The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1931, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1931 Needle ae ‘Negro League Rally Harlem Dress Makers Joint Mass Meeting at St. Luke’s Hall On Thursday to Explain Fight On Sweat Shop Conditions to Have Best Speakers NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and the li ue for Struggle for Negro Rights are co-operating to hold a great mass. meeting Thursday at 8 p. m. at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th St. es- pecially to explain the purposes of the coming dressmakers’ strike to Harlem workers. Speakers will be Richard B. Moore, of the League for for Negro Rights; Irving’ Negro organizer; Jack Smith e same union, and Fred Bie- napp, one of the most accom~- i orators and leader of the shoe | n Brooklyn recently, Discrimination. Industrial Union | to Harlem Negro, pointed out: ireds of Colored dressmakers forced to walk the streets g fo ra job, The red a hh workers work or two days each week. In some the Colored workers are not Inc ops, Colored work- the ed ers and Spanish workers are hired and paid less than the white workers, “Piece work, speed-up, home work and long hours are being forced upon you as the price you have to pay for a miserable living. Thousands of you are turned out into the streets as a result of the ever greater speed-up. You are compelled to slave nine and ten hours daily, including Saturdays and Sundays. “In order to still more reduce your earnings and to drive you to still greater speedup, the bosses have drawn into industry, thousands of young workers of schol age, who slave for next to nothing. Everything under the sun is being done to reduce you to a state of beggary.” The call urges the dressmakers of Harlem to join the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union to or- ganize committee of action in their places of work, to be ready to answer the strike call in February. The strike is to smash the sweat shop conditions, and fight for an increase in wages, minimum wage scale, a shorter work day and unem- ployment insurance. SPRIERS SMASH |HOTELS CUT PAY LL.G.W. SELL-OUT, Overwhelming Defeat}! DOUBLE-UP WORK Food Union Prepares for Dubinsky Gang NEW YORK.—The Local 38 strikers | ve voted down by an overwhelming | ity the proposition of the em ers and of Dukinsky to send them | : h a complete defeat, | d at once and/ a to be fired each six | nd with no right to\ stop- | firs rs’ meeting Monday at} Hall found Dubinsky's | on the job, urging that} ds be accepted. e committee, I proposition. A} spt had been jam- left wing took thé” floor and | opped it up with Jacobs, Dubin- and Co. The proposition to this | Drive in Manhattan NEW YORK.—Wage cuts, sweeping and severe, are the order of the day among the unorganized cafeteria and ~ | hotel workers here. Seventeen cham-| ber maids quit recently in the Hotel Manger when the nearly impossible task of 25 rooms was placed on them. They had been working 18 rooms. Along with this they suffer from a| ten per cent wage cut. The Childs Restaurant workers got @ seven-and-a-half per cent cut in wages about a month ago, and were The at the same time given more work/ promised technical help. Sam Nesin, | to do. Clerk’s Local Dissolves, The Food Workers’ Industrial Union © committee at | alone leads the struggle against this| ganized jobless here had no money, | wage cutting and speed up drive of the employers. About a month ago a whole local of the United Fruit Clerks in the Bronx dissolved and prepared for by the officials | about 30 of its former members joined | OU'LL CET Your BONUS - Bur IAs, GETTING MINE Now, THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER ES We D lant: FoR US. BUT Yourr GET YOUR Bonus AFTER 0, Im TAKEN CARE OF ALL I CAN Ger SET ni of A — The Vets Get the Bolognyus — RAFTED YoUTo “I J You'er BE TAKEN Cae! OF Witt THAT Bonus D {Some Day werer rf 1919 1921 1929 AND WILL RUIN INES TE You Ask FoR | 00 KRE OMY a gocher ATRICTE NO'FLA haAver* LUON SAYS Your: Bonus WIbh Cause & BILLION Bond} Wrto You Fou For -THEY Con THEIRS WHILE | You Ger THe BoLognys ony, 1931 BIG CONFERENCE ON DRESS STRIKE Pledges 30,000 to Aid |Unemployed Spanish Speaking Jobless in Tampa Organizing NEW YORK. — A letter received in Spanish from the Committee Against Unemployment in Tampa, Needle Workers Florida, tells of organizing there un- der difficulties, with the mayor sum- _ NEW YORK.—Delegates number- | moning the organizers in to threaten | ing 545, from hundreds of branches | them with dire actions if they con- | Of workers’ organizations, leagues, | tinue in what Mayor D, D, Mackay | Schools, unions, etc. met Saturday | cays “perturbing activities.” Brolga in eps eye | Nevertheless the jobless in Tampa in the name of the 30,000 workers |, aaa i 4 they represented, voted full support | will go ahead with their plans to or- to the dressmakers’ strike, soon to be walled. They pledged financial aid | and took up an immediate collection | of substantial proportions, with more | pledged by their organizations. Five | thousand dollars more must be col- | lected before the coming mass meet- | ing, the conference declared. ) 6 Delegate after delegate rose and | pledged the physical presence of | YOUNG WORKER” picket lines