The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1931, Page 2

' Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY MAY 1, 1931_ ROOSEVELT OK FOR WALKER ee © CANNOT COVER UP GRAFTING Only ‘Workers Strugg le Will End Grafting Regime Based on Capitalism — Demand Unemployment Relief pected, Roosev charges of the tee against XN means nothing r in the city administ many Hall The Ta: chine is frigh Commission, appointed by legislature, which is rep composition and which will do every- | ical cap- | ital out of the investigation. The socialist party, who are well | represented in the City Affairs Com- mittee, is peeved. They thought that they would be given an oppor- BLOCK KAUFMAN = ELECTION PLOT Rank and File Demand A Chance to Vote NEW YORK.—The rank and file fur finishers have won one round in & fight against an attempt by Kauf- | man to railroad through an election. | Kaufman called a meeting of the} finishers in the office of the joint | council Wednesday night. The rank and file turned the meeting into an uproar with ;their protests against the procedure of the officials of the | International Fur Workers’ Union, | and prevented ¢arrying through the | fake election. They demanded a} meeting in a hall large enough for the members to get in, and away from the office full of thugs. There is a United Front Furriers} Rank and File Committee, which | leads in the struggle against the| treacherous officialdom. FRIDAY Open Air Meet. Harlem Prog. Youth Club at 8 p. m.,) at Madison Avenue at 103rd Street. “May Day” will be the subject for} Ciseussion. | se East Side Workers Club. ‘We assemble at our clubrooms at/| 10:30 a. m. te march to Madison Sq. Harlem Pro. Youth Club. meets in clubrooms at 1492 Madison Avenue at 11:30 a. m. to proceed to Madison Square, . All I.W.0. Branches! Down to Madison Sauare on Fifth Ave. between 23d and 26th Sts, for May Day Demonstration. Brownsville Branch, I. L. D. and Workers’ Cub meets at 10 a.m. for demonstfation at 118 Bristol St, Build. Maintenance Wkrs, Ind. Union. will assemble at Union office for May First Démonstration at 11:30 a.m. and from there march to Madi- son Square. as SATURDAY * . Fourth Annual Spring Ball. tendered by the Cuban Workers Club at Hoffman's Mansion, 142 Watkins Street corner of Pitkin Ave. B’klyn. Admission 50 cents. Music by the Noel Marsh Colored Band. EAST SIDE WORKERS CLUB will hold a banquet and literary for the new recruits to the Communist Party at 196 East Broadway. All are invited. Se Eugene Debs Branch, LL.D. meets in the Auditorium at 2700) Bronx Park East. ate es . First Annual Baill. given at 8:30 p.m. by the Downtown Workers Club at 11 Clinton Street at Clinton Hall, 151 Clinton Street. ‘Tickets in advance, 50 cents. 75 cents at the door including hat checks. oe, ® Jerome Workers Club. will give a concert and dance at 1645 | Grand Concourse, entrance on Mt. Eden Avenue. Admission 25 cents. ues Coneert and Dance. Bronx Workers Club at 1472 Boston Road. Good program and music, ee Dance at Workers Club. Center of Brownsville at 8 p. m. at Hopkins Manor, 426 Hopkinson Ave. a: hoole Concert and Dance. at 8:30 p.m. sharp at 524 Vermont. StreetStreet, Brooklyn, Under the auspices of the Communist Party, Unit §, Section 8. . 8 * Brigbjon Beach Workers Center A play by the WIR called “But How” and and ball under the auspices of the United May Day Com. of Brighton.Beach, at 140 Neptune Avenue, ne, tae A Great Time Promised, (And promise kept) at the Red Spring Festiva] at 8 p.m. at Audito- rium, 2700 Bronx ark, East. Proletarian Vetcherinka. i oF Communist Party, Unti 1, eo te P Kam. the. Rate, ius . Eats, mu- ale, entertainment, . ir . ate B 4 given by Communist Party, Section 8, at 524 Vermont St. Ivn, at &p.m. All workers “are vite. “8 ‘oncert and Dance, _| Union has always helped us to carry Ts mr of with Roo: gling not f of the control of tional s group g- D1 but to get out y. Roose- spoil his hough he had igation by the for refusal acknowledge- of the graft- less the warring failure to mean heavy ocratic part is issue the struggle for control Boes on. The Communist Party repeats to the workers that neither a demo- cratic, republican or socialist admin- istration will clean out City Hall, or any other state office. Capitalism is the cause of the graft and cor- ruption, and the representatives of the capitalist parties merely con- tinue the practices of capitalism in Office. Only a clean out—not of Jim- mie Walker or any other corrupt politician—but of capitalism itself will settle the matter. Jimmie Walker smiles—but the un- employed do not, for the few who got some crumbs from the city charities and the Prosser Committee are now hungering, together with the other 000, who receive nothing. This