The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1931, Page 2

Page Two MEET IN LINCOLN ARE FIGHT SOON FOR 40 HOUR FIVE DAY WEEK, GUARANTEED WAGES fs trike Starts On Same Philadelphia Date In New York and Dress Shops rom 1 gigantic demon- ght, right after oln Arena, 66th St. near akers subjected to s that amount to determined to e for improved hours, higher on of the Needle ustrial Union. ration in Lincoln he final mass meeting tual calling of the strike quently to the interest smaker in New York t Philadelphia Strike. the dress- | e simultan- | ‘s in New York, eting will be held in mth and Pine Sts., 8 p.m. The union call to all dressmakers | organized or unor- of the N. T. W. I. industrial union, or ofthe I. L. G. W. U., the union, white dressmakers gro dressmakers, employed loyed, to attend this mass] + Hall, Louis Hy- n McLain and Call Issued. des Workers’ Indus- 1 the following nakers of New York: forward to the final ; for the dressmakers’ there! Vote on the com- Vote for the improve- conditions that you will i from your bosses. Demon- our pov and determination. i. T. W. I. U,, the only union interest, will soon the decision and the oe, 4 anization that helps the bosses enslave you, will try their best to fool you and scare you or, with fake prom- jses, stop you from joining the ‘strike. Do not listen to those who work hand in hand with the bosses against you. Your conditions are miserable; you must strike to win a real union and better conditions. All dressmakers will unite in the coming strike. The bosses and their paid “International” agents will not and cannot stop your rightful strike. “The mass workers strike commit- tee is organized. “The dressmakers in New York, |For operators, $44; for presse! | Forces Rallying for Struggle Against Im-! possible Conditions Har Brooklyn; Bronx and ting ready to strike. “The thousands of organized wo! ers of greater New York are coming | to your aid. Hundreds of labor and} fraternal organizations held a mighty | city-wide conference a week ago Sat- urday where they gave moral and/| financial support to the coming strike | and pledged more. Strike Demands. “The General Executive Board of | the Union decided to make victory | in the coming strike more certain by | demanding, now: “1.—The recognition of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, the union that fights for your in- terests. “2.—The 40-hour 5-day week. “3.—Guaranteed minimum w: lem: are: g1 cutters, $50; finishers and examiners, $28; drapers, $32; floor girls, $20 “4-—A 20 per cent immediate in- Grease in wages for all underpaid | workers in the suburbs and regulated | increase up to the minimum scales. | “S.—The right to the job and against discharges. “6.—The abolition of discrimination against all Negro dressmakers, and for the right of Negroes to work in every shop and every craft on the basis of equal pay for equal work. “7.—Unemployed insurance, “Dressmakers awaken! You have suffered enough insults, slavery and wage cuts. You are now at the mercy of your boss. He can cut your prices whenever he pleases. If you dare to complain you are fired. The day is soon coming when you will put an end to this slavery and force the bosses to-respect your union and your rights. “The fat jobbers have piled up enough millions from your hard work. “Forward to the great dressmakers’ | strike! “Prepare your fellow workers, your shop and your building. Report now in the-union office, 131 W. 28th St. Make arrangements for the strike. ‘Secure“information and advice, “Forwatd to the recognition of a veal union. Join the Needle Trades Workers* Industrial Union now! “Forward to better conditions!” Realizing that the struggle of the dressmakers for better conditions is | but part of the struggle of workers all over“America, the N, T. W. I. U. urges all needle trades workers to add their numbers to the thousands who will demonstrate in Union Square to- day at noon. The Daily Worker will soon begin to print the donations by organiza~- tions, individuals and shop groups to the Dress Strike Fund. DEMONSTRATE TODAY IN NEW YORK AGAINST STARVATION (CONTINU! vation and for immediate substantial relief set for Feb. 25 as the day of international struggle against unem- ployment. Demonstrate in support of the rep- resentatives of 10,000,000 unemployed in Washington. .Force the capitalist congress to vote immediate relief and to pass the Unemployment Insurance Bill! The unemployed councils and unions in every section of the city are giving warning to the capitalist government that they will not starve in silence. Employed and unem- ployed together will tell the capitalist politicians and basses’ government that they have lost patience with their talk about fake investigations, and grafting charity. The burden of unemployment will not be placed upon the shoulders of the employed workers. 