The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1931, Page 1

The Unemployed Councils Are the Fighting Organizations for Immediate Relief and Unem- ployment Invurance for the Unemployed Workers. Or- ganize Them Everywhere Vol. VIII, No. 39 Entered as secend class matter at the Post Office qijp2i at New York, N. Y., ‘Dail Central Org. elaine’ ~O) Norker Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist ca neat) » under the act of March 3, 1179 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents JOBLESS DELEGATES CALL TO ACTION FEBRUARY 25 Two Spontaneous Dress s Strikes Anticipate General Walk Out Something for Veterans ‘OU veterans who are workers, but without work; you who are starving to death in the country you “made you read a few lines about cash pay: tain national political leader. They safe for democracy”—we want to let ment of the bonus, written by a cer- run as follows: “It is probable that so great a bond and tax program as this sum would require, would create certain financial difficulties and perhaps slow up business recovery.” Now who do you think wrote that? can Secretary of the Treasury, Andy Mellon? D. Young, partner of J. P. Morgan, Doesn't is sound like the republi- Isn't it exactly like Owen “expert” slave driver of German workers and possible democratic Candidate for president in 1932? Isn’t it the model of capitalist class propaganda such as could come from the pen of any big banker? Well, it is neither Mellon, Young or any big banker who wrote that, but nobody else than the Rev. Norman Thomas, leader and presidential candidate of the so-called “socialist” party—the party which under cover of the name “socialist,” carries on among the workers discontented with the republicans and democrats, the openly capitalist parties, same capitalist policies as the other It was written in the “socialist” paper, the 8 SHOPS NOW Support - the - Dress ON STRIKE; SPECIAL DRIVE IN FEW DAYS LEFT BUILDS FUND - Strike Committees To Be Built in Worker Organizations Negro and White Dressmakers to Parade in Harlem, Hold Rally Tomorrow Night NEW YORK—The immediate response to the strike vote “New Leader,” of Feb, 7. But there is more. Listen to this: “But the great objection to the cash payment to veterans is that if the government makes that payment, it will do nothing for the on Wednesday night of 4,500 dressmakers was a spontaneous walkout yesterday in the shop of Cohen and Rosen, 159 W. 25th St., because a worker was discharged; a strike in the shop of fe G. and K. Dress Co. and re walkouts in many other unemployed.” This is something like the tricky propaganda of the fascist leaders of the Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who turn it the other way ‘round and pretend to “fight” for the cash bonus and oppose any fight for Unemployment Insur “either” the cash bonus This ‘or’ Unemployment Insurance. is putting the question as if it were And anybody who puts it that way is really against both. But Norman Thomas, the fake “socialist,” who by playing the other end of this game with the fascist V.F.W., illustrates what is meant by the term “social fascist,” goes further. well treated. He says: \ “So far as money can compensate. . badly.” You can put the “socialist” stuff he told from the republican or democratic brand. we want is jobs.” Not for himself week writing for a racketeer magazine “Unemployed.” He thinks that the veterans have been .-our government has not done in your pipe and smoke it, and it ca: But jhe adds, “What Thomas is getting $100 a N of course, Take notice that Rev. Thomas does not even propose Unemployment Insurance. “He~says not a word in favor of that, but he proposes the following: “What we ought (o be working for =e bond issne to begin a great program of public works,” Well, so does Hoover chatter nothing but chatter. And the Rev. Thomas, the “ about “public works’—but he does ‘socialist,” chatters along- side—while the 10,000,000 jobless and their families starve. Thus,you see, worker yeterans, that the social fascist “socialist” party is against both the cash bonus and against Unemployment Insurance. Thus you see that* the the interests of the capitalist cl: Understand that, workers! Party, fully supporting the demands the bonus does not peddle the capit ing up business recovery” just as it ss! gogs that it would “bring back prosperity.” “socialist” party is only another party defendiz:g And understand that the Communist of the veterans for cash payment of alist—“socialist” bunk about it “slow- rejects the idea of the V.F.W. dema- It supports the program of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League for cash payment of the bonus, which, holding that it is insufficient to’ mect the needs of worker vet- for all workers, | erans, urges them to join in the struggle for Unemployment Insurance Shoulder to shoulder with other workers, the veterans should fight, | class against class, for the cash bonus, and Unemployment Insurance! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CUBAN _ SLAVERY SAT. IN BATTERY PLACE | Workers To Hit Enslavement of Class Brothers in Cuba and Guatemala, Ete., By U. S. Im- perialists—Protest Attacks on U.S.S.R. NEW YORK.—The White House has put an embargo on Russian lumber ‘coming to this country on the lying |pretenso<t&-t Soviet lumber is being \cut by “forced labor.” But Messrs. Meldon, Hoover and all American imperialists, particularly |the reactionary press in the United States keep silent on the system of peonage maintained in Cuba and Guatemala by the native rulers and |American bankers. . ‘he Daily Worker has reproduced authentic pictures of the system of slaveryq and forced labor in Cuba under the fascist government of Machado, | Tne workers in the United States must not remain silent when the “same bosses that exploit them, are reparing war against the worgers ind peasants of the Soviet Union and slaving our own class brothers in uba and Guatemala. . The bloody puppet President of uba, the tropical Mussolini, General fachado is kept in power by the will f the American Sugar Barons and @ National City Bank. Why does ot the American Congress put an ATTENTION ‘The Hunger Marchers to Albany need shoes, rubbers, and overcoats, Send in men’s shoes, rubbers, and overcoats to the Workers Interna- tional Relief, at 131 West 28th St., New York City. | Cuban slave hloders. The Cuban dictator, having the support of Hoover and Co. c'rects a fierce attack upon tbe working class and peasantry of Cuba. More than | 1000 fishreman are striking today |against the inhuman conditions of exploitation. Cuban and American | capitalists, in the attemp’ to crush the strike, are importing fish from the United tSates. The government is deporting strikers the majority of whom are Spaniards. Machado who is eager to obtain additional support by American imperialists and: en- couraged. by the pernicious report of Fish, “tries to divert the struggle of the workers. in Cuba in a blun- dering statement that “Moscow” is trying to attack the U. S. government by seething trouble in Cuba.” In this he registers the support of Mr. Wolls allies in Cuba, the yellow lead- ers of the Cuban Federation of Labor. The workers of New York must give theri active support to the work- ers and peasants of Cuba. We must edmand the immediate release of all volitical prisoners; we must demand the right of the revolutionary unions to organize the workers for the im- mediate economic demands; we must help the Cuban workers in their struggle for immediate unemploy- ment relief. The New York workers must rally in a huge demonstration next Saturday, Pebruary 14th, at 1 p. m. in Battery Place before the Cuban Consulate. \ MOORE SPEAKS AT FORUM SUN. Richard B. Moore, well known to the workers of Harlem as well as the entire state, will lead the discus- sien at the Forum at 308 Lenox Ave, me eee Tk a ta Central Opera House, Will Be Packed “Hands off the Soviet Union!” This will be the demand thundered | oy hundreds of workers at a big mass | meeting tonight at 8 o’clock in Cen- tral Opera House, 67th St. near Third) Ave. Called by the Friends of the} Soviet Union, tonight’s meeting will rally the working masses of New York and vicinity to defend the work- ers’ fatherland from the feverish war campaign being carried on by the American capitalist: class as part of the international conspiracy for armed invasion of the U. S. 8. R. The meeting will launch a vigorous protest movement, en%isting thousands of workers and sympathizers through: out the country, against U. S. in perialism’s latest anti-Soviet w measure, the Treasury Department's embargo on Soviet lumber and pulp- wood. It will be followed by other meetings that the Friends of the So- viet Union is organizing all over the country. Speakers will be Robert Minor, leader of last year’s huge March 6 demonstration; M. J. Olgin, editor of the “Freiheit”; Richard B. Moore, ternational Labor Defense; and I. Amter, New York District Secretary of the Communist Party. The famous Halil Johnson Negro Singers will appear in a program of Negro labor songs and spirituals, A hilarions satire on the Fish Commit- tee, written by Joseph R. Brodsky and presented by the Workers Lab- oratory Theatre, will be an additional feature. FUNDS NEEDED AT ONCE FOR “DAILY” Will we we make the capital- ist laugh or will we make him happy? Ryan Walker puts the question right to us. Due to the fact that large paper houses, printing plants and banks were closed yesterday it was not necessary to make any payments on bills that are due. However, these wili accumulate for today, These next few days will be very hard ones for the management in the Daily Worker. Notes that fall due and other bank obligations must be met. Response from the field and close attention to the appeal to send in the Red Shock Troop lists wili pull us through, ‘The only way we can be sure the Daily Worker appears in the streets, every day, in front of shops and fac- tories and in the homes of the work- ers, is by immediately sending in funds and mailing the Red Shock ‘Troop lists. Send funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Don’t delay! Send funds to- day—now! PARTY FOR SHOE WORKERS. NEW YORK.