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Page Two Qed pA tal NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930 _ FOUR PAINTERS KILLED IEVICTS cou JPL EB WHEN SCAFFOLD BREAKS | AND SIX KIDS YORK.—The second me} within a week, @ scaffold broke and | sent building workers to death in| New York. ‘This one was at the 258 | y in the Bronx. | one will! sixth man on NEW | Unemployed Council Resisting Eviction NEW YOR he first district court yesterday ordered the eviction of an unemployed worker and his | wife and six small children from home at 91 Rivington St probably die. the scaffold bar a ay had been condemned h, but | a slight alteration apparently satis- fied the building inspectors. A wel thei ‘The worker has ben out of work | for several months, vainly pounding | the pavements day after day like | millions of other unemployed work- | ers and is behind two months in his rent. ‘The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil is mobilizing its forces to prevent the eviction and will try to rally the rorking-class tenants in the neigh- NEW. YORK.—Tonight, Saturday, | brood to support its fight against mi830 sharp in Carnegie Hall, the |CVictions of jobless workers, The Preiheit Gezang Verein of New York | Unemployed Councils throughout the will perform the revolutionary ora- | city and country are doing good work in protecting workers to the right of “OCTOBER” ORATORIO | AT CARNEGIE TONITE! c ” with the assistance Str imerhvers of the Manhattan Sym-|® TOOf over thelr heads. AIL work- phony orchestra, and Leo Reconi,| Ss @f@ urged to support the unem- rd | ployed councils in stopping evictions. gharitone so | Workers! Resist the efforts of the The oratorio symbolizes the revolu-| bosses to starve and freeze us out. tio of 1905 to 1917 and is composed| Fight back! Organize into Unem- | Ployed Councils. LABOR AND FRATERNAL ACTIVITIES Labor Sports Union Daily Worker Conference. ef all workers’ organi Downtown will be held th t 3 p.m. at the Workers Center . 4th St, All workers’ organizat vited. ristmas, Oval. ek north A Mass Meeting of Brownsville Deposito: Bank of the S. will he day, 2 p. m., 105 That- | enue Meet then rel ass ES = ood time, Special] Meeting of the Joe Hill Branch 1.L.D. be held Monday W. 28th St. at 7 p.m. at nee Concert, and 1 given by Workers Ctut this Satu 140 Neptune Aven A prog’ of eiiceptional inter Dancing till dawn, Admission 2/35 cents. East New Yor Deel: Forum and M.-3: Olgin to Speak Sunday o| Forum ” in the The new forum will be opened this Sunday at 8 p.m. Workers are urged to come and to bring their shopmates and fellow workers. Speaker, J. Enedanl, subject. Bankruptcy.” of |Capitalism. Dancing with excellent | y | music will follow. Bronx Unemployed Couneil. s meeting of all Bronx unem- workers this Monday, 10 a.m Prospect Ave. Bronx. | gFrelctonlt Meets Sunday. . “Russian and the Five ‘Plan will be the subject of a lecture at 88 E. 10th St. rum Bronx Workers Club, Rd. Comrade Ge onalization Capitalist . admis- A Dance By the Cuban Workers. Sunday will be held at the Cuban} Workers Club, 412 Sutter Ave., Bklyn. | Bronx Workers Forum. A series of lectures and discussions are drranged every Sunday at & p.m. | at 569 Prospect Ave. “Coming Strug- gles in the Needle Trades.” . and Lenox Ave. Ad- “mission 50 ce . ees Concert and Rrefreshments, 1 and 4. Sunday, Dec. 28, 7 p, m. at 134 FE. |7th St, for the benefit*of the Daily Worker, Admission 25 cents. impiety Orchestra, y, 11a. m, at the Units ‘Grownsville “Workerx School Open Forum. Thatford Ave., Sunday. 8 p.m. he Moscow Trial.” John discu Questions 2 i] An 8-Da miie For the New York | Y Workers Center. | arian Workers Home, 350 E and for the printing press has been | Sth . All workers who play in- authorized by the Central Committee. | struments are urged to attend, The drive will open with a banqnet | on the 1ith of January and will con-| tinue with a bazaar for seven day: We urge all organizations nat to # Tange any affairs, during this driv We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA Eltzabeth, N. J.—Attention. A Dance given by the Y. C. L. at Workers Center. 