The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1931, Page 3

‘ May First to Be Day of Jobless Demonstrations Red Cross | Cuts Off All Relief in Arkansas (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONF) employment demonstrations through- out the capitalist world. Pee, € Stop Arkansas Relief. LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 20.--The Red Oross has officially an- nounced that it will withdraw its re- lef workers and end the feeding of $00,000 persons on April 1. State offi~ cials and “business leaders” are de- clared to be in perfect agreement with this plan, It is plain that the program of capitalism, not to feed the starving but to use them to beat down the standard of living of the workers in the cities and force the farmers to sell at any price, mean- while looting them through loans if they have any property left, is now generally understood, by state officials and “business leaders.” The Red Cross gives as its excuse for cutting off relief that the farmers spring gardens are sprouting, and that frem now on they can live on green stuff, “and get loans from local banka | at a liberal rate.” The fact that those starving most have no security on which to get loans is not men- tioned, The announcement that relief is to be cut off in 11 days more by William H, Baxter, of St. Louis, mid- Western “Disaster Relief Director” of the Red Cross. ° . ° Can’t Eat Birds. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.— The Department of Agriculture yes- terday announcod that “because of the drought” the open season for hunting wild fowl useful for food has been shortened fifteen days. That means that a hungry farmer who tries to add to his lettuce a little duck, goose er jacksnipe meat will get a chanee to eat bread and water in jail instead, a cee Relief Dwindles Here. NEW YORK.—Acting Mayor Mc Kee, who serves big business in New fvork in Mayor Walker's absence while Jazzy Jimmy suns himself in Palifornia, is going through the mo- tions of doing something for the un- employed next month. McKee sent a letter to the heads of departments and borough presidents to meet him yesterday afternoon and discuss, “how many men ean be put to work, at three days a week, on the stagger plan in each borough.” It is pointed out that the Prosser Committee's $8,000,000 for emergency work is ex- pended, and that over 20,000 men who have been getting three days a week work, at $5 a day, will be cut off in April. Several thousand have already been fired. Sinee the city is already supposed to be hiring all it can, the number Mayor MeKee expects to put to work is undoubtedly much below that which has been at work for the Pros- ser Committee, as these in turn were only an insignificant fraction of New York's million jobless. * . Starvation, Discrimination, ST, LOUIS, Mo,, Marche 20.—The Citizens’ Committee on Relief qnd Unemployment having spent all its funds, is asking $300,000 more and un- less this money is squeezed out of the starvation wages of the employed workers, Mr, Hawes chairman of the Finance Division, says the charity ac- tivities of the committee will be stopped. The committee has spent $300,000 sinee November, this money being ap- propriated by the city mainly as a result of the activities of the Com- munist Party and the Unemployed Council. The Citizen's Committee works through six charity organiza- tions which are now giving relief to 10,000 families. The committee adv mits 75,000 unemployed (which is @ gross underestimation) and further says that the Committee has taken care of 200 per cent more cases this February than in February 1980 and that for March 1931 the number of vorkers seeking relief is growing rap~ oily. In addition to the charity relief, \ 1¢ Committee is carrying out the ‘cover Hunger Program to the best its ability. It calls an the bosses vintreduce the stagger system which neans putting the entire working class on hunger rations. It gives relief only to “bona fide citizens” which excludes all foreign “pons fide” citizens to this commit~ ily. This shows that the crisis is af- fecting the broadest layers of pro- pose this committee as a fake when it comes to relief, must organize dele- to go to the | <lan Tries to Kidnap | dered. He confirms the news that| | south, I guess, the cars turned off Hurst Again; Boss Pap2rs Talk Lynching (CONTINUED FRO GE ONE) jury. Hurst also points out that the Klansmen obviously thought him dead when they left him, which ac- counts for the general impression that the two men had been mur- they were rescued by poor Negro farmers, and were badly dazed for | some time by their beating. During | this time the Negroes kept them hid- | den. He was able te recognize a) Dallas city official