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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
WILLIAMS FREED;
FOIL SABBATINI
Labor Hating Judge
Gave Year Sentence

NEW YORK. - Charges against
Oscar Williams, young Negro worker,
arrested for participating in a DEM
onsCration at a Home Relief Bureau
in Brooklyn, were dismissed Tuesday
in the Fifth Magistrates Court,
Brooklyn. Williams was arrested
when he charged the Home Relief
Bureau with discriminating against
Negro workers in the giving Of relief.
Last week Williams was given
suspended sentence of one year by
Judge Sabbatini because he ad-
dressed an open-air meeting in pro-
test against an eviction of an I'M
employed woman worker.
Williams was in the Raymond
Street Jail during the riot that took
place there against rotten food and
bad conditions. On his release, Will,
hanls stated that, although some
prisoners were badly dubbed, the
prison authorities were nevertheless
forced to give the prisoners better
food.
The defense of Williams was car
ried on by Max Krauthamer, attorney
for the New York District, Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
Stage and Screen
Film AND PHOTO SHOWS
THEORIES ON HISTORY OF
RUSSIAN FILMS

The Film and Photo League and
the Workers International Relief are
going to present a series of show
ings on the History of the Russian
Film at the Labor Temple. 242 East
18th st. These pictures will be sup
plemented by a qualified lecturer who
will discuss the films. The pictures
will be shown in their chronological
order with stress laid on the tech
nical value and contribution of the
picture. The first showing will be
Saturday, at $50 and $50 pm
Thereafter the showings will take
place on consecutive Saturdays for 5
weeks. The price Of a subscription
TO all ten pictures is 81 and the price
for a single showing is Is cents. Harry
Alan Potamkin will be the first speak
er to discuss he History Of the Rus
sian Film" -ckets may be obtained
at the Film and Photo League. Work
ers Book Shop, Workers Barber Shop
and at the Bronx Cooperative House.
The purpose Of these showings is
TO provide money to complete the
Child Misery Film i'll time for the
National campaign of the w. !. r..
against child misery in the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
.JOBLESS BACK UP
FOLTIS STRIKERS
Mass Demonstration
at Noon Today
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
NEW YORK.-The FoItis-Fisher
Strike Committee and the Food
Workers Industrial Union has or
ganized an open air meeting and
demonstration to take place today
at the corner of lend st. and Third
Ave. today at IL neon sharp. One
Of the cRfeterias on str Ike is located
at this corner All workers are
urged to participate in the demon
s!ration and to help the FOItis- FISH
er workers win their strike.
NEW YORK.-The Greek United
Front Unemployed Committee of Ac-
ton at a recent meeting decided to
give its full support to the strike.
Besides active help on the picket
lines, etc, this committee is arrang-
ing an affair to help defray the strike
expenses. The affair will take place
at the Spartacus Club at 263 w. 25th
st. in this city on March 18th. E.
One Of the members Of this COM
mittee was able TO speak to over 300
unemployed Greek workers at a soup
kitchen run by the priest of the st.
Barbara Church at 27 Forsythe St.
on Tuesday. The speaker took the
floor inside of the kitchen while the
workers were trying TO cat the mis-
cradle food they were being given,
and he explained how the strike
started and what the strikers were
fighting for. Unanimously, these 300
unemployed workers shouted their
support OF the strike, that they would
refuse to scab OH the strikers, and
that they would come out on the
picket line and participate shoulder
to shoulder with their employed
brothers in the struTgle.
Six workers who were recently ar
rested, including patron are coming
up for trial on Monday morning at
the Essex Market Court at Second
st. and Second Ave. All these work
ers are charged with disorderly con-
duct. Their disorderly conduct con-
sisted Of peaceful and legal picketing
Of the struck Foltis- Fisher cafeterias
Cops Drive Off Rival
When the cafeteria at 799 Broad
way struck, the police we're so anxi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
STUDENTS WILL
STRIKE FRIDAY
Protest Suppression of
College Paper

