The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1931, Page 2

eee Economic Crisis Heads for Deeper Levels; Lies Nailed All the talk of he capitalist papers about “optimism” over the crisis sit- uation is the sham, The fact is conditions today are worse than ever before. In the early part of 1930, steel production was going up; but that did not prevent the year from being the worst in the eco- nomic history of the United States. This January and February things, however, are even worse than they were last year. Though the capital- ist press says the “low point” in the crisis was reached in December, the facts show this is not true. sheerest Here are some facts smashing these statements: The Annalist, a Wall Street financial sheet, says that their index of business activities for Jan- uary, 1931, showed business activity was below the December mark. average for the first three weells of January,” says the Annalist, “4s 77.9 | @s against a December average of | ew York Times, which prints | y index, is forced to jockey the whole thing to cover up the worsening crisis. The much-adver- tised “rise” in steel production is a/ What’s THURSDAY— Politic itherBestenene to .the ssinian Baptist j Church, eb. 5, 8 p,m. in} t 138th St, betweens h Aves, Admission | * welcome. Latin 5 at 9 p.m Admission free, Medteal Workers membership meet . Feb, 5 at 8 p.m. + stevie LID, 108 B. 14th tant business, *s Couneil bonauet PD Feb. 7 to cele- 8 pm > vewth Club as owe Members. plans will b Weobers School ssembly Friday. t school audi- . second fl. of ¢ unism class 1 sth at 7 veasr| at 8:30 p, at_ the 133 Second hve! All. welcome oe a Workers oratory Theatre Joint meciin of the Executive meeting and sll functionaries at the| W.1 R. at 0 p.m. Harlem Vror. Youth Club Meets. at 1492 Madison Ave, at 8:20 | are urged to at-| kers—Important! p.m, at Work~ ers’ Center. Yorkville Branch I. Meets at & p. m. at iar Rina St Annual Bazaar and br. affair prep- arations. * 28 Workers’ © vicemen’s League Meets. at p.m. at Ukrainian | Workers Home. E. Third St. to elect delezstes to Washington. “The meeting will adjourn early to enable the vets to attend the Unemployed Council dance, . . Indoor Maxx Meeting. omen’s Council Bath Beach at 5:30 p,m. it 48 Bay 28th Unemployment Situation.” Sie oh Leet What Our Cole 6bth St, F re and Disevasion. ucation Should We Give n?. Workers’ Center, 2500 oklyn, at 8:30 p,m she faitenia Braneh Vb TImportont meeting at 131 we. 28th St, 3rd floor, at 6 p.m. Come on time, * 8 @ Dance and Entertainment Under the auspices of the Down Town loved Council, will be held at W ‘ Laboratory Theatre, 181 West 28th St. Entertainment ts furnished through co-operation of the ¥C.L. and W. ‘a * ‘ SATURDAY— Painters Foram Saturday, Feb, 6 at 2 p. m. at 143 B. 108rd. St. Sam Nesin on “Unem- ployment and Attitude of A.F.L. lead- ership. Adm{ssion free. Concert Given by the Brighton Beach Work-~ ers Club 140 Neptune Ave, at 8.30 p.m. Proceeds to dressmakers strike, Admission be. “ tapomet goa Arranved by t! Bape tee “Workers club: 412 Sutter Ave. nent per- formers, Proceeds to TNeedle Workers Industrial Union, “Fragment ot an Empire” Panera boris im appeer Lenox Ave. at 8 p.m. A Tlb oe. Coming Dresnmahars: i By eyes its strike fund for the} Tread uarters, toh" and 111th &t. Good jazz band, rt. Contribution Bbe. “The | | | flop. Steel is a dead-weight of hal crisis. It is 20 per cent below the| 1930 figure, and about 40 per cent below the 1929 figure—despite all the efforts of the bosses to shove it up. Automobile production is declining. The F. W. Dodge Corporation re- ports that building contracts are the lowest for many years. This means more workers unem- ployed. More wage cuts. It means a sharpening of the crisis, with greater starvation for the workers. The crisis is getting worse and no amount Of juggling by the capitalist press can hide the fact. The Commercia) & Financial Chronicle, another lead- ing Wall Street mouthpiece, in its; latest issue (January 31, 1931) ad- mits “new difficulties are cropping Out destined to delay the period of recovery, and, indeed, to postpone its | coming indefinitely.” | The unemployed army is destined to grow larger and larger. Thousands | lose their jobs every day. Hunger is | spreading. Speed the fight for un- employment insurance! Demonstrate | February 10th! Prepare for the In- ternational Unemployment Day | marches on February 25th! ‘MUST FIGHT FISH COW. PROPOSALS ee Urged to Sup-, ‘port Feb. 8 Conference NEW YORK.