The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1931, Page 5

ee ee ee ee eee Sa ee ee ee ear arecacaraas” L FeSaSrhsS SETRS iekek ABoaIS we OS ok * ist Party. * Builders “years old, living at 36th St. and ‘Ith | Deteoit Decreases Gray 500 Daily; Comrades Have Failed to Build Stead y Ci Circulation From Sarah Victor, Daily Worker ‘epresentative in Detroit, we receive vis. Pods ing you to cut bundle from 509 to one thousand. We cannot sell balance of papers.” rhe quota for Detroit was 1,400 in thsi tions, 1,800 in bundles, totall- | ng 3,200, At the start of the @ ‘ve Dy ‘s circulation was 2,280. The present circulation previous it was 3,395, showing an increase g the campaign of 1,115. one time we received a wire cvease the order by 1,000, “de- tailed letter to follow.” This de- tail etter turned out to be an in- crease of 714 instead of a thousand. Lat detroit wired us of a plan to gen an “increase of two thousand daily readers by January 1, With a gain of 1,115, reduced by} ous “increase” wires are 615 during the whole campaign. Detroit is one of the biggest and must vital territories in the Commun- Yet it is one of the few) ities where there is no Red | News Club. Everything | proves that the Daily Worker can be | sold if there is any determination to | organize its sale. The workers merely big need to know there is such a paper. | |6th because I changed my address | ture government. Detroit must learn how to build cir- culation in a slow steady process. I, AMTER AT N. ¥. SAMBOREE SUNDAY Members of the New York Red Builders News Club are in for a real treat, I. Amiter, district organ- Izer of the Communist Party, will speak on the value of Red Builders in putting the “Daily” into the hands of the workers, and in gain- | ing new fighters for the revolution- | ary movement at the Jamboree, | Sunday afternoon, at 3 p.m. 35 E. 12th Street. If there is time, per- haps he will tell a little about cap- | italist jails where he spent six months as one of the leaders of the March 6 Unemployment demon- | tration. | The Red Builders are spreading out. One New York comrade is invading Yonkers, starting off with 100 copies daily. Good luck! The Red Builders News Club in- yites all unemployed workers who | want to sell the Daily Worker to @me to the Jamboree, and learn more | about-how it’s done, Incidentally, attractive membership cards for the | Red Builders will soon be ready. We | expect a real scramble for them. “WILL SELL DAILY IN SPITE OF HELL” “We had called @ mass meetings,” writes J.B.W. of Flint, Mich., “which the police broke up, breaking into workers’ homes with riot guns. We had two young workers selling the ‘Daily’ in front of the shop gates. ‘They had one of the newshoys ar- rested and tried to connect him with a bank robbery, but released him. | “The bosses cannot scare us, We will come back stronger and sell the “Daily” in spite of hell, One girl bas’ 14 weekly subs in carrier route, and expects more in a few days.” “T am sending you today eight dol- Jars, $3 for six months subscription and $5 for the Daily Worker Relief | Fund. I got your letter and see you | need money to help on the work. I} am out of work, but all will help.” ~ Lawrence Rayl, East Liverpool, O. UNEMPLOYED, SENDS $5 FOR DAILY’ From N.G.K. of Manchester, N. we received the following: “Although I am unemployed, ’d rather go hungry than without the Daily. Enclosed you will find a H., The Darey Wore INTERESTS The OUNG, PLoNeER of WiTe UTS : Pictures CE Wi, nN) 7 \ ad Rep Kn mag hex 500, the net results of these ostentati- | (AN check of $5, of which $3 are for é months sub to the Daily and the “Other $2 for the Emergency Fund.” “CAN'T SLEEP ‘Goop WITHOUT DAILY.” “I have not got my paper since the |back to this home,” writes J. K,, |N-M.H., Kansas. “Send it along to jme, as I can't sleep good without it | of the | regular.” FARMER ANSWERS | FISH COMMITTEE “Here is my answer to the blood- suckers, the poor Fish Committee. Renew my subscription to the Daily _ Worker. Enclosed find checks. Each check represents a five gallon can of cream. The farmers are get- ting it in the neck also, along with the factory workers. It takes some- thing like this to wake them up.” ——W.ILF. Hadley, Pa, NEVER SAW DAILY; GIVES ONE DOLLAR “I enclose $1.00 for sub to go to a worker who never saw the Daily Worker,” writes O. Rose, Jamaica, | N.Y,, “but reading mine he at once gave me the dollar.” 