The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1931, Page 3

v DAILY WORKER, N fw YORK, WHUNKSDA Y, JANUARY 7, 1931 COMING EVENTS IN JOBLESS CAMPAIGN DETROIT—Foster mass meet- ing, Danceland Auditorium, Jan. il. 250 FIGHT WAGE CUT AT JAFFE'S Amalgamated Officials | in Dirty Deals NEW YORK.—Three hundred men at the J. Friedman clothing shop on Lafayette St., got a wage cut a week ago, and the Amalgamated Clothing | Workers officials forced them to ac- cept it. But when 150 workers at the Jaffe, Cohen and Lang shop were given a cut of 26 cents a garment, Dec. 29, they refused to go on working, and the shop is tied up. They all belong to the Amalgamated, and the Amal- gama refuses to recognize this as @ strike, but the shop is shut down. Jaffe is head of the employers’ or- ganization. ‘The Rank and File Committee to Fight the Check-off, Wage-Cuts and | the factory. They laid off one-fifth Reorganization calls on these workers to form their shop committees and fight. Forward’s Answer of tailors from various belong to the socialist recently to the Forward The A bunch shops who party went to ask it to speak out against the | terrible conditions in Amalgamated | shops and expose the treacheries of | the Amalgamated officials. | The answer of the Forward gang | Was that it would under no circum- | stances attack the leaders of the Amalgamated because the “Commu- nists would take advantage of it.” Furthermore, the tailors were advised to swallow all the mistreatment, for A little sample of official skul- dugery in the Amalgamated is the | case of one Italian worker who, be- cause of the speed-up at the shop at) 125 Bleecker St.. got his finger caught | in a press and has lost the use of a) finger. When he was able to el again, he went back and found that | | they did without a murmur. | cuts these last 10 years in the factory. | the same reason. if i] Model Factory Slashes Wages, Cuts Forces NEW HAVEN, Conn.—On Dec. 4 the New Haven Register, one of the greatest defenders of the capitalist | class that there is in this country, | came out with an editorial in regards to the New Haven Clock Co. In the editorial it said, above all of the fac- tories in our city we must take off our hats to the clock shop. They have come out of the present crisis un- scathed. This factory is to be recom- mended, with good wages, plertty of erders ahead and full time. Prosperous Indeed. They are indeed a prosperous con- | cern, That was on Thursday, Dec. 4. Right on Friday, the day following this editorial, the bosses went through of the help, the remainder was noti- fied that they would have to submit to a 5 and 10 per cent cut. Which Since then there has been another cut with a drop in help again. Now the whole factory is closed up tight for three weeks. It is improbable if they statt then. in Fooled Workers. The whole afiair is this: The clock factory had several little orders in October. They started them all to- gether, right before election, to make the administration look good. | I was talking to an old clock shop| hand the other day. He told me that | there have been nine different wage: Se you can see, fellow-workers, how the capitalist papers are trying to | deceive the worke: shh) 16,000 Apply for Clerk’s Job for | 28 Such Positions guests on Meyer, money. pay $5, his place has been taken by a favorite | New York City. the town, The set wage for extra hotel wa ers is $6 for 3 meals. Bing and Bin: The waiters must cents a day for a white uniform coa and at the end of the month they); assess the 60 waiters 10 cents a piece | to pay the porters wage. The porter | is a hotel employee. Threaten Militants. | A notice was recently circulated | amongst the hotel employees to this | effect. satisfied with | soon find himself on the outside with } the thousands of others. Dividends at the | Expense of Bank | Clerks, Workers New York City, N. ¥. Any Comrades: _ of Bartoni, the Italian business agent | I Soa Of that district of the Amalgamated. ‘And this worker is unemployed, as ‘Well as injured. PLAC per Ww Write Avanta Farw Ulster Park, N.Y. ALL YEAR VACATION git ek. CAMP AND HOTEL PROLUPAREAN VACATION PLAC OPEN THR ENTIRE YEAR Beentiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped ad Cultural Activity rian Atmosphere Sport A WEER PAIGET, BEACON NV PUONE 731 ; | despair of the workers is greatly re- | plying for civil service examinations. | It used to be a sign of waning self- | Comrades:— The crisis of capitalism and the | flected in the amount of workers ap- confidence for anyone to accept a government job. However, due to the alternative of either finding a master or starving to death, and due to the loss of faith (which may never have existed) between the workers and the bosses, the city finds abundant wage slaves at its disposal. Sixteen thou- | sand people passed the examinatic' ‘me’. for Clerk, Grade 2, recently giver However, there are exactly 28 suc} positions to be filled. It is antici pated that the list will be sufficient | for the next four years. This is one of the clever ways the city is trying to solve the unemployment situation! —L. s. penses. vages, idends, portionately, E 0 0 y 0 : ST. GEORGE HOTEL WATTERS GYPPED Refuse Men the Pay Coming to Them NEW YORK.