The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1931, Page 3

| eae Huge Meets, Demonstration Held on Youth Day in Germany Despite Police Order Prohibiting All Activities 2,000 Young Workers Meet in Illegal Meeting Print Millions of Pieces of Literature BERLIN.—In Berlin every meeting and demonstration in Se PROBE HARLEM JOBLESS COUNCIL Drastic Correstions Necessary (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) branch headquarters all day long, look around, sit around, read the papers, but not a single member of connection with the Youth Day May 30 was prohibited. he/ the executive committee or the Youth Congress for Revolutionary Unity was also prohibited, all house to house agitation, and the sale of the “Junge Garde.” Leaflets, posters, and transparencies were not permitted in any part of Berlin. Motor lorry tours were forbidden all over the country. ‘The Revolutionary Unity Congress were also prohibited in Frankfort, Brunswick and Jena. ‘Three million leaflets, 250,000 past- ing slips and 250,000 posters had been teinted in preperation for the Youth Day. One thousand mass meetings of young workers were held all over the country. One hundred and thirty-two illegal demonstrations were carried out in different parts of the country in the last few days before the Youth Day. On Saturday, April 4, the Youth Congress for Revolutionary Unity was held illegally in Berlin. In spite of the prohibition it was taken part in by over 2,000 young workers, in- cluding 15 delegates from abroad, from Great Britain, France, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Czechoslo- vakia, ‘Three hundred elected dele- gates were present at the congress. Had it been possible to hold the congress legally, 1,500 to 2,000 dele- gates would have taken part. Easter in Berlin was completely in- Philadelphia Dentist Swindles Workers Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Editor: 4s an example of how the pro- fessional classes rob the workers, I quote ‘my own experiences, I had a bridge put in by a Dr. Albert, of Dauphin St., Phila., which caused me intense pain. He was finally com- pelled to take it out in order to re- lieve my suffering. When I asked for the return of my Unemployment Forcing Many to Petty Crimes! Seattle, Wash. The general condition of the world \s reflecting itself with utmost pre- ciseness, not only on the stock mar- kets of the world, but in its jails as well. For instance, the King’s County Jail jn Seattle, Wash., in which I was incarcerated. There are 33 prison- ers in ‘# tank. Here are the of- fenders in order of the gravity of their crimes: 9 petty larceny, non~ ‘Support; 4 dope fiends (habitual); 7 habitual criminals (forgery-grand Jareeny;-etc.);5. bootleggers, 4 polit~ ical “prisoners” (Communists); 4 de- portation. ; As it can be seen plainly the first offenders: Now let: us see what are the first. offenders’ crimes: Non- support. They are two old men dragged into court by their wives for non-support. I. spoke to them and found. out.that they-refused to sup- Pueblo Worker Sthepee “Self-Preservation” = Club | | ity. Nor has delegations of unem- * Pueblo, Col. Daily Workers. . .. Ata meeting of the “Self-Preser- vation -Club” a comrade took the floor and exposed completely the re- actionary program of this organiza- tion, which ealls on the unemployed to join this club to defend them- selves against injustice and to help its members to find jobs, ‘The meeting was a total collapse as far as the getting of workers into the club was concerned. The “Self- Preservation” is supposed, according to their’ program, to stand for all mankind “against high taxes, for iobs, ete, Yet they charge $1 to join Texas Soldiers See Purpose of Boss Armies San Antonio, Texas. . Dear Editor: A conyersation between two work- ers and a soldier: Soldier—Say, buddy, where is the { Ninth Infantry located? | Worker—-I don’t know, we are in a the fort now. Are you a new re- ¢ cruit? } S.—Yes ten months in the army; » just come to this fort two days ago. W.—How is army life? A lot of york and) drilling. -Tough. 6.—Yes, eight hours. drill every day #nd plenty of work besides maneu- vering. It sure is hetter than being on the outside. Befere I joined I had no job, was just a bum, a meal here end there. we didn’t drill What is the reason for activity? 8.—They are afraid of a revolu- tion. These hard times they are afraid of the people, with the work- ers starving. W.—Yes, either that or imperialist war between two imperialist powers yw war against the Soviet Union. What do you really think the army s for? It is against the workers? | S$ —Yes, against the working class. ‘W.—Do you think the army will serve the bosses, that is, the own- ing class?. S.No, most of the boys won't, or f they dovit Won't ‘be willingly. If hey rebel they will be court-mar- daled and may be shot. W.