50 MORE DAILY FOR TRENTON, N. J. M. Silver, Daily Worker represent- ative of District 3, writes: “Please increase the bundle for Trenton, N. J., with 50 additional copies.” | SHORT CROPS, BUT RED FARMER WANTS DAILY From J.B.W., Wolf Point, Mont we received a year’s renewal and $i donation, with the following note: “We farmers were mighty hard hit last year. Short crops and poor prices, Am 6 months back in Party dues. Have carried a paid up red | card for over 33 years. | “CANNOT STAY ONE DAY | WITHOUT DAILY WORKER” “I am sorry I cannot renew my vearly subscription because as « part ‘ime worker (2 days a week) I can- uot afford it,” writes A. Sereika of Rochester, N. Y., “but I cannot stay one day without the Daily Worker, | so I am enclosing a check for $2.50 for 5 months subscription.” ON SCRAP HEAP AT 63, WANTS TO KEEP DAILY “I want to thank those responsible | for sending the paper all these | months after my subscription had ex-! pired,” writes Alvin Slover of Olym- pia, Wash. “I am now on the scrap heap at 63 but as long as I am able to breathe I want to keep the Daily | Worker coming to me, Enclosed is | $5.00 which just about pays up ar- rears on my subscription.” Jobless and Hungry Young Worker Falls | Before Restaurant. NEW YORK.—Harry J. Bush, 22 Avenue, collapsed from starvation late last night in front of a restau- rant at Forty-elght Street and Ninth “Avenue. After being treated by an ambulance surgeon from Flower Hospital he was taken to Bellevue for treatment. He said that he has been out of work for months, and that he had not eaten for several days, Save “Daily Worker” Rush Contributions GREETINGS FROM CHICAGO Dist. Dally Worker Office 1413 W. 18th Chicago, Hl. Phone: Roo. 4929 Greetings 7th Ai North West Side Jewish Work- ers Cluk . sereeseceesenee $8.00 West Side Jewish Workers Club 2.00 Womens Council . Jan, 14, 1931 CENIN MEMBER DRIVE IN OHIO January 21 CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 15.—A Lenin | recruitment campaign for the Com- munist Party will be launched in Cleveland in conjunction with the Leniin-Liebknecht memorial demon- stration on Wednesday, January 21, ‘The memorial for the two great work- ing class champions will take the form of @ mass meeting and con- cert at the Slavonian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair Avenue, at 8 p. m. Karl Liebknecht’s uncompromising struggle against the imperialist world war and Lenin's outstanding leader- ship of the Russian Revolution will be ly remembered by Cleveland in this mass demonstrations against the new imperialist war which the capitalist powers are now plotting and for the defense of the Soviet Union. All those who would carry on the working class struggle to which these two devoted their lives will be asked to join the Communist Party, the American section of the world party, the Communist Inter- national, which Lenin helped to found. Speakers at the memorial meeting will be Herbert Benjamin, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, R. Shonan of the Young Communist League, and George Flick, who will be in the chair. The Freiheit Sing- ing Society, the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra and the Lithuanian Sing- vy ALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, J: ANUARY 17, 1 INTERNATIONAL Fa PW Ss. GEN. VON SEEKT FAVORS ASCIST GERMAN REGIME Socialists Try to Be- little Move BERL — The “Deutsche All- gemeine Zeitung” (People’s organ) has organized an inqu |among various prominent persons in German political life, asking them whether they think a participation of the fe in the German gov- ernment is desirable. So far four persons have answered, General von | Seeckt, Professor Schuessler, Hyal mar Schacht, the former director of the German State Bank, and the old Prussian Junker, Oldenburg- Yanuschau. Seeckt answers with an “unre- served He thinks that the essence of the Hitler movement |should be made a part of the fu- Such a govern- |ment should be like a steel-shod |wedge driven forward by the will people against the wall of difficulties and outside That this means a dic- , is received with a shrug s shoulders and the re- it you can not make ome- thout breaking eggs. He ants social democratic co-op- eration in order to free the work ing class from “Russian bolshevis