The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1931, Page 2

Nisha Two Facts Explodé “Forced-Laboy” Bunk of Capitalist Papers Du nty Admits, Reporting Railroad Labor Mobilization, that U.S.S.R._Is a “Workers’ Country” Reports to the capitalist Rews-} says, perhaps correctly, that the papers from Moscow tell of the de- | ‘Soviet forced-labor ballyhoo’ is just cision of the railroad conference | the latest stunt of the ‘anti-Soviet signed by Labor Commissar Tsikohn | propagandists.” and countersigned by Railroad Com- | ‘The Izvestia editorial also prints a missar Rukhimovitch providing for |letter from a British technician in the mobilization of all railroad work-|the Soviet Union who denies that ers in the country to increase the /there is “forced-labor” in the Soviet efficiency of the railroads in connec | Union. tion with the Five-Year Pian. The} It is significant, of course, that Daily Worker nas not received direct | Fish, Woll and the socialist party information on this plan, but the | kept stressing this lie in calling for capitalist newspapers are trying.to use | war against the Soviet Union. Speak- it to further their lying propaganda |ing about the treatment of criminals campaign of “convict labor” in the |in the Soviet Union, as contrasted to Soviet Union. the brutal treatment in capitalist Admits It’s Balyhoo. |countries, Duranty says: In reporting the news of the rail-| “Criminals, in the ordinary sense road decision, Walter Duranty, New| of the word, are better treated in York Times correspondent in Moscow, | the Soviet Union than in any other admitting that the “forced-labor” cry | country—with due allowance for the is a lot of ballyfoo, says the basic | universal shortage of living quar- fact that must be remembered is: | ters and commodities. They work, “This is a workers’ country and a| but they get trade-union rates for workers’ government and is run for | their labor, the produce of which is the workers’ benefit? whether they | sold exclusively within the Soviet know it or like it.” | Union, and they have ‘parole’ holi- Commenting on an editorial ex-| days yearly, which they posing the “forced-labor” propaganda | never break. of the bosses, Duranty says: “Political exiles are not criminals, “It is an eloquent editorial and | convicts or prisoners in our inter- convincing as one reads it, and it | pretation of those words. . SIGNATURE COLLECTION |TRAIN WORKER STATIONS IN NEW YORK) CORRESPONDENTS | NEW YORK—At the address given | below, you can sign the lists demand-| tng passage of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, and still more important, you can get some lists to circulate in your shop, ‘or among the unemployed. All possible} signatures must be collected by’ Feb. | 1 . | Workers School Gives) Special Course NEW YORK.—Workers correspond- offered by the Workers School in the | Spring Term. The main purpose of this course is to train revolutionary worker correspondents who will write BRONX ‘ H .| for the revolutionary press ‘on the | Workers Center, 569 Prospect Axb.; | conditions in the factories, shops, eee, Witkers | OM, | 1000 poston | mills, mines, ships, unions, fraternal deselect drkgr| Ae aa 0 organizations, rural communities, etc. Pe cman pad worker Hall, | TH course will include the methods 341 E. 149th St. HARLEM Hungarian Workers Home, 350’ iE. 8ist St.; Spanish Workers Center, 308 Lenox Ave.; Harlem Workers | jutionary papers.’ “Assignments: to Center, 15 W. 126th St; LW.O. 143/ Fo ctories, shops, etc., will be given to E. 103rd St.; Checko Slovak Home,| | students. Lectures by experienced ee | worker correspondents and editors MIDTOWN a | will be given from time to time. The Needle Trades Workers Industtial) 7159) has secured correspondents Union, 131 W. 28th St.; Workers Cen-| nq eaitors will be given’ from time ter, 64 W. 22nd St.; T.U.U. Council} +, time, Bidg., 16 W. 21st St.; Spartakus'Club,| Comrade N. Honig, former Workers 201 W. 29th St.; Friends of Panvor,| Correspondence Editor of the Daily 105 Lexington Ave.; Japanese’ Work-| Worker and now the editor of Labor ers’, Club, 7 E. 14th St.; I-W.O., 32) Unity, the official organ of the Trade Union Sq. | Union Unity League, as instructor of DOWNTOWN the ‘class. Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St;! at this time when the capitalist Workers Center, 27 E. Fourth’ 'St.; ‘newspapers are intensifying their lies Ukrainian Workers Club, 66 E. Fourth| and calunnies against the revolution- St.; Marine Workers Nnion, 140 Broad | ary movement and when our move- St.; Jewish Workers University, 108| ment is in dire need of militant and E. 14th St. trained correspondents, workers are WILLIAMSBURG urged to take this course to train Workers Center, 61 Graham’ Ave.;| themselves to depict the life and the vaisve Bldg., 46 Ten Eyck St. “ | battles of the working class and to BROWNSVILLE shape their struggles in the revolu- Workers Center, 1844 Pitkin Ave. | tionary channel. SOUTH BROOKLYN With the completion of the school Workers Center, 312 Columbia St.;| new headquarters, 35 E. 12th St., on Finnish Hall, 764 40th St. “"~ | the second floor, with new, spacious, BATH BEACH ‘sound-proof class rooms, a library |\ Workers Center, 48 Bay 28th St. with well-selected books, an auditor- CONEY ISLAND ium, a students council room, etc., Workers Center, 2901 Mermaid Ave.| the Workers School is about to open IGHTON BEACH its Spring Term with renewed spirit Workers Center, 140 Neptune Ave.;|and plan. Many workers have al- Workers Center, 1373 43rd St. ready registered for the Spring Term BORO HALL which will begin at the first week of be pA bd February. Workers who desire to be More stations will be published to- enrolled in the classes are advised More stations will be published on) to egister not later than the last week Monday. of January, Classes are to be limited All available workers for work at] to 30 students each. these stations should report to the , employment danenee. 6. 08 5-| DENOUNCES WHITE CHAUVINISM Labor and Fraternal / Statement by Finnish Buro NEW YORK.—Denouncing the ex- | class viewpoint, methods and styles | | of writing, and also frequently labor- Worker, Labor Ufiity and other revo- | Meeting ‘onx her gd oe jointly with tl unemployed counc! poy organised, takes place at 1472 Boston rd. at $ p.m. T.U.U.L. speak- ers will address the workers. almost | of approaching conditions from a} | atory work in writing for the Daily | The school has secured | \VOICE OF MASSES |Hunger Mareh Today | on N. Y. City Hall! (CONTINUED FRC PAGE ONE) nes Insurance Bill will be circulated. Placards and banners will be dis~ played, giving the names of the or- ganizations participating, and the de- | mands of the jobless. Employed Take Part! | This is not just a demonstration of | the unemployed, but also of the em- |ployed workers. Only by a united | |fight can the jobless win relief, and | ence is one of the many new courses | |the employed workers keep from be- | ling driven into unemployment by the | speed-up, wage-cutting and worsen- ing shop conditions. The Unemployed Councils of | Greater New York and the New York Campaign Committee for Unemploy- |ment Insurance, calling the demon- | stration, have issued tens of thou- | sands of leaflets, stating: |_,“Breadlines, flophouses, police lines, | bank crashes, Salvation Army charity, breadlines for children on the Bow- jery, are what the bosses are giving |us workers. The factories are closed. | The workers can earn no money— but the bosses and their government refuse to grant the workers unem- ployment insurance. j Too Many Promises. | “Unemployed workers, refuse to starve! You have listened long enough to fake promises and insults jof the millionairés of this city and their servant, Mayor Walker. You | see now that the city can find plenty of money for salary increases, for graft and corruption in the courts and police department; plenty of money for more cops—but only mis- erable charity for the workers. “Unemployed workers who refuse to | accept this situation and demand re- lief are clubbed and jailed. Employed workers who strike against wage-cuts meet police brutality. Workers who banks that the state knows are man- aged by criminal racketeers, are |blackf&cked and arrested. Foreign Born and Negroes. “Are we workers of New York going to stand this any longer? Are the foreign-born workers going to stand the discrimination against them, the refusal to give them jobs? Are the Negro workers, who always get the most miserable wages and conditions, and are Jim-Crowed, going to stand for this? “We workers of New-York must all bosses and the government will -hear!” WORKING WOMEN men’s Day t 4 11] FAIQ STREETS" 2 z 1 CIMERE'S WHere | . ‘ ACHARITY CAN | f HELP Oue | ; UNFORTUATES + | DEMANDS RELIEF! are robebd of their last savings in the answer together: No!