The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1931, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1931 a ee — OM Sac ane aay sons ae ae : Eee SS eee : By RYAN WALKER “Birth of a Nation” Picture Is tHE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER - A Wonderful System - amen Used to Incite Racial Prejudice, Bosses Fear United Struggle of White Workers NEW YORK.—In an effort to com- bat the work of the Communist Party in uniting the Negro and white mass- | es the Dallas bosses are showing the infamous “Birth of a Nation” in this city. This is a direct attempt to stir up race hatred between the white and Negro masses in order to defeat the growing unity of these workers in the struggle against starvation and for unemployment relief and insur- ance. It is the work of the same bosses who recently murderously at-} tacked Codér and Hurst, and left| them for dead in the woods becayse | these two comrades had fearlessly advocated full equality for the Ne- gro Ir es and working class salidar- | ity of white and black. A comrade who visited the showing of it says: “Haying heard so much about the “Birth of a Nation,” and knowing it] would be of interest to other workers | ow what it means, we went to] Its lesson, comrades, is in-| a serious one and one which | class conscious worker should | understand and expose. The pic- ture itself was first shown in 1914 and is acclaimed by the boss press as the greatest film of all time. ‘This picture deals with the South during and after the Civil War. It is calculated to rouse the most in- tense Negro baiting prejudice among those who see it—by picturing the Negro vho had been “freed’| by thé No n capitalists during the Civil War, as brutal savages, | whose desire was to rape or marry a white woman. The Negroes are pic-| tured as drunken brutes, unfit for anything but «.avery. The murder- | bus Ku Klux Klan is glorified as the Negro and} “savior” of the South under the ban- ; ner of the “Holy Cross.’ “The significance of the widely heralded revival of this vicious pic- ture is of extreme importance at this time. Throughout the South, this picture is being shown—in Dallas, Texas, where our comrades were nearly lynched for fighting for the | rights of both Negro and white work- ers against starvation and boss ter- ror. Its purpose is very plain. The Communist Party is rallying the masses of white and Negro toilers, workers and farmers, together for a joint fight against the hunger sys- tem and the bosses are now trying to use this picture to instill the in- sidious poison of race prejudice, to stir up a lynch mob spirit, to glorify and prepare the ground for the KKK and other fascist bands, and thus to smash the growing unity of the Negro and white toilers. The bosses are utilizing «ll means, press, films, church, ete. to spread their race hatred poison. “Eyery class conscious worker must expose this latest and most vicious attack on the Negro workers and the working class as a whole. Our ah-j swer must be increased organization into the ranks of all working class organizations, above all the Commu- | nist Party, and the wiping out of all traces of white chauvinism. Wors- ers! Rally your friends and shop- mates to the mass protest demon- | strations on March 26 against lynch-} ings, deportations and boss terror generally, Smash the bosses’ attack | on the Negro and foreign born work- ers! Strengthen the fight against} starvation, STRIKERS FOIL PLANS OF LA. Workers Rescue Lead- .ers from Gang NEW ORLEANS, La,—The strike of Jongshoremen which began on Febru- ary 28rd, after private interests who bought some of the United States Bhipping Board Gulf Service pro- posed to cut wages from 80 to 65) cents an hour and overtime from $1.20 to $1 an hour, continues in spite | of the arrest and jailing of many militant workers. The International Longshoremen’s| Association fakers were out to drive | the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union | from town, but the MWIU foiled | them. On the night when William | Harvey, and Harry Hynes, two MWIU | organizers arrested by Federal au-| thorities for calling upon the strikers to smash the injunction by mass picketing, were released, one of the | workers was tipped that there would | be-trouble so a group of marine | workers-were at the prison gates at| midnight to get their leaders when | they would be released. A gang of I, L, A. gunmen in two cars was waiting to take them for a ride. The workers had a’ taxi wait- ing and as soon as Harvey and Hynes were..released they were whisked away by their fellow workers, The police had the riot squad out with machine guns, and a police car fol- lowed the strikers all the way to the Union Hall with a machine gun. One of the strikers writes in, “We expect if we hadn't been there that the same. thing would have happened | as happened over in Texas, and we) weren't taking any chances.” U.S. and AF of L Admit Wage Cuts WASHINGTON, March 27.