The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1931, Page 2

LI TELLS 0 F HELLISH CONDITIONS ON ELLIS ISLAND FOR WORKERS: Deportees Given Worse Food and Maltreated As If in Filthy Prison Foreign B rn in Spontaneous Protest Against Such Treatment of Themselves By TAO HSUAN LI (Chinese student and active anti- imperialist whom De- partment sought ta deport to Chiang-Kai-Shek and certain death | for his activities. He has since | been released on bail after the I. L. D, appealed the case in the Dis- trict Circuit Court of Appeals.) the Labor On Mas Tived at E from special 67 foreig: Island in a Seattl y were deported tr Two hundred the | ose Amalgamated Fakers CITY. Jithe stn: workers attended a mai n of rank and file tailors ¢ 12 noon at Irv- | overpacked. Rank| and file tailors at the meeting ex- | posed the real aims of the Amalga- | mated misleaders in the coming gen-| eral strike of the clothing workers. | They pointed out that the manner | in which the strike is being organ- | ized, without real demands to im-| prove the workers’ conditions, ant | without the organization of a broag} rank and file strike committee, can be no other than a fake strike. The rank and file called up@n all) the tailors to make the coming gen- eral strike real and effective; to or- ganize shop strike committees in every shop on strike; not to go back to work without improved conditions. | The meeting unanimously accepted | the sesolution condemning the buro- | crats for organizing the strike se-| cretly from the workers, demanding { that the demands put forth by the rank and file committee should be put before the entire membership and voted on by the membership. The following demands were vot- ed on unanimously: 1. ntroduction of the 40-hour wk. 2. Re-introduction and jextension | @f week w Guaranteed minimum wage for all workers in the indus- * sc try. 4. Increase the Unemployment In- surance Fund to 5 percent and this fund to be controlled by the Rank and File. | 5. All work cut in New York to be made in New York union snops. 6. Recognition of shop committees and the election of all real repre- sent shop committees in all the shops. 7. Equal pay for equal work for women, Negroes and youth. 8. Abolition of the “impartial ma- chinery, which is the hookup be- tween the bosses and the bureau- crats who are responsible for the Tuination of our conditions. A r meeting will be ‘held this cominz Wednesday in the same hall, at 12 noon. What's On— WEDNUSDAY < Debs Branch I Wil! hold its weekly 1 at 2700 Bronx Park portunt matters will be Si fhussian Film and Concert Will be part of the program ar- he Communist Party, Unit 7, at Finnish Hall, 746 Brooklyn. Proceeds to Daily 1, Workers of South Brook- ania aes lyn are invited, Tickets, 5 cents. Stove Katovix Branch fl Will hold an open-air meeting at Becond Ave. and Tenth St. at 8 p.m. icrmal e a _lece Class Momen's iS of Coney Ai 2921, W, 3; St. will gi ture “Religion and the Btrugeie,” by Dr. Hoffer at 6:50 p.m, Coats THURSDAY Steve Katevis Branch L1.D. Open-nix meeting at University Pl. mod Létb SL eA * ome tim: | portee has been sick once or his spaghetti large de- | tended passengers, deportees and de- portees with criminal records. All the rooms overcrowded. Room 222, in which I stopped twice, last | December and May, was filled some- up to 250. The noise, especially when there was somebody coming in or hipping out, which happened every could drive a nervous person iness. The porches adjusted to S were not opened. Foul found a fertile soil there. Twice week we were allowed to open yard for 15 min- as if th esunshine and are too expensive in this te property and “pros- eping quarters are rge room takes more 300 x while in a small om of 20 by 24, 14 people are stuffed in, One cannot stretch one’s arms e who stay deprived of permanently. Of course, these bad conditions give to nothing but sickness, primar- from the food. Almost every de- more. the doctors careful or the hos- the real place for sick people? ‘The doctors are careless. They seats sme or thrice a perity.” worse No. give aspirin to eure every kind of The Marine Hospital is too the sick crowd. Corrup- n runs high in this lousy place, If you do some work, like sweep- sickness mall for ete the time required; otherw will be ejected as soon as po: you have a chance to stay se puts solutions on the sexual of all in the room on the everybody has some nerable diseas When an n worker protested against the ‘eatment of the doctor, he found S' in the jail for 110 days with only bread and water. An English sailor told me that for the months | ef February and March about 34] = Persons, including 6 Englishmen, died in the hospital! Many times. the workers, unless very serious, refused to call for the doctor or to go to the hospital Workers Protest. condition: made spon- Against these hellis workers have cons taneous prot authorities turned a deaf ear. December, when a rigid protest for better food was sent in, I and Guido Serio were put into solitary cells. Since then a few more protests were made. But he conditions are still the» same. With the increasing number of de- portees and the summer weather, i becomes worse On the very day, May 16, when I surrendered to Ellis Island. a Ger- man worker died in Room 222. How did it happen? This worker was sick the day before from stomach sickness and the dostor told him to wait until next morning. But he was so sick that night that the guards ; put him out of the room. The next | morning the doctor found him dead | in the hail! He was only 22 years old! On Saturday a Greek worker suffered again from the food. Again the doctor told him to wait. Know- ing what happened the other day, the workers forced the guards to send him to the hospital before it was too late. Next morning a few more were sick. One West Indian Negro worker reported he was sick. A guard, without any reason, beat him up before sending him to the hos- pital! Everyone was nervous. Indigna- tion ran high. The news spread in | other room: trong fighting spirit | began to crystalli On the nex! Tuesday morning a joint protest. | signed by Room 222, 204 and B wer sent to the Commissioner. It de- manded only: (1) better food, (2) porches opened, (3) two hours out in the yard every day, (4) reduction of numbers sleeping in one room, and (5) doctors be instructed to be care- ful about the patients. The workers displayed very good spirit and soli- darity. Out of the 120 in Room 222, 114 workers signed, including 11 Chi- nese. Again the authorities answered this outcry for humane conditions with high-handed suppression. On Wed- nesday night again I and two Ital- ian workers were put in solitary cells, when many workers refused to, eat the rotten supper. But this time the better organization, militant spirit and unity compelled the authorities to open the porches and give some improvement in food, which were two of the demands. This struggle did not develop as it should be. Considering the ex- treme diversity of nationalities, pro- fessions and localities, this struggle is very instructive. Conscious of the partial victory of this struggle. with the worsening conditions there, the workers will inevitably give fresh waves cf protest. But only with the help of workers from outside they may win their demands in full. DRESSMAKERS CONCERT AND BALL. As part of the drive to raise funds for defense and organization work the Dress Department of the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Industrial Union has arranged a ball and concert for Saturday, June 27, 8 p. m., at Casa D’amor, Mermaid Ave. