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The Washington times., 1933-11-25

ing of the Ana
costa Citizens
Association in
t he Anacostia
Methodist Epis-
copal Church,
Fourteenth and
U StS., S. E.
One of the
most important
things accom-
pliShed was ap-
pointment of a
committee to
canvass the as
cations terri
tory and report
on persons need
The Washington times., 1933-11-25
GRETNA GREEN IN SLUMP

One Of the few days during
which the license clerk at Rock
vile issues only one marriage
license occurred at the Maryland
Gretna Green yesterday. The lone
license was issued to James T.
May, %, of washington, and Jose
phine j. Gilmore, %, Of Wolf
town Va
The Washington times., 1933-11-25
By A. J. DRISCOLL
f,Iti-ausp AasooiatinuR Editor

Five matters Of Importance to
residents of Anacostia came up
for discussion at the. last meet
The Washington times., 1933-11-25
Styles of Yesterday Feature
Fete at TakOma Park
Fiftieth Anniversary
Celebrated BY
Exhibition

One Of the most colorful and
interesting displays of the first
day of celebration of Takoma
Parks fiftieth anniversary was
the style show at the home of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
CUT HALF WAGES
OF TEACHER SUBS
No Pay cooperation"
Every Other Week

NEW YORK.-New ideas for keep
ing he load of the crisis on the
shoulders Of the working class pop
up with the rising sun every day.
Now it's tricky scheme from the
Tammany high chief of schools, Su-
perintendent O'Shea, to clip So each
day from the Sc day salary of sub
stitute school teachers of New York
City.
Listen to the way it WORKS: (from
the New York Sun, Jan 49,
Substitute A will take class for
one week, for which she will be
paid the $6-a-day wage, while Sub
stitute B will take the class for the
succeeding week on the same basis.
While Substitute B is serving, Sub
stitute A will receive no compensa-
ton and will not be required to teach,
although she will be encouraged to
cooperate with her colleague to pro-
mote smooth operation of the plan.
Substitute A viii return as teacher in
the third week, during which Substi-
tute b will be encouraged to act as
her assistant without pay. Emphasis
ourS.-Editorl
Mr.. O'Shea doesn't mention the
fact that any substitute not Co
operating" will find herself bounced
out and at the bottom of the merit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18

You are certainly aware OF Cne
fact that during the past several
years, the fur industry has under
gone series Of changes resulting in
considerable Reorganization an d
greatly affecting the working condi-
tons of the furriers. In view of this
situation the fur workers demand
several notifications and additions
to the contract, in order to improve
the conditions of the employed fur
workers and to provide relief to the
large number Of furrierS who are not
in a position, because of the crisis,
to obtain any work even during the
height of the season.
"The changes and additions re-
quested by the furriers are as fol-
lows:
mo contracting and subcontract-
ing shall be permitted in the fur in
dustry.
Every Association Manufacturer is
to contribute X per cent of his total
weekly payroll to the F'urriers Un-
employment Insurance Fund which
shall be administered by commit
tee of elected workers.
Overtime shall be limited and per-
mitted only in the height of the sea-
son and in those shops stated to
capacity.
Three additional months of equal
division of work
Workers employed two weeks shall
be entitled to equal division of work.
"Only one employer shall be per-
mitted to work in the shop.
1.-THE Union shall have the right
to discipline manufacturers who vio-
late the agreement.
There shall be no discrimination
against Negro workers. They shall
receive equal pay for equal work.
Women workers engaged in the
industry shall be paid equally with
the men for the same work.
mo impartial chairman-all dis
putes shall be adjusted by the Union
and the Association representatives.
We suggest the calling of con-
ference as soon as possible and hope
you will inform US of the date and
place convenient for you"
II Fur Shop Sstrikes
The following shops are on strike
against wage cuts, union tiiscrimina-
ton, contracting and for decent I'M
ion conditions:
Seminary Fur Co., $50 Seventh Ave. /;
H. Fuchs, LOG w. 80 ST.; Rabinowitz
& Son, 800 Seventh Ave; Lebow g.
Nissman, 245 w. % ST.; Sold & Steel,
$50 Seventh Ave; Amfanger, zaltz-
man & Eisner, $50 w. 80 ST.; Weinig
g. Schoenfeld, $50 Seventh Avenue; ;
Morris Greenbaum, 227 w. 90 ST.;
Carlstein & Bassek, 312 Seventh
Ave; S. Yedwall, 214 w. % ST.; Zibt-
ziner, 233 w. 90 st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
Brownsville Demonstration March Today for Relief Leaders, Reeas
East Side Workers
Open NeighbOrhOOd
Center on 18th st.

