The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1931, Page 2

Danbury Strikers Block Jail Sentence for Strike Picket Mass Pressure Scares Boss-Controlled Court as Local Lawyers Afraid:of Lee Bosses Refuse to Defend Striker—Strike Strong DANBURY, Conn., Jan. 26—Strik-, the workers in the court, that the ers and friends crowding the* Lee~| court, anxious as it was to serve the controlled court today prevented. 8) bosses, dared not sentence her out- jail sentence against Nellie Shahee,| right to jail, but resorted to the tac- fur striker charged with break of| tics of fining her ten dollars instead. peace and assault last Friday on the! The amount was speedily collected picket line. With the Danbury lawyers afraid| to handle the case because of the tremendous power of the Lee interests and the court refusing a postpone-| ment in order to obtain out of town counsel, every attempt was made to railroad the defendant to jail. | Taking the stand in her own de-| fense, Nelli heen excoriated the rotten health ditions in the Lee shor ps, asked the judge how he would to have to work under such con- | declared she had only at-} ed to persuade the scab against ) on ~e ner week strikers, af-| ation to fight wage finish even if she goes to} so. One slimy policeman | ho waspreviously posing as a “friend” of the strikers testified that Nellie had be: scab even though this particular vermin was not present at the time. So strong was the sentiment of | by sympathizers in the courtroom. The strike continues in the Na- tional and Eastern shops. Only a handful of strikers have gone back. The rest of the scabs are imported French Canadians who don’t under- stand about the strike. These are learners, anyhow, and are spoiling | skins. ‘The strikers are determined to car- ry on the fight until the wage cut is withdrawn. Over 200 strikers and |non-strikers, fur and hat workers, have joined the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union within the past few days, in preparation for later !* strike against wage cut campaign. A committee is being organized to commence campaign for enforcement health and compensation laws and introduction of new laws. At the same time, the union stresses to the workers the danger of dependence on the courts and the necessity of union organization and struggle to enforce laws. FOREIGN BORN WORKERS CONFER) Workers Rally to Pro- tect Them The Fish Committee, in its report ding the “investiga~ in this recom- foreign foreign- s the rage to refuse starva~ om-born worl: ns of this hip to those ppose wage- oppose capi- s shalt ap- r large sum of toney ‘tor 2 pr of the foreign born In order to show that_these pro- ave not merely propaganda 1e foreign born they are ac- by the practices of the Z recent years the:<ic- ign-born workers*in- eat extent. Accordiny us offi¢ialg, it sing regardlegs? of In somé-tifies established pelice : ision, e. &. in New York; the “Duro to check up on crimisal Just. recently the foreign-born rg faced such treatment &s is d to believe true. We hear’ of two instances, in Detroit, Mich, and | Hoboken, N. J., where a special de- | tective squad made raids upoh.work- | shops, lining up all workers and re- questing of all foreign born that! they give all details upon their legal ntrance into this country. Any esitation or non-recollection regard: Tg some of the details on the part of the workers caused arrest on the spot for “further investigation,”: This is only the beginning, “Such practices will increase with much greater tempo if the working class does not stop them. All this only emphasizes the neces- sity to broaden and strengthen the movement for the protection of the foreign born and forces this move- ment to weave its way into*the work- shops. In the factories, mills and mines committees should be organ- ized consisting of foreign born, na- | tive white and Negro workers, to lead the workers to fight any discrimina- tory practices as part of the general fight against wage-cuts, bad working conditions, etc. ‘The local conferences for the pro- tection of the foreign born that are in the process of organization must consider these xecent developments in the discrimination against foreign born very seriously. The New York Local Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born will be held in Irving Plaza, Irving} Pl and 15th St., on Feb. 8, at 11 a.m. ‘The other cities, especially the great industrial cities like Detroit, Chi- cago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Bos- ton, ete. must follow. Report your activities in the labor press. All or- yonizaticns shall respond to the call for inereased activity for the protec- tion of the foreign born. For more detailed information and tor “Outline for Speakers” refer to the National Committee for Protec- von of Foreign Born, Room 505, 32 Union Square, New York City. ey and Fraternal WEDNESD, Office Work Torin. * Welfare Schemes and Of- fice Workers.” 