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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Investigators Back
From Alabama; to
Report in Baltimore
Attempt by Knight to
Block Inquiry
Scored

NEW YORK. - what struck us
most forcefully about our trip to Ala
oama to investigate lynchings in Tus-
caloosa, Ala, was the hostile recep-
ton accorded to us by Attorney Cen
eral Thomas E. Knight, Jr., when we
called on him at the State House in
Montgomery, on Tuesday, November
T." Barbara Alexander, descendant of
a Georgia family, told newspaper rep
reSentatiyes yesterday afternoon at
the office of the National Committee
for the Defense of Political Prisons.
1856 Fifth Avenue.
Miss Alexander had just arrived in
New York City, with H, Hirsch, head
Of the delegation which was organized
by the National Committee. Other
members of the delegation had drop
ped of in their respective states.
Four of the delegates, three Of them
women, were from the South. Miss
Alexander and Mr.. Hirsch intend to
leave this week for the Anti-Lynch-
ing Conference in Baltimore, Nov. Is
and 10, where they will present a
detailed report of the findings of the
investigating body. Before leaving
this city they expect to be in pos
session Of the notes Of other mem
bers of the delegation, who we're in
charge of various aspects Of the in
vestigation.
The delegation, Miss Alexander
said, defled the lynch threats of At
torney General Knight, who made
the sinister statement that if they
went on to Tuscaloosa mo one can
tell what will happen"
Information received In Tuscaloosa
indicated that Dan Pippen, ST., father
Of Dan Pippen, Jr., one of two youths
lynched on August IL, had "disap-
peared," Several sources indicated
that he has been killed. This in
formation was volunteered by both
white and Negro residents. Attorney
General Knight refused to let the
delegation examine the secret Grand
Jury records on the indictment of
Dan Pippen, Jr., on a framed charge
Of numbering a white girl.
Further information was obtained
on the case of Dennis Cross, a semi
paralytic who was lynchsd on Sep
tembsr "a. Cross was one of three
Negro witnesses to the murder of
another Nero by a white grocer by
the name of Hinton. The other two
witnesses were sentenced from II to
20 years in prison on charges of
Having broken into and riflsd Hin
tons store" Cross remained as the
only witness to the murder. He was
charged with grabbing" at a white
woman, but was released on $500 bail
furnished by Hinton. Two days later
he was taken out of his home and
lynched. The delegation was in
formed that the automobile track
leading to the scene of the murder
displayed the treads of new Goodyear
tires, Hinton's car also had new
Goodyear tires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Strike for More Pay
at Fruit Warehouse

NEW YORK.-Because they were
unable to earn more than $3.50 to 81
a week under piece work system es-
tablished at the Prince Dried Fruit
Co., 83 Crosby St.. nearly 100 workers
of the crew of lbs here went out on
strike Monday. The strikers are led
by the Food Workers Industrial
Union,
Yesterday hired gangsters and po-
lice protected scabs entering the plant
and tried to break up strikers pick
ct lines. Cops ordered the strikers to
cross the street to prevent mass pick
citing and permitted only two strik-
ers in front of the warehouse. The
owner OF this firm is brother of
Judge Prince, notorious anti-labor
judge of Tammany affiliation.
The strikers are appealing to all
young workers to aid them on the
picket line. Strike headquarters are
at Is E. Sd st
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Celebrate Birthday
of COmrade Bedacht
with Banquet Nov. rs

NEW YORK. - The fifteenth
birthday Of Max Bedacht, member
Of the Central Committee OF the
Communist Party and National
Secretary Of the International
Workers Order, will be celebrated at
a delegated testimonial Banquet,
Saturday evening, November IS, at
Irving Plaza Hall. The celebration
will also mark the thirtieth year in
which Bedacht has participated in
the revolutionary movement.
The speakers at the banquet will
be: Earl Browder, General Secretary
of the Communist Party, James w.
Ford OF the T. U. u. L., Clarence
Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker; william Weiner, president
OF the 7 w. o. Charles Krumbein,
district organizer Of the Communist
Party will be the chairman.
Besides the speakers an ex-
ceptional program has been ar
ranged Andre Cibulski will sing
popular Russian melodies. Eugene
Nigob, famous pianist, and Miss
Fresser, violinist, will play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Electrical Workers
Call Strike When
Boss Rejects Union