4 Immediate, adequate relief and un- employment insurance will be the cry of tens of thousands at Union Square at noon today! Join the fight against hunger! Out on Union Square! Ny Many Speakers. There will be six speaking stands at Union Square today. Many organizations, unions, the Councils of the Unemployed, the Communist Party, will have speakers, Among them will be J. Louis Engdahl, representing the International Labor " Defense. Engdahl is just out on bail, waiting trial in Canada for speaking against the terror there. Irving Pot- TUESDAY— Young Needle Trades Workers. meet tonight at the Youth Dept, of the union at 131 W. 28th St. at 6:30 m. Final arrangements for the jncoln Arena mass meet and the dress strike. Presence urgent. WEDNESDAY— A Special Meeting. of the Alfred Levy Br. I, L. D. takes place & p.m. at 524 Vermont St, Talk on “Fish Committee Report.” Lecture. “Culture as a Weapon in the Class Je” at $:30 p.m. Auspices U, Cc, W. No, 4 of Williamsburgh Graham Ave, Bring your fel- srorier, a 'D FROM PAGE ONE) ash, of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, will speak. Others are Herbert Newton, Negro worker, facing trial in Atlanta, Georgia, where they want to electrocute him for or- ganizing Negro and white textile workers. Richard B. Moore of the Harlem Tenants’ League, a Negro worker, will speak. Fred Biedenkapp, leader of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, is a speaker. Ober- meier, cafeteria strike leader and an official of the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union, will speak. Leeds will speak in the name of the Marine) Workers’ Industrial Union. The Un- employed Councils are represented by O’Boyle, John Lembke and Stevens. The Workers’ Ex-Service Men’s| League will have as speaker, E. Levin (a member of the Daily Worker staff), Hend of the Labor Sports Union, Sazer of the N. T. W. I. U., a Chinese worker, women, young workers, and others will speak. ‘The Needle Workers, meeting in mass demonstrations for the dress strike in the dress market today at noon, will be invited to march in aj body to Union Square and join in> I> the demonstration, ‘The Madison Square Council of the ' ‘Unemployed will call a mass meeting | at 11 a. m. at 25th St. and First Ave. | (the municipal flop house) and in- vite all jobless there to march in a body to Union Square, The Down Town Council will call all waiting for jobs that do not exist at the Tammany fake employment agency at Leonard and Lafayette, to meet at 10:30 a. m. and to march to Union Square after the meeting. The Labor Sports Union calls all its members to meet at 2 W. 15th St., Room 309, not later than 11:30 a. m., and march to Union Square. Other organiations have thelr own meeting places and will parade tothe square. RED BUILDERS CALL FOR BOOKS. Red Builders Néws Club calls on Daily Worker readers to furnish them with books and pamphlets for their library they are buil up at the Red Builders News Club new head- quarters at 102 West 14th St. Brin~ the books to the D. W, office, Room 605, 35 East lath 8% ds ee Ne bn an NA WEDNESDAY; TUESDAY, FEBRUAR Y 0, 1931 {} AID- TRIKERS! THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER TAM STARVING FoR > BREAD THERE Is / NO MARKET FoR MY WHEAT AND 1 AND They GRIND Your WHEAT INTO FLouR | lim A MILLER | || BeCAUrE THeRE's (YO MARKET FoR THE WHEAT THe AND TM STARVING THs Gers IF ‘OOLISHETS AND Foot isnel yy — Who’s Crazy? — T THE BAKER AM STARMAN Because I'VE No BREAD a To BAKE —~ BECAUSE THE FARMER WHO GRows THE GRAIN CANNOT SELL IT To THE 4 By RYAN WALKER ‘WE ARE | Be THE UntTE! OF AMERICA: = «wy IF WG CoULD GET WoRK ,Wout! Buy Bre Tals MUST CRAZY STATES OMILLION WoRIceRtWn| AD —-BUT NOT HAVING ; WoRK WE ARE STARVING SMASHING THis Foot. vad AT THE RATE OF = — SYSTEMS EMBL oR ; 1000 ADaY, & WE'LL CAUGHT Iw A) SAY, Journ HENRY, WE As YeunG Pioneses HAVE GoT To Starr THE SAME IDIOC We ERE IDICCY Wher) INTRODUCING JONN HENRY Employers Boast of LL.G.W. Agreement to Break Strikes NEW YORK. — Jed Sylbert, gen- | eral manager of the Association of Dress Manufacturers (the employers) has addressed a letter to non-mem- bers of his association similar to the one recently photographed and re- produced in the Daily Worker. In the letter to the non-members, the association gives all the instructions that it gave the members, such as preventing mail from reaching the shop chairmen except mail sent by the association or the I. L. G. W. U., and firing all who are {not right| wingers. But he adds in this letter to the independent bosses ur as- sociation has an agreement with the International Ladies Garment Work- ers Union. Under this agreement, our members (the employers) are protected against strikes,” Memorial for TEIEF 10.60 TO | THE “DESERVING” Small Bourgeois Will Get Aid NEW YORK.