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The Washington times., 1933-02-17

A trick we'll known to ciga-
rette advertising is the illu-
sion that "BLENDINo" alone can
make cigarettes fine.
EXPLANATION. Cigarette quality
depends upon the costliness
of the tobaccos used.
The choice, ripe tobaccos are
mild, soothing, non-irritatins.
The Washington times., 1933-02-17
PITY coNDUCToRs!

KANSAS CITY, Mo. U.NS0.
Six feet of railroad ticket will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
lO3 UNEMPL DYED ON TRIAL TODAY FOR DEMANDING RELIEF
Demonstrate at BOrO Home
Relief Bureaus Tomorrow

OF the controlled Relief
of the working their
ssshng relief refusal with
organized resistance.
families Of their
collaboration
landlords thousands have realize that the
responsible
taking action
a living
the call of the
loudly vocing
the
suppress
against homeessness and
Williamsburg half 20
remained there throughout night
their nghbors forced the Home Relief Bureau the
repeated refusas In
their similar action
Relief forced
participating these militant
payment of
families who being ciys
slashing
multiply these partial VIC
clothing requires the
mobilization struggle
every neghbohood every union
and organization together
regardless
The Unemployed Council
Of their
morning, IL
workers of 0 neighborhood upon
organization and all its
relief on Friday morning!
Bring fellow workers into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
81 ARRESTED In
BRINK; DEMANDED
SHELTER; BREAD
Trial Today Workers
Aroused Will Be
In Court

NEW YORK. - Thirty-two unem-
ployed workers, men and women were
arrested yesterday when police made
two attacks on a picket line Of sixty
led by a mother with a baby in front
Of the 149th Street Home Relief Bu-
reau.
Latest reports are that four are
being held without bail for investiga-
ton and the balance are to be tried
tomorrow at the 163rd Street and
Elton Avenue court.
With Sacards reading I'VE demand
rent" "Our children are starving" and
other slogans the 60 workers started
from the Middle Bronx Unemployed
Council, 14o0 Boston Road to the
bureau.
Although they found two patrol
wagons and a squad of police waiting
the workers undaunted formed line
two abreast and started marching
around the bureau. The attack came
when a committee of three elected by
present their demands were stopped
and Louise Morrison arrested. The
workers tried to stop her arrest and
three other were pulled into the
wagon. A second attack was made
after the workers heroicly reformed
their picket line, and in the battle
that followed % more we're arrested.
The Middle Bronx Unemployed
Council has called upon all block
committees all mass organizations,
all those whose relief has been cut or
who face eviction to mass at the
Home Relief Bureau at 149th Street
and Third Avenue Friday, IL a. m.
in a borough-wide demonstration
that will place a powerful demand
for rent and food"
Tonight there will be mass meet
ing with admission by disposses at
1400 Boston Road which will also
serve to mobilize for Fridays demon
strations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Rouse Each Man, Woman and Child
in Your Block Against EVictions

By refusing to pay rent the
rammany grafters aim not only
TO save the amounts Immediately in
YoIved, but to reduce the relief
load" by setting these families COM
pletely adrift. Relief is rng given
only to "domiciled" famiie1. This
means only to families vino have a
hCnle. When family is eYicted,
when the furniture and belongings
of such family is carted of to the
municipal storage house, when It can
no longer establish domicile home)
it is not entitled to relief according
to the relief regulations. Each mem
Der of the family is then driven to
a different institution or fiop-house.
The father is sent to the Mems
Lodge (fiop-house), the mother to
the Women's shelter" and the chill
dren to some institution.
Resist Evictions-Deiend Your Homes
Our first task must be to resist
every attempt 10 carry through an
eviction. Thousands Of dispossess or
ders are being issued by the courts
and executed by marshals and po-
lice every day. The workers who are
being driven unto the streets CAM
NOT WAIT until a city wide mob
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
"Sniper," Sharp Shooting
Anti-War Film Sh0Wn at
18th st. City Theatre TO-DAY

