The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 2

PRISONS FILLING UP WITH JOBLESS, NEW YORK.—‘“The prisons are filling up with jobless,” said Harry Raymond, last of the delegation from the huge March 6 demonstration on unemployment to be released after their railroading through the New York court of special sessions. “If Fish wants to investigate forced labor, let him take a look at Wel- fare Island, Harts Island or Rikers Island,” said Raymond. ners work without pay id do n work as road ding rming, manufacture beds, cloth, shoes and brooms, all in competition with “free” American wage labor. are forced to work at the “paup field cemetary, where weekly hundreds of the unemployed being buried, in boxes plainly d with “starvation” as the cause The prison inmates andle the boxes, dig graves, and disinter old corpses, which is no job. The Baby Trench is ver the trenc legs in the: Brutal Guards is kind of work is done under rds who got their jobs 1 political favors for ly drunkards, mouths. | me of them dangerous psychopaths some of them sexual degenerates, bootleg businesses some of in their off nd a whom seem to be o} he mental age of children, The guards traffic in food. The eal coffee bought at pub- r the prisoners does not each t r hem unless they pay in ad- aition, thi The Holy Stools There is a kind of trade union stool called the Holy , run by “Father” Zema, Catholic priest who is also a pro- of history at Fordham Uniy- It sends delegates around to dinary prisoners into jolie services, where preaches continual the Soviet Union, sermons Wmsburgh Workers School Started BROOKLYN, N. Y. — A worker's sses in Fundamentals r Engiish and other classes has been started by Section 6 Communist Party at 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. The class on damentals are“be- ing conducted every Wednesday eve- ning at 8 p. m, at 61 Graham Ave. under the leadership of Pulman from the District Agit Prop department. All workers from shops, trade union and fraternal organization are called upon to join the class at once by making application at 61 Graham Ave. any night of the week. What’s On— FRIDAY— Working Class Women he Workers Center, 35 ©, 12th St., at 8.30 p. m. to hear a r port on’ the Conference. Interestin topie will be discussed. Me rvicemen end special meet-| t 79 East 10th St. taken up. | Are ng at 7. Im por Hinsdale Workers Youh Club | Meet at § p. m. at 313 Hinsd. St., | Brooklyn to hear a lecture on i= | sodes in the American Labor Moye- ment.” | Rrownsville 1.W.0, Youth Club All young workers and students are asked to attend a meeting to take place at 1844 Pitkin Ave. at| 8 p.m } st Festival an Culture will take Hall, Many ster m. 119 E, 11th groups will 8 749 | to zed) volutic Union,” in| Metal Workers Industria! League | Meets at & p. m. at 16 W. 21st S at $ p.m. Report on the steel situas tion by the National Secretary, | Jerome Workers Club Will hold a lecure at_8 p. m, rt 1645 Grand Concourse (Entrance on | Mt. Ed | SATURDAY n Ave.) Powrtown W 11. Clinten the Palestine for the b 8 p. ‘Iub nd floor. eatre) will nefit of the orkers ( At St. (8 above hold an m Come to the John Reed | party at the John Reed Club-| 2 14th St. at 9 promptly. Admissior ‘The Last Lecture On the Bolshevik Revolution wili| be delivered at the Workers School | 12th St. second | sons of the Bol- | . | Local 38 | t the Needle 19.91, All left and sympathizers are urged articles for this booth to Lonn Kaltun, 142 W, 112th St, room Sa, fifth floor. wingers ily Worker Dance And crop suey party will be given by Brighton Unit C, P, at & p.m, at 140 Neptune Ave. “Adm, 5c. Mem- bers of Unemployed Councils admit- ted free. Dance and Concert by the F The pris-| under club | of | | interfered with. . R. Chorus, | i Workers Club SAYS H. RAYMOND nd has told them to kneel and pray gainst Bolshevism. It is well known that some way, those who belong to Zema’s organiza- tion get favors and good clothing. Cans of olive oil smuggled in for the Holy Name gang were found to have dope concealed in some of them. Just before leaving prison, Ray- mond saw a guard give a terrible beating to a prisoner who resisted an unwarranted assault on him. The prisoner got 15 blows over the head with a blackjack, and had 55 stitches taken in his head, This