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Evening star., 1933-12-22
Treasure Hunt on Beach.

Following lashing gale. people living
near Milford Beach, a New Zealand sea
side resort, joined in a treasure hunt.
Heavy seas had exposed coins and other
articles lost by pleasure seekers months
before. One youth found $6.25 In small
coins, another searcher raked up valu-
able diamond ring and q third discov-
cred gold signet ring. The finds were
valued at hundreds Of dollars.
Evening star., 1933-12-22
Famed Cello Teacher Dies.

Prof. Julius Klengel, who has sent
cello pupils to all parts Of the world, has
died in Leipzig, Germany. He Joined a
prominent orchestra In Leipzig when he
was IS, became its leading cellist at ~
and resigned at IS. Prof. Klengel was
made a royal professor in the Leipzig
Conservatorium. He also was a COM
poser and edited other peoples work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
DOAkI IN FARMERS
STRIKE in MINI.

MARKHAM, MINI, Feb. 19.-The
federal government has entered into
the case of the ten arrested farmers
who were on strike demanding re-
cognition Of their grievance commit
tee on relief work One of the strik-
ers has been questioned by immigra-
ton officers, in an effort to start de-
portation proceedings against him.
The farmers are all out on bail. The
International Labor Defense has an
attorney from Duluth to defend them
in court.
The q. S. postal service also en-
tered the field as strike breakers
when postal inspectors took the snow
n,N-F trick belonging to the county.
which the farmers had seized and
locked up in a garage, and opened
the mail route. The farm strikers
delayed them quite a bit, however,
by having lengthy discussion with
the truck drivers.
A protest demonstration was called
last Thursday in Virginia at County
Commissioner Koski's office at the
County Courthouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Stage and Screen
!. HOWARD'S "ALIEN CORN
OPENS TONEGHT--"AMEBICAN
DREAM PREMIERE TUES
DAY AT GUILD


"Alien Corn" Sydney Howard'e new
play will open this evening at the Be
lasco Theatre under the guidance Of
Katherine Cornell. The company is
headed by Miss Cornell, James Rem
ME, Siegfried Rumann, Luther Adler
Charles Wadron and Lily Cahill.
The new Theatre Guild production,
American Dream" by George
O'Neill, described as "a cycle Of three
one-act plays all related to COM
mon idea" will open on Tuesday
night at the Guild Theatre. Douglass
Montgomery, Helen Weatley, Claude
Rains, Lcona Hogarth and Gale Son.
dergaard head the cast.
"Hangman's Whip" melodrama
by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank
Butler is announced for Friday night
at the st. James Theatre. The chief
players include: Montague Love, liam
Keith, Helen Flint, Barton MacLane
and Harold DeBecker. The locale is
an African trading post.
Biography" the S. N. Behrman
comedy which has been playing at
the Guild since Dec. 70, will move
this evening to the Avon Theatre.
Aleta Freel, Robert Strange and j..
Edward Bromberg are the latest ad-
ditions TO Both Your Houses" the
Maxwell Anderson play which will be
presented by the Theatre Guild on
March 6.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Arrest Upset, Y. c. l..
Members i'm Strike

NEW YORK-Just as soon as the
young workers Of the Jigsaw Puzzle
factory, 165th st. and Washington
Ave, Bronx, went out on strike
against a wage cut, the police inter-
fered at the behest of the boss and
arrested three picketers. One is q
Socialist, one a Communist and the
other a Democrat.
The workers, 25 in number, many
OF them YpseIs and Young Commu-
mist League members, have organized
a united front from below. The law
yer defending them is Buitenkant,
from the LID. Members of the I'm
employed Councils are helping the
strikers with participation on the
picket line. The strike committee
calls for mass support from the I'M
employed and svmpat1j7ers. All
workers are urged to help the strikers
with mass picket lines to enable them
to win the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Metal Unions
Position on Macy
Yard Work
BY J. LUsTIG