—If they refuse to fight against the bossés, that is, rebel in masses, they won't. . i . &—1 don't know, the capitalists fluenced by the Youth Day. Over 10 great illegal demonstrations had been held in every part of Berlin by Sunday evening. In the north of Berlin over 1,000 young workers took part ih a demonstration. A spon- taneous demonstration of young workers in the center of Berlin gath- ered together an equally large num- ber. The workers’ quarters of the city are decorated with red flags. Transparencies and posters have | been removed by force by the po-| lice from the windows of proletarian dwelling houses. Mass arrests have been made everywhere. In Berlin alone hundreds of young revolution- ary workers have been incarcerated. In the workers’ districts of Treptow, Neukoelln and Wedding the police shot into the demonstrations, hap- pily without injuring anybody seri- ously. In other parts of the country the prohibition was ignored with equal energy, and the police took the same Tigorous measures. | money, he fatuously remarked that a doctor might give me advice, and| I might die nevertheless. And so in| his opinion that absolved him from any further responsibility. Now I hope you will publish this | letter as I think workers should be} warned against these dental sharks, who take the last dollar from unem- ployed workers and give nothing in} return. | i. K. | port their estranged wives because | both are unemployed for over a year. | They are both over 60 years old. It is impossible for a man over 60 to get employment in “normal” times, | not talking about critical conditions. | |From the other seven men there is/ only one hold-up man; the rest are | men who committed crimes because | of unemployment. | One of the men accused of non- | support refused food, saying “they got me for non-support, I don’t want | support from them.” Finally they) férced him to eat. | In conclusion I want to say that | all these men readily listen to prop- | aganda if it is conducted in a right} manner. The right manner is study- ing the man first; finding out his complaints and necessities and mak- ing him feel on an equal basis with | you though you are a political pris- | oner and not a criminal. —M. S. and expect to get 5,000 workers | within the next 90 days. But at the end of. the meeting not one single worker joined, although an executor, a judge, liberals and socialists spoke, for the workers saw clearly the fake maneuvering to create soft jobs for themselves. This club showed much race discrimination; they refused membership to Mexicans. What is significant is that the Communist speaker, who was inter- rupted twice by the chairman, sold quite a few Daily Workers at the end of the meeting. The unemployed there have realized now the neces- sity of organizing an unemployed council. —A Worker. ruled the soldier boys during the} war. W.—Yes, so many were patriotic yet, then. Had their minds poisoned. If the war had of lasted longer many would have become class-conscious. The workers, both in the army and navy, must think of their own in- terests. M The workers must fraternize at the front in case of war. They should | begin organizational and educational work for this now. FAILS TO BAR WORKERS’ VOTE Ieeland Workers De- mand a Republic BERLIN, April 15.—Yesterday dur- ing a session of the Icelandic Althing the premier unexpectedly read a royal decree dissolving parlia- ment ahd fixing the elections for June 12, in order to prevent the adoption of a non-confidence vote. Oppositional parties protested ener- getically, The Communists de- manded @ republic. The socialists were striving to calm the tremendous excitement. The Communists led a demonstration of many thousands before parliament against the king's government. The king of Iceland and of Denmark has a socialist pre- j Join the branch. branch ever talks to these workers, never asks them why they call, do they desire to report an eviction or a case of starvation, do they want to (5) The executive committee talked specifically about. only one case of a starving family containing eight children. The father, after a committee had visited him on 134th St., had come to the branch headquarters, had joined the branch, had never been seen again since. After he had joined the branch he asked what the branch could do for his starving children. The answer was, “This is not a char- ity organization, we are a struggle organization, we can do nothing im- mediately for your children.” The | branch made no attempt to get re- lief for his children from the city, nor was an effort made to supply these starving children with even a single loaf of bread. After the meeting I requested to see the filled investigation blanks which the 15 comrades who went out to visit house to house on 134th St. had brought back. I found that 100 blanks had been filled. Of these 100 families investigated, 24 were report- ed getting some relief from charity organizations, Upon inquiry I learned that these reports had been in the hands of the branch ten days, had never been studied, and the branch had never sent a follow-up committee to the homes of the 24 families reported without food, nor had a meeting been held on 134th St. to arouse the entire neighborhood for demands upon the city govern- ment in the name of these 24 fami- lies who were without food. The branch executive committee did not know that these 24 cases of starva- tion existed upon this street, but members of the committee stated in meeting that they could not go back to 134th St. because the workers were slamming the doors in their faces, aying that our committees were only interested in asking a lot of ques- tions, and not in doing something for the starving. What are the lessons to be drawn from this experience. (1) The dis- trict, after deciding to concentrate in Harlem, did not supply additional leading forces, failed to keep in touch with the activities of the comrades