The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1931, Page 2

____ Page Iwo Mowe, of St. Tous Secures 2,500 Names for Insurance Belitz, of New York, Now Second With 1,750 Signatures to His Credit; Jonesville Is 50 Per Cent Complete; Challenges N.Y. has collected 2,500 ugh his individual ef~ er received from the St. Comrade } signatures forts. A le' Louis y him first place in New York City indicate that this _ Vs John Belitz, the New York worker, | metropolis has only started to nibble | fh who now has 1,750 signatures to his | at its immense field t holds s | “New York, we challange you.) iy n collect such} Have you collected 50 per cent of} 4 ough their | your quota? You New York com-| s, how does it come|rades are vanguard comrades, work- 1 centers, like New Bed- , for instance, where there tile work- ignatures to ational Committee. kt” City in es for unem- 0, the: yed Council demands | the quota for this little burg in re- lation to population would total ” writes the worker from Jones- Mich., who is supervising the | drive in that village. “We are already more than 50 per} cent over the top, not even counting those signatures gathered by others than myself,” he continues. “Reports ing in the midst of a city proletariat | | that will respond if approached. We must collect many of our signatures |from farmers in, this neighborhood. | You'll have to prove to us farmers | here that you are capable of leading | the country workers to final victory. and proof will partially lie in you success in the drive for signature MUNSON SPRE EDUP | KILLS A. YAFFE Marine Worker Union Calls to Organize NEW YORK —A. Yaffe, aged 46, a longshoreman employed for years_by the Munson Line Steamship Co., was S a result of the speed-up system as instituted by this company up- on their docks. killed last wee! angway man is- sued a signal that the load be tifted before Yaffe could clear of the draft. He had just g on the load and as ing on the outboard side r the load lifted, throw- azainst the lighter's side, ig him unconscious, and into tre water. a! As the company has: o--first aid facilities for their workers..on the dock, 45 minutes elapsed before med- ica) aid could be brought....When the Rector finally did arrive Yaffe was dead. Yaffe, as is the Géase"Wit other tongshoremen. had been trying as best he could to support his family ond other dependents upon the scanty earnings that he received. enly one or two days’ work a week. get A. Yafte. Now his family and dependents are | helpless. , The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union is making a special appeal to the workers over Yaffe’s case. It has issued many warnings on previous oc- casions as to the possible results of this vicious speed-up campaign. This ease, in fact, is a result of speed-up | and an example of what may happen | to any longshoreman at any ‘ime. “Fellow-workers,” says a statement by the M. W. I. U., “you must fight against these conditions that maim | and kill the workers on the docks. Organize dock committees! Present your demands to the company offi- | cials! Get in touch with the dele- gates or the secretary of the Marine * Workers’ Industrial Union, 140 Broad 5t., New York City. Labor and Fraternal THURSDAY— Brownsville Worker Tenants League Meets at 1844 Pitkin Ave. at 8 p.m. All members and sympathizers should be present. Important matters will be taken up. “Fish and the LL.D." Will be the subject of a lecture to he delivered at Ambassedor Hall, Claremont, Parkway and Third Ave. Auspices Sacco-Vanaettl Br. LL.D. e+ 8 U. S. Bank Deposttors Meet at 8 p. m. at Public School 42, Claremont Parkway and Washington Ave. Bronx.-United Depositors Com- mittee. % Peet eto Hattie Carnegie Br.. LL.D. sabionts at en at 108 B. 14th st. m. ubject: The Situatio the Needle Trades, peice Da . Gastonia Branch 1.D. second’ flocr” room: 10. Vnwetiets Self Defense." German Branch No. 43 LUD. saree thd gecona ae ifs Frank hoot: Branch LL.D. Meete at 8 > m. at 6 Graham Ave. FRIDAY— Will hold a . eture at 8 p. m. at their clubrooms, 133 Second Ave. Sub- i “The Fi ar Plan of the So- | ¥let Union." All workers should learn the meaning of ae great mas- _ terpiece of the Soviet Workers. for your ticket according to the sise of your pocket. The club invites all Workers to come any evening between 7 and 11.30 p. m. and take part in ell sports and in Problems of workers. Harlem peasy Youth Club Meets at 1492 Madison Ave. Workers invited. iscussions on the Au . Steve Kent ovis Br. LL. ‘Meats at 70 sharp at 108 1, 14th St. Important business, satURDAY— -——- Party Phy wen by C. uae, at 39 W. iléth A or the benefit of the Ww es Apt. 12, rai dmission, 2 de Ball Given by baer? oryin . “gratklg Beanet 15. ter Ave He got | § POLICE TORTURE JATERD WORKEP Victim Because Cop Got Ticked NEW YORK.