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Millions Will Demonstrate World Unemployment Day February 25th! Join the Ranks! Agitate in Your Union for the Unemployment Insurance Bill! Organize in Unemployed Councils! Mobilize for the Demonstrations Against Hunger! Mass Organization With a Fighting Spirit Will Win Relief! Unemployed and Employed! Unite for the Feb: 25th demonstrations: Against Wage Cuts! Support the Philadelphia Needle Strike! Smash the wage-cut drive in the Lawrence woolen mills! Employed and Unemployed, join in mass picketing! Rally to the Feb. 25th -world demonstrations against hunger! Vol. VIII, No. 48 at New York, N.Y. | Daih Central Org. ~Edes pruniet Norker OF Party U.S.A. (Section of the i ges yd as Entered gs seccnd class matter at the Post Office B21 onder the act of March 3, 1979 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRURY 2 , 1931 CITY EDITION WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents TO UNION SQUARE TOMORROW! FOR JOBLESS RELIEF! Support Your Demands! _ i «J]NEMPLOYMENT conditions in the local (New York) market haye grown worse during the last two weeks. Now, with approximate thirty applicants for every position, officials added, conditions are con- siderably worse than at any time last year.”—N. Y. ‘Times, Sunday, Feb. 22, 1931. | “Chicago, Feb. 22.—Trade and industry throughout the Middle | West appear to be marking time. The Mlinois Department of Labor © | reported a further reduction in employment and payrolls. The month- ly survey reported a reduction of 2.3 per cent in workers and 3.4 per cent in payrolls.’—N. Y. Herald Tribune, Feb. 23, 1931. 4 Workers, these facts should strike you like a blow. They shatter all | the carefully cooked-up lies about “improvement.” They refute all jab- bering about “returning prosperity.” They are undeniable proof that all | the capitalist newspaper and other propaganda about “better times,” about “the bottom being reached,” about “an upturn in the Spring”—are simply | LIES! | And. do you know, workers, why you are being lied to? Has a year of hunger not taught you why Hoover, last March, lied when he promised prosperity back “in sixty days’? Do you not remember how Hoover was helped by the A, F. of L. leadership to spread that lie? Do you recall | that Hoover had the aid of the fake “socialist” leader Heywood Broun, with his “Give a job till June”? You were lied to then, workers, and are lied to now, to get you to stop fighting and to live on hope! .And only in so far as the+whole work- ing class scorned and rejected the lie and kept on fighting were the | capitalists forced to make a gesture of “relief,” in the form of miserable breadlines and soup kitchens! . ‘The continuous battle of the masses, employed and unemployed united, forced this pretense of “charity,” and forced the employers to cover up their attack on wages with loud but empty “pledges” that they would not | cut wages or discharge workers. They have done both. And as you see from the facts quoted above, | isti]] ‘more imillions of workers are being thrown out to starve, while the | fact that. payrolls fall more than employment, shows that wage cuts of | the employed workers. ate now being made systematically and in wide and savage attack on conditions of all workers, on the supposed ‘“‘Amer- ican standard of jiving,” ~~ The capitalists expect you to continue to starve, to believe their “hope” | ‘propaganda, to rély upon their miserable “private charity” breadlines. But the starvation ahd miséry grow daily more intolerable! Thousands of in every great city are being evicted into the street! Literally of workérs are slowing starving to death in breadiines! Workers, ‘to endure this agony any longer! But only you, the workers, can compel relief! You thtre forced con- cessions, inadequate as they are, from: the grasping clutches of the capi- You have built up a national Unemployed Council movement! wwe knocked on the doors of the capitalist Congress in the name over 1,000,000 workers demanding Unemployment Insurance! eee you, the workers, employed and unemployed, women and ane iss white and colored, toilers of city and farm—all must to support your demands! To batter down the capitalist t insists you must starve silently and unprotesting! To tele for adequate food, clothing and shelter for, those entitles them to security of life in this—the richest i tomorrow, under the banners of the Unemployed Councils! Onto the streets, to show the capitalists that they cannot hide mass starvation behind pretty but false words! Onto the streets, to voice your demand for Unemployment Insurance at the cost of the rich and the war-! { Onto the streets to insist that immediate and really adequate relief be given by those who have starved you and lied to you for 18 months! HOUD MASS TRIAL ON MARCH Ist TO EXPOSE WHITE CHAUVINISM March from Shops, Breadlines to Demonstrate Dressmakers Start Mass Picketing Today; W.I.R. Opens Food Kitchens by NTWIU “Join the Strike” Call Issued to Dressmakers ‘Special Appeal Is Made to Dressmakers In Comapny Unions and Open Shops to Join In Fight Against Slavery NEW YORK.