The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1931, Page 3

or ee lade apenas _DAU, Y. WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE ON UNEMP wid ( MEN T MONDAY, 7:30 SALVATION ARMY JIM-CROWING NEGROES FROM THE BREADLINES Unemployed Women Are Turned Away With- out Food While Men Draw $50 per Week By B. FRANCES. Yesterday, on my way home after a day of job-hunting, I passed by the Salvation Army headquarters near Boro Hall, in Brooklyn. On the right side of the doorway stretched a line over a block and a half long, com- ycsed entirely of white. On the left side of the door there was a short line, of perhaps 20 or 30, composed of unemployed Negro workers. So the Salvation Army has established the Jim-Crowing of unemployed in the oread-line! This made me mad, so I went and tood in line with the Negroes. Right away a cop ran over and hollered, “Here, you girl, all whites on this| side.” Then one of the managers came out and called me in. “What do you want here?” he asked. “Some food,” I said. ‘I’m unemployed and hun- ae “Well, we can’t feed women re,” he said, “this is for men.” Then | he etal to question me. “What is your name? What nationality? Were you born in this coun: ” When I told him I was Jewish he told me I should go to a Jewish Institute, in- stead of coming to the Salvation Army for food’ “When money is dropped into your kettles, do you ask f it is Jewish or Protestant?” I asked him. “I'm unemployed, and you claim to feed unemployed.” Well, they sent me away, without telling me where to go to get any- lareimd to eat. But spain I left, I saw Salvation Army ‘that they let the white line in first, and handed-them some black coffee | and a piece of stale bread. For this is what they had waited in line for two hours! Then, they let about fif- teen of the Negroes in, and told the | others that there was nothing left for | them. The Salvation Army has dis- | criminated against the Negroes for so long, that that is why so few come. The next day I went into the Wil- low for a cup of coffee. The “Sally” | | who had questioned me was there with his wife, and he called me over, | for an argument. He said he was “doing the work of God, serving the poor.” “Why don’t you work with the Unemployed Council, if you really want to help the workers?” I asked | him, “What do they pay?” he asked. | “Nothing. They can not.” “Oh, well,” he answered, “that is different. I make $50 a week here.’ He said aj} lot more, about “God is punishing the people now for not believing in him,” and that the Salvation Army lost $50,000 in the U. S. Bank crash. I told him this money was collected | on the pretense of feeding the hun- gry, but that they had put it in the} bank instead, and I also told him “Maybe if I got $50 a week I might | pray three times a day. But show me your God, where is he?” “My dear girl, you are too young to talk that way.” By this time a crowd had gathered, and what th workers told the “Sally” was a plenty, TAMMANY HOLDS | TWO FOR TRIAL Trying to Get Revenge | for Demonstrations | NEW YORK. — Tammany police and couris, wild at the success, in spite of all the lying of the Times and other capitalist papers, of the hunger march¢ and demonstrations Thursday, yesté lay held on $2,500 bail two of their victims. Alex | Zaroff and David Boschi, the lat- ter only 17 yeors old, were thos? | picket ,out of the five arrested a+ Manhatian Lyceum mass mecting. Zaroff and Boschi were taken from the Lyceum to the ninth precinct police station, where both were badly beaten up by the police. They were brought into Essex Market Court yes- lorcay, where magistrate Weil held them in bail for trial on fake char- ges of “felonious assault.” Allen Taub, attorney for the In- ternational Labor Defense, defended them. Turkowitz Pluffed. Herman Turkowitz, reported to have been arrested and sent to the hospital by police at the Lyceum meeting, was not arrested, it devel- | oped yesterday. What happened to ‘Turkowitz was this: As he was leay- ing the hall at the end of the mect- ing, the police made their brutal, pre-arranged attack. The masses | were still inside, and it was -fairly easy for the ‘cops. Among those mowed down by the first swing oi | police blackjacks was Turkowitz. As he lay stunned on tle floor, Jack | Constantino, husband of the preg- nant woman evictéd recently and denied lodging after five days at the city “shelter,” started to turn