The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1931, Page 1

The Unemployed Councils Are the Fighting Organizations for Immediate Relief and Unem- ployment Insurance for the ) Unemployed Workers. Or- ganize Them Everywhere (Section of the Communist I 4 ‘¢ ~Communist > nterna orker Porty U.S.A.) tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII, No. 56 at New York. N. Entered as seccnd class matter at the Post Office <>21 Yo ander the act of March 3, 1979 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents JOBLESS | JERSEY LEGISLATURE REFUSES RELIEF TO WARNING! Socialists The Daily Worker Faces Suspension ! The Daily Worker faces suspension to- morrow. We are only able to appear to- day after extraordinary efforts and after jeopardizing the position of the Freiheit and the Elore. : This is due to the failure of agents and districts to pay their bills. Over $4),000 in debts are now outstanding. Bundles are not paid for. Money raised at Daily Worker affairs is not promptly sent in. Today must mark the beginning of a decisive change. All districts and agents must immediately make payments. Money must be wired TODAY! After today all bills must be paid promptly or bundles will be cut off. ‘Remember! Money by telegraph to- day, or no paper tomorrow! Wire funds now! MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Congress Ignores Jobless Y aes expenditures approved by the 71st Congress, just adjourned, ex- ceeded those of any previous Congress in the nation’s history. This Congress met at a time when over 10,000,000 workers were jobless and facing starvation; when hundreds of thousands of farmers were under- going acute suffering as a result of the agrarian crisis and last summer's drought. But, while the 71st Congress spent money lavishly, it did prac- tically nothing te relieve the suffering of these millions of toilers in town and country. For the “unemployed” (bankers’ money and “lame ducks”) Hoover's much advertised public works program was adopted. For this purpose $116,000,000 was appropriated. But even Hoover admitted a few days ago that only 150,000 men had been put to work, directly or indirectly, as a result of these appropriations. He expressed the hope that this number would be increased soon to 400,000 either directly, or on jobs providing materials for these projects. So taking even Hoover's most optimistic hopes (and in the past they have been “bunk”) only 400,000 can expect to find jobs on “public works.” The balance of the unemployed—at least 9,500,000—can continue to starve. The real beneficiaries, then, under these appropriations will be the money lenders in Wall Street and the grafting public officials. For the poor crisis-drought-stricken farmers nothing was done. A seed loan of $45,000,000 was appropriated; and also a so-called “rehabilita- tion” appropriation of $20,000,000 was made for the drought areas. But these funds are not available for food relief. Likewise they are not avail- able to a farmer who is unable to give security. And what poor farmer, now further impoverished by the drought, can give security? Opviously none! These loans, again, are only available for a few rich farmers. The poor farmers can continue to starve. This is the verdict of the ‘T1st Congress! Millions, yes! Even billions, were made available, though, for the military and naval forces. The war department, for current expenditures, got $447,000,000. The navy department got about $350,000,000 for the same purposes. In addition each of these departments received millions more in special appropriations for new naval and military equipment. For these purposes the 71st. Congress appropriated money without restraint. Such practices will be followed in the various state legislatures, and by the 72nd Congress which convenes next December, if the politicians have their way. They will continue to aid the rich in every way. They will ccntinue to completely ignore the suffering of the poor. Consideration to the workers’ and poor farmers’ demands will only be given when these capitalist politicians are forced to the wall. Imme- diate relief for the unemployed, unemployment insurance, and relief for the poor farmers can only be won by organization and determined action. For the workers, the strengthening of the Unemployed Councils and the Revolutionary Trade Unions of the T. U. U. L. is the immediate task. For the farmers, the building of township committees, and the strengthening and broadening of the Agricultural Workers’ Union must be undertaken. Push forward the organizational efforts; this is the chief thing at the moment. Carry through these organizational efforts in conjunction with the most widespread struggles for immediate relief. With -more solid organization: Demand immediate relief! ' Demand Unemployment Insurance! Forty Thousand | agente ‘THOUSAND!