The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1931, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN! DAY, _FEBR JARY 25, 1931 THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER JOBLESS DEMONSTRATIONS PLANNED IN MANY CITIES Today Is International Fighting Day for the Unemployed! Hunger Marches to Compel Feeding of the Starving! BULLETIN. READING, Pa., Feb. 24.-—-Eight hundred workers and jobless work- ers, with as many outside who could not get into the hall, crowded the eity hall auditorium here today. They approved a list of 15 names submitted them by the Unemployed Council as a committee to present their demands to the city council tomorrow, for immediate relief of the jobless. The crowd cheered the speakers to the echo when they condemned the socialist party administration here for failing to do anything for the jobless and in all ways taking the position of the capitalist class. The demonstration here starts tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. from Second and Penn Streets. — You Bet He Will! — WHo fr “ilar Copy ‘OF THE EI WORKER ON MY DESK? A TRING | Kike tat Siu! Ge en THERES A OMMVNIST AT | EARGE AN OTHIS SHOP |. \™ LAY Wan sO" WoRjt AXD F \MORE OF IT, Aow WiiO BRouG WT THAT ‘In 2 3 How Did Yaar 43 PAPER GET, INTO Shop; tS ie TM TAKING 4 peal Of GOING "To Demonia Dow T aque MG qe ao ne Weutade eer, \ * . Added to the guarded admission of state labor departments that jobs are still growing scarcer, and wage cuts are multi- plying, come statements in tlie financial journals and trade papers showing great decrease in employment in many separate . industries. The latest is a.decl of America, Inc., which yester- day admitted that employment fell off 11-7 per cent in January as compared with the same month a year ago (when there was already a severe crisis) and that} there were in January this year 3.8] per cent less jobs than in December; | 1930. ‘These cold figures mean starvation, | for they are typical of all industries." |dent stated February aration by the Silk Association Meanwhile, the capitalist press is full of stories of wasting of food to keep the price up. The Marin (Califor nia) Dairymen’s Milk Company pr 17 that “hun- dreds of gallons of milk are being dumped into irrigation ditches in the price war now going on. Socialists Attack Jobless While hunger grows, and the food f= D THRER) (CONTINUED ON PEGE ALL OUT TODAY! DEMONSTRATE ON UNION SQUARE AT 4:30 P. M (CONTINUHD FROM PAGE ONE) judges and police force, preying upon women and girls, the whole adminis- | tration corrupt from top to bottom, | refuses to do anything for the un- | employed. Governor Roosevelt and the state} administration merely make a gesture towards unemployment relief—and yet while unemployment increases, the state has no program and refuses to grant unemployment insurance. On February 10th the delegation which went to present the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill was thrown out of the U. S. Congress and ; faced machine guns and tear gas as| the answer of the U. S. government | to the demands of the unemployed. | This act of the U. S. government was applauded by-the strikebreaking lead~- ership of the A. F. of L. and of the socialist party. At the same time the U. S. gov- ernment appropriated more than $2,- 000,000,000, including $354,000,000 for the U. S. navy in preparation for ‘war and especially against the Soviet | Union. Bills to prevent alleged “gumpjng” and importation of pulp- ‘wood, manganese, oil, asbestos and wheat from thé Soviet Union are be- fore the U. S. Congress. The purpose of these bills is to mobilize the work- ers and farmers of the U. S. against the Soviét Union, because the Soviet Union shows that under workers’ and peasants’ control unemployment can and has been abolished and the con- @itions of the workers and peasants continually has improved. This demonstration is called by the Communjst Party, the Trade Union Unity Council, and the Councils of the Unemployed. It is part of a world-wide demonstration against starvation of the jobless. ‘This demonstration has been organ- ized by shop gate meetings, by wide distribution of leaflets, by street meetings and préliminary mobiljza- tions. It must be a well disciplined demonstration, showing that the working class knows how to organize its ranks and conduct its struggle in & disciplined working class manner. Every worker at the Square, every WEDNESDAY— Building Maintenance Workers’ math floor, 86 B, Meets at 8 p. 13th Harlem Unemployed Council meets at 10a, m. today at 308 Lenox ve, for street meeting at 11 a. m. at 132nd St. and Lenox Ave. All ém- ployed, unemployed, Negro and white workers afé urged to be pres- ent. THURSDAY Sport Meetin; be held’ at 8:00 z m, at 1499 in the Harlem Prog. will yess, A Ave, outh Club. ; Medicat Workers Industeial. Léaime Membership meeting changed due to demonstration. take place ‘at . Mm, at 16 W. Vint St, Come -an: bring your fellow workers. eesti 3A ioara ste ‘Bila May"— p. m.