The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1931, Page 1

Men, Women and Children— the Entire Family of Every Unemployed and Employed Worker Should Take Part in the February Tenth Demonstrations Vol. VIII, No. 32 at New York, Dail Central Orga (Sectio Entered as secend class matter at the Post Office qagp2t N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1979 MOF the Communist un'st a A) rntermna er Party U.S.A. tional, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931 CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents PERTH AMBOY MARCHERS PREPARE FOR FEBRUARY 10 The Miners Show the Way . 102 JAILED IN Legion, Bankers Stab Veterans in Back on Cash Bonus Demand Tf strike of the miners at the Edna No. 2 Mine of the Hillman Coap and’ Coke Co. against a wage cut of 20 per cent is of tremendous ites portance. This is the first strike, organized and prepared in advance, by the National Miners’ Union. The revolutionary strike tactics are, being applied.* From: the-start it showed great militancy. A strike committee of 49 was elected. Relief committees of the strikers going to the nearby mines for support, spread the news of the strike to the other miners. A well organized picket line of men, women, and children brought the day ahift out 100 per cent. A picket line at 2 a. m. stopped the night shift despite the use of tear gas by the deputies. ATTACKS ON FORcIGN BORN Only Militant Fighting Will Bring Vets | Relief” | A Fake Job From the Tne poe Pav. ai NO FEE CHARGED TO EMPLOYER on rHPLOvEE MARCH TO UNION SQUARE FEB. 10 IN NEW YORK 10 SUPPORT oe BILL A back to work movement organized by the company’s stool-pigeons WASHIN bid All the| CITY OF NZW YORK No... ine : and other paid agents was completely shattered by the strikers, who told Police Admit See | leading rakes togetiect with (he DEPARTMENT OF PuBLIc WELFARE—EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Perth Amboy Board of D RMONST Ny rR > A F TE A if the would-be scabs in no. uncertain terms what would happen if they | Aimed at Militant | american Legion are prepared to sie’ 4% aa oy Commissioners Just AU Ai fa attempted to go back to work. M | the war veterans in the back. The ‘ é ¢ fuk | mimoan Following this’ a large mass meeting was called. Here miners from Movement GeihgHA MeetAR, bast ponies cover corre ie = | F louts Ji Jobless KOON 1 JK SD AV! other mines were present, including a group from Edna No, 1 of the same whelmingly surnested by the canon! Address_____ ‘tes Sats: | Ul Ve LUD! company. ) They decided to strike, Despite the efforts of the company, | NEW YORK.—The character of| igor of the last imperialist world| Aske Fer... ze 4. — — the deputies and the brutal state cossacks, every miner joined the strike. the Seamen's Institute as @ SPY! war is to be cius.icd in congress. rei eae ae ef Sent tort arened| A. Out Bon Sipe ‘The union is now intensifying its activity in the other mines of the | agency of the bosses against worker | “This was the definite as Sonares | oe 4 ne i at 10) LOMe UUt vom snops Hillman Coal and Coke Co. The indications are that the miners in these |Seamen was clearly exposed yester- | mage py the leading boss politicians | Saco cd aA ee 2 ee oe , ae -~ Ao Grend: bineset mines ‘who also had their wages cut Jan. 16th will soon join the strike. | day when, following secret informa- | in the house and senate yesterday. | Direetions... Refarred Gy... aa | and rea d sines to ‘This strike movement has all the indications of the beginning of a | tion given the immigration authori- | | Leading Wall Street bankers testified EMPLOVER PLeASS SicN AND > RETURN | Ta ke Demands! mass struggle that will form a stone wall against the wage cut drive of | ties by that institution, immigration | against’ the cash bonus demand. Yas (ol No LJ I: Make aA Car ee the bosses, ‘This strike can and must be developed into an offensive | officials, beaked up by the new Alien | Hoover is against it. Mellon. is| 3 eves ane, to elect three delogsies) NEW YORK—On Tue Feb! struggle against the bosses, Already the Westmoreland Coal Co., one of | Squad of the local police department, | lagainst it. The American Legion.