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Auto WkrS. Union
Calls on MESA Men
for United Action
Continued from Page y

and instead, in a telegram he sent
to Washington, echoed the A. F. Of
L. cry that a strike would be a
tragedy.
The proposal for united action by
the NJ. F. S. A, the rank and file of
the A. F. Of L. and the Auto Work
ers Union was passed by the shop
stewards meeting. but ditched by
Smith in the District Committee in
direct violation of the shop stewards
decision and contrary to the spirit of
the rank and file.
Militant united action would
have peralyzed the sabotage of the
A, F, Of L. leaders and prepared the
ground for successful strike action
when the M. E. S. A. went out.
But Smith, Harrison & Co. would
have nothing to Go with such tactics.
Talking big and in general about
strikes, they did nothing concretely
to prepare them.
Talking big about general
strikes Smith cuts the CUTS out of
the present strike with his arbitra-
ton schemes and bluff tactics.
In the Michigan Stove strike
notorious gangsters protect scabs,
and yet Smith and the District
Committee do nothing to call upon
the workers of all organizations to
take up the fight against the
gangsters and force the police to
withdraw their protection.
I'VE propose that the NJ E. S. A.
issues an open appeal to all workers
to demand the ousting of the gang
sters, that it sends a mass delegation
to the police and calls all workers to
the picket line. If this is done
''The Auto Workers Union stands
ready to bring out one thousand
workers to the picket line Monday
4 p. m. to stop the scabs and demand
the driving out of the gangsters.
Smiths policies are giving en-
couragement to the reactionary
elements around Griffen who want
to discredit all militant tactics.
I'VE propose that the M. E. S. A.
call for a demonstration and parade
of all tool and diemakers. Michigan
stove and all workers organizations
to support their strike, to demon
strate against company unions
against the outlawing of strikes by
the A. F. of l., leaders (Which is a
direct sabotage of the M. E. S. A.
strike), for higher wages and better
working conditions.
"At the same time we propose that
steps be taken to strengthen picket
ing, build up real rank and file
strike committee dnstead of allow
ing the District Committee to monop-
Ollie everythin in its incom-
petent hands,, issue leaflets to COM
bat the propaganda of the COM
panies and the employers press, etc.
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Picket Office Of
HOdson Today for
Jobs, Union Wages
Continued from Page II


office at 10 E. 115th st., where the
Flores child was denied aid and of
worker from the neighborhood, will
present their demands to Hodson
this morning. The Flores child be-
came dangerously i'll with diarrhea
Thursday of last week and the
father of the child, Jesus Flores, ap-
piled to the Home Relief Bureau for
medical aid. No doctor was sent,
and the child did not have medical
aid until the Harlem Hopital sent
an ambulance, and then was eX-
amined only by the ambulance doc
tor. On Friday Flores pleaded again
with the Home Relief Bureau for
aid but they sent no doctor. A nurse
passing on the street finally sent for
the ambulance. When Flores came
to the hospital this Thursday the
child was dead The Home Relief
Bureau then refused to pay the $18
necessary to bury the child in the
Flores burial plot.
The delegation this morning will
demand burial expenses for the child
and make other demands regarding
the cae.
The general picket line, demand
ing reinstatement of those fired
from G. w. A. jobs and resembling
of the wage cuts on work relief, will
begin at ten this morning. All I'M
employed are urged to be present
and take part in the picketing.
Delegates from fraternal and mass
organizations will meet at the Cen
tral Opera House at 67th st. and
Third Ave, Sunday at II am, to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Left Wing Group Calls
Dressmakers To Make
Lockout a Strike

