The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1931, Page 1

"60 MEETINGS YESTERDAY RATIFY eon | cow, the etaicment by a leadiny Every Worker You Mee!, Every Worker at Every Mecting You Attend, Should be Ask- ed to Collect Signatures for Unempioyment In- surance Vol. VIII. No. 12 at New ¥ In the Jaws of the Tiger ¥F ANYONE thought that a bottom had been reached in Tammany cad- italist class brutality and hypocrisy toward the unemployed, tt take was revealed Monday, when the Tammany Judge Cotillo made a legal decision that unemployed workers are more able to bear evictior than the thieving landlord class are able to go without rent, and Mayor ‘Walker endorsed the ruling. It is particularly skunk-like on the part of Tammany Jimmy, because | he had officially promised that there would be no evictions of jobless wo ers unable to pay rent, and had promised that the city would pay the rent. In fact it was for this piece of demagogy that the police were in- structed to make a “census” of destitute families. But though it smells like a skunk, Tammany is remorseless as the Tiger. After pledging—during election—that the city would pay the rent of destitute jobless workers, upon police certification that such was neces- sary, “the City Chamberlain to make out the checks”—according to Walker's own declaration, Tammany evaded doing anything of the kind. Says Mr. Daly of the “Mayor's Committee”, as quoted in the N. Y. Times of January 12: “Mr. Daly explained that the city did not actually pay rent for the people it is helping. A certain limited amount of money is given to families in distress, he said, and they use it for the three necessities, food, clothing and shelter.” Mr. Daly is very bashful. He does not reveal just how “limited” the money is. which is given for three things he admits are “necessities”. Like the N. Y. Post, which has made the “discovery” that “men in the breadlines are eating from six to eight meals (sic!) a day”—Mr. Daly lias doubtless taken precautions that there is not “too much” of the three necessities. J Evidently, some destitute workers took Walker's demagogy serious- ly, and city marshalls were confronted with his words when they came with eviction notices from the Tammany capitalist courts, obtained by the Jandlord. And evidently Tammany—now that election was past — had to find a way out of the Mayor’s promise. a “test case” was brought before Tammany Judge Cotillo, who tuled that: “Here it is proposed to permit tenants to continue in possession, for a limited time though it may be, without payment. Well- in- tentioned and humane though the proposal may be, those who have made it have lost sight of the fact that it amounts to a shifting of a public responsibility upon a single class which is not financially able to bear it.” % So, to capitalist law, it is a “public responsibility’. Also, the land- lord class of capitalist robbers is “not financially able” to bear it. How, then, is the “public” to bear this responsibility? Tammany, through Mayor Walker and his “Committee”, answers that the destitute jobless workers must bear it by being evicted from) their homes into the bitter cold of winter! ‘The ridiculous subterfuge of the “Mayor’s Committee” in pretending that it is doing something hy appealing to landlords who have empty apartments, to let the evicted move in, is shown by the “generous” re- spénse—in this city of a million homes, “possibly thirty-five or forty”, pigeon. ‘Tenement House Commissioner Deegan! ‘ we 1; ‘The Mayor of New York promised that the. city:would pay your rent if you were jobless and destitute! Supreme Court Judge Sal- yatore Cotillo has ruled that giving you shelter is “a public responsibility”. Make the city shoulder this responsibility! Demand that Mayor Walker make good his promise! Tell the landlord to charge it to the Mayor! ¥ e e Mr. Doak and Augustin Marti Me. DOAK is a worthy successor of Mr. Davis as Secretary of the Labor Department, which administers—and indeed legislates and serves as arbitrary judge, jury and executioner—the Immigration Bureau. Mr. Doak’s first official statement was that immigratio& must be “tightened up” and as many aliens as possible deported. His first speech over the Fadio was a pean of praise for Hoover, because, said Doak, Hoover has That, workers, is a sn, tained high wages for American workers.” of Mr. Doak. “\*" But there is