The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1931, Page 1

t 4 t 2 i e 1d! ve Organiz2 Unemployed Councils! Every [Mining Camp, Steel and Textile Town, Every Large and Small Indus- trial Center Should Be Honeycombed With Jobless Councils Dail Central Orga Party U.S.A. (Section of the ramuenian: a1) orker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 34 Entered as seccnd class matter at the Post 0°f nt New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March *. 1 <r ’ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents PRESENT JOBLESS DEMANDS T0 CONGRESS TUESDAY Rally to the Support of the Daily Worker! (APPEAL OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE C.P.U.S.A.) The special extended drive to liquidate the deficit of the Daily is over. The drive resulted in liquidating only 43% of its deficit. The danger is not over, In the last year, the circulation has doubled. This is definite progress. However, the basis exists for a far greater increase in the circulation. The workers and farmers are today more than ever before eager to read the Daily. They need it. It is an indispensable weapon in the btruggles of the workers against the bosses. ‘The present deficit is a break on the increase in the circulation of the Daily. The further growth and very existence of the Daily depends on the liquidation of the deficit. The danger of suspending the Daily is real and great. Every worker must therefore ask himself: “What would hap- pen if the Daily should cease to appear?” Without the Daily, the workers will not be able to voice their grievances. Without the Daily, the workers will not be able to organize well their struggles for social insurance, against wage cuts, against the war danger. The Daily is the collective organizer and agitator of the toiling masses. The Fish Committee, is a fascist committee to disarm the workers in order to crush their resistance to the growing attacks of the bosses as a result of the deepening of the crisis. Is it any wonder then that the proposals of the Fish Committee areparticularly directed against the Daily Worker? The Fish Committee grows panicky and alarmed at the increase in the circulation of the Daily. The workers must answer the attempts of the Fish Committee to suspend the Daily by increasing its circulation, and above all, to liquidate its deficit. Workers and Farmers! The Daily is in danger! Rally to its support! Liquidate the deficit. Repulse the Fish Committees’ attack! Rush the collection lists to the Daily! CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. Prepare for Struggle in the Steel Industry ‘ORKERS in the steel industry are not only facing starvation and misety due to unemployment, but those who are fortunate enough to still have a job receive one wage cut after another. Hoover's stagger system is widely introduced in the steel mills. The speed up system is driving the workers to a point of exhuastion. In many mills the hineh hour is abolished and the workers are forced to eat their lunch while working. In the Mahoning Valley the A. F. of L. fakers Mike Tighe & Co: of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tjn Workers “Union” as usual accepted a wage cut in the form of signing an agreement un- der the so-called sliding scale based upon the pricelist, This results in the wage Scale of thé” Bien SudiMif"YARt to the devil. The next day after the announcement of the agreement newspapers of Youngstown carried stories of a general wage cut in aJl mills affecting all men. ‘The fakers of the A. F. of L. thus took the initiative in the wage cut- ting campaign, making it easier for the bosses to follow suit. The Metal Workers League, however, exposed this scheme by immediately sending our best forces into Youngstown and issuing a series of léaflets and consciously preparing the strike against wage cuts, forcing the bosses to again. retreat to their old forms of department cuts as well as other clever means of wage cutting. In the Westinghouse Electric probably the most clever scheme of wage cutting is introduced. A worker starts on a machine with 80c an hour and a week later is transferred to another department due to “lack of work.” He receives, however, only 60c. Another 4 days and he is again transferred to a sther department, but the foreman tells him: ‘We are sorry, but this job only pays 51e”. Another 8 or 10 days and the same story, and his wages are down on 45¢ an hour. This same process goes on with the other workers, so that when this one worker visits his former department where work was “slack,” he finds another man working there for 45c. In this way the Westinghouse attempts to hide a general wage cut, and try to make it look like individual wage cuts here and there only. Many other interesting factors were brought out in ‘the district con- erence of the M.W.LL. recently held in Pittsburgh, where steel workers 1s well as workers from the Westinghouse told of the rotten conditions, he speed-up, etc. The Metal Workers Industrial League in the District