NEW YORK. = Many starving
workers who had never before par
ticipated in struggle for relief
unanimously pledged their support
of the E. 18th and E. 10th st. Block
Committees on the occasion Of the
opening ON Friday by the block COM
mittees of the new Neighborhood
Workers Center at SIS E. 18th St.,
Manhattan.
The great need which the workers
of this neighborhood feel for the
leadership of the block committees
and the need for their own center
was expressed in their eagerness to
serve on the committee for care OF
the headquarters and arrangement
Of the Block Acquaintance Party on
Jan. OF. Twenty workers regis
tered for the East Side Unemployed
Council; and one employed worker
lent the block committee SIS to help
pay the rent Another worker from a
mems lodging house offered to bring
workers from his house down to show
them what they could do to secure
relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
INAACP BOWS TO
SLAVERY IN MISS.
Speaker Refuses to
Fight Forced Labor

NEW YoRK.-Negro and white
workers put a crimp in the sugar
coated speech of Walter White OF
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People last
Saturday night at the Inter racial
Forum. Two hundred attended the
meeting. White offered the bosses
way out" for Negroes subjected to
Slavery in the Mississippi flood area.
After reporting that forced labor
existed on government levee work
around the Mississippi, White in an
SWer to questions by workers from
the floor, gave. as the solution" a
congressional investigation an
placed faith in bill to be intro
duced by Senator Wagner.
White could give no sensible an
swer when he was asked what would
be done after the investigation"
and Why appeal from Caesar to
Caesar?" In his answer to question
about the right of Negro majori.ieS
in Mississippi to vote and form la
Dor unions he said these rights we're
, impossible" to secure.
The Senator's Interest.
White was forced to admit that
the two Mississippi senators were in
terested only in northern contrac-
tors doing the job. He then stated
that 1t was useless to demand an end
to these conditions and said that to
expect wages similar to those paid
by the government in the north was
out of the question.
Walter White and the rest of the
N.AA.C.P. leadership have proven
themselves time and again to be the
representatives of the bosses who try
to keep the Negro workers from unit
ing with the white fellow workers in
a common struggle.
A congressional in v estigation
might expose some of the horrors
forced upon the Negro people in the
flood area, but very little or nothing
would be done about it, unless &C.
companied by a militant campaign
OF the Negro people together with
the white workers. against this
slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
WIN RENT STRIKE
In LOWER BRONX
Mass Meeting Defies
Y Cops; 24-Hour Strike

NEW TORK.-The first rent strike
organized in the lower Bronx at Sl3
Crimmins Ave. has been won under
the leadership Of the Lower Bronx
Unemployed Council and the Hoese
Committee. The duration of the
strike was only "a hours tefore the
landlord came to terms, granting all
five demands, which are:
l. 10 per cent reduction in rent.
2. Use Of better grade of coal. The
coal used filed the house with dust.
8. No eviction of unemployed.
4. Recognition of House Commit
tee.
5. Acceptance of relief checks for
rent.
In addition, the landlord agreed to
pay for sign proclainnng the strike
victorious to be hung in front of the
house.
The strike began Monday when
the landlord evicted an old woman,
tenant in the house for IS years.
Immediately, the other 10 tenants
and the Unemployed Council replaced
the furniture, formulated their de-
mands and went out on strike.
The police refused Monday to al
low the strikers to start an open air
meeting on the block because they
had no permit. However, when a
permit was applied for it was refused.
Undeterred, the strikers held their
meeting in defiance of police squad,
who hesitated before attacking the
crowd of two hundred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
MURDER CHARGES
FOR p MINERS
Movement to Free Ill.
Strikers Grows

