The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1931, Page 1

) District and Local Secretaries of the TUUL Musi Gather All Filled Lists and Collective Endorsements From All Headquarters and Or- ganizations in Their City and Mail Them Dailt Central Orga (Sects Vol. VIII, No. 31 under the act of March 3. 187° WE ‘NE >) on of the Communist international) W YORK SDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1931 eWorker “1.000 DIE OF STARVATION EVERY DAY IN U.S. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION = Demonstrate in Union Square On February Tenth for Unemployment Insurance After Feb. 10 Demonstrations Senator Caraway Admits Dead | Increase As Hunger Spreads ---International Unemploy- ment Day, February 25 y bane European Communist Parties and the International Red Trade Unions ‘have set aside February 25th as the International Fighting Day Against Unemployment, calling upon the workers throughout the world to participate in the international fighting day against unemploy- ment. The Communist Party of the United, States together with the Trade Union Unity League calls upon the workers in the United States to participate in this year’s International Fighting Day to struggle against unemployment—February 25th! ‘The crisis in the United States is part of the world-wide crisis of capitalism. Over 25,000,000 workers are unemployed and their number is steadily increasing, The international solidarity of the workers is neces- sary in the struggle against their common enemy, world imperialism. We are in the midst of a winter of unheard*of increasing misery for the workers. Ten million are unemployed. Millions “blessed” with the Hoover stagger system, are working part-time. The stagger system is not solving unemployment. On the contrary. It is a boss weapon for wage cuts. Even the capitalist writers are compelled to admit that the loss in wages and salary amounted to one billion dollars per month in the year’ 1930. Tuberculosis, the dread hunger disease pellagra, suicide. evictions, ~ millions of children going hungry, prostitution, crime—these are the capi- talist “relief” measures offered to the toiling masses! ‘The Hoover inistration is true to its masters. No relief for the unemployed, but ari immediate donation to the greedy, over-rich corpora- tions.. The republicans and democrats in Congress, the insurgents and liberals, all of them, are staging a show, putting up a “fight” to fool the workers and poor farmers. But in the twinkling of an eye, they voted $162,000,000 in tax rebates for the rich corporations. They appropriated billions for -war preparations, but not a penny for relief of the unemployed. When the workers demand work and bread, the night stick and tear gas bomb is the answer of the bosses and their government. When the Workers go out on strike against wage cuts, the answer of the bosses is the sending of melitia to shoot down the workers. Fascist terror is grow- ing in the United States. The Fish Committee report is a program of greater and more ruthless terror against the workers when they organize and fight for unemployment insurance, when they fight against wage cuts and for the right to organize, to strike. ‘The American Federation of Labor, which loyally and faithfully car- ried out their promise of no strikes to the Hoover wage-cutting and starvation conferénce, is carrying on a bitter struggle against Federal unemployment insurance, controlled by the workers. No wonder then, that theleadership of-the Ao F..of L. is one of tlie most rabid and en- thusiastic champions of the Fish Committee. + ‘The cocialist party, true to its role of fooling and betraying the work- ers, carries out the very same policy of the A. F. of L., but in a more “clever” manner in order to make the workers easier prey to the attacks of the bosses. :,, Capitalism’ cannot feed its slaves anymore. It is shaken. to its very foundation. ‘T'ascism and war is the solution of capitalism for the present crisis and growing unemployment. The existence of the Soviet Union, where the workers rule, where the Five Year Plan has abolished unemployment, increased the standard of living of the workers; where the workers enjoy full social insurance—has become the inspiration of all the oppressed and the nightmare of the > WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.