| ue | 1d place the demand before 19, at 12 o'cleciz, woi kers the largest in the country, has been compelled to withhold the wage-cut it Leas on for Feb. ana, The same is true of many other mining [aes inieeen a yang ana | against it, though it was forced tol were packed with} w out in full force. compani | pass a resolution making the ex-sol- and the commi * room | tinuing crisi In this lies the tremendous significance of the strike of the Hillman | and herded 102 into patrol wagons to | 1 ales believe it is for i The Tammany free employment agency at Leonard and Lafayette | was full of police and detectives. ‘i miners. They are the brave fighters in the forefront of the struggle. ‘Their coyrage and militancy inspires every miner who comes in contact with them. ‘The strike was linked up with the struggle for the Unemployment In- Act now! Not a‘second must be wasted. Send all contributions. to the National Miners’ Union, Room 519, 611 visited the Institute, locked the doors | and put over 5,000 unemployed sea- be taken to Ellis Island for deporta- | | tion. The immigration officials openly | of the bosses’ campaign to throw out of the country, as they have thrown | prices will go down. | controlled by the same forces, i: ‘The cry of the bankers is that bond They do not want their profits touched. They get) of the American Legion and the Vet- erans, of Foreign Wars. These or-; Sigiature of Empieger Do you wish us to wend other applicants? has practically no jobs except scabbing cn higher priced workers ployers want to fire. To make a record they are sending out a This crue! trick of fake jobs. was the em- num); card is played on a worker whose | A call hd gone out for 50 st ‘oop- | | demanding relief from the city |far all and unemployed worke hh the charity ion of tt One million workers and-lef cut, the si getting wo y have is police el e admitted that they had had full co-| millions in fax returns, spend bil- | Printed above. He found that there was not only no job, even at Sia 5 refticed entrance to -the commis- inc Naw = one ‘surance Bill. The striking miners have elected a delegate to go to Wash- ' operation from the Institute, “assis- | lions for war, but when hundreds of| Week, but there was not even any such shop at the address given, or any~ room, James Sei Aig os ington, D: C., to present the Bill to the U. S. Congress. tance of officials of the institute” | thousands of starving vets demand| where else he could find. n to tell isHemena or ‘These miners must have our immediate support. The workers in | through “data gathered ‘at the insti-| food, they get a lot of words. | ans pie art alight Bi . speaking from the entrance} Councils of th e Unoin. Unity every industry are watching this strike. It is the most discussed event in | tute and other seamen’s headquar-| ‘This is the logical result of the | | to the hall. League call to st ? bes pent ae sey Sse in . state of semi-starvation before ters.” Jeadership on, which most of the vets | iF ‘% ss $120, 000, C00: The police mede rks about Ne ; ! = 8 Ww we nm a . ‘ a ¥ kel of~ th ps, tae i Age eae? Foot! 1s needed to feed these | That the raid and arrests art part have counted on—the fascist forces renc oan (0) 4 C (CONTINUED ON runner | 4, ete se ies fi Meus aca | Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. millions‘on the streets to starve, the | ganizations are run ,by the same| for War Against Soviet Union our IN MASSES chari | unemployed. foreign born workers} bankers.who are against the. cash ation . ~~ |-whose labor they have exploited in| bonus, hes . ) n 4 the past gill gactlonlaratemNenieal:. Pigtbeisthe only: way to’ pet: tho | MUMANIA, Polgnd,: Yugoslavia Get Loan fai | POR T AG : Dy AY Nin and Restle ‘Trades Membership foreign born workers who show the | cash bonus. It must be a fight ona} Wyypther War Preparat ions Aga'nst atari ae | Ee t ¥ will demand i least militancy, was openly admitted | working class basis, connected with | 5 cb aan eto by Ellis Island officials who said the | the demand of all unemployed worl:- Fatherland; Also Har -d Hit By Cri: Culloct Pet: ta AER fort ssihyrneht Snuates Meet Tonight at Lyceum round-up was part of the. general | ers. for unemployment insurance—to eee JCe ‘ d. . When thir-me= | tound-up:.. ordered. by Secretary. si cane ae she orgie iat pe ue Cable: reports from Paris ates ie th ie ae of 2120.900,000 | Alba ay Manxch ie Ts Before the talist he exploiters, the bankers. | .” f wad ‘ mat the E NEW YORK. A meeting of the| wages next to nothing. 