The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 2

Page Two ati Anadasmam anne ss + ie ba DAILY WORKER, W YURK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931 MAY DAY CONFERENCE DEMANDS RIGHT OF WORKERS 10 UNION SQ, Calls on Workers Organizations to Fight Con- spiracy of Police, Fascists and “Socialists” NEW YORK.—Over 500 workers ttended the United Front May Day Conference Monday night packing Manhattan Lyceum to capacity. Of ese 471 were elected delegates from the workers’ fraternal organizations, nions and shops, with 60 from vari- sections and units of the Com- nist Party and the Young Com~- st League. Many of the dele- gates were Negro workers. In spite of the very evident lack of basic organibation, the meeting enthusiastic and militant to the st degree. Following the report Comrade Amter, in which he ed out that the “socialists” and e fascist. leadership of the Veterans Foreign Wars, had joined hands, the blessing of the police, in an empt to bar the workers from Union Square on May Day, delegate after delegate took the floor to thun- enunciation of this dastardly 1eme to silence the protests of the vorkers against the growing persecu- and increasngi deaths of workers tion and suicide as a result mployment and the denial and insurance to the unem- loved. pledged their organizations to energetically in mobilizing the s of New York for May Day the widening struggle against arvation. By intensive work be- tween now and April 20 when a sec- confere’ will be held they mised to cvercome the shortcom s of Monday night's conference by wing ‘in more unions and shops o the United Front May Day Con- ference The co t the ce agreed unanimously ers must exercise their it to use the streets for their pre where, and that York must stand to use Union Square on It was decided that the ‘ation will be held in Union are from 1.30 to 6. The workers mble at other points to be d later, and will march to Union ec, tsarting out jn time to get 30. the right y Day Comrade Amis, delegate from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, was elected chairman of the confer- nee aid presided over Monday's Jobn Lembka, was elected and Helen Allison treas- cretary, urer, A resolution was unanimously adopted denouncing the planned at- TAGGER HUDSON AUTO WORKERS : String Along Workers With Lies Detroit, Mich. Dear Comrade :— I have come to the conclusion that we as workers must take steps fo curb the terrific drive the bosses are putting over the workers here in the auto industry and give us a week or two work then lay us off. Then| let us wait around a couple of weeks and call us back. Then advertise in the capitalist papers they are hiring men. This is what they are doing here in Detroit to get people to buy cars. They are also using the alibi that long service men in their employ will be back first. I worked there for four years. They have been playing this stagger system with me and they told me that there was lots with longer service than I had out of a job, Then wound up by saying that to give me @ job they would have to lay off somebody with about the same length of service I had with them and said they would call me when they had an opening for me. Must Organize and Fight. We all must organize and fight such discrimination against the work- ers. They are hiring and laying off workers to make people thing pros- verity is back again. Don’t let them ‘ol us with their lies. —A Hudson Worker. What’s On— CHURSDAY . Counel! 17, Brighton Beach Wil hold a Red “Cedar” at 140 Neptune Ave. at 8.80 p,m. Proceeds to Freiheit, “ Ex, Servicemen’s Lé: Onen air méeting at 126th St. and Fifth Ave. qt § p.m, Al ex-services nen are urged to attend, coe Workers a ed Passover? nders have arranged for ffair to take place at n Rd. Hot dishes and sold prayers wii} be served. Chop suey, too! $i vient mhers Sdetion TUT t 8 p.m. at 16 W. 216t St. wrtant organizational matters will ken up. FRIDAY— Hix-Servicemen’s League meeing at 79 BE, Tenth St. All vets welcome. a ee" Negro Rights Wil be the subject for discussion tthe meeting of the Harlem Prog, ressive Youth Club, 1492 Madison Ave, at 8.80 p.m. valet ee Workers Youth Club tL Hinsdale St, to heat Deportation of Foreign, Agalnat Negroce. fp lecture Tern ty Evening h Harlem Cas und Lenox Ave. Adm, 4 10c, First showing movies of Alban unger Auspices WIR. ? the March. {tack of the fascists, “socialists” and | police against the workers on May | Day, branding it as “a direct provoca- |tion against the workers of New | York, who for decades have cele- brated May Day by demonstration on Union Square.” The resolution called | upon workers organizations to send delegations to City Hall and the Po- lice Deparment to protest against this provocation. The conference then adopted a call to the workers of New York to dem- onstrate on May Day, giving “Down Tools— May Day” as the main slo- gan for the day. It points out that the May Day demonstrations this year will be essentially different from May Day demonstrations in the past | May Day this year must see <. mighty | demonstration against unemployment wage cuts, the stagger plan, starva- tion, the lynching of Negroes, deport- ations, and the boss preparations for | imperialist war, directed especially | against the Soviet Union. “The United Front Conference calls upon | the workers of New York to answer | | the fascist attacks of the Fish Com- | | mittee and the bossés on the workers } | by @ demonstration which will show | | that the workers are ready ta strug- | gle: | For the Workers Unemploymeat In- | surance Bill! Against evictions, for rent reduc- tions! Against the high cost of living! Against wage cuts and speed-up. Against persecution of the foreign- | born. For full political and social rights | and self-determination for Negroes! | Against imperialist war! | For the defense of the Union! EDNA MINERS WI PARTIAL VICTORY Soviet National Miners Union| "ed 10 Week Struggle | PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 31.— Recognition of the existence of the | | strike committee, no discrimination, | %4 no work on idle days (which means | the end of “Mule” days for the| fminers of Edna No. 2, and the} solidifying of the ranks for future ten weeks’ strike of the Edna miners, | \ied by the National Miners’ Union, | Date not yet set. To be held at the| Shot up a meeting of the Friendly Section of the Trade Union Unity League. | The hopes of the Hillman Coal Co., | jone of the largest coal corporations |in the United States, that they would “play out” the Edna miners, were smashed last week when the superin- | tendent sent for the strike committee and informed them that the company was willing to open the mine under the above-mentioned conditions. Advertised Wage Cuts Withdrawn. Although the operators were aided in their attempt to smash the miners’ militant ranks by Philip Murray, vice-president of Lewis’ reactionary United Mine Workers of America, the strike was marked with victory from | its very inception. This was evi- denced by the withdrawal of adver- tised wage-cuts by the Westmore- | land and other large coal companies | by the miners of the Tomajko Coal Co. under the leadership of the Na- tional Miners’ Union. Murray, Lewis and Boss. In their attempt to stop the spread of the strike, the Murray-Lewis-coal operator forces tried to impress the other Hillman miners, in what was once the union field, that the West- moreland County miners werg re- sponsible for the loss of the fakers’ U. W. M. A. in 1927. Murray, how- ever, did not tell them of the be- trayals by the U. M. W. A. of the strikes of 1910 and 1922, nor did he tell them that the U. M. W. A. inade no effort to strike that field in 1927. SCREEN NOTES Otto Erich Hartleben’s stage drama “Rosenmontag,” now being shown on the Cameo screen, is one of the popular scripts of the German legiti- mate stage, and ranks among the first list of repertory plays in Ger- many and Austria. The stage play, “Rosenmontag,” was presented in New York twenty-eight years ago at the 6ld Irving Place Theatre under the difection of Conried. “Bad Sister,” based on Booth Tark- ington’s “The Flirt,” is this week's attraction at the Globe Theatre. Conrad Nagle, Sidney Pox and Bette Davis head the cast. “Laugh and Get Rich,” a Radio Picture, is the sereen offering at the Mayfair Theatre this week. Adapted from an original story by Douglas MacLean, thé picture features Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver and Dorothy Lee. “Cimarton,” after nine weeks at the Globe Theatre, moves across the street to the Mayfair, opening Friday morning, April 3. 