District Organizer OF the M.W.IUD
NEW YORK,-In the February is
sue of The Metal Worker" the Off
cial organ OF the New York District
of the Metal Workers Industrial I'm
ion, an article appeared under the
title OF Navy Yard Workers Fight
Pay Cuts. In this article an abso-
lutely erroneous view is expressed
that is contrary to the position and
principle Of the Metal Workers In
dustrial Union.
The writer of this article attacks
Roosevelt for not carrying through
his program Of building a big navy,
but instead preparing to cut the
navy appropriation to 100 million dol
lars. From the same point of view,
the article attacks the officials of the
International Association of Machin-
lists for not fighting against this cut.
In other words. the author of this ar
ticIe is working for big navy so that
the Navy Yard workers may keep
their jobs
Not Union Policy
It must be quite openly and def
ntely stated that this point Of view
has nothing to do with the position
of the Metal Workers Industrial
Union. The Metal Workers Industrial
Union mobilizes and organizes the
metal workers, including the Navy
Yard workers not only against wage
cuts and speed up and for better
working conditions, but also against
imperialist war and for the defense
of the Soviet Union. This being the
case the Metal Workers Industrial
Union cannot fight for a big navy
that helps the capitalists Of this
country to prepare for this bloody
war.
Our position is that the Navy Yard
workers shall be fully employed on
the basis of a 7 hour day and 5,
day week. Our position is that they
shall manufacture instead of battle
ships, other useful products such as
stabilizers, dynamos, tools, merchant
ships, ETC., etc.
The executive board of the Metal
Workers Industrial Union repudiates
the above mentioned article as an
opportunist stand point that does not
help but hurts the working class. The
executive board of the metal Workers
Industrial Union further states that
it will carry on a correct class strug-
gle policy in connection with organ
izing the Navy Yard workers against
wage-cuts, layoffs for unemployment
relief and insurance; against impe-
rialist war and for defense of the
Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
BY SOL HARPER

NEW YORK.-In this short article
it is impossible to describe or discuss
all the important issues in Harlem.
But the facts which are brought out
should serve as guides to the COM
rades who are working in this dis
tricJ, so that they can become even
more intimate with the Harlem work
ers. In this way, working side by
side, the comrades will find other
issues as well, and so rally more
workers to fight under Communist
leadership.
Hight Rents And Housing Conditions
Particularly since the war there
has been a constant inflow of Negro
workers into Harlem Coming from
the South, the West Indies, Virgin
Islands, etc. and a corresponding
exodus Of white workers. White and
Negro landlords got together and
demanded higher rents of white te-
nants, threatening to put in Negroes
if the increases were not paid They
also kept some houses just for Ne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
DEMONSTRATE AT
DUTCH CONSULATE
Official Refuses to
Face Workers

NEW YORK.-'Freedom for the
Dutch and Indonesian Sailors" was
the cry of the three hundred work
els who demonstrated Saturday at
noon in front of the Dutch Consulate
General against the cruel slaughter
of sailors who would not take a II
per cent wage cut from the Dutch
millionaires who forced the seaman
to work for next to nothing. The
protest meeting was organized by the
Anti-Imperialist League, the Workers
EX-servicemen's League and the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
A preliminary meeting was held on
South and Whitehall st. by the Mar
inc Workers Industrial Union and
from there group of 60 marched to
the Consulate at II Battery Place.
They carried placards demanding the
immediate release of the Dutch and
native sailors dying in the prisons
Of the imperialists Of Holland. At
Battery Place more workers waited
for them. Many police stood around,
but the crowd stayed.
Ff44S4i q NOAAl4tlibbCG VI MOI hGIS ask
ed to see the Consul General they
were informed by his representative
for he was afraid to appear that
the consul had nothing to say to this
delegation and told them that Dutch
affairs were not their business.
As a reply to this lackey of the
Dutch capitalists, the workers in
formed him that the affairs of all
the toilers Of the world were one,
to fight against all the bosses all over
the world. A collection was made
for the purpose of sending a cable
gram Of protest to the Dutch govern
ment and resolution was passed by
the assembled workers to carry on
the fight for the freedom of the
prisoners and to fight against I'M
perialist Wars which are necessary
for the capitalists to retain their
power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20

