The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1931, Page 1

The Unemployed Councils Are the Fighting Organizations for Immediate Relief and Unem- ployment Insurance for the Unemployed Workers. Or- | ganize Them Everywhere ‘| IEE Vol. VIII, No. 36 ‘ALLOUTON On With the Struggle! T has been admitted in the U. S. Congress that over 22,000,000 people of this country are without the necessities of life. Think what that means, workers, to you and to your class! These 22,000,000 starving people are workers and poor farmers, but mostly job- less wage workers and their wives and childven. Perhaps, you, too, are one of them. Certainly, if you are a worker you have no security that tomorrow, next week, or next month, you also will not be jobless and facing destitution. Only by a united struggle of the whole working class will any results be won. You may ask why that is so. And we answer you,.that never in his- tory has any ruling class yielded even the slightest concession to a class exploited by it, without the sharpest struggle. Today, you’know, from what you see around you, that only the fear Of revolution by the workers is forcing’ the capitalist class to give even the miserable charity of the breadlines. The capitalist class controls industry, and will not buy your laboring power, except when they make a profit on it. So those who do not pro- duce profit are thrown out to starve. And to keep their profits high, the capitalists are cutting wages and speeding up those whom they keep at work. That is capitalism, which is starving the working class, whether it gives them jobs or throws them out of jobs. Until capitalism is over- thrown by the toiling masses, there never can be security, But you who are today hungry and jobless, want relief at once. And the capitalist class of this country, who clubbed and jailed the Commu- nist leaders of {he unemployed until in spite of all their repression the fighting workers forced them to establish their miserable breadlines and increase their dole of “charity,” are now trying to choke the voice of the working class demanding Unemployment Insurance. You workers who have stood in the breadlines, know that it is a “slow death.” It is impossible longer for the 10,000,000 jobless and their families to live on the dole of soup and handouts: They must have Un- employment Insurance, paid by the capitalists from their profits, and by the capitalist government which appropriates billions for war. Today, 150 workers, the National Delegation of the Unemployed, will visit Washington, D. C., to demand that the U. S. Government establish such Unemployment Insurance. They appear before a government owned and controlled by the capitalist class. Both capitalist parties, republicans and democrats; have agreed that it is against their “principles” to give food bought, by government funds to starving farmers, because if a mil- lion starving farmers are fed, the millions of starving jobless workers might also have to be fed—and that would tax the rich capitalists who rob both workers and farmers. The National Unemployed Delegation go before a capitalist Congress which has agreed, both republicans and democrats, not to give to the ex-soldiers the bonus it owes them, in casli—beccuse that would tax the rich capitalists. ‘The government, from top to bottom, is against the workers. Billions have been cut from the wage payrolls, while Hoover was hypocritically gabbling about “no wage cuts.” The Greens and Wolls of the American Federation of Labor side with the capitalists against the workers, against Unemployment Insurance. The fake “socialist” party, through its leader, Norman Thomas, stands side by side with Andy Mellon against the cash bonus and in defense of the capitalist class from taxes. Only the struggle of the great mass of workers themselves, united under leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, can compel the capitalists to grant Unemployment Insurance. Without the mass struggle so far, the capitalists would have yielded not even the miserable little “charity” they have. Without: further struggle even this will be abolished and millions left to starve. Today, hundreds of thousands of workers will come onto the streets of all cities to demonstrate their support to the demand made at Wash- ington for Unemployment Insurance! On February 25, International Fighting Day Against Unemployment, they will join ‘their struggle to that of the working class of the whole capitalist world against unemploy- ment starvation! This is the issue, workers! You must starve or fight! And only by struggle will you be able to live; only by struggle will Unemployment In- surance be won; only by struggle will capitalist rule be overthrown and misery, unemployment and war abolished! On with the struggle! TO FRY “FISH” AT |MEMORIAL FOR DEFENSE MEETING STEVE KATOVIS): (Sectio n of the Communist p) international) Entered ax secend class matter at the Post Office <@a>22 at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1979 NEW YORK, TUESDAY EBRUARY 10, 1931 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! a CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents —— tH AT NOON: DontStarve! F ‘ightforJobless Insurance Demand War Funds to Feed Hungry! Jail 20 Starving Negro and