The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUsxY, 26, 1931 10,000 LAWRENCE STRIKERS PICKET MILLS, CLOSE THEM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) are expected to settle within the next few days. ‘The Workers International Relief opened a food kitchen yesterday in Bryant Hall, making three strike headquarters in which that organiza- tion is supplying food to strikers, most of whom are penniles: Two mass meetings tomorrow will complete plans for the mass picket- ing demonstration that will take place tomorrow in the needle trades “mar- ket.”. The mass meetings, in Bryant Hall and in Irving Plaza, will pro- vide entertainment for the strikers, as has been the custom since the be- ginning of the strike. The mass picketing tomorrow is expected to assume the same pro- portions that characterized the. mass picketing last Tuesday, than 5,000 singing, nd corner of the garment district. An Unemployed Council was. or- Ganized yesterday in who realize that the Industrial Union is fighting to create jobs for- the unemployed by reducing the present 50, 60 and 70 hour week to a 40-hour 5-day week. A meeting of Shop Chairmen and Shop Committees will be held today in Bryant Hall at 11 a. m. ‘The General Strike Committee will meet tomorrow in Irving Plaza. Jack Johnstone, secretary of the ‘Trade Union Unity Council, has an- nounced that the T. U. U. C. endorses the coming united front council called by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union and uurges all work- ers’ organizations to expend every effort to send representatives to the when more | cheering dress- | makers paraded through every nook | reaternal | ehibs, women’s councils and delegates Bryant Hall) vere present at the previous con- among the unemployed dressmakers, | | Saturday, Feb. 28, at 1:30 p. m., at | ganizational and financial assistance conference, Part of the N. T. W. I. U, call fol- lows “To All Workers’ Organizations “Dear Comr —In view of this important development of the strike, the Executive Committee of 45, elected at the mass United Front Conference at Webster Hall, Jan. 31, is calling the second conference to} support the striking dressmakers, for | Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. ‘The Dress Strike Committee will give a report at this conference of the de- velopments of the strike, and plans will be worked out for further or- to the dressmakers. “This conference must be attende? by delegates from all working-class organizations, trade unions, Trade Union Unity League groups, workers’ organizations, workers’ of other workers’ organitations who ference. | “In addition to the delegates to the mass conference, we call upon all working-class organizations that have not been represented at the mass conference to send delegates to the present second United Front Con- ference in support of the dress strike ~-three delegates from each organ- ization, “Bring financial contributions from your organizations to the conference to help the dressmakers’ strike, or mail these contributions directly to | the office of the Union, 131 W. 28th St., New York City. “Make this conference a true dem- | onstration of working-class solidar- | ity with the striking dressmakers.” ALBANY HUNGER, MARCHERS LEAVE 200 in March To Fight) Anti - For Relief (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the route. bany, concrete demands will be pre- sented to the state legislature for immediate relief. At Newburgh, New York, the dem- onstration on Feb. 25, which was also @ mobilization for the Albany hunger march, was granted a permit.- Over 300 workers gathered in front of the city hall. The permit stated that no reference was to be made about peo- | ple starving in Newburgh, and no statement was to be made that the Newburgh city government was not taking care of its unemployed. ‘The speakers read the permit to the workers, The unemployed booed it. The city manager was looking at the demonstration from a window of the city hall. He tried to heckle the speaker, The workers pledged enthusiastic support to the Albany hunger march which goes through Newburgh. At Poughkeepsie, another city through which the hunger marchers pass, 400.met despite the great terror that has been going on for the last two days. Each member of the Un- employed Council was warned that he would be locked up if he went around the counucil hall. Most of the 150 men in the Unemployed Council are married men who depend on city charity for food. This morn- ing when they came for their weekly allowance they were informed that no member of the Unemployed Coun- cil would get food. A big rally is expectel in Pough- keepsie when the huunger marchers go through this city on their ‘way to Albany to present the demands of the New York unemployed to Gov- ernor Roosevelt. They will expose the action of the city in attempting to smash the militant Unemployed Council. thie port Meeting will be nei’ at 8:30 p. m. at 1492 Madison Ave, in the Harlem Prog. Youth Club. Membership Gemonstration, bof ged dye to wht take. place at m, at 16 W. 2ist St. Come and your fellow workers, - mG L. D. Goniaiea” Br, at ‘etis e 103rd at 8 p.m. Boro Park, “Ella May”— Soe ge, Br. at 7p. m.