The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1931, Page 1

Gathering Sigr | :res for Our \ Unemployment insu ~>¢2 Bill ; Lays the Basis for a Mass Movement “xainst Capi- talists and Their Gov- ernment. It’s An Im- * portant Task 4 Dail Central (Se at New York, N. ¥., am Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office der the act of March 3, 187” NEW yor ction of the Communist K, THURSD unist Party U.S.A ternational) 3 fl Y, JANUARY 22, ] Vol. VIII, No. 20 10,000 IN LOS ANGELES U WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION NEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATION ment Insurance Delegation to Congress Fo weeks immense masses of unemployed workers have participated in militant struggles for immediate relief and unemployment insurance in large and small cities from coast to coast. City streets and city hails have resounded with the tramp of destitute and starving workers, men, women and children, as they engaged in hunger marches upon the city citadels of capitalist power. Mayors and city councils, in instances, fled through back doors or locked themselves in their chambers in fear. in most cases the hungry workers invaded the city council chambers and sometimes for as long as two hours, exposed the demagogy of the capi- talist politicians, threw fine promises to do something soon back into their faces, and laid bare the starvation rations being doled out by all charity institutions. Enough to eat, and immediately, for every unemployed worker and his family, a place to sleep for everyone, free rent for families, no evic- tions, cash relief from the city, passage by Congress of the Unemployment: Insurance Bill, shorter hours for the employed workers, no wage cuts nor speed-up—these were the demands that echoed throughout dozens of city halls. The fighting spirit of the unemployed workers was exemp.i- fied by the fact that in only a very few instances was the police power ct the city, with all its tear gas bombs, clubs and other ammunition, able to keep the unemployed workers from entering the city council chambers. This determination to get bread and plenty of it, the force and power of all these hunger marches must now resound in Washington, D. C. The Speed Workers’ Unemploy-'sig shall be passed. t Immense mass meetings are being up in travel to Washington. of their delegates. d°expensés, which task. falls passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill constitutes one of the major demands fo the unemployed workers, the tens of thousands of them who participated in the hunger marches. The Workers Unemployment®In- surance Delegation to Congress will swoop down on the capitol of the American ruling class on February 10. The 150 workers in this delega- tion, representing all industries, Negro and white workers, foreign born and native, will demand of Congress on this date that our Unemployment Insurance Bill, which calls for the creation of a fund of.billions of dollars by taxing the rich and using war appropriations to pay unemployed work- ers cash relief under supervision of a committee elected by the workers, The election of this delegation of 150 workers is now in progress. held in large and small industrial centers where unemployed and etiplcyed workers are,voicing their demands for passage of our bill and naming their representatives to Washington However, at this time we must issue a war elected by February Ist. The time between Feb. 1st and 9th will be taken Many of the smaller industrial centers ana a number of the larger cities are failing to sufficiently speed up the elec- R All delegates must be Financing, this-delegation to ‘Washington, collecting fufids for fares’ With Has | “ORLAHIOMA CITY, Okla, Jan. 2! Oklahoma Marches Force City, | State Governments to Give |First Demonstration Causes City Council to| Appropriate Funds; Legislature Acts e When Food is Taken , oven this sop.the city council did not} " e ee Price 3 Cents ® rving Jobless Demand Food; N.Y. Police Ride Them Down HUNGER MARCH ATTACKED ‘BY 500 HEAVILY ARMED COPS; RESIST BRAVELY 20,000 IN LENIN. | MEMORIAL GIVE | |3-Day Reign of Terror \Officials Break Word, Refuse to Hear the Delegation | ANSWER TO FISH \Bigger Fights Against the Bosses |Continual Raids Smash Up Headquarters LOS Jan, 21 hour bef march NEW YOR! 1,500 jobless snd to the sh repo! be ‘ outlawing of the Communist Party, oe Vd ach thou of post office, to march on workers streamed into and demand relief for ite8. is also: proceeding too slowly.” The organizations belonging to é city conferences that have been organized must be approached in greater number for contributions. The mobilization of thousands of