The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1931, Page 2

Page Two —WORK IS DANGEROUS AND KILLING: \ Five Framed on Death Charge Were Active Fighting Wage Cuts in Silk Mills of Paterson; Demand Release! By AL GOLDBERG, {Article 3) 9 no effort has been made to organize the Dye spite of the fact that 85 e country’s silk dyeing and no struggle of the mn NATIONAL TEXTILE UNION ONLY FORCE} ORGANIZING PATERSON DYE WORKERS: A HONGRY No VIS TS BE KIND To_ ANIMALS <) WEEK” AND TM FEEDING 1 \L EF You \\ ARE SYARV YOURSELF INTo }\ |'T. W. U. being held on a charge of murder to the electric chair, in order to break up the National Textile Workers’ Union. Why are these dye barons so afraid of the National Tex- | tile Workers’ Union? Let us examine | the conditions of the workers in the | f) WE'LE FERD You a THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER z ) ANIMAL, Mie WEEK . y, NG CHANGE ADo 0 - Mo. Fo Se Tas is BE KINO To III AND P, | 1 NOT SPLASH ANY. LED WATER ON THe DEAR workers can be wholly suc- | dye houses. ut tying up the dye tt ion since its inception in nizing the dye workers g most of its time for Because of this the ners are in the forefront orts to send the five textile ading members of the N. What’s On— FRIDAY mens League ht head4uarters, Lenin Drive Celebra Bronti Hinsdale Workers Youth 13 Hinsdale Brookl Mass Meeting of Bakers of t 7 v First main topic. are urged to attend. Needle Trades Union Youth Section, 1 t 1. at 13 W. 28th St, 1 8p. ath Club, 408 1.W.0. “History and Im- Day,” at 7:30 p.m * each Youth Branch, 402 1.W.0. rtant meeting at 8 p.m. to al problems. 48 Bay Sth St, Brooklyn Ambassador Hall Group, 1W.0. Sid 8 p.m, at 1865 University A 34, to form anot r Youth Br. LW.0. 30 p.m. at 1645 Grand tory and Importance at 4211 Ne Vanguard Ball. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 F Unusual program and dance. All come = * SATURDAY Meeting of € of the y Youth Committee utional Workers Order Union Sa. Spartacus Workers Sports Club will hold an affair at club rooms, 7 Westchester Ave. Good stage ente it: refreshments and dancing ody welcome = Da Youth Club at 8:30 c Good jazz rs’ School Band and neert e given by the Unemployed Council of 1 ” at Prospect Ave. at Proceeds to Paily Worker and Unemployed Conn- cil Lecture on Post-War Literature. P Workers School. SUNDAY Bitfloman to Lecture, At Workers Forum, & p. m. at School Auditorium. “The ‘World Crisis, their answers and ours.” Vitth Anniversary Banquet. and entertainment given by the Counci 4 of Working Class Women of Williamsburg at 61 Graham Ave. at 7:30 p.m. Admission 75 cents. Lecture on May Day. ‘lub at 1492 at Harlem Prog. Youth ¢ Madison Ave. All welcome. Young Defenders. meets at 4 p, m, at 1400 Boston Road. Ce He i) Pxhibition Proletarian Art. John Reed Club-Proletpen on S: urday, Sunday. Discussion, music, lectures. Admission 25 cents. Pro- ceeds to Freiheit . Brownsville Workers Open Forum 105 'Thatford Ave., Brooklyn, Lec- ture by Smith on “The Revolution- ary Meaning of May First” at 8 p. m. Admission free. All workers In- vited. Meet at Dyckman St m. Bring food, ete. Ferry at 0 a, All welcome. Downtown Branch FWO 105. Regular meeting at 7:30 p, m. at M1 BF. Tth All young workers und atudents invited. Middle Rronx Forum. Vecture on “May Day" Admiaston tr All welcome. 1622 Bathgate Ave. Bron: | Of the 25 to 30 thi are dye workers—of which about 60 |per cent are women, young and child | workers, under sixteen years of age. | The largest shops are the Weidman’s | which is a branch of the United Piece | Dye Works, the strongest dye cor- poration in America and probably in the world. Next comes the National Piece Dye Works with four branches in Paterson. monopolize the dyeing industry Paterson and the United States. Dye shops are hells in the real sense of the word—thirteen to eight- een hours is the average working time and cases have been recorded whre workers have slaved 36 hours at a stretch, going home to sleep for 12 in hours and coming back to do it over | again. Wages are from 18 cents and Jower per hour paid to the young and women workers. The highest a work- | er receives is 50 cents per hour and very few get that. The room where the silk is dyed can be very well likened to the ferno” pictured by the priest and| john Reed Club in the celebration.