was at Harts Island. Rules—and Rules Raymond was denied the right to have a sweater sent to him through the International Labor Defense. “It’s against the rules.” But ex-Borough President Connolly, $13,000,000 graft- er, had a whole trunk full of clothes under his beti, including sweaters, and does no work. MARSHALIS TRY NIGHT EVICTION Fear Jobless Council; Furniture Put Back The Unemployed Councils have been™so active in putting back the iture of evicted workers, espe- on the East Side, that the Marshalls have begun to fear They had tried cops to stop them. the Councils from doing this work but they found these organized un- employed workers ready to fight if §S> now the mar-| shalls are trying a new stunt They try evicting families at night, think- ing that at this hour the council could not be notified Last Friday night, the marshalls evicted Mrs. Ringelheim, an old wom- an of sixty, from her home at 56 Sheriff St., at nine o'clock. She lives all alone, her husband is dead and she makes a living selling pretzels. She is very religious and at the time the marshall came up she was ying over he. candles. The may- Is blew out her cendles and set} out on the pet, wiped their her hends and left satisfied that the un- employed wouldnt know about until it was teo kte. But a comrade whe was passing through the. neiganovhood saw tlis qd woman sitting cuis'c¢e among her irniture and ca:led the Workers {n- ernationaj, Relief jor assistance. A tre time he called ihe Workers La- beratory Theatre was rehearsing fo. t r play at the first Festival of Proletarian Cul‘ure. When the new 2 brought to them they stopne.t their rehearsal and wert out in a body to put back the irniture, shov, ing definitely that tn-v were not just theatre but vw. 2s fighting in the class str, oth on and off it v stopped in at the Ex vicemen’s League, When the chair- aan :f their meeting asked for :ol- unteers to help aut the furnitir back, t'ey all ros? to a man to mteri. It was decided that only twelve workers e needed. At Sheriff Street, meanwhile a crowd of neighbors gathered around Mrs. Ringleheim. They were all in- dignant at the city officials that can heartlessly throw an old woman out on the street at night and leave her there to freeze. The neighbors were enthused about the idea of putting her furniture back. “I don’t care if I am arrested,” one of them said, “I'll be damned if I'll stand by and let them throw workers on the street.” So all the neighbors, with the mem- bers of the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre and the Ex-Servicemen’s League picked up the woman's furni- ture, broke open the door and put the furniture back again, Before breaking up some of the men asked for the address of the Unemployed, Council. Two of them in the crowd had eviction notices. “We want to join your organization,” they said. | We want to fight with you to stop his stuff.” If they try to put Mrs. Ringleheim out again,” some of the | neighbors said, “we're going to put | her back ourselves.” \Proletarian Culture Festival, | March 13 NEW YORK.—The first Festival of Proletarian Culture will be held Fri- | day evening, March 13, at Webster | Hall, 119 E. 11th St. This is the opening date of the | campaign for an extensive drive along the whole cultural front. Groups participating are the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, Junior and Senior Dancers, Ukrainian Children Dancers, Symphony Orchestra, W. I. Workers’ Laboratory Theatre. THE ADVENTUR ES O DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931 F BILL WORKER “VIDA OBRERA” | DANCE MARCH 14 In Need of Funds to Come Out The latest in ticket sellin devised by the management o: Obrera,” Spanish organ of the Communist Party, for their next af- fair on Saturday, March 14th. Realiz- ing that at the present period work- ers have not enough money to buy their tickets in advance and take a chance on a large expense, they have prepared reduction tickets which are on sale at the price of ten cents and which entitle the bearer to a 35 cent reduction from the regular price at the door. In this way workers who really intend to attend can save 25 cents by buying a reduction ticket in advance. This affair which is going to be held at the Harlem Casino, 116th St., and Lenox Ave. must