The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 2

Page Two PREJUDICE AND DEPORTATION a Meetings Wed. Night and Sun. Afternoon to Rally Workers in Fight Against. Persecu- tion of Negroes, Foreign Born NEW its ast the special persecutions of Negro and foreign born workers, the Communist Party has called @ mass meeting Wednesday nt at Finnish Workers Hall, 15 West 126th Street, One of the main speakers at this meetin gwill be August Yokinen who, lowing his repudiation of former white chauvinistic tendencies and his fight for unconditional Negroes, was arrested by governmental agents deportation. Yokinen ut on bond. In his speech esday night, Yokinen will con- tinue to carry out his pledge to fight white chauvinism and for . including the right of on for the millions of Belt who are tin virtual slavery under a of YORK.—In campaign rorist for vicious system cropping, e Other speakers at Wednesday night’s meeting will include Richard B. Moore, national Negro director of the International Labor Defense. Yokinen will also speak at another | meeting on Sunday afternoon which | will be held at Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue, under the auspices of the League of Struggle For Negro Rights. Other speakers at this meeting will be Herbert Newton, national secretary of the LSNR, Hugo Gellert of the Conference for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born, and J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense. | | March 28 has been set aside as Solidarity Day on which mass dem- onstrations will be held throughout | the country under the joint auspice: of the League of Struggle for Negro | Rights, the international Labor De- peonage, share-|fense and the Conference for the Pro- | tection of Foreign Born. SOVIET FRIENDS CHALLENGE WASHINGTON LABOR FAKERS Reply to Editorial in Washington State Labor News Ridiculing May Day Delegation to the Workers’ Fatherland DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR K, TUESDAY, MARCH 10 RELIGION FEATHERS, Horse | Pee VERNMENT ov, i poe on EROTT FoR | $ \ BO Derg Gomme MEN’ G ARAGE 7 Poy, 1 BE gall ap EDUCATION LAR MCTHING Hoover Hooey TLL GWE You AY ANSWER. BEFORE You ¥ ‘> Start Class in ,oman’s Work Wed. | At Workers’ School | Seeing the increasing importance of the women workers in the revo- lutionary struggles, and the sore need of trained leaders for the work among women, the Workers School of New York has organized a class in Wom- en's Work which will start this Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p. m. The | class will be conducted regularly for twelve weeks by Comrade ‘Fannie Jacobs. Workers should take this course in Replying to an editorial in the organizations affiliated with the Seat-| order to acquire special training in Washington State Labor News ridicul-|tle Central Labor Council and the this important ing the May Day delegation to Soviet Russia now being organized by the Friends of the Soviet Union, the F. S. U. has sent a letter to David Le- vine, editor of the Labor News, chal- lenging the Central Labor Council of | Seattle, the Washington State Fed- eration of Labor and the Washington State Council of Carpenters to elect one delegate of their own each to the May Day delegation. The Labor News is the official organ of these A. F. of L. bodies. The Labor News editorial was writ- ten following the election by a re- cent city-wide conference called by the Seattle local of the Friends of the Soviet Union of Nick Hughes, 28 | years old, a member of Boilermakers’ Union 104 and its delegate to the Metal Trades Council, as the repre- | sentative of the Seattle workers on the May Day delegation. The edi- torial refers to Hughes as “another | traveling salesman on behalf of So- | viet Russia” and declares that “upon his arrival in Russia he will be shown everything that the Soviet govern- ment wants him to see, listen to the kind of speeches the government would like him to hear, and receive the explanations that are intended for him and for foreign consumption. Not understanding Russian, he will be unable to go on little excursions | their own Russian interpreter. | guests of the Soviet trade unions ‘Washington State Council of Carpen- ters for approval; and that a repre- sentative of the F. S. U. be given the floor at these meetings. Ballam sug- gests that one of these delegates be a Negro and also gives the three or- ganizations the privilege of sending He requests that his letter be published in the Washington State Labor News. Should the three organizations ac- tually elect delegates, they would be | Subject to the same conditions as the rest of the delegation which will in- clude American workers, workinc farmers and agricultural workers jand professionals. This involves raising $225 