—-A house party will be given Sunday at 4 p. m. at Hen- kin’s place, Apartment 51, at 1791 Prospect Ave., Bronx. Shoe workers are asked to attend and help the or- ganizational committee of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers’ Union to build the union, The committee will be brain” eve eee ee op WORKERSTOFIGHT ANTI-SOVIET WAR. ¢ CAMP AIGN, FRID AY Pe eae eneenn cen) ato National Negro Organizer of the In- | shops. Conditions of the dress- Halters have become so un- bearable that they are going on strike even though the strike Hate has not yet been an- unced. “The most unusual feature of the is that the place was an open shop | with many I. L, G, W. members. Every dressmaker in the shop, in- | cluding the “International” members, | | walked out when it became known | | that @ genera] dressmakers’ strike | would soon become a reality. Needle | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HONOR KATOVIS Died on “Picket Line in Food Strike | NEW YORK.—New York workers | not forget Steve Katovis, mili- t fighter who was murdered by a/ iceman’s bullet on the picket line | curing a strike conducted by the | Food Workers Industrial Union last | | year. From every section of the city, they will gather at Ambassador Hall, 3861 Third Avenue, Bronx, Sunday afternoon, at 1 p. m. to commemorate this working class martyr. The mass meeting is being held under the auspices of the ‘Trade Union Unity Council, the Building | Maintenance Workers’ Union of which Katovis was a member, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, the International Labor Defense and the United Councils of Working Class Women, Members and sympathizers of the United Coucils are urged to turn out in large numbers to Steve Katovis meeting on Sunday next by Gordoh, secretary of the Councils, in a state- ment today. “We must carry on the fight for which Steve Gatovis gave his life with the same courage, determi- nation and militancy os Katovis and build strong fighting organizations of the working class which will success- fully resist the attack and terror of the bossse and win for the workers ; the right to organize and strike and improve working conditions. ry Westinghouse Plant Slashes Wages; Go Upi 18,000 Workers in Pittsburgh ( Get 10 Per Cent! Cut; While All Soviet Miners Gain 20 Per Cent Raise a ‘Two important wage actions took place yesterday—one in the Soviet Union and one in the United States. In the Soviet Union, wages for all underground miners are to be in- creased 20 per cent, beginning Feb- ruary 15th. The Supreme Council of National Economy said this was to raise the standard of living of the workers, and is just one step in the process of constantly increasing the| wages of the workers. But in Pittsburgh, in the Wes house Electric and Manufacturing Company’s plants quite the revers took place. this huge factory, employing 13,000 workers cut wages 10 per cent. To keep up their profits, the capitalists unload on the workers, lower their standard of living. As an excuse, the workers do not work half day on Sat- urday any more. They wili be speed-| ed up the other five days *o make up| for the lay-off. A lot of the workers will have to work Saturday too. This 10 per cent wage cut begin- ning in Pittsburgh will spread to all | other factories 6 the Westinghouse. in Soviet Union |National Capitol 1 Still Congressmen Call for Wh hile the national capitol Just as the 20 per cent wage increas | in the Soviet Union state of the day The capitalist owners of | will spread to all other facto | the workers’ repub! multiply in this chest capitalist | ICAI ERED NES country in the world.” The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. is owned by the} ee =e ESS Gr od El ahve a Mor: an-Young | timately iimareds of thousands of | Sat., Feb. 14th, Rally es in jing al at the mouth demanding Morgan interests who control some of the most important basic indus- | tries in the United States. 7,000 Pivcunaitute : in Bison MEET SUNDAY TO ‘Awe Court Into Into Light Terms | workers and shows the policy of =: "For Immediate Relief | BROOKLYN, N, Y.—Saturday, Feb. | 14, at 1p. m., the unemployed work- of Brooklyn ‘will gather | Borough Hall, Plaza Court and Ful- | ton, to demonstrate the determina- | Unemployed of 'B Cities in 3 New England! tion that hey will uot starve, but States Demand Insurance; Huge Police Mobilization Breaks Lawrence Meet BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 12.