The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1931, Page 1

—FROM THE BREAD LINES Vol. VIL, No. 35 Demonstrate Tomorrow! Organize Unemployed Councils to Fight for Unemployment Relief. Organize the Employed Workers Into Fighting Unions. Mobilize the Employed and Unemployed for Common Strug- gles Under the Leadership of the Trade Union Unity League —oUuT Entered as seccnd class matter at the Post Office @@g>2) at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1979 JOBLESS DELEGATES DEMAND FLOOR IN CONGRESS; DEMONSTRATE TOMORROW NOON ON UNION SQUARE! N February ment Ins Make Them Do More Than “Study” It! 5, just five days before the National Unemployed Delegation is to present the demands of the American working class for Unemploy- rance to the U. S. Congress, the Senate of the United States, OF THE SHOPS —NEGRO'AND WHITE WORKERS Dail Central Orga (Section of ® Norker Rfounict Party U.S.A. the “ese etgs ii kei} NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931 CITY EDITION Streets In A Mighty Demonstration February 10th Against Hunger and for Unemployment Insurance! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents Basic Industries Show Crisis Is Getting Worse | NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ELECTED DELEGATES OF UNEMPLOYED TODAY; through its Committee on Commerce, suddenly makes a small noise indi- cating that it has become aware that there is‘unemployment in this coun- try. It has recommended that unemployment insurance be “studied.” PRESENT INSURANCE BILL TOMORROW New Pinca < of Jobless The gigantic demonstrations of March 6, 1930, when about 1,250,000 | workers came onto the streets of the cities of this country demanding “Work or Wages,” certainly was enough to show even a congressman that | there were untmployed workers, and that they were already hungry then, a year ago. be done? The answer can only be Unemployment Insurance, Why, then, did the U. S. Senate committee wait until Feb. 5, 1931, to make even the faintest pretense ot knowledge that something ought to that a stall, a gesture, an excuse is needed to put off the growing demand of the whole working class for. When on March 6, 1930, the masses of workers came onto the streets for “Work or Wages,” the capitalists and their government thought they could wreck the movement by the use of Grover Whalen’s police blackjacks and the other figh was going to have false as si nder cover of and sa N and unashamed. ling of Poster, Raymond, Minor, and Amter—and the scores of 5 of March 6 throughout the land. And, in addition, Hoover “prosperity back in sixty days.” hopes have been smashed. The crisis has continued all the gabble of “experts” about “the bottom is now reached” oon as made. Millions of more workers have been throyn jobless onto the streets and expected to starve peacefully. A wide and growing attack on the wage scales of those left at work, begun secretly \ “No wage cuts, no strikes)”. '—is.only now becoming open ‘9 worker, today, has any security, even the slightest, for tomorrow. ‘The movement for Unemployment Insurance has not been crushed by police clubs. Wanamaker’ Nor will it be. Wo e , no! And to * N= Grover Whalen has retired to the safety of department store, and the leaders of the demonstration of Mareh 6, 1930, have not only been unterrified by jail, but have raised up host of new leaders in the eleven months’ fight for immediate relief, nce to evictions, and the mobilization of the masses behind the Unemployment Insurance Bill. it is the insistence of the masses, never defeated and always advanc- ing, that has caused the U. S. Senate “Committee on Commerce” to make, above, a noise. And what has it done? Well, it got as far as re porting favorably” a resolution proposed by Senator Wagner. But this resolution is not to establish Unemployment Insurance! oO, Although the army of the unemployed has been growing by ince the Wall Street crash of October, 1929, all the Senate is now recommended to do is to “study” unemployment insurance! “study” it, the Committee on Commerce advises the Senate to appropriate $75,000 so that the studious Senators may make a good job of it, and report’ back some time next winter! This, workers, is what will be put up as a “stall” against the demands of the National Unemployed Delegation, when it presents the demands of millions of workers to the Congress Tuesday, February 10. The capitalist gentlemen will say: unemployment insurance!” Thi dastardly excuse must be exposed! }, yes, we are taking care of that! We are studying And not only that, but over- come, as it can be overcome by the continued fight for what is demanded! Therefore the streets must ring with the demands of the National Dele- gation, and the masses who signed the demands for Unemployment Insur- ance, organized and better led than ever, must continue to fight after February 10, so that the hypccrites at Washington will be forced to do more than “study,” but to grant the demand for Unemployment Insurance! This Special Edition Puts , Extra Burdens on “Worker” , Today’s