to pay for the fare of each delegate from New York to Moscow and return. Inside the So- viet Union the delegation will be the will travel more than visiting the leading industrial and agricultural centers, including the lumber camps which have been s> diligently lied about in the capitalist press of the world. e delegates will sail April 15 and will be given a mass send-off at the boat. The confer2nce at which Hughe was elected was unusually success- ful. Fifty-five delegates from var- ious Seattle workers’ organizations were present, including twelve local: 15,000 miles and fact-finding trips of his own and | of the American Federation of Labor. besides, he will be carefully taken care of by the Soviets.” In his letter challenging the three Washington betrayal outfits to send flelegates of their own, John J. Bal- lam, national secretary of the F. S. U., makes the following conditions: that the delegates of the Washing- ton State Federation of Labor and of the Washington State Council of Carpenters be rank and file mem- bers of the organizations; that their hominations be submitted to the local The Seattle local of the Friends of the Soviet Union, which is one of the most active in the country, is now engaged in raising its quota in the campaign being conducted by the F. S. U. to send $25,000 worth of farm machinery to Strana Sovietov (Land of the Soviets), a great collective |farm near Stalingrad. This cam- | paign is now in full swing and collec- tion lists may be procured from the F. S. U. National Office, 30 E. 11th |St., Room 221, New York City. Gorman of T. U. U. L. Starts Lecture Course In Jobless Council NEW YORK. — The jobless are Organizing classes at the headqua ters of the Downtown Council, 27 East Fourth St. Yesterday Joe Gorman of the Trade Union Unity Council, gave the first of a series of four lectures on labor organization. His talk yes- terday was on the role of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and the so- cial fascists. There was a discussion. Next Wednesday Gorman will speak at 2 p. m. at the same place, on the role of the Trade Union Unity League. There will be a mass meeting ad- dressed by speakers of the Down- town Unemployed Council before the fake employment agency at Leonard and Church streets, at 10:30 tomor- row as usual, “J, Renault,” the renegade who stole money from collection boxes, used to gather funds for the Albany hunger march, has been heard of in Baltimore. Open Air Meets in Harlem This Week| NEW YORK.—Section 4 of the Communist Party will hold several open air meetings in Harlem during the first part of this week to mobilize the workers for the mass meeting at Finnish Workers Hall this Wednes- day evening against deportations and race prejudice, The first of these open air meet- ings will be held from 11 to 1 o'clock today at 130th Street and Lenox Avenue. Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a number of meetings between 11 and 1 o'clock at the following corners: Lenox and 140th St.; Lenox and 132nd St.; Fifth Ave. and 127th St. Fifth Ave, and 114th. At six o'clock another meeting will be held in front of the I. R. T. shop “* 99th Street, from which the work- wk "70 TO AID THE | |Organizations to Con- | tribute Things NEW YORK.—The International Workers’ Order has announced that is is sending special requests to all its branches, urging them to co-op- erate to the utmost of their ability in _making the coming bazaar of the) Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union a huge success, The bazaar, to take place in Star Casino on Thursday, Friday, Satur- day and Sunday, March 19 to 22, is being held by the union to raise funds for the thousands of dress- makers who are now on strike in New York and Philadelphia against starvation wages. The food clerks’ section of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union has | and grocery departments at the bazaar, The Women’s Councils announce that they are collecting the material | for the three booths at the bazaar that they will supervise directly. All the 17 Jewish Workers’ Clubs |in the city are actively co-operating in the work of making the bazaar a success, The N. T. W. I. U. urges all work- ers and workers’ organizations to col- *lect merchandize for the bazaar, to sell greetings and advertisements for the Bazaar Journal and to sell tick- ets for the affair. Admission to the bazaar has been fixed at 35 cents on Thursday, Friday and Sunday and 50 cents on Saturday. | Fight lynching. Fight deporta- | tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for Protection of foreign born. \ ers will march to Finnish Workers Hall for the mags meeting. t | NEEDLE BAZAAR undertaken to take care of the food | MB be titty cents special phase of work. Communist Party and Young Com- munist League units and other mass organizations like the Women Coun- cils, etc., must send students to regis- ter for the class. Registration for the class will close by next week. | “OPS ATTACK 500 | JOBLESS SEAMEN “arched to Present Demands on Institute NEW YORK.