—The capitalist press} is making a great propoganda point of the arrest in the demonstration | Tuesday at city hall of a worker ac- evsed of licking a cop in sincle-| handed .combat and later found to have a bank deposit of $2,500. This wor Isadore Boguslaff, an) A. F. of L. member and a painter | out of work for three months, having | rele don $1,000 bail, was in-| ewed by the Daily Worker yes- y and told the facts of the} e. He didn’t hit the cop. se has the $2,500 which the capi- such a stir about his savings for hard Teak support of his sister, id, even now prenar- s operation on Jan. ter's husband has been for three years. Botuslaft was not in the demon- tion. After the con rot the worst laff walking by. a victim. A gang of cops, armed with black- | S, seized him after arrest and him up. Then they locked him a police wagon and kicked him in ‘9 fece. At police headquarters they | d this helpless prisoner in the ch end beat him all over again | with blackjacks. They then ordered him to take off | his coat so they could beat him |hafder. He was so nearly uncon- scious he couldn't, so they tore his | coat off and began beating him again, in the face, over the head, etc. One |erabbed a chair and hit Boguslaff | twice over the head with it. unconscious, but was given no med- | ical attention. Boguslaff was then taken to the | Tombs prison, where the warden re- fused to accept him without treat- | ment by a doctor, as he did no want Botusiaff to die on his hands. The |nolice were sore on the warden and took Bozuslaff back to the office. Finally they called an ambulance and » doctor took several stitches in his | head. | Boguslaff had so many bandages {around his head when he was seen yesterday that his face was barely visible. They were wild for ‘Bronx Cooperative Now Rests in Hands | of Militant Workers’ NEW YORK.—The Bronx Workers Cooperative has become the sole own- |er of the colony, The Title Company had to give up its assignment and it has nothing more to do with the management of the Cooperative houses. The Cooperative is now on a solid basis. The Cooperators have full management of the colony. Up to/now the colony was managed by a special committee in which the Title Company had the majority, and it also had a well-paid arent collector. Now the colony is back in the hands of the Workers’ Cooperative. All the dirty accusations and tnsin- | TUR we read about signature collections} it after trying to blackjack some | of the febless, police caught Botus- | He fell | ADVENTURES DAILY Or “WwarR i fo! Yoomusy } Goo War | AS Bring | Back \ alg Y\ | bh. 2) 1 ST NOT A MANORA Penny For Wan act t= *'ehten Council to M-et Thursday, Jan. 22nd at Four P. el The Brighton Beach Roe | Council calls upon al] unemployed workers of Brighton Beach to come to a meeting of the Unemployed} Council] on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 4 p. m. to map out a plan of action! for a militant fight against the high} Is prevalent in Brighton as well) as against the increasing number of, eviction cases there, | The growing militancy of the un- employed workers of Brighton Beach} was shown clearly at a meeting of| | the Council on Monday when an ex-| |serviceman got up on the floor and spoke about the way the government| lis robbing those who fought in the} last imperialist war and the neces-| | sity of torganizing into Unemployed | | Councils ,and fighting against the| | bosses and their tools in the White! House for relief, — Brighton Beach Unemployed | Council. ‘ure on Dress “wike at Workers’ School Auditorix The general dress strike is ap- proaching! Every worker in the| needle trade es well as in other in- dustries must understand the sig-| nificance and the line of the coming bitter struggle in order to rally and | organize the workers and to consoli- | | date our ranks against the bosses and | misleaders of labor. The ‘Workers | | Forum has secured Comrade Irving} | Potash, secretary of’ the