The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1931, Page 2

a usband and Wife D l ict TEL LOAN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to You Geuds Toons Starvation to Suicide Pact aC AT ONS OF DOLLARS To Fou ee ee] Wife Leaves Note Telli Her Children Hunger NEW YORK.—The cos in misery to the working class 4 ng out of | the table from Mrs. Druker with an AN Th ( the bosses’ cynical determination to| original poem describing the misery | Spe Nibco. a. make tie workers carry the full bur-| and suffering which drove them to ae OL 4 deh of the crisis ‘rather than give up one cent of their huge profits con- | tinues to express itself in figures of human lives. An unemployed worker today lies at the point of death in the prison cell at Fordham Hospital, his wife lies dead, their ‘two small children, twins, 5 years old, are in grave dan- ger, as a result of the bitter discour- agement which drove Harry D: Daily Before Her Eyes riven By | THE CHIN \aa, AND Pe ng of Torture of Seeing | There was a not in Hungarian on the suicide compact. Life was not worth while, with her husband out of work and her children daily starving ; | before her very eyes, she wrote. There | was also a not from Druker telling | of the hopelessness of his job hunt | and ending: “Good-bye, this is by | mutual consent.” | | Suicide, as every militant worker | knows, is not the way out. We must fight for our right to live. But even THE ADVENTURES OF BILL THE GUNS AND THAT FLAG FRom ESE WORKERS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M JARY 12, 1981 WORKER | —. ALL Laniquades 31, and his wife, Rose, 25, into a sui-| suicide is against the bosses’ law, cide compact which they attempted to | though they have no law against the | EN 5 carry out by turning on the gas} slow misery of starvation. So, there's n = c Ae fh Sa ‘Thursday night in their tiny flet at/ g cop at Druker’s bedside waiting to} rN US = CHIN ee 989 Fox St., Bronx | take him to place a charge of homi- = PLA ENT 4 And because Druker sought to| cide against him should he live. sparé his wife any further suffering ‘This is only one of countless in- berune te . — by mercifully strangling her before he | 4.700. of the misery of the 10,000,000 - So oe ee eeviad cot "| orkers sentenced to starvation by the RE ADY TO FIGHT VOLUNTEERS WANTED Needle Workers Out | arrest in his hospital cot ORGAN LEAVES FOR TROPIC CRUISE PROTEST MURDER When neighbors smelled gas in the | damnable capitalist system. Work- : : HA | Early This Mornin rf building yesterday morning they | ers! Don't stand for it! Don't let| FG Lp sor Lenin Menoris), peseaDe He] Py Uy bie ae al traced ot to the Druker flat. Break-! them starve your families! Organize CHER 4 hearsais every Monday, Wednes- || AS JOBLESS STARVE AND Fe 7, NEW YORK.—All active members bid ing in, they found Mrs. Druker lying || day and Friday at 131 West 28th jof the Needle Trades Workers’ In- — A and fight! Join the hunger marches! } on the bathroom floor, face down- St., at 8 o'clock sharp. All com- dustrial Union are called to meet this |,, KANSAS CITY. — On January 13 Hebrew Trades In Big wards, Druker on the kitchen floor} Cpen the stores of the capitalists! é | i 7 i | : ‘ and the two twins in bed. | Defend your right to live! Sign Selling Rampage| rades willing to participate come | Hungry Negro Sailor Collapses on W ater Front; aT at 7:30 a: m. in the union i ipl ett ca) pi Aetedk ci on s s fo > © |} tonight | Nits a i ie lrpeyic sce | headquarters, 131 West 28th St. They | UY WOR Lalesain Thats. Suicides of Unemployed Grow; Bosses will go from there for active picket. |i Protest of the brutal murder of |John Donlan by the capitalist lackies who are responsible for the horrible {and unbearable conditions which exist in Kansas City's chain-gang; te which militant political workers are NEW YORK —Calling on the butcher workers to resist the hired | gangs of the United Hebrew Trades | to fight with the Food Workers’ In- | ing of struck chops. | Press Suppressing News CLEVELAND CITY “BIG SIX” SMASHES HAS METHODIST — NEW YORK.—Leaving the cold, 5, unemployed and in ill health from weather to the starving and poorly| malnutrition hanged himself in the OFFICIAL TRICK PROTECTS BOSSES | Tries to Worm Out of| Votes Down Scheme to Giving Relief Slip Over “Stagger” [FW dustrial Union for rea] gains for the workers and for the six-day week, the I. U. has issued a leaflet on the proposed “organization strike” of the Hebrew Butcher Workers, which clad unemployed workers, whose num- YONKERS JOBLESS | basement of his home. if says (CHURCH GONERED? bers continue to grow, with many of them collapsing daily on the bread Make State- lines and with others seeking relief | from their misery through siucide, J, | Methodists | «In Tacoma, Wash., Harry Derketch, | | 40, an ex-service man, spent his last | | 25 cents to operate a gas meter in his | room so he could commit suicide. MOBILIZE TODAY, | |Demonstration Jan. 10 railroaded on charges of vagraney or almost any charge that can be trum- ped up. John Donlan.died on January 6th | as a direct result of the mercilest CLEVELAND, ©., Jan. 9.