him | Over to see what he couid do for | him. A policeman blackjacked Con- stantino over the head from behina, and a New York newspaper carrica a picture yesterday showing Con stantino lying senseless across the body of Turkowitz. Both are recov ering, however, Mrs. Constantino was clso clubbed to the ground by the Police, as well as seven others, & New Bronx Councils. As a result of the Bronx hunger march, 112 new workers were drawn into the Bronx Council of the On employed. A new council has been termed, because of the size of tie | first one, ‘That first one is only «| couple of weeks old. The new coun- cil meets every morning at 10 a.m. at 4041 Third Ave. a he Bronx Workers Club has also formed still another unemployea council, which meets, at 1472 Boston Road. Their next. nae is Mon- day at 10 am Cop's Jaw Broken, ‘Those arrested at the Harlem de- monstration, Doretta Jarmon, Edwin Baker and Anthony Yermer, are charged with disorderly conduct. The capitalist press states that the policeman, Hovry Kain (who at- tacked the hunger march from the Lafayette Street fake agency to Man- hattan Lyceum) has a broken jaw bone. | Organization, Marxism-Leninism, | vantage over the Fall Term upon the Organizations Come in Body to the Daily || Worker Anniversary || The Daily Worker Anniversary }} affair, Saturday, Jan. 10, at St |) Nicholas Arena, will be a demon- stration against the “Committee to combat Communism,”. headec by Fish, Woll and company, Al 4) workers’ organizations must be || mobilized 100 per cent for the | | Daily Worker Anniversary as €& proper answer to the fascists. Or- ganizations should bring their banners. Vote substantial sums [) for the’ Daily Worker Emergency Drive and bring it along to the affair. REGISTERING FOR WORKERS SCEOOL Spring Term Will Open Soon NEW YORK.—The Spring Term of the Workers School for which regis- tration has already begun, will give many new courses in addition to the original schedule. Some of the new courses are: History of the Commu- nist International, by R. Baker; Ne- gro Work, by Amis; Workers Corres- pendence, by V. Jerome; Political Economy, by J. Mindel; Revolutionary Literature, by E. Jacobson, etc. These courses are added in order to enable the workers to develop themselves in various fields of revolutionary activi- ties. Other courses in the School, like English, Russian, Fundamentals of Communism, Trade Union Strategy, Dialectic Materialism, etc., will be given additional facilities so as to meet the needs of the workers. On account of the fact that many workers who attend the School are suffering from unemployment, wage cuts, etc., the School Committee has decided to reduce the fees for al] courses, “The political courses are $3 each and the language courses are $6 each for the entire term. The Com- mittee also decided to offer special scholarships to students who are sent by the Communist Party and Young Communist League units, revolution- ary trade unions and mass organiza- tions. Special arrangement will be ede. for the unemployed. The Spring term will have the ad- completion of the new school floor with spacious sound-proof rooms, a student council room, a library with well-selected books, an auditorium and other facilities. In order to secure enrollment in the various classes desired, workers are urged to register as early as possible. Catalog of the Spring term 1s ready and will by sent to the workers upon request. INTER-RACIA . BALL NEW YORK.—A mid Winter Inter- racial ball will be given by Section 4 of the Communist Party Friday. Jan. 16, at’ 8 p. m. in Finnish Ball Room, 15 West 126th St. Music is by C. J. Morgan Negro Jazz Band, and admission is 50 cents. MELLA -M Sunday, January 11, 1931, at 3 P. M. NEW HARLEM CASINO, 10 WEST 116TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY ‘ SPEAKERS: ROBERT W. DUNN, Chairman, J. LOUIS ENGDAUL. Secretary, 7 s1tiIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA Will Play Auspices of the: ANTI-IMPERJALIST LEAGUE OF U.S. Admission Free EMORIAL Anti-Imperialist League International Labor Defense COMING EVENTS Ik JOBLESS CAMPAI NEW YORK.—Mass trial of Hoover, Green, Walker and Thomas, Jan 11, Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave, at 1 p, m. United Front Conference on Un- employment, Jan. 12, at Irving Plaza Hall, 7:30 p. m. Open-air meetings throughout city, Jan. 13, 14 and 15. Local indoor meetings, Jan, 16, in Bronx, Harlem, Down- town, Williamsburg, Boro Hall section and Brownsville to elect delegates to Washington. House to House canvass fot signatures to Workers’ Unempjoyment Insurance Bill, Jan. 18. PASSAIC, N. J.