6.30'p, m, at Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. THURSDAY— Workers Laboratory Theatre Hewins rebeursalx for a number of Y¥— ’ Edventional Meeting ' judge right defend themselves in his court, | | declaring he would not listen to any | (DENY YONKERS ‘REDS USE OF HALT Cops Bar 2,000 at Lenin Memorial Meet YONKERS, Jan. 26.—After accept- ing a deposit on Panonia Hall for a nin Memorial Meeting on Sunday, members of the St. Joseph Society, owner of the hall, co-operated with the lecal police in preventing some 2,000 workers who had gathered for tue memorial from using the hall. The same chief of police who a few devs before had decided that “Com- sts need no permit provided necting is held in a hall,” sent © to block the sidewalks and pre- orkers from entering the hall. Alderman Joseph Gonda, an active mber of the St. Joseph Society, supporting the management in ccepting money for the and then barring the meeting, in | a statement to the boss press: can say for me and every r of our society that the Reds 1 never hold a meeting in Panonia Hell.” “All of our members are intensely riotic,” he added. In the meantime, Milton Weich and an Liss, two workers arrested in nection with a hunger march Jan. 10, go to trial today in Judge Boote’s | court for a final decision. What that decision will be can be judged from the fact that last week this same refused thé défendants speeches. The boss press of Yonkers support- | ing the police attacks on the workers, gleefully recording the fact that even the halis are barred to working-class meetings and demonstrations. | EMONSTRATION HELD TOMORRO’) At Noon for: the Dress Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) represented through their officials. As usual, a series of open-air meetings will be conducted this after- | noon in the dress market. Tomorrow | at 2p. m., right after the demonstra- tion, there will be am: open forum at Bryant Hall, organized by the Inter- national Workers’ Order. Olgin and Hyman will speak, The Youth Educational Committee of the N. T. W. I. U, will hold ite meeting in the office of the union Friday, to work out plans to reach the thousands of young workers in the industry and to mobilize them into an effective force in the coming strike. Write for the Strike Bulletin. The Needle Trades Workers’ in- dustrial Union will publish at fre- quent intervals a strike-bulletin con- | taining all the news and information in connection with the strike activi- ties. Workers in the shops are re- quested to describe conditions in the shops. Write on one side of the paper. Write short and in ink. Saturday afternoon there was held a meoting of the Cloakmakers’ United | Committee, The order of Schlesinger in connec- tion with cloakmakers in the dress industry which ailms~at providing scabs during the coming dressmak- ers’ strike was denounced by every speaker, and the conference adopted @ unanimous resolution to call on all workers to combat this strike-break- ing agency. A meeting will be called in the near future by the cloakmak- ers’ United Front Committee in con- nection with this struggle. now pinvs, More members are noed- ¢ to take rt. No talnt necesdaty Report at 131 28th St, bn Mon- lays, Wanerdn and Fridays. at 8 »%™, Second floor. Get a 1931 Datly Worker calendar free with a six The Cloakmakers’ United Front Committee expresses its readiness to tender every possible assistance to the dressmakers in their coming strike. Yesterday unemployed dressmakers jmet in the Industrial Union*head- * arily, the | : ADV KY Page te DAILY WORKER, NEW YORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27; 1931 ES OF ‘BILL ‘WORKER ra | OF THEN2 IN 15 NOW READY 0 ESTIGATIONS ACTIVITIES (A THU" SUBMIT THE RESULTS OF RE COUNTRY. a EMT EMER, THe HAMFISH COMMITEE S| "WE HAVE BEN NUESTIGATI In| FoR 10 MONTHS ATA Cost” OF (0,000 Pounds. 1HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION THINK OF WANTING 10 HANCE THING /I WE ARE LIVING IN Tae FREEST. COUNTRY I HAVE i MoTHe WwoRLD! LENT TF PEOPLE SSTM CRAZY Tats 15 00 REPORT, OKING! BUT I Sounds THe PEOPLE WHO ArRE DOTN POS THE FIGHTIN ABE UT, FARMERS AN bsg BECOMENS: ey ONF EO. WASHIATGTO EN pearel pola SAM ADAMS AND Tom JEFFERSOAT Be recone THAY TOM ND ALE: all BE DerorreD. VLTON Je CCONOES SH ENJOM'S UNION Court Orders Workers Not to Strike | COHOES, N. Y., Jan. 26. — An in- | junction against the Needle Trades / | Workers Industrial Union, ordering lit not to “stir up trouble” in the Nir- | enberg and Salzman shirt factory | here, has been issued by Justice Wal- | ter Bliss. This is a shop of 300 workers. The employer ordered a wage cut. The! Needle Trades Workers Industrial) | Union distributed leaflets calling on all to stop the cut by a strike. The boss then withdrew the cut, tempor- and discharged five members of the N. T. W. I. U. shop commit- | tee there. They were taken back, jand then discharged again. At one time the police were called out when the boss heard that Joseph Goldstein of the shop committee was distributing leaflets. After that the injunction was ob- | tained, against both Goldstein and | the union, prohibiting them from dis- j tributing any more leaflets or speak- ing to the workers. The N. T. W. I. U. points out to} these workers that if they do not| ;continue to build their organization, ' the wage cut will be put in force a: a moment's notice. “IARY DALTON 0 “TRIAL THURSDAY | Charged W VithHeckling Green in Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga. Jan. 26.