—Gastonia Br. at 131 W. 28th St—fiattie Carnegie Branch. W. 21st St. Pa “members ‘must be a top floor. prorent and should bring a new mem- er with him. . Alteration Paint: meets at 8 p, m, at 1400 "Boston Ra. Report on preparation for mass meetings and forum, Also situation in the trade, ms oe » Meetings Steve Ketovie” "Br. at 168 E. iéth 3 Polish Br. No. 49 at 257 B. 10th Ni rner Br, at 204 B, 136th 7B, 72nd 8t. St Jugosiav Nag aa ‘e Youth Club meeting at 8:30 p, m. ison Ave, mempersnip. at 1492 Cleaners ai «oe bn Workers meet at & p. at te W. 2ist St, Come on time and bring your shop- mates, Bore Park Workers Club meets at 1273 48rd St. Brooklyn, at 8 p.m. Lecture. : ene Council No. 8 aunts Ps Tee Bathgate Ave. at 8 p, ission free. Lecture on “De- ee Ream ana seein b | | arations that are being made for the When the delegation reaches Al- | GOOSE STEP RULE AT CITY COLLEGE War Students Suspended NEW YORK —The opposition of students at City College to the prep- MULE ‘YT, 1 IY GOOD rosept ly SO-HE CAN Work For Me >» THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER SLED Tents Sept \ im TION ny Dory FEED MY Ay ND Jou 25,000 MASS IN UNION SQUARE) Organized Marches To Demonstration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) other, a cartoon of Fish with a can- non in his mouth, with the wording: “Down with the Fish Report!” Large groups of workers began to | gather around the Square hours be- fore the demonstration was sched- | uled. Police kept them away. At} 4:30, when the demonstration was scheduled to start, the main part of | the Square was filled. Then groups began to arrive | fashion. The Madison Square demonstration got under way at 3:15 when several | hundred from the municipal flop | house, led by the Madison Square Council of the Unemployed, and with |banners: “Five Men Died at the | Municipal Flop House,” “Workers, Fight for Bread!” “All War Funds in an organized} next imperialist war in the form of compulsory military training has again flared into open combat. Fol- lowing the publication and sale of a six-page bulletin called “Frontiers” | and the distribution of a leaflet over a dozen members of the Social Prob- | lems Club have been indefinitely sus- pended by the Tammany politician | Frederick B. Robinson acting in the | | name of a board of trustees consist- | ing of bankers ‘and captains of in- dustry. “Tnsubordination” was the reason | down Broadway, and into Union given for this series of suspensions. The club is organizing an extensive campaign for reinstatement of the students which can only be achieved through pressure brought upon the authorities by the student body and other organizations. A united front of progressive organizations from | practically all colleges in the metro- politan district has been achieved through the support of the New York Intercollegiate Student Council repre- senting Columbia, New York Univer- | sity, Fordham and nine other univer- sities and colleges. A leaflet has been distributed by this organization describing the facts in the case which have been perverted in the statement of President Robinson to the capital- | ist press. That student opinion in the college has been aroused may be evidenced in the protest and assur- ance of solidarity published by the Senior Class Council. STACHEL TOSPEAK ON NEW UNIONS Workers ‘Forum Sun- day Night NEW YORK.—Jack Stachel, na- tional assistant secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will speak on “How the New Unions Are Developing” at the Workers’ Forum Sunday night, March 1, at 8 p. m., at the Workers’ School Auditorium, 35 E. 12th St., second floor. Comrade Stachel will systematic- ally deal with the development of the Jabor movement in this country, the fascisation of the leadership of the American Federation of Labor, the st. | I. W. W., the formation and progress of the left-wing opposition in the form of the Trade Union Educational League, the treachery of the Muste group of the socialist party, and the formation, program and progress of the Trade Union Unity League and its new revolutionary trade unions. The