The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1931, Page 2

Page Iwo Terk Paterson May Day Conference Plans Huge Demonstrations ERSON, N. J.—A conference of to plan nd to on fo ions representing ded 2 a total workers; were confer- ed front » the conference, E. nizer of the Pi pointed out the nder which the workers He brought cuts are hat incen- introduced into ac- on ore employed increasing. ers to this uring which to the National nion for Jeader- s the only union of ghting against wage the demon- City Hall, at 12 the main issue of the May First demonstration shall be the unconditional release of the five framed textile workers. Thirdly t was proposed that 15,000 leaflets be issued, and 3,000 stickers prepared, that a special N. T. W. U. leaflet, 4 foreign lan, leaflets and one special Women’s Council ' Branch leaflet be issued. It was ner ion of shall 26, 6 agreed that a special mobili all sympathetic organizations take place on Sunday, April p. m. sharp at the Union Hall, 205 Paterson St. At this meeting a de- fense corps and all necessary com- mittees shall be organized for the demonstration. All organizations at | the conference pledged themselves to call special membership meetings in order to mobilize their fellow work- ers for the May Day preparations, and to come down themselves to the demonstration with banners and signs. After the demonstration a parade will be held through the in-| dustrial and working class residential |sections. All expenses in connection with the demonstration proportion- ally divided among the organizations {An executive committee of 12 was elected, to conduct the daily work of | preparing the demonstration, The United Front Conference urges all the workers to down their tools on May First and march on to City | Hall to demand the unconditional r lease of the 5 framed workers and for better working and living condi- tions, against unemployment and wage cuts and speed-up for unem- ployment insurance and immediate relief. DEPORTATION METHODS ILLEGAL Lawless Officials Are Slapped on Wrist ‘Methods | Government is e constitution in a report | by an expert of Hoover's own Com- | n on Law Observance and En- | At the same time the re-| s being presented, Chairman m of the Commission, in Cincinnati, blamed. the lawlessness of officials for the in-| crease of crime. | The report declares that thousands of foreign born workers have been il- le rrested without warrants and | ‘USE TERROR 10 OUST CANDIDATES BrunswickCommunists Fight Boss Tactics NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., April 23.—The Communist Party has two have been filled—more than enough to place them on the ballot. Mem-~- bers of the Police Department, in- | cluding Chas. Riley and others, are | Communist candidates’ petitions ter- | rorizing them, telling them to with- draw;their names from the petitions or they will lose their jobs and that the foreign born will be deported. The Election Campaign Committee of the Communist Party strongly THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER (Migs soo? T WINE CALLED] | ON Yes: I YeACH THEM Yo HONOR ~) \To Look OveR_ MY PupLiC | SCHooL AND To SEE THAT \ THe CHILDREN ( ) To RESPECT rE YOU- AND The BEST Way 15 To MAKE THem READ Your News PERS AN) MAGAZINES. THEN THEY NENER THINK. FoR THemgenves, Tae 9 - NEVER THINKS 1] ARG TAUGHT so els MONG PERFEC CiTh Bis ‘MEMBERS REVOLT IN AMALGAMATED fank and File Score Bureaucracy NEW YORK. ‘wo meetings Amalgamated Clothing Workers mem- bers Thursday night showed how re- ‘volt is growing against the bureau- cracy. Local 19 (the knee pants makers) met at 151 Clinton St. with two right wing cliques trying to throw out the Hillman (also right wing) manager. Rank and file speakers, I. Grill, Jenny Lieberman, Louis Dickstein and others exposed Hillman and the cliques and pointed out that the labor bureau is an agency of the bosses. They made a motion for the rank and .file to take over the leadership of vicious campaign | Candidates in the coming city elec- | themselves, and tremendous applause eign born workers were | tions for city commissioners on May | greeted the motion. There be illegal and in viola-|12th, for whom already 67 petitions | to 400 in the hall. A motion to hold ere 300 @ mass meeting and take action on the suggestion was adopted. The right wingers had the police there. The rank and file is called upon | going around to those who signed the |to meet in the new center of the Rank and File Committee, 83 East 10th St. Thursday also, a meeting of unem- ployed cutters of Amalgamated C. W. Local 4 met in Manhattan Lyceum, and the jobless exposed the corrup- tion in the Amalgamated bureau- deported without a fair hearing; 100,- | Protests against this terror of’ the | Tacy, and condemned its policies. 