The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1931, Page 2

iwe DAILY | WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931 By CYRIL BRIGGS. NEW YORK.—That “a condition exists in Harlem among the Negroes of the community which is nothing less than a great human tragedy,” and under which “women and chil- dren are on the verge of starvation,” with mass evictions constituting “a gedy equal, if not greater than this” as working class families are thrown on the streets to freeze, and that “the havoc that is being wrought among the children in Harlem is ap- palling,” are some of the admissions made by the racketeer preacher- business-men Harlem Co-operating Committee on Relief and Unemploy- ment. These admissions were not intended for publication, The Negro bour- geosie and their press in Harlem, the Amsterdam News, New York Age, etc., have done their utmost to hide these facts from the workers. The admis- sions are contained in a document sent to the American Fund with an an appropriation of $165,- Negro landlords and f the latter them- and the other faxers the Committee to rehabilitate on their waning influence among the Negro workers in order to curb the rising _ revolutionary sentiment of these workers who are hardest hit by_the boss policy of throwing ten million workers on the streets to starve and refusing them adequate relief and unemployment insurance. “There are no words to describe the PATERSON AFL. AIDS BOSS BAKERS Faking 1-Man Strike at Organized Shop PATERSON, March 16.—The A. F. of lL. bakers’ “union” of Paterson, which has never done anything to organize the unorganized bakers and does not even organize the less skilled workers of their so-called organized shops, has now become active in help- ing the bosses fight the Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union. There is a bakery in Patersori under the name: New York Bakery, at 48 Paterson St, which has an-agreement with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union and the workers there are en- joying union conditions, Among the sevenworkgrs in that shop there was one by the name of Grabowsky, who was Working 5 days a week, making $50, but couldn’t get along with only 5 days, so he actually sold himself to the Paterson “famous” Purity Asso- ciation, a right wing cooperative bak- ery with silk manufacturers as share- holders and to the fakers of the A. F. of L. bakers Local 165, which is controlled by the same association. These people have promised him a job in the Purity on the basis that he picket the New York Bakery. The fact that he was the only one out. of seven workers to leave the job explains very clearly that this is not a real strike of the workers but a fake strike sponsored by the Purity Association and their hirelings, the fakers of the A. F. of L, We hereby brand them as betrayers of the working class and call upon the Paterson workers to rally around the Food Workers’ Industrial Union in its campaign to organize the un- organized food workers for s real fight for better living conditions. The best answer to these people will -be the buildin gof strong indus- trial. unions which shall be able to lead the workers in their struggle for better living conditions and to com- bat. the attacks of the bosses and their agents, the American Federa- tion of Labor. Ship Owners Head Boasts of War Plans NEW YORK.—“The American mer- chant marine forms an important element in the national defense,” de- clared H. R. Baker, secretary of the American Steamship Owners Associa- tion over the radio Sunday night. The address was broadcast by the West- inghouse Company. “The relative importance of the merchant shipping as a naval aux- iliaty is increasing,” stated Baker, “with the appearance of the naval agreements.” The naval agreements do not apply to merchant ships, and each new U. S. liner is built with reinforcements so that guns can be mountéd on her, turning her into a fast scout cruiser. WEDNESDAY— Yorkers Ex-Servicemen’s League Open-air meet, # p.m. at S6th St, between Lexington and Third Aves. East N.Y. Altrea toy Branch ILD Membership meet at 524 Vermont &t.,. Brooklyn. THURSDAY LL.D. Branch 43 en air meet at 86th St, between ington and Third Aves. Fu su. Branch ‘statin Lecture in Russian at & p.m. at hhattan beng 66 E, Fourth St, cation in t ¢ UBER B tor fae thirteen’ eure Nes oa Lex NEGRO WORKERS egro Reformists Admit Starvation, | Misery of Harlem Negro Workers: Racketeer Co-operating Committee on Relief and Unemployment Make Admissions in Statement Not Meant for Public suffering—actual physical suffering) as well as the humiliation by the wholesale evictions of families,” ad- mits the committee in this statement to the American Fund which it did} not intend should reach the eyes of the workers of Harlem. Many mem-| bers of the committee are landlords] and real estate agents who them- selves are carrying out evictions against their unemployed tenants. “All personal belongings and furni- ture either go to storage, probably never to be redeemed, or are left more times than is believable to be carried away or desiroyed.” The Committee further declares it has appéals “from 189 families at the present time on the threshold of evictions.” It admits there is little! possibility it will do anything for | these tenants. 