role of the T. U. U. L. and its trade unions in the struggle for the ‘unemployment relief, and the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill will be one of the central points to be stressed. ‘The most important task of our Tevolutionary movement today isthe building of the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League into broad mass organs of struggle. Every worker must fully understand the role and program of this new center of the revolutionary unions in order to carry out this fundamental task. This forum is of particular in- terest and should be attended by all workers, Fight lynching. Mido resent {ion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for ‘Protecsien of fortiga DPM autism Ole for the Unemployed!” At. 3:35. the dress-strikers. marched | in to Madison Square.singing “On The Picket Line,”.and with banners: “Strike for Higher Wages and Shorter Hours,” “Demonstrate for | | Unemployment Relief.” A big mass! meeting assembled at the southwest | | corer of the Square, and when a/ | couple of hundred food workers ap- peared marching. down Madison Avenue from the north, the whole | crowd fell in behind and formed a) | parade blocks long, which marched | Square. The parade was enthusiastic, singing, shouting for work or wages, holding up hundreds of banners with slogans demanding jobless relief, no/ evictions, etc. The parade blocked all side streets.as it-came along and | Stopped traffic. News on the other parades, of which there were four main ones and several smaller and details of the Union Square demonstration had not reached the Daily Worker at the time of going to press. Police Draw Guns. Going west on 16th Street from Rutgers Square at one point the cops drew their guns in an effort to break up the line of march. They did not succeed. The marchers turned off to a side street and ¢ontinued the parade to the Square. The Unemployed Councils of Brooklyn, Borough Hall, Williams- burg marched into the Square, after agitating throughout their sections of the city for support to the fight for unemployment relief. There was a splendid spirit among all the march- ers. Then came the Downtown Un- employed Council, with a large num- ber of unemployed workers in its ranks, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. From Haflem came thousands of Negro and white workers who con- centrated at 135th Street Lenox Avenue, They marched south along Lenox Axenue to 116th Street. Then east along 14th and Seventh Avenue, down to the Square. All along the line of march they called out the slogans against unemployment, egainst lynching, for the unity of the Negro and white workers in the fight against capitalism. At many places they were cheered by the workers along the streets. They were headed by trucks decked with banners bear- ing slogans. Among them were the Unemployed Council of the Bronx and Harlem, the Harlem Tenants League, branches of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and Sec- | Union Square. Toscanini Back With Arturo Toscanini, who has been absent on short vacation, returns this evening to conduct the Philhar- monic-Sympathy concert at Carnegie Hall. The program includes the fol- lowing: Overture to “Oberon,” Weber; Symphony in D minor, No. 4, Schu- mann and the Symphony in © minor, No. 3 by Saint-Saens, the program will be repeated on Friday afternoon and again at the students’ concert on Saturday night. At the Children’s concert on Sat~ urday morning at Carnegie Hall, Ernest Schelling will give a special request program. This is the last of the. series. will include the Dvorak Symphony, “From The New World,” the Weber Overture and Schumann's Symphony in D minor. the vorkers went to 150th Street and Morris Avenue to continue their work. There the stool-pigeon succeeded in organizing a gang to throw eggs. | The meeting was later adjourned and | the workers went to 149th Street.and | Bergen Avenue, in front of a Volun- teers of America soup kitchen and held another meeting. ‘This was too much for the cops and. they rode into the crowd with their horses and broke up the meeting. The lower Bronx was closely guarded | by police. This did not intimate the work- ceeded in carrying the message of struggle for relief to the workers and mobilized them for the demonstration at Union Square. Two hundred and fifty young work- ers assembled at 28th Street and Righth Avenue and marched toward After passing 26th Street two cops tried to interfere. The young workers resisted and a taxi driver tried to interfere he was also beaten back. While marching further down at 14th Street, there was already a squad of police on horseback and in