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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
GREAT FILM,
DAYS THAT SHOOK THE
WORLD" AT ACME THEATRE

Ten Days That Shook the World"
mastery film of the birth of the
Soviet Republic, screened from John
Reeds thrilling book of the first days
of the Revolution" will be shown at
the Acme Theatre, 14th st. and
Union Square, on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, May %, "a and "a.
The picture wa sdirected by S. M
Eisenstein, the genius who produced
"Potennkin" Eisenstein employed
some 10000 actors and took two
years to make the film Here is
great historical pageant In short,
staccato scenes, in keeping with the
epic quality of the theme, are shown
the sweep of the historic incidents of
new epoch in nations history.
On the same program, the Acme is
presenting the latest W. I. r. News
reel, with scenes from the life of the
workers, in this city and elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Workers of
Commodore Landry
Go On Strike

NEW YORK. - A strike was de-
clared by the Laundry Workers In
dustrial Union in the Commodore
Laundry, 100 Seneca Avenue, Bronx,
3 years ago this laundry was af-
fected by similar strike led by the
American Federation of Labor 1t
was sold and the wages went down as
a result from S35 to 4 toSHRDLUNd
a result from $35-45 to SIS or 20 per
week.
OF the 20 drivers employed in this
laundry, II answered the call of the
Union which is getting ready to
spread the strike to all the depart
ments.
Members of all working class or
CARNATIONS are called upon to help
the union by refusing to patronize
their laundry and give laundry only
to men with cards of the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Land Without Unemployment Fine
Pictorial on Soviet Union Free
With Yearly Sub to Daily Worker

A fascinating book on the Soviet
Union, all in photographs, is now
being offered with a yearly subscrip
ton to the Daily Worker. The name
of this book is 1.-THE Land without
Unemployment" -the free land of the
First Workers and Peasants Govern
ment ever established.
This splendid pictorial refutes once
and for all the manufactured lies and
receptions practiced by capitalist
newspapers against the great achieve
ments of the workers of the Soviet
Union The radiantly happy express
sions on the faces of the toilers in
this book answers decisively all the
lies of forced labor, etc, thrown at
the Soviet Union by the capitalist
class, and reveals clearly with what
energy, eagerness and willingness the
masses are building their own world,
a world in which they and not the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Negro Misleaders PeddIe Sham
Struggle Phrases at NAACP
Convention in Washing ton
Workers Hold Counter-D Demonstration With
James w. Ford, Proposed Communist Candi-
date for Vice-President as Main Speaker

and water methods. He also outlined
a program for international co-opera-
ton with other Negro reformist
groups throughout the world.
The proposed turn" to the masses
includes the Capitalization of the or
ganization, limitation of the power of
its board of directors and a SEM
blance of more authority to the
branches.
An economic program presented by
Herbert j. Seligman of the NJ A. A.
G. P. top leadership, as a suggestion"
called for a redistribution of present
wealth by systematic taxation of large
incomes and the future conduct of
industry for public veal and not for
private profit" 1t spoke of "insur-
ance against sickness, oil dage ana
unemployment" for some distant flu
tre. 1t did not show how industry
was to be operated for "the public
veal and not for private profit
without a social revolution which
would smash the present control by
few of the mmeans of production
and release the giant factories and
mills for social production to meet
the needs of the masses. Even this
sham program was opposed by Harry
E. Davis, Negro Civil Service Com
missioner of Cleveland as too far
reaching" and antagonistic to the ex-
listing social order
DR.. Du Bots raised the sham slogan
with which the American Federation
of Labor bureaucrats attempt to cover
up their support Of the capitalist
parties, to wit, to reward friends and
punish enemies The speech of DR..
Du Bots as we'll as those of Abram
Harris, George Schuyler and Prof.
Dewey, also indicate a turn towarda
labor" party in the effort to divert
the masses from the necessary revo-
lutionary struggle led by the Com
munists against starvation, lynching,
national oppression of the Negro
masses and imperialist war.
A counter demonstration against
the NA.A.C.P. convention and its
sham proposals was announced for
Sunday evening at the Masonic
Temple, with James w. Ford, pro-
posed Communist candidate for vice
president of the United States, as
the principal speaker At this meet
ing the NA.A.C.P. program will be
exposed before the masses, and two
delegates elected for the Communist
Nominating Convention at Chicago
on May % and 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
by Telegraph to Daily Worker