poison.” Professor Schuessler thinks that the time has not yet arrived for the participation of the fa in the government and expresses the opin- |ion that the fascist economic pro- {gram can not be carried out. He thinks that the Hitler movement must first of all become still much stronger in order to carry out a real | cleansing of German public life. The | doubtful professor also fears that if |the Hitler movement fails the mass- jes would drive toward Bolshevism. | Hyalniar Schacht expresses the | opinion that it is impossible to rule Germany against the powerful fas- movement, just as it is impos- ble to rule against the social demo- crats. The implication that -the fascists and social fascists should cooperate. Oldenburg-Yanuschau declares. it is his opinon the fascists have an a>solute right to a share in the gov- ernment. Today's social democratic “Vor- waerts” tries to treat the whole in- airy as a joke, but the Rote Fahne points out that the imitation humor of the social democrats is uncalled ,for. They alone were responsible | for the fact that General von Seeckt | could play a political role in Ger- many. It was the social democrat Ebert who made von Seeckt mili- tary dictator of Germany and pre- pared the way for the coming fas- cist dictatorship. The pri sion carried on by right wing capi. | talist circles is not merely for the amusement of its readers, as the “Vorwaerts” pretends to suppose,! econom but in order to prepare the way idee | ologically for the Hitler dictator- | ship. | Get a 1931 Dally Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- » newal. BRIEFS), FROM ALL LANDS] A. — The largest indus- trial firm in Austria, employing 10,000 workers, the Alpine-Montan Company, is about to carry out a |wage cut. Wage agreements end soon. The company has already given notice to th: unions that it will cut wages. * * BUDA-PESTH. ers, se — Three work- ers of the Com- munist Party in Oroshaza, Hungary, were arrested, SHANGHAI. The much her- alded military drive organized by Chiang Kai Shek against the Com- munist troops and insurrectionary peasants in the Yantze district h: come to a standstill. After a few unimportant preliminary successes at great cost, the drive came to a stop and broke down under the des- perate resistance of the revolution- ary troops. Chiang Kai Shek aban- doned the leadership of the expedi- tion, which he had hoped would be a triumphant march, and returned to Nanking. . . * MOSCOW. — The last of the 3,900 tractors allotted to the Red Putlov tractor department in Leningrad ft th e factory completed. workers demons ted amidst scenes great enthusiasm. * * HELSINGFORS. — Fascist Fin- nd is in the throes of a severe The economic is. All branches of industry are affected and unem- ployment is increasing. The total number of jobless is over 100,000. ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND| RELIEF! RED ARMY HITS NANKING TROOPS Merchants Fear Drive | of Workers-Peasants Sharp fighting between Communist | ‘oops and the retreating Chiang Kai | Shek anti-communist expedition is ‘eported in various parts of Clfina, according to a cable dispatch from | Shanghai to capitalist papers in New | York. Previous reports told of the | capture of one Nationalist division | ith 12,000 soldiers and the desertion a destruction of two other divisions. rchants in Changsha, fearing another invasion and capture of that | city have appealed to the nationalist | sovernment “for an extention of the | Anti-Red Campaign in that province | saything thus far the troops have ccomplised little.” This is putting | it mildly. The fact is that this ex- | peditionary force is being badly beat- en. Their route has been so drastic that Chiang Kai Shek has extended the date of operations from the time | he had announced all the Red troops | would have been crushed. Bombing | planes are being sent from Nanchang to bolster up the retreating Manotel: ist troops. CELEBRATE 2 ANNIVERSARY 19 fe REY UI s Ten Years e fad trification am 0! 