be made a suc- cess in every way, especially finan- cially, as “Vida Obrera” is not com- ing out this week for lack of funds. In addition to helping “Vida Cbrera” out of its present difficultie attending will have the oppor- nity to dance to the tunes of one of the best large orchestras of Nev York, the “Havana Royal Orchestra. Admission at the door will be 75 cents. With reduction ticket 40 cents. Reduction tickets can be secured a e Workers Book Shop, 50 East 13¢: the National Office of the ILD. 99 Broadway and the Spanish Work- ers Center. the JS. GUNBOATS AID : CHINESE BOSSES, show Down Chinese Workers, Peasants Nanking troops fail to stop the advance of the Red Army. So Brit- | ish, American and Japanese gun- beats, welcomed by the Nanking gov. ernntent, sweep along the Yangtze killing men, women and children without asking questions. Foreign imperialism is in open warfare against the revolutionary workers and peasants in China. Nanking, the tool of Wall Street, is for this | war. It gives full powers to the im- | perialist gunboats. | Reporting the action of the imper- ialist gunboats on the Yangtze river, | Hallet Abend, New York Times! correspondent in Hankow, writes (March 12) that “Nanking is not ob- | | Jecting to the activities of the for- eign navies on the Yangtze River while the civilian authorities (the money lenders and landowners) of | Yangtze towns are extremely cordial to the foreign gunboats.” | These gunboats sweep along the/| river, and when they see peasants | who have taken land or have set up 2 Soviet they open fire. “The British | and Japanese are absolutely ruthless in firing upon Communists,” writes | Abend, “the Japanese particularly, firing rifles, machine guns and big guns whenever a Red flag or suspici- ous activities are evident.” Abend tries to minimize the activities of the American gunboats, but the five that patrol the Yangtze do just as much indiscriminate firing as the Japanese and British. Nevertheless, the Red Army is advancing; the Soviet ter- ritory is growing. The imperialist watchdogs and their Chinese lackeys cannot stop the growing revolution- ary rstuggles of the Chinese masses. for st 11 Clinton THIS SATURDAY EVENING—— ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE DAILY WORKER arranged by the DOWN TOWN WORKERS CLUB —PROGRAM— JAZZ BAND! Wex, Cartoonist of the Daily Worker Staff Ray Life, Soprano will sing Soviet songs! Ray Life, Soprano, will sing Soviet songs—Other numbers! the reet, N. Y. C. | are giving a dance Saturday night to} |land, a decade back before sound ;of the many new ideas in the film Metal Workers Hold Affair Saturday to ‘MOORE SPEAKS Aid Steel Campaign) [N YONKERS SUN. NEW YORK.—The Metal Workers os Industrial League is carrying on an|7 q : sctive organizational campaign: 1t|LSNR Meet to Fight is the only organization leading the} Denortations steel workers of the Mahoning Val-| : ‘ ley to a struggle against unpreced- | YONKERS, March ented wage cuts, and has forced the | meet; bosses to lay the wage cut, at least | League of Struggle for Negro Rights temporarily. So stated Meddin, na-! to protest the deportation of August tional organizer of the Metal Work-| yokinen, a Finnish worker. ers Industrial League, in New York} This worker was tried at a mass to attend a national board meteing | ¢yjq) in New York by the Communist of the Trade Union Unity League. Party; he was found guilty of race The New York locals of the MWIL | prejudice against Negroes and ex- . 3 pelled from the Communist Party, raise money to further this cam-| Yokinen admitted his paign. The dance will be at 16 W. | and pledged 21st St., admission 35 cents, all work- | ers urged to cttend, 10.—A mass ing has been called by the his solidarity with the Negroes b: fighting against race discrimination and jim-crowism. For such a state. deportation to Finland, where he will be facing death by the fascist government. The League of Struggle for Negro EAGLE PENCIL CO. Workers to E Hold Shop Meets Despite Cops NEW YORK. — Police, on orders pressed Negro nation and calls upon | all workers, both white and Negro, | foreign born and native, to show | their solidarity with persecuted work- ers w the bosses of the Eagle Pencil Co. | py eae eileen Cee tory at 14th Street and Avenue C..