— king viciously °2 unemployed scamen who were hing on to the Seamen's In- ute to present their demands, po- njured. The injured worker, Cass, | @ member of the Marine Workers | “rdustrial Union. The demen:tration was an out- come of the brrtal treatment ac- 4 sick end starving seamen at | fhe Institute. Ten seamen died | nm one week and the author- ities tried to hide it by saying it was due to wocd alcohol, whereas coctors themselves say it was ~arvation and sickni When Valter Letgeroth, a jobless seamen end ex-servicemen applied for medical aid he was refused. He was serious'y ill and was spitting blocd. He managed to borrow money for a flop and was found dead at 3 a.m. in the morning. A.demonstration was held by the} Unemployed Council of the Marine Workers Industrial Union Saturday lest and it was decided,to hold an-| other one Monday and to put de-| ncs to the institute. After a good meeting near union| hesc-uerters the seamen delegated a | | commi.tee to present their demands. | The police blocked their entrance | end the committee returned to make | their report. The seamen voted to | march down in a body and force | | their demands on the Institute, It was then that police reserves met the seamen’s demands with clubs and injured Cass. The demands that the demon- stration took up were: medical at- tention and hospital service for all | job’ess end sick seamen at the in- stitute, free beds and food, no dis- crimination against foreing born and Negro marine workers, ship- ping from the Unemployed Coun- cil and not the Institute. Cultural Groups to Give First Festival of Workers’ Culture The Workers International Relief | Cultural Groups will give their First Festival of Proletarian Culture, Fri- day evening, March 13, 1931, at Web- ster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, N.Y.C., gathering together in one evening for performance, the Red Dancers, Jun- ior and Senior, the Freiheit Mando- ‘lin Orchestra, the Ukrainian Chil- dren’s Dancers, the Symphony Or- chestra, the W.I.R. Chorus, and the Workers Laboratory Theatre. These groups have appeared se- parately from time to time, partici- pating in all affairs of working-class organizations. This is their first collective effort, for the benefit of their further development, to bring forth for observation and evaluation, the first manifestations of a prole- tarian culture in this country, The delegation of 200 Hunger Marchers from New York City, are the invited guests at the Festival of Proletarian Culture — and there rank and filers will relate their ex- the Stair Capitol. The el will be a gala affair | of mu “oging, the dance, and the theatre, celebrating this definite turn of the workers toward a proletarian | ‘House Beautiful,” opens at the Ap- pericness in the historic march onto | FIGHT WORKERS’ |[Kidnap, Beat Into Insensibility ‘Two Leaders of Dallas J obless DEPORTATION lan Big Rally in New York City NEW YORK.—The beginning of a mass protest campaign against depor- tation of militant foreign born work- ers as outlined by the New York dist- rict office of the International Labor Defense will have its inception next Wednesday evening at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place where militant protests against the terror- ism of the boss class in deporting Louis Bebritz, editor of Uj Elore, August Yokinen, Finnish worker, Ed- ward Wing, Chinese militant of Cal- ifornia and the three left wing lead- ers of the Lawrence strike who are| still held by the Department of Labor | in a Boston jail will be made. The New York district of the Inter- national Labor Defense according to Rose Baron its secretary is rallying all wide awake workers and their sympathizers to the cause of these militants who are being deported be- cause of their working class activities and is fighting the Department of La- bor in carrying,out the recommenda- sions of the Fish Committee, The meeting at Irving Plaza will be addressed by M. J. Olgin, editor of esterday slugged several sea-| the Freiheit, Louis J. Engdahl, gen-| 7/27 sending one to the hospital bad- | eral secretary of the I.L.D., Robert W.