The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1931, Page 2

ate Tro Spee _ DAILY WORK EW YORK, , TUESD A’ Se APRIL 38, 1931 ALL OUT MAY 1 TO MADISON SQ. & 23RD ST. 12: 30: PARADE TO UNIONS SQ.! ! Hunger Wriuns Workers and THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER Farmers To Take Own Lives’ May Day Mass Demon t strations Must Answer Starvation Epidemic of Capitalism; { Detroit Baby Dies of Hunger | { With May Day approaching, dozens of workers faced with starvation are committing suicide. Unable to face the fight} ay ae y any longer these workers take their lives rather | than die of hunger, May Day will be a huge mass rally against | this deliberate murder by eapitalism of these workers a fight} err against hunger, starvation and | TAG DAYS MAY 11, 12 FOR “PIONEER” 25,000 Circulation Is the Goal 's magazine off the press, with a circulation for the | ly does it contain | tories of vital interest to all workers’ and farmers’ children, but it can and r be used as the organizer for a mass children’s movement, efore, the National Buro of the | of America, with the he Central Committee of Commu t Party, has set aside | May 10 and 11 as a National Tag Day for the benefit of the new magazine. All districts will organize teg days, | Adultg are asked to assist and send down their children. Young workers, | children must pitch in and raise| enough funds to make a twenty-five housand circulation possible for the second issue. Comrades! The second issue will be 100 per cent better and more in- terestinf than the first. Help us to develop the “Pioneer” into a mass organ for workers’ and farmers’ children. Help us organize a broad children’s movement. Down Town Club Ball) Saturday, 151 Clinton) NEW YORK.—The Down Town) Workers Club, which has just carried through a campaign for funds for| the Daily Worker and the Freiheit, as | well as other working class activities, | is giving a ball Saturday at 8 p. m.| at 151 Clinton St. A union band will play and amusements are arranged YOUNGSTOWN STEEL LAY-OFFS, . SOUTH CHICAGO, Ill.—Lay-offs in Youngstown Steel continue. 1800 to 2,000 were laid off in a week and a 10 per cent wage cut has been an- nounced to take effect next month. WEDNESDAY Eugene V. Debs Branch, dD. at the Workers enare 4 Cooperative House, Bronx Park Hast, at 8:80 pm, Furniture Workers? Tales League will hold @ May Day Mobilization Meeting at 7:30 pm, at the T.U.U.L. Head-auarters, 16° W. 2ist St. Couneily 11 and 22 DOWCW will meet at 2700 Bronx Park Hast at 8 p. m. te hear # lecture on “The Fight Against Lynchings. Depertar and Bose Terror” by Moore, rdressers’ Industrial ue. 18th Street at 9 Barbers’ and 3 meéis at 50 as p. ™m, Al barbers and hairdressers are urged to be present, . Executive Comm, w. BE. §, l. meets at 8 p, m. at 79 E. Meek Street. Kast Side Workers Club. will held a mass meeting at 196 East Broadway for May Day. All aveleome, ot Joe Hill Branch, I, L, D. meets at 6:30 p.m. at 132 E. 26 Street . . Mass Indoor Meeting, at the Bronx Workers Club at 1472/ Boston Road, on the “Importance of May Day.” | THURSDAY | the} | and he could not bear to see them | employment alone, Charles V. Parker, | death on the pavement below. | farm, Myron H. Lillibrandt, 56-year- | to die of huperr. | this conference. |@ May Day Eve Ball and Rally at wage cuts. | The following is the glean- jings of a few days’ reports of | suicides of jobless workers: . DETROIT, Mich.—Because his home home was being broken up as the result of unemployment, Edward | Ramshaw, 45 years old, shot his wife and then killed himself. Walter Stusic, 41, drank poison when his wife was forced to work in | ;@ Stamping factory at starvation wages after he looked for work with- | out results. Stusie had three children | go hungry. j William Broedell, 31 years old, end- | ed his life by shooting. He had not} been able to find @ job and was il}. | . After vainly battling against un- 63, jumped off the fourth floor of the Dryden Hotel and crashed to his He left @ note saying he could not stand the prospect of dying of hunger. oe ae BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—Facing the Joss of his heavily mortgaged old farmer of Calhoun County, killed his 10-year-old son Richard and took his own life, He ljeft a note ex- plaining the killing of his son saying. “taking Richard with me because he is too young to face the world’s hard- ships.” He did not want his son eo * A news dispatch from Detroit tells of Mrs. Ellen Rae whose baby died because she could not feed it. The Detroit Daily says, “They had been subsisting on city welfare funds for six xmonths,” Thousands of other workers face the same fate because they are “subsisting on city welfare funds,” Force Job Agency to Return Fee of Gypped Worker NEW YORK.