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Evening star., 1934-05-14
Society Women Flocking
To Hollywood and Movies
Many Are Applying for Screen Tests, While
Others Have Already Been Awarded
Roles-Millions and the Box Office
ADELAIDE HIBBARD,
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

r HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May IA.
II The social light brigade is
| charging Hollywood once
L i again. Out of the drawing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Kirchik, Beckerman Shoe
Strike Continues Firm

NEW YORK.-Defying police, the
100 strikers of the Kirchik and Beck
erman shoe shop at 1913 Berry St.
Brooklyn are keeping their ranks
firm, determined to continue their
strike until the bosses agree to main
tain conditions in accordance with
the union agreement which they
broke.
Ten days ago, the bosses locked out
the workers when they refused a
wage cut in violation of the agree
ment which the bosses had with the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union. The Boot and Shoe Union.
which the bosses are anxious to have
in the shoe industry, have supplied
scabs to this shop and are actively
aiding in the work Of Strikebreaking
Seven pickets have been arrested
IN mass picketlng demonstrations
thus far. Flcketing continues daily
at the shop despite strong force Of
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
LOngShOremenFight
Job Discrimination

NEW YORK. 49, Six hundred long
shoremen fought for the right to
vork and against discrimination in
the shape-up at the United Fruit
Docks, Pier 2, North River, yesterday.
There were only $50 jobs offered
the 600 longshoremen, but indication
Of what the shipping bosses would do
with their decentralization scheme
were evident in the discrimination
practised against the men in making
selections for the jobs.
First come, first served" was the
demand voiced by the men in a spon-
famous outburst when they saw men
who had arrived much latter, being
chosen for jobs out of favoritism.
Cops were called and the 600 workers
were herded on a platform. After
$50 had been chosen for the jobs, the
cops drove the others off.
The police put over the bluff Of
trying to settle things fairly" thus
helping the bosses in their discrimina-
tory tactics
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
More Mines Shut in
Anthracite Strike
Continued from Page y

coal operators, the government and
the Public This means that il
the proposal of Father Curran is ac-
cepted, that the strike will be called
Off. The rank and file miners see
in this another scheme of Maloney
to send them back to work, without
any Of the conditions of which they
complain being remedied.
Six Arrested
Three miners were arrested in
Pittston for violating the injunction.
and carrying deadly weapons.
Three others were arrested in
Scranton for violating injunction,
but later released.
Maloney is making a mystery of
the calling Of the Convention, with
the statement that he has an ace in
the hole and will play it tomorrow.
Because of pressure from the rank
and file he says that the Conven-
ton will take up the question Of
spreading the strike to Districts Seven
and Nine, which center in Hazleton
and the lower anthracite. The rank
and file opposition warns the Min
ers against the proposal of Father
CuJTan as a strike breaking weapon,
and says that there is no difference
In his present proposal and the one
which he offered previously and
which the Miners rightfully rejected.
They call upon the Miners 10 smash
inc Injunction by mass violation, and
to spread the strike and stay out until
the demands Of the miners ere met.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Unemployed Women
Demand City Aid
Commissioner Is Forced
TO Hear Delegates

NEW YORK.-TWenty unemployed
women, representing $4,000 unem-
ployed women in New York, went to
see Commissioner Hodson Tuesday.
His secretary told the women to
come back early next week.
Hodson came out unexpectedly,
flanked by four detectives, said I'm
sorry" in cultured tones and rushed
into the waiting elevator. The group
Of delegates fastened to City Hall to
lay their demands in the reform"
Mayors hands-with no success.
The women stood their ground
and finally Hodson saw them. He
said: I'm in favor of unemployment
insurance. We can't give the 81 cash
relief on account of the Wick's law,
but am trying to have this amend
ed. I'm not afraid Of anybody. Please
bear in mind that you can't intimi-
date me-" He ignored the request for
public hearing.
The unemployed women demand
ed: Cash relief of 81 week; vacant
public buildings to be used as homes
for unemployed women; employees in
such buildings to be paid standard
union wages; all unemployed, home
less women to be given relief without
delay, regardless Of length of resi-
dence in the city.
A Women's Unemployment Con-
ference will be held at Irving Plaza
Hall. Jan. %, at pm, where a cam
paign will be launched for these de-
mands and delegates will be elected
for the National Unemployment Con-
vention in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Hardware Workers on
Strike, Led by T.U.U.C.