587 famiijes have ap- pealed to the committee for coal, on) an average of 11 new families a ent: “Negroes are still being laid off,” i admits. “The whole structure of family life in Harlem is being ser- iously attacked because thousands of | families Lave nu security beyond 24) hours.” One of the things tor which it r<- quests an appropriation from the! American Fund is to provide “made work” for 500 heads of families for 2 months, Completely copying the tactics of the white bourgeoisie, the Committee says: ‘The item of $65,000 ‘NEEDLE TRADES has been added to the original budget because of the known value of work} in preserving the morale of the/| family.” On the committee are such fakers| and exploiters of the Negro masses| as Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, rector | of St. Philips Church, which owns a) block of the worst-kept houses in| Harlem; Fred Moore, reactionary al-| derman; Braddicks, assistant vice president of the Rockefeller Dunbar National Bank; Cecilia C. Saunders, | executive secretary of the Jim Crow Y¥. W. C. Ay on 137th St.; Henry C. Parker, and other rent-gouging real estate agents, and Roy B. Lancaster, | who sold out the Pullman Porters to| the Democratic Party for a mess of pottage. INDECENT HASTE. T0 VETO PENSION Indiana Governor In Rush to Starve Aged INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 16.— Pronouncing a philosophy that it is | better to allow worn-out aged resi- dents to starve than raise taxes a fraction, Gov. Harry Leslie has ve- toed even the weak old age pension bill. The Senate sustained the veto 28 to 19. The pension bill, as passed by both Senate and House after bitter battles, provided payment of $25.00 a month to dependent persons of 70 or over, the state and counties to share the cost. In his zeal to kill the pension, Leslie broke an all time custom and read his veto message in person be- fore the Senate. The governor also failed to wait for the attorney gen- eral’s opinion on the legality of the bill after he had requested it. In- stead he rushed to the attorney gen- eral’s office, snatched the bill from a desk and hurried to the Senate. Senator James J. Hadjr, Gary, co- author of the bill, attempted to an- swer the governor but fellow repub- licans shut him off. Meanwhile, in the House, Representative Fred 8S. Galloway of Indianapolis submitted a resolution demanding that the gov- ernor be asked to appear there for questioning. He too was overruled, Las Vegas Contractor Crushes Hopes of Many Who Try to Get Jobs SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 16. —Felix Kahn, the. treasurer of the concern which has won the bid for construction of the new dam at Las Vegas, Nevada, declared here last week that “under no circumstances will the company hire any men in San Francisco,” and that “men should not rush here to get jobs.” At last reports, thousands were camping at Las Vegas around the dam sites, hoping for a job, and freez- ing meanwhile. “Our offices have been crowded with persons seeking work. They have come here from all parts of the coun- try and we fear some of them will be- come public charges. We have no work for anybody in San Francisco, that is definite and final,” says Kahn, DETROIT PHONE CUTS WORK WEEK DETROIT, Mich., March 15.—From Jan. 1, 1930 to Jan. 1, 1931 the Bell Telephone Co. in Detroit reports a loss of 12,399 telephones. Attempts to get figures showing loss to date met with the response that these “fig- ures are not available to the public.” Beginning March 1, all employes with less than 10 years employment |of linen showers and donated ar- | tive duty for all four days of the | Thursday to be assigned for work. | It is the duty of every worker to at- will be compelled to work one day less @ Inet week until further notice, \ natasha ennai eh at Sts tan A PRE ERTU THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER Gimme. GIN KER AND SPEAK GASIES- BuT Save our BAZAAR MAR. 1 |Funds Needed for Or- ganization According to reports received in the office of the Needle Trades Work- | ers Industrial Union, it will be pos- sible at the bazaar to sell clothing and other merchandise at very low | | prices. This is evident from reports ticles. The bazaar opens in Star Casino on Thursday evening, March 19 and will be continued on