in that section, failed to give this concentration point daily attention, The leading comrades in the unem- ployed work in the district T.U.U.L. similarly failed. (2) The Party in this section has failed to apply itself to this mass work and has failed be- cause it does not understand it andj has not been convinced of its im- portance. It was reported to me that 8 out of 10 Party members in the sec- tion do not know what it is all about. (3) For two months not a single local struggle has been carried on agalist the city government for adequate re- lief, against the reduction of relief, lessening bread lines, discharge of 11,000 workers employed during the winter months by the Prosser char- ployed workers even visited either the city council or the board of esti- mate in these two months with de- mands, Therefore it becomes impos- sible to link up the fight for food for starving families with a sustained lo- cal struggle for relief and unemploy- ment insurance. The Harlem com- rades are failing to link up their ac- tivities in behalf of the unemployed with May Day by not indicating to the unemployed workers that May Day is as well a day of struggle for food and unemployment, insurance. (4) Insufficient participation in unemployed activities by white com- rades, allowing Negro comrades to carry on the work almost alone, thereby bringing about a division be- tween Negro and white workers. (5) Failure to carry out the investigation of families on 134th St. to the con- clusion which the program sttpulat- ed, resulting in members of the un- employed branch arriving at wrong conclusions (workers will not listen, they are not yet hungry enough, ete,), and resulting as well in the loss of confidence of the families investi- gated. (6) Bureaucracy in the branch headquarters by failing to talk to new workers who visit the headquarters, who come to get ad- vice, give information, ask for as- sistnee. (D Failure to study the filled In- vestigation blanks at once, to issue a leaflet to the unemployed workers and families on 134th St. calling their attention to the 24 families without food, calling all families on 134th St. to a meeting to discuss this starvation situation and help plan a struggle for food from the city. (8) Failure te make some provision for food for the starving family with eight children, thereby losing the confidence of the head of this family who joined the branch, Excepting for the one achievement, namely, securing forces to investigate 100 families on 134th St., the activity undertaken is replete with shortcom- ings, teaches us how not to carry on this form of mass work. Although we emphasize these shortcomings in ap- plication of our activities to win im- mediate relief for starving families, the New York City center for unem- ployed work (affiliated with the T.U. ULL.) must answer why, in the last two months, in the face of constantly lessening relief to the unemployed, the discharge of 11,000 workers by the Prosser charity committee, the JOB izations in the city. quarters in the near future to de-| mand that the monthly rations of | supplies for six days only be in- creased for 30 days of the month. The organization admits that their monthly rations cannot last more than six days. Demand Relief. Ashland Ave., sent a committee of | 60 to the United Charities. They} were met with the usual soft soap-| ing. But the committee brushed this| aside, by asking them to “cut out the} sob stuff” and demanded relief of | additional $1 a week for each child. | Some families report that they re-| ceived relief three days after the! committee's visit. This Thursday a| still larger committee will return to} demand that the other cases be cared | for, | Stop an Eviction. | | While the committee fram Branch | No. 3 Was on its way to the charity’s| | offices from its headquarters at 1355 | W. 14th St., they saw a family being | evicted. Immediately the committee interrupted their trip long enough to rally about a hundred workers in the neighborhood to put the furniture back into the house, and hold a mass meeting, and then they proceeded to the charity offices, | Prior to their visit to the United | Charities, a meeting of Branch No. 6 was held at 109 West Chicago | Ave. In the morning, 33 families | were waiting to ask that the Un- | employed Council demand relief for them. In this neighborhood many | families are crowded into a few Patterson’s Mother Comes to New York | To Help Defense (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Patterson further asserted that “the | preachers are knifing my son in the back by their attacks on the Defense.” Patterson is a metal worker and has organized several collections in his shop for the case. | Mrs. Wright, the mother of Roy and Andy, whose five dollars a week is supposed to keep a family from star- | vation, was ready to leave her job! and go anywhere if the LL.D. needed | her to raise funds and mobilize mass protest. The Southern District of the LL.D. today opened an office room at 16 Temple Court Building at Seventh and Cherry Streets, in Chattanooga | to centralize the mass pressure de- | manding a new trial with Negro| workers on the jury, and to effec-| tively carry on a legal defense of the nine boys. All organizations and in- dividuals are asked to rush funds to this office and to communicate with it concerning the all Southern Scotts- boro Defense Conference to be held here next Friday, Mrs, Patterson will arrive in New York on Friday at about five in the afternoon. Eneny of the “Reds” | Indicted for Stealing, PONTIAC, Mich., April 23.