| Charges? He denies everything—New Which they promise to every dye|The well known W. I. R. Brass Band| York is the “purest” city in the | worker if he fights for better con- | ditions. Steam filled with the chlor- |results in a great many accidents. | The floors made |ankle-deep with dyes, workers to wear thick sores on the feet. Acids splatter all | over the clothes, eating through, into the skin. Lunch hours are unknown in the dye shops. Food has to be taken along and eaten while tending the machine, taking in poisonous dyes with the food. Decent sanitary facilities are unknown to the dye workers. Very few and no places at |all to wash. Toilets are of the worst |Kinds and absolutely no dréssing | rooms, Dynamite rooms, where the silk is | tin-weighted, i. g., the tin is added |to the silk, worse than any other |department. A few months’ work in | the dynamite room makes a physical | wreck out of any person. | Finishing rooms where the silk is | washed, the gloss put in and stretched to the correct proportion, contains | the most dangerous machines. Young and women workers are employed |here because they are quicker and sand silk work- | National Textile ers in Paterson about 12 thousand | These two companies} “an. | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRII oA 1931 week” Ps caneruL| Ih f Ht II} | i Balt WIR | <a S.. NT J MORN JefUs TH! ITO ANIMAL BEEN EVICTED From Youre, LISTER Ink oUR 515 DEKIND WEEK" YOu HAvir HOME. TLL 7 TAKE Tae of CAT TO THE | 2 BIDE-A WEG) \4iome Zz \ 8y RYAN WALKER CANT GET YOUA JON THISIS | | SautmaT We « & KIND To ANIM: Week AND Wy Hete 13) {eviction NoTICe VE Gov A Rox OF FLEAS To Pur on N UNEMPLOYED DOG HE WiLL BE | 5 ae L OF HLS 2 CondMor R ZX) WAT IT WHAT KE)\ Take wee ZAIND ort) & SO Bus¥ SCRATCHING| SEC. 5 TO GREET Amter Hits Socialist Role in | BIG BRONX MASS Aiding Tammany Grafters MEETING TONIGHT Socialist and Police Work With Walker to Beat Up Strikers and Unemployed Workers i110 NEW MEMBERS |Mass Meeting Tonight | In Bronx NEW YORK.—This_ evening, April 24, at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave., the Negro and white workers of the Bronx will witness an unusual revolutionary celebration when 110 new members, 9 of whom are Negroes, will be publicly accepted into the ranks of the Communist Party. These new revolutionary fighters came into the Party during the “Lenin Recruiting Drive” of the Bronx Section of District 2, and were recruited from shops and factories in the Bronx, from the Unemployed Councils and Tenants Leagues and from numerous workers’ clubs. The Middle Bronx Workers’ Club will be there in full attendance to) greet 5 of their members who joined | the Party. | Representatives of the Central and| District Committees as well as the) section committee will greet the new members in the name of the Party. A very interesting part of the pro-| | gram will be the participation of the | | will furnish revolutionary music. | This celebration, coming a few days | i; |ine and aniline poisons is so thick | pefore the May First. Demonstrations, }.Hoover...and Roosevelt, has his \that if you place your hand a foot will be an occasion of protest against | “faults’—there are defects in the away from your face it will be im-| the legal lynching of the 9 Negro! city administration, but one must possible to see it. In this fog dan-|poys in Alabama. The workers of| consider the limits of human possi- gerous machines are operated which | the Bronx will also demand the with- | bility. | drawal of the American imperialist of stone are|armed forces from Nicaragua and|eteering. There is no such thing in causing the | Honduras, and will demand that the |New York, according to him. But shoes and/|U. 8. Government turn over all war | his district attorney, Crain, admits boots. Even these are no protection | funds for the immediate relief of the | that there are 60 in the City of New since the acids eat through, causing |ten million unemployed workers of| York and he has not been able to} | this country. | BROWNSVILLE. 10 PREPARE MAY 1 \Call Raflies This Fri-| | day and Sat. | | NEW YORK.