NEW YORK.-The students Of
New York University have organized
against the plans of the authorities
to suppress the student organ, the
N. Y. U. Daily News, and restrict
student opinion when it shows any
signs of opposing the administration
A student strike is called for Friday
if their demands have not been
granted. The appeal to action came
as the climax to a series of struggles
for freedom of the student press.
The Student Senate, a body nom
inally representing the college, but
actually tool of the administration,
placed ten charges against the News.
The charges we're: that the paper
had made statements either directly
against the authorities. or against
the spirit of the college, and so had
been disloyal Last Wednesday the
Senate held a trial of the News, TO
which it refused to admit represent
tatives of groups working with the
paper, thus excluding about rs inn
portant witnesses.
Sidney Friedberg, managing editor
of the News, appealed to the judi
oiary to hold an open trial, but this
was refused AS he walked into the
room, a member of the court called
to him derisively, Snap it up. Fried
berg! You're wrong anyway
The editorial board refused to tes-
tify at a trial held without the wit
nesses they required The senate
then suspended the student paper,
and issued a statement that limited
publicity to its own official report.
Protest Against Senate
Suppression of the student press by
authorities has been repeated many
times. The N. Y. U. students organ
lied Daily News Defense Commit
tee, and held an open meeting last
Friday, which was attended by 800
students. At this meeting program
of action was planned, and an appeal
from the senate's decision taken to
Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of
the University. The defense commit
tee drew up a petition demanding
that the Daily News be given a public
open hearing Of all charges against
it, and that the hearing be made
with the ban lifted from the News
and the present managing board re-
tanned. The petition ends with the
resolution that, should the Senate
not comply with these conditions by
noon today, a strike is to be called
for tomorrow. The strike will in
clude the entire student body and
will last for two hours, starting at
noon. Petitions have been circulated,
and wide response has been given.
The Daily News Defense Commit
tee has printed a broadSide called
The Student Defender, which states
the resolution, and will continue this
publication until the News has been
definitely reinstated. The National
Student League is backing the stu
dent protest, and this and other
student groups have played a great
part in rallying and solidifying stu
cent opinion.
This is the second affair in New
York City this year which has proved
the effectiveness of student mass ac-
Jon in matters of their freedom and
the freedom of their press. The
Oakley johnson case at City College.
which was based on the privilege Of
students to discuss social problems,
was similar to this case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
Demonstration
Against Army
Bill, Saturday

NEW RK-The Communist
Party Section Committee of Lower
Manhattan condemns the militaristic
action Of the U. S. Senate in voting
to appropriate $370000,OOO for the U.
S. Army and for accepting the Cou-
zens Amendment which calls for an
additional appropriation Of $200O0,-
600. The Party calls upon all work
ers' organizations to resist this new
war mongering of Wall Street I'M
perialiSm
The fact that the bosses of hunger
and war have repeatedly denied the
needs Of the American working class
youth and now offer relief to the
working youth in the form Of military
camps, organized and supervised by
the generals of American Imperialism
should be a cause of great concern
to every youth, to every single work
or, and to every parent who suffers
from wage cuts and unemployment.
Stacking Cannon Fodder
The Couzens Bill provides for army
camps which will prepare thousands
of homeless young workers to be
used as cannon-fodder in the next
world slaughter, which the capitalist
class is at present preparing, and as
a reserve for fasClSm. These war
preparation proceed under cover of
fake peace paCts which were so well
used by the capitalists during the
preparations for the last world war.
On Saturday, Feb. 25 at - o'clock,
the Communist Party and Young
Communist League of lower Manhat-
tan have arranged a demonstration
on South and Whitehall SITS, to pro-
test against the proposed Couzens
Amendment, and to demand that the
$20,000000 appropriation be turned
oyer towards the relief Of the unem-
ployed as beginning toward sys-
tenn Of Federal appropriations Of Fed
eral Insurance.
United Front
Only the united efforts OF the Com
munis5s, Socialists, and all other
workers, through determined action
in their unions, among their shop
mates, and among the neighbors in
their blocks can defeat the war prep
arations of which the Couzens
Amendment is part. The Communist
Parry calls upon all workers and
workers mass organizations to send
resolutions Of protest against this bill
to the House of Representatives and
TO the President of the United STATES.
Defeat the war preparations of
the American capitalist class!
Demand all war funds be turned
over fer relief of the unemployed!
Fight for a system of Federal I'm
employment Insurance at the ex-
epense of tine government and the
bosses!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
SHOE WORKERS in
BOSTON ST R TX E
Mass Meet Today to
Help Spread Fight