WASHINGTON, May 22-Dr. Du
Bots made the key political speech
at the convention here of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
nent Of Colored People,
speaking on the subject What Is
Wrong With the N. A. A. C. P.?"
DR.. Du Bots advocated break with
the past tactics of the N. A. A. c. P.
Of organizing the cultured few and
called for a turn to the masses"
He outlined a typical employers
program, aimed at securing a greater
share for the wealthy in the robbery
Of the Negro masses. With sham
struggle phrases and other denagogy,
he attempted to conceal from the Ne
gro masses that this program has
nothing in common with the interests
Of the Negro toilers.
His program is definitely directed
towards keeping the Negro masses
under the influence of the white and
Negro reformists and toward deliver
ing Negroes into the enemy camp of
the capitalist parties, the republican,
socialist and democratic.
On the economic and political
fields, he proposed ito take more in
terest in the economic ills affecting
great masses of our people and to
consider a program that will bring
about their economic betterment."
This program, as he presented it,
does not include any fight against
starvation and for immediate unem-
ployment relief and social insurance,
sthe ned of which is even greater
among the unemployed tens Of thou
sands Of Negro workers and ruined
farmers than among the unemployed
white workers.
His program includes the setting
up of Consumers Co-operativeS and
Tenant Farmers and Share Choppers
Protective Associations. He spoke of
"a more determined struggle" against
Jim Crowism and discrimination on
all fields. This struggle" to be car
ried on, of course, by the usual milk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

nocent of the entire affair, was
changed to murder. At this point
we meet with glaring example Of
the devious methods used in engtr-
eering frame-ups against militant
workers. The case against the work.
ers was admittedly so weak that the
authorities kept continually postpon-
ing its prosecution, and after a years
delay, it was virtually dropped Tor
lack of any evidence whatsoever.
But suddenly. it seems, the prosee-
ution conceived a brilliant" idea.
Surely, an effective way to bolster q
weak murder frame-up against mill
liant workers is to precede it by an
other frame-up on lesser charge,
That this is just what is being
attempted. In addition to the MUIR
der charge which rangs over them,
the workers are charged with "aS-
Sault and battery with intent to kin"
Assault on whom? Not on Max Ur-
ban, but on his nephew, who previ-
ously did not figure in the case at
all. For this the workers are to be
tried Monday.
1t is necessary for the workers Of
America to be alert to the danger
which faces their Paterson, fellow
workers. We must not permit our
comrades to be swept under by the
boss wave of terror that is sweeping
the whole country. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense calls upon all
workers to rally behind the Pater-
son prisoners! Mass protest meetings
must be held. Mass pressure must
force their release. Smash this
frame-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
PLAN YOUTH DAY
DEMONSTRATION
IN HARLEM, N. Y.
To Fight Imperialist
War and for Negro
Rights

The National Youth Day demon
stration will be held this year in New
York district in Harlem. This SOC
ond observance of National Youth
Day as a day of struggle against i'm
perialist war and the oppression Of
the Negro people-for the freedom
of the nine Scottsboro boys, takes
on a special significance for the mas
ses of Negro workers in Harlem.
National Youth Day is a counter
demonstration against the bosses OBJ
servance of Decoration Day. Deco
ration Day is day of boss-war mob
ilization.
Decoration day was established
after the civil war-'the war to free
the black slaves of the South" This
boss-lie about emancipation is Bit
ter mockery to the Negro masses of
today. Not only the south we're lynch
ing, and brutal terror and segrega-
ton is the lot of the black people
but in the north as well the Negroes
are not free" today.
Their yoke of oppression is heavy
the masses in Harlem are segre-
gated-forced to live under unsani-
tary conditions, forced to pay high
rent-and unemployment is especial
ly rampant among the Negroes. Every
conceivable kind of persecution and
exploitation is forced up on the Ne
gro masses.
Under such circumstances the Ne
gro masses must see a new meaning
in the celebration of Decoration
Day. National Youth Day will show
the way out of oppression to the Ne
gro youth Of Harlem. Together with
the masses of white youth, the Ne
gro youth must rally to the strug-
gle which can Hberate the Negro
people-the struggle against the whole
capitalist system.
National Youth Day in Harlem will
be an answer to the determined eff
forts of the boSS-clasS of the South
and North as well to legally lynch
the Scottsboro boys
Forward to National Youth Day
Demonstration in Harlem
Down with bosses Decoration Day
and imperialist war
Free the framed-up Scottsboro
boys!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
MURDER
OF PERU WORKERS
Pass Resolution of
-u=---
Protest at Meets on
Waterfront