conference in Youngstown. O., February 7 is preparing to mobilize the steel workers of the Mahoning Valley for struggle against these in- olerable conditions. The Chicago organization is preparing for a district conference on March 21 and 22, In the Sparrows Point Plant of the Bethlehem Steel orp. in Baltimore workers are preparing to strike against proposed wage cuts, Everywhere the steel workers are showing signs of revolt and the Metal Workers League must consciously organize and prepare for them on the basis of the program of action adopted at the last National Com- nittee session. We must concentrate our major forces in the Pittsburgh and Youngstown district without. however, neglecting other points, us- ng all our energies to systematically build up regular functioning shop sroups, extending and increasing the activity of these groups, ‘developing hem into real grievance committees, recognized as such by the workers n the mills. All our work must be so conducted, that we will be able to actually vin some of our demands and thus prove to the steel workers that only through our program of struggle will they be able to win their — sconomic demands. 3ebrits to Speak at Foreign- _ Born Conference, Sunday INEW YORK. — While Ham Fish d other fascist leaders, with the Ip of the government, are doing eir best to strengthen the campaign terror “against the foreign-l ae imdreds of various organizations y their preparations to pats t this terror of the capitalist ag- ts. and ordinances directed against the foreign-born. The recent raids upon the unem- ployed foreign-born, of whom hun- dreds await deportation, the arrest of L. Bebrits, the “Buro to check up on alien criminals,”—several other cases of deportation—all of these will be taken up by the conference with the greatest consideration, . e Local Conference of New York tomorrow ich will assemble will| The conference will also pay partic- with all the problems in con-| War attention to. the various. bills pending in congress and especially to the Fish committee’s report, Fight ‘against Police supervision. Protect the forelgn ’ born. it Grlogates.te,N. ¥. ® | Needleman and Bremmer, at 263 W.) 40th St. NEEDLE STRIKERS FACE. BRUTAL ATTACK; REFORM RANKS AND DEMONSTRATE Many Meets Over W Week End Lead to Mass Demonstration for for Coming Dress Strike Lincoln Arena Will Be Scene of Great Rally Feb. 11; Still Raising Strike Fund NEW YORK.—Police swung into action on the side of the needle trades bosses yesterday even though workers in the industry have not yet called their strike. Galloping their horses through crowds’ of needle workers, swinging clubs, billies and blackjacks full force on the heads and shoulders of half-starved men and women, the police,¢ streaming out of their hiding sraming ot of the hse TAG DAY TODAY FOR STATE MARCH hall ways and cellars, attempt- ‘Come Out and Collect ed unsuccessfully to break up a demonstration of needle trade work- | for Hunger Marchers NEW YORE. an out today and ers in front of the shop owned by tomorrow to collect funds to finance A crowd of dressmakers that pack- | ed W. 38th St., between Eighth and | Ninth Avenues from curb to curb for [5-Year Plan i in 3 First Step to Catch Up, Outstrip Capitalism To Reach Ur Unheard of | ai: Rate: of Growth, Says Stalin (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW. — Addressing a confer- | ence of Soviet Industrial leaders, Sta- lin discussed the preliminary condi-} tions necessary to carry out the 1931 | development plans. Stalin stated that the 1931 program provided for an in- crease in production of forty-five per | cent as compared with 1930. The success for the year’s plans would mean the fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan, not in four years, | but in three years, in the most im-| portant branches of industry, Stalin declared. This is possible because no other power enjoys such support of the masses as the Soviet government. Formerly the workers were without @ fatherland, but today the Soviet Union is the fatherland of the work- ers of the world, which they are pre- pared to defend. Russia is fifty to one hundred years behind the highly industrialized west, but this leeway must be overcome within ten years. As compared with the pre-war pe- | riod, industrial production has doub- | der to obtain a rate of progress un-| Jed whilst agricultural production is | dreamed of. master the technical, financial and economic side of thoroughly. Today the most important task for | the workers is to master modern sci- ence and industrial technique in or- | | ee production more} | State weguues Called As Steel Trust Fail to Stop Demonstration WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 6. — One thousand unemployed workers pro- tested here Tuesday at the Riverside Park against the starvation conspir- acy of the Wheeling Steel Trust Cor- poration, while the state troopers ¢] | pointed machine guns at the demon- stration, led by the Trade Union Uni- ty League and its Unemployed| | goune The chief of police refused to give the unemployed council permission for a hunger march, but the march was held. | Two unemployed workers, Jacob | Detwiler and Gene Glendinin, were arrested. held later in the afternoon at the T. U. U. L. headquarters, 2351 Mar- | ket Street, where many more work- A big mass meeting was} DEFY MACHINE GUNS IN WHEELING AND MARCH; MARCH AGAIN ON FEB. 10 "ALL ON UNION SQUARE TUESDAY Worse Hunger Nears; Wage Cuts Planned; Demand Insurance! NEW YORK.