-The Down Town branch of the Lower Manhattan Un- employed Couneil got back $9 for a worker named Bromowitz from the Stern Employment Ageney, 194 East Fourth St. ‘The worker paid $ for a job and $5 for fare, then was kept waiting in- definitely, He finally appealed to the Unemployed Council, which sent @ committee and got back the $9. The Down Town branch receives reports of increasing starvation and More evictions in the territery in which its canvassing is concentyated. There are also reports of at least four evictions taking place en Suf- folk St, in the next few days. There is great necessity for more organiza- tional work on the Lower East Side— territorial branches, tenants’ leagues, house committees, block committees. This work mugt be carried out im- medigtely, and for this purpose a United Front Conference has been called in the name of the Lower Manhattan Unemployed Council for May 10, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., at 10 a.m. sharp. Each workers’ organization below 559th St. is invited to send two delegates to The Down Town branch is giving f Ww RQ ) I ie On THe vag | Foeger ie cong, \ ITS TOMAKE A mn eLiGious pore AENT Look on %, Ha NOSE IG YPNOTIZED sets yeh TEan ao wi > Love of Prseiae I Forgery4 iTHe Fact Ay ff os Don'r Buy, ME Gro (or Salle) | Leteds he ti ENRY O eGo Movintg Picture DoPé ‘NEGRO MINISTER EXPOSE SELVES Try Block § Struggle on Legal Lynching NEW YORK.—When Patterson, of Struggle for Negro Rights request- ed the Baptist Ministers Conference of New York and vicinity, ence composed of 100 churches and | yepresenting more than 40,000 com- municants, to pledge the support of | William save the nine innocent Negro boys railroaded to the electric chair by the Scottsboro, Ala., boss court, he met with determined resistance from the holy brethren. ° linked up locally and nationally with the vicious Tammany Hall machine and the equally vicious Republican Party are not concerned with a strug- gle against lynch law and mob ‘vii lence that will bring the Negro mass- es into revolutionary. activity. Pro- tests which do not have the effect of struggle against the boss systent of unemployment, staryation and mass misery, lynching and other forms of terror are satisfactory:to these gown- ed tools of big business, They have no intention, however,.of doing other than sabotage any determined effort to mobilize the Negro masses for revo- | lutionary struggle against their sup- ressors. | It was only the determined support of the yank and file members of the eonference which foreed the “leader- ship” to endorse @ protest telegram to Governor Miller of Alabama. And at that they tried to take the teeth out of the protest, insisting on striking out all reference to the courts of the southern lIgndlords and capitalists | Forced by the rank and file they | sent the following protest: | “The Baptist Ministers Conference | of New York and vicinity composed | of 100 churches and approximately 40,000 communicants unqualifiedly gondemn the action of the court in the trial of the nine Negro hoys at Gcottsboro, Alabanja. They demand an immediate new trial in an atmo- sphere free from the influence of mob violence and lynch terror.” Banquet On May 3 for| Soviet-Bound Workers A farewell supper will be given to a group of workers undér the aus- pices of the Workers International Relief, May 3, 1931, Sunday, at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 37-16th Avenue, Newark, N. J., at 7 p.m, ‘These workers are going to the So- speaking for’ the ead a confer- | their organization to the struggle to/ These reverend gentlemen, who are | mobilizing the Negro masses for the} ” C. “Reformatory” | for Negro Boys Death | an workers playing band instru- n ments are urged to come toa ue~ | rap} Prison Is Worse | hearsal for the May Day Pageant COLUMBIA, S. C., April 27.