The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1931, Page 2

DAILY HOOVER HIDES FIGURES IN SECRET CENSUS OF JOBLESS TAKEN DEC. 8 Fears to Expose Mass Misery; Uses 25,000 Metropolitan Life Agents to Get Facts Unemployed Workers! Show Yourselves By Demonstrating; By Signing Bill! NEW YORK.-—The Hoover unemployment commission has taken a secret census of the jobless, and is keeping the results secret. Hoover dares not give out the figures until they are properly censored! This fact became knovg when the Metro- politan Life Insurance Co. officials admitted yesterday that : ythey had 25,000 agents and] HUNGER MA RCH Perse ie dalle pen ON MINNESOTA. |tacuch vin uch wrest |naires. This census was put| |former police commissioner of New oe wore NewarkDemonstration | com Aleo Tomorrow | who heads the president's committee on unemployment Tt seems that the official census reports taken last April were so thor- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 5.— | oughly muddled, in the effort to keep On Wednesd fe jobless of “Minne- hopeless,” sw ning before the agen- tionary government did not know just | cies, living in the dirty flop houses | where it stood, and had to resort to| and slowly starving on the bread- | another census for facts needed. And | lines, will come out in thousands and | it is taking no chances on exposing | joined by the militant workers who | the fraud in the official census. still have jobs will march, joined by Count Apple Sellers. the workers and unemployed of St It is known that even the unof- Paul and the delegations from other | ficial census counted hundreds of towns, and lay demands for immedi-| thousands of apple sellers, slowly ate relief before the state government starving on a iew cents earnings @ at the state capitol in St. Paul. day as “employed”. It also counted The legislature will be in session | a; “employed” the receivers of emerz- and the fake “farmer-labor” gcv- | enoy work, which means in New Yor! ernor, Olson, will be having his in- only $15 a week, and in other citie auguration. Speakers and a commit- very much less. It counts as employ. tee elected to present the demand: og ail getting sven one day's work a will expose the fake relief schemes ot | ,, eek in factories. And ‘even then the farmer-laborites and the A. F. of | Hoover fears to publish the figures! The ten million jobless workers must organize, demonstrate, and all workers, jobless and employed, should sign the signature lists demanding passage of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill! Lists that will hold over 2 million signatures are in | the field, can be had at any Council) of the Unemployed or militant labor union, and should be filled in by some PUSH DRIVE FOR WORKERS CRNTER |ct the mere than t0000000 bien, | who work part time — by all othe: On New Year's Day two were ar- rested for holding a meeting inside the employment office, were taken to (CONTINUED : THREE THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1931 = Ses UT Go BACK Te ARMS, SOG O5$/) TLL 4 YOU EACH $2.75 WoRTH OF Food — Don’t Starve! Fight! — mr a ra "500 FARMERS AND THEIR Wives STORMED THe Tow oF Ena AQKANSas, Te bet DEMANDING Foo s TARVING FARAILIGS LAND For. SPATCN By RYAN WALKER wtb | Cy _ hy G Al andrens WaeeSiNe Mh | GEN yt eof er HIT SUPPRESSION [FURNITURE WORKERS 1 LEAGUE OF STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO | the total low, shat even the reac- | ofense Demands Post in Manhattan Lyceum and discuss to- Office Explain NEW YORK.—Protesting the press | censorship exercised by the U. 8. gov-| ernment and its revoking of the sec- ond mail rights of the “Young Work- er,” official organ of the Young Com- munists, the International Labor De- fense, yesterday communicated with he Washington authorities and de- rahded an immediate hearing and specific “reasons” why certain issues of that militant publication were de- cared unmailable, and second class privileges cancelled. | The letter from the defense organ- ization also demands a similar hear- ing on the barring from the mails of two other working class publications | the “Young Pioneer” and the Spanish | weekly, “Vida Obrera.” NEW YORK.