The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1931, Page 2

Page Tre EVICTIONS INCREA NEGRO UNEMPLOYED, DESTITUTE, STARVING, AS BOSSES OPPOSE REAL RELIEF AND MISLEADERS BETRAY, Afro-American, Negro Reformist Newspaper, Admits Misery of Jobless But Justifies Dis- | crimination, Boss Starvation Sentence EW YORK —The Baltimore .At- American, a Negro petty bourgeois paper having a fairly large cir- 2ulation in Harlem, carries in its curs rent weekly issue an article on the read sufferiug and misery of isands of unemployed Negto ers in Harlem who, because of which they are always sub- by the bosses are the worst in the crisis. tticle which deals with, and r the effort of a group of Ne- reformists to fake the Negro ers of Hatem along the lines de- the Red Cross, the Jesus Army d other charity fakers of forcing 1 workers to carry the bur- porting the unemployed than demand unemployment ance to be paid by the bosses i their government to all jobless rkers, regardless of race or color, admits that scores of evictions are aking place in Harlem. The bodies of dead workers are lying in under- takers’ establishments, the article Says, because relatives had no funds to provide the scantiest burials.” ing that “destitute people ed, -hungry, their children all wo! to justify the brutal sentencing these work- ers to starvation, misery and hunger deaths with the statement that “downtown relief agencies are swamp- ed Typical of the treacherous pt What’s On— PRIDAY— Workers School eeneral assembly Friday th 8 p.m. at school andi East 18th St. secoad. fl. ntals. of Communism | elas I t K ¥ tarts Friday, February -28th-at 7 m. Red Sparks Athletic Club Why Workers’ Sports? Find your er to this question at 8:40 ps. 1m. | at the clubrooms, 133 Second “Ave All welcome, Workers Laboratory Theatre = | Joint meeting of the Executive meeting and nil functionaries at the W. 1. R. at 6:30 p, m. Harlem Youth Club Meets nt-1462 3 All members ison Ave. at 8:30 are urged to at- . © . Nicht Werkers—Important! meets at 2:30 p. m. at’ Work- ‘enter, 2nd floor. * . . Yorkville Branch I. 1. D. s at 8 p. m. at 347 72nd St. My Basear and br. affair-prep- Anni arattoi f Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League Meets at 7 p.m. at Ukrainian Workers Home, 1h B. Third St, to elect delegates to Washington, “The meeting will adjourn early to énable he Vets to attend the Unemployed Council dante, . Indoor Mass ™ Of Women’s Council Section, at 8:30 St. “Unempl jceting. Bath Beach p. m. at 48 Bay 28th ent Situation.” Lecture and Discussion. What Education Should We Give Our Children? Workers’ Center, 2500 65th St, Brooklyn, at p.m, oe Gastonia Branch I, L. D. Important meeting at 131 W, 28th St., Srd floor, at 6 p. m. Come on time. oe «© Dance and Entertainment Under the auspices of the Down Town Unemployed Council, will be held at Workers’ Laboratory Theatre. 131 West 28th St. Entertainment is furnished through co-operation of the Y.C.L, and WLR, . Printing Tradex Party Members Unemployed night working. hould be at 16 W. 21st today at 11.30 am. Very important. Brownsville Workers. Will demonstrate against the evic- tion of John Finkelstein, 589 Belmont Brooklyn this afternoon. The Unemployed Council of Brownsville calls upon all unemployed and em- ployed workers of Brownsville and B.N.Y. to prevent the eviction of this unemployed worker. oe ee Downtown Unemployed Council Is holdin, nee with the cooper- anda the WIR in s for a bigger ball yed and to help’ the * strike. The affair th Workers’ Labor- W. 28th St. at & vic. in advance. 36c, at SATURDAY—, | Painters Foram Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. at 143 BE. Sam Nesin on “Unem- ployment and Attitude of A.F.L, lead- ership. Admission ‘free, the une needle ‘Ww Saterday, 103rd St. Concert Given by the Brighton Beach Work- ers Club 140 Neptune Ave, at 8.30 D.m. Proceeds to dressmakers strike. Admission 25¢. : . Banquet Arranved by the Cuban Workers Club, 412 Sutter Ave. Prominent per- formers, Proceeds to Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, ‘Fragment of Em| Famous Soviet film app Lenox Ave. at 8 Pm. A m: Help the Coming Dressmakers Strike By raising its strike fund for the struggle, Come to the dance at 8 p. m, atthe Harlem Needle Trades headquarters, 2011 Th Ave., bet. 110th and 111th St. Contribution 35e. Good jazz band. . . Mid-Winter Dance in Harlem Under the auspices of the lem Youth Club, 1492 paises their clubroo at Q p.m, t jazz band. Good time assured. rt and nee 14 the Brower arranees vy in je. Bronx, arran, tion 5, C.P. for B30. p,m, ester Ave. Refreshi 2 * Concert ments. persecution and etiploit- | japed by Hoover and the employ- | naked,” the