The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1931, Page 1

Men, Women and Children— the Entire Family of Every Unemployed and Employed Worker “heuld Take Part in the February Tenth Demonstrations Vol. VIL, No. 33 at New York, N. Y. (Section~of the Communist Entered ax sccend class matter at the Post Office <jp2l » under the act of March 8, 1979 unist Party U.S.A. international) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1931 CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents WHOLE N. Y. TOWN STARVES; DEMONSTRATE FEB. 10! Soviet Union Needs Workers; Capt Well, Mr. Fish, What Do You Say? JJRITING in the New York Times, Walter Duranty tells us that the Soviet Union cannot meet the need for workers. The flow of peas- ants from the country to the city is being checked. The need for ex- perienced workers in the shops, however, is growing and must be met. Many foreign-born workers—among them Americans—have gone to the Soviet’ Union, found conditions good, and then have written back home advising ‘the boys to come along”. The colony of workers of foreign countries has grown—and still the need is great. The success of the Five Year Plan in face of the economic crisis in the capitalist countries with their 17,000,000 unemployed, as the League of Nations reports (the number unquestionably is nearer 30,000,000) is enticing the workers. It is no longer propaganda about the Soviet Union, but the great object lesson of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union building up and developing the most gigantic projects the world has ever seen, at a time when the factories in the capitalist countries are shut down completely or working part time; when starvation is rampant in the city and country; when insanity, suicides, disease are spreading rapidly—especially pellagra (the disease of undernourishment) ; when wages are being slashed and conditions worsened—this develop- ment of the Soviet Union is teaching the workers and farmers of the world astremendous lesson. It is emphasizing 1) that the capitalist system is bankrupt; 2) that the workers can build without thé “genius” of a Rockefeller, Hoover or Ford; 3) that the talk of “enforced” or “convict” labor in the Soviet Union is a cloak for the fear of the capitalists that the workers are learn- ing from the success of the Five Year Plan. And this is behind the proposals of the Fish Congressional Commit- tee—the fear of the American capitalist class of the success of the build- ing up of Socialism in the Soviet Union and the revolutionary effect on the American workers. You cannot stop the success of the Five Year Plan, Mr. Fish. However many delegations you send to the Soviet Union to get “facts”, you will not be able to distort them so much or so long as to deceive the workers much longer. You drive the foreign-born work- ers out of this country or persecute them—the Seviet Union welcomes them to citizenship. You and the bosses you represent cut the wages of the workers—the Soviet Union continually raises them. You let the workers starve in the cities of this country—in the Soviet Union every worker eats. And therefore, Mr. Fish, your only way out it to propose an embargo on Soviet goods, and to prepare for war against the Soviet Union. The workers will not ‘support you in your proposals—the starving, discon- tended workers and.poor farmers of the United States. They will not support you in your campaign against the Communist Party, for it is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leading the workers and peasants, that is building up Socialism. The workers must learn more and more from this situation of the sharp contrast of poverty in the United States and growing prosperity in the Soviet Union—10,000,000 unemployed in the United States. 2,000,- 000,000 workers needed in the Soviet Union, and build their organiza- tions, particularly the Communist Party and revolutionary unions, to fight for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, against intervention in the Soviet Union. Unemployed Battle With Police and Put Widow's Furniture Back Mass. Meeting Before Muhicipal Flop House Brings 150 Recruits for Organization of the Unemployed; Two Arrests NEW YORK.—Unemployed Coun- cils were active here yesterday. At Veen as speaker. The police tried in every way to 74 Suffolk St., where the landlord had decided to throw a widow named ‘Yetta Sacker and her three children out, the Down Town Council of the Unemployed came down and in spite of a sharp fight with the police and two arrests, put the furniture back on the sixth floor. And, at last ac- counts, Mrs. Saeker and her family were holding the fort. Patrolman Joseph Shea tried to in- terfere when he saw a hig crowd of tenants of the locality collecting around at the. call of the council, denouncing the landlord for evicting these jobless workers and carrying up the furniture. booted the cop out of the road and went on doing their duty by the fur- niture, Fither Patrolman Shea or the land- lord called ont the police reserves, ind a.sharp fight took place. In the end the crowd was smashed and Lo- | renzo Roggero