—|} °? Monday, April 2%th, at 7.45 | State investigators report that the|| ?: ™ Sharp at 131 W, 28th St. state prison of South Carolina is a Bring rae instrument and musle death trap. They say the Cplumbus, 5 e Ohio, prison, in which hundreds of on BAND met CONSIST z,| conviets were burned to death last 60 PLAYERS! year, was “fire-proof” in comparison with the South Carolina institution. The Negro boys’ reformatory, near Columbia, especially, does not have any means of saving lives if a fire |-Should break out and everybody in | it would probably be ashes in a few minutes after a fire started. ATTENTION MUSICIANS Worker Athletes in Uniform On May Day NEW YORK.--The Eastern District Laber Sports Union has issued a call to all of its affliated organizations and all worker sportsmen to down tools on May Day and demonstrate in their athletic uniforms, together with all the working class organiza- tions, on Madison Square, 12:30 p. m. All athletes will meet om May Day, 11:30 a, m., at the headquarters of the Workers International Relief, 131 W. 28th Street, first floor and will march in uniferm to Madison Square. TRES. - Ask for Volunteers | for May 1 Pageant) The May First pageant is a mass performance embodying some of the | current issues facing the working | class. It deals with speed-up, wage euts, unemployment and the tasks | of organizing the masses of employed and unemployed workers. ‘The German comrades of the Pro- letbuhfe are supplying their tech- Hite] “aid artistic experience, while | the*Workers Laboratory Theatre of | the’ Wotkers International Relief is | making every effort to organize all | the phases of the work into a well- executed spectacle. There are only a few days left to May First. More volunteers are need- ‘éd im ‘order to accomplish the above task. A grand rehearsal of all par- ticipants, including the WIR Brass Band, will take place Monday, April 27, at 8.30 at 131 West 28th St. A final rehearsal will take plece op ‘Thursday evening. The plece for the Jatter rehearsal will be snnounced Jater. “Come on time, come in mass. NEIG! HBORHOOD Ear Li itacasla M SOL-ART STUDIO 101 E. 14th Street Cor. 4th Ave. Next to KJein’s) Passport photes made in 10 minutes $1.50 per Dozen “2ND AND FINAL WEEK COMPLETE DE LUXE SHOWS FIVE ©@) Sate EDNA FERBER’S a GREAT NOVEL COMES TO LIFE IDEAL BUSINESS SCHOOL 4th St, at Second Ave, New York Tel: Tompkins Square 6-6584 Day and Evening Stenography—Bookkeeping ‘Typewriting—Secretarial Individual Instruction Richard Dix, Irene Dunne Estelle Taylor, Edna May Oliver RKO-RADIO'S SUPER PRODUCTION and RKO Vaudeville FRANK RICHARDSON Gottlieh’s Hardware 119 THIRD AVENOB Near 14th St, Stuyvesant 6974 —Wake Up— SPORT DOR: By RYAN so pan RO fhe geet i, Tae PAPERS AD CANTAL I hou THE Radio Geeta, TAKE Wear sere OF MY MIND OFF or ALWAY, SIKE Yuaor, CAprrauis Epitor AGW PAPER OPE WIR PREPARES CHILDREN’S CAMP Conference Called for May 7th | In a time when such conditions | exist as children’s breadlines in the richest city in the world, the Workers Internationa] Reliefscores as the! “worst type of hypocricy,” President | Hoover's pronouncement that May First shall be “Child Health Day.” “When child misery is greater than ever before,” the WIR stated, “The Workers “International Relief calls upon workers to expose the attempts of the bosses to gloss over this as- pect of capitalist’s inability to take care of its “heritage,” the children—.” As solidarity with the unemployed, the Workers International Relief will concentrate this year on lessening to some extent this child misery, by tak- ing the children of unemployed par- ents, free of charge, and giving a two weeks vacation, with wholesome = Au Comraaes Méat @: || BRONSTEIN’S | Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Perkw MELROSE Need Vehicles for May. Day All Party members and sympa- thizers who have trucks, cars or motorcycles which can be used for May Day should register, at the headquarters of the United Front Committee, 16 W. 2st St, Telephone Chelsea 3-0962. saeRennasininetessen DAIRY sist beatae RIAN class training in a workers’ camp. To Comrades mares MORON do this, the WIR needs the support of all working class organizations. A camp conference is being planned for May 7th. Children of parents still working, will be taken at the camps at the lowest possible rates. Registration is now open for chil- dren of working parents. | Register your children with the WIR Camp Department, 131 West 28th St. N. ¥, C. Rates vary from $4 to $8, depending upon the wages of the parents. Give your child the opportunity of working class training at camp. Registration of children of the un- employed will be conducted on an Pleasant ye iss “et Our Place, 1187 SOUTHERN BLYD., Brons (near 374th St, Station) TRLEPHONE INTERVALE. BB 14D | We Invite