—The Fish Committee | | proposals were not even discussed yet | | in Congress, but the government is | | already carrying out the Fish anti- labor proposals. The arrest for de- | Portation of Louis Bebrich, editor of the Hungarian Workers’ Daily “Uj Elore” is a direct provocation against | the American workers and in par- ticular against the foreign born. Even from the most reactionary judicial point of view the arrest of | L. Bebrich is a violation of the most clementary “guarantees” of the con- stitution. The workers must organize to an- swer the challenge of Fish and his fellow fascists. The workers, espe- cially of those organizations where ie loadership is reactionary and sup- port the’ persecution against the for- ign born, those workers in particular have to send delegates to the confer- for the*protection of foreign born ich will-be held on Sunday, Feb. 8:11 a. movat the Irving Plaza, Irv- ing Pl. and-15th St. “;op-Paner Methods Tanght At Workers - Sehecl This Terr aries > Paper Method: <asae4 at th od. It deals not + funetion oi }lem that ari |sHop paper owe | make-up of t! | distribution, | mucieus should go about issuing a | paper, how to hendie the day-to-day | grievances in the shop. how to choos- ha name, how to push the Daily Worker, the Labor Unity, etc.—all | such questions are given the same | detailed consideration as the broader — political aspects of the work and tre | | question of building up shop commit~ | tees and draw the worker into the | revolutionary trade unions and the! | Perty. Comrades who are either directly lor indirectly connected with shop | | Paper activity or who expect soon to be involved in such activity should | enroll in this class. Party and League | units, especially, should send com- rades to take the course on the schol- | arship basis. The course is open, of course, to any worker who desires to | take it. Since the Spring Term of the Workers’ School will definitely open next Monday registration must take place this week. Books About Workers In Industry Now Out By Intl Publishers Labor and Coal, by Anna Rochester. Labor and Lumber, by Charlotte Todes. Labor and Textiles, by Robert W. Dunn and Jack Hardy. International Publishers. New York. 1931. $1.00 each. | for better conditions. photographic worker, retoucher and) TH ik ‘ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931 ADVENTURE s OF BILL WORKER iBank indies HELP Your Sere Boys! THERe's PLENTY Mope COMING is yf i Bank DIRECTOR, 5 ie eee legac inoac ee ( I (Heep Your SELVES + ahh ee ; | [ate Lots oF ON THIS RACKET ALE CAIN IN THECE's GANG MoRe WHERE THIS CAME FROM thr BANIk. It Funds [2- | . 4 DEPosiToR rm GETTING | }00,000 FRom HE BANK'S FUNDS To Ter You Tar THERES A Great EXAPTINESS IN TALS I DONT HAVE To TELL’ You How Rorrery. CAPITALISM 15 J'LL LET Your . Deruncy. Banic eS TALK TO You apovT a SYSTEM 7 INSTRUCTIONS FOR DELE- GATES TO PROTECTION OF FOREIGNBORN CONFERENCE 1. All delegates to the Protec- tion of Foreign Born Conference are requested to be at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Pl. and 15th St. at 11 a. m. sharp. 2 In case a delegate cannot be present at the conference, let him immediately notify his organiza- tion, so that someone else can | take his place. bt 3. In case an organization did not elect delegates yet, the offi clals of the organization are re- | quested to appoint someone to , represent them. 4. Every delegate should care- fully fill out the questionaire that will be presented to them. District Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born, Room 595, 32 Union Square, New York DLE WESTERN CITIES PREPARE “emonstration on the Boston Common Feb. 4.