The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1931, Page 5

. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 21, 1931 Cleveland Orders District * Page; Albany Boosts Order; Chicago Conference Sunday Cleveland, Ohio, takes third place get on the street and sell the Daily of Negro and white unemployed workers will be elected to present the | demands of the unemployed to the| mayor and city council. Until | | | | There are hundreds of bags bre 9 aa By now the number of of unemployed workers in the state | jobless here is 300,000. of New Jersey with many thousands | Demand All the $8,000,000 City Loan! more that are only working part time.| The struggle for unemployment re- FEBRUARY ghee of thousands of unemployed |lief conducted by the unemployed { workers have demonstrated in every| councils brought some results. A fear — | city of the state, for immediate un-|was thrown into the hearts of the Force Them To Feed employment relief. In every city, the| rich parasites of Philadelphia. Thru The Hungry Losovsky Writes on Tasks of World Unemployment Day, February 25th, Must Fight Wage Cuts; For Relief these city officials have been dodging the issue of ding out relief. to unemployed Instead relief campe an employme ha the the 1 a fake blished| * which does demands of the unemployed workers| their. determined struggle the unem- | have been ignored, and in some cities,| ployed have forced the city council acy, |like New Brunswick, the city conumis-|to consider the appropriation of $1,- 1 In Yau istric » Se orker,” writes H. H., national or- ‘ | hand out any employment or real| py. 1 : r ‘ is Wri as Se ie | Promhols, dsteet Dally ‘Worker tep- puter of the Marine wodae ak (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) |{sioners adjourned the meeting when | 500,000 of the proposed $8,000,000 city |relief to the starving workers of this| 1 inal Solution of Unemployment Is By Ending 3 | 5 Ee OR RS UR y i | r ent. "This i I ty The Fel le t $ Matin 320i Sede Stn 2, a Pais | resentative, informs us the page will b ca Hie Bauid ide pas rents iter the unemployed delegation came i Seer abe unemploy ment ia day ¢ ci The F b. demonstrat ii Capitalism and Establishing Rule By be ordered as soon as enough ma- | because he could not pay Me Tr present their demands. ;@ drop in the bucket, but it shows|expected to bring out thousands of : gate ~ r a meeting called by the council, 75 m e i | the use of struggling. wel and surpass the Feb, 10th] W orker s—the Soviets VeSIAT 16 Stieneg Bans GRTp eee marched from the hall to this work- 5 ee : oe leerioeeakiok in euch: Wee taka Been eee |er’s home, and turned on the water. No Meal Tickets. aera Be 500 participated fear ET REPRE “We have enough funds for the New Brunswick has tripled its) SAN ANTONYO, Texas, Feb. 20—| City Hall and all the ag Ot comic: itRatM a AO: NORE UTI 48 (eRe ee OLE ee ce se ee e by ¢ tirst issue, and will make collections Three weeks of the most cynical jug-| Capitalism are now feverishly collect sa see aa oe. | LOSovsky on the preparations for the International Day against Une so that we will be able to guarantee the coming out of the paper weekly.” Cleveland should have no diffi- culty in spreading the paper in the. automobile centers, in steel and metal areas and in rubber centers, provided the entire membership is ‘mobilized for systematic sales be- fore factory gates, on the streets and trom house-to-house. Send material three days in advance of the date, ‘and include, if possible, pictures and ‘dvertisements. The Chicago District has ex- “pressed satisfaction with their dis- trict pages and is continuing its good work by arranging a second conference of Daily Worker read- ers at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p. m. Editorial and circulation problems will be discussed and plans laid for in- creasing the circulation through the district page every Wednesday. Philadelphia received its second fistrict page. fischarges in Lupton’s Sons Co. metal plant, Edison telling jobles to starve quietly, a story on Lit Brothers lepartment store, a striker of the Lu- ‘lle Hosiery Mills shot by 2 scab’s brother, Worker correspondence on Philadelphia’s jobless, a worker in- jured on a broken scaffold while painting the Board of Education building, and a story on Philadelphia jobless workers routing “socialist” | professors at their “demonstration.” ‘ticles included mass | re = Articles include | of 100 for 10 days and they will | ‘tibuted, all the working class organ WOULD BE USELESS WITHOUT THe | FINGERS, IXEEP Tee HAND | | besides the Feb. 25 demonstration. quota of marchers, the unemployed workers participating in all the work of the unemployed council, calling meetings, factory gate and open air demonstrations, visiting organizations for donations for the march, collect ing money and food and arranging for shelter for the marchers that will come from the other cities of N. J. Perth Amboy has also doubled its} quota of marchers. The unemployed council is arranging to call two open air meetings, in the following week Fill The Quota, Elizabeth is specaug up its final