Around the experiences of a sIiiper
in the Russian expeditionary forces
in France during the World War,
the Soviet studies have created an
unusual war picture that can easily
take its place among the Soviet mas
terpieces of the screen. SHIPPER was
well received in New York as one of
the most authentic and dramatic of
war films. II will be shown at the
City Theatre on Thursday. May 18th
and has been prepared with English
sub titles throughout.
Where other war films have re-
lated the experiences Of sensitive in
dividuals to the war, SHIPPER has sci
out to show what the war was to
everybody.
Even on the days when the reports
read "all quiet" the war gees on. A
sniper hidden in a tree sends bullets
Visiting softly through the air. AL
quiet-and five hudred men are dead
A soldier Is sent ont to find this
deadly SHIPPER, to silence him. A
breathtaking duel takes place be-
tween the two of them and the Ger
man Is finally killed On searching
the body the soldier finds that tbs
German like himself is married
man and a mechanic.
News reaches the front that tbs
revolt against the car has taker
place in Russia. Tbs soldier returns
hone to baln bjild up and dsforc
the workers land
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

the Council.
The demonstrations will be
at SO Schermerhorn st. Brook
lyn, 422 E. 14sth ST., Bronx, and
81 e. 47th st., Manhattan.
The second week of struggle against
Talnmany's mo rent-reduce relief"
edict, which will be climaxed with
Fridays demonstration, has resulted
in numerous single victories. These
struggles were led by block commit
tees and Unemployed Councils thru
out the city.
Tammany's answer to the demands
Of the unemployed has been the ar
rest Of 1903 militant workers, attacks
and terror at bureaus everyday in
order to carry through the thousands
of evictions and reduction in food
checks.
Fridays demonstration will be a
challenge to the terror and blow
at the program it attempts to en-
force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
CHILD ILLNESS
RISES SHARPLY
Disease Grows Due
To Starvation

NEW YORK.-A sharp rise in
measles was reported by Shirley
w. Wynne, Health Commissioners of
New York. 3s7 more children con-
trscted the disease this week as COM
pared to last, Is died. There are 1929
children in the city with measles,
Despite Wynne's much heralded
'immunization campaign" against
diptheria siSty-one new cases were
reported last week.
Although Wynne's department goes
about the city putting 'inmunization'
shots in the arms of children, no.
thing is being done about putting
food in their stomacks to enable them
to ward off disease and fight 1t when
afflicted.
Again we urge" says Wynne, that
all children exposed to measles be
put to bed at once and kept away
from all other children" This advice
Is given though Wynne is well aware
that working class families are forced
to put two and three children in a
bed or room, in Harlem whole fam
lilies live in one room. while thou5-
ands of other families evicted by
the city are crowded in with relatives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

crew of visiting Americans in the
capital of the U,S.S,R,
There is me Ser'al in the pay 10
pleare all sides. The first two acts
ore apparently intended make you
feel how coed 1t is to be in the good
old U.S.A They are full Of all the
trise Jokes about how the Russians
sleep twelve in ons room dust like
in otr Own slums, you know, never
battle, and are sublimsly indifferent
to bedbugs.
There is melancholy eg-princegs
who is married to a Bolsnevik, and
Is very bitter about his lack Of at
tention to her. HE is in love with
The Five-Yea- Plan she says scorn-
fully.
There is young American en-
eineer who has to fight an uphill
b tile against the stupid bureaucracy
OF his Russian superior. And this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Mobilize Unemployed
Councils, Unions
In Fight