NEW YORK.-Zimmerman, HOch-
man and other leaders Of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers Union, who had advised the 40
600 locked-out garment workers not
to turn the lockout into a strike
for better conditions in the trade,
began negotiations with individual
contractors to send the workers back
with the same conditions as before
the lockout.
These union leaders are support
ing everybody but the workers. First
they supported the contractors in
their plans for the lockout up until
the time they we're ready to close
the shops. Then they suddenly an
nounced that their support would
be given to the iobbers.
Told To Be Quiet
The workers, during all these
maneuYers, were left out on the
streets to wander around, with the
union leaders telling them to be
quiet and wait. Sort of a watchful
waiting process. But no strike.
At a hearing in Supreme Court
yesterday afternoon it was revealed
that the MIRA. and the Court had
joined with the union leaders in
supporting the jobbers.
In reality it is both the jobbers
and contractors who are responsible
for conditions in the dress trade.
Now the union officials, who are
responsible for the so-called scien-
tif1c wage-cut system, are urging the
workers to give their support to one
Of the groups responsible for the
vile working conditions.
The workers must fight both the
contractors and the iobbers.
All throughout the period of the
lockout and especially yesterday,
the left wing group within the
union have been exposing the
treacherous policy of the union
leaders.
The left wing group is urging the
workers to turn the lockout into
real strike for better conditions in
the trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21

Dear Sports Editor;
A dispute has arisen with regard
to a certain exercise among a few
comrades. The exercise in question
is swimming. One comrade says
that swimming alone will reduce
ones weight, while another says
that swimming alone will not re-
duce ones weight.
Would you please answer this
question so that it may be cleared
up.
Comradely,
B. and ].
THE question can easily be an
l swered by coming to the meet
and seeing what a bunch Of
swimmers look like. So far as I
know, the athletes I've seen
around tank have been beauti-
fully built, clean imbed, strong
and not too thin nor fat. Pc
cuIiarIy enough, you can get an
idea of what their best examples
look like by seeing a Tarzan pic
ture with Buster Crabbe or
Johnny WeismulIer to see what
swimming does to body.
Perhaps, after the meet, you
might want to go in for a little
swim. (Theren be swimming for
the spectators after the meet
Then you might be able to see the
pounds come off or on. AS to your
question, it all depends upon who
the individual is. Exercise of any
form keeps one in condition.
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(Continued from Page y

NCOUttftUeU from Fuge
mittee of leaders, but they stood
pat and won.
In addition the seamen won a
revolutionary gain of tremendous
import - something which Federal
officials apparently weren't aware
Of. BY heroically standing out
against jim crowisnn, they were able
to stage in this national capital a
demonstration for Negro and white
worker unity such as seldom seen
in this jin-crow town.
When the seamen arrived late
yesterday, the local transient re
lief director. under federal SUPER
vision, offered them food. clothes
white socks for their badly blistered
and broken feet baths with plenti-
full soap and towels, medical atten-
tion--if only they would submit to
the segregation of whites and Ne
groes, in accord with the national
governments rigid jim-crow policy
The seamen. though exhausted
hungry some nursing great wounds
on their feet, refused this hands
down
They marched still singing, YELL
ing with great fervor and dis
cipline, to a Negro hall more than
mile away, to sleep on the bare
f1oar-Uuited.
March Through Negro District
And their route lay straight
through the heart of the Negro
working class district of Whating-
ton. AS they marched. shouting
BLACK and white, unite and fight, >
hundreds Of Negroes poured out of
their tenement shacls and watched,
and cheered. I saw those Negro
SPECTATORS watch with faces first
alarmed, as though they were
shocked to see such an audacious
demonstration by white and Ne
groes in capital street, then
breaking into broad grins Of ex
filtration.
Overnight, word of the seamen's
action passed around the neigh
horhood in which they slept. When
they lined up outside to march to
relief Headquarters. crowds of Ne
gro and white workers stood and
cheered them. A number followed
the seamen's march over the more
than mile to the relief head
quarters and couple of Negroes
went inside with them. One who
said he's never been in unior
volunteered the comment "They
got a right idea, I'll tell you. Tn
staying with these fellows"
Anthony Smith, head of the
small business mems organization
Of hundreds of merchants. restau-
rant-keepers. etc, on the Baltimore
waterfront, arrived In Washington
lust in time to join the seamen ir
their protest to Plunkert. Smith
told Plunkert that 1--WE, the small
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plan the widening of the fight for
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill. The conference has been
called by the Fraternal Federation
for Social Insurance, q federation of
fraternal organizations with a mem
bership of $4,000, which has already
received endorsement of the bill by
organizations with a membership of
$4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
L. S. U. Issues Soccer
Schedule for Tomorrow