—The dress'strikers, fighting under the lead- ; ership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union for a raise in wages, for the 40-hour week, 5-day week, for the right | to the job, for equal pay for equal work, for unemployment in- surance, and for:the recognition of the Industrial Union, have addressed a_ special dressmakers in company union shops atid cpen shops. The | call urge them to: “Go to the st halls, go to the picket lines! spirit of the valiant strikers. See the splendid Speak | to the workers who are on strike and | you will learn that they are deter- mined to fig? | uatil they win. “Their fighi is your fight. misery umder wii! “i they stave ts the one you aré subjected to. The enemy they are fighting is also your enemy. The bosses and the company unions | are against you. They will reduce | your standard of living still more if | you do not fight. The very fact that |* the present strike has already suc- ceeded in putting a stop to the con- templated wage-cuts in the shove | where you are still employed should be enough proof to persuade you that your bosses do not take into consid- | eration your misery and your need, | that it is only by manifesting your | strength that you can enforce ‘your just demands, “Bear in mind that should the) bosses succeed in crushing the strike all the contemplated wage-cuts which were suspended for the moment will be enforced, and your conditions will become worse than before. “It is your duty to strike. You muust join hands with the rest of the workers. You must smash these sweatshop conditions. You must crush the grip of the company union. call to? The | ests and the interests of his fellow- workers, the bosses not to permit the workers to strike. | strike, since they have no desire to x | lessen their oppression in the slight- lest degree. But you must understand that without a fight, no improvement in your condition is possible.” ‘UNITE FRONT CALE Workers’ Organiza- tions Urged 1 to Attend NEW YORK—The —The “Support the | | Dress Strike Committee” of labor apd | fraternal organizations .and the | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union have issued a call for a second conference of representatives of these organizations. They state: “The strike is spreading to open shops and company union shops. More and more workers are register- ing daily at the strike halls, The strike has stopped wage-cuts in the industry. Thousands of workers have struggle for better conditions in all industries. “The company union pledged to} ‘The bosses do not want aj N.T.W.LU, ISSUES: already gained better conditions. | This strike is the beginning of a} On March 1, at 2:30 p.m. at the New Harlem Casino, 116 and Lenox Ave., there will be conducted for the first time in the history of the Uni- ted States a trial against white chau- vinism. This trial calls Comrade Yokinen, member of the Communist Party and the Finnish Workers Club to show cause why he should not be expelled from the Communist Party for state- ments against Negro workers which a@how that he is filled with the bos- @es’ poissn against the Negros. The Communist Party fights against all barriers dividing the work- ingclasa It fights to unite all work- ers, American born, foreign-born and Negro. The Communist Party con- ducts a bitter struggle against all forms of racial discrimination against ‘Negro workers as well as all discri- mination and attack upon the foreing born. This trial must be packed with Ne- gro and white workers who will take part and voice their opinion against. all attacks on the Negros in the Uni- ‘ted States. i) This trial against Yokinen is a trial not only against Yokinen; for there have been other cases wtikin the Pars where members have shown a sim{- lar disposition but in somewhat con- cealed form. This mass trial will open up the entire question and will show to the workers in this city, Ne- gro and white, that the Communis' Party will not tolerate any trace of white chauvinism within its ranks, and will fight unceasingly against all diserimination and jim-crowism no matter what form it takes, also out- side its ranks. All workers organizations, fraternal and trade unions should send dele- gates\to participate in this great trial and to carry back to their organiza- tions the resolutions of the workers) assembled; and the verdict of thc| workers against white chauvinism and all white