—A million unem- ployed workers in New York are staggering through a winter during which many of them died of starva- tion. They face a spring in which the Tammany bureaucrats and the employers, bankers and landlords who dictate to Tammany, have made no provision whatever, Even the emergency work, which took care of a few thousand during the winter, stops. Already the Pros- ser committee and the complicated “welfare” machinery is in motion to cut down the bread lines on which 150 yards, had listened to ten speak- tions prevalent throughout fhe in- dustry, and for a 40-hour, : five- day | week, with recognition of the union. replaced by some scabs supplied” by Attacked Woman speakers at the Thirty-sixth Street meeting, started to address the dem- his brother thugs to begin their evi- dently premeditated attack on the workers. Despite the suddenness and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) the I, L. G. W., the company union. | When Jeannette Rubin, a young dressmaker, who had been one of the| onstration, a policeman threw her to the ground. This was the signal for brutality of the police charge, which | ers of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, calling on them to {fight against the sweatshop condi-| | state legislature, At the conclusion of the meeting, | the needle trades workers, augmented | by groups from overfiow meetings on nearby streets, paraded in a body to the Needleman and Bremmer shop,} where forty members of the N. T.) ‘W. LU. were recently locked out and} 20tn-st, ” | row to one of the following addresses |and volunteer your help! | son Ave., Long Island City. the hunger march to Albany!. The march starts Feb. 19. It will take in | all the towns on the way. New re- | cruits will join in each city. It will |gemand unemployment relief from the But there are certain necessary ex- penses. The marchers must eat. Come today and tomor- Down Town: 27 East Fourth St., 16 W. 2ist St., 131 W. 28th St., 301 W. 5 Harlem: 308 Lenox Ave., 20 West 115th St., 15 W. 126th St., 350 E. 8ist Street. Bronx: 569 Prospect Ave., 1472 Bos-| ton Rd., 2700 Bronx Park East, 2061 Bryant Ave. Brooklyn: 61 Graham Ave., 795 Flushing. 312 Columbia, 105 Thatford, 2931 32d St., Coney Island; 140 Nep-| tune Ave., Brighton Beach; 26 Jack- New Jersey: 93 Mercer St., Newark: 206 Market St., Paterson. Yonkers: 252 Warburton Ave. Army, Navy Heads OK Butler the largest in the world, but much| more could have been accomplished if | greater efforts had been made to} “It can be done if we begin work | &TS signed application cards to join with real determination,” Stalin con-| ‘he council. cluded. | The speakers at the demonstration YONKERS POLICE THREAT VIOLENCE Mass Protest Saturday 4 P.M., Larkin Plaza YONKERS, N. Y., Feb. 6. — After “promising” to allow a deifionstration of unemployed workers to take place at Larkin Plaza, Saturday afternoon | at 4p. m, Chief of Police Edward | Quirk announced today that if a dem- | onstration was attempted it would be smashed and the unemployed beaten | up and jailed. When Milton Weich, leader of the Unemployed Council and Attorney Klain after a conference with Com- missioner of Public Safety Devlin, and Mayor Foggerty, announced that the unemployed would demonstrate against the fake relief proposals of the mayor's committee, Devlin in- timated that the demonstration would not be interfered with. After | realizing that thousands of workers were being mobilized, and that the | were Glendenin, McNutt, Evans and iB lg mass ; demonstration on Feb, Mass when the unemployed and part- Naess “employed” workers of Wheel-| Meshing at Spar-|2 Riverside Park, 11-12 and Water Sts. ——tacus-Club at 5 p.m, fae The demonstration will lead to al NW YORK—New York workers | hunger march on the city hall when the city council will be in session and the demands of the unemployed coun- terror that is ranging in the Balkan cil will be forced upon the city “fa- Sun- | thers.” | day, Feb. 8, at 2 p.m. at the Sparta- | | cus Club, 301 West 29th S: Thousands of workers and peasants are being put to death or thrown into the torture jails of Greece, Rumania, will demand a‘halt to the ferocious countries at a mass meeting thi: At the same time an unemployed | | workers’ delegation, composed of At- | kinson, Jones and McNutt will be in Washington on Feb. 10 to present the signatures and demands of the; Wheeling and Ohio Valley unemploy-} Bulgaria, Albania and Turkey for |ed to Congress. vaeir militant activity. The American! Upon the delegation’s return from government is ai this ruthless | Washington, 12 different meetings | terror by deporting new vietims to | are being called by the Unemployed | these bloody fascist countries. All| Councils of the Trade Union Unity workers are urged to attend Sunday's | League in: Martin's Ferry, Triadel- protest meeting which has been ar- | phia, Wheeling, Benwood, Dillonyale, | ranged by the New York District of | Moundsville, McMechen, Bellaire, the International Labor Defense. | Yorkville, Goose Town, Powhatton Prominent speakers will address the | Point, and Wheeling, in order to hear| ing and Ohio Valley will gather at| Showing Official Approval meeting. WASHINGTON, Feb, 6.