The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1931, Page 2

‘ Page Iwo Hunery Mass On Union Fight for Unemployment Relief! gry, Coatless, Haggard They Stood Listen-| ing to Appeals for A More Determined Struggle for Bread HOOVER ASKS $500,000 FOR MORE DEPORTATIONS ny » Money for Jobless Relief; Devortation for Militants Ww f of employed work- denying a cent ing farm ons of the Southwest, Pres- dent Hoover yesterday sent a spe- cial message to the House asking for $500, d in the deporta- ant foreign re to join in the rican working ” starvation ief for the ° po ses’ unemp Hoove o use the $500,000 to put an nal 245 deportation agents to s up the persecution of the n, and strengthen the dr the Amer cers. In the mean- time, the unemployed workers and hed share croppers and of the country are starving. Senator Carraway admits that 1,000 die in the United States r every day. Senator r admits that back of the government’s opposition to unem- ployment insurance is: “A determination to make the great masses of the people of the country pay the price through suf- fering, through hunger, through the lowering ultimately of living standards and wage scales.” ANOTPER WORKER PAPER BANNED U. S. Post Office Bars LSU Organ NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—‘“Sport and Play,” the official organ of the Labor Sports Union of America and the voice of the American worker ath- letes has been refused second class .mailing privileges by the United Btates Post Office at Washington, D. C. In order to cover up the fact that “Sport and Play” was organizing the worker athletes in this country for a struggle against the boss con- trolled sport and company athletic organizations, and realizing that in “Sport and Play” lay a tremendous danger to the whole bosses’ sports movement, the post office used a technical reason for banning this monthly maganize. This action on the part of the Post Office is in line with their recent action of barring other workers’ pa- pers such as the Vida Obrera, Young Pioneer, The Liberator, and The Young Worker, The bosses have re- voked the second class mailing rights of all these working class papers in order to stifle the militant voice of the workers, who are demanding and fighting for better conditions, unem- ployment insurance, etc. Taking away second class mailing privileges means to the paper an additional mailing cost of approximately six times as great as with second class privileges. The workers must get behind the struggle for saving our working class ess. Without & sport magazine, the American worker athletes are voice- less. Rush funds to “Sport and Play” Room 09, 96 Fifth Ave. New York City, immediately, NOW! What’s On— WEDNESDAY— Oe A Special Meeting, of the Alfred Levy Br. I, L. D, takes place $ p.m. g on “Fish Comm * 24 Vermont St, Talk tee Report." oF Lecture. “Culture as a Weapon in the Class Struggle” at 8:30 p,m. Auspices U. Cc, W. C, W. No, 4 of Williamsburgh at 61 Grabam Ave. Bring your fel+ BOT, WOFKeR, key Paterson, N. J., Attention! A talk on the Five Year Plan, fl- lustrated with new photo films from ° fet Union will be given by arin at 7 p.m, at Unon Hall, ‘aterson St. Auspees: Friends of the Soviet Union. Entertainment and Dance For the benefit of the dress strike at Proletcult Club, 88 E. 10th St. at S pm, Adm, 350, H3 THURSDAY— | * Hattie Carnegie LL.D, Rr. Meets at 5:30 p.m. at 168'E. 14 St, Room 302. ; esate YC, Br. Hike To Palisades Park, meet at 2061 Bryant Av, (170th St, Station) at 8 pm, Bring 20c carfare, lunch, FRIDAY— Metal Workers Industrial League Y. Local meets at § p.m. at 16 W, 2ist St. top floor, Plan of action for the coming month presented by exec. board, Lectu ‘Lessons of the Flint Strike,” Stache' All present, * 2 @ City, Ne du Attention? ‘ohn Reed Youth Club meets at ewark Av. Lecture, “Negro Pro- ma. 4ui im ad- ‘son * ‘ must be in America? free Jobless from Breadlines Square In Stern By JO PASS | Out of breadlines, flop-houses, dirty | |rooming houses, the jobless came to} | Union Square. The cold day and the falling snow did not matter; the job- | less are accustomed to it. They came, to Union Square demanding Work or Wages. From half a dozen platforms, representatives from the Unemployed Council], in the name of the million hungry in New York City, demanded relief. The thousands gathered were determined workers with a militant program. Throughout the crowd one wan- dered in and out seeing faces one had not seen before; faces strange to the streets of New York, but