The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1931, Page 2

Page Two _ DAILY WORKER, 2, 1931 W YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE TO MARCH ON SPRINGFIELD ON JUNE 12TH “War Is Certain,” Cries Chicago Press in New “Preparedness” Drive $50,000 to the Legion CHICAGO, TIL, June 1.—While hundreds of thousands are jobless} and starving, the state of Illinois proceeds to war scare, to ap- thousands of dollars American Legion, and for social insurance. swer of the capitalist here a to the of the loyed that they be al- e, is to make preparations owed ‘or them, a war that will kill off part of and to subsidize the fascist lied on to smash o starvation if they demands too urgently. make their “War is certain; prepare for it!” line in the Chicago Herald nmenting a Chicago by Major at the Rotary Sherman. Gen on ne. And in line with this, here is no finer gov- loye than the soldier S only fitting that we should honor him on Memorial Day.” And then he called for full preparations for the next war. ame day the Illinois State leg- ure appropriated $50,000 from County Fair and Agriculture This sidy by the State to the American Legion, not only pre- paring for war, but primarily as a] strike-breaking agency. The fascist | bands attack the workers when they | strike against wage cuts or demon- strate for immediate relief to the unemployed. The workers in the State of Ili-|! the fund to the American Legion S an open nois, who march to Springfield, the state capital, demanding social in- surance for the unemployed, and immediate relief for the unemployed ers and farmers, will not forget that the State of Illinois subsidized the fascist American Legion in war against the workers. Marehers will demand that this $50,000 be turned over to the unemployed together with all other funds provided for military and police purposes. Not a penny for military prepa- rations. All the funds for unem- ployed relief!” they will shout in mass meetings all the way to Spring- field. Every working class organization, every worker and poor farmer in the State of Mlinois should rally behind the State Hunger March June 12 io} 15 at Springfield. Sénd your delegates! Write for all information to 23 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Il. Carpenter Local Does Bit for Five-Year Plan NEW YORK —The workers of Branch 1164 of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners presented a box of tools to a fellow member leaving for the Soviet Union. ‘The member, Samuel Bailinson, was also given a letter from the local. He left with a group of building workers who are going to build railroads to help make the Five Year Plan of the workers’ re- pubfle a success. Yonkers Conference “For Daily Worker” YONKERS, N. Y.—To push the drive for finances to save the Daily Worker in its present financial emer- gency the Westchester County Daily Worker Committee has arranged a conference on June 6 at the Work- ers’ Co-operative Center, 252 War- burton Ave., Yonkers. A call has been sent out to many organizations here urging them to send representatives to save the Daily Worker. The call says: “The Daily Worker at this critical j period appeals to the workers to rally to its support in order to make it possible for the Daily Worker to help lead the struggle of the workers.” NOTICE Housewreckers’ Brotherhood of Greater New York Has transferred its headquarters from 217 B. Sixth St, to the Trade Union Unity League Building, 16 W. t St * ¢@ WEDNESDAY United Connett of Working Class ‘Women Of Williamsburg will® give a lec- ture on “What Shall a Worker Do to Keep Well?” at 61 ' Dr Graham Aye. at Slatkin will deliver m the lecture Saceo-Va A general me: 1472 Boston Rd. tions for the m: bassador Hal! will be made. cussiompwill follow. + * THURSDAY Leeture Given by Gina Medern at 8:30 p,m. at 2700 Bronx Park East (Co-op Col- ony). Subject: “Women of the New Russia.” a Branch ¥. L. D. Prepara- ss meeting at Am- Dis- growing demand | in his speech declared “War | Rally Needle Workers For Knitgood Workers Campaign, Conference NEW YORK.