—that is now the daily circulation of the DAILY WORKER. This represents a steady, uninterrupted increase every week since November Ist when the circulation drive began. On November ist, the average daily circulation was 22,311, not including foreign and other miscellanious circulation. Last week, the average daily circulation, also excluding foreign circulation, exchanges, etc. reached 37,261. ‘This represents a net increase in paid circulation in the United States alone of 14,950 readers in 4-months—an increase of /67 per cent. The daily press run last week, which included special bundles, reached the record average of 42,100, The total average circulation is now 40,000! The DAILY WORKER is proud of this increase. But we are not satisfied. We set out to get 60,000 stdscriber's, and we are still far short of this goal, But the steady increase which has taken place convinces us that our 60,000 goal can be reached. A little extra work must be done. More drive must be put into the campaign. More RED BUILDERS’ CLUBS must be set up. The existing clubs must work harder. Every reader must hecome @ more energetic booster. Bundle orders must be increased. We on the staff must try to improve the paper. All of us—every reader, every agent, every staff member—enthused by the successes already. must now bend every effort to make the Fecwerd, : gained, ILY bigger and batier paper, | ABRAMOWITZ AND DAN NOW SAY THEY LIE | Knew and Directed All Wrecking Activity in the USSR MOSCOW, March.—Sher continued | his testimony at the trial of the Menshevik counter-revolutionists to- day and told of three plenary meet- ings of the Union Bureau of the Mensheviks held in 1928, 1929 and 1930. At the first plenum in the | spring of 1928, Groman reported on questions of the Five-Year Plan and the tactics of the social democrats. | His conclusion, agreed to by Dan, |was that the Five-Year Plan | strengthens the Soviet power, there- fore, it was necessary to apply dis- | organizing, that is, wrecking work, | to prevent its realization. ‘The plenum also considered the at- | titude of other counter-revolutionary organizations. Sher was the report- er. He decided that the nearest par- ty to the Mensheviks was the Kon- dratyev’s Kulak Party and decided to establish close connections with it, The plenum of Autumn, 1929, dis- | cussed the collectivization movement, and the prospects of peasant dis- turbances. It was decided to es~ | tablish a joint commission of the Kulak Party, supporting peasant dis- | turbatces from a military viewpoint. | The question of intervention and | agreement with the Industrial Party (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) TSNR PLEDGES AID TO YOKINEN Will Mobilize Negro and White Masses NEW YORK.—Recognizing that August Yokinen, the defendant in last Sunday's mass trial, was arrested and held for deportation by immi- gration authorities precisely because he admitted his error in harboring chauvinistic tendencies against the Negro workers and pledged himself to correct this error by participating in the front ranks of the struggle for Negro rights, the executive bureau of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights sent the following telegram to Yokinen shortly before his release on $500 bond from Ellis Island: “In the name of 12,000,000 perse- cuted Negroes in the United States, we congratulate you on your open and courageous admission of your mistakes and your firm, working- class pledge to carry on a militant, unceasing struggle against all mani- festations of race prejudice. “In the name of the oppressed Ne- gro toilers suffering under the yoke of the anti-foreign-born, Jim Crow government of the United States which is trying to deport you to a country of certain death for the “crime” of advocating race equality, we pledge to mobilize millions of Negro and white workers in your defense. “We further pledge to fight the vicious propaganda of Negro mis- leaders like Oscar DePriest, DuBois and Moton, who join the white rul- ing class in attacking the foreign- born and Negro workers. “Long live the solidarity of Negro and white, native and foreign-born workers! “Down with Negro reformists, the tools of the anti-working-class, Jim Crow, government! “Smash all deportations and race discrimination laws! “Fight for full equality for Ne- groes and for the right of self-deter- mination of Negroes in the Black Belt! “Join the League of Struggle for Negro Rights! “Support. the ‘Liberator!’ “Executive Buro, League of Struggle for Negro Rights.” BUSINESS FAILURES BREAK ALL RECORDS NEW YORK.—Business failures continue to break records. In Feb- Tuary, 2,563 failures was the largest number ever recorded for that month. Liabilities of $59,607,612 have been ex- ceeded during February only twice in| centers ‘Wate liana and Ramsin Wreckers Planned to Smash |New Orleans Workers Get Pay Cuts and Starvation Garbage from the U. S. Navy! That is what the government contribution is for the relief of the Negro unem- ployed in New Orleans. The Daily Worker publishes along with this story photographs of garbage cans brought off the battle fleets off New Orleans, showing Negro unemployed workers eating the vile mess. Congress passes bills amounting to $500,000,000 for keeping up the navy. Additional bills covering amounts up to $100,000,000 were also passed to build war ships. Not one cent for the unemployed. But the navy officials do their part. They scrape up the garbage from the food even the sail- | ors refuse to eat and insult the un-| employed by offering it to them. To keep from starving the jobless are forced to eat garbage—chancing death | by eating spoiled food to escape death | by starvation. | At the time these pictures were taken, showing the plight of the Negro! | unemployed in New Orleans, a strike involving. between seven and eight} thousand Negro longshoremen was | going on. That strike is still on. | |'Their wages were cut from 80 cents | to 65 cents an hour. The bosses want | to starve the employed as well as the unemployed workers. The men forced the International |Longshoremen’s Association a tool of the bosses, to c-l the strike. But the union misleade’s did everything they could to stifle the strike at the start. They didn’t allow mass pick- | eting. They kept the men away from the ships. They allowed scabs to | work, etc. But the Marine Workers Industrial Union is doing all it can to call on the men to make it a real |strike—calling for mass picketing, | Violation of the Federal injunction. and ditching the I.L.A. fakers, BiG WOMEN'S DAY PROGRAM IN CITY Meetings In All Sec- tions NEW YORK.—A special appeal has been made by the Communist Party to the unemployed working women, ‘as well as the dress strikers to join the International Women’s Day dem- | onstrations on March 8th in the var- | lous sections of the city. These meet- |ings will organize the working class | in international solidarity with all! workers in the struggle against the capitalist system which attempts to throw the burden of the entire crisis on the shoulders of the workers. The working women of the United States, suffering unemployment, mis- ery, and privation, will gather at these demonstrations to organize their ranks in the struggle for uneraploy- ment insurance. Unemployed work- ing women, unemployed men workers are called upon to attend these dem- | onstrations and bring their children along with them. Prominent speakers (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Millions for Navy; But Navy Feeds Jobless Negroes Garbage <4 cn oe upper left shows the nt vessels; sailor after he carried trash off gover: i below it shows the ‘0 workers reaching for it, and the one at the right clearly exposes all the jobless can expect from the boss gov- ernment, strike in the “GGG” shop are being betrayed by the Amalgamate: Clothing Workers Union official & The rank and file committee in the | W. P. Goldman shops has issued a leaflet. to all the strikers calling on them to defeat the sell-out efforts of their union officials. The union officials and their henchmen, in a roundabout way, are -spreading propaganda to put over the wage cut for the bosses. They say that in order to permit the busses to compete with out of town shops, wages must be cnt. In this wav they are preparing the workers to go back to the shops without even a strike vote. Tho leatlet issued by the rank and file committee states: “The Hillman-Blumberg clique which forced so many wage cuts on us, is now again betraying our in- terests. They are making all prepa- rations to drive us back into the shop without really getting the work back from Baltimore, and to force another wage cut on us, uncer the pretense os competing with out of town. “The Hillman-Blumberg clique, agents of the bosses, keep us s! in the dark as to the real sit ati cf the strike, the strixers are of the | opi‘on that Wm. P. Goldman has a stop in Baltimore producing ti 13 goif suits and top coats. The + ers want to know the 1zme of the shop» where the worz is mado Who keeps the name of the sh from the put’ “The Amalgamated knows tne name of the shop. Why