The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1931, Page 2

Page Two \ Laren perce remeretnen i ahi B Heat key cit Aaa lt DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1931 \ DALLAS, TEXAS, KLAN CITY WHERE SLEEK PIRATES RULE Coder and Hurst Nearly Lynched for Leading Unemployment Struggle; Fight Will Continue (By Special Correspondent} DALLAS, Texas, March 22.—The tidnapping of Coder and Hurst can- not under any circumstances be re- garded as a spontaneous outburst of mob violence. Dallas is not a wild west, gun-toting town; it 1s the lead- ing mercantile and financial city of the Southwest, and the violence meted out to Communist organizers is an expression of the official policy of the sleek pirates who rule and own the district No extensive investigation is need- ed to verify this fact. The literature of the all-powerful chamber of com- merce abounds with statements that prove it. “Labor conditions are one passage reads, “because allas is an open-shop city.” An- says: “A decided advantage for is the sentiment in favor of ntaining the present open-shop uation. This sentiment is tolerant. firm... The Dallas Open Shop 4 ‘iation, which was organized at a public mass meeting, is supported by the leading people of the city.” Again: “The population of Dallas and the surrounding district from which labor could be drawn, @ large surplus of white labor, male and female, available for new {n- dustries... The mumber of skilled workers is too high in proportion to the unskilled and should be reduced. In another passage: “Dallas is the leading open shop city in the entire South West. There is no large man- ufacturing plant, regardless of what line you take in this city which is operated closed shop... These figures show that the Open Shop Associa- tion is clearly in control.” May Change! The inhuman beating handed out to Coder and Hurst proves this to be true now. How long it will con- tinue to be true, despite a statement of the Open Shop Association on January 10, 1930, that it “would fight any labor drive to the last ditch,” is another question. In short time that the Commun- ist Party and the Trade Union Unity League have been in Dallas, they have attracted demonstrations of from 3,000 to 5,000 workers; at the | last demonstration three fourths of shows | fight for complete equality for the subject races. Long experience in paying A. F. of L organizers to stay out of the field has lulled the open shoppers into the belief Chat. they would never be “bothereg@” By any honest-to-good- ness fig&ting labor organization. What tisfuviates these pirates now is that, get enly can’t they buy off T. U. U. &. organizers, but they are faced wit® the entirely. naw prospect of having the tortured, starving, en- slaved Negroes join hands with their white fellow-workers in the common fight for a higher standard of living and the abolition of all Jim Crow restrictions. Uses of K.K.K. In desperation, the exploiters have turned to the Ku Klux Klan to help them out of their difficulties, when they see the working masses listen- ing to Communists and militant un- ionists. Probably they realize that the K.K.K. provides but a temporary relief. Aside from the internal dif- ficuttées the umjority of the populace fervently hat@ the Klan. Many of the Klensmen themselves are unem- | ployed workers, who are becoming | sympathetic with an yorganized fight | } for Unemployment relief. Te fact | jremains, the Communist Party is »| here in Dallas to stay, floggings or | no floggings, lynching or no lynch- | ings. It is to be expected then, that | the ruling class in the state will | turn to other restrictive measures, | explicity anti-labor, anti-free speech legislation. | | The Constitation! Despite an article in the U.S. con- | Police Commissioner Graves has | Publicly declared that he will greet | all future Communist demonstrations | | with “thousarids of tear bombs.” And | | while Hurst was being tried, his at-| | torney, the most highly regarded | | legal scholar in the state, was fined } | six or seven times in the course of | a few hours for protesting against the | Judge's obvious manhandling of the constitution and the common and} | statute law. t The value of the best capitalist government constitutions can be} MINN. WORKERS |Ann Joins TRE MLORE Money IT ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER THESE REALLY ARE Goof Th bs! ONLY A Few KAOwE HE AVERAGE MAN Won't Do AADAYS Caucer ov q % rs 'T OF LT THERES the Needle Trades FIGHT POLICE BAS : — Workers Union. 3 Given 90 Days On Framed-up Charges | MINNEAPOLIS, March 23.