The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1931, Page 2

Fe TO — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1931 ~ Socialist City Officials of Reading Refuse Food, Shelter to State Hunger Marchers May 1 Demonstration Will Ratify Communist | Candidates in Reading; 100 Unemployed Picked to Join March on Harrisburg READING, Pa. April 10—The so- tialist party administration of this city has refused to supply food or sleeping quarters to the huunger marchers on the way to Harrisburg, to’ demand unemployment relief of the state legislature. The council of the unemployed here is continuing the struggle for food and shelter for the marchers and using the incident as an object lesson to all workers and jobless of the socialist party really is. socialist party claims to be try to get insurance for the unem~- joyed, too, but when the represen- atives of the starving workers narch to the state capital to demand no help from the here, thoroughly explained gain when the workers d jobless out in mass dem- and on inst capitalism the unuemployed y id leaf ed, calling being distrib demo} tion Ratify Candidates May 1. of this May Day dem- that the Commuunist city office will be meeting called in This year es on the time. The rkers who have zgle here against d for unemployment re- ger march will serve chilization for the The march- phia will be on the The state hur as a prelim } Philadelphia Pike on April 18, and the | jobless of Reading will march with them down Penn St. to the city hall, where a demonstration will be held. That night there will be four open- | air demonstrations in Reading. THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER AND Kev sacie som ipl Bow | ANT ees KID CHANCE _AN, 100 to Join March. There will be a tag day in Read-/| ing tomorrow to finance the march | of the Reading detachment, which will go on with the rest of the march- ers when they leave Reading. The unemployed council here has elected | a hundred delegates to join the march, and there will be with them | two trucks and several cars. | The Reading Unemployed Council | has sent an organizer to Lebanon to | prepare this Bethlehem Steel strong- hold for the hunger march. The! unemployed council in Lebanon has 39 members already, and headquar- | ters will be open by the time the} hunger marchers arrive. haa en Demonstrate Against Lynching, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 10.— | The greatest demonstration at the| |city hall here April 17 at 9 a. m, which starts off the Philadelphia de- tachment in the hnger march on} Harrisburg, will be also a protest | demonstration against the frame-up and murder of the eight Negro boys in Scottsboro, Alabama, And, be- sides this, it will be a preliminary rally for the great May First dem- onstration here, in which Philadel- phia workers join those of the rest of the world in a protest against the capitalist system which lynches Ne- grose and starves millions of both | colored and white workers. GGER’S UNION REJECTS CAMBY. Elect Militant Business Agent NEW YORK —Tom Ahern, I W. member, was thor- 1 exposed as a henchman of rank Lamby and his attempt to Lamby’s re-election as business of the R and Safe Mov- i ni defeated in the elec- tions in the local. he answer of the rank and file of union to the attempts of the bosses and their agents, Lamby and to disrupt the organization the election of John Kudila, a militant and fearless fighter, as business agent of the union, Ahern, by his attempt to maneu- ver: the come-back of Lamby, who was expelled from the organization because of his crooked deals, has fully exposed himself as an enemy, along with Lamby, of the union and a tool of the bosses. The Transport Workers’ Industrial League, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, 16 W, 2ist St., ex- tends its greetings to the members of the union and its business agent, John Kudla. DEMAND PASSAIC, PARK, YOUTH DAY Officials Evasive and Pass the Buck PASSAIC, N. J.—The preparations for National Youth Day are going nead at full speed. On this day, 20th, young workers from Bos- m, Conn., New York and Phila- @elphia will meet to parade and have} a sport festival, to demonstrate against war preparations. When the arrangements committee | went to the Commissioner of Parks, John R. Johnson, to ask for a permit to use Firs} Ward Park, the matter | was put off with an excuse. The matter was again postponed when the committee visited him the second time. The Committee then petitioned the Board of Commissioners demand- ing the use of the park and the streets for May 30th and 3ist. At the meeting of the board of commissioners, the park commission- er “would not-take the responsibility.” He put it-up to the board. The board passed the buck back to Johnson who had already refused the young work ers the use of the park. The board decided, finally, that they investigate the case. The com- missioner of public safety was asked to “investigate the nature of the cclebration.” The Committee made an appointment with Mr. Turner and Mr. De Groot, chief of police for the tinal settlement. RUMOR SINGER SHUT DOWN. ELIZABETH, N. J, April 12. — It is rumored here that the Singer Sewing Machine Co., will close down altogether on April 15, If it does 4.000 will be affected. What’s On— for- | NEEDS FUNDS FOR CHILDREN’S CAMP WIR Calls Conference| April 25th NEW YORK.—This season the Workers’ International Relief ex- pects to accommodate and give work- ing-class training to 200 children a week, of which 5 per cent will be children of unemployed, of striking parents and Negro workers. These children will be admitted into the camps free of charge, or at a nom- inal rate. Children of parents who are working will be admitted into the camps at a price of from $4 to $3, depending on the wages of the pa- rents. During the season it is hoped to |give 1,000 children of unemployed workers a vacation in camp. For this the W, I. R. is opening | a campaign to raise $10,000. Five thousand dollars is necessary to-pay | for the food, etc., for the children of those who cannot pay. Five thou- sand additional is necessary in order to enlarge the quarters, the dining | room and kitchen and in order to j make @ permanent working-class | jcamp. ‘The campaign will last until | the opening of the camp the begin- | |ning of July. All workers’ organizations and | workers are called upon to partici- | pate in making this campaign a success, to prepare these children of employed and unemployed for their part in the struggle. Camp reunions will be held in all sections of New York to mobilize the |fro mall working-classo rganizations, letc., will be held on April 25th. | Registration is now open. Apply |to Workers’ International Relief, 131 W. 28th St. | ‘TENANTS LEAGUE | SCORES EVICTION NEW YORK.—There was an eyic- |tion case, last Thursday of an un- employed family in the Coney Island section. The man had been out of work 7 months. He has two children, one of 3 and one of 5. No matter to skimp on food and other neces- sities of life, they managed to pay rent. Finally they could not manage any longer. They scraped enough together to pay @ half month’s rent. But the Jandlady had found out that they were member of Tenants League and would not aceept it. On Thurs- day the eviction took place. The Tenants League immediately mob- ilized and put furniture back whieh the marshal had thrown out. Win- dows were broken. One woman was sent to the hospital to get her finger stitched because marshal closed the windows which women held open to put the furniture back. A demonstration took place along the whole block from noon till 10 p. m, The whole neighborhood drawn in, All are embittered against the landlody, known everywhere in Coney |Island, Mrs. Clydes, as a blood- | sucker. The demonstration continued (throughout Friday on that block. | Thursday l2 HAVE LYNCHED NeqRo Men) > BUY IWonT LYNCH Tuts THAT WOULDN'T FAIR. TLUGive Him Ki RAE, He PUT HIM TECTED, Wi GenTLEMen OF THe JuRY a aes, Bany iS CHARGED) WAS CaucnT THE CRADLE. THE el oF OUR WIMMEN MUST 3 ovr Veep a hanks Fe For| The Fair E T SENTENCE HIM "To BE’ Légroc ATONE? LET Tai EACH You “To aA Your Prace, Chinese Vanguard to Have Annual Dan ce Apr. 24th NEW YORK. The Chinese Vanguard, the only weekly organ of the militant Chinése workers on the ; American continent with a large cir- culation in many countries through- JOBLESS BLOCK | TWO EVICTIONS Crowd Votes Against ‘Sally’ Rival Meeting NEW YORK.