—The city’s news: | papers had much praise for the blow- i out the St. George Hotel gave its December 22. when the waiters tried to collect their | wages, Carl Letch, the manager, re- fused saying: that if there was only | twelve or so of them he would pay but as there were 27 men it took much money to pay out, Cheap Millionaire Corp. This is the second time this has) Two occurred in short period. At a sup~- per and dance last month I asked | headwaiter about my | wages for this day's work. He saia, | Bing and Bing, the owners of the hotel couldn’t afford to pay out any This millionaire concern is one of the worst oppressors of labor CLEVELAND — Second United Front Conference, Jan. 9, South lav Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave. PITTSBURGH—Hunger march Jan. 14, Jan. 13, Foster mass meeting at Carnegie Hall, Federal and E. Ohio Sts. CHICAGO, — Ratification mass meeting Foster speaker, Jan. 9 at Chicago Coliseum, 14th St. and Wabash, 7:30 p. m. Second United Front Conference, Jan. 11, Hun- ger march on city hall, Jan, 12, NEW YORK—Hunger marchon Brooklyn Boro Hall, demonstra- | tions in Bronx, Harlem and Down- town, Jan. 8. Hunger march on New York City Hall, Jan. 19. Mass trial of Hoover, Green and Walker, Jan. 11. Second meeting N, Y. Campaign Committee, Jan. 12, Irving Plaza Hall, 7:30 p. m. hundred open-air meet- ings, Jan. 13, 14, 15. Indoor meet- ings Bronx, Harlem, Downtown, Williamsburg, Boro Hall, Browns- ville, to elect delegates to Wash- ington, Jan. 16. House to house canvass for signatures to Unem- ployment Bill, Jan. 18, PHILADELPHIA — Foster mass meeting at Broadway Arena, Jan, 14. BOSTON—Hunger march, Jan. 19, on City Ha. Foster mass meet- ing at Ambassador Palace, Jan. 15. NEWARK, N. J.—Demonstration before City Hall, Jan, 7, 11 a. m. Hunger march, Jan, 28. Second |] United Front Conference, Jan. 18 at 2 p. m., in Slovack Hall, 52 However, | pay West St. STAMFORD, Conn. — United employee who is not|{ Front Unemployment Conference, conditions here will |] Jan. 26. a dividend of fifty cents on share to the stockholders of the bank. As the opportunities of investing the | money of the bank are almost nil, it is plain that the possibility of a dividend is due to decreasing the ex- That means the workers of the bank are actually paying for the | a How is this possible? By | uction of the working force, an ‘rationalizing’ those who remain. or instance the clerks are made to work until as late as eight- hirty without even getting the sup- 2r money usually allowed for ‘over- An increase in the working | ours without a corresponding in- | cease in the wages, is equivalent, | to a decrease It is through such indirect wage-cutting, among other things, | that make it possible for the banks | | to give dividends on their stocks. | The Chatham Phoenix has declared | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—State Unemployment Conference and hunger march on state capitol, Feb, 1 and 2. WHEELING, W. Va.—United Front Conference, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m., at Masonic Temple, 1407 Market St. || LOS ANGELES—Second, United Front Conference, Jan. 15. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — United Front Conference, Jan. 18, 2 p.m., at Workers Home, 1216 West Col- fax St. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Hunger march in St. Paul and Minneapolis and demonstration before state capi- tol, Jan. 7. Simultaneous demon- strations in Duluth and other towns. PASSAIC, N. J—United Front Conference, Jan. 16, at 8 p. m., at Union Hall, 205 Paterson St. CANTON, Ohio—Demonstration before city hall, Jan, 12, at 7 p.m. SP es ie The Campaign Committees in many towns have not sent in the announcement of thei meetings |] and hunger marches. They shoul¢ do so at the earliest possible date ee TAKE A LIST TO WORK WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS {NSURANCE! each often in —L. Ss. Increase of Only 288 in Week Shows Impermis- sable Slackening in. Campaign for 60,000 Readers = CIRCULATE THE DAILY 2 WoRKER In spite of the increasing need for mass cir- ¢ulation for the Daily Worker in organizing the unemployed in hunger marches, this week's re- port shows there has been a slackening in the campaign for 60,000 readers. Figures in today’s tables show a gain of only 228 during the week. Some districts evidently have called off the campaign with the first of the year. This in spite of the need for the | Daily Worker and despite the failure of the districts to attain their quotas. The continua- tion of the drive until February 15 has been decided upon by the Central Committee. SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE MAINTAINS TEMPO ‘The tempo of the campaign has kept up in the drive for subscriptions but bundle orders are erratic. The whole gain for the week has been due to the gain in subscriptions. ‘The increases and decreases in bundle orders have balanced each other. The best gain during the past week was in district 13 which put on 219 due to the use of the Daily Worker in building up hunger marches. This, however, will be lost in next week's tables, District 12, Seattle, put on a daily increase ot 184. An increase of 162 is shown in tables for the new district 18, Butte, Montana. However, there is a corresponding loss in District 11, Agri- cultural, from which this territory was sliced. REAL INCREASE SHOWN IN DIST. 10 The next rea! increase is in District 10, Kan- sas City, which boosted its orders a total of 115 daily. This follows a very successful Daily Worker drive when 3,000 papers were dis- tributed. The comrades in this district are determined to reach their quota and their ac- tivities in the past few weeks indicate they will do the job. District 7, Detroit, registers an increase of 34 The biggest loss during the week was in District 2, New York, which went down 155. in part due 'to the paper being late. On one day 900 papers in the District 2 bundle had to be lopped off due to a shortage of paper. In this way the Daily average was cut down. Here are the tables: Summary by Districts—Nov. 1—Jan. 1 Districts Bundles 1. Boston 2N. Y. 3. Phila, 4. Buffalo 15. Pitt |6 Cleveland... | 7 Detroit Bundles dan, 6 Increase | 8 Chicago 4703 980 497 237 1044 2105 | 59 897 1} | 16 South 8 140 j17 Birming, ... 107 87 110-87 «194197 3} | 18 Butte .... 8 Ge 162 162| 19 Denver 108 U2 110 166 280 276 | nore. 80 67 «493 «89 «186 «se 86 | 10037 19701 10268 19698 29738 29966 228 | 957 6677 Ait HB Baltimore... . Wash., D. © Baffalo Rochester. ... Pittsburgh Canton. ‘Toledo ote: these figures do not Haneous and special editens. the past week was 35,166 Cleveland a9 A260 733 Metroit .. 1689 894 1598 2558 Milwaukee 412 108 407-519 (St. Louts 185 114 185 300 Chicago 907 2088 933 2085 2995 stinneapoll 71 191 «617 «B14 262 St. Paul 84 7S 87RD SansasCity 98 OL 87 106 Seattle, 453° 78 453538 Vortiand 50 49 BBG Los Ang’ 443 203 443332 4an Francec.... 126 882 423 B82 452 This was | Oakland 86 166 901A Sacramento. 14 850088416 Denver . Mm 2 6 156 Okla. City . 8 100 10 100, Summary by Cities—Nov. 1—Jan. 1 oat 107 736 ADA 254 438 2a2 110 Inde foreign, mis- average press run Inerease 264 NEWS CLUBS AND SUB GROWTH BEST FEATURES The most encouraging features of the cam- paign are two: the steady growth in the sub- scription list and the formation of a string of | Red Builders News Clubs. The biggest weak- ness of the drive has been the inability of the districts to get every Party member behind the | campaign and their failure to perfect a machin- ery of distribution. During the past month the following changes have taken place in the subscription list: yw MMARY OF SUBSCRIPTIONS December 6 January 4 4879 4808 Paid in advance 4251. 5461 Ms Dar Ane ee eceeeeeee 9130 10,269 In the last week 289 new subscriptions were received One hundred and seventy-one readers renewed while 57 were dropped from the list leaving a net gain of 232. SUB DRIVE MUST BE MORE PRODUCTIVE In spite of the steady increases the subscrip- tion campaign has never been as productive as it should have been. Expirations have not been thoroughly followed up by the Party units. Ex- ceptional premiums oftered by the Daily Worker are not being sufficiently used to obtain long term subscriptions, Every worker is interested in the develop- ment of socialism in the Soviet Union. “The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union,” by Greg- ory T. Grinko, is given free with one year’s subscription or renewal. The 1931 Daily Work- er