cars, and on Fourteenth, 8 police re- fused to let the youth into Square. Young workers resisted. A clash, torn placards, etc., and the youth marched into the Square. Cops vici- ously tore up a huge poster showing the workers on top of the world, with a huge red flag, and saying “Interna- tional Fighting Day.” Young work- ers picked up torn pieces and refixed the sign. Many of the speakers received enthusiastic oveations. They called for a broadening of the struggle for unemployment relief; pointed out the significance of the world fight against hunger. The main question stressed by all the speakers was the fact that the struggle for unemployment relief and unemployment insurance must be organized on a broad mass basis, in the Unemployed Councils, trade unions, in all workers organizations, in the shops; that the fight must be continued and based on the solid ranks of the workers employed and unemployed. Without doubt, this was the best organized demonstration yet held in New York City. The spirit of the marching groups was inspiring. Despite the provocation of the police, the demonstration dispersed in an organized fashion. The workers held their ranks after the demonstration. At the end of the gathering, the police rushed in with riot wagons. They kept their sirens shrieking to stir up the workers and precipitate a fight. The workers kept order and dispersed without letting themselves be provoked. ~ present. One worker was arrested Rade Mass Singing Bookstand — Dancing. Philharmonic Tonite) On Sunday afternoon at| j the Metropolitan Opera House, Tos- | |canini will conduct a program which ers. The Unemployed Councils suc- | 3®Arbeiter Festival NEW YORK LABOR TEMPLE 243 EAST 84TH STREET FEBRUARY 28th PROGRAM Drawings by RYAN WALKER, Dally Worker Staft If 2 GIVE Tats WorKinlg Mure I 4 WARM Nice Baoy ENT FREE, i Cover es ya) ABLANKE ET; wea Don Yau ‘ARBEITER’ FEST Saturday, Feb. 28th at N. Y. Labor Temple The “New York Arbeiter Confer- ence” has arranged the annual affair of the “Arbeiter,’ German Commun- ist Weekly, for Saturday evening, 3 p. m,, February 28th, at the New York Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street, New York City. i On this evening the class conscious German speaking workers will’ voice | their protest against the actions of| |the Fish Committee to suppress the revolutionary working class papers by | revoking their second ¢lass mailing privilege. Workers, show your soli- darity and come to this affair. A good program has been arranged. The W.LR. Red Dancers, the Ger-| man Agitprop Group (Prolet Buehne), and the Arbeiter Turn & Sport Bund will take part in the program besides a few splendid piano solos given by Comrade Ellenbogen’and vocal solos by M. Namrel. Tickets in advance 35 cents., at thie door, 50 cents. Get’ your tickets'‘on the eighth floor of the Workers’ Cen- j ter, 35 B. 12th St. N.Y. OC. WORKERS SELL BLOOD TO EAT. “The number of persons offering to Sell their blood appears to be ‘in- creasing especially of late, on account | Of unemployment,” accordirig .to the “Journal of the Medical Associa- tion,” February 21, 1931. MUSIC NOTES The Soviet Philharmonic Society is | planning to increase their series of concerts, to include other cities be- sides Moscow and Leningrad. The “Sofil,” which is now in its eleventh year, will give no, less than forty chamber concerts each month in Leningrad and is planning a series of symphony concerts for children in Moscow. The Labor Temple School will be- gin a series of five concerts on Fri- day night, when the Compinsky Trio will appear. The cost of the five con- certs will be $1. +The Greman Grand Opeta Com- pany will open their New York en- gagement at Mecca Temple on March 16 with a performance of “Tristan and Isolde.” Robert Goldsand, Viennese pianist, will give his third recital at Carnezie Hall on Sunday afternoon, and ap- Pears as soloist at the Metropolitan | jt Opera House Sunday night concert on March 8, ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND -ELIEF! ‘ NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST #1DE—BRONX BEDACHT TO BE AT’ with Orchestra ‘Tickets 350; At Door 50c MY Wore ic {S PR 2 Decrole sa de S We He’ll Smash It! WATE PROPER T > WG MULE THe MULE BALL FRIDAY TO DEPICT STRUGGL Clever Costumes at John Reed Club NEW YORK—The John Reed Club, the*cultural organization of | writers and artists fighting militantly | with the workers on the cultural front end helping all struggles of the work- ers, in giving their first annual cos- tume ball this Friday evening at} ‘Feutonia Hall, 16th St..and Third | Ave., announces “that not only -will all’ writers,. artists, dancers