preparations for the march, Here too, the quota of marchers has been filled. The relief committee, consist- ing of workers from the Unemployed | Council and all working class organ-} igations, is collecting money and food for the marchers. The Newark Unemployed Council, although it has not as yet filled its quota of marchers, is carrying on STIPONG, dustrial Union, “so send a bundle | try and form a Red Builders’ Club | and work up a route.” WAUKEGON, ILL, ORDERS 25 DAILY O. &. of Waukegon, Ill, who in- creased his bundle from 15 to 25 daily, writes: “My route is growing with the| relative momentum of the nation- | wide increase in circulation. I had} | | ‘The page is considerably livened by @ cartoon on the Pennsylvania coal | yd iron police, a burning issue at! &° present time. Districts not yet in line for weekly | rakes should arrange for a district | edition without delay. The offer is for four columms of space on the sec- bid page at $8 per thousand for at tcast 2,000 copies of the issue every | week. | 4LBANY NEWS CLUB DOUBLES BUNDLE “We are determined to put the Daily Worker over here in Albany in grend favhion,” writes a repre- sentative of the Unemployed Coun- CL “Our requirement is at pres- | $90 daily. We maintain the us Darer- boys.” s first place in the} ases, boosting its bundle} 50 to 300, and two comrades, 3 ard are mobilized @ few enthusiastic unem- | ployed workers and organized a Red | Builders’ News Club, but was disap- | | pointed when I did not receive MY | Wy bundle this morning.” | We are doing everything possible | to get bundies out on schedule and} nt reports such as this bundles do not arrive on time. when | SO. SLAV WORKER SUPPORTS “DAILY” Acting upon the appeal of “Rad- nik,” So. Slav Communist weekly, to support the Daily Worker, S. S. of Sivermore, Calif., sends three 6-month subscriptions, writing: “T went to speak to our comrades about the class struggle and Daily Worker and got two subscriptions (besides mine), so from now on 1 will work for the Daily Worker and So. Slav Radnik.” {home and store is being canvassed |held on the day the marchers reach }to take 3 days with the marchers | state budget, largely tesponsible for spreading the state! s tapital with Daily Workers. We want Help ap Pe Trades ‘o heer more about them, and we'll publish their pictures just as soon Attend the Dance and Performance hs they get time to visit a photo- ‘iven for the benefit of the Needic ) t maton. | Trades Strike Fund at the t — HUNGARIAN WORKERS HOME A NEW ORLEANS, L | .. 350 E, 8ist Street v STARTS ACTION | i} | “1 hate a counte of unemployea | Saturday, Feb. 21st 4 workers here that are anxious to | AT 8 P. M. ene ar ae PROGRAM: “Shoe Repairers Wanted be to go with the group to | SOVIET RUSSIA | E For information apply to | __Millstein’s Shoe Repair Shop || 1987 SHCOND AVENUE Corner 162 New York City Strike, by M. Gold; Spartacus and Luxemburg clubs in athletic evenis; 120,000, by M. Gold; Recitatio: Music numbers; Speaker from the union describingg the strike. | Good Dance Music; Buffet; Entre: 50 cents. Every workers should attend )0 YOU WANT TO VISIT THE U. 8. S. R? READ THIS IMPORTANT NEWS, ‘The readers of the Daily Worker | ot April and the price of the whole | tre already well acquainted with our| trip through Paris, Berlin, Riga or | onstant efforts to reduce the costs | Warsaw, will be $250.00 (in this price | Ww a tour to the Soviet Union and | will be included five days in the) Uso to make the trip better and Soviet Union with hotel accommoda- nore comfortable. We were always | tions and food, sightseeing, visits to | jmong the first to advertise in the | museums, etc., and also railroad fare | daily Worker our reduced prices for | from Moscow to the Polish border the difforent tours, Now we have’ and return steamer passage. The sain the opportunity to acquaint passengers will have the privilege to bs with the great changes that have | stop at the above cities. ken place in this matter. | We will provide visas for all these Due to the great Proletarian holi- | coyntries and will also help everybody lay~the May ist celebration—for | to get their passports. For non-citi- vhich preparations already are be-| zens we will obtain permission to bg made in the Soviet Union, a) retwn to the U. 8. Passengers who }aa was worked oyt according to| wish to travel in the tourist class (sich workers and sympathizers of | will have to pay $32 additional for | be Soviet Union will be able, com-| the round trip. For people who have ably and for a low price, to be! permission to entér the U.S.S.R. we can segent at this grand May Ist cele-| arrange passage for one way at the wation. price of $124.80, in the third class, Aweryone will be able to go individ- | and $147.30 in the tourist class. tally and mot be forced to in a tour-| For those who wish to sail before | ag group. It will also not be neces-| April 17th we will also make ar- ary to go through Helsingfors or| rangements at the above prices, How~ vndon to Leningrad, but everyone | ever, they will not be able to enter vill be able to go direct from here | the U.S.S.R. other than between