is another form of coercion that the grafting city administration im- poses on the workers; $950,000 for the 3-day a week jobs, but according to official report only 70 per cent for labor. This means that 30 per cent goes for salaries and graft. And at that only 15,000 will be helped for a few weeks. ‘The workers of New York now see the situation: no real relief for the million unemployed in the city of New York; graft for the Walker ad- ministration, with which it remains besmirched—and Roosevelt's exon- eration of Walker. The workers of New York see “their” administration in action. difficulties for the di | LEW AYRES IN “IRON MAN” AT HIPPODROME The big, eight-act vaudeville bill at the Hippodrome, beginning Saturday, includes Don Azpiazu and his Ha- vana Casino Orchestra; Harry Burns, Italian comedian; Brengk’s Golden Horse; Frank and Warren Lassiter; Lillian Crowell and Al Allen; Cliff Crane with Emily Earle; Rassana, aerialist, and Charles Carrer. Lew Ayres is starred in “Iron Man,” the screen thriller which fea- tures Robert Armstrong; Jean Har- low and Ned Sparks. THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER | e Bate LDON'T WANT TALS MAY DAY CF Yours it » He'll Be On the Square! 1M GOING TO TAKE TT. AwWwAr FRom ‘You My CHI FASCISy” : SCs -. Workers, Join Your Class Organizations! 1, Are you willing to join with Hence though united | other unemployed workers, of whom | there are 10,000,000 in this country, whose condition becomes ever worse | and with the cutting off of any sem- blance of relief from the city and charity organizations will face the worst kind of hunger and starvation? | Are you willing to organize and to fight for unemployment relief and insurance? If so, get in touch with | the Unemployed Council of Greater | New York, 16 W. 2ist St. . 2. Are you willing to fight against the miserable conditions in your shop? Are you willing to organize | to fight against wage-cuts, speed- | up? Can you get a group of work- | or four workers who are willing to carry on the fight and organize the | other workers to form a grievance | or shop committee? If so, get in | touch with the Trade Union Unity | League, 16 W. 2ist St., who will give | you all assistance. . 28 @ 3. Are you willing to organize | with other white and Negro workers | | for the purpose of fighting for Negro | rights? Are ‘you willing to fight} against Jim-Crowism, discrimination | and lynching? Are you willing, to- gether with the other white and Ne- gro workers, to rally to the cause of the nine innocent Negro boys who face legal lynching in Scottsboro, Alabama? If so, get in touch with the League o fStruggle for Negro Rights, 799 Broadway. ©. ee | 4. Are you willing to help work- | ers who are arrested on the picket | line in the fight against unemploy- | | ment, in demonstration against mis- | erable conditions? Are you willing, together with other workers, white and Negro, to offer the mevery form of defense? If so, get in touch with the International Labor Defense, 799 | Broadway. 5. Are you willing’ to join with | other workers in providing relief for | | strikers and their families whose | wages are so low that they can save Jersey Fur Strikers JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 29— The rabbit fur dressers on strike at| the S. K. S. shop in —ersey City| have issued the following statement, | blasting the lies that appeared in the Forward: “We, the strikers of the S.K.S. Fur Dressing Shop came in contact with | a@ statement that appeared in the Jewish Daily Forward, April 15, in| which it is declared by the “Furriers’| International” that: “*This shop was until recently con- | trolled by the Communists. The Communists gave the firm all con-| cessions such as lower wages and/| other conditions, In order to keep control over the shop, but the work- | ers could no longer bear the slavery conditions and therefore broke away from the Communists. They came to the office of the “Furriers’ Inter- national” and asked to be admitted. | The Union admitted them and after these workers declared to the firm) that they don’t want to haye any- |thing to do with the Communists | and that the firm must sign an agreement with the International, the firm thereupon settled with the International.’ “The above is the statement that appeared in the Forward. We de- clare that this statement is false from beginning to end. Such a lie can be manufactured only by people who are the enemies of the workers. We suppose that when the Forward and the International spoke of Com- munists they had reference to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. We have been affiliated with the Industrial Union since the Union came into existence. The Industrial on a fight for higher wages and bet- ter conditions in the shop. It is only thanks to the efforts of the Indus- trial Union that in our shop we were able to maintain the highest vaves and the best conditions in the c given by the Hinsdale Workers’ » Youth Club at $18 Hinsdale St eI SIT Laue % . 