NEW YORK.-The Hardware and
Crockery Workers Union, under the
guidance Of the Trade Union Unity
Council, called a strike on Jan. Is,
against the wholesale hardware
sweatshops of L. Teich and Sons, ii
Greene ST., Weissberg Bros. 472
Broome ST., and Geringer and Weiss,
rs Greene ST.
The shops are completely paralyzed,
with the picketers refusing to permit
any trucks to collect or deliver mer-
chandise. The workers at the struck
stores are determined to stay out
until their demands for recognition
OF their union and for better work.
ing conditions, specifically The de-
crease of working hours Of the in
side and outside men to 40 and 4S
hours, respectively, are met.
The union, six months old and with
a membership Of 800, has already won
two strikes, one at the National Wood
enware, North 3rd st., Brooklyn, and
the other at D. L. Horowitz, 45l
Broadway N. Y. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

"'Quit your kdding!' shouted
the director after he tired himself
out laughing.
We blushed all the way down to
our hairy ankles and talked Of
calling a demonstration or some
thing. But we convinced him at
last. And We won the basketball
game, too, 20.
"The other team failed to show
up, you soc.
But we've grown since then, at
least 200 per cent in N. Y. U. and
somewhat less than that in the city.
And we've got new material. And
although this will be our first game
Saturday, Feb. 8, I've got a strong,
If sneaking, suspicion that well
spring a big surprise.
1--WE want you to be there, speak
and referee the game. See for your
self If the SANDER against us is in
any way supportable. And you can
bring your better half for the dance.
too, you know. What say, SIP viii
you accept?
Comradely,
JERRY ARNOLD,
For the NY. Chapter, N.S.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Striking Dressmakers
Parade in Garment Area

NEW YORK.-Two hundred strik-
ers of the Mailman and Sanger Shop,
462-7th Ave, as we'll as the st-ik-
erS Of the Coreen Dress Co., 370 w.
35th St., Dotty Mae Dress Co. of
212 w. 35th ST., Len-J Costume
striking against VIM, Bass, 550-7th
Ave, paraded and demonstrated to-
day in the garment center, and
called on all other workers to assist
them in winning their strikes against
wage cuts and reorganization.
The workers expressed their soil
darity with the strikers by con-
tributing towards the relief fund OF
the strike,
The strikers are demanding the
maintenance of union conditions and
are determined TO force the with
drawal Of wage cuts and the rein
statement Of all workers despite the
strikebreaking acts of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Union officials
who are furnishing scales to the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Led Demonstration for Relief
Court Helps to Frame
Negro Worker Accused
of Annoying White Girl

NEW YORK.-DesrGte his denials
Of guilt, his previous good record, and
case which was built solely upon
circumstantial evidence, Henry Ar
tope, Negro worker living at 204 w.
14eth St., was found guilty by Magis-
trate Goldstein, Jan. 16, in West 54th
st, night court on a charge Of IAN
noying" a 17-year-old white girl.
Although Bargery Durkin, the
white girl, testified that after the
alleged attack she ran up six flights
of stairs to notify a boy friend
George Sotorio, Of the incident, and
the friend had to run down the same
stairs, which would give anybody
plenty of opportunity to run away,
Atorpe. who was passing at the time,
was arrested as the annoyer.
The Scottsboro Branch OF the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
go W. 63rd ST., formed a committee
to investigate the charge against
Artope, and the findings of this COM
mittee were that the Negro worker
was entirely innocent. The Scots
boro Branch is therefore calling a
mass protest meeting on Friday, Jan.
10, at 8 p. M, at the Reindeer Rest,
202 w. 63rd St., at which Artope,
the framed-up worker who was very
patronizingly placed under probation
for one year by the Judge, will tell
what happened. Richard B. Moore,
will be the main speaker at this
meeting, which workers, particularly
those living on the West Side Of
Manhattan, are urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Senate Comm. In
Secret Session AS
Trade War Grows
(COntiaaed from Page y


