The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1930, Page 2

- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1930 oo TO GREET HUSA, | HOLMES TODAY | Arrive At 8:30 a. m. At Grand Central NEW YORK.—Aliene Holmes \and Mabel Husa, leaders of the Workers’ International Relief child- ren’s camps sentenced to 60 days in jail after a raid on the W.1.R. camp at Van Etten, N. Y., recently by the Ku Klux Klan and the Amer- + ican Legion, will arrive at the Grand Central Station, at 8:30 a. m. this morning. Representatives of the | Young Communist League, Work- jers’ International Relief, Interna- |tional Labor Defense and Young ' Pioneers will be on hand to greet | the two girls. From the railroad station the girls will march to the local office of the W.LR., located JOBLESS COUNCIL. LN, TOMARCH IN BODY ?KOTEST AGAINST EVIC. a ‘ION OF AGED TOLLER EE oes Jowntown Council Holds Rousing Meet Before Sept. 1 Demands “Free Employment” Bureau Tammany’s Wage-C \'ing “Free” Employment Agency * 3 | of ac NEW YORK MENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE? FREE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY ; Demonstration on Sept. , Union Square Monda: < @ they will go in a body to Union Square, and together with thousands of metal, shoe, 2 other workers, demand that the Workers’ Insurance Act be passed | by Congress. A series of noon-day rallies were held in the needle markets, 36th St. hed by {2nd 8th Ave., 38th St. and 8th Ave., 4) | 87th St. and 6th Ave., 29th St, and 7th Ave., and 28th St. and Madison | Ave., Thursday to rally all workers, | s to meet at am on Sept. 1st to march to Union a body. ce Try to Break Meet. the council led be t f establish to coin political capital e jobless struggle under leade despite the “NGDAHL AT TWO STREET MEETS ‘alls On Jobless to Fight For Bill NEW YORK eutenant-governor, spol won-day meetings held nd 8th Ave., and ve., where work nonded to the 1 Union Squar Labor Day’ by quare with 110,000 wo ingdahl. The Communist candidate for eutenant-governor pointed out that he opening of the Municipal E jloyment Bureau had proved yoomerang against Tammany Hall hat had tried to use this maneuver » win votes for its hard hit slate f candidates. “This maneuver of Tammany Hall as helped prove to great masses f workers that you can’t feed hun- ry workers, or provide them with »bs, merely by opening an Unem- loyment Bureau, That is what the ammany Hall Senator in Wash- agton, Wagner, has been urging. \ctual experience has shot to vieces the Tammany Hall pallia-/ ives for the unemployment situa-, ion. urged dahl denounced Tammany offer of flop houses and the o-called filthy, disease-breeding funictpal Lodging House to the unemployed as the alternative for ieceit homes. | All the meetings voted enthusias- ically for the immediate and un- onditional release of Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, and all other political prisoners, most of them| he leaders of the unemployed. ° | Hal Brooklyn Mass Rally Held Tonight Against unemployment and starv- ation, Section Six, Communist Par- ty, has arranged a mass rally which will be held tonight at 8 p. m. at Grand Street Extension, Brooklyn. This mass rally will bring to the! attention of the workers in Brook-) iyn the terrible exploitation raging! n the Kent Ave. plants of the city. This mass rally will serve as a| mobilization of the workers in prep-} aration for the gigantic Unemployed Demonstration at Union Square on| Sept. Ist. | All class conscious workers in- terested in the struggle to better the conditions of the entire work- ing class are to come to this mass rally, Have your friends and shop| mates come along. Fight for the! adoption of the Workers’ Social In-! surance Bill by the Congress of the 459," Section 6 Mobilizes For Red Sunday Members of Section 6 of the Com- munist Party and Y. C. L. are all ‘o respond to the Red Election Sun- day, for the collection of signatures. | Unless a complete turnout is| made by all Party and League mem- bers, as weil as smypathizers, we sre in danger of losing the 14th as- embly district. Section 6 Executive Committee calls upon all Party members and | ympathizeres to participate in the | ollection of signatures this Sunday | > hegin at 10 a.m. Come and get | the petitions at the section head- quarters, 68 Whipple St., Brooklyn. ALL LITERATURE AGENTS! - will stoop in order to get so-called | employed, unemployed, part time, for the demonstration. tactics of the police. truck up the corner ght that the meeting but on the con- unabated September 1st ly listened to the needle workers who were speakers, and to the Com- munist Party candidates who ad- dressed them, The Workers’ Insur- ance Act is proposed the Com- munist Party and endo d by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. Many copies of Labor Unity, and the new issue of the | Needle Worker were sold. With the help of the John Reed Club, the union is preparing a num- : : ber of cartoons. These will be dis- peo a eaacay meeting played on a truck which will ride ttan Lyceum was called at | through centers where needle work- y unemployed workers | ers congregate, and will also be Unemployed Council. displayed at the demonstration. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union urges all needle workers to turn this “Labor Day” into~a mass protest against the ter- | rible conditions which exist in the continued with aflets for the Sep- s Day Demonstra ibuted. Labor U agerly bought by th ers who had son Many copies were distrib- who signified they y upon the close of the AEW ‘ORGANIZES’ | trade today, and against unemploy- ment. | Food W'kers Industrial COPS BREAK OFFICE Union Won 2 Strikes WORKERS UNION MEET EW YORK.—The _extent to NEW YORK—A meeting w h both the International A.F.L. held outside the Weticpolitan life Bakers. and Local No 3, A.F.W./} Insurance Building at the noon hour : ‘| Wednesday by the Unemployed of shops in| Council of Office Workers Union section without | The meeting was interrupted by | three Tammany policemen who vici- ously attacked the speakers. Every time a speaker was knocked control of a couple Brighton Beach necessarily organizing those work- first was clearly indicated in an rence last week in which gang-| employed by both sides | 5, ed in an A.F.W. shop, called | comrade tu: , 4 Willmers, on Brighton Beach Ave. | Se ae | the same result. The fight that occurred resulted) By this time a strenuous crowd in a worker, member of the A.F.W.,| collected and with the aid of a few being sent to the hospital with &| more Tanimany thugs, the speake ractured skull. Fagen, the rack-| were taken into a room of the build- eteer, who is attempting to form| ing and arrested. Before the poli a Jewish local of the bakers and/ arrived pails of water were pour of the International A.F.L. was ar-| on the large crowd who were listen ted and Solomon with two gang- | ing to the speakers. The comrades sters who were hired from the} arrested were Santos, Tumin, Paui Cloakmakers’ Union for this pur-| Vince, Stern and H. Klein. Ramon pose. Bail that was at first set at| Osser, who was supposed to speak, $2,000 each was raised to $20,000|was hurt when someone threw a each, after the prosecuting attor-| stone at his foot. ney found this worker in the hos- | @——————__--—___.____. pital in such a critical condition. 3 a Today in History of where he is not expected to live. the Workers The A.F.W. has also hired three August 29, 1792—French reyo- gangsters in this section at a rate| of $12 per day each. This proves | the need of the bakers realizing the! futionists decided on death penal- importance of organizing the only | ty for nobles, rich, and priests union which takes up their fight,| who favored the monarchy. 1909 the Food Workers’ Industrial Union.| —Strikers at Pressed Steel Car A meeting of all active women) Work, McKees Rocks, Pa., defeat- ed constabulary in pitched battle. 1917—John Avilla, I. W. W. or- ee of the Wood Forkers’ In- | dustrial Union, will be held Friday, August “29, at the office of the| nion, 16 West 21st St., at 7 p. m. arp. Every woman is urged to be present, sentenced to three months at Franklin, N. J. 1919—Attempt to assassinate Lenin by Dora Kap- lan, social revolutionary. 1921— 7. i 10,000 cotton weavers at Ghent, Ww age Cut Policy of Belgium, struck against wage pa Hosiery Fakers Now | 1929—soviet Russia signed Kel. Bearing Its Fruit logg pact for outlawry of war, while condemning its inadequacy. PLAINFIELD, N. J.