—While denying relief other than the lousy breadlines for mmemployed workers and their fam- ilies, many of whom are facing star- vation and are being daily thrown cut of their homes by the landlords, the boss charity fakers are attempt- ing to organize relief exclusively for the bourgeois “respectables” whose bank acocunts have dwindled away or whose mortgages are due. The boss press yesterday printed a number of letters released by the Mayor's Committee to show the plight of this “deserving class,” whose businesses have suffered or who have lost their big jobs as a result of the crisis. One of these boasts of her husband being “a descendant of one of the first settlers on Staten Isiand, who came here in 1675.” Another is @ college graduate whose “bank ac- count has dwindled and I was forced to borrow on my insurance policy.” Metal Workers League Pledges All Aid to Dressmakers’ Strike NEW YORK.—The following reso- lution was adopted at the Jast meet- ing of the New York Local of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League: “The New York Local of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, after lis- ‘enine to a report of the represen*1- tive of the Needle Trades Ind 1 Tiron on the coming strike, plod~rs its fo support to the dressmak~rs We ple ourselves to be in the} front re on the picket line, collec*- ing relief for the strikers and their families, and do all other duties of « working-class organization.” VAUDEVILLE THEATRES 81ST STREET—Saturday to Tues- tov: Dova Maughn, Charles Withers, Errica Thesdore and Novello, Mor- 7am and Stone. On the screen: “Beau Ideal, Wednesday to Friday: Joe and Fete Michon, Aunt Jemima, George Tapps and Dance Mannequins, Sid- ney Page, with Marie and Peggy Warle and El Cleve. On the screen: Leon Tolstoy's “Resurrection,” HIPPODROME-—Vaudeville: Noble Sissle and Ambassadeurs Orchestra, Guadsmith Brothers, Walter Walters and company; Hal Sherman, with Dorothy Ryan, Wan Wan San Chi- nese Ensemble, ee Starr, Barson! and Kharum and Fields and Bell. Screen: “Little Caesar,” with Edward G. Rob- inson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, 86TH STREET—Saturday to Tues- day: Kitty Doner, Ray and Harrison, Pop Cameron, with Gang, Leon Na- vara. Screen: “Beau Ideal.” Wed- nesday to Friday: Georgies Carpen- tier, Piletto, Earl Faber and others. Screen: “Resurrection,” CORRECTION ON PAGE 4, The article on page 4, through an srror reads: “The Imperialists Gain in Ally”. It should read: “The So- clalists Gain An Ally.” pil) 300 DEMONSTRATE IN PATERSON RAIN Paid No Attention to Rain; Demand Relief PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 9—A dem- onstration was held today in front of the City Hall, 500 workers made up the demonstration in the midst o a heavy downpour of rain, sticking it out for about 2 hours, until the delegation came out of the City Hall after presenting the demands of the unemployed workers to. the Finance Board of the City. The City budget was adopted without any considera- tion to the demands of the unem- ployed workers. The delegation was elected by the conference of all labor and fraternal organizations of Pater- son which represent 5,000 workers. The delegation was as follows: J. Rubin, of the N. T. W. U., E. Lafia- dis, representing the Communist Par- ty Pelion, representing the Ex- Servicemen’s League, and A. B. &irshbaum, representing the youth section of the unemployed council. At first the delgation was not ad- mitted to the hall, but later when the city officials saw the 500 workers cheering the speakers and the dele- gation they were forced to admit them to the hall and give them the floor to present demands. All the delegates spoke on the situation in Paterson of the unemployed and em- ployed who are working thirteen to fourteen hours a day, and pointed out that the city administration does not take in consideration this situation but assigns $4,500,000 for unnecessary expenses, while the 15,000 unemployed workers of Paterson are starving to death, and those that are working get miserable wages and under a terrific speed-up and long hours. The dele- gation demanded that the city as- sign $2,000,000 for the immediate re- lief of the jobless, that the salaries of the, officials be cut down to $2,000 and the rest be turned over to the unemployed. The speakers at the demonstration were: Samuel, Evelyn Blecker, Al Goldberg, J. Goston, The answer of the elty Finance Board was to ignore the demands of | the delegation and went on to adopt the’ budget. However the workers of Paterson will not remain idle to this