—a No! that the CALL CONFERENCE Prepare for Int’l Wo- NEW YORK —To mobilize the Sarit WORKEE NEW YC YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931 —————— NEW YORK—The unemployed | | jewelry workers met yesterday in,| Bryant Hall and formed their Un- | employed Council. They endorsed the | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill, the immediate demands on the | city government, the delegation to | Washington and the deelegation of } | the hunger march today. The new council deciaed to hold open-air meetings frequently in the | jewelry trades market, 47th St. and Sixth Ave. All are taking out lists to gather signatures for the bill. ‘They voted unanimously to p take part |in the hunger march today. An ex- | ecutive committee was elected. Sam Nesin, secretary of the Unem- | ployed Councils of New York, made the main report. CALL CONFERENCE) IN BKLYN FEB. IST BROOKLYN, N.. Y.—A call for a! |Mass United Front Conference has | jbeen sent out by the Executive Com- | mittee of the United Front of Wil- liamsburgh’ Boro Hall and Green | |Point, to be held Sunday, Feb. 1, at 975 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn. ‘The call states, in part: “The grow- ing misery and starvation of the un- jemployed workers of Williamsburgh, Green Point and Boro Hall, with the vontinuous attack upon the conditions jof the employed workers, who, due to unemployment, are speeded up to the last of their energy, and their wages being reduced to a minimum, calls upon all working-class organiza- tions to mobilize-for action.” Each organization is called upon to elect three delegates to this United Front Conference for Unemployment Insurance and Immediate Relief which will be held Sunday, Feb. 1, at 1 p. m. at the Williamsburgh Work- ers’ Club Hall, 795 Flushing Ave. |helped them when they failed to re- Sort ee The National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance reports |that a considerable number of city } organizations have announced dem- | onstrations for Feb. 10, to back up the delegation which on that date will present the Workers’ Unemploy- ' HUNGER MARCH- ERS FRAMED UP Stools Disagree on’ the “Testimony” NEW YORK.—Friday at Essex) Market Court the police plainly showed their intention of ‘unmerci- | fully “riding” Zaroff and Boschi off to jail on the framed-charge of fel- onious assault. These two workers | were in the hunger march last Thurs- | day. { Neither had anything to do with | the beating of the cdp. The cops are | prepared with stool-pigeons whose stories glaringly contradict each other. The magistrate constantly | member their rehearsed parts in this | frame-up. The objections to the | court’s interference by the I. L. D.} attorney were constantly, over-ruled. The motion to dismiss the case on | the ground of contradictory testimony of thé state’s attorney stool-pigeons | was refused, lowering the bail from | $2,500 was also refused. Tomorrow | the case is continued. All workers | must come in defense of our two comrades and, in mass, protest the frame-up. Tomorrow at 10 a. m., Second St. and Second Ave. ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! , PRODUCED BY MEJRA ALL RUSSIAN PROG! Sovkino visit among strange people “Morozko” A Soviet Fairy ‘Tale 2nd BIG WEEK! ,LEO TOLSTOY’S DRAMATIC NOVEL “The Living Corp With PUDOVKIN, DIRECTOR OF “STORM OVER ASIA,” IN THE LEADING ROLE TH STREET PLAYHOUSE 52 WEST 8TH ST., Between Fi:th and Sixth Aves.—Spring 5095 POPULAR PRICES—CONTINUOUS NOON TO MIDNIGHT ‘Gateway of the Caucasus’|“Pranks of Jack Frost” TH AVENUE PLAYHOUSE 66 FIFTH AVE—Algonquin 7661—Direction: Jos. R. Fliesler POPULAR PRICES—CONTINUOUS NOON TO MIDNIGHT a1 Workers Ind * Meets at Ppt at 4 Hvorilg 91 pressions of white chauvinism which 0 ers ple ae gig ~— ig recently occurred during a dance by avespay — “—* — —~—|® workers’ organization at Finnish Lecture “The Coming War” will be. "Gelivered at the regular - meeting of Womens Council No. 25 pt 7.80 Pp. m. at 2500 65th Ct. B’klyn. ‘ “ WEDNESDAY —— = 4 Larrea oa Attntion! rn The Leni ibknecht- Nr nest ae femorial m tin place at y > . m. at