The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1930, Page 2

oh Page ° Two MANHATTAN LYCEUM MEETING TAKES UP BATTLE OF 1,500,0 Only 3 Percent Ocanniaed at ‘Eousenks A. F, and Amalgamated Bureaucracies Sell Them Conditions Unbearable; Demand 40-Hr. Week,, Pay; T.U.U.L. Issues Call 1-|road and today is denyi 1,/cision of the mem the Trade No Speed Up, More rkers, orga to Union League.” The revolt of the rank and file against the terrible economic condi- tion into which the misleaders have hem is vividly described with ed a food work-| themselves at the head of the re- n. The call is order to crush it, the F Workers Section, Fight Pakers. n Unity “League, with A. F. W. and of L. lo- headquarters at 16 West the call cont there is “Working conditions discontent against the bureau- industry are miseral . vapidly developing into a! states: mand for an indust f all food workers. ized w the ploitation, there od for org: ‘own out into the streets to starve—because too much food has been produced!” worke most terrific is a developing ization | and struggle. h standard of living. been so ir ent and th em has never unemplc Million and Hal Unity] emphasis on the situation in Bakers |Local 500, A. F. of L., where two vi fi Pollack and Yellin, placed! ., | anounced fi to work. wa « rt . ao Speed-up of the | partic pated ah a Rue aut yesterday acks being I house workers under the! isi 5 and raked) ing nest. plum. in the DAILY | WORKER, NEW YORK, TH! THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930_ |Hoover’ s Idea of “Independence” for Haiti ‘PROTEST TUES. I1L.0, MEET SUN, | U.S, Orders Haiti President | To Make Roy His Successor| Avalanche of Court Cases Come Today (Continued from Page One) workers children and parents, “We urge all organizations, wh» | Ihave not already done so to elect | idelegates to the conference,” states | ithe ILL.D. “All Pioneers are urged | to come to the office of District | | 1.L.D. to distribute leaflets for this | conference.” MeNeil on Trial. Also in special sessions, Randolph | MeNeil, young marine workers ar- | vested at the City Hall demonstra- | tion the week before March 6, will be tried for felonious assault. He was beaten nearly to death by po- licemen, and on coming out of the hospital, is put on trial for beating Borno's Postponement of Election Seen as DeKance; Marines May Act to Install New Execative Yrea The Wares Bare sec Dern toe eed Headline in World, April 15. The World slipped up a bit in showing the stern hand of Wall Street in Haiti. However, the fact is that Borno did not need to be “ordered.” He is a quite willing tool of the National City Bank of New York, and its protector, the American government. PENCIL WORKERS GET 10 P. 6. SLASH the New York them. | In Bronx special sessions, Abe | Call on “Wo orkers to Ress, Lillian Fand, Jules Perlay and | v.-q Roy Leventhal ave tried today for | Bight Against Cut |istine up veteran a boldine: The long. ; Morgan, Seeing Times Not So Good, Takes Over N. Y. 3.70 Loan The banking house of J. P. Mor- wage cut at last § jbers of orally manage department. The by si around | to work | shape of the entire issue of $31,- orkers back | 550,000 serial four per eent gold promised to| bonds of the state of New York, Ur ble to send the w n » the for | hanged in London for destroying Coolidge mill of the Amoskeag Today in History of the Workers April 17, 1817—Seven Luddites textile machinery which displaced workers from jobs. 1876—General labor congress held in Pittsburgh, Pa., in effort to unite socialists, trade unionists, greenbackers and others, 1912—Massacre of armed strikers in Lena goldfields, Siberia. 1917—Slogan “All power to the Soviets” raised by Lenin in speech at Tauride Palace, Petro- grad. 1927—Communist _head- quarters at Canton, China, raide 150,000 BRITISH un- | Left Wing > Trade Union | Leads Struggle (Continued from Page One) wool workers of England, as May} 1 approaches, is found here to, Yesterday 1,000 weavers in the walked out on strike against wage cuts and intolerable conditions. these strikers were in one depart-| ment, and a telegram from the Na-| tional Textile Workers’ Union na-| tional office in New York has been| Of the one- od work-jopen support given the speak he aren a S| ‘ 9 » {received urging upon the Man- ea three oppressors