—Wilis | M, Brewer, former national Vice- Commander of the American Legion, and prominent runner-up for the of- fice of national commander, has just been indicted by the grand jury for stealing $5,000, ‘This lad was a violent enemy of the Soviet Union which he used to say, “stole all the property of the American business men who went there before the revolution.” He also denounced the Commun- ists here as “law breakers.” discontinuation of bread lines, etc., it has failed to enter into struggles against this increasing starvation, failed to effect a mobiliztion of un- employed workers generally ¢o fight for a continuation of relief given during the winter months, for ade- quate relief for all unemployed, for unemployment insurance. Has any branch of unemployed workers in New York City even so much as passed a resolution or issued a leaflet against the laying off of 11,000 work- ers by the Prosser committee? ‘The impermissible situation we face in New York City ts (1) strug- gles upon the basis of demands of in- terest to all unemployed workers, against lessening relief, have been discontinued, are not carried on ana (2) the fight for immediate food for starving families is ‘carried on wrongly or is still being discussed. The result is that a dangerous lull in activities is resulting, which will lead to the disintegration of the organiza- IN CHICAGO FORCING RELIEF FROM CHARITY All Unemployed Council Branches to Send Del- egation to Cook County Welfare Offices Find Wages of Overall Workers As Low As) $1.66 and $2,66 a Week CHICAGO, Ill_—Six Unemployed Councils reported today the} results of visits of their committees to various charity organ- In each case, a number of the families re- ported were taken care of almost immediately following the Council’s ultimatum that they would return in still larger num- bers if the demands weren’t granted. And each council is pre- paring to return shortly with large committees to press the cases not yet taken care of, and new cases. All of the Unemployed Council branches in the city will| Bee. . . a a region to Columbus. A state confer- oin in sending a del on Ww ad-| Join in sending a delegation to the Cook County Welfare head Jence on unemployment will be held | weeks, working every day on a piece tions among unemployed workers we have built, and unless immediately corrected will serlously weaken our May First demonstration. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1931 LESS BRANCHES MICH small rooms, without gas or light or | heat, and a whole family is forced | to exist on less than one human | being should have. Hold Good Meeting. Bill Matheson, district secretary of | the Unemployed Councils spoke at| before been at our meetings, were gathered. Matheson’s speech was en- thusiastically received, and a com-| mittee elected and dispatched to the| United Charities. | The other branches that visited | forced some action, are the Lawndale | Branch at 3114 Roosevelt Road, and} 19th and Union. Wages $1.66 a Week! A pay envelope averaging from $1.66 to $2.66 a week, for a full week's | work. This was discovered when No. | 3 branch of the Unemployed Council was refused relief by the United Charities on the ground that the mother of the family was working and making $6 to $7 a week. The committee from the council, OHIO, IND. [Hankow Militarists Shoot frei ics HUNGER MARCHES) and Women to Stave Off Communist Based On May First| Meets (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) general wage cut in that section. | The hunger march starts in Ham- mond, Indiana, May 2, nates in a mass demonstration out- side the Indiana State House at In- dianapolis at 4 pm., May 4, which will present demands for unemploy ment insurance to the state govern- ment. The march starts May 1 and Ohio, at Toledo, Cleveland, Young town, and Cincinnati. These march- ers go on foot all the way to Colum- | bus, the state capital. A few days later a motor parade starts at Steu- benville and goes through the mtning and culmi- in in Columbus on May 10 and 11, and demands presented for unemploy: ment insurance to the state legisla- ture on May 11 The Michigan state march on Lan- sing, the capital, is scheduled to reach there May 27. The date of the | | the council meeting ywhere over 75| proposed Illinois march is not known The Stock Yards Council at 4848 s,| Workers, most of whom had never | here. Pavey tah Speed Indiana Preparations. GARY, Ind., April 23.