calendar is given free with a 6 month’s subseription or renewal to the Daily Worker. More intense efforts must be put into the drive | for subscriptions until the close of the campaign. There is no reason why there cannot be a Red Builders News Club composed of unemployed workers in every city where the Party has a unit, Jobless workers receive the paper for 1 cent and sell it for 3 cents. The Party must be held re- sponsible for the formation of these clubs, DISTRICTS MUST REACH QUOTAS IN NEXT 6 WEEKS Due to the fact that in the districts the Party membership has not been fully involved in the campaign and strong machinery for distribu- tion of the Daily Worker has not been created, | the Central Committee has decided to extend the campaign until February 15. This will allow all districts a chance to obtain their quotas. Every Party, league member, every pioneer, every red worker into the drive for mass cir- culation for the Daily Worker. A Red Builders News Club in every city where the Party has a unit i Steps and along the street. | per cent increase in circulation over imperialism. The Daily Worker, par- | ticularly in the last year, has been | used as the fighting organizer of the | masses of workers in their struggles against unemployment, wage cuts, ete. The Daily Worker was recog- nized internationally as a very im- portant factor in mobilizing the mil- lion and a quarter workers around the unemployment demonstrations of March 6. Today it is our chief weapon and | The Seventh Anniversary of the) | Daily Worker, with an almost 100} last year, is the fighting answer that | the working class is giving American | | bration the worke: | there aj Celebrate the 7th Anniv Worker; Rush All Contributions at Once Page Three e Daily ersary of th organizer for the Hunger Marches of | the unemployed. | All through the year the workers | in shops, in mills, in the South, | throughout the country, have looked | forward to the Daily Worker as. their | chief weapon in their every day struggles. In New York City the Seventh An- niversary of the Daily Worker will be celebrated on Saturday evening, January 10th at the St, Nicholas Rink, 69 West 66th St. At thi will mobili determine to carry on the work of the Daily Worker, to sup- | port it as the weapon of the worki* | class, to sell it, to distribute it and) our work. If the Daily Worker is te to make it reach every worker—in| live. The collection and income from shop, factory and home. The same| the celebrations must give the cam- holds true for all of the celebrations| paign for funds a decided push for through the United States ward. All funds from these celebra~ Although the Seventh Anniversary | tions must be rushed immediately to finds the Daily Worker growing in| the Daily Worker. strength and in power as weapon of| Make the Seventh Anniversary a the working class, however, the fin-| fighting answer to American imper- ancial condition, due to the deficit | ialism. Make the Seventh Anniver- of the Maily Worker is endangering| sary the starting point for increased its actual existence, The response to} donations and contributions which the campaign has been too slow and| will push forward the liquidation of the campaign has been extended for| the Emergency Fund into its final another month. There is stiil $20,000 stages. Rush all funds to the Daily to be collected. This deficit must| Worker, 50 E. 13th Street, New York be liquidated if we are to carry on| City. | Secretary of Labor Wa | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Living up | to the expectations of the boss gov- | ernment to which he was appointed | by President Hoover, Secretary of | Labor Doak has taken up the hue and cry against the foreign born workers. In a letter to the Senate yesterday, Doak called for more stringent anti- 1500 FACE RAIN IN CLEVELAND, | (ConTINUED FRO PAGE ONE) | between 1,500 and 2,000, the number | | varying as the bitter cold and sleet |drove many to seek shelter. Gathering outside factories, where |they had been seeking work, in halls jand at other neighborhood centers jearly in the day, hundreds of Cleve- | |land’s jobless besides those who were |hardly enough to brave the weather jand march to the City Hall, listened |to the message of the Councils of |the Unemployed. Already in the | morning, hundreds of jobseekers who |had gathered at the Fisher Body |plant were on the march to a hall |half-way downtown shouting their demands for immediate relief. 