ilization Of sufficient proportions can
be perfected. Every worker and e.
pecislly every class conscious worker
must become the organizer Of inn
mediate, effective resistance.
Respond Immediately
The moment any worker learns d
an attempt to evict neighbor, the
alarm must be sounded and the
whole neignborhood aroused and
mcbilized for resistance. Ring every
bell. knock on every door till every
man, woman and child in the block
or neighborhood is brought into tbs
street! Ba1ricade every door through
which marshals and police attempt
to gain entrance into the home OF
the worker who has been ordered
evicted! Fight off and drive out the
creatures who come to destroy your
homes!
Force Rent Payments
One group of workers stayed over
night in the relief office and as
result received their rent checks on
the following morning wnen the re-
lief officials found them still ea-
5renched on re-opening. In another
case, the mothers brought their chill
dren to the relief Office and an
1ounced that these would not go to
school and would remain to be fed
and cared for by the relief author
tiles until rent and relief checks were
Forthcoming. They too got their
checks.
The committees Of the Unem-
ployed Councils who take workers to
the relief offices should not only pre-
sent demands for those workers who
come to us for aid When We come
irto the relief offices, we should call
upon all the workers present Chose
in the waiting room and ines) to
band together. They should be call
ed upon to elect a committee from
their own ranks to present the col
lective demands Of all
Mobilize Forces
We must mobilize all our forces.
This fight must not be left only to
the Unemployed Councils. Every
union, ana ITSL Oh all ILe IllnIdIlt
unions of the T.U.UL.; every lodge,
and first of all the branches OF the
TWO, the workers clubs, the youth
and sports organizations must MAKE
this fight their fight and their most
/ important immediate task.
All other unions and organizations
including those under reactionary
and reformist leadership must be in
volved. The members Of all workers
organizations are threatened by the
eviction and starvation program. All
OF them must be united for COM
mon struggle that will defeat this
| program.
A victory in this fight is possible.
Such victory will serve to strength
en- our forces for the further and
! greater struggles that must be waged
against the whole Wall St.-Roose-
welt program of which the present
/ attack is a part
Through united, militant struggle
we can and will win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
mo Rent" Payments
Means Breaking Up
Workers Homes
BY HERBERT BENJAMIN

Tens Of thousands Of families are
being Systematically broken up and
driven into the streets in the course
Of a new attack by the bankers, land
lords and Tammany Hall politicians
Of New York City.
The very announcement OF this
fact should rouse the bitter anger Of
the whole workingclass Of New York.
No one can, no one dares to remain
passive in the face Of this monstrouS
dismemberment and disruption Of the
families and homes Of not less than
half a million men, women and chill
dren, The indignation and resent
ment of the whole of the New York
workingclass must find expression in
q mighty storm and wave Of Strug-
gle that will overwhelm the bankers
who ordered this attack and the
Tammany administrs the Mayor,
the judges, the narshals and police
who are carrying out this order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
STEAL
WAS PATRIOTIC
SAYS ATTORNEY

NEW YORK, May II. Charles
Mitchell, former Chairman Of the Ma
tional City Bank, who is now being
tried on the charge of having de-
frauded the government out OF $685.
600 income taxes on an income OF
over 100000 during 1929 and 1880,
did what he did out of patriotism, y
according to his defense attorney
Max Steuer.
Mitchell is accused Of having de-
posted 10000 shares of his banks
common stock with j. P. Morgan
as collateral for a loan, and then
having reported this as a sale in
order to establish tax losses.
Mitchell was described today by
his lawyer as "noble" opponent of
j. P. Morgan and the bankers.
1t was brought out at the trial
today that the so-called sale Of Nit
chells stock to his wife did not in
volye any transfer Of money as pay
ment, nor was it properly transacted
and registered
Mitchell recently resigned from
the National City Bank when it was
disclosed that the bank he'd caused
the losses of millions Of dollars to
its customers by deliberately con-
cealing vital information about the
bonds it was selling. None Of the
National City officers have beer
prosecuted for this scandal.
Both the defense and the prescott
ing attorney agreed the other day
to drop four jurors Of the chosen
jury by consent One Of the
dropped jurors had previously tes-
tilted that he had been burned" in
the crash of the Bank of the United
States. This move undoubtedly
strengthened the chances of the de-
Tense. The jury is composed OF
rich building contractors and man.
ayers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
400 SCORE BAN
ON LENIN MURAL
Picket r ado City;
Hear Minor, Freeman

NEW YORK--A crowd Of over
400, composed largely Of artists writ
ers and students, gathered at pro-
test meeting on Columbus Circle at
S D. m. yesterday and heard speakers
condemn the vandalism Of the Rookie
feller family in covering no the mural
at Rockefeller City which contained
the figure of Lenin.
Carrying placards drawn by John
Reed Club artists reading. Mass
Struggle for Art OF the Masses"
Long Live Lsnin on Radio City
Walls" and Down with Fascism in
Culture" the assernblage cheered the
SPEECH of Robert Minor, representing
the Communist Party.
Minor said, after explaining why
the Rockefeller family fears the pic
turs Of Lenin so much that it refuses
to allow it to remain ON view, that
"the Party of Lenin, which estab-
lished the U.S.S.R., now carries on
throughout the world the struggle
that will wipe from the face OF the
earth the society which the Rookie
fellers epitomize." Other speakers in
cluoed joseph Freeman. editor of the
New Masses, representing the John
Reed Club and Edmund Stevens, OF
the National Student League.
From the meeting on Columbus
Circ,e. most of the demonstrators
proceeded to Radio City, where for
almost an hour a picket line OF ESQ
encircled the huge structure, shouting
their slogans. Other groups took up
their positions at various spots on the
sidewalk, cheering the picketline as
it wound its way around the block.
Continuing the protest, the picket
line marched past Radio City up
Sixth Avenue TO the corner of 54th
st. and Fifth Avenue. the Rockefeller
residence, where, after almost half
hour of picketing, the line broke UP
to reassemble at p. m. at the head
quarters Of the John Reed Club
where a mass protest meeting against
the covering Of Lenin's portrait was
scheduled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

