The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1931, Page 2

Ee pee rrr re eeang es = Jewish Forward, Socialist Sheet, DAILY WORKER, Helps Prepare Sacco-Vanzetti Fate For 5 Paterson Workers Framed-up Print Lies To Aid State Prosécutor Put Over gal Murder Of Five Strikers Who Are in Jail Awaiting Trial PATERSON, N. without bail ie appeared in ril 18, making the that Urban was a as such he went to i ne became disappointed Russia and returned as an op- nent of the Communists. There- e, the Communist strikers killed him. This article was answered by Ce Pi an article Fretheit, showing up the scoundrels of the Forward gang n this city, their connections with the movement io execute’ the ve comrades now held in jail and he rumors that the correspondent of th the president iation” (at thi: aterso e firs ward on statemer rere writing he is the Workmen's Circle, a member of 1 Board of Directors) and the bosses were called to he Grand Ju to give testimony gainst the five comrade: The article, by Comm Pitkow- with the activity of the N in Paterson, and the bosses’ jon to crush it. Hence the It exposed the Forward , their provocative role in the of 1 Today the Forward another article by the same correspondent, who makes the s' ment that the Communists were the scabs in the 1928 strike and that it is the Communists who are respon- sible for the miserable conditions of the silk workers in Paterson. In passing it will be of interest to note that this creature, who writes for the Forward, as the correspondent. of Paterson, was himself a silk boss. Many a fight took place in his shop not only against wage cuts and the lengthening of the hours but also against stealing yards from the weavers’ pay, who were getting paid by the amount of yards produced per day. Today, he is a candy store keeper and has as much to do with the labor movement as has the For- ward with socialism. About 10 days ago his place was raided for slot machines, gambling, etc. But this does not prevent him from writing in and plotting along with the Gei Ds We, ame-up. , May 10.—The Jewish Daily Forward king overtime, to help the state cre t the five framed up workers, members of the National tile Workers’ Union, now held in the Pa thes— -- the convention of} e the sentiment ic County Jail, on first degree murder. the Forward, to help the state in ii attempt to r ‘oad to the electric chair five miliant members of the National Textile Workers’ Union. The Forward not only plots against the five members but also against the N. T. W. U. In the second cle it attempts to prove that the statement by the Defense Committee and the National Textile Workers’ Union that the bosses singled out these five because the National Textile Union was active and suc- silk workers and that these worke’ were active participants in th gies, “is a big bluff.” The object of the article is quite clear. It is a substantiation and an addition to the first one: Namely that not only have the five workers killed the boss but that the N. T. W. U. plotted the whole thing. This is the card the Forward and the whole crew of the yellow socialists are playing. And why not? Haven't they got their own man as a prosecutor? Wasn't he the understudy of Mr. Morris Hillquit? It is true that at the time when he was with Hillquit he must have een parading as a so- cialist. Today, however, he is a re- publican. At any rate don’t social- ists and republicans work hand in hand? Any one that wants to see the combination of republican, demo- crat and socialist, in action is in- vited to Paterson. However, the workers in Paterson are confident that it will not be these underdogs and lickspittles of the bosses who will have their last say in this frame-up case. It will be the workers throughout the country that will give expression through organ- ized demonstrations and financial support that will have the last say in this new Sacco-Vanzetti case that the silk bosses of Paterson are weav- ing. Workers, send your immediate contribution and show your solidar- ity with the five comrades in jail by sending your. support to the Interna- tional Labor Defense at 799 Broad- way, New York City. FINDS WORKERS STARVING ON “99th ST, MANY FACING EVICTIONS EW YORK. — Members of the Harlem Unemployed Council have been busy visiting the homes of workers on 99th Street, between 2d and 3rd Avenues, and have found the most outrageous conditions of actual starvation and intense misery. The majority of the tenants /are Negro and Porto Rican workers who habe been hardest hit by the crisis’ on account of the boss policy of dis- criminating against these workers, both