more. Mr. Doak’s Immigration Bureau refused to per- mit the entry into the United States of Augustin F. Marti, a few days ago, when the steamer Venezuela, of the Panama Mail Line, arrived at @San Pedro, California, from Central America. Though all the plotting Djamgeroffs and Russian monarchists are given refuge here, the door ‘was closed by Mr. Doak against Marti. " * Mr. Doak undoubtedly has a good imperialist reason for it. Marti {s a native of El Salvador, but he was secretary of Sandino in the leader- ship of the Nicaraguan Liberation Army fighting the armed invasion of Nicaragua by the U. S. Marines. Arrested in Mexico after being dis- charged by Sandino when the latter broke off relations with the anti- imperialist movement, Marti was deported to Salvador in April, 1930. But in El] Salvador also, the misery of the masses is expressing it- self in strike movements of the revolutionary unions and the growth of the Communist Party. Salvador, small, but one of the densest popu- lated of countries, is ruled by Yankee imperialism, and the government tried to suppress the workers’ movement by terror. But the masses, aided by Marti, then active in the Red Aid, responded by such. fierce protest that all prisoners were released, with exception of four who had led a strike of plantation workers and had been sentenced to long prison terms. Again on Nov. 27 the masses staged great demon- strations, in behalf of the militant unionists, Avila, Alfaro, Moran and Osorio. ‘The lackey government in fear of overthrowal arrested 100 workers, among them Marti. After a month of jail without even a hearing, Marti and a companion went on a hunger strike on Dec. 27. And although he was a native citizen of Salvador, the Salvadorian government forcibly de- ported him. Nicaragua refused to let him land, so did Mexico, and finally the Boss of these countries, the Washington government. At this writing, Marti is being returned to Salvador on the steamer Venezuela of the Panama Mail Line, due to land at Libertad, Salvador about January 24th, doubtless again to be jailed. American workers must raise their voice against this outrageou: barring from the United States Of Augustin Marti! They must deman’l as well the release from Sal- » vadorian prisons of the victims of reaction which is maded to order by Vall Street! ‘Workers! Rally to the Lenii-Memorial Meeting Jan. 21, at Madison Sq. Garden United States mobilize for strug- gle against war. The threat of the Fish commit- tee to outlaw the Communist Party the attacks on the foreign-born workers, the lynching campaign against the Negroes, dictate the unity of the workers against the plans of the capitalists. Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 8 p. m, at Madison Square Garden! Every fighting worker, at the Garden! Unemployed and em- ployed, Negro and White, native and foreign-born! Mobilize in the shops, unions and workers’ organi- “unemployment can be solved| zations! Give the answer once only by another war’, make it|more to Fish and thé capitalists necessary that the ‘Workers &% Medi <S Se eountry! New York will commemorate the anniversary of the death off Lenin in a gigantic mass meeting atMad- ison Square Garden on Wednes- day, January, 21. This memorial will also be for Liebknecht and memorial this year has a lal significance in view of the danger of actual prepara- for war against the Soviet Union. The trial of the leaders of the Indurtria! Party in Mos- justrialist of this country (hit Entered es «+ matter at the Post Oftice © the uct of March 3, 187 Kiangsi Communists Defeat MARY MORE | (Section of the Communis NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 15, 1931 Worker 4 ») internationaly Ns y OF frunist Party U.S.A. CITY EDITION WORKERS ‘HE WORED, UNITE! = ~ Price 3 Cents URANCE BILL N NEXT FEW DAYS LEAD 40,000 Anti-Red China Troops, T0 N. Y. HUNGER-MARCH, TUESDAY; Over 40,000 of the Nanking troops se Red Army general Lu Ti-ping, the Kiangsi gov- sent against the Chi: ernor, to submit his resignation.” At forces, backed by Japanese imperial- ism, and the Nanking government, | {to wipe out Communism” have either |the same time, Abend cables, “Two tool of Wall Street, is sharpened by ‘s sie other divisions in *Kiangsi much|the announcement that Chiang = jPeen surrounded and captured or) weakened by desertions, are reported |Hsueh-liang, former “governor” of have gone over