Friday, Satur- day, Sunday, March 20, 21, 22. Ad- mission is only 35c. for Thursday, Friday and Sunday and 50c. on Sat- urday, and the combination is $1, good for all four days. Organizations are making final preparations for the Bazaar. -'The workers’ clubs are calling a-confer- ence to organize their committees for the bazaar. The Women's Councils will assist in the arrangements for the cabaret in the bazaar restaurant. Thursday night. They are also as- | sisting in the decorations’ of the as | zaar hall and restaurant. ‘The Needle Trades Union issued a call to all members and bazaar committees cf organizations for ac- bazaar. All of them must report on tend this bazaar. All of them must} report Thursday to be assigned for| work. It is the duty of every worker to attend this bazaar and help the union raise funds for organization work. CALIF. JOBLESS HUNGER MARCH Jobless Meet Tomor- row In Philadelphia HAYWARDS, Calif. March 16>— Starving workers of this small city of about 12,000 population, mostly Portuguese and other Spanish speak- ing people, such as Filipinos, Mex- icans, Porto Ricans, etc., also. Amer- icans, find it impossible to get work at their chief industry or anything else, such as common labor fruit picking and packing and general agri- cultural work, characteristic of this section of the state of California. Hundreds of these workers have already served notice on the local authorities that they will not starve but will fight for immediate relief and unemployed insurance. Last week 150 of these class conscious militant workers marched into the City Hall of Hayward and demanded imme- diate relief, receiving only the usual bunk of sympathy and promises. The local press published an arti- cle on March 6 to the effect that these hungry unorganized workers had been refused a permit to stage a hunger march. The workers de- clared their intention of marching, permit or no permit. The reporter was one of the group who went to the line of action, and discovered a situation, similar to that which exists too generally all over the country and the entire district here, namely, thousands of workers ready to be organized, the situation being so ripe, that even without lead- ership, without guidance and direc- tives they were ready to march, Our group got on the job at once and secured man ycontacts and good in- formation, laying the basis for or- ganizing the Unemployed Councils at once. We sold for the first time in that section 40 Daily Workers, distributed many leaflets and pluggers, which were grabbed like hot cakes. They want to join the Agricultural Work- ers’ Industrial Umon and fight in an organized manner. o 8 6 Cry FROM LL Come Back AAD —Getting After Capitalism — TOU ARE larcomPe Tene Bort ‘You never. ashe P ANICKEL, NID Jo MUCH WrEqRity LOOK ‘Em auc IN Tae EYE Detain | ILD Branch to Give Dance Sat. March 2. The Sacco and Van Vanzetti Branch of | the LL.D. is going to help raise funds | | tor the Unemployed Councils b; ‘eal eta BULLETIN. ing a dance and entertainment on Saturday evening, March 28 at 569 Prospect Ave. Every class conscious worker should do his bit and at the same time is rssured a good time. CIVIL LIBERTIES PRAISES POLICE But the “New Regime” Is Just A Mistake (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 16—- The “new regime” in the Los Angeles Police bomb squad did not last long. Shortly after February 25, Clinton J. ‘Taft, director in Southern California of the American Civil Liberties Union sent .a letter, published in the local press, and reading as follows: “The executive committee of the American Civil Liberties Union South- ern: California branch, at its meeting this afternoon took cognizance of the fact ‘thafthere was no violence ex- hibited by the police Wednesday, Feb- ruary 25, in arresting Communists at their so-called demonstration at Seve enth and Broadway. “We feel particularly gratified over the showing that the police made on that occasion and hope it signinfles a new regime on the part of the police in handling such affairs, “We as an organization have never objected to the police department making arrests when they felt that any law or city ordinarite was being violated. “The thing that we steadfastly ob- jected to has been the unwonted use of violence on the part of members of your department in making such arrests.” ‘The whole secret behind this “new regime” idea that the Civil Liberties got is that Hynes, chief of the police “Red Squad” had a squabble with the chief of police and turned in his 17 cent badge. Another cop was put in Hynes’s place. But in a few days the notorious Hynes in spite of his wife beating and other habits, was back on the “Red Squad” and hunting “Communist rioters” at Seventh and Broadway. The clubbing, hounding of unem- ployed, smashing of meetings, break- ing into private houses and smashing everything up, was hardly given a pause by either Hynes or the “New Regime.” War Preparations in Honolulu Are Rushed HONOLULU, March 10.