and musicians sympathetic to working- | class activities be present at this cos- tume ball, but workers’ organiza- tions are buying tickets in blocks in | advance so they will be able to par- ticipate at cheaper rates at this cul- tural festival.” The entire workers’ press are preparing costumes appropriate for the evening. Costumes in line with present-day struggles of the working Class is “asked for bythe John “Reed Club, as many new ele- ments attending this affair will for the first ‘time receive their educa- tion in militant activities in this manner. The Press Committee of the John Reed Club urges all workers to pur- chase ticketS in advance, avoiding the i higher price“ at the door. Tickets can-be had at the Workers’ Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St., and the office of the New Masses, 112 E. 19th St. is in| readiness to come to this affair and | FIRED AFTER 25 YEARS (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—A man working for the | Wilson and Company stockyards after |working 25 years was laid off. He | Was receiving $7 a week. ‘NEEDLE TRADES BAZAAR MAR. 19 |Must Raise Funds For Relief NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union announces a Build the Union bazaar for Mareh | 19, 20, 21 and 22. The call of the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to the dressmakers, is to bring the strike to every shop in the trade. At the same time, the Union is call- ing upon all workers and workers or- ganizations, to support the strike or- ganizationally and financially. The Union. has arranged a big bazear for the strike fund. The bazaar will be held Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 18, 20, } 21 and 22, in Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue. Workers organ-j} fons are requested not to arrange | any entertainments for the days of | the bazaar. The Union calls upon all workers end workers organizations to collect articles, advertisements for the | Bazaar Journal, honor roll greetings, and ‘contributions to the Bazaar. Bring your contributions to the office of the Union, 131 West 28th Street. AMUSEMENTS “e Cheatre Guild Prodactions ““"—% Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD ®, 8284 Pves. 48 ‘Th, & Sat. 2:49 LAST TWO WEEKS Slizabeth the Queen Lynn Pontanne Alfred Lunt Morris Carnovsky, Joanna Roos and others ae 45th St. Martin Beck ‘West pwas tive 8 40. Mts. Th % Sat. v.4u AS YOU DESIRE ME By LUIGI PIRANDELLO JUDITH ANDERSON MAXINE ELLIOT’S Th 50 Matinees V with IVIC REPERTORY 1 St st» av nga 8:30 + Boe, $1, $1.50. EVA LE GA Today Mat. .. Tonight * Tom, Night Seats 4 wee! Town Hail, Tis. W, 43, Street A. BL WOODS Pregents F ARTHUR BYRON ” IVE STAR FINAL Wive Star Pinal’ is electric and Bilve CORT THEATRE, West ot 48th Bivee Evenings 8:50, Mats, Wed. and Sat, 2:30 Smash the meas laws of the Dosses! ibs ith :| [THE TRUTH GAME WAR! WAR IN TZRROR KE REALISM: man Side of the | War — By the Germans! “COMRAD OF 1918" AMERICAN PREMIERE in a rousing, rollicking riot of laughs Phoebe FOSTER’ pe Viola TREE ETHEL. BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street, West of Broad Evenings BAD, Mats, Wed, and Sate 2:30 EDGAR WALLACE’S PLAY ON THE SPOT with CRANE WILBUR ané ANNA*MAY WONO SoGan, WALLACH’S FORREST THE, Street, West of Brondway mvesines 8:30, Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2:30 nee Nee mesviieaaeanamanting 6th Ave, 1PPODROME ‘°, HPP SHOW IN NEW YORK acts; “ILLICIT” with Barbara Stanwyck RKO and James Bennie CONCERT AND DANCE By RYAN WALKER ROGET gy AN, SMASH THE SYSTEM, THAT Talces \f You Dons ment =V'LL GRow OP wity sony Henry GERMAN JOBLESS DOMINATE BERLIN Great Demonstrations in All Centers (Cable by Inprecorr) . BERLIN, Feb. 25.—Despite the pro- hibition of all demonstrations by the “socialist” chief of police Grzesink and the military mobilization of the whole police force, the unemployed demonstrations dominated the city throughout the day, under continuous collisions with the heavily armed po- lice. ‘The police occupied all labor ex- changes, where the unemployed as- semble, in the early morning. Police (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CONDITIONS OF RUSSIAN WORK- ERS IMPROVE. NEW YORK.—Even “Poison” Ivy Lee, press agent of John D. Rocke- feller, is forced to admit that Com- munism in Russia is improving the standards of living of the Russian workers. DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE | Reom 803 Phone: Algonqain 0183 Not connected with any other offies ae oo ALgonquin 4-7712 Office Houra: 9 A. M.-8 BM. Fri. and San. by Appointment Dr. J. 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