is Mr. Bhiw bere afraid to nam strikers? “Why did Mr. Blumberg keep quiet for the last three wechs, althous) the workers demanded action? Why whe shop to the ‘Amalgamated Officials Try To Sell Out Striking Tailors: Five hundred tailors who went out | | on Pp they afraid to hold daily meet- | ings of the strikers? | “Why does Mr. Blumberg spread | his poisonous propaganda that a/| CONTINUED ON PA TWo) INJUNCTION FOR | NEEDLE STRIKERS, Union Calls Series of) Meets to Push Strike | A sweeping injunction has been is- sued against the striking dressmak- ers and the Needle Trades Workers’ | Industrial Union by Supreme Court | Judge Faber of the Supreme Court of Kings County.» The courts, the | besses and the company union fak- | ers in the I. L. G. W. U. have lined | | up in an effort to smash the strike. | |The injunction was obtained by | | San Brown of the Style of Brown | | Co., 2103 Tiskin Ave., Bro The | injunction prohibits the stri from | | entering the shop, from picketing, | ete. | Tonight there will be a meeting: jof the General Strike Committee in | the Union Hall at 131 W. 28th St., where reports of all committees will be given and a report will be made on the state of the strike. A general meeting of the members | of the Organization Committee will | be held Friday night at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl, at 7 p. m. Friday morning at 11 a. m. there will] be a very important meeting of all unemployed workers in the dress | trade in Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave. Lewis Hyman will ad- dress the unemployed dress workers. Women in the mining district of Pottsville, Pa., with babies in their arms marched several miles in an un- employment demonstration with the miners, defying county and state po- lice with rifles and tear gas bombs. In this spirit women and men work- ers are preparing to celebrate In- ternational Women’s Day, March 8th, in every important industrial center of the United States. : District 2, New York, will hold 14 mass meetings, arranged in each sec-| tion of the district, with good speak- ers and a program of entertainment. at each meeting. Revolutionary plays, “red” dances, and concerts will be features of the programs. Meetings have been arranged in all} throughout the New Eng- aren, “they middle Meets in M o ‘Atlantic, |g Int’l Woman’s Day Hailed by Mass any Industrial Centers Women, With Babes ial Arms, March to Potts- ville for Insurance southern, middle western and west- ern states. In the Pittsburgh dis- trict meetings are planned in all the important coal and steel towns. Interesting programs and _promi-| nent speakers are scheduled at all of these meets. Some of the sche- duled meetings are as follows: Finnish CHICAL + Hi, Sundas, March, 3 oy. om. at West End Women’s Club, 37 Ashtand Blvd. spenker, MILWAUKEB, Wis, at Spm 1207 -N,. aa are Anna Damon as| 2 Mow at 3 p.m. 104 _KANSAS CITY, St tO Paul Cline, | Si th St. Speaker: Sue Stocker. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okina. Workers Center, 600 8, Walker St. Spenker: J. Vhidden, KVILLE. Ti ont March Sth, 7 s 51s Du. Saturday, Lithuanian Soviets FLOUTS DEMANDS OF THE HUNGER MARCHERS; HUGE TRENTON DEMONSTRATION Masses Force Legislature to Hear Committee at Midnight, After First Three Sent in Are Arrested; Wait 5 Hours for Report |Rousing Reception Given Marchers in Factory Towns on Way; Resist All Attacks on Meets Hunger Marchers Return to Tell Jobless They Represented; “Push Forward Organization, Compel Them to Feed the Starving!” TRENTON, N. J., March 4.—Two thousand local unem- | ployed and employed workers were gathered to add their forces to the 250 hunger marchers who arrived here Monday after- noon, and with the banners of the unemployed councils displayed | and placards demanding uemployment relief, paraded the town, eae) *The demands are for a state law for relief at the rate of “ILLEGAL TO AID $15 a week and $3 more for UNEMPLOYED” |propristion by the lereaters | of enough money to pay relief for the next two months, no evictions, free coal, gas and light, | The marchers spoke at an open aig jmeeting from “trucks, and local job- NEW YORK. — There is a com- | !