NEW YORK-At two meetings held
on the waterfront last Saturday
morning, May 81. under the joint
auspices of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union and the Anti-Imperial-
list League, resolutions were adopted
protesting against the execution Of
the eight Peruvian sailors and de-
handing the release of sailors and
hundreds of workers jailed by the
Sanchez Cerro government.
These meetings are part of the
campaign initiated by the Anti-Im-
perialist League for teh release of
these class-war prisoners. All or
carnations are urgently requested to
pass similar resolutions and send
them to the Peruvian Embassy in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
SHOE PICKETS
DEFEND SELVES
Strikers Mass in Court
Room; Picket Stores

| NEW YORK. - The trial of the
seven pickets who we're arrested for
"disorderly conduct" last Tuesday
around the I. Miller Shoe Factory
took place Thursday morning in Long
Island City. The first surprise to
the Judge was a packed court room
of l. Miller strikers.
I. Rosenberg. organizer of the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial IN
ion. was given three days sentence.
Sam ziebel, secretary of the Union,
Minnie Drosrin, Plecsn, Azarrow,
Gaffner and H. Einbinder were given
suspended sentences.
Boss Gives Cop Orders
One of the strikers stated that a
cop told him that he had orders
from Miller not to let them walk
around the fectory. The striker re-
marked that he was slave to the
boss inside the factory. but he would
not take any orders from him now
any more.
The workers in the court room
we're very much impressed by the
way the arrested strikers answered
questions and defended themselves
Because of this. the judge was forced
to admit that the strikers have a
right to mass picket
The Judge was also forced to
change the 3 days sentence for Ros-
enberg to a suspended sentence. This
was done after the lawyer. P. Tar
gum. pointed out that the court was
singing out the organizer of the I'm
ion for the severer punishment.
At IL noon the strikers carried
thru a picket demonstration right at
the very entrance of the I. Miller
factory
Picket Stores
| Picketing has begun at the /. Mil
Ter stores-at 34th Street and Broad
way in Manhattan, and on Fulton
Street in Brooklyn Members of the
Women's Councils picketed the stores
Thursday One of the pickets Mrs
Finkelstein of Council %, was ar
rested at the 8 tn Street store.
For Strike Relief
The Workers International Relief
in conjunction with the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union, is
running two affairs for the benefit
of the strikers. The first will be a
movie, the showing of the Road To
Life, famous Soviet talkie. as well as
several newsreels. This will be shown
at the 5th Ave. Theatre, 29th ST. on
Broadway, N.Y.C., on Saturday, May
%. There will be continuous show
ing from / pm. TO IL pm
The second affair will be con-
cert and dance on Sunday, May 90,
at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum,
Sacknan and Liberty AYES, from 6
pm. on. This affair promises to be
a very lively one with an interest
ing program. All workers are urged
to attend these two affairs and sup
port the strikes of the militant shoe
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
2 Paterson Workers on Trial
Today on Faxed Charges
Silk Barons to Have Them Convicted on Minor
Charges to Pave Way for Their Rail- ~.
reading to Electric Chair ID