and Meyer Silver ar- |rested and charged: with disorderly }conduct. But the furniture. was back. » The Madison Square Council of the Unemployed held a mass meeting in front of the Municipal flophouse at First Ave. and 25th St, with Van Order Now for Saturday Issue Read what the Jersey City Armour Packing House workers say about the speed-up system in their plant. Read how the Lodi coatmakers won their strike. Read how the girls in the National Electric Co. in Ambridge, Pa., get tuberculosis. Miner sees sharpening stru:r- gles in’the Winois coal fields. ‘Thirty conts a day is wage in California cotton fields, More worker correspondence in next Saturday's issue. Order extra bundles at 1 cent for five or more, 1,000, before Fri- day, 6 p.m. (60,000 circulation sparks pg. 3.) But the crowd) interfere, cutting off that part of the crowd that was in the street, chasing another part off the sidewalk and hampering the audience in every way. Still some 400 or 500 were present all the time. Van Veen scored the capi- talist politicians who haggle over the $25,000,000 relief to the farmers, afraid jof the farmers and afraid to vote | them relief, for that would expose | thelr lack of relief for the unem- | ployed of the cities. “Come over to the Trade Union Unity Council headquarters, join the Unemployed Council, fight for un- employment insurance,” the speaker ended, and about 150, including a dozen Negro jobless workers, followed to 16 W. 2ist St., where, after more speeches by Van Veen, Nesin and others, they all signed the Workers’ Unemployment’ Insurance Bill and joined the unemployed council. Com- mittees of action were elected. One worker told how at the 33rd St. and Tenth Ave. breadline onion scup so dosed with pepper is served that the directors of that line are able to boast: “They have too much to eat, they never take a second help- ing!” . It is reported that one jobless worker, threatened by his landlord with eviction, told the rent grabber that he was going to see the unem- | ployed council about it. The. land- Jord then offered him $5 if he would move and not go to the council. TO BUILLUNEMPLOYED COUNCIL FOR MARINE WORKERS NEW YORK.—A mass meeting will be held with speakers from the Down ‘Town Council of the Unemployed and from the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union today at noon at Fulton and ‘West Sts., to form a Marine Workers’ Council of the Unemployed. ‘There are many jobless longshore- ;men and seamen now. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, 140 Broad St., is co-operating with the Coun- cils of the Unemployed to organize them for a fight for immediate re- Nef and unemployment insurance, and to help the struggle of the em- PORTA bie 2.2, BIG RISE IN NAVY ARMING RUSHES WAR “Excuse” Opens Way for Biggest Arms Race First Lord of the British Admi- ralty, A. V. Alexander, announced Wednesday in the house of com- mons that the British would in- crease their navy building program. This further shows up the whole false “peace campaign” with which the leading capitalist powers tried to cover the London Naval Confer- ence, while they laid the basis for @ nayal arms race. This will start off a whole series the so-called “escalator clause” of the naval treaty signed by Britain, the United States and Japan was prepared for just this kind of thing. The escalator clause said that any of the imperialist powers could in- crease its navy higher than that provided for by the treaty at any time it wanted to. Then the other powers could build up higher, and so there would be a free for all, speeding up the war preparations. The fact that Lord Alexander at this time says that Britain would build more ships indicates the sharpness of the war danger. The excusé that Aléxander” gave, “and which McDonald will grab hold of to save his “pacifist” face is that Italy and France are rapidly rush- ing to war, building at a furious pace. Alexander said that Britain was building 46,145 tons of war ves- sels, but that France was laying down 100,684 tons, and Italy 100,777. U. S. Congress has before it bills of over $200,000,000 for immediate warship building, and Admiral Pratt, chief of operations of the U. S. Navy, stated that an expenditure of $1,100,- 000,000 would be necessary. Now ali this is changed. The latest announ- cements in the House of Commons means that the ante will be shoved up to two billion dollars fur the United States, The bosses will easily find this money for their war preparations. When the unemployed ask for relief they get clubs and blackjacks. When the war vets demand a cash bonus Mellon, Hoover and other bankers say they can’t afford it. But money. for war preparations is always available, United Front Session Saturday on Jobless Drive for Insurance NEW YORK.