—De: ingiahapolie ing the police ban on working class seine hd | meetings. the workers of Minneapo- . . . | lis last Wednesday successfully re-| |) P | sisted police efforts to break up the) “Mary, what can I hast! Bio bac Paris Commune meeting called by the steak dinner tomorrow? I've just| International Labor Defense. paid my room rent and don’t know} The meeting, first planned for a| what I'll eat next week, but I've just | hall was held in the streets when | got to get something to wear.” | police threatened the hall keeper with ; Es | loss of his license and closed the hal! | “Don't be silly, Ann. It's just your} A true story from the life of a | real silk hosiery mills worker of | stitution. which expressly provides The committee in charge of arrange- kind that makes the boss give US} culable harm in the public schools for absolute freedom of assembly. ; W.ents then tried to hold the meeting “inners to fool us into something. | in a sly and treacherous way.” Take it from me, no boss ever gives / a single thing without being paid} back doubly at least.” in the hall of the Finnish Workers Club, the board of directors of that organization agreeing to defy the pol- lice ban. Police however, surrounded “What do you mean, ain't he gonna | the hall and prevented workers from give us a dinner with trimmings and| Ruthenberg to 10 years in prison. He getting near the entrance. Call on Workers to Meet. A large crowd had gathered. At “Now,-you just watch and see if| this point the I. L. D. committee made | there isn’t some catch to it, Ann.” | their way to the door, demanding the right to enter and carry on the meet- “a the “humble slaves” praising the; ing. i eee _ boss and giving many thanks. But| This caused the crowd to concen aisbuee time ater: | dancing, and all for nothing, no ad- mission?” The dinner takes place, with all) the workers were Negroes, according | judged by the fact that the very | trate around the entrance, forcing the | to non Communist sources. This obvious and growing influence | among the Negroes of the Commun- ist demands for absolute economic and social equality is driving the ex- Ploiters half mad. The Communists, they say, must be got rid of on two| the working class is concérned, if | meeting and it was soon in full swing’ ji; received a nice little cut of 10 grounds: their program for the or- ganization of all workers, and their first time this one had to deal with @ case in which the conflict between | worker and exploiter was laid bare, it split wide open, and has done so ever since, clear down to 1931 in| Dallas, Texas. So far as protectine pias ‘as well never have been writ- | ten. | i INDIANA HARBOR STEEL WORKERS TALK ACTION AS CONDITIONS WORSEN (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANA HARBOR, Ind.—The Youngstown Sheet and | Tube changes every month. It is not the same now as it was a month ago, ete. And you can bet your last shirt that these) changes are not doing us workers any good. Each change! means some more lose their jobs and the rest have to do more| work, generally for less money. | Here are some of the things that were brought out at our meeting last week when we reorganized’the Yougstown Sheet and Tube group of the Metal Workers Industrial League. We have already within the group the basis for a committee in ihe hot department. Short Time In Machine Shop. The machine shop used to work 10 nours, six days a week. Cut 9 then to 8 hours and 5 days. Last week it only worked 3 days. Some cranemen only work 2 days. The men} are talking about union and machine guns together, which maybe shows that they don’t know much about sither, but also shows that something s going happen here soon. We've got to step on the gas so that the MWIL will be able to lead the happenings. In the machine shop the boss comes around and makes yeu give anywhere from 50 cents to $2.00 from your pay for “relief” to workers the company has thrown out of work. We haven't got an Unemployed Couneil that amounts te much here but we have to build one. The town is poverty stricken or at least the had some furniture. “But I ean't eat furniture” he told them. They sald he should sell it. He got sore and said: “I've given to everyone of your campaigns before, but never What’s On— TUESDAY A Meeting of the Press Ticket And Program Committee is being held Tuesday at 8 p, m. at 569 Pros- pect Ave, Members concerned must be preant, 4 ’ WEDNESDAY— Womns Counel No, 4 Wil hear a lecture on the Paris Commune at 61 Graham Ave, at 8.30 p.m. Admission fre Res Hh Workers Hx-Servicemen’s League Meets on 86th St. between Lexing- ton and Third Ave, at 8 p, m, A ee Exec. Comm, Ix-Servicemens League Meets regularly every Wednesday night at headquarters. Committee | prety ; pe Nadeaewelovah Acardademer-.: ~ a M Wmaremnn a should be present, ———_—_ ‘Warren Steel Bosses again.” There are lots of workers like this and we've got to get them into the Unemployed Council and @ real fight here. ScaredWhen Jobless Marched | on Feb. 25 Warren, Ohio. Daily Worker: We in this city have demonstrated on Feb. 25th and there were repre- sented about 600 workers. Workers | who came out to listen to our speaker | told us al] the conditions of the un- employed workers, of starvation and suffering. spring of 1930 there were ung themselves and one Killed his family and . Here in this city the local paper told us there are about 25,000 gut of work. The Commu- nity Pum keeps about 1,100 fam- ilies, this tion Army about 500. But no@.