Rui n National Home, 159 ‘ourth St. under the auspices of the Communist Party and the oe Communist League. Hall, and demanding a change in the attitude current at that hall that only Negro workers who’are members of the Communist Party or the Young Communist League Have even the “right” to come to the Finnish Hall and the’ less: frequently the bet- ter, the Finish Buro and the New York District Language Department of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. yesterday passed a resolution con- demning white chauvinism. The res- Olution reads, in part: “The meeting resolves to begin, on the basis of the decisions of the Comintern and the Communist Party, an energetic struggle for the political, economic and social equality of Ne- groes, and for the right of national self-determination up to complete working women in the struggle se’? BPOFILM OF MOSCOW ICAN PREMIERE Patterns in Snow and Ice Sovkino Newsreel Latest views of events in the USSR Sou ARE To REMOVE TE es Age | Gout OSE SHOVELS} HY - ING TO Re Te AR SRE REM | Sad Tors | A supply ofA jats campaign committee for ment Insurance Bill to congress. | j}mands for immediate reliet, BuT IM OUGHT Yous TeA-SPoaNs To THE Sows AWAY THIS SHOWS You How | CAN QUICKLY SOLVE GPrTaLisen SUCH PROBLEMS. ITS OUR SUPERIOR BRAINS AIBA Does Te WORK UNEMPLOYED JEWELRY Many Demonstrations Feb. 10) WORKERS FORM COUNCIL To Back Jobless Insurance , These demonstrations will take place | in cities and towns throughout the country, and will add to the weight of the Washington demonstrations. Chisholm, Minn., has just organized unem- ployment insurance. Sixty delegates attended representing 33 organiza- ticns, Half the delegates were women, and there were four young workers. The conference discussed local de- organ- ized the signature drive for the Un- employment Insurance Bill, decided to speed the work of organizing un- jemployed council$, elected an Iron Range Committee of 14, dec\ded upon |a@ mass meeting in Virginia and upon | hunger marches ,throughout this sec- tion of the state. The Iron Range demonstration will be on Feb. 10, at Hibbing, Minn, at 1 p.m. There will be local gatherings in each town previous to that hour and then a march onto Hibbing, | is the headquarters of the) which Qliver Mining Co. In addition to the workers ‘rom |the Iron Range, who will be part of the delegation to Congress to demand passage of the Bill, and others from Duluth, St. Paul and Minneapolis. | All delegates get a “génd-off” in St. | Paul on about Feb. 3. Fourteen thousand signatures have been collected here of which 12,000 have already been sent in. Detroit Signature Drive. The conference of the Detroit Cam- paign Committee for Unemployment Insurance was attended by 94 dele- gates. There were 4 A. F. of L. unions, 2 independent unions, 7 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) there is being | jelected a delegate from the copper | |mining country, Lackey Throws Out Unentployed Worker | From Straus Agency NEW YORK.—Steve Traub, unem- ployed worker, member of the Un- | employed Council, was collecting sig-| | natures in an Employment Agency on 12th St., between Third and Fourth | Aves. One of the workers in front of him was interested in knowing what the Unemployed Council stood for, and fellow-worker Traub explained the Unemployment Insurance Bill and the fight for immediate demands. A bully, probably the manager of the Strauss Agency, grabbed Traub and started to put him out of the agency. | He slammed the door and crushed | the unempioyed worker's finger. _f | Traub has been out of a steady job | for neavly two years. He has ex- isted on stray, part time jobs since that time. {Molinari Returns to | Philharmonic, Thurs. Bernardino Molinari makes his first appearance of the season with the |Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra |on Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. | The program: Cocerto Grosso, No. 8, | Corelli; New World Symphony, Dyo- rak; Rossinian Suite (first time), Rossini-Respighi; “Fire Bird” Suite, Stravinsky. This program will be re~ | ected on Friday afternoon ahd on | Saturday night. | Frnest Schelling will condues the | third concert of the children’s series on Saturday magrming at Carnegic Hall, with a program of illustrating dance forms in music. Jascha Hei- fetz will be the soloist on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 25, at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, playing Castelnuovo —Tedesco’s violin concerto, ORGANIZE TO END STARVATIO DEMAND RELIEF! TRIAL in THE LIFE OF THE .