—Gastonia Br, , 28th St—Hattie Carnegie 1 Gongales at 8p, Joo Hill at 131 Branch. . FRIDAY— Metal Workers Industrial League meets at 8 p.m. at 16 W. Zist St. top floor, All‘ members ‘must be resént and should bring a new mem+ er with hit. Alt om, fr! theots at 8 p MBSE atom Ra, Report on "ngebaracion for mass meetings and forum. Also situation in the trade, jin an orderly manner. ASS PICKETING | IN DRESS STRIKE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ber, as yet undetermined, of shops| walked out during the course of the day. 1,000 Strikers Win Demands. man, woman and child must realize that he is part of the working class | |army in struggle for working class| rights. The Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League, and the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York call upon every worker to ob- serve this proletarian discipline. When the meeting is over, all signs should | be collected and the workers disperse Don't allow yourself to be provoked by stool) | pjgeons and detectives who will mix} in the crowd for the purpose of stir- | ring up trouble! HUNGER MARCH TOMORROW ned Along Route NEW LORK—The march against hunger begins tomorrow! Leaving from New York in the morning, 200 representatives of New York State’s jobless, who will be joined by more jobless along the line of march, from most of the indus- trial towns and cities, will begin their five day Hunger March to Albany, where they will present the demand of the unemployed for un- employment insurance and immediate relief, to the State Legislature. The delegation will be given a send-off at Union Square, just before leaving. Workers employed and unemployed, organized in the militant trade unions, organized by the American Federation of Labor, and unorgan- ized sympathetic workers, farmers, workers’ organizations, are prepar- ing for the coming of this delega- tion. They are donating, and col- lecting food, and waiting to welcome the marchers when they reach their Cities. All realize this protest against hunger must be effective, since this is @ decisive struggle for real re- lief for the unemployed. In Yonkers, the workers have voted to give the Cooperative Centre for the first feeding of the marchers at noon the first day. Farmers have contributed food, corn and potatoes. ‘The first night, the workers will be sheltered by the workers of Ossining, Mohegan and Peekskill. Workers have offered their homes, their club- rooms, and food. The second night, the marchers will be in Beacon, the third in Poughkeepsie, the last night out, in Hudson, where the Mayor has refused to give the City Hall or the Armory for shelter. The workers of Hudson have offered their homes. In Poughkeepsie, the American Federation of Labor Painter's Local, unanimously voted to give the meet~ ing hall for overnight shelter. Tie Unemployed Councils of these cities are flourishing very well, and carry- ‘4|ing on a militant fight for the Un- employed—arranging for this March through their cities, and selecting unemployed delegates to join in the march. The Unemployed Councils are calling WIR United Front Con- ferences, which are making prepara- tions to take care of the marchers: In each town the marchers are passing through, an open air meet- ing will be held under the auspices of the Unemployed Councils and the Hunger Marchers. Stroudsberg Scabs Ge SHIR, 1 i D. i paeontan Stave Kapovig, “Br, at. 108 % 14th Bt. Polis) re,* 49 at srt Ht it., Nat urner it, at 204 a “1368 tin pi a we } iand Bt. ‘Yorn arth © 6 rep tt ret ihe at 8:30 p, m a “mys Madison Ave, . Cleaners a Launary Workers Ind. League meet at § p. mi at 16 W. int St, Come on time and bring your shop- mates, it rg Brooklyn, at poeta Kill Girl Striker Wound Two Others STROUDSBERG, Pa., Feb, 24.