1 Ws 1878 43d at 8:30 p.m. bib may trade. 4 “To do this, we as well as the rest of the workers of the rabbit trade | Ge Statement *. Smashes Lies In the “Forward”, jeering cliqiie of the International with Moe Harris at the head, who} tried to take the shop away from the | Industrial Union by offering the firm drastic wage cuts. | “In fact three weeks ago, Moe/ Harris of the International succeed- | ed, in inducing the boss to try to! force on us a 20 per cent cut in wages. We refused to accept this cut and we were locked out. We| answered with a strike. Moe Harris | and Kaufman of the International, | together with the racketeering offi- | cials of the Jersey Federation of La- | bor, sent in a set of scabs to work | on the reduced wages and they also| supplied the boss with a squad of| right to picket the shop. “Already, Morris Langer, our or- ganizer, has been stenced to 30 days in prison for making an attempt to establish picketing. | “The Forward ard the Interna- tional are absolr‘e'y lyinc. Not a | single one of our workers went to _ the International. Every worker who had worked in the shop, has been locked out, and is still out on strike, Not a single one of the old workers {s working in the shop at this time. Not a single worker has left the strike, “We condemn the International jand the Forward for this; for help- | ing the bosses to cut the waves and/ | throw us out. ef the shop end for! | trying to hide behind a screen of de- | liberate lies. @ “We call upon the workers who are still members of the International to demand the withdrawal of the scabs from the S. K. S. shop. We intend to continue the strike until the shop withdraws the wage cut and rein- states us all to work as ihembers of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. (Signed) Anthony Columbo, John Kinet, Michael Hudymo, Michael Ku- | ers together in your shop—two, three | rue, Wm. Bohowitz, D, Giordano, De- were compelled to carry on @ con tinuous fight not only against A G, Bazarewitz, L. Fener, F. the| Coppole, Max Lipner, J. Kobryn, 8. eggnog ‘ | up nothing for such times? Are you willing to build up an organization for this purpose so that when work- ers go on strike they will know there is an organization to back them up? International Relief, 131 W. 28th St. 6. Are you ready, together with other workers, to rally to the defense of the Soviet Union, against which today all the imperialist powers, aided by the socialist parties and the American Federation of Labor are stirring up hatred on fake issues of “dumping,” “forced labor,” etc.? If you see in the Soviet Union the greatest achievement for the working class of the world, and are willing to defend the Soviet Union against any in touch with the Friends of the Soviet Union, 799 Broadway, . 7. Are you willing, together with the native and foreign-born work- ers, to prevent the foreign-born workers from being further perse- cuted and threatened with deporta- tion as the Hamilton Fish Commit- tee proposes? Are you willing to give them all protection possible in order that they may carry on the struggle against the miserable condi- tions in the United States? If so, get in touch with the Council for the Protection of Foreign Born, 32 Union Square. If you are a revolutionary worker and willing to fight against not only the present miserable conditions, but against the capitalist system which is the cause of the misery and starva- tion of the workers and poor farm- ers of this country, of the lynching of Negroes, the persecution of for- eign-born rnd which is preparing for imperialist war, especially against the Soviet Union, if you are willing to join with other white and Negro workers in this struggle for the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, you should join the Communist Party, or, if you are a young worker, the Young Com~- munist League, and help organize and lead the workers of this country in this revolutionary struggle. Get in touch with the Communist Party or the Young Communist League, 35 E. 12th St. GEORGE SPEAKS AT FORUM SUN. Revolutionary Move- ment In Cuba NEW YORK.