—The entire army air force in the Hawaiian Islands are busily engaged today in demonstrating to the workers of Ha- wali just how the capitalists propose to solve the unemployment crisis by a new war. Asa preliminary to three days “war games” the eighteeenth op- Posite wing “was testing its ability to establish advance posts on Molokai Island using only airplane transpor- tation. “WAY DOWN EAST” AT THE CAMEO THEATRE “Way Down East,” a néw edition of the famous New England story by D. W. Griffith taken from the stage play of that title, is now being shown at the Cameo Theatre for a special engagement with sound and effects introduced for the first time. Rich- ard Barthelmess, Lillian Gish and Lowell Sherman are seen in the lead- ing parts. is “Ten Cents A Dance” is the cur- rent scteen attraction at the 58th St., 8ist St. and 86th Str. Theatres. Barbara Stanwyck has the leading role. From Wednesday to Friday these theatres will present Helen Twelvetrees and William Boyd in “The Painted Desert.” Irene Bordoni and J. Harold Mur- Jobless To Meet. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 16.—- The Unemployed Councils of Phila- (OONTINURD ON PAGE THREE) ray are at the Palace Theatre this week. On the same bill are: Blanche Sweet, Babe Egan and her Redheads, Jack Osterman and Jack MeLailen and Sara’) PMMA Be eas HAs: For. THe Furure 4 PRof- Jota WEY ‘Marine Workers’ Organizers Held Incommunicado in New Orleans | | NEW ORLEANS, La., March 16--The three Marine Worker Industrial | Union leaders arrested here Friday are held incommunicado by federal LU. has an attorney on the job. national organiser of the M. W. I. U.; Joe Mitchel, field organizer. ° By HARRY RAYMOND (Served 10 months for leading the jobless in New York City.) From New Orleans come reports that the A. F. of L. bureaucracy is doing its utmost to sell out by the way of a compromise the longshore- men’s strike which developed there February 21. The International Longshoremen’s Association of the A. F. of L. accord- ing to a report in the New Orleans Item, is willing to compromise and settle the river front strike at a wage scale much lower than the union rate of 85 cents an hour, and possibly at the present scale of 65 cents an hour. ‘This is a classical example of how the A. F, of L. leaders, agents of the shipowners and bosses, work hand in glove with the bosses to defeat all struggles of the working class to bet- ter their conditions. ‘The longshoremen’s strike for an increase in wages developed February 21 and was forced on the A. Foof L. PATIENT DIES OF POISONED FOOD 483 Others fil at Fair- mont Hospital (By a Wotker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Calif, March 16.—One worker inmate of the Fairmont Hos- pital is dead, 43 others are critically ill, a6 @ result of ptomaine poisoning arising out of the rotten food dished out to the patients in this institution. Joseph Copp, 69, is the worker who paid with his life for the greed of the politicians in control of this in- stitution which is the county hospital where the poor of Oakland and Ala- meda county are taken in. Dr. Adam, house physician, admits that the men were served canned peas. While California huge supply of fresh peas and vegetables, the charity patients are fed on canned food and other poor menus. Not so the officials staff of AL authorities. No charges argainst them have been announced. The M. W.. Those arrested are: Harold Harvey, Harry Hynes, national secretary; and leadership by the rank and file dock workers, who were working at low ‘wages (many of the dockers earning from $3 to $12 a week). The Marine Workers Industrial Union of the Trade Union Unity League has been on the job in New Orleans practically since the begin- ning of the strike, exposing the sell- out tactics of the A. F. of L. and call- ing on the longshoremen to organize dock committees to carry on the struggle to victory. Many of the workers, sensing the betrayal of the A, F. of L. aré now rallying to the banners of the M.W.I.U. The bosses and the AP. of L. fakers fearing that the New Orleans longshoremen will Tally in masses to the fighting pro- gram of the M.W.LU., are busy pre- paring 4 law known as the “Anti-Red Ordinance.” “This ordinance,” says the New Or- leans Item,” grew out of a recent) river front demonstration when po- lice attempted to thwart an open air meeting after circulars had been dis- tributed.” Bosses’ Gun Men. Gangsterism and terroristic tactics are also indulged in by agents of the shipowners and A. F, of L. to break the sttike. Two Negro strikers were shot and one wounded by a gangster in the pay of the bosses. But despite