—United Froni Conference, Jan. 16, at 8 p. m., at Union Hall, 205 Paterson S NEWARK, N, J.—Hunger march Jan, 28. Second United Front Conference, Jan. 18, at 2 p. m. in Slovak Hall, 52 West &t. PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—United Front Conference, Jan. 25, at 1 p. m,, at Columbia Hall. | Thi | Worker, arene or en nen nner Five-Year Plan Topic at W’msburg Forum) Jan. Y.—Sunday, pb ee N. Stevens will speal at the Williamsburgh Workers’ vum, 61 Graham Ave., on the “Five Year Plan.” The workers will please note that the time of the forum has been changed to 1 p. m., instead of 7 p. m., as has been in the past. The importance of the subject for discussion calls upon all workers in Williamsburgh to attend this forum. Admission is free of charge and question and discussion is allowed to all workers. Organize a Worcorr Group in your city or town. the workers in your shop of the conditions there. Help orzanize Writs jically because of lack of direct ‘Central Committee Boe C.P. US Moves Into By MAX BEDACHT. During the month of-January the | | Batjonal headquarters of the Com-! | munis Party of America will be |moved to the Workers’ Center, 35 E 12th St., in New York. With thi: move another step will be accom- plished in the direction of central ng the directive center of the Par‘ centralization is of the gr importance. The I fer instance, red pi uupe suf sion by the Central Comr gave space to official ar of the Central Committee ance and press material supplied to it, but |failed to breathe in all |and all its items the po! i the © organizational and the agitational fire which must supply the connection between the Party and its Central Committee with the working cla: With the growth of the influence | k|of our Pa 7 with the deepeni the radicalization of the mi systematization of our Pa: ties and a centralization of its effo: becomes more and more imperative. With the establishment of the New Workers’ Center part of this long- felt necessity finds The financing of the Center, there- fore, is a matter of extensive political importance. The financial burden which inevitably grew out of the establishment of our new Workers’ Center is a political problem, Every comrade, every militant wotk ganization, every friend of the P: | maust willingly help to solve this prob- lem., The forthcoming banquet and bazaar of the Workers’ Center, on its. fulfillment. | ® New He ME | Sunday Je {after, m jand unive: jand all its friends. OW) OM mian, got there, ture out and CONFERENCE FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN R y Fake Veterans’ Relief Gets Cash, Gives Slop NEW YORK.—The Boro Hal yed council is expos! aur - Vetera Ans Merhpilal: which pele ts money f ‘Assi soci tic the adlix now at 32 Cli that what they (said to be th® worst line), small piece of stale pie, with v aton Street. get is rotten find sour n any bread two slices of bad bread, an called cocoa. A joble a job doing $15 worth of electrica) work there recently, and was handed a $5 check in payment. And he could not cash the check! ANUARY 10, 1931 * wane {ditoria Staff cont: reac y COLTALISTS ATK) ya A many nen in Bank < Cre ‘ meeting of a sday night, Nor- p- e who d in the tors Commit- yading them to the Governor:’ Al- list leaflet called for which “ques- m the floor which le to whi e 0 floor held uy ocialist from t h bet promising” by their de esent their book: fare The me usual L | few p N. -Y. Com Committee Calls ‘Or Delegates trom n All Workers Organiz “ations Felléw Workers: The New York District Committee calls upon all working class organiza- tions, native and foreign-born, Negro and white, to elect delegates to the Local Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born, which will be held! on Sunday, February 8, 1931, at the Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th Street, New York City. ‘The Conference will open at 11 a.m. sharp. The foreign born workers fiind themselves severely attacked by the bosses, bankers, police department, and all other encmies of the working class. The establishment of the police supervisional department in New York, urged by the authorities to, set up such departments all over the country to “check