answer but will mobilize the whole working class of Paterson for the Feb. 25th and force the city authorities to give immediate relief for the unem- ployed workers. ‘The demonstration was over and the workers marched on to Union Hall, 205 Paterson St. and there they held @ mass meeting in which 32 Joined the unemployed council, | Show “Fragments of An Empire” Feb. 15th Under WIR Auspices “Fragments of An Empire” the Sovkino film which gives an intense and vivid picture of the results of fourteen years of the Russian Reyo- lution, the film that astounded world critics with {ts unusual photography, | will be shown Sunday, Feb. 15, 1931, from 2 to 11 p. m., continuously, at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 E 8st St., under the auspices of “Solidarity.” The picture tells the amazing story of a Russian soldier, shell-shocked during the World War, who awakens 14 years after the revolution to find @ new, strange world, ruled by work- ers. Tickets can be obtained at the Workers’ Center, 50 E. 13th St.; at the National Office, W. I. R., 131 W. 28th St.; at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 E. 81st St., at 35 cents. Members of the unemployed council will be admitted for 15 cents, In intermissions, a young, prole- tarian artist will give a short piona recital. Additional places where tickets may be bought will be published in a few days, ‘The Philharmonic-Symphony Or- chestra, under the direction of Ber- nardino Monilari, will give their next concert at Carnegie Hall on Thurs- day evening, with Efrem Zimbalist, violinist, as soloist. The program: | to Be Planning Mass Today in 63 cities and industrial towns throughout the U. S., there have been announced demonstrations, hunger marches and state hunger marches in support of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. It is very probable that there are numer- ous other demonstrations called at toc late a date to receive publicity in the Daily Worker and it is almost certain that there will be some spon- taneous demonstrations of workers not organized for support of the bill, but who nevertheless know of its and demand its passage. The latest demonstrations to be an- nounced are those of New Brunswick, N. J., and Youngstown, Ohio, In New Brunswick 2,000 demon- strators for immediate relief for the unemployed stormed the city hall on Jan. 20, and the city officials answer-. ed them with arrests and police at- city commissioneds, and slipped away to avoid giving an answer to the starving unemployed workers, © Out Again Following that, thousands of New Brunswick workers signed the demand that Congress should pass the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and today they will be back at city hall in solid masses at 10 a. m., to demand again the passage of that bill and again to present their de- mands for immediate relief from the city government. They want $10 a week for each un- employed worker and $2 more for each dependent until the national unemployment insurance begins; free use of empty apartments, public buildings and armories for the job- less; free gas, electricity and coal; (CONTINVED O¥ PAGE THREE) Vote against finger printing, reg- istration, and photographing the foreign born, Elect delegates to local Conference for Protection of Foreign Born, | Casella, Serenade; Loeffler, “A Pagan Poem”; Wagner, “The Ride of the Valkyries.” The same program will be repeated on Friday afternoon. At the Student’s Concert on Satur- day evening, at Carnegie, the follow- ing program is scheduled: Rimsky- Korsakoff, Symphonic Suite, “Sche- herazade”; Casella, Serenade; Loef- fler, “A Pagan Poem”; Wagner, “The Ride of the Valkyries.” On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 15, this program will be repeated at Carnegie Hall, NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX Tonight at 8:15 P. M. Symposium “THE WORLD CRISIS” SPEAKERS Capitalism— Communism . at the WEST SIDE FORUM 550 WEST 110TH STREET (Corner of B'way.) ¢. 3. P, Chamberiain -McAlister Coleman Youngstown, New Brunswick Demonstrations Add to List ; Workers and Jobless of 63 Cities Now Known Bill Today; Others Will Join In ae o- tacks, adjournel the session of the. Support of Insurance SENT TO VACANT LOT FOR A JOB Tammany Agency Is a Gyp Place NEW YORK.