000 immigrants trying to join their families in this country have been il- legally barred; the cases of deported workers have been “reviewed” by the immigration bureau of the Labor De- partment which ordered their deport- ation and they have been victims of arbitrary decisions. The report, dealing with legal law- has not been made public, is known, however, that it criti- he government's position in the of Guido Serio, who was refused right to voluntary departure to t Russia, the government hay- ing agreed with Mussolini that Serio nould be delivered over to the fas- cist murderers. Secretary of Labor Doak in replying to the rising protests of the working- class, of which the report is an out- excuses the holding without ants of 19 workers arrested in a raid on the socialist Finnish dance hall in New York on the “ground” that they would have gotten away from the immigration officials other- wise. He said that the situation did not call for kid gloves, Workers! Intensify your protest against the persecution of foreign born. Demonstrate May Day against deportations, lynching, wage cuts, starvation and imperialist war prepa- Sov come, Firing and Wage Cuts in Sacramento, Calif. | SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 26—On April 15 the Southern Pacific rail- road shops here laid off 400 men in all departments and started to work on a three-day week basis. The C, P. cannery has cut wages from 35 cents an hour to 25 cents. What’s On— MONDAY— May Day Pageant Rehearsal at 8:30 p.m. at 131 W. 28th St. Police Department and those candi- dates. and bosses behind it. Communist Party has already filed | Petitions for its candidates and this| campaign of terror of the present| commissioners and the powerful in- terests of the city to keep the Com- munist candidates off the ballot. In spite of this terror the workers are | refusing to withdraw their names | |from our petitions. All workers’ or- | ganizations have been called upon to| send committees to the city govern- | ment and also resolutions demanding | that this terror stop. | ANDREYEV’S “DEVIL IN | THE MIND” AT FULTON | THEATRE WEDNESDAY “Devil in the Mind,” by Leonid Andreyev, is scheduled to open on Wednesday night at the Fulton! ‘Theatre, presented by Leo Bulgakov. | ‘The adoption was made by William | L, Laurance. Bulgakov and his wife, | Barbara Bulgakov, will have leading | | parts in the play, which was present- | | ed some years back by the’ Moscow | Art Theatre under the title of “Thought.” : | On Thursday night at the Liberty Theatre, “Betty, Be Careful,” a farce by Willis Maxwell Goodhue will have its premiere. Mary Murray, Fred- | | erick Tozere, Helene Dumas and Ed- | mund Elton are in the cast. “CHINA EXPRESS” COMING TO NEWARK ON MAY 2ND That revolutionary film of the| struggle in the East, “China Express,” which was produced by Sovkino in Moscow, and which created much interest when first shown here about @ year ago, will have its first show- | ing in Newark at the Little Theatre on Broad St. The film will be shown for the week beginning Saturday, | | May 2. The same program will have | “Lost Gods,” an interesting film of the expedition of exploration in| The | to the general and local officials. A resolution was adopted to be Sent It demands the following: 1.—40-hour /five day week with no pay cut. 2.—Abolition of the temporary card ' system. 3.—Equal division of work. | 4.—No boss allowed to work at the table but cutters to be hired instead. 5.—‘Taking into consideration that the present ten per cent tax for the}! unemployed is not used in their in- terests, the tax should be abolished.” 6.—Distribution of jobs to be through a rank and file committee, | and jobs given according to strict rotation, WORKERS SCHOOL OFFERS RUSSTAN NEW YORK —In addition. to the | important political courses like the Fundamentals of Communism, Polit- | ical Economy, Leninism, etc. the | summer term of the Workers’ School | will also give two classes in Russian, elementary and intermediate, and a class in Spanish. For the first time in its establish- | ment and expansion, the school con- | ducts a summer term this year to | meet the increasing demands of the | workers for training in the summer. Registration for the courses/are now open at the school office, 50 E. 12th St. Classes will be conducted from 7 to 8:30 in the evenings. Correspondence courses will be also | given, beginning this summer, to) benefit workers in various parts of | the country who cannot attend the | Workers’ School. Further informa- | tion regarding these courses may be | obtained upon writing to the Work- | ers’ School. | Jorganization for its aid in the mili- Ancient Carthage. : “LUMPENBALL” at cameo | Working Class Women| ‘The Cameo Theatre is now play-| Meet On Wed., Bronx) | ing a new German picture—‘Lum- Jerry Dress Strikers Praise Aid Given By) W IR in Strike ‘NEGRO JOBLESS | DEMAND CITY AID Walker Tries His} | Wise-Cracking NEW YORK.