The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 2

Page Awo Local 19 of Amalgamated Votes To Ou st Officials: Meets in Defiance of Edict of Manager and Elects Committee Administratior to the meeting, here they t all paid and un- elected a commit- | ake over the administ- | local ion of the tore down signs announcing and declared it would take place. He did not come to} meeting, and it opened without Utner he meeting he workers fully discus the } situation in th elocal, one after an- | other ing and exposing the treacheries of Utner and of the whole Hillman gang, how they are pushing | nrough piece work and all kinds of | worse conditions, lowering the wage s, etc The program of the Rank and file committee to fight against all this brought forward and discussed | and enthusiastic applause greeted it. | Oust All Officials. A motion was passed with only two votes against it, to ask all paid Officials to resign Another motion, with two votes against it, was passed to remove the unpaid officials (the trade board). Both these motions were passed with applause and enthusiasm. Then a committee of 25 was elect- ed from the floor, to take over the administration of the local. The | committee will meet today to or- ganize itself and take over the office according to the decision of the membership. Members Must There are on the committee nine outstanding supporters of the pro- gram of the rank and file committee, and they were elected by the biggest | votes. There are however, some on the committee the membership What’s On— THURSDAY Joe Hill Bra at 6.30 at 13 5, orkers Club St. (Glass and} l hear leeture at “Pive-Year Plan and in the Soviet was Watch. i} neb 1. 4 Meets Scandinavian — fth Ave. and § Lieberman Hall) Socialist Construction Unen.” on th >see Open Air Meeting Of the Yorkville Branch of the In- ternational Labor Defense will take place at 8 p. m. at 72nd St, and First Ave. : . < Manhattan and Harlem Branehes Of the Friends of the Soviet Union will meet at Labor Temple. Adm. free, ere Ve Plumbers TUEL Important meeting at 16 West 2ist St. Finai preparations of affdir and |! other subjects of importance will be taken up, ae ee Special Meeting Youth Seetion Of the Needle Trades Workers, in- dustrial Union will take place at.6.30 p.m. at 181 West 28th St. All youns needle workers are invited, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League Open air meeting at 24th ®t: ana Kighth Ave. pie Se Council 21 Will have a lecture. on Religion and its effects on the Worki iss” at 8.30 p. m. at 261 Utiea Ave. Bkiyn Painters 'TUUL, Meet at 8 p. m, at 1400 Boston R& USNR Open Meeting At 140 Neptune Ave. ton Beach at 8 p. m. Al workers are welcome, * isa Steve Katovis Branch, 1LD Ts holding a meeting at & p. at Seventh St. and Avenue B, members are urged to be there, . om. (All Cee ee Workrs Ex-Srvicemen'’s Lague Br, 2 Harlem, will hold its regular in- door meeting at 8 p. m. at Pythian Hall. 124th St. and Madison Ave, All worker ex-servicemen are invited, * pare | FRIDAY Bronx Branches, Friends of the Soviet Union Meet at McKinley Sq. Garden, 1268 Boston Ra. * 2 « Workers Laboratory Theatre Are planning a Scottsboro Play. Workers, Negro and white, are need- ed. Rehearsals take place Mondays, ‘Thursdays. Fridays, at 8.20 p. m. at 13 Wet 28th St. oi ee Tremont Workers Club At 749 Crotoha Park West. will hear a lecture on the “Truth About the Scottsboro Case.” All workers invied, : Coney Island Workers Club At 2921 W. 32nd St, will hold a leeture on the “Struggle Against De- portations and Lynchings” at & p. m. Admission 15c, EO ARE ‘Volunteers Are wanted by the LL.D. National Office, 789 Broadway, room 430. If you can type, or have an hour or two to spare, come upand help in Scottsboro work, + Rae Mass Meeting and Movie On the Scottsboro case at the Har- Jem Prog, Youth Club, 1492 Madison Ave. (162nd St.) at 8.30 p, m. Oe. ee Young Defenders Will hold an open air meeting at J6ist St. and Prospect Ave., at 8 p. m, Voice your protest against the Scots- boro frame-up! Par ek, Council 25 Will have a Jecure on the “Tm- portance of Organizing Working Class Women” at 8.80 p. m. at 2480 65th St, Brooklyn. Paterson Section School Banquet The fiv etetile workers just bailed out of jail will speak at the Sec- tion 11 Week and Schoo! Banquet at & p,m, at 205 Paterson St., Paterson, N. J. Interesting program; enter- tainment. . WS Metal Workers Ind. League Meets at 8 p.m. at 16 W, 21st St Bill Dunne speaks on “Soviet Union,” * * * NEW JERSEY The five tetile workers recently Dailed out of jail will speak at the benquet of Section 11, Week and School on May 23, 8 p. m. at 305 Paterson St. Interesting entertain- mont all workers are urged to comm: ‘ j united struggle against the bosses. to Take Over the n of the Local | | uld watch, for ready ng of erviewing part of piece work, etc aid to be on the committee The meeting of Local 19 today | the largest meeting that local | in the last two years. | will be a membership meet-| ing today at 7:30 p. m. at 83 East 10th Street, of all rank and file groups in the Amalgamated Johnstone, Barrisoff Speak Tomorrow at Housewreckers’ Meet NEW YORK.