The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1931, Page 5

Lae bth He staal DAIL 193l ATTACKS ON NEGROES, FOREIGN-BORN: AIMED AT SFRUGGLE ON STARVATION (CONTINUED FROM EAGE ONE) —>— South as well asin Afrita, the West Indies, etc. This insult to thelr manhood the Negro workers .of, Harlem, and the Negro toilers throughout the country, should throw ba¢k into the faces of the misleaders by demonstrating to- day under the militant leadership of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the National Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born and the International Labor Defense in a united front against the united front of the bosses and their Negro lackeys. Not only are the bosses intensifying their attacks onthe Negro masses, through the increasing wave of lynch- ings, attempts, to incite the . white masses against Negroes, but against the foreign born workers as well. The aim of the bosses is to cut off these two important sections of - workers from the struggles of the working class against starvation by making them afraid to fight back, afraid to strike against wage cuts, afraid to join in the struggle for unemploy- ment relief and.insurance. Smash Frame-ups. and. Deportations! Deportations..of militant foreign born workers are being speed up by the bosses. Frame-ups,are becoming every’ day occurrences,,.both against foreign born and native white and Negro workers. ... . ., In Akron, Ohio, Paul’ Kassay, framed by the government, was held in $40,000 bail, according to the the Associated Press, and- was released only when 22 Akron workers pledged their homes for-his bond. Plans for deporting. 100,000 seamen are being rushed, by the..“Labor” De- partment. Carl Erickson, a Scandinavian sea~ man, is in the Ellis Island hospital critically ill follwing his arrest sev- eral weeks ago in a raid on the Fin- nish Workers Club controlled by the socialist jarty. The social-fascists, too busy with strike-breaking and protecting capitalist institutions, have abandoned this worker to the tender mercies of the immigration officials. The International Labor Defense has launched a fight to save him from deportation. This is only one| of scores of deportation cases being defended by the I. L. D., including the case of August Yokinen who was arrested by immigration officials fol- lowing his repuriation of the boss poison of race hatred and his pledge to fight for the rights of the Negro masses. Attack on Lawrence Strike Leaders. In Lawrence, Mass., the leaders of the successful textile strike, have been framed by the government, which has just placed the ridiculous charge against them that they visited an ar- mory and made inquiries about arms. Workers! Native and foreign born! White and Negro! Employed and unemployed! Defend yourselves! De- feat the boss hunger program! Stop deportations! Smash lynching! De- monstrate in your millions today as part of the struggle against perse- cution of foreign born and Negro workers, against the attacks of the bosses on the standard of living of the workers, against wage cuts and the stagger plan, against starvation, against imperialist wars, for unem- ployment relief and insurance, for the | defense of the Soviet Union, for the defense of foreign born and Negro workers! Emergency Jobs in Rochester End; Admit 750,000 Jobless in New York (CONTINUED ROM PAGE ONE) ter should see ‘similar action now in the many other cities which are also cutting off reliefy Jobles sand un- employed workers are~also rushing mass meetings, tag days and other preparations {6 thé: “state hunger marches in Obl, whété’ marchers start from fivé"différénit points on April 16, and inPennsytvania, where the start is mad@in Phitadelphia and Chester on Aprif10. “Both of these marches are onthe state capitals. This is the period of-intensive or- ganization of unem| councils and of the unions-of the-Trade Union Unity League, “fa préparation for great struggles coming soon, as wage- cutting and staryatiom continue to grow worse. ‘* iti Sater ee NEW YORK.—The Research Bu- reau of the Welfare Council has just made public a statistical survey of unemployment here which admits that in the month of December there was the equivalent .of .750,000 full time workers uremployéd- throughout the month, with a wage loss of $80,- 000,000. The suryey covers New York City proper, and~substgntially backs up the declaration made in the Daily Worker, based on the Daily's own computations, that there are 1,000,000 jobless*’ in “Greater New York, the tertitory covered by the central organization ofthe Unem- ployed Councils of “Greater New York, At the time “the Daily Worker made this analysis, the police de- partment was. elaiming. that there were only, according: to-the police census, 50,000 unemployed families. The federal and state statistics were giving New York unemployment fig- ures of a couple of hundred thou- sand. But now the facts are admit- ted—for December. Obviously