—Thursday a furniture workers are invited to meet (OF YOUNG TONERS THT ON WAGE CUTTIFG RIGHTS HITS FAKE gether what can be done to win the 7-hour day and 5-day week, unem- ployment insurance, a single union in the industry and to put’a stop to| the present wage-cutting. The wage- | . ener scandalous, approved by the} NEW YORK.—Pointing out that) A. F. of L. union in the only section |even the capitalist press was fotced of the industry that is organized, the |to report 38 lynchings during 1930, | upholsterers. the League of Struggle for Negro| The meeting is called by the Fur- | Rignts, in a statement issued yester- | niture Workers’ Industrial League of |qay, sharply denounced the figures | the T. U. U. L. All members of the | of 91 lynchings given out by Tuske- league are urged to report for dis-| gee Institute and of 25 lynchings by tribution of leaflets every day at 11!the National Association for the Ad- | n. at 16 W. 21st St. vancement of Colored People. There will be a mobilization meet-| rnese figures are lies,” the state- ing tonight at 16 W 2ist St. at 6 P-| ment declares, “and are in line with | m. to plan final preparations of ‘he |t1e treacherous role of the Negro re- | oe |formist organizations of minimizing Terror Against the bosses’ lynching terror against | the Negro workers and soft-peddiling | ' Denounce Efforts of Moton, DuBois Crowds to) Soft- Peddle on Bosses Murderous Lynching | NEW COURSES AT WORFERS’ SCHOOL The post office department has al- ready asked of a number of militant | p«blications published in foreign lan- guages to render full translations of their contents as well as sending] around their dicks and stool pigeons | to secre full sets of magazines and papers. The workers must fight this Spring Term Registration Open for jot generally the frightful oppression to | which the Negro masses in this coun- try, and particularly the 9,000,000 liv- | ing in the South, are subjected by the | brutal white slave drivers’ democracy | “This deliberate act on the part) the Negro misleaders of covering up the lynching terror is a part of| their historic role as defenders and new reign of terror and the Interna- LYNCHING FIGURES} Negro Masses | apologists for the imperialist oppres- | sors of the Negro and white masses. | It is an effort to stem the rising} wrath of the Negro masses against their persecutors, as well as to try to justify the teformists’ methods of pe- tifions and prayers from which the Negro masses are now turning in ais- | gust. It is another effort of the im-| perialists and their Negro lackeys to divert the masses from militant meth- ods of struggle and to win them to the reformists’ approval of segrega- tion, Jim-Crowism, etc. “The League of Struggle for Negro Rights calls upon the white and} Negro masses for joint struggle against the imperialists and their} Negro and white lackeys, for mass | violation of all Jim-Crow Jaws and practices, for resistance by squads 0! white and Negro workers to the lyn- chers, for full equality of Negtoes with other nationalities, and for the tight of self-determination for the Negro majrtities in the South” 6 WORKERS WOUNDED IN|N, J. WORKERS NEW SPANISH CLASHES THREATEN MAYOR MADRID, Jan. 5.~Wounding six | workers and making many arrests | mounted police charged with sabers|'7(() in North Bergen a demonstration of workers in He Cry ‘Lynch the Mayor’ drid’s central square, Puerta del Sol, yesterday ‘The workers were protesting against | More than 700 enraged residents of being bafred from visiting the work-| North Bergen, N. J., yesterday ~ ers held in the so-called “model’| threatened to lynch thé mayor atid prison, the terrible conditions of| tree members of the board of coun- which had caused the prisoners and ¢ijmen, who had just jammed through outside workers to protest. The dem-| ay ordinance adding 46 more wards onstration was led by railway workers. | heelers to the payroll. on window sills, chairs and partitions IN SLIDE LECTURE) Bergen, a small city in Hudson men for relief, althotigh after a re- ef ‘Twenty policemen were swept asidé to protest against the passing of the . Sarna | County, has been heavy afd not a Darin Just Returned cent supreme court probe it was ane | by the angry crowd who filled the W 5-VEA | council room to overflowing and stood graft budget. Unemploynient in North penny has been voted by the council- from USSR to Speak NEW YORK.