—Mass pressure of the unemployed here had its egect in the municipal court to- day. The 12 who were arrested in yesterdays demonstration of 7,004| workers were discharged out minor sentences. Two charged with as-| saulting the police were fined $10) each. Owuers were fined $5 on city ordinance charges. Two liberal | ministers who were arrested as on- lookers were released. This action | was in acordance with the plan of INTENSIFY ‘DAILY’ DRIVE IN BRONX A Daily Worker conference, to} which all workers’ organizations of the Bronx are requested to send dele- gates, will take place this Sunday, 2:30 p. m. at 569 Prospect Ave. ‘The conference is called. to discuss | ways and means of spreading the} Daily Worker in the Bronx, and to rally the workers around the Daily Worker, Representatives of the editorial staff will be there to discuss with the delegates, as to how to improve the contents of the Daily Worker. Delegates have already been elected, those organizations who have not al- ready done so, do so immediately. | The committee representing tine | the International Day Ag |since the great 1923 textile strike fight on until the city will give the | jobless immediate relief and the state and federal governments will adopt their Unemployment Insurance Bill. This demonstration of the Brook- Governor Ely to keep the masses| lyn jobless direct the workers to quiet by proposing a bond issue for | struggle against the high rent and| future public work while he viciously | yin demand 20 per cent reduction in| fights all proposals for cash relief. | rent; it will mobilize the w 7,000 demonstrators clearly exposed | ¢mployment, Feb. 25, when all work- | the demogogy ee Governor Ely in his | €rs will gather at Union Square for | office yesterday. “The over 300,000| the struggle against starvation; it jobless in the state can’t eat future! Will mobilize the workers against | state roads,” said Keith, one of the| ¢viction, which is taking place every committeemen. “They demand an | 8¥; i twill mobilize the unemployed immediate 300,000 jobs or cash re-|®24 the employed for the struggle lief!,” said Cantre, another commit- | 8€ainst_ wage-cuts. |teeman. Ely refused to support the| Jt will mobilize the workers in sup- fedreal unemployment bill, refused |POrt of the coming strike of the to turn over the $1,700,000 unexpend- | Uessmakers. ed in the state-of. public works for| “Don’t starve! Fight” is the ap- the immediate feeding of the jobless,| Pe@l sent out by the Unemployed or give guarantees against evictions | Council to the Brooklyn workers. and shutting off of gas and electri-| All workers from the breadlines, city for the. unemployed. flophouses, from employment agen- . . . cies, all workers, are called upon to demonstrate in this day for immedi- ate relief. HUNGER MARCHTO Smashed At Lawrence LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 12—The most complete police mobilization here prevented jobless the demonst- ration yesterday. The City Hall was closed down ketween 11 and 1 p. m. and masses of police on horses, motorcycles and cars kept all work- | ers moving down the main streets. Edith Berkman, local organiv2r of | the N.T.W.U. and another union member were arrested. Pat Devine, Greet 500 Thurs. Nite at New Star Casino Workers and delegates from many | working-class organizations have ex- pressed their intentions to mass into (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Wage How “socialist” ministers become the most valuable instruments for the preservation of capitalism is strik- ingly shown by the speech made in parliament Wednesday by Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden. After making a gloomy survew of British finances and industry, stating that the country was in a “grave crisis,” Snowden began to lay the basis for using all the forces of the labor gov- ernment against the workers to save the capitalist system in Britain and with it the profits of the bosses. In order to do this, Snowden said, “a temporary suspension” of all so- cialist principles is necessary—as if Snowden or MacDonald ever had any other principle that conflicted with the preservation of British imperial- — ‘Yhen Snowden to the drastic plan of doing the job. First he proposes cutting down unemploy- NR renal insurance for ried sepidly in- Labor Government Is For Mass Cut To Save Capitalism > The workers will have to suffer, he Snowden’s ’ Speech Is Opening Wedge to Slash Pay creasing army of the unemployed. Next he hits the first blow in the national wage-cutting campaign to effect all British workers. The Brit- ish bosses have ben planning a 10 per cent wage-cut: for all workers. Snowden several weeks ago sent a confidential circular t oail financiers and industrialists asking their “views” on the proposed wage-cuts. Undoubt~ edly the plan has been perfected and Snowden is ready to put it into ac- tion. He starts off by the usual stunt of saying the cabinet members first would have to “suffer” 2 wage-cut. aan other words, the rich and poor would have to get a 10 per cent a in salary, as the problem, accord- ing to Snowden, 1s a “national one,” New Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue, Thursday night, Feb. 19th, to give a rousing send-off to the 500 unemployed workers who will march to Albany to present the de- mands of the unemployed