—There will be a united front conference on unem- ployment of all workers’ organiza- tions south of 14th St. Saturday at 2p. m. at 27 E. Fourth St. Dele- gates from unemployed councils, unions, International Workers’ Or- der branches and all other sports, cultural, defense, fraternal, ete., groups of workers should send dele- gates. Many delegates have already been selected. Use the Self-Addressed and Pre- paid envelope to send in filled up Red Shock Troop Donation List. Smash BossSystem and| Follow in Wake of Soviets One of the most remarkable move- ments, the emigration of workers from the capitalist lands of misery to the Soviet Union, is predicted by Walter Duranty, New York Times correspon- dent in Moscow, in a cable dated February 4. The-process is already beginning. With the worsening of the crisis in the capitalist lands, the movement will be speeded up, Duran- ty thinks, Nothing like it has happened since the mass migration of workers to the United States, beginning in the early part of the last century. It by no means signifies that the workers will in this way solve their problems in the capitalist countries. Even should the movement reach the pace equal to the height of immigration into the United States, the sharpness of the class battle and the inevitable overthrow of capitalism will not be lessened one whit. a basis for the movement, that the (CONTINUED ON WORKERS SCHOOL | 10 OPEN MONDAY Pre-Term Assembly on Friday Night NEW YORK.—The Spring Term of the Workers School will begin next Monday, Feb. 9. Hundreds of work- ers have already registered for the many vital courses offered at the school. Big registrations are espe- cially recorded in the classes in the Fundamentals of Communism, Marx- ism, Leninism, Russian and others. In order to orientate the stddents with the policy, plan and adminis- tration of the school, and to discuss many important problems regarding the school as a whole, a pre-term general assembly will take place this Priday night, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. at the school auditorium, 35 E. 12th St., sec- ond floor. All students who have registered for the Spring Term must attend. PAGE THREE) Read the list of returned Red Shock yp Lists to see if your list bas Teached the Daily Worker. “NEW YORK. — Tammany police fired their revolvers into the air, six thugs were severely beaten and four members of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union were arrested yesterday when strong-arm men em- ployed by the International Ladies Garment Workers, (the company union) attempted to prevent mem- bers of the N. T. W. I. U. from pick- eting the shop owned by Needleman Only Immedia te Response Will Keep the ‘Daily’ Alive We may lose our Ryan Walker car- toons unless the financial conditions improve. All of the staff, as far as wages are concerned, have been pushed to the wall. Even requests for money for urgent relief in the families of some of the staff could not be met, The practical question of continuing the cartoons and reg- ular contributions of one of our car- toonists must be answered shortly. Unless there is a substantial increase in the contributions the Daily Worker will be faced with cutting down many essential features. We are fighting hard to keep up the improvements noticed by all in the Daily Worker, but sharp, forced re- trenchment will be necessary so that the paper may come out at all. The New York District has set a Fig eae ce th only about an hour's notice the following sections responded: Section 1, 0130.10; Section 2, $113.00; Section 3, $10.00; Section 4, $87.52; Section 5, $220.64; Section 7, $22.00; Section 8, $25.25. Total, $610.51. Other sections were not able to be reached but they will undoubt- <. respond also. This must be lollowed by the rest of the country. Communist Party, urging all dis- tricts to immediately wire funds, New York District saved the Daily for the next few days but when that time is up we will again be in the same condition. It is up to the The significant fact is that there is | talism Fires, Starves Them, See Mass Migration to Soviet Union As World Crisis Worsens NEW YORK.—While realization of| the Five Year Plan of socialist con- struction is certain within fou years, it is also possible of completion within three years, Joseph Stalin declared yesterday, -according to capitalist press dispatches reaching this city. | The Soviet Union soon will be the| greatest agricultural nation on earth,| Stalin is quoted as saying, and the} Communist system has been demon-} strated before the world as the only| one in which an economic crisis such} as has laid low the capitalistic na-| tion is impossible. | We have evrything, iron, coal, ,oil, grain, cotton—everything but rubber, and we will have that in a year or so. No other coutnry in- the world has such possibi | development as we have. But we have still more important! obligations—those to the world prole-| tariat. We have won not only through| our own workers, but with the sup-| port of thé workers of the “world, without which we would have been ‘Five Year Plan Certain in Four Years, Possible in Three Socialist Construction Proceeds Victoriously,| for Opposing Negro’s | Stalin Tells Associated Press; Communist System Demonstrates Superiority COMRADE STALIN” crushed long ago. Now we must march on so that the world proletar- jat w . “There is our advanced guard, our government, our fatherland. Let us support them against the capitalists in bringing about the world revolu- tion.” . YOUNG NEGRO WOR STRUNG UP TULSA, Okla. Feb. 5.