—In preparation for May Day and as a means of mobiliz- | ig the workers of Brownsville for the May First demonstration in New| York, the Communist Party and | other mass organizations are hold- |ing daily open air meetings, issuing leaflets to the workers in the differ- ent parts of the city and arranging | for indoor meetings and lectures. | Brownsville, a former stronghold | more supple. Just a few weeks ago /| Of the Socialist Party, must be roused a case was reported of a woman while | to a full realization of the treacher- | working at a frame in the National | ous role of the Socialist Party. The | Piece Dye Works at Hawthorne had | workers must be made to realize the NEW YORK—‘For their own po-{ litical propaganda for the socialist | the socialists,” says I.| party, which works with the same) underworld against workers on the | litical purpose: Amter, district organizer of the Com- | munist Party, “who have betrayed | the workers in every struggle, through the City Affairs Commit- | tee, have lodged a complant against the Tammany Hall administration of | New York. Hoping to take advan- | tage of the ndalous situation in | the city administration, which is be- j coming too much even for the cap- | italists, they are preparing for the | coming aldermanic. election cam- | paign, Together with the repub-| licans they have launched a drive against Mayor Walker in the de-| mand for an investigation, | “Their scheme is clear—but they | will not dare to go through with it. They will not dare to demand a real investigation—an investigation | that would be conducted by workers, | for that. will uncover the rot not) only in New York, but in the entire | country. under capitalist system. “What does the mayor reply to the | world, and Jimmie Walker “purest” “mayor. is its Of course, he, like “Jimmie Walker talks about rack- secure indictments in even 10 cases, and nothing has been done in them. Is this connivance between the dis- trict attorney and the magistrate courts, which Jimmy Walker defends and covers up? Is this connivance between the racketeers and the city administration, of which Walker is the head? “Walker correctly accuses Tuttle, United States attorney and a repub- lican of high standing in state af- fairs, of having investigated the Judge Vause case in Brooklyn, on the charge of a payment of $250,000 to the judge for the lease of a pier, and of having found nothing on which to return an indictment. But the workers understand that the re- publicans are no better than the Tammany Hall democrats. They are one brood of capitalists, who have the moral ‘get rich,’ but cover up the means if necessary. An investi- gation of the police department of Chicago is now going on, and the same grafting is being found there as in New York—and Chicago was her hand terribly burned. The frame | full meaning of united front between | which stretches the silk has a drum |filled with steam. and the roller, and was being burned |away. The foreman of the room re- fused to let the workers break the |machine in order to get the hand \Joose, but instead he kept the wom- ,@n’s hand in the drum for 10 min- jutes because he tried to take the machine apart. Out of desperation @ worker picked up a bar and broke the machine. Cases as this are hap- | pening daily, Speed-up and rationalization is |down to perfection. Machines are | speeded up continually. New ma- chines are constantly being intro- | duced such as the new machine re- cently brought into the Textile Dye- |ing Corporation which combines the action of 4 machines. It took 10 men this one machine is run by two men. -|Bight men are thrown out on the street to starve. Unemployment is rife among the dye workers; About 50 per cent are out of jobs and prac- tically starving. On the other hand the companies are making more and more profits. Millions upon millions ‘They probably don’t even know what the inside of a dye house looks like. Today these dye bosses are attend- Today these dye bosses are at- tempting to kill 5 textile workers and to smash the National Textile Work- ers’ Union, because these workers and the union had threatened some of the bloody profits of these greedy para- sites. These dye house owners will x Workers Forum. ys at 8 Fi m. at 569 Prospect May. F'iret.” not stop at murder in order to pro- teot thelr profits, ‘They are prepared | Union, to run these 4 machines but today | for the greedy owners every year. | | the Socialist Party, the Fascist War This woman's| Veterans and the Russian White | rooney, who have made New York | hand was caught between the drum | Guards, together with the Tammany | not only one of the best and “most police to keep the workers out of Union Sq. A United Front Mass Protest meet- ing will be held Friday, April 24, at Rockaway Mansion, Rockaway and Livonia, at 8 p.m, to expose the So- cialist Party as an enemy within the ranks of the working class. | Saturday, April 25, there will be an. open air rally and parade that will start at 7 p.m. The rally will consist of five meetings in different | parts of Brownsville and wind up in one mass meeting at Saratoga and Pitkin Aves. The first meeting and parade will start at Pennsylvania and | Sutter Ave. at 7 p.m. and all the | | workers are called upon to come to the starting point at 7 pm. All workers organizations are urged to come im § body to the parade and rally and express their solidarity with the United Front Conference in protest against the Socialist and as an expression of determination to struggle against this system that forces misery and suffering upon millions of workers. for any emergency (notice the fort- |like appearance of the dye shops in the picture). Just as they murdered one worker during the 1919 strike, today they are trying to kill five, Dye workers of Paterson and all over the country must come to the defense of these workers. Form defense committees in every shop. { Join th National Textile Workers’ caer | republican. ~ “Walker praises his glorious | | police | | commissioners—Whalen and Mul- | | orderly” cities, but who have striven | for even more. Crime is rampant in | the city, and the police department ‘can do nothing to stop it. Racke- | teering and the underworld rule. But | this is not all of Whalen’s and Mul- | rooney’s achievements. They have | battered the workers’ heads; their | Police arrest and beat up militant _werkers on the picket line. The | starving workers have been allowed | to die in the streets, Thousands of | families have been evicted, and all | that Walker could say was that ‘he | regrets the situation. This if Wal- ker’s ‘best ruled city in the country.’ “Roosevelt will unquestionably re- | ject the charges of the City Affairs | Committee, which were made as po- Working Class Women Lead Strike On Meat Shops, Middle Village NEW YORK.—The meat strike in Middle Village is growing. One butcher has already been forced to grant the demands, and the pickets are on the job before the others from 7a. m. to 4 p.m. The struck butchers have no longer lany trade, Housewives who placed orders by phone, not knowing that there was a strike, have been notified by visiting committees of the pickets. ‘The orders were sent back when they were delivered, picket line, which gets injunctions from Tammany Hall judges against striking workers—needle trade and food workers; which laugh when Tammany Hall police club the un- employed. Roosevit will reject the charges—and the republicans will proceed with their investigation, ap- proved and sanctioned by the state assembly. “This state investigation will also end in a farce. It is also staged solely for election purposes, to boost the coming election campaign of the republican party. It will not dare eo go to the bottom, for that will strike to the basis of capitalism. “The workers of New York want to know: Why was there no appropria- tion out of the $620,000,000 budget for the 1,000,000 unemployed in New York? They want to know why un- employed and workers working part time and receiving fearfully low wages, and therefore cannot pay rent, are evicted? They want to know why their children must go to school hun- gry? They want to know why work- ers, fighting for the right to live, are clubbed and jailed; why foreign-born to Ellis Island; why Negre workers are discriminated against? They want to know how the bosses have monty for everything—for high divi- dends and lives of ease, while work- sane asylum because of unemploy- ment and the cutting wage slashes? these things, which are not asked by the City Affairs Committee, and will not be asked by the republican in- vestigation committee. They will not be asked because these people