The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1931, Page 2

; Avenues. smeets nt & p VEY FAKERS, ALLIED WITH POLICE, IN MURDEROUS ATTACKS ON HARLEM NEGRO WORKERS | Grant of Tiger Division of U N I A Desperate} as Masses Repudiate Garvey Fakers Try Beat Up, Then Frame Unemployed Negro Militants—Courts, Police, Back Traitor NEW YORE.—Utterly desperate in face of the increasing repudiation of their treacherous leadership by the Negro workers, the Garvey national reformists in Harlem are openly ally-| ing themselves with the bosses and| their police in a vicious attack on| joint struggles of Negro and} te workers against starvation, | cuts, persecution of Negro and | foreign born workers, and for uncon- | itional equality for the Negro William Partin, a Negro worker,| murderously attacked last Satur- | front of the head-| Hurlem Unemployed Lenox Avenue, by the! ker, Grant, and several of misguided followers. Four unem- | nyed Negro workers who were in e headquarters the time saw| the attack and went to Partin’s res- cue. Later when the group left the dquarters they were followed by ad enlarged nis forces. 127th Steeet and ned East, Grant and his gang at- tacked with knives and pieces of piping. One of the workers, Com- rade Brown, was severely beaten and cut. The other comrades, seeing his serious condition, grabbed a taxi and put him in it and speeded through the Garvey gangsters. But for this| ion, Brown would have been mur- red Comrade Alfred Levy ro worker, was murdered by this e in cooperation with the as police, Not cor gro WoO! evolutiona with t to murder rs who insist on waging struggle against his Grant and his ared at the ‘s with 2 cops to d out by him on rge that he was attacked News Briefs SOVIET THIRD BEST BUYER IN U.S. U S. Department of Commerce re- show that the Soviet Union | displaced both Germany and c¢ in purchases of American | good and has moved from fifth to ird place among U. S. customers, ing the only nation which has in- creased its imports from the United States. At the same time American imports from Soviet Union have been eut down nearly two-thirds, EXPERT TO DESIGN SOVIET KITCHENS. Owen T. Webber, expert designer | of kitchens and restaurants of Chi- cago, is heading a corps of engineers | iling on the steamer Bremen for © Soviet Union to build twelve] community eating places which will | have a combined capacity of 500,000 a day. In the plans children, and| these needing special diets, have | separate dining roms. . Women’s Party in Hyprocritical Plea Reports from Atlanta, Georgia} state that Josephine Casey, represen- | tative of the bunch of hypocrites who call themselves the National | Women's Party is in the south to oppose the abolition of night work | for women in the cotton mills. The | mill owners abolish night work for | women pretending they do it out of | regard for the health of the women, | but really to reduce production. The | Wonien’s Party oppose this hypocrisy | with another hypocrisy, on the gen- etal basis that every misery and slave condition suffered by men workers, the women have a “right” to share. | BIG WAR SHOWS PLANNED Washington announces a big war show, aimed to incite imperialist war | fever, to be held in Chicago, Bos- | ton, Washington, Philadelphia and | other places late in May. The big| show will take place in New York | City on May 23, when 672 military | Planes will “attack” New York, This | will probably be used to justify the| appropriation of another billion dol- jars for war while more millions of unemployed go hungry. | What’s On— MONDAY— Cor No, 1% wil hold @ lecture at’ 8:30 22 South Fifth Street, teligion and the’ Class Admission free. p.m. at Brooklyn. Struggle.” . . Councils of W nz Women meet tonight at p.m. : 1400 Boston Rd. Reach, 48 Bay 28th St, Grooklyn, 118 Bristol Street, Harlem: 143 Kast 10%rd Street. . . that are: A New Experanto Claws vill start for beginners at § p. m the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 0 Kast Sist St, Registration until i 13 -Servicemen’s League air meet at & p.m, at 86th between Lexington and Third Workers’ § Open St. en