—The first. CHICAGO, Ml, Fek Negro and White Workers’ Solidarity Cemonstration will be seen here on Feb. 10, It is a hunger march ugh the heart of the Negro chborheod on the South Side, and mass mobilization to demand that Workers Unemployment Insur- > Bill shall be passed, The Chi- egation of Negro and, white 5 will be with the 150 or so 3 from other cities and indus- towns, who on that day serve on Congress with a roll of eds of thousands of signatures w who want it passed. The Chicego mach will start at n at Thiriy-fifth St. and State Tt will merch south on State St iv-ninth St., and then to Dear- 1 St. where a huge demonstra- ) will be held, with speakers voic: y the demands for unemployment Hef. The demonstration is also against dicerimination practiced on Negro hi (CONTINUED ON i] Meeting of All *hotographic Workers | for Thursday Evening NEW YORK. — A meeting of pho- ‘oeraphic workers of New York City hes been, arranged by a group 0° workers in the trade for Thursday Feb. 5, 6:30 p. m, at 16 West 21st St. The conditions of the workers in PAGE THRE | the photographic profession are be-| coming more deriorable from day to day, Wage cuts are taking place in every studio. Workers are hired and fired at the disposal of the bosses. In many insvances the bosses are re- sorting to the trick of firing the work- ers and rehiring them a couple of days later at much lower wages. The hours have been increased. We are compelled to work late at night even when we are working part time. Un- employment is widespread. Many of | the workers were unable to get per-/ manent jobs even during the Christ- | mas rush. Thursday’s meeting ill discuss con- | ditions, work out a program of de- mands dealing with all the problems confronting us daily, and take steps to organize a Photographic Workers’ Union, which will take up the fight We urge every helper to be present at this meeting without fail and help to bring about the organization of a fighting union that will defend the interests of the workers against the bosses. Arranged by the Krassin Branch No. 1 ‘TICKETS: 50 CENTS The meeting will takeplace prompt- ly at 6:30 p. m. Read the list of returned Red Shock Troop Lists to see if your list has reached the Daily Worker. BANQUET AND FAREWELL ? SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931 te Comrade M. Dribinsky who is going to visit the Soviet Union 12 of the International Workers Order In the MIIDDLE BRONX WORKERS CENTER epee ah utant ae onal aa (3rd Ave, ¥.) ALL PROCEEDS TO THE DAILY WORKER ATTEMPT OUTIL AW THE YCL IN PENNA. Attack on 1 the Wieesel Young Workers | PHILADELPHIA, | Feb. 4.—“Anna | ynn unlawfully did become a mem-/} ber of an assembly, society or group | med the Young Communist League | cf Philadelphia, Pa., of which the | licies and purposes are seditious.” | This statement is one of two in-| tments against Anna Lynn and ) Tess Ryder, Young Communist League members arrested for dis- | buting leaflets to National Guards- 1en three weeks ago, shows a direct | attempt to outlaw the Young Com- | munist League, the Communist Party | ond all militant workers’ organiza- | tions in the state of Pennsylvania, The case was supposed to come up teday and many army officers, | American Legion fascist officials, et were present in the court. Major Carrol, a vicious American Legion- | , May prosecute the case per- It is expected that the pros- | ion will base its case mostly on | the charge advocating and encouragement that National | Cuard refuse to fight when called | lot of new and important things in | worker who was known as the world’ ; to fight in the next war in which the government of the United States of America might be engaged” and that leaflets “distributed as aforesaid | cated necessity and propriety of | ging in crime, yiolence and forms | cf terrorism as @ means of accom- | ishing political