there are more unemployed now than in December, and--the- starvation of those for so long a .time jobless is growing worse..and worse. # The New York, state, unemployment index of factory workers. for Febru- ary, 1931, showed, 2.2 per cent more Jebless in February than in Decem- | ber. : The Welfare Committee figures just Gottlieb’s’ Hardware 119 THIRD AVENUE Near 14tb St. yvesant 6974 All minds of ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Cutlery Our Specialty Airy, Large Meeting Rooms and Hal! TO HIRE” snd Datees in ‘the Czechoslovak Workers Hoyse, Inc. 347 EB, T2nd Bt. “New York Telephone: Rhinelander 6097 Phone: Lehigh 4-1812 & Electrical Corporation Tools, Builders’ ‘Hardware, 2018 2nd. AVENUE © CORNER 104TH STREET released show that in December there was 50 per cent unemployment among lJongshoremen, 25 per cent among sSajlors, 20 per cent among chauffeurs, teamsters, laborers, garage and road workers, 9 per cent among sales peo- | ple, 5 per “mt among banking, in- surance and real estate employes, 15 per cent among actors, 20 per cent among musicians and 10 to 25 per cent among various classes of do- mestic and personal service workers. The loss in wages due to involun- tary idleness was called in the re- port “a sacial deficit of alarming pro- portions.” hee ay Lumber Payrolls Lose $75,775,000 SEATTLE, Wash., March 27.— A) Joss of $75,775,000 in payrolls in the| lumber companies of Washington and Oregon shows what the unem- ployment crisis is doing to the work- ers of that state. This loss is con- tinued and is growing worse, but the figures for 1931 months are not published. In 1929, which was already a crisis year with reduced production and plenty of wage cuts, the lumber com- panies of’ Washington paid out $107,- 800,000 in wages. In 1930 these same companies paid in wages only $80,- 075,000. In 1929 the lumber com- panies of Oregon paid in wages $80,- 000,000. In 1931 the Oregon com- panies paid in wages $32,000,000. Workers in other industries who were laid off and had their wages cut as a direct result of the crash in the lumber industry include those working in: machinery supply hou- ses handling sawmill and logging equipment, saw manufacturers, foun- dries, produce houses, wholesale gro- cery houses, retail grocers, bakeries, flour manufacturers, clothiers, truck and automobile dealers, oil compa- nies, paint houses, butches, railroads, Phone: LHHIGH 6382 ‘aterrtional Barker Shop ‘M. W. SALA, Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New Yor! (bet, 108rd & 104th Sts. Ladies Robe Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor 2% REDUCTION TO orTy AND UNION WORKERS Have Your Eyes Examined | and Glasses Fitted by WORKERS MUTUAL OPTICAL CO. ander persona) supervision of | DR. M. HARRISON Optometrist bar Leia AVENUB NEW YORK CITY York Eye and afirmary Telephone Stuyvesant 8830 | | i 29 EAST 14TH STREET NEW. YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations LY W Cooks fade Whitewash Selves Oakland Local Is in a Bad Situation OAKLAND, Calif.—Cooks, Wait-| ers and Waitresses Local 31 at its last meeting had all of the local grafters present, because one of the} clique was charged with embezzle- ment and forgery. In the charge it} was exposed how Organizer Johnson used an old receipt, rubbed out the | contents of it and gave the receipt | for $10 with the signature of the | former secretary, who is dead, and) | kept the, money for 90 days. Evi-| dently this would not have been re-| turned, but, finding out that charges | were preferred against him, he turned in the money the day of the meeting. From Bad to Worse. The local is going from bad to worse. The last few months the local was in debt about $2,000 be- Rose Spector, Daily Worker re- presentative of Los Angeles, sends us the following note indicating a] real understanding of how Daily) Worker activity should be carried] on. She writes: “I accept your criticism whole- | heartedly in regard to cutting the cause they had to pay the officials Bud up THe their fat salary. BARRICADES The restaurants are firing th< fawn hee union workers and taking 'n non- Hen? YAE DAI? union workers for less wages and wo lenger hours. By the way, here is news for A. F. of L. union members in Oakland. Who comes in to save the local from bankruptcy? Why our big brother, Spooner. He is the big official and secretary of the Central Labor Coun- cil, who for many years controlled most of the locals in the city. He distribution in their places of work always puts his foot on every one A who dares to oppose him. Well, he} Bipetiias, eres POS kibesiie: NeXt tO ast ~. | @ worker, the bread lines and mis-| is losing his hold slowly but surely in| sion houses, slave markets. the Central Labor Council, so now tm ey sialon: sus panties ies, he comes to our local and is nom-| ,, inated for the president. He stated| “the comrades are beginning to that he thought it was time for him| Tealize the importance of