NEW YORK.-Workers of Mona
Electrical Co., 524 Broadway, walked
out on strike last Thursday when
the company refused to recognize
their union. Last week as a result
OF their demand for pay increases
the company was forced to raise
their wages from 80 cents to 40
cents an hour. The workers went
to the boss the second time demand
ing recognition but this was refused,
whereupon the strike was callc1.
Hugh Flayne OF the St1ae A. F..
Of L, upon application by the strik-
ers, organized them into a federal
union known as Electrical Factory
Workers Local 1881. That is all
Frayne has done for the strike.
HE never comes down to tn picket
line" q striker told the Daily Work
er, I'VE have TO go to him."
Although pickets are parading in
front Of the place, scabs are enter
ing the shop and the A. r. of L.
takes no step to protect the strik-
ers' jobs. Strikers have appealed
to the NRA, but no action has been
taken. Mass picketing is being
urged by some of the strikers and
a closer relation with the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
1890 Hose Workers
Strike in Reading
Walk Out After Boss
Fires Two Union Men

READING, Pa, Nov. 14.-Protesting
the discharge Of two workers for
union activity and for collecting dues
in the plant, $500 hosiery workers of
the Rosedale Knitting Mills went out
on strike Monday, after the employer
had refused to reinstate the workers.
The Rossdale workers did not con-
suit the A. F. of l.. union in taking
this action, A. F. of L. officials here
declared that unless the matter would
be adjusted, the strike forecasts a
repetition OF the general strike last
summer.
The hosiery bosses are building a
company union in the plant and are
permitting collection of dues for their
union on mill premises.
The strike of the RosedaIe work
ers is the first major strike since the
betrayal settlement made by the Ma
tional Labor Board and accepted by
the A. F, Of L. officials, which ended
the militant general strike last sum-
mer and failed to force the bosses
to sign up with the A. F. Of L. the
cause for which the strike was waged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Terzani Protest
Meetings Tonight
Tag Days Called for
Friday and Saturday

NEW YOR k.-With Brooklyn
workers preparing to hold a series of
TerzaIli protest meetings this eve
ming to demand the release of Athos
Terzani, young enti-Fascist, framed
in connection with the murder OF
his eomrade Anthony F.erro, the
Terzani Defense Committee called
for volunteers to help collect funds
for the defense this Friday and Sat-
urday, as further step in the fight
to free Tenant.
Tonight's meetings will be held as
follows; Workers Center, Sill Fifth
Ave-, Brooklyn; Workers Center, 81
Bay Goth St., Brooklyn; Labor Ly-
ceum, 1877 42nd st. Brooklyn, and
Workers Center, 2874 W. 9th St.,
Coney Island.
The following stations are listed
for the Tag Day collections, where
volunteers can secure cans and Gre
dentials;
MANHATTAN-94 Fifth Ave, 7 E,
18th ST., 100 w. 72nd ST., 1184 st.
Nicholas Ave, zoos Seventh Ave.
BBOOKLYN-Downtown 1877 Mon
tegus St.; Bsnsonhurst, 81 Bay 18th
St.; Boro Park, 1877 ard ST.; Brigh-
ton, 1113 BRIGHTON Beach Ave-;
Brownsville, 2ls Sackmsn Ave-;
Coney Island, 2202 Mermaid Ave. and
1873 Sheffield Ave; Flatbush, S44
Utica Ave. and 1899 Church Ave;
Will'emsburgh, 28s s. Third st. and
1877 Tompkins Ave.
BRONX-9 w. 10th ST., 300 West
chester Ave, 2700 Bronx Park East,
1872 East fremont Ave.
QUEENS-4206 9th st. (near
Queens Plaza, Long Island City.
RICHMOND-Addresse of Staten
Island can-centers can be obtained
by telephoning Algonquin 4-2584.
Brooklyn will have third tag day,
Sunday, because Of the assembling
eli certain large crowds there that
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Push Plans for AFI
Rank and File Meet
Nov. 25 Meet to Build
Opposition Center

NEW YORK.-Sentimen is grow
Ing for the establishment of fight
ing center of the American Fedora
zion of Labor rank and file in New
York. This is being shown IN the
response to preparations for con-
fernce Of A. F. Of L. locals and min
oritv groups in other locals to be
held Nov. 20 at 8 pm. at irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th ST.,
New York.
The conference is being called BY
the New York Committee, affiliated
with the National A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief, which recently
called the Second Annual Rank and
File Conference in Washington, at
the same time as the official con-
venticn of the A. F. of l.. bureau
cracy.
The Nov. Is conference will discuss
the many important problems con-
fronting the A. F. of L. rank and
file. Unemployment insurance and
relief, the N. r. A, injunctions, equal
rights for Negroes in the A. r. of L..
exemption Of dues for unemployed,
1acketeering and gangsterism in the
A. F. OF L., and the results of the
5srd Annual Convention Of the A. F.
Of l.. and Of the Second Annual
Rank and File Conference are on the
agenda.
A main point will be the launch
ing of journal of the A. F. of l..
rank and file, which is to be called
the Rank and File Federationist," as
opposed to the American Federation
ist," organ of the A. r. of l.. Execu-
tive Council. A campaign for $500
is now under way to publish the
Rank and File Federationist" by the
middle of December.
A. F. Of L locals and militant min
ority groups are urged to send dele
gates to the Nov. IS Conference at
Irving Plaza. Many Of these locals
and groups are being visited by rep
Of the A. F.. or L. Trade
Union Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Heads OfCOmmunist
Party Bid Farewell
to Mann, Barbusse
Send Greetin gs to
European Workers
at Banquet