7 of MOSCOW. — A public plenary session of the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party of the viet Union took place on the ty-fifth anniv y of the Me insurrection in 1905 and on the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the electrification plan. The Moscow oviet, the Moscow Council of Le bor Unions and the Moscow Cow mittee of the Young Communist Li ere a present. Yaroslavski described tion in Mo: v in 1905 nd stressed its tremendous impor- tance; also quoting Lenin’s v according to n there could h: been no victorious insurrection in 1917 without the dress rehearsa historian, Comr that the ection opened up the e of the ;rolet She second st volution and th rd stage w ne famous Pokrovski, declared co winsw great s lution. 1917 The ian r was the civil war the present struggle for the building forth cialism. The would be } Comrade Litv socis f the insurrectionary workers in aya Presnya, described the heroic fight of the workers of the “Trechgorny” textile barricades. A report on the socialist achievem Trechgorny works and it | posed to grant the order | Banner to the works co! Comrade Kashishanovski then re- ported on the ele ation plan. He described the great significance ¢ Lenin’s electri m plan and the struggle pur up st it by the Lenin’s great plan i ed out, and by 1933 a ne jof electric light and power woul, be spread over the whole count with a total capacity of eight mi jlion kilowatts, so that the Soviet | Union would then be second only to the United § es. The representative of the Youn | Communist League, Comrade Ko: | sarev, then spoke and declared t the League had taken over the pa ronage of the electri tion of the country. He was followed by the |representative of the workers en- gaged on the Dnyeprostrol and the other large power stations, who de- scribed the great achievements of | the workers. In March 193 | prostroi would begin supply | dustry with electric power. | speakers followed, and the r adopted a manifesto to the workers of Moscow and the Moscow district. Other Get a 193! Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- newal. Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City 931 VAp OTN CAN AWN rile UNG SUUIN | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance I AVG KONO Tuy ie Workers Unemployment fisurance fill ba AGN YY UE § 1,—Unemployment insurance at ‘the rate of $ NARS TON ey Ur | anemployed worker and $5 additional for each dey U. S. Snends Billi : 2.—The creation of a National Unemploy 6D. OPENCS HUNON IN | oe raised by: all war funds for unemr One Year (b) # levy on all capital and property in excess of § en alli es of 35,000 a ye (CONTINUED BROAD PAGE ONE) 3.—That the Unemployment Insurance fund thus created shall * the | be administered by a Workers’ Commission elected solely by employed ° and unemployed wor! } uid a All who sign the lists now being circulated by the Workers Na- } 1c tional Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance or its sub- | us sidiary organizations, d that congress shall pass the bill, in its | . final form as (possibly) amended by the mass meetings which ratify | nd have it and elect the s delegation to present it to congress, or as H nounts of | sibly) amended by mass d on itself. The final form « j enc bill will foliow the general line of the three points printed ab ed States ir better pre- All workers are called upon to collect signatures for this - bi Get the co-oper all wo! the sig { nature drive. All nizations should 1 the collection of ign Commiitee for Un York City, for signature blanks. NCD Y TUS CATR? aU TELLS GISTER MAYOR YEN, “RE RD, CON Z Veet at Youth Cente na" LP] coll on Januai 0 , -list for 55 empk Insur CHICAGO ¢ J ‘ c it the | workers in the j vi held hi E aR - and at i without succ were d to release ; 1 has Oacenatis 1 ) evie- S r No jobs are to be had any- meeting these prob’ be turned| 2re suffering the worst k cussed Sateicioit » form of | iminetion when th: will be zed. S0 h the iven out at all mus ut t Ren - When a crowd of wo Rotered 1 ' » mayor's office last week and d aban os he: ; anded relie: Bs | to “register : istered but h he tole There are 1931 CALEND AR Paid in advane Pay months more n for six and get a 1931 Catendar Eee! DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Not conn dd with other office DR. J. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST near |] 1501 AVENUE U, Ave, 0 Stay BAL, [AC Bast 13th St, BHOOKLYS, S. ¥, iroyed prop- Algonquin 858 any of British im-! 