| the workers Center, 252 Warburton ere a strike against wage cuts was aye, Yonkers, N. ¥., on Sunday. progress recently, broke up a shop | March 31, at 2.30 p. m. and protest ate meeting yesterday. The speaker, | against the deportation of fcreign who was at first given a permit tO born workers and against the dis- eak, was threatened by a cop. The | orimi i cop said “The captain of the precinct | Sane ee aoe Negro aid you can't speak in front of this| eanizer of the International Toes ’ “How much money did the | Defense and atto1 fe ory give you for this”? asked the| ; Pee aetie lek aD acc Beas in the trial of Yokinen will be the aker. main speaker and Milton Weich, or- On hearing this the cop broke the ; eting. Despite this terror the} ganizer of the Yonkers Unemployed rkers will listen to another meet- | emit ae base vd bingo egal ing in front of the factory next| PYomment speakers will be present. Thursday at noon. gy Sep ae eal Sere y Yokinen from deportation to fascist Finland! Our mass power will pre- vent this outrage! Come to the mass meeting at 252 Warburton Ave., on Sunday, March 5, at 2.30 p, m. “WAY DOWN EA “Way Down East,” which was shown on Broadway some time ago, has been made up-to-date with soun and synchronized musical accom- paniment and is scheduled for the screen of the Cameo Theatre for a limited engagement. D. W. Griffith made this melo- dramatic film of life in New Eng- Conductorless Orch. to Play for W.LR. Sunday Members of the famous Conductor- less Symphony Orchestra will appear Sunday, March 15th at 7:30 Pp. m. at the auditorium of the Bronx Co-oper- ative Colony, 2700 Bronx Park East. The program is under the auspices of the Workers’ International Relief and will consist of some very inter- esting pieces. Admission is only 35c, and talkies were dreamed of. His story still stands up today in spite industry. The cast is headed by Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Lowell Sherman. The last parade— rgwm — “The Last Parade” will come to the Hippodrome beginning this Saturday. Jack Holt, Constance Cummings and Tom Moore are starred in this; drama. Frank Richardson, after his screen | debut, returns to the stage and heads | the current big eight-act show at the Hippodrome. Harry Delmar, Broad- way producer appears in his 1931 a a Ue SED at RU NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX Revue with Charles Kemper. Other features are “Cookie” Bowers, Bilt|| C™"guw Talent and Flo Merit, Borothy and Curly Burns & her yellow jackets and Herb Larimer | yor 'tvos, with Marion Hudson. FRANKLIN Prospects tei ORGANIZE TO END Blanche Sweet In Person STARVATION; DEMAND |I poe eye, * tELIEF! Fisher & Hurst —Dance and Chop Suey Party— will be given by the BRIGHTON UNIT NUMBER 6, COMMUNIST PARTY SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 8 OCLOCK SHARP AT 140 NEPTUNE AVENUE Admission 35 Cents Proceeds for the Daily Worker “VIDA OBRERA” S. 0. 8. BALL SATURDAY, MARCH 14 AT THE NEW HARLEM CASINO 116th STREET and LENOX AVE. WITH THE FAMOUS “HAVANA ROYAL ORCHESTRA” ——TICKETS IN ADVANCE AT—z Spanish Workers Club 26 West 115th Street Vida Obrera -2336 Third Avenue Workers Book Shop . mistake | to do everything to prove | |ment he has been arrested by the | ME AT immigration authorities and held for | Rights fights for rights of the op-| —Sock ’em One!— as By RYAN WALKER CY OAS ae Wein ABRANON CARAN ne Fe aon ‘WORKERS HIT §. P. ATTACK ON NEGRO Street Meets in Harlem, Tonight | NEW YORK.—To acquaint the workers of Harlem with the signi- ficance of the fight against deporta- | tions and lynchings and to mobilize them for Sunday’s mass meeting at 230 at the Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights is hold- | ing several street meetings in Harlem | tonight and Saturday night at the following corners: 127th St. and Fifth Ave., 104th St. nd Lenox Ave., 133rd St. and Lenox Ave., 114th St. and Fifth Ave. These meetings will start at 7 o'clock. Other meetings will be held at noon in front of the IRT shop at | 99th St. | Last night Negro and white work- | ers in the Harlem section held a huge | | demonstration in front of the Finnish socialist hall in protest against the | vicious attacks in the Finnish and| other socialist newspapers against the | Negro workers. An effort was made | to break up the demonstration, but | the workers defense corps offered successful resistance. | AFFAIR FOR I. L. D. | The Prospect Workers Club will | jsive a Costume Ball Saturday eve- | ning, March 14th, at Grand Plaza, | 821 E. 160th St., near Prospect Ave. Station, Bronx. This affair insures a good time to all and is for the| jbenefit of the International Labor | Defense. Many Brave Storm for D’ Albert Recital NEW YORK.