NEW YORK, NOV. 15-'T have seen
Uncle Sans show once more. 7 was
here so years ago, 20 years ago, and I
expect to return in perhaps 10 years"
These were the words of Tom
Mann, veteran labor leader and Com
munist at the farewell lunch ar
ranged for him on the afternoon of
his departure for England.
In the Workers Center, on the Sec
ond floor, this last get-together was
arranged by the Central Committee of
the Communist Party to honor the
revolutionary visitors from abroad,
Tom Mann and Henri Barbusse.
when 7 return to England I shall
convey both by tongue and pen the
greetings that have been extended to
me here in America. take these
greetings not only for myssf but for
the toilers in England" continued
Tom Mann.
James Ford, chairman, struck the
keynote of the gathering by warmly
expressing thanks to these two COM
rade5 for their excellent work in RAJ
lying the American workers against
imperialist war and against the sys-
tenn that breeds war. 1--WE have taken
time off from our endless round of
activity to bid goodbye and express
our solidarity with ths workers Of
your countries" declared Comrade
Ford.
Henri Barbusse greeted Tom Mann.
In the easy flow of words typical Of
Ba-busss, he expressed admiration of
so brave and good comrade as Tom
Mann, for his splendid activity. He
said that he was honored to be at
this gathering not only because Tom
Mann was an old friend of his, and
an old comrade fighter, but bscause
he, an intellectual of bourgeois origin,
and Mann, of proletarian origin,
worker for the past So years, have to-
gether toured the country in the in
terest of the fight against imperialist
war and capitalism.
The fraternaI saiutations of the
French workers were extended in his
farewell to this labor leader of
England.
Joseph Freeman, editor of the New
Masses, and staff writer of the Daily
Worker, who toured the country with
both Mann and Barbusse, conveyed
the greetings of the Daily" and its
thousands of readers to the workers
of France and England.
Here is one" he said, "a worker
for more than half century, an or
ganizer, labor leader, with the mind
of an intellectual. Here is the other,
an intellectual, writer, a poet, with
all the fighting spirit of militant
working class leader. This symbolized
the unity Of workers and intellectuals
and their welding together into Com
munist fighters"
Anna Shultz. exile from Nazi Ger
many, spoke briefly and wildly of
the bravery of Dimitroff, Taneff,
Torgler and Popoff. Her words were
closed with the fighting slogan of
the German working class, "Rote
'FRONT.'" Other speakers were Charles
Krumbein, district organizer of the
Communist Party; William Patterson
of the LID, and Moissaye ], Olgin,
editor of THE Freiheit."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Boss, AFL Gangster
Tie-Up Is Revealed
in Fur Union Case
Ida LANCER, Widow of
Murdered Leader,
Testifies