—A meeting of house- roductic wreckers will take place tomorrow at 8 p. m Manhattan Lyceum 66 E. 4th s The conditions of the housewreckers are bec ig WO! every day. The officials of Local 95 as well as the previous leadership of Zarenko in Brothrehood are hand with the Housewreckers’ working hand in bosses’ association against the workers Already the workers receive as low as 50 and 40 cents an hour. The purpose of this meeting is to unite the house- wreckers in one fighting organiza- tion that will clear its ranks from all white guardist and other reac- tionary elemenst and develop a the Every housewrecker, regardless of what union he belongs, white ro col- ored, employed or unemployed, should come to this meeting. Among other speakers there will be Borris- off, the editor of the Novy Mir; Jack Johnstone, the secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Ochy- tailo, the T.U.U.L. organizer of the housewreckers, and other prominent speakers who are well informed on the situation. Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. | is being RUIN A STRIKE Insult Unemployed and Attack Militants NEW YORK.—One of the ghast- liest imitations of a strike even seen conducted by the officers the AFL Barbers Union. ‘The down town local (No. clared a strike last week year's wages and conditions. of for he wages and conditions officially established last year have, during year, been much worsened withou the officials doing anything about it At the meeting, Joseph Magliacano, in the name of the Barbers and Hair- | dressers League of the Trade Union Unity League, presented a program of action: to form a rank and file strike committee, and a rank and file finance committee to control especially the tax of $5 a member which will not otherwise go to the winning of the strike but will re: main a racket of the officials All the officials spoke violently against this program; the Represen- tative Merlino of the International Headquarters attacked Magliacano with the absurd charge he was an agent of the bosses, and a business ent threatened vioence to the TU | UL member for demanding the floor The union members walked out of their meeting Part of a Strike But the strike started offciially on There are 500 members, and the strike is supposed to cover all Manhattan from East Broadway and Chambers St. to 34th St. east of Fifth Ave. Just 32 showed up at the strike meeting. A Daily News reporter and the officials eonsludted as to how they could take a picture of so few, and finally massed all mbers in a few rows of chairs, to look like part of a big meeting. It was announced that some 150 had gone back insettled shops, and even if this is true, the others are just working, having no confirence whatever in the union or its offi- cials, The TUUL members picketed Mon- day and Tuesday morning, and Mag- | Ployment Insurance—as | Soci |not give direct aid’ | study the subject as carefully and as disinterestedly as possible.” ~AILY WORKER, NEW Y [BARBER OFFICERS |Lieut. Gov. Admits Jobless Starve; Refuses Any Relief By HARRIET SILVERMAN. Admitting that “we have right here in this state a weight of neces- sity, want and suffering” due to un- employment, Lieut. Gov. H. H. Leh- man New York declared before the New York City Conference of Work of the Welfare Council, Tuesday night that the “state could to the unem- ed. Lehman's solution for the tarving millions of New York is “to The program of the conference is “What can be done to solve the un- employment problem.?” Lehman whom Al Smith points to with pride as an example of Ca- tholic broadmindedness in electing a shrewd Jew to look after the in- terests of the Jewish bosses of New York, speaks for Tammany Hall while Gov. Roosevelt is off on a va- cation resting from his labors in the murderous attack on the hunger marchers which invaded Albany a few months ago demanding unem- ployment insurance and immediate state relief. The workers’ delega- tion needed no proof then of the “disinterestedness” of the reaction- ary politicians and does not need convincing now. But the workers on the breadlines, in the flophouses, and in the teeming tenement neigh- borhoods where fathers and mothers grow more and more desperate where suicides are increasing at an appaling rate, where children are starving for lack of milk and the barest meeds of life, these workers must be told what this “disinterest- edness” means, Lehman said the unemployment crisis “cannot be settled by the con- ference here tonight or by any other conference, and it can never be solved by the state alone because the state is only an administrative agency pressure must come from the will of the people.” \The Un- employment Councils may well take the cue. By organizzing the fight for Unemployment Insurance with increasing speed and force, in every nook and corner of N, Y., that will compel the bosses state and its “ad- ministrators” to couph up Unem- the least liacano at the meeting yesterday pro- {the capitalist elass can do in the posed again to speak on the program. } present crisis. He was refused