—The hor- rible burning alive of Raymond Gunn, Negro youth, by a Missouri boss mob, early this year, was exceeded in atrocious cold-blooded brutality by the police agents of the bosses in this | city who during the last week of January staged a near-lynching “third degree” on a Negro youth from which is it doubtful he wifl re- cover, In an endeavor to force young Willie Ems to confess to a crime he denied Knowledge of, Tulsa police burned the flesh of this young boy until the stench of burning flesh permeated the halls and stairways of the police station and the shrieks of the tortured boy rended the air. The KER BURNED, BY TULSA POLICE boy was then placed in the city jail for the night and denied medical at- tention. Next day the police took him to the scene of the crime he was charged with committing, placed a rope around his neck and strung him up. They kept him in the air until he was half dead, then’they lowered him to the ground. Failing to force a confession out of him, they strung him up once more. Enraged when the youth still refused to confess to a crime he did not commit, the po- lice savagely beat him up with ‘the! rope they had used for the hang- ings. The nearly dead boy was then returned to the city jail. It is held unlikely that he will recover. Mass Demonstration Today at Noon at 8th Ave. and 386th St. & Bremmer at 263 W. 40th St. the 40 workers in their shop, all) members of the industrial union.| Needleman & Bremmer made an agreement with the company union, which agreed to replace the 40 work- ers by scabs. The answer of the workers who were locked out was to picket the shop. In an attempt to WORKER VETS T0 EXPOSE BANKERS NEW YORK. — Excuses of bank- ers, Hines of the Veteran Bureau, and other flunkies of the imperialist | government will be exposed in full at the ‘membership meeting of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League to- night, at 15 East 3rd St. ~The League will make a fiinal se- lection of a delegate to go with the} Council of Unemployed Delegation to) | Washington on Feb. 10. ‘The League is planning to unite with the Coun- cils of Unemployed in a huge dem-} onstration at Union Square on Feb.) 10 and many other demonstrations of the working class, The meeting will start at 7 p. m. in order to ad~ Journ to attend a dance gf the Coun- & Needle Strike Pickets Repulse Li. G.W. Thugs; Police Shoot | break up the picketing, the company union, erdered some of its “gorillas” to int date the picket line. Police Shoot. A demonstration of needle trades | Workers was staged in front of the ing when they tried to interfere with the picketing. Cops, firing their guns over their heads as they ran, came to the rescue of the thugs too late to prevent them from being given a proper lesson, Four members of the N. T. W. I. U., picked at random, without regard to whether they were (CONTINUED ON PAGE Two) NEWARK FIGHTING \6 Arrested in Newark | | es | Eviction | | NEWARK, NJs Feb. 5—The de-| | termination of the Council of the} ; Unemployed and the Negro and white | | workers here to stop the eviction of | H. Brown, a Negro jobless worker | | living at 153 Charleston St., resulted| in a clash today at’noon in which| six were arrested. | Brown had been evicted yesterday. | The Council of thé Unemployed went | | down, rallied the tenants and other | | workers from around, held a mass} meeting in front of the place, which was attended and supported by the | tenants of the ‘building, and put the} furniture back. | Tcday the landlord came with a constable and stated that Brown| would have to move. The Council of | | the Unemployed rallied again and| | was on the ground starting another mass meeting before the furniture ‘as put out. The attack on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE PROTEST ROBBING OF RELIEF FUNDS Yonkers Jobless Meet) Saturday, 4 P.M. | YONKERS, N. Y., Feb. 5.—After | forcing workers on starvation wages | to part with contributions to the so- | called “Make Work” fund originated | by Mayor Foggerty’s committee, it | was discovered yesterday that $26,000 of the money collected goes into the | pockets of agencies and “collectors” | hired by the committee. The drive was originally started to collect $250,000 to get “work” for the 15,000 unemployed here. Even if they would get “work” with this money it would amount to about 15 cents a week for a short while. But the |money is being gobbled up by the professional collectors before it ever géts to the unemployed. So far $215,- 000 is reported “collected.” But out of this $26,000 has already been spent for “collecting.” Hundreds of col- lectors are yet to be paid. A big} | chunk of the money still remaining | will go to this friends of the mayor } | and never reach the unemployed. THREE) To arrange swell banquets and | feeds of the Committee collecting the | funds $13,000 was spent. The 15,000 | unemployed starve, but the collectors | swill on the money that is collected | supposedly for relief. The Unemployed Council is calling a mass protest demonstration to show up this graft and robbery that | is carried on under the name of “re- | lief.” The protest is called for Sat- | Every unemployed and em- | demonstration. | Along with unemployment, a 10} per cent wage cut has been handed | to the Smith Carpet Co. workers. In order to break the opposition of the workers a veritable reign of police | terror has been started. Meetings are | smashed; workers arrested and beat- | en up. Close Mines and Stores to Starve Miners and Families WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 5.