in the way of jobs, wages and the meagre relief of the capitalist charity racketeering organizations. ‘The members of the Unemployed Council found a Negro family of 4 who are to be evicted tomorrow, Tuesday, by order of the boss court of 88th Street. Mr. and Mrs. Fergu- son have two children between the ages of 4 and 6. Mr. Ferguson been unable to work for the past six months, even if a job were available, because of serious injuries to. his hand received in construction work as a laborer. The committee from the Harlem ‘Unemployed Council met with the landlord, A. Karp, owner of many tenements in the neighborhood and demanded stay in the eviction. The landlord flatly refused to consider the situation of the family. The Council is organizing the tenants to fight the eviction and for demands of ten per cent rent reduction, and for proper sanitary conditions in the houses which are over run with rats and roaches. A house committee of 3 has been elected. The tenants of several houses have pledged their full co-operation in the militant struggle organized by the Unemployed Coun- cil. The committee also reported on the case of Mrs. Lucille Trise, a Negro woman worker of 224 E. 99th St., cause of # broken arm and has been forced to give away her six children to the Hecksher Foundation to be brought up as robots because she had no food to feed them. She kept one child, but can hardly feed this one and herself. Arising out of the activities of the Unemployed Council, a large tenants committee was elected to visit Mayor | Walker today to put forward the de- mands of the tenants against evic- tions and for a reduction in rent, and cash relief for the unemployed. An open air meeting will be held in the block todya when the com- mittee reports back on the results of their demands on the corrupt city ad- ministration. ssful in leading strikes among the) Duluth Longshore Scabs Hide In Office in Fear of Pickets ‘The capitalist press carries news “We Want Solidarity and Unity, but of what must have been some very militant mass picketing by the strik- ing longshoremen in Duluth. It tells of seventy strike-breakers of the Great Lakes Transit Co. who found hundreds of pickets waiting for them at 6:30 p. m. last Tuesday. The scabs fled to the Palladio building, in the heart of the business district, and barricaded themselves in, while the pickets massed outside, The police department sent plain- clothes men to mingle with the strik- ers, and then made a sudden attack with the intention to clear a way through Fourth Ave. for the scabs. ‘The police were not very successful, and finally the company had to hire a fleet of taxicabs, into which the scabs were loaded, and, with police all around them, sent them away some- where, ‘There are 600 longshoremen strik- ing against a wage-cut. The A, F. of L. leaders are urging members of their organization to support the scabs. The I. W. W. leaders take the attitude that the strikers must have nothing to do with the Trade Union Unity League. Organization is not necessary!” This is exactly the opposite program to that put out by the I, W. W. leaders in the Ilinois mine fields, where the Wobbly leaders ordered their men to scab on the grounds that a strike was no good unless everybody was fully organized first. The I, W..W. leadership tactics seem to be: “Any- thing at all to cripple any workers’ organization except the I. W. W.” Rank and File Support. In spite of this, many I. W. w. members and former members are showing full solidarity in the strike. The strike is led by the elected strike committee of the strikers. The Trade Union Unity League and Marine Workers’ Industrial Union is rallying support throughout the region, and is actively opposing the attempt of the employers to get strike-breakers from Minneapolis and other points. The T. U. U. 1. is issuing leaflets to the railroad workers and workers on other docks, calling for solidarity and support, * ‘The Workers” International Relic’ is making preparations for a relic’ conference and organigation of : to collect funds for feed | veturn to Daily Worker. et 2049 Qpegn Parkway, Brookiyn,| [Lely Dene ig ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER DXMUST Live Inmy ACCUSTOMED LUXURY |You | HUNGRY ¢ Fae Ta me nee MpeY ate . iV MUSY HAVE PLENTY QF Food -Rict ExPensive | \ Poop, You MusT Take a = A | nE © 5 ' ] GO ne See ga {| ji | | Pee? Important Notice Workers who still have the May Day greeting lists which they have not turned in should bring them to the Daily Worker office today (Saturday) with the money. The Daily Worker needs every available dollar Saturday. Lists