in the gang of | Klansmen that tortured him, The interview, as it appears in the | Dallas Dispatch, is as follows: | Coder exhibited a black eye, and/ Hurst several bruises on his face. | Both explained that the ‘worst | wounds were on the back and legs’, | but they exhibited only the facial | evidence of the alleged*mistreatnient. | “The Communists declared Dallas officers went to their cells and told them the ywould be released if they would promise to get out of town. “We told them ‘No’, Hurst ex-)| claimed, and Coder nodded. “We were released suddenly, and) without ceremony, Coder went on. We were thrown out of the jail into the arms of the group of men who stood on the steps of the building. They were armed, and they forced us into two cars, Thrown In River “We were takew south out of Dal- las and thru the town of Hutchins. Not far from there, about a mile the road near. where a small wooden bridge crosses Cooke's branch, a small stream. Then I was beaten. “Hurst took up the story, saying he had been forced to watch the beating of Coder, “There were 12 or 14 men in the group, Hurst said. I recognized one of them as a city official. Another, I think, was the prize fighter who beat up Coder in the jail. They used ropes, and they beat him terribly, finally throwing him into the water ef the branch, which was about knee-deep and cold, They cursed him, Thought Him Dead “Then they took me, in the car) again, to a place about two miles} away, They made me get thru a barbed Wire fence-shoved me thru— and beat me in @ cotton field, Fin- ally leaving me lying on the muddy ground, I think they thought I was dead, “The men then said they scarcely remembered the events of the next few hours, but said they were taken | care of by Negro farmers living near where they were beaten. “Then the men told of becoming strong enough to travel, and said they bummed a ride on a freight, train, finally reaching Webb City, | Missouri. a “At Webb City, ehey said, they were able to communicate with head- | quarters of the Party here, and were | brought here by Kansas City work- ers.” Use your Red Sheck Troop List every day un your job, The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker, tive born alike, and to give real food and clothing instead of the present slop, eee, Bes. Unemployment in Perth Amboy. PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—In this city there are 5,000 workers unem-~ ployed, In order to keep these work- ers from demanding real relief, the city for a while gave part-time jobs to a few hundred workers. These part-time workers worked one week and were off one week, They would get an average of $7.50 a week, But now the city has cut out this part- time work and laid off all these men, Last week two Terra Cotta fac- tories shut down, leaving only enough workers to keep the machines from getting rusty, and to kerp the build- ing clean, One of these factories is the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co.; it used ta employ 200 men. A short while before it clesed the plant was very busy; the men were working 12-13 hours @ day, getting 47-50 cents an hour. Now the workers are out on the street unemployed, The other factory is the New Jer- sey Terra Cotta Co. Two years ago this plant employed 500 men. Last winter 300 men were working 9 hours @ day, getting 45-50 cents an hour, WANTED FIFTY (50) Comrades to. SELL DAILY WORKERS EVERY DAY! LIVE WIRES! -BOOST YOUR PAPER! Help build RED BUILDERS NEWS CLUB Call at the following centers for information: New York: 35 E. léth St., Room 505 Bronx: 569 Prospect Ave.,6-7:30 p.m, * 1472 Boston Road “ ” Broklyn; Inquire 35 E, 12 St., B’m 505 + 808 Lenox Avenue 208 Pate Street, Union Hall Albany: “START TODAY! Earn your expenses and help By) the DAIL’ RKER' ‘and rel ILY WORKER Datlies on ereqit!) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY y AARCH 21, Sears “Generosity” |Butte Plans District Page; 198 COMMUNIST ROLE Taken From Wases Buffalo Starts Next Month; | IN ARGENTINA of Low Paid Toiler Contributions Workers By Lay- Off Threat Minneapolis, Minn. The Daily Worker In .Minneapolis there are many mean, niggardly exploiters of labor, but Sears, Roebuck and Co. is one of the worst. In the recent Red Cross drive to raise ten million dol- lars for the drouth stricken farm- ers, thousands of whom are dying from malnutrition, the quota for Minneapolis and Hennepin County was $90,000. Of that sum, Sears, Roe- buck and Co. donated $5,000. Take It From Workers. ‘To the casual observer, Sears’ gen- erosity must seem a beautiful exam- | ple of the warm heartedness of Big Business. But other exploited work- ers may be interested to learn how Sears raised the $5,000 levy, Several weeks ago