reforms.” This attack which challenges the ‘ight to belong to the Y. C. L. comes ust at the time of increasing ac- tivity of young workers who have -en especially militant in unemploy- ; ‘nent demonstrations, hunger marches | and when many strikes are daily axing out in the Kensington tex- | area, and is linked with the anti- | rking-class campaign of the no- | us Fish Committee. The International Labor Defense is nding the cases and preparing} rence in March against the Dlynn Sedition Act. David Levinson, I. L. D. attorney, will defend young | workers in court tomorrow, ~allam to Speak at the English Branch | The English Branch of the Inter- | -otional Workers Order meets to- zht at 108 E. 14th St. on the fourth loor. i Comrade John Ballam, recently re- rned fro ma stay in the Soviet “nion will lecture on “How the Soviet Jnion Solves Unemployment.” New members are invited to attend his meeting at which they will learn | something about the Soviet Union. The meeting will start at 8.30 sharp and the lecture will begin 9.45 sharp. | Admission is free. . MILLINERY CONCERT NEW YORK—The Millinery Work- ers’ United Front Rank and File | Committee has arranged a Vetche- rinka, dance and concert Saturday evening at 106 E. 14th St. The dol- lowing will participate: Walter Port- noff, pianist; Louis Hubergritz, violin recital; Leon Schneider, recitation; | once a week to 50,000 families. Ex-Serviceman Topic at Next Forum Meet At Center on Sunday “The Role of the Ex-Servicemen and the Labor Movement” will be the topic of a lecture by Manuel Levin, chairman of the Ex-Servicemen’s | | League at the Workers’ Forum this | Sunday night, Feb. 8, at 8 p. m., at| the Workers’ School Auditorium, 35 | |B. 12th St., second floor. American imperialism marching to war, especially against the Soviet Union and the Soviet China. It is again mobilizing the workers and peasants, millions of them being un- | employed and starved, to “make the | world safe for democracy” and other bunks. But the ex-servicemen who | had fought to make the “world safe | tor democracy” will readily tell you | what did they get out of the bloody mess, how they have been given | “tombstone bonus” and the like by | American imperialism, and how they have organized themselves to: fight | against imperialist war and for the | Workers’ Bill. This topic is of vital importance, | especially at this time of increasing war danger. Workers are urged to Unemployment Insurance friends along. Comrade Levin has a} store for ane Trade Punek Admits “Philanthropists” Fire Men; Cut Wages' NEW YORK —The columnist in the Daily News Record, textile em~- nloyers’ trade paper, remarks yester- | ¢ay: “This business of discharging hetp, cutting salaries and contribut- ing to unemployment relief all at the same time, makes some of us gasp. Business men all over New York are doing it——” This is good. We knew it, but it is | nice to have the employers admit it. What the columnist forgot to say, make money by the deal. They fire for a few months at $15 a week to 28,000—-checks enough to give one bowl of soup anda couple of pieces | of bread daily to 100,000 more, police | baskets costing a couple of dollars rest of the unemployed, the 900,000 | who are not taken care of—can starve, Use.the Self-Addressed and Pre- paid envelope to send in filled up | Red Shock Troop Donation List. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST _SIDE—BRONX RKO Bria) Sto RKO ACTS Nick Lucas Gaudsmith Brothers ‘Weston & Lyons Oth. j | Prospects ieise | RKo Acts sansries Say Anthony 2 lowland Shy J rrankiine | Shirley Kaplan, classic dances, All are invited. Celebrate :— DA PARK PALACE Friday, February ADMISSION; 50 CENTS “RUSSIA AND THE The First Anniversary “SPARTACUS GREEK WORKERS CLUB REVOLUTIONARY PLAY—“RED MAY DAY” Will be presented by the Workers’ Dramtic Group of “Spartacus” Also other entertainment—Dancing until the morning hours ‘ Speaker:--JOHN BALLAM National Se ry of the Friends of tho Boviet Union 4 rmarmlt STS SeR eET e™ oe m ° 3 WEST 110TH STREET 6th at 8:30 p. m. Tuglish Branch of the International Workers Order ‘ meets THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 5, 1931 108 EAST 14TH STREET (4th Floor) Meeting will be followed by @ Lecture on FIVE YEAR PLAN” The | ‘(CELEBRATE 4TH YEAR OF LS | Witness Exhibition of | Worker Athletes ips NEW YORK,.