to the side of the |New York Times correspondent in Shanghai in a ‘cable dated Jan. 13, Cne division of 12,000 men “which was the spearhead of the anti-Com- munist drive in Kiangsi, was sur- sounded and disarmed by Commun- ists in the mountanous region of the {southern province, This loss caused iCommunists, reports Hallett Abend, | |surrounded and in dire peril.” This virtual annihilation of the Manchuria will not go back to Muk- | den, his former capital, because the flower of Chiang Kai Shek’s anti- | anti-Nanking clique have seized pow- | Communist army has forced the Wall! er, rupturing the so-called agreement | | Street tool”to practically announce | between Chiang Hsueh-liang and the calling off of the campaign. To| Chiang Kai Shek. Other rifts be- break the news gently he says that | tween the militarists in other parts | the campaign against the reds which |of China are also reporter, showing | was supposed to have ended Feb. 1,|the increased rivalries of the impe- | will be extended to April 30. rialist powers in China and an end | ‘The clash between the Mukden|to the much heralded unity. STEUER ADMITS HE MADE MONEY IN BANK CRASH |making money out of bank crashes Revelations of grafting politicians |The Needle Trades Workers Indus- All Needle Workers Should Demonstrate Today! All needle trades workers must therefore support the dressmakers and rally to the coming dress strike for week-work, the 7-hour 5-day-week and other vital demands. NEW YORK. To all Dressmakers and all other Needle Trades Workers. trial Union calls on you to demon- jin New York and Detroit are coming | strate on Thursday, January 15, at | to light. Max D. Steuer, who is chosen | 12:00 o'clock, on 36th St. and 8th | by the Tammany fakers to “inves- _ Avenue, | tigate” the steal of $200,000,000 from | This will be a demonstration of jover 400,000 small depositors in the | gressmakers and all needle trades | | Bank of the United States crash, now workers to support the dress strike {admits that he made money on stock | preparations, bees elaartnty foreed hie aa mation |,,1¢ Will be a demonstration against from a fake committee of stockholders '%¢, Slave driving system of piece- °rS |work, Piece-work is the yoke of and depositors and proves the con- dress: tentions of the United Depositors pert: ol adeordceahte Mera eh Committee, lecaere Gut teateenien ygratters, Sutter from piece-work, |The cloak- 2 Y erafters, makers’ conditions are sinking lower |responsible for a great deal of the | and lower, and the Schlesinger-Du- wholesal | Steer forward fo fool the worker, /DnsKY Company Union gang is work- ‘no ne hand in hand wit hthe bosses On Friday, Jan. 8, another meeting of depositors in the Detroit Merchant | © Chain all cloakmakers ‘to plece~ ‘k. The Chicago cloakmakers were and Mechanics Bank, which crashed ee ! * betrayed to the bosses and the same some time ago, was held. Four bran- ches of this bank was run by Polish | Petrayal js planned for the New York |politicians in Hamtramck. ‘The small depositors present passed | _The bosses openly boast of the help | resolution condemning the action of Siven them by the Hillman machine the receiver and demanding from the | to force on the men’s clothing work- ers and oliticians are:sending sluggers | der the heel of piece-work. All work- to these meetings to terrorize the ers are driven like machines by piece- Dressmakers! Demonstrate today, at 12 noon on 36 St. and 8th Ave. All needle trades workers, out on the street in masses! Show your power and determination! Dressmakers from open shops and 2.500 MARCH ON Workers, Unemployed, Enlorsing Delegates CANTONCITY HALL — t Washington Capture Restaurant; Police Use Gas CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 14.—Canton | Steel workers, out of worker, and hun- | dyeds of other jobless, reinforced by the swarms of part time workers, mobilized at the court house here Monday at 7 p. m. und marched on the city hall. The demonstration in reported “300.” The delegation went in and pre- sented the demands for immediate relief, no evictions, no foreclosures on jobless workers’ homes, etc., and for the use of the city auditorium. The city council was badly upset: It granted the use of the auditorium (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘Harlem Meets Tonight At St. Luke’s Hall; 8 Harlem Outdoor Meets NEW YORK.