from out- side New York should be sent in immediately. SLIPPER WORKERS ARE ORGANIZING Held Meeting, Plan | Organization Drive On Thursday, May 7, 1931, at Mai hattan Lyceum a meeting of abo} 100 slipper and statchdown workers was held to discuss ways and means of organizing the slipper and stitch- down workers. After a report given by the organizer of the Shoe & Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, Biedenkapp, on the situation in the trade, many workers discussed the problems of organization. The slipper and stitchdown work- ers are working under the most mis- erable conditions; 60-65 hours a week, frequent wage cuts, unemplo} ment that is ever increasing. These conditions cannot be tolerated any longer-—they must be fought through organization in a militant union. An organization committee of rank and file workers was elected at the meeting to start, in co-operation with the union leadership a vigorous organizational drive. The workers present at the meet- ing pledged support to the strikers of the Feifer Bros. Slipper Co., whose workers are fighting against a wage cut for over five weeks. Slipper and Stitchdown Workers! Organize and fight against wage cuts and long hours, Come to the office of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, 16 W. 21st St., New York, N. Y. ‘ quarters of the Brownsville Foster Administers Crushing Defeat to Muste in Lively Debate; Exposes Demagogy Audience Raises $4654 for Seottsboro Defense While a thousand workers were turned away from the New Star Ca- sino Sunday, unable to get in 3,000 who packed the hall, heard one of the liveliest debates of recent years in which William Z. Foster for the Trade Union Unity League adminis- tered a crushing defeat to A. J. Muste, social fascist chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor Ac- tion. The debate was held under the auspices of the John Reed Club upon the question of the merits and de- merits of the respective organiza- tions, As a subject of no less interest, however, Richard B. Moore of the International Labor Defense led off with an appeal for the Scottsboro prisoners and a collection was made of $464. After which Frank Palmer of the Federated Press, acting as chairman, introduced Comrade Fos- ter as the first speaker. An ovation was immediately given the TUUL spokesman. While space forbids any detailed account of the speeches, the whole affair was a merciless unmasking of the shameless demagogy of the Muste group and its chieftain on the part of Foster, and on the part of Muste FIREMEN AID FIRE IN RED QUARTERS Brownsville Hall Is Destroyed NEW YORK.—The Section Head- section who has been unable to work be. | ¥9¥ for four months, “Cimmazron'” is of the Communist Party was com- pletely demolished by fire. The fire- men, contrary to the usual procedure of saving everything possible, helped to destroy those things that the fire did not touch. These firemen, get- Although having played on Broad- | {ing their instructions from those that are very much interested in ‘destroy- ing the movement of the workers and everything that belongs to them, took particular pains to tear up, and pour water on, all the revolutionary pictures and literature, All the fur- niture, chairs, benches, tables, etc., near which the fire did not even come, were broken. The Communist Party is now con- fronted with the problem of setting up a new headquarters. Until such a place is secured, the Party will temporarily make its headquarters in the Workers Youth Center, 112 Os- borne St. The Workers Youth Cen- ter, upon discovering that the Party headquarters was burned down, im- mediately offered the use of their headquarters, as did the other work- ing class organizations, clearly illus- trating their loyalty to the Party, Edna Ferber’s Novel On Cameo Screen back again, this time to the Cameo Theatre, where it is playing a week's engagement. “Cimarron” is the story of the Oklahoma land rush. The cast is headed by Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Roscoe Ates, George Stone, and Edna May Oliver. “One Romantic Night” with Lilian Gish, Robert. Montgomery and Con- rad Nagle, is an added feature at the Hippodrome. This picture will be shown every morping in addition to Jack Holt in “Suway Express” and eight acts headed by “Herb” Wil- liams, “ALISON'S HOUSE” OPENS AT RITZ THEATRE. Lee Shubert will present the Civic Repertory Company in “Alison's House,” the Pulitzer prize play by Susan Glaspell, at the Ritz Theatre for a limited engagement beginning The Communist Party, having no other source but that of the workers, is calling upon all the workers of