by the Hoover-Green, A. |sbvak the management and after | Morgan paid $102,077 for ench $1001 onectee iocal of the N, 'T, W. U F. of L. ‘no strike’ pact has at-|Sc¥era! hours returned with @ “con- | worth of bonds, reducing the in-| 101 Gs leading the strike, the ne ae fected Hundreds of thousands who| #esion” of five per cent, This terest thereby to 9.79, ‘The fact] 20) Bm te SUitke: The meer nd the A. F. W. are rallying new to the Trad maneuver was intended to cover Up | that Morgan is willing to sink that | Oot tments elesting a rank and file Hee ere eee the fact that the bosses had really | much money in such low interest | Partments, electing a rank and file ations do noth ereratie oeanty ene ine i cent cut in the al- | hearing bonds indieates poor Pros-| 2 mving the organization into othec| iy lee al for the 40-hour week, for ane in the Eagle Peneil Co, taliiee; economists point out. ee DUCTS beh SL || ee knaectte Ee eer rectses im wages, {WOTK piece-work and even with the fense committee. | shops to become even worse eed-up, for inereases in WaBeS,| most intense speed-up do not earn | | The strikers demand a 1 : oe SN: vapes 1 A A ninimum eben ih ohousion shops The Act |ioy cnemplovmnens 2S more than $18 a week. Most of 4 Tiny Bolts Holding | wage of $20 a week, shorter hours, °: unions hay AEEISG | BRIG Ry tH BARS, Odi f |the girls do not earn that. £ ~ and no speed-up, The speed-up and| company uni using |equal work; no” discrimination | ee ae oe ee et the tac-| UP Movie Projector | $24 ne snestup. | The speed-up an terror and gangsterism and denying against women, Negro ot yount!;,.° issued an appeal to ther fe| Booth, Snap; 1 Killed! ; +|Workers, special protection of |iow.workers to fight the wage cut. f 2 ¢ tends to be pro-|women and youth and no: night- F 8 Fe eu Workers Photo Group ng fast on the same! work for bakers. War Budget Passed in French Chamber PARIS, April 16—The French budget, providing tremendous ¢. penditures for war preparations, was passed yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 405 to 191. The total budget amounts to $2,000,000,000, about half of whick is for expenditures for past and future wars. Hoover Says Masses Can’t Rule, Only Parasites) NEW contempt from the working mas HAVEN, April 15.—Utter] | Workers in the United States as “a inal 4 mob,” Hoover writes that the “mob Soa dusietence on © strong sovern- | consumes, it hates and it dreams, ment controlled by the exploiting /hut jt never builds.” His conclusion bosses, was expressed in an article} lis that the parasites who are en- written by Hoover for the Yale} dowed with god-given qualities for and published with official | leadership should rule—for the ion in its latest issue. | benefit of Wall Street. Jails Being Jammed by Suppressive Laws WASHINGTON, April 16.—At a secret session af the senat udiciary committee today Attorney General Mitchell reported the fact , that the federal jails are being packed to the rafters. Federal pris- oners have increased by 6,277 in the last nine months, Mitchell re- ported. The growing suppressive laws of the capitalists are filling the jvils. Egyptians Attack U. S. High Tariff CAIRO, April 16.—An attack against the high American tariff on the import of Egyptian raw cotton is voiced here by Finance Minister Makram Ebeid, and in an editorial in La Patrie, a Cairo newspaper that voices the views of the gov- ernment. La Patrie talks of “coersive mea-| to bring pressure to bear by ex- sures” against the blow directed | cluding American products.” against the Egyptian cotton grow- ers by the high American tariff. La Patrie’s threat, which is backed by British imperialism concludes with these words: “From the viewpoint of finance as well as others, Egypt is wholly independent of America and is at Reinstate Death Penalty in British Forces LONDON, April 16.—In order to strengthen the reactionary forces in the army, navy and air forees, the House of Lords today reinstated the death penalty for disobience and other infractions of military rule. Thomas Announces New Scheme to Speed Workers LONDON April 16.