Needle| | Trade Workers Indusirial Union, to} |speak on “The Significance of the, | Coming Dress Strike” this Sunday, | Jan. 25th, 8 p. m. at the Workers’! School Auditorium, 35 E. 12th St. | second floor. The lecture will systematically cover the ruthless exploitation of the | bosses, the radicalization and revolu- tionary struggle of the workers, the! strike breaking role of fascist. -lead- ers of the A. F. L., like Sigman, etc. | the Lovestoneites, like Gitlow, Zim-) merman and others and the Trots-| kyites, the vital demands of the} workers and the revolutionary leader- | ship of the Needle Trade Workers) Industrial Union, the Trade Union Unity League and the .Communist |Party. The floor will be open for questions and discussions. Strike is one of the most important | m/! class. The Workers School, which conducts the Workers’ Forum, has} paid increasing attention to the prob- Jem of strike strategy. In the spring jterm, besides many vital courses for training revolutionary cadres, the school will offer @ course in Trade Union strategy, conducted by G. Sis- kind, which will intensively and ex- | tensively cover the problem of strike | : | strategy. - uations of our enemies who tried to | break up our organization have failed. The workers colony in the Bronx has built up some very {mportant in- stitutions which support the révolu- tionary movement. This {s what made our enemies do everything in their power to attempt to break our organization. The social fascists and a few Lovestone followers were very | active in this work. But it was all in vain. Although the workers’ co- | operative has no banks to support it, the workers proved that they are able | stitutions. “ COMRADE IDA GREENFIELD Proceeds for the DAILY WORKEB NEWARK! CONCERT AND DANCE THIS SATURDAY rgb ore hn a 24, 1931 93 Mercer Street, Newark, N. EXCELLENT CONCERT:—Ray Life, soprano in WEX, Erg tote ot ee DAILY P WORKER staff! teward the 30, Sovkino Production and Concert THIS SUNDAY EVENING—JANUARY 25, 1931 1622 Bathgate Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Arranged by the Middle Bronx Workers Club Fund of the DAILY WORKER BRAVERMAN’S FUNERAL WILL ' TAKE PLACE TODAY, JANUARY 22ND AT 10 A. M. AT THE LENOX CHAPEL, 247 LENOX AVENUE, NEAR 122ND STREET. | ALL COMRADES ARE REQUESTED TO ATTEND—THE FAMILY. ADMISSION 25 CENTS NEWARK! ‘Other ee to take care of and protect their in- |! -'LABOR DEFENDER BALL, JAN. 30TH “slebrate “Sixth Year of Pictorial NEW YORK, Jan. 21. — In cele- uration of the sixth anniversary of thé Labor Defender, the only labor pictorial published in the U. S. the International Labor Defense will give @ worker's ball at Webster's Manor, 125 E. 11th St. on Friday evening, January 30th. The revolutionary festival will be celebrated in a very pictorial fashion as benefits a militant picture maga- | zine sirculating so widely amongst the masses. The Labor Defender, of- ficial organ of the International La- | bor Defense has the largest circula- tion of all militant magazines in the | United States and its pictorial side has attracted wide attention through- |"~ out the world because of its revolu- tionary presentation of the life of the Worker. The Labor Defender ball given this January 30th will bring together for an evening of proletarian festivity jall the revolutionary elements and their sympathizers in New York and vicinity where besides the dancing to ‘the music by Ted Eastmond's Redio Syncopators a few numbers of orig- inal entertainment will be provided. Pomberg-Donnelly Operetta at Majestic The Shuberts will present the new cduction of “The Student Prince,” | the Romberg-Donnelly qperetta, at | the Majestic Theatre, beginnine Thursday, Jan. 29, The cast is headed tf by Edward Nell, Elize Gergley, George Hassell, Joseph Toner, Marion Weeks, William Pringle and Marie Stoddard. i Luigi Pirandello’s new play, “As You Desire Me,” with Judith Ander- son, Which is now in its fourth and last week in Chicago, opens here at | Maxine Elliott’s Theatre on Wednes- {day evening, Jan. 28. The 100th performance of Edgar Wallace's “On the Spot” takes place at Edgar Wallace's Forrest Theatre this evening. Primo Carnera has yielded to the call of the footlights. Carnera is making a brief tour of the metro- politan RKO showhouses, starting to- |forms of struggle of the working day at the Jefferson in 14th St. and| playing another important. engage- ment at the Hippodrome this Sat- ‘urday. ‘OR SALE:—Sh Sewing hag a eo reasonable om, Daily We “9%. 