureau for
the needy families.
The council is also calling an open
air hearing on Saturday, April 2, in
front of the Borough Hall to demand
immediate relief and against police
brutality and terror.
The landlords in this vicinity are
using all methods to stop the work
trs to organize to stop evictions and
demand immediate relief and other
demands. One landlady on 135th
ST. evicted a worker and his family
on Friday night at 8 p. m. so that
the workers could not mobilize
against the eviction. The tenants
took this family with baby ten
months of age and another one Of 3
into their apartments. They also
took this workers furniture in for the
night. The Unemployed Council is
organizing the workers to refuse to
pay rent for such outrageous action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
BLOCK COMMITTEE.
FORCES RELIEF.
Beck st. Group Gets
Aid for Sick Man

The Beck st. Block Committee
learned of a starving family on Ave.
st. John. They investigated this
case and found that the man was
sick and had small children. They
Immediately called up the Board Of
Health and reported this case in the
name Of the Beck st. Block Com
mittee. A doctor came down inme-
diately, examined the worker and
said that he must be sent TO the
hospital Immediately, and, when he
asked this workers wife if she had
money for an ambulance, she nodded
her head, because she did not I'M
cerstand English. When an ambu-
lance from the Lebanon Hospital
came they refused to take this worker
TO the hospital without a fee Of SIS.
The Beck st. Block Committee i'm
mediately modified the neighborhood
and sent a committee to the Jewish
Social Service and forced them to
pay for the ambulance. They also
took the family to the Home Relief
Bureau, where immediate relief was
demanded for this family.
The Beck st. Block Committee i'm
mcdiately modified the neighbor-
hood and sent a committee to the
Jewish Social Service and forced
them to pay for The ambulance. They
also took the family to the Home
Relief Bureau, where immediate re-
lief was demanded for this family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
WIN RENT STRIKE
ON BARTLETT ST..
WILLIAMSBURG


The tenants of SO Bartlett ST.
forced the landlord to settle the rent
strike which was going on for two
weeks. They won 50 reduction in
rent for all tenants and all other de-
mands. One Of the tenants last
month asked the landlord for a 81
reduction. The landlo I'd took the
rent from him, but instead of giving
this tenant a reduction he was given
an eviction notice, was called to
court and the judge gave him five
days to pay or to be thrown out.
But during these five days this
worker notified the Williamsburgh
Unemployed Council at 81 Graham
st. of his eviction.
The strike which was settled at "a
Bartlett st. last week was not sat
isfactory, because the House Com
mittee settled with the landlord with
out consulting the tenants of the
house; settled TO IA 80 reduction for
four rooms, 81 for three rooms; two
tenants did not get any reduction.
The landlord said these two tenants
paid the cheapest rent.
This shows that the House Com
mittee took the landlords demands
instead of the tenants demands!
The tenants demands, through
their House Committee. we're a 81
reduction for all tenants in the house
and for which they were all striking
under the leadership of the Unem-
ployed Council. Therefore, the House
Committee should have brought back
the report of the landlord to the
tenants OF the house, and this should
have been endorsed by all the ten
ants of the house.
The House Committees and ten
ants should avoid these mistakes In
the future, so they can bring a VIC
tory to all the striking tenants in all
houses and blocks.
The Unemployed Council of Will
liamsburg will hold tonight its regu-
lar meeting at 81 Graham Ave. All
representatives of House and Block
Committees and organizations are
to attend this meeting.
J. Lapitos, Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Writ Is Denied
Laundry Workers
Union Wins In Rogers
Shirt Laundry

Last week the bosses Of the lau1-
dry association launched vicions
attack against the strikers of the new
Style Laundry and the leaders Of the
Lasndry Workers Union Seeing that
they were Unable to terrorize the work
ers of the striking laundry by use OF
gangsters and by police brutality,
they decided upon a wholesale frame
up. Five strikers and three union
officials we're arrested on a trumped
up charge of stabbing scab, of whose
association with gangsters and under
world characters in general there is
no doubt.
The court set bail of $4,000 for six
workers and held the other 2 with
out bail A writ of habeas corpus
was applied for in order to have the
bail reduced and that bail may be
set on the 2 held without bail. The
supreme court of Brooklyn refused to
grant the writ.
II the bosses think that by these
methods they will break the back
bone of the strikers or the union, they
are greatly mistaken. The strikers
who are still free are carrying on the
picketing more militantly and more
determined to win, than ever before.
and the union has already scored an
other victory in the Rogers Shirt
Laundry, Flushing, L. l.. where after
less than week of striking the boss
had to give in to all of the demands:
return of a wage cut and reinstate-
ment of fired workers.
We are greatly in need OF forces
and will very much appreciate help.
Strike headquarters is at East 10th
st. Come up and give us hand on
the picket line.
A union membership meeting will
be held Thursday, March II, p. m.
at Ambassador Hall, Claremont Park
way and 3rd Ave. A report on the
situation of the strike will be given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17