are not interested in the working class, and do not represent the interests of the masses of struggling workers. These questions are asked by the Communist Party, which not only represents but also fights for the in- terests of the working class. “The working class will give the answer to both the Tammany Hall machine, the republican and social- ist party, on May Day, on the con- tinued struggle and in the alder- manic elections as well, by support of the Communist Party and its pro- gram of struggle of the working class against the capitalist class and its parties, republican, democratic and socialist.” NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES Keller Sisters and Lyneh Man Usher Montrole and Resnolde Harry Stanley Dreapoctt St, ‘The Original Honey Boys Georgie Tapps and Co. Sue Russell & Co. Crane & Earle JB seisesin Pdberosion siete: esha on BROOKLYN THEATRES 1ST TIME IN BROOKLYN FIVE COMPLETK DF LUXE SHOWS DAILY EDNA FERBER’S GREAT NOVEL COMES TO LIFE Richard Dix, Irene Dunne Estelle Taylor, Edna May Oliver RKO-RADIO'S SUPER PRODUCTION and RKO Vaudeville ANN SUTER The: strike is against the high prices of mi * workers are seized at their place of | work or in their homes and taken | ers. are driven to suicide, to the in- | “The workers want an answer to | NEW YORK A big parade, un: |der the auspices of the May Day United Front Committee, will take place this Saturday at 3 p. m. at Washington and Calermont Parkway, | where speakers from four platforms will address the crowd. From there, there will be a march through the Negro section on Third Ave. to 1400 | Boston Rd. Representatives of the Communist Party, Young Communist League. Food Workers’ Industrial Unton, | Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, Laundry Workers’ League, Lee Mason Liberator Group, 1622) | Bathgate Ave. Unemployed Branch, | | | | Middle Bronx Tenants’ League, In-| ternational Labor Defense and many | other workers’ organizations will ad- | | dress the workers, rallying them for | defense of the Scottsboro victims and for the May Day demonstration. On Friday, April 24, there will be a huge mass demonstration at Am- bassador Hall, 172nd St., near Third Ave., where 110 new members will be publicly initiated into the ranks of the Communist Party. At this demonstration the John | Reed Club, the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief and other cultural or- ganizations will furnish entertain- | ment. ; AMUSEMENTS EXHIBITION PROLETARIAN ART John Reed Club Proletpen 106 E, 14th St. SATURDAY and SUNDAY April.25th and 26th Discussion—Lectures— Muse Adm. 25¢ — Proceeds to Freiheit Chinese Vanguard | Affair at Manhattan Lyceum Friday Nite) NEW YORK--This Friday night, April 24th, workers in New York will get an unusual treat by attending the affair. of the Chinese Vankuard, the | organ of the Chinese militant work ers, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E.| 4th Street. The program will include many novel features. Chinese fencing, Chinese symphony, and magic are} ready to please the eyes and ears of | all those who attend. Selections from | the famous play, ‘Roar China” will} be given by workers who took part in | the play before. Chop suey, almond cakes, Chinese tea and so on will be also within reach. The affair is held to celebrate the anniversary of the revolutionary or- gan of the Chinese workers, which LENIN DRIVE CELEBRATION SECTION 5, DISTRICT 2, CPUSA Friday, April 24," AMBASSADOR HALL — THIRD AVENUE & CLAREMONT has exercised profound influence PARKWAY over Chinese workers in various id Representatives of the Central countries. Part of the proceeds will x bade ill | Committee and District go: to support’ the hundredsiof CHILES ee ee ee nese laundry workers who are now) on strike in San Francisco for better conditions. Tickets for the occasion | are obtainable at 35 cents each at the Vanguard office, 35 E. 12th St., fifth floor, the Workers Bookshop and the Workers School office. Work- | ers are urged not to miss this rare | W. I. R. Brass Band—Joha Keed Club—and other features ADMISSION 25 CENTS: revolutionary treat. Cooperators’ * Patronize For full political and social rights Te R O bi 3 and self-determination for Negroes! 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