€88 leaders spoke too. So enthusias- N. Y. Jobless Must Spread Relief Fight ty Joseph , Ay Pe m. SCHENECTADY, N, Y., Saturday, ireh at ithe | ae Ta at 8 Rms st the Lt ROCK Hall, 975 plete break-down of all-the charity | agencies in the miserable relief that | they have been handing out for a few unemployed families. The city is now refusing to contribute any of its millions for unemployed relief. | The drastic situation facing the un- | employed in New York, where more | than a million men and women and | their families face starvation, was brought out recently in a meeting of} | the Board of Estimate. The charities are at the end of their funds. The Prosser Commit- | tee which has already gone through } $8,000,000 is faced with an empty treasury. At a conference of the Welfare Council last week, the fak- ers who admit their funds do not begin to permit thom to feed the unemployed, appeated to the city to} hand them $10,000,000 for the char- ity organizations. Now the city, through Corporation Counsel Arthur J. W. Hilly, has ad- vised Mayor Walker that in his opinion, there “is no legal way in which the city can appropriate $10,- 000,000 to provide ‘useful work’ for the unemployed heads of families.” Of course, there are all sorts of le- | gal ways to graft hundreds of mil- lions. There are “legal ways” to buy judgeships at tens of thousands | of dollars. But there is no “legal | way” to provide relief for the unem- | ployed. All the capitalist charity organi- | zations admit that there is now an | alarming situation facing the 1,000,- 000 New York unemployed. T h e workers must increase their fight | for state as well as city and federal | There are millions in the relief. city, state and federal treasuries. The unemployed are faced with star- vation. The charity organizations just talk about it, and the Board of Estimate, concerned with grafting as much as they can, keep stalling along. ASSEMBLY THANKS STATE POLICE ALBANY, N. Y., Mar. 4. — The | assemblymen who yesterday howled | Iowa, 3 p.m. Work- | for the police to club down the rep- | resenttives of the jobless who had hunger marched from all cities of the state to demand the right to jive, formally voted to thank the club wielders for cracking the skulls of the unemployed men, women and children, The motion was introduced by As- semblyman Fred L. Porter, republi- can, of Essex, and unanimously adopted. It “commends the state police for suppression of the demon- stration in the lower house.” Re- publican and Tammany assembly- men alike voted for it, just as they Joined in yelling approval every time tic was crowd that many climbed trees to see and hear, and faces were seen at all windows and on the roofs, March to Legislature. From the open air meeting the marchers went thru the proletarian neighborhood and rallied the workers under their slogans. They were cheered and both marchers and work- ers sang in chorus. From the work= ers’ section they marched to the leg- islature where a meeting was hold fram 2 p. m. to 2.30 p. m. on the steps The workers pledged to come at 8 Pp. m. when the marchers were to en- ter the legislature. Then the march- ers went to an Arcade where a meet- ing was held at which a delegation of 15 was elected to represent every town and present the demands of the job- less for unemployment - insurance, Then lunch was served the marchers. From there the marchers we, to the Workers Center, 20 Second Street and had lunch; at 7:30 p. m. they left for the state legislature. Twenty of the unemployed went into the balcony, and the delegation waited outside. Those in the balcony became impa= tient at the delay in getting in the delegation and went down to find out what was the matter. They learned |that only thrce were allowed to enter and those three were arrested in the office of the custodian. The march- ers demanded their delegation and finally the state was forced to grant a conference to the representatives of the jobless. They were Winter, Pace and Rollins. The legislature declared that they could do no more than they had already done. When asked why the workers were refused admittance to ‘their own” legislature they an- swered that it is impossible legally to do this. The workers remained out- side from 8 p. m. to 1 p. m. Continu- ally shouting for relief: “Grafters, we want bread!” “We demand Relief,” ete. About 80 police stood by without (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “Daily” Will Print Mooney’s Exposure of AFL Treachery The American Federation of La- bor chiefs have betrayed Tom Mooney. For fourteen years they have systematically sabotaged all efforts to get him released, and have united with the employers, the open shop chambers of com- merce of California, and the capi- talist parties to keep him in prigori for life. Hear Tom Mooney tell the inside story of this conspiracy against two innocent men! Moo- ney himself has written a fifty- page book entitled “Labor Leaders Betray Tom Mooney.” Beginning, Monday, the Daily Worker will publish it serialiy, Get the Daily Worker every day, and read the | a heavy club landed on some unem- facts! :