L am receiving relief from the
Home Relief Bureau at Gravesend
Ave and Albemarle Rd, Boro Park. It
is through the militant action of the
Unemployed Council, that l have sue
ceeded in getting my rent paid
monthly and food check OF $3.50
every two weeks This is very made
quate for two children and myself,
however, even this pittance would be
denied to me, if 1t were not for the
Unemployed Council.
For the past three weeks, I have
not been in position to be active
in the Boro Park Council. The HR.B
concluded by this, presume that I
am no longer connected with them
From this point follows my story.
Send the CRATER
They switched my investigator and
sent me a stool pigeon and CRATER
by the name Of 'Gerelich' Gerelich
came up with my food check last
Monday, and brought with him an
other investigator, Seidman'--a type
just like himself.
"Gerelich's first statement to me
was that You have been getting re-
lief for long time without it ever
being stopped, the HR.B. does not
make such practice unless some Of
your friends make this possible.
" Who are my friends?' I asked.
Can't 1 be your friend, was the
reply.
Il told Gerelich if he expected to
get graft from me as he does from
others whom he forces. he is sadly
mistaken. Whereupon he changed his
line, and although the H.R.B. made a
thorough investigation into my case.
and knows that my husband died in
1928, he made the following accusa-
tons.
Tries SANDER
He wanted to know where 1 got
the nickle with which I phoned the
HR.B. earlier in the day and said.
You must be having MEN KEEPING
YOU I became indignant. ordered
him to put my food check down and
get out. His bodyguard then ordered
me to keep my mouth shut, and with
finishing remarks about framing me
as a prostitute, they left.
THE episode did not end here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
HARLEM HOSPITAL
MEETING CALLED
Fight Discrimination
Against Negroes

NEW YORK.-The Peoples Com
mittee against discrimination in Har-
lem Hospital last night issued a call
for all mass organizations. open
forums and group meetings to sup
port it in the holding Of a special
protest meeting at Lafayette Hall,
los West 131st Street, Wednesday,
Feb. %, at 8 pm. In its statement
the committee urged:
Members of churches, labor unions,
fraternal organizations and nurse as
sociations to send representatives to
the meeting called for Feb. % to hear
the next steps in the fight against
discrimination in Harlem and other
hospitals, to support the meeting by
announcing it in their respective Or
CARNATIONS.
All former patients Of Harlem Hos
pital, workers forced to resign, and
formerly employed there are called
upon TO support the fight for an i'm
partial investigation and to end the
discrimination there.
The New York News, Harlem paper
published by the Negro misleader
Father Divine, in its latest attempt
to back the white boss controlled Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored Peoples fake in
vestigation Of the hospital, announ-
ces in headlines the lie that the
Peoples Committee Against Discrimi-
nation in Harlem Hospital seeks a
Jim crow institution, The Peoples
Committee demand no such thing
they demand that the hospital be
controlled by the people Of Harlem
and inasmuch as the Harlem people
are mostly Negro that the majority
of those in control and practising in
the hospital be Negro, The Peoples
Committee further states that it is
only by the united struggle Of the
Negro people with the white workers
that discrimination and segregation
can be wiped out in all the city
hospitals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
WEINSTEIN URGES
ALL TO ATTEND
HIS TRIAL TODAY
Jury VIII Get Case;
Prisoner Calls for
Support to l. L. D.

NEW YORK. & Sam Weinstein
framed on an assault charge which
will lead to another frame-up on q
murder charge, is in jail in Bronx
County, with his case going to the
jury this morning. From his cell he
has issued the following statement
asking all workers to help smash
through the perjured case brought
against him by the employers and
their Tammany prosecutors and po-
lice. They are trying to get Vein
stein because he was a militant
strike leader. Weinstein says:
From behind the bars, / thank
my fellow workers for their sup
port given me against the vicious
frame up of the bosses, who are
trying TO bury me in the peniten-
tiary because 1 fought for the
working class. The presence of fell
low workers in the court during my
trial has heartened me, and know
that they will come i'm large num-
bers to my trial Monday morning,
in response to the call by the
New York District, International
Labor Defense, for a large mobili-
zatiou on that day.
THE International Labor De-
Tense is truly the shield of the
working class. Every time the
bosses jail a worker for his mill
tant activity, the /. L, d. defends
him in the bosses courts, and
helps mobilize the workers to de-
mand his release.
Defense Of workers cannot be
be carried on without funds.
therefore call on ali my fellow
workers to attend the Giant De-
Tense Bazaar, which opens this
Wednesday, and which will raise
funds for fighting for the release
not only of myself but OF Tom
Mooney, the Sc0ttsboro Boys, An
gelO Herndon, and all class war
prisoners"
The last mobilization for the Ba-
zaar viii take place a meeting OF the
Bazaar Committee this Monday,
February 20, pm. at Manhattan
Lyceum. All committee members are
urged to come.
The I. L. D, Bazaar will start
February - at Manhattan Lyceum,
and will continue every day to and
including February IS,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Four Months of
Victory for the
Needle Workers