300 Police. First to arrive at the city hall were |the East Side hunger marchers, who were greeted by a solid wall of 300 police, lined up three deep on the The | Cheering as each succeeding parade | arrived in good order made many a | well-fed agent of the bosses in the | City Council squirm uneasily in his seat. A delegation of 15 was imme- | diately elected by the demonstration |to carry the demands of the unem- |ployed for immediate establishment of an emergency fund to provide $1° a week for single jobless workers anc | $25 a week for those with dependents | and other demands, . Leaders of the unemployed councils addressed the demonstrations waiting outside the city hall, telling how the city is paying $25,000 to a city man- | ager, is maintaing a golf department and has money without end to waste | in graft and serving the bosses’ in- | terests. Finally the delegation returned and reported that the Council, true to} the masters it serves, would rather | |see the unemployed starve than ac- cede to their demands. Conference Friday. There was no mistaking the mil- itant spirit jof the workers. This hunger march is the forerunner of | bigger and more militant demonstra- |tions for unemployment insurance and genuine relief, for which the Doak Demands Deportation For Foreign Born Militants | must be resisted as such. nts Sharper Laws, New York Chamber of Commerce Demands Compulsory Fingerprinting | working iss laws to crush the rising | revolt of the masses against the | tem which sentences millions of un- | employed workers to death by starva- | tion. “There is need for strengthening the law relative to the ceportation of those aliens who are affiliated with organizations which adyocate | the overthrow of the Government of the United States,” Deak told the Senate in his letter. The campaign against the foreign- | born, then, is not a campaign against alien racketeers and criminals as the bosses and their press have tried to make it appear. It is, as the Com- munist Party has repeatedly pointed out, a campaign against those foreign | born workers showing the least sign of militancy, against those who dare | to participate in the struggles of the American masses against the capital- ist starvation policy. It is directed aga the entire working class and | Further exposing th» boss class | character of the campaign was the | ection of executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce of New Yor! State in demanding of their servants | in Congress passage of “a measure | for the compulsory fi | all aliens in this co’ | of strengthening laws.” RITICH APPRCT deportation the | RED CAND™ ATH i In Jerusalem Election Campaign | | JERUSALEM, Jan. 5.—In a brazen attempt to deprive the workers and poor farmers of representation in the coming elections to the Jewish-elect- rested 12 Communists running on the Jewish proletarian ticket. They were charged with belonging to an illegal organization. In this way, the British imperial- ists hope to crush the only force unit- | 2 ing the Jewish and Arab workers and | °f foreign coal. poor peasants for a struggle against imperialism. WHEREVER WORKERS) MEET, SIGN UP FOR IN-| SURANCE! | | Cleveland unemployed will prepare at |the United Froat Conference on Jan. | \% at South Slav Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave., and at the mass meeting to be addressed by William Z. Foster on Jan. 12 at the Slovenian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair Ave. . CUT WAGES OF ii reeieeeineienmeeneieeneneemeianianedinmemeenemneeeeeeeete eee eee Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes: 1.—Unemployment insurance at the rate of $25 a week for each unemployed worker and $5 additional for each dependant. 2.—The creation of a National Unemployment Insurance Fund to be raised by: (a) using all war funds for unemployment insurance; (b) a levy on all capital and property in excess of $25,000; (c) a tax on all incomes of $5,00 a year. 3.—That the Unemployment Insurance Fund thus created ahall be administered by a Workers’ Commission eleeted solely by employed and unemployed workers. All who sign the lists now being circulated by the Workers Na- tional Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance or its sub- sidiary organizations, demand that congress shall pass the bill, in fts final form as (possibly) amended by the mass meetings whieh ratify it and elect the mass delegation to present it to congress, or as (pos- sibly) amended by the mass delegation itself. The final form of the bill will follow the general line of the three points printed above. CREW MUTINIES ON BELGIAN TOILERS BRITISH WARSHIP Red Union Leaders Call| Imperialists Arrest 42 for Struggle | As Leaders ea "The BRUSSEL an bosses| LONDON, Jan. 5.