1 the viork-| taking An AN cut the cone and their. tovereienty Talk will not| #8 being made by. ba working together with the i ere) mw YORK, Tag dars for the] ers’ Insurance, Bill entire membership, of ‘the ‘Needle! ers complain this slavery, they are go far, the new police Alien Squad get the bonus, Action will. The yet- government, to the. military allies of French imperialism, Ru-!yyseer march will be covtinued @ the hui s of th uodassnom- E ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union will | fired. | which was organized on the pretense | erans were forced to fight for the) mania, Poland and Yugoslavia; In the war preparations against | ing the coming we On Sa the hu be held tonight in Manhattan Lyceum) Needle trades workers will Iéave to-| of rounding up alien racketeers has/| bosses. They should rally now and| the Soviet Union, these satelites of France play a leading role. |avd Sunday, Feb. 7 and 2, all work-| ers in ev 66-8, 4th St., right after work. Plans/ night's meeting fired with the de-| failed to arrest one raicketeer. All of | fight for themselves and their class. Lip fers are urged to go out to collect | onstrate to back them up. The granting of the loan shows for the final mobilization of the com- termination to win the comin mger march to AT- ig strug-| its activities have been against mili-| This is the road to the bonus and|, CE funds for the Iuinger march to AT AN work iNew ¥ ae ing dress strike will be discussed,-and) gie for union shops, a 40-hour =| tant foreign born workers. real unemployment relief. the speeded BED repar ations for) DICKS Bre A K ARM | ie whore t ne demands of to “hed Saas iy s renee the strike. committee and the shop) week, a 20 percent increase in wages,| Definite proof that the new squad| war against the Soviet, Union. kers of the State of el ie the. Square! Come wk = delegates council will report in de-| no discrimination because of race of| was organized as a part of the gen- nate i Moscow . Ian be placed before the sj ~\ and placards! Unemployed Co: tail on -all strike preparations so far! color, equal pay for young workers, | eral attempt by the bosses and their | DEMONSTRATE IN In the trial of the ee ) i 4 t Le i y | emment unions, fraternal organizatien-— grawn up. who do,equal work, and recognition! government to crush all signs of | wreckers, it was brought out, 5 ~~ | Funds must be raised to feed, shel- from jhe Hamhsoeas Measures to speed up the collec- tion of the $5 strike tax will also, be taken up.tonight, as well as for the | intensification of the drive for the, $15,000 strike fund. ‘Tonight's meeting will be the last, mobilization meeting of the needle, trades -workers before: they strike. against the inhuman, speed up and starvation wages that the bosses are imposing on. workers throughout the | industry. Slavery ‘of: Dressworkers Increasing. Every new lot. of dresses brings| with it a cut in the piece work rate, | tre faster, harder work as well. | y day. brings with it some new! trick of the bosses:to lower the stand- ard of living of the. workers in the in- @ustry, their “health broken, their | CUBAN STRIKERS CLASH WITH COPS, Machado Terror is Increased | | Thousands of strikers who walked| ‘out on the, call for a 24-hour general strike against the Machado dictator- ship in Cuba clashed with the police Wednesday. Accurate reports on the) number of strikers out are not per- mitted to go out of Cuba, because of the censorship. A reign of terror met the strikers when they. demonstrated through the streets despite the terror. | Capitalist newspaper reports state that 2,000 of the workers at 5 p. m. started a demonstration. More than 100 po- lice tried to stop them, but the wor- kers militantly routed the police. Only when reinforcements arrived and the workers were slugged, beaten and Jailed, did the demonstration disperse. The strike was calied as a protest against the proposed military fascist dictatorship ordered “by Machado, The House, of ‘Representatives, which was in session when the strike was called, a@ more ‘drastic Mass arrests are being made by Ma- chado in a frantic effort to terrorize the workers. .Homes were raided. In Santa Clara. Province, 300. students were indicted in one bunch. More than 600 fishermen haye been out on strike for months against wage | cyts and worsening of conditions. The; street carmen. are threatening a strike | against wage cuts, but their. mislead- of the price committees, which will militancy out of the working class is | settle dress prices before work is) given in the January issue of “Spring started on the garments. | 3100,” the police magazine where Harlem and Bronx Workers Meet. | Uder the heading, “The Alien Red | Must Go,” the statement is made: All dressiakers Bving or working | “We congratulate