issue is a special six page unemployment issue printed to mob- ilize for demonstrations of February 10 and 25, the International Demon- stration Against Unemployment. This added expense was made even though we have only received to date ‘a little over $14,000 to ‘help liquidate the $30,000 deficit which is chocking the Daily Worker, | The next ten days will be the last days of the appeal for funds for the liquidation of the deficit which is chocking the Daily Worker. This puts the questions squarely up to all of us: What are we going to do with ‘Biithe Daily Worker? Ceasing pubiica- tion is out of the question. This must not happen. Retrenching, cut- ing out envraving bil’s and cartoon expense, cutting the six page Satur- present expenses, but that must not »« done. INCREASED INCOME IS pu ONLY SOLUTION, In spite of the pressing difficnl- ics. finaneialy, we used. up “every unce of resoureefulncss and xe- ceived extended credits to the limit and were.able to print the Daily Worker every day. The preparations for the fight for unemployment in- surance demanded that the Daily Worker act as the organizer in these to Result; More Wage Cuts All facts in the basic industries show that the economic c heading for deeper levels—meaning, more unemployment, sharper strug- gles, increased wage cuts. Where is the talk about “revival”? it-in the early pari of the year. It is dying out. The facts of deeper crisis are too overwhelming even for the boss press to hide. For instance the steel industry is in worse shape today than it was a’ the beginning of 1930. Nineteen-thirty the most eptimistic capitalist admits was one of the worst crisis years in history Nineteen-thirty one will be worse. As for the steel industry gram from Pittsburgh on Feb. to the New York Evening Post says “it; is clear that there is a widespread feeling of disappointment” in the steel industry. The much-advertised “increase” is a flop. Production is below 50 per cent of capacity and no business is coming in. It will go down lower soon. Other indications are even worse. a tele- 7 tivity is going lower. Where is Hoover's building program? It has shoved building to the lowest point yet. As for other “business indica- tions,” here are a few from the Sun- day New York Times: “Electric power and automobile output declined; the latest avail- able record of (freight) car load- ings showed a reduction; the com- modity price Jevel reacted further, and the week’s records of bank clearings and (business) failures again presented un avorable com- parisons with a year ago.” What these things show is that the crisis is going to hit deeper levels. The ‘above facts of such sharp de- cline were not true of 1930. Then there was a slight seasonal rise at this period. The whole picture of decline and deeper crisis is summed up in the New York Times weekly busine-~ in- dex. It is dropping after a very feeble upward movement. “The weekly index of business activity has dronped back to within half a point of its Jan. 3 low,” says the Times. Every indication is that hundreds of thousands more will be thrown out on the streets jobless. The capitalist press was flooded with | The Annalist reports building ac- | Mass Picketing Tadeiy at a Needleman & Brenner Shop » gpq All Brooklyn Workers Meet Tonight to Support Coming General Dress Strike; Many Meets Preceed Lincoln Arena Demonstration NEW YORK.—Needle trade wo ers will engage in mass picketing to- day at 7:30 a. m. in front of the Needleman and Brenner shop, 263 W. | 40 St., as a challenge to the exploit- {ing owners and to the LL.G.W., the company union which sent scabs to the Needleman shop after 40 workers in the N.T.W.LU, had been locked out. Several clashes have already taken place between the needle worlers on the one hand, and LL.G.W. th EVICTION CASES __ IN COURT TODAY arkoff Speaks at 2 at 27 E. Fourth St. NEW YORK.—The Down Town Council calls on all workers and un- employed workers to be in the Magi- strate’s court at Second Ave. and Second St. this morning to support the victims of down town landlords’ greed. Lorenzo Silver and Meyer Silver, arrested at the time a crowd led by the Down Town Council put back the furniture of Yetta Zucker, who had been eveicted at 74 Suffolk St. will be on trial on charges of disor- derly conduct. Also Julius Rokowsky of 206 E. Seventh St.. who was evicted with his sick wife and two children last week, has been served with a sum- mons to appear this morning in the same court, because the jobless and nearby tenants, led by the Council of the Unemployed, put his furniture back in the house. Be in court to support Rokowsky, too. Today, also, at 2 p. m,,’ in the headquarters of the Down Town Council, 27 E. Fourth St., Dr. Mar- \off, director of the Workers’ School, | will speak. Admission free. struggles. Over 10,000 readers of the Daily Worker are now receiving the RED SHOCK TROOP DONATION LIST. Every worker receiving Red Shock Troop Donation Lists—Collect im- mediately from your fellow workers. Workers not receiving these lists send in your contribution filling out Red Shock Troop Blank on page 5 of this issue. Rush all funds to the Daily Work- er, 50 E. 13th St, New York City. UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHESTER CHESTER, Pa—Approximately, 15,000 workers are unemployed in this highly industrial city. This comprises 50 per cent of the working popula- Vion and 25 per egnt of the resi- denvial population, Burn 125,000 Bushels of Wheat to Keep Up Prices ENID, Oklahoma, Feb. 8.