The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1931, Page 2

DEMONST: RATE AG AIN NST FISH a Ae Vi AY ii a HOOVER’S UNEMPLOYMENT COMM:TTEE PROPOSES | EVEN WORSE “STAGGER”, -Police Commissioner Voices President’s Proposal to Reduce Hours to Six, and Da to Three, Wage Cut Pr Proportional WASHINGTON, Dyce. Jan. 6.—Yesterday Hoover’s nmittee on Unemployment,” headed by that skulls, Col. Wood, ex-commissionet expert in cracking strike 1 of police of New York, began to distribute circulars giving details of a proposed ete ystem more vicious than the one pads in force. Woo says he will give them to 65, 000] |POLICE ‘TERROR omployer circulars begin by Pee ng that practically every CANTSTOP BKLYN a than 5,000 men re- | has laid off part or | wee, © perest| HUNGER MARCH their w Of the h have 30 per cent or more : cent stagge: “Toble ess March Jan. 8; 9 rare Arr, eC asgering suggestea} 2 Workers Arrested » and cutting the! BROOKLYN, N. Y. — Nat Morgan ‘s per week down to and Dorothy Swartz, two young mem- bers of the Williamsburgh Unemploy- ed Council were arrested yesterday in front of the breadline at Leonard and Borum Sts., when these and other workers of the Council attempted tc hold a meeting to expose the. condi- tions of the workers and the rotten tting the hours down to 6. h reduction of wages understood. with of course. dicates that many just cutting down to pa without rotating jobs. Of the of firms reporting halt time total number time 53 per cent operate by meant | food the workers are getting at this of cutting down the days per week | preadline. but Wood's alence of part tim figures or the Boro of Brook! were distributed are ridiculous underestimates mong the workers in spite of the po- cour Whole sections of industry. | tice terror especially mining and steel, are run-| Thursday morning the Hunge nin} rt. time. re! will start in Brookl; r aera ae thre ent p of t 2B All these marches will start at 16 a. m. with a brief meeting at the starting point From Gre: gh the n Point and Williams- | . MEETS TODAY INN. Y. -repare for March Tomorrow (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ass meeting on un- Ith St be an open employment and March A e., from where the job: less will march to C land Ave. an 148th St. and demonstrate bef the state ployment agency at 10:4 a.m. There will also be a prepara tory indoor meeting this 9 a. m. at the headqui Unemployed Counc 1 East 149th St., to which all jobless in the Bronx are welcome, Thursday’s demonstrations in the Bronx will be at Cl it and Washington Ave., 12:45 p. m.; C and Washington Ave., 1 p. m.; Court- land Ave. and 148th St. (this is state ployment «a », at 11 m.; 150th St. and Morris Ave., at 1 m., and Washington and Tremont atl p.m Many meetings in the down town section are arranged for Thursday morning and at 1 p. m. there will be a demonstration outside the Welfare Department offices at Leonard and Lafayette Sts. Buck Olden will be chairman. He is a young worker Speakers will be Fred Biedenkapp and D. Gordon and others. ‘ork Campaign Commit- nployment Insurance, general ch e of the whole dem stration, points out that at every meeting lists must be circulated for ‘ignatures to the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, and calls on al Aves., Leaflets for the Hunger March to workers’ organizations to open addi- tional for campa: have been ‘collected so far York Ci 000 jobless headqua signatur signature in New which, in view of the 900,- here, the Committee con Industria be more ate. unions and leagues must active! In Harlem. Thursday's demonstra- tion will begin with an assembly oi s N will start ut} jobless and militant workers at 130th DAYS ONLY, INCLUDING DATE OF) marching from Myrtle Ave and/|St. and Lenox Ave. at 10:30 a.m. At EVENT. . Py Broadway. | 11:30 the march will begin and pro From Red Hook the workers will ather at Columbia Street and Ham- ilton, and workers from Brownsville will meet at 1884 Pitkin Ave. The “visiting” of Communist head- quarters in Section Six and Sectloz: Seven and the arr of these two | Young workers who were sent to Jai for five days is an attempt of the po- lice to intimidate the workers from participating in the Hunger Marche All unemployed workers are bein: called by the Council to participate in the Hunger march and present to the president of the Borough de- | mands for immediate relief for all | jobless of Brooklyn . Ae 8-Day Drive Wor the New York r. press has heen nittee et and for the printing authorized by the Central Com he drive will open with a ban any affairs during this dri Brighton Is ca ak Unemployed Counet! at-140 Nep-] r the} Boston Ra. Mess Meeting to Organize ved . Council, in the kes p Council 10 of Bath Beach. oston Rd. i I » Speakers in English ane arranged a lecture on ‘ oe peakers in English and Chit sree, . i . 