The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1931, Page 3

{ va ————————[—$—$— —[_—=_ ———————————————— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931 Page Three ON TO THE INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FEBRUARY 25TH! DEMAND RELIEF! FORCE Boss Gov’t, Police Clubs Back THROUGH THE INSURANCE!) = Fact 10n of Jo FIGHT ALL WAGE CUTTING Workers in All Industries Make Demands Now| and All Workers Will Support Them Demonstrations in Every City in the World on February 25; International Fighting Day | Hit ’em again! The capitalists of America have their) minds fixed on hanging onto all the profits they made from) your labor while you were working. They will not easily give! them.up just because you are starving. As Comrade Stalin) _. stated in his speech recently reported, and as you should know! — from your own experience, the? | Fight This Misery Feb. 1 wolf law of capitalism is to de- vour the weak. The capitalists think they have starved you now until you are weak! The angry voice of the masses, by thousands and tens of thousands will roar a demand for unemployment in- suraneé from all parts of the coun- try tomorrow. But to get that in- surance, and to get immediate relief from thé city.and state governments | to beable to live on until insurance is in your hands, you must follow up the puneh. A-boxer who has stag-| opponent doesn’t stand) ij. sharpening. At the moment there He) gered= back “amd watch him recover. jumps“ih and slags his hardest and his fastest—there is no other way to| wi Demonstrations Grow. We-have had city demonstrations. We have-had and we will have more state-wide hunger marches. We have a national demonstration tomorrow for hémployment insurance. Now, on tothe international demonstra- | tons the t~ited front of the workers and the» jobless workers of all capi- iolist eountries, demanding with one voice some relief, demanding that they sball net starve, ba: eemand with such an exhibition of ergantved strength that their voice must be heard; and heed! Immetiate Re’ Aides Pane thee t'es and the militent neta 1d, Feb, interne itonal demer 1. Immediate na-~ sum of money eas * every wor! to ensure for ¢ existence for The meens re-~-sary for this pur- ros? ave to he taken from. the mili- tary budget and other socially harm- ful items of the expenditure of the states. _ 2.. An unemployment insurance really aprropriate to the necessary, vital réquivements of the workers, ex: clusiyely at the cost of the employers and of the state. In those countries where there already exists a system of unemployment benefit, improve- ment.of-this system and increase of the amount of unemployment benefit. Determined fight against every pol- icy of retrenchment of social expen- ditureé “anda fight for progressive texetion of the big capitalists ‘and big agrarians, 2. Bxemptien of the unemployed from payment of rent, taxes, and expenditure for necessary communal services, so long as they are not as- sured of an adequate social insurance cr social welfare, prohibition of evic- tion of unemployed. 4. Seven-hour working day with full pay, six-hour working day in in- jurious des and for all young workers. Inexorible fight against imions of the aside for en for: ‘of a lump ‘oved, sufficient one a minimum wage-cuts and for higher wages. | capable Party members in the seven! Workers of every industry—hold your @onferences and make up your con- crete «demands against inst. spread-out, against piece- A Do it now and the whole worl. class of the world will sup- port by mass demonstration on Feb, 25 Minneanolis Worker School to Open Feb. 9 MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8.—The two- weeks’ full-time training school of the Minnesota District will open up on February 9th. There will be 25 stu- dents from all parts of the District representing all the important in- dustries.” There will be miners from the Range and Copper country, Lum- ‘ver workers, Dock workers, Food workers, etc. coming from the Up- per Michigan, Northern Wisconsin, and Minnesota. against. horrible working con- | | nist Party of Hungary on the mas: | of the unemployed workers is stead- chine uo their | | growing. | assistance of the social democracy, are trying to keep the masses quiet erer, Kollatz, was arrested attempt- | “snist Par- | ter relief for | jeast two months. | lead the unemployed in the struggle ‘Communists - Lead for, PREPARE FOR FEB. 25TH IN HUNGARY; CRISIS SHARPENS Unemployment Relief | BUDAPEST, Hungary—The unem-| ployment crisis in Hungary is stead- | are three-quarters of a million un- Further, many of those workers be are still employed are on short time.) children into untold misery. There is neither state nor municipal) — support for the unemployed in ees WORKERS BATTL | gary and as a result misery and des titution are rapidly increasing. | The masses of the unemployed) workers are growing more desperate | GERMAN FASCISTS and more radical every day, as proved} by their frequent demonstrations. | ‘The influence of the illegal Commu- Cops Slug Jobless at Labor Exchange | | | } ily increasing. Unemployment is still The authorities, with the (Cable by Imprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 6—The fascist mur- | ing to cross the Austro-German fron- } tier. He admitted killing the worker | Schneider new year’s day and de clared that the murder was planned. The fascist organization assisted in| bis escape. Yesterday collisions took place in Erkner between workers and fascists. | Several were injured. In fascist col- | lisions in Cologne a fascist was shot.