@yp eharities say that they will rev@ee @® give to the workers. , Curation Reliet. ‘They gfe t 6-7 in a family $2.50 to tsa That means starving. But the Wl paper was scared about our deméastration and they prom- ised us something better. Look here what the editor of the paper said: “Could it not be arranged to have a committee of charitable people who are not unemployed and who are not in need, to make police to center their entire force at “Mary, what am I to do? Look, | the door. my pay envelope is so small this) This was the signal for a distribu- week and I've worked more than, tion of leaftets calling a street meet- ever. Do you think there is some ing a few blocks away. A group of! mistake?” | comrades had already started the “No, there is no mistake. We've with a huge crowd around the plat- per cent for that steak dinner we form. had.” Im Spite of the Cold. This meeting lasted for half an‘~ hour in bitter cold weather. Some! “yes, the dinner was free. police were rushed to the meeting to/ now you will pay for it in the nice break it up, but the workers put up @/ little sum of a wage-cut of 10 per stern resistance and the police could! cent weekly. Don't you remember not get to the speakers to arrest them. I told you to watch and see. That is The workers booed the police and| the way the boss prepares his slaves fought them for a long time after the | for a cut. meeting had adjourned. Several were us to stand by him, because he stood arrested, charged with disorderly con-| by us and gave us a dinner? Well, duct and vagrancy. The cases came here he is.” up this morning and the judge in- “Gee, what can we do about it? I sisted on asking questions harping ooudnt make ends meet before and back to the demonstration. ae The Swedish Workers Club atvits| [%0,Per cent less. T won't be able regular meeting, March 20, passed a resolution condemning the action of “Well, it’s about time you stopped “Aw, that dinner was free.” | Strike Breaker Rallies} But | Remember how he told} WORK UALESS HE 1S AND CANNOT CET” PLen Per "ART ————————— omanodnhane Factory CLoseD “KILL OFF REDS” URGES BURNS Support for Fish SAN DIEGO, March 23—W. J. Burns, internationally notorious de-} tective and strike-breaker, urged the} members of the San Diego Ad Club/ to turn Communists over to the hos- | pitals or to lay them away in ceme- taries, in a speech here. He declared the Reds “do away with your churches, destroy sacred mar- riage vows-and rear children in insti- tutions,” that they are doing “incal- Of his own experiences with the Reds, Burns told of raiding a Com- munist convention in Marion County, Michigan, and of the sentencing of declared thaf he supports Mussolini fully in his fight against Commun- ists. The purpose of Burns’ speech was apparent. He urged every member of the Advertising Club to write a let- ter to his congressman, urging him | to support the Fish anti-working class proposals, which will enable the gov- — Away With Capitalist Misery! — Le PEOPLE” Say acl if Time; SPEED UP, WAGES CUT ne ; 10 ne Gy mem 5YEAR. PLAN By RYAN WALKER ELL 9 SIRE, BY, Sib LIBERATOR OUT WED; | RUSH ORDERS BY WIRE| A special issue of The Liberator || will be published in time for the }) March 28 demonstrations against }| lynching and deportations. The paper will go to press this Wed- | nesday and will be in the mais }} on Wednesday night. The Liberator office, at 799 Broadway, Room 338, urges all workers and contacts to rush their orders for copies at once. Don't sehd them by mail. Wire them in This is the only way you can make sure that you will get cop- [| ies in time for Saturday’s demon- }/ strations throughout the country. At the same time you send your }} orders by wire you must mail }/ money to pay for said orders, at | the rate of. 2 cents per copy for f} bundles of 35 and more. Armour Bosses Fire Old Worker to Save Giving Him Pension ernment to deport all class conscious workers. WALKER HAS 24 | TRUNKS ON TRIP! time vacationing in California with | his millionaire pals while over a | million jobless workers of New York City are starving and daily facing evictions is graphically told in a United Press despatch which we | herewith publish in full: | Palm Springs, Cal, March 17.