NEW YORK-Yesterday's Supreme
Court hearing of the injunction case
against the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union ended in hasty
adjournment, at the request Of the
:. F. Of L. plaintiff unions counsel,
S testimony being given on the wit
Tess stand by Philip Brown, former
member and business agent Of the
llaintiff union, brought nearer home
he charges made by the Industrial
Union that the A. F, of L. officials
cited with the bosses in a campaign
Il coercion and violence to force the
ur workers to join the dummy COM
5any union.
Judge Gayegan had Just refused TO
admit as evidence into the case an
affidavit supporting this same con-
sention, made by Louis A. Harvey,
also a former member and business
agent of the Joint Council, who,
however, faltered when on the stand
and refused to confirm the state
nents he had made in the affidavit,
and which scores of fur workers who
attended the trial remember his hav-
ng made publicly, before a mass
meeting Of thousands Of fur workers
in Cooper Union last June. Browns
statements on the stand tailed with
what beth of them said at the
Coocer Union meeting.
Ida LANCER. widow OF Morris Lam
ger, leader of this Fur Dressing Dye
ing Department OF the N. T. w. I. u,
who was murdered by the bosses
gangsters for his militant work in
behalf Of the Industrial Union. tes-
tilted yesterday. She said she had
identified Jaks Schulman, who is
now a business agent of the Joint
Council" as one of the three men
whom she saw running away from
the garage where a bomb planted in
his automobile killed her husband at
one o'clock in the morning of the
murder.
Null, attorney for the plaintiffs,
objected st-enuouslv throughout to
her testimony, which mads a sensa-
ton in court, but was unable to pre-
vert her from giving it. JUDGE Gave
gan indicated, however, that he
thought her testimony to be slight
evidence" and promised to consider
Ii as such.
Fur workers who appeared yester-
day, either to refute contentious OF
violence made against the N. T. w.
I. u, or to tell of terrorism, beat
ings and murders committed by the
gangsters Of the A. F. of L. union,
included besides Mrs. LANCER, Fannie
Warschafsky, 20, an active member
of the Industrial Union who works
as fur finisher; Max Schwartz
Clara Nelson, Sol jacobson, Diem
sky, Paul Skolnik, Max Ost-over,
Mary Fleiscilman and George Katz.
AS testimony concerning violence
and gangsterism on the part of the
fur bosses and their A. F. Of l.. agents
assumed Overwhelming proportions,
the judge stopped it by declaring that
he would hear no more evidence
about violence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Free [. H. Stone in
Richmond a.Strike
Dockmen Fight NRA;
Free Organizer

RICHMOND, Va. - Packing the
court room, lonqshoreInen and other
workers forced Judge Haddon to dis
miss the case against T. H. Stone, or
qanizer OF the International Labor
Defense, who had helped 125 striking
dock workers fight an N.R.A. wage
slash. During the tWo-hour trial,
Stone assailed the alliance of big
business with N.R.A. to reduce the
workers standards of living.
When the wages of the longshore-
man were cut in compliance with the
MIRA. to an average CT IS cents an
hour, they formed the Marine Work
ers industrial Union TO help them
win their demands Of IS cents an
hour; 20 bags to the sling; and rec
ignition Of the Workers Committee.
The Richmond Unemployed Coun-
ell and the LID. were modified to
help the longshorenlen win their
strike. With all but two of the l25
strikers out on the picket line the
workers rejected boss Potts conlpro-
mise offer of IS cents an hour. After
with interfering with the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16

you mowO who don't mean thing
in his life.
And all through, Myrna. The ga
dy" of the title. She's no lily herself,
OF course, and handy with tricks Dor
dering on the feminine. She plays
square with Otto Kruger. who plays
the Larry Fay part. Returns his lew
els when she leaves him to marry Max
because she wants to start from
scratch. And she makes a splendid
wife, forgiving as hell on the basis of
the conviction that underneath the
cashier and the chlorine and the de-
butantes, Max is just boy. The new
Baer ideal Is an improvement over
Jimmy Cagney and Lee Tracy and
William Gargan. He's straight Will
liam Wycherley in his morals, only
dumb. And 10y is the current Holly
wood woman: with past, to be sure
but noble in her absolute dedication
to the career Of the broker, football
player or fighter of her choice.
MOTE the commanding admiration.
~ desire and nostalgia for easy
money. Robin Hood and D'Artagnan
never had the glamour and impress
siveness of the Hollywood gangster.
He's no longer the staggering bully
along Capone lines or the Public
Enemy of Wallace Berry days. The
trigger man of "The Pri5efighter and,
the Lady" Is attractive polished
generous dangerous sensitive Otto
Kruger. He's the vehicle for the
conviction of the Hollywood writer
that "the love stuff you read about
In books is boioney." He's too hon
est for that. When his adopted
son" and bodyguard Jagged so, how
original, how quaint) offers to spill
Makes CUTS into some alley Otto
shakes his head, puts up the fight
er's $4,000 guarantee for the Car
nera bout instead. He gives the boy
chance after chance to prove his
love for the 10y and when he's sat
isfied, you get the sort of graceful
exit you have learned to expect
from Cyrano de Bergerac, not Legs
Diamond.
THESE are your Hollywood heroes,
the American institutions which
Franklin D. Roosevelt thinks are still
solid as the Rock of Gibraltar:
Max Baer, your next heavyweight
champion, the staggering moron pug.
The glittering Woman Who Has Lived
but transcends her past to become
suhordinated to her husbands career,
wonans Great Function. The glori-
fled gangster. And the press of check
and double check. The Rock of Gil
braltar is all wet at the bottom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Huge Needle Trade
Protest i'm Arena

