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

Page Two MASSES SUFFER: PARASITES KEEP UP THEIR FAT INCOMES Bosses Have Been Raking In Huge Dividends For Years; But Workers and Poor Farmers Face Hunger Now Times are hard in the United States. For whom? For the mi of unemloyed wage earners who walking the streets looking f appealing to the charity org societies, chamber of commerce re- lief committees, and other bread line organizations. For the farmers who are trying to make a living by selling 40c o: and Oc wheat, and whose crops were cut by the unprecedented drought which hit large sections of the country last summer. For the little business men who are doing down in companies be- fore the keen cutting tools of 1930 bankruptcies. Ever since 1922 re- ports of business failures have aver aged around 20,000 per year. Until the present year the banner total Was 23,600 failures. In the fi qui ter of 130 there were 7,368 fail 6.403 in the second quarter; 5,904 in the third quarter. In st durin gthree quarters of 130 there have been approximately 20,000 com- mercial failures. There is every in- dication that the total for the y will run well above 25,000, an unpre- cedented figure for the American business world. The great majority of these failing firms had a capital of less than $5,000. Times are hard on the American masses. Hw about the few at the top of the economic heap who are able to live in luxury without work upon the labor of their fellows? The U. S. Department of Com- merce publishes a monthly review, the Survey Current Business. In one department of this review are re- ported payments of dividends and interest made by certain indu: 1 transport aid public utility corpora- tions. The earliest year covered by these reports was 1913. During that year, interest and dividend payments job: . “Let Idle Starve” Is 1930 Idea Dug Up for 1930 by NEW YORK.—The New York Tele- gram yesterday publishes in a full page spread, which will probably be repeated in all Scripps-Howard pa- pers, an essay by Macaulay for the Edinburgh Review, printed in 1830. | Scripps-Howard enthusiastically en-| dorses the essay as applying in this| period of crisis, with millions unem- ployed. | WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY Buy Now { AND BRING | BACK OUR PROjiERITY. | av ed $148,000,000 a month. The total for the year was $1,750,000. For h gle month of January, 1930, id dividend payments to- t 20,000. Fir January and | February, 1930, the total was $1,637,- 000,000. In other words, interest and dividend payments during the first two months of 1930 were practically | equivalent to the total for the entire ar 113. he year 1928 was a good year. Interest and dividend payments for the 12 months totaled $3,989,000,000. The present period of hard times | began at the end of 1929. During | the latter year, INowever, the total of interest and dividend payments | 9,000,000, or about one-quar- | eater than the payments for | The year 1930 has been a year rupted hard times for the | can masses. During the first months the total of interest and dividend payments was $5,618,- 000,000 or more than half a billion dollars in excess of the highest pre- | vious year in United States economic his’ id Times are hard for the exploited masses, for the farmers, for the thor is of small business men why iddenly being pushed to the | IN DISTRESS | Admit No Money Or Jobs Even For 31,000 wall by chain store development and |, CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 16—Chicago's| the concentration of economic power. | J0bless to the number of more than | The property owning class in the | 86,000—the count is not yet complete | United States will be able to claim |—swamped the teachers acting as| the year 1930 as the banner year in| volunteer registers. Of the 86,000 the yment of unearned income. | counted, 31,000 report that they are The masses may feel the pressure of | in immediate distress, that they need hard times and shout their opposi- | food and fuel to keep from starva- tion on the street corners until they | tion and cold. | are run in by the plice. The prop-/ It was stated by the officials that erty