The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1931, Page 1

Two Thousand Workers Have Made Application to Join the Unemployed Council of Salt Lake City. Are You Winning Members for Your Council? Vol. VIL, No. 70 Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1979 Dail Central CS ec tte Orga Propet n of the Communist Interna Ye “VY YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931 orker SS Swhunist Party U.S.A. tional) ( ITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents DEMAND COAL AND IRON POLICE FUNDS FOR JOBLESS No Lop-Sidedness! ROM an entirely formless, organizationally, and vague, programatically, unemployed movement of one year ago, there is now at least the firm beginnings of a national organization and it has a definite program of demands. There is the greatest need for continuing this work, especially with the building of organized unemployed councils. More than ever, great masses of workers are beginning to see that past promises of returning “prosperity” were lies, meant to keep them from responding to the call for organized struggle around the issue of unemployment. And further disillusion awaits them when the present lies of “recovery” turn out—as they certainly will—to be as false as the old lies. However, in all this work around unemployment as an issue for the whole working class, there is a distinct tendency to proceed lop-sidedly, working among the unemployed alone, and not at the same time carrying forward the work among employed workers at the shops and factories. Merely because the workers already unemployed are more ready to respond to our leadership, and merely because the employed workers do not in all cases yet fully understand that they, too, are profoundly af- fected by the unemployment of other workers, and especially by the direct connection, between unemployment and wage cuts, the danger exists, and has already Become a reality, of a split, a hostile division, between the employed workers with whom we have yet altogether too few connections, and the unemployed workers who are already following our leadership in some measure—but by no means in sufficient masses, and in a sufficiently organized manner. Clearly, this is a danger for our Party, and with it, a grave and pres- ent danger of mutual hostility growing up between the vast section of the working class which is jobless, and the other great section still employed. And all revolutionary workers must be thoroughly aware of the fact that fascist and social fascist agitation, notably the proposed “stagger plan” is directed exactly to this end. This would be a shameful state of affairs, and one for which our Party must stand responsible. Already, in the growing strike struggles, most notably in the case of a strike at Rockford, Illinois, the employed workers, striking against a wage cut, looked upon the Communist and Trade Union Unity League leadership—which first approached them only after they struck—not merely with indifference, but with distrust and a little hostility. They regarded the T. U. U. L. as solely an unemployed movement, Every revolutionary worker must take this warning seriously. It shows that we are getting lop-sided; not because we are doing too much work among the unemployed, but because in many districts we are shamefully neglecting the imperative task of rooting our work in the shops and factories. In every leading committee of our Party this situation must obtain immediate consideration and corrective steps must be taken. Especially in preparation for May First, with the unemployment issue remaining the center of attention, nevertheless decisive and determined action must be taken to reach not only up to the factory gates, but inside the factories, rallying the employed workers to our leadership around jssues of interest to them as employed workers, but bringing clearly to their understanding the imperative necessity of joint action, of class urity, with the unem- ployed. May First should see, not only masses matching, not only masses rallied by the old method of conferences with various Sympathetic organ- izations, but particularly masses of workers from the shops and factories, organized inside of the gates of these shops and factories, organized upon the basis of their daily struggles for demands explained to and approved by them, demands which will reflect, as well, their common interest with the unemployed. In every section of the country the utmost care must be given to defeat all efforts to split the employed and the unemployed. And to do that, all lop-sidedness must be corrected. There must be unified and proportionately planned activity, But work inside the factory, so often talked about and so little done, must be resolutely carried out. This must be the organizational line for May Ist. Comrade A. Jakira, a Leader of the Communist Party, Dead Abraham Jakira, assistant secre-| crises that our Party underwent he tary of the International Labor De-| always remained steadfast and loyal fense, died Friday