chauvinistic moods. This trial will be the forerunner of similar tials all ove the country, so that the Negro workers know that the Communist Party is in deadly earnest in its fight for defense of the Negro masses of this country. The Communist Party is the only political party that conducts\the battle fdr defense and organization .of Negro and white workers and an uncom- promising struggle against every trace of white chauvinism. You must fight and you will win. “Many open shops and I. L. G. W. U. company union shops are al- ready making applications for settle- ments. The uunity and solidarity which the striking dressmakers mani- fested in their determination to win the strike moved the bosses to has- ten with their applications for set- tlement since it became clear to them that they would not be able to break the will of the workers. “Every one who is now remaining at work is betraying his own inter- “In view of this important develop- ment of the strike, the executive committee of 45, elected at the mass United Front Conference at Webster Hal, Jan. 31, is calling the second conference ‘to support the striking dressthakers, for Saturday, Feb. 28, at 1:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. The Dress Strike Committee will give a report at this conference of the developments of the strike, and plans will be worked out for further organizational and financial assistance to the dressmak- Strike Despite Lull Due to Holiday NEW YORK.— Mass picketing at 7:30 today will mark the attempt of} the fighting ‘dressmakers to carry their strike into every shop in New York, Every worker in the city who finds} it possible is urged by the Needle} Trades Workers Industrial Union, af- filiated with the T.U.U.L., to join the} striking dressmakers today in the} picketing which will be such a vital) factor in the spreading of the strike. | There is nothing that will create solidarity among strikers as much as the sight of solidarity. When dress- makers who have not yet joined their} striking fellow-worlfers. see these} \ workers on the picket lines, they are themselves inspired with the courage to walk out. Although the holiday yesterday of necessity slowed up strike activity, five more shops, including two in Williamsburg, Brooklfn, went on strike. Many more are expected to jcome out today with the beginning of mass picketing. The militancy of the strikers in Philadelphia, where the average wage of dressmakers is less than $12 a under tremendous pressure, is begin- | ning to affect the nerves of the need- the I.L.G.W. and’ the police. Cops Attack Demonstration. issuing manifesto after manifesto warning the dressmakers not to go/ jon strike against the unbearable | slavery in the sweatshops and threat- | ening those who do. The police haye CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Harlem Unemployed to |Meet Today at 11 a.m. The Harlem Unemployed Council will meet at 308 Lenox Ave. at 11 a. m. today to mobilize for the Union | Square Feb. 25 demonstration and to protest the attack on foreign- born workers by Negro reformist ele- ments. All ‘unemployed workers, Negro | | and white, are urged to be present. | ers.” All workers’ organizations, of what- ever nature, which are not already represented in the first conference, should send three delegates each to this second conference. Finaneial contributions should be brought di- rectly to the conference, or sent to the union office, Mosley Builds Fascist Party in Great Britain; Praises Social-Fascism; Calls for Dictatorship Five More Shops Jou week for 50 and 60 hours of work| |le trades employers and their agents, | The I.L.G.W. (company union) is) | This is adfnitted over the signature COMMUNIST PARTY SECTION Red Cross Gives Crumbs to Red Cross Says, “To.Hell With Feeding Starv- ing Children, Give Us Money.” Don’t Stand for Crumbs! All Out Feb. 25th! “ By HARRISON GEORGE | We publish today, alongside this | the photographic reprint of | AN E EXPLANATION story, _TO“ARKA two letters, entitled “An Esplana-| (7 tion to Arkansas.” It was taken from | |/* Letter: the “Press” of Twin Falls, Idaho, and | the letter at the top was received by | 4 thé Idaho paper from C. M. Young, publisher of the “Helena World” of | Helena, Arkansas. Underneath that | letter, is the reply of the Twin Falls “Press”, Read -this,farmers and workers! Read this and understand the depths | of racketeering mendacity to which | the capitalist.class descends! Read | this and know, positively, that the Red Cross, headed by Hoover, is de- liberately starving toiling pgople to | death!. Read this and understand that it is interested only in getting money for—WHAT? Certainly not to feed.anybody but the officers of the Red Cross, But, farmers, hal vin Pols read this above all| own Farmers’ Relief Councils; de- mand that all Red Cross funds be| | turned over to your own control for | ‘ distribution; demand other funds ap- propriated already but kept from you deliberately by the administration! Here in the letter from Arkansas, | it is clearly said that Red Cross “re- lief” to children is “about 2 and one- third cents a week”! That they must be fed “or disease will soon get them.” | of a capitalist newspaper editor. It was an appeal to another editor in Twin Falls, Idaho. And what is the reply? The Idaho | editor asserts that the people of his (CONTINUED O¥ PAGE THREE) Oakland Police in Orgy of BULLETIN. (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 23.