The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 1

Vi Only : $4,366 Raised in 10 Days; “Daily Worker” in EN dave ot of the Daily Worker campaign. Workers have responded; some of them have made great sacrifices,,\have actual- i taken food from their own mouths to help save the Daily. Unemployed workers have scraped together their last pennies and gone hungry —all to save the Daily. These employed, have kept the Daily Worker from suspend- ing during the past ten days. But they are few in number —what about the thousands more who have not contrib- uted a cent? Ten days of the Save-the- Daily Worker campaign should have meant $10,000 towards the $35,000 that is essential to keep the Daily slim summer months and be- yond. Instead, we have only $4,366 contributed thus far. Comrades, we appreciate the devotion shown by these readers who have helped raise this sum. But it isn’t enough! And it isn’t enough because thousands have fal- len down on the job; it isn’t enough because the districts have failed to swing into ac- workers, employed and un- Worker going through the part of the paper you can read the tale: the totals of each district up to Wednes- day inclusive show not a single one up to the mark. Since then the improvement has been slight. On Wednes- day there were actually four districts that hadn’t contrib- uted a cent! Now Need $1,200 a Day Because of the poor re- sponse we now need more over. Twelve hundred dol- lars a day must be raised from now on. Can we do it? Let’s hear your answer, Workers of the United States, workers’ organizations all over the country! Week End Crucial At this very moment we do not know whether we will survive the week-end. Our fate is in your hands, com- rades. Every worker, every anger! workers’ organization must ask himself today: Have I done all I can for the Daily Worker? The figures show that you haevn’t’ Our cred- itors won’t wait. ACTION TODAY is worth a thou good intentions tomorrow! Every possible dollar must be gotten into the Daily office over the week-end. Use spe- cial delivery or wire to rush funds to the Daily Worker, than ‘SL 000 a _day to tide us tion properly. _ In another reader, _every member of a IN TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE Dail Central Orga (Section of t th h iin, 3 Worker Spi hunist Party U.S.A. e Communist eaternettodal) | 50E.13 th St., New York City! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 130 Entered as second- . at New York, N. ¥., # matter at the Post Office ander the act of March 3, 1879 31 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1931 CITY EDITION ——— Price 3 Cents _ 0“ organization. stroyed! rialism by such comparisons. capitalism. only were a source of private graft counter-revolution. While it extends to the worker the away with capitalism. ers everywhere to join the I. W. O., By JOHN J. BALLAM Communist Party Candidate for Governor of New Jersey is significant that the young workers of the East have chosen Passaic, N. J., as the scene of their first celebration of National Youth Day. Passaic—where 30 per cent of the workers in mill, factory and shops are youths—was made famous in the history of the class struggle by the textile strike of 1926-27. The youth of Passaic were in the forefront of this historic.class struggle. Passaic and vicinity—with its 20 large textile mills and seven dye- hot jes normally employing 14.000 wor <ers, of whom 4,500 are boys and girls. Passaic—where 50 per cent of the workers are unemployed, while the wages of those remaining at work are cut from 20 to 30 per cent; where part-time work is prevalent and Hoover's stagger system is used Wy to still further reduce wages, in-~ i crease speed-up and intensify labor. Hell Hole For Youth ‘The situation in Passaic is typical of the conditions of the workers throughout New Jersey. This graft- ridden state is the scene of the most ruthless exploitation of the workers. Its industries are highly rationalized CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Military Park, Indianapolis, May 4, 1 state house, Greetings to the I. W. O. the occasion of the first national convention of the International Workers Order, the Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist party of the U. S. A., extends revolutionary greetings to the members of the I. W. O. and expresses an appreciation for the role played by ‘their In the United States, the boasted “richest country in the world,” there is no such thing as social insurance for the workers such as there 4s even in capitalist Europe, not to speak of the complete system of workers’ social insurance in the Soviet Union where capitalism is de- ‘We Communists do not compare capitalist America to capitalist Eu- rope as do the European social-fascist “socialists,” who at the present meeting of the International Labor Office are serving European, impe- We call attention to this fact of the ex- ceptional brutality of American capitalism in order to rally all workers to fight for social insurance in America and to overthrow American In order that a worker may benefit even slightly by some form of in- surance, he