} Dunn of the Labor Research, Hugo Gellert represonting the John Reed Club and Richard B. Moore national organizer of the International Labor Defense. Barrie’s “Admirable Crichton” At New ‘Amsterdam Theatre George C. Tyler will bring his re- ival of James M. Barrie's play, “The Admirable Crichton,” to the New \msterdam Theatre this evening. Walter Hampden and Fay Bainter head the large cast. “Simple Simon,” with Ed Wynn as the chief comedian, is a second open- ing scheduled for this evening, at the Majestic Theatre. This is a re- turn engagement of the musical show by Guy Bolton. Ed. Wynn, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. An English mystery play by Roger | Wheeler, “The Gray Shadow,” will be offered by Edward Sargent Brown | at the New Yorker Theatre on Tuesday. Claude Cooper is one of | the principal players, “Napi,” a comedy from the Ger- man of Julius Berstl, will be pre- sented by L. L. Weber at the Long- | acre Theatre Wednesday night. Brian Marlow made the adaptation. Ernest Truex will play the role of Napoleon. Channing Pollock’s newest play, ollo Theatre on Thursday night pre- ented by Crosby Gaige. Mary Phil- lips and Helen Flint head the cast. | ee) } . | VAUDEVILLE THEATRES | por FRANKLIN—“Dracula” with Bela Lugosi, on the screen. On the stage Pat Rooney and the Junior Rooney are the headline attractions. Eddie White, Netta Packer, and Alexander Brothers and Evelyn, complete the show. Wednesday to Friday: “The Lady | Refuses” is the screen feature, Betty Compson is cast in the leading role. The stage: Doc Baker, the Forum | Boys, Fissher and Hurst, Wylie and | Young. culture in this country. Admission X BULLETIN NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense has sent the follow- ing telegram to Governor Ross Ster- ling of Texas and to Mayor Waddy Tate of Dallas: “Speaking for hun- dreds of thousands of workers and farmers, we denounce the kidnap- ping and beating of Louis Hurst URRIERS MASS | MEETING TONIGHT |To Answer Kaufman- and Charles Coter, organizers and workers, at Dallas. You are held directly responsible for the safety of these workers, still missing. We pledge our organization wiii lead widest possible mass protest against this infamy.” Tee ae | DALLAS, Tex., March 9.—Savagely beaten with double ropes into in- sensibility, Lewis Hurst and Charles | Coder, Communist organizers, were | left on the ground for dead by an| armed gang which had kidnapped them last Friday with the conni- vance of the authorities as they left the city Jay. Their present where- | abouts is “unknown and theré are | Stetzky Clique to a mass meeting on Tuesday, March 10, at 5.30 p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl, the Rank and File United Front Committee of the Furriers have issued the follow- ing appeal: “The Rank and File United Front Committee calls upon you to come to the meeting today, right after | work... At this meeting we will dis- cuss the conditions of the furriers| and also the fight that broke out among the Kaufman-Stetzky and Sorkin cliques. “The Rank and File United Front Committee challenges the Kaufme>~ Stetzkys and Sorkins to come to the meeting and hear what the furriers | have to say about their fake program and deceiving plans. We call upon these furriers who support one or the"Other group in the joint council to come to the meeting and show the difference between the Kaufmans, Stetakys and Sorkins. We, rank and file members say there is no dif- ference at, all. “Both cliques in the joint council serve the bosses. Each one of them is seeking to get into power and to | secure fat jobs for themselves. We, | rank and filers want to take the sit- | uation in our own hands; we want | to build a union of and for the fur- | riers. | “Employed and unemployed furriers | Coder and William Grove were held | s” | come to the meeting right |—in masses. after work NEW YORK.—Calling all furriers | Tumors that the two comrades are | | dead. Hurst and Coder were arrested | during the unemployment demon- stration here on February 25 and thrown into jail without a hearing. Cn Friday when they were released the armed gang was conveniently on hand at the exact hour of their release. The gang -picked them up together with their attorney, George | Clifton Edwards. The latter was released, however, within city limits | without injury. The boss authorities here make no effort to conceal their part in this vicious attack, but blame the speeches of Hurst and Coder advoc- ~ting unconditional equality for the Negro workers for incitin tghe at- tacks. ‘The -apitalist papers openly | | slcat over the attack. | | Twenty workers in all were ar-| rested on February 25 when police | attacked the unemployment demon- | stration here. were Negro workers, including a Ne- gro woman. These were later re-| | leased at City Hall after the boss | | police had made a vain effort to in- | | timidate them into promising to re- | | frain from future working-class ac- | tivities. Seven Mexican workers were | | also arrested, two of whom were re- | leased, the other five given $100 fines | and sentences suspended. The re-| | maining three, Lewis