The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Pd1mchy AL. Boys 10 Throw
Big Party for NRA President
Strike on at Waldorf, But
Blinds viii Be Pulled
Down
By SENDER GARLIN

What are you doing tomorrow
night2
If you're not tied up, I'd urge you
to step out g bit, and meet nice
class OF people.
There's going to be a big shindig
at the Waldorf Astoria Wednesday /
night in honor Of Frank Roosevelt, |
you know, the President, and I
thought you might like to come on
over. You see, it's Franklin's Sind |
birthday, and Organized Labor" is
calling on everybody to Join in the |
celebration.
Informal Gathering
The National Committee labor |
Division) of the Birthday Ball for
the President, tells all about it on |
neatly printed announcement. |
which they Just got out. The boxes
on the main floor seat eight persons,
and are priced at 5000, and it would |
be good idea to get together with !
some other fellows and hire one Of
the boxes; it'll be more cheerful in |
a group. You can horse around and |
have damn swell time with your
own gang. If you don't mind being |
alone, though, you can buy an indi-
vidual ticket for only $500. This |
will entitle you to the entertainment, |
buffet supper, and dancing.
The affair won't get under way, |
until about SO o'clock, so you can
make it without any trouble. If |
you're standing in line in front OF i
the Home Relief Buro tomorrow
even if you don't get your troubles !
listened to until about closing time. |
you can still make the affair, al
though you nightn't have much time |
to go home to freshen up a bit.
The affairs to be held at the WAL |
dorf- AStoria, where the walters and
others are out on strike. The picket |
line outside the hotel might be a
little disturbing, but 'Labor's' ar
engagements committee will have g
special committee on hand to draw
down the heavy blinds of the Wal
dorf, so as not to annoy the guests. |
If that doesn't help, they'll prob |
ably call on the strong arm boys that
the detective agencies have sent down
to help smash the strike "Labor's
Committee" for Roosevelt's birthday
party is probably counting strong on
these fellows. (The Washington De-
tective Bureau, $40 Seventh Ave. the
Eagle Detective Bureau, 1457 Broad
way, the Metal Trade Assn, 126 Lib
erty ST.
who Do We Take for a Ride, Joe?"
These yeggs will be right on their
own dung-hill too, because the chair
man Of the National Committee
labor DiYision), of the Birthday
Ball for the President is Joe Ryan,
of Tammany Hall, one of the tough
est eggs that ever blackjacked his
way into the leadership Of the Long
shoremen's Union and the Central
Trades and Labor Council.
If the detective agency lads can't
! stop the picketing annoyances, there
will be lot Of cops on hand to help
out So don't worry about being dis
turbed at the banquet for the Presi-
dent, if that's what's holding you
back.
Besides Ryan, therein be lots OF
other labor men" at the affair. Some
Of these boys would be ready to give
up their lives for the workers--that
is, if it wouldn't cut down on their
salaries. Take John L. Lewis, for
example. He's on the committee ar
| ranging the Presidents birthday, but
affairs in the interests of the coal
operators lin connection with the
u.M.WA. convention may keep him
il indianapolis.
John Lin spite Of the constantly
rising cost of living-has been con-
tent to stay at the $4,000 a year
which his delegates voted him during
the big miners strike OF 1928, when
thousands of miners were starving to
1eath.
Green Is Chairman
William Green, president Of the
4 T. Of L., Is chairman of the whole
hebang which is arranging the Wal
.'orf-Astoria party. He's plugging
long on SIC, 900 per annum. but that
oesn't include honorariums received
Tor lscing it into the reds at Cham
Der Of Commerce and Legion ban
luets.
There are a number Of other
labor" people on the comlnittee-or
may be capital people dt's SO hard to
keep 'em apart. There's Barney
Baruch, the big Wall Street financ-
Ter; Vincent Astor, w. w. Atterbury
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Chas.
Dawes, ex = vice : president, whose
friends on the RIG. helped him
3wipe $80,000,000 to save his tottering
5ank in Chicago; Edsel Ford. the
Detroit speed-up artist; Gen. John
j. (Blackjack) Pershing, who super
Vised the slaughter of the American
lads in the World War, and Of course,
Matthew Vol, about whom it is not
even necessary to make few we'll
7hosen remarks.
The Socialists have their man on
The committee, too, because they're
always johnny on the-spot when It
comes to all civic affairs. Morris
Q. Feinstone, leading Socialist and
president Of the United Hebrew
Trades, Is constantly at Joe Ryan's
elbow to give him tips on how to
make the banquet for the President
real WOW. (The guy at the other
..lbow is frankie Madden, an ex-pug).
So don't forget-if you can make
be sure and come to the Waldorf
oa1oTrow night to celebrate the