2 | Bay 28th St. Proceeds to the “W AML Members of Furniture Workers | \"# gi 2:15 ate Sastrl t-| Bakers Open Forum. ribution of leaf-| Be Sh abn GRE kers Section of the lets for oud eting th ker | ath Taare Union <2 eon forum for 3p. m. at fe St vat quarters, 16 W. 2ist 1 .in the trade, will, bi | ee Gel Joe Hint Branch. LL. : Orney Meets at 5 at mn “How Work i penpnapeeenerseaninsmes Should selves in Court,” | at 8 pot erg weleome. | Rehearsals for Lenin Memorial Meet All comrades playing ments are asked to come to the re- hearsal of the W.1.R. Band in prep- tion for the Lenin Memorial Meet. band instru- NUT SHOPPE Rehearsals take place at $ p. m. at/] 123 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE 131 W. 28th St. ps Tel. Raymondg—9340 ty and who can nes to come to One block west of the Concourse take part in mas: rehearsals Lenin Memorial et on Mondays, Wdnesdays and days at 7.30 p, m. at 131 W. 28th We carry a full line of Russian Candies “Every Fine Nut That Grows” CANDY NUTS GIFT BASKETS ved Y.C.L. Members to the District Office, m ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Pallychorker | Sat. Eve., January 10 AN EXTRAORDINARY CONCERT New Revolutionary Music SERGEI RADAMSKY Just returned from the Soviet Union IN NEW SOVIET SONGS *ORIS BELL ....50.00ccscceeeeessTONOF MOSCOW MUSICAL STUDIO ‘iss, V. VALENTINOVA ... . Alto C. KAYULOFF ........... Cellist V. KAYULOFF ......,...++.+++..Pianist 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! ceed up Lenox to demonstrate befor the state employment agency offic ar at 132nd St. and Lenox. There no jobs in any of these emplo: agencies, and ti2 jobless demo: ions outside are to forcibly call ention to the fact, and to make the ollowing demands: $15 a week cash relief for all single yorkers, and up to $25 for famiilies; ree food and carfare to children of he jobless, no eviction of the un- mploye ent up to $50, free light and heat the jobless, all vacant apart- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE ESDAY, JANUARY if 08h ETEE AT ‘DAILY’ AN NIVERSARY A AT T. . NICHOLAS | ARENA, “SAT. = | last May, speaking at an anti-fascist meeting | in Erie, Pa. months while he was incarcerated in | the county jail at Eria and finally at | Ellis Island the Italian embassy at Washington and the Department of Labor had been hand to deport him to Italy, where Serio with being an anarchist, hough he pointed out that for years he has been an active member in the Communist Party. the immigration officials in posses- sion of the International Labor De- fense prove that the Washington au- « thorities while interrogating this mili- tant worker tried to point out as @ ground for his deportation that he had attacked the Catholic Church and defended the Soviet Union. fend the rights of the workers to or- ganize agains fascism!” militant ifternoon, appealed to the U .S. District Court by the International Labor Defense. Serio was released on $1,000 bail se- cured through the efforts of the N. Y district office of the I. L. anti-fascist activities, and in the United States. alls upon all workers “to come to the defense of Serio and stop this Mus- ‘olini attempt to murder this worker because of his loydlty to the workine MELLA MEMORIAL Sunday, January 11, 1931, at 3-P. M. NEW HARLEM CASINO, 100 WEST 116TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY SPEAKERS: ROBERT W. DUNN, Chairman, Anti-Imperialist League J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Secretary, International Labor Defense THE FRETHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA Will Play ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE OF U. S. Admission Free 1 RELEASED [ATTEND PROTEST PENDING APPEAL] MERT JANUARY 9) | 31,000 Bail ail Furnished) ILD Demands Hearing By I.L.D. From P.O. NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Guido Serio) NEW YORK.