NEW YORK.-The Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, preparing
for the March HIP Regional Gen
eral Executive Board Meeting of the
union, has announced a record OF
achievement for the period since the
last convention, which has piled up
gains in wages and conditions for
thousands of needle workers, and re-
suited in 2,453 new members for the
N.TWJ.U And this in a period Of
unprecedented economic crisis, when
the right wingers claim that nothing
can be done.
The N.TWI.U. reports 572 shop
strikes in this period, with victories
in 408 of them. The strikes won were
as follows: 100 dress; so cloak; 161
fur; 18 fur dresserS and dyerS; 5
knitgoods and custom tailors.
In the strikes, Ass workers were
involved.
During this period 1922 shop meet
ings were held, and the basis Of union
organization being in the shops, this
shows the rank and file had a lot to
say about the conduct of activities.
The number of members joining
the N,TWIU. since Oct. IS, 1882,
was: 656 furiers, 807 dressmakers,
100 rabbit workers ara dyers; 1853
knitgoods workers and LOT custom
tailorS.
All these figures are for the indus
trial union itself, and DO not include
the large numbers of workers who,
stimulated by the victories Of the Mt.
VIII. took part in left wing and in
united front activities in the old
unions, against the will of their
treacherous officials; victories which
have led to left wing capture of
whole locals OF the ILG.WU., for ex-
ample,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Rents, Housing, Hunger,
Burning Issues in Harlem

/ groes, after the white tenants had
moved out Of them; and forced the
Negro tenants to pay from so to rs
per cent more than the former te-
nants. The struggle is now not be-
tween white and Negro workers, but
against the landlords Instead of
moving out because OF high rentals,
the white and Negro workers are
staying where they are, even moving
in, and unitedly fighting the land
lords. The fight for reductions and
against evictions is led by the I'm
employed Councils and the Com
munist Party. AS early as 1929 there
was a Harlem wide rent strike; and
with the increasing militancy of the
workers, the possibilities now for a
successful fight are unlimited.
Food Prices And Restaurants
Along with high rents the high
cost of food, the poor quality, and
unfai.' weight and measures are ad-
ditional live issues. All along the
avenues, workers are discussing these
problems along with hard times in
general. Many of them are home
less, and they can be found on every
corner, in subway stations, and in
pool rooms; they have no place else
to go. A campaign might be con-
Quoted to force the turning over OF
the old YMCA. building to these
homeless boys and workers, in this
way providing some protection for
them. The comrades working in
Harlem may answer, I'VE know all
about these issues and we're work
ing on them" My reply is: We must
work harder, we must continually
take up more live issues and link
these with our other demands: the
freedom Of the Scottsboro boys, I'm
employment Insurance, and the fight
against imperialist war. In other
words, we must come to the workers,
and not expect them to come to us.
Where Are The Hunger Marchers?
From time to time bonus nlarchers.
hunger marchers, and delegates to
the various conferences have been
elected in Harlem; but afterwards we
seldom hear Of these narchers. They
are somehow lost sight of. This
should not be allowed to go on, be-
cause the unemployment situation in
Harlem cries for leadership. Over
100000 Negroes are unemployed
(about rs per cent Of the popula-
tion), and 100000 white workers, in
the district between 10th and 15Oth
Streets are also out of work. The
task of the Party, the Unemployed
Councils, and the Exservicemen's
League, as well as other organiza-
tons, is to work among these unem-
ployed; to develop and lead the
struggle for bread We are behind,
however, in this work. Not since the
Spring of 1880, when a demonstration
was held in front of the State En-
ployment ONCE and at the headquar-
ters of the Salvation Army. has there
been another mass meeting. At pre-
sent we are fighting for equal rights
in the hospitals.
Let us link this campaign to the
other burning issues in Harlem. and
build up huge mass movement. We
must fight the white political agents
OF the capitalists and expose the Ne
gro reformist leaders and politicians.
We must make clear that only the
Communist Party is fighting the
workers battles, and rally the work
us around Communist leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
; RENT STRIKES
IN BROWNSVILLE
500 Besiege Relief Buro
and Get Action