—Adding to the are increasing their wage-cut offen- | increasing troubles of the British im- sive in the two most important | perialists, a mutiny broke out yester- branches of industry, mining and / day on the British sybmarine parent metallurgy. The mine owners an-! ship, Lucia, off Plymouth. Theangry nounced their intention of carrying through wage-cuts amounting to 5| crew attacked the officers of the ship in protest against rotten conditions | dust per cent. This ‘vould be the third | ana brutal discipline. wage-cut in the Belgian ining in-| Forty-two of the crew, said to be leaders of the mutiny, were arrested y since last July. The owners | declare that the severe economic sit-| when the crew was rushed by forces uation makes a further wage-cut|from the shore. The arrested men necessary. They also declare that! were brutally beaten up and taken the social impositions are more than | off under a strong guard to the dock- the industry can bear. They refer! yard barracks, Throughout the day to the miners’ pensions law for which | strong patrols of marines watched ap- the ners already pay 2 per cent of | proaches to the dockyard amd kept a their wages and will pay 3 per cent) close surveillance of all vessels pass- om the first of January 1931 on. ing the Lucia, indicating that the im- The reformist miners’ leaders are | perialists view. the mutiny with the calling meetings in the district and) greatest concern, It is the second doing their best to create the im-| mutiny on a British warship within pression that they are prepared te| recent months. defend the miners’ wages but their| attitude shows that they are pre-| pared to capitulate if given sufficient | excuse. They declare that they could only then discuss the question of wage-cuts if an independent inquiry | howed that the economic situation is| _TOKIO.—For the purpose of in- eally as bad as the mine owners| Véstigating the radical activities o' 5%0C0 Japanese Students on Strike nake out. The reformists are also ed Assembly, British police today ar- |,°onducting a campaign against the oreign-born workers and trying to| split the ranks of the working-class | by causing disunity and fomenting | national hostility towards the for- | eign-born, They are also conducting | ampaign against the importation The revolutionary miners commit- | tee has organized a campaign for the | election of pit committees and the mobilization of all miners for a Struggle against the proposed wage- cut. Revolutionary miners delegate congresses are to be held+in Liege and Charleroi. The foundry workers have just been compelled to accept a wage- cut of 5 per cent and now the em- ployers in the engineering industry announce that they intend to carry a wage-cut of 10 per cent. The college students in Japan, the Ded partment of Education has set aside Yen 37,000 ($18,599 for next year. At the present time 59,000 students of three universities, 2 universities for men and 1 for women, have been out on strike for demands of free speech, right to join political parties, registration of present presidents of the universities, and a cut in tuition fees. Every day students are demon- strating at the universities grounds and singing revolutionary songs. “mixed commission” for the engine- ering industry met on December 22 in order to examine the demands of the employers, There is no doubt that the reformist leaders will do here as they did in the foundry in- dustry, that is, accept wage-cuts on the ground that the economic crisis demands them. Mayer Hague Boasts of Biggest Riot Squad in U. S. to Crush 40,000 Jobless Workers (This is the eighth in a series of articles on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New Jersey.) eee ane By ALLEN JOHNSON. There are 40,000 workers in Jersey who are out of a job. Being out of a job in equatorial Africa may be no great discomfort, although the ‘so- cialist” government in England is do- jing its best to “remedy” matters there. But here in Jersey City—and what city in America is different— | being out of a job means going hun- | sry, it ineans gnawing, maddening | pain which is not appeased by the sight of chain stores with overloaded shelves, nor of warehousese bursting with food that will not be sold with- out a profit of an “honest” 20 per cent to its owner, Being out of a job in Jersey City means watching one’s family die a slow, tortured death; it means going mad with stifled rage at a system that permits a few hundred thousand parasites to gorge themselves with the perfumed