the Police Com- | dressmakers will also mee! jin Harlem will hold a mass meeting | Be tomoryow night in St. Luke's Haii,| 125 W. 130th St., at 8 p.m. Bronx tonight at Belmont Hall, 599 E, 184th sv. at 8:30°p. m, Important problems in| connection wit hthe strike will be) dealt with at these meetings and it is the duty of every dressmaker to be present, Plans are going ahead for the mon-/| ster demonstration to be Held in Lin-| coln Arena, 66th St. and Broadway. on February 11. This gigantic mect. \ing of workers in all trades will serve | jto indicate the solidarity of thou-| and Co, 208 W. 27th St. sands of New York workers with their fellow-toilers in the needle trades and | |of the willingness of all workers to come to the aid of the oppressed | | victims of the needle trades bosses. Ameeting of the general organiza- ; tion committee will also be held to- | morrow night, after work, at Bryant! cover into a nearby hallway. Hall, Sixth Ave, and 42nd St. The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union is now conducting strikes in the foliowing shops; jane and Sacks, 119 W. 24th St., Nagler Dress Co., 27-35 W. 24th St. Atlas Dress Co., 306 W. 38th St. and J. Karing | issioner on his foresight in creating | his bureau, we congratulate Captain. | McDermott on his appointment ait) his activity and we predict a rapid | lessening of Red activities in New! | York City.” | | All workers should and must ‘sup- | port the fight against the boss ter- | roi against the foreign born by elect- ing delegates to the Conference. for | the Protection of Foreign Born, which in New York will take place this.) reads 11a. m. at Irving Plaza, Drv- | Place and 15th St. \t At the Ka- hane and Sacks shop a thug employ- ;ed by the company union, the Inter- national Garment Workers; tried to break up the N. T. W, I. U: picket line after displaying the badge of a) Lapeedat policeman. The picketers, ‘however, forced the thug. to run for The members of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union have al-| |ready demonstrated that they wiil combat the thuggery of the’ bosses! and their ally, the International Gar- |ment Workers, with every means at }its command. U.S. Governor of F ilipino Workers, Peasants (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 4.—! Fearful of the growing mililant strikes and peasant uprisings in the Philippine Islands, the leaders of the) Philippine Peasants Confederation, a revolutionary peasants organization, and the Proletarian Labor Congress, Comrades Manahan, Eyangelista and Ambrosio have been arrested for “sedition” at the order of the Wall Street Governor-General, Dwight Davis. . This reign of terror against bs revolutionary working class ant lenders in this im>~ eo colony grows out of the fact oak the Fikpino masses are increasing their struggles for independence, for land. and bread. Recently all labor unions in Manila declared for a general strike. Im~- portant and militant strikes have taken place, Several weeks | 860, ‘Antonia Ora, Jails Leaders also a leader of the militant peasant and workers groups, was arrested un- der the same charge. While under arrest he was “accidentally” killed in an automobile accident, At the fu- | neral of Comrade Ora, more than 50,- | 000 workers and peasants marched in | the streets under the red banner, de- fying the order of the police pre- venting the demonstration. It was an open demonstration | against imperialism and the increas- ing impoverishment .of the Filipino © masses. The capitalist press in the! United States branded ‘it as a ‘red’ and “Communist” demonsiration. Now comes the increasing reign oj , terror. Wall Street fears the upris- | ing of the 13,000,000 Filipinos against the yoke of imperialism. They have jailed the leaders of the struggle, Manahan, Evangeelista and Ambrosio and they in' bury them ih their dungeons or ler them outright. Hep ie tee TREO, Oke as ia Os. Daily. | TRENTON, FRIDAY |Prepare for Hunger ~March.on. Capitol TRENTON. N. J., Feb. 4, — There | will be an unemployment demonstra- bean at the city hall here, Eeb. 6, at 2p. m, to support-the Workers Un- employment. Insuranee Bill. . This is a preliminacy demonstration to the state wide hunger march on Tren- ton, the date of which will be an- | vounced sbon. About 3.000 signatures have been secured here for the bin. Another united front conference on unemployment will be held at 7 Union St.. Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. It. will plan; details of the hunger march “and the| Jocal elections. that the General Army Staff of France had already given the armies of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslav’ their roles in the war against the Soviet Union. The $120,000,000. loan, also, is an attempt to, bolster up the governments of these fascist countries in view of the worsening crisis. The New York Times Paris correspondent, Carlisle MacDonald, in reporting the news of the loan said: “It is interesting to note that the three countries which the French financial institutions baye chosen for the initiation of the new foreign credit policy are ail military allies of France, bound to the larger na- tion by. post-war treaties of a po! cal or a commercial nature.” This is the first. huge payment by France for the pending. war against the Soviet Union. PARTY MEMBERS ¢ Yesterday's Daily appeared only because the Party members in their. Units raised over $500 for the Daily, A‘ about 5:30 it was quite clear that there was not enough money to pay wages in the composing room. Dis- trict Two advanced $250 and sent out comrades to all unit meetings to raise money to make it possible for the Daily to come out. This solved the problem for yesterday, but we are headed for the same condition unless fumds are sent in. We are able to hold off, temporarily, court’ action for non-payment of notes and paper. ‘We call upon all workers receiving the Red Shock Troop donation lists to immediately get other workers to donate and then mail the lists to the Daily Worker with the remittances. All comrades who owe money to. the Daily Worker for bundles or other accounts must immemdiately begin making payments. Even‘ if 50} per cent of our old accounts were | paid, and with the liquidetion ef the | | deficit, the Daily Worker could de- | vote its time and energy to reaching. more masses of workers and in that way become an even more effective weapon in the important struggles that face us today. Only action sim- ilar to that of District Two's can really save the Daily at this time. Comrades, rush .to the aid of the Send all funds’ to the Daily | TO PUBLISH ae “DAL y” Yorss "worger, “30 E. 13th St., ! City. NEWARK PROTEST MEET ON SUNDAY Workers mn to Fight De- portations NEWARK, N. J., Feb, 4. — A, mass meeting to protest against the de- New: ! portation of Foreign-Born militants will be held here Sundry, Feb. 8, at 2 p. m., at the Ukrainian Hall, 57 Bea- con Street. Comrade Louis Engdahl, National Secretary of the International Labor Defense, will be one of the speakers, All workers and working class or- ganjzations gre asked to support this thovement against deportations which is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the Gapilalist class to crush the revolutionary labor movement. At this meeting Newerk workers. will also protest agains: ‘the brutality\ of the police when they broke up the demonstration of the Unemployed on Wed,, Jan. 28. : —— Protect the foreign born. Elect delegates to N. Y. Conference Feb. Bat the Irving Plaza. Fy @ John Ry: an Attacked by Thugs Many Times ZS LE NEW YORK,—John Ryan, a member of the Red Builders’ News Club, had his arm broken when three | private dicks beat him in the Times Square su! station for selling the Daily Wor This is the third at- | tack uvon the same worker at the} same location, Te ndays ago he was kicked in the ribs for ‘standing inside the station with Daily Workers, When a by- stander attempted to rescue him, one of the thygs flashed his police badge and continued the assault. Last Sat- urday. determined to continue sell- ing the “Daily,” he appeared at the seme place and was immediately pounced .upon by the same ‘ruffians. When Ryan again appeared, he was beaten and kicked. This time, just as he was dragged into train by an onlooker,’one of the thugs bent his arm and held it until the door smashed into it, An X-ray at St. spital showed the arm broken above the elbow. This is the most fiendish assault upon a Daily Wor r seller since two other members, Lorenzo Stokes and } Clarence Turmer, were arrested and Sentenced to six months for selling ‘the Daily Worker in the subway. |ter and provide in a suitable w for the army of unemployed and em- |ployed workers who will march’ to |the state capital to place the demand of the unemployed workers before the tate. workers nd old! Let the governm that starvation will’ no loner } vated! Let them know that ¢ gvafiing and corruption, the |teering on the banks no longer w The last tag day was not a