—De-| NEW YORK.—By 984 votes against | %*! ae | ment on Revolutions mands for immediate relief made on} and 343 for, the members of Type: The Izy Letfs and the Sussmans, | the city covernment, ave impossible | sraphical Union Local 6 (“Big Six” who had themselves laterly re-elected, Pierpont Morgan, one of the biggest The Tacoma suicide story is sent ef the 59 rulers of America, has or-/| | Dail; ‘ker by 2 x-service- | ‘The Methodist Church has just is~- | dered his palatial yacht the ‘orsair” | oe San betes fhe Pissing aie | | treatment meted out to sixty-two year |old oOmrade by the rock-pile henche | men of Mayor Smith. He was arrest- Attacked; 2 Jailed ROM PAGE ONE) are now preparing another of their made ready for a pleasure cruise to (CONTINUED of fulfillment except: under a Com-| of New York) turned down a treach- munist government, members of the | erous tentative agreement for the in- unemployed delegation were very troduction of the stagger system, dis- famous organization strikes, wher’ they will be able to make a few dol- lars by taxing the members heavily, frankly informed yesterday by the | guised as a split shift, and still more city manager. The principal duty of | the city is to protect private proper- | ty, the holders of its bonds, and the gas, electric, water, and transporta- | tion companies to whom it has given franchises. Starving workers can not expect any help beyond a few odd jobs from the city government, | “I grant you that our form of gov- ernment has not shown great ability 3o avert crises and to come out of | them speedily. It is not a credit to our government to have falling prices | caused by the surfeit of goods on) the nation’s markets,” said city man- | ager Morgan to Benjamin, of the del- egation, and Morgan continued: “What you have brought before us! represents not so much a demand for | a certain type of relief-as it does an expression of the fundamenta} difference between the kind of gov- ernment we now have and the kind of government you people want for| the class you represent.” | All For The Bosses. and not giving any financial reports, as usual * “These fakers are not at all inter- | ested to better the conditions of the | workers. Leff and Sussman are stil! carrying around full pockets of in- disguised on the printed ballot. The tentative agreement had been made behind the backs of the mem- bers by a scale committee of 24, with the assistance not only of lacal presi- dent Rouse and his officia]s, but of the international president, Howard, junctions against the members of the who met with the bosses and the com- | militant Food Workers’ Industrial mittee. % | Union, and this. is what they need | ‘The local met yesterday afternoon, | Your money for. It's about time for with Rouse speaking for the publish- | the butcher workers to wake up and ers’ proposition, and recognizing as | put a stop to these damnable condi- speakers in the discussion mostly | tions. those he knew were in favor of the| The strike is directed primarily at | plot, like the members of the scale | shops where union conditions have al- | committee. ready been established by the F. W.| ‘ Looked Harmless. {I U. ‘The Hebrew Butcher Workers | ‘The ballots carried this description | of the U. ‘H. T. propose to take away of the proposition: | these conditions and give a sign and “Do you favor accejtance of the | an injunction instead. Workers vis- offer of the Journal of Commerce of | ited by the thugs of the reactionaries 61-2 hours, $71 per week for shiftc | should not be terrorized, but call up | that may be called in between the | the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, hours of 2:30 and 6 p. m.?” | downtown at Chelsea 2274 or in the In spite of Rouse’s tactics, the mem- | Bronx at Mott Haven 7014. bers realized that this is a split shift | To the butchers hitherto forced into plan, made without regard to the the United Hebrew Trades, the Food | the In reply to the demands of the| convenience of the workers, and| Workers’ Industrial Union calls: sued a statement which is a very ob- | icious attempt, on the one hand, to! check the growing disillution of the masses with religion and the church | as an open ally of the ruling class; and, on the other hand, to put itself | t the lead, in order to side-track into the Caribbean where he will get a close up of several