whenever the strike | Hold Demonstartion should be called, or in any other way | Ree eat £ jthey can help. Organizations like | Against Police the Office Workers’ Union have | | ganize and to demonstrate, permit or |no permit, no matter what happens Conditions are very bad in Tampa. PROTEST BAN ON Over 500 young workers and work- ing class children participated Sat- urday afternoon in a militant dem- | onstration called in front of the fed- eral post office, 33rd St, and Eighth Ave., to protest against the banning of the Young Worker, Young Pioneer, and Vida Obrera from the mails by the post office authorities. This dem- onstration was the first of a series | Secretary of the Councils of the Un- jemployed in New York, brought | cheers when he said the 8,000 or- | but would make a good picket line | | whenever they were wanted. Negro Ex-Service Man. Cheers also greeted Paul Bever-| \Dresses at 23 Cents Apiece Made by Porto Ricans in Sweatshops (MILK SALES DROP (OFF IN NEW YORK Worker Families Can’t) Buy Necessities one, of actual technical sweatshop conditions in New York dress shops jis that of the Bellito Dress Co. of {160th St. and Third Ave. The same | gesture of helping the impoverished | A few Jewish workers are hired to farmers of New York state, Goevrnor | make dresses for 3 cents a dress. Roosevelt admitted that milk sales in | But the bulk of the work is sent out New York City has fallen off ap-/to Porto Rican and other Spanish- proximately 60,000 cans of fluid milk” | speaking workers, who carry it home per week, The same ratio of decrease |and work all night making the has occurred throughout the state, | dresses. Those who work in the shop he said. jare able to make about $12 to $15 In the effort to hide the fact that | week and their day’s work is from milk sales have fallen off because |g a. m. to 6 p.m. of mass unemployment, wage-cuts and the inability of starving jobless | workers and their families to buy this very necessary item of diet, Roose- velt wants the farmers to believe that the fall in miJk sales is their fault | and that they can overcome it by following the robbers and fakers in| the Dairymen'’s League. “Why is it! not feasible to utilize this mighty | machinery to turn the tide for the| dairy industry?” he asks. He also criticized the dairy farm- ers for “being small consumers of | their own products,” but failed to tell | them how they are to keep any of | their products for home consumption ; under present conditions when they are forced to hand over all they pro- duce to the big distributing corpora- tions at prices that hardly pay them | Down Town Jobless Need Your Presence NEW YORK.—The Down Town Council! of the Unemployed, at the tront of every demonstration and never tired of collecting a few hun- dred signatures for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill is badly in’ need of funds for organization purposes. It often could use a bigger hall than the one at 27 East Fourth St., and wants something for leaflets, etc., in an emergency. To raise funds this council is giving an entertainment, concert and dance at Workers Laboratory Theatre, 131 West 28th St., Friday night, Feb. 6. NEW YORK.—A case, not the only | | ALBANY, Feb. 1.—In a hypreritical | poss has two shops in that building. | Printing Trades Will: | Have Jobless Council; PLANNEW ATTACK ON WIR CAMP, Meet Monday, 1 Pa NEW YORK.—Final plans for ‘a | s printing trades unemployed coungil | Van Etten Fascists Op- were laid at the meeting of the Print- | pose Reopening ing Workers Industrial League last a night at 16 West 21 St. ¥ VAN ETTEN, N. ¥Y., Feb. 1.—Local| An unemployed council is one of fascist elements are busy stirring up rs’ | attacks this summer on the camp are spreading all sorts of lies of threat~ Jening letters received, of murder |threats against those who sent | Holmes and Husa to jail. | | The real basis of the attacks on| |the camp lies in the fear of the local| bosses that the working-class child-| ren in the district will be taught a working-class outlook in place of the {bourgeois ideas taught them at school. The boss press is terribly |concerned over the fact that “every {evening the youngsters met on the |banks of Shepard’s creek and sang} lustily about what the toilers were} going to do with the spoilers and aj jlot of other songs not heard coming | from the lips of American children.” the most immediate needs of the sentiment against the reopening of are unemployed in New York Clty, while-wage cut is following wage cut the Workers’ International Relief = | which ldst year was attacked~by the| The agents of the employers, ‘the AF. of L, leaders, Rouse, Berry, Kaye |leaders, Mabel Husa and Aileen | system” or taxation schemes on rank Holmes, thrown into jail. and file. The workers themselves are for the Workers Unemployment Ine surance Bill. Council is the concrete means of struggle. It will be organized at a 21 St. Every printing worker, whether employed or not, in a union or not, printing workers, thousands of whom the Van Etten Children’s Camp of for those still on the job. | Ku Klux Klen and police and its two) ang others, have forced the “stagger The Kluxers in preparing for their] apidly learning that they must fight The Printing Trades Unemployed