Maloney, who is ostensibly heading
the strike, has already sold out two
strikes in the last two years and is
well on the way to another sell-out.
The defeat Of this strike by Maloney
viii open the way to mass wage
cut in this anthracite district.
The Rank and File Committee, on
the invitation Of the Rank and File
delegates on the grievance bodies,
worked out a program to present to
the striking miners. Maloney and
his henchmen, Shuster refused to
listen to them, and refused to give
the Rank and File spokesman, Joe
Dughar, the floor.
The program of struggle of the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17

has started Off mihtantly not all OF
the miners have come out.
The main reason for the failure
of the strike thus far Is the suspi-
cion Of the miners who realize that
Maloney has no program and is
working to betray the strike at the
first opportunity.
The demand put forward by Ma
Ioney and his henchmen on the
grievance committee is equalization
Of work" which is in reality the Hoo
yer stagger system. This demand
does not mean more work for the
miners, but dividing up the meagre
work-time. In fact, Maloney's aim
is to set the unemployed against the
employed and in this way divide the
miners instead of uniting them for
struggle against hunger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Y. G. L. MEMBERS,
ATTENTION!

Thursday and Friday, March II
and IS, have been set aside for
trade meetings, ALL comrades
working in the metal trades will
meet on Thursday. Comrades
working in the shoe and needle
trades will meet on Friday.
These meetings will take place
at the Workers Center.
No other work is to be under
taken by these comrades ON those
evenings.
District Secretariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
What's On


THURSDAY
war q the Far East" will be the sub
SnsA OF she meeting arranged by the League
Of Struggle for Negro Rights of Harlem,
9 pm.
FRIDAY
The Food WORKERS Industrial Union calls
upon all sympathetic organizations not to
arrange any affairs for Friday evening,
Nay 10. 1882. On this date the union is
arranging a second anniversary celebra-
ton at the Palm Garden, 306 W. Sind st.
The RED Sparks Athletic Club will have
q special meeting at $50 Grand St. at Bpm.
The Rasefsky Branch of the LID. will
celebrate the s1st anniversary Of the Paris
Commune at the Monroe Court Community
Room, 47th st. and Foster Ave, Long
Island City, at $50 pm. Harry Cannes
will speak. Listen Oaks and Jesse Wake
field will speak on the terror in the Ken
lucky coal strike.
There viii lbe lecture at the Italian
WORKERS Center IS e. Third St, at pm,
under the auspices OF the Downtown
Branch of the F.s.U., Italian Section. All
italian workers are invited. Admission is
free.
mass meeting Of painters will be held
at sol w. l63rd St, Bronx, at pm. AL
painters are urged to attend this I'M
portant meeting.
Oakley Johnson, member Of the delega-
ton protesting the deportation bills, and
Max Levin, OF the Council for the Protec-
ton OF Foreign Born, will speak at the
anti-immlgration, anti-forelgn born bills
nov before congress, at the Prospect Work
ers' Club, 1857 Southern Blvd, Bronx, at
8;3o pm.
Comrade A. Markoff will speak on the
sist anniversary OF the Paris Commune at
the fremont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton
Ave, Bronx, at pm. Everybody is vel
come.
The English Speaking Branch, No. 52l'
Of the I.w.o. win hold a debate at its
regular meeting at II w. Mount Eden Ave,
Bronx, at $3.50 pm.
cornrade Sam Don will speak on the
Parts Commune at the Harlem Progressive
Youth Club, 1892 Madison Ave, at 8 pm.
Dr.. ziotkin wDi speak at Youth Branch,
Ne. 4hs, Two. on youth and Health at
li5s 4ssh st.. Brooklyn. at PIN. Admis-
sion, as cents; youth, is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17

"The memory of the fighters Of
the Commune is not only honored by
the workers of France but by the pro-
letariat of the whole world, for the
Commune did not fight for any local
or narrow national aim, but for the
freedom of toiling humanity, of all
the downtrodden and oppressed"
Lenin, 1911. Fight to free Tom Moo
ney and the Negro victims of Scots
boro, March IS, LID. Paris Com
mune Anniversary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17
Call on Rank and File
Miners to Turn Anthracite
Strike Into Real Struggle
Rank and File Committee Warns Against
Maloney's Aim to Sell Out Strikers

WILKES BARRE, Pa, March 16.-Mass rank and file
pressure forced Maoney clique the United Mine Workers
in this anthracite district to call strike of the miners begin
ming last Monday There $4,000 miners in this district
call addressed and though the strike