-—Faced with an increase in the huge wheat supply in the hands of the Federal Farm, Board, the capitalists are al- ready beginning to burn wheat while 10,000,000 unemployed face hunger and starvation. Several days ago the Enid Mill and Elevator Co., with 125,- 000 bushels of wheat owned by the Federal Farm Board burned to ashes under very peculiar circubstances. Who did this burning? It is a known fact that the Federal Farm Board was complaining that it was worried about storage space. Wheat was pil- ing up and there was not possibility this fire of Federal wheat. Is this a convenient way for the Federal Farm Board to dispose of its wheat and, cut down the huge over- production? The facts indicate that this is the truth. Capitalism burns wheat while mil- lions starve. Last year,the wholesale vegetable and fruit dealers dumped hundreds of carloads of foodstuffs into the river, to keep up prices. The Federal Farm Board is burning wheat to keep up the price of wheat and to dispose of its surplus, This is how capitalism handles surplus wheat. Millions starve but the wheat must Farm Board of shipping it abroad, Then comes be burned, and police on the other, Last Thurs- day four members of the Industrial) Union were arrested after six com- pany union “gorillas” were severely beaten for trying to break up the needle workers’ picket line. On Fri- day police launched a ferocious at- tack on a mass picketing demon- stration in front of the same shop but failed to intimidate the militant picketers, who closed their ranks and demonstrated again in the face. of renewed clubbing by the police The picketers have learned that resistance on the part of a mass of workers is something that cops will never stand up against, and the needle trades workers have deter- mined to picket the Needleman and Brenner shop until their demands | are won. Meeting Tonight. Tonight ‘at 8 p.m. there will be a combined meeting of needle trades workers and members of fraternal or- ganizations in synpathy with the coming strike. The meeting will be CONTINUED PAGE TWO) FIRST KATOVIS MEETING TODAY, Anniversary Meeting Next Sunday NEW YORK.—Open air meetings all over town throughout the week lead to a mass demonstration on the first anniversary of the murder of Steve Katovis. The anniversary meeting is next Sunday at 1 p. m. at Ambassador Hall. The anniversary commemoration meeting will be under the joint aus- pices of the Trade Union Unity Council, the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union, the Building Mainten- ance Workers’ Union, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, and the Coun- cils of Working Class Women. The first of the open air meetings is tonight at 8 p. m. in front of the cooperative on Allerton Ave. _ Katovis was a member of the ‘Building Maintenance Workers Union, and a Communist. When the Trade Union Unity Council called for mass solidarity of all workers in the long fight of the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union against Millers’ Market, in the ronx, Katovis did ‘his revo- lutionary duty by atiending a mass meeting across the street from the market. Murdered By Police. ‘There a policeman singled him out, after the cop had been prevented from attacking the speaker at the meeting, and deliberately shot Ka- tovis in the back. He was placed under arrest in a hospital, where he lived for several days, continually tortured by policemen standing over his death bed and browbeating him. A grand jury of bankers white- washed his murdei NTANEOUS GER cece ey Letter of “Unemployed| to Céngressmen Tells | of Mass Starvation HUNGER 3 'Discharged Won Hartford Force | turn of Jobs Report Feb. 25 Tell Results on World) Wide Fighting Day do WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Delega- Co tions from various centers continue lunger 1) to traveling by cheapest Section of Polish | po: mode; beating their way | and Ameri ed ~hts, using old cars and The held before here will be about 150 in the 1 smbined delegation, which in national conference here | tomorrow. to disturb the r Polish fasc departme march was sta The Minnesota delegates arrived yester aving made 2,909 miles in an auto since Wednesday. They slept only one night while on the J. There are five of them, led | Ja, of Hancock, a copper The secretary o: cii } which mee the by miner. St., , to heln the comrades in the U, C,| . WASUINGTON, Del, Feb. 8—The No. 2 to hold a me There were | National Conference on Unemploy- Sa toaristh. distrit : any notices | Ment Insurance, made up of dele- donk out. BAL beosine Chempioyed s representing every trade and Council No. 