after many months] to the Communist International, of illness, suffering from a cancer in the throat. With the loss of Comrade Jakira ~, the Communist and revolutionary movement loses one of its staunchest and devoted fighters. Comrade Jakira who was a co-worker of Ruthenberg, is the second leader of the Party to die since the formation of the Party which he helped to organize. ‘There can be no question that his untimely death was caused by his untiring work in the interests of our class. Comrade Jakira never for a moment in his long career in the revolutionary movement allowed per- sonal welfare to interfere with his ‘work. As late as a few weeks ago when his condition was already quite serious he insisted that he remain at his post. From a sick bed he came \,o the recent National Conference of yhe International Labor Defense to participate in the discussion of the amportant problems that arose as a result of the increased persécution of the working class fighters throughout the country. Comrade Jakira was active in the left wing of the socialist party. He was one of the founders of the Com- “ munist Party which he helped organ- ize in September, 1919. Later on he was the secretary of the illegal Com- munist Party in its most difficult and trying period. He was arrested many times during this period. Later on when the Party came out into the open and Ruthenberg, re- leased from jail, became again secre- tary of the Party, then the Workers Party, Comrade Jakira was assistant national secretary. In the course of the next few years he was district organizer in Phila- delphia, working in Pittsburgh, where he played an important role in the big miners’ strike. He was one of the leading forces in Pittsburgh that helped the miners to form the Na- tional Miners’ Union, During his whole activity in the Party Comrade Jakira was s devoted soldier in the ranks of the Commu- A. JAKIRA never for a moment wavering. In\recent days ‘his atlment ‘con- tinued to grow worse. It was clear to his friends and comrades who vis- ited him that his days were num- bered. But he did not think of him- self. Always from his sick bed in the Harlem hospital he was interested only in the Party and its work, the advance of the revolutionary move- ment. : Comrade Jakira’s «body .,will be brought to the Workers Center, 50 E. 13th: 8t.,. where; his scomrades and revolutionary workers can come and pay him their last honors, The body will be on the second floor from Sat- urday afternoon until Monday 1 p. m., at which time there will be held @ memorial meeting in the same building. From the memorial meet- ing the funeral: will take‘ place. on ae STRIKERS | | FACE JAIL Longshoremen in New Orleans Resort to Mass Picketin& | NEW ORLEANS, La., March 20.— One hundred and fifteen striking Negro longshoremen here are in jail facing charges of violating the Fed- eral injunction, gotten out by the dock owners and steamship com- Panies against the 5,000 striking longshoremen. They all face long! prison terms for carrying on mili-| tant picketing against the orders of| the misleaders in the International Longshoremen’s Association and the International Seamen’s Union. | The strikers are becoming des- perate, witnessing the open sell-out | by their leaders in these company | unions. They are beginning to re-| alize more and more that only by| mass picketing and mass violation of | the federal injunction can the strike against the heavy wage-cut be won. The Marine Workers’ Industrial| Union has been urging the worker to extend the strike, take it in their | own hands, and use effective means} to win. More every day are follow- | ing this advice, | For calling on the workers to win | their strike by real strike action, three of the leaders of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union here are in jail and come up for trial on Sat- | urday before a federal judge. The 115 Negro longshoremen who await trial were those who took part in/a mass picketing parade on Wed- nesday. Shortly after midnight the Negroes organized at their hall on! Jackson and Franklin Sts. marched | to the waterfront, singing and shout- ing their slogans. Sergeant Williams immediately called for a riot squad, | who came armed with revolvers and rifles and ordered the Negro workers to disperse. They reformed their lines at Canal and Tchoupitoulas and a sharp battle followed between police and strikers. Many shots were fired and 115 arrests made. LL.D. TAG DAYS TODAY, SUNDAY Use Funds to Protect Foreign Born | The district. office of the Commun- | ist Party has issued a statement | calling upon the workers to support the campaign of the International Labor Defense to free the workers who are being held for deportation. The campaign will begin with a .tag day today. Workers are urged by the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense to so- licit funds for the freeing of the hun- dreds of militant workers held by the immigration authorities. The Department of Labor has as- | signed a special officer to sign war- rants for the arrest and deportation of foreign born workers because of their loyalty for the working class against the boss class. | The tag day will continue through | tomorrow and Sunday. There are stations all over the city where work- ers can get boxes to collect. Cover the town red with the collection. 