—tThe strikers ‘of the Je Dress Company sent the fol- lowing letter to the Workers Interna- tional Relief yesterday, thanking that tant fight of the Jerry Dress workers. NEW YORK.—A delegation of 10 | Negro workers, including members of |the Harlem Unemployed Council and} | destitute workers from 134th St., vis-| i ited the Board of Estimates yester-| has given us, in granting the picture, day to demand relief and stoppage of | fi ah a ia Se s for the continua-| evictions of unemployed workers. c strike. . “We feel that the W. I. R. is of| Mrs. Anderson, one of the spokes- | help to strikers and workers|men, told the Board of the terrible in these hard times of |conditions in Harlem, where tens ot | | thousands of Negro and white unem-/ ployed workers are starving, with) |hundreds being evicted each week. |At this the famous wise-cracking | mayor told her that she could get a | job by going to the State Employ- | jment Agency. Mrs. Anderson an-| swered the wise crack by telling} | Walker that she had been there sev- jeral times along with hundreds of Forees City to Pay al eerste workers and had received | ’ no jol Month’s kent Following the usual, boss line of| |trying to divide the workers, the! NEWARK, N. J., April 23.—The | mayor ordered Davis, ® white worker, | Newark Council of the Unemployed|thrown out when he supported the! telll show it organized a systematic | demands of the Negro workers for} registration of needy families, picked | relief. Davis, however, returned and! out the most acute cases of distress | insisted on his demand that the state | and sent a committee with the facts | appropriate unemployment insurance! to the overseer of the poor. This of-|of $15 a week for the unemployed. ficial sent the committee to a char- | waiker's reply to this was that the ity station, where the committee was | state could not tax the bosses “to not allowed to see the responsible | feed 700,000 unemployed workers in| head. |New York City.” | EN ? it The council organized a mass meet: | Two of the Negro workers of the ing a few blocks from the home of | . . 65 . delegation are about to be evicted.) this destitute family, exposed the city | Mrs. Harris, one of the two, has | and the charity and started a collec- | family @f ‘four, none of whom have tion of food. Recently a sick woman and her |been able to secure work for several) vi “ " ri . | months. initiee was sent by the council, along |_ The Negro and white workers will = janswer this cynical attitude of} with the son of the evicted woman, | ae | and, after much arguing, got the | Walker and the bosses by militant) “We, the strikers of the Jerry Dress Co., wish to express our thanks and appreciate for the solidarity and ma- terial help which your organization gr generally struggle.” JOBLESS COUNCIL ACTS IN NEWARK | demonstration on May Day when} rent in another flat. The city would cs Square Park, Madison Ave. and 23rd Yt vt furniture, which the | 3 Tes mare ee tet Be St., and march from there to Union street, so a moving van was called, | * the furniture moved and the bill sent | °C10ck. the neighborhood were mobilized and | some new members gained for the | N » Veterans Urged METAL WORKERS) 7” ctonstration | } NEW YORK.—The Workers’ Ex- PREP ARE M AY | workers who served in the World | War cr in any military forces to join Hie jour Division jn the United Front DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 195 | American Workers! \ ——— —Pioneer's in School— [Rev PEPreR LET? \FuLL [3euby WHAT YOU ARE ( READING, YouArE Sucrt | {DERE ANoer CHunrey |) ‘TO PROTEST U.S. INTERVENTION Stop Murder of Latin | [Downtown Jobless | Branch May Day Eve Ball to NEW YORK.—Preparing an inten- | sive campaign to organizing tenants and block leagues, to investigate the | —_— neediest cases of strving families, the NEW YORK.