going on. 1t is a fact that Roose-
welt would like to reach an inter-
national understanding for "stabili-
cation" of ourrencies after he has
driven the dollar down-but he is
no more ready to make concessions
now than he was at the late Lon
don economic conference.
Green Appears
The Roosevelt characterization
plan today brought William Green,
Top Sergeant Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor bureaucracy, to
speak before a Senate Subcommittee
not against imitation, but merely for
q restoration Of paycuts to Federal
Government employees
Appearing before a Senate Appro-
priationS Subcommittee, Green asked
this group to give back to govern
ment workers a ten per cent cut,
which the House carefully voted to
continue before the Roosevelt infa-
ton program was announced. With
out uttering one word against the
dollar devaluation program, Green
said:
IF dollars are to be worth less.
workers must earn more of them"
Helped Cut Wages
The hypocrisy of that remark
should be well known to Green-for
he sat in on many of the MIRA. pro-
ceedings in which workers pay was
rigidly fixed in MIRA. codes, and, as
member Of the National Labor
Board, participated in breaking
strikes against low N.R.A. wages.
Take No Action
In response to question, the pub
Lefty representatives OF the A. F. of
L. informed the Daily Worker cor
respondent that no action had been
taken by the Federation on the Roose-
Welt program. 1t will be taken up, 1t
was said, at meeting on Jan. "a.
BY that time the Roosevelt program
probably will have been signed and
sealed into law.
Forced by Rank and File
The appearance Of Green and other
A. F. of L. officials against the pay
cuts was forced by a sharp move
ment in the rank and file of govern
ment-workers' unions. They have
been campaigning against the pay
cut, with the aid of local newspapers.
ever since it was administered, Real
hopes of winning the fight, however.
eVaporated when the House voted last
week to restore per cent, instead
Of the full Is per cent.
The governments action in con-
tinuing ten per cent of the pay-cut
to its own employees will have strong
influence as an example to private
employers to hold wages down despite
price increases. Green said that be-
fore the government pay-cut, wage
cuts reported to him were something
less than 300 every three months and
that afterward, the total rose to 1900
in three months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
800 knitters Pledge
United Front TO Reopen
N. II. A. Code Hearings

NEW YORK, - Three hundred
hand Bnitters of International,
United Textile and Industrial Union
shops, enthusiastically pledged to
continue the struggle for decent
minimum wage scales and for the
IS hour week, at meeting called last
night by the Knitgoods Workers In
dustrial Union.
A resolution was adopted by the
workers declaring that they will fight
to establish the minimum scale of
S1.13 in ell shops, to maintain the
IS hour week and against the
adopted code. The resolution pledges
TO work for unity among the knit
goods workers regardless Of union
utilization. The resolution will be
sent to General Johnson.
The meeting endorsed the Unity
Shop Conference of representatives
Of all knitted outerwear shops to be
held Saturday, Jan. goth, at II noon,
in Irving Plaza Hall All arrange
ments for this conference will be
made at a shop chairman's meeting
to be held on Wednesday at Irving
Plaza
shop chairmen of 40 shops have
already signed resolutions demand
ing revision of the MIRA. slave code
and asking johnson to reopen code
hearings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
NaziS Refuse to
Free 4 Acquitted
Fire Defendants
Continued from Page y

A(NttVbfbttSlb JfUNt 4 UyC
lives Of all four defendants are in
the gravest danger and any day the
Nazis may report that they were
shot while attempting to escape" as
IN the case of numerous other Com
munists murdered in the Nazi jails
and concentration camps.
The present categorical refusal of
the NaziS to free the defendants cpn-
traSts with previous lies of the Nagis
that they were arranging for the de-
portation Of the three Bulgarian de-
PENDANTS. Clearly these lies were is
sued to stem the mass anger rising
in all parts Of the world. The world
wide mass protest movement, which
forced admission OF their Innocence,
must now be intensified to halt the
hands Of the Nazi executioners reach
ing for these heroic leaders Of the
working class. Workers! Intelec-
tualsl Anti-FaScists everywhere!
Organize protest actions! Deluge the
German government and its embas-
sizes and consulates in this country
with your angry protests! Demand
the safe release and departure from
Germany of the acquitted Commu-
mist Reichstag defendantsl
NEW YORK-The N. Y. Commit
tee to Aid the Victims of German
Faseism calls on all organizations and
individuals to participate il the anti
fascist tag days, Jan. 81 and rs, to
raise immediate funds for safety
measures for the four Reichstag de-
PENDANTS and other victims of Ger
man fascism.
All organizations and individuals
are urged to get i'll touch with the
N. Y. Committee at $40 Broadway
Immediately.
LONDON, Jan. 17.-British work
ers, demanding the release Of the
four Reichstag defendants, battled
police who blocked their march to
the German Embassy yesterday.
The demonstration was supported
by many organizations who had
elected committee to present the
demands of the British workers on
the Nazi Embassy for the safe re-
lease and departure from Germany
of the four Communist leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
People Of Harlem
to Protest Terror
Hold ScOttsbOrO Meet
on Saturday