LAC TURSDAY : Hrichton Beach Workers Youth Club m. at 149 North Nep- tune Avenue. AM Unemployed Comrades | should report, at 12iet St. Court at eornex of Third Avenue at 10 a my |on Wednesday night. and beaten when he told the unem- ployed Negro workers not to go against the bosses’ government and its hunger system, not to give the cops any trouble, etc. When the cops, seeing the condition of Com- rade Brown and noting that Grant was unhurt, refused to arrest the 24 unemployed workers pointed out Grant, the Garvey misleader told them that Inspector Neal of the 23rd} Precinct had promised to arrest any revolutionary worker pointed out by Grant, the stool pigeon. The cops refused to make an ar- rest, and suggested that Comrade Brown should instead bring charges against Grant. The unemployed workers knowing the justice they can expect in the bosses’ courts refused to consider the offer. Later in the day, Grant again re- turned. This time with one police- man who was evidently specially in- structed by Inspector Neal to do as his stool pigeon requested. This cop entered the headquarters with drawn| gun. Grant now changed his charges, claiming that the unemployed Negro workers had robbed him. Pointing to Comrade Arthur Williams, who had just appeared at. headquarters and knew nothing of what had gone be- fore, Grant accused him of stealing his watch. He then accused Com- rade Campbell of stealing his money Both workers were arrested and locked up on the exorbitant bail of $10,000, further proving full coopera- tion with the Garvey agents of im- perislism by the institutions of the imy The case of these two framed Ne- gro workers come up Tuesday morn- ing at 10 o'clock, in the 121st Street Court, near Third Avenue. employed workers are urged to be present to show their solidarity with nese latest victims of the imperialist- These vicious attacks by the Gar- vey national reform: and their im- perialist masters will not retard the Negro workers from militantly wag- ing the Negro liberation struggle so basely betrayed by these traitors. Nor will suceir attacks prevent the white workers (as the bosses hope) from giving full support to the struggle against” Negro oppression, agains lynching, Jim-Crewism, etc., and for the right of the Negro majorities in| the Southern Black Belt, in Africa and the West Indies to determine and control their own form of gov: ernment. Negro and white workers! Demon- strate together May Day in Union Square against starvation, wage cuts terror, and for unemployment relie: and insurance, and unconditional equality of the Negro masses. ‘Peter Ibbetson’ in Re- vival at Shubert Thea. Of the four plays listed for this week, one will be a revival of a pop- |ular play of some years back, “Peter | Ibbetson,” which will be presented by Lee Shubert at the Shubert Theatre John N. Ra- phael is the-author of the play, which is based on the Du Maurier novel Dennis King plays the name role. Others in the cast are: Jessie Royce | Landis, Georre Nash, Valerie Tay- lor and Wallis Clark. Sheridan Gibney’s comedy, “The Wiser They Are,” opens at the Ply- mouth Theatre this evening with Osgood Perkins and Ruth Gordon Playing the chief roles. “The Rap,” a mystery melodrama, is scheduled for this evening at the Avon Theatre. John Peter Leister is the author, and Paul Harvey heads the large caste. “Joy of Living,” from the German of Rudolph Lothar and Hans Bach- witz, opens at the Theatre Masque this evening. Louise Carter adapted the play and the leading roles are in the hands of Taylor Holmes. Don- ald Brian, Betty Hanna and Bernard Gorcey. Special Performance of “Peter Pan” will be given on this afternoon, at the Civie Repertory Theatre, with Miss Le Gallienne, Josephine Hutch- inson, and Walter Beck in the cast. Tony Sorg’s Marionnettes will ap- pear in their newest production, “Al- ice in Wonderland,” at the Belmont Theatre, beginning April 7. The puppets will appear in Lewis Carroll's fairy story every afternoon, Tuesday to Sunday inclusive. The Marion- nettes will also give morning per- formances on Friday and Saturday, appearing in “Rip Van Winkle.” VAUDEVILLE