for months now becoming part of the crowd. It is the crowd. It is the workers of the city. The hungry, the coatless, the haggard, coughing, smileless, with upturned faces to the speakers on the stands. Listening, listening, and in their hands placards. “To hell with charity, we demand wages,” “Don't starve, Fight!” At last the jobless, whose morale the ruling class is attempting to de- Stroy and break down with their watery soup, and floors for beds have found strength in unity; they feel} their blood surging faster in their veins, "The Unemployed Councils is of their making. Here they have gathered to speak in no uncertain terms to the masters of America. A single, powerful voice, drowning out all the noises of the street, sings and a. thousand voices respond: Arise,-ye prisoners of starvation, Arise, ye wretched of the earth...! For justice thunders condemnation A better world’s in birth, Dicks, policemen, stool pigeons scattered in the crowd. A truck with Negro and white workers arrives from Harlem. A lieutenant in civilian clothes in charge of fhe meeting sign- als to two of his group. They come over, he whispers to them: “Keep an eye on them niggers.” They quickly leave to follow the Negro workers and pass the orders to the rest of the dicks, In the pockets of the dicks there are copies of various militant papers to throw the workers off the track, The leutenant in civilian clothes is now on the outskirts of the crowd, taking his orders from a man at a window on the eas’ side of the square,- Inconspicucusly, they signal to each other ocasionally. A depart- ment of justice overator, well dres- sed, suave, is buying all the papers and pamphlets to be had on the square. He walks arounc picking leaflets off the street. The crowd remains in spite of the cold today. For almost two hours the workers listen to the speakers, formulating the demands of the un- employed, And then the meeting ends. But spontaneously the surging crowd began a march. A Hunger |March! Around the square with their-placards, “Fight Against Evic- tion, Free Food for Children of Un- employed,” they go, singing songs, shouting their militant demands, “Work or Wages.” The hungry are marching! A wagon passes the crowd with large billboards on its sides, “Eat More Bread.” The march- ers pass the well-fed diners in the Hotel Lafayette. The diners are a little disturbed. They wipe their mouths with their immaculately clean napkins-a little nervously. Pass the shop the marchers go. The workers look out of the windows, waving their hands. at them, encouraging them. The march goes into the working- class neighborhoods. The women and children cheer. The Hunger March is going to the City Hall. And as they go they sing, determined men and women. They are workers and | the streets belong to the workers. |The hunger marchers are going to the City Hall and as they go they In the final conflict, let each stand in his place, Phone: LEHIGH 6382 ‘nternational Barber Shop M. W. SALA. Prop, 2016 Second Avenue, New Yort (det 103rd & 104th Sted Ladies Robs Qur Specialty Private Beauty Parlor -RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round THE ADV DEMONS TRATION, LETS Go OVER To THE OTHER SIDE OF The | QUARE AWD JOIN Tae! YOUNG Honeers.- ( O.K, WHEN T I( \GET THe Panty \ | OFF Tes Ww . WVE%U HALE be Fpems de Birby TM Afe THISIS Ackear. 21 31. fo nny We LT £ | BANANA FLL. (| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1931 (TURES OF BILL WORKER YOUNG Porcine DAMN / MEETING TONITE Prepares for Coming} Dress Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) what the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union has always contended | it is, | The following conditions in the needl¢ industry, Irving Potash, sec- | retary of the N. T. W. I. U., declared | yesterday, have been made possible by the “International”: Dressmakers’ wages this season are from 30 to 35 per cent less than they | were last season. | The employers foree some dress- makers to work long hours while thousands of other dressmakers have no work at all, Skilled dressmakers are paid about | $4 a day. Unskilled needle workers are paid | about $2 a day. Dressmakers must work between 9} and 10 hours a day for these star- vation wages. | The employers have opened shops in outlying districts like Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, where they force dressmakers to slaye for $12/ and $15 a week. The employers divide the Negro workers from the white, force them ‘to compete against each other and then discriminate against the Ne- groes by paying them helf the wages that the white workers get, Join the N. T. W. L. U. The only way of ridding the needle trades industry of these unbearable edhditions, Potash declares, is for every worker in the industry to join the N, T. W. I. U., the only union which actually fights the bosses and the I. L. G. W. and supports the dressmakers in their coming strike. A meeting of the General Organ- ization Committee will be held to- morrow in Irving Plaza at 7 p. m., Potash announced. At this meeting final organizational preparations for the strike will be made. Stachel to Address Metal Workers’ Meet NEW YORK.