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. IT,
Murder charges against % striking
Christian County miners we're
brought today by grand jury domi-
mated by tools Of the Peabody Coal
Company. The miners we're arrested
for defending themselves against q
murderous gunfire attack by depu-
tized thugs supplied by the corrupt
United Mine Workers offhiaIdom in
their efforts to crush the heroic
struggle Of the Christian County
miners. One miners wife and two
Lewis gunner were killed in the
shooting.
The leaders of the Progressive Min
ers of America, of which the % pris-
onerS are members, are doing nothing
to organize a mass defense move
ment for the arrested miners. They
have rejected two offers of assist
ance made by the International La
Dor Defense. Instead they are pow
wowing with the Lewis Walker mis-
leaders of the UNIV. in an effort
to settle their differences regarding
which group is to be the official
scab-herder for the Peabody COM
pany.
Mass meetings are being organized
by the Unemployed Councils and the
International Labor Defens
throughout the coal fields, where
protest resolutions are being adopted
demanding the release of the arrested
men. Miners are discussing the ques-
ton of short protest strike.
Westville miners, members of sub
district Of the United Mine Work
ers, are calling rank and file con-
ference Jan. Q, to repudiate the cor
rupt Lewis Walker machine, as we'll
as the wage-cut contract signed for
two more years by Lewis and Walk
ers This conference will also discuss
plans for organizing united front
of all Illinois miners at state con-
ference to be held in the near future.
The Westville miners, as well as
those in many other towns, members
of both the PIMA. and the UNIV,
are sending delegates to the Spring
field state conference on unemploy-
ment, to be held Jan. 24-25.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
WHAT'S ON.
Wednesday
Paterson, ". J.)

MASS DEMONSTRATION at 10 a. m. or
Wednesday morning at County Courthouse
Paterson, N j. to demand moratorium or
all county debts and interests and relief
for the unemployed. All workers of Passalc
County urged TO attend demonstration for
these demands
MEETING of Bank of q. s. depositors to.
night at p. m. at the HAS BUILDING
9Th and Lafayette SITS. Report given or
bill now before legislature allowing State
to borrow money from RF.C. All depos.
itors urged to attend.
DEBATE tonight at $40 pm. at Am.
basssdor Hall, Clairmont Parkway and 3rc
Ave. Subject: SIS Soviet Russia Justified
in Its Campaign Against Relision9" Yes
Jay Portell, OF the Friends Of Soviet Union
Natl. Comm. No--Rev. John L. Matthews
wel-known Negro preacher. Auspices FSU
East Bronx Branch.
DEMONSTRATION at pm. this after
noon. Meet at East New York, Crown
Heights or Brownsville Unemployed coun-
at Brownsville and E. N. Y. Home Relief
Buros for demanding. relief.
MEETING and discussion at Sacco-Van.
zetti Branch LID tonight at 8 pm, 792
Tremond Ave, Bronx.
OPEN FORUM on "Rent Strikes snc
Neighborhood Work" at Prospect Workers
Center, 1857 Southern Blvd, Bronx Speak
ers from Unemployed Councils
MEETING of Scottsboro lid Branch al
26l Schenectady Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y.
CLASS in Social Systems tonight at {
p.nl. at Concourse Workers Club, l349 Jerome
Ave.
MEMBERSHIP MEETING Of Unemployed
office Workers Association at Labor Tenn
pie, 242 e, l4th st. this afternoon at ] pm
sharp. Carl Winter will speak on How
Unemployed Office Workers Should Demand
Jobs or Relief"
MEETING OF Shoe Center (Boro Park a,
p. m. at ilo9 45th St., Brooklyn. All Bore
Park and Bensonhurst Shoe Workers are
invited
LECTURE by Comrade Rosenberg, Organ.
izer Of Shoe Workers Union at 1894 so
Blvd, at p. m. Subject: END OF Capt.
talist Sterilization" All shoe workers are
invited.
SINGING SECTION of Bath Beach Work.
ers Club meets tonight at $50 pm. at 1915
seth St. Brooklyn.
WEINSTEIN MASS MEETING at fremont
Workers Club. 2o75 Clinton Ave, Gao pm
FRIDAY
LECTURE by Prof. Oakley Johnson. Fri.
day, Jan. 2oth, $50 pm. II Workers zu-
u " Club, u Second Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
Vel. Members Jailed
and Beaten to Break
Strike in HObOken, NJ.