NEW YORK.-A united front DEM
onstration against the raging lynch
terror and for the release Of the
Scottsboro Boys will be held Saturday
afternoon, Jan. q, 2 O'Clock, starting
at 131st st. and Lenox Ave. The
demonstration is initiated by the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights,
supported by the Internationa Labor
Defense and other organizations.
In preparation for the demonStra-
ton q series Of street and indoor
meetings will be held between now
and Jan. q. A special class and
speakers conference is also called for
Saturday, Jan 20, at the 7, L. D,
headquarters, 236 Leuox Ave, at 5
o'clock,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Police Club, Arrest
Young Workers Seeking
Relief Promised Them

BROOKLYN, N. Y-Police yester-
day dubbed single unemployed work
ers who applied for relief at the
Brownsville Home Relief Bureau at
public school $50, Christopher and
Belmont SITS, Six workers we're ar
rested.
After a meeting with Brooklyn
C.W.A. Administrator Heany on
Monday, 9 delegation representing
300 young workers were promised re-
lief if they applied at their respec-
tive Home Relief Bureaus. When the
Brownsville delegation appeared at
the relief station they were met by
police and refused admittance. At
the insistence Of the workers a dele
cation Of four were admitted. When
The delegation refused to permit the
relief authorities to deal with them
separately, the entire delegation was
forcibly elected.
When they attempted to hold g
meeting outside the relief station to
report to the workers, the police
charged and dubbed the workers and
arrested six
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
WOmen's Committee to
Protest Smuggling of
FmW orkers, Thursday

NEW YORK.-The Women's Com
mittee of Action of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
which is organizing the women men,
bers and the wives of members of
the union, will hold q protest meet
ing at Irving Plaza Hall, Jan. 8, at
6 pm, against the terroristic attacks
on the fur workers i'll the fur mar
ket by the A. F. of L., and their
hired gangsters.
The meeting will map plans for 8
demonstration before La Guardia at
City Hall to demand the right of the
furriers to belong to a union of their
own choice, the removal of gangsters
and police from the fur market, COM
pensation to the families of the VIC
Tins of guerrilla attacks on frame
ups, and other important demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
City Events
T.U.U.C. 70 HEAR sHEPPARD

TU.U.C. TO HEAR SHEPPARD
Henry Sheppard, who Just returned from
Cuba. where he investigated the revolu-
tiopary trade union movement and general
conditions, will speak at g meeting Of tho
Trade Union Unity Council to be held to-
morrow at 1850 pm. at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum, 66 [. 4th st. Election of new officers
an delegates to the Unemployed Conyen-
tion in Washington will also take place.
ANTI-FAsCIST COMMITTEE MEETS
An important meeting Of the New York
Committee to Aid the Victims Of German
Fascism will be held tonight at a:30 at
$40 Broadway, to prepare for the arrival
Of Lord Marley to this country.
PoYNTZ TO SPEAK ON LAGUARDIA
Juliet Stuart Poyntz will speak on What
LaGuardias Economy Plan Means TO the
Working Glass Women" at the Bronx CO.
operative Auditorium, 200 Bronx Park e.,
tonight at PM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18


nliys, vice consul in New York City,
present at the hearing, 1t is reported,
and the Japanese will be asked 30
present their passports for exarnina-
ton
The japanese are said 10 have in
their possession at the time of their
arrest seven cameras, three of them
motion picture cameras.
EAsTON, Md, Jan. 17.-C. W. A..
funds will be used for immediate
construction of a chain OF airplane
landing fields extending from Havre
de Grace to Ocean City and includ-
ing points on the eastern shore of
Virginia, it was announced yesterday
by Colonel William D. Upton of Bal
timore, State Supervisor of Airport
Construction under the C.WA. Work
already has been started on those
at Easton, Cambridge, Crisfield, Sails
bury and Hayre de Grace, as U. S.
Imperialism rusheS its preparations
for war at home and abroad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Cafeteria Union Grows
in Successful Strikes