the floor, “because you are unemployed.” AMUSEMENTS NEW SOVIET FILM! REBUILDING THE EAST! AMKINO PRESENTS A SON THE A STIRBING DR or THE EAST—THE STRUGGLE BE- ‘TWEEN MAN AND NATURE— THE OLD WAY AND THE NEW PRODUCED IN THE U. LAND DEPICTING THE AGE OLD | rsa FOR WATE A BARREN LAND TRANS- FORMED BY SOVIET ENGIN- EERS FOR BENEFIT OF ALL .R. BY SOYUZKINO Beginning 42ND STREET Tomorrow R and BROADWAY K (WIS, 1789) So POPULAR PRICES a a ec ac aA areas SI enn eR LAST vav | MONSTERS OF AN EPIC OF OF THE BEA THE SEA | A new play by MEI 0 HENRY BERNSTEIN With Basi? RATHBONE | ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE ith Street West of Broadway Byes. 8:60. Mati ¥ nd GILBERT and SULLIVAN |_ Fane { Earle BEST |LAKIMORE 3 COMIC OPERA AU Star erences ” e's “PINAFORE” Wa “Thrift” Prices ret.."soe ta ai. Sat Mats. 50e to $1.50 Erlanger’s Thea., W, 44 St. Penn. 6-7963 5 6th Ave, & 434 Bt. BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORE RICHARD ARLEN IN RKO) & ” 8 vers | “Gun Smoke | with William Boyd and Mary Brian The history of all hitherto ex- isting society is the history of class struggle —MARX. Workers’ Health Teacher | eneenee do not happen. They are not a product of chance. They have their cause and these are either individual or social, but mainly sotial. things. If they were, they would be be under ideal econmic conditions. endeavor to enlighten our readers, In a recent issue of the Journal Workers are not sufficiently informed about these surprised how healthy they could In these short articles I shall 0 f the American Medical Asso- ciation it is shown how the mortality in Soviet Russia and Ukraine is decreasing by leaps and bounds. We also see there how backward, in this and other respects, the provinces which used to belong to Tzarist Russia and now are under other capitalist regimes, have remained. How health may be decreed in a workers’ republic is seen in a note just published in Presse Medicale, a French medical paper: “The Council of Commissars (Soviet Russia) has decided to strengthen the fight against epidemics and suggested to the Commis- sariat of Public Health to work out radical methods which would quickly suppress typhus, typhoid, malaria and children’s contagious diseases. Epidemics must disappear everywhere completely by the latest at the end of 1932.” Tam convinced that all diseases can cease and that we can all be healthy, happy and beautiful. It is worth while fighting for that. Tn Russia health is an asset and nobody has an interest that people should be sick, The dirty profit incentive is gone. It is not so in capitalist countries. ‘There are important commercial concerns which need sickness. They even suggest illness and then sell un- necessary and poisonous so-called remedies. Then, the medical profession are brained in capitalist schools and hospitals, think in a capitalist way and have bourgeois aspira- ations-—with very few exceptions. ‘They live from your sickness. 'The- Jonger and more often you are ill, the better for them, whether they want it or not. In Russia doctors are socialized and do not need to be paid for treatment by the individual worker patient. It is their interest that the latter should be as heatlhy as possible. DR, A. LONE, Lehman declared Gov. Roosevelt had appointed Henry Stebbins, Jr., ORK, THURSDAY, MAY 21, a leading employer of Rochester to “evolve a plan to help stabilize em- ployment.” What is the ‘Rochester bosses plan? I was present at one meeting of the Rochester City Coun- cil when the Unemployed Delega- tion appeared demanding Work or Wages. In that one session over one million dollars was appropriated to protect the property rights of real estate owners, but not one pen- ny was granted for Unemployment Relief, The Unemployed Delegation made such a spirited fight on the floor and presented such convincing arguments that the grafters in of- fice were panic-stricken and ad- journed the meeting, routed by the workers representatives. Now Steb- bins informs us the city employ- ment committee was appointed in Rochester in 1930 composed of a committee of 33 members, including business men, bankei attorneys, the head of the Chamber of Com- merce, the Pres. of the Labor Coun- cil fascist agent of the A. F. of Ly a Judge, a Rabbi, and a Bishop. By some oversight the socialist party representative was slighted in this combination. This so-called unem- ployment committee engaged a full- time paid secretary,” financed by the “Community Chest” the funds raised by the social worker panhandl- ers and fakers, and funds supplied by the city and county. Eight sub-com- mittees were immediately appointed to STUDY the unemployment crisis, employing 7 statisticians to “prevent hysteria” which means to conduct a campaign. of lies as to the actual number of starving jobless workers in Rochester. The committee spent the magnificent total of $750,000 for so-called emergency work relief and claims to have given work to 6,500 of the 100,000 starving jobless and their families in Rochester. This leading employer declared that two-thirds of those who had come to the city for help, were not known to any of the charity agencies and had never appealed for help before. And also, that 50 to 75 per cent of the money advanced for this so-called relief. was actually returned to the city later through interest and other means, thus proving the whole performance & good business deal for the bosses, Defend the Alabama boys legal lynching. from 1931 RALLY 3,000 T0 RESIST EVICTION Downtown Branch In Big Demonstration NEW YORK.