-It Is a wonderful picture of one last remaining oasis of old Feudalism. Go and see it. —VERN SMITH, DAILY WORKER. R » #2ND STREET |POPULAR 5CAMEO: 202""/Prices | NOW “= Theatre Guild Productions ————~; against unemployment, wage-cuts and for immediate jobless relief, ihe Women’s Department of the Commu- nist Party, New York District, has, issued a call for a Working Women’s Conference, to be held Saturday, Jan. 24, at 2 p. m., at Irving ase 15th St. and Jrving Pl. The conference is to prepare for International Women’s Day. All working women’s organizations are invited to send delegates to this con- ference. The call for the conference stated: “International Women’s Day this year finds millions of men, women and children in every capi- talist country suffering misery and starvation. Thousands of helpless mothers aré facing evictions in the bitter cold. On this day we working women should get together and or- ganize to, struggle for better working and living conditions.” antagonlem between different nation.) 90 Hast 11th Street sien ences and pense rou Ns ad ths January 23rd, MORNING Saturday Eve:, January 24 at + MORNIN G. } COSTUME BALL Madison Square Garden TICKETS 7c; IN oho, 50 CENTS” 35 EAST TWELFTH STREET, NEW .YORK RESTAURANT, 148 West. 43rd Street FREIHEIT FREIHEIT MIDNIGHT G W. 52nd. Eves, 8:60 Mts, Th. & Sat. 2:40 Elizabeth the Queen Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovsky, Joanna Roos and others py BECK TBE4 tga Bt of Broadw: Evs. ae Mth, The a Bat. 2:40 h St. 6th A ivic REPERTORY "#1 8. ott 500, $1, $1.60 Alats, Th. & Sat., 2:30 4, RVA-LF GAULIENNE, Director —THEATRE CLOSED THIS WEEK— il pasa 9-2698 ¢ Unfon— at 6:30 P. M. FISH HEARING; GROPPER CARTOONS; Re-opening Mon. Eve., Jan. 26 “CAMILLE” SSS tts 4 wontes acy, at Box orticg) and FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION Town Hall, 113 W. 43 Street ‘The Actor-Managers, Inc. present t Draper a ta her 1 Char ” PROGRAM CHANCED” FULL PICTURES OF THE FIRST DAYS OF THE The TREASON 2ND BIG WEEK—— AL-YEMEN THE ONLY PICTURES EVER MADE OF THIS ARABIAN COUNTRY FILMED BY A SOVIET ZXPIDITION MOSCOW The Picture Different ARABS AND JEWS ‘ An absorbing record of ‘ii y—and twenty. cer A Southwestern cor. a turles ago—i ner of Arabia —NEW YorK AMERICAN. | JOBLESS LEADERS By BYAN WALKER TO HAVE NO JURY Unemployed to Back Oct. 16 Delegation NEW YORK.—Judge Levine of General- Sessions ruled Jan. 9 that the three workers, Sam Nesin, Rob- ert Lealess ‘and Milton Stone, of the Oct, 16 Unemployed Delegation, can+ not have a jury trial but must face threé special sessions judges, where appointees of Mayor Walker will try the case of the three militant work= ers who were beaten up and thrown out of the chambers of the board of estimate at the behest of Mayor Walker. When the Oct. 16 Unemployed Delegation, consisting of J. Louis Engdahl, Sam Nesin, Maude White, Robert Lealess and Milton Stone, ap- peared before the Board of Estimates, presenting the demands of 800,000 starving workers, the police arrested them in-an attempt to railroad these working-class leaders to prison in the same way as the March 6 Unemployed Delegation were imprisoned. Judge Levine, in deciding that these three militants cannot have a fury trial, but must face Tammany ap pointees for trial, is preparing an- other long prison term for Nesiny Lealess and Stone, according to the International Labor Defense, the or- ganization defending them, and is calling upon “all workets and their sympathizers to rally behind this un- employed delegation when they come to trial on Jan. 26 or they will be railroaded in the same way as Foster, Minor, Amter, Raymond and -Leston were. i ———— rene WANTED Comrades to be'agents for ‘Solidarity’ in New York on commission basts Call today at Workers International Relief 131 WEST 28th STREET Also Comrades to sell Solidarity bay cabs 9914 Sunday iv Awd ea DR. J. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST 1501 AVENUE U, Ave. 0 At East 15th St. BROOKLYN, BMT. N.Y, _ & FL. 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