—Another typical case of the low fraud practiced upon job- less workers by the Tammany free job bureau was told the Daily| Worker yesterday by a food worker. | ‘The worker has long haunted the Lafayette St. agency in desperate search of work. ‘Today, when the} call for a dish washer was sent out he pushed up in front and was picked for the job. The, lunchroom at the address given,.585 Coney Island Ave., South Brooklyn, proved to be a vacant lot. * Spending the second nickel that day the’ worker returned to the city agency and complained of being sent to an empty lot. The Tammany clerk tried to pooh- pooh the worker’s protestations, but seeing that he demanded an explana- tion, threatened him: “I'll have a cop throw you out.” ‘The worker told the Daily Worker that such occurrences are very fré- quent and the Tammany bureau is more of a gyp agency than the regu- DEMAND ROBBED SAVINGS OF BANK U. S. Bank Depositors Demonstrate Féb. 21 NEW YORK. — At a meeting of all the local borough committees of United Depositors with 110 present, Bank of United States, Sunday 3 p. m. February &th, the following re- solution was unanimously adopted: “Samuel Rosoff who is putting forth the so-called Rosoff reorgani- zation plan for the Bank of United States, has not fully presented his plan wit henough detail and the names of his backers, so that we can judge its validity and usefulness in safeguarding depositors’ money, we go on record that we advise depos- itors not to sign the Rosoff subscrip- tion blanks until we get more de- tails, in order to be in a position to accept or reject it. “The, United Depositors Bank of United States, are also opposed to the Steuer plan to segregate 72 mil- lion dollars of the Ban’s assets and the plan of the stockholders and de- positors association to reorganize the bank, becaue all those plans do not guarantee payment of 100 per cent of our money, ‘We demand that the state shall as- £28 ‘the stockholders 25 million dol- lars as the law provides and we shall apply to Police Commissioner Mul- rooney for a permit to parade on Saturday, February 21t, in favor of our demands. A |demand was made that the stockholders of the bank be assessed $25 million dollars to pay the small depositors, and that a demonstra- tion be held Saturday, February 21, lar fraud employment agencies. ih favor of the demands. [AMUSEMENTS “A of i and here it is} Directed hy Fritz 4 who made “Metropolis” R 6 42nd. ST. £ BIWAY. prepared which men will fly to the m UFA presents — ane OE CAMEO American Premiere breath-taking jaunt into © mysteries interstellar communicator Y.TIMES “By Rocket to the Moon” decidedly worth seeing.”"—HERALD TRIBUNE COMES TRUE ! Hes 7 stellar spa w it ix teued flery © 00) W. 62nd. Bves, 8:50 GUILD yi Tn. @ sat. Elizabeth the Queen Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovaky. Joanna Roor and others, Martin Beck Tea.5th.st Eve, 8:40. Mts. Th. & Sat, 2:40 Y 14th St. 6th Av. Ic REPERTOR Evenings 8:30 60c, $1, $1.50. Mats. Th, & Sat. 2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director NS TB . “CAMILLE” ‘LIET” J ‘weeks adv, at Bor Office and Town Hall, 113 W. 43 Street UPPODROME :°.:. IGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK F A 5 acts| “Little Caesar EDWARD G. ROBINSON at SKO KS Jr. DOUG, FAIRBAN! EDGAK WALLACE’S PLAY ON THE SPOT with CRANE. WILBUR and ANNA MAY WONG EDGAR WALLACE’S FORREST THE, 49th Street, West/of Broadway Evenings 8:50 ‘Thurs, and Sat, 2:30 A. B, WOODS Presents, F ARTHUR BYRON * IVE STAR FINAL “wive Star Pinal’ ts electric and alive CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Street Evenings 8:50 Mats. Thurs, and Sat, 2:30 Bulle BURKE **4 ser NOVELLO in a ronsing, rollicking riot of laughs T HE TRUTH GAME Phosbe FOSTER "4 Yl TREE ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street, West of Broadway Evenings ¥:50 Mats. Thnes, and Sat, 2:30 AS YOU DESIRE ME By LUIGE PIRANDELLO with JUDITH ANDERSON MAXINE ELLIOT’S Thea., 99th F. of Lives, :00 “Matinees Wed, & Sat, 2 Jobless Get Little From Unemployment Banglet of Druggists NEW YORK—Recently the New York Pharmaceutical Conference, an employers organization, held a ban- quet. All drug clerks could attend— if they had the price—tickets were only $.650! The purpose of this ban- quet—to raise a fund for needy un- employed drug clerks. It is reputed that between $30,000 and $50,000 was raised. The drug clerks, however, know from sad experience, how funds raised by this infamous Pharmaceuti- cal Conference are distributed. As one pharamcist puts it, probably one per cent goes for the purpose for which the fund was raised. the balance for such small items as cigars or drinks. The case of a starving unemployed drug clerk has since been brought to their attention. Relief was refused on the ground that the committee for distribution had not yet met. In the meanwhile the clerk and his family can starve. An accounting of all funds collected was demanded by many unemployed clerks. This was denied them on the ground that such information could be given only to contributors. Where did the bosses get that money that they contributed, anyway? Cc jooperators! 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