—Following out his low-wage policy, Supt.| Y,| ifi “Bully” Helberg of the Rivoli Ho. | CL. Notifies J.C. \siery Mills, Plainfield, N. J., has put, Police of Intention another wage slash into effect. Knitters on 39-gauge legging ma- chines (single jobs), who were for- merly receiving 70 cents a dozen,| have had their rate cut to 50 cents a dozen. All other jobs have taken a proportionate reduction. The workers in the Rivoli are forced to earn a living under the most intolerable conditions that ex- ist in this district. Under the new} rates, they must slave in stifling heat and an unclean atmosphere long hours to earn the existing wage of $20 to $23 a week, to Hold Sept. 9 Meet JERSEY CITY, Aug. 28,—The Young Communist League today gave notice to the police of its de- termination to hold an International Youth Day meeting on September 9 on the corner of Newark and Jersey Aves, The notification was given after a committee had made four visits to the office of the chief of police and two visits, plus two telephone calls, to the office of the Depart- ment of Public Safety. On each oc- Encouragement given to the ho-|casion the buck was passed from siery bosses to cut wages unstint-| the Police Department to the De- ingly was given official sanction by | partment of Public Safety and back the officials of the American Fed-| again. Finally the comrades got eration of Full Fashioned Hosiery | tired visiting the police and sent a Workers when they signed a con-| Written notification of their inten- tract with the bosses calling for tion to hold the meeting. wage reductions up to 38% per cent in all “unionized” mills Southern Worker | in Second Issue Out; The second issue of the Southern Worker, Communist paper in the south, is out, with many fighting articles and cartoons exposing the bosses lynching terror, wage-cut- ting and firing campaigns and preparations for war against the Soviet Union, Dated August 30, but appearing several days ahead, the latest issue carries a stirring call to the Negro and white workers of the south to! youth Club will be held Saturday, demonstrate September first against | 4us. 30 at 1408 Madison Ave, unemployment and for the demand Bo ‘Important Meeting Called For Today ers, food workers, ete., are asked to attend an important meeting this morning at 9 o'clock at Franklin St., corner of Lafayette St. Come early, Labor and Fraterna! Shoe Workers Open Forum Teeny at 2.80 p,m. at 16 W. 26rd St. AL shoe workers Pilcome. Dance Given by the Harlem Progressive ing Construction Workers Report today at the Workers|for social insurance, ete. A come to 13 W. 17th St. to- ? a p.m. to get litera-| The Southern Worker is an im-| %Y ‘© help give out Sept. 1st lenfiets -¢ © the demonstvsion and final portant instrument in the struggle Cleaners and Dyers instructions! |against the southern bosses and | ,7\¥'Limeet today at 8 p. m. at 18 w. DEES sie ] intensive exploitation of white f OTM epg Vote Communist! Vand Negro“workers Meth Workers Industrial League 1 or working The workers eager thrown off the platform another | ganizer, hung, cut down, arrested, | All ex-servicemen, marine work-| Will meet tonight at 13 W, 17th St. (Left) Part of the 25,000 who have filed applications for ‘job are filled long before the unemployed worker arrives. Some are sent mass demonstrations held by the New York Unemployed Council in fr below) Homeless and hungry unemployed at Cooper Square. at 10 East 17th St., where they will be interviewed by the capitalist press. | An extensive reception for the two young workers will be held | Sunday night, at Casa D’Amor | Hall, Mermaid Ave. and West 31st | St., Coney Island. The girls will |make short addresses telling of the |fascist attack on the Van Etten | W.LR. camp. Children who were }at the camp at the time of the attack will also be present. Other | features on the program will be a | children’s pageant of 100. Children | will be admitted free. Adults will 8.” They are bs” advertised in the capitalist press, which s at lower wages. (Right top) One of the to replace emy ont of this age CLOSE DOWN NEW | assicns POSITIONS | FOR SEPTEMBER 1ST BEDFORD MILLS. All unions, leagues and groups ‘have been