7 : Goop MUSK ‘ SURPRISE DANCING | Id governn ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE in the reg- o nodern devise Sunday Evening, January 18, at 7 p. m. of destruction, the latest stories of 27 EAST 4th STREET peasants are worn: he Proletarian Evening and Help Build the DAILY WORKER ts and they have dispatched An Jt! Absertfses will regret’ Arrntiged: by Section 1 Unit 46 | red train to the scene of the | eee Instead of having | TEA AND PANC AKE PARTY | he peasants are inc Brownsville Workers Club erces and their fight agai 118 BRISTOL STREET Monvand ale nefit of the DAILY WORKER i SATURDAY } NIGHT, JANUARY 17, 1931 CAMP AND HOTEL sare: Wen Certoonist Dat f pas ADMISSION 25. CENTS An ATCT | cee me mp RS EER I OT ER (oo ear neem Ae a cence A AR NE A ARAN VACATION PLACE ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE TRE ENTIRE YEA 7 Beautiful Rooms Heated Saturday Evening, Janyary 17, 8 p. m. Modernly Equiped MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 EAST 4th STREET Sport and Cultural Activity ADMISSION 25 CENTS—REPRESHL NTS, DANCING, MUSIC, DTI For Emergency Drive of the DAILY W KER—Arranged by Unit 4, 8 Proletarian Atmosphere | 317, 4 WEEK || CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N.¥. | PHONE 731 Don’t Miss it! Annual Concert and Ball Hoboken Mayor, Ally of Morgan Corporation, Owns Disorderly Houses and Gambling Dens (This is the 17th of a series of articles on A.W, of L. and political | corruption in New Jersey.) | eg Saas By ALLEN JOHNSON. seaport which’ lies paralyzed under the shock of the current economic crisis, In a total population of 75,000, from 7,000 to 10,000 workers continue the weary hunt for the jobs that don’t exist. Hoboken, he knows it. His starvation isn't even broken. by the soggy. bread and soupy water distributed by the holy-ghost charity breadlines in New York. The arrogance of the capitalists who own the state is reflected in the politicians they have installed in Ho- boken’s City Hall. There is no Al Smith here in Hoboken who “fights for the people” while he is a partner of Morgan and DuPont and Raskob, nor is there even a Mayor Murphy of Detroit to promise food to the star- ving and then club them when they ask for it, Mayor Barney McFeely scarcely knows that there is a de- pression in the United States, and if you told him that 10,000,000 workers were unemployed and several millions of them, with their wives and chil- dren, were starving, he would stare at you dumbly and blink, Has 11 Bank Accounts, Part of this dumbness is due to the fact that the mayor has never learned to read, but the greater part of it is due to his preoccupation with his eleven bank accounts, several of the largest of which are a result of McFeeley’s connection with the Pub- lic Service of N, J., a Morgan cor- 7 erlne 5.00 J. Fedor . 1.00 A. Orloff ..seceene 5.00 ' Total i $87.18 ing Society will be featured on the musical pyogram, j poration. The remaining bank ac- counts are the profits that the hard- | Adjoining Jersey City on the north! Cleve. Mass Meet For' is the square-mile city of Hoboken, a working McFeeley has collected from the manifold criminal activities in the city. Hoboken, like its neighbor, Jersey " City, has become a center for book- ies, gambling dens and drug ped- diers. Vihite slavery, from which Jersey City was fairly free until a year or two ago, is rampant in Ho- boken. Mayor McFeely has admit- ted to his friends that he owns sev- eral brothels, and if he is one up on | his ally Hague, in this respect, those When a worker is out of a job in) who should know say that brothels are coming back into Jersey City on a wide scale. And if they are, it can be depended on that Hague is profiting on them handsomely. Owns Gambling Houses, Too, Hoboken is honeycombed with book~- ies’ wirehouses. McFeely is “finan- cially interested” in several of them and collects from every one without exception. The gamblers, with offi- cial permission, have actually con- structed a private telegraph system of their own. Between taking care of brothels and wirehouses, not to talk of speak- casies, the mayor, it can readily be seen, has little time to think of .un- employment relief. MeFeely has other affairs, too, which take up a good deal of his time. There is the Public Service of N, J., for instance, Public Service is a Morgan corpora- tion that pretty much divides the northern part of the state with Service owns most of the street rail- ways in New Jersey and is trying to get control of all the bus lines as well. Hoboken provides as good