Brownsville and all of the working class organizations to assist in the setting up of a new Workers Center. A conference of all mass organiza- tions will be heid Thursday, May 28, at 118 Bristol St., at 8 p. m., where this question will be thoroughly dis- cussed, today, Eva Le Gallienne will play in the production this week only, leaving for her tour of European theatres the following week. “Alison's House,” following its run here will be pre- sented by Lee Shubert in all of his subscription cities, including Phila- delphia, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Washington, St, Louis and Detroit. On the reopening of the Civic Reper- tory Theatre in 1932, “Alison’s House” will be in the repertoire, GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! ~ NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES HAST SIDE—BRONX JEFFERSON THEATRE. “The Iron Man” is the screen at- traction at the Jefferson Theatre un- til Tuesday of this week. Lew Ayres plays the chief role. Don Azpiazzu and the Havana Casino orchestra are the headliners on the vaudeville bill, other acts include Milo, the un- known, Charles Wilson, Morton and Parks, Jack Donnelly, Madeline Pa- trice, and the Four Robeys. RKO 8 ics & Doors Open Daily ‘Wednesday to Friday “The W at 9:45 A. M. Plan” is the screen fare. On the| | Sve Early 25¢ stage Don Zelaya, Mae Usher, Miller and Keller, The Drugstore Cowboys, Van Horn and Inez, Petite Revue. Except Sun., Mol. Prospect 161 st. Frank De Voe tienes and Kaye doe Mendt ‘Two Roreling NOTICE Anyone finding purse lost at New -or Casino at Foster-Muste Debate M. Ruvo- an exemplary illustration of | demagogy in which the voice was the voice of Muste, but the policy was the policy of Matthew Woll and the | Communist renegades, Lovestone, | Cannon and Weisbord. Indeed, some of these latter worthies’ followers were fervent applauders of Muste’s remarks, Foster led off by explaining the TUUL organization and policies as opposed to those of the A. F. of L. ‘The A. F. of L. bureaucracy has made it an organization of strike-breakers. of class collaboration. The A. F. of L. leads in the war propaganda” against the Soviet Union, its leaders are fascists, crooks and racketeers. Forced to Organize Revolutionary Unions, ‘The TUUL for some years did not build independent unions, But the workers were forced to do so. The A. F. of L. unions cannot be captured by their members through demo- cratic means and many instances were shown. The unorganized—the vast majority of the workers—have to form new unions. The organized, too, are forced by the reactionaries to split from the A. F. of L. in order to fight the employers. The TUUL in its two years has been in dozens of struggles and in them has faced not only the terror of the bosses, and the betrayal of the A. F. of L., but also the support of this terror and be- trayal by the Musteites. “Radical talk and conservative or reactionary action,” said Foster, “is the policy of Muste and his group.” Foster proceeded to explain the world role of social fascism as an auxiliary of such fascists as Green, Woll and Fish. Muste puts on “a bright red dress” in this crisis just as Fitzpat- rick and Nockels did in the first post-war crisis, just as Hillman once wanted to represent the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. Muste and his group talk of “planned economy” and Muste was quoted on this as in agreement with Hilquit, Woll and Hoover, as a way out of the crisis. Musteites Take Capitalist Path. Foster explained that this ts the capitalists’ way, the fascist way. The TUUL denies this and says that only the revolutionary working class can solve the crisis to the benefit of the working class. The A. F. of L. lead- ers, as Lenin said, are the agents of the capitalists, in the ranks of the workers. Muste tries to picture them as “erring brothers” and their be- trayal of the Southern workers, Muste has said is merely “just an- other grave short-coming,” while the A. F. of L. opposition to unemploy- ment insurance, Muste describes merely as “amazing inconsistency.” In short, the Muste policy is a de- fense of labor treachery, where it is not an open complicity with this treachery. And Foster explained the instances of Muste treachery. The Sell-out of the Illinois miners by Far- rington, Muste had ¢ ed y- ing that “selling out to the operat- ors is not so serious to the miner Still quoting from the Muste organ Labor Age, writing that the B. only “collective rgaini there was “no use to fight agains it.” Muste “Excuses” A.F.L. Treachery. Every treache: the A. F, of L. S, hailed as a “great victory Illinois