THEATRES Jefferson: “Behind Office Doors,” with Mary Astor in the leading role, is the play at Jefferson Theatre un- til Tuesday. Ray Stanton, in “Lit- tle Rhyme and Reason-Less,” is the star headline attraction. McGarry and Dawn; Ware and; Harry Kah- ne, and Miss Ann Suter; and Joe Mendi’s Trio complete the show. From Wednesday until Friday: Frank and Milt Britton, with their gang, are the vaudeville headliners. On the screen, “Father's Son,” an adaptation of Booth Tarkington's “Old Father-Young Son,” is the principal fare, with Irene Rich and Louis Stone. Other vaudeville acts are: Miss by | ‘OME OVER To AMER ON MY RAILROADS M MILK AND Honey. JOBLESS COUNCIL - BROADENS WORK | Holds More Meetings Collects for Starving | | | NEW YORK.—The Down Town Council of the Unemployed, while not giving up its meetings regularly day by day at the Tammany fake em- | ployment agency, now on. Leonard | THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER Factories, BUILD My HIGHWAYS, CITIES AND HOMES, THIS 1S a OF FREEDOM, THE STREETS RUY ek DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1931 ICA. AND WORK | ILLS MINES, AND IOUS TRIO AMERICA at LAND OF PLEnW wrt VERY STICKY IF, You STEP IY, IT. COME — Give Your Answer On May First — Gu fou Mien %u DAFOE, You FIDINS, You 4 MAKE Money For- AE | Factory PLENTY. You Can Joi The “LL DEPoR € ce WORKERS FOR You IF THey VET HUNGRY THey MAY ASK WHY wel i \S On THE Pum. TYE Got LEAT AND Tey ADLING- WHEN L OPEN \Don'T seca DAY FACTORY AGAIN VEL E a GIVE Some OF You Cur WAGES _ Seo Worke CELEBRATE i May 137 AS Your AIEVEI2 HAVE Lerore.' SOVIET -' The open fea ca! RL p Wil BE IWW Asks Police To Smash Jobless Council Meeting in New York NEW YORK.—Friday night, after the Down Town Council of the Un- employed had started a meeting at University Pl. and 14th St. and a couple of hundred men were listen- ing, the I. W. W. officials came along and stated that they had advertised the corner for their speaker. The Down Town Council meeting's chairman challenged the I. W, W. to | divide ‘the time and let the crowd and Church Sts., is extending its ac | decide between the merits of the two tivities. | unemployment programs: the Unem- Yesterday, in addition to the Leon-| pioyed Council's policy of militant ard and Church meeting, a meeting! Struggle, fighting all evictions, de- was held at Seventh St. and Ave. A, All un-| n *|manding relief and insurance, and attended by a crowd of 500, raising relief after demands on the officials and charities, or the W. W. “unemployed union,” which which | bought 100 Labor Unities. This meet- ing is for the purpose of gathering strength for a new territorial coun- cil of the unemployed, organizing | tenants’ leagues, ete. A white guard descended from his car and at- | tempted to disrupt the meeting by | starting a discussion in the Russian | language. Some of those who un-| | derstood him wanted to knock him | out, but the crowd, as a° whole, as {soon as his line was explained {them, simply ignored him and | to he had no success as a disruptor. There will be anather meeting at Seventh and Ave. A today at 11:30. | | Thursday night a large and enthu- | siastic meeting was held at Four-| teenth St. and University Place by the speakers of the Down Town | Council. This crowd bought 80 La- | bor Unities. | “Today there will-be no “meeting at | Leonard and Church because of the important business meeting of the | Down Town Council, to be held in the headquarters at 27 E, Fourth St | All members with cards should be | there. The purpose of the mecting is to plan the work, distribute the | tasks of organizing, etc, among the | members, etc. | The jobless have made collections or two starving families which the | charities refuse to aid, and yester- | day these collected funds were sent | to the families by the Down Town | Council. FIGHT TO SAVE STARVING FAMILY Newark Jobless Pro-| test Tax on Workers | NEWARK, N. J, April 5.