up.on alien crim- inals,” is only an excuse of the bosses in order to persecute and deport the} | militant foreign born workers, who for the Protection of the Foreign Born | oy are taking part in the struggles of the American working class. ‘The workers must bear in mind that, it is the unemployed situation that brings the terror against the foreign born, The present wage-cuts, speed- up, lay-offs, and the struggle of the unemployed for unemployed insur- ance explains the yyresent attack upori the foreign born, In this country, where millions of foreign born workers are exploited under ‘the most severe conditions, these same workers, if they want to become citizens, are not only obliged to undergo a series of hardships, but must also pay-such sums of money that it is impossible for a worker to comply with, with the result that the workers are compelled’to remain un- natur: In the present economic crisis, bosses are doing their utmost pit the ranks of the working class by in- stigating one section fe the working | class against the other. That y on the one hand, there is a campaign ot terror and lynching | groes, and on the other hand a de erate, conscious attack upon the for- eign born. Call For Conference The New York District Committe for the Protection of Foreign Born calls upon all local provisional secre- the following cities of the New York District: Yonkers, Linden, Pough- keepsie, of New York State, and Ho- the) or minorit an o facte 1 to se 101 whers t uch local co! pect one rence i hb delegate for eac s to the siate con | which the local ene Nov will follow conf is the for the ni, Bro and ainst the divide and rule,” time, more than ey and wor er s 1 of Fight." S. HORWATT, ‘Pistrict Secretary; rs of the Bank sadoff, sccialist fak- | n and in favor yn off the | to ex-| Norman 2 “For- yed the small de- that 100 per posits would be paid by the and a| ORN 1 con- foreign to| “The cooperation of all officers and and build a solid fof their responsibilitie. in this matter | taries to arrange local conferences in| front under the be nner of “Unite and > =| Delegates of Unions, Labor Organizations iVieet at Irving Plaza »p Houses, Bread Lines, Shops, Unemployed Councils Send , Representatives Reports on Campaign for Signatures to nsurance Bill, Plan Relief Demonstrations NEW YORK.—A full report on the progress of the cam n for relief for nemployed in New York City will be civen by Secreta when the United Front Confer- breac Mon-9 at 7:30 activity Com counc ving i and to the December p is a delegate to the| ented All new ave their cre- at once. s will be that from the pendent Shoe Workers’ onic | | ni the Indepen- | Union at its last end e pro- | the Trade ion - Unity League on unemployment insurance i to recommend to the t mem~= the union to issue i slipper workers and un e moment lect signatures for ent insurance bill he Communist y and xy the T. U. U. L. The coun- also present its program for ganization drive and how he pbearable wage and Pp conditions prevailing in the in- str F. G. Biedenkapp, general - organ- for the unjon, stated that for shoe worker employed there are unemployed and that the wages Jin 1930 were €0 per cent less than in | 1929 ore the bosses at the instiga- bor department cers breadless by lock- cil will izer levery oorts from the committee show that more impetus is being given to the drive for atures. In the past week 10,000 additional names have come in on the lists but this is insuf- ficent and much more attention must be given to stimulating the drive for tures in every working-—class | hborhood, in the shops and among | wor rs’ organizations and the un- | employed ’ Police brutality during the hunger )Bemaonstratiens shows clearly that the | bosses are not going to give relief to the workers and that only by strong or zations of the unemployed mobilized to fight for their demands will this be forthcoming. PROSSER CL (UE S BLACKUST to oreing Workers Donate to Fund NEW YORK.