| Two were wounded in a similar fray | in Berlin. | A spontaneous unemployed demon- ! stration took place yesterday morning before the Charlottenburg Labor Ex- | change against the bureaucratic fak- | ery of the officials. Police arrived | and beat up the jobless, arresting two. | The Communist town councillor, | Huber of Munich, was arrested and | charged with treason in connection | with a speech appealing to the work- | ers to establish a Dictatorship of the| Proletariat, | with palliatives. | The Hungarian Communist Party} regards it as one of its most im- portant tasks to lead the struggle of the unemployed workers. It there- fore associates itself with the appeal for an International Day Against Unemployment on Feb. 25 and will meke all organizational and political preparations for the carrying out of the day throughout Hungary. On Feb. 25 the Communist Party will for state unemployment support, free housing, no evictions, free gas and, electricity, free tramways, for the even-hour day, against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, BUCHAREST,—Yesterday evening there were severe collisions here. Po- lice attempted to disperse masses demonstrating with railwaymen com- ing from meeting. The workers re-| sisted, whereupon the police fired. One| ny worker was killed, many were wound- | ed, and 28 were arrested. Kansas City to Open Workers School on | sat By MYRA PAGE | March 1, Needs Aid) ‘(OMORROW — as yesterday — Hun-| |* ger marches across America. The} KANSAS CITY.=—-From March 1 to’ q,., | | ground he; i groans under the April 1 there will be held a Full Time |STOUN4 eaves and g Flas 4 a |heavy thuds of shabby, sullen feet. ANeboatd saeity in Kansas City, Mo.'March—march. From leaning, grey ; yenty workers have been chosen tenements, subway stoops, back alley- rom among the most militant and’ ways: up from dark basements; out jof fiop houses and empty baggage states comprising District 10: Neb-! from farms whose lands lay alge; jcars; raska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Okla-| waste; whose kitchens and barns are homa, Arkansas and Texas. lempty, pours an army thrice ten The students will attend classes|miiog cae. Fi and participate in all activities of the! yt is the army of the destitute. the Party as.a training for leadership in unemployed, the dispossessed. An| their respective localities. larmy larger than the whole of New This will demand a pretty strong, : City, larger than the cities of effort to raise the necessary fin- Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia At- ances. Expenses have been calculated Boston, Los Angeles and a at $400 counting $5 a week per pupil,|dozen others combined. toward paying his or her board and) workmen whose tools and bread room, etc. The pupils to make their/have been snatched from their hands, way here hitch-hike, catch a freight|children who are bullied in bread- or any other no-expense way. “lines, farmers whose toil-calloused ‘The possibilities politically and or-|hands, white and colored, hang use- ganizationaaly are great and the stu- Jess at their sides, whose plow shafts dent material for the school of a very/are broken, women whose children high order. are in want, girls whose bodies are The district makes an appeal for/bartered for a meal,—all are on the funds and also a request for articles)march—in search of food, work and to be sold at a bazaar to be held in] shelter. Kansas City, Mo., for the benefit of| From htis army each day more than the school, Send your money and|one thousand drop away, struck down articles to District 10 Schoo! Commit-|by the pale spectre, First the old tee, 104 E, 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. ‘men and women, the babies in arms, Scene at an eviction of a working class mother in New York. employed workers in the country. | the organized force of the unemployed and employed workers can call | of Janua: a halt to the thousands of evictions that plunge workers, their wives and | it was “il Oth! Only IGRO TOOL IN FRENCH CABINET Diagne Betrayer of the Senegal Masses PARIS, Feb. 1—In line with the rapidly crystallizing policy of the world bourgeoisie of making increas- ing use of the Negro petty bourgeois elements for the betrayal of the uuggles of the Negro masses, the French imperialists have, for the first time in French history, included a Negro Deputy in the new French Cabinet which was organized a few days ago under the leadership of Pierre