American slave colonies. He has invited a party of ether parasites to accompany him. In the meantime, the misery of the masses is increasing by leaps and bounds. Yesterday Otwell Peterson, els” x in-| 2 colored jobless seaman, collapsed oe ee oe nena on the waterfront of starvation. He 3 is a native of St. Thomas, one of the sad wulforing from unemployment | Caribbean slave colonies which Mor- and starvation. | “IT am sending a little news item) | publish. “Even ex-servicemen must starve} | here in Tacoma. That is the reward | | they get for fighting for the bosses. “When the bosses want us to fight | for them the next time, we workers | must reach our sober sense and turn | | the guns against the bosses, that. is, | | to establish a workers’ and farmers’ | government. Comradely yours, | | —An Unemployed Worker.” ‘tthe: Btitement, which is full of |S Wil visit. (ip: arne! ine s ; In Chicago yesterday; pious well-wishing that poverty and) Pisin ED, yesterdavmiloban Hepp war be done eway with, is based on} tactics long practiced by the Guthotie and other religious secs, COP ADVISES STARVING of coupling the most reactionary ac- | tions with the most sympathetic MAN T0 STARVE LONGER phrases for “the downtrodden and | the poor.” For, we uN is ue | SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. 8.—The Church, what about the hundreds pie bosses of California are spendin; of ministers it supplies to the South- | pent editiie (nasi tine, ae 63 ern cotton mills, and that are paid | “*"" MBUTBOR, Pr: Mayer by the companies to preach the doc- | Rolph, but not one cent for the trine of love-your-bosses, and pie-in- | starving unemployed. the-sky? And there are many more) Almost every day in each big Cal- embarrassing questions which could | ifornia city they pick up men who} |be put that the gentlemen in black | haye dropped on the street from hun- frock coats would find it hard to} recently, told the cop he had noth- answer. ing to eat for six days, and very! 'T0 SPEED UP WAR "PREPARATIONS MIAMI, Jan. 9.—In what the local | boss press praises as “a ringing call,” | Rear-Admiral Moffett, chief of naval | aeronautics, called for the building of a huge navy “up to the limit allowed | further exposing’ the so-called disar- mament pact as in reality a war) by the London Navy Treaty,” thus| + from ‘Tacoma which I wish you would| go without food much longer the mayor is probably right, a lot of them will be dead. This $150,000 is being raised by tax- ing the already poorly paid workers. The Yonkers Electric Light and| Power Co. has raised $4,325.86 of it by such a tax and other Wig com- panies do the same. Many carpet | mill workers get from $6 to $8 per| week. Half the Yonkers workers are un- employed. The Yonkers Herald itself recently admitted that hundreds of children go around in the midst of winter without underwear. Yonkers jobless demand half the city budget of $15,000,000 for relief, and more from the reduction of Fog- arty and his officials to $2,500 a year. They demand $20 a week for each jobless worker and $25 for families. Hot Dog Jamboree of Red Builders News Club, 27 East | 4th St., Sunday, 3 p. m. ed and sent to the rock pile, for dis- tributing leaflets to the workers of Kansas City. A sincere revolutionary worker: he died with his boots on. Unemployed workers of Kaisas City you may be the next to go the rock pile on a charge of vagrancy! Show | your solidarity! NEW ORLEANS.—*Unemployment and cold weather have given New Orleans its biggest prison population in many years,” said Eugene Staley, district attorney. Thousands are out of work, and these homeless workers are looking for nightly shelter in the jails. Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET unemployed for a fund of $8,000,000 to give each jobless worker $15 a week if single and $25 if he had “Refuse to pay taxes which are be- There are also certain admissions | little before that. The policeman) ing forced upon you for fake st 5! vin the statement which shows from | jeered at him, and said, “If you stoofl | “Not a cent should be paid to these | What avarter the wind is blowing that | it six days without food, you ought| move on the part of the imperialists | to increase their armaments to the | Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to made by Rouse and gang without con- | sulting the membership. They voted | it down. ‘ 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET | ha- _ MONDAY— 2 dependents; “for legislation thar would prohibit 2victions by land- lords; for free service from gas, elec- tric light, water and transportation companies, the assistant city’ law director declared the city could not use its sinking fund for the purpose of relief, he said, because this fund was