--At least 1,000 American unemployed workers | end poor farmers die every day of starvation! This was the admission made by Senator Caraway during a speech in the Senate yesterday, pleading with Hoover to do: some- thing immediately to make the work- ers and farmers think that reliet measures were being taken. “Every | day we wait,” shouted Caraway, “1,000 people die of starvation.” Senator Borah also took part in the debate, threatening an extra ses- sion of Congress if the $25,000,000 voted for the Red Cross, to string the starving farmers along while they die | ot hunger, is. not handed over. Hoover instructed the Red Cross not a5 it establishes a “dangerous prece- dent.” The admission by Senator Caraway t 1,000 workers and farmers die « ‘y day in the United States is the clearest expression yet made by a cepitalist representative in Congress to accept the $25,000,000 for “relief” | |Only Fight By Workers, Will Force Relief From Gov’t | | of the fact that capitalism is mur- | dering tens of thousands through | hunger. Caraway’s plea for relief is made to mislead the starving workers and| farmers and to keep them from fight- | | ing to force real relief in the form ot unemployment insurance. He fears| that Hoover's tactics of openly hand- | ing out millions to the rich exploit- ers in. tax-returns, spending billions | for war preparations, while refusing | |} even to go through the motion of | “relieving” unemployment will drive | the workers more into open fight| | against capitalism, Caraway knows | the temper of the starving farmers | | in Arkansas, the state he represents, | | where 500 in England, Arkansas, | armed themselves, demanded food—| and got it! Hundreds of thousands of the 10,-| .| ger will be increased as the crisis 000,000 unemployed in the United States are rapidly reaching starva- tion. The 1,000 daily who die of hun- worsens. Hoover and the _ bosses} want these workers to die of hunger. Dead unemployed are not dangerous. It is the live, fighting, class con- scious jobless workers, struggling militantly for relief and against capi- talism that the capitalists dread. Smash the spectre of death by hunger that hangs over the entire working class! Demonstrate on Feb- ruary 10th! Turn out in hundreds of thousands; support the unem- ployed delegation that goes to Wash- ington to give the answer to Hoover and the bosses’ government that con- demns 1,000 to die every day of hun- ger! Prepare for the Internationa! Unemployment Day demonstrations on February 25, when the unem- ployed of the whole world will march against hunger and capitalism which | forces them to face death by starva- tion. tuling class. World imperialism, therefore, is preparing for war against the Soviet Union, with American imperialism fighting to take the lead in ‘this war. The workers must ‘struggle to abolish capitalism, which breeds war and unemployment. The growing attacks on the Soviet Union, the Fish declaration of. war upon the American workers and the Soviet Union, must be answered by the workers with greater organization for the de- | fense of the Soviet Union. Millions of workers must demonstrate. For Unemployment Insurance demands that will be presented on | February 10th in Washington! For immediate payment of a sum of money for two months’ winter relief! Organize and strike against wage cuts! Against the Hoover Stagger System! , For the seven-hour day with full pay and five-day week, Six-hour Working day in injurious industries and for all young workers! | Against eviction of the unemployed! For the lowering of rent! Against the Fascist Fish Committee Report! * Against imperialist war! For the defense of the Soviet Union! is CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. S. A. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BURO, TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE. ea Sea ;ers over the strenuous opposition of | e For a fujl week's pay! Call Cuban General Strike; Machado Howls Against Reds Havana. dispatches telling of a general strike to take place Tuesday at six p. m., indicate the terrific tenseness of the political crisis and reveal a great revolutionary upsurge among. the toiling masses. The last, general strike of March, 1930, was participated in by 200,000 workers. ‘The strike was voted by the trade unions in their membership meetings, cach union voting separately, but each showing the same resentment at further continuance of the fascist white terror of the Machado govern- ment Two months,ago, the national con- gress, COr almost entirely of toois of Machado, authorizes the “suspension of civil rights” or mar- tial law, for sixty days. Monday, the conzess, Gave Machado the “author- ity” to continye