NEW YORK. - The Brownsville
Unemployed Council led 20 out on a
strike against eviction at 219 Herzel
Street, Thursday. The landlord re-
fused to take the money offered him
by the Home Relief Bureau in pay
ment due for the tenants. The ten
ants are striking against this and for
recognition O. their house committee.
Il Win At 146 Chester
Seventeen tenants at 146 Chester
ST., also IN Brownsville, organized,
and placed demands Wednesday for
reduction in rent by So to 81 per
apartment, for recognition of the
house committee, no evictions and all
necessary repairs. The landlord sur
rendered and granted all demands.
The tenants then raised 81 for the
Daily Worker
At lis Herzel Street Is tenants are
striking for a Is per cent reduction
in rent, for recognition of the house
committee, and against eyictions.
At 551 Saratoga Avenue, "a workers
have organized to fight for a reduc-
ton in rent, against evictions, and
for recognition of the House Commit
tee. The committee went to see the
landlord last night and strike will
be declared if their demands are not
granted
Last Wednesday two hundred
workers went to support 25 unem-
ployed workers in a demand for relief
at the Home Relief Bureau in the
Brownsville section. The bureau at
first refused to see the committee
representing the workers.
BY this time 600 workers we're
drawn to the support Of the Is need
ing relief and the bureau was be-
sieged inside and out. Finally the
bureau was forced to admit the COM
mittee. The bureau also called 40
police and arrested the committee
inside the Bureau They held them
for 20 minutes. They were then
forced by those outside to release the
committee. They also promised to
give relief to the Is applying.
The latest reports are that the Is
are receiving relief from the bureau.
Youth Mass Meeting
There will be a mass meeting at
the Brownsville Youth Center located
at los Thatford Street on February
"a. All regular supporters OF the
Brownsville Unemployed Council and
all workers in the territory are in
vited. The meeting will take up the
next steps in the struggle for UNI
employment relief in the territory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Put Furniture Back
at 2423 Belmont, Ave.

NEW WORTHWHILE italian work
ers in the neighborhood were meet
ing at the call Of the Cambreling
Ave. unemployed Council Friday
night, on the struggle for relief, word
was received that SALVATORE Guido
was just evicted from 2423 Belmont
Ave.
A committee went down and put
his furniture back in, with throng
of workers standing across the street
cheering.
Today mass meeting will be held
in front of the house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20
Irish Workers Score
Skeffington Arrest

NEW YORK. --The Lincoln's Birth
day mass meeting Of Irish workers
in New York voted to send kilograms
to Lord Craigavon of Ulster and
President De Valera of the Irish
Free" State, to protest detention
Of Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington and de-
nouncs censorship and obscurantist
edrcstion". The Irish workers tele-
grams ask "the workers of the world
to stand for economic emancipation.
The wires were signed by John Col
Inns, secretary of the Irish Workers
Club, in New York, at the instruc-
tions of the mass meeting.
The Irish Workers Club will hold
its usual Sunday open forum to-
morrow at 1881 Broadway, Room BIS.
Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20

They found my little boy, Jay aged 4,
bribed him with a nickle, and began
asking him questions. Who is your
daddy? How many daddies have your
etc.
They told him things also, instead of
only asking him; they told him stories
which so confused him that he came
running into the house in Mysteries.
when I realized what had hap
pened became furious and phoned
the H.R.B. I could not get the slight
est satisfaction. When I made spec
cial trip to the main office on Scher-
merhorn ST.. they tried to hush the
matter up, it was only when I threat
ened to report this to newspapers,
that the officials became little pam
icky
Activity Saves
Il think that such stories should be
printed in our papers, workers who
are not wise to them, and who have
not yet seen them in action should
know that these officials will stoop to
almost anything. Unemployed work
ers may sometimes find themselves
tricked like this, and then find the
trick used against them and effec-
lively enough to prevent them from
getting the meagre little relief that
stands between themselves and Ceath
by starvation.
Il can assure you. that if in the
past three weeks, I had been active in
Boro Park Council, such audacity
would never have occurred"