— —The Down Town, Council of the Unemployed has put | Ut the world, will celebrate its first back the furniture and blocked evic- | anniversary on Friday night, April tion of two jobless families, one | 24th, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East and one Saturday. The | 4th St. ’ i | first case was that of the Gudmich| pe celebration will be marked family, 246 Monroe St. This worker | ‘ 4d | with an unusually rich program with had been out of a job for three y Program Waist months, had been seven weeks in the hospital and only five weeks out | feadture to many workers, Chinese Chinese fencing, which will be a new | children. A conference of delegates | | trade unions, fraternal organizations, | | how bad it was and though they had b | of it. About 200 gathered in a mass meeting in front of his place, lis- tening to speakers of the unem- ployed council urge formation of a tenants’ league. Saturday the council heard that | the furniture of Thomas Handring- ton, 120 Broome St., had been out on the street for two days, This worker was one year unemployed and had three children. The committee of | the Down Town Council put it back | | and held a good meeting outside. Defeat Sallies. Saturday night, at University Pl. and 14th St. th Salvation Army, with band and banners, came down and started their meeting after the Jobless leaders had started one. The police came up and argued with ae jobless to listen to the Sallies, speaker of the Down Town Sonne of the Unemployed took a vote of the crowd, right in the presence of the police, and they voted oyerwhelm- | ingly to hear the speakers instead of the preachers. The Sallies then folded up their paraphernalia and vanished. The Madison Square Council of the Unemployed forced a job shark at 747 Sixth Ave. to return two- thirds of the fee given it by Adolph | Pankow. He got a job that lasted | only a couple of days and the agency was refusing to return his fee. The Down Town Council gives a |May Day Eve rally and ball at 8 |p. m., April 30, at 13°3 W. 28th St., Workers’ Laboratory Theatre. Every- | body come. jcents, or 35 cents at the door. | Circus Opens at Madison n Sq. Garden, The big show_Ringling Bros. and | | Barnum and Bailey combined circus— is again at Madison Square Garden, | where the clowns, the elephants, the | hosts of artists, the wild animals, | strange and curious people, the sea elephant and the thousand other fas- cinating sights are crowding the big building. The circus offers many new fea- tures this spring—Clyde Beatty, wild janimal trainer, with his group of | Jungle-bred lions and tigers in one tion, a European breath-taker, which Orland, Mara on his back, dives through space to a chute below; Con Colleano, wire dancer, tumbler and somersault- er; somersaulter of the Flying Codonas; Zacchini, who is fired across the Garden from the mouth of a cannon; Colossus, monster sea elephant; Lui- ‘cita. Leers, Europe’s aerial star; the Rieffenachs and Ernestos, bareback troupes; Al Powell, flying trapeze contortion star; Miss Winnifred, som- ersaulting mid-air star; the Picchian- is, Rubios and Siegrists, one hundred clowns and 800 other big top artists. The circus is here, Photographic Workers Fight Speed-Up NEW YORK.—Pointing out that the conditions of the photographic workers, along with conditions of workers generally, are getting un- bearable through increasing unem- ployment, wage cuts, speed-up and Stagger plans, the Photographic Workers’ Union has issued a call for @ mass meeting Thursday evening, 7:30, April 16, at Irying Plaza Hall, 16th Street and Irving Place. About 500 then listened | to the jobless speakers for two hours | and bought 200 copies of Labor Unity. | Tickets in advance 25 | steel arena; the Orland-Mara sensa- | in} with Mademoiselle | Alfredo Codona, triple mid-air) Hold Meet April 16 to) music, oriental magic, selections from | |“Roar China” and a snappy, jazzy | band for the dance. It is a rare oc- | casion- Workers should not miss it! Admission for the affair is only 35c in advance and fifty cents at the | | door. Tickets are now obtainable at the Vanguard office, 35 E. 12th St. | 5th floor, the Workers Bookshop, and the Workers School office. Work- ers are advised to economize by buying the tickets in advance, DRIVE 10 BUILD ‘LABORUNITY INNY Plan to Have New York Edition | NEW YORK.