this terror, jailing and two gun play of the hirelings of the shipowners the M.W.L.U. organizers will remain active in the field expos- ing the boss class collaboration of the A. F. of L. and organizing the dockers into dock and mass strike committees to defeat the sell out. The M.W.1.U. therefore calls: upon the entire working class to support the struggles of the New Orleans dock workers, New forces must be sent. Organize dock committees and mass strike and anti-sellout committees under the leadership of the TUUL. Contribute to the strike and anti-sell- out fund. Send funds to the Na- tional office M.W.I.U., Room 200, 61 Whitehall Street, New York City. ely Pat Dae CHEV PLA Construct Yo 1D A GRAM | YOu ARE Tae E. B. JACOBSON TO LECTURE SAT. To Show How Writers Help Boss War Plans A lecture on the literature of the capitalist class and how it is being adapted to the war plans of the bosses will be given every Saturday at the Workers School Auditorium by E. B. Jacobson, just returned from the Soviet Union. The lectures will describe works of the various capitalist authors since the war and will compare these works with the works of the new worker authors of the Soviet Union. Admission to all of these lectures, of which there will be twelve, is one dollar and fifty certs. To an indi- vidual lecture 20 cents. They wll be held at the Workers School Audi- torium, °5 Hast 12th St. every Sat- urday at 3 p. m. Soviet Films of Indus- irial Trial in 3rd Week at 8th St. Playhouse The Soviet sound newsreel of the so-called “Industrial Party” trial re- mains at the Eighth Street Playhouse for a third week. The newsreel, which takes over an hour to show, has been attracting wide attention and attendance in this first Amer- ican showing. This is also the first instance of sound films from Soviet Russia being presented in this country. For the first time it is possible for us to hear and to see on the screen the testimonies of the counter-revo- lutionists: Ramzins, Kalinnikovs, Lar- ichevs, Charnoysgys, Fedotovs, Och- kins and others, and the speech of the Attorney General of the U. S. S. R., Krylenko, who in detail, analyzes the activities of these hirelings of foreign powers, “leaders” of the “In- dustrial Party.” The film was made under many difficulties in the court room and shows the procedure of the trial in detail. Included in the newsreel are scenes of the crowds in the streets of Moscow where the workers lis- tened in over a network of radios to the testimony of the indicted counter- revolutionists as they made their public confessions. FIRST SOVIET SOUND NEWSREEL 3RD WEEK==, ——— SEE AND HEAR First Full Account of the oe Trial Party t SOVIET SOUND yan IN RUSSIAN EXPLANATORY TITLES IN ENGLISH edure, speech of the Prosecutor, demon- strations in the streets of Moscow and hefore the Court building TH STREET PLAYHOUSE 52 WEST 8TH ST.. Between Fitth and Sixth beignets Blam 5005 Fe ‘Testimonies of defendants, conrt proc Green Grow the Lilacs GUILD te Ost EG Miracle at Verdun By HANS CHLUMBERG Martin Beck Tyetwtien st «St. Eve. 8:30, Mts, Th. & Mat, 2:30 IC REPERTORY #01 8. 00 ay, Evenings 8:30 ne re $1.50. Mate, Th. & Sat. 2:30 pecs ogy Direetor. roniee ‘A_SUNNY THE ‘wows WAVE TH fom, Night RNING" way” “CAMILLE” & B, WOODS Presents “IF ARTHUR BYRON * mV ESTAR FINAL | of Industrial in Moscow classic melodrama “Way Down East” RICHARD BARTHELMESS LILIAN GISH—LOWELL SHERMAN CAME 42ND STREET AND BROADWAY 6th Ave |The Last Parade Ineladi 5 with JACK HOLT Harty Dell Frank Richardson| and TOM MOORE Sins Sics “Smash the anti-labor I laws of the bosses! APARTMENT TO LET, at 338 East Sauce wis Come ea wanes np DUNN, Stuyvesant con ~ ae wate nadernet STARVING; CONDITION OF CHILDREN APPALLING? By RYAN WALKER |Going BEEGYS TANT —- aly “Help Wanted” in D. W. Office Can you spare an hour or two? If you can typewrite or address envelopes, the national office of the Daily Worker will appreciate any: volunteers who can help assist in getting out some important mail which has steadily increased since the be- ginnig of the 60,000 circu- lation campaign, Take the elevator to the eighth floor and ask for the circulation depart- ment, WE EXPECT to see , —YOU— at the NEEDLE TRADES BAZAAR THIS Thurs., Fri., Sat., and Sun. March 19, 20, 21, 22 Your friends will be there! Join Them! Eat a home cooked supper at the lowest prices in the best Bazaar restaurant. Concerts and Danc- ing nightly. Wonderful bargains in Men's and Women’s Clothing and hundreds of other articles. STAR CASINO 107th ST and PARK AVE. ADMISSION 35 CENTS SATURDAY 50 CENTS COMBINATION (4 days) $1.00 ALgonquin 4-7712 Office gy Fri, and Sun, by Appointment Dr. J. JOSEPHSON SURGEON DENTIST 226 SECOND AVENUB Near 14th trent, New York City SEROY DR. J. 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