additional "a Of one per cent. This
addition gives the bankers $4,000
more in interest. For this loan alone
the bankers will get $500, 900 inter
est. This money is taken from the
bread and homes of New Yorks un-
employed.
The Civil Service Reform Associa-
ton in Its report states that 1888 poll
ticians and their relatives are draw.
ing from three TO twelve thousand
year in salaries. These ''refonners'
are interested in making a better di-
vision of the spells.
Harry C. Perry holds the politica
plum with $4,000 a year as chief
clerk Of the city court. In many In
stances relatives Of political bose;
cash in to the tune of $4,000 year
The meetings of the Board of Alder
men are guarded by ten sergeants-at-
arms each one drawing yearly sal
airy.
The capitalist press makes preten-
tious "indignasions" concerning this
And proposes AL Smith as the non
partisan candidate for Mayor. A
Smith IS a grand sachem OF Tammany
and surely is part Of this grating
system.
The liberal World Telegram call;
on ''the bankers to insist that this
Tammany city government drasticallJ
cut down the political overhead i.
This is an appeal to the samc
bankers who have Just addsd an ad-
ditional tribute Of 0C) for on.
loan.
While distributing tens Of thous-
ands OF dollars for political Jobs, city
employees are being discharged or get
salary cuts Employees In the Beard
Of Education are fired In theil
place are put unemployed from tn;
Emergency Work Bureau. In thii
way more unemployed are added ant
at the same wages are cut to s45
month. which is given TO those or
the relief bureau. This also happens
in the Street Cleaning and other de.
partnlents.
The starvation plan Of TammsnJ
to cut relief and evict families has X
be smashed by the workers. The hyp-
ocritic speeches Of Mayor O'Brien ant
other politicians that the city is brok'
is a lie. There are sufficient funds
They should be used for the unem
ployed and not for the bankers ant
politicians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

near Seventh Avenue, Thursday eve
ming, May 10, for the benefit Of the
Scottsboro defense. The affair will
be held under the auspices Of the
Scottsboro Athletic Committee and
the Labor Sports Union.
Negro and white athletes will COM
pete together in friendly competition.
Mr.. Hunt, physical director of the z,
is contributing some Of the Y talent,
while the Labor Sports Union clubs
will supply the main events of the
evening Among the features sched-
uled is wand drill done by group
of the Vesa A. G. girls.
Ruby Bates May Be Present
Ruby Bates, white Southern girl,
whose testimony shook the founda-
tions of the prosecutors frame-up
against the nine Scottsboro boys and
who is regarded as living symbol of
the unity of the oppressed. colored
and white. may be present, according
to the announcement Of the chair
man Of the committee in charge,
Oliver Harvey. The committee has
invited Miss Bates to say a few words
The affair viii begin at $3.50 pm
Tickets are Oil sale at the Harlem Y
and st the Labor Sports Union Office.
s13 Broadway Tickets have beer
placed on sale at IS cents. The pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
ON NY RELIEF
FIGHT FRONT