—4Jack Stachel, assist- ant national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League will lecture on “The Lessons of the Flint Strike,” at the coming meeting of the New York’ local of the Metal Workers Indus- trial League, Feb. 13 at 8 p. m. at 16 W. 21st St. (top floor). $3 a Week Hunger Ration for Starving Negro Family of Nine NEW YORK.—The police peddlars of fake “relief” gave Harold Williams, unemployed Negro worker of 312 W. 119th s three dol when he applied for re- lief for starving family of nine, his wife and self and seven small chil- dren. 0} And the three dollars hand-out was given in the nature of an order on the A. and P. stores, Manifestly the three dollars a week hand-out cannot provide this family with even the barest necessities, let alone milk for the children. And, as usual, there is no privision for rent. The family is on the point of eviction, |the father having been ont of work several months and unable to meet the demands of the landlord. 10 HOLD DOLORES “ONZALES AFFAIR Worker’sWidow toRest Up In Crimea An invitation to go to the Crimea to recuperate, has been extended by the workers of the Soviet Union to Dolores: Gonzales, wife of Gonzalo Gonzales, militant Spanish worker, |shot to death by the murderous New ‘York police in a Harlem demonstra- tion last summer. The New York WIR which, with the help of the workers of New York, has raised the fare for Comrade Gon- s, together with the Anti-Imper- ialist Association of the Porto Ricans, |and the Spanish Workers Center, has jarranged a huge farewell affair to take place Saturday, Feb, 14, 1931, at }38 West 115th St. The workers of New York will, at | this affair, express their sympathy | and determination to avenge the | dcath of Gonzalo Gonzales, who died {in the class struggle as a victim of | the murderous offensive of the bour- geoisie against all Communist and militant workers, The Workers’ Laboratory Theatre of the W. L R. will present a play, which will be followed by dancing. strike and will relate very valuable | experience. At this meeting the Ex- ecutive Board will also present a program of work for a whole month. Metal workers who are not members of the League are also invited to this Stachel had a leading part in the meeting. “Conditions in Schlesinger Company Unions Terrible” New York. Daily Worker: Conditions in the Schlesinger and socialist unions in general are terrible —so an old timer, a friend of mine told me. He was working in a pants shop and asked the delegate to let the union head know that he wanted a raise of 2 cents on a pair of pants. He waited a week and again told his delegate either to get him a raise or tw get him a new snop. Nothing happened. What's the use, he exclaimed. The delegate is bought and Schlesinger and the others are as thick as thieves with the bosses. So he quit and got another job. ‘The boss came to his house and 29 LAST 14TH STREET NEW YORK Tel, Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations Dance and Concert ~ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH at 1400 Boston Road “6 p. m. Membership Meeting—8 p. m. Dance for the Labor Press Melody Musketeers Daily Worker Cartoonist—Ryan Walker—Musicians from “Prolet Symphony” ADMISSION 35 CENTS Support and Build the Daily Worker! Show your 5 Solidarity and Attend this Affair after some swearing between them the boss asked him to go back to his place and if he told no one he would raise his wages EL. —E. L. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES PAST SIDE—URONX JEFFERIO RKO ACTS Harmon & Sands Otto Gray Cowbo Claude de others FRANKLIN Prospects 161 St, RKO ACTS Burns & Ailen Scientific Examination of eye glasses—Carefully adjusted hy expert optometrists—Reason- able prices. \Golclin, $x 25. AV Web. $T. Down BY Dem! | the magnificent sum of | YouNG |} —Young Desperados!