mine strike Muste said, are as unwilling to coope! Communi is the A. F, of L. i self.” Every renegade from Com nism is immediately embr: Muste, who while pretending to be a friend of the Soviet Union, supp the counter-revolutionary party in the elections. Muste t against wage cv but the Mu controlled Full Fashion Hosier Union was the first to accept a wae cut. Muste supports Heywood Broun, who of the enforcement of tional Rights of Muste’s union in the s Negroes. The TUUL organi policy is indispensable to the work- ing class. Again there was a stormy ovation as Foster closed. Muste took floor and, as Fos' his devastating re’ minutes to attacking unionism without word of attack L. and its policy the Socia revolution and practice of treason to labor. Repeats Renegades Slurs. Muste The chief points of that the TUUL is in “collay ly because of “dual unionism ar abandonment of work in old unions This had brought about “isolatio: and so on, Muste made copious u of the quotations from Lenin's Wing Communism,” and the C nist and TUUL press where mistake of “abandonment of work in old unions,” of “bureaucracy” and “i noring of the rank and file” were criticized, | A general horse laugh greeted Muste'’s last remarks which were to the effect that the Communists were really counter-revolutionists, a false- hood which Foster pointed out Mus- te had adopted from the counter- revolutionary renegades from Com- munism. Muste quotes from the Communist and TUUL press where revolutionary workers are criticized! for their mistakes in building revo-! Jutionary unions, Foster stated, “and one would think who listened to Muste that his greatest worry was how to build the revolutionary unions!” Muste quotes from Lenin against dual unionism, Foster stated, without stating that Lenin would discrimi- nate between concrete conditions and had himself approved the formation of dual unions in France, “In fact,” said Foster, “Muste’s quotations from AMUSEMENTS & CAMEO NOW EDNA FERBUER'S GREAT NOVEL CIM MARON|8xa: With RICHARD DIX & IRENE DUNNE & 434 81 BIGGEST SHOW LN NEW YORK Subway Express With JACK HOLT fj Patronize the Concoops Food Stores aNnD Restaurant - 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” All Comrades Meat at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant eet Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 87 WEST 32ND STREE1 225 WEST 36TH STREE' NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931. ~ | nail sedibibinist sites ctainishel reo Mecsas i 0 ee = SEE Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts! ila IN gma ‘IT GY BEA Good Ciel Take Wueseé, Tete THOSE Lows ] eS \ Wace eur eats. 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The other 500 in tl ask Muste, ‘Did you happen to be |10c@l have been able to pay at Union Square on May First’ [@ouble blackmail demanded by ¢ Muste pretends to be for the rank | Hutcheson gang, and have been and file, but he supports Broach | !0Wed to transfer to other locals a in the Electrical Workers Union, |%¢t Work if they can. who says, ‘Anybody who’ leaves it | An election in this local turned the reactionary clique and put progressives. The clique, howev| voided the election by stuffing ballot box. A row started, and a nj election was held, which seated progressives. Then Hutcheson to the rank and file is a fool.’” The ack of Foster drove Muste 0 demagogy. It was not that this awoke derisive n the audience. Some of were: “I want to see - phe only al-{@ man to come in at midnight aff| cism or a world war| take all the records from the 1 | civilization.” “I be-|He was stopped at the time, and | t “Not in| other row developed. Hutcheson b: “The |Pended the local, in the early » face ice of submitting ; Of last year. or establi Men were allowed to work on wo} ing cards for a while, and now and | told by Hutcheson’s office that tl must pay again for their work cards, pay again $2 a month 4 for the period since the local + |Suspended, and join other loc Many can not do so. will have rage h to choose the latter.” Suppert TUUL, But where this den dent when, afi 1 Communist movement is inev id that “every honest work mmit himself to the estab- Cooperators’ Patroni ment of a revolutionary move- nt on every field,”—Muste pro- S E R oO Y ed his social fascist program “as nis “revolutionary movement.” Fos- CHEMIST mashed this astounding hypoc- 657 Allerton Avenue | visy in his summary and closed t debate with an appeal for the TU 1 estabrook $215 BRONX, N. n ovation that proved which side fad wou! toe daiatee, ag 3y6naa Neyebuuuya DR. A. 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