April v France and via Paris, Berlin,| 20th and May Ist. Upon request Varsaw or Riga to Moscow. Those} we will also arrange a tour for you sho want to enjoy these new ar-/| via Helsingfors to Leningrad for as angements will have to enter the| low a price as $235.00 for a round sviet Union between the 20th of | trip or $113.00 for one way, on large .pril and the Ist of May. The visa | steamers. ‘il be good for 3u aays and may| We also want to call your atten- ‘ extended by the local authorities. | tion at this time that our plans for ‘31 those who will come to the May | excursions to the Soviet Union and et celebration will be provided with, | also to other countries for the coming side from the visa, with food, sleep- | Spring and Summer are already work- +g accommodations, sight-seeing, en- | ed out and all information regarding ty into various museums, etc, them will be sent to you without After the May Ist celebration every- | charge. he will be able to go into whichever} For all further information write | jiy he desires to visit friends and| to or see the well-known Travel Bu- Re eo OH t atives, | Teau of In order to make it possible to) a a | "> in time. to. the Soviet Unio i GUSTAVE EISNER | OFFICIAL STEAMSHIP TICKET AGENT 1133 Broadway, corner 26th Street | New York City | ‘Telephone: Chelsea 3-5030 —~Advt. \ {: have mede en agreement with |: Wile Star Line, according to) { ch the best cabins of the largest i} ‘in, the Mejestic, will be re- | vcd for our passengers, ‘The Ma-| 4 ic wil leave New York the 17th Se ————— mass propaganda for the march. Meetings are being held, leaflets dis- izations are being visited and every for donations of food and money for the hunger march. The rest of the cities, Paterson, Passaic, Jersey City, Union City, ¢tc., are also carrying on day to day work for the Trenton hunger march. The march will start from Pater- son and will go through Passaic, Newark, Elizabeth, Linden, Rahway, | New Brunswick and then go on to} Trenton, the state capital. | Join From Other Cities. | The jobless in the rest of the cities | ill march to anyone of these cities | that it is nearest to. In everyone of these cities demonstrations will be! it, and additional marchers will fall into line. The march is scheduled staying over night in Newark and New Brunswick and Trenton, At Trenton, the demands of the unemployed workers will be presented to the state legislature that is con- venine on March 2 to consider the | held on the 13th, 15th, 18th and 19th. gling with the lives of the starving|iMé funds for their racket and unemployed here by the city govern-|®@ency, the Mayor's Unemployn ment and the chamber of commerce|Feélict Committee. The money has ended with the bald statement | that nothing has been done, |eomes mainly from the working cla The San Antonio unemployed are|HOWever the money collected fror going to do something for themselves, | th® Workers is used against the work though, for they are planning a huge |€"8:. The unemployed are made tc demonstration Feb. 25 to force im-| Work on city jobs and even on job: mediate relief out of the business men|f Private individuals and concer and city treasury here. Mexican and; Without being paid by the city or native born workers will come out and} by these private individual Th join the great chorus of demands for|™iserable wages (not to e the right to live that rises all over|Per week) are being paid the world that day, International] Money collected by this mayor's Fighting Day for the unemployed. | Mittee. In other words the city k ‘The unemployed council here is|t€ money that should he holding regular meetings and prepar- me aan led : eae ing the demonstration. Mass meet-|‘oosther with the open aren ings called by the unemployed coun-| O8°tner with the open strik: ing policy of the Police Depart GE ane Se a Ue, Se Uae een |G aiak has cow peohiblied ‘pi in the Needle Trades and strikes is a serious threat interests of all workers. , jtuary 25th demonstration must sho |to the bosses and their government, that they will not be able to use the unemployed to lower the standard of living of all workers. col- lected as the mayor himself stated T to Between Jan. 19 and 23, over 3,700 jobless registered. W. Green of the chamber of commerce, chairman of a committee appointed by it to “solve unemployment,” blandly stated in the last meeting, that: “Most of the local unemployed were too’ proud to register, and are not even on the list.” He meant, that the census took care to miss them. Negroes In Action. Force Them To Act! CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 20.