the 60,- to step in and help to put the local Dale Sd tat Bae aot in good condition. He will meet in : z vie arth participate in the distribution of a few days with the local officials and will help to straighten the m's-| *he Daily Worker. We failed as yet bundle order, Districts and Sections | must by all means make efforts to| increase instead of cut the bundle. | The workers are eager to read the Daily and it is only up to us to reach them with it. Party members and sympathizers must always be supplied with copies of the Daily for | understandings. H’m—let us be on| ‘ mobilize ourselves to sell the guard. Some more whitewashing| Dally at the factory gates, a short- coming. coming which must be very soon ORKER, NEW ORK, SA URDAY, MARCH 2 Angeles Increases Bundle t 300, Tightens ‘Daily’ Forces; N.Y. Red Sunday March 29 6.1, fo: ‘s That is the way these grafters| Overcome: build the union—blacklist those who| , Comrade Spector immediately fol- | dare to oppose them in their dirty | WS out the plan of action with the | work. | fcllowing orders: with the waitresses, who recently | * 300.2 | have been the fighting spirit in the | local. Let us expose them at every | Saturday should prove another in turn. We shouldn’t permit them to| CeDtive in strengthening the Dail pull the wool over di eyes, eat at Worker apparatus, especially in sell- the local grafters are thrown outand| "8 the paper before factory gates. the local is in control of the workers we will be able, together with the * militant workers, to fight for better| “VOIDS BUNDLE CUT working conditions, which these fak-| J. J. ©., Trade Union Unity League | ers are not trying to help us attain | organizer of Sacramento, Calif., sent —A Food Worker. | us a word of the police raids two | Weeks ago, and meets the problem | | iv @ correct manner, gardeners and the entire farming “With organization headquarters | SACRAMENTO, CAL, community. | smashed and almost every vestige of | goed | local forces seattered or in jail, with Demand Real Relief | Police interference, Post Office an- HAMMOND, Ind., March 27. —| tagonism, ete, the Daily Worker sale ‘There are 10,000 unemployed in this) —by one man—has been cut to a| steel mill city. At a mass meeting | low figure. called recently at the Workers Cen-| “However, would not suggest cut ter, 350 jammed into a hall which — “You will please, © We waiters must stick together| imcrease our bundle order from 250/ : | The California district page each) down of bundle order because I | feel sure that within a few days the D.W. sale will return to nor- mal. We can easily make up the debt as soon as Party headquarters are established and a new D.W. sales force developed.” N. Y. RED SUNDAY TOMORROW District 2, New York, will have 2 Red Sunday tomorrow, when every Party and League member will canvass from house-to-house for subs, renewals, and sale of the Daily Worker. The quota of 150 new yearly subscriptions or renew- als for New York in the May Day drive for 1,000 subs, will be the more easily reached by this: Red Sunday, and sympathizers and workers are urged to participate whole-heartedly ‘in it. DONATES $5 FOR 500 FREE DAILIES Saturday morning from Union Square, N. Y., a group of 20 Red Builders will distribute 500 Daily Workers in the subway, carrying out a wish of a sympathizer who donated $5 toward this, because, as he says, “I'm sick of seeing capit- alist trash read by everybody. If this distribution is successful, Y'll do it again. I'd like to see this thing go over big.” This comrade himself buys 5 and 10 copies of the Daily Worker, and leaves them on the subway seats for others to read. HANDLES THE COPS 7 nee Seay i per ee s Meet T, Raymond, 18-year old ex-farmer of Vermont and now memberof the N. Y. Red Builders News Club. When he went down with 35 Dailies in his apron to the World Exchange Bank on Second Ave. and llth Street at the time it “crashed,” the cop volunteered the information, “We don’t want you around here. There’s a mil- lion and one corners besides this one.” Raymond, seeing the Jong line of depositors waiting for their hard-earned savings, shot back: “This is the one corner I'm going to stay on.” In the club only one month, he's now averaging 50 a day, and will be increasing it, considering his pep. seats 200, and took part in a dis-| worth of groceries for a family of | five for one month—tbaut two cents | | @ meal, | $12.50 The meeting elected a committee to demand more food for the job- | of 15 which went to the city trustees less. Despite prohibition by the po- | = REDUCED PARK CLOTHING CO. 93 Avenue A, Cor. Sixth St cussion in which it was brought out | from All Our from that the city “relief” which a ‘part i Y of the jobless get amounts to $15 | $17.50 Suits and Overcoats $2 2.50 $15.00 lice, 200 unemployed followed their | committee to the office, and waited | outside. ‘The trustees flatly refused the de- mands, and the whole group marched back to the Workers Center, where the delegates reported, A hundred made applications to join the Un- employed Council. . e208 The Electric Railway Journal, pub- lishing employers’ figur2s which are certainly not telling more than half of the story, states that in 36 states and 70 per cent of the Electric rail- way industry, employment is five per cent less than in 1930 and seven per cent less than in 1929, The decline is greatest in the Southwestern states, where employment now is 11 per cent less than in 1930. formerly up to $32.50 $5 to #10 Value for ... Soviet Union Take B. M. T. or Lexington A Via Helsingfors ....