NEW YORK.-As result Of a
number Of successful strikes led by
the Cafeteria Workers Industrial
Union in the last ten days, 200 new
members have joined the union.
Strikes have been called at Ryan's
Bar and Grill at 48th Street and
Broadway, and at the White Rose
Open Kitchen at 259 Broadway for
shorter hours and pay increases in
the past week.
The Popular Lunch Co. at 37th st.
and Eighth Ave. has just signed a
union agreement conceding substan-
tial gains to the workers. The Acad-
envy Lunch, located at 142 18th ST.,
granted wage increases and signed up
with the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
.NRA Appointments
Speed HOOk-up To
" ar Department
(Contia1Ned ION Paae u

tC0nt17tUed from Page u
representative on the price fixing
Committee of the War Industries
Board.
The N.R.A. also includes General
C. c. Williams, former Chief of Ord
nance of the United States Army
now a division administrator. The
October IA, 1888 Army and Navy
Journal thinks a great deal Of Gen.
eral Williams. 1t says:
They are saying at the N.R.A
headquarters that Major General c.
c. Williams, formerly Chief OF the
Ordnance Department of the Army,
who is negotiating the codes for the
Chemical Industrial Industry, has
been getting more codes adopted with
less friction than any other admins
TRAITOR. Nice work, General"
General Williams was one of the
star witnesses before the War Policies
Commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
La Guardia Deputy
to Testify Against
eO.POWerSTOday
Workers Urged to jam
Courtroom at Trial
of Militant Leader

NEW YORK.-George Powers, mill
tant trade union leader and candidate
for Queens Borough President on the
Communist ticket in the recent city
elections, stands trial today at
10 a. m, at General Sessions
Court, Criminal Courts Building,
Center and Franklin Streets, on
framed-up charges Of ''rioting," Incl
ting TO riot and assault on the police. -
One of the chief witnesses against
Powers is Deputy Nc Aulife, recently
returned from political exile in
Staten Island by Mayor La Guardia-
Nc Auliffe was brought back osten-
sibly to fight the slot-machine racket
but is known to workers principally
for his brutal slugging Of unemployed
demonstrations
Led Demonstration for Relief
Powers was arrested with number
Of other workers when he led de-
monstration at City Hall, demanding
that all relief bureaus remain open
Two days after the meeting Tam
many voted s5,0OO,OOO for relief,
The International Labor Defense
urges all workers to pack the court
room on Thursday and support the
I. L. D. against the attempted frame
up Of Powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Go HOmer $50 CWA
Workers Told When
They Call for Jobs
Cop Beats and Arrests
Painter for Moving
Too Slowly

NEW YORK.-Two hundred and
fifty G. ". A. workers got real taste
Of the c. W. A. when they were
chased away yesterday from City
College, 18TH st. and Convent Ave,
where they had been told to report
with their tools for immediate work.
Some had been waiting for more
than FIVE hours in the cold. At 1890
pm. they were informed that there
we're no Jobs, and that the down.
town c. w. A. office knew there
we're no Jobs and shouldn't have sent
them When they refused to move
d riot call was sent in by the G. W. A.
official and 20 cops arrived and dis
persed the workers.
Fioravante Aragona, painter,
standing on the corner, waiting to
nave his picture taken by a news
paper cameramsn, was assaulted by
a COPY and arrested when he moved
too slowly. At the Magistrates Court,
151st St. and Amsterdam Ave, he was
found guilty, with suspended SEN
tence. by Judge Walsh, who intimi-
dated him and would not allow him
time to be represented by lawyer
from the International Labor De-
tense.
Several workers and a student, L.
Banishikoff, who had witnessed the
assault, testified in Aragona's defense.
National Student League and League
for Industrial Democracy members
united with the workers in packing
the court.
After they had been dispersed by
the police, many of the workers went
To the downtown C.WA. office to
protest. Almost all promised to re-
turn TO City College today to demand
Jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
No Horn >Rimmed Basketball

FINALLY, finally the has turned. Wrigging fran
tcay in the dust it has decided to go gym and learn
to box and play basketball.
The thought of the lowy insect is of course only allie
gorca and friends of the National Student League soud
not feel aggreved We cled pink by their letter. pub
ished herewith The sight of militant student striker an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Sheet Metal Workers
to Meet on Campaign
for Relief or Jobs

NEW YORK.-All members Of the
Independent Sheet Metal Workers
Union and all unorganized sheet
metal workers are urged to attend
a special meeting on Jan. 10, at 7:3O
p. M, at 800 Broadway, for the pur-
pose of taking steps for a campaign
for jobs or relief for the unemployed,
and for preparations for an organi-
rational drive on open shops.