— Mayor James J. Walker, in the best of humor, created somewhat of a’ sensation here when he ap- | peared with a colorful blue and | white tent and announced he was ready for his first sun bath. Despite the fact that Palm Springs at present boasts of 32 the Banker Mayor Kunse of Minne- Worrying about clothes and parties apolis in banning all working class and see how you are being led by meetings and unloosing the police ter- the nose. Now, Mabel’s brother told ror to break them up. The Swedish | me about a union, the Needle Work- workers gave their hall to the I. L. D. ers’ Industrial Union, that fights in spite of the police ban. against this sort of stuff. Listen. You, Mabel, her brother and those | WOLL PLEASES BOSSES we can get together, we'll see this WASHINGTON, D. C.— Matthew | union and get organized a little our- Woll, president of the Union Labgy selves. There's got to be a stop to Life Insurance Company, told the) this ‘sell-out’ for a steak.” banker shareholders that individual) «wel, you can take my word, insurance gained 30 per cent at their Mary, I'm not gonna pay any more meeting recently. This means more 49 per cent cuts for a darn dinner, meney for this Reg Balter and his) 14) help get all I can together and masters, gotten from the workers’ wey! organize the whole shop into through the A. F. of L. |the Needle Workers’ Industrial | Union.” them and which would alleviate | hd some poor hungry folks. “I feel quite sure that most every family in fair circumstances keep putting aside certain victuals with the idéa that they will be used, but in many instances get old and spoiled and are thrown away. Then perhaps people will give even good | | food away. | “These collections could be as- UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS Latest figures show that 10 per cent more workers in the Railroads | have been thrown out of work in | February. sembled and distributed from say WANTED pep seas ne ie FIPTY (50) Comrades to SELL DAILY WORKERS EVERY DAY! LIVE WIRES! BOOST YOUR PAPER! Help build The day before the demonstration ope Negro worker went to a Chris- tian church to call workers on dem- onstration on Feb. 25, The day after the demonstration the stool-pigeon preacher had him arrested and when we workers went to the police court the chief of police, a 100 per cent Catholic, told he was arrested on @ charge of suspicion and would not let him out for 72 hours. They kept him in jail from Feb. 25 to March 4. When he came to trial they put him on a charge of distribution of leaflets and fined him $50 and costs, Call at the following centers for information: New York: 35 E, 12th St. Room 505 Bronx: 569 Prospect Ave.,6-7:30 p.m. which is $58.50. The workers re-| ‘ 1472 Boston Road “ ” fused to pay and we will have an-| Broklyn: Inquire 35 E. 12 St., R’m 505 other trial. Harlem: 308 Lenox Avenue a@ house-to-house canvass jn the well-to-do sections of the city two or three times a week and gather up the fragments that are usually thrown into the garbage can and which is sometimes a sinful waste? Ss some of these things could be cooked over im order to sterilize Comrade workers, white and black, | Passaic: we call on you to organize unem-| 287 Monroe Street, Workers Center ployed councils and the Metal Work- | Patterson: ers’ Industrial League and fight} 205 Paterson Street, Union Hall Prospect 10138 |against starvation and capitalist | Albany: cauteuitee ied | enemies like the preacher. START TODAY! OT Sterday —M. N. * if Wilson Bros. Earn your expenses and help|| King Brown ORGANIZE TO END/spread the DAILY WORKER' || 8 Goraen (first bundle Dailies on credit!) STARVATION; DEMAND RED BUILDERS NEWS CLUB millionaire guests, the mayor of New York occupied the limelight. | While his attendants moved 24 trunks containing the Walker | wardrobe from a hotel to the home | of Samuel Untermeyer, a mile away, the mayor took his sun- ning. AT THE MOROSCO at the Morosco Theatre Lionel At- will in “The Silent Witness,” a new play by Jack De Leon and Jack Celestin. Others in the casf are: Kay Strozzi, Fortunio Bonanova, An- thony Kemble Cooper, Jerome Law- lor and Ann Shoemaker, “The Last Parade,” with Jack Holt in the leading role, is the film atthe Jefferson Theatre. On the stage Harry Delmar’s 1931 Vaudeville Re- vue ig the headline attraction. Rey- nolds and White and Gus Thalero and his “Four-Footed Comedians” complete the bill. Wednesday to Friday the screen will reflect “Lonely Wives,” with Edward Everett Hor- ton, Esther Ralston and Patsy Ruth Miller. The vaudeville includes: Babe Egan and her Hollywood Red- heads; Carleton and Ballew, Miss Winona and company, Norman and Ric and Dick Henderson. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST 61DE—BRONX Harry Delmar's Revue Reynolds and White Joseph Pope Jones Thaler’s Circus How Mayor Walker spends his | Force Extra Work From Steamfitters Without Pay ~ (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Til. — In the Armour Packing plant the steamfitters are supposed to work 71, hours a day and a half hour for lunch. The foreman comes around about lunch .time er just before and tells them a pipe must | be-fixed at such and such a place before the machine in a given de- |partment can operate and must be done at noon hour. So, after noon, | the worker hands his card to the must be signed by him to show that the worker did his 71, hours. So the worker must either accept credit for only 7 hours. that day or work eight. . The boss not .only gets his..pipe- line fixed so the machine.can oper- ate without loss of time after 12:30 lunch but gets it fixed for nothing. Gets No Pension. One worker at Armour'’s who had rendered such faithful service that he was t obe pensioned off in a short time was taken sick. He was sick for two months and when he came | making a fight for jobs for the more | ers in Harlem, held two mass meet- | Harlem.” This question, together with | question they said that 2,000 Negroes foreman who refused to sign it, which | JOB FAKERS HOLD "istic eet | MEETS IN HARLEM Attempt Divert Unem- ployment Struggle NEW YORK.—The Negro. reform- ists who are trying to rehabilitate their shattered influence over the Negro masses by pretending tg be than 75,000 unemployed Negro work- ings in Harlem on Sunday. The slogan of these fakers is “Don’t Trade Where You Cannot Work,” and their bid for mass support is based on the premise of getting the various stores | in Harlem to hire a few hundred Negro workers. At one of these meetings, after several local Negro politicians and other fakers had spoken to the church members attending a forum at Bethel A. M. E. Zion Church, Sol Harper, Negro worker, asked the organizers of the movement. “How would 9,000 jobs solve the unemploy- ment question in Harlem where more than 75,000 Negro workers are un- employed?” He also challenged them on their stand on unemployment re- lief and insurance: “What is the stand of the speakers off giving cash to unemployed Negro workers in another on “what is the cause of raee hatred in your opinion?” they - refused to answer. On the first had got jobs in Chicago through this method, which is a brazen lie, but even if-it was ‘true does not answer Harper's question as to how jobs for a few thotisand would solve the un- employment question in Harlem or throughout the country. PHILHARMONIC The -Philharmonic-Symphony Or- chestra, Arturo Toscanini conduct- ing, will play Brahm’s third sym- phon as the principal nutter of ‘its | progrom at the Thursday evening | and Friday afternoon concerts in | Carnegie Hall. Two works, the over- | ture to “The Taming of the Shrew,” | by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Edward Elgar's Introduction and Al- legro for strings, Op. 47, will be played for the first time by the | Philharmonic-Symphony. This pro- | gram will be repeated at Saturday }evening and Sunday afternoon con- | certs at Carnegie Hall. “THE SILENT ‘WITNESS” OPENS | of a pension was gone. Lee Shubert presented last night | Las piget | his future by individual effort with back for his job they told him he had to be hired over again. Thus his hope | Pring under the illusion that the bosses will take care of the workers’ future, do the right thing, ete. o ‘We packinghouse workers must or- ganize into the Food Workers Indus- trial League which is affiliated to the | fighting TUUL and by hard struggle make our own future secure. ~ —~Packinghouse Worker. And so had his years of honest toil ang efforts to make good and secure the boss, How many hopes have been ban- ished, how many honest efforts wasted in this manner by workers la- ,—— NEW SOVIET FILM!—AMERICAN PREMIERE!===, AMKINO PRESENTS TRANSPORT or FIRE (SILENT FILM WITH ENGLISH TITLES) 4 A DRAMATIC STORY OF THE 1905 REVOLUTION ‘troduced in the U. 8. 5. R. by Sovkl PLOTS REVOLUTIONISTS! COUNTER "PLOTS! TH STREET PLAYHOUSE ‘2 WEST 8TH ST., Between Firth and Sixth Avos.—Spring 6095 POPULAR PRICES—CONTINUODS A, M. 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A member of the Down Town Unem- ployed Council seeing this eviction reported to the Council whe imme- diately marched there and put. the furniture back. The landlord then summoned the ter law is another of the bosses way: of throwing workers into the streets. ‘The Council, then sent a committee of two comrades with the evicted work- er to the court-house. When these two workers attempted te plead for this unemployed worker,. the land~- lord’s agent. in partnership with the Judge, swore out a warrant against the two comrades, charging them with attempt to kill, because the workers said that if the landlord threw the furniture out again, they would put it back. \ The enraged Judge locked up these workers for that day and sent Marshall, who together with his thugs assaulted the workers’ wife and dispossessed her. ee @ The lecture which was to be given, will be lantern slides. All workers are urged to attend. AL; if ; wonquin 4-7712 Faria Fors Fri. and Sus. by Appointment Dr. J. 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