$198.00 MEN’S FINE PANTS Bankrupt Stock PURCHASED FROM AUCTIONEERS MEN’S, YOUNG MEN’S SUITS, OVERCOATS AND TOPCOATS ‘10 ‘2 We can match extra pants for your suit F. S. BLUM, irc. 5-7-9 UNION SQUARE WEST BETWEEN 14TH AND 15TH STREETS NEXT TO AMALGAMATED BANK OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY ubway to 14th Street Union Square Station Small Steamers $10.00 Less i { Steamship tickets for all countries at reduced rates For further information commu- nicate with Gustave Eisner Official 8. S. Ticket Agent 1433 Bway, cor. 26th St., New York ‘Tel, CHelven 3-5080 ~ WORKERS FORUM THIS SUNDAY NITE, March 29—8 P. M. WORKERS SCHOOL ‘AUDITORIUM—35 FE. 12 St. tnd fh. A, LANDY “Social Fascist Attacks on Marxism” DENTAL DEPARTMENT NTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER Will be open Wednesday, April 1st 1 UNION SQUARE—8TH FLOOR ‘ (Formerly Dr. Mindel’s Office) SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES FOR MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OFFICE AND WORK UNDER THE PERSONAL CARE OF DR. JOSEPHSON . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER 32 Union Squqare, Room 603 Tel: STuy. 9-2484 POST-WAR LITERATURE THIS SATURDAY MARCH 28—3 P. M. WORKERS SCHOOL AUDITORIUM—35 B.-12 St. 2nd £1, A SERIES or By E. B. JACOBSON “American Authors” 12 LECTURES Broad Strike! Committee | cconniy ) FROM PAGE ONE) selves on strike. It is this rising] rank and file pressure keeps | certain elements in the avyance | committee, so from compromise with, or surrend to the Interna- tional officials and the compat tt ign that the mext neral grie- vanee ¢ turday, will be for members of the committee only. The ostensible purpose of the mee ing is to pass on a list of grievances and strike demands to be drawn up today by a sub-committee appointed for that purpose. | It was brought out at the meet- ing yesterday that Governor Pinchot had promised to keep state police out of the strike regions—but that was | | before the strike started, and while inchot thought the Five and Half| | Year Agreement made by Lewis and| Boylan would prevent all strikes The state police are on the ground in full f and in addition, in Scuth V Barre, e one of d so far ist the the only two mines police | wi Barre papers yesterday featured a dispatch from Washing- ton, D. C., in which Secretary of Lbor Doak appoints Thomas Davis as commissioner of conciliation to break the strike if he can. The papers say, “Devis, who has had much ence in settling anthra- cite stri in the Pennsylvania fields, is in Wilkes Barre today, and will keep Doak informed.” | As a matter of fact, Murray and Kennedy and the other strike-break- ing international and district offi- | cials, took Davis right with them to the meeting. But because of the hall crowded with rank and file miners determined to fight, things did not go as Murray and Davis ex- | pected. Rank and File Demands | gram of the Rank and File , the organization in the locals of the militant group, is for election at once of broad rank and file strike committees in each local, to organize mass picketing; to draw the unemployed miners, and their wives and children into the struggle, to fight against any attempt at ar- bitration, and not to go back to wo: t a vote of the strikers, and not until the demands are granted. The demands put up by the Rank and File Opposition, which are be- rculated among the miners as 25,000 leaflets can be printed. yment for all dead work maintaining the wage scale for all classes of work, no topping, no check- off, recognition of the mine com- mittees, and no discrimination. Dead work is that work the miner does, taking out rock, etc. which does | not directly produce coal, and for} | which, now, he does not get any pay. Pay is by the ton of~coal produced. Maintaining the scale for} all classes of work is to do away | with wage cuts through shifting. The “no topping” demand is to get | rid of one robbery. The companies | now demand the coal be heaped high | | on the cars. If it is not, they dock the miner. If it is heaped up, some falls off, the miner does not get/ paid for that, and the company col- lects the coal later. | The police are used to collect the | United Mine Workers union dues | | from the miners at each pay day. | This is the check-off. None of the| miners has any use for the U.M.W.,| and none would pay dues if he had any choice, ie The Rank and File Opposition | urges the miners to organize the | Glen Alden strike, and send strik- }ers to other locals to collect funds | for relief and get support for the! | strike. | Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to || The DAILY WORKER | Advertising Department | 50 East 13th St. New York City o |UMW Locals Forced| MOLOTOV POINTS OUT TASKS IN to Act By Miners COMING YEAR TO SIXTH SOVIET CONGRESS; SOCIALISM ADY. Page Five A Socialist Industry and Collectivization Are Ad- vancing; Warns There Are Many Obstacles To Be Overcome MOSCOW.