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 22.-Ninety
per cent of the shoe workers of the
Clayman and Palmer shops are out
on strike for higher wages and other
demands. This morning the treers,
lasters and packing and stockoom
workers joined the walkout, signing
up with the Shoe and Leather Work
ers Industrial Union, which is lead
ing the struggle.
Militant mass picketing took place
this morning and at noon. All efforts
of the bosses agents to demoralize
the strikers have been. exposed by
the elected strike committee.
Workers in other shops are also
preparing for strike. All Boston shoe
workers are called to a mass meeting
tomorrow Thursday night at 995
Washington ST., to make plans for
spreading the fight for higher wages
and better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23

was crowded with workers. who saved
money eating there and at the same
time helped raise defense funds.
Placards, Banners Call for
Weinstein's Release
The entire Manhattan Lyceum was
colorfully decorated with huge plac-
ards and banners, which demanded
the release of Sam Weinstein and all
class-war prisoners. One placard
which covered the entire wall. stated
The Bosses Framed Weinstein. We
Must Free HIM" Another large
placard read The Socialist For
ward Helped Convict Sam Wein-
stein."
Programs Greeted With Applause
The workers loudly applauded the
excellent program Of entertainment
presented by the Maxim Gorky Union
Of Revolutionary Writers, and the
program Of revolutionary and class
ical songs by Jack Shafiran. Both
dance nails as well as the bazaar
halls in the Lyceum were filed
towards evening. Two orchestras
furnished dance music.
Today's Program
Thursday viii be International
Day at the Bazaar. The Finnish.
Hungarian and Czecho-Slovak groups
will present an International Re
view The Proletbuhne and John
Reed Club artists will also participate
in Thursdays program.
Weinstein Day, Friday
Tomorrow, Friday. will be sam
WeinStein Day at the Bazaar A
prominent speaker viii review the
Weinscein case and analyze the trial.
Funds on Friday viii be raised for
Sam Weinste.n's Defense. An unusu-
ally good program Of entertainment
has been arranged for Weinstein Dav
at the Bazaar The BG2aar will be
continued until and including. Sun
day. Doors open at pm. today.
tomorrow, and all day Saturday and
Sunday
In addition to the Weinstein Day
at the Bazaar, Open-air mass meet
ings in protest AGAINST his frame-up
end conviction will be held this Fri
day night by the Brownsville section.
L. L. D., at Hopkinson and Pitkin
Avenues, Brooklyn. and by the Bronx
Section at Prospect and fremont.
Meetings under the joint auspices of
the Wei,stsin Defense Committee
and the New York District. Interna-
tion9l Labor Defense.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, of which Sem Weins5ein is a
member, issued the following state
ment
Sam Weinstein. q worker from our
own ranks was found guilty of an
assault charge by the capitalist
frameup System which laid the
ground to railroad this innocent
worker. This case is a clear example
Of the f1erte' attack of the bosses
with the combination of the strike
breaking Socialist Jewish Daily
Forward. The Union appeals to all
workers to support the International
Labor Defense and the fight for the
freedom Of Sam Weinstein.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
IRT Men VIII
Unite Against
the Wage Cuts