PATERSON, N J. - Helen Ger
shonwitz and Benjamin Leib, two OF
the five Paterson textile workers
who are threatened with the electric
chair on trumped-up charge OF
murder, come up for trial here Mon
day. May %, on the separate charge
of assault and battery with intent to
kill
The frame-up of these workers is
part of the organized terrorism of
the textile mill bosses in their fran
tic efforts to crush the National Tex
tile Workers Union. of which the five
who face death are members.
The facts in this case reveal the
same cold FLOODED, murderous meth
DDS by which the bosses, acting
through their law-court puppets,
strike at workers organizations by
killing the militant elements, such as
Sacco- Vanzetti, or railroading them
to jail as with Mooney Billings, the
Imperial Valley workers, the Harlan
miners, and scores of other class war
prisoners.
On February 10, 1881, Max Urban,
textile mill boss and notorious boot
logger, who had been previously con-
victed for his liquor making activit-
les, was beaten up at his factory. He
had made many enemies among his
rival rum-runners, and there is little
doubt that the fight at the factory
was started by the bootlegger boss
rivals. who seized the opportunity
presented by the strike picketing as
an advantageous moment to attack
while diverting suspicion from them
selves.
Outside, Urban's mill was being
picketed by workers, belonging to the
NTWU. They were striking against
Speed-up, wage cuts, and abominable
working conditions. The picketing
workers know nothing whatever about
the attack on Urban; those who par
ticipated in it we're total strangers to
them. Nevertheless, the police per-
mitted the attackers to escape, and
then pounced upon the peaceful
picketers, clubbing them brutally
Benjamin Leib, one of the picketers,
was arrested and charged with as
sault. Later that day. Helen Ger
shonwitz, another striker, was arrest
ed for from the scene of the fight,
and on the same charge. The fol-
lowing day, three more workers, AL
bert Katzenbuch. Louis Harris, and
Louis Bart, we're likewise arrested.
The flimsy nature of the frame-up
is indicated by the fact that neither
Harris nor Bart we're on the picket
line on the day of the assault. Fur
thermore, Harris was not even work
ing at the Urban mill at the same
having been unemployed for more
than six months.
That the police knew they had
nothing on the imprisoned workers
is shown by the fact that they we're
first released on very low bail. A
month later. Urban died. 1t is ex-
tremely doubtful if Urban's death
resulted from the injuries. He had
been ailing from a chronic disease,
and was operated on for this disease
just before he died.
Be that as it may, the charge a.
gainst the five workers, who we're in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
AMTER EXPOSES
WV IN DEBATE
WITH FLETCHER
Workers Present Send
Delegates to City
Election Rally

NEW YORK. - The debate on the
question Resolved, that the plat
form of the Communist Party is all
sufficient for the emancipation of the
working class, held in the headquart-
ers Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, 40 Broad Street not only
served to show the unanimous ap-
prevail of the marine workers for
the program of the c. P. but was
also a means of exposing the counter
revolutionary role of the 1. w. W.
I. Anter spoke for the Communist
Party. Ben Fletcher for the /. w. w.
and r. B. Hudson, National Secre-
tary of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union was chairman. Over 400
attended the debate and many we're
turned away.
Fletcher attacked the tactics of
the Communist Party in the Scots
boro case, asserting that it was not
a class case and stating that the
waving of the red flag by the Com
munists' would result in the 8 boys
being sent to the electric chair.
When Amter denounced these
views as counter revolutionary and
as meaning the abandonment of the
Negro boys to capitalist lynch justice,
he was greeted with thunderous ap-
plause and at the end of the meeting
a motion. proposed by Hudson, cal
ling upon the workers to intensity
the efforts in defense of the Scots
boro boys under the leadership Of the
Communist Party was unanimously
adopted.
In answer to question from the
floor regarding his strikebreaking
tactics on the Philadelphia water
front against the Marine Workers
Industrial Union Fletcher admitted
this and attempted TO pustify it by
stating that the NJ. W. L. U. had
gained influence and 300 members
amongst the longshoremen by mas
uuerading under the name of the l.
w. W.
Amter. who is candidate for COVER
nor on the Communist ticket, at the
conclusion of his speech called upon
the workers TO elect delegates to the
City Election Conference.
At the conclusion Of the debate a
resolution on Defense Of the Soviet
Union was unanimously adopted and
the chairman was also instructed to
send cable of greetings to the
World Unity Congress of Seamen and
Karbor Workers which is now being
held in Hamburg, Then at the sug-
gestion Of the chairman the meeting
decided to elect delegates to the City
Election Conference of the Commu-
mist Party. Three delegates were
elected: Lambert, King and one other.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
ATTENTION

To All Sections of District 2:
The district secretaries of dis
trict 2 are calling upon all Sec
tions to take a sufficient number
of copies of the Liberator which
will be off the press May "a, and
which will contain important ma
terial on the election campaign.
We must utilipe the Liberator in
our work for the election CAM
paign.
This edition will be of tremend-
GUS Importance to all Negro work.
ers and to all workers active in
the struggle tor Negro Rights
Get your bundle orders in the
Liberator office, so East 18th ST.,
Room 2O1.
District Secretariat, Dist. 2
Communist Party of U.S.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
SHOE STRIKERS
PARADE TODAY
IN LONG ISLAND
Union Organizer, Louis
Greco, Beaten Up by
Police