—The Cloaks Depart- ment of the Need@je Trades Industrial Union has issued a call to all cloak- makers who are employed in the knit goods branch to rally to the campaign of the knit goods workers. especially for the conference which takes place on June 14 Thursday night, at 8 p. m union is calling a membership meet- ing of knit goods worker the of- fice of the union to make final prep- } arations. On Thursday night there will also be a mobilization meeting of all millinery workers at Irving Plaza right after work The union reports that Fay Losoff, the striker who was injared on the picket line, is still seriousl, ‘This comrade calls on all workers to sup- port the fight which still continues at the Needleman & Bremmer Shop and to support the struggle by joining | the picket line. Amalgamated Aids Boss Fine Crew | . |Levy $2 on Each Man | In Weisser Shop the | NEW YORK.—An example of the | Amalgamated’s peace with the bosses jat the cost of the workers is to be seen in the shop of Weisser & Co. | 292 Lafayette St.. New York City | Three weeks ago, when the workers came into the shop, they were in- formed by the boss that four ma- |chines had been stolen from the | shop. | On the next pay day the boss in- formed the workers that he will take off $2 a week from the workers’ pay |to refund him for the stolen ma- | chines. | A complaint of the workers in the |shop was filed with Izzie Ollander, | business agent of Local 10, children’s clothing workers, a branch of the Amalgamated. The agent of Hill- man laughed in the workers’ faces jand told them if they wished to | work in the shop, they must pay for the machines. Work in the shop was slow. The wages of the workers in the last two weeks amounted to from $7 to $9, less the $2 from each of the workers’ miserable pay. One worker who made only $13 in the last three weeks, refused to take his pay and complained to the Hillman agents. However, this did not help him as he was forced to accept the money quietly, or give up his job, These workers should organize a rank and file committee in Local 10. and fight such a swindle, as the workéfs‘in other Amalgamated locals haye been doing Starved Is Under Porch in Buffalo Man Had Not Eaten for Several Days (By a Worker Correspondent.) BUFFALO, N. Y.—William Ray- nard, 53 years old was found under a porch of a vacant house, where he was dying of starvation. The children playing around the house first saw the man lying under the porch. They thought that thig starved was dead, they started spreading news around that there is a dead man. When the police arrived, they found that he was still alive, but was unable to move from weakness. He told the police that he had no home, and had not eaten for several days. He lapsed into unconsciousness before he reached the hospital, and later was reported that there is little hope for recovery. This is one of many cases that can be found around here and other sec- tions. The starving is increasing, while the bosses are hollering that prosperity is coming. This shows clearly whether better times are com- ing. The unemployed workeers of Buffalo must not let themselves to this. Every worker should get into the ranks of the Unemployed Council, and fight instead of starving and dying. Name Bkin. Child Steve Katovis at Red Baptism BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Steve Ka- tovis was the name given to the child of Comrade Kannor, who was initiated into the revolutionary work- ing class movement on Friday at a Red “Baptism” held by the Com- munist Party of Section Six. The Young Pioneers welcomed the child in its ranks and pledged to give him the proper training for a working class fighter. A speaker from the District spoke, and the section organizer, Comrade Flaiani, spoke in the name of the Party Section, exposing re- ligion, and called upon the workers to take the example shown by this working class family in refusing to be fooled into religious ceremonies. Flaiani stated that “we are nam- ing this child after a militant work- ing class fighter who was murdered by the Tammany police thugs, Steve Katovis, and we will train this Steve Katovis to be @ soldier in the ranks of the workers’ red army which will carry on the fight for the freedom of the working class. THE ADYNTURES OF BILL WORKER -TGHYEN UP OUR BEL STAND IN ia Ae LITYLE WILE AMD INE A SELL APPLES Ty LONGER. IN Te 60 DAL EVERY TRING Wik Ge | UNehnaNeD. 74 OK. IN THE MEANTIME HEYWloop|| | WORIERS 2 BROUN (THe CLowsd) WiLL GET You | ‘ (ARB UNTIL TUNE) honed tt ea Tit Fs Hoge, PAUND TOR T30Y MORE! Put Your Lary DOLLAR IN ClRecuLATION AGAIN \ poe! Beets SiDE HE PICTURE . EVERY Thing INDICATES TRAT Cut Out the Hooey! | Now, Accepy a WAGE CUT AND Pott Your BELT STILL TIGHTE(2 AND Tiey Te UT TO ‘gas on YouR. SELF Rrmevis BAS Son tw, #, TRE. Pos rary By RYAN WALKER ROTHER QUIT LISTENING To Hooey THROWERS. AND BEGIN To THINIC Fore OAKLAND BLD'G | JOB CUTS PAY! Cc arpenters, Other Get Below Scale | | | | (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal.—Chas. D. Vezey and Sons are contractors erecting new Fremont High School and are paying under standard wage scale to workers. The Carpenters are being paid a dollar a day below scale, hoist- ing engineers $4 a day below scale, the laborers $1 to $1.50 below scale. ‘This is a public job and shows up clearly government and the bosses hypocricy of talk about public jobs maintaining standard wage scale. Workers have written of their grievance to local Board of Educa- tion. Patriotically inclined have pro- tested because some non-citizens have been hired on the job. What the workers should do is fight the wages reduction organizationally Join up with the building trades group under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, form a grievance committee on the job and fight this bosses’ hipocricy. Putting up workers to make an issue of non- citizens working there, is also up to the general line of the bosses-of keep- ings the workers separated and draw- ing attention away from the main issue—namely their wage reduction. Stand together workers of all maces and nationalities and fight wage cuts. Get workers on other building pro- jects to take same stand by visiting them and setting up grievance com- mittees. J. M. Hariem Street Meet Protest Scottsboro Legal Lynching of 9 NEW YORK —Negro and white workers listened to Sadie Van Veen with the closest attention at a streat meeting in Harlem Wednesday night. The meeting was called by the In- ternational Labor Defense on the Scottsboro defense. A resolution of protest against the frame-up was unanimously passed with cheers and money was collected for the sending of the following tele- gram to the governor of Alabama: “We Negro and white workers, in mass meeting assembled in Harlem, New York City, protest against the outrageous frome-up of nine inno- cent Negro children and demand their immediate and unconditional release. ‘By Jorge’ in Person to Lead Program at Affair for Pioneer We're going to have “Red Sparks” as master of ceremonies at the affair that the John Reed Club is running at Webster Hall, 119 E. 1ith St., New York, for the benefit of the New Pioneer. And look what's on the program! Gropper slides, Hap Jingles, a sketch on Scottsboro by the Workers’ Theatre, a Funny Sketch, Pioneer Red Dancers and Chorus, Hugo Gel- lert, Otto Sogolow and I. W. O. Band. A swell program—you bet! And it’s coming off Friday evening, June 5. Come yourself and bring your friends. They will thank you for it! Tickets are 50 cents and only 10 cents for children, to be gotten at the New Pioneer office or the Work~ ers’ Book Shop, 35 E. 12th St. New York. Unit 1 Pledges $200 For “Daily Worker” NEW YORK.—Unit 1, Section 2, realizing that now more than ever the demands of the crisis make it necessary to rally the utmost sup- port for the Cenrtal Organ of the Communist aPrty to lead the work- ers in struggle, pledged to do its ut- most in the present campaign. The comrades voted to raise $5 each, which is to be turned in tonight. There are twenty members in the Unit which should therefore bring $100 immediately. ‘The remaining $100 is to be turned in by July First, or the full amount by that time in case some difficulties develop in raising the $100 in one week. The Unit also challenges Unit 7 to so- cialist competition to raise a similar amount by the same time, Tammany Gets Ready For 1932 Presidential Election Campaigns NEW YORK.—The democratic party is making advance prepara tions for the election campaign give the republicans a fight,” espe- cially in the up-state districts. The campaign opened yesterday in every up-state county. The coming presidential! campaign will see a sharp struggle between the reactionary parties to capture office, while at the same time the burn- ing issues of the present crisis will receive nothing but the lip service and false promises. The Communist Party, on the other hand, will make the only real struggle over the real issues which affect the working class—mass unemployment and hun- ger—around which the fight will cen- ter to win the workers away from the reactionary political parties. 168 Join N. Y. Int’l Labor Defense in May .. To Call Conference NEW YORK.