—An un- employed mass meeting, at the Workers’ Center, called by the | trade unions to prepare for World Unemployment Day, Feb. 25, was i atlateeli by. uelice! who ehot, inte the meeting. The workers were first attacked with clubs, Then the police fired at the unemployed, wouunding more than 100 workers. Thirty were arrested. *,e at work is the story told by the last pulib creport of the Illinois Depart- ment of Labor. ment. sorts of demagogy about “raising wages,” the uselessness of parliament, and the necessity for a “strong gov- ernment to save British capitalism from a revolutionaty crisis, Now Mosley has gone 4 step fur- ther, He has already announced that a new party will be formed for the Shows Role of Labor Party Paving Way for Fascism Within the ranks of the British ty and in fraternal organizations On to the mass trial March 1. $1.00 With Every Red Shock Troop List Will End the Deficit of $30,000 We are forced to make special telegraph appeals to the various Dis- tricts and to those who owe on a¢count of bills due, By Wednesday, we must meet $2,000 to hold off very bills. If every reader who received the Red Shock Troop list /would send $1. apiece we would then practically reach the quota. We must let nothing interfere with pushing the Daily Worker to all parts of the country right after the February 25th demonstrations to develop the newcontacts and new organizational groups and spreading, the Daily Worker more than ever before, Immediately after the dem- onstrations the Daily Worker must be ready for further mobilization of the workers. Only through reaching the quota in the labor party is rapidly being forged the forces which will lead an attempt at fascist dictatorship in England. A cable dispatch to the New York Times, (Feb. 23) reporting the issu- ance of a new manifesto by Sir Os- wald Mosley, the millionaire “left” Jabor member of Parliament, shows how far the social-fascist Mosley group has gone, Backing Mosley are not only A. J. Cook secretary of the miners union, as well as 16 members of the labor party in parliament, but a strong force of capitalists in the conserva- tive and liberal parties. One of the leading men behind the new fascist grouping is Sir William Morris, rich automobile manuafcturer, who ex- purpose fo advancing a fascist pro- gram in Britain. He himself says his is a “social-fascist” line. This is a clear example of the social-fascist role of the labor party, preparing the road to fascism and terror for the workers so that capitalism can be saved. Mosley is still within the labor party and is rapidly winning support among the Labor members of par- lament. ° Mosley’s manifesto ,comes out openly with the admission that his program is that of social-fascism, that is the use of demagogy and mislead- ing sl@gans in an effort to rally the workers in support of an open fascist- capitalist program. The New York Times referring to Mosley's admission of his social-fascist program says: Emergency Drive can we possibly make the Daily Worker the organizer that it must be for the working class, Send funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York City. te. re ploits tens of thousands of British workers. “Their policy, according to the new Mosley for the past six months has| manifesto, which is expected to be Aaadaloe cdnte, SIR OSWALD MOSLEY i$ ancial changes, including the cancel- been driving forward toward a fas- issued Tnesday, will be social-fascism cist, party. He started out with all leawsk on tariffs with sweeping fin- lation of war debts.” The British capitalist’ papers al- | capitalists but the open fascist role of ready refer to Mosley as the Hitler of England. The entire policy of the | British labor party under the Mac Donald-Snowden leadership has been to drive toward fascism through their social-fascist action. Mosley is now in the actual process of building the fascist party. He still uses all sorts| of socialist-sounding phrases to cover up the real dictatorship plan of the ment still growing, and The Illinois Department of Labor ending Jan, 15, 1931. the “lefts” of the labor party who follow. Mosley is becoming clear to every worker. Several weeks ago Mosley issued what he called a “Five-Year Plan” for British industry. This was a fascist plan,'an effort to stage off the rapid decay of British capitalism. It was directed against the workers. Mosley, who is the son-in-law of the late Lord Curzon, a vicious enemy of the | Soviet Union, is intimately connected !with the leading imperialists of Eng- Jand. He is constantly gaining new supporters in the labor party as well as in the liberal and conservative parties. His formation of an open fascist party shows the role of the “socialists” in paving the road for and ushering in of fascism in an effort to keep hack working clases evolution. Even the capitalist clown, Wil! self a part of the Red Cross “relief” Washington's (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE Call Ex-Servicemen NEW YORK.—All members of the for special order of business, Starving Farmers’ Children Raids on Private Houses A heavy slash in employment and still bigger wage-cuts for those left | Illinois is one of the | few industrial states, New York be- | ing another, which actually pretends to publish the figures on unemploy- It is safe to say that both New York and Illinois give the most favorable picture they can, but even so the record is one of unemploy- wage-cuts | spreading faster than unemployment. report shows a further reduction of workers of 2.3 per cent in the month It shows a reduction in payrolls of 3.4 per cent. Never before were there so many men and women and children un- employed and starving on the streets. Rogers, who has been making him- ISend Delegates to machinery lately, had to say in his Birthday release to the papers yesterday that millions on the breadlines now get less than Washington's army at Valley Forge to Special Meeting Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League are requested to meet tonight at 8 o'clock, at headquarters, 79 East 10th Street, 8, UNIONS AND UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS RALLY ALL WORKERS, JOBLESS TOMORROW ra Tietcent te. at Union Square at 4:30 P. M. from All O71 er City '5 Main Lines of March Will Be Speakers from All Syeeal ations NEW YORK. - row and dem ri Come out tomor- te against starva« tion! Dema employment lief and no evictions; demand free rent, gas, and light for the jobless! This is the employed and unemployed. 1 s by District 2 ) of ihe Communist Party, rade Union Unity Council (which is the » union center) and by the councils of the unemploy- ed. The jobless breadlines, at flop houses, in the miserable tenements | of the East Side and Hells Kitchen | and all other parts of the city are | being circularized 1 be ad= re- ‘on a dressed by speakers tomor: morn- ing, and told of the line of march to Union Square, where the main demonstration will be held. The hour of the demonstration at Union Square is set at 4:30 p. m, to make it easier to reach the dem- foi to ship you food, but the thousands of em- to show you that you, yourselves, Sasebaebumheer darcy Wl who get part time must act! That you must form your et sate ach: work, speed-up, and wage cuts, and | who know that any ute they may be forced into the nks of the une employed. Full arrangements are being made to have whole shops pi | the demonstration. Quit work at 4:30 or earlier, march to Union Sq, in a body from your shop! Various organiza and all the jobless in the vicinity will meet toe | morrow as follows. ticipate in 3 of the Com- Square Coun- the Food the In- dependent Shoe Workers Union, the Needle Workers Ir 1 Union, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) WEICE TRIAL TO COME UP THURS. Protest Meet In Yonk- ers Sunday Night All hall-keepers having been ter rorized in Yonkers by the local po- lice, a protest ‘meeting called by the I.L.D. was held in the Cooperative Center with about 100 workers Negra and white present. A resolution condemning the brut ality and interference of the police |as well as calling for the immediate jand unconditional release of Weich and Walters arrested a few days Se vat the demonstration at L for speaking, was u ted with cheers. W: alters and Weich's trial comes up on Thursday. Speak- ers were Van Veen and Moore. 1 Section Conference Ow Unemployment! NEW YORK.—All worker organi; tions in the territory south of 14th St. on ‘Manhattan Island, are urged to send two or three de ates each to the United Conference for Unemplec ment Relief which will be held East Fourth St., Saturday, at 3 p.m. ‘This is one of the important sec- tion conferences which will be held, to work out the next steps in the fight to save the hundreds of thou sands here from starvation.

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