| NEW YORK.-Pointing out that
| their movement is growing rapidly.
/ against wage cuts already put
| through and new wage cuts looming,
! the Group of l. r. T. Workers are
now distributing a further analysis
Of the situation and appeal for or
SANITATION among the subway and ell
evated railroad workers. Their "Bul-
letin No. g." just issued from THE
Group" headquarters in Room 222
at 799 Broadway, says
Murray Is Hard Boiled
IL r. T. workers, get together
against wage cuts and layoffsl
"Our right to exist is being decided
by the bankers and the Company.
Murray says Twenty dollars week
is enough for any subway worker"
while he demands more than thou
sand a week for himself! Murray.
the bankers mouthpiece, does not
care if we starve or our wives and
families lack necessary food and
clothing MURRAY is the receiver
appointed by the court)
The money forced from us by
wage cuts and short time is directly
appropriated by the bankers! To
accomplish their dirty work and en-
rich themselves still further, these
millionaires hired Murray and his
staff of special engineers $4,000
year., accountants and clerks, who
are all being paid with the money
squeezed out of us. More than ten
million dollars will be turned over
through the efforts of Murray and
Bowling!
More Cuts, More Lay-offs
1--WE have seen what these money
crazed bankers will do. All wages
on the I. r. T., b NJ. T.. and Eighth
Avenue have been brought down to
the same low level Eventually the
old Sixth and Ninth Avenue 81" will
be torn down. The Eighth Avenue
subway is being extended all through
Brooklyn and Queens. Consolidation
of departments will mean still more
thousands thrown out of jobs and
still more wage cuts and worse con-
ditiOns for those working!
The bankers and the Company are
working hand in hand against us.
with Jerry Dahl as the chairman of
both I. r. T. and the B. M. T. Board
Of Directors. They will enjoy the
high profits of unification with
minimum working force at starvation
wages! Hedleys bunk about a raise
in pay later is another attempt with
sweet words to stop our growing re-
sistance! Unification only means
more misery is coming for us, more
suffering for our families and loved
ones! (Hedley is the chief officer of
the company, also one of the direc-
tors of the Bank of u s., which was
looted from within and lost thou
sands of worker depositors their
savings)
Must Organize
1--WE must prepare ourselves in this
struggle to live. We cannot meet
this individually! We do not trust
the company Brotherhood with the
bosses yes-men as delegates. We
know the sell-outs and treachery of
the Amalgamated officials and the
other misleaders of the American
Federation OF Labor.
Organize now to defend our rights
for living wage, and to stop wage
cuts and layoffs-for fair working
tine
Get together. Talk it over with
your fellow wOrker."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
Workers Win Strike
in Kass Upholstery;
Join Industrial Union

NEW YORK Workers of the Kass
Upholstery Shop, led by the Furni-
ture Workers Industrial Union, forced
the boss to withdraw most of a forty
per cent wage cut and made him
recognize the shop committee before
they settled their strike with him
Tuesday.
When the unorganized employees
of this place were informed that they
would get forty per cent cut, they
voluntarily offered to accept a reduc-
ton of fifteen. This, however, did
not satisfy the appetite of their boss.
The workers of the shop Joined the
union and made him not only take
their offer but was forced to recog-
nize them as an organized power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
(Manhattdu)
YhnTSd0u

REHEARSAL Of Pierre Degeyter Club Or
chestra at IS West 10Th ST., S:l5 pm Fol
lowing instruments needed to increase size
of orchestra: Yiolns, celIos violas, string
BASES, wOodwind and brass. All musicians
interested in building revolutionary orches-
ira Of high standard please come with in
struments and stands
JOHN L. SPIVAh will talk on Georgia
Chain Gangs and William L. Patterson on
''Scottsooro" tonight at $3.50 pm. at St.
Philips Church. 20 West 18Th ST. Aus
plce5 Race Relations Committee Of ST.
Philips Church cooperating with Scoushoro
Unity Defense Committee Chairman: Mrs.
Harry L. Darcy. admission free
IMPORTANT MEETING Of all Retail Tail
scr. Cleaners and Dyers belonging to TWO
tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th and
Irving Pl.. at $3.50 pm.
OFFICE WORKERS UNION educational
meeting tonight Speaker: Robert Dunn
Of Labor Research Association. Subject:
U. S. Imperialism in Latin America Meet
ing starts ct 73O pm. at Labor Temple.
14th and Second Ave All members should
attend and bring friends
ALL MEMBERS CT Red Front meet every
Thursday and Friday az new headquarters.
eS avenue between 9Th and It'll SITS.
REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING Of
Workers EX-SerVicemen's League at 1917 W.
125th ST. ct Q pm. All members must at
tend. Important sctions TO be taken for
housing Of single vets and unemployed.
MEETING OF Jewelry Workers Ind. Union
tcnight at 6 pm. at Room 238 so e. 1lrh
ST. Important
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
CLAREMONT P'WY
STRIKE Is WON
Concentration Point
of Landlord Ass.