—More than sixty out- door meetings were held in all sec- tions of the city yesterday at which the workers present voted for the Unemployment Insurance Bill and| ence to go to Washington to present |the workers’ Unemployment Insur- | ance Bill. The drive for signatures on the special days set aside for a house to house canvas on Jan, 17-18- | YONKERS JOBLESS TO MAKE DEMANDS YONKERS HUNGER MARCH TODAY! Van Veen, Engdahl to Speak at City Hall YONKERS, N. Y., Jan, 14.—To« morrow night in Y rs at 7:30 p, m. workers will hunger march to City Hall where a delegation of employed and unemployed will present thei demands to the Board of Aldermen. Last week a demonstration of un front of the city hall was 2,000 to| ratified the delegates elected at the employed workers was broken up by 3,000 strong, although the local press | January 12 Unemployment Confer- the police in Yonkers and on Mon- day evening workers were prevented from holding an indoor meeting by a brutal attack on them by police, @angsters and fascist. Workers must turn out in large 19 was especially emphazised at these ;numbers to fight for their demands meetings, as well as the monster in- for immediate unemployment insur- door meetings to be held on Jan. 16.|ance relief. Comrades Engdahl, nat- Open air meetings will be held to- ional secretary of the LL.D. and day and tomorrow. On the 16th the |Sadie Van Veen, will address the indoor mass meetings will be held | workers gathered at the City Hall in the following places: |while the delegation is presenting their demands to the Board of Al- | U. S. bankruptcy court that the small rs piece-work and starvation wages. | | depositors be aid in full. The bank-| All needle trades workers are un- | company-union shops, prepare your shops for the strike. Come to the Dress Shop Conference Today at 7:00 | jo’clock at Webster Hall! | APPEALS FOR WORKERS CENTER | ; tions, unions, etc., and of workers | “ ogc ag hg | Ont ibare ra well a unemployed p Farty Wor workers from the Unemployed Coun- leils and the breadiines will be held NEWARK, PATER- SON CONFERENCES to Newark Delegates NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14—A United visits the New York Workers Center Hall, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at 35 East 12th St., as well as every | With Sam Nessin as speaker and in student of the workers school is con- Paterson at 205 Paterson St. on Fri- |vinced of the urgent need to bring day 16, at 7:30 p.m, with Frank | this institution which houses all the |Smith as speaker. revolutionary departments of our Nesin Reports Sunday Front Conference of workers’ organi-} Hoffman’s Mansion, NEW YORK.—Every worker who in Newark at 52 West St., Slovak | workers, | work, (By a Worker LITTLE ROCK, Ark—In Little Rock and North Little Rock there are 105,000 people. 12,000 of these are today unemployed. Two-thirds have been unemployed for a year. 35 per cent have families to support. All unemployed who live here are Amer- jicans, Little is being done by the capi- |talsit authorities to help the unem- ployed. $20,000 was appropriated by Little Rock to assist 300 workers’ jfamilies through “stagger” systems. “Welfare” bureaus and ment” bureaus make only gestures to jhelp the workers. They are entirely |inadequate and @each only a small “Employ- | Jail Farmers for “Getting Food on False Pretences” Correspondent) }@ council and affiliate same with the | National Unemployed Councils. This |wili give definite, organized direction |to the demands of the unemployed. The workers and poor farmers here will unite in an effort to get food | supplies for the families and milk for |their babies. The situation is tense. As one expected some of the leaders of the uprising of the farmers in |England, Arkansas, were arrested, the |fake charge being, “obtaining food under false pretenses.” How well the Red Cross and other jcapitalists love the farmers is shown by the fact that each “worthy” fam- ily will be allowed only $3.or $2 for movement into proper shape. | The Workers School in the last | season suffered to @ great extent be- | rooms. The Central Committee of | |the Communist Party which was sup- | posed to move into the building 3/| months ago is still in its old quar- | ters paying a high rent on account | of lack of funds to fix up proper | offices for them, Many workers sacrificed weeks and to the fact that the material which was necessary could not be