—What is behind the Butler court martial in| connection with the marine major | general’s “attack” on Mussolini is now being amply demonstrated by the array of forces that are lining up on Butler's side. Butler is under “arrest” and will be court-martialed Feb. 16 for making a speech in Phila- delphia charging Mussolini with being a “war-mad dog,” and with having | run over a little girl without even stepping to trouble himself about it. The Daily Worker showed the | pressure of Wall Street behind But- ler’s speech. It was part of the process to force Mussolini to change his line more in conformity with the leading imperialist powers, without | the sweetening of loans demanded by the fascist chief. Butler's court- martial is a stage-play for diplomatic reasons. But what Butler said had full oficial approval. It was a fore- taste of what Wall Street would do if Mussolini did not come around. ‘The court-martial itself will just be an emphasis of the charges against Mussolini. In this pressure, of course, American imperialism is very careful to hide the class issues, Dog Receives Royal Funeral In a country where workers and their families are allowed to die of malnutrition, we find that a dog owned by Princess Xenia of Great Neck, L. L, “has been lying in state... in a funeral chapel.” Royal dogs are cared for in a capitalist country, even after death. Ac- cording to the N, Y. Times, “The dog is in a gray coffin | with white satin lining, about which floral pieces have been banked.” Workers who read the Daily Worker are learning how to abolish a system which allows dogs to receive such treatment while human beings starve. (60,000 circulation tips page 3.) to cover up Mussolini’s murdering of thousands of revolutionary workers. Testifying for Butler at the court- martial will be General Pershing, who fully expresses the wishes of the im- perialist government at Washington. At the same time news comes from Rome that an “attempt” has been made on Mussolini's life by an “American citizen,” one Michele Schirru. The details behind this “at- tempt” are obscured in-a haze of mystery. Schirru was openly parad- ing around Rome with two bombs in his pocket. That this arrest takes place at the preliminary stages of fact that the robbery of over $26,000 | of the relief fund by the mayor's committee would be exposed, they came out with their brutal threats. As an alternative, Quirk svid, they could use the City Pier, which is an out-of-the-way place. They do not want the protests and demands of the workers to be made public. The present procedure follows up the tac- ties of slugging and jailing unem- ployed workers eat other demonstra- tions. However, the unemployed council the meeting. It calls on the workers, | employed and unemployed, to turn the Butler court-martial is signifi- cant and probably has connection. NEW YORK.—Further admission of wide-spread starvation and misery among the farm population of the under the heading: “Hunger Stalks Rural igang The despatch reports that of number of families visited 34.43 per cent of the farm popula~ tion in this area are without food this month, and that by July the number will be at least 68 per cent, It 1s clear, therefore, that even on the basis of capitalist surveys and es- timates, a very large proportion of the farm population of Kentucky are today starving. This is true of the entire Southwest (Senator Carraway of Arkansas declared in that 1,000 workers died daily of starvation in the U.S.) where a system of rob- bery by the landowners and bankers has enslaved thousands of Negro Pr’ on out in masses at Larkin Plaza, Sat- urday at 4 p.m, has announced it will go aheod with | “ ithe report of the delegation. Say 7,000, 000 “Conservative Estimate” NEW YORK.