—Harrison George, member of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker, will give a lecture on “The Revolutionary Movement in Cuba” at the Workers’ Forum this Sunday night at 8 p.m. at the School Auditorium, 35 E. ‘12th St., second jor. The nature, tasks and the recent developments of the revolutionary movement in Cuba, under. the Ma- | van |chado murder regime, with Yankee police who are terrorizing us and | © { beating us and depriving us of the| perialism behind it, will be fully expounded and analyzed by the speaker who has travelled extensively in Cuba and followed events there closely. ‘ The recent revolutionary up-surre jin Nicaragua and Honduras, etc., will be also explained and discussed. This lecture will close the series of lectures of the Workers Forum. During the summer, the Workers Fo- rum will give lectures from time to time although not on a weekly basls, The Workers’ School which conducts the Workers Forum, starts the surn- mer term this year, for which regis- tration is already open. A NEW NEWARK WORKERS CENTER Opens With Banquet Saturday; All Come | NEWARK, N, J., April 30—Work- ers of Newark and vicinity and rep- “scentetives of workers’ organiza- ions should come to the banque’ May 2, at 8 p, m., which will be the | metro Julius, Sam Fener, F. Greniak,| formal opening of the new Workers’ Kinet, S, Estok, J. Matros, A.| Center, 90 Ferry St, ‘The main speaker will be Alfred Wagenknecht, national secretary of the 1 organiza\ If sc. get in touch with the Workers’ | attempts at armed intervention, get | tions which |P. S. TEACHERS | SCARE CHILDREN ABOUT MAY FIRST Parents Prepare Their Children to March BROOKLYN, N. Y.i—Miss King, principal of Public School 141 located at McKibben and Leonard Sts. here, has given instructions to all teachers in the school to terrorize the chil- dren, about the May First prepara- tion of the Communists. A fear for the children participat- ing in the May First demonstration has forced the city authorities to mobilize its institutions against the | working class. A statement made by children at- tending Public School 141 to mem- bers of the Womens Council of Wil- liamsburgh who are actively organiz- ing the ‘parents of the children against the unbearable conditions prevailing in the school is as follows: “The teacher said that all children must come to school on Friday, May First. And should not take any leaf- |lets from strange people. She said they might kidnap you because the Communists will make speeches to upset the whole school.” From an- other classroom a child reported, “The teachers said the Communists are liable to take you away and kill you. All children must obey the prin- cipal and do everything the principal says. We will have plenty of police and will not allow the Communists to talk in front of the school.” ‘These statements reported by the children of School 141, is quite evi- dent due to the activities of the Wil- liamsburgh Women’s Council in the organization of the parents of the children in the struggle against the intolerable conditions which prevail in this particular school. When parents of the children of this school protested against the con- ditions prevailing in this school at the meeting of the Parents Associa- tion last Wednesday, an organization controlled by the principal, Miss King, the secretary, Mrs. Karpel, and the rest of the rulers of the school they were told to keep quiet. When the working class parents insisted on Association the meeting was broken up in tempest. The demands of the working class parents for free food, free clothing for the children of the unemployed, |and for the institution of free dental aics in schools has placed the As~ sciation in an embarrassed situa- sion. The working class parents in spite of the terror and poisonous propaganda spread in the school about May First, are preparing the | children to participate in the gigan- | tic May First demonstration at Madi- | son Square Park May First at 12:30 |p. m. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES FAST SIDE—BRONX Herb Williams | Sohn Yarrell & ODA Johnny Farrel Comuapny or “Three Tars SOL-ART STUDIO 101 E. 1dth Street (Next to Klein's) Cor. 4th Ave, Passport photos made in 10 minutes Nc $1.50 per Dozen carried the demands for unemploy- ment insurance to Washington. ‘The center will have in it the of- fices of the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated organiza- pong ; the council and For MY CHILDREN VLAM Jo INTERESTED IN THE HEALTHOF speaking and exposing the Parents | LDREN INBROUN WETERAN ST Cal. Gov’t Workers . Receive $4 Wage-Cut San Francisco, Cal. Daily Worker: I am working on a public job at the Ferry postoffice building here. These jobs supposed to pay a pre- vailing wage rate of $9. We painters are only getting $5 per day. Other workers must fare the same as we on all other jobs. We have protested to our Building Trades Council, who done nothing else so far, but claim of sending a letter asking President Hoover to see that the situation is corrected. In the meantime the job is being completed and it will be over with before we hear any more about it. That is how our “labor” leaders fight the wage cuts, which are being | handed out everywhere here in San Francisco. —Painter, MASS PICKET AT NEEDLEMAN SHOP NEW YORK.