has to join with others for mutual aid. Far too Tong was this idea exploited by all kinds of “lodges” and “secret societies,” which not for a whole hierarchy of petty bouy- geois officials and medicine men, but were linked both organizationally and ideologically with the reactionary political power of finance ‘capital and served as instruments in the hands of the capitalist class to prevent class struggle on the part of the workers, to defeat the otherwise normal attainment of a system of social insurance at the expense of the capitalist class and in the period of sharpening class conflict to serve as organs of The International Workers Order, which was born out of the necessity of the working class for an organization of mutual aid that would at the same time function as an auxiliary to the general revolutionary move- ment, has a most important role to play in the American working class. benefit of cooperative effort in mu- tual aid, it pursues the only possible policy of a really working class or- ganization in fighting continuously and persistently for a system of com- plete social insurance at the expense of the capitalist class, And it supports all struggles of the ‘working class in its historic mission to do The Daily Worker hails the first convention of the International Workers Order as an accomplishment of growth, and it urges the work- to build new branches and to sup- port it as an organ of great oy ees in the class struggle. Nat'l Youth Day Fight Will G° on in N.J. Red Elections MASS PICKETING ANTONOFF SHOP NEW YORK. — On Wednesday, May 27, when the pickets at the Antonoff. Novelty Slipper Company, 71 Green Street, were marching peacefully back and forth, one of the bosses’ ran out of the building and attacked the pickets. At 9 in the morning two hired gangsters tried to attack a group of strikers, but ; they received a proper answer from | the strikers and they did not dare to touch them again. At noon a group of gangsters with irons in their hands attacked a striker, Hy- man Greenberg. Other strikers came to his rescue ‘and two gangsters were arrested, held under $1,000 bail each. The strike is led by the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union of the T.U.U.L. against the locknig out of the Shop Committee. The Board and Leather Workers Industrial Union conducts an orra- nizational drive to organize the Slipper workers. Every Shoe and Slipper worker should come to the Picket line every day at 7 in the mroning and 5:30 in the evening. Mass meeting and demonstration for unemployment insurance, held in after the state hunger marchers and the Indianapolis demonstrators had been driven from in front of the BLOCK COMMITTEES LAY FIRM BASE FOR SOUTHERN SCOTTSBORO CONFERENCE Resistance of Misleaders to Fight to Save Boys Smashed ‘by Masses Mobilized in Block and Neighborhood Committees - Chattanooga Alone t to Have 100 Delegates; Many Coming from Other Southern Cities As Fighting Alliance of White and Negro Workers Being Forged CHATTANOOGA, May 29.—The splendid success in build- ing Scottsboro defense block and neighborhood committees in many southern cities insures a real mass basis for the All- Southern United Front Scottsboro Defence Conference which opens in this city on Sunday, May 31. The conference will be JOBLESS DEMAND NOON MEAL, MON. March Tuesday to City ‘Welfare’ Office NEW YORK.—Monday the thou- sands who up to now have been getting one meal a day, meal, at the Municipal flop house at 25 Street and First Avenue, will demand the right to eat. The man- agement has announced that to save money this noon meal is to be aban- doned, June 1. With $700,000,000 appropriated, the Tammany city gov- ernment thinks this money ‘can be better spent for graft than by feed- ing the jobless one meal a day. Or perhaps they think that it would be a fitting way to celebrate memorial day, by making a few more graves! Tuesday noon there will be a mass demonstration before the flop house. and the demonstrators will then par- ade to the offices of Commissioner of Public Welfare Taylor, and de- mand three meals a day and pay for all work done. At last accounts no answer had been given by the police department to the demand of the Lower Manhattan Unemployed Council for a permit to march. The Down Town Branch of the unemployed council yesterday forced the Reichman’s Restaurant Agency to return $3.75 of a $4 fee taken from J, Florak for a job at $15 a week, twelve hours a day and six days a week. The job lasted only one day. This branch will have an outdoor mass meeting tonight at 14 Street and University Place. the noon STOLE FOOD; YEAR-IN PRISON SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 29.