work- ers for the January 31, Feb. 1 Tag Days must be rushed. The collection of signatures for our bill must receive ten times the attention in the next ten days that it has received up to now. The dele- gation that goes to Congress must have enough signatures in hand to lift the roof off the White House. Signed lists in the possession of the various organizations must be sent to the National Campaign Committee, 2 West 15th Street, New York City, at once. More and ever more workers must be given signature lists for the securing of endorsements for our Bill. The gigantic mass demonstrations which are scheduled for all indus trial centers on February 10, the day the Washington delegation makes its demands upon Congress, must receive organizational attention right now Unemployed. and employed workers into the hundreds of thousands must stand solidly behind their Washington delegation upon this date, con- stituting a determined notice upon Congress that the workers will n-ver take “no” for an answer, that the workers of the United States will con- tinue the fight for Social Insurance, a phase of which today is the Un- employment Insurance Bill. upon every industrial center that sends | Hunger’ marches are getting effect! ntgnd to. give until pressure was | Yesterday a thousand jobless work- brought against them by the job- | ers demonstrated on the Oklahoma less, themselves. jcity hall. They had been promised; The mayor of Oklahoma City cal- | relief through a secret appropriation | led in the Unemployed Council com-| by the city council, but demanded | mittee and informed them of the ac- \it at once and no eyictions, etc.| tion of the city council. When the city manager, Fry, failed; The jobless and those who still to hand it out, hundreds of the job-| have jobs know that their action marched on a grocery store and | forced the issue. All over the fields took all the food. They also fought /one can hear men say, “It was great, with the police sent to disperse them ‘sn’t it? Did you see me there in with tear gas. | the Hunger March?” As a result of this battle, at noon,| On with the Hunger Marches! —AND EFFECT RELIEF FUNDS VOTED Council Makes Secret Appro-|' (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 21.—Today’s “Welt am Abend,” a working class news- paper,, publishes an article by Lion Feuchtwanger, famous novelist, con- cerning what representatives of science and art may expect from fas- cism. A resume of this article fol- lows: , The last World War released pent up barbaric instincts in an unthought of degree. The fascists organized this barbarism for political ends. Fas- cism is essentially anti-logical and anti-intellectual. It aims at deposing reason and replacing it by a feeling of the primitive urge, in other words, barbarism. The fact that art and science trans- cend national boundaries, makes them suspect fascism which aims to gag them. This aim is the least dan- gorous to carry out 50 that fascism’s greatest successes are obtained here. Where nationalism rules it attacks pourgeoisie’ are abandoning, without Fascism Means Death of Art, Science, Says Feuchtwanger @ fight, all cultural positions before advancing fascism. Except for a few workers’ halls, no movie, no theatre in Germany dares to produce a piece displeasing the fascists. The authors are adopting an anti-fascist attitude (all worthwhile German authors are anti-fascist, with one exception) re- ceive threatening letters. The Ger- man intellect was never so unfree as it is today. What the intellectuals and artists may expect from a fascist triumph is clear—extermination! Most authors are aware of this with the result that those who are able to do so are pre- their departure. Consorting with Berlin intellectual circles gives the impression that the whole town is preparing to emigrate. ‘Therefore, the plain duties of all intellectuals is to fight fascism heart and soul. So long as there remains 3 corner in Germany where reason may open its mouth, let us speak plainly and unmistakably. The day of the triumph of fascism means the exter- mination of science, art and intellect! End of Capitalism If Reds in 3 Germany Win, Says Gerard NEW YORK.