—Feb, 2i, at the gym- nasium of the Bronx Co-operative | | Apartments, 2700 Bronx Park East, {| at 8 o'clock, there will be a sport car- |nival and dance to celebrate the | fourth anniversary of the Labor Sports Union of America. There will Be exhibitions of all American and European sports that | workers usually, partake in, in gym- nasiums. Two L, S, U. boxers will give a three-round bout exhibition. Two L. S. U. wrestlers will give an ex- hibition of wrestling. A well trained group of tumblers fro mthe Kaytee A. C., a L. S. U. club, will give an exhibition of mat tumbling. Two L. | SU. instructors will give an exhibi- | tion of Jiu Jitzu, a form of wrestling | that is one of the best technics that) workers can use in their defense against police attacks on the picket “incitement | attend this forum and bring their line and demonstrations. | There will be an exhibition of a | lightweight champion heavy weight | lifter. This interesting and exciting | sport program will be followed by dancing to the music of a fast, snappy | | jazz band, | Admission to this carnival and| | dance is 35 cents in advance and 50} cents at the door. Tickets can be! gotten at L. S. U. office, room 309, 2 | W. 15th St., all L. S. U. clubs through~ | out the city and at the Workers’ | School office, 2nd floor, 35 E. 12th St. | Come celebrate the fourth year of | the only workers’ sport organization. | ‘Witness an exhibition of worker ath- | jletes such as will be going to the | | International Spartakiade competi- | | tion to be held in July, 1981, at Ber- | \lin. ‘This carnival and dance will be | | | Spartakiade campaign to send a dele- 1,000,000 in New York, and write! sation of workers to compete in the | Eight hundred and twenty-four heads checks enough only to give work for jnternational Sparakaide competition | of families in this town of 25,000 are bo start July 4, 1931, \Olgin’s Lecture on | ‘COUNCIL GAINS Bolshevik Revolution | Is Largely Attended | NEW YORK. — The first of a se- | ries of six lectures on the Bolshevik | Revolution by M. Olgin was delivered Saturday, January 31, at 3 p. m., at} © Workers School, 48 East Thir- | teenth Street. | Over one hundred and fifty gttend- | ed the lecture. Due to the limited space, the school was compelled to| send away quite a number of those who tried to get admission. There- fore, for the next lecture, which will be on February 8, provision will be made for much larger lecture rooms, | so that many more listeners can be| accommodated. | While each lecture deals with a specific period of the history of the Bolshevik Revolution and is complete in itself, in order to get real knowl- edge about this most important Rev- olution in the history of the world, | jit is advisable to subscribe for the} entire series. Those who attended | the first lecture were highly satis- fied with the content of the lecture | and the manner in which Comrade Olgin delivered it. Everyone prom- ised to bring his friends for the fol- | lowing lectures. | The admission for the entire se-| ries is only fifty cents, with single | admission only twenty cents. Lec- tres start promptly at three p. m. |Mexican Nut Shellers ‘Unite In San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas (By Mail). —The Trade Union Unity League is building organization among the Mexican agricultural workers here, Eighty of them were present at a meeting called Jan. 25, and of these 22 applied for membership. Speak- ers were S. Levin, Joe Murphy, George Papcun. Chairman was Gar- |ecia. These are pecan nut shellers. | however, is that the business men | the official opening of the National | 824 HEADS OF FAMILIES JOBLESS | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— destitute, declared welfare workers. AMUSEMENTS CAMEO 42ND STREET and BROADWAY (WIS. 1789) POPULAR PRICES NOW STARTING FRIDAY LEO Ec With LUPE VELEZ » and ue BOLES The greatest drama of human love ever written in any language UFA’S AMAZING EUROPEAN MASTERFILM }) By Rocket to the Moon” Directed by FRITZ LANG—Director of “Metropolis” —— thestre Guid Prodections =] Green Grow the Lilacs GUILDS. te a batt MIDNIGHT AVON Win"tn: shat 2340 Miraheth the Cucen Lynn Fontanne = Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovsky, Jonnna Roor and others Martin Beck Then.t8m st vs, #40, Mia Th. & Sat. 2.40 fe Evenings 8:30 je, $1, $1.50. Mats. Th. & Bat, 2:30 EVA LB GALLIENNE, Director ‘Today Mat. {UVC REPERTORY 5 So Town Hall, 113 W. 43 Street Foc ATH tow » P IVE STAR FINAL r Binal’ ts electric and ee CORT THEATRE, Wrest of 48th Street Hves. 8:50, Mats. and Sat, 2:30 EDGAR WALLACE'S PLAY ON !HE SPOT with CRANE WILBUR and ANNA MAY WONG MDGAR WALLACE'S FORNEST THE 49th Street, West of Urondway Even. 8:50, Mats, Wed. & Sat. at 2:30 Bille BURKE #4 tor NOVELLO in ® ronsing, rollicking riot of laughs THE TRUTH GAME 5 esd FOSTER “to Viole TREE ETHEL BARRYMORE Ralearti i 47th Street, Went Bi FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT—PARTY MEMBEK OR BYMPATHIZER—4144 RUT- iD KOAD, BROOKLYN, p: x, Aun SLOCUM @cone AFTER 0 Pe 3M agen, WANTED = ited in Har! house. Write to ‘nes 10, 80 Bast 19th EA ot Broadw Evenings 8:50, Mats, Wed. & Sat. ay 2:80 6th Ave. HIPPODROME «”..';: BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK nro|"BEAU IDEAL” With Ralph Forbes ‘ACTS | and Loretta Young 20 NEW MEMBERS Furniture Mo Moved Back Into Home NEW YORK.—The Downtown Un- employed Council held a meeting be- fore Lafayette and Leonard Sts. fake employment agency, and from there many workers followed to 27 East Fourth St., where an indoor meet- ing was held and where 20 workers joined the council. Yetta Zucker of 74 Suffolk St. was evicted from her’ home. .. She’ has been out of work for three months | and has two small children to sup- | port. The furniture was throw into | the street and the Unemployed Coun- cit went down in @ body and put the furniture back. The police started to beat up the workers. But the workers returned and put the furniture back on the fourth floor where Mrs. Zucker lives. One fellow-worker by the name of Silvers, an unemployed marine worker, was arrested. Peter Krane, another - jobless worker, paid $8 for a job at the An- nex Employment Agency at 1951 Sixth Ave. He went to the job and when he saw what it was he refused to scab on another worker, He was offered a job for $80 for which an- other worker was receiving $100 a month. The agency refused to re- turn the money. At a hearing at thé Department of License Bureau, where the superintendent, Kennedy, re- fused to return any of the money, the Unemployed Council marched in in a body, and the boss was forced to return part of the money ($5). WAGE CUTS IN BEDFORD. BEDFORD, Pa.—The rich pirate who owns the Hoffman Ice Cream Plant imposed a wage cut of $5 on |his men. The workers were recely+ ing $25 per week, and now they get $20. Cooperators! SEROY CHEMIST ~ 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3315 BRONX, ¥. %, Algonqula' 401133 Ofties: gem A. MoS Poe’ Fri; and Sun, by Appolatmest | Dr. J. JOSEPHSON | SURGEON DENTIST 2236 SECOND AVENUE Near Vth Street, New York Olty. DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phose: Algonqein 2198 Not connected with any other office DEWEY 914 Ottice Hours: t) 99 Svoday!i0A0-3 POL DR. J, LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST At'ean "ihe oc; Swoogeys, we Rational Vegetarien Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 18th Se, Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phove University B68 hone Stuyvenant 9816 John’s Restaurant baby yrenslyp ITALIAN DISRRO Super, wi mana 14-8 Jk Be New York Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write te The DAILY WORKER