NEW YORK.--ThOusands Of nee
die trades workers will pack Lincoln
Arena, 69 w. seth St., tonight in a
huge protest meeting to voice their
opposition against the latest at
tempts Of the bosses and A. r. of L.
bureaucrats, Socialist leaders and
state and federal governments to
smash their fighting Industrial
Union
Irving Potash, secretary of the
New York District of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
viii be chairman. Among the speak
ers are Ben Gold, Louis Hyman,
Joseph WinogradsSy, Mary NigreIli,
Lyndon Henry and Fred Bieden-
kapp, leader of the Shoe Workers
Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
'PAROLED" CONNECTS ROBBED
OF THEIR LIBERTY

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8.-Nearly
100 conyicts in the Pennsylvania East
ern Penitentiary, eligible for parole,
are being kept indefinitely because
they have no jobs promised them.
Authorities fear that disorders may
arise If the men despair of gaining
their freedom through legitimate
means
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16
Send-Off Tonight
for N. j. Delegates

NEWARK, Nov. ia mass
send off for New Jersey delegates
to the Anti-Lynching Conference
In Baltimore, Nov. Is and 10, will
be held tonight at s o'clock at the
Dreamland Academy ON Beacon
st. The meeting will be addressed
by Louise Thompson of the Ma
tional Council of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, Sam
Strong, district organizer OF the
international Labor Defense, and
Gyser Mango.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16

vas Two hundred pounds OF
curly-haired dynamite" and g
personality" a real back tc
fundamentals ideal OF womankind
Now have seen the boy In the rims
and at dressing room range and al.
though I have a notion about Just
how much press agents can do, such =
complete and successful job wai
mildly puzzling. Baer had struck me
as third-rater who's too dumb tc
know he's hit and the color anglc
filed with the National Recovery
Act, Carveth Wells and Cameras
terrific right uppercut."
The real ecstatic raves we're pulled
by the Syndicated lady reviewers who
seem to have corner on the market
but Boehnel of the New York World
Telegram and Hail of the Times were
also more than appreciative. I still
fail to explain that complete surren-
der Of even their own technical and
what one, for immediate want of q
more accurate term, may call horse
sense standards.
uALF the footage was devoted 10
Al Makes strip act and that may
have partially dulied the percep-
lions Of the Syndicated misses. He
has fine body whose ciumsiness
is apparent only to the practiced
ring eye and he was shown under
all sorts of appealing circumstances.
He chastised buiiies and defended
the weak and flung chorus girls
across pianos with deal of fresh
ness and verve. How his yacuous
pug's face, his pathetic tap-dance
attempt and truly putrid ham act
ing went over is beyond my ex-
perienee or capacity for reflection.
Even the gullibIe cash customers
are staying away from the Capitol
i'm droyes.
If you're at all interested in the
contemporary brand of heavyweight.
boxing, in Camera or BaeT, this is
the picture you want to see. The
cioseIps here will give you real line
on their ability. Even while boxing
under instructions to lose, the real
fighter will retain a degree of shift
mess ard set OF elementary rules.
If You ever spent much time in
gyms or behind the typewriter dur
ing obvious tank fights you realize
that. Neither Camera nor Baer are
fighters. Iii sn't that they can't
act. They can't box. To an extent
M.G.M. succeeded in covering up
Makes bum acting by giving him
the part Of guy who's dumb even
for a pug ("just a boy at hearth
but they couldn't cover up his
stature as heavyweight. He's as
much of a slow-feoted, slow think
ing. bniit-up shock absorber as the
Pisa Punk, his antagonist.
MORE interesting are the swiftly
Nl shifting Hollywood standards re-
yealed in the picture. Despite censors'
ukases against the hero's resting his
palm on a feminine posterior, the
myth of monogamy, formerly Hol-
lywood fundamental, is breathing its
last. At the beginning OF the movie
Make is dating up cashier. He's a
sailor from Australia, Singapore,
and points west," if you get what he
means. He gets tangled up with Myr-
ma 10y, the trigger mans mol, but
that don't put no crimp in his style.
A society gal who's all for Drawn:
"Say, I wouldn't mind having him on
a pedestal in my front yard" Real
imported pagan stuff. Then more
mature society lady, bred and supe-
r.or, but captivsted. Fl. lily chorus
girl (all chorus girls are c1eap, didn't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16

THERE are fruitful points of departure from
which review of Max Baer in The Przefghter and the
Lady could be written that pity confne oneself
to the sports angle confess FASTENED to the picture in
expectation of visual treat at least Hollywood has done
beautiful fight photography.
Then the reviews unanimously enthusiastic Basr