Laval. ‘The Negro member of the Cabinet Deputy Bi: Diagne, of Senegal. who has been appointed Under- Secretary of Colonies as a reward for his support of the imperialists in their exploitation and oppression of the native masses in the French African colonies. Negro workers will realize, however, that the imperialist oppressors re- ward only those who are willing tools of imperialism and apologists for the system under which tens of millions of Negro workers are being ground underfoot. The Negro masses will see in this move to utilize the Negro a is are stricken. tribes killed off their old, and young, when there was not enough food for all, For this we called them vile savages. But today, we still first kill off the old and young. Is it because there is no food? With the early men, the practice was based on neces- sity; with modern mankind it is based on the mad rule of profits, Capitalism is more efficient than mother’s wombs—starved to death be- fore they are born, In Pennsylvania, a frantic mother kills the family shepherd dog, in order to feed her willing children; in Se- attle, hungry men slaughter the old bear in the park to get a meal. In Cleveland, unemployed rifle garbage cans and down South men are glad to get the swill which once went to pigs. Stray cats, dogs and even rats are being seized for food, bark is torn from the trees, so great is the hungre. It is a famine—a famine in the midst of plenty. Will it continue to cannibalism? No, for the working class will find its way out—the way of Soviet Russia. But is it worse to kill humans for "Hunger March to the State Capitol, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 2, On the the unemployed workers have hung a sign reading: “We Refuse to Starve in the Midst af Pla:ty!” In primitive times, | bless Thousands \Jobless Councils in a Valiant Fight On Evictions By SOLON DELEON. An eviction warrant is a legal club by which a landlord drives penniless workers out of their homes to freeze on the wintry streets. Though it is only paper, is backed up by the strong arm of the city marshal and the wooden clubs of the police. has seen the number of evictions in leading Amer- ican cities leap um almost four-fold. In New Yo Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, San Fransisco, Seattle and elsewhere the sto is the same. In Baltimore, rent cases in used to number 35 a day amber 120 a day. Ev usually took place at the r a@ week. Now they go c a week. In the f onths ‘of 1930, Baltimore, with one-tenth the ation of New York, had 11,735 evictions. Thousands of Eviction Warrants. During the first half of 1930 no fewer than 172,798 eviction ~warrants were issued by the bosses’ courts of New York. It was estimated that for the whole y the number would probably reach 150,000. In the middle ” for city marshals to , delay serving eviction warrants be- cause of unem nent and poverty of the tenants. landlords’ rights | to ra in profit from their tenement jes must be enforced at all Mayor Walker endorsed this decision “good law.” In a few days the serving of 1,443 eviction no- ices which had been prepared was begun. Forty workers and their fam- ilies were thrown on the “sidewalks the first day. off water, gas and elec- from workers who cannot pay axes or the private com- another form of vic- workers have been hard hit by the Hoover cris: 120 families werg evicted in two months. In addition, the city threatened to cut off the of the workers’ homes, dan- used candles instead. as- being a seriou 's threat to stop the water ly ‘as carried ouf. In many cities the militant Unem- ployed Councils have sent squads to sty evicted tenants’ furniture bagk into the empty tenements. neighbors are organized to resist fu- ture dispossess action. In most cases the landlords do not dare to push the eviction any further. refo-mists, an addi repudiating the lead | treacherous element. nal HUNGER MARCHES THRU AM ' The March Is Started; There Is No Turn- ck food, than for capitalism to slaughter ten times a hundred each day? To drive other hundreds to suicide? What jis the answer, you millionaires sun- |ning on Florida beaches, cruising in the Mediterranean? This is where | your civilization has brought us! | What is your hungry answer, you | hungry multitudes? | Look Europe. Look China, India, | and Latin-America. This is the coun- VSavagery. Babies are dying in their|try you once envied, the Uncle Shy- |lock of the world. The land whose | miraculous tales and promises of un- jending prosperity drew your millions to its shores. Look, hungry masses of the world. See the ragged ghosts of men, women and children—on the march. Hear the mighty tramp- tramp as they trudge to city halls, county seats, and on to Washington. ica, across the seven seas, and behold Look round, you starving of Amer- your brother armies, likewise on the march, Listen, for their cries join yours: “WE WANT BREAD! WE WANT BREAD!” Look to Russia, where unemployment and mass hun- ger have been vanquished, where vic- torious Socialism marches under the ‘banner of the Five-Year Plan. SAME FORCES WHICH CAUSE " UNEMPLOYMENT DRIVE TO PLUNGE WORKERS INTO A NEW WAR But Bosses Pocket Big Profits By SOLON DELEON, Since the Morgan and Hoover “prosperity” bubble broke in Septem- ber, 1929, wage-cuts have been gen- eral. The Armistice Day promise of the American Federation of .Labor fat boys, not to allow their mem- WageCut DriveGaining Speed; Boss Sheet Admits That Industry Is All Ready for War While moloyment. grows, re- , béen put over in various occupations | fle arpening economic by firing workers and filling their crisi: speed their war places at sharply lower rates of pay.