— Miller and Russell Arnold, scabs at the Mamloth Hosiery Mill, here, last night opened fire with shotguns on a group of strikers in an auto and killed Algerta Bachman, 20 yéars old. ‘They also wounded in nthe right ankle Elsie Bachman, sister-in-law of the slain sttiker, and shot Russell Hastie, another striker, in the hip. ‘The strike started three weeks ago. ot ae thea shot were pe workers mot to scab, stad Demonstrations Plan-| The answer of the Needle Trades} Workers’ Industrial Union to the con- ¢ention that the present is a bad} time to strike js that more than 1,000 dressmakers in Uew York City have gone back to work with increased wages, a 40-hour 5-day week, and recognition of the Shop Committees and of their fighting Industrial Union —and the strike has been in pro- |gress only a weck. | After the mass picketing, the strikers attended three mass meet- ings, one jn Bryant Hall, another in} |Irving Plaza, and a third in ‘Ambas- | |sador Hall, the Bronx. “Shock | troops” of John Reed Club, Prolet- pen, and Artef writers, artists, danc- jers and singers entertained at the various halls, hurrying from one meeting place to the other as they | | finished their part of the program. | | Similar mass meetings will be held in the same halls tomorrow, begin- njng at 2 o'clock. The Workers International Relief j}opened..two. food kitchens yesterday which distributed sandwiches, coffee and fruit to the picketing dressmak- ers, mons of whom walked out> with absolutely no reserve money to fall back on. The W. I. R. will open gnother food kitchen in Bryant Hall today. Was Picketing in Phila. Scenes similar to those in New York were enacted in Philadelphia yesterday when the strikers held their first mass picketing demonstration. Another huge mass meéting of all strikers will be held today. An at- tempt by the Philadelphia police to break up a picketing demonstration on Monday resulted in six of the cops getting a sound thrashing. In an attempt to break the strike of the dressmakers, the police aré arresting pickets by the half dozen. Forty-nine picketers were arrested in New York yesterday, but dressmakers immediately filled the gaps in their lines by fellow workers. Thirty- three of those arrested were dis- missed, and the others were to be tried in night court. Three dress- makers who were arrested last week were held in $1,000 bail each and will be tried on March 4th. They will be defended by Jaques Bultkampt. A meeting of Shop Chairmen will be held tomorrow at noon in Bryant Hall, Sixth Avenue near 42nd: Street. The N. T. W. I. U. calls on all needle trades workers to join the tens of thousands of their fellow- workers who will demonstrate today for immediate relief from the piratic capitalist government which is spend- ing hundreds of millions in prepara- tion for the next imperialist war but refuses to spend a dollar on the country’s ten million unemployed, four millions of whom are slowly starving. Employed and unemployed dress- makers in the “market” are to meet in Bryant Hall at 4 p. m., from which point they will march to Union Square to participate in the déem- onstration there at 4:30. Dressmakers in the downtown section of the city are to meet in Irving Plaza at 3 p. m. They will then march to Cooper Square and join the marine workers’ delegation. both of whom will then march to- gether to Union Square, Workers’ Clubs Build Strike Fund. The following workers’ organiza- tions have announced that they have taken measures to raise money for the benefit of the $15,000 Dress Strike Fund: Finnish Federation; Scandinavian Workers’ Club; Ukratn- Orderian Workers’ Club; Spanish Workers’ Center; —_ International Workers Order. (the latter organiza- tion has done particularly good work in this connection); East Side Workers’ Club, and Council Twenty ‘YOKINEN MASS witz & Co. Shop, $1; Unemployed | Council N. T. W. I. U., $10; Workers of K. M. Knitting Co., $10; Rose Glick, $4; Dora Batt, $10; Jack Dien- house, $10; Laura Fralich, $6.50; Vic- tcr Woodman, $2. ‘Women's Coun- cil 1 of Harlem, $10; Women’s Coun- cil 16, $3; Cloakmakers’ Women’s Council, $10; Women’s Council, No. 3, | $5; Middle Bronx Workers’ Club, $10; Brownsville ,Workers’ Club, $3; | Brighton Beach Workers’ Club, | Bath Beach Workers’ Club, $5; New Rochelle Finnish Workers, $5; Bronx Workers’ Club, $10; Rys Mutual Aid Society, $2; Bronx Hungarian Work- ers’ Club, $10; Finnish Federation, $5; School No. 7, I. W. O., $7.25. TRIAL SUNDAY! White ~ Chauvinism| Must Be Rooted Out NEW YORK—Before the civil war the slave owners of the South feared the enslaved Negro masses. They had bad dreams of Negro rebels like Nat Turner and the uprising of the Negro people. Today the ruling class of the United States and their agents at Washington fear not only the Negro masses but the white masses as well. They fear the growing unity and power of the working class. At this particular time, when there is mass starvation and unemployment, bjg business makes special efforts to divide white, Negro and foreign born workers. What methods do they use? The poison propaganda of the slave owners of the South; the white chauvinism of the slave driver. The Comniunist Party which unites the entire working class is waging a battle against all forms of terror against the Negro masses. And the white workers as well as the Negro workers will soon learh that the Com- munjst Party means business. Comrade Yokinen, member of the