—An illustrated le¢- ture showing in a graphic manner | the startling advance in the Soviet f | Union under the Five-Year Plan will | of one minor official. be given on Stinday, Jan. 18, at 8 p. | m. at the Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th 8t., by Comrade Darin, who has just returned from the U. S. S. R. The lecture is under the auspices of | nounced that $9,000,000 had been | Stolen from the township's treasuty. A fake trial resulted in tho jailing | When it was announced yesterday |morning that the councilmen in- tended adding the 46 grafters to the | payroll a crowd of angry workers ime | mediately gathered aind threatened to the Friends of the Soviet Union and | tynch the officials, crying: “Lyneh NEW YORK.—The drive for. the New York Wo: rs Center is-in full} workers, who face part timé, unem- tional Labor Defense will render its | ployment, speed up, wage cuts, at any full support to this struggle against " PHILHARMONIC. | ‘The Philharmonic Orchestra, under NEW YORK.—The Spring Term of : ied dae will be given in the Russian language. | the mayor,” “Ride the crooks out of the Workers’ School, for which regis- | 6 MORE BA NKS The lecture will especiaily dwell on | town on a rail,” “Tar and feather the time. swing. In shops and factories, among | workers’ organizations the workers | are preparing for the 7-Day Bazaar as well as for the banquet. Sections 1, 2, 5, 8, and 9 will have booths. Branches 4 and 37 of the Interna- tional Workers Order will have} booths. All sympathizers are swing- | ing into line to help bring the build- | ing which serves the working class | into shape. } Organizations which have not yet | elected delegates shall do so, also| shops shall eleet delegates to the ban- quet. Admission to the banquet is the bosses’ | Returned John Reed 0 ANSWER THE Club Delegates to Tell of Wreckers’ Trial F A SCISTS JA N. 10 NEW YORK.—The returned John Reed delegation from the Soviet NEW YORK. Workers and work- Union, William Gropper, A. B. Magi! ing-class organizations in New York and Harry Allan Potamkin, will be City are rallying to the celebration greeted at a mass meeting at Irving of the Seventh Anniversary of the Plaza Thursday evening, Jan. 8,where Daily Worker January 10 at St.Nicho- they will tell the story of the trial las Rink, and pledging to make the | original schedule. tration is now open, will give many new courses in addition to the Some of the new courses are; The History of the Com- munist International, by R. Baker; | Negro Work, by Amis; Social Insur- | ance, by C. Todes; Revolutionary | Literature, by E. Jacobson; Workers’ | Correspondence, by V. Jerome; Polit- | ical Economy, by J. Mindel, etc. These | new courses are added to enable the workers to develop themselves in their ious fields of revolutionary activi- ties. Other courses in the school, like GO TO SASH Depositor of Bank of U.S. a Suicide Six banks crashed Monday. The} | State Security Bank, one of the most | prominent state financial institutes | in Zanesville, Ohio, was closed. More than $2,000,000 in deposits were in- | Walde), | Symphonic Variations, Op. 42; Glinka, | young people's concert. the guidance of Arturo Toscanini, will give their next concert on Wed- | nesday night at Carnegie Hall. The program: Raff, Symphony No. 3 (“IM Op. 153; D'Indy, “Istar,” Fantasia, “Kamarinskay: Rossini, | Sinfonia from the Opera, “L’Assedio di Corinto.” This program will be re- peated on Friday afternoon. Saturday morning, at Carnegie, Ernest Schelling will conduct the last At the Metropolitan Opera House, | next Sunday afternoon, Toscanini will | the class struggle in the villages, the crain collections and the imperialist war plots against the Soviet Union, All workers are urged to attend this valuable lecture and showing of pic- tures illustrating the "practical carry- ing out of the Five-Year Plan. gratters.” ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! RUSSIAN REPERTOIRE WEEK! TODAY of the conspirators against the first occasion an effective answer to the Socialist Republic. Robert W. Dunn Fish Committee and the fascist or- will be chairman. ganizations whih have called an an- volved. Four banks smashed in In- diana. In St. Charles, Mo., the Cen- tral Trust Co., with deposits of over 50 cents. All organizations are urged to send donations through their dele- gates to help maintain the New York jconduet an all-Wagner program which | | will include the following numbers: | Prelude to “Lohengrin”; Overture and | English, Russian, Fundamentals of Communism, Trade Union Strategy, Organization Principles, Dialetic Ma- January | } Workers Center. The Freiheit Man- Gropper and Magil were présent in | ti-Communist meeting for $1,000,000, closed its doors. Hc & i ‘ terialism, etc., will be given additional Bacechanale from ‘“Tannhaeuser”; | dolin Orchestra will play revolution-| the court room during the epochal | 9th. facilities in order Wrtneet the need | Ps ge duke | Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, from | ary music at the banquet. | trial as correspondents for the work-| ‘The obvious purpose of the anti-| of the workers. | NEW YORK.—While Crain moves | «Gotterdaemmerung”; Prelude and |§| ° ers’ press and Will give first hand Communist meeting is to prépare the aoe 4 4 to whitewash his fellow Tammany | yoye-Death, from “Tristan and | | report of the entire proceedings On account of the fact that many | henchmen who have robbed 400,000 | Many sidelights will be thrown on the trial that have not been published. Beside the story of the trial, the international convention of writers | and artists that was held in Kharkov will be told about. The John Reed Club sent a delegation over to this | | important gathering, where some out- standing proletarian writers and ar- | tists attended, and the American delegation will report on that event also at Irving Plaza. Labor and Fraternal OF Au 8-Day Drive Wor the Workers Center. © printing press has been the Central Committee. Will even with a banquet Janvary and will con- finue with « bazaar for seven days. all organizations not to ar- sy affairs during thix drive New York We urs riete ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Dail lorker Barty Central USA Sat. Eve., January 10 | AN EXTRAORDINARY CONCERT New Revolutionary Music SERGEI RADAMSKY Just returned from the Soviet Onion IN NEW SOVIET SONGS BORIS BELL . seceeeues Tenor MOSCOW MUSE 10 Miss V. VALENTINOVA .... C. KAYULOFF sees Cellist Vv. KAYULOFF ... seeeeee es Planist LEO LIVOFF ............,.. Tartar Dancer FREIHEIT GESANGS VEREIN in New Numbers and Special Selections PROMINENT SPEAKERS ST. NICHOLAS CASINO 69 WEST 66TH STREET NEAR BROADWAY Admission 50 and 75 Cents The Daily Worker Fights Against Hunger! cca niev ar AltO ground for the report of the infamous Fish Committee and its proposals for additional anti-working class legisla- tion, especially legislation against the foreign-born, the revolutionary unions which in spite of the treachery of the A. F, of L. bureaucrats are rally- ing the masses for struggle against the bosses starvation system, and against the ackncwledged leader of the workers and poor farmers, the Communist Party and its press. All workers and their orgamzations are urged to turn out en masse for January 10 at the St. Nicholas’ Rink to give a proletarian answer to the Fish Committee. Itn addition to addresses by well- known working class leaders, there will be a fine musical program by leading artists, including Sergei Ra- damsky, the singer who recently re- turned from the Soviet Union. NEGRO QUESTION SUNDAY | NEW YORK.—Harry Haywood, Ne- gro work director of District 2, Com- munist Patty of the U. S. A., will speak on the Struggle for Negro Rights this coming Sunday at three o'clock at the Harlem Workers’ Fo- rum at 308 Lenox Ave. | Haywood's address will be in line | with the latest decisions of the ©, I. | on the Negro work of the Party, and | all workers are urged to attend. The | question of the right of self-deter- mination will be exhaustively dis- cussed. ! 