owners feel themselves secure | the unemployed were all registered | behind a barrier of corporation sur-| the first day, but the schools were | pluses that continue to pay them| disrupted in some sections Monday | their accustomed rates of dividends | by the number of needy workers who and interest, and then add some-| asked to be registered. thing for good measure, | In the meantime, Dr. B. M. Squires, | | secretary of the governor's committee, | | admitted frankly that there is | money and no jobs even for the 31,- 000 registered as most needy. “Here Papers | we are again with a hat in one hand! diminishing the price of law and by|2Nd a mop in the other,” he said, | observing strict economy in every de- | 2dding that the “flophouse and soyp” partment of the state.” program by which the money is taken | This is the real spirit of the mas-| from the workers would only pass ters of industry today. “If you are| the misery and need around, not give | unemployed it's your own fault, and| 2ny fundamental solution to the pro- | just go ahead and starve until you} blem. | know enough to be a millionaire,” is} what they tell you. Thus the “lib-/ ‘THE_ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER Prosperity | WILL Cops Be Back (yf | L TREND TODAY ON FIGHT PLANS NEW YORK.—All millinery work- ers, operators, blockers, trimmers, | cutters, are called to an open forum | to discuss the collective agreement | which the bosses, together with Zarit- | sky and the rest of the officers of Locals 24 and 42 are attempting to ferce upon them. The Open Forum will be today at 2 p. m. in Irving} Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. | The Rank and File United Front| Committee of Millinery Operators, | Blockers, Cutters and Trimmers will | propose plans for discussion at the} Open Forum for the defeat of the maneuvers of the bosses and their} agents. ; HIPPODROME Screen, “The Big Trail,” with Raoul | Walsh’s film with El Brendel, Tyrone | Power and Tully Marshall. Vaude-| ville: Aunt Jemima; “Poodles” Han- | neford, and family; Joe Termini; McKay and Ardine, Saul Freed Four- | some, Five Jewels; Furman, Sharkey and Lorraine. 81ST STREET To Tuesday, Buster Shaver and his Tiny Town Revue; Roy Cummings, Florence Roberts and Maxine; Ryan Sisters, and Sullivan. Screen: “The Girl of the Golden West,” with Ann Harding. Wednesday to Friday: Anatol Friedland’s “Twelve O'clock Revue”; Glenn and Jenkins, and The heart of the argument, which | terest” in the misery of the jobless, | this so-called “liberal” corporation | reveals itself in its true character as thinks is good for us is in the fol-|an organ of the bosses and their jeral” press, with its demagogic “in-| Textile Workers Pledge Defense lowing extract: | “Manufacturers will best promote) the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price,| industry and intelligence their nat-| by defending property, peace, by $5-$10 Average Wage for Negro Women Workers WASHINGTON, D. C—The port, “Women In Florida Industries —just issued by the Women’s Bur-| eau, contains a parallel study of the wages and hours of 1,266 Negro women in these industries. Of these Negro working women, 30.1 per cent received under $5 a week; 53.5 per cent received $5 and Wall St. Magazine Worried About U.S.S.R. NEW YORK.—“It’s Up to Capital | ism,” is the title of a leading editorial | in the Magazine of Wall Street, Nov. 15, which warns the bosses that the growth of Socialism in the Soviet Union is bound to have a tremendous effect on millions of starving workers in the United States. The Magazine of Wall Street com- ments on a speech of Newton D. Baker at the American Association of Bankers while outside “Commu- nistic orators were reminding hungry, worried, unemployed men that while 9,000 bankers were feasting and loll- ing at ease within, they were hunger- ing outside.” Baker also said that the growth of Socialism in the U. 8. S, R. was being watched by “millions of people.” The Whalen Backs Slush NEW YORK.