needed to retire bonds and “one of the first duties of the city coun- cil was to protect the holders of city bonds.” Granting free gas, electric water, and transportation could not be done because the city had to pro- tect those to whom it had given franchises in these utilities. Nor could the city pass a law against evictions. The first duty of the City Council was to protect private pro- perty and not starving workers. The city could refrain from send- ing police to help out in evictions, the jobless delegation pointed out to the Welfare Committee, The worn- ers themselves are prepared to fighy against evictions. fakers and injunctionists! “Workers, take things into yourown hands, over the heads of the mislead- ers! “Prepare to turn the fake strike into Now the publishers may carry out their previous threat to start open- shop. The typographical workers) must begin to take over control of | their union, form real fighting com- | sia. . . is proclaiming herself a cham- | Spring alright!” pion of the rights of those who toil,” | ger. The police are absolutely cynical while in India and China, there are to them. The man I saw picked up revolutionary ferments, which the | ruffled the sky-pilot’s hair. “Rus-|to be able to make it through to} limit in furtherance for their plans! to attack the Soviet Union, as ex-/ posed in the recent trial of the 8 wreckers in Moscow. “*T consider it our national duty,” The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department New York City 50 East 13th St. mittes of action and run their own | union. SAN ANTONIO WORKERS GREET TUUL PROGRAM SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Workers | in San Antonio, Texas, are very en-| thusiastic about the program of the ‘Trade Union Unity League. In the Negro neighborhood a per- manent headquarters has already been secured, where an open forum} will be conducted, a library opened) and study classes held. The hall will also be used as a headquarters for the unemployed The delegation took the position that the city council was always able to find means of complying with the needs and interests of the bosses, that they could always find means of protecting the interests of the bondholders, and therefore there was no reason why they could not wrack their brains to find a means for com- plying with the demands of the un- employed. Children Hungry. A Negro woman member of the delegation broke down and wept as she described how she had to send her children to school hungry, pro- mising them that she would try to have at least a potato for them when they returned. “I’m hungry,” an- other member of the delegation tola the Welfare Committee, “and my wife and kids are hungry. Now that I see how hopeless it is to expect any aid from yo", I am ‘etermined to go out and get food. I am going to organize the hungry women ana children of this town and wherever there is food, we will go out and take it!” Members of the welfare commit- tee sat anxious and strained through- Party Activities. . FSU. Stalin Brand and LUD. Elie May Wigwius Branch eture by Lem Harris on U.8.8.R. instruction at 7.30 at Manhatten im, 66 B. Fourth St, N, ¥, * ° council, which has outlined a plan of work for the future that will include hunger marches and demonstrations before the city hall and county build- ings. : ‘The first of a series of mass meet~ ings will be held on Jan. 15 at the new headquarters, Hubert Hall, 40442 Nebraska St. Speakers will be I. C. Craft, Etheb Craft, Negro workers; B. H. Cogdall and Alma Polkoff. All workers are invited to be present. out the whole meeting. They con- stantly begged the delegates to be calm. A great mass meeting 1s being ar- ranged here in which William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will be the main speaker. The meeting wil) be January 12, at 8 p.m., in Slovenian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair Ave. WOODS ALSO ADMITS CAUSE IS CAPITALISM Colonel Arthur Woods, head of President Hoover's Committee on “It is not the fault of the people who are out of work that they are out of work. If the derangement of an economic system, which they are not responsible for, puss them they a real strike!” FINE SPEECHES AND WAGE CUTS Program at De Garoy Underwear. Shop (By a Werker Correspondent) NEW YOr!.