— | (0, GAWD YsTem KNew DERE Wuz So Bay TEARS WV ME ! LNeévele <All DESE Two DESPERATE Ploweces THRew AE. DOWN - be Me WS. Den "THREWA 400 NECKTIE WORKERS STRIKE A. F. of L. Officials Preparing Betrayal NEW HAVEN, Conn. Feb. 10—~ Four hundred necktie workers today walked out on strike against a wage- cut of 15 per cent and more. At the first mass meeting at Fra- ternal Hall the officials of the A. F. of L, Union, which was forced to call the strike, opened up an attack against “Communists and outsiders,” because they fear the influence of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union which recently conducted mili- tant strikes in New Hayen and Dan- bury, The A. F. of L, officials immedi- ately called @ boss politician, Alder- man Murphy, a member of the board of aldermen, which had the Unem- ployed Delegation ejected from their last meeting, to address the strikers, and he advised them to “trust in God and to observe law and order.” Mur- phy is also head of the boss-controlled Central Labor Council of the A. F. of L., which refused any financial as- sistance to the recent Lesnow shirt strike. The A. F. of L. is opposed to mass Picketing by the strikers, and has already started. secret negotiations with the bosses for a settlement, with- out consulting the strikers of the Strike Committee, which was elected to make the strikers think that they will be represented in the negotia- tions. * The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trail Union is issuing a leaflet calling upon the strikers to organize mass picketing, draw up their own list of demands and place the power of negotiations entirely in the hands of their elected reperesentatives on the Strike Committee, TO PROTEST Demonstration Sat. at Consulate NEW YORK.—More than workers are unemployed today in Cuba. The hunger plight, misery, starvation and disease is simply de- vastating the very life of the work- ing class and the peasantry. Machado, the bloody fascist dic- tator has now ordered all the gover- 500,000 nors in the provinces of the Island} to force the workers to the work on the cane sugar fields for 0 cents a day. This is virtual slavery. American imperialism is responsible for the slave conditions existing to- day in Cuba, Only last week, the puppet Cuban Congress resolved amidst a dead silence with no op- position whatsoever, to liquidate in- definitely all semblance of constitu- tional guarantees that ever existed in Cuba under dictator Machado. Meanwhile, the workers are in- creasing their counter attack against the their bosses and the government in a series of strikes such as the fishermen, the shoe workers, the tex- tile workers, etc. ' Against this bloody terror of Ma~- chado the workers in the United States must protest and lend active support to our brothers in Cuba who are fighting so valiantly against the bloody regime. The New York Dis- trict of the Communist Party, toge- ther with all working class organi- zations will hold a demonstration be- fore the Cuban Consulate on Satur- day, February 14, at 1 p.m., in Bat- tery Place. Return your Red Shock ‘Troop Donation List and get a free opy of Red Cartoon Book or Lenin Medal- lion. [AMUSEMENTS Ura presents “BY ROCKET TO THE MOON” Human hearts will thrill to the dauntless spirit of adventure that carries the gleaming rocket to a planet heaped with gold! Here is a romance of two worlds that will hold one world breathless! DIRECTED BY FRITZ LANG WHO MADE “METROPOLIS” R 42ND STREET | POPULAR > CAMEO Fer | onices: | NOW jm Theatre Gulld Productions = Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD. 822 Eres. 8:50 Mts, Th. & Sat. 2:40 Elizabeth the Queen Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovsky, Joanna Roos and others Pi Thea.,45th .St. Martin Beck "yee-t%h. St Eve, 8:40, Mts. Th, & Sat, g:su venings Boe, $1, 91,60, Mate, Th. & Sat, C™ REPERTORY 1% St. 6th av. EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight “ROMEO & JULIET” ‘Tom, M: “PETER PAN” Tom. Nig REE SISTERS” iE Beate 4 weeks adv. at Box Office and Town Hall, 113 W, 43 Street / 6th Ave He bey Baits GEST SHOW IN NEW YORK acts’ “Little Caesar’ RKO EDWARD G, ROBINSON DOUG, FAIRBANKS Jr, R a> The Annual Internatiozal FOUR-DAY BAZAAR International Labor Defense Defense and Relief ‘of Glass-War Prisoners and Their families at the Park Avenue, New York )GAK WALLACE’S PLAY N THE SPOT witb CRANE WILBUR and ANNA MAY WONG EDGAR WALLACE’S FORREST THE, 49th Street, West of Broadway Evenings 8:50 Mats. Thurs, and Sat. F 3 "ARTHUR