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Davis, Morgan, and other: ‘€ pound- ing away at their shadows in the hopes of scoring a knockout and aining a trip. The dates and places for the meets and tournaments are as follows: Box- ing tournament: April 12 at Kz ec, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. Swimming meet: May 15 (men) and May 16 struggles), are the results of the| (women). Track and Field: May 23-| Gastonia County officers entered a 24. Pelham Bay Park. Wrestling: Vesa, 15 W. 126th St., N. Y. All workers régardless of race are invited to participate in these cham- piovship meets. Get your entry blanks at the L. S. U. office, Room 309, 2 W. 15th St. Boxing and wrestling finals will be held in Pas- | saic, N. J., on National Youth Day, at the mecting, which was under the | May 30-31. The National Spartakiad | Control of Negro reformists, resisted | Send-Off meet where all the champs | the wanton invasion of the police | fronr every district will compete will | Officers, they were clubbed and ar- |be held at Ulmer Park in Brooklyn | Tested. Three are now held in jail. on June 13-14. BETHLEHEM STEEL TO LAY OFF MEN WASHINGTON, D. C.—News that the Bethlehem Steel Co. is prepar- ling to lay off a large number of | officers were injured, including Dep- workers, due to reduced orders for production, has reached Washington on the heels of the forecast by Sloan, and by a 10 per cent increase won | f General Motors, that wages in the | automobile industry are to be cut. These two developments contradict the statements issued by Vol. Arthur Woods, chairman of the Presidents’ Emergency Committee on Unemploy- ment, that the steel industry is hold- ing up remarkably well. It was Beth- lehem Steel that recently announced that. business was again on the up- grade. NY SP ART. MEETS Barrymore, April 13th I. Prim of Jamaica, formerly a world’s Ama-| ers’ | [Henry Bernstein Play i“Melo” Opens at the | Lee Shubert and A. H. Woods will present their production of Henri | Bernstein's Paris success, “Melo,” at | the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn, on Monday evening, April 6. Edna Best, Basil Rathbone and Earle Larimore head the cast and the play is being staged by Marcel Varnel. The adap- | tation from the French was made by Arthur Pollock. The play is due at} the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 13. The revival of “Peter Ibbetson” will} open at the Shubert Theatre on | Wednesday evening, April 8, instead jof at the Ethel Barrymore, as orig- jinally planned. Dennis King will play the chief role. “Meet My Sis- ter,” now at the Shubert Theatre, moves to the Imperial Theatre on Monday, April 6. “The Rap,” a melodrama of today, will be the next attraction at the Avon Theatre, opening on Monday, | April 6. The play which is by John P. Leister. Paul Harvey will head | the cast. Aa oo OFFICERS SHOOT __ UP NEGRO MEET sastonia Officers Kill) Worker | GASTONIA, N. C.,. March 31.— | Negro church here yesterday and | Aid Society of North Carolina and | South Carolina, killing Cleveland | Mason, a Southern California Ne- | gro, and seriously wounding his | | brother and several others at the} | meeting. When the Negro workers, present | Other arrests are threatened by the Gastonia County police, who aré no- | {torious for their bloody attacks on | the textile workers in the famous Gastonia strike. In the fight in the church, several | uty Sheriff Said Abscher, Deputies | Jim Queen, Jos W. Brandon and | Wiley McGinnis. | MORE MINES CLOSE DOWN | WILKES-BARRE—The depression in the coal market is causing the | | Pittston Coal Co. to shut down two | more anthracite shafts, and throwing | 2,500 more miners on the unemployed lists, say company Officials. | SUNNY ROOM—Between Sheepshead and | Brighton Beach —Conveniences—$15 per Month—SH eepshead 4635. For All Occasions Use the strictly pure, tasty and by 24 hours fresher milk of the MORRISANIA STOCK “As pure as sunshine” The only UNION MILK Concern in the BRONX Place Your Order for MILK—CREAM—CHEESE AND BUTTER With Our Drivers, Grocer or Phone ME Irose 5-3863 Regular rst awe third M. FARMS For 40 Years the Symbol of Purity and + Quality in Milk Products [FORCE BANK TO CONCEDE Worker Depositors to Be Represented NEW YORK.