—I am a worker in a silk underwecr and neglegee house, De Garcy Undcrwear Company, 136 Madison Avenue. Our shop is ruled by a father and three sons. Our boss is a very liberal man. In his last speech he ss'i, “I have been very good to you” (meaning the coffee we get lunch time at a cent a cup). But he forgets to mention the 25 cents he takes off from pur pay every time.we forget to punch the time clock when we go home. It seems that he has the knack of speech-making. Every time he starts to cut wages or speed up his{ shop he comes up with a nice speech all made up. He always tells us that he keeps the shop running for our welfare and we must help turn out more work so that he will be able to keep the shop going. But the way we have already reached the 44-hour week and the 15 dollar a week. I suppose that is also for our welfare. Lately the old kiln is not seen around the shop often. His oldest son is taking over the speech-making. Just to prove that the son is just as liberal as his father a little while ago he gave us a beautiful speech ‘about the business depression and the crisis now at hand and subtracted $2.00 from our wages. Our manager has also learned the art of speech making. He is always dressed in a black suit like an under- taker and struts around the shop like a peacock. Talso want to mention that the pins that the girls get to pin the garments are of he cheapest quality. They are always rusty and the girls are always in danger of getting blood poison. Vhone: UNHIGH 6382 laternational Barker Shop M. W, SALA, Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New York | Methodist brothers hope against hope | will follow Gandhi's folded hands policy. The oppressed peoples are | rising up against white domination, | there is “the gathering wrath of mil- lions at poverty,” and other facts which the statement says, presage |future struggles. “Little as we enjoy the prospect, mankind must shortly | reckon with them.” JUST WAKING UP The American Civil Liberties Union announces that it is “preparing ma- terial for a campaign against labor | injunctions.” but it shows that it has | not the slightest notion of what the injunction is. The A-C.L.U. makes this redicu- |lous statement: “There is very little \material on the subject. Nobody |seems to know why injunctions are | so much feared and why their ef- | forts are so much more disastrous on strikes than troops or police?” | Get a 1931 Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or~re- newal. VAUDEVILLE THEATRES 81ST STREET—To Tuesday: Owen McGiveny; Tom Patricola with the Pearl Twins; Mills and Shea, and Sylvia Froos; Marilyn Miller, in “Sunny,” is the feature film. Wed- nesday to Friday: Dave Apollon with Danzi Goodell, and his International Orchestra; Danny Small and Harry Mays; Joe May and Dottie, and Homer Romaine. Screen: Bery Ly- tell, in the film version of “Brothers.” HIPPODROME—Sereen: “Mothers Cry,” with Dorothy Peterson, Helen Chandler and David Manners. Vaude- | ville: Larry Rich and Pests; Tyler | | Mason, Marcellus Dancers, Everest’s | Monkeyland Revue, Phil Rich and Company, Lloyd and Bryce, Eewing Eaton and Dack Shing’s Chinese Wonders. 86TH STREET—To Tuesday: Renie Riano and Company; Burns and Al- len; O'Donnell and Blair; Barsoni Cannon and Lee. Screen—Marilyn Miller in “Sunny.” Wednesday to Friday: Neville Fleeson and Sibylla Bowmand; Al B. White with Sam Morton and company, Lew Hearn and others. Call the Union. |——_______- | [AMUS EMENTS CHAIN STORES ON THE DECLINE, There were half as if 4 chain | stores opened in 1930 as in) 1929. Ap- proximately 1.549. chain store unites | were opened in this country last year, | \this 1s 50 per cent less than in the preceding year, according to a survey made by the Chain Store Research Bureau. ORGANIZE TO END SrABy ATION, __ DEMAN ) LE ‘ a emer neRRCTE NA BEGINNING TODAY! LEO TOLSTOY'S DRAMATIC NOVEL “THE LIVING CORPSE” With PUDOVKIN, DIRECTOR OF “STORM OVER ASIA,” IN THE LEADING ROLE PRODUCED BY MEJRABPOFILM OF MOSCOW TH STREET PLAYHOUSE 32 WEST STH ST., Between Fifth and Sixth Aves—Spring 5095 POPULAR PRICES—CONTINUOUS NOON TO MIDNIGHT Bway and Gos 46th Street Daily From 10:30 A. M. CHARLEY’S AUNT with CHARLES RUGGLES and JUNE COLLYER 42nd Street CAMEO 2.20; SOVIET EXPEDITION TO — declared Moffet, speaking for the U. S, imperialists, “to build up to the Patronize Cooperators! treaty strength allowed.” He also de- S E R r@) y manded a huge building program for the aerial forces. CHEMIST 657, Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. ¥. Tel. ORChard 3783 DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strletly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Jor. Eldridge St. NEW YORK 3y6uan JleveGunua DR. A. BROWN Dentist 301 FAST 14TH STREDT (Corner Second Avenue) ‘Tel, Algonquin 7248 | Scientific Examination of eye | glasses—Carefully adjusted by expert optometrists—Reascn- able prices. OPTICIANS E1609 W. 1819 ST. Cor. St Nichols be nN DEWEY 9914 DR. J. LEVIN | SURGEON DEN 4 1501 AVENUE U, Ave, U Sta., B.M.T. At East 1th 8t., BROOKLYN, N. Y. NUT SHOPPE 123 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE Tel, Raymond9—9340 DR. J. 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