HOBOKEN, N. J.--Rocco and Pet
roni, two leading members of the
Young Communist League, who we're
prominent in the Ferguson furniture
strike, have been arrested and SEN
fenced to 80 days each for distribute
ing strike literature to the Ferguson
strikers.
Three other members of the YCL
were beaten up recently by sangsters
here in the course of the strike.
1t was by means of this police ter
ror, together with the more subtle
methods of the Musteites, headed by
Louis Budenz, that the bosses man.
aged to break this strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
LABOR UNION MEETINGS

Shoe Workers
Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial
Union calls meeting Of all unemployed shoe
workers today at s6 Fifth Ave
Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial
Union calls meeting of all shoe. slipper AND
stitchdown workers Jan. 10 at p. m. al
Irving Plaza Hall, to discuss organization
of the industry.
/Dressmakers
Leaders OF Industrial UnionA and Unity
Committee will speak at meeting Of al
dressmakers tonight right after work ir
Webster Hall on racketeering schemes o,
Metropolitan and ILGWU.
Unemployed dressmakers meet today a,
I pm. at 140 west 36th St.
Cutters will elect and install officers q,
meeting today In 1871 West 28th ct. Elec.
tions start at BON and last to 7:S0 pm
Installation ate ballots are counted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
Big Demonstration
at Franklin Street
Rent Strikes Today
1000 Joined in Mass
Meeting Yesterday;
Youth Are Active

NEW YORK.-A crowd of thou
sand met yesterday in front Of 1877
and 1892 Franklin Ave, in the
Bronx, and picketing of these two
rent strikes went on all day.
And they call for mass picketing
again todayl
Speakers yesterday from the evict-
ed tenants told how they see now in
this splendid demonstration of soli-
darity what class consciousness
means. and pledge to fight beside
their fellow workers in future strug-
giles. Speakers from the victorious
rent strikes on Charlotte ST. and
Bryant Avenue came to- join these
picket lines and help other workers
to victory. Speakers from the Ameri-
can Workers Club, District 2, of the
Communist Party, Bronx Workers
Club, 10th st. Block Committee, and
numerous Womens Councils and
other block committees pledge con-
tinued support of their organizations.
Mover Helped Evict.
The hatred of the whole neighbour
hood is rising against Weinberg
Storage Co. management, Of 1900
Washington Ave-, whose employees
helped the marshal evict tenants
from 1877 Franklin st.
Organization spreads through the
strike. The first Youth Block Com
mittee. that of 10th ST., was meet
ing yesterday for the second time
with rs present and is deeply in
volved in the struggle of the rent
strikers. Its meeting place was 1885
Franklin Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18