—Fur- ther admission of extensive wage cuts was made here today by Dr. Julius Klein, Under Secretary of the Commerce Department, who has just returned from a series of talks with employérs. Wages are being cut, he said, “especially in Wisconsin and New England.” Figures quoted in the March issue of the Labor Review reveal that dur- ing the month ending January 15, 335 establishments in fifty industries, affecting 43,507 workers, made cuts in wages averaging 10.2 per cent. The Labor Review gives the decreases as follows: food industries, 35; textile, 65; iron and steel, 51; lumber, 68; paper and printing, 31. During this period, the Labor Reviéw claims in- creases in 23 establishments aveér- aging-3 per cent. ‘These figures do not take into consideration indirect wage cutting which: is going on simultancously with direct wage cuts. EX-SERVICEMEN’S H’Q’TS NEEDS CHAIRS ‘The headquarters of the Workres Ex-Servicemen’s League is badly in need of chairs. They ask any work- ers clubs and organizations to donate | any extra chairs or benches to the League. Communicate with 79 E. 10th St., N. Y. C. Phone: |L.HHIGH 6382 ‘tarnctional Barber Shop ™ W SALA. Prop. 2016 Second Avenue, New York thet 10876 & 104th Star Ladies Robs Onr Specialty Private Besety Parlor PUT DEMANDS TO CHARITY OUTFIT Downtown _ Jobless! Council Fights — | Eviction NEW YORK.—Workers are being | rallied to fight the eviction of Louis Trogan, an unemployed worker 61 years ol dwho was eyicted from his | home at 617 East 9th Street, because | he was behind a few months in his; rent. The Downtown Unemployed | Council put the furniture back in| the house, and the police arrested | him and put him in jeil, The hide | their tactics from the other workers in the neighborhood the cops said he | was “injured in a street-car acci- | dent.” Not content with this he will | be tried at the Magistrates court, 315 | West 54th Street on some trumped | up charges, The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil held a very successful demonstra- | tion in front of the Hias Jewish fake | Relief society, which collects thou- | sands of dollars every year in the| name of the unemployed and uses | these funds for their own purposes. | A delegation went inside and pre- sented demands to faker Shluger, who gets $75 a week or more to sit on a nice soft chair, and while his | stomach is full refuse workers food and shelter. The police were out- witted expecting the demonstration to take place when the committee went into present the demands and being ready with a large number of police and thugs to attack the work- ers, when the police thought that there was no more chance for a de- monstration the workers came in full force demonstrated up and down in front of Hias held a large open air meeting to which many hundreds of workers were attracted. All this took place despite the various at- tempts of the police to break up the demonstration and meeting. When the meeting ended the workers all marched over to the hall at 27 East 4th Street, where many workers joined the Council. The Downtown Unemployed Council is going to de- monstrate in front of the Hias un- til they grant the demands which were put forward today. The de- mands are as follows: ‘There shall be no red tape or registration of workers; there shall be no discrimination against race, color or creed; three nourishing meals to be served to the workers each day; all unemployed workers be given a bed every night; there be clean bed clothes every day and not | the Jousy Unen which is now used; @ workers’ committee shal) be grant- ed acdess to the record of all funds collected in the name of the unem- ployed. ( MONDAY— , Workers Laboratory Theatre of WIR Meets every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at 131 W, 28th St. Many workers are needed for acting, writing and staging, TUESDAY . were Workers Ex,Servicemen's 1 Open air meeting at 86th St. be- tween Lexington and Third Aves. at 8 p.m. All eservicemen are urged to attend, ame ee | Foung Defenders and Other Clubs Are called to a conference of the Anti-Imperialist Chinese Alliance to prepare for the defense night of the Chinese workers held for deportation, at 8.30 p, m. at 1490 Boston Ra. Pixeontive Committee | went by Of the Workers Hx-Servicemon’s League meets regularly at 8 p. m, at 79 B, 10th St , “ a 9) UNEMPLOYED Beep} ey ; } 5 ) Revo & SPRAIN LUTION OUT OF HERE O. KING ALFONSO; 1 ome Money TOKEED s J. er = Us Back o Give Down macisiiy 100 IN FISH PA- RADE IN HARLEM Workers Jeer and: Hoot Fakers | NEW YORK.