—Grover Whalen, ex- | forger’s accomplice, slugger of job- less workers and ribbon counter ar- tist, has come out in the ned role of patron of mystery stories. In his latest venture, the backing of the} blurbs state it’s rife with “intrigue, publication of a novel called “Red | and made adventure centering around Fog,” “a mystery novel with a pur-| Joyce Lambert, a beautiful American pose,” Whalen has the support of Captain George Darte, ex-comman- | der of the Military Order of the World War; Mrs. Sherman Walker, | president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and none other than Mr. Ham Fish, Jr., himself, R.R. Fakers Wa NEW YORK.—In the spirif of the Hoover stagger system, representa- ‘tives of the four railroad brother- hoods, representing 400,000 engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen recently approved of a plan to re- duce the hours of work of the rail- ‘Wwaymen now employed to spread the work out to include the thousands of _umemployed. This is a distinct ad- _ vantage to the bosses and a sever blow to the workers, hunger system. If you want any- of Soviet Union thing more than this comforting ad- | vice, this winter without a job, you) _PASSAIC.—Over 400 workers have must organizeand fight for it, gather | fled the Russi¢n Hall in Passaic to signatures for the Workers’ Unem-| Pledge their defense of” the Soviet | ployment Insurance Bill to take $5,-| Union. Many of those workers are 000,000,000 from the national war | i the textile aaa : funds and pay each jobless worker|. George Russko acted as chairman. | Russian, and Stone spoke in Hung- | jarian. The workers have shown | their defense for the Soviet Union | | by buying literature and pledging to | | defend the workers fatherland ‘at all | times from its enemies. ganize and strike against wage cuts! | | under $10 a week; 13.2 per cent re- | ceived $10 and under $15 a week, and Cart) 2.7 per cent received $15 and under P ariy Activities, $20 a week. None of them had a} | working day as short as 8 hours; 16.5| 4 SPECIAL MEETING | | i a i ing PARTY MEMBERS |Per cent worked over 8 and including | eee eee aden Wi ehe aeaiewn 9 hours; 77.3 per cent worked over | district nth, St to South Ferry) | | ‘i | will be held this Wednesday, Nov. i9, | 9 and including 10 hours, and 6.2 per Sight after Wolke at 6 Dr he. ee he| cent worked over 10 hours a day. Section headquarters, 27 FE. Fourth St This meeting is of utmost impor- | = | tance; all Party members must show,| up on time | Magazine of Wall Street concludes by admitting on a world scale a battle | between Communism and Capitalism | Labor and Fraternal : i " RED U was going on. Baker's lesson, they | Let wor know of your meeting | say, “was that it is up to the bankers, | Ma and vities. This column i ‘or this purpose and should be the industrialists and the busintss| tien advantage of ‘Write un your | leaders of America to demonstrate | notices as short as possible and mail | the superiority of our system to that | them in. pe Pte THE WORKERS’ THEATRE Holds | it o fthe Soviets by making it incom- parably better.” ‘The way the bosses make their sys- tem “incomparably” better is by try- ing to force 9,000,000 unemployed to LABORATORY OF THE W. 1 organizatio Nov. 19, meeting at the | International Relief, I 131 W. 28th St., firs eae Bronx Open Forum starve to death; cut wages 20 per a ey Preseeet, Aye, near = ‘ St., Sunday, Nov, 16, at 8 p.m, Sub- cent for all workers, just as an appe- fect: “Youth. in: Industry.” | tizer, and then jail, murder and slug RE He hundreds of thousands of other| NEW JERSEY workers who fight for better livin winettnenid hisses vee et OS series cntergaton ic taking courses at the Workers Center, 33% | Henderson St. (one flight up), sh register at once at the above addr Fees for each course (12 evenin $2. Unemployed fee. Come up talk it over, Friday night Novel Against Reds “Red Fog,” says the advance ad- | vertising, has for its purpose to “ex- | pose the growth of Communism in the United States.” ‘The publishers’ and girl, and her mighty struggle with Red Terror.” Undoubtedly she con- Achilles and Newmon. On the screen, fon Speed.” 58TH STREET To Tuesday, stage: Jack Wilson MUST RUN STRIKE National Textile Union Urges Form Com. | _ READING, Pa., Noy. 16.