White Workers for ‘Charging Food to City’ 500 Chicago Workers Fight High Bread Prices; latl Five Cleveland ‘Dinsmpyed| Refuse to See Their Families Starve CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 9— ‘Twenty unemployed Negro and white workers Bosses Ge who refused to continue to see their families starve walked into a food store, ordered baskets of food to take home and told the storekeeper to} charge it to the city. They were all) arrested. | The International Labor Defense! demanded the men be let out on bail. | The unemployed workers are being | held by the Detective Bureau for “in- | vestigation” and the police informed | the I. L. D. “We will let you know the results tomorrow.” There is the danger that these men will receive the safe treatment that) other unemployed workers received for the same “offense.” Eva Logan, Ne-} gro unemployed woman, is still in the hospital as a result of the injuries she received from a policeman’s club. | The International Labor Defense} ealls upon all workers to rally to the| demonstration at Public Square, Feb. | 10, where the brutalities of the capi-! talists against the unemployed will be exposed and fought against. Harlem Jobless Called to Meeting at 10 This Morning NEW YORK. — All unemployed workers in the Harlem, Section are urged to attend a meeting at 308 Lenox Ave., at ten o'clock this morn- ing. From 308 Lenox Ave. the work- ers will proceed to an open air dem- onstration in connection with the nation-wide Feb, 10 demonstrations in support of fhe demands of the ¢ Injunction chon From Favorite Judge; But Workers Pledge to Continue Struggle Against Hunger CHICAGO, IIL, Feb. 9.—Hundr eds: of workers and their ss demon- strated here yesterday afternoon against the slow starvation capitalism forces upon them. In their fight against the high price of bread they have been picketing and demonstrat- ing in front of the neighborhood bak- eries. The owners of nine bakeries recently resorted to their usual meth- | ods, by getting an injunction against the picketing. The police were sent to enforce the injunction and break up the demonstration. A protest meeting was immediately arranged, where 5,000 workers and their families pledged to keep up the fight and demonstrate again next day. After the meeting they all marched to one of the biggest baker- ies, near Humboldt Park, where these workers live. There they were met by the police. After a fight that lasted well over an hour the police broke the demonstration and arrested five workers—two men, two women and a young worker 14 years old. All were charged with disorderly conduct and then released. The Councils of Working Class Women and the Working Mothers have led the week of picketing against the ten-cent bread price. They are demanding a six-cent per loaf price. These militant women and children will many of them be in the great hunger march in support of the Unemployed Delegation to the U. S. Congress. Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, which starts at 2 p. m. tomorrow Satire to Expose Ham Fish Committee NEW YORK. — The Fish Commit- tee will investigate Communism Fri- day night. But it will be a Fish of a different kind—a satire on the entire Fish Committee and its war campaign against the Soviet Union, to be presented at the big Soviet, Union defense meeting in Central Opera House, 67th St. near Third Ave., this Friday, Feb. 13, at 8 p. m. ‘The meeting has been arranged by Local New York, Friends of the Sov- iet Union. The satire, which plays hayoc not only with the Fish Committee, but with Matthew Woll, Grover Whalen, Ralph Easley.and the rest of the Red-baiter tribe, was written by Jo- seph R. Brodsky and was first pre- sented at the recent “Fish Commis- sion” dinner, where it produced many laughs. On Friday night it will re- ceive its first presentation at a pub- lic meeting, with the Workers Labo- ratory Theatre in charge of the pro- duction. ‘The meeting will expose the war capitalist maneuvers behind the hue and cry about Soviet “dumpin,” and “convict labor” and will rally all workers and sympathizers in defense of the Workers and Peasants’ Re- public, To Commemorate His Murder Feb. 15th NEW YORK. — A call to all work- ers to demonstrate against the cap- italist terror by attending the Steve Katovis memorial meeting this Sun- day, Feb. 15, was issued yesterday by t he New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense. The meeting will be held at 1 p. m, at "| Ambassador Hall, 3861 Third Ave., the Bronx, under the joint auspices of the Food Workers Industrial Union, the Building Maintenance Workers Union, the International La- bor Defense, the Trade Union ity Council, the Unemployment Gu. and the United Council of Wor'cing Class Women. The I. L, ‘D. statement, issued by Rose Baron, secretary of Ke New York District, declares: a “One year ago Steve Katovis, a building maintenance worker, was murdered by a Tammany cop because he showed his solidarity with the striking food clerks of Miller's Mar- ket( the Bronx. One of the bravest and most devoted fighters for the workingclass, 50,000 workers attended the funeral of Steve Katovis and de- clared their determination to follow in his path. Senator Wheeler Admits Bosses Purpose to Lower Standards WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Speaking Saturday in the Senate on the atti- tude of Hoover and the U. S, Con- gress towards relief for the starving millions of unemployed factory work- ers and ruined share croppers, tenant farmers and poor farmers, Senator Wheeler openly admitted the inten- tion of the bosses and their govern- ment to force the toiling masses to bear the full burdens of the crisis and to use their present suffering to force still lower the standard of living: “It ts a determination to make the great masses of the people of the country pay the price through | suffering, through hunger, through the lowering ultimately of living standards and wage scales, that is back of the present situation.” This significant admission was fol- lowed up by further admissions by the fake progressive to the effect that the compromise on the so-called drought “relief” measure was a “face- saving compromise,” that the Con- gress was “unwilling to appropriate a dollar to the hundreds of thousands of workers who are walking the streets tonight and axe unable to get to see that they get food for their families or their children.” Congress did not intend to “meet and alleviate the suffering caused by the tnemployment of 6,000,000 per- sons in this country and the part- time employment of $5,000,000 more.” at 35th St. and State St., and pro- ceeds through the Negro workers’ sec- tion on the South Side. A dozen successful preparatory meetings have already been held and two evictions have been fought by mass demonstrations, NEED FUNDS FOR HUNGER MARCH WLR. ‘Nevada Tag Days NEW YORK. — Add your punch to the fight for Unemployment In- surance! Thousands of dollars must be raised this week for the feeding and sheltering of the Unemployment Delegation to Albany, which is leav- ing. February 19th. The marchers against hunger must reach Albany. In order that they will be assured of proper care during the march, in order that the march will be effect- ive, the W. I. R. and the T. U. U. L. are continuing the Tag Days un- til and including February 15th. All workers, employed, and ufem-~- ployed, must line up solidly behind the unemployment delegation. Col- lection boxes and lists can and must be obtained at any time at the local WIR, 131 West 29th St., up to and including Feb. 15th. The W.LR. committees in the var- ious districts, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, etc., provided the unem- ployed delegation to Washington with traveling expenses, tickets, and other requirements. In Washington, the W.LR. representative, is in charge of feeding and housing ar- rangements. Funds must be raised at once for the Albany hunger march! The suc- cess of failure of the march depends on you! To work, comrades! JOBLESS DELEGATES MEETING IN WASHINGTON ADOPT STATEMENT 10 CONGRESS DEMANDING INSURANCE Demonstrate Today in New York Against Starvation From Shops and Breadlines and Flop Houses), Parade to Union Square at Noon; Speak- | ers from All Worker Groups | BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—All Union Square speakers be sure to report at the notified headquarters at 11:30 a.m. Be on time! ee | NEW YORK.—One of the largest demonstrations ever seen in New York will gather at Union Square at noon today at the call of the Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League, endorsed by all fighting workers’ organizations, to demand that congress pass the Unemployment Insurance Bill, proposed in Washing- ton today by the delegation represent- ing hundreds of thousands of New York unemployed and millions throug York unemployed and _ millions throughout the country. The unem~- ployed and employed workers should demonstrate in tens of thousands against hunger and death by starva- tion. Since the mighty demonstration of last March 6 conditions have grown worse. In New York City at least a million workers are unemployed. Breadlines, police clubs, miserable charity handouts, filthy flop houses, insanity, evictions, suicides and chil- dren’s breadlines is what the capital- ist government offers the unemployed. Fight Against Hungert This demonstration on Union Square is the continuation of the [Present Bill Today and Call for Mass Sup- port for It i. Negro Vi ice _Chairman Speak In Name of All 10,0 00,000 Jobless | WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 9— militant struggles of the Unemployed | Delegates elected on the broadest pos= Councils and the Trade Union Unity | sible scale by the jobless and unem= League in the hunger marches and | ployed workers in a hundred cities demonsirations at City Hall, the he-| and factory towns are in se: » here roic fight against dozens. of eviction | today, drafting their statement to be cases in the last few veeks. It is! made to congress tomorrow when they also the beginning of the gigantic | go down to the capitol building and nation-wide mover at against star-| demand the passage of the Workerd | Unemployment Insur: Bill. | The national conv non unery, | ployment, made up of these 150 delet | gates opened at 11:30 this morniz in Concord Hall, being called to om der by AXred Wagenknecht, secretar3 of the National Campaign Committea for Unemployment Insurance. At that time two-thirds of the dele- |gates were present, coming from Pitts- burgh, Chicago