Hurst, Charles | | on vagrancy charges. Of these fully ten) ;, MANY ATTEND LW. DAY MEETS N. Y. and Phila. Meets Are Well Filled Despite the heavy rain thousands of working men and women of New York answered the call of the Com- munist Party to celebrate Interna- tional Women’s Day and to protest the miserable conditions of the work- ing women at the present time. In New York and vicinity there were over thirteen meetings which several thousand of working women attended. Many halls such as the Finnish Hall, Ambassador Hall, Man- hattan Lyceum, etc., were well filled. In Passaic and Paterson, New Jersey, there were well attended meetings. Many Meet in Phila. Over four hundred met in Phila- delphia and listened to speeches by well known revolutionary leaders. They heard a string instrument quartet and revolutionary songs sung by a Russian chorus. At these meetings resolutions were adopted demonstrating solidarity with and sending International Women’s Day greetings to the workers and working women all over the world. What’s On— WEDNESDAY— Labor Unity Agents Important meeting takes place at 3 p,m, at 16 W. 21st Attention There will be meeting of the Bronx Tenants League at 8 p. m, at 2061 Bryant Ave., Bronx. All sym- pathizers and members are urged to come. * Workers’ Meal ustrial League Mi 6 at 8 p. m 16 W, 2ist St. Subject for discussion—‘Unemploy- ment in the Medical Industry.” THURSDAY Pa ers in the TULL Ma m ng takes place at 8 p.m, at 14100 Boston Ra. Mass Meeting he sixtieth anniver- held at. 1373 43r p.m, Admssion free, NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES FAST SIDE—BRONX Today to Tues. Billy Maine&Co, Pepito Elmer El Cleve Joe Young &Co. George McKay Prospect ist, Today to Tues. Pat Rooney & Pat Rooney,3rd Eddie White Netta Packer and Co. Alexander Bros, and Eve Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Informatjon Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City The Revolutionary Play “REVOLT” and Dance will be given by the Russian Communist Paper “NOVY MIR” SAT., MARCH 14 At 8:15 P. M. at the MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 EAST FOUTH STREET, N. Y. C. SEE AND HEAR First Full Account of the Trial EXPLANATORY TV PULAR_PRICES—CON’ Party FIRST SOVIET SOUND N Testimonies of defendants, court proced, peech of strations in the streets of Moscow and beforo the Court building TH STREET PLAYHOUSE 52 WEST 8TH ST., Between Pro} ‘==FIRST SOVIET SOUND NEWSREEL 2ND WEEK== of Industrial in Moscow WSREAL IN RUSSIAN S Ht Prosecutor, demon- ith and Sixth Aves.—Spring 5095 S$_i0 A, M. TO MIDNIGHT ===" Theatre Guild Presents" LAST TWO WEEKS Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD W. 62nd. Behe 8:60 ‘Mts. T 40 IVIC REPERTORY eth Ste 6th Av. enings 8:30 0c, $1. $1.50. EV. Mats. Th. & Sa’ 130 ‘A LE GALLIENNE, Directo Tonight Camille Tome te! 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Brooklyn Jobless Conference Saturday; Send Credentials in! | NEW YORK.—Saturday all work- organizations, unions, sports clubs, language groups, fraternal, de- |fense, etc. are to send two delegates leach to the South Brooklyn Unem- ployment Conference. The confer- ence will be at 764 Fortieth St. in | the Finnish Center. The delegates will decide on plans | for future struggle for immediate re- | lief of the jobless. It is expected that | about 40 delegates will come, | ers? “Party Organizer,” March Number, Is Now Off the Press The March issue of the Party Or- | ganizer must be placed in the hands of the Party membership at once. Much of the contents of this issue | will enable the Districts to concre- | tize the numerous decisions that | were made at the regional confer- ences held recently, | Districé Org Secretaries will be called to strict responsibility for not making these copies available to the | membership. Send your order with | CASH at the rate of five cents per | ccpy to the Workers Library Pub- | lishers, POB 148, Station D, New | York City. Housewives Support Striking Milk Drivers NEW YORK.—In spite of the most vicious attacks by the McKay Milk | Company bosses and the treacherous | policies of the A. F. of L. strike leaders in paring down the. demand¢ of the striking milk wagon drives, of the McKay Milk Company, tt strikers are still militantly hol out against the attempts of the bos- ses to split their ranks and to scare them away from the picket-line by hiring gangsters to beat them up. The strike is daily winning the support. of hundreds of housewives and workers in the Brooklyn dis- tricts served by the milk company. Many: housewives have stopped their orders for milk, but are complaining that the scab drivers insist on leav- ing milk as if no order had been given to stop it. 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