—The Negro workers of Harlem turned a cold shoulder to the parade and meeting called by the Negro lackeys of fascist Ham Fish and other imperialists for yesterday | afternoon. The affair arranged as a counter demonstration to the success- ful demonstration in Harlem on Sat- urday against lynching and deporta- tions proved a fizzle of the worst kind. Only 100 persons participated in the parade down Lenox Ave. to 125th St. and through 125th to Sev- enth Ave. and up Seventh Ave. of these were workers. Th> Jewish group had about 25 members, the | Garveyites another 25. Then there were about 25 members of other church groups. The reformist lead- ers, numbering about 25, rode in automobiles. The U. N. I. A. band headed the parade. Negro workers on the sidewalks booed and jeered as the reformists in their cars. Workers shouted to them asking where in hell they thought they were going. Reports circulated in Harlem short- ly after the parade that Fascist Fish ‘was so discouraged over the fiasco of the parade that he might not attend the indoor meeting in the evening. | Fish, with the aid of fellow imper- | ialists in the Tammany Hall organ- | ization, had succeeded in uniting the Negro reformists in a desperate at- tempt to again divert the Negro/ masses from militant struggle against the boss system of lynching, Jim Crowism, deportations, starvation and imperialist wars. They had offered | the Negro workers, in place of the} struggle against lynching and starva- tion, a meeting “in honor of his Im- perial Majesty Haile Selasse, First, | Emperor of Abyssinia and his son, the prince recently born.” In addition, a| few of the tens of thousands of| Negro unemployed in Harlem were to be given a free meal for a single day | as the price of their desertion of | the struggle for Negro rights. The Negro workers threw this insult back into the face of the traitors. Just before the fiasco parade be- gun, groups of Negro and white members @ the League of Struggle for Negro Rights had distributed leaflets along the line of march call- ing upon the workers to repudiate | the Negro lackeys of imperialism and the fascist Fish, Few WORKERS EXPOSE FRED R. MOORE Faker “Not Interested in Lynching” NEW YORK.—In connection with the preparations for today’s demon- stration in Harlem against lynching and deportations, a delegation of 10 from the Harlem Unemployed Coun- cil visited several Negro bourgeois newspapers in Harlem to seek sup- port for the struggle against per- secution of foreign born and Negro workers. While the attitude of all of the Negro reformist editors was more or less hostile to the protest demon- strations, the editor of the New York Age, Fred R. Moore, who is also a republican alderman was the most ovtspoken in his opposition. Moore told the delegation he was not in- terested in the fight against lynch- ing as no one would lynch him in his office. Therefore he would not sup- port the demonstrations, The workers then asked his atti- tude on discrimination, whether he was not interested in fighting dis- crimination against Negro workers in restaurants, etc. His answer was that he generally ate at home. And, no doubt, when he travels he does so by automobile, so had no con- cern with the many privations and insults Negro workers who have to travel by bus and train experience. Moore further declared that he would not support any moyement that stood for internationalism, that is against segregation of Negro work- ers upon which the growing power of the Negro bourgeoisie is based. Food Workers Will Banquet S. Weiner Jailed “Militant”| NEW YORK CITY.—Sylvia Weiner. | militant food worker who is serving | a 30-day sentence for her activities | in the cafeteria strike last year will be welcomed on her release from prison with an affair arranged by | the Women's Department of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union and the Workers’ International Relief jointly, on Saturday, April 4 at 8 p. m. at the union headquarters. Workers, and especially food work- ers are urged to attend the affair at which Russian movies will be shown, special entertainment ar-/} ranged and dancing tickets are 25c, which will go partly to building the WIR children’s camp and to the Food | Workers’ Industrial Union. The af- fair will be part of the drive the Women’s department is making to win more women workers into the union. Remember the date and the place: SaturdEay, April 4, at union headquarters, 16 W. 21st St. and turn out to welcome Sylvia Weiner from jail. HOLD CONFERENCE IN BRONX MAR. 31 rotest “Deportation of Chinese Workers ‘To organize protest against the de- portation of Chinese workers to reac- tionary China, the Chinese Anti- Imperialist League and the Interna- | tional Labor Defense is calling a con- ference of workers and workers’ or- ganizations on March 31, At present there are many Chinese workers held by immigration authori- | ties for deportation and certain death. The Chinese Butchers are not satis- | fied with calling upon ‘the boss sol- | diers and sailors to put down the Chinese