Afro-American ar- | SE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORR, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1931 IN HARLEM: WORKERS DE THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER — Don’t Stand for It — A D UNBURIED | hypocrisy of the Negro petty bour- |geoisie press which pretending to | fight against Negro oppression and | discrimination yet supports the im- |perialists oppressors of the Negro jmasses the Afro-American article openly condones the discrimination practiced against the Negro unem- ployed by the city and the charity fakers’,organizations with the state- | | ment that the Mayor's Committee is/ “without funds, cannot help even) | white people dispossessed.” Thus the | Afro-American deliberately spreads the illusion that Mayor Walker was | helping evicted tenants, this tn face of Walker's endarsement of the de- WHEN The WoekeR FeeDS CAPITALISM | HE Gives HIM ALL THE FINEST AND DBT OF Foon ; ~ FINEIT FG, ~~ | 3 ¢ ROM “te RE : ram OVE Nee e ; THEN CAP/TALIS/7. 4S FORCED Tp FEED cision of the bosses courts which bra- | zenly declared that the landlords as a class cannot bear the burden of carrying unemployed tenants, that | the working class must bear the full |burden of the crisis!’ The Afro- | American also upholds Jim Cpwism. | The conimittee, it says, cannot help jeven white people! | The group of Negro reformists | whose attempt to divert the Negro | masses from a real struggle for un- | employme tninsurance finds the sup- | port of the Afro-American, is com- | posed of Rev. Shelton H. Bishop of} As a further answer to the needle St..Philip’s Church, whose church or- | trades bcyses’ drive to lower the | ganization is one of the worst land- | standard of living of workers in the |lord robbers in Harlem, the Urban | industry and their using strong-arm | League, Fred R. Moore and Wm. T./men to prevent workers on strike | andrews, and other perennial betray. |ffom picketing, a demonstration of j all needle trades workers will be held jers aici lata ar a 2 today at noon at Eighth Ave. and Sa cess! 36th St. All needle workers living or work- ing in Harlem will meet tonight in ‘UNITED CIGAR ja St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. at 8 p.m. Bronx needle trade workers | P AYS 10 A WEEK) = meet in Belmont Hall, 599 E } 7 | 184th St., at 830 p.m. It is import- | ‘ | ant that,every worker in the indus- NEW YORK—The United Cigar ‘Ty attend these meetings, for among Stores have begun during the last -he matters to be discussed will be thré@anonths to hire clerks, married ‘4¢ modifications of the demands m With families, for $10 a week. o2¢Viously suggested by the National Sometimes there are trivial percent- ~cctitfve Board and plans for the Needle Pickets Repulse Thugs As (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in the fight, were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. They are: Fay Losoff, Dave Turner, Abe Lupin and J. Weiss. Police Shoot | agesmamd bonuses, but so small they can=bé disregarded, Clerks used to | get $22 a week. When this scheme ‘to use the un- employment crisis to beat down wages | went into effect the United Cigar also | cut the wages of men already hired | $2 or $3 a week. Work increases. And likewise the work has been much increased. There used- to be window trimmers. No wthe clerks have to do that. There used to be | porters ¢o clean the stores. Now the | clerks have to do it. There used to be relief clerks, so the regular clerks | could get a day off each week. Now | there are no relief clerks and if you get part of a day off you have to make up the exact number of hours later. But if you put in overtime, no matter how many hours, you get exactly the same pay check at the end of the week. There is no pay at all for overtime. Clerks work seven days a week, usually 60 or 65 hours a week. 4 ‘The work gets heavier on account of the continual increase in the num- ber of articles sold. United Cigafs is far from being entirely a tobacco store. Bad Sanitation. ‘The sanitary conditions are ter- rible. Most stores have not even a | piece of gauze or @ bottle of iodine in case of accidents. The back rooms, | the only place a clerk can go, have |no places to sit down in, they are | crowded with stock and dirty and Each store has a manager, in addi- tion to a clerk. The manager gets $30 a week, or less. Both manager and clerk are responsible for the stock. “By Rocket to the | Moon,” Love Story i of Two Planets At the Cameo Theatre this week Adapting the story for his cinema from a novel by Thea Harbou, Lang gathered together a group of German film stars to fill the roles in his fan- tastic plot. Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch who appeared in the leading role of “Metropolis”, Klaus Pohl, and Fritz Rasp are some of the prominent players to be seen in “By Rocket to the Moon”. rom m™. to 7.30 p.m. Orders for nd should be placed between these hours, Council 21 of TCWOW Has arranged a farewell banquet for Sally Rosiinwalb, leaving for the Soviet Union, to take place at 261 Utica A Admission 50c, . t Performance ‘ton Theat near Coop ro talke “Hallelujah. rtef Carigimenee nd jigamtic demonstration to be held at [TO DEMONSTRATE STEEL CAMPAIGN |Foreign-Born Conference to | INNEW HAVEN MilwaukeeUnemployed | Organize, Socialists | Swindle Them READING, Pa., Feb. 5.—The job- less and employed workers will march on the city hall here February 10, to support the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The march will start from Front and Penn streets at 2 p. m., after a brief meeting there. There will be a short session in front of the city hall, and then delegates will | be elected to demand relief for the | jobless. They will see the socialist | party mayor, Stump. In this “socialist” town of Reading | the condition of the workers is un- | bearable. There are 12,000 walking the streets without any hopes of get- | | ting employment. The city has not | | done a thing for the unemployed | workers. The “Reading Eagle” has asked for donations for unemploy- |ment relief. They have collected | about $60,000 out of the pockets of | ‘The bosses forced their uincoln Arena on February 11: The j wwestion of the broadening of the the workers. The ! Setsent dress. strike. committee and| Workers:to “help” the unemployed, or che building of the general organiza-| get out of the plant if they refuse to dion committee will also be taken up. | 0 it. Last week here an unemployed The monster demonstration of | council was organized which already | workers in every trade that is to take | 295 over fifty members. The execu- Place in the Lineoln Arena will help {Ve committee decided to march on prove to the workers in the needic City Hall Feb. 10 to back up our a4 trades industry that every worker in gates,” while they present the New York is willing to ald in the fight | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance that the needle trades workers are ill to congress in Washington. yagi i "i 4 A systematic collection of signa- | Wesing Senne thes, Cxninteng Ee | tures is going on with shock troops ses, | Py Conference Committee. he a tie bi sca Abadi at | At a meeting last night of the Sup-| ~~", ek e | Port the Dress Strike Conference | eee Oe, ee een Committee of 45, the following was} (coNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) )Gecided upon: A call to be made for) all workers to attend the Lincoln Arena mass meeting; needle trades | workers who are members of organi- zations that participated in the con- ference of labor and fraternal groups in support of the dress strike, are speakers are to be sent to all work- ors’ organizations to aid the collec- tion of ‘the $15,000 strike fund; a speakers’ bureau is to be organized organizations may obtain speakers by communicating with the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St., Lackawanna 4-4010. The committee also elected an ex- | ecutive committee of seven and form- ed five sub-committees. H. Kolodny was elected permanent chairman of named permanent secretary. | Unemployed needle trades workers | are urged to meet at the office of the union at 10 a. m. today to prepare | for the demonstration on Eighth Ave. at noon. Mass Meetings Tonight. The more important mass meetings will be held tonight at 8 p.m. One will be at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, and-the other will be at Cyprian Ballroom, 643 Eighth Ave. between 41st and 43nd Streets. |Sazar and Weisberg of the Interna- Sazar and Weisberg of the Industrial Union will be among the speakers. Fragments of Empire’ in Harlem Saturday NEW YORK. Section four (Dist. 2) of the Communist Party has ar- ranged a showing of “Fragments of an Empire” for this Saturday night at its large headquarters at 308 Len- ox Avenue, All workers are urged to see this vitally interesting Soviet film. } Unemployed Meeting Saturday in Harlem NEW YORK.—The Harlem Unem- ployed Council has arranged a meet- ing for Saturday at 11 a. m. at 114th Street and Fifth Avenue to mobilize the Spanish workers for support of the struggle for unemployment relief and and the hunger marches on Albany Washington. urged to join the N. T. W. I. U.;| the committee and Julius Fleiss was| WOMENS COUNCIL CONFERENCE SUN. | Will Support Demands; | of Unemployed NEW YORK.