—Mar; Dalton, one of the six Atlanta de- iendants who fece death if convicted | of organizing Negro and white work- ers here, goes on trial in another case Thursday. This is the case arising out of her attendance at a meeting at which | William Green, president of the A. F L., was the speaker. The meeting was held last year when the A. F. lof L. was making a bluff at organ- jizing the Southern workers, but ac- | tuatly only trying to interfere with |the organization work of the Na-| | tional Textile Workers’ Union. Mary Dalton asked Green some! uncomfortable questions, and as aj result is now charged with “disor- | derly conduct in that she interrupted a@ public meeting.” The program of) the prosecution is evidently to represent, her in the death trial later as “already a con- vict.” *'oneer Arrested For Distributing Leaflets; Release? NEW YORK. — Charles PePrsilly, @ 12-year old Young Pioneer and. 9} member of the Youthfull Guardsman group, was pinched last Friday for distriputing leaflets which announced a youthful guardsman’s hike. Charlie tells of the trial that was held in court yesterday. “The bull complained that I had violated a city law which prohibited distribution of leaflets. The I. L. D. lawyer said that there was no such ordinance. The | bull and the judge were astounded to think that their plan had failed: After sending clerks and bailiffs around for about half an hour, in search of something to hold me by, they finally dug up a street cleaning law which prohibited throwing papers on the streets Finally, they had to admit that they had not seen any papers thrown around on the street. After more digging for more ordinances, he finally had to kick the case out.” quarters and were addressed by Fleiss, Fliani and others on the con- ditions in the trade, on the necessity of fighting against piece-work and its “bootleg styles” by which the bosses simply swindle the worker out of his wages. ‘The unemployed were urged to be at the demonstration tomorrow and to take part in the organization of the dress strike, for seven hours a day and five days a week, with the following minimum wages guaran- | he has several thousand beds not in | was stew, bread and coffee at 4 a.m. ‘\ BREAD STRIKE DRESSMAKERS! What About Your Shop? NEW YORK.—The strike in the dress industry is nearing. The con- tions in the shops are appalling. Lvery worker is requested to tell in just a few lines of the condi- tions under which the dressmakers are slaving at the present time. 1—What is your organization doing to assist the dressmakers’ strike? .. 2.—How much did you contfibute to the strike fund? 3—How much did you collect from your friends? 4.—Will your organization be spresented at the Jan. 31 Con- arence? It IS YOUR DUTY TO DO YOUR SHARE! DO IT NOW! "JE ON TABLE IN CITY FLOP HOUSE Tobless Council Halts Another Eviction NEW YORK.—The director of the municipal flop house on First Ave. and 25th St. has been boasting that use. For a while he kept his boast | by throwing everybody out after five | nights’ lodging, but now the misery | is so great that the place is crowded | enyway. Saturday night there were | 299 men without beds at the flop house. They slept on the mess tables d benches on the pier. ‘The Daily Worker correspondent got in at 11.30 p.m. He reports that the first food Sunday these men were given oat- meal, bread and ‘coffee and thrown out. The Down Town Council of the Unemployed yesterday demonstrated in front of 167 Suffolk St. where the landlord was intending to dispossess Nathan Schier, unemployed worker, and his family. The eviction was postponed to} ‘Thursday, and the Down Town Coun- cil is holding meetings to build a ten- ents league in that neighborhood. Some 2,000 pobless were trying without result to get jobs from the Tammany agency at Leonard and Lafayette St. yesterday. A thousand to 1,500 came around the speakers of the Down Town Council, and 39 joined it after the meeting. When a policeman saw Labor Unities being sold, he came over, grabbed one, and tried to interfere. The jobless drove him away by their hooting and jeer- ing. Seventy-five Labor Unities and 100 Daily Workers were sold. HOUSEWIVES CALL Thirteen thousand skilled workers, technicians, and engineers from the United States, Germany and other | European countries will go this year, at the Russian government's invita~ tion, to jobs which are waiting for them in the Soviet Union. Seven thousand of these will be skilled workers. Together with more than 6,000 foreign specialists already in Russia, they will play an important part in pushing forward the great work of construction of new factories, power plans and transport, called for