secured on credit. The Central Committee decided to | have an emergency drive to help to| coniplete the Workers Center, in spite | of the Daily Worker drive. At the banquet on Sunday evening, many delegates have pledged in the name of their organizations to help in this drive. We urge all the or worked in the building for very little | | pay and their work was delayed due | |! T.U.U.L, SPEAKERS All T.U.U.L. speakers must report at 16 West 2ist Street, at 9.30 a.m. jeause they could not accommodate| today. Very important. {the students with the proper school | |“Let the Hungry Learn to Eat Hay”) | |ployed Council; Alexanderson, of the | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., speakers: Foster, Johnstone and New- ton. . Bryant Hall, 42 St. and 6th Ave., speakers: Foster, Nessin and Leales. | | Ambassador Hall, Third Ave, and 179 Street., speakers: Foster, Nessin and Moore. | Jewish Workers Center, 795 Flush- ing Ave., speakers: Ballam, Flaiani and Harper. 142 Watkins | St. and Pitman Ave., speakers: Wood- ward, Stachel, or Wagengnecht and Wiseman. | Meeting in Harlem. | Tonight at 8 o'clock an indoor meeting will be held in Harlem at} St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130 St.,! speakers: Amter, Stone and Alex- ander. | At these meetings the Workers Un- | employment Insurance Bill will be | voted on, and the delegates elected at the January 12 Conference will be | ratified. | These workers elected by 700 dele- gates representing employed and un- | employed workers at the New York ment Insurance Conference | January 12 are: Louis Hyman, of the | |Needle Trades Worker’s Industrial | |Union; Sam Nessin, of the Unem- Independent Shoe Workers Union; } |M. Stone, of the Unemployed Coun- | jeil; an unemplyoed Postal worker; | | Rader, of the I.W.O., Maude White, |a Negro woman worker of the Needle | Trades Union; Horowitz, of Local 2717 | Carpenters; Warfield, Negro Worker | of the Unemployed Council; Lealess | of Downtown Unemployed Council; (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) U.S. Is Ready for War, | |per cent of the unemployed. Workers \food once every two weeks! jare glven $1 a week to live on. This; One farmer remarked that it will is an insult. be necessary it seems to have another | The workers are restless and in no|Mmarch on the grocery stores. The mood to consider nonsensical pro- | United Farmers League has been and posals for relieving the situation. |{s active in Arkansas, Some real, immediate action is and| Mass demonstrations are now being will be demanded. organized by the workers and poor A move is now on foot to start at |farmers to force the capitalists to once to organize the unemployed into | supply food. . Condition for SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY F A comrade, enclosing a contribution to the $30,000 Emergency Fund Campaign, writes: “We will continue this drive until more of the sec- tions have gone over the top. We haye not becn working in a manner to put over the 5-year plan in four. It seems we cannot do a 2 months job in 60 days. We must take 160 days.” Comrades, the situation {fs serious. As this appeal fs written at- tempts are being made to find money to meet a bill for several hundred dollars which has been put in the hands of a marshall for collection; and which must be paid by morning. As badly as the Daily Worker needs funds, the greater part of the money raised at the Seventh An- niversary Celebrations is still outstanding. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO COLLECT MONEY. IT MUST BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THIS PAPER. Funds do no good uniil they are put to use. Bills must be paid. Equipment must be put in order. THE $30,000 iS MUST BE RAISED, 200 rome he paar AS alta yt ag IT ARTRCS /pay, Emergency Fund Lag Creates Serious ganizations to fulfill the pledge of/ their delegates and support the 8- | day drive. The bazaar which opened up on Monday, will last four more days. A| Says Hutrle WASHINGTON, pervision of the Food Workers In- | pared and have been actually engaged dustrial Union whose workers are| in getting ready for war to a greater giving their time and work without | extent than {ji 1917, just before the United States entered the Daily Worker UNDS MUST BE TURNEL ... The Daily Worker is fighting the worker's fight. While capitalist Papers note with ecstacy that a few