BYRON » IVE STAR FINAL “Vive Star Final’ is electric an’ alive.” SUN, CORT "LHEATRE, West of 48th Street Evenings 8:50 Mats. Thurs, and Sat, 2:30 Bille BURKE 84 tvor NOVELLO im a rousing, rollicking riot of laughs THE TRUTH GAME Phoebe FOSTER 22 Viola TREE ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street, West of Broadway Evenings 8:50 Mats, Thurs, and Sat, AS with 80 Prenents 2330 YOU DESIRE ME By LUIGI PIRANDELLO ‘JUDITH ANDERSON MAXINE ELLIOT'S Thea., 39th EB, of B'y Eves. $:50 Matinees & Sat, 2 of the CASINO Wage Cuts, Speed Cooperators' Patronize Un of Workers in the S ER OY Finebuilt Frocks Shop CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue NEW YORK.—The bosses’ policy Katabrook 8218 BRON. of thr workers on the streets to starve and then using the condi- tions of these unemployed workers for further attacks in the form of wn wage-c peed-up, longer hours, || “uxonauin 4-712 aa erat etc., against those still employed is Fri. and Sun, by Appointment clearly seen in the tactics of the Dr. J. JOSEPHSON SURGEON DENTIST 226 SECOND AVENUE Near 14th Street, New York City hosses of the Finebuilt Frocks, Inc., Shop at 240 West 35th St. While fully half of the workers have been fired, the production of this shop is greater than ever. Where |formerly 20 cutters were employed, only ten are now engaged. Over- time pay has ben stopped, and the workers are forced to work late at night. Regular hours have been changed from 8:30 to 5 to 8:30 to 6, and from 8:30 to 12:30 on Saturdays to 8:30 to 3:20. Work has been doubled | up, and the workers told if they don't like it to “join the breadline like the rest of the bums.” On the other hand, the head cutter was given a bonus of five weeks wages as his bribe for speeding up the rest of the cutters. He is earning his bribe. The workers are dissatisfied and asking for organization. They will re- spond to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, The. union must take steps to organize this shop. DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone: Algonquin $183 Not connected with any other office DEWEY 9914 2 fties Meare AM. DR. J. LEVIN SURGEON DENTIST 1501 AVENUE U, Ave, 0 Sta, B.M.T. At East 15th St, BROOKLYN, N. ¥, Sport and Play Agents, Reporters Meeting Feb. 13th NEW YORK.—February 13 at 7:30 |p.m, at 2 West 15 St. there will be a meeting of all agents and reporters for Sport and Play, the official ore gan of the Labor Sport Union. The most important points on the agenda will be: Organization of Sales of Sport and Play. Organization of stabilizing financial status of Sport and Play. Importance of spreading Sy6nan Sleve6unua DR. A. BROWN Dentist 30t EAST 14TH STREET (Corner Second Avenue) Tel. Algonquin 1248 Comrades are welcome to BORDEN’S Dairy-Vegetarian Lunch Room 240 EAST 14TH STREET (Next to Labor Temple) Home cooked food at reduced prices Sport and Play to develop the acti- vities of L.S.U. All reporters and agents from all L.S.U. clubs must be there and on time. | We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD GOOD WHOLESOME Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Ret ween 12th and 13th Sts. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx FOOD Rational Vegetarian’ Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 8965 Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAST Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant “Buy in the Co-operative SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES Store and help the Left a Baee rie ereracrs Wing Movement.” 302 EB. 12th St. New York Comrades from Brownsville and East New York are Eating in the East New York Cafeteria 521 Suttt® Ave., cor. Hinsdale St. fresh; good meals and reasonable prices |} FOX’S NUT SHOPPE 3 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE Tel, -Raymond9—9340 One block’ west of the Concourse We carry a full line of Russian Candies “Every Fine Nut That Grows” CANDY NUTS GIFT BASKETS \ ' MELROSE DAIRY VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT Comrades Will Always Find It Pleasant to Dine at Our Place. 1782 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174" St. Station) TELEPHONE INTERVALE 9—0149 Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER 50 East 13th St. New York City 4 NEIGHBORLY PLACE TO EAT Linel Cafeteria Pure Food—100 per cent Frigidaire Equipment—Luncheonette and Soda Fountain 830 BROADWAY , Near 12th Street BUTCHERS’ UNION Local 174, A, MO.) RR. W. of Na Office and Headquarters: Laber 3 serene Tele ice an