every one of us Sears slaves was. compelled to sign away one day’s wages out of each week’s pay for unemployment and drouth relief. Some of us, whose families were miserable enough already on our $18 weekly pittances, objected to this forced contribution, but our bosses soon made us understand that it would be best for us to sign up and keep our mouths shut, Even the lowest paid, part-time employees were forced to come across with dona- tions in order that the recipients of the government’s $162,000,000 tax refund might continue to re- main secure with their ill-gotten profits. Workers Awakening. As time passes by, we are gradual- ly comin gto realize how helpless we are and héw: hopeless our future will be if we shall continue to submit to the insatiable greed of our bosses. | Slowly, but surely we the oppressed majority in all industries are closing our ranks in preparation for the day | when we shall rise in our might to seize the wealth that has been created out of the sweat and blood of labor, —J. M, Boston Sallies Tell Jobless to Read Bible When They’re Hungry Boston, Mass. Daily Worker: A few weeks ago an unemployed worker who was walking the streets, hungry, was looking for a place to get a meal. Finally he read a sign which read Salvation Army Head- quarters. He stopped inside and asked the man if he could have a meal, The man told him to hang around, which he did, Three hours later the man in charge called him in, There lay before him a doughnut and a cup of coffee. The man in charge then told him to read the Bible and pray to Jesus ani then he would get his meal. The unemployed worker then told him to cook a rabbit and he walked out. The worker would rather starve than have to give concessions to these fake relief-giyers. 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Wright, district | Daily Worker representative, who| | writes: | | “As to Butte taking some extra | space once a week: There is no | question as to the interest this would encourage, but I must make a survey of the situation first, and then take the matter up with the District Committee for approval. I will get in touch with other sec- | | TL stant? | | err (Gene | ipa ist | | Aa EDITiony | ef... Dated) Woven THE Voice oF THe | “workers in tions of the District, and see if | they can furnish ne also sell | some of the papers, This should | be done, as many of the readers | in Butte have asked why we don’t have some local articles in the paper.” Comrade Wright raises the point of securing advertisements as a means of helping to pay for the| | bundles, and is confident he can | secure ads from sympathetic mer- chants. This suggestion is a very good one, and should also be used | by those districts already receiving | their weekly editions. Butte will late us again as soon as the ques- tion of district pages has been taken up. Buffalo, N. Y., has definitely de- cided on a district page, and has set | April 17 for its first issue. K. Il-| moni, Daily Worker representative writes: | “Letters have already gone out | to the district, to be followed by | an extensive agitation. The, units | | are to assign quotas at their next | meetings and prepare for the most | | effective mass distribution of the | papers. Material will come to the district office shortly and will in turn be sent to the Daily.” | ‘We have already suggested that Buffalo select Tuesday for its Dis- | trict page since that date is open.| | With the Jamestown Unemployed | Council in steady activity, and the | Buffalo section being tightened or- | | ganizationally, the district page| should be broadcast rapidly. | | From Pittsburgh we received a | wire informing us that the district | page has been postponed one week. | It will start Monday, March 30. “ARSENAL” A Soviet Film Sunday March 22nd AT 6 AND 8 P. M. Workers Film and Photo League 7 EAST 14TH STREET Admission: 25 Cents “The Five Year Plan and the Menshevik Trial” Illustrated Leeture by MARCEL SCHERER, Secretary Workers’ International Relief Just back from the Soviet Union Sunday March 22nd AT 8 P.M. Cooperative Auditorium 2700 BRONX PARK EAST Admission 25 Cents indicates its’ inten- RED from | tions of ordering a district page, ac- [N.Y |5 pm, Pittsburgh Edition In Week DAY FOR MARCH 29 New York will have a Red Sunday March 29. The aim is to get about 1,500 Party, Y.C.L. members and sympathizers from the mass organ- izations participate in visiting workers’ homes, getting subscriptions both monthly and weekly in Sec- tion Daily Worker committees are urged to visit all sympathetic work- ers’ organizations and unemployed councils for volunteers for Red Sun- day, and should make an effort to have these headquarters opened for that day. to and popularizing the Daily