an example as any of how Public Ser~ vice acquires the business it prizes so highly. When McFeely became mayor, he organized an excavating company. His rates were high, but his service was good; for part of Barney's ser- vice was immunity from troublesome laws that Barney didn’t enforce wher his clients were concerned. Bribed By Public Service. When Public Service first applied for a franchise in Hoboken, MeFeely | was so enthusiastic he immediately ordered all privately-owned busses oft | the exiled bus-owners marched to the | City Hall the next day and almast | lynched Barney, so he repealed tne ordinance,. | tation with Public Service officials after which McFeely announced a “compromise” measure. The privately~ | to do business, at a fiye-cent fare, | while the Public Service busses were empowered to enact a ten-cent fare, is remembered that Barney controls, the police force. Public Service busses | are permitted to speed down the streets at a breakneck pace and reach street crossings to pick up passengers in front of the privately owned busses, which must remain within the city’s speed limits. Moreover, these private busses are hailed to court for infractions of all sorts of traffic ordi- nances while Public Service drivers may engage in friendly speed con- tests in the main streets of the city without fear of even as much as an angry look from any of MeFeely’s Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Public| cops. How did it come about that Public Service is permitted to charge a ten- cent fare? Barney's exeavation com- pany again, The Public Service could buy @ dozen steam shovels of its own for the price that McFeely charges to excavate a ten foot hole. The Public Service also issues a great deal of stock, Mayor McFeely has so much | the streets. A demonstration led by | Then followed a consul- | owned busses were to be permitted | This doesn’t sound so bad until it, IL LAVORA’ TORE Italian Organ of the Communist Party SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931—8 P. GALILEO TEMPLE 17-19 MONTROBE AVENUL, BROOKLYN, N. ¥. PROGRAM: of it he probably uses it as wall paper So uanriwios ‘igen es i ADMISSION 50 CZ in his b DIRECTIONS M. 'T. Snbway at al Street, ; 5 wae ta enuenia lyn) wet off at Lorimer Station en can reward the rich who permit him to govern the r iheve is the matter of taxes, for example. Taxes are very high in Ho- | | boken. When taxes are high it means 1] | IHEIT | i | Tt that rents are doubly high. And rents | | | MORNING FRE are high because the wealthy men of | | | COSTUR Wie B. ALL 1] the city, who should pay all the taxes, | | pay practically none. The Hoboken } | Land and Improvement Co., owned by, | f Be Otto’ Wittpenn, ® former mayor of | Saturday Eve:, January 7 at Madis | City who married into the | wealthy Stevens family; owns almost Oe on Square Garden | fICKE’ 50 CENTS | | Do = Jersey will disclose that the assessments on FRG SR ARV ANE Wittpenn’s property are ridiculously low, Barney, of course, gets part of | | | | the money that Wittpenn save Barney himself, a millionaire, pays | something like $200 a year ip taxes. The Jersey Observer, a wealthy Hobo- liken newspaper which advises him in | | all important graft transactions, is as- | Sessed at $10,000 a year on property that is worth a million. Almost any- one in Hoboken with property, as a matter of fact, can have his assess- | ments reduced by the payment to Barney of a proportionate “fee.2 | McFeely, not content with graft) from brothels, speakeasies, gambling | dens, Public Service and other cor- | Porations, is a frequent bidder, under his brother's name on city contracts. He holds the garbage-collecting con- tract of Bayonne at a figure $100,000 higher than that of the lowest bid- der, Barney, illiterate as he is, uses up a tremendous amount of station- ery yearly in his official capacity. All of it is supplied by the Jersey Ob- server—at prices that are literally un- believable until one looks at city vouchers, half the real estate in the city. An at MORNING FREIHEIT nation of the city’s tax records | | 35 EAST TWELFTH STREET, NEW YORK 22° The Only Complete Picture of THE TREASON TRIAL IN MOSCOW AT THE CAMEO THEATRE FOR BETTER VALUES IN 50 MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S w Suits and Overcoats zo to PARK CLOTHING CO. 93 Avenue A, Cor. Sisth St. wv :