METROPOLITAN WORKERS SOCCER
LEAGUE
Schedule for April 90, 1884
Home Team visiting Field Time
IA DIVISION
Italia VS. Tico. Crotona, 2 pm,
Fichte VS. Ital Amer, Crotona, 4 pm.
"a DIVISION
Two. VS. Monabi, Crotons, II am.
B2 DIVISION
South Amer. VS. Ital. Amer, Crotona,
1890 pm.
Spartacus VS. Prospect, Crotona, $3.50.
G DIVISION
Hero VS. Fichte, Van Cortland. Ii am
Bronx Hung VS.. Spartacus, DySman
oval, II am.
French VS. Greek spartacus, German
Amer, pm.
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Asks Five Cents Less;
Gets Fine, 30 Days

JERSEY CITY, April 10.-Jacob
Mayed, a tailor, was fined 500 and
sentenced to 80 days in jail by
Common Pleas Judge Robert v.
Kinkhead, after he had pleaded
guilty to violation Of the state code
for tailors Mayed had taken thirty
five cents for pressing a three-piece
suit of clothes The code orders a
charge of forty cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Nav Day collection in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, April 2o-Tag
day collections viii be held in this
city Saturday and Sunday. April 81
and %, to aid the plans for United
Front May Day demonstration here
All Party members and sympa-
thizers are urged to report on these
days to Communist Section head
quarters, 1925 Germantown Ave.
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4lC I1ol4lS Nllc1lllJo anu td-
lookas have to go through the
unluxurious struggle of train
ing in stuffy gyms, learning
how to give and take before hard
boiled managers who drive them to
death so that a few extra easy dol
lars could be made on the athletes
ability to catch EN- on the Jaw and
swing EN- on the button with kayo
connections.
And if they do this catching long
enough, they either wind up punchy
or champions. It's a hard life.
FOLLOWING in line with the
l manly art of modified murder. "
We see the Labor Sports Union of
the Eastern District picking up the
sport for its own use, in another
manner.
It's not a prerequisite to be able
to stand with your hands tied be-
hind your back to allow some hefty
puncher heave away at your face and
body, You don't have to go through
the preliminaries Of jumping rope
for years, of sparring and weaving
and mastering the technique of give
and take. Workers haven't got time
for that. They have time, however,
to enjoy a little exercise every so
often. And one of these forms is
boxing.
Without the glory of mayors,
governors, miIliOnaires and racket
GERS, sitting in the front rows;
without the atmosphere of smoky
air and the spectacle of three
tone lights flashing upon the ring,
workers will fight it out at ia
w. 14th st. tonight in weights
ranging from 118 to IT'S pounds
for the L.S.U, amateur boxing
championship. And they're going
to move through their PAGES with
cut the worry of ''How'm l doin'?"
to the promoters Of "bigtime," ex-
plotting circles.
Eight P. M. will be the time to
see what workers are like as fight
ers. And I venture to say, from
the many amateur matches I have
watched, that these bouts will take
second place to none.
Lew Anster, former professional
fighter, will be the third man in
the ring, tapping EN- on the back
during clinches and putting his
marker down for the winning
fighter. Jack Rothefeld, the boy
who played with the all-star cage
quintet against the Renaissance
team, will be around the ringside
as judge and referee.
And I'm going to fulfill the ca
pacity of pulling the Joe Hum
phries of the evening, don't
blame the L. S. U. for not paying
q thousand or more dollars to hear
the believing voice of Joe Hum
phries; nor do I blame them for
not getting Ted Canty's silver
toned screech, because they'd have
to buy medals from him. Besides,
they won't need voice to carry
through the rafters and beams of
Madison Square Garden. So I was
elected.
AND to finish off the indoor
n sport season, the powerful
Kaytee A. c., winners of the
Eastern regional L. S. U. cage
tourney who trounced the Nor
wood Yritys, 80 to 2S, last week,
will line up against the midwest
champions, the Roseland Sparks,
for the national basketball cham
pionship. These teams go into
action on the 25th at the Kaytee
gymnasium, $50 40th ST., Brook
Ign, at $3.50.
TOPPING the indoor activities of
l the L. S. U. in that week, a
swimming meet will be held at the
Church of All Nations, Second Ave.
and Second St., Saturday night,
April %.
Interest in swimming has been
aroused.
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and the other half building trades
workers. Many of the building
trades workers are members of the
A. F. of L., but are in opposition
to the bureaucrats who lead the
unions. Most of the families had
originally bought their homes, but
lost them because they could not
meet the payments during the Pc
Rod Of the crisis with its unemploy-
ment and low wages,
Through the organized action of
the unemployed. they forced the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
WOmen's Councils To
Hold City Conference
on Sun d ay, April %