—The aggressive fight led by the United Depositors Com- mittee of the Bank of United States has led to some results. Through the pressure of the workers repre- sented in this committee, Mr. Rosoff, and with him Mr. Satterlee” have been forced to come to terms. These gentlemen, surely not friends of the worker and small depositors, have agreed payment in full for the small depositors. This means that every depositor who had up to $250 in the bank will be paid in full. The United Depositors Committee is guar- anteed representation on the new Board of Directors. At the meeting of the United De- positors Committee held in the Hayas Building, last Tuesday, the commit- tee went on record favoring rather the Rosoff plan than the Steuer plan—but this on condition that the above enumerated demands are fully compliéd with. The United Depositors Committee is preparing a number of mass meet- ings of the workers and small de- positors, to ratify the terms placed before Rosoff. The purpose of the meeting shall also be to unite larger masses round the United Depositors Committee and to safeguard the in- terests of the small deposiicrs. The worker and small depositors. must re- main on guard. They must strength- en their organization. They must draw in more. workér depositors, for only in this way will they be able to force the state and the board of directors to pay any attention to the interests of the smaller depositors. Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES FAST SIDE—BRONX RKO Zaz Henry Berg- man and Co. Toto t Sorinne Tilton | Rube Demarest | and Company Prospect wise, Tong and Richards | Joe Young & Co, Mickey Seeley Dippy Diers & Company 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! 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But now, after his dea:h, the liberals want to claim Debs as their own flesh and blood, | so to speak The writer has sent the editors of the Los Angeles Record and the Open Forum a note, reading } as follows: | “Sir:—Earlier today I sent you a} 200-word article against the mislead- ing label, liberal, fastened on Gene Debs by a Record writer, Daggett. | This afternoon the same thing was repeated in connection with the visit of Sheriff L. ‘Jeff? Dunagan at your office. “Debs was hot color-blind, so why paint him in false colors? He knew the difference between yellow and red. The liberals admire the former, Debs loved the latter. Gene was| neither a liberal nor a social fascist. He was a real socialist, a follower of Karl Mara, author of Das Kapital— the bible of the proletariat. ‘If Debs had added more Leninism to his Marxism, that would have made him a Communist. Commu nism is a higher form of Socialism —LP.R. OY bres | JOBLESS AND POLICE CRASH LIMA, Peru—A crowd of unem- ployed, staging a demonstration in support of their demands for Unem- ployment Insurance clashed with po- lice. One of the crowd w killed | to give immediate financial assistance N.Y.COUNCL | GIVES DAILY $20 Clubs inCleveland Send} The Trade Union Unity Council in | y York City made the following answer to our warning of financia difficulties in the Daily Worker: “A | motion was passed: | “That $20 be donated by the Coun- cil and that all the organizations af- filiated to the Council bercalled upon to the Daily Worker and to assist in all possible ways.in building up the circulation of the Daily Worker so that it may be placed on a self- sustaining basis.” he South Slav Radnik and Daily} Club of Cleveland sent in $75. However, the replies to our urgent call was only answered about 30 per cent of the total amount outstanding in curfent bills. One or two districts | have not even replied to our tele- ams and notices. All those who haven't fulfilled their quota must reply within the next day or two. FACTORY WORKERS DECREASE SAN FRANCISCO.—California fac- employment in February was | per cent below February, 1930, | reports the California industrial re- lations department; ‘wages were 23.3 per cent less, Employment in public | utilities decreased 9.3 per cent, in| wholesale and retail trade, 8.3 per cent | for the same period. a [AMUSEMENTS Theatre Guild Production =" Getting Married |) rites. 8:40 GUILD. tn Miracle at Verdun By HANS CBLU RG . 45th Si Martin Beck "yf" st nwes Fivs, 8:30, Mts. Th & Sat, 2:30 IVIC REPERTORY 1° St 6:8 av Evenings § J BO, $1, $1.50. ‘Th. & Sat. 2:20 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Ponight ... “CAMILL om, Mat. .... SON Tom. Night . AMILLE! Seats 4 weeks adv. at Box Office and Town Hall, 118 W. 43 Street WANTED FIFTY (50) Comrades to SELL DAILY WORKERS EVERY “DAY! | LIVE WIRES! BOOST YOUR PAPER! 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