—While the Down- town Unemployed Branch was hold- ing an open air meeting at 7th St and Ave. B, where 1,000 listened to the speakers, a worker informed the chairman of an eviction that just took place at 811 East 5th St. The man was 18 months out of work, his wife was sick and they had moved to a neighbor's house. Their three children, from 3 to 9 years of age, were hungry Scare the Landlord. The meeting immediately resolved to place the furniture back and marched down in a _ body Many joined on the way and the whole neighborhood was aroused The landlord was tipped off and he hired men to replace the furni- ture before the demonstration reached the house. Before a big crowd of some 3,000 that blocked the street, a meeting was held then and there. Speakers explained that the mass} force of the workers had forced the landlord to put the furniture back; that only by organizing’ block com- | mittees and tenants leagues could they expect to effectively fight against evictions and starvation Throughout the meeting crowds cheered and hurrahed the Unemployed Council and when the meeting-adjourned the streets rang with calls for the Unemployed Branch. the Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to yoo will help save the Daily Worker. Bill Dunn Will Speak On Soviet Union at Metal League Meet of the the Comrade Bill Dunn, one most ‘outstanding leaders of revolutionary movement in this country, has just returned from Soviet Russia, He will speak this Friday, 8 p. m., at the membership meeting of the New York local of the Metal Workers League on the conditions of the workers in the Soviet Union, especially the eondi- tions of the metal workers New York metal workers who are not members of the League are also inyited. The meeting will take place at 16 W. 21st St. All members and other metal workers are urged not to miss this opportunity to hear Comrade Dunn on the latest developments in the Soviet Union, in regards to the car- rying out of the Five Year Plan. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, CUTS AND PERSECUTION! Special Prices to Daily Worker Readers FORA TRUSS BANDAGE or STOCKING go to P. WOLF & CO. INC. 1499 Third Ave.) 70 Avenue A Het. BL A RS Sts, (st Open Eves 8 p.m, NEW YORK SPECIAL Ket. 4 & b Open Eves 8 p. nv cerry ATTENDANT Ss Floor) Sts. Revolutionary May Treetings: BAKERY AND CONFECTIONARY WORKERS UNION LOCAL 22 $5.00 Revolutionary May Day Greetings: M. LENCHUTZ Broklyn, N. Y. $3.00 FOR RENT—Small sunny frontroom telephone, elevator, $5. 94 Hamilton Place. Apt. 6-D 137th St. Bway. Sub. WORKERS 50 EAST 13TH STREET WORKERS FORUM ROBERT MINOR on “THE SCOTTSBORO CASE” This Friday May 22 at 8 p. m. SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 35 E, 12th Street—2nd floor SCHOOL ALgonquin 4-1199 SUMMER TE Register now—Term to start Monday May 25, Only a few days left for Registration! —IMPORTANT COURSES— Fundamentals of Comm . James Monday Fundamentals of Communism ‘Thursda! Jerome . Economy, Wed., 7-8:30 A) Markoff nism ‘Thureda, Markoff CRUSADER (Self-Service) RESTAURANT 114 East Fourteenth Street, Near Irving Place “Hada Manragn, President ° MARTAKIS 853 BROADWAY MEW YORK CITY Telephone GRAwancr’a¢68 ° May 19, 1931; Editor of the Daily Worker: Restaurant, 14th Street ne. I, the owner of the Crusader ar Fourth Avenue, wish to correct the statement printed in the Daily Worker on April 20th, to the effect that, at the instance of our manager, newsboys selling the Daily Worker were driven away from our place of busines ‘the truth. This statement is far from We have never asked the police to prevent the selling of the Daily Worker in front of our restaurant. Worker on April 20th, I also regret the misunderstanding that arose as a result of the disturbance in our restaurant on April 16th, reported in the same article of the Daily I wish to say that in my absence, the manager, considering that the behavior of three customers whom he believed intoxicated, was disturbing others eating in the place, called a policeman to reprimand the his own requests were ignored. ‘have occurred. m since I regret that all this should One of the men concerned came into the restaurant and apologized, expressing his regret at his behavior, which ended so unpleasantly. the affair the next morning, when the- matter had out of my hands because of the police taking charge of the case. Iam trying to have the case settled amicably a the whole affair is a matter ef small importance and aros purely by chance. HM:k “Yours” very’ truly, ah hi's Pres.'~"MARTAKIS INC. I first heard of - passed Good Food Served in the Modern Manner GRAND . 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