assigned _ starting | || points from +where they will All Out September Ist | march to the demonstration. The For Relief | following are the starting points: Needle Workers, 131 W. 28th St.; NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. Food and Shoe Workers, 16 W, [tee off workers, depart- | 21st St.; Marine Workers and ment by department, the Whitman General Unemployed _ Council, mills here will close down for an Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4 indatinita period All the rest of the unions ses = leagues will meet at 13 °W. Officials of the company stated’ gt on Monday, Sept. 1st, | that the mills would remain closed || 19 a, m, until “the present textile situation | ¢—— clears.” | No thought was given to the Tonight’s Meeting of plight of the workers thrown on the streets after producing profits | Carpenters No. 2090 of Great Importance for the bosses. | Swelling the ranks of the unem- | ployed workers in this textile town, the suffering and misery bordering | penters’ Union No. 2090 will take on actual starvation for thousands | plase tonight for the purpose of , of families, will be increased. | The fight to wrench unemploy-! report of the Action Committee ment insurance from the bosses { which was elected by the local five must be pushed now more than ever weeks ago. * before. The September 1 demon- The report of the Action Com- stration must serve warning to the mittee is of the greatest impor- textile bo: that the unemployed. tance, not only to the members of workers will not starve meekly, “090 but to all the carpenters. In- while they run off to Europe or Volved in the report is the ques- seashore resorts. tion of independent economic action. |, At tonight’s meeting those mem- bers interested in independent eco- nomie action and a militant struggle will have to vote for the resolution, program of demands and plan of action as they were originally pre- ‘sented to the Action Committee. Rush Campaign Fund | Drive; to Wind Up on Sunday, August 30th NEW YORK.—Have you contrib- Suites uted towards the Communist cam-| paign fund? Are you participating Greet Released WIR Camp Leaders Today in collecting money for this fund? | All members of the International These are the questions that Labor Defense are urged to come every class conscious worker must be asked during this campaign fund | week, The drive for money for the cam-| against the fascists and Klu Klux jPaign fund of the Communist Party) Klan, that tried to attack the child- j Which was started last Friday had/ren's W.L.R. camp, at Elmira, .N. Y. been going on now the whole week) The two young workers will be and will wind up Sunday evening-| greeted at the Grand Central Sta- , Party members and sympathizers tion, 42nd St, at 11 a. m. who have not yet secured boxes for x ‘s a | collecting money, should obtain such | ——————— boxes at the various stations in their districts. All efforts must be given | towards making this drive a real success, with considerable funds | collected for the Communist Party jin érder to spread out its campaign | eau the working masses. ‘Boss Robs Worker of Seven Weeks Pay PEEKSKILL, Aug. 28. ‘ot only |are eight million workers walking | the streets breadless and homeless, | but many workers are being lured | into working for bosses who after a/ time close shop and skip out with| the workers’ wages, This happened | to a worker at the Oskawaha Lodge | ‘here. This worker, Ernest Mune, was| hired as a short order cook. and itehen man and promised $75 a |month. He worked for seven week: the boss putting him off at the end} jof the first month with the promise of two months pay in a lump sum, | This boss, whose name is Unger,, then put his business through the | | bankrupt racket and left the work- ‘er holding the bag. For the entire) | seven weeks he collected only ten | | dollars. | Rally to Release the Communist Can- didate for Governor Wm. Z, Foster and the other mem- bers of the unem- ployed delegation. i | | Come to the ILD Solidarity PICNIC SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 Pleasant Bay Park Do Your Working Class Duty Communist Activities Dance of Y.C.1. Of Bronx Unit 4, will be held thic | Saturday, August 30, at 1400 Boston | Rd. Admission 26 cents, at door 35) cents, * # * Social Given by the Young Communist League of Coney Island will be held Saturday, Aug, 30, at 9 p, m. at 2901 Mermaid Ave. Admission 25 cents. eee: Organizations! Given by Unit 8. Section? will, be| held Saturday, Aug. 30, at 8:30 p. m. | Attention! at 3068 Brighton Beach, Admission 25 cents, OCTOBER 22 reserved for very important event. r* Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray: mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. An extraordinary meeting of Car- | discussing and deciding upon the, ® }and greet the two young fighters | Negro unemployed worker is speaking. (Right {pay 50 cents in advance and 75 cents at the door. (MINE STRIKERS HARLEM RESTAURANT is te a JIM CROWS NEGROES | yesterday received a letter from | a {Samuel E-~Rosenman, counsel to | A By | Governor Roosevelt, Albany, stating | Negro and white workers staged | that the W.LR. protest against the |a demonstration yesterday noon, | fascist attack on the camp has been = | when six Negro workers entering | received and “placed on file.” This 400 Are Holding Out) the new Washington Restaurant, at} means that it will be buried and no . |73 West 125th St., were insulted | action taken. Not even a fake in- Against Bosses |and refused service. vestigation will be made. | On the previous day, four white SE RET Correspondent.) | workers and two Negro workers| New York City spends $600,- W. Va.—The M./ had entered the restaurant to order| 900,000 yearly—the Communist s the Convillies mine | jynch, Sitting together at the same Party demands relief for the un- employed—vote Communist! (By a Work SCOTTS RU W. A. weeks. Four hundred men | were ignored alike. When they pro- out. But the people are not tested, the management offered the | because we have no money. | exeuse that it was a busy hour and at once because the they would have to wait. The| igeteeclons | workers left the restaurant, deter- , + We are losing Our) mined to later make a test of the seen oney eres ae to them. _ | matter. Yesterday two groups|7 Mast 42nd Street, New York We call upon all people to give) eptered the restaurant: one of four |e. Scotts Run, Negro Workers. The white work- | The leaders of the U. M. ers were given service immediately, | BRONSTEIN’S while the Negro workers were | Vegetarian Health ignored. The workers protesting, | Restaurant 658 Claremont Parkway, Bronx are not going to work under ‘reement of the U. M. W. A. Rush relief at once to the strikers jof Scotts Run and it has been out) table, white and Negro workers “For Alt Kinds of Insurance” re coming here and| what they can to help the people of | white workers and another of six|| ay gem arc they were told the Negro workers | would be served—if they would eat | in the kitchen. At this point, the} | white workers who had already ordered and received a portion of |their meals made a demonstration together with the Negro workers ‘NEWARK COMMUNISTS a a aes ee Slection| The demonstration attracted quite mated a crowd. Other demonstrations will be held at the same restaurant in|! RATIONAL Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE. UE Bet. 18th and 18th Ste. Strictly Vegetarian Food ae The Communist Party | Campaign Committee has made ar- rangements for a series of open air meetings in the city of Newark.| the future in the fight on Jim-Crow- Some of the corners where these | ism. meetings will be held are: Broome} KEE TAS Le ae Dairy RESTAURANT fea petein! 1) Always Find it Pleasant fo Vine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronz (near 174th St, Station) @HONB INTERVALD 9149. and Mercer Sts., Broome and Mor-| Camp Fire Saturday ‘ton Sts., Ridgewood and Seventeenth Sal Ridgewood and Eighteenth | For LL.D. Benefit: Sixteenth and Springfield | Aves., Bruen and Ferry Sts. Jef-! A camp fire and concert will be | ferson and Kinney Sts., Mon-/ given at Camp Craton Ave., Peek- | roe and Lafayette Sts., Madison and| skill, N. Y., on Saturday, August Lafayette |30, at 8:30 p. m. A beautiful pro- | gram has been arranged. There os. | Will be plenty of food. The pro- ar eee fein acenitey ed | ceeds go to the International Labor ; é . 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