NEW YORK. The United
Council of Working-class Women
will hold an annual conference
on Sunday, April %, at 10 am,
at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66
East Fourth St.
The Councils. with total
membership of 1000, have con-
Quoted struggles in the neigh
borhoods and at the Home Relief
Bureaus, have organized the Ne
gro women in the fight against
Negro discrimination, and in their
cultural campaign have organized
lectures and discussions.
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Convention Tomorrow
of Relief Wkrs. League

NEW YORK.-The Relief Work
ers League convention will take
place tomorrow afternoon at one
o'clock at Irving Plaza, is st. and
Irving Place. The convention has
been called to make plans for furt
organizing the fight for reinstate-
ment of those workers fired in the
recent lay-of and to prepare against
the expected wage-cut.
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May Day Appeal
for United Front
Issued in N.Y.C.
Continued from Page y
rangementS Committee last We'd
nesday night.
DETROIT WORKERS FIGHT
MAYORS BAN
I Special to the Daily Workerl


DETROIT, April 20.-The Nav
Day Unity Committee replied today
to the statement by Mayor Frank
Couzens in the press on the cues
ton of the use of Grand Circus
Park on May First.
The committee declared: Mayor
Frank Couzens has no power to
deny workers Of Detroit the right to
meet in Grand Circus Park on MAY
First. He is taking this power ar
bltrarily in defiance of both our es-
tablished rights practiced for years
in using the park on this day and
also Of a definite decision made by
the City Council two years ago
granting the park for meetings.
Mayor Couzens says he has Of
fered any other park or playground
In the city for the May Day meet
ing, but this is only a maneuver to
cover up his denial of the right to
meet.
Mayor Couzens knows that no
other park is suitable for a central
demonstration or able to accommo-
date the masses that will stream in
from every part of the city to the
May Day meeting.
Unable to further cover up the
denial Of the workers right to as
semble, Mayor Couzens is raising
a smoke screen when he says, That
the Communists will not run this
city while he is Mayor. No one
raised the question of running the
city.
The question is that the workers
have the right to meet and assemble
peacefully and demand that this
right shall not be violated by the
Mayor or Police Commissioner BY
this smoke screen the Mayor hopes
to evade an answer to the charge
made by the May Day Committee
that while workers are denied their
just rights, gangsters are permitted
to roam around freely in the city
with police protection to assault
striking workers in the Michigan
Stove strike.
I'VE make the definite charge that
the decision Of Mayor Couzens and
Heinrich Pickert barring the May
Day Committee from the use of
Grand Circus Park was made fol-
lowing meeting held last week of
General Motors and other auto en-
ployers which decided to clamp down
on working class activities.
Arrangements for Sundays mass
meeting are receiving wide support
among workers organizations. Rich
ard Kroon, Secretary of Painters
Local 81, has been added to the list
Of speakers for the meeting at
Danceland Auditorium, Woodward
and Forest Sunday 2 pm"
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Baseball