Werkers to the. BLUE BRD CAFETERIA GOOD WHOLESOME FooD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY. food and fresh air, and a working | “Theatre Guild Production Getting Married GUILDY, Sond, Byes. §:4 MEO & pe ‘ALISON'S HOUSE” ON OAMIEEE” © at Box Office and W. 48rd Street ‘LIONELL ATWILL * T He SILENT WITNESS“ KAY STROZZI-FORTUNIO BONANOVA MORO} W, of Biway vas, id) Sat, 2:80 Wight iynching, Fight deporta- ton of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. ILUMPEN BALL organization scale, Rational Vegetarian 5 Restaurant 199 SECOND Ba. i2th one fe FCAMEONOW 1 42 nd STREETS B'WAY 4 MERRY GEBMAN FILM Le (YAGABOND BALL) With an excellent All-Germas Cast Vegetarian Restaurant 6th Ave. & 904 BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YOBR Bo CIMARRON” | {rr mm Reacting | sek eoca tat ote Jobn's Restaurant TSaidimon | and IRENE DUNNE SPROIALTE) ITALIAN DIBHED With Basil | Edna RATHHONE | BEST. (LARUIORE EPVEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 47th Street West of Broadway Eves, §:50. Matinees Wod. and Sut., 2:30 Patronize the Concoops Food Stores AND Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Vegetarian Be. | Sy6nan Meve6unua DR. A. BROWN \, Dentist Where the beet food and tresb vegetables are served all year round Between 12th and 13th Sts, <! | the Workers’ Laboratory ‘Theatre, f M sib Ringe of CHARLES AHEARN Store and help the Left 4 WEST 28TH STREET 501 EAST 140m SY RERA ng mim at 390 Bast ait Gireet,| 181 W. 28th St, April 9, at & p. m. Ine in the Five Yew Flan yea ELRCTRICAT: WUETione and his mallopalres Wing Movemaas® 37 WEST 32ND STREEI (Carver Seaeed Avena) ‘ 0 reise Bands fey orgsniration. ‘Admission one dollar. A fine supper|| Cutlery Our Specialty ROBINSON DEWITT REVUE 225 WEST 36TH STREET Tab Alponauin 1215 Workers Ex-Servi LZ will be served, good mysic and plenty - Rieger patvanie Medison Police an Thief I of dancing. Do not fail to come to ‘ | ie n t Avenue (Pythian Hall) at 8 p. m. in} Cc bi W 0 | ls farewell banquet where you will Phone: ‘UEHIGR 6332 conjunction with an outdoor meeting ye pied iy nd spend a very enjoyable evening. International ane Shep ‘ at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue. n ercoa’ a ial X All vets are urged to attend. pte For full political and social rights oe i NEW YORK.—Further evidence of | and veltedelenmination for Negroes! Pen Air Meeting. petty gyaft as well as big graft in the| Against imperialist war! COME TO THE— ye grepareel he Tah Mae Bem be Police Gepariment appeared when i Flub gt Clinton ang Bast Broadway. | @aps at the Lawyence Ave. paljce sta- @ tion refused te arrest @ “eash clothes” 3 ef ok a 4|man named citrate elaims to “ ti 7 ne brother of the i @onstruc- ! t Corporation ¥ 4 Enperantists Greet en sh a nat 29 EAST 4TH STREET 1 UNION SQUARE ' on May Piast. rhe Nee a Works es evereeais im, his NEW YORK d avH rego y fanged aa esesion bs a6 ae = aia y All Work Done 0; 1c ps TRAE GSN eve coerce] ateernnst | [BRONX COLISEUM | Fnation Fecovered, but one {s still missing, i : : t sae mare bf toe The ploe showed sul wows | STATIONERY Prominent Speakers i Ceayat Sigs "ei Ste | Stee Sm ae eeeser| < as Renee sesame ; 2 oy ‘alk | return of property, 53 , ; : “Smn at abt: attend. at ns i inen 8 werent whieh * for Organizations FRIDAY, MAY Ist NEW YORK DISTRICT MASS : e c} ey 7:30 P.M. : i insul at s:30 ae ny ¥ Bin st, an ree ine wee Ste an COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S. A.|| REVOLUTIONARY 5 bring in a little ree ce A wil Pants tt He Ea by seying he had "bought the coat || 4 NEIGHBORLY PLACE TO BA Assemble at Madison Square at 12:30 RACAEAT Pee . by Pp. m, a from a Ne td Vu — aon = GAR gg peu. Bring w shonrate | TT te ike & 60-50. propeciien Linel Cafeteria MARCH 70 UNIOW SQUARE : Mornene P ain sine sd vith the pote nel Cateter! Aiea tke haan al LABORATORY BUTCHI > UNION 4 Decl : a © || ADMISSION 36 CENTS AT THE DOOR. SPECIAL, ADMISSION ’ ar a FRIDAY Pure eegecAl? nee ovwt Prigidainy titans | TICKETS AT ALL UNIONS AND‘MASS ORGANIZATIONS THEATRE ee dria guinea by East Side Workers Club, ENGLISH SPEAKING BR. Eeuipment—Luncheonette and at Nig Beil rg ae i lgner Camis a eye a voegy! F He assemble at our clubrooms at|{ International Workers Order ai baa ek eines : v ‘#0 a.m. to march to Madison Sq. VERN SMITH, Spoaker 830 BROADWAY pi et At A a 8 ee a ea har: ay Evenin OF MAY Near 12th Street Employment mee a every aay zi LICE AND WHITE GUARD PRO- : ve VOGATIONL jennie 3