Revolution, and they are asking for the lives of the militant Chinese, workers in America, The Young Defenders is cooperat- ing with the ILD and the Chinese Alliance in calling the conference, which will be held at 1400 Boston Road at 8:30 p. m. Theatre Guild to Present “Getting Married” The Theatre Guild will open its revival of Shaw's comedy, “Getting Married,” at the Guild Theatre this | evening. Henry Travers, Helen West- ley, Dorothy Gish and Margaret Wycherly are in the cast. On Tuesday evening, William R. Doyle’s comedy, “Lady Beyond The Moon,” will open at the Bijou Thea- tre. The cast includes: Valerie Ber- gere, Irene Hutaine, John Golds- worthy and Donald MeLelland. “Right of Happiness,” by Roy Da- vidson, will come to the Vanderbilt Theatre on Thursday night. Herbert Rawlinson, Anne Sutherland, Robert DuRoy and Roth Holden are the leading players, On Saturday night, “The Great, Man” is scheduled to open at the Ritz Theatre with Walter Woolf and Valerie Valaire as the principal play- ers, Paul Hervey Fox is the author. VAUDEVILLE THEATRES FRANKLIN — Dorothy Mackaill, playing the leading role in “Kept Husbands,” is the sereen attraction at the Franklin Theatre until Tues- day. On the stage Casa Loma or- chestra is the headline attraction. Henry Bergman; the Stedmans; Metz and Ellis; Leon and Dawn; and the Tate Brothers complete the bill. From Wednesday to Friday, “The Hot Heiress,” with Ben Lyon and Ona Munson in the leading roles, is the screen fare. On the stage: Joe Young and Company; Dippy Diers and Ben- nett; Mickey; Harry Stanley and company; and the Four Racketeers. HIPPODROME— Screen, “Behind Office Doors,” with Mary Astor and Robert Ames. Vaudeville: Leatrice Joy, in person; Bob Murphy, Piletto, Jack Flynn, Harring'o9n and Green, Don Galvin, Mangean’s Internationals and Meehan’s Canines, Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. REJECT LUGGAGE DISMISSAL PLAN, But Right Wing Of- ficers Still Maneuver (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On Thursday, March 26, at a membership meeting of the Suitcase and Bag Makers’ Union, Local 22, @ recommendation of the Executive Committee to grant re- organization to the White Luggage | Co. was rejected, 6 to 1. The reorganization propesal con- sists in reducing the amount of workers from about 165 to about 75, also half of the workers to work on the piece work basis and to reduce the wages of the remaining week workers. Reject Resignation. When the right wing manager of the union saw how indignant the workers are against the collaboration | ™4nd the unconditional release of policy of the union he. gave in his resignation. A rank and file worker protested against the cowardly act of the manager in resigning ‘in sueh a serious situation. His resignation was rejected. But even after the yote he insisted on his resignation and proposed a committee to take charge of the of- fice on Saturday. Only one would accept on such a committee. Membership Meet March 31. Meanwhile postcards were sent out to the White Luggage workers call- ing them to section meetings and only the workers agreed to between the firm and the union right wing officials, without even calling a shop meeting and reporting the arrange- ments to all the workers, A special membership meeting ‘is called at union headquarters for Tuesday, March 31. At that meeting the officials will try to maneuver to reconsider the decision’ of the last meeting and try to force through the reorganization of the White Luggage shop. Every union member must come to the meeting and repudiate them and prepare for a real strug- gle against speed-up and wage cuts —Luggage Worker, NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX WELL, MR. MoRean 4 You Have 4 WONDERFUL YOU CAN AFFORD TS sohae To KEEP 3 youu ANY WHERE STARVING FAR hin youngsters Gloria Tee & Co. Jackson and ©. Four Cloves FRANKLIN Eyes! Seientifie Examination of eye Advertise Your Union Meetings Here, For Information Write to- The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department ve FYOU- AWD TONS ARM | ty {ones SALE ope ened? EVICTION Some DAY TLR STAND UP STRAIGH LYNCHING “Young Defenders” Lead In District | Amnesty Campaign) Twelve hundred signatures—this is the splendid record made by the Young Defenders of the New York | District of the International Labor | Defense in the drive for signatures | to the amnesty petitions for political | prisoners. The Young Defenders are | leading all other branches of the New York I. L. D, in the drive. In addition, the Young Defenders have collected among the signers of the petitions more than $100 to fi- nance the amnesty campaign. This | is also far in excess of what other branches haye collectea. The amnesty campaign in New York state, which is part of a nation- wide drive being conducted by the ILD, is now going forward with re- newed vigor and will continye till June, The record made by the Young Defenders ought to inspire other branches and all workers to increased activity. The amnesty petitions de- all class war prisoners and the re- peal of the infamous criminal anarchy law. JOBLESS GIRLS LIVE ON BANANAS NEW YORK —Five inches of banana a day is the latest Hoover diet to keep your American women slim, Eight girls in New York, by clubbing together, managed to have $2 a-week, with which they rent a shabby room and buy bananas, The bananas are laid end to end and (LABOR FAKERS SUPPORT CRAIN Ryan Comes Out For} His Tammany Pal NEW YORK.