—The | Council of the Unemployed is fight- ling to save the lives of Mary Rival and four minor children. The father jot the family has been out of work j for over a year. The family owes two months’ rent, and may be evicted. The mother finds a day's work now and then, but food comes mainiy from friendly neighbors. The city government and charities have not given any relief. a demand for relief on the city and the charities, and if it is not given, will proceed to other measures: Taxing Workers, The Newark “Unemployment Re- | lief Committee” is rushing plans to force employed workers to pay one per cent of their wages to it, so it can continue “relief” until July. The chairman of the committee states: “There was only relief up to April 1, and since conditions are not im- proving, funds must be raised to carry on the work yntil July.” The committee of course is willing to take money by threats of dis- charge from the underpaid part-time workers instead of levying on the employers, who would not pay any- way unless they thought the jobless were on the verge of revolt. Up to now the committee has levied taxes on the city employees and school teacherg, Since Dec. 1, of all the money collected, this committee has spent only $3,250 per week for actual relief in a city with 80,000 jobless. Lydia Barry; Ludwig Satz; Cy Lan- dry; Miss Ethel Morris; ard Clem Belling. Hippodrome: Screen. “Beyond Victory.” a new Pathe comedy drama with Bil Boyd, James Gleason, and Zasu. Vaudeville: Hardeen, brother of Houdini, Seed and Austin, Senator Murphy, Jim MeDonald, Hill's So- ciety Circus, Jack Randall and Com- pany, Miriam Hoffman and Girl Priends, and Joseph Pope Jones, — | city | police | Times, which had a reporter on the | ers stood fast, The unemployed council will make| the main task lis a social service club with a soup line, but which also has a theory | that the jobless should picket all shops and factories where other workers have jobs: But the I. W. W. appealed to the for help. The New York ground, and which runs a headline, “Reds Best the I. W. W.,” says: “The I. W. W. orator appealed to two po- licemen who were supervising the meeting in the interest of the ex- isting system. ‘It’s our meeting,’ the I. W. W. orators said, The Down Town Council speak- the crowd gathered closer around to defend them,- the police (it takes more than two to | break this kind of a meeting) did nothing. The I. W. W. set up their stand, found few listeners and left an hour and a half without anyone following. The Jobless Council speakers went on for a couple of | hours longer and closed with a big | crowd. The Down Town Council will hold its usual daily meeting at 11 a, m. | today at Leonard and Church Sts. | This Unemployed Council sold 500 | Labor Unities last week. => DRIVE TO BUILD LABOR UNITY Prize Is Trip to the Soviet Union NEW YORK.—A drive is on, led by the Trade Union Unity Council, te increase the circulation of Labor Unity, official organ of the Trade Union Unity League, to the point where there can be a regular special Ne wYork edition of the paper, really a New York Labor Unity. The Trade Union Unity Council, which worked out the program, sets the period between April 1 and October 1 as the time for this inten- sive campaign. The Council calls on all organizations taking bundles of Labor Unity to double their orders by October 1. But the Council points out that is to increase the number of subscriptions, and has set a quota of 1,000 yearly subs or their equivalent it 6-month and 3-month subscriptions. “s, A system of revolutionary compe- | tion is established, the candidate of the organization or group of organi- zations getting the best results to go to the Soviet Union for the Nov. 7-14 anniversary celebration of the Bol- shevik revolution. If more delegates are sent, the candidate of those do- ing second, third and fourth best, in order named, will get their chance. The cost of sending these reper sentatives will be borne by the na- tional office of the Trade Union Unity League and by the T.U.U.C. by set- ting aside part of the total receipts in the drive each week for that pur- pose. This is purely a New York drive, the council reminds, and chal- lenges should not go to organiza- tions in other cities. Get full de- tails from The Trade Union Unity Council, 16 West 21st Street. SOVIET SECOND OIL PRODUCER IN WORLD Associated Press reports the eele- bration in the Soviet Union of the completion of the Five-Year Plan for petroleum production in 21-2 years, the Soviet now being second to the United States in this field. Produc- tion costs have been cut 39 per cent. At the same time wages have been increased 131-2 per cent for 72,000 oil workers engaged in oil produc- tion, Ninety oil workers have been honored by the highest Soviet dec- oration, receiving the Order of Lenin. WORKERS ORDER ‘HAS 7551 MEMBERS To Hold Convention On| May 29th NEW YORK.