—A total of 168 New York workers joined the New York District of the International Labor Defense during the month of May. Final figures for New Jersey are not yet in, but it is believed that these will raise the number of new mem- bers to more than 200, This coming Sunday, June 7, be- ginning at 10 a. m., the district plenum of the I. L. D. will be held &t Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, at which all branch func- tionaries will be present. The plenum will adopt a two months’ plan of work, which will include the building of the I. L. D. and a drive to raise the circulation of the Labor Defender in New York City to 10,000. During May the circulation doubled over April, 5,000 being sold, and it is planned within a comparatively short time to double the figure again. Mary Adams to Speak at Scottsboro Protest Meeting Friday Night NEW YORK.—A mass _ protest demonstration will be held at Dun- bar Center, 605 Herkimer St., Brook- lyn, to mobilize the Negro and white workers to fight against the legal lynching of the 9 Scottsboro Negro children. ” This meeting will also expose the miserable conditions under which the workers in this territory live. It will be addressed by Mary Adams, Negro woman Communist leader re- cently returned from the Soviet Union, who will tell us how race discrimination was abolished in the Soviet Union. Also by Carl Hecker of the International Labor Defense. In preparation of the indoor rally, open air meetings will be held on the same evening Friday, June 5, at 7 p.m, on Saratoga and Dearn, Rockaway and Dean, Herkimer and Schenectady, from there we will all go to the Dunbar Center, at 8 p. m. Elizabeth Policeman Jim Crows Negro Boys Daily Worker: ; Here is rank discrimination against the Negro workers. In Elizabeth some Negro poys were playing ball in the street. Other white boys were play- ing on the same street. A policeman came up and threatened the Negro boys with a beating if they didn’t scatter. However, the white boys continued to play while the Negro boys were forced to give up this small pleasure. All Negro workers must organize with the white workers against this race discrimination. Build a Worcorr Group in your shop! Write About your struggles! \Start to White Wash |/Tammany Hall and All Its Notorious Denizens NEW YORK.—The $500,000 voted y the N. Y. State Legislature for |the fake investigation of the gov- ernment of the city of New York, i will begin to be used up since the {so-called investigation committee started its work yesterday. The Hofstadter Legislative Committee headed by Samuel Seabury who is | the counsel for the committee, chose lits staff of lawyers, most of whom \are now working under Seabury and doing their best to whitewash the Old Mother Hubbard of Tammany | Hall, District Attorney Crain. Tammany Hall is excited about its “democratic” rights and objects to private hearings, especially since they are to be investigated by re- publicans, although Seabury him- self is a so-called “independent” democrat which is sufficient guar- | ante that Tammany Hall will not jbe investigated but a whitewash | cover spread over its corruption and racketeering. The “inquiry” is to take at least one year. GRANT ARRESTED IN HARLEM FIGHT ‘Police Spy Lands In| | Arms of Friends | | NEW YORK.—Officials of the Ne- gro World, Harlem Garvey reformist paper, called police yesterday to ar- rest the notorious police spy Gen. Sir William Welwood Wellington Grant, and several of his gangsters, including Rev. Lee, alias Carter, whom the League of Struggle for Negro Rights expelled from its ranks for robbing Negro workers. Grant and his gangsters entered the office of the Negro World to pro- test against the failure of that paper to give publicity to the activities of the Tiger Division of the U. N. L. A., which is under his control. Finding only one person in the office, the Grant heroes proceeded to beat up this person. Screams of “murder” sent several neighbors to the tele- phone with the result that Grant's police allies came along and were forced to arrest him, Grant and his gangsters have been collecting money in Harlem in the name of the Scottsboro victims and have failed to turn that money over to the organization conducting the defense of the nine boys. Grant has also been viciously active in the role of police and has several times helped the police to frame up mili- tant Negro workers. Four such work- ers are now facing trial on charges trumped up against them by the traitor Grant. Fight tynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born. Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born COCO & BASS INVITE YOU TO -—PATRONIZE—~ BARBER SHOP 1500 BOSTON ROAD Corner of Wilkins Avenue FORCE WOMEN TO WORK OVERTIME Bosses Own Law In Cal Means Nothing OAKLAND, Cal.—I have noticed in the Daily that a “Friend of the Workers” thinks the news are ov done, when it showed up that women are forced to work more than 8 hours. I have been working in a clean- ers’ establishement for the last 5 years and never were we forced to work so hard «s now. The boss of- ten tells us that he keeps us at work only because of his “big heart”, that business is poor and so we must hurry to make more of otherwise he will have to close. So a little work has to be done nearly every day. From 15 min, to an hour we donate | to him daily without pay. This has become a law here and we dare not kick or out we go, Some of the time when we work longer than an hour overtime he pays ug extra for it No Overtime Pay. Pay is only straight time and na- | turally he does not put it thru his books (because law in Calif. does not permit women to work more than 8 hours) laneous expense or something like that. Last week a worker worked about 6 hours overtime, but dared ask only three hours extra pay. The boss got mad. and screamed that we did not appreciate the fact that he gave us work these times and couldn't we throw that overtime in with the wotk, Some may say why do we do it Why? Because workers are unorgan- ized and to keep a job, especially in but jots it down as miscel- | Illustrated Lecture | at Center Sunday on | The Five-Year Plan | NEW YORK—Various aspects and | |the latest accomplishments of the Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union | will be illustrated at a lecture to| be given this Sunday night, June | | 7th, at 8 p. m. at the Workers School | | Auditorium, 35 E. 12th St., by M. | |Sherer, National Secretary of the| | Workers International Relief. | ‘This illustrated lecture will be the | first of its kind to depict the pro- | gress of the gigantic Five Year Plan Jas being carried out in different jparts of the union. Big factories, collective farms, state farms, cultural developments and the new forms of labor as socialist competition. Shock troops, ete., will be systematically illustrated. ‘The pictiires were just recently taken by a workers’ dele- gation to the Soviet Union. Work 30 Years for Co. Fired As “Too Old” NEWARK. N. J., May 31.—After working 30 years for the Hay Foundry and Iron Works here, 35 men were | fired when the company was ab- sorbed by McClintic-Marshall corp- oration. “We have a rule that can’t be changed,” said President George | H. Blakely. “never to hire old mien:” And he sené them away to fight for a place on the soup tine if they can find one. a stall house, we must do as others | are doing. Showing up these in- | stances and organizing into a mili- tant Union will bring about better conditions. New Workers’ Homes in Moscow Scene from Soviet film, “Fiv Central Theatre. e Year Plan,” now playing at the AMUSEMENTS NOW PLAYING! Amkino Presents Russia’s A Talking Fi Soviet Russia S BRONX, N. ¥. Our work will please the men, the women and the children CATSKILL MOUNTAINS Ideal placa for rest and reereation,. Airy rooms, shady lawn, pute water, excellent table, plenty milk, exes, Swimming and bathing in sweet moun- tain water, $13 per week, WILLOW REST FARM GREENVILLE, N. Y. --SPRING FESTIVAL— Concert and Dance SATURDAY EVENING—JUNE 6th COOPERATIVE AUDITORIUM 2700 BRONX PARK EAST FOR THE DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND! --—PROGRAM——- PROLETBUEANE—BILT GROPPER, Cartoonist Lillian Minor, soprano and violinist, Krol, solotnt ADMISSION 35 CENTS other talent Auspices Unite 21, 22, 23, 27, 20 O.F. tm 5-Year Plan — American Premiere Remaking SHOUT FIGHT IN (ITY FLOPHOUSE Down Stool Pigeon (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 1.—Yesterday the unemployed workers of the Muni- cipal flop house and bread lines made a protest against the cutting out of the noonday meal. The dem- onstration started when Norma Lis- berg, an unemployed young worker, jumped on the table and shouted: “Listen everybody. They are cutting off our noonday meal. That means more starvation, Just then a stool-pigeon attempted to stop him, but soon turned and ran for a cop when cups and bowls be- gan raining on his head. No arrest was made because of the protest made by most of the workers. 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