—Protesting the press worker and anti-fascist | °€?S0rship exercised by the U. S. gov- ider, was released on bailslate this| °*MMent and its revoking of the sec- while his case is being ond-class mail rights of the “Young Worker,” official organ of the Young Jommunists, the International Labor | Defense today communicated with the Washington authorities and de- | manded an immediate hearing and | | Specific “reasons” why certain issues | of that militant publication were de- clared unmailable. The letter from the defense or- | sanization also demands a similar | hearing on the barring from the Auspices of the: “Fy 4 \e D. Serio has been imprisoned since when he was arrested while | During the past eight mails of two other working-class pub- lications, the “Young Pioneer” and the Spanish weekly, “Bida Obrera.” Si W. Gerson, editor of the Young Worker and an attorney from the Tnternational Labor Defense, will gc to Washington personally if a reply | |from the post office does not come | working hand in certain death awaits him for his | both in Italy The Department of Labor charged al- | tomorrow There will be a protest mass meet- | ing at the Stuyvesant Casino on Fri- | dry, Jan, 9 The speakers at this| meet will be Max Bedacht from the | © tral Committee of the Communist Party and Si Gerson, editor of the oung Worker.” Gerson is scheduled to speak in the following cities: Cleveland on Sun- day, Jan. 11; Detroit. esday, Jan 3; Chicago, Jan. 16, auu Minneapolis jon Jan, 18, The records of | ‘OVIET FILM, .L- YEMEN” IN} PREMIERE AT CAMEO FRIDAY | The International Labor Defense ‘sual countries of the world is to be | cen at the Cameo Theatre Friday, | when “Al-Yemen” will have its Amer- |ican premiere. Produced by the Mej- | ~abpomfilm of Moscow, this is the ss. Organize mass protests! De: i, 20 per cent reduction in ali | | ents, armories and public buildings | |so be turned over free to lodge the who have been evitted ot pay rent. t Party calls on al| ‘Ss of Section 4 to t section headquar- Pp. unemployed ecause they The Communi Cooperators! Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue BRONX, N. ¥ | Lilien | — RESTAURANTS e the best food and fresh | vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREE! 225 WESI 36TH STREET y EY DR. J. LEVIN” 1501 AVENL U Sta, BMT. At East 15 BROOKLYN, N.Y. 9914 St, 29 EAST 14TH STREET NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY 2% REDUCTION TO Cry AND UNION WORKERS Have Your Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted by WORKERS MUTUAL - | OPTICAL CO. ender personal supervision ot DR. M. HARRISON Optometrist NEW YORK CITY Opposite New York Bye and Bar tioftrs pd Telephone Sta; | first official film record of this state | of Arabia, 3y6naa MleveGunua |) tnroueh the efforts of an expedi- DR. A. BROWN Dentist 301 KAS (Corner Second Avenue) Tel. ‘ion that spent two years among the © strange inhabitants of this little- | known region a poltorial record of | the lives of Jews and Arabs, has been brought to this country. 1TH STREET | antry and feudals, the life of the \rabs and the Jews, the fishers and | che Beduins, and the military dandes | are all shown vividly in “Al-Yemen.” The singular life of “Al-Yemen,” | inherited from ancient times and re- | taining medieval forms, provides a} subject that is decidedly different and | interesting. Algonquin 72 DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Zoom 803 Phone: Algonquin 81835 Pie Doge | | “THE LIVING CORPSE” OPENS | THIS SATURDAY. The Eighth Street Playhouse has | booked another Soviet flim, produced | | by Mejrabpomfilm of Moscow, “The , Living Corpse,” based on Leo Tol- stoy’s widely read novel. The picture which will have its | first American showing on Saturday, has for its leading player Pudovkin, the talented director ofx‘Storm Over Asia,” and a former member of the Moscow Art Theatre. The film is re- leased here by the LW.R. Not