—Fearful that the ad-| 1unist Party. eGerard said that the vance of the Communist “Party in Communist Party has gained seats in Germany, in the present economic | the Reichstag at every election since and political crisis, would ‘lead to suc- cessful working class revolutions in| the growth of fascism, this spokes- France, Poland, and England, James)| man for, the capitalists in the United W. Gerard, former U. S. ambassador‘ | Stetes put the heaviest: emphasis on to Germany. in a speech ‘Tuesday | the danger of Bolshevism. night appealed to the Wall Street bankers to bolster up the capitalist system in Germany,” Unless “the economic strain” on ms 500 Call on City Manager: Ask Housing and Other Assistance yesterday, the state senate advanced on its calendar a bill to appropriate $400,000 for food for the unemployed and for drought stricken farmers, and voted it through yesterday af- ternoon. The senate’s vote was un- animous! Even the appropriation of the city government was the result of the mass demonstration of the jobless, held Jan. 10. To the left, above, is a réproduc- tion of headlines in the Oklahoma News, of Oklahoma City, Jan. 11. It appeared the day after hundreds of jobless hunger marched on the city hall, To the right, above, is a head from the same paper three days later, showing the’ results of the demon- stration, To be sure, it is a sop, but priation for Needy .The city councit approprieted an unannounced amount of money to Mass demonstrations Feb. 10 to sup- port the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill! Seven men accused of being lead- ers in the taking of food from the grocery yesterday are in jail and will be tried for “inciting disaster.” Fran- cis Owens, the spokesman of the joh- less at the city hall in both demon- strations, is also arrested, and will be tried with the others. There were both Negro and white in the demonstration and in the crowd taking the food, Governor -“Alfalfa Bill” Murray stated yesterday that the city would provide quarters for 100 persons at the state fair grounds and the Salva- tion Army would take care of 200 more—only 300 out of the thousands of homeless jobless here. ¥ nn RESS STRIKE MEETINGS TODAY |Preparations Rushed; | Committee Growing | NEW YORK.—Yesterday the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union carried through six very succossful ; mass open air demonstrations with placards displaying the demands for | the dress strike. These mectings took | place at 36th St. and Eighth Ave. | 38th St. and Seventh Ave., 335 W. 35th St., 39th St. and Seventh Ave., 236 W. 26th St., and 119 W. 23rd>St. Mass- es of dressmakers attended the open | air demonstrations and responded | very favorably to the call of the speakers to prepare for the dress strike, | Today also there will be open air} meetings at 264 W. 40th St., at 308 W. 38th St. at 370 W. 35th St., at 151/ W. 26th St. and at 159 W. 25th St.,) all in preparation for the strike. The strike committee meets at 6 Pp. m. to go over the plans for the} struzele and to organize for all the | details of preparation. At 8 p. m. tonight at Columbia Hall, 522 Stone Ave., Brownsville, all| dressmakers and other needle trades workers are called to a mass meeting | at which the Brooklyn workers will | elect their representatives on the} strike committee. Neero Workers Meet Negro and white worle:s of Harlem will meet tonicht at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. to prepere for an- other larger mass meeting which will} elect representatives to the strixe! committee. At 2 p. m. today thenp will be a meeting of unemployed makers: at 131 W. 39th St. to elect representa- tives on the strike committee. The Industrial Union is calling an active workers meeting at Manhattan active trade workers are called to ¥yeeum, at 7 p. m. tomorrow, All oyer the country workers are repudiating the fake “charity” that Increase the Mass Support Bel ‘Fighting Daily Worker! HELP COMPLETE THE $30,000 EMERGE INCY FUND IMMEDIATELY SOLIDARITY: Picture above shows gro and white unemployed workers ving and carrying away victim of Picture to left long tine of ews a fra capitalist mounted police charging the jebless, x 2,500 Strike Against Wage Cut, Speed Up ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 21.—Des perate atte of the Amalgamated Clo Workers officials to prevent | thie and file from organizing here and to force speed up and wage rank 3 made without much H. Sa of the Ne Kers Indus’ 1 Union spoke Mon- at a meeting called by the Rank and File Committee of the Amal- | gamated, and urged them to organize against the bosses and against the | Officials, and to refuse to recognize the “Quality Manager” of the Fash-| ic Park and the Amalgamated, and | the other bureaucracy of speed-up | experts foisted on them by the united front of company and company union About 50 tailors joined the Rank and File Committee to fight, wage. cuts and speed up, at this meeting. The | meeting was held, although the Amal- | gamated called a special mecting and | ordered all members to be present. | The officials were denounced even | 0 their own meeting. The Fashion Park Clothing Co. has ware Garden last he most enthusi night Stic Lenin wit cd. workers were dred police blocked all ap- Ss and stopped traffic. They proac! with many thousands more| re equipped with police patrol wagons and armed motorcycles. 