115 NEGRO | NOTICE! The Daily Worker regrets being forced to make this Saturday’s issue only four pages instead of the regular six pages, containing our many interesting feature articles. The lack of funds which compels us to do this is not due to any lack of support from the workers. On the contrary, more paid subscriptions are coming in than ever before. More thousands of workers are buying the Daily Worker from newsstands and agents. : The difficulty is one purely of administration in the field. The additional new thousands of workers who are buying the Daily from agents and stands have, with their demands for it, greatly increased the bundle orders going to these agents and stands. If these bundles were paid for, by weekly or monthly settlement, we would have little or no difficulty. But they are not paid for. Some fifty per cent are not paid. Earlier communications were ignored. Appeals have remained un- answered. A warning published two weeks ago obtained some, but too little response. Yesterday again we published a second warning that these accounts must be paid or the Daily faces suspension. The necessity to economize until these payments come in compels us to cut out the two extra feature pages today. Unless comrades in the districts where current bills have not been paid, act at once, we will also be compelled to reduce or entirely cut off their bundles to save the Daily from sus- pensicn, In.such cases, readers who are accustomed to get their Daily from agents or stands will be advised where to obtain it from different sources. By sending in subscriptions read- ers who buy from day to day will be assured of not missing any issues if bundles to their localities are cut off. Again we wish to emphasize that every condition is fav- orable, the circulation is growing rapidly. Our difficulty lies in bundle circulation not being paid for. If this is done, and promptly, the Daily will be relieved from the present im- mediate danger of suspension. We rely upon all concerned to see that this is done. Act at once! Beat Up School Children in Angeles for Pioneer Work Militarist Organizations and Police Unite to Smash Co-operative Restaurant and Slug Men, Women and Children LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 20.—Beating up school chil-| dren because they distribute to their class mates the leaflets of the Young Pioneers, and raiding and smashing up the Co- operative restaurant here, the professional patriots and mili- tarist organizations and police are setting up a new reign of terror. They have the active aid of the school authorities. ee ER ae beating up all the workers found in there, 2 Bridgeport Mill Pickets BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 20. Two striking weavers were arrested for picketing at the Blumenthal mill the Saltex Looms, Inc. Mass picket- ing is taking place daily at both mills, Shelton and Bridgeport. The company announced they are opening the mills for strikebreakers, but the strikers’ ranks are firm and the com- pany can get no scabs fr.m among them. They have imported thugs and tect strikebreakers they expect to bring in, The conference between the com week ended when the company de- clared nypocritically they were will- ing to give in to all demands except the abolition of the two-ioom system, which -s the chief issue the stikers are fighting. The weavers are deter- mined to stick it out unti. this vi- cious speed-up system is abolished and the 45 per cent wage cut with- drawn. The effect of the introduction of the two-loom system and the conse- quent throwing out of work of nalf the weavers was revealed in the state- ment of the company that if the mil reopens on the new basis, it will re- quire a ‘much smaller working force’ than before. The National ‘Textile Workers’ Union is sending an organizer into Shelton and Bridgeport, on the in- vitation of the strikers, to meet with the strike committee and guide the conduct of the strike Plasterers Helpers Pay Cut, Long Island Officials Wink at New Wage Scale LONG ISLAND CITY, L. I.—With the tacit connivance of J. Costaza, business agent of the Plasterers’ Helpers’ Industrial Union, Local 759, Andrea LoIacono, the contractor on the Brooklyn State Hospital in Jamaica is paying the plasterers’ lar scale. “If you want to work for $8 you can get steady work,” is the ulti- matum the contractor laid down and which the workers were forced to ac- cept, since the union officials would not act. gunmen to guard the miils end pro-/ MAY FIRST TO BE Are Arrested DAY OF JOBLESS DEMONSTRATION ‘Red Cross Cuts Off All Ark: | Farmers On April 1; ‘Exhaust Relief Fund in St criminate Against Negroes and Foreign Born ansas Relief to the Starving United States Stops Them From Hunting Game |Acting Mayor Summons Borough Presidents pany and the strike commitice last} to Plan New Fake; Prosser Jobs Now Ending . Louis; Was Used to Dis- Unemployed Plan Mass Protest HARRISBURG, Pa ., March 20.