—With great| Development Co., with a capital of approval, J. H. Thomas, minister | $30,000,000. Its attempt to speed fer “relief” of unemployment inthe up industry will sharpen the crisis labor government, announced in the | and the struggle for world markets, House of Commons today that aj while at the same time speed-up! company has been organized to the workers and reduce their wages. work out schemes of rationaliza-|In this object the Bankers Indus- tion and general speed-up of the) trial Development Co. has the full workers. The name of the new cor-| support of the MacDonald yovern- poration is the Bankers Industrial | ment. Sham Battle in Albany|“Labor” Ministers Over Fake Rent Relief’ Back Imperalist Bills Before Governor) Plans for Egypt ALBANY, N. Y., April 16.—Gov-/ LONDON, April 16.—After a ernor Roosevelt is hearing repre-| night eession between Nahas Pasha, wo Sa aa plana hetrayer of the Egyptian National- backers of Assemblyman Rivers | ‘St movement, and Arthur Hender-| and Perkins, and going through the |S “labor” foreign secretary, act- farce of debating whether he will| | ing for British inrperialism, a treaty | sign their rent bills, neither of | Was reported to have been decided | which would make much difference | ¥P0- one way or the other. | An agreement was reached upon The Negro tenants of Harlem in! the location of the British n many mass meetings during the in the Suez Canal zone, British im- winter exposed the frailty of these! perialigm’s interests were handled bills completely. The Perkins bill to the ‘action of the most rabid gives the capitalist judge the right, imperialist by such lackeys as Ar- if he wants to extend the lease six|thur Henderson, Lord Passfield, months when a rent raise is com-| alias Sidney Webb, and Tom Shaw ing. The Riyers bill provides for —all members of the “labor” gov- Payment of rent to the judge in- ernment, stead of the regular collector in| The enslavement of the Soudan} eertain circumstances was discussed, Sane te Referring to the great mass of} | liberty, when and how she wishes, | Urging them to form committees in |every department, the appeal called upon the workers to strike in case \their demands were refused, An \open-air meeting will be held in front of the factory today. Mrs, Etta Middleton, a Negro needle worker, was killed and at \least 35 other workers, most of | them Negroes, were injured when \the Renaissance Theatre, Seventh jAve. and 137th St., collapsed. This theatre, thought “good enough for ja workers’ part of town,” had a | moving picture projector booth sup- | ported by only four bolts, tiny half inch bolts. These snapped simul- taneously, dropping the booth and machine into the last four rows of seats on the main floor, iGyp Jobless Agency Cheats Unemployed | That the New cae County and other employment agencies carry on a regular racket, charging job- less workers high fees and giving them jobs as porters in the Hearst building, then having them fired so that the same racket can be worked on others, was reported to the eas Daily Worker by a worker who had “The Simple Tailor,” the latest |some experience with this outfit. | soviet film, will be shown at a mid- Elevator men have to pay $10 for| night performance Saturday, April | jobs in the Hearst building and get 19, at the Second Ave. Playhouse, | i ;$25 a week. For 15 hours extra 2nd Ave. and 8th St., for the benefit | overtime they get $2 a week extra.|of the National Textile Workers’ | In a ten-hour day they get only Union, New York Distriet. There fifteen minutes for lunch. | will also be a special feature “Gas- | |tonia,” showing pictures of the Harper, Kelly on Trial sity oe horay Mjh ted @ vear Today; N.A.A.C.P. Apes| The admission charge of 50 cents |Ran dolph on Lynching 3" go to the Organization and Strike Fund of the New York Dis- _ | trict of the National Textile Work- Sol Harper, of the southern dis- | ers’ Union. trict of the International Labor De-| fense and member of the Convention | P Committee of the American Negro | according to published statements. | Labor Congress noW¥ arranging for |The New York Age this week does | the National Convention to be held |10t carry a single line about the| in St. Louis, Mo., and Rose Kelly, | lynching, but does carry an article active member of the Nat Turner Branch of the LL.D., will be tried sentat today in Washington Heights Court, | Praising the Pullman Porters and 453 West 151st St. upon charges | Stirring up hate between the West preferred by the bureaucrats of the | Indian and American Negroes. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-| A survey of the general opinion |ters because they exposed the at-/ among railroad men in Harlem, tempt of the Brotherhood officials | waiters, cooks, laborers and others to cover up the lynching of John H.|shows that all are of the opinion Wilkins, of Kansas City, Mo. that the train crew lynched Wil- | The National Association for the|kins, as proved by the I.L.D. and dvancement of Colored People|evaded by the Randolph clique and joins the line of the Brotherhood,|the N.A.A.C.P, Show New Soviet Film Midnite, Sat. April 19 sentative of the Pullman Company, HELP DEFEND OUR MILITANT FIGHTERS rush funds Hundreds Need Defense The Unemployed Delegation—Minor, Foster, Amter, | Lesten, Raymond—must not go to jail! Free Harry j Eisman from the capitalist reformatory! Fight to free the Gastonia strike leaders from twenty years prison! Defend all victoms of capitalist persecution! Collect in shops—CASH NEEDED AT ONCE! Act Immediately! | International Labor Defense | District Office: 799 Broadway Room 422 New York City 8 p.m, by James H. Hogan, special repre- | . to Meet This Friday The Labor Defender Workers | Photo Group will hold their next| meeting at Japanese Art Center, 7/ E. 14th St., on Friday, April 18, at | Groups of workers’ photographer are being organized for the May | 1 demonstration to cover the event from all angles. All work hay- | MEIS1 E dramatization of } jlegend, from which the We jopera, Meistersinger’ von Nuren {berg, was buil The acting is good, the photo: graphy pretty well done, and the spirit of the middle age town ap- [parently well captured. Crooked politics in the election of a mayor :are not blinked at, run things, | dering adve | counei WOOL STRIKERS |e for much the st man o ; pase 1) ey tarted at this theatre Tue |but fails eompletely to t to delay by the censc joes aud nown until Wednes Al," ing cameras are invited to join the | | group. Banquet of Workers School This Friday [Qyg, HONOR and B Those who fail to secure tickets in advance for the banquet of the Workers’ School at Manhattan Lyceum, Friday evening, April 18, may find it impossible to secure a place at the festive board. Tickets | are being sold rapidly and_ those | who expect to buy them at the last | | minute may find all of the places | filled, Communist “oe Workers School Te open Working C al Conference Frida jm. Manhattan Lyceum. ‘eo | Program: John Reed me: admis sion ae Fe Y. C. L. Distriet Dance. 19, New Harlem Avenuc io; Tickets at all League Hea and 26 Union Square. nm arters Sestion One: Unit organizers, financial taries, agitprops, literature Daily Worker agents, tonight, 6 p. 27 Bast Fourth St, Section’ Eight, gitprop committee and unit agit- prog tonight, 7.30 p.m. 105 That Foo if Workers Fenction. Friday, 8 pm, 18 W. 1th St. Labor and Fraterna’) Organizations Women’s Counell Concert and Ball Saturday, April 19, Manhatan. Kast 4th St. John C. Tbe at di 6 50c in, advance, | Work vahasalaae Theatre, 1g FREY Gyentne this week, $ p.m, nters Mass Meet! iy nude 7 poms S30" Rist st Brighton Beach May 1. Mawy Meet. Friday, 8.30 p. m., 227 Beach Ave. Proininct, speakers, Comrades Who Can House Delegates. To the Marine Workers League Convention April 26-30 write or tely phone immediately to George Min 140 Broad St., Whitehall 7478. number of how many you can t care of and how many nights, Voluni Wanted for re: work. 1.1, S67 ‘ National Office, 799 Broadway, Stuy: | Vesant 4552, * # Freiheit, Mandolin Orchextr: op Shturday, Town Hall, 113 W. 12r. 5 eee OE Yorkville Tenants League Paver. 8.30 p $50 L. Sier) Midnight Performance. “simple Tallor” Saturday at Second | Ave. Playhouse. Benefit. National | Textile Workers Union, N. ¥. District Bathgate Veteherinkn ‘ona Concert, aturday, April * Brownsville. Ae a + Anti-Lynch ates Friday, 8 Ls coe 165 Phatford Ave. Working Clogs cational Con- Called by 7. hia fi L, an@ Workers Brighton | FILM VERSIONo/ WAGNER'S: Hans Sachs, the cobbler, is given! IN “tHE SIMPLE TAILOR” proper prominence in the ‘film now at the A neither is any nd foibles rs whe jpity taken on the idi ,of the clique of ri nor their ice, like the town The town agents in of- their > one into a able to him. marriage m¢ for the “peop! light! RSINGER AT'ACME’ ry BRODSK New York Food Workers ot All T Trades in 1 Convention “Sunday to Organize Union “For All Kinds of alvehaes Y Pelephone: Murray HIN S55t 7 Kast 42nd Street, New York smith’s even here qu “Yunke: a from the called “ then, even ter cok JAPANESE ROXY Joseph Schi the Roxy “Cock the RE. Ss now e in his Walk,” The The Theatre Guild Produ HOTEL UNIVE MADISON Twle +2 & 8. Doors Open 1 Ps TPS ves, 8:40. wat New Forel, DNSTER MOU gn Features inel, Tribe o > UBANGI SAVAGES A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY N SQ. GARDEN sha" MARTIN BECK stn street | OEY original ed in its en- of By IVAN T GUILD W., “THE APPLE CART” By Bernard Shaw ALVIN ¥ Satur 45th, . Eve “wegpazn Comedy Hit from the French with PRA w. at 8 ebe A.B. WOODS presents ALICE BRADY RETR “BEBE DANIELS Alias French Gertie” with BEN LYON RAY BEL medy of, Foster, Now Playixg! e. Playhouse ENUE, CORNER HTH STREET AY OND A 2nd AMERICAN PREMIERE Latest Soviet Production “The Simple Tailor’ (“MOTEL SHPINDLER”) A tremendous tr: awty by patriotic impuise to help v n of ihe oppress’ by the ezarist ly of a Jewish sold the Jews, 2 SAME PROGRAM— INAL NO. 22 OWS FROM THE 8¢ Come—Bring Your Friends to the Werkers School Banauet Opening the Working Class Education Conference See all the Municipal Celebrities in the RED REVUE A Political Satire by the JOHN REED CLUB Friday, April 18, at 7 ». mt. MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 East Fourth St. Good Food. Good Program. ADMISSION $1.00 AT WORKERS O01 GET YOUR TICK INION SQUARE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE - Saturday Evening, April 26 at HUNGARIAN WORKERS HOME, 350 East 81st St, Auspices: UNIT 14F, SECTION THREE, COMMUNIST PARTY School starts ‘sessions at Banquel,| Friday, 7p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, continues: peter, 2 iD m, at Work- ers School. workers organiza~ tions urged to Arad delegates, SPRING YOUTH DANCE arranged by the NG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, DISTRICT TWO Saturday, April 19 ‘at NEW HARLEM CASINO 116th Street and Lenox Avenue ©, SMITH BAND YOU Music by JOHN We Meet at the— COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty --MELROSE— Wheory and all other instruments Cooperators! FREIHEIT BLDG.——Main Floor 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx OL LLL TASER HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON AVE. Phone: UNI versity 5865 Business meetings held thi y Monda fi ne ep, yay Mdueational Monday of Board One tndustert One Un Office upen from 9 a, m, to 6 p, m 56 Bast 14th Street NOW PLAYING “MEISTERSINGER ” the German Film Classte from the Opera by RICHARD —ADDED ATTRACTIO “WIL L ss COME | BACK?” rner Kraus, Jenny Jugo. Also Berlin After Dark, SACramento The Szabo Conservatory of Music 2592 = uy Station Ty Instruction given te Beginners and Advancers in MUSIC COMPOSITION VOCAL, VIOLIN, PIANO, 'CELLO W. I. R, CLOTHING STORE 42 BROOK AVENUR Telephone L jaw 3098 Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing High Class Work Done Goods Called for and Delivered All profits go towards strikers and their families, SHOW YOUN SOLIDARITY THE ih WorRKERS! 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. ¥. WORKERS’ CENTER BARBER SHOP Moved to 30 Union Sq Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST 115th STREET | "Neatad ave New York i DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY Please telephone for 7 Telephone: Lehigi Cor. (DR. J. MIN DEL| | SURGECN DENT 1 UNION uae Reom 803—Phone: Algonquin 8183 Not connected with any other office Tel. ORChard 378% DR. L, KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREET dridge St, NEW YORK * VEGETARIAN Dair RESTAURANT omrudes WI A Pleasant to DI 1787 SOUTHERN BLYD. Brom (near 174th St. Statici ONB:— INTERVALE, 9149. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant Eat where the best dairy foods are served, W Fecommends another, TRIANGLE DAIRY RESTAURANT 1379 INTERVALE AVENUE Cor. Jeni BRONX Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: PPALIAN HES A place with atmos where all 02 HB, 12th St. radicals meet New York Advertise your Union Meetings here. Por information write to The DAILY WORKER. Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City meetings afternoon at 5 Fight the Common ba