| pr tions. Professor White of | In many places, women, at lower Michi, not long ago admitted that rates, have been put on work formerly | capit needs a now more done by men. News: reports from all over than ey markets and country tell of the lowest wage bers to “start anything” looking to- 1930 Judge Cotillo ruled that | épidemic | Often the | ward wage increases, has not pre- vented the bosses from slashing pay- rells heavily. ¢ Figures of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show an average wage reduction of 10 per cent for 54 manufacturing industries during the year ending September, 1930. A drop factories, agricultural machinery plants, hardware factories, machine tool shops and carpet and rug mills. | Iron and steel wages went down 17 | per cent, transportation equipment 18 per cent. Interstate Commerce Commission figures show reduced weekly earnings for railroad shop workers and labor- ers up to August, 1930. For the months since August, 1930, the Labor Bureau, Inc., reports im- portant wage decreases as follows September, 117; October, 136; Novem- ber, 93; December, 120. Total de- for the four months, 466. To- creases in same period, 151. For the whole year 1930 the bureau re- corded 770 reductions, as against 597 advances. Toward the end of the year the exe wage-cuts over in- creases rose sharply. Drastic but concealed cuts have Construction Firm Swindles Its Labor: BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 6—The Port Corporation, backed by a cer- tain Alfred E. Thoer, which has been | speeding up a gang of about 150 men on the construction of the Pretty Boy Dam, claims it is broke and has after missing several pay days in the past issued rubber checks on the Amenia National Bank, Amenia, N Y., for some of the wages and let others go without any wages at all. This is in spite of the fact.that the company is bonded for nearly a mil- lion dollars. It is known that the cook has about of 20 per cent was shown for auto | since before the War to Make World Safe for Democ: Standard st mation service for investor: ed in October, that wag part time employ- ment and reductions in number em- yed had combined to slash tc ages paid to the working c ties Co., stock gamblers a 1930, the win They being mol go on tos ploy ing 1930 by 20 per cent below the! t,. tctal wages of 1929, 2 The preparation the capitalists Meanwhile, the total amount of| fo; dividends and interest paid to stock |; and bondholders on Jan. 1, 1931, was‘ practically the same as the previ year. Wages for the workers were | the problem bluntly, slashed, but profits for the idle para- sites were kept at the same high| “Military exparts and leaders of ters: industry agree that, other things being nearly equal, the nation whose manufactaring plants. can TUUL ORG ANIZES most quickly be turned up to quan- a 4 aha Ab tity production of cannon, shells, searchlights, fuses, gun carriages nd whatnot, will win a victory. War is now a fight for factories, a battle ef machines.” PECAN SHELLERS ly. be turned un Miserable Condition: manahcties arsceenaina ts kill workers. But . when workers Exist Among Mexicans starve, die for lack of food; freeze for want of clothes and houses, industry is stagnant. (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN ANTONIO, Texas.—The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio were called’. to a meeting again Sunday Feb. 1s and over two hundred responded to i the call. Pe Last Sunday, at the first meeting)” held by the Trade Union Unit League of the Pecan Shellers about \eighty were present and twenty-five joined the Food Wo: E have a defir This question of speed for war and getting y to manufacture the neces- -dealing instruments has States government with the co-opera- tion of the bosses. Millions have been plans alone. spent on the Billions have, been ex- Teague: _ At yesterday's pended for the army and navy, to get executive committee of fifteen work-| ;, em prepared for this coming war. Sp, wesvelected to mnt ox “|But not one cent is spent’ for the ize these: miserably exploit “|relief of the unemployed. * ers but to organize the Mexican . - Every unemploved” and employed | Workers of San Antonio into other| worker should remember:this fact: | Unions and Leagues of the T.U.U.L The same forces that cause-the econ- While in and about San Antonio,| is, that throw’ millions out omic eri