—At the last cam- paign carried on by thé International Workers Order, the National Execu- tive Committée succeeded in organ- izing 54 new branches and in taking in 2,815 new members. The First Convention of the Order will be opened in Madison Square Garden on May the 29th. 300 dele- gates from 85 cities expected at the convention, The International Workers Order, which is less than one year old, has succeeded in organizing 10,366 work- ers and 214 branches throughout the country, At the close of the first campaign by the National Executive Committee August 15th, the Order had 7,551 members. On the 15th of March the net gain in membership since the first campaign, August the 15th, was 2,815 new members with 54 new or- ganized branches. The campaign is not completed. The branches of the International Workers Order will carry on the campaign until the opening of the first convention, May the 29th, at the Madison Square Garden, The branches of the Order will intensify the campaign from now until the convention. 300 delegates from 85 cities are expected to” par- ticipate in the first convention? The main feature of the conven- tion is the unification of the Inter- national Workers Order, the Hun- garian Sick and Death Benefit So- ciety, the Russian Mutual Aid Asso- ciation and the Slovak Workers So- ciety. The International Workers Order already succeeded in Organizing Ital- ian and Portuguese and at the pres- ent is organizing Youth Sections, NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES BART SIDE BRONE Ans Suter Ray Stanton ang Co, Ward a Marry MeGarry & Dawn Joe Mendiy Trie Van i Frank & Milton Britton & Gang Watts & Hawley Clayton Wentworth Townes & King We Invite Workers to the pre PY) yOOD WHOLESOME Fou! Fair Prices A Comfortable Viace to Wat $27 BROADWAY Retween 12th and 13th Str Patronize the Concoops Food Stores ann Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAS1 “Buy m thé Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” Vhege WH 6b? ternational Barber She’ W BALA Pren 2016 Seepnd Avence. New Yar! crs * ANGELES BALLOT Meet; RecruitMember we os rers Win Victory and | pite of Terror NEW YORK.—A successful servicemen’s out-door meeting held on the corner of 125th St 5th Ave. on Thursday, which 96 Dailies and 2 were sold. ee se heel i | LOS ANGELES, ril 5, The The committee in charge reports} LOS ANGELES, April 5 : workers of Los Angeles scored a big that many requests were made by ex- | Torkare | Victory in putting both Communist servicemen, that a branch of Workers | ‘i i |candidates for city council andthe Ex-Servicemen’s League he formed in | Beavd” of Bancation on Harlem. Many pledged to join the] 7a i ee ea 2 Seay a organization when it is formed. eee SeNORS Vous 3 April 2nd, at e 16 pamphlets the ballot : \directed against the workers and A working class audience ranging | their party. from 200 to 300 were listening to the speakers for nearly three hours. The} Following up this victory, Los speakers exposed the war plans of | Angeles workers will hold a joint the new fascist organization, “The|May Day Election Campaign Con- National War Order,” in its attempt| ference on April 13 to mobilize the to fool the veterans into a parade | entire working class of this city for for war preparations on April 6th. | the May Day demonstrations against Special prominence was given by|*{2tvation, wage cuts, persecutions the speakers to an appeal for all e: |of Negro and foreign-born workers, servicemen to mobilize for May 1st|“efense of the Soviet Union and for in demonstration on Union Square in| employment relief and insurance. cooperation with the United Front} The conference will vigorously May Day Conference. push an extensive campaign in ex- eames | posing all bosses candidates, especi- WOMAN'S WAGE AND THAT oF) #!