martial law, and the strike vote was the result. ‘The general is called for “24 hours: er more,” and is reported to meke the continued martial law the _ e's of its protest, though other grievances, the suspension of the pesca, issprlsomment of students and other outrages. Raports state that the street car workers raised a demand in protest against, the five-cents-an?hour wage cut the company is proposing. It is indicated in dispatebes that the street. cay un.on loaders managed to defeat a suright trike yote by an evasion | | i authorizing them to send a delega- | tion to the company and then only | after the company would refuse to | withdraw the wage cut, should the | street car union join the other unions | on strike. Eyidently, the treacherous | leaders hops to stall along with “ne- | gotiations.” a | In a most unusual manifesto of 3,000 words, the dictator, Machado, addresses “the people of Cuba and foreign countries,” attributing - thing in Cuba to “a d id plot. of Communists at M strike indirectly at the United { 2a Stating that he has | years of crisis in Cuba, a little mat- ter that would make the charge against “Moscow” go back to days long before the Russian Revolution, Machado admits that “No crisis has been worse tha nthat facing Cuba today.” He claims that Communists want to win “a moral and strategic victory by overthrowing the govern- ment of a close neighbor of the United States.” He admits that Com- munism has “a strange hold on the people of Cuba.” “One hundred thousand Cubans, in @ Gelirious human wave, carried me into the National Capital.’ Why is .it that the President of younr country today should seem so unpopular and b> so persecuted—the same man who, only a short time ago, was so extra- ordinarily honored.” 1,500 Kensington Textile s at ast a cut ordered a boo + Joseph fi, Vliits of the Univer- | Jity_ of Pew vhia. The rank and file never cgreed to any arbitration. The strike has been sabotaged for a | month by the officials-of the United , have issued statements that inas- much as President McMahon, and Vice Presidents Kelly and Gorman refuse to recognize the strike, it will eesy to get an injunction pro- hibiting the payment of strike bene- “is from even the local union svonsury. Kelly and MacMahon are refusing 20 far they ordered the workers not 9 suwike and threatened to dissolve “ho Kensington local if they did. Elf of the 4,000 upholstery tex- tile workers here have had the wage cut rescinded, and did not strike. The strike was forced by the work- United Textile Workers officials and in spite of all their tricks, because the workers already have such low wages they can hardly exist after a cut. The arguments and leaflets of the National Textile Workers Union for a policy of striking against the wage cuts ‘undoubtedly had great in- fluence. The National Textile Workers Un- JOBLESS PUT THE FURNITURE BACK Evicted Man Arrested) for “Noise;” Freed NEW YORK.—Amello Luongo of | No. 1 Goerick St., lower East Side, came into the meeting of the Down Town Council of the Unemployed at 27 E, Fourth St. yesterday and said his furniture had been thrown out on the sidewalk. The eneire council went right down and put it.back. in the house again. Then the landlord hed Luongo ar- rested for “making a’ disturbance.” The magistrate at Second Ave. and Second St. had to dismiss that charge, but told Luongo: “Just the same you have to move.” The Town Council is just as determined that this unemployed tailor shall not Be out, and that the matter orarily, with Luongo still in the house. hs Peter Krane, the man who was sent scabbing by the Annex Employ- ment Agency at 1151 Sixth Ave., and was refused his $8 fee back when he refused to take the job, will have his hearing on the return of the fee to- day at 10:45 a. m. in the license bureau at No, 6 Reade St. The Qgwn Town Council calls all, unemployed workers to come down to the bureau to see what kind of a deal the Tam- many officials’ will give Krane. The Young Communist League and the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre are providing entertainment at the af- fair given by the Down Town Council Friday evening at 131 W. 28th St. 11 headed by | ‘tile Workers, and the employers | to say anything now. 