NEW YORK.-A rent strike last
ing four months during which the
tenants took control of the house
eliminated with a victory yesterday
when the mortgageers in whose hands
the house fell when the landlord de-
faulted, gave in to the demands OF
mo back rent, recognition Of house
committee, reduction of rent, no evic-
tons Of unemployed"
-Four months ago when the mort
gageers took the house they turned
eff the hot water and steam. The
tenants led by their block committee
and Coney Island Unemployed Cou1-
Gil organized the house, declared they
would not pay rent until their de-
man6s we're granted, and supplied
steam and hot water themselves.
AT one time they were all facing
evictions but when the marshal came
to carry out the order he was met
by such q mass demonstration that
he did not dare to go through with
it, Following this the mortgage hold
ers gave In.
NEW YORK. Mary Sedita, sos E.
18th ST., IL years old is home in bed
after getting a nail in her foot be-
cause OF torn shoes.
Her mother has tried for two
months now to get shoes for her
child from the school she attends on
18th st. near Second Ave.
Two other children of the family
going to the same school are also
denied shoes and free lunches in q
deliberate discrimination because the
mother and father are foreign born
Italians.
A nurse at the school said "You
aren't Americans and have no right
to ask for these things"
When the mother and member
of the 18th st. block committee visit
ed the principal today asking for
shoes, pointing out that Mary is I'M
able to attend school because she is
without them the principal said, "For
all 7 care you can keep the child
out Of school forever"
There are other cases Of discrimi-
nation and denial of relief by the
school. The block committee mem
Der will propose a demonstration at
the school at the next block meet
ing, to demand free lunches and
shoes for all children in need.
q
NEW YORK.-Clayman, a jsnitor
at so Suffolk st. after Shaving 20 years
went blind on the joo. Though he
continued to do his work he was
suddenly ordered evicted by the land
lord
His plea for permission to remain
more months when he will be 10
years old and eligible for old age
pension was ignored.
Neighbors led by the Downtown
Unemployed Council intend to fight
to keep the blind man in his home
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
TRY 81 SEAMEN
FOR FIGHT ON
"Y' EYICTIONS
Face Jail Terms If
Not Freed By
Masses

NEW YORk.-Fifty- seven seamen
so OIL trial for resisting the Tam
many eviction campaign this morn
ing at ten o'clock in Jefferson Market
court, 9Th Avenue and 10th Street
The jailed men are charged with
disorderly conduct for barricading
themselves in the Jane Street "Y''
mission last week when the YM.C.A.
officials and police tried to Dust over
200 sesnen living there.
Stree April the Haight Elmer
gency officials and the Y. NJ. G. A.
racke teers have been trying to cut all
relief for seSmen off entirely.
The Waterfront Unemployed Coun-
Gil and the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union have led the seanlen in
Their resistance to this starvation
campaign. Demanding that the ship
ping companies be taxed to provide
relief. the seamen have followed a
militant policy of staying in the
nleagre shelters they have won.
To-Day in Jane st. mission there are
Sttll seamen staying there. The fight
Of the men last week has made the
officials hesitate to enforce their
edict
The 81 men will receive the sup
port of thousands of workers mob
ilized by the Downtown Unemployed
Council and the Waterfront Council
Thousands Of leaflets have been dis
tributed over the waterfront area and
hundreds Of lorgshoremen and sea-
men have pledged to demonstrate in
protest ct the trial today.
. The ooWnown Section Of the Com
1nunist Party called upon its members
TO attend the demonstration.
Magistrate Fa1rel, coal company
magaote and labor hater will be the
trial judge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

gives the authors the opportunity
make some particularly trite remsF
ascut how real ability is the So
all over the world, and always r.
TO struggle against stupidity, etc
etc, the implication being that
really makes no difference what kirl
OF political syrtem you've got as lor
as things get done"
The play has been greeted by t.,
bourgeois reviewers with extraordi1
airy scorn and hostility. The or
explanation We can see for this,
That the play ends with ratl1
mildly romantic, but definitely pro-
Soviet note AL the difficulties e..
resolved. and everybody goes off +,
. help complete the Five Year Plan
II is hardly play that will In.
spire any enthusiasm in the wor,-:
who sees it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

cutting relief in single cases, is now
taking on a wholesale character.
Eight families at 371 E. 10th Street
alone, all except one having children,
besides being refused rent by the
bureaus and ordered evicted by Judge
Andrews last Friday have all received
cuts in their food allowance.
Even before the cut these families
were suffering slow starvation from
the insufficient amount provided by
the relief agency. A child in one Of
the families has an ugly skin disease
from undernourishment.
The demonstrations Friday at the
borough offices Of the Home Relief
Bureaus will demand in addition to
rent checks, no cuts in food checks
and increased relief.