—Coal companies are not only closing their mines around Sheppton, Oneida, and other towns in Pennsylvania, but they are shutting up the only foods stores in the territory, literally forcing the miners to starve or emigrate. The Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. has ordered the closing of its mines in Shleppton and Oneida. Immediately after this they shut up the company grocery stores and stopped all credit to the unemployed miners. . ‘The “Anthracite Miner,” a newspa- per of Wilkesbarre, in its issue of ———f “It has struck stark terror into the families, that for the most rart were dependent on the mines at these towns. Deserted villages they will soon prove, even if some of the mon have to leave behind a little hemem, inte which they have sunk a life time of.effort in the saying | line.” ‘ This is the picture of the condi- tions of the miners in places where | mines have recently shut. But in those places where have been out of work feck mottos or 8, fa se es iy : eae resulting from this move: | mR e.: Y. Times Admits DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON ARRESTED ~~ AN EV.CTION COME TO UNO SQUARE TUESDAY! Demand Congress Turn Over War Funds to Feed Starving! rt NEW YORK.—Reports have been obtained that in the village of Monte Cello, New York, the whole popula- tion is starving. This is not drought- stricked Arkansas, this is the state of New York, where Wall Street is situ- ated and where the rich guzzle and dine and prosper, and where 1,300,000 workers and families are starved. Néither the City of New York nor the state of New York nor the United States government is raising a penny to relieve these workers, They even refuse to appropriate $15,000,000 for the starving army of unemployed here. This conditio nwill comtinue until the workers show by determined ef- fort, through demonstrations and protests, that they will not tolerate these conditions, On Feb. 10 a delegation will pre- ent the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill to congress. On that day, under the auspices of the Unemployed Council and the | Campaign Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance, in every industrial city and town of the United States, millions of workers will demonstrate in’ support of the bill and against | the fearful conditions of misery and starvation, and against the vicious wage-cutting campaign, against, the attacks unon the Negro and fogéign- born workers. ‘They will demand that the billions of dollars appropriated for war be handed over for the relief of the un- employed. They will expose the fake building program of Hoover and Roosevelt, the hypocritical racketeer- ing charity scheme of the corrupt Tammany Hall grafters. They will let the bosses of this country know that Unemployment Insurance must be provided for the unemployed workers immediately. - Join in this demand! Support the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill! All workers out on Union Square on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 12, noon. All workers, Negro and white, native and foreign born, young and old, em- ployed and jobless, demand Unem- ployment Insurance by demonstrating on Union Square at noon, Feb. 10! NEW STATIONS FOR TAG DAYS NEW YORK.—Expenses connected with the hunger march to Albany have to be met! The Workers’ In- ; | sho pyesterday morning to combat/ urday, Feb. 7, 4 o'clock, at Larkin’s| ternational Relief has established After breaking an agreement with) the terrorism ‘of the company thugs,| Plaza. the N. T, W. I, U. and locking out! who were given a thorough pummel- | ployed worker is urged to attend this | tion*Saturday and Sunday. ‘The new | list is published below. ne wstations for the tag day collec- All’ volun- teers go to the nearest station Sat- urday and everybody should volun- teer. Here are the stations: Down Town—27 E. Fourth St., 16 W. 2ist St., 131 W. 28th St. 301 W. 29th St. Harlem—308 Lenox, 20 W. 115th, 15 W. 126th, 350 E. 8ist. Bronx: 9 Prospect Ave. 1472 Boston Rd., 2700 Bronx Park East, 2061 Bryant Ave. Brook!yn—61 Graham Aye, 195 Flushing, 312 Columbia, 105 Thatford, 2931 32nd St., Coney Island; 140 Nep- tune Ave., Brighton Beach; 26 Jack+ son Ave., Long Island City. New Jersey—93 Mercer St., News ark; 206 Market St., Patersoi:. Yonkers—252 Warburton Ave, NOTICE All comrades ,or sympathetic workers who have rs and are able to give the use of them to take the Unemployed delegation to Washington, February 10th, should report to the headquarters of the Trade Union Unity Council, 16 W. ist St. Tho trip will take a maxt- mum of two days time.