8-Day Bazaar TO HELP MAINTAIN THE NEW YORK WORKERS CENTER. COLLECT ARTICLES AND SEND THEM TO THE CENTER, 35 EAST 12TH STREET, N, Y. C. life, j FOR THE istorm Over Asia,” another Sovkino feature, will be shown on Wednesday and Thursday. 8-Day Bazaar y 4 Your Union Meetin, WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE FROM “A Bae, Fee Naiohaliied Wate te Jan. 11 to 1 workers are suffering from unemploy. | ment, wage-cuts, etc, the School Committee has decided to reduce the fees from $4 to $3 for each course except language courses whose fees are $6 each for two sessions per week. In order to secure enrollment in the various classes desired, work- ers are urged to register early at 35 E 12th St. In addition to the regular courses the School Committee also pays special attention to the Workers’ Forum conducted by the school, as it is of extreme value to the workers. | The Forum will be held every Sunday night at the Workers’ School Audi- torium, 35 .3. 12th St., second floor. This coming Sunday, Jan. 4, at p .m., San Don, member of the Agit-prop department of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party, will speak at the Forum on “The Mean- ing of Bank Crashes.” depositors of their savings in the Bank of the United States, George J. | Gellius, 52-year-old janitor, commit- | ted suicide because his life's savings of $1,000 were swept away in the bank crash, Gellius had stood in line for days in the bittér cold attempt- ing to get the 50 per cent loan prom- j ised. He never got it, Instead he caught a cold and was laid up in bed with acute bronchitis. Unable to work and with his hard-earned sav- ings in the pockets of the rich bank | robbers, Gellius decided to end his | life. | Meanwhile, behind well-closed doors | District Attorney Crain is planning to cover up the highway robbery of | the bank officials, with whom are in- | volved such leading Tammany politi- cians as Al Smith, Gilchrist, Kenney | and Kresel. y; | eer ee More Banks Close. | A worker correspondent, writing | Ss “CAN : from Van Voorhis, West Va., states: | Eva Le Sansa ant play Mate | The biggest bank in Morgentown, W. guerite Gautier th “The Lady of the | V& closed its doors on Jan. 2 and Camellias," Dumas’ play, which will | ® Number of miners and farmers have be produced at the Civic Repertory | 10st their money. At the same time | “Martine,” by Jean Jacques Ber- two wage-cuts have taken place inj Scotts Run, W. Va. The Rosedale Coal Co, has cut wages 5 cents a ton, from 32 cents to 27 cents. Day work- ers were cut from 40 cents to 60 cents on a day. The Paisley Mine has also cut wages, EVA LE GALLIENNE nard, will be presented this evening by the first studio group at the Civic Repertory Theatre. John Drinkwater’s comedy, “Bird In Hand,” will begin a return en- gagement at the 49th St. Theatre this evenin, “VILLAGE OF SIN” AT CAMEO. ‘The Soviet film, “Village of Sin,” the screen feature at the Cameo The- atre today and tomorrow. Appearing at the Cameo as the sec- ond Russian masterpiece in this week of Soviet cinematic repertoire, “Vil- lage of Sin” is a film of the village, with its customs, its superstitions, its prejudices, but of a village with the breath of a new era calling it into Isolde"; Prelude to “Die Meistersin- er.” Cooperators! Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. Y. DR. J. MINDEL |, Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone: Algonquin 8183 Not connected with any other office DEWEY 9014 DR. J. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST 1501 AVENUE U, Ave. U Sta, BMT. At East 15th St. BROOKLYN, N.Y. 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West of Bway ngs 8:40 — Mats, Fri, & Sat. 2:30 RED BANQUET given by the NEW YORK WORKERS CENTER to greet the Central Committee of the Communist Party on the occasion of their moving into the new building, 35 East 12th Street Sunday: January 11, 1931 Admission Fifty Cents All Workers Organizations Are Uurged to Elect « “OF NATURE. in Ramey kook MF ined ‘Sst Bt.) Delegate to this Banquet 22 ee Oo deme mn Bzasse sa