—The New York ntown Unemployed Council is ar- | branch of the Anti-Imperialist |r ng.a May Day Eve Ball and Rally League is preparing mass demon- | at 131 West 28th St. to raise the pr strations in support of the revolu- funds for their work. : tionary forees in Nicaragua and| The Council has already started in-} Honduras and against the imperial- | vestigating cases nearby and found ist slaughter. conditions ripe for organization and A provisional committee of 15 was | much work. Arrangements are being elected at a meeting held Wednes- | made to place a list of the neediest day of the national offi of the es and demands for their relief | league and secretaries affiliated to|before the city authorities. | orgnizations of the Anti-Imperialist Tickets for the ball are 25 cents League. nd 35 cents at the door. The Workers | This ogmmittee, together with the | Laboratory Theatre will present a national officers, will proceed to or- | skit. ganize an Anti-Imperialist Confer- ence in New York City in the early part of June. The committee acts as the leadership of the New York branch of the league. A work- ing committee of three, with T. H. Li as chairman, M. Cullen as secre- tary nd M. Oberlander as treasurer, was elected. It was decided to organize a mass protest meeting against U. S. im- Perialist intervention in Nicaragua and Honduras on May the 8th in the Harlem Casino. An appeal was issued to workers and anti-im- LEGION OFFICIAL ROASTS FRAMEUP. Tells of Packed Jury in Imperial Valley also IW YORK—“A Strike Is Crim- ndicalism—in California” is the title of a new pamphlet issued perialists in New York to demon- py the American Civil Liberties strate against imperialism on May Union, which gives some recent facts Day. of the conviction of the eight Imper- | The committee will start an im- ja} valley prisoners and their sen- | mediate membership drive to build) tencing to terms ranging up to 42) up a@ strong anti-imperialist organ- | years, ization in New York. A. Sajona, |" Forces behind the prosecution were | clearly revealed, the pamphlet shows, | in a speech made shortly after the | trial by Commander P, A. Thaanum | of the American Legion Post in El | Centro. Thaanum said in San Cle- ments: “The way to kill the red plague is to dynamite it out. That's what we did in Imperial County. The judge | who tried the Communists was a Le- gionnaire; fifty per cent of the jurors — were war veterans. What chance “ itv” did the Communists have?” Labor Unity _May Sheriff Charles L. Gillette, who Day Edition Out nanaica tne arrest and was prom- esheake jinent in the railroading of these | |The special May issue of the Labor | workers; is characterized as follows: | Unity, official organ of the Trade| “This sheriff is a tough character. | | Union Unity League is off the press. | It is he who rounds up ‘agitators’ and | | All organizations that have placed | breaks up union efforts. He was | their orders should call for their bun- | twice tried for embezzling $35,000 of | |dle and those organizations that did|the funds of Imperial County, but | not as yet place their special order, |escaped conviction through political | |the secretary or labor unity agent | influence. . . . The legend he prints | should do so at once. The price for|/on the upper corner of his official | | this issue is two cents a copy. Order | envelopes is appropriate: “The lowest- | it from the district office of the La- ‘down sheriff's office in the world. president of the Philippine Anti-Im perialist League of the United States Robert Dunn, of the Labor Research Association; Harry Raymond, of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, and Mary Adams, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, are among the members of the provisional com- mittee. A full committee meeting will take place on this Wednesday evening at Room 535, 799 Broadway. NEW YORK.—The New York local of the Metal Workers’ League is at present engaged in work in connec- | tion with May First. A special leaf- | let addressed to the New York metal | workers has been printed in 5,000 copies. Also a special page of this | y romis jonth’s | Lec Ri hae Se ol they will gather at 12:30 at Madison ta ad simply thrown into the P b, | constable had simply thrown int | Balsce, xeaching Unied. Hauare ak 4 to the constable. All the workers in | - | . ° council. : Join United Front May | Servicemen’s League callls upon all eed Day demonstration on May 1. EAST SIDER—BRONX edition of Labor Unity is devoted to, the conditions of the metal workers. | At the last United Front Conference delegations from four large metal factories were present. Doors Open Daily aot AM. PS Spec. Early Hira’ price 204 Except Sun, Mol, 3y6naa Jlevebunua DR. A. BROWN Dentist 301 LAST HTH STREEL (Corner Sevond Avenue) ‘Vel. Algonquin 7248 Prospect ist, Hob Murphy Harry Waiman’ Clownettes Ada Brown Packer and Hall Harris & Healy’ } | | —_— NEIGHBORHOOD THEATBES | —SUN bor Unity, 16 W. 21st St., N. ¥. C. (57 feet below sea level.)” AMUSEMENTS | "Theatre Guild Production" “Five Star Final ts electric and alive’ A. H. WOODS Presents iF ARTHUR BYRON * * IVE STAR FINAL Getting Married By BERNARD SHAW UILDW. 