—The United Council of Working Class Women, the or- ganization which unites and leads working-class housewives in the class struggle for better conditions, will have its annual conference on Sun- day, Feb. 15, at 1 p. m., at Stuyvesant | Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St., New York City, ‘The conference takes place at a time when over 9,000,000 workers, | both men and women, are unem-| ployed. The bosses. utilize this huge unemployment situation to cut wages of those who are employed, also to speed them up, so as to pile up more | profits, | The workers are faced with star- | vation, evictions, the shutting off of | gas and electricity, etc. The work- ing-class woman suffers even more than the man. The landlord, the | butcher, the grocer, gas and electric | collectors approdch her. She sees her children starving before her eyes. ‘This conference will be a means of uniting forces to fight for the im- mediate demands of the workers— such as reduction of rent and other necessities, for free rent, gas and elec~ tricity for the unemployed workers, for free lunch for children of the unemployed, ‘The conference will also map out | HERES Three Cents FoR AMEAL. IT 1S (Fe Ross. Now Don, | EATS Til MRKER a 1c) HATS WHEN Ca, 7a FELD Tif WORLD WAR VETERAN. (YOU Want The VeTeRAn BONUS 2 (Gor, YOU Want To RUIN DAY BONDS? Fouqur %OU WANTS 3.090.000.0002 wiry] Lf2® You! 5) ee Te LE? © Ford. You Feary) WAVER She Give You Sie NOTHING) VST — Aralism 'S AskED STARTS IN OHIO, Fight On Mass Deportation Organize, Socialists Swindle Them YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb, 5.— Several thousand steel workeys will attend the organization campaign with William Z. Foster as the main speaker at the Central Auditorium in Youngstown, Saturday night, Feb. 7, reports from the field organizers of the Metal Workeys Industrial League indicate. Foster will speak for the steel organization campaign which is being conducted by the | MWIL in the Mahoning Valley, the largest steel center in America. Steel workers are expected from Farrell, Warren, Niles and Girard.and other towns. The Ohio District Conference of the Metal Workers Industrial League wil ltake place February 8 in Youngs- town. Delegates frony Youngstown, Warren, Niles, New Castle, Farrell, Canton, Massillon, and’ many other stele centers will participate. The district conference will lay’ the basis for coming stryggles against the wage cuts and the speed-up, system in the steel mills as well as help mobilize for the struggles against? hunger and behind the Unemploy- vient Insurance Bill and the Wash- ‘ngton Delegation on February 10. Revolt Grows A wave of revolt against the ex- isting miserable working conditions | ‘s sweeping through the entire steel industry, specially in the Mahoning Valley area, where the steel trust has put into effect another series of wage cuts since the beginning of the new year. These drtstic wage (CONTINUED O* PAGE THREE) FAILURES BREAK ALL RECORDS. NEW YORK.—Commercial failures in January were the largest in Amer- ican history, both as to number and size of labilities, according to R. G. Dun and Co, reports. There were 3,316 firms that failed | during the month as against 2,535 in December and 2,759 in January, 1930. Plans how best to organize the work- ing-class women to demonstrate on March 8, “International Women's Day,” the day when working women the world over mobilize their forces to fight for a better society, for the abolition of capitalism and for the establishment of workers’ and farm- ers’ governments. All working-class women’s organ- izations are urged to send two dele- gates to the conference. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX RKO ACTS Nick Lucas Gaudsmith Brothers Weston & Lyons Oth. FRANKLIN Prospects 4 8t, RKO ACTS Leatrice Joy Anthony & Howland Six Franklins 1622 Bathgate Avenue, Corner BANQUET AND FAREWELL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931 to Comrade M. Dribinsky who is going to visit the Soviet’ Union Arranged by the Krassin Branch No, 112 of the International Workers Order In the MIIDDLE BRONX WORKERS CENTER : \ of 172nd Street (3rd Ave. L.) TICKETS: 50 CENTS ALL PROCEEDS TO THE DAILY WORKER A A All Our Suits and Overcoats REDUCED PARK CLOTHING CO. $250 1500 r. | Wage Cut Mill Worekrs| Raids at Hoboken, Salvation Army Boat, and Seamen’s Institute Show Action of Fish | NEW YORK.