meeting Monday at 1 p.m. at 16 West should attend this meeting Algonquin 4-7712 Office Hours: 9 A. M.S P.M. Fri, and Sun. by Appointment Dr. J. JOSEPHSON SURGEON DENTIST 226 SECOND AVENUE Near 14th Street, New Vork City abotage of the strike, was | the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. houdt, Negro worker, speaking in the g tl they were Torced to! matter to a referendum of | The referendum was hled Tuesday | The F.W.LU. is preparing an or- ganization campaign this spring or earlier among the cafeteria of Man- hattan, name of the Workers’ Ex-Service |,Men’s League, when he said that the | | veterans, exploits and staryes them, and would | ot demonstrations and meetings to be called all over the country to pro- test against the banning of these | , both Negro and white, were | three working-class papers from the tired of fighting for a capitalism that | mails” The demonstration on Saturday for their labor and which are an in- The best talent has been volunteered significant. proportion of the prices |W you volunteer to come. th bbers charge the public. SS eED ERE EEUEinan eee sia P Fight discrimination against for- eign born. Negro, White' Masses ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! ‘ Boom 803 DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Phone: Algonquin 8163 Not connected with any 7 New Butcher Shops. d the sell-out was rejected by 246 | otes to 83, | The union has just won a consid- Oust the Misleaders! erable victory in Brighton Beach| The strikers themselves then called Section. The Hebrew Butcher Work- be pleased with the idea of fighting | showed a real willingness and mili- the employers side by side with the | tancy on the part of the young work- militant needle workers, {ers and children to fight for their A significant speech was made by| papers, Although the police bad To Protect Bosses Lynching Terror DEWEY 9916 Office Hoare: membership meeting of Local 38 | €S @ffiliated to the strike breaking| wy tonizht, right after work, at.Im-| United Hebrew Trades announced | crial Lyceum, 55th St. corner of | hey Would use their blanket injunc- | hird Ave. The left wing urges all | ons they have against the Indus- | nembers to come and support the ‘8 Union to “organize 5,000 Kosher | trikers in their demand that the | BUtcher Workers” and “take all the| trike committee be completely re- |SPOPS away from the Food Workers’ rranized, the strike against Berg- |"dustrial Union.” They are always eldt and Goodman and other shops |7®*4Y to go to the boss of a shop| ,e placed in the hands of the strikers vee the Industrial Union has won nd taken away from the treacherous | Petter conditions and offer to grant sadership of I. Jacobs and. the-offi- | him worse conditions if he will give cials of the LL.G.W. them shop control. ‘The strikers number over. 300. The result of the campaign was The article in the Daily Worker on |'hat while the Hebrew Butcher Work- a representative of the Latin Ameri- can organizations, who called on the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union to realize the importance of mobilizing for the strike the 15,000 Spanish-speaking workers in New York. Obermeier of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union pledged the support on’ picket lines of those experienced fighters in strike battles, and an- nounced a tax on all members in his organization to aid the dressmakers’ | strike fund. | The Councils of Working Class | Monday exposing the attempt to sell these strikers into a slave contract was eagerly read by them, and caused much raving on the part of the treacherous officials. NO MEDICAL AID FOR SICK WORKER Tells Typical Story of the Jobless NEW YORK. — Describing the brutalities of the “relief” agencies here, Alex Kuzmenko, an unemployed laborer, told the Daily Worker a tory typical of the tens of thousands | of jobless workers. Thrown out of work last Mare e was evicted from his room and has nee bee nhomeless and ill due to xposure. For months he eked out miserable existence in mission ouses and breadlines. He was told to stay out of the municipal flop- use after staying there five nights. Kuzmenko Sleeps In Garage. For two months Kuzmenko sought citer in a garage on 35th street. cere he contracted a severe ‘cold his head and chest, aggravated by slop he got on the breadlines. sperate, he went into a police sta- n on 42nd st. and demanded aid. e police at firét refused but later led up Bellevue. <uzmenko was kept in Bellevue 2 night and then told to leave the ct day. The cold in his chest that y soon develope into pneumonia $ not treated at all. roday Kuzmenko must begin again round of flind lodgings, of eat- the breadline food, of further ex- ure, of no medical attention. He’ il and is beginning to feel the in- ds of the starvation diet he has bon living on, But he promised to turn out February 10th in the great mployment demonstration on - Union Square to add his voice to the mi lions demanding bread, lodgings and medical attention in the form of 1 i 1 jers did not win one new shop, but |just organized their old ones over again, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union in the same time organized seven new shops. Labor and Fraternal MONDAY— . Evglish Speaking Branch Of