Worker. READING, PENN BROADCAST! “In today’s issue of the Dally Worker there is a paragraph stating that the Reading order has been cut with 200 and that there is no reason for the cut since the Daily arrives here on time. You have sent the papers outside mail for a while bit for the past two weeks the papers arrive through the post office ad- dressed to Cherry St., which caused a delay of 5 hours, Instead of get- ting the paper 12 noon we get it Well, how do you expect to sell Daily Workers under such conditions? We have written a dozen letters to New York and Philadel- phia and still the same thing con- tinues. “If you want to have a circula-* tion of 500 within two weeks we can do it but not under the present arrangements, Furthermore, we never get any attention in your weekly circulation eolumn in spite of the fact that our city is one of the best, if you take its size into consideration, The Daily Worker Red Builders Club decided that we ask you to print this letter the way it is and that you immediately change the address to outside mail Franklin St. Station.” Harold John, Reading, Pa. We admit that thru an error in our mailing department, the bundle was nof sent outside mail. However, this mistake has been rectified. As to the charge of neglecting Reading in our circulation column, what can | we write when we receive no reports? Send reports in, Reading, and we'll | write them up. Just reach that 500 mark with which you threaten us. and we'll give you anything you want! JAMESTOWN U. C. PROGRESSING On the Jamestown Unemployed Coyncil, we received the following: “Jamestown reports progress. In 6 weeks they have started from seratch and climbed to 150 a day sold and paid for. The comrades there are enthusiastic, and will build the Red Club and will involve more workers in the sales.” NEVIN BUS LINES I1LW, 3ist (Bet. 6 & 7 Avs.) Tel. 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Sixth St ‘The only center for revolutionary PARIS ON THE BARRICADES From “THE ROAD” By GEORGE SPIRO Intreduction by M, OLGIN A story of the immortal struggle of the Communards of 1871 for the first Workers’ Government, heroically revered by the working class and crushed by the bloody hands of the bourgeoisie REDUCED TO 15 CENTS Sold at the WORKERS BOOKSHOP 50 EAST 13TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY books, pamphlets and magazines Sentiment for March | 28 Demonstrations | Now Sweeps Country (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and ‘WORKERS RELIEF “HELPED TO WIN Does Not Resort to Desperate Acts BUED 'S, Argentine ‘The recent ¢ individuals to ex- press their anta inst the f t, Uriburu, and hi: cessor, methods hich (app an group) employ has caused Its basis lies in whether the masses are to use this method of independent ck or whether they are to organize under the Irigoyen hegemony now existing. The of the individual an- archists is the theory of the pett bourgeoisie, Only the petty-bour- geoisie becomes desperate, and with- out a perspective of the past nor a plan for the future, resorts to meth- ¢ of desperation—individual tack. These “a ” cannot jerstand the proletariat. The t from one another, lasses, two id nee has proved that nee is not productive the and alianti Zoyen, stas” rently ssion theory at- log torica individual vi and from the revolutionary point of | view has a value, In n absolutely ne Argentina, great moye- ments are in preparation; armed re- volts of the peasants, strikes every- mass W But this movement of the workers does not yet exist; it is still in the process of organization: The “aliantistas” deprecate the ne ity of such planned, unified action, and replace it with individual attacks, at- tacks which disarm the prolet: end place the workers in the hands of the “Irigoyenistas.” e, Communists are not lence, but they are for collective mass action against the common enemy of the working class, not the terile violence of the individual, To depart from organ: violence of the proleta as the goal is de- parting from the correct line and is ragii helping the ad- vancement of fascism. against vio- MARIO: OHIO, POLICE CHIEF WANTS A RIOT GUN, Daily Worker: Marion, O. ‘The cops of Marion are all mussed up over the mass meeting here on February 22nd and now this Shrock (captain of police) who thinks he is just what he is not, wants a riot gun and we know that gun is for use on the workers and not for the inside bank robbers. He could put it to good use now as one bank here, the Marion Sav- = 's Bank, just couldn't Saturday the 14th. open up —C. C. W. Ambassador Hall, Third Ave. 174th St., at 2:30 p. m.; 569 Pros- pect Ave. Bronx, at 2:30 p. m; 10926 Union Hall, Jamaica, L. I, at 2 p. m.; 1660 Fulton St., Brooklyn. 