—Two workers are in the City jail to be charged by the capitalist court with petty theft carrying a sentence of was stealing something to eat. held at Masonic Temple, 411 E. 9th St. beginning 11 o'clock morning. , As a result of the excellent Work in forming block committees a real united front from below has been established, with the leaders of many organizations and churches drawn into support of the fight to save the lives of the nine framed-up boys by the tremendous, pressure from the ral and file membership of their organizations. From Chattanooga alone there will be over 100 delegates to the conference, and every dele- gate will represent something. From Atlanta, Ga., Charlotte, N. C., and other southern cities many other delegates are coming. Several dele- gations will be present from the re- cent conferences held in northern cities. During the present week five ad- ditional block committees were or- figanized in this city, and -have elect- ed delegates to the conference. More- over, the members of the& commit- tees belong to other organizations in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Speed All Funds Today and Tomorrow to the Daily Worker The Daily Worker needs every cent that can possibly be raised during this week-end. Workers in the New York district should bring in the money collected im- mediately to the district office of the Daily, 50 East 13 Street, fifth floor. The district office will be open all day today and tomorrow. Those outside the New York dis- trict should rush funds by special delivery or wire. At all National Youth Day celebrations or other week-end meetings and outings funds must be collected and sent in at once. Don’t delay! DAILY WORKER MANAGE- MENT COMMITTEE me a j i i { Mea picket line around the General Fabrics mill, Central Falls, R. I. Such picket lines are formed daily. Give ‘pm your full support! These workers are fighting for life. Progra mfor Nat'l Youth Day Today. and Tomorrow TODAY: 1. To get to Passaic take either Hudson Tube, 23rd St. and Ferry to Erie Station on New a y side. Be there by 12:30. Buy ticket there from Nat'l Youth Day Committee for 75 cents which pays train fare to Passaic and re- turn and admits bearer to all events both in New York and Pas- saic. . 2. Parade starting at First War Park, Passaic, at 3 p. m. Satur- day. 3. At 5 p. m. parade ends at First Ward Park with open mass meeting. 4. In evening dancing and play at Belmont Park, Garfield, N. J. 5. At 11:30 p. m, return of trains to New York. TOMORROW. 1. Opening of Spartakiad athletic events with grand athletes parade at 10 a. m. unday, Ulmer Park, 25th Avenua and Crosby, Brooklyn. N. ¥. “ 2 Concert and dance at Ul- mer Park, unday evening. Admis- sion at Ulmer Park for all events 25 cents. Those going to Passaic will be admitted free by showing ticket. All workers and young workers are urged to maintain the strict- est discipline during the parade and other events, MADISON SQUARE ['W.0. MASS MEET Open First Convention of Order Today at 10 NEW YORK.—Thousands of work- ers are pouring in Madison Square Garden for the opening of the first national convention of the Interna- tional Workers Order as the Daily Worker goes to presé. A report of the speeches will be given in the Monday, June 1 issue of the Daily Worker. Wm. Z. Foster, representing the Trade Unign Unity League, Max Bedacht for the Central Committee, Communist Party, R. Saltzman and M. Marmor for the National Committee of the Interna- tional Workers Order, Sultan of the Freiheit and Gil Green for the Young Communist League, and Wm. Pat- terson are scheduled to speak. The first session of the Conven- tion will open Saturday, today at Irving Plaza at 10 a. m. sharp. The report of the Credentials Comn tee, the Election of Committees ai the report of the National Execu- tive Committee by the General Sec- retary R. Saltzman, are included on the agenda. Delegatse are urged to come on time. The entire second session will be | open for general discussion by the delegates gn the report. On Satur- day night there will be a banquet for the delegates at Irving Plaza, Delegates attending the conven- tion are here from 84 cities and 31 sates, fli sf MICHIGAN GOVERNOR SNEERS AT JOBLESS Government Admits Wage Cuts Grow; Strike Against Them! Al Smith Admits Cuts Tieisenae Depression; Ford Boasts of No Cuts But Actually __ Slashes Right and Left EEE eS Saas WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.— The Bureau of Labor Btatistics of the U. S. Department of Labor an- nounces that wage cuts in April of this year were reported from 195 establishments, and affected 22,543 workers. It is not to be thought that the figures cover all the wage cuts that month. However, the same com- panies report month by month, and in March reported wage cuts in 175 establishments, which, indicates an increase in wage cutting. a ae Al Smith’s Admissions. NEW YORK.—Ex-Governor Al Smith has published a signed article couched in demagogic language, but admitting much of what the Daily Worker has already repeatedly charged about the growing unem- ployment crisis. Smith's motives are undoubtedly to get even somewhat with the cliques which maneuvered him out of office, but many of his facts are correct. Smith points out that reduction of wages means reduced purchasing power, and that the wave of wage cuts now going over the’ country makes the crisis grow like a snow ball rolling down hill. “We are at the door of June,” continues Smith, “and if there is any change for the better in the economic or unemploy- ment situation I am not aware of it . By warning that public improve- ments were not to be counted on for any speedy relief is justified. It must be remembered that so far as public work is concerned there is a wide stretch between the point of appro- priation and the beginning of con- struction.” Smith points to decreases of 10 to 20 per cent in production as com- pared with a month ago and with this month last year. a oS Ford Cuts Wages. tT, Mich, May 29.