NEW YORK-After a rent strike
struggle OF a month, the landlord OF
Sal Claremont Parkway, a house used
as the chief concentration point of
the Bronx Landlords Association to
break the rent strikes, has given in
and accepted the demands of the
house committee. The landlord de-
Clared the impotence of Association
before the determination of the
strikers.
Demands won are, ten per cent re-
duCtion in rent, no eviction of un-
employed and payment of moving ex-
penSeS for one tenant that was evict-
ed. The members of Bakers Local
507, Of which the landlord is a mem
Der declared their solidarity with the
striking tenants. The Middle Bronx
Unemployed Council participated in
the strike and furnished pickets.
1887 Fulton
At 1897 Fulton Ave, where a strike
is going on, the landlord has served
ten dispossesS notices. The tenants
and Unemployed Council is modifying
the neighborhood to resist the evic-
ton.
There will be a mass meeting,
Friday night, in Ambassador Hail.
1915 Third Ave, Bronx, under the
auspices of the Communist Party,
Section Is. The main speaker is
Clarence Hathaway, district organ
izer of the Communist Party, who
will speak on THE Communist PO-
sitiOn on Rent Strikes"
Women Repulse Marshall
When the marshall arrived at 1913
Dawson st. where a rent strike is in
progress to eyict six tenants, the
women armed with floor mops and
rolling pins drove him away. Last
week, a tenant named Sayet was
eVicted A city garbage removal
truck with a police emergency squad
truck as escort arrived. Despite the
machine guns and gas poised ready
for action, the tenants fought against
the removal and the trucks went away
empty of furniture and prisoners.
The landlord Klein, owns four other
houses, one at 844 Dawson Ave. and
three at 99l, 993 and $50 Union Ave,
and butcher store at 1852 Fifth Ave.
Workers should remember these adj
dresses.
Block Eviction
The City Savings Bank and Trust
Co. OF Albany, which owns the apart
ment house at 1888 Longfellow Ave.
tried Tuesday to evict Fritz Beesbard,
former superintendent without an
eviction notice, but was thwarted by
the East Bronx u. G. Beesbard work
ed for six years as superintendent
and when the bank took over the
house six months ago he was dis
missed. Though there are many
empty apartments in the building the
bank, without securing an eviction
notice, is still determined to DISPOSE
ess the worker. How they were able
TO get two policemen to carry out the
JOB without eviction papers is a mys-
terry to honest working men. The
East Bronx Unemployed Council will
rally the neighhorhOod workers and
members to resist the eviction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23
CELEBRATE VICTORY WITH
DAILY PARTY

NEW YORK-Fifteen dollars was
raised for the Daily Worker at
party in Brooklyn at the home of
Comrade Sapolsky to celebrate the
victory of group of striking work.
ers in a needle trades shop. Sa-
polsky leader of the strike, and the
other workers were members of the
reactionary International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union. But as a re-
suit of the struggle, they all came
over to the militant Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, while Mrs.
Sapolsky joined Council Z, of the
United Council of Working Clase
Women, which helped arrange thu
Daily Worker Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-23

NEW YORK.-Issuing a call yes
terday from his cell in the Bronx
County Jail, Sam Weinstein urged
all workers to support the Daily
Worker in its drive for funds as one
of the most effective ways in which
to fight the frame-ups Of militant
workers by the capitalist gang. "The
Daily Worker" said Weinstein, lis
absolutely necessary in our fight
against the bosses program of star
walton and against their policy of
raiToading workers to Jail. We must
not let our fighting organ, the Daily
Worker, 60 under. We must build it
strong. We must support it to our
utmost with all our strength"
Weinstein Asked If He's Communist
A probation officer. asking Vein
stein in the Bronx County Jail, for
his past record, enquired if he was
a Communist. Weinstein replied. If
you had asked me this about year
or so ago, 7 would have answered. No.
But since the strike CT my fellow
furniture workers in Brooklyn, I've
learned that I belong to the working
class and that I must fight Tor it.
Ny trial, and the vicious verdict
conWcting me has made me only
more determined to fight for the
rights of the working class against
oppression b. the capitalist class. II
thai is Communism, I'm a Commu-
mist
Workers Jam l. L. D. Defense Bazaar
IL answer to the frane-up OF Sam
Weinsjein and other class war p~is-
oners, thousands Of workers jammed
Manhattan Lvceum, &c Fest Fourth
Street. yesterday, on the opening day
OF the International Labor Defense
Bazaar Hundreds OF the 10000
articles that wee on sale at low
prices vera bcuqht by workers
anxious to help raise a defense Fund
for carving on the faint to release
Sam Wainstein. Tom Scott. Angelo
Fernoon, the ScoJtsboro boys. Tom
Mooney and ether victims CT the
ruthless capitalist frame-up system.
WORKERS Came Early
Soon e9te- the doors of Manhattan
Lyceum were opened yesterday. at
pm. workers and their families
started filing the bazaar halls. The
restaurant. which served delciously
prepared iocd at proletarian prices