5 ast getting un-|.. THe ‘delegation, previously prom- Beant 3 ee = i the | Sed @ permit to see the city council, » i Wea eee OU was denied the right and the demon- Keynote: was already struck aNd| rations were attdcked 1a ok found a quick response in the great | tick atter they started to suareh e embled throng. The call by the pal as aa : — 10:15 a.m. Tear gas guns, and black- chairman, I. Amter, to greater strug-| iscxs were used by the polie gles to wrench material relief from | ** i 3 A the fan tide ng millions,| The» Jobless made three forced the call to organize to smash the ae ta. clear the way to the city hae a 1g campaign ana/| hall, but were unable to get there. the C ro} nist Ps as the g conditions, the call to rally | Over 10,000, men, women and chil dren, participated in the demonstra- leader of the working class, aroused| tion. ‘The Mexican workers, the enhusiasm that re-echoed through| Women. and children especially, the gyeat hall stnued a gpntis fighting a ae | Many men and women were beaten hs, a om oun , Communist | conscious by the police. One cop League, Sol Harper, William Z. Fos- | ring ces x fr er And Robert Minor are among the | “#8 ured. The known arrests are . Ds ee S Bertha Goldstein, Hector Triana, ers scheduled to speak as we go to. press. A-pagéint by the Workers’ Labora- tory Theatre, depicting the building of the Russian Bolshevik Party un-| no evictions, food and clothing for der Lenin's guidance was prominent | |scheol children of the unemployed, on the program | etc., presented itself to the city coun- VETS ET Na jou at 10 a.m. The city government roke its promise, and not only re= The strike started in one shop| fused to let them present the de- against unequal division of work, all|™mands but threw the delegation out. apreed to by the Amalgamated. An-| Those ejected included Fred Fire- her shop came out in sympathy and | stone, Aida Handler and the lawyer 500 struck in the third shop, | | Alex. Ivance and ‘Thomas Ray | The delegation elected by the job- | less to present their demands for im- % | mediate cash relief for the jobless, three shops in Rochester. | (CONTINUED ON FP. > THE CONFERENCE TO Amalgamated Calls Cops On the fourth day of the strike, | the Amalgamated closed the hall, and | called out the police to prevent any | of the strikers from breaking in. Finally the shief of police and the Amalgamated offered to the strikers that the hall should be reopened, if all the sneakers would agree to advise the strikers to go back to work. A committee of rank and file strikers came up to the Labor Ly- ceum, headquarters of the Trade Union Unity League here, and told of the situation, and Sazer went up for the T.U.U.L. from New York. U.S. Navy Chief Calls for War Against Workers’ Republic WASHINGTON, Jan. 21,—Clearly indicating that one of the basic rea- sons for increased armaments of the capitalist powers is the preparation for attack against the Soviet Union, Acmiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations in the United States, in a speech yesterday before a Confer- ence on the Cause and Cure of War ind the ; 3 oy admitted that peace pacts were futile since wars were inevitable. “To be frank with you,” said Ad- miral Pratt, “it is my opinion that, so long as the world is what it is, there is no cure for war.” In short, so long as capitalism exists wars are neces- sary to the exploiters. Speaking about “parity,” Admiral Pratt brought out the fact that “neutrality” could not exist in the next war. He said: “Therefore, parity brings an en- tirely new note into our national life, It means that no longer can we hold rightly to neutrality, if neutrality is selfish and unjust; on the other hand, it might demand a° Joint neutrality, if it became neces- sary by so doing to maintain the FIGHT HIGH RENT |Walker Answered By | Working Women | The working women of New York City from shops and factories and working class housewives will answer the refusal of acting Mayor Corrizan to listen to the demands of the un- employed workers, by launching a mass campaign against high rents, high cost of living, and for unem- ployment relief. The conference will work out con- crete plans of assisting the Needle Trades workers in the coming strike Jof the dressmakers and will discuss plans for an organized mass cam- paign amongst working yomen in preparation for International Wom- en’s Day which takes place on March 8th. 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