106 E. Jersey St.. will take place Saturday night, 8 p. ma, A Negro Jazz. Band. Re ee 3 A Lecture at the Lenin Youth Branch of I.W.0. This Sunday, at 3 p. m. at 134 EB tth St. Lecture and discussion on withe present situation in China, All young workers invited. ¥. C. L, Dance Given. y the Brownsville and HE. N.Y mite fee tne benett of the Younes Worker; come to 105 Thatford Ave. on Saturday, sDe 20 ‘ Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts. ‘Brooklyn. Workers’ Union Ma: by Steve Discussion. Admission 3y6nan Jleve6umua DR. A. BROWN Dentist r@dlexanderson. ‘ee, Help Wanted! 3 Comrade to join the Red Builders Cjub selling the Daily Worker sev- efal hours daily. For full details gome to our jamboree Sunday, 3 tm, at 27 E. 4th St. Hot dogs. Dis- cussion. Stree 301 East 14th St. Cor. Second Ave ¥O < Williamsburg Open Forum. Algonquin 7248 Sunday, 7 p.m. at Workers Center. oo y| The program will include numbers GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD). BIG UNEMPLOYED CONFERENCE Takes Up All Plans for Whirlwind Campaign (Continued from Page One) vork Campaign Committee for Un- employment insurance—a provisional committee which would be replaced ‘International Cabaret’ Tonight Shows Collect- ive Proletarian Art New York workers will have an opportunity tonight to see some col- | lective proletarian art. The “Pro- | Jetbuehne,” who are already known | through several striking plays, pre- | sented by them in German, will for the first time tonight have a pro- gram in five languages: English, German, Hungarian, Russian and | Jewish during the meeting by a broad rep- In the “Proletbuehne” even text | resentative committee elected by the and scenario are worked out by the | conference, members collectively. Their plays " . are real proletarian art in the sense Cen ggg oe Ress that they are built up in close con- |0re ® sign, “Babies sai - Grafter Fill Their Pockets,” and the nection with and as part of the work- | patina be 45: cieaxduatsteait’ ae ers’ struggle, actively helping and |™eeling began to org! 8 p.m. promoting it. |” ‘The. “mternational Cabaret,” pre: Score Fake Programs. |sented tonight at 8 o'clock at the| Jack Johnson was elected chair- Hungarian Workers’ Home, 450 §./™an and De Angelo, secretary. 8ist St., deals in a satirical way with | Nesin then reported for the com- latest political evehts. ‘Admission is | ittee. He pointed out the condi- 50 cents. After the cabaret dance |tons of today, told of the 9,000,000 and refreshments. hungry jobless, of the 800,000 in New AFFAIR TONIGHT it with the U. S. government's Three Billion Dollars voted for the next war NEW YORK.—In the effort to raise funds to send Comrade Dolores Gon- and its billions of dollars refunds to big corporations, with the $600,000 in- crease in salaries the Tammany lead- ers in New York have just voted themselves out of the city treasury. He branded the stagger system as a zales to a sanitarium in the Soviet |P!an by which six starve where one Union, the Workers International|Starved before, and exposed the | Relief is staging a dance and concert | tonight, at the New Harlem Casino, | 100 West 116th St. | All workers are urged to support this affair and help get Comrade | Dolores to the Soviet Union, which Hoover building program. He tuu how a $10,000,000 building program in Buffalo gave employment to only 400 workers. He told of the revolt in the electricians’ union and the musicians’ | unlike capitalist America, has state-|not have to support the jobless. He supported facilities for sick workers.|caiied for organization, for plain Comrade Dolores is the widow of speaking and concrete suggestions | Comrade Gonzales, the Latin Ame: from the delegates, for rent strikes to |ican worker who was murdered | stop evictions, and told of the organ- Levy, the Negro worker murdered by Fall Discussion. | Garvey leaders and police, Delegate after delegate rose to dis- cuss the plan of action submitted to the conference by the New York Com- mittee. The plan is to endorse the represented to endorse the New York campaign, and to elect delegates for a still bigger conference to meet Jan. 12 and there elect representativges to go with these of other cities to pre- gress. Many Proposals, The proposals under discussion last night included special committees in the érganizations affiliating with the committee to collect signatures, their | by the Red Dancers, a sketch by the pakairss +2 Laboratory Theatre, Nadia | Cilkowsky with her dancing group | and the Kraonis Concertino Trio. | The dance music will be rendered by he peppy jazz band. |Workers and Religion union at the plan of the fakers to ® policeman in. Harlem while on | ized unemployed aiding the Zergreen national campaign for insurance and at Harlem Forum Sun, en ne a oom il to cone tax the workers so the bosses would his way to view the body of Comrade | picketing and picketing in strikes. signature drive; for all organizations unemployment insurance bill to con- NEW YORK.