Today, at u noon, starts the I.
Miller Strikers Parade. The parade
will begin in front of the Strike
Headquarters. 43rd Ave. and Cres-
cent Street, in Long Island City.
The Union had difficulties in get
ting the permit. The police, at the
last minute, give the permit for the
route asked by the Union.
The strikers will march by the I.
Miller factory. The WIZ. Band will
lead; placards, signs and slogans will
tell the Long Island population what
the workers are fighting for. All shoe
workers-all workers are called upon
by the Union to join in this parade
and march in solidarity with the
strikers.
After the parade, there will be an
open air mass meeting in front of
the I. Miller Strike Headquarters,
Union representatives will address
the meeting.
At the strike headquarters of the
Paris Shoe, L. Greco, Union organ
iper, was brutally beaten up by de-
tectiyes, and taken to the police sta
ton. They tried to frame him up
in the police station. but Greco re-
fused to let himself be bulldozed, He
ca,,,oy,dad or, immediate trial Tho
police could find nothing on him and
they we're forced to let him out.
The workers of the Grand Slipper
Shop in Passaic, N. J. went out on
strike. This firm settled with de-
partment only recently. The work
ers went out on strike after the boss
refused to live up to his agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
JOHN BARRYMORE AT
JEFFERSON AND FRANKLIN

The Jerrerson and Franklin The
aires are now showing John Barry
more in his first radio production,
States Attorney" Helen Twelve
trees plays the leading female role.
Beginning Wednesday, both theatres
will present Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
in TITS Tough To Be Famous" The
Jefferson will show an extra feature
on the same bill, County Fair" with
VIM. Collier, Jr., and Ralph Ince.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
bosses are the rulers.


1t is hard to find another book on
the Soviet Union that tells the story
so we'll Every picture is gem.
There is not one out of the 200 in
the book that does not carry some
special significance. For instance,
here is a Ukrainian peasant carrying
a hoe, ready for work, all smiles;
woodcutter from the Urals bursting
with Joy; herdsman from the Altai
Mountains on the outlook for his
flock; a Korean ricef1eld near Khar-
kov; beautiful landscapes in Caucasia
and Siberia Here is the Samarkand
Dam and a gigantic power station,
par tof the Five Year Plan And
many more!
Write to the Daily Worker, IS East
18th Street, New York City All sub
scriptions paid in advance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

Amter pointed out that this was war
propaganda against the Soviet Union
and service to the U. S. imperislist
war makers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

MONDAY
workers Center, IS Z. i3th St., at $50 pm.
Alteration Painters. Bronx, will meet at
1850 Southern Boulevard, at 8, pm.
The Imperial Valley Branch, LID, will
meet at 1880 Anthony Ave, Bronx, at $50
p.n. All members are requested TO attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-25
CAPITAL CHURCHES
MARK GOOD FRIDAY
Bishop Freeman Conducts
Passion Service at
Cathedral.

Numerous Washington churches today
observed Good Friday. Some conducted
services today while others will be held
tonight.
A passion service was conducted at
the Washington Cathedral by Bishop
James E. Freeman
The Service of the Rugged Gross" will
be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Pet
worth Methodist Episcopal Church, New
Hampshire avenue and Grant circle A
spotlight will be focused on a cross
banked in palms. Music will be pro-
vided by a hidden choir. Several old
hymns will be played by an organist.
The congregation will receive the sacra-
ment of the Lords supper at the foot
of the cross.
Services at the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church tonight will be
marked by the singing of quartet and
a chorus of so voices directed by
Claude Robson and Norton NJ Little.
The quartet will include Miss Elsie
SchulZe, Miss Mary Apple, William P.
Shanahan and Herman Fakler.
DR.. Walter A. Maier, professor OF
Biblical Interpretation at Concordia
Seminary, st. Louis, will deliver the
sermon tonight at Christ Lutheran
Church. Rev. J. Frederic Wenchel, the
pastor. will offer prayers written by
George Washington.
Christ on My Cross" will be dis
cussed by Rev. William Pierpoint at
services tonight in McKendree Metho-
dist Episcopal Church The sacrament
of the Lords supper will be admin
istered and special music will be pro-
vided.
Rev. H. D. Mensing of Baltimore de-
hvered the sermon at MONDAY services
In Trinity Lutheran Church.