vork, drive to war. “Untold hor- ror pecan shellers suffer more than the workers of any other industry. I: 3an Antonio, this is one of the lar- gest industries, and the workers are | mostly Mexican young women and boys. In many of the factories, workers only work 3 da, $300 coming to him, the carpenter foreman, who has worked from Nov. 19 to Jan 31, has $250.55 coming and was let go with only $10, and others | have other amounts due. these a week and nl ment and st | the Mexican worker is the most ex-|¢ | Ploited and the poorest paid, the are being prepared by the capi- ts for workers, Unemploy~ tali: ion is only part cf the process oon there will cor war with its blood and misery fct the worl The bosses admit they are prepared for it. It is part of their system. It is part of the strug- gle for markets, for colonies, for a ‘Tomorrow—and yet not as yester- | day—-Hunger marches across America For as the grey ranks of this multi- tude advances it growls, searching like an animal for food for its young. and here and there a red flag is be- ing hoisted. Hunger is doing what prosperity made difficult—it is weld- ing those of many tongues and races into a vast brotherhood of the starv- ing, in quest of food. Tramp-tramp. The legions push on. A woman holds her child above her head and cries “WORK AND BREAD!” The chant grows "WORK AND BREAD! WORK AND BREAD!” When the army of Hunger marches across America, then gentlemen be- hind your desks in Washington, sun- ning on the beaches in Florida, en- joying the sights of the blue Mediicr- ranean, beware. For the army will never halt until it quenches its hunger, and its search for bread and work will carry the marchers further than any but their leaders and vanguard now realize. The march is started. And there is no turning back! Read the list of returned Red Shock Troop Lists to see if your list has reached the Daily Worker. In the front ranks there are leaders, | into a thundering chorus: | | wages of se workers run from) 75 cents to $3.00 a week, a few of|| |the highest skilled making as high) shows th: as $6.00 a week but the number of is bei | workers receiving this amount is very |small. They work nine hours a day! y jon an average. The fact that the factories are ted” for this‘coming war ntire working class it—not only the the employed as well, they go into the army or are forced to slave in the shops under It is impossible to live as they military domination. should and get enough to eat even) The fight against the war prepara~ | with the entire family working. The tions is connected with the fight result is that most of the Mexican against the burden of unemployment. workers here live in little two or three|Both have the same. foundation— room huts, two or three families, | capitalism and its greed for more eight or ten people in a house. | profits at the expense of the work- | Yesterday’s meeting of the T.U.U.L.|¢rs’ health and lives, .To end war, to proved the willingness of these work-|end unemployment, the capitalist ers to fight against this condition) system must be smashed. ‘The fight and to organize into a Union for,for unemployment insurance is a | struggle. jstep in this direction, Stop the war | ‘The workers denounced the rene-| funds. Demand they be turned over gade Lovestoneites who had sof) the unemployed in the form of control here and whole-heartedly unemployment insuranee. Fight for supported the T.U.U.L. and the c.p,| ‘he cash bonus for the veterans, but The committee elected will meet base this demand on transferring the with the Executive Committee of the|“* funds to all the unemployed. T.U.U.L, to arrange future work and|,, Every worker will he. drawn into the mobilization of the workers for be next war and every worker should the demonstration on Feb. 10th. ight against it now. Learn from the last war. Carry on the fight against ‘The class on the program of the! war now and if it comes turn it into T.U.U.L. held every Monday at the/» civil war against the masters who Workers Center 404 1-2 Nebraska St.,/ fatten on the misery of the workers, is well attended. é 4 | Where they work the entire week, the division of the spoils wrung. from the }average wage is about $2.00. The workers and the colonia) masses. OE: SUE ERG CHICAGO—Suteiaés in Cook Show your Red Shock Troop List| County, which includes Chicago, in- to members of your union. They will creased 23 per cent«in-1980 over the | help to build the Daily Worker. previous year, official-records show. Despite Terror and Brutality, the Fight Against Hunge me Beis uae statue in the foreground r Will Gro Leaders of the Unemployment Demonstration to New York City Hall, who were beaten up on orders of Mayor Walker, From left fo right— ‘Mabert Lealess, Sam Nesin and Milton Stone, Scene from the Hunger March in Buffalo, mand for immediate unemployment insurance. Note “bullets, no bread!’ w. ‘Join In the February 10th Demonstrations! 900 unemployed railied to, the de- p—a symbol of the bosses’ slogan,. N. Y., February 2, when the mounted co;