—All picket morning and night at the Needleman & Brem- | mer shop! This outfit is getting des- perate. The company and the Inter- | national Ladies’ Garment Workers | have been kidding themselves and the scabs that the Industrial Union and the strikers will soon get: tired. That has been proven wrong. The strike is in its fourteenth week, and the picketing has been good enough to take all the enthusiasm out of the | scabs, Now, out of pure desperation, the company and the company union are bringing in gorillas to attack the pickets. This must be answered, de- clares the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, with solid picket lines every morning and night. ‘The situa- | held. MINE ~ by 1,000 PACK HALL IN TORONTO MEET First for Two Years to| Defy Terror Breaking a police reign of terror of two years duration, 1,000 Canadian | workers, massed into a Toronto hall, | the night of April 28, and for the first time in two years, held an in- door mass meeting, in a city, where militant working-class organizations | have been able to work, only under the greatest difficulty. Despite attempts of police to break | up the meeting, called by the Friends | of the Soviet Union, and to arrest} the speaker, Marcel Scherer, national | secretary of the Workers Internation- | al Relief, recently returned from the USS.R., addressed a rousingly en-| thustastic audience on the “Five Year | Plan.” ‘Though threats were made to To- ronto workers by the police and the Red Squad, that Scherer would be | arrested at the border, and the sijdes of the Five Year Plan, depicting the latest developments in the Soviet) | Union, confiscated, Scherer arrived | jin Toronto, and the meeting was) | The night before the meeting, pat lice thinking they could in this way, | stop the meeting, advised the pro- | prietor of the hall that no films might be shown unless first turned over to the authorities, bringing up some obsolete law of the city. Police | threatened the proprietor of the hall, that his license would be revoked, should films be shown. Instead of | stopping the meeting, workers, hear- ing of this, showed their determina-| tion to hear of the Soviet Union, and | passed the word around. The eve- ning of April 28, 1,000 workers filled | tion is favorable for the strikers. the hall. | AMUSEMENTS | Three Great tT H E With ANNA STENN, MONDAY AND TUESDAY MAXIM GORKY’S “CAIN AND ARTEM” RUSSIAN REPERTOIRE WEEK! FRIDAY—SATURDAY—SUNDAY YELLOW PASS A STIRRING DEAMA OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS A GENUINE MOVING DRAMATIC PRODUCTION Soviet Films Talented Soviet Artist WEDNESDAY & THURS. “A Shanghai Document” Dramatic film of ife in Shanghai— Rereaned by the Sovking ef Moscow ———""Theatre Guild Production ™="——"| Getting Married W, 52nd. Eves, 8:40 Mts. Th, & Sat. 2:40 GUILD T LIONELL ATWILL HE SILENT WITNESS *"*" KAY STROZZI-FORTUNIO BONANOVA -| MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th, W. of B'way Evgs, $:50 Matinees Wed. and Sat., 2:30 “Five Star Final is electric and, allv “gm. woos Presents | ARTHUR BYRON » Five STAR FINAL CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Street Evenings 8:50 Mats, Wed. and Sat, 2:30 Smash Frame-Ups ! LITTLE THEAT Beginning Saturday May A Realistic Episode of Enacted by an Cast sCAMEO NEWARK—THEATRES 42ND STREET and BROADWAY (WIS. 1789) POPULAR PRICES’ NOW civic REPERTORY 2 st. oth av. Evenings 8:30 S00, $1, $1.60. Mats. Th. & Bat, 3:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight : Tom: Mat. . Tom, Night yt Seats 1 weel Box Office and Town ard Street MELO snare SENRY BERNSTHIN With Basil dna | “Karle RATHBONE pie UARCMORE BARRY MOW JEATRE 47th Street Went of way Eves. 8:50. Matinees Wod. and Sut, 9:30 acts Including: P rex iading: || with RICHARD DIX Waldman and IRENE DUNNE CELEBRATE May [ST As NeveR BEFORE. ann Ns KIDS Are | By RYAN WALKER WELL 137 ts - TM GOING To Give Your Child A Working Class Vacation Registration Now Open WIR CHILDREN’S CAMPS 131 WEST 28th ST., N. Y. C. Hours: 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. WIR CAMP DEPARTMENT |) JADE MOUNTAIN American and Chinese Restaurant Open 11 a. m. to'2 a, m. 197 SECOND AVENUE Between 12th and 13th Street. A SURPRISE CONCERT AND DANCE given by the E DERS BRANCH of the LL.D, held in THE AUDITORIUM OF THE COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700 BRONX PARK EAST SATURDAY. MAY 2ND AT 8:30 P. M, 657 Allerton Avenue Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care . of DR. 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