—In spite of Sunday’s | inclement weather a fairly large and very appreciative audience enjoyed the recital which marked the first | appearance of Marcus D’Albert, pian- ist, under the management of the Hall Johnson Studios. | By his able rendition of several} difficult selections from Bach, Chopin | and Schumann, Mr. D’Albert made | an excellent impression on his au- | ditors. His technique was all that could be desired. As assisting artist, Miss Mayme} Richardson, in her rich soprano ren- | dition of Negro spirituals, was su- perb, SECTION 5 WILL HOLD CONVENTION To Make Plans, Meth-| ods to Continue Work 135 delegates, elected by more than 870 members of the Communist Party of Section 5, New York, will convene this Sunday at 11 a. m. at 569 Pros- pect Ave., the Bronx, The delegates will hear the reports | of the section and district. commit- | tees and lay down new methods and | plans for work. A new section com- mittee will be elected. The convention will be opened on Saturday night by a dance at the section headquarters 659 Prospect Avenue. ——= SEE AND HEAR First Full Account of the Trial FIRST SOVIET SOUND Po} (==FIRST SOVIET SOUND NEWSREEL 2ND WEEK™= Party in Moscow EXPLANATORY TITLES IN ENGLISH Testimonies of defendants, court procedure, speech of the Prosecutor, strations in the streets of Moscow and before the Court building TH STREET PLAYHOUSE 52 WEST 8TH ST., Between Ficth and Sixth Aves.—Spring 5095 of Industrial WSREAL IN RUSSIAN demon- aT "Theatre Guild Presents =", LAST TWO WEEKS Green Grow the Lilacs } W. 62nd. Eves, 8:60 Mts, Th. & Sat, 2:40 GUILD REP} lath St., 6th Ay, VIC ERTORY Bvenings 8:30 Soc, $1, $1.50. Mats, Th. & Sat. 2:30 | EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director | Ponight . aoe .“CAMILI Tom. : R & PAD Tom. Night AMILLE” | Seats 4 woeks adv, at Bor Office and Town Hall, 113 W. 43 Street & BH. WOODS Presents F, ARTHUR BYRON » IVE STAR FINAL Wve Star Final’ ts electric and alive iN —SU: ‘ORT THEATRE, West of 48th 5 wenings 8:50, Mats, Wed, and Sat. ) ree | 2:80! D. W. GRIFFITH'S classic melodrama “Way Down East” RIC ESS cLL SHERMAN 42ND STREET AND BROADWAY E 6th Ave. Hie F g & 434 St BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK RKO, Helen Twelvetrees ATS Bill Boyd in including “THE PAINTED Phil Cook DESERT” Smash the anti-labor laws of the bosses! Friday Jr. and Sr. Red Dancers Dancers DANCING D ‘Tre. Currurac Derartnent or W.I.R. Wess7er Hatt —THE FOLLOWING GROUPS WILL PARTICIPATE— Freiheit Mandolin Branch of Newark, N. J. Workers Laboratory ADMISSION 50 CENTS v, First Festiva of Prove arian Cunture = given By Evening March 13,1931 At HS; | ce Admssion 50+ A. Kranis, Conductor -Nigob, Conductor +. Edith Segal . Nadia Chilkovsky +++-Paul Keller, Conductor Theatre DANCING $1750 $12.50 Au Our Suits and Overcoats REDUCED PARK CLOTHING CO. 93 Avenue A, Cor. Sixth St. from $22.50 $15.00 DUNN TO SPEAK AT FORUM SUN. To Expose | Boss Spy System in U.S. “The Labor Spy System” will be the topic of a lecture to be given by Robert Dunn, secretary of the Labor Research Association, at the Work- ers Forum of the Workers School this Sunday Night. Dunn is the author of the pamph- let “The Labor Spy” dealing with the various spy systems in the U. S. A. used against the workers. His talk will be on the growth of the spy sys- tem, individual spies, the government spy system and the new spy plans of the infamous “Fish Committee”. The methods of the workers to com- bat these systems will be explained. All workers should attend this lec- ture which will be held at the Work- ers School Auditorium, 35 East 12th St., at 8 p. m. and learn how to com- bat “labor spies.” WOODWIND ENSEMBLE AND SOLOIST of the Conductorless Orchestra will appear SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT 7:30 P. 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