13th Street, New York City. ith PUDOVKIN, DIRECTOR LEADING ROLE PRODUCED BY MESBARPOFILM OF moscow TH STREET PLAYHOUSE }} 52 WEST 8TH ST.. Between Fifth and Sixth Aren.-Spring 5005 POPULAR PRICES—CONTINUOUS NOON TO MIDNIGHT ALL RUSSIAN PROGRAM—AMERICAN PREMIERE “ateway of the Carcasus’ sovkino visit among strange people * “Morozko” A Soviet Fairy Tale % rH AVENUE PLAYHOUSE 66 FIFTH AVE.—Algonquin 7€61-Direction: Jes, R. Fltenler POPULAR PRICES—CONTINUOUS NOON TO MIDNIGHT - ‘ MORNING BILL WORKER > "7 HouRsSA Day SDAY WEEK No WAGE OOTS|= NO SPEED-UP Last Two Days! LEO TOLSTOY'S DRAMATIC NOVEL “The Living Corpse” MORNING FREIBEIT COSTUME BALL | Saturday Eve:, January %4 | Madison Sates Garden TICKETS 5c; IN ADVANCE 50 CENTS 35 EAST TWELFTH STREST, NEW YORE, W or es , SEW YOrK. TAU RSDA™. TANG ARY 2%, 1991 —Wor ers! Defend Your Soviet Take ACOT In Waces. sda Rea ey NET ORGANIZE REVOLUTIONARY bon UNIONS OF TRAnE UNION OX UNITY LEAGUE AND Tae Pathotland!-- PLOYED COUNCILS Dev ARE PAY THEY ARE Few —- You Fancy Leather Goods Workers Meet Tonight at Six O'clock Sharp NEW YORK.—A special member- ship meeting of the Fancy Leather Goods workers will be held tonight at 6 p. m. at Stuyvesant High School at, 15th St., between First and Second Aves. ‘The question to be taken up at this meeting will be a report of the pres- ent conditions in the trade and as unemployment tax. The right wing leadership which is in control of this union with its class collaboration policies has brought about a condition where union con- ditions do not prevail any more in the leather goods shops. It is there- fore expected that tonight's meeting ewill be well attended and a hot dis- cussion, about the treacherous policy of the administration should take. place, MOBILIZE FOR DRESS STRIKE Albany. March for Dis- cussion The strike of the dressmakers scheduled to take place in the,middle of February, will be one of the main points on the order of business that ‘will be discussed at the regular meet~- ing of the Trade Union Unity Coun- ¢il in conjunction with the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has called a united front conference of| delegates from, all unions, leagues, workers’ fraternal organizations, to- gether with delegates from all needle trades shops and organizations. The final organizing of this conference will be discussed at tonight's meeting of the Trade Union Unity Council. ‘The other main important item on the agenda will be the strengthening ef the Unemployed Council and the | organizing of the Hunger March to Albany which will leave New York on February 19th. The plan for the election of a minimum of 500 un- employed workers to march, and to mobilize all forces in support of the W. I. R., will be outlined tonight. The | W. I. R. which will be responsible for | food, clothing, and shelter for the marchers between New York and Al- bany and back to New York again, is organizing a Tag Day for January $1 and Feb. 1. {int'l Lahor. Defense Bazaar Will Be Held February 19 to 22 NEW YORK.—Funds to fight the Proposals of the fascist Fish Com- mittee, funds to save foreign-born workers from deportation to fascist countries, funds to defend workers thrown into jail for militant activity, will be provided by. the big annual bazaar of the New York District. of the International Labor Defense, to held Feb. 19 to 22. inclusive, at ‘ar Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave, With the’ bazaar only one month away and many preparations io be made, the New York District of the TL. D. has issted an appeal to all organizations, as well as to tndividu- ats, to get busy at cnce and send in their articles to the district 1. L. 0. vbless Capmakers. Form Council, Send Reps to o Joint Board NEW YORK.