646 Stone Ave. Brownsville.
On pressure from the masses, a
permit has been obtained from the
city for the following line of march.
The workers of the East New York
headquarters will march down Ire
mont st. to HinSdale, to Suffer to
Stone and Pitkin. From Crown
Heights that crowd will march along
Atlantic to Buffalo to Dean to How
ard to Bergen to Saratoga and to
Stone and Pitkin. The Brownsville
workers will march along Stone to
Pitkin Ave.
Demands
Then the united procession will
march from Stone and Pitkin to
christopher and Belmont where they
will remain in mass meeting while
their elected committee of Is goes
in to the Home Relief Bureau in Pub
lie School $50 to present demands for:
l. Removal Of all police from the
Home Relief Bureau.
2. All workers arrested for max
ing demands on this bureau to be re-
leased.
3. No more red tape and relief to
be given registered workers within
three days.
4. Ten dollars for each family per
week, with So additional for each de-
pendant and for single workers, 81
a week.
5. Payment of rent, electricity. gas,
and coal bills for unemployed fam
lilies.
6. Removal of the Home Relief
Bureau supervisors Miss Wallace and
Rock because of their calling police
to terrorize the unemployed seeking
relief.
The march starts from the various
Unemployed Councils at l p. m. and
should arrive at Christopher and Bel
mont about 2 p. m. The crowd will
remain at the meeting there until
the committee reports back to it.
Mass Picketing
After the Home Relief Bureau DEM
onstration, workers in this section are
called to mass picket demonstra-
ton at 3 p. m. at 226 Barrett St., to
protest the eviction there Monday of
the chairman of the house committee
and support the demands of the rent
strikers. Workers mass organizations
are urged to rally their members for
this picketing.
Force Rent Payment
A Mr.. Rosen, his wife and two chill
dren were evicted Monday from a
house at 293 Christopher Ave-, owned
by Rosen's brother-in-law. He owed
only one months rent. He came to
the Unemployed Council, which sent
a committee with him to the Home
Relief Bureau where it forced the
payment of the rent in a new place
| for the Rosen family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
Cheaper Rent Battle
Goes On At 11th st.
and Ave. A; All Quit

NEW YORK.-Everybody is urged
to come and join the mass picket
line at 18th st. and Avenue A this
morning, as the battle for cheaper
rents goes on there between about &C
tenants and the landlord. The strik-
ers are solid.
Tenants in another house at 400
E. 9Th ST., under the same landlord,
also are continuing their strike for
rent reductions, and are preparing
to fight against evictions. This land
lord, who is still charging 1925
rents, is reported to be the owner
of about IS houses and buildings in
New York City. He owns them under
different companies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
City Workers Fight
O'Brien's Economy

NEW YORK. - Mayor O'Briens
economy program" of cutting the
wages of city employees boomeranged
into cut in graft for his Gibson
Committee when city workers voted
to stop contributing the l per cent
Of their salaries to the Mayors
Emergency Fund.
The mayors economy" amounts to
cutting the wages Of the city work.
ers and then shifting the burden of
relief on to the backs of the rest OF
the workers who will now have to
pay the extra tax through higher
rents, etc., to make UP for the short
age In Tanmany '.relief'.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
SEAMEN INSIST ON
MASS ACTION
YMCA Tries and Fails
to Stop Speech