—The Na- | tional Textile Workers’ Union began | Friday to distribute a leaflet calling on the Berks county textile workers to organize and strike against wage-| cuts, urging them to form their own shop committees, rank and file strike committees and take the strike into their own hands, warning them against the misleadership of the Hoff- | man-Callaghan-McKeown gang of misleaders who represent the United ioned Hosiery Workers here. The U. T. W. gang, Musteites, held or tried to hold a meeting Friday noon at the Berkshire mill (the larg- est), but a slighe drizzle of rain frightened them away, The Musteites are using a raido broadcasting system. At their last meeting, where the rank and file workers demanded strike action to stop the wage-cut, jammed through a resolution giving President Hoover credit for trying to stop the wage-cuts and denouncing | the 50 per cent cuts in these mills as “against Hoover's policy.” No at numerous speeches about there be- ) WE HAVE. ) REACHED THE SOT TOM AND Nord ARE ON THEOPWARD 5 | party) will help them, though Mayor | long ago declared that the bosses will | Textile Workers and their Full Fash- | the Musteites | workers who has read of Hoover's lies | — And How! — Deon dover Yee gee on | HE MOVIES AN G, BUY |] AeRan, AND FOR-CET] appre’ MMOYED || spieityaL, | | YALL | Trea tay Wau) | AWAKENING a ra \ STREET 5 gy WS Ass oe AND THe Far HEAD es pig Pe AUTHORITY Rey PurPrt WHO LIKE TO FoLLow, ing “no wage-cuts” will look for help { in this quarter. The U. T. W. chiefs tell the workers the city administration (socialist WORKERS MEETINGS NEW YORK.—Activity is intenst- | fied in the needle trades as the | Struggle of the dressmakers looms * * . |closer. Many branches of the in- | dustry besides the dress trades show iateten atte ah ike Lae {the intention of the workers to, administration is likely to give in the | t*ugsle, however. There are a whole | Reading textile strike is seen from | Series of meetings within the next few : pay days. the attitude of the Federal Concilia+ ‘ " | tion Bureau. Fred Keightley, an | Men's clothing workers are called to a membership meeting today at 8 | agent of that bureau, looked over ete tho ab ole Waa: 4a Bet Gia NEAR: | situation in Reading, heard details | of the 50 per cent wage-cuts, and an- kuarters of the Needle Trades Work- nounces that he will delay his F-| Or SR RNLCR Tar One ‘Hanared | | Pore aBendiog. develonments eletced at the dress conference will also meet today, at 6 p. m. at 131 | West 28 St. ANN HARDING IN BELASCO FILM | "at 2 p, m., also today, there will be AT JEFFERSON an open forum of all dress pressers at: The Jefferson Theatre is introduc- | Bryant Hall, | ing a fall festival program, with| Tuesday there will be an open | eight acts for each half of the week.! forum of men’s tailors at 1 p. m, at |On the screen, Ann Harding is to be| Manhattan Lyceum, seen in “The Girl Of The Golden Wednesday at Webster Hall, 7 p. m., West,” the screen version of the Bel- | there will be a meeting to which all | asco stage play. The stage will have |needle workers are invited to hear the | | Rae Samuels; Earl Faber; A. Duval; report of the delegates to the Fifth | Caufield and Ritchie; the Lucille| world Congress of the Red Interna- | Sisters; and Jones and Rhea.” tional of Labor Unions. Delegates re- The program from Wednesday to| porting will be B. Kaplin, and the | Friday will include: Joe E. Brown in| Negro worker, McLean. | UPSTATE TOILERS Stump and his gang have already} get full police protection in case of ja strike. | |comedy, “Top Speed.” Frank and Milt Britton; Jack Waldron; La Fleur and Rosita; Jack Wilson and Co.; Evelyn Dean and the Bouleyar- He BLIND LEADING THE BLIND. THe THE LANDSCAPE WILL LOoGK MANY NEEDLE TRADES (15 JOIN EX-SERVICEMEN ORG. AT MARKOFF MEET NEW YORK.