—The work- ers of Calumet Section are very busy preparing for May First demonstra- $15 a week for each family and an| Charity organizations this week and| tions and for the hunger march to} Indianapolis on May Second. Lan- |} guage mass meetings are be‘ alled and agitation is pushed into the) shops and steel mills. The shop com- | mittees arc isswng posters, stickers | and leaflsts and mobilizing the work- ers. j The following are the places of | places of demonstrations for May | First: Hammond, a street demon- | stration at 4 pm. at Morton and State Sts. (100 State); Indiana Har- Revolt; Admit Soviet Gov't Strong Martial Law Declared; Mayor Goes to Talk Over Terror With Soviet Gov’t meet at 240 W also. the Calumet Section Unem- ployed Councils headquarters. In In- diana Harbor the council is growing rapidly and. they have established their headquarters at Ywano Hall, Broadway and Deodor. A squad is distributing state wide leaflets for the hunger march, through all of the cities that the marchers pass, calling upon all work- ers to join in when the delegation goes through. Also 66 capitalist newspapers have received state wide leaflets. Delegations are being prepared in all citi Both the employed and unem- ployed workers are busy trying to raise funds for the leaflets, etc., for the hunger march and are calling upon all organizations and individual workers who have not yet supported this hunger march to immediately tush funds to the Calumet Section Unemployed Councils, 240 W. 15th Ave., Gary, Ind. | Si ebce Michigan State March, OIT, fich., April 23—The Trade Union y League and the unemployed council in Detroit are Tushing the building of the state hunger marches which will concen- trate in Lansing, from the different parts of the state on May 27. Brucker ,the governor, in his mes- age to the state legislature not only ailed to present any program for unemployment relief but he com- pletely ignored the frightful situa- tion. The Michigan State Hunger March will not only let the governor know | bor, a street demonstration at 4 p.m.| that there is unemployment but will | at Watling and Pennsylvania; Gary, | demand immediate appropriation for considering this such lousy pay that) a hall mass meeting at Turner Halll,| unemployment relief and will fur- it deserved investigating, the Branch, | while carrying on the fight for re- lief, looked into the matter of wages. The result of our investigation is as follows: during the past five | work basis, the pay per week was as | follows. First week, $1.66; second | week, $1.94; third week, $2.04; the fourth week $2.66, and the last week | | $2.03. It would seem that factories | like this overall plant, are ripe for} ction by the Needle Trades ‘Workers | ndustrial Union. ag ii CUT as low as FOR ANY INFORMATION ON TOURS TO THE SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE INQUIRE World Tourists, Inc. three times monthly to the Soviet Union. Tours priced °255 14th and Washington Sts. at 8 p.m.| Early will be the speaker at Gary; | at Whiting, Frankowski Hall, John St. and White Oak Ave. 8 p.m., a hall meeting. | The unemployed counclis of these cities are also helping to mobilize the workers for May First by personal contact, leaflet distribution, Daily | Worker sales and by raising funds to | send the hunger march delegation to} Indianapolis. ther demand the enactment of an amendment to the State Constitu- tion for Unemployment Insurance. The state march will expose the at- titude of Brucker and the whole state government who are spread- ing the illusion that unemployment in Michigan is not a burning prob- lem any more. In the whole State of Michigan forced labor is being applied, relief to whatever extent it was given is being slashed, more | families are boing told to go into the In Gary the unemployed councils | soup lines and flophouses, increased 15th Ave., which is | Chiang Kai Shek; Builds Roads Executions of Communist take place daily in Hankow due to the growing |fear of the reactionary Chinese Mili- tarists that a workers’ uprising wil overthrow their rule. Hankow is un- der martial law. Imperialists are rushing gunbots there to bolster up the Nanking regime against the grow- ing revolutionary spirit of the work- ers. | Murder Workers. Hallet Abend, New York Times correspondent in Shanghai reports that the mayor of Hankow has left for a conference with Chiang Kai Shek to discuss new methods of white terror. | “The tense situation at Hankow continues, ites Abend, “with mar- tial law still enforced.” “Executions of Communists are being carried out in public in an at- | tempt to terrorize the Red conspir- | ators. Two men and a girl were | placed against a wall and riddled with bullets from automatic rifles today, and, later, three Reds were publicly decapitated in the main business street of the city.” In this w Chiank Kai Shek, and his Wall Street backers hope to crush | out the revolution. | Soviets Strong. | The same dispatch from Shanghai | tells of the story of Rev. Kristofer N. | Tvedt, a missionary who was held in | Communist territory for a while. The \sky-pilot Tvedt says that the Com- ;munist government “is well organ- |ized.” “These Communists,” he went jon to relate, “maintain a Soviet gov- }ernment in four large counties less |than 100 miles from Hankow and they are building roads and running their own motor transportation.” He told about the splendid discipline in the Red Army and pointed out the grow- ing demoralization in the Nanking forces. | misery is on the order of the day. All organizations affiliated with | the United Front May Day Confer- | ence and in addition other workers’ | organizations are being called to co- | operate. | A state hunger march united front conference is called for Sunday, May 10, at Ferry Hall, 1343 E. Ferry St., ins Again On May First 191 tourists and delegates are witnessing the demonstration on the Red Square in Moscow. Their itinerary has been specially arranged by WORLD TOURISTS for this occasion 175 Fifth Avenue This is the largest group sent at any one time from any part of the world to the Soviet Union for International May Day. New York, N. Y. W orld Tourists