—The raids upon the unemployed foreign born by immi- gration squads, that took place in Hoboken, N. J., and on the Salvation | Army Boat, “Broadway,” and upon | the Seamen’s Institution, the arrest | of Louis Bebrits, have aroused great | masses of New York workers. It is clear to them that the Fish | Proposals to deport every unemployed | foreign born who refuses to starve | quietly, is already in operation. | Therefore, workers realize that these | proposals of the Fish Committee are | not merely a subject for discussion, but it is a menace to the workers in | general that should be fought the united strength of working class. the movement for the Protection of Foreign Born among the workers the conference that will take place on Feb. 8 exceed all our expectations. Yet there are many organizations with whim the District Committee has no connection and the “Call for | the Conference” was not sent to | them. This does not mean that these organizations shgll abstain from tak- ing part in the conference. They should elect delegates that will be ac- cepted by the conference as repre- | sentatives of their respective organ- ‘zations, by | the entire | As a result of this, the interest for erows daily. The prenarations for | Report If it is too late to do so, the ex- | ecutive of such an organization shall assign one of its members to attend the conference. In any case, act immediately. Only two days remain for prepara- ti Every effort shall be made in Jorder that this conference be suc- cessful. The conference will take place Feb, 8 at 11 a. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St. ‘“Tarris, Just Back From USSR to Lec- ture Tonight, Newark NEWARK, Feb. 5. — The Newark branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union announces that Lem Harris, }a Harvard graduate and American | newspaper correspondent, will be the ‘speaker at a lecture sponsored by them at the Workmen's Circle Lyce- jum, 190 Belmont Ave., Newark, to- night, Feb. 6th, at 8 p. m. At present Harrison is doing re- rch work for Amherst and~after | the meeting in Newark he will de- | part for the South where he will do |some writing before returning to the ‘Soviet Union. Admission 25c, AMUSEMENTS i and here it Ist UFA Directed by Fritr Lang who made “Metropolis” Selence has which men will fly to the m R ‘CAMEO 42nd. ST. & B'WAY. American Premiere ! AT 10 A. M. TODAY A DREAM COMES TRUE ! 1 through stellar spacet it) Now It ig trnet chariot Ja presents ———" Theatre Guild Productions ™’ Green Grow the Lilacs MIDNIGHT Flizabeth the Queen Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lust Morris Carnovsky, Joanna Rooe Eve, 8:40, Mts Th. & Sat. 240 IC REPERTORY *th st. sth Ar 0 Oc, $1, $1.50. Mats. Th. & Sat. 2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight . “CAMILLE” Tom. Mat. “CAMID re ight Ya RADLE SON 4 weeks adv, at Box Office and Town Hall, 118 W. 45 Street Vote against finger printing, reg- istration, and photographing the foreign born. Elect tes to local Conference for of Foreign Born, | Fait Bion » I IVE STAR FINAL CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Street Eves, 8:50, Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2:30 EDGAR WALLACE’S PLAY ON THE SPOT with CRANE WILBUR and ANNA MAY WONG EDGAR WALLAOE’S FORREST THE. 40th Street, West of Brondway Eves. 8:50, Mats, Wed. & Sat, at 2:30 Bile BURKE 274 !vor NOVELLO. in 8 rousing, rollicking rlot of taughs THE TRUTH GAME with Phoebe FOSTER 84 Vole TREE ETHUL BARRYMORE THEATRE 4ith Street. West of Broadw: Evenings 8:50, Mate, Wed. & &: & 434 St BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK “BEAU IDEAL” RKO) with Ralph Forbes acts | and Loretta Young By RYAN WALKER SHOE WORKERS T0 AID DRESS STRIKE Vote to Join Feb. 10th Demonstration NEW YORK—At a membership meeting of shoe and slipper workers, held here Wednesday evening, im- | portant recommendations of the In- | dependent Shoe Workers’ Union Joint | Council were thoroughly . discussed and accepted. A resolution was adopted to give every possible support—morally, physically and financially—to the dressmakers in their coming strike. A committee of three shoe workers were elected to represent the organ- ization on the Dress Strike United Front Executive Committee. An unemployed mass meeting will be held today at 2 p.m. at 16 W. ist | St. Every unemployed shoe worker | is urged to attend. Two open forums will bé held Sun- day at 11 a m. One is in Browns- vilei at 122 Osborne St. Alexander- | son will speak on the topic: “Shoe Workers of the U. S. A. and the Sov- fet Union.” In the Bronx, at 1472 Boston Road, Fred Biedenkapp is to speak on the subject: “The Condi- tion of the Shoe Workers and the Need of Organization.” By unanimous vote the meeting de- cided to call upon every shoe worker to attend the unemployment demon- stration at Union Square, Feb, 10. ORGANIZE TO END 3TARVATION; DEMAND *ELIEF! SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. ¥. 4-7712 Office. 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