things of life, while mil- lions, so many millions of workers with the same hearts and stomachs and minds as their exploiters are crushed like ants under the heels of the wealth they themselves create. Here in Jersey City the contrast in standard of living between workers and exploiters is sharp and clear. Rents in working-class districts are s0 high that the first of every month City, with its population of 325,000, | ; becomes a nightmare, a bad dream, whose bitter portents are often re- | | crieea in evictions, furniture dumped | | helter-skelter on the sidewalks, homes | | broken up, naked misery parading | like a ghoul $1,000,000 For Parades, Nothing For Unemployed. A few weeks ago Jersey City (that | | is, Mayor Hague) celebrated the three | | hundredth anniversary of the estab- | | lishment of the city. Forty thousand | | jebless workers, facing grim starva- | tion, were called upon to commemo- | rate the memory of Peter Stuyvesant, | a ferocious reactionary whose fame | | largely rests on his passing of a pro- | hibition law to increase his own liquor business. The main streets of the city were | decorated with flags, bunting and| electric lights, all paid for out of the city treasury, Monster parades were held, in which gaily bedecked and | costly floats depicted the generosity | of the Statue of Liberty, the demo- | cratic party and Mayor Hague him-| self. All in all the celebration cost $1,000,000. Before that and _ since | Hague has refused to set aside a dol- | lar for unemployment relief, confin- | ing his relief activities to arranging | a football game between two loca) | high school teams. On the day that | Standard Oil, Dixon Graphite and | American Railway Expvess laid off | several thousand more workers, Hague staged a pageant costing $100,000. Circuses without the bread. At a cost of many millions of dol- lars, Hague has constructed a city hospital which he never fails to as indicating his interest in and love for “the people.” hospital hag been a means of enrich- ing himself and his friends with lu- crative contracts. Moreover, a worker in need of medical treatment has as much chance of finding a bed in the Jersey City Hospital as America has of returning to pre-1929 “prosperity.” The hospital has become virtually a private sanatorium where friends of | Hague may go for a prolonged rest cure. Whenever a demand is raised that some of Jersey City’s rutty streets be | paved, or that the tax-rate, highest in America, be lowered, Hague’s re- ply is to build an addition to the City Hospital. The priests, of whom there are so many that a stone thrown in the air would fall on forty of them, and the newspapers never fail to to point | | eral months. Actually the | which is to supply the electricity has not yet been built, although the hos- pital proper has ben ready for sey- A new nurses home was built to supplement the hospital. Very deliberately, the architect, at Hague's orders, “forgot” to draw up | Plans for a sewer. One is now being built at a cost of $160,000, about a | third of which will find its way into | Mayor Hague's capacious pocket, “Reformers” Await Opportunity, Hague cannot last much longer, de- Spite the fact that he boasts that the Jersey City police department has | the largest riot squad in America to “handle” the city’s 40,000 jobless, and & force of police auxiliaries that sports | Steel helmets, But who will take his place? Will it be the “reform” poli- ticians in Jersey who are snapping at his heels and foaming at the mouth | in expectation of the juicy graft that is their's to command once they enter “point with pride” at these bones | the city hall? An incident that oc- thrown to a hungry populace, Building Repaired Before Completed. The most recent addition to the | hospital cost several million dollars, | al Ithe contracts being awarded to} firms who had previously guaranteed | to return part of the contract pric | to Hague. Before the hospital was | finished, the city was called upon to | repair the plaster in this building | which had never been used. The foundations of the structure are cracking already and the power house curred a couple of days ago in North Bergen, a small township controlled by Hague, may reveal the answer. When the mayor, a Hauge puppet, tried to railroad 46 additional ward~- heelers onto the city payroll, 700 en- raged workers swept 20 cops aside, broke through the council room doers, and cried ynch the mayor,” “Tar and feather the robber,” “Ride him out of town.” There are no theories of relativity that can qualify the law of economic determinism,