¥ the social-fascist Busick. The REST OF WORKERS INTERWEAVE | €¢¢tion takes place on June 23, with primaries on May 5. Mary Anderson, director of the| _ Women’s Bureau, U. S. Department| The Communist candidates are of Labor, admitted that “A low wage | Sam Shulem, for councilman from for women not only maintains a| District 9 anc Edward A. Sandler low standard of living for women, | fo the Board of Education. but in addition it tends to depress | the wages and living standards of all | workers.” Women workers in all rs fields are being won over and must Against wage cuts and speed-up. beé*won over for the revolutionary] For the defense of the Soviet movement. | Union! AMUSEMENTS Against the high cost of living! THE STRONG SURVIVE! AMERICAN PREMIERE CITIES +> YEARS PRODUCED IN THE U. S, S. R. BY SOYUZKIN Based on the Famous Novel by the Soviet Writer CONSTANTIN FEDIN Amkino Presents With the Famons Russian Actor IVAN TCHUVELEV (of “The End of St. Petersburg”) and BERNHARD GOETZKE | the Great German Actor A GRIPPING DRAMA OF LOVE AND WARe Produced Under the Soviet Director Eugeni Tcherviakov TT __ a ro. Getting Married ‘at. im, Doors op By BYRNARD SHAW | ING “ bs | BAILEY Presenting for the First Time in N IRON NURYED Alone in Steel CLYDE Arena with 10 Lerocious perfor'g Lions and Tigers Orland-Mara Sensation—1000 New Foreign | Features—800 Circus Sturs—100 Clowns | 1000 Menagerie 4 Freaky Miracle at Verdun Martin Beck bys, 8:30 Mts. Tb W of B" & Sat mals, Congress of |. seats, SI fo $3.50, IVIC REPERTORY ''0 st sin ndor 12 Mult Price Kvenings Tickets now selling b0e, 31 $1.50 Mats. Th. & Sat 230 th Sts, Box Offices, JENSE. Dircetor oPETER PAN 2. SC AMILLE SON'S HOUSE Box Office and 43. Street 4. B, WOOKS Presents ARTHUR BYRON “ Five STAR FINAL “Pe Star Final’ ie electric ond aire | SUN oT Are & 430 Bt iGESI SHOW LN NEW YOBB 8x0: | ‘Beyond iPPODRONE ui Victory’ LEASON CORT THEATRE, Evenings 8:30 Mate LIONELL ATWILL _ HE SILENT WITNESS ** KAY STROZZI-FORTUNIO BONANOVA MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th. W. of Bway Evgs, 8:50 Matinees Wed. and Sat. 2:30 West of Wea 48th Street Sat. Yorkville Casino 210 E. 86th Street No Advance in Prices MON. and TUES., April 7, 8 10 Days That Shook The World Directed By Sergey Eisenstein A Sovkino Production Vegetarian RESTAURANTS WED. and THURS, April 8-9 deka) 4! oy dea et aang The Yellow Pass with Anna Stenn Produced By “Metrabpomfilm” of Moscow all year round 4 WEST U8TH STREEI 87 WES1 32ND STREE! 225 WEST 86TH STREET “annes Speaks at Food Workers Forum, Monday NEW YORK.—Food workers are urged to attend an open forum ar- ranged by the educational qepart- ment of the Food Workers’ Indus- | trial Union on Monday evening April |6th at union headquarters, 16 West 21 Street, at 8 p.m. Harry Gannes of the Daily Worker staff will speak on the Function and Impertanee of the Revolutionary Trade Union Press and will lead the discussion. At this meeting all workers will haye the opportunity to give their criticisms and suggestions for improving the FOOD WORKER official organ of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. Come and bring your fellow workers. [WO OMnens Workers Dental Clinic In N Y NEW YORK.—In addition to the medical department for its members, the International Workers Order has now added @ dental Clinic. This is open to non-members as well as members, at equally low rates. The clinic is situated at 1 Unien Square, in the office formerly oceupied by Dr. Mindel. This clinic is the basis for a work- ers Medical Center, in which the 1. W. O. will have specialists in all diseases ayailable to treat: workers at extremely low rates. Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE STH FLOOR AU Werk Rene ie Mad Care Sy6uan leveSunua DR. A. 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