—The Prosser Com- mittee) here has settled down to an ighteen weeks’ campaign through | the corporation heads to force every employe to pay a tax for unemploy- ment relief, thus sifting the burden of caring for the jobless onto the al- ready miserably paid workers and off | the capitalists whose system caused this crisis. Full directions and collection list are being sent out. The signing of the collection list by by the employee gives the boss a legal right to check off his wages for a |period of 18 weeks without régard to |how much he sets, whether he goes on part time work during that time, or any other possibility, The committee's instructions, in slightly veiled language, suggest fir- 7 @ Dlacklist for those who do not sic tp. Part of a form letter for bosses to send their employees | tate: “Every reasonable effort hould be made to have a 100 per | cent responses. ‘A notice will be pub- | lished et an appropriate time, show- the numtber of the enmloyees in each department, the number sub- scribing end the percentage subserib- ing. A lst of contributors will Jater |be prepared, but still show no| ;@mounts, (So no one can check up on | what the committee gets?) y | | emplos es in the creditable discharge | | | will be gzcatly appreciated.” Ryan and Munson, The Committee's campaign is di- ee eae, me Arsene ou ops, un ons, fraternal and benefit llines, and TWO EI or unerr tlophouses es Gates Ave. Court Judge Evicts 43 in One Hour BROOKLYN, Y¥.—Forty-three class families were i to be evicted within a period of five days by Judge Fish of,.the Gates Ave. Court yesterday within a period of one hour and five min- Judge F being a landlord him- stated at the court: “I am hay- the same trouble with my. ten- jobless order ants.” Fellow-worker Zeus Selas, a bake who has been unemployed for eig! months, was the only case not: o dered evicted, being defended by: th Williamsburgh Tenants’ League rep-~ resentative in the court, City Fakery Exposed. Max Weidy of the Williamsburgh nts’ League stepped before’ the bar when Judge Fish ordered fellow- _| Worker Selas to answer the landlord charges of non-payment of rent. Weidy of the Tenants’ League pointed out the misery under which Sales and thousands of workers ‘are facing. He stated: “This fellow-worker has to support nine children. He went before the Mayor’s Committee and all he got from this committee was a promise and a ticket for a rotten meal in the breadline. Eight weeks ago the Mayor’s Committee promised this worker a job,” Weidy continued, ‘and the United Hebrew Jewish Aid also promised him a@ job, but all he received was a promise. Workers cannot live and cannot pay rent x promises they receive from the, committees.” At this point the judge thought it was too much and stopped him. and ordered the case postponed for more investigation until next Monday. Fellow-worker Sales has not beer able to pay gas for two months; and electric for four months, Two children of this unemployed worker’ were forced to stop attending Public School 5@ due to the cold weather and having no clothing to wear, Another Victory Scored. Sam Hirsh of 511 Bushwick Ave., —- who compelled by the misery was forced to give away three of hisehil- * dren because he was unable to “feed them, was ordered evicted last week by the landlord, Sam Lewis, The active mobilization of» the worker tenants in the whole building by the Williamsburgh Tenants? League and by the members of the Women’s Council forced the landlord to withdraw the eviction proceedings against Sam Hirsh. The organized tenants of 511 Bush- wick Ave. elected a committee to go before the landlord and stated: “If you will evict Sam Hirsh we will go on a rent strike and will not give you’-: a penny for three months.” -j Facing this united front of the ten-=* ants the landlord said: “Please, don't do that. I will withdraw the evic- tion proceedings and will not ask | Hirsh: for a penny until he gets a job.” aah ity These victories of the Williams burgh Tenants’ League must be, util- ized to strengthen the League by drawing in more and more tenants to join its ranks, The League meets every Friday night at 8 p. m. at the Workers’ Cen- ter, 61 Graham Ave, Organize a Worcorr Group in your city or town. Help organize the workers in your shop, Write of the conditions there, 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Historical data on big events of the class struggle in the first an- nual Daily Worker Calendar. Free with six months sub or renewal. taking over separate sections, The Steamship division has on it not only J. P. Ryan, president of the Inter-.., national Longshoremen’s Association (always ready for any class collatjora« tion system), but Frank C, Mufisoir, president of the Munson Steamshi» Line, which last week started direct wage cuts of seamen to add to the pss campaign of indirect wage ~ a OR gE EIT