—Two hundred and fifty ex-service men heard Markofi, delegate to the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, at a meeting in Ukrainian Hall Friday night. They were so interested with Markofl’s story of the struggle of the workers to build sp- cialism in the Soviet Union, and his description of the Red Army or- ganization and purposes, that they formed on the spot a committee to carry on further organization work amgng ex-service men. Questions showed the interest of these veterans of capitalist wars in the efficiency and cultural activities of the Workers Army, and their pride at the growth and power of the So- viet. trade unions, One young woman worker priposed that a woman's division be formed to include medical workers and nurses, and amdist applause, she pro mised to help organize. ‘The meeting was held by the Work~ ers Ex-Servicemen’s League which is carrying on organization work amiong the ex-servicemen. Fifteen new mem- bers joined the league at the meet- ing. All who want information, write 3y6uaa Jevesunua |diers, are the vaudeville numbers, 3 and Company; Frank and Milton Britton; Gene Tito, Lee-Wright Dancers, Swartz and Clifford, Besser, Seiler and Bossner, Angus and Searle, and La Fleur and Portia. Screen, “Girl of the Golden West.” Pets, Jones and Rae, General Pisano. Screen, “Top Speed.” Help Build the SOVIET UNION! COME TO THE ANNUAL “ICOR” BAZAAR for the benefit of JEWISH COLONIZATION AT BIRO BIDJAN, U. S. S. R. Wednesday, Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving Eve Opening Night) Thursday, Noy. 27 Friday, Nov. 28 Saturday, Nov. 29 165th Infantry Armory 68 Lexington Avenue, New York (Bet. 25th and 26th Streets) Articles from every corner of the world. From a needle to a tractor will be sold at YOUR OWN PRICE! Wednes- | x ; iece | Milton Weich spoke in the English | @ay to Friday, stage: Charles Foy | ural reward, idleness and folly their) $25 a week. You must fight piece} ‘ " ee, i | Janguage, Radweinsky in Polish and | and Cousins, Frank Chapman, Jerry | natural punishment, by maintaining; work and longer hours, must or. and Her Baby Grands, Lady Alice's | GREET A. BURLAK [AMUSEMENTS | BUFFALO, N. Y. — Hundreds of | workers, working in the cxiferent in- | dustries and suffering on account of mass unemployment, attended the| meetings of Ann Burlak, held in Sy-_ 46th St. jDatly trom | | GLOBE S"hiweyfiovs) Are | SECOND WEEK Y{ with Liyan Tashman, mond Hackett, 42d St. CAMEO 2'.5:, | AMOS ’N’ ANDY fo “Check & Double Check” “UP POPS THE DEVIL” A Genuine Comedy Hit with ROGER PRYOR | Thea., W. of B'way MASQUE 45th St. Thea, Mats. Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 Ray- THE GREEKS HAD | A WORD FOR IT A COMEDY BY ZOn* AKINS SAM H. HARRIS Thea., 42d St. W. of By | Eventog 8:50. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 THE QUEEN OF COMEDIES LYSISTRATA THE HIT YOU HEAR ABOUT 44TH STREE Treare | Eves. 8:40, — Mats, Wed. & Sat. 2:40 $1, All Performances 300 Balcony Seats, EDGAR WALLACE'S PLAY ON THE SPOT KE WILBUR and AY WONG A EDGAR WAL! 49 W. of By, Ev THE EY JUBILEE of Co (The Pioneer of Jewish THE CAT CREEPS Neil Hamilton |NOW| PAORRIS VINCHEVSKY will be celebrated by all revolutionary workers Saturday Evening, November 22 Theatre Guild Productions ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN GUILD Mite" tis.a8 racuse, Rochester, Buffalo andJames- town. In Syracuse 150 workers at- tended, Rochester had an attendance of about 200 workers, Buffalo had | over 250 workers attending and | Jamestown reports 200 workers at! | this meeting, held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, | and pledged themselves to carry on| the fight for the liberation of the | Atlanta defendants. In the four meetings, a collection of over $300 | was made, ROAR CHINA MARTIN BECK BEA. 45th St. West of Broadway Evs. 8:50, Mts. Th. & Sat. 2:50 | | |We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERTA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY HIPPODROME Mace BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK * | QOrKo ‘ BIG TRAIL with JOHN WAYNE ACTS Tuliy Marshall and FI Brendel Evenings 8:30 Soc, $1, $1.50. Mts. Th, & Sat. 2:30 EVA (ie REPERTORY ‘th St. sth av. ) Seatsiwks.adv.atBoxOff.&T’nMall,113W.4d = = mn Tel. OR rd 3783 | DR. L. KESSLER | NINA ROSA aaabon’ Geneiae New Musical Romance, with GUY ROBERTSON, ETHELIND TERRY ARMIDA, RD CEELEY, Others MAJESTIC THEA., 44th, W. of Broadway Eve, $:30, Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2:30. Chi 2600 | 1. 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