—Joseph P. . Ryan, 3yGnan Neve6uuya DR, A. BROWN Dentist 301 EAST Mf STREET (Corner Second Avenue) Tel, Algonquin 1248 president of the International Long~ shoremen’s Union, and president of | the New York Central Trades and Labor Council, and the whole C. T. and L. C. have come out officially endorsing and defending the Tam- many prosecuting attorney, Crain, | now so openly tied up with the rack- eteers, graft and the police horrors that the governor has been forced to order him investigated. Crain is the chief of all the as- sistant district attorneys who have been so actively getting jail sen~ tences for the jobless, It was Crain’s office which got the six months’ sen- tences for Foster, Minor, Amter, Les- ten and Raymond, leaders of the DR. J. MINDEL Surgeon Dentist 1 UNION SQUARE Boom 803 Phone: Algonquin 8193 Not connected with any other office Cooperators* Patronize SEROY CHEMIST G57 Allerton Avenue Estabrook $215 BRONZ, N. % jobless. Crain is back of every frame-up of strike pickets, back of the prosecution for violation of anti-picketing injunctions. But Crain is part of the Tammany machine, and Ryan is a member of the Tammany policy committee, and most of the rest of the Central Trades crowd are in the Tammany machine, which is a grafting ma- chine. They gave their support to Crain when he was elected, and they sup- port him now when he is found out. Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily measured off with a yard stick, The average is five inches a day. ——"—"Theatre Guild Production ™=—"4 Getting Married W. bind. Eves, 8:40 ‘Mts. Th, & Sat, 2:40 GUILD Miracle at Verdun By HANS CHLUMBERG Martin Beck "W'st pwas Bvs. 8:30, Mts. Th. & Sat, 2:30 C REPERTORY 1 st. stn av. Evenings 8:30 Soc, $1, $1.60. Mate. Th. & Sat. 2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director “OAMILI PETER “ALISON'S HO! . at Box Office 118 Wy 43 Street 4 HB, WOODS Presents ARTHUR BYRON * Five star FINAL “ive Star Final’ ts electric bara IN. CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Street Evenings 8:50, Mate, Wed. and Sat, 2:30 LIONELL ATWILL T HE SILENT WITNESS ™'» KAY STROZZI-FORTUNIO BONANOVA MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th, W. of B'way Eves. $:50 Matinees Wed. and Sat., 2:30 WA NTED 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, 12th St., Room 505 Bronx: 569 Prospect Ave.,6-7:30 p.m. 5 1472 Boston Road “ ” Broklyn: Inquire 35 E. 12 St., R’m 505 Harlem: 308 Lenox Avenue Passaic: 287 Monroe Street, Workers Center Patterson: . 205 Paterson Street, Union Hall Albany: in . START TODAY! Earn your expenses and help Worker, : CAMEO NOW 10 42nd STREET & BWAY AMERICAN PREMIERE. A Stirring German Drama “Rosenmontag” Produced by UFA 6th Ave. H!PPODROME & 434 Bt. BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK REO acts | BEHIND CLOSED Including: DOORS Leatrice Joy in person With MARY ASTOR J. R. Whitney's 72nd St. Playhouse 350 E. 72nd Street Pictures made in the U. S. S. R. | For the first time at popular prices! Matinee from 1 p. m. 15 Cents— after 5 p. m. 25 cents Weer ese! “CHINA EXPRESS” Mar. 31, Tuesda: w Babylon” Apri 1. Wed... “Village of Sin” “Three Comrades and Apr, 2, Thurs. we i ‘One Invention” ‘ain and Artem” “Flames on the Volga” Also wonderful English fentures and short subjects every day! " NEWARK,N.J. THEATRE 562 BROAD ST. LITTLE NEWARK, N. J. NOW PLAYING! 7 DAYS ONLY FIRST NEWARK SHOWING RUSSIA'S GREATEST “Storm Over Asia” TREMENDOUS! Produced by the great Russian director Pudovkin also Charley Chaplin in “SHANGHATED” Continuous Daily and Sunday Popular prices STARTI APRIL 4TH ZWEL WELTEN (“Two Worlds”) ‘The Drama of Forbidden Love! 100 per cent German Talking, Singing and Dancing (firet bundle Dailies on credit!) We Invite Workers to the ~ a Between 12th and 13th Sts. Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the hest food and fresh vegetables are served all year round ‘4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 6865 Phone Stuyvesant 3816 Jobn’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A’ place with atmosphere where sli radicals meet 302 E. 12th St New York Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 13th, Sts. 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