'Previ- | Workers Strike Against Cut PRE SD | ion urges the strikers to real: j aothing can be hoped from the U. | T. W. officials, and that they should |take over their strike and lead it w ves, through election from smong their own ranks of a broad (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREED | | Expose Cuban Fereed Labor! See tomorrow's Daily Worker for a startling exposure of forced bor in Cuba! It is backed by + aphic proof of original military orders, and accompanied hy stories of workers in Cuba, tell- t } ing ‘how workers who object to working 14 hours a day for 30 cents a day are simply shot down! 4 TENS OF THOUSANDS WILL BACK UP THEIR DELEGATION TO UNITED STATES CONGRESS AT NOON TUESDAY 2.500 MARCH IN _ INDIANAPOLIS |Refuse to Swallow the Tammany Program of Starvation! ‘HUNDREDSDEFEND NEGROSPOKESMAN NEW YORK. — Tens of thousands of workers, unemployed and empley- 1,000 Frisco Jobless ca, witl demonstrate at Union Square| Cops Raid Unemployed Seize Bread Line and Fight Cops SAN PRANCISCO, Cal., Feb Sur 4 p.m. 1,000 in the Ritch St. soupline rebelled and held a mass meeting to de- nounce the slow distribution rotten food. Those control and began a real distribu- tion. The jobless fought police re- serves for an hougeand held’ out until the heavily armed riot squads One workers is seriously , and four members of the INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb, 3.— Two thous five hundred took pa in the demonstration before the stat ference for unemployment ich had assembled t ions in 17 cities in Indiana in~the name of the unemployed (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) jobless on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 12 noon, for| UNEMPLOYMENT INSURAN C E .| This mighty demonstration will be in | |support of the National Delegation t will lay the demands of the un- ers before congress on of the Workers’ Unemploy- Council Offices; Several Jailed BUFFALO, N, Y., Feb. 3:—Yester- thousands of jobless, angered at the opposition of ‘the city council to surance Bill. The city administration of New with the corrupt Mayor Walk- for at its head, has consistently re- fused to grant any unemployment relief to the workers of New York. All that the bosses of New York have ‘anted to the unemployed jobless is soup kitchens and flop houses, po- licemen’s clubs, beatings and arr their demands for relief for the un- employed, demonstrated through the streets and fought bitterly with the police. The mass demonstration be- fere the city hall numbered about 000. While the masses shouted for re- lief outside, their committee of, 35 was insfde presenting a program of d Council are sentenceds t110 they itant united front con- relief - trouble : | ] jicture of Above is a pi Give them a bigger scare! Strike “~~: Dressmakers’ Strike Has the M SSOCIATION OF DRESS M }: ee fhe threatened strike of she Le - peteality in the very near futures — to observe the following: _ ploy are w Deliver only Chairman that comes @ per sample ~ ° 4, ‘Iapress ‘upon your thoy walk dow: _ they forfeit ee anufaciurers Scared ANUFACTURERS ; Ane. Se 1441 BROADWAY | New York ORS 1 your shop. You are 1. Make sure that toe people in your em- embers of the "Right" Union. - es such e , Report to this office at onge’ any "Left" asitation carried on | a worker of workers in your employ. , eople that. should aaa 2 the Association of letter ‘shows very clearly that the organized employers realize that the dres:makers’ strike, some time in February by the Needle Trades Work>rs’ Industrial Union and a united front stvike com- imittee of open and company union, as well as N. T. W. I. U. shops, will be a serious affair. Notice how confidently they rely on the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ chiefs to support them against the strikers. See how afraid they are, nevertheless, that the strike call will reach the work- ers suffering in their shops, under the slave agree:nent. U. S, mails to keep all but the bosses and the compiny union letters away from the shop chairmen. solidly when the strike call is issued: Janvaty ARth, ttst mail to your shop in an envelope Reha Se sess Risen may become vee it is important that you take weasures to prevent » Waeretore,udvieed the strike, hii : vers to its member They cheerfully order interference with the immediate relief, for a $10,000,000 fund to give every jobless worker $10 weekly and $5 more for each de= ae eat chs pendent. The program gave accurate do they intend to roe ee ee detailed figures for accumulating the Uaeeiesaicnl fund and demanded no evictions, free . : | shelter, food for school children, and other needs. Jobless Pack City Hall. ‘Their demands were reinforced by congress stop the| hundreds of jobless who packed the war purposes and| city hall galleries and vestibiles and y all funds to the unem- directly participated by angry mass | demands that the city council im- Employed and unemployed work-| mediately take up the detailed pro- ers! Now is .