—On Monday Comrade Molotov, irmaa of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union cx tinued the second part of his report to the VIL. Soviet Congres He said the great Socialist program decided on by the V. Soviet Congress had been carried out according under review, still more, it had been exceeded. The second tremendous fact since the last congress was the liquidation of unemployment in the Soviet Union. The third great fact was the practical solution of the grain problem on a Socialist basis. Connected with this third fact was the fourth great fact that the deci- sive masses of the poor and middle peasantry were definitely on the path to Socialism. This permitted the development of the fifth fact, the struggle for the liquidation of the kulaks as a class. The dominating role of Socialist industry was seen in the fact that it now accounted for two-thirds of the total production. Now that the grain | problem had been solved, intensive | work was being performed to raise | the level of technical culture and olve the cattle-breeding problem The right-wing opportunists had de- clared that it would last 5 or 10 years before the collective and Soviet farms could supply the necessary quantities of grain. However, these predictions had been refuted. The commodity production of the collec- tive and Soviet farms was already | above the level prescribed by the Five Year Plan. At the time of the XV Party Congress collectivization accounted for 1.1 per cent of all) peasant farms; one year later 2.3 per cent; in 1929 8.1 per cent, and | at present 35.5 per cent. During the | last 6 months 3 million peasants had joined the collective farms. The ad- | vantages of collectivization already | made themselves felt. The average area of land under cultivation per head in the collectives was twice as | large as the average per head for | the individual peasant farms. The | yield per unit was also considerably | higher in the collective farms. The | century-old contradiction between | town and country was being wiped | out. | Referring to the tasks to be car- | ried out this year, Molotov declared | hat by the end of the year at least | £0 per cent of agriculture must be | collectivized. In Northern Caucasia, | he Central Volga district and the steppe areas in Ukrainia the collec- iivization was already 60 per cent. Today the members of the collective agricultural undertakings were the chief support of the Soviet govern- ment in the country areas. A tremendous increase in produc. | | tion was planned for industry. Dur- | ing the course of the year 518 new | factories would begin work. Real | wages were rising and the costs of | production were betng lowered. The | slogan put forward by the masses, | | VACATION: — Beautiful Mountain In the industrial | locomotive | peat | Park, New York. “Five Year Plan in Four Years” was being carried out. group “A” (petroleum, building, agricultural machinery, to plan led out in production of pig ati 4 The set years. had been considerably in excess of t figure set It~had also cided to build a series foundries However, tk months of 1931 had not be gether satisfac the production of n have to be alterec mediate tasks \ ment of transport the railways, and t production in the D Molotov th against overcol estimation of the ties. The present period re) the last stage of the NEP first stage of Socialism lective agricultural u income must be div according to the quality and quantity of th work performed, and not per head of the members. In industry and com- merce the stage of diréct commodity exchange had fot yet been reached. Business principles must still form the basis of opefations? In conclusion Molotov declared that the Communists could look back at the work performed with pride. However, they must not forget that the present year was the decisive year for the success of the Five Year Plan: Tremendous ef- forts were necessary to overcome all difficulties and keep ‘up the plan level. Socialism was being built up, but the work was taking place in a capitalist environment. The task of strengthening the work of building up socialism was a Communist task. “Our work is to carry on the strug- gle for the final victory of the cause of Marx, Engels and Lenin!” The delegates rose in their seats cheering and applauding! 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