scattered workers have been put on the job here and there, this workingclass organ reveals the increasing depression and helps workers to fight for bettered conditions instead of accepting “charity” and “hope”. But the fight cannot be carried on without funds. The Daily Worker must buy paper and ink, must pay postage. EVERY DAY’S MAIL SHOWS _A WIDER INFLUENCE FOR THE DAILY WORKER AMONG THE ~ WORKING MASSES. THIS MEANS THAT EVERY DAY’S PAPER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE. It means too greater difficulties in distribution which can only be met if the Emergency Fund receives the widest mass support. i All who have funds belonging to the Daily Worker must turn them in immediately. Use the Red Shock Troops Coupon on page 3. Take a donation list among your worker friends. ~ Send all money te the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, 7 - eee Sa Jan. 14. — That) lunch counter is open under the su- | the American bosses are better pre-| World| y of War Dep’t War, is the admission made by Sec- retary of War Hurley, commenting on the publication of the War Me- moirs of Gen. Pershing. “For ten years selected officers have been studying the situations under which our national security | might be jeopardized and have de- termined the kinds and amounts of supplies needed in such emergen- ” said Hurley. “For years we have been search- ing out and listing factories suit- able for the production of guns, airplanes and the many other items on our list. We know just where these factories are located and what they are capable of producing.” He goes on to say that “we must go beyond the mere assignment of wartime production tasks”, that raw materials must be supplied and everything made ready for war. In view of the sharpening rivalries for world markets, raw materials, and re-division of colonies, Hurley's state- ment is especially important to the workers whom the bosses want to plunge into a war either against other imperialist powers or against the Soviet Union, Hurley and the bosses get nearly @ billion a year for these war prep- dermen, CONFER ON DRESS STRIKE TONIGHT Many.Meets Prepare for Great Struggle NEW YORK.—Today at 7 pm. in Websetr Hall the last dress shop con ference before the great dress strike will be held. It is an exceedingly important session, at which the dele- gates will provide for the election of the strike committees and will work out the plans for the final stages of the dress strike preparations. The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union held two preparatory meetings in the open air yes Large masses of dressmakers gathered at 36 St. and Eighth Ave. and at 26 St. and Seventh Ave., and pledged to support the strike. A vastly larger mass demonstration of all needle workers will be held today at noom at 36 St. and Eighth Ave. Cloakmakers Will Aid. Cloakmakers who packed Bryané Hall to capacity yesterday also pledged full support to the dress strike. Men's clothing workers met and of fered their support, in Manhattaxy Lyceum yesterday. Today at 7:30 pm. the Industria Union calls a meeting of all Brooke lyn knit goods workers at the new headquarters, 795 Flushing Ave. Today at 10 a.m. there will bé & meeting of all unemployed active workers from all sections of the une ion, to prepare the noonday demony meeting will be af stration. The 10 am. BOSTON JOBLESS . MAKE DEMANDS There are 80,000 unemployed it Boston, In an open letter to Mayor Curley and the city council, sent bx N PAGE THREEY Editorial Staff Reports to Readers ‘What should be done to improve the Daily Worker and establish closer contact with the readers, in the shops, mines, factories and mills? Every reader of the Daily Worker is invited to attend a meeting called by the editorial staff to discuss this question. This mass editorial meeting will be held on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 6.30 p. m., Workers Center, second floor, Particularly, all working class organizations should send repre- sentatives, There will be a report om ‘ic»problems of the Daily Worker by A. Landy, for the edi- torial staff. Then the floor will arations while 10,000,000 unemployed workers starve. Demand all the war funds be turned over to the unem- ployed in the form of unemployed in- surance, © ris — be thrown open to discussion. Every reader of the Daily Worker who has suggestions to make is welcomed, \ |