in 1931, the third year of the Five- Year Plan of industrialization. The great enthusiasm of the Rus- sian masses for the Five-Year Plan, which guarantees an of their standard of living, and is bringing socialism to the country-side as well as to the city, is reflected in the election of the local Soviets, which are now taking place throughout this gigantic country. Characteristic feat- ures of the present elections are the tremendous turn-out of the vote, and pation of the peasants, who formerly have been backward but now are ever-rising | especially the whole-hearted partici- | 13,000 Trained Workers Get Jobs in 1931 in Soviet Union: the collectivization of agriculture (uniting of small farms into large- | scale ones which are_operated col- | lectively). All persons over eighteen years of age have the vote, unless they belong to categories deprived of civic rights —criminals, lunatics, priests and pri- vate employers of labor. All of these | belong to a disappearing section of | the population, and even now form less than three per cent of the total. | Inthe se elections which are now | in progress throughout tle country, | the “foreign” workers, technicians | and engineers are being urged to vote and even propose their own\candid- ates for the Soviets, a procedure per- missible under the Constitution. Quite different from the treatment which foreign born workers receive in the United States! But then, in this country the government is run by and for the capitalists, while in the Soviet Union, under the workers’ gov- ernment, the international solidarity of labor is practiced as a matter of | course. NEW YORK.—The dressmakers increase the misery.of the workers. The Needle Trades Workers’ Indust: for a strike. workers in their struggles, Help the dressmakers’ strike! Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, Workers and Workers Organizations! Support the Dressmakers Strike! them are-slaving under the most appalling conditions. partnership with the company union, are doing everything possible to are about to strike. Thousands of The bosses, in Sweatshop conditions are changing daily from bad to worse. The dressmakers must strike against slavery. rial Union is mobilizing the workers The strike of the dressmakers must be supported by the workers in all other industries. The victory of the dressmakers will help all other Send in contributions to the Needle 131 W. 28th St. Every individual worker and every workers’ organization should answer this call! ONLY U.C. STOPPED FAMILY EVICTION Catholic ‘Church Did Not Help New York. As I am a neighbor of the Mac- Donald family, who were about to be evicted from their home until the Unemployed Councils came to or- ganize and defend, I would like you to know that the workers here are in sympathy and ready to help in this work. I was visiting Mrs. MacDonald when a man from the Boys Catholic Club came and tried to tell her that she was going to extremes in calling the Communists to help her and that if she would have her baby baptized in the Catholic Church then they would be willing to help her. Church Wouldn’t Help. Mrs. MacDonald told him that she had gone to the Catholic society first and they had refused to do a thing ' Demand Reduction in j274, that if tt had not been for the Price of Bread CHICAGO, Ill.—A bread strike was declared by the Mothers’ League and the Trade Union Unity League on the northwest side of Chicago. Housewives demand six cents a pound on bread instead of ten cents, as they are now paying. At @ mass meeting of three hun- dred workers, the strike was ratified and a general strike call planned for Thursday. A Strike Committee of fifty was elected to conduct the strike. Picketing started on Saturday. The bakery bosses attacked the women, destroying their signs and slugging the pickets. Benovitz Brothers en- couraged the attack and after the third attack on the pickets they re- ceived a thrashing from thé work- ers, who defended themselves, Fourteen strikers have already been arrested. Mass picketing has been called for Monday morning. Children are being mobilized for, picket duty. The International La- bor Defense is on the job, defending the pickets, bailing them out and im- Unemployed Councils she would al- ready be thrown into the street. Besides although I used to be a Catholic, I can see now that their helping the poor is all a fake. Be- cause I know of other families on 56th St. who have dispossess notices and they were married in the church and hed their babies baptized in the church and now when they appeal for help they have been turned down. So I told this gentleman just what I thought of him and from now on I am going to take my stand in the working-class movement and against the churches and foke cherities who only make believe to help the poor people, —A. OB. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES mediately providing them with legal ecuncil and defense. teed: $44 per week for operators, $50 for pressers and cutters, $32 for dra- pers, $28 for finishers and and $20 for floor girls, ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! ( wh Drempecte mame reer, Glenn & Jenkins & Carl Francis & Co. 4 WORKER JAILED IN DANVILLE. DANVILLE, Va.