—An intensive cam- paign to increase the circulation of Labor Unity in New York to the} point where there can be a regular weekly New York edition began April 1 and will continue till Oct. 1, 1931. The Trade Union Unity Council has worked out @ detailed program for its affiliated organizations and | definite quotas that can easily be | reached, set for each union, league and fraternal organization. The council calls on these organizations tocarry out these plans immediately. The quotas set are as follows; Food Workers, 300 copies; Needle Trades, 450; Building Trades, 450; Marine, 150; Shoe Workers, 150; Laundry and Cleaners, 150; Building Meintenance, 100; Metal Workers, 150; Jewelry Workers, 50; Leather Goods, 150; Of- fice Workers, 150; Furniture Work- | er, 50; Medical, 50; Paper Box Mak- | ers, 50; Printers, 150; Barbers, 25; Transport, 50; Teachers, 50; Social | workers, 25; Suit Cases, 25; Photo- | graphic Workers, 30; Proletpen, 50; Unemployed Councils, 1,000, and fra- | ternal organizations, 1,500; making < total of 5,255 copies in bundle orders by Oct. 1, 1931, The council points out that the main task in this drive is to increase the number of subscriptions and has their equivalent in 8, 6 or 4 months | subscriptions, | ©-all Depositors of Bank of U. S. to Meet Tonight | NEW YORK. — — The United De- positors Committee, Bank of United States, will hold a central mass meet- ing, at Washington Irving High | School, 16th Street and Irving Place, Monday evening, at 8 p. m., April 13. | A report of all their recent activ- ities including their negotiations with Messrs. Rogoff, Satterlee and Canfield, will be given, This action will be presented to the members for ratification. A strong protest will be made against the legislators who are blocking laws to safe-gyard thrift secounte in commercial banks. IRVING set a quota of 1,000 yearly subs or | | See Them Off! . GREET THE WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ DELEGATION TO THE SOVIET UNION THE FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION Inyites you to attend the Farewell Meeting CORNER 15TH STREET AND IRVING PLAZA WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 AT 8 P. M. ——SPEAKERS—— | House committees are to be organ- ized in all houses of that landiady, | MORDA— P, Hebeorsal WK Band |Many housewives got up in street | pl menue eM SM Bed to atte din | meeting and spoke about experiences it bs wee py me Urgent. | With the tandlady and urged ergan- | ENEHDAY 14 id ization. The police tried to break up Womens Gounci 18 Hero Park | the meetings. Women resisted mili- \ Lecture “Shela list Construction an tantly. The Pevielb were very brutal Bara’ st, “Brooiaym ”"™ ** 2274 I ut ald mot succeed. t Prominent leaders of the militant | labor movement will outline plans tor | ‘organization of the trade to fight | | against the growing Wage cuts. At present retouches, printers and dark- room men are forced to work for the miserable wage of $12, $18 or $20 a week, In the Apeda Studio, printers WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. FRANK PALMER ... J. E. SNYDER———-San Praneiseo, Delegate ‘Truek Drivers R. GONZALES ssrerersseeverserress California Agricultural Worker OTHER WOMEN, NEGRO, YOUTH DELEGATES WILL SPEAK CHAIRMAN:-—JOHN J, BALLAM, National Geeretary, F. 8, U. Admission 25 Cents — Meeting will start promptly ot 6 p, m- SEC. 5 GETS 83 April 24th NEN YORK. — Section 5, Distrit | | gustiug the Lnin Drive from shops. | factories, offices, Unemployed Coun- | eils, unions and other mass organi- | zations. |dication we will double the RUUAREF | g | over. Th e drive is stimulated by the fac' that all the new members will be ini- | tiated publicly on Friday, April 24, j at Ambassador Hall at a mass dem- | | onstration, where every unit orga- nizer will hold a sign indicating the | number of new members the unit | secured. A Red Flag will be given at this} | demonstration to the unit, that se-| cures the most members, proportion- | atly. | Mooney-Billings Play, Bernstein’s “M e 1.0” Open This Week Theatre Thursday evening. more are in the cast. Marcel Varnel of new members before the drive is jranks an empty space left by |loss of Comrade Gordon. | upon the workers and especially to | | the workers of | where Comrade Gordon as a Com- |munist has for in’ the interests of all the wo the shop to close their ranks, to take the place of Comrade Gordon | in the Communist Party and con- | tinue to carry on the struggle in the jinterests of the working class with the same devotion and firmness as did our lost Comrade Pinkus Gordon. LONG HOURS IN BE Com. Gordon, Charter Member of Communist NEW MEMBERS | Party Dies Suddenly NEW YORK. — aemineae Gordon, a} To Be aged on| charter member of the Communist Party, an untiring and devoted work- er to the cause of the working class, has met a sudden death. is a great loss to the , has secured 83 new party members| Party in Section Six where comrade Gordon was a member for years | one of its shop nucleus, His death Communist in From his very childhood Comrade Gordon participated in the revolu- tionary movement in Russia and in The recruiting of new members is | the year of 1905 took an active part |in full swing and according all in- jin the revolutionary uprising. The Section Committee of S of the Communist Party has in its the We call the Bley Shop, years been fighting ers in and NEW YORK. — The most char- 99 | acteristic of the scheduled hours of women in beauty parlors brought out by New York State Department of Labor in its recent survey of that Lee Shubert, in association with A.| occupation is their length and lack H, Woods, presents Henri Bernstein's | of uniformity. play, “Melo,” at the Ethel Barrymore not only between shops but between Basil | different sorkers in the same shop. Rathbone, Edna Best and Earle Lari- | Other high roints in the Feport W were there being variation ction | SHOP. | - WORKERS SCHOOL! SUMMER TERM) ration Now Open | Regist N YORK.—The Workers Sci hool | Committee has decided to conti the school in the summer. The summer term will start in the latter | part of May and will last for eight | weeks. Funde itical E nish, ete. Important courses like the | als of Communism, Pol- | omy, Leninism, Russian, | » Will be offered. Classes | | are to be held in the evenings. Thi. decision was made in view of the ir creasing demands of many wockers to ng in the summer, | advised to register now at the Worker's School Office, $3.50 | East 13th second floor, The number of students in each class will be limited | Correspondence courses will also be given in the summer in order to benefit workers in various parts of the country to be trained for lead- ership in the intensified struggle. Further information about this can | = be secured upon writing to the Work- | ers’ School, 46-50 East 13th St. | as fojlows—scheduled weekly hours | ranged from 45 to 73 a week; the pro- | pertion of women working more than ingh4 hours was greater than that} working less; 13 per cent of .the} shops, employing 8 per cent of the | women, had days of 12 hours or more, | and women were scheduled to work | ter 6 p. m. in three-quarters of | the shops directed ‘‘Melo,” which was adapte: from the French by Arthur Pollock. Other openings of the week are: “Precedent,” by I. J. Gorden, at the Provincetown Playhouse on Tuesday night. This play, it is said, is based on the Moeoney-Billings case. “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” a revival of the Pirandello play, is due here on Wednesday at the Bijou Theatre, with Walter Con- nolly, Eleanor Philip, Eugene Powers'| and Doris Rankin heading the cast. The Bran Stoker’s mystery thriller | “Dracula,” will return te Broadway this evening, opening a limited en- gagement at the Royale Theatre, | NEIG jHBORHOOD ES | EAGT SIDE—BRONX f Ann Codee Danny Small ¢ latives | Irene Vermillio: aud Co. says Produced by SOYUZKINO THE NEW OUTSTANDING SOVIET FILM leu SSIA AND GER CITIES AND YEARS (si American Premiere CAMEO Vern Smith j in the Daily Worker Released By AMKINO After the mere by Fedin Y re 1914 AD wd pe aeunp ogee 8 : Russian Artist— —A German Engineer Two poles of intelligentzia! ! ! In the leading roles are: The German major— the celebrated German actor BERNHARD GETZKE The Russian artist— IVAN CHUVELEV tar of the End of St. Petersburg” and other films.) 2d Big 2ND STREET and BROADWAY (WIS. 1789) vovezan rriecs | Week Hentell & dou’ Prospect 10198, || Ludwig Sate— : Patronize the Concoops Food Stores 4ND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAS1 “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” PLAZA Secretary of the T. U, U. 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