NEW YORK.-The largest hall in
"Seamen's House" seamen's Y.MCA.
was crowded to the doors Monday
night to hear w. G. McCuistion of
the Marine Workers Industrial I'm
ion speak on the subject "Revolu-
tionary Mass Action VS.. Passive Re-
sistance." All six IWW. in New
York we're present to defend their
folded arm" policy but the YMCA.
refused to allow discussion.
The meeting was arranged several
weeks ago when a Ghandist spoke
there on Passive Resistance and
seanen demanded the right to an
Swef.
Just before the meeting started the
Rev. Healey, head of Seamen's House
called McCuiStion into his office. Nc
QUESTION took another member of the
union with him.
TITS off," said Healey. "You can't
speak tonight"
1--WE Don't Break Word"
Mr.. Healey," said McCuistion,
You may break your word to the
seamen, but we won't. We announced
that we would speak here tonight and
we will, regardless of interference
Healey called In officials of the
New York YMCA. and police off,
Gals and the point was argued. They
finally said they would let McCuist-
ion speak for twenty minutes. Ac-
tually he spoke for 81 minutes ex-
actly.
Before McCmstion took the floor
a Y. M. G. A. man spoke for TWEEN
ty minutes on Technocracy, giving
a very hazy account of this new tool
of the bosses. McCuistion cleared up
the point, by showing that Techno-
cracy, like other boss weapons, was
designed to confuse. and to lead the
workers into passive resistance He
denounced the I.WW. who once hired
Howard Scott, chief technocrat, to
solve the class struggle for them.
Rulers Never Passive
McCuistion analysed the passive
resistance" move as a capitalist trick
to keep the workers from fighting
back against capitalist aggression
Passivity never applied to the ruling
class, he pointed out. 1t was always
the workers, or oppressed colonial
masses, who we're to exercise passive
resistance, allowing themselves to be
treated brutally, and oppressed with
out resistance. That applied to all
cases of passivism, and legalism, as
practiced by Ghandi, the pacifists
and the IW.W.
oRfintN fIcnS
by the revolutionary unions, aboard
ships, and ashore, McCuistion showed
how the workers had won victories
by this sort OF action, under the lead
ership Of the revolutionary orgarliza-
lions.
He told of the Point Gorda. where
the crew fought for whole trip,
gaining one point after another. thru
resistance, and gained the support
of the unorganized and unemployed
seamen in two ports to helpsthem.
He cited the case Of the INN
ship Carriage, where mass action sue
ceeded, in New York Harbor in fore
ing the company to put fourteen
workaways off the ship and do the
work aboard by paid labor. The crew
of the Carriage took part in the
struggle, although they we're unor-
ganized, and the unemployed ashore
gave a hand
The talk was very successful from
the organization standpoint, since it
showed the seamen Just how revo-
lutionary union functions and how
victories are gained, even in times
of depression and industrial crisis
like tTtay's.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
Stage and Screen
"ZWEI MENSCHEN" OPENS AT
ACME THEATRE TODAY

Beginning today, the Acme Thea
tire will present "zwei Menschen."
"zwei Henschen" is dramatic love
story. The picture is screened in
the beautiful Tyrolesn Alps, with It's
gorgeous mountain pastures and its
torrents. The picture has complete
English dialogue titles. The brilliant
cast is headed by Gustav Froelich,
Charlotte Susa, Friedrich Kayssler
and Fritz Alberti The story is based
on the well known novel by Richard
Voss. "Zwei Menschen" will be
shown until Thursday inclusive. This
picture will be followed by the Soviet
film, "Woman's World" which will
have its American premiere at the
Acme on Friday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
To Build Carrier
Route for Daily
In Section Two

NEW YORK.-The Daily Worker
Committee of Section 2, Communist
Party, has undertaken to establish a
Daily Worker Carrier Route in the
territory from 14th st. to seth ST.,
East and West Sides, New York. The
Daily Worker will be delivered daily
at the rate of 10 cents per week. All
members of Section units and other
comrades are urged to get in touch
with Haglio at the Section Head
quarters as soon as there is delivery
to be made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-18
Ex-Servicemen Are
Specially Called to
WeinStein Meeting

NEW VOORHEES, ryicemen es-
pecially are invited to attend the
mass meeting tonight at $50 pm. at
fremont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton
Ave, near lS0th st.
Weinstein, himself an ex-service-
man, viii be a main speaker. Another
speaker will be Fred Biedenkapp.
Welnstein is due for trial on a
framed charge of assault in Bronx
County Court, fremont and Arthur
AYES, tomorrow at 10 am, workers
and workers organizations should
have big delegations there to de-
mand his release.