Party and of the Finnish Workers Club, has made statements against the Negro workers, The Party will not stand for slave drivers’ propa- ganda. Therefore Yokinen will be brought to trial in @ workers’ court and the workers will be the jury. On March ist at 2:30 p. m. at the Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., the Communist Party will con- duct a mass trial against. Yokinen and against white chauvinjsm. The fight against white chauvinism has only just begun. It is the task of the Communist Party to smash this color line of the slave owners and unite the working class. Death to white chauvinism! Death to the lynchers! ORGANIZE TO END | offered him $17.50 in cash and prom. | DISCRIMINATION | | Trucking Head Visits! Daily Worker — NEW YORK —While Franki Lamby, business agent of the Riggers | and Safe Movers’ Union, was ar-| which started a week and a half ago | and lasted about a week, he got drunk and betrayed to a few of the | strikers a little of what he was up to and the reasons for it. Lamby | said, while drunk, that the boss had | ised $150 a week as long a8 he could “keep control of the men.” The men are enraged against the | | treacherous strike “settlement” which gives the employers everything. A/| bunch of strikers have already been discriminated against. Many are | looking to the Transportation Work- | ers’ Industrial League of the Trade Union Unity League for leadership in the new situation. Harry Meyerson, proprietor of the | Central Trucking Co. and leader in the offensive against the riggers, came to the Daily Worker of- fice recently in an effort to per- suade the Daily Worker to discon- tinue its support of the locked-out tiggers. Meyerson was informed that the Daily Worker is a. workers’, paper and will support the struggles. of. workers against the “bosses “at “all times. Meyerson is reported to’ be the most vicious of the bosses. He it is who} is most responsible for the lockout and the continued effort to starve the riggers into unconditional surrender. Use your Red Shock Troop List every day on your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker. | of 1925, when he was district organ- , PIONEER AGAINST RIGGERS IN STRUGGLE, tL. XBW YOR Already § Spent 6 Weeks | in New York. Hospital | NEW YORK.—A. Jakira, national | organizational secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense and for ranging” the sell-out, of the strike | twenty-five years active in the mili-|are urged by the club “to come in| tant workers’ movement, is seriously | ill in the hospital for the past six weeks. Many letters have arrived in the offices of the I. L. D. requesting | information regarding Comrade Ja-| kira’s health. Jakira is one of the pioneers of the | Communist movement in the United | States, helping to organize the first | Cotmmunist Party in America, and in the underground days was the sec- | retary of the organization. After the | |release of Charles E. Ruthenberg irom jail Comrade Jakira became assistant secretary of the Party. He was arrested on numerous oc- |easions in working-class struggles, especially during the red raids of 1920 and in the May Day demonstration izer for the Party in Pittsburgh. Jakira was an important factor in the fight against the famine in the Soviet Union, devoting his tireless energy to helping the workers in Russia.during their bitterest days to overcome the attacks from the capi- talist world and its invading armies and the famine on the inside. At that time Jakira was with the Friends of Soviet Russia. Since 1929 Comrade Jakira has de- voted all his interests within the In- ternational Labor Defense as organ- izational secretary, building the de- fense organization into a powerful weapon against the terror of the tuling class in the United States and in foreign countries. AMUSEMENTS Theatre Guild Prodactions =“ Green Grow the Lilacs GUILDS, , 820: xen. 50 Sat. 2:40 Elizabeth the Queen Lyin Fontanne Alfred Lunt Mortis Carnovsky. Joarina Roor and ta ad fh ‘hea..45th St. Martin Beck "West twas bvs 440. Mts Th & Sat. 2 4 AS YOU DESIRE ME By LUIGI PIRANDELLO with JUDITH ANDERSON MAXINE ELLIOT’S Thea., 39th E. of B'y Bves. $150 Matinees Wod. & Sat. 2:30, STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! ; NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX ALWAYS A GooD snow! | dene eid RKO ACTS Beth & Bet Dodge Renle Riano & Co. RKO ACTS Frank Richor son in per Presaler & Kialsa Michael Par’ & Girls Gifford & Gresham of East New York. A further list ‘of club and individ. ual contribtors to the fund follows: Dora Gellman, $3.60; School 1, Council 3, $5; Rubin Berger, $24; B Rifkind, $5; I. Birnbaum, $2; Cleaners and Laundry Workers’ League, $16; Maty Britton, $3.75; Carpenters’ Local 