6214. Bves. 8:40 Mta Th, & Sat. 2:40 TRE, West of 48th Street nings #:50 Mats. Wed. and Sat, 2:30 with sil | RA’ (IVIC REPERTORY *, "2 Evenin 60e, $2, $1.50. Mats. Th. & Sat, 2: EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director COAGBE oii oa besa exe nies ILLE” Tom, Night AMILLE” Seats 4 weeks advance at Rox Office and Town Hall, 113 W. dird Street CAMEO: A MERRY GERMAN FILM 0 30 ETH Street West of Broady Matinues Wod, and S: 6th Ava EPPODROME °.,.': BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK 4 Eves. 8 R BS i] KKO éy RYAN WAERER SIWE READ i. THE PIONEER. \Is Another Victim of Capitalism NEW YORK.—Jobless and dis: couraged by ill-health resulting from starvation, John Kulupo, 37 a window cleaner, committed suicide by jump- ing from the roof of the five-story tenement at 135 Norfolk St., where he lived with his wife and three small children. Mrs. Kulop collapsed when in- formed of her husband's death. She said the family was destitute and starving. DOWN TOOLS MAY FIRST ALL OUT TO MADISON SQUARE AGAINST BOSSES’ WAR! Only the organized power of the working class can save the politica) prisoners! Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresb vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 87 WEST 32ND STREE1 225 WEST 36TH STREET We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts. Patronize the Concoops Food Stores anD Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARE EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and 13th Ste. HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian. Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE | penball,” a talking comedy film, The Young Defenders Open air meeting on Scottsboro case and May ay at 9 p.m., at 166th St. and Prospect Ave. Bronxville Branch, 1,1.D. meets at 118 Bristol St... Brooklyn. Members are urged to attend. Impor. tant matters will be taken up. Oe is © Councils 1 and 2 of Harlem will have a lecture at 8:30 p.m., at 143 E. 193d St. on the “Role of the Woman in the Soviet Union.” eo ae “Origin and Significance of May Day” A lecture at 8 p.m. at 1210 Blder Ave. Auspices Women's Council No. TUESDAY oS Attention Perth Amboy! ‘The International Labor Defense 1s holding 2 mass protest meeting against the deportation of foreign born workers, at 7 p.m. at the Wash- ington Hall, sa WEDNESDAY — Kuxene V. De the « Branch, T. L. D. Workers Children's tive House, 2700 8:20 p.m. . meets Schoo at Co Bronx ‘Park Varniture Work: In will hold a May Day Mobilization M subg at 7:30 p.m. at the T.U.U.L. Hoead-dvarters, 16 W. 21st St. %, is. League leading chorocters are Harry Frank, Kurt Lilien, Irene Ambrus, and Anna Mueller-Lincke. Edna Ferber’s novel of the early west, is now being shown “Cimar- ron,” is now being shown at the Hippodrome, with Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Edna May Oliver, George E. Stone and Nance O'Neil in the chief roles. The vaudeville bill includes Ted and Al Waldman, Rin-Tin-Tin with Lee Duncan, Jack Tracy and Lita Vinette, Liazeed Demnati Troupe and other features. Steve Katovis Defense Has Open_ Air Meets NEW YORK.—Steve Katovis Branch of the International Labor Defense held a. mass meeting at- tended by several hundred Tuesday night at Seventh St. and Avenue B. All the literature was sold, and_ speakers from the branch gained sup- | NEW YORK.—-Working Class Wo- men’s Council 28 is in the midst of every activity that carries on the workers’ struggle. They are raising’ funds for the Daily Worker and the | Freiheit, for the International Labor Defense, and for the food, needle and other strikers. The council holds lectures and open air meeting. Two members of the council marched to Albany in the state hun- ger march. The council meets every Wednes- day evening at 2061 Bryant Ave., hall 14, and invites all working women and worker housewives in the neigh- borhood to come. increta tr legal lynching in’ Scottsboro, Ala., and for the five silk workers in Pat- terson being framed up on a murder charge. Many new applications to join the I. L. D. were obtained. Tho branch holds another meet- ‘ng at 14th St. and University Pl. to- night, and invites other I, L. 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