—In spite of Henry Ford’s big newspaper splurge about keeping up wages, his factories are cutting indirectly on a big scale. Seven dollar men are be- d off, and rehired for $6 if at all. The Ford plants in Detroit work only three days a week, which re- duces the workers’ income by half, and then there are other kinds of cuts. If you don’t want to get fired, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MUST SPREAD POCKET BOOK WORKER STRIKE Irge Rank and File Control of Struggle Stories like the following are suppressed by the capitalist press. You can find them only in the Daily Worker, But you will not learn of them at all if the Daily is forced to suspend. Rush funds! —The Editor. NEW YORK. — The Pocketbook workers have fully responded to the strike call of the union against the bosses’ lockout. Mass meetings of the strikers held in Rand School and at Beethoven Hall showed clearly that yesterday's and Thursday’s response was very good, and that the workers are will- ing and ready to fight for their de- mands against the employers’ de- man for wage cut and reorganization. ‘The Pocketbook Workers Union of- ficials, in their speeches, emphasized that the strike was called because the bosses refused arbitration, and declared that they did not want to call the strike. The workers have good reason to fear that the officials will call off the strike if the bosses consent to arbitration, The left win points out to the membership that arbitration will mean reorganization, and that mear the right of the bosses to fire work- ers twice a year. The left wing calls upon the work- ers to intensify their struggle for the 40-hour week, for unemployment in- surance, and to elect shop strike committees and demand representa- tion on the general strike committee. ‘The left wing also calls for the spreading of the strike in the con- tracting and independent shops, ee , NOTICE. All comrades who are citizens, native or naturalized are instruct- ed to report at Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St. at 830 a. m, or immediately upon reading this notice, to be organized for special work, I, AMTER. | “Let Them Feed Them- selves,” Brucker Tells Cronies Direct information has not been received from Lansing, since the morning of May 27, when 250 hunger marchers from all over Michi- an were still cooped up on the open base ball grounds, virtually prisoners, and 50 more around town were trying to join with~them. But the ca; list press of Lansing expected their de- mands would be pi nor Wilber M. Bri The press tel also of Brucker's ‘and Lodge of Ma- althy and very reaction- ary capitalist secret society) in Bat- tle Creek, the*night of the 26th, and sons” (a telling them that “the unemployed will have to feed themselves,” and “I will have nothing to do with them.” ‘The hunger marchers were to pre- sent demands for insurance for the unemployed, for no finger-printing or registration of the foreign born. They have anded all along the way for release of the Scottsboro Ne- gro boys. They demand repeal of the criminal syndicalism law, and no in- junctions against striking, Picketing or organizing. Their demands relating directly to relief of the unemployed are as fol- lows: 1) Immediate enactment of the workers’ unemployment insurance bill, calling for weekly payments of $10 to single workers, $15 to families, with $3 additional for each depend- ent; the funds to be raised by a tax of 10 per cent on fortunes over $25,~ 000 and on annual incomes over $5,000. This fund to be managed by the workers themselves, employed and unemployed. 2) An €mergency appropriation by the State Legislature of $55,000,000 from the proposed budget, to be turned over to the unemployment in- surance fund, and to be paid out to the unemployed as indicated above. 3) Immediate cancellation of all debts and mortgages for poor farm- ers. No taxation of poor farmers, 4) No eviction of the unemployed. The repeal of the state eviction law. No sheriff sales of workers’ homes or property of poor farmers, for non- payment of taxes or mortgages. 5) No discrimination against’ negro workers, women workers and young workers in the administration of re- lief. Equal rights for Negro workers. 6) Free gas, electricity and coal for the unemployed and part time work- ers, Working Yonth, Workers! All Out to Passaic! Demonstrate Today and Tomorrow! General Fabrics mill strikers, militant and determined as ever, and Relatives and parents of some of the Negro boys framed-up for elec~ holding their lines fast. These strikers have already turned back scabs sent in from Connecticut. \ trocution in Scottsboro, Left to right: Bernice Norris, Josephine Powell, Viola Montgomery, Ida Norris,