—On Monday after- noon the unemployed capmakers held an open forum in Manhattan Ly- ceum 66 E. ourth St. For the first time the unemployed capmakers had an opportunity to discuss the terrible plight they are in, thanks to Za- ritzky’s misleadership. The meeting elected a committee of 9 unemployed capmakers to present before the joint council of the anion the following demands, which were adopted unanimously by the workers at the meeting: (1) The unemployment fund be paid out to the unemployed at once without discrimination against any- body and that arrears of dues not be | teducted from the payments of this fund. (2) That @ committee of unem- }loyed control and pay out the un- | omployment fund. (3) The incoming jobe and their division among the workers be un- der the strict control of a committee of unemployed: | (4) The joint council shall have only on organizer and that his sal- ary shall be no more than $30 4 week. (3) Temporary jobe” be abolished altogether. And a few other important de- Party Makes Plans for Working Woman Conference, Jan. 24) NEW YORK.—The Communist Party recognizes that no struegle of the working class can be effective unless the mass of the working class are drawn into the struggle. A working women's conference has been. arranged by the Communist Party for Saturday, Jan. 24, at 2 p. m, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Ir- ving Pl., in connection with Interna- tional Women’s Day, which takes place on March 8th. At this conference the working wo- men will be mobilized for a campaign | against high rents, the high cost of living, against wage-cuts and for un- employment insurance. This cam- paign will be very intensive for the period of February and will culmin- ate in mass women’s demonstrations on March 8, International Women’s Day. All working-class organizations, all shor employing working women, are urged to elect delegates and send them to this most important con- ference. FOUR DEPORTEES SPEAK AT MEET Four militant. workers, who are faced with deportation to four dif- ferent fascist countries, will sound a call to struggle against the new born at a mass meeting tomorrow wave of persecutions of the foreign- (Friday) night at 8 o'clock at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. The four workers, Guido Serio, Eduardo Machado, Sadaichi Kenmotsu, and ‘Tao Hsuan Li are facing deportation respectively to Italy, Venezuela, Ja- pan and China. Arranged by the New York District. the meeting will mobilize the work- of the International Labor Defense, ers of New York for a determined struggle to save these four and many other foreign-born workers whom the department of labor is trying to send to certain death or long imprison- mentment in the unspeakable dunge- ons of the fascist terror. Besides the four workers, other speakers will include J. Louis Engdahl, National Secretary of the International La- bor Defense, and I. Amter, New York! District Organizer of the Communist | Party. Robert W. Dunn, head of the| | mands, fice, 799 ; ‘The following are the names of | (1c 70 Broadway, Rony 410. Labor Research Association, will be! those in the committee elected to go with these demands to the joint coun- cil: M. Rosensweig, R. Shalman; N. Oakman, Ab. Cohen, Ab. Kaimowitz, L. Greenberg, 8. Bigelman, H. Fried- ''man, J. Glazer, OF “STORM OVER ASIA,” IN THE na ae kao “Pranks of Jack Frost” Patterns in Snow and Tee sw aeaue Waa a lest remaining easie of eld Sovkino Newsreel Fesddiens, Oe ted athe Latest views of events in the USSR VERN SMITH, DAILY WORK 'CAMEO~® MIDNIGHT GUILD Mie att EG manta nace fom ae TATA FREES. ae FREIHEIT AL-YEMEN | THE ONLY nytt nape ee MADE OF THIS ARABIAN COUNTRY and BROADWAY WIS, 1789 AMUSEMENTS The TREASON TRIAL in MOSCOW H 2ND_ BIG WEEK-— The Picture Different PANY ALL Power 1f IN THe WoRKERS Hanid/. 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Welsh, business manager of the Liberator, George Siskind, representing the Communist Party, Sol Harper, na- tionally known agitator, Sam Nessin, secretary of the Unemployéd Ooun- cils of Greater New York, and Werb- ert Newton, secretary of the Leegue of Struggle for Negro Righta. After a rousing speech by Messin the workers unanimously’ ehdorved the Unemployment Insurance Bill. They formed themselves into a Woy and voted the two dollars collected to. the national office in payment of @ certificate of affiliation and mi bership fee. ma onan ead j puts New York in first place in the to the LSNR. 6 is expected that drive to affiliate one thousand groups Elizabeth will follow with “Chioag® and Cleveland trailing. behind. Active Worker Dies: Workers Pay Ho Jack Ruth, member Comm Party, Section 5, died yesterday at Ris home, 63 Prospect Ave. Next Sun- day at 230 p. m. the workers of New’ York at 785 Westchester Ave. will pay homage to their departed comrade and fellow worker. 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