~ETAOISHRDLMFW | 8ram offered them by the delegation. ers: Show by your united ranks that} The city council evaded action on the fight will go on for unemploy-| the demands, and the delegation left ment. insur and reported to the great crowd out- side the hypecrisy of the city offi- cials The millions’ of unemployed work- | ers of New York have no intention of | accepting this miserable charity, nor will demon n to get and white workers, Native come to Union Demand that sro Organixe cuts and {and strike against impe: The police attacked the crowd in All out to U m Square next Tues- | vain. They would not disperse. day, Feb. 10, at 12 noon. Demon- Then mounted’ police were §% to strato under the auspices of the Un-/ charge the hungry jobless and tram- employed Council and the New York) ple them under their horses’ hooves. {Cc tee for Unemployment In- Scores of the unemployed turned surance! on the mounted police and dragged wage PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Feb. 3— |‘Tomorrow the delegates of the Coun- |cil of the Unemployed will call upon the city commissioners and demand immediate relief of the thousands of jobless here | A mass demons’ vation outside will back up the demands of the dele- gation inside the commissioners’ room in the city hall The demonstration will take place at 10 a. m. COONTINUED ON PAGE THREED NEEDIE WORKERS RALLY TOMORROW General Membership Meeting on Strike The Perth Amboy jobless have ——— elected a delegate to go to Wash- NEW YORK — Tomorrow’ the en- ington Feb. 10, as part of the dele-| tire membership of the Needle Trades gation from all over the country,| Workers Industrial Union will take which will demand that congress | up the final mobilization for the eom- pass the Workers Unemployment | ing dress strike, at the meeting in Insurance Bill | Manhatan Lyceum that. will-be held And on Feb. 10 the unemployed | right after work. The ¢ffike comfnite workers and workers with jobs here | tee and the Shop Delegates Council will come out in another mass dém-| will report in detail on all prepara= onstration, this time to back up the ns for the strike. Tomorrow’s meet Bill. ing will also take measures to speed. sdhah up the collection of the $5 strike tax “he Life of the Daily Worker Denends on You! It was only at the last minute that we were sure that the Daily Worker would be printed today. We could not buy paper and finally were able to use up all odds and ends left in the press room and using.up the paper belonging to 6ther newspapers. At the very last minute we had to send in an emergency call throughout New York City to raise enough to pay for the wages for the composing room. We were even delayed in mailing out the red shock troop donation lists be- cause there was no money to buy postage with, Comrades! We have weathered today’s storm which may hold us for another day or so. We are expecting daily judgment proceed- ings because we did not pay old notes that have fallen due. If you don’t rally to the support of the “Daily,” the life of the- paper is endangere? Send all’ Tunas: w he Daily | and means of hastening the collec- | tion of the $15,000 strike fund: United Front Demonstration. The Executive Committee of the United Front Conference which meets tonight in the office of the union, 131 West 28th St. is now preparing the mobilizdtions for the monster demon- stration to be held February 12 In Lincoln Arena. This demonstration will serve as an indication of the. | spirit of solidarity on the part of | thousands of workers .ouiside - the needle industry and theiy willingness | to give their utmost in the coming | dress strike. Harlem Mecting Friday. All dressmakers residing or work~- ing in the Harlem section will hold a mass meeting Friday: The meeting | will be at 8 p. m,’in St. Lukes 125 West 130th St. Very important problems in connection with the com- ing strike will be dealt with at that {meeting and it is the duty of every Gressmcter to be present. PLUMBERS MIST THURSDAY | NEW YORK—A meeting of plum- |ers and plumbers’ he: ‘3 -is called | for Thursday evening 8 o'clock. at 16 W. 2ist St. All workers.in the plumbing field are urged to attend. BANKRUPTCIES INCREASE NEW YORK. — Bankruptcies dur- ing the third week in Januasy were 660 against 54% a year age Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York City,