—Francis Perkins, N. | State Indus Commissioner, w says that “ a conservative es- timate of the unemployed in the United States would be 7,000,000. The conservative side of the estimate is that over 3,00,000 have been left out. However, it is significant that the capitalist statisticians are constantly “forced to shoye up their estimate on} | American Federation of Labor, Jobless is A the unemployed. Hoover counted only 500,000 in the census, when every capitalist economist admitted there were between five and seven million. The direcotrs of the census were fin- ally statement that the census was faked. William Green, president of the has pushed up his figure from 5,000,000 | to 5,700,000, Thousands of Children Starving in Kentucky; Babies Denied Even Milk Boss Press Admits Mil-| lion Without Food’ in Southwest white share cropper and tenant farm- er families and bankrupted poor farmers. The drought merely ac- centuated their misery. The Post despatch admits that “at least a mil- lion people are involved in. conditions of which these figures, taking in a sample of the population, are ac- curate to the decimal point.” Most of these families are receiving no aid at all. A comparatively few trying to exist on Red Cross hunger rations. That even these lat- ter are slowly starving to death is ad- mitted by the Post despatch: “However, the food allowance is so low that it keeps the people barely above the starvation level.” The despatch practically admits that the principal purpose’ served by this. system of hunger rations Is to help aig local merchants: holidays the Red Cross has been giving its grants for food on the nearlest local merchants, This keeps the merchants going.” ‘Thousands of children are starving, even babies are denied milk: “It is estimated that nearly one- half of more than 4,000 children, half of whom are bbaies and pre- school children, are entirely with- out milk.” ¥ The Red Cross, which opposed an appropriation by Congress for “re- lief,” lalows 6 cents a day per per- son: “The Red Cross allowance for a family entirely without resources is $2 @ person each month,” at The Post despatch declares that “unless the Red Cross doubles the rations, and food is found in adequ- ato amounts for cows and mules, and unless milk in some form is provided for the young children, ~elief workers say the population of the territory will be reduced to the physical level of Northern France during the World Prema mT The most accurate figures on un- employment have consistently been published in the Daily Worker. The figures of the capitalist government, and most of the state departments of labor have been fitted into the “optimism” campaign of the bosses, purposely designed to keep back the facts so that the workers would not be spurred to sharper battles, There are’ over 10,000,000 unemploy- ed, and the number is growing at the rate of about 300,000 a month. There are millions on part time, bare- ly eeking out a few dollars weekly, Even the admission of 7,000,000 un- employed shows the tremendous mis- ery of the workers. Every new es- timate, such as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. survey and the latest statement of Francis Perkins indi- cates the situation is groking worse and that the capitalists are forced to revise their figures, Lithuanian Workers, Attention! Turn to page five for the appeal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Lithuan- ian workers, to the readers of La- sive and to the shareholders of the Company, forced to come out with the | men, women and children have been starving a little more slowly than without breadlines. Worse Starvation. Workers—unemployed and em- | Ployed—you must fight! Now you | must fight against starvation and against wage-cuts! Nobody will do this for you. The fight of the job- Jess t owin unemployment insurance is the same fight as that of the em- | ployed workers to stop wage-cuts, | speed -up and Jong hours, 3 Big Struggles. ‘There are three battles within the |next 18 days. One is the Interna- tional Fighting Day for Unemploy- | ment Insurance and Relief; that is {on Feb. 25. One is the hunger march jon Albany, the state capital—that is Feb. 19. | But the nearest is the giant. dem- | onstration Tuesday, noon, in Union | Square to support the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, which, at that moment, a delegation of 150 | elected representatives of the jobless from every industrial center of the country will be handing to congress in Washington. What is done with that bill will depend on how much | force the congressmen think is be- | hind it. | All out on Union Square Feb. 10, | and show them there are hundreds of thousands of workers and jobless workers here determined to haye un- employment insurance! Bronx Red News Club to Hold Meet Today (Saturday),-at 3 p. m., un- ‘employed workers will form a Red Builders’ News Club at 569 Prospect. | Ave., Bronx. Club headquarters are | open from 6-7:30 p. m., during which bundle orders may be placed. Work- | ers wishing to sell the “Daily” and earning expenses at the same time | are urged to come, 60 DAYS AND 60 DOLLARS, | GULFPORT, Miss.—Because he was | caught in the act of stealing a 50 | cent pair of socks, Rueben Moses, a Negro unemployed worker, was sen- tenced to serve 60 days in jail and pay a fine of $60 by an “impartial” ; | Judge. Arm Broken By Dicks For Selling the “Daily” John Ryan, member of the New York Red Builders’ News Club, whose arm was broken when he was attacked by three thugs in the ‘Times Square subway station while selling Daily Workers. This is the result of terroristic methods msed by the police in their attempt to drive the Daily Worker from the |