—Hundreds Then, after various meetings of this|of jobless Negro and white workers committee, it was announced last Will join ranks in a solidarity hunger week that nothing whatever was being | march and demonstration to be held done, or about to be doné, evén for|in this city on Feb. 25. The march the 3,700 on the lists, will begin from the headquarters of The first séssions of the committée | the. Unemployed Council, 120 W. 3rd got all whooped up about a plan to/St., at 12 noon. The marchers will sell tickets for one cheap meal, these /proceed down Third to Edgeworth tickets to. be handed out to the hun- | Ave., from there to Sixth and Market ery who begged for money. The Sts, down Market St. passing® the local press published lengthy articles) City Hall and halting at 3rd and on this, as @ cure for “panhandling.” | Market Sts.. where the demonstration Now it is announced that no tickets) will be addressed by Mac Harris will be issued. | organizer of the Trade Union Unity e ° | League, and Jack Stepp, organizer of Philadelphia To March. | the Communist Party, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 20..On| At the demonstration a. committee Feb. 25 the thousands of Philadelphia | —=—— Jobless will assemble at Independence Square at 12 noon and from there march to City Hall. The prediction of hunger riots by Mayor Mackey was | not without foundation. Unemploy- | the The Feb-|r NITGEDAIGE CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETABIAN VACATION PLACE ment here is assuming ever larger sd woke OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR | 3¥Arbeiter Festival NEW YORK LABOR TEMPLE 243 EAST 81TH STREET FEBRUARY 28th PROG * International. Piano Solo . Pong Recital ! Sports .... Revolutionary “Work or Wages” . Drawings by RYAN WALKER, Daily Worker Staff Mass Singing with Orchestra Bookstand — Dancing, Beautiful Rooms Heated i Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity | Proletarian Atmosphere _ 7 4 WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N.Y | * PHONE 731 off more workers hipyard Co. pursued a policy in the and firing worker: abor turnaver is a trick! worker nizing. | laid off done aily. The Sun| ment capitalist countries and Day. against Unemployr trial struggles fe from ¢ ks they ot any to the Trade attracting Negroes. | a period of economic crisis. These ce| ginning of the stru be- the strikes were only gles; t be character. followed others standa z class been by The ownel all an offensive a: were con- arch In Allentown. ainst wages ALLENTO and working conditions. ‘The prep- ployed « arations for the International Day a2 hunger march he against Unemployment must there- The march will st fore be conducted ins practical con- nection with the burning problems of the working class. The tasks of the sections of the Red International of Labor Unions were to organize a proletarian counter-offensive on the basis of the united front from be- low, the linking up of isolated strug- gies, the development of economic strikes into political struggles, ete. nd the ex g out of thei agents of the ich runs this t int Mack Motor ‘own, Corp., w |Ohio Working Women | Support Their Paper TOLEDO, Ohio—The working | | women in Toledo, Ohio, realizing the need for organization, have formed a Women's Council. They feel that the | house wife under capitalism carries | a double burden of oppression. In} order to lighten the burden a little they will begin a campaign for a lower cost of living ‘The unemployed workers must be- come active fighters in the economic struggles, otherwise the social fas- cists’ would misuse'them as strike- | breakers. The work amongst the un- | employed workers must be increased tenfold. The slogan for the reduc- tion of working hours with full wages compensations as a weapon against This newly-formed council sent $3| unemployment must be explained to to “The Working Woman”, on the/all workers. The chief questions of March 8 donation lists. | the campaign against unemployment Every working woman is urged to} must be the questions which at pres- | get donations from individuals andj ent occupy the workers most of all, j organizations, on the March 8 list) that is, the quéstion of a counter- Losovsky reviews the development of unemploymer es on to declare that this ye it co-incides with a tremendous wave of After the strikes of the 140,000 metal workers in Berlin in Scotland, the 60.000 miners in the Ruhr | South Wales, the 250,000 textile workers in ster Unemi-| textile workers in Sweden, there was no longer any | economic struggles were possible in& the 90,060 mi rict at B the 160.000 tminers ¢ 1, andthe 35. s to Ww offensive against against the vy insurance pre 3000 French Textile Workers Strike; # f Against Wage Slashes VY 3000 FRENCH T. PARIS.—The s workers in Cot has been extended are now out will extend to where, together with trict, many thousands workers are employed ginning of January, the te: ployers have been conducting a sy: tematic campaign against the wage of the workers. On February 2, t textile bosses in Cours announced wage cuts of from 5 to 12 Francs « day and for certain categories even from 18 to 25 Francs a day,. Ther upon the workers of several factories immediately went on strike..A mas meeting of strikers was atended by 2.000 workers, The strikers. marched through the streets until Iate in the evening singing the “Internationale.” ‘The revolutionary opposition is lead- ing the struggle, wage-cuts Since Fight lynching, Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your eity conference for Protection of foreign born. 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