2 has no hall, a meeting | industry, elected. by united front con- | fa AaB oben: sbefory tye ecdatholiec nces in all cities and towns, rati-| | Church was started. In a few mo- nia | Plan Ba de hundred gathered) (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) | around. A co sug- iis Aimter to Speak on Iutionary Trade Unionism February 15 gested thet all march to nd relief re ready e ibe ebune All p D ” | 2 2evo) ent yelled By the time thev reached the coun- | cilman’s home the crowd was too large to be attacked by the police The same night the hungry that were being fed on rotten soun at the m Sunday, Feb- 1 m., Israel Amter, district o canizer of the New York Communist will | Teledo Welfare House revoltéd and| Party, speak on Revolutionary demandad better food. Several mem-| Trade Unionism. This will be the hers of the Toledo Unemployed | 2nd of the series of lectures orga e, while about 1.909 | by the Needle Workers Literary G ‘oup at wes recently organized by the Council No. 1 s unemployed c sd them inside the Welfare House. In a moment the| nelice were called. They beat sev- eral workers and arrested 12 Fight of the arrested were released, while four members of the Unem- ployed Council were found guilty and sentenced to pay $50 and costs, or go to the workhouse to serve. U. We urge all of the date and place. Other lectures arranged by Needle Workers Literary Group in- clude Sam Don on the History of the Youth Movement and Herbert New- | ton on the struggle for Equal Rights The International Lebor Defense | for the Negro workers. Get the Sun- is arranging for their defense. On| day educational habit. Come to the Feb, 10 there will be a joint demon- | forums and classes at headquarters at 2 p. m. every Sun- day. Dp. (CONTINUED ON Danville Strikers, U.T.W. Be- trayed, On Verge of Starvation DANVILLE, Va., Feb. ing the betrayal and p: ical eban- donment of the Danville textile strikers by the United Textile Work- ers Union, great exists in this region, particularly in the Schoolfield Mill village, according to John Hoptins Hall, ‘State Commis- sioner of Labor, who with a repre- sentative from the Federal Depart- ment of Conciliation, helped im the betrayal. Both of them had been invited in by the U.T.W. Hall admits that many families of union members on the black list .of the bosses have only a day's food PAGE FIVE) on hand, and that the U.T.W. has refused to give further relief to these wor! who have been left out in 8. low= families have no food at ail Red Cross alms, as in other sections of the country, is absolutely inadequate. Here if consists of a small bottle of mill and a can of tomatoes, Many of the strikers are sick as a result of exposure arising from evictions from their homes, and from malnutrition or actual starvation. In the meantime, the State militia is still on hand to see that the starv- ing workers do not resume the struggle which the U.T.W. betrayed. ithe | less trampi Youth Department of the N. T. W. I.| workers to make note | the | the union} the cold by its treachery. Some other | AL | OUT FOR THE INSURANCE BILL! | Jobless ant "mpioyed Fight Starvation in New York! NEW YORK. —Today the New York workers, fighting speed-up, suffer from w ts, see the million” j past their doors, and know that at any moment they may be poblc On theii way to work they p the bioet r of hun low and slowly soup a day. read in their papers of bread usewives.and and the’ unem- . fighting the police, nd blackjacks for a s off the price of a loaf of bread. T Plev Waite: ‘age Starve. son in Bermuda”—that island para- cise the rich being. iu to | flowing of those who heve ¢ themselves on. profits wrung f Pe ‘set focd tothe poor, and low s to the worker, profits saved § onlv nS Of cents on fake unemployment re- of w | lief. erans of the world mt and de safe see thi bless in the land they “m for racy” and . the: “Fifth Avenue Association” of busi- | ness men meeting and voting to put out propaganda against a bonus now for the world war veterans. Tomorrow, in every city in’ tne | United States, the empleyed and un- nnloyed workers will be out demon- ting for mnemployment, insuranee, will be demanding that the Unemployment Tnsuranee , on that Gay being presented to ress, shall be passed, and that the war funds being gathered by the Hoover aii, tration to kill off the urples o chall be used instead | to save their lives. New York's demonstration wi! be ;in Union Square, at noon. Al on tomorrow, at neon! unemployment insurance! | Unien Square, Fight for The Labor Sports Union plans to take a prominent part in the demon- stration tomorrow. All Labor Sports Clubs with banners and their entire membershiv mobilized are to be at Room 309 at 2 West 15th St. not later than 11:30 a. m., so as to be able to march to Union Square and be there at 12 noon sharp. Shops Now Struck Under Leadership of N. T..W. 1. U. Rosenthal 37th St. Attas Dress Co, 306 W. Krbne and Sarks, 119 W. Edythe Dress Co., 260 W. 36th St. Nee#leman and Brenner, 263 W. 40th St. Tjane Dress Co. 240 W. 3¢th St. ad v and Engel,