—Bernard Stern, for- ; merly of Washington University, will | be the speaker this Sunday afternoon at the Harlem Workers’ Forum, 308 Lenox Ave. His subject will be “Re- ligion and the Workers.” ‘The forum starts promptly at 3 Patronize the YOUR FOOD will do you more good if you eat under conditions of QUIET Concoops Food Stores 2 AND Restaurant 2100 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” There is Comfort and > Protection in CLEANLINESS | opments, YOUNG COMMUNISTS TO MEET SUNDAY AT NOON NEW YORK.—A membership meet- ing of the Young Communist,League of District 2, New York, will be held at 12 noon Sunday, in district head- quarters. ‘This meeting begins a drive for 200 new members here. It will rally the members for carrying through the plan of action in two months, and | for rooting the League among the young workers. Every League mem- | ber should be at the meeting to ac- quaint himself with the latest devel- Admission by membership WOR KERS RAP JESUS ARMY SLOP Tell of Ptomaine Poi- soning NEW YORK.—George> Rothstein, pect: | géncy Employment Committee, plied yesterday for his pay, and had to wait in line for over three hours, before the city condescended to give him his starvation wages. While waiting in line with the other men he heard tales of desper- ate misery on all sides, workers tell- ing how they have been robbed right and left-by boss rackets in the em- book, headquarters to be stations m the | drive, and special headquarters to be | | established about the city; hunger marches on the borough halls and on the city hall in January, mass prop- aganda trial of Hoover, Green and Walker Jan. 11; 200 open-air meet- ings Jan, 13 to 15; six indoor meet~ ings Jan. 16; Union Square demon- stration Jan. 17; a press campaign and a general fight against evic- tions, for free food and clothing for school children, and for increased or- ganization of the councils of the un- employed. Some of the local demands under consideration last night were control by workers and jobless of the pres- ent charity funds, use of the $196,- 306,716 given by the city to the bank- ers for unemployment relief, same for the $7,000,0000 additional police funds, same for the $30,000,000 emer- gency fund and same for 10 per cent of the city income. Another demand was for ll va- cant houses, armories, Y. M. C. A’s and city buildings for lodging for the evicted jobless; free rent, gas and electricity for jobless, free carfare, food and clothing for school children and abolition of vagrancy ordinances, etc, One of the first amendments pro- posed to the bill war for workers’ control of employment agencies. This proposal was made by the Office Workers’ Union. The amount of insurance per week and relief per week was under dis- cussion, @ proposal being made to change the 25 amount suggested in ment house racketers and others; by loan sharks taking advantage of the desperate situation of th eunem- ployed. Several spoke in angry protest against the much handed out by the Salvation Army, telling how the workers are suffering from ptomaine poisoning after eating the rotten stuff they recieved on the Jesus bread line, One worker actually died some clam chowder last Friday. His death, however, was passed off as “heart failure.” The bread is always stale, the men reported, and the coffee absolutely putrid. Alexanderson Speaks at Shoe Forum Sunday NEW YORK.—Tomorrow at 11 a. m. Steve Alexanderson will speak at the shoe workers’ forum in Workers Center, 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, and unmask the Boot and Shoe com- pany union. This is but one of a series of such open forums, which have proved so popular that the In- dependent Shoe Workers’ Union is making arrangements to extend them all over the five boroughs, The union calls a meeting of all unemployed shoe workers for Tues- day at 1 p. m. at 16 West 2ist St of ptomaine poisoning after eating} held at the Camp Unity Reunion Ball AMTER AND NESSIN SPEAK AT LABOR SPORTS GAMES NEW YORK.