workers of New York and the Nnemployment Insurance Bill to the State Legisla- ture in session there, on February 24th, The meeting will give the workers of New York an opportunity of greet- ing the delegates of the jobless and hearing their plans of march. A. Wagenknecht, secretary of the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance will give a report on the Washington delegation, which he headed. Other T.U.U.L. and W.LR. leaders will address the workers present, Th Albany marchers will leave the morning of the 20th, and follow the Hudson Valley route to Albany, where they will be joined by delegations from other New York industrial centres. W.LR. food and medical trucks will accompany the delegation all the way. The entire feeding and sheltreing of the delegation will be taken care of by the W.LR. ‘The National Offices of the W.LR. and the T.U.U\L. ask all workers to earnestly continue their collecting of funds every day until sierieehd oud frankly states, in order that capital- ism can get on its feet again and so that the bosses can go ahead reaping profits at the expense of the work- ers. The labor cabinet members, who get fat salaries for the service in preserving the British empire and initiating the wage-cut drive, are quite willing to set the example of permitting their “incomes” to be cut, as it makes it easier to tear bread out of the mouths of the poorly paid mass of British workers. Snowden, MacDonald and company will not suffer. MacDonald will get another automobile “a block long.” The prof- its that the capitalists make out of the wage-cut will be shared in some way with the noble labor ministers who turn the trick of a national wage-cut, But here in all its glaring brutality is shown the function of a socialist government, This is social-fascism in practice, 1 St ptealiys ‘citizens on the delegation | ings, ALBANY FRIDAY, GOVERNMENT PROViS THAT IT IS WORKERS’ ENEMY, ORGANIZE AND FIGHT! Armed Camp On Day After Jobless Visit It; Bachman of Fish Comm. Demands Exile of Wagenknecht Suppression of the Workers’ Organizations, Deportations Delegation of Unemployed Hurries Back to Masses to Show Up Congress’ Program of Starvation, Mobilize Demonstrations till an armed camp, “in a itself declared, even on after the appearance there of the national delegation | of the unemnloyed, and while congre en were simply foam- the deportation of Ameri a whole day after the delegation’s visit, the irman of that same delegation issued a state- {ment which is a ringing call to j all workers to organize, and to all | jobless to organize, and carry on a united struggle for unemployment ch | relief and against wage cuts. The delegation has separated, and is rushing back to those who sent it to mobilize the biggest demonstra- | tions this country has ever seen, on | Feb. 25, International Fighting Day.” The statement to the 12,000,000 un- employed in U. S., and to the other millions facing wage cuis and many of them working only part time, is as follows: “Supported by the signatures and votes of a million and a half work- ers, by the ringing demands of sev- eral hundred thousand workers mob- ilized in+75 hunger marches upon | city hall and state capitols, by the | ayes of tens of thousands of wi in mass meetings, organization meet- street demonstrations, bread (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WORKER KILLED IN LEIPZIG Hamburg Dockers On Strike Against Cuts (Cable By Inprecorr) “BERLIN—Early in the morning police raided the fascist headquarters confiscating much material. The search was allegedly connected with the recent fascist murders. Last evening armed fascists at- tacked six workers ni Charlottenbery, firing rapidly. A twenty-eight-old worker, Erich Weber, was fatally wounded. Others less seriously. Po- lice arrested four fascists. Last night collisions occurred in Leipziz at three fascist meetings. A twenty-one-year-old worker was shot and killed, three were seriously in- jured. Four hundred fascists broke up an anti- fascist meeting in Chalotten- berg yesterday evening. The hall was wrecked, and many workers were in- jured. The police batons were spon-~ taneous in the protest demonstration. Yesterday in Hamburg, the Altona Wilhelmsburg dockers struck against wage-cuts under revolutionary lead~ ership without waiting for the re- formist ballot. The Bremen dockers decided to join the strike. The po- lice raided several strike offices and arrested twenty-five dockers, Sells Opossum to Get “Daily” There are various ways of digging up money for Daily Worker subscriptions, Farm- ers have sent in the price of a gallon of cream; hog-raisers send the proceeds of their animals; one worker walked to and from work for miles in or- der to save carfare for his sub- scription, Here’s the latest; “Find enclosed two checks for $10.15. Set me ahead one year for the balance for the good of the Daily. My sub expires Feb. 28, 1931. I SOLD OPOSSUM HIDES FOR THIS” R, E, J., Tommoien, Miss, (60,000 Circulation news on page &)