and the South. Many Western delegates were not here at that time, due to the delay on the road because of the cheap transporta- tion they had to provide themselves with. Lowry Adams, secretary of the Den= ver Unemployed Councils, was elected (CONTINU! SONG OF THE HUNGER | MARCHERS (The following poem was sent to the Daily Worker by an unemployed worker in Chicago). Tune: Marching Thru Georgia Bring the brave old dish-pan, boys, And beat it good and strong. If you find a hungry bunch Just bring them right along! We will all turn out today full 50,000 strong Marching because we are hungry. We'll fight for D ON PAGE TWO) (CONTINUED ON PAGE | RUSH RED SHOCK TROOP LISTS! THREE) Hurrah, Hurrah! Quick Relief Hurrah, Hurrah! Bread and Beef We Want Some Come and Join Ten Million Men In Want and Misery Marching Because They Are Hungry! Forced Labor Or Jail Says Mayor of Paulsboro, N. J. PAULSBORO, N. J., Feb, 9. —Un- employed married workers in this city who do not go out and do the forced labor required of them by order of Youngstown Steel Conference Opens; One Thousand at Foster’s Meeting YOUNGSTOWN, ¢ Ohio, Feb, 9.— One thousand Mahoning Valley steel workers came ‘ . ear the speech of William Z. Fos _ ieader of the great steel strike of 1919, and now general secretary of the Trade Union Unity Many Join the Metal Workers’ Industrial League at Meet League. The mass meeting was called| ed by the Metal Workers Industrial by the ~Metal Workers Industrial| League of the TUUL. League, and took place in Central The steel work audience at, Foster's Auditorium here Saturday evening. It; meeting cheered with enthusiasm was preliminary to the opening of the every reference to the organization Youngstown district conference of the | drive of the MWIL, and showed their metal workers. The conference got} readiness for struggle against worsen- under way yesterday morning with! ing conditions in the steel mills here help from the Red Cross. We are not going to appropriate any money many delegates from the entire Ma-) and against the starvation of the un- honing Valley present. It is also call- | employed, Many ‘signed applications on the spot to join the MWIL. Many sub- scriptions to Labor Unity, official or- gan of the TUUL, were received. ‘The meeting mobilized the workers and unemployed for the mass demon- stration tomorrow at noon in the pub- lic square in support of their delega- tion which joins delegations of all other cities in presenting the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill to congress on that day. The members of the delegation spoke also at the meeting, and so did Andrew Over- gaard, national secretary of the MW IL, and other steel workers, Mayor James A. Wert, and at the low wages paid, will be sent to jail. This is decision of the, mayor of Paulsboro made a few days ago. , Mayor Wert is conscripting Jabor to stop a gypsy moth plague which is threatening 500 shade trees: of this city. He does not ask the unem- ployed to work at the low. wages, but threatens them with jail if they do not comply, The decision applies to married un- employed workers so that its sting will be felt more sharply. It is riot so easy for the married jobless work- ers to get. out of town rather than be forsed into the slavery offered them or if they fail to do this, to get a jail term. The work is supposed to consist of cutting down and trimming trees effected by the gypsy moth. No outcry has been made about forced labor by Fish, Woll or Green. They are quite willing to force workers to slave or go to jail so long as it is in the interest of the capitalists or their national, state or city gov- ernment, . Help Daily Worker to Survive! NEW YORK.—At a farewell party held by the Krasin Branch No. 112 of the International Workers Order for a comrade leaving for the Soviet Union, $77.08 was left as a message to the workers in the United States. There was a check for $25 received from Br. 6 of the International Workers Order. Red Shock Troop lists are begin- ning to come in and if this continues it will mean that we are on the road to liquidate the deficit. Everyone having a Red Shock Troop list must be sure that they have them filled out and ‘the money sent in imme- diately. Fifty cents was received from a Negro worker with the following message: “We rejoice that we have at last found a moving power that gives us encouragement to live on and fight.” ‘These are encouraging signs in the* financial drive to liquidate the de- ficit and save the Daily Worker. owever, bear in mind that the finan- cial crisis is not over. The Daily Worker is still in danger. Do not let your Red Shock Troop lists lay around. Get them filled up. Use the self addressed envelopes. Send the money immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St, New York City, Fight for the Shorter Workday and Workweek! Smash the Wage Cut Drive! Jrganize Against the Speed-up; Demand Unemployment Insurance for the Job- less! Negro and White Workers! Unite In the Struggle Against Lynchings and Jppression of Negroes! Defeat the Attsmpt to Register and Deport Foreign- Born Workers! Rally to the Defense of the Soviet Union, Where the Workers Rue! ap iinet case, Us ieth d casilecbebe ae as Demand the Release of All Class Wa- Prisoners! Smash Anti-Labor Drive!