the Bronx Workers Club meets at 8p. m, at 1472 Boston Rd. os Toledo Workers School. At New Workers’ Center, 412 Mon- roe St, every Sunday, at 10'a. m. Ele- ments of Political Education, Com- rade Callow, instructor. Labor and Fraterna) Barbers Open Forum for unemployed and employed bar- bers, sponsored by the Barbers and Hairdressers League of the T. U, U. L. Monday, Feb. 2 at 830 p.m, 50 Bast ith Bt. tnd fi. Admisdion free. celebrate installat! a8 branch of + WwW. . Brownsville Workers School Two new classes at 105 Thatford Ave, Register now. Worker Ex-Servicemen’s League outdoor maes meeting at the following places: Monday, 8 p.m. Claremont Parkway and Washington Ave. Bronx, Wednesday 8 p, m, 132nd St. and Leno Avenue. Thursday 8 p.m. Pitkin and Howard Aves. Bilyn. riday 8 p, m, reguyar indoor meet- ing, 15 Wast Srd St. Saturday noon, at Madison Ave. and 24th St. Satur- day § p.m. 14th St. and University Pl. Meeting Committees meet at 36 Bast 12th St. on the sth p. m. All workers who saw are urged to atten@ and bring friends. their . Workers School Pre-term general assembly Friday, February Oth 8 p.m, at school audi it h Bt. second fl, of Communism class February 18th at 7 en of organization | py its . Women, the Youth, the International Workers’ Order representatives, also drew cheers as they offered the pow- erful support of their organizations. For a Vietory. ‘The 545 delegates and the whole audience rose in ovation when Wil- liam Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Uni onUnity League, ap- peared to address them on the strategy of the coming strike, and the change in the demands, already an- nounced by Louis Hyman, national secretary of the N. T. W. I. U. “We are not striking as a demon- stration, as are accused of doing by all enemie§ of the workers,” said Foster, “we are judging the forces calmly and fighting for what we have @ real chance to get. The fight will not end, but a victory now will strengthen the struggle to end piece- work.” Foster showed how every Biiguey ahd Ball Bob 830 at | Workers’ organization was involved in Workers Center, 48 Bay 28th St. ta| this coming strike and would gain victory and lose by its defeat. Elect Executive. ‘The united front conference elected an executive committee of 45, selected by the delegates from each group, and to be enlarged as other groups attach themselves to this permanent organization. It rejected the de- mand of the Trotsky enemies of the strike for seating of their three dele- gates in the conference by a vote of 543 to 3. The executive committee will drive forward to mobilize all organizations represented and others for joint ac- tion with the dressmakers, and to collect funds. Each delegate is to do the same in his organization. Besides the delegates the hall was packed with an audience of perhaps thousand, all seats were full, the side and rear aisles were crowded Needle Workers Meet] wi snaing sectatrt ana the ea Today, Union Offices lery rail was manned three deep. union at 131 West 28th St. at 7.30 NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades | a. m. this morning for union activity. Workers’ Indusrtial Union is now ‘The strike is nearing. Preparations conducting strikes in six individual | for the strike are in full swing and dress shops. The workers in these | it is absolutely essential that every shops are determined to secure union | active workgy should give all his k- q6:66 complete the prep- to helpspare time spare time to help for the strike. mobilied over 200 to watch every dcor and entrance to the post office building, and to break up the dem- onstration, the youthful demonstra~ tors were able to put up @ strong fight and to keep their banners and signs aloft for over half an hour. However, the superior force of the police was able to force the demon- stration back to Ninth Ave. and down to Sst St. where a militant fight was put up in an attempt to break through the line of mounted police, plain-clothesmen and cops, for about three-quarters of an hour. Many hundred copies of the Young Worker, the Young Pioneer and the Vida Obrera, together with thousands of leaflets explaining the demonstra- tion, were distributed all over this territory, which includes many needle trades shops. A number of youth or- ganiations, including branches of the Labor Sports Union and the Interna~ tional Workers’ Order, helped and participated in the demonstration. The Young Communist League, under whose auspices the demonstra~ tion was called, in a statement issued yesterday, explains that this is the first of many demonstrations to be called all over the country. It also calls upon “all young workers to carry on the fight which has now been started inside of the factories and on the breadlines among the unemployed for support of the Young Worker, Young Pioneer and Vida Obrera, and to fight against the increased terror against the working class through the use of the Fish Committee.” TAKE A LIST TO WORK WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS (NSURANCE! Cooperators'. Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. ¥ ae Ff Eyes! Scientific Examination of eye glasses—Carefully adjusted by expert optometrists—{Keason- able prices. 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