—Edward Sutlift was fined $25 and sentenced to thirty days in ail, for trying to stop an eviction of a striker’s family. The militiaman accused him of cursing and refusing to: obey orders. He prodded Sutliff with his bayonet and arrested him, 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Quotations from Marx, Lenin, etc., in the first annual Daily Worker Calendar for 1931. Free with six months subscription or \renewal. registering their full endorsement of | "No Jobs in N.Y.’ Bosses Admit Unemployed workers driven to New York City in the hope of getting a job will be “warned by radio of the difficulties of |] obtaining positions in this city.” is is the solution for starv- | ing workers offered by the New York Junior Board of Trade and the Advertising Club to “help men in other parts of the country.” Fobless Daily Worker readers are not subdued by such radio salve, be it ever so “helpful.” Unemployed Councils don’t go in for “discussions.” They, put up a fight for bread, free rent and Unemployment Insurance. (60,000 circulation news page 3.) PROTEST BUILDING TRADE ACCIDENTS MANY CHEER Hear Newton, Foster, Moore, Tyler, Ete. NEW YORK. — An enthusiastic crowd of Negro and white workers last night pledged their support to the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and its official organ, the Lib- erator, in a stirring mass meeting at St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th St. The meeting was called to rally support for The Liberator, and to make a report on the St. Louis con- vention of the League, with a view to popularizing the decisions of the convention, amang which is the de- mand for the right of self-determina- tion and state unity for the Negro masses in the Black Belt, with con- fiscation of the land for the Negro and poor white farmers who work the land. One of the principal speakers of the evening was William Z. Foster, who is a member of the Executive | rea i Committee of the League elected at | Bosses’ Greed Is the] tne st. touis convention. Foster wae . ? " followed by Herbert Newton, national | Chief Factor secretary of the League, who made |. NEW YORK. — Protesting the lear tobe pecdirapecomtersay ed | murderous negligence that resulted in the death of a worker when a scaf- |fold broke at a construction job on Long Island, the Building Trades | Workers Industrial Union held a good | demonstration on the job yesterday. League speakers addressed 75 to 100 workers and received an immedi- ate response. When one of the small | fry bosses tried to break up the meet- ing but the workers sprang to the de- | tense of the speakers. Showing the true cause of the great | number of building construction acci- dents the League distributed a leaf- let which said in part: “On a new construction job lo- cated at 84th St. and 34th Ave., Jack- son Heights, Long Island, three build- ing workers have met their death as a result of the terriffic and merciless speed-up forced upon them. The con- tractors on this job did not want to see~the necessity of afeguarding the lives of workers by the use of a proper scaffold. “The expense of a good scaffold was saved at the cost of the lives of three workers through the use of a scaffold condemned as unfit and dangerous for use. ‘Profits and more profits’ this is the watchword of the building bosses. Lives of workers are cheap, say the bosses, good scaffolds are ex- pensive.” AMUSEMENTS | ~~ Theatre Guild Prodactions —— Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD 3%., 8272. fves. 8:50 Mts. Th. & Sat, 2:40 MIDNIGHT AVON Wy; 3th: Fxes. 8:50 Mts. Th, & Sat 2:40 “Elizabeth the ¢ Queen Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovsky, Joanna Root and others pba BECK FEA 45th St of Broadway teva, stot ate, Phe & Bat. 2:40 | IVIC REPERTORY "th st. 61> Av ations 8:90 ‘Boe $1 $1.50 Mate Th @ Bat. 3:30 FVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tongiht .. “CAMILLE” ‘Tom. Nigh N’S HOUSH” Seats 4 woe! . at Box Office, and Town Hall, 113 » 43 Street mite BURKE 84 tror NOVELLO ina rousing, rollicking’ riot of laughs ‘THE TRUTH GAME Phoebe ‘FOSTER 4 ola TREE ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 41th Street, Went of Broadway Evenings 8:k0, Mate, Wed. & Sat, at 2230 Saturday Evening, JAZZ BAND ‘Proletarian Support for Communist Press’ SOVIET COSTUME BALL WORKERS CENTER 35 East 12th Street Arranged by Unit 2, Section 1; Downtown Young Communist League Proceeds for the DAILY WORKER and the YOUNG WORKER Sorotti for the Young Communist League, and George Tyler, for the International Labor ‘Defense, pledged their respective organizations to mil- itant support of the program of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The meeting was then wound up with a speech by Richard B. Moore, speak- ing for the League of Struggle. 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