success, be endured! jand therefore the Workers Interna- é ; {tional Relief and the Trade Union All Out to Union Square—Tuesdi | Unity Council of New York are ap- Feb. 10, at noon. Let the de; pealing to all workers and of the workers sound.in mighty call s nex We domend immediate y | organizations to come in m: | Seturday and Sunday. Box | secured, at the followin may be ment retief and 27. E 4th St.; 64 W. 22d 308 | Lenox Ave.: 569 Prospect Av>.. Bronx. CHAT _ STR i) E 1 N. ¥.: 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn: ey 4 136 15th Si. Brooklyn; 105 That- ' WW ford Ave., Brooklyn; 26 Jackson Ave., BAR TG Vt VAGE £ v Tt Long Island City; 93 Mercer 5t,, * | Newark. N. J.; 206*Market St., Pat- erson, N. J.} 252 Warburton Ave., Fillman Riiice Given Yonkers, N. Y. ‘Those who have boxes should con-/AS Withdrawal Reason tinue using them during the week, —- jand get them filled. Those who have, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 4.—The returned their boxes should come for | strike of the Hillman and John Carr new ones and go out and collect. This miners, in spite of its small s has 's imperative, and on worker dare fail. tremendous effect upon the situa- | The. Workers International Relief; tion in the mining fields of Western |asks all workers who have the use of Penna.. particularly in Westmore- cars or trucks to get in touch with| lend County, where the strike ‘ts tak- the Local Office of the W. I R., at ing place. This is proven by the fact 131 West 26th St. at once, and make that the Westmoreland Coal Co.; one arrangements to have the cars used |.0f the largest in the country, with- in the march on Albany. drew announcement of the wage cut to its miners for the present. ..The for social incuranes, especially, unem- ployment insurance. plan is that advanced by the Rocke- feller institution, worked out a system of “insurance” and. “pensions” Co. to cover 45,000 wage slaves. No greater hoax has ever been tried to fool the worker than this scheme, highly. for this “insdranee.” toy it as they will. ter the worker is completely at the mevey ofthe bosses. If he slaves for 35 years, under the full dictation of the Rockefellers, he might get a measley pension. Thé fact is, that under the present speed-up, very few workers can live until the age of 65 or 70 required by this pension. What is the tabnlt? ‘Their wages The workers have to pay The bosses ad- eis Standard Oil Gyp “Pension” - Scheme Is Speed-Up Move NEW YORK.—All sort ata schemes|are cut to pay for this “pension.” are being worked up by the bosses to| They never get any benefit. get away from the growing demands are fired—the bosses have the final strike of the Hillman miners is given as the reason, The foremen: in“ tht mines are openly stating that a wage-cut was decided upon, but due to the Hillman and John Carr min- ers’ strike, it was indefinitely post- poned. This fact in itself explains the tre- mendous significance of the #ifiman | miners’ strike.” The bosses Know the readiness of the miners for struggle If they The latest gyp the Standard Oil, Company of New York, which has} to be administered | by ‘the Metropolitan Life Insurance which the capitalist papers praise so Under its) | word on this always—their “pension” is lost. If they organize to strike | against wage cuis, the “insurance” ends. There is no unemployment in- suranee. This is a canny scheme of the billionaire Rockefeller to speed-up the workers ahd fool them into the belief they are getting something. More of these schemes will be ad- vanced to divide the’ workers and to keep them from increasing the strug- gle for real unemplorment iiisurance | to be paid by the be |Sovernment ANd Ot ue vane ght: All the bosses’ profit in the Stand-| jard Oil sqheme—the insurance com-) |pany, the Standard Oil, and the stockholders of the Standard Oil. The workers are hit harder. Fight for real unemployment insur- sue. Denpoieae ‘Feb, 10! Prepare lor International hunger demon- stration on February 251 % Lon! ce my B thelr | against misery and starvation. They also know the widespread influence of the National Miners’ Union, the leader of the strike, among the miners. Miners throughout the industry must understand the significance of the Hillman miners’ strike, and give it their fullest support. FORCED LABOR IN WALL ST’S COLONY ‘Turn to page 3 for the exposure cf forced labor and fascist terror ngainst the workers in Wall Street's Cuban colony, under the puppet government of “Butcher” Machado, punent