—Demand- ling that funds appropriated for the brutal ;Coal and Iron Police of Pennsylvania be turned over instead to jment relief, represen ; Union Unity League, its union a fund for unemploy- tatives of the Trade s, and the Communist Party in | Philadelphia and Pittsburgh districts have made a formal de- mand on Governor Pinchot that they be allowed to take part in the governor’s open conference on the coal and iron police today. pata ; A bill is before the state legislature | NEW STR IKE AT which practically continues the Coal BDAY helpers $8 a day, $3 below the regu-} and Iron Police, in a disguised form. The brutality of these company gun- men, paid by thé companies, but armed and uniformed and siven stars by the state and known as “Coal and Iron Police.” has become so notor- ious recently that Pinchot has had to make some appearance of carrying} out his campaign promises to abolish the force. Pennsylvania workers want it really | abolished, not camouflaged, and want | all the money devoted to support of uniformed assassins to be used to feed the jobless. Demonstrations May ist. hunger marches pouring in from the coal fields, steel mills, textile factories, | and ship yards, the workers and un- | employed workers will demand state | relief. March 31, a similar state hunger Harrisburg, on April 14, will see the| | were arrested in ndditon. Recently two Roosevelt High School students were beaten up |and suspended from school be- cause they distributed'leaflets for the Pioneers. Thereupon, the Young Pioneers and the Parents’ League called a protest meeting near the school. » They formed a committee to present de- mands to the principal for reinstate- ment of those suspended. The principal of the school, Olson, | suspended classes, and sent those of the students he could rely on to go with the American Legion, and under police protection, to smash the meet- ing and beat up those in it. This was done, and seven in the meeting Six stu- dents were then suspended from school for membership in the Young Pioneers. Members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, and the American Legion, accompanied the Los Angeles police “Red Squad” in automobiles to the Co-operative restaurant, and smashed up the place, breaking win- daws and fixture, and slugging and Aroused by the increasing attempts of the bosses to crush the struggles of the workers against starvation and eviction, workers and their or- ganizations throughout the country are rallying to the call to make March 28 a day of militant struggle against deportations and lynchings, Huge demonstrations are being ar- ranged in hundreds of towns and cities. Most of these will be open- air demonstrations and parades, drawing thousands into the streets to protest the vicious attacks on the foreign born and Negro workers with which the bosses aim to take away these workers from the struggles against starvation by terrorizing them into submission. Newark Police Bans Parade, In: Newark, N. J, desplie the ef- < ( CHECKERS OUT IN SYMPATHY STRIKE 50 Longshoremen On Strike Against Cut Eight checkers of the Hudson River Navigation Co, went out in sympathy strike with 50 longshore- men of pier 32 who struck against a wage-cut, The wage cut had been given the longshoremen last fall, on the pro- mise that it would be repealed this March. This the bosses failed to do and the workers went on strike. The bosses at first refused to listen to} the committee of the strikers, by later granted them the demand for the reduction of the wage cut. The workers are now organizing under the leadership of the Marine Liborio Giordano, a militant mem-| march starts from Baltimore, Md., to ber of the union, tried to raise the| Annapolis, the state capitol, and on question at the union meeting but} April 16, hunger marches start from the officials shrugged their shoulders | several towns in Ohio, converging on and said that nothing could be done.| Columbus, the state capitol. Giordano ran on a militant program| 4} these demonstrations and state for elections last May and was taken anc city activities will come to a high off the ballot by orders of the Inter-/ point on May First, International La- national vice president. He, however,| por Day, which will be a day of un- received fully one-third of the votes cast. (CONTINUED O* PAGE THREE) (By Special Correspondent.) DALLAS, Texas, March 20—Klans- men tried to kidnap Lewis Hurst by raiding the home of the Mexican worker where Hurst stayed before. Hurst was expected in Dallas, but had not arrived because the auto in which he was being brought broke down a couple of hundred miles nerth of Dallas. Klansmen are hunting around for Workers Industrial Union Boss Police Show Fear of Solidarity of Working Class—Newark Chief of Police Bans