2 p.m, and Manhattan Lyceum 68 E. Fourth St. On March 26, there will be another big mass m ng at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th st In a joint statement issued yester- day by the Council the Protec- tion of Foreign Born, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the for International Labor Defense, the need for a sharp struggle against the increasing attacks on the foreign born is pointed out “The government is already put- ting into effect the proposals of the Fish Committee. In Lackawana workers are questioned in the steel plant, immigration officials raid res- taurants and saloons, pick up work- 's on the streets like a dog-catcher picks up dogs, workers are surprised n their homes as late 11 o'clock at night, in a desperate effort on the part of the capitalist government to terrorize the working class. “Workers are being arrested and held for deportation in ever: Tuggle of the workers for better conditions. In Lawrence, Mass., the leaders of the textile strike are held for de- portation. In New York City, Yoki- nen, the worker who was expelled from the Communist Party for white 8 m, was arrested and held for deportation after he had ex- pressed solidarity with the Negro ‘s and pledged himself to fight gly for the class unity of Negro and white workers. “The factories in Black Rock are ling combed by the immigration of- | ficials, workers held for deportation. Two days ago a bus was stopped at Silver Creek and the occupants “in- vestigated.” Children in the public schools are being questioned about their parents. | To Diseuss Deporta- tionsThis Sunday At Brighton Beach Meet | NEW: YORK.—Persecution and de- portation of foreign born workers will be the subject for discussion at the Brighton Beach open forum Sunday evening at 140 Neptune Ave. The role of the foreign born wor! ers in industry; the reason for the rpening attack by the bosses and government upon the foreign born| workers; the existing state laws dis- criminating against the foreign born workers; the increased number lynchings of Negro workers; the role of the American Federation of Labor | and S. P. in the discriminating laws | and the deportations. of | British “Worker” Com mends Relief Body NEW YORK—The, English “Work- er,” official organ: of the National Minority Moyement, in a current is- sue commends the work of the Work ers’ International Relief in connec tion with the victory of the Engli textile workers in their recent str gle against the eight looms to a man sy It states that the work of the W. I. R. in maintaining the strike, by setting up. of food kitchen for the strikers and their dependents, was a decisive aid.to victory, In outlining the lessons of the strike, and of the retreat of the employers | before the solidarity of the worker and their refusal to negotiate through the small committee of the reaction. , the “Worker” states in “The defeat of the employers is a great victory for the weavers and the itire working class and marks the turning point in the economic strug- gles of the worki: class. During the struggle the weavers displayed a solid and determined front whieh baffled all the attempts of the em- ployers, the labor government and the trade union reactiona to bring about defeat, and demon- strated to the whole working cla: the tremendous power of working- class solidarity “The employers have been com- | pelled to retreat, but they will come forward with greater determination in the demand for 1214 per cent re- duction in wages and the 55 1-2-hour week, They will gain encouragement and inspiration from Snowden’s speech in the House of Commons, which calls upon the forces of eapi- talism to consolidate their ranks for | new and fiercer attacks upon the conditions of the cotton workers and all other sections of the working class. These factors indicate that the cotton workers must anticipate and prepare for more intensive con- flicts in the near future. “It is an,undoubted fact that vic- tory would not have been achieved without the untiring activity of the Textile Minority Movement and the Central and Local Strike Commit- tees. The M. M. emerged as an in- dependent leadership which stif- fended the resistance of the workers to negotiations, developed mass ac- tivity in the fight for relief, eom- batted the treachery of the trade union reactionaries by effective work within the unions, and, in co-opera- tion with the W. I. R., effectively or- ganized food centers for the main- tenance of the strikers and their ' dependents.” ti Eat Your Meals in the BAZAAR Restaurant BEST FOOD ONLY Tonight! _ A Night on the NEEDLE Large Quantities of GET BARGAINS IN MEN’S Cloaks, Dresses, Children’s Clo! 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