2717, T. U. U. L.. $10; Anse Candor, $1.15; Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, $5; F. Schwartz, $2.50; Office Workers’ Union, $11; Helen Eisenstein, $1; In- 29 EAST 14TH STREET NEW YORK ‘Tel. Ali win 3356-8843 We ane’ Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations dustrial Shoe Workers’ Union, $4; 8. Stollaman, ‘ai ©, Dinter, %; Rabino. | Meciiage ep ie Y Uth St., 6th Av. VIC REPERTOR Bvenines 8:30 J _ 600, & Vy 60. Mats. Th. & Sat. 2:30 EVA GALLIENNE, Director Tonight HOAMILLE! Tom. Mi ANN MORNING” and MEN HAVE birt way" Tom. Night . MLLLE” Teas a twecke cay. av bos ortice and Tows Hall, 113 W. 43 Street Smash the anti-labor laws of the Billie BURKE and Ivor NOVELLO tm @ ronsing, rollicking riot of laughs THE TRUTH GAME vir eee FOSTER. find Viola TREE ARRYMORE THEATRE West of Broadway Hats, Weil, and Sat, 2:30 Evenings EDGAK WALLACK’S PLAY ON 1HE SPOT May WONO nae HS KO THE West of Broadway Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2:30 EDGAR war 49th Str F ive “ive Star final’ WOODS Presents "ARTHUR BYRON " STAR FINAL {8 electrio and alive —SUN. CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Stree Evenings 8:50, Mats, ‘Wed, and Sat. 2:30 PPODROME “*.,': & 430 St. BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK aun “ILLICIT” with Barbara Stanwyek RKO and James Rennie bosses! Given DAILY TICKETS:—50 CENTS SATURDAY EVENIN 2700 BRONX THIS SATURDAY NIGHT— BALL AND ENTERTAINMENT ANTI-FASCIST ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA ‘To Be Held At MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 EAST FOURTH STREET John ©. Smith’s Orchestra CONCERT AND DANCE BRONX CO-OPERATIVE AUDITORIUM Proceeds for the building of the Daily Worker ——PROGRAM— Se Ne, UE A Aémisston 95 Cente Arranged by Unie 3, Section 2, Communist Party by the the WORKER At 8:00 P. M. G, FEBRUARY 28th PARK EAST | John Reed Club | with the proletarian writers’ group, | various mass meetings being held by | number of deaths by suicide have in- | creased. Dance On Friday, ‘K.—The first annual | of the John Reed Club, the | poe of revolutionary writers and artists, will be held this Friday | R DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Phone: Algonquin 8183 oom 803 Not connected with any other office night, Feb, 27, in Teutonia Hall, 16th St., near Third Ave. Every New | York writer, artist, dancer and singer |connected with the revolutionary | movement is expected to be present. | Workers who will attend the stair | costumes expressing various shades |of our struggle here that will bring home the ideology of our whole movement.” ‘The John Reed Club, in company has ben performing excellent service in the present dressmakers’ strike by sending artists and writers to the the strikers, The John Reed Club is also now instituting an attack and Estabrook 3215 ALgonquin 4-7712 Office Honrs: 8 A. M.<8 P.M. Fri. and Sun,.by Appointment Dr. J. JOSEPHSON SURGEON DENTIST 226 SECOND AVENUE Near 14th Street, New York City 657 Allerton Avenue BRONX, N, ¥. an exposure of the Fish Committee and is aiding in the raising of relief funds for strikers. SUICIDES INCREASE NEW YORK, N. Y=~Although the natural death rate has decreased, the Scientific Examination of eye glasses—Carefully adjusted by expert optometrists—Reason- able prices. OPTOMETRISTS“ OPTICIANS 1690. ce vat eon Jot $1 st Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAST = “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” hone LBHIGH 6882 tern-tional Barher Shop M W SALA Prop. 2016 Second Avenue. New Yor! (het 103r6 & 104th Star Ladies obs Onr Specialty Private Beaoty Parlor Comrades are welcome to BORDEN’S Dairy-Vegetarian Lunch Room 240 EAST 14TH STREET (Next to Labor Temple) Home cooked -food at reduced prices ae FOX’S NUT SHOPPE 123 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE Tel Raymondd—9340 One block west of the Concourse We carry o full line of Russian Candies “Every Fine Nut That Grows” CANDY NUTS GIFT BASKETS We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices other int A Comfortable Place to Kat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts. Rational Vegetarian Phone Stuyvesant 8816 John’s Restaurant SPROIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES 302 EB. 12th St. Au | 558 Claremont Parkway, Broay Where the Vee? food and fresh vi Comrades from Brownsville and Eset East New York Cafeteria $21 Sutter Ave., cor. Hinsdale St. fresh, good meals and reasonable prices 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD, Brona renerhi 50 East 13th St. New York City BUTCHERS’ UNION Lowal 174, AL MO, HW ot Labor Temple, 243 pI fy Om treet Regular meetings Sy6nan Jleye6uaua DR. A. 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