Parades; Many Meets Sunday forts of Chief of Police James Mc- Rell to prevent this display .of soli- darity between the Negro and na- tive and foreign-born white workers, | the workers are pushing their plans for a parade through the Negro sec- tion of the city. The chief of police has refused to grant a permit for the parade, but the workeers will carry it through. As a preparation for March 28, two open-air meeti: gs were held Tuesday and Wednesday, other open-air meetings will be held + every night between now and 28. There will: be two demonstra- tions at 2 p. m, on March 28, one at mass meeting will be held in the heart of the Negro section—at Free- | man Hall, 150 Charlton St. On the| night before there will be a big dem- onstration at the Court Theatre against Jim Crowism. In Elizabeth, N. J., open-air meet- tgs will be held Friday, March 7%) coowmnven the correspondent of the Daily Sentiment for March 28 Demonstrations Against Lynching and Deportations Now Sweep Country as @ preparation for the demonstra- tion on Saturday, March 28, which will be at Union Suare at 2 o'clock. Indoor mass protest meetings will be held on Saturday, March 28, at New Brunswick, at 11 Plum St., and at Perth Amboy and Linden, N. J. Many, Meetings Sunday. ‘In New York City, the March 28 demonstration will be held in Har- Jem, beginning at 145th St. and 115th St. and through to Fifth Ave. and 110th St., where the speakers’ stands will be erected. In prepara- tion for this demonstration many indoor and street meetings are being held this week and next week, Pive O03 PAGER THREE) Antenne Klan Tries to Kidnap Hurst Again; Papers Talk Lynching Worker and are also threatening to kidnap George Papcun, Trade Union Unity League organizer now here, | Since the last one was kidnapped by the Klan, Four local posts of the American Legion have announced that they will hold counter demonstrations for every one held “by the Communists,” which undoubtedly means by the un- employed or the T. U. U, L., also. Mayor McGinty of Terrel, Texas, has offered Dallas authorities the | use of his entire police force to “p: | vent a Communist demonstration.’ The Dallas News carries a letter from a man who “wauid buy rope” to lynch all Communists. The news- papers are stirring up sentiment particularly against Papcun, The town 1s full of U. S. immigra- tion agents. Ten militant workers are held for deportation, Most of them are Mexicans. Rafael Zetnia, @ member of the International La- bor Defense, has ben deported to Mexico, The Mexican language papers carry streamers: “Communist Leader Deported to Mokico.” eae ee Horst Verifies Story, In @ newspaper interview, secured with Hurst in Kansas City before he started back to Dallas and printed in Dallas papers, Hurst confirms the story told by Reporter Barr of the | outrage, particularly the point that | Ccder was thrown into the river. This was the angle suppressed by the Associated Press when it reported Barr’s testimony before the grand (CONTINUED ON PAGH THRER) | BLUM DE TUX 59 Pickets Cases Put | Off to March 28 NEW YORK.—A new 100 per cent jstrike took place yesterday in the Blum de Lux Cigar factory at. 4 East End Ave. Here the workers, le by the Food Workers Industrial Unic { of the Trade Union Unity League, }won a strike for better conditions and against discrimination a short time ago. Now the boss tries to discharge | about ten of the workers. He has a | strike on his hands, with a picket line yesterday, and another one pre- pared for Monday. It seems that this strike may spread, as there is great indignation against the em- ployers, and aguinst the A. F. L., which tried to break the last strike and may try to break this one. An attempt of the employers to import strike breakers from Tampa has failed. A tobacco workers sec- tion of the FWIU has been formed. The cases of 69 pickets arrested at the Sun Market for violation of an injunction obtained by the boss and the AFL. was postponed to March 28. Cases of 11 food workers arrested under Paragraph 600 (vio- lation of an injunction) will be in court Tuesday. Picketing continues full force at the Sun Market, and the strike is as strong as ever. Newark Meeting Tonight to Protest Boss Persecutions NEWARK, March 20,—Newark Ne- gro and white workers will hold a large mass protest meeting tonight at 97 Mercer Street, against the boss terror campaign in Newark. The speakers will be Earl Ballam of the F.S.U. and Sol Harper, who will link up the entire campaign which is now raging against foreign born and Negro workers, The meet= ing begins at 7:30 p.m. promptly. Reader! Sell 5 Dailies Daily Could you sell 5 Daily Work- ers if you had them? Then order five and sell them to your friends, shop-mates, to workers, farmers and others, If every reader of the Daily Worker sold» five copies, we would achieve mass circulation within a very short period, and the thousands of workers would become acquainted with the paper who had never be- fore heard of it, Order a bundle at lo per copy and pay at the