AMERICAN LEAGUE .g.
Detroit 600 900 oo4 4-s-l
cleveland 600 900 900 $50
Fischer and Cochrane; L Brown and
Pvtlak
ST. Louis at Chicago, postponed by rain
New York at Boston, postponed by rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston OO2 100 900 3-1O-1
New York $50 0O4 COX T. 81
Cantwell. Manguin and Hogan; schum-
acher, Salveson, Bel land Richards.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia . 600 900 o. 81
Brooklyn OO1 OlO Osx 5-1O-o
Holley, Kleinhans and J. Wilson; Leon
ard and Lopez.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, postponed,
cold.
Chicago at st. Louis, postponed cold.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Toronto 900 O02 041 T-13-o
Albany 200 O42 OAK 1o-1s-o
Cook, Lucas, Hilcher and Crouch; Cole
man, Porter, Caruthers and Maple
Rochester 900 900 800 It'll
Baltimore 400 900 01O 3 g. IS
Lisks, Berry and Lewis; Appleton, Miner,
Butcher and Hargreaves.
Buffalo 900 ola 001 4-il--o
Newark 900 220 DOL 1--12-1
Milstead, Kowalk and outen; Duke,
Makovsky and Glenn.
Montreal at Syracuse, postponed, cold.
GAMES TODAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York at Boston.
Washington at Philadelphia.
Detroit at Cleveland.
st, Louis at Chicago
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston at New York.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati.
Chicago at st. Louis.
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THERE'S sport that keeps the fans and athletes going
all year round-boxng In the summer you get the big
outdoor fights in the various tadums throughout the
country In the winter you them indoors under glowing
lights and hazy smoke The boxers chose that are on top
anyway train under the winter summer then make
their debuts and rebutta under the sky or under roofs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
AMALGANrATED CLOTHING
FRACTION

NEW YOR K-Amalgamated
Clothing Workers fraction mem
bers are notified that the meeting
called for Saturday, April 81, has
been postponed until further no
tice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Newark Police Ban May Day
Start Reign of Terror

NEWARK, NJ j., Auril 90
eliminating fierce attack of police
here upon all working class organi-
cations and meetings, four young
workers we're arrested Wednesday
night at meeting held to hear
reports on G. c. G. camp conditions.
Three public mass meetings have
been arbitrarily suppressed within as
many days by Chief of Police Nc
Rall and Commissioner Duffy. Hall
keepers have been ordered not to
rent their halls for meetings of
workers, A meeting of taxi drivers
was prevented this afternoon when
the police ordered the hall owner
not to open the hall unless the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Foon WoRKERs HoLn MEFr


NEW YORK.-The Food Workers Indus
trial Union will hold a mass meeting to-
night at 8 pm. Of grocers, dairy and fruit
clerks among organized members, unor-
ganized food workers and members Of the
A. F, Of L. at the Savoy Mansion, 1922
Goth Ave. Brooklyn. III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
RAILROAD CONCENTRATION
GROUP HOLDS DANCE

NEW YORK.-The Third Avenue
Railroad Concentration Group will
hold an entertainment and dance
tonight, 8 p. M, at 1853 w 23rd St,
room II. Admission is 20 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21

Down tools May 1 against wage
cuts and for higher wages!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
(Clossified)

FARM FOR SALE: Beautiful summer
place. Nine-room house. One FIRE place
Three-car garage, and other buildings. All
in good condition. Beautiful pond. Eighty
five acres of land. Electricity coming
through Sell for roo with stocks and
tools, $4,000 without the stock Write
to Stanley Sinkevech, RID. 2, South
bury, Conn.
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Down tools May l against the
Wagner strikebresking bill and
for the workers right to strike!
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workers produced a permit from the
police department.
The May Day Committee similarly
has been refused a permit for the
May First demonstration. Request
for the permit was refused with the
statement that things aren't going
to be so easy for revolution now"
A delegation of workers will go to
the City Council on Monday to de-
mand permit for the May Day
demonstration. Members of the
delegation will meet at $50 a. m. at
the International Labor Defense
office 289 Market Street. All or
CARNATIONS are urged to send
representatives and protests.
Metal Workers Union Endorses May
Day Demonstration
CLEVELAND. Apr 21.-Cleveland
workers are confidently looking for
ward to the biggest May Day DEM
onstration in the history of this
city.
Last Tuesday night, 80 representa-
tives from all locals of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
endorsed the United Front May Day
demonstration and pledged mass
participation of their members. The
union issued an appeal to the Cleve-
land Mechanics Educational Society
Of America to participate in a union
section Of the parade at the follow
inc points:
Market Square and West 25th ST..
at pm. f 55th and st. Clair, and
w 55th and Woodland, at the same
hour.
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