connected with any other office Eyes! Scientific Examination of eye slasses—Carefully adjusted by expert eT ee ania eaes 5 torrctonal Barber Shor shone a M W SALA Prop 016 Second Avenue. New Yor! TRISTS OPTICIANS 1630.48% AVE eosuuscin.s s thet 108r0 & 104th Star Oe rEW MORK Wi Ladies Rohs Our Specialty Private Beaoty Parlor RED BANQUET given by the NEW YORK WORKERS CENTER o 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 a Delegate to this Banquet ‘ 8-Day Bazaar TO HELP MAINTAIN THE NEW YORK WORKERS | | The cities, the bazaars, the peas- ' CENTER. COLLECT ARTICLES AND SEND THEM TO THE CENTER, 35 EAST 12TH STREET, N. Y. C. FOR THE 8-Day Bazaar WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE FROM _| Jan. 11 to 18° BANK U. 8. PAID wor JUDGE BIG RAFT Roosevelt Aids os Washing Stungs NEW YORK. — it was in a complaint filed by one of the stockholders against the Bank of the United States that Supreme Court Judge Aaron J. Levy got a $100,000 unsecurec loan from the bank jus befc crashed. This was a virtua: bribe to this Tammany judge who was at the very moment sittin: in a case is. 1k y the Gram- brought out mercy Investment Co. Other Tam- meny such “loans” — inr br’ hank -f- ficlals of Tammany grafters to keep the k- going The fact that anne were reeds int ree y that the Bank of th: United States was operating in a criminal manner is now being brought out. The Tam- many state and city grafters knew | these “acts, and perticularly the State | Bank Superintendent, Warder, whe vas c~ victed of by'*ry, a d Broder- ick who has issued all sorts of lies to prt" its fellow henchme~ Alfred | Smith, Gilchrist and Kenney. Inet tiese faci- come « RA : washing of the bank Ronee who stole the savings of 400,000 small de- positors splashes into the newspapers with a fake appeal for “investigation” This “investigation” is in the hands of Crain and others, very close to the | big bank robbers and the Tammany grafters who made millions at the expense of the hundreds of thousand of workers who were duped of their hard-earned pennies. rel. OBChard 3783 DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DE! Eldridge St. PRS OF SOVIETS ADOPT THE VICTIMS OF CENTRALIA FIGHT In a Letter to the Imprisoned Workers They T-'l of Land Where Freedom Is Attained International Labor Defense Replies in Behalf of the Centralia Prisoners WALLA WALLA, Wash ges a let-| have a adopt ed the six Centralia fight- ter to the six Centralia class-war ! ers. prisoners serving sentences of from| The letter concludes with a re- 25 to 40 years for their working-class | minder that the workers in America activities and in prison since 1919, the} are not alone in their struggles | military employees of the Ukrainian | against capitalism: military district at Kharkoff in the} «tnform us of your needs, your | Soviet Union send a letter of greet-| ite and struggle for better and MOPR (Ru ings through their ian) more glorious life. Don’t ever for- | I. L. D.) branch and a promise to! pet that you are not alone in your ‘help in the freeing of all workers in- struggles, that we are always with carcerated for their militant acti you and ready and glad to ties. The letter comes in the midst’ fient against the oppressors of the of the Winter Relief Campaign of | whole working cl ‘and our nume the International Labor Defense in- | is not amall and our hands are augurated for the purpose of helping Don't give in! Not far is the wives and children of the many @hian the: oun of teed workers imprisoned. will ihe for you, too. Remem- The six Centralia workers, Eugene | ber, ‘Unity makes strength.’” Barnett, Ray Becker, Bert Bland, O oes C. Bland, John Lamb and Bert Smith have been imprisoned for the last 11 years as the result of an attack made upon the I. W. W. hall at Centralia Wash., in 1919 by legionnaires. The letter from the fir: jocialist Repub- lic is addressed to Eugene Barnett one of the six imprisoned workers and opens as follows “after getting acquainted with the life of the political prisoners in the bourgeois prisons, the general | \ | NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Interna- tional Labor Defense, in behalf of the Centralia prisoners, replied to the Russian workers, thanking them for. their letter of encouragement and help in behalf of the Winter Relief Campaign and promising them to continue ,the fight against capitalist oppressors everywhere and for the de- fense of the first Workers’ Republic, the Soviet Union. meetin; of military employees, members of MOPR. decided to id | Ohn Reed Club r vou in your struggle. At present | Del. rates to Speak on Soviet Literature you are languishing and suffering in prisons. Many of the best fight~ ers for freedom have. been tortured | rhe returned John Reed delegation to death by the bourgeoisie.’ ‘ f ; ‘ The letter tells the imprisoned from the Soviet Union, WilliamGrop- workers that there is one land “where | per, A. B, Magil, and Harry Alan Po- your brethren have already obtained | tamkin, will be greeted at a mass | the freedom you are fighting for with | mecting at Irving Plaza, Thursday so caved loss and where ee working | evening, January 8, where tney will Campaign of i, ie International La~ | S¢l@ Of revolutionary art and litera~ bor Defense these Russian workers | ‘Urs, both in the Soviet Union and Bo ‘i “| also in Germany, England and other A rare film of one of the most un- | ~TSSTAN REPERTOIRE WEEK! countrie: troni: | TODAY AND TOMORROW icc ie STORM OVER ASEA || Orie tres i | AND 5! oudovkin’s Gigantic Masterfilm of the Monzolian Revolution Restaurant : 42ND STREET | POPULAR | 2100 BRONX PARK EAST and BROADWAY | PRICES a) WIS. 1789 | “Buy in the Co-operative MIDNIGHT GUILD pe & Sa 8:50 50 W. 52nd. Mts, Th. ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MARTIN BECK #4 46th St West of Broadway Evs. 8:40, Mts, Th. & Sat. FRITZ LEIBER REEESTOMRS IN SHAKESPEAREAN 8:80, § $1 to $2.50 AMBASSADOR Theatre, 49th, W. of B’y sulle BURKE 24 tvor NOVELLO fe m rousing, rollicking rot of laughs (HE TRUTH GAME rhosbe FOSTER #4 isla TRED ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street, West of Broadwa: Evenings &:50, Mats, Wed. & Sat. at GLOBE Daily From 10:30 A. M. CHARLEY’S AUNT with CHARLES RUGGLES and JUNE COLLYER 42nd Street CAMEO Biway 46th Street HEAR Revolutionary Writers and Artists JUST RETURNED FROM THE SOVIET UNION Gropper, Magil, Potamkin and Olgin Bob Dunn, chairman IRVING PLAZA, THURSDAY, 8:30 P. M. Auspices of the JOHN REED CLUB ADMISSION 50 CENTS & Broadway STORM OVER ASIA) Wing Movement.” j Store and help the Left rivic REPERTORY ith St. 6th Av | Evenings 8:30 boc. $1 $1.50 Mats Th & Sat. 2:30 EB GALLIENNE, Director HOUS™” RADLE SON ROMEO AND JUL MELROSE DAIRY aorenes Always Find It to Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174th St. Station) | EDGAR WALLACE’S PLAY ON THE SPOT | with CRANE WILBUR and ANNA MAY WONG | EDGAR WALLACE’S FORREST THR. TELEPHONE INTERVAL 49th Street, West of Broadway acitne’:<! Eves. 8:50. Mats, Wed. & Sat. at 2:30) ————————— 3 The Actor-Managers, Inc. present Au omraaes Meet at RUTH BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway. Bronx Draper in her Original Character Sketches AM CHANGED DAILY TRE — vey} ES $1—Ss 2:30 We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERTA :OOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts, Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food % 6th Ave. & 43d St. {EST SHOW IN NEW YORK Shas |* BROTHERS * ACTS | with BERT LYTELL gt St. Playhouse | 52.W. sth STREET Con. Noon to Midnight Pop. Prices "Der Tanz Gebt Weiter’ HOSE WHO DANCE”) | &th ‘Ave. Playhouse 66 Fifth Avenue, } 2 P, M. to Midnight. Pop. Prices BG ‘BRIDE 68” with CONRAD VEIDT HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 5865 Phone Stuyvesant 8816 John’s Restaurant MORNING FREIHEIT COSTUME BALL Saturday Eve:, January 24 at Madison Square Garden TICKETS IN ADVANCE 75 AND 50 CENTS MORNING FREIHEIT 85 EAST TWELFTH SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmospheco where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St, New York Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City BUTCHERS’ UNION Loreal 174, A. MO, & BR. WW, of Ny AL Off.co and HMeadquart Labor Temple, 243 Kast sith Street Room 12 STREET, NEW YORE Regular meetings every first apd third Sunday, 10 A. M, Employment Bureau open every dey er mM et an a | } euvse aetame wre wm