—After the fast soccer game put on by the Pirates, a Negro workers’ team and the team of the Bronx Workers Club at Dyckman Oval, Christmas Day, Israel Amter, recently released from a six months’ sentence given him for leading the working 3 days a week for the city | jobless demonstration on March, 6, at cut rate wages on a job in Pros-| will speak. Park, provided by the Emer-| Sam Nessin, With him will also speak secretary of the Coun-/ ap-|cils of the Unemployed, and threat-| ened with a similar six months’ sen- tence. His trial is scheduled for the day after the game. All proceeds of the game go to the Councils of the Unemployed. After the short speeches, an exhibi- tion game between picked soccer teams will be played. The first game starts at 12 noon. ployment agency business, by instal- |The Labor Sports Union is giving the exhibition. It is a counter demon- stration to the games for fake relief put on by the army and navy and eastern college teams. Reunion Ball of Camp Unity Campers NEW YORK.—To waft back the balmy summer days at Camp Unity, camp reunion of the campers will be at the New Harlem Casino, 100 West 116th St., Sunday, Dec, 21. All campers and their friends are promised a good time. Songs of camp days, and the meeting of old ac- quaintances will be prominent at this reunion. Admission is only 50 cents, Foster and Hyman at Needle Trades Ball Star Casino Xmas Eve NEW YORK.—The New York Or- ganization of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has de- cided to organize a big reception to the General Executive Board, which will open its plenary session in New York on Christmas evening in Star Casino. The General Executive Board will review the preparations OSTY TIM PUB aATNS ssorp oy} Joy make other importent decisions in the bill. Discussion was still going on at the time the Daily Worker went to press. NO-TIP 99 AMUSEMENTS OLEKTIV “BARBER SHOP SHOP 433 E. 9th Street, New York City th St. Playhouse s 52 W. 8th STREET Con, Noon to Midnight Pop. Prices SATURDAY, SUNDAY & MONDAY GEORGE ARLISS IN “DISRAELI” Give to Class-War Prisoners’ Winter Relief Russian Costume Ball th Ave. Playhouse 66 Fifth Avenue. Alg. 7661 Con, 2 P, M. to Midnight. Pop. Prices ALL WEE! “Land of the Midnight Sun” A travel tour through Norway includ- ing visits to the homes of Ibsen, Ham- sun, Nansen, Amundsen, Bjornson, Undset and Grieg given INTERN’L TABOR ‘DEFENSE New York District Saturday Dec. 27th STUYVESANT CASINO Second Ave. and 9th Street Edith Siegal in Something New Take the workers out of jail. The ILD is the shield of the workers j~—""" Theatre Guild Productions ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN » B2d. Eve, 8:40 GUILD Mate ‘Th.@Bat. 2:40 ROAR CHINA MARTIN BECK HEA 45th St. West of Broadway Eat with people who have the wit to know that FOOD and HEALTH are RELATED COME TO THE CRUSADER (SELF-SERVICE) Restaurant 113 EAST FOURTEENTH ST. (Near Irving Place) Tel. ORChard 3783 DR. L, KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strletly by Appointment 4%50 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. NEW YORK The Last Two Showings this Season OF THE MAUDICOTTS (The Only Jewish Marinette Theatre in the World) SUNDAY DECEMBER 2ist Matinee 2:30 and Evening at 8:30 at the WORKERS CENTER 35 East 12th Street, (8th floor) for the benefit of the NEW YORK WORKERS CENTER Admission 50 cents, Children 25 cents “ ALL PROCEEDS FOR THE WORKERS CENTER Eve, 8:50. Mts. Th. & Sat. 2:60 MUSIC AND CONCERTS TOSCANINI, Conductor Commerc Hall, Gun, Aft, Dec: 31, at 2.00 SCHUBERT—WAGNER—BEETHOVEN Carnegie Hall, ene Ev., Dee. 25, at Fri.Aft.,Dec.26,at2: at FRANCK ROUSSEL DEBUSSY BERLIOZ Carnegie Hall, Sat, Eve., Dec. 27, at 8:45 SCHUBERT —BACH—REAE: IBHI BEETHOVE! ARTHUR JUDSON Mgt. Gieinway Piano) ————— GUILD THEA. Tom. (Sun.) Eve. at 8:30 GREAT RUSSIAN SINGING ACTOR Victor Chenkin Mgr. NBC Artists Service (Steinway Piano) Philharmonic Symphony, 46th St. |Daily trom GLOBE & Bway /10:30 A. M ‘Cohens and Kelleys in Africa With George Sidney & Charles Murray CAMEO (4,5. |NOW “Africa Speaks” & Biway Strangest Adventure ever filmed IVIC REPERTORY #4 st. etn av. , ak a $1.50. Mats, mm & ‘Sat, 2:30 GALLI IENNE, Director .....PETER PAN ARTHUR HOPKINS presents “THIS IS NEW YORK” A new comedy by Robert E. seemed with LOIS MORAN STREET igh al bis Plymouth — Eves. 8:40 — Mata, mene br Sat. 2:30 EDGAR WALLACE’S PLAY ON THE SPOT with CRANE WILBUR and ANNA MAY WONG EDGAR WALLACE’S FORREST THEA. 49 W. of R'y. Evs. 8:50. Mts. W. & & 3:30 . H. Sazer ik on “The Needle Trades trike.” “Ad- mission, free. i. Sunday Dance in Harlem. Dance will be held in Harlem Youth Club on Sunday evening | 730.p. m. with a good band, mu- als All workers are invited. © 1492 adison Ave. "Pie, _ OF Brighton Workers Forum, 940 Neptune Ave., Sunday, 3 "p.m. Subject, “Unemployment _ Insurance ryetets *harity.” Fanny Jacobs. Songs, Farce, Magic, Cartoons, ¥ Park Workers Forum. Srd St, Brooklyn, Sunday, 3 “The Needle Workers New rugele,” June Kroll. DANCE—GOOD MUS! TO-DAY B 3313 Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh $ yeeetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET Airy, Large Meaing R Rooms. and Hal! Suitable hig tr nist Lectures . and Dances in the Czechoslovak Workers House, Inc. -B. 72nd St. New York Wholesome Food. International Cabaret PROLET BUHNE 8:30 SHARP Program of Political Satire English, German, Russian, Jewish and Hungarian HUNGARIAN WORKERS’ 350 East 8lst Street New York City CAFE EUROPA 317 EAST 13TH STREET, (Near 2nd Ave.) THE 93 MERCER STREET Negro Songs and Mass Recital Jazz Band sIC—REFRESHMENTS HOME ¢ “F. W. I. U. Place.” NEWARK DAILY WORKER DANCE Tonight, December 20th WORKERS CENTER Concert and Dance to send DOLORES GONZALES to a Sanatorium in the Soviet Union Tonight, December 20th NEW HARLEM CASINO 100 W. 116th Street FINE PROGRAM—JAZZ BAND FOR DANCING ADMISSION 50 CENTS Auspices: Workers International Relief, Local Now York 131 West 28th Street FOR BETTER VALUES IN MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN'S Suits and Overcoats go to PARK CLOTHING CO. 98 Avenue A, Cor. Sixth St. NEWARK, N. J. % AMISSION 35 Cents : FOR THE BENEFIT OF ADMISSION 35¢ The Hungarian Working Class Organizations of Yorkville on Sunday, December 21, 1930 Will Present the Extraordinary Soviet Picture | “CHINA EXPRESS” IN THE HUNGARIAN WORKERS’ HOME 350 EAST 81st STREET Continuous performance from 2 p. m. to 11 p. m. THE WORKERS PRESS WORKERS! Announcing the Big Event! ~MIEY WOR’ER 7TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION “e¢nvday Kvening, at the ST. NICHOLAS RINK 69 West 66th Street All Workers’ Organizations Are Especially Requested to Keep This Date Open and Not to Arrange any Conflicting Affairs. SUPPORT THE PAPER WASHINGTON and Jannary 10. 1931 THAT SUPPORTS YOU! TONIGHT DECEMBER 20, 1930 Seventh Annual Caucasian Concert-—Ball——Cabaret EXCELLENT IWINT TR GAT TREMONT AVIS ae 3 a BRONX JOBLESS MEET MONDAY To Organize Fight fox Immediate Relief NEW YORK.—At a meeting of usi« employed workers of the Bronx, M. Y., a provisional committee was elected to organize all unemployed workers into the unemployment coun< cil. ‘The Provisional Committee has ar ranged a mass meeting of all Bronw unemployed workers for Monday morning, Dec. 22, at 10 o’clock, at the headquarters. of the Bronx Uneme ployed Council, 569 Prospect Ave, corner Prospect Ave. and 148th St. All unemployed workers are urged to attend and to try to bring as many as they can. regard to all branches of the indus- try. The main speakers will be Wilke liam Z. Foster and Louis Hyman. . The reception of the General Exe ecutive Board will be given in the form of a ball to be held on Christ- mas evening in Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue, “For AU Kinds of Ineurance™ ([ARL BRODSKY Telephone: Murray Hill S55¢ 7 East 42nd Street, New York | Cooperators! SEROY. 657 Allerton Avenue [ Batabrook 8218 Bronz, N. ¥. ° DEWEY 9916 » ores a ee pa A M1 PM, DR. J. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST 1501 AVENUE U Ave, U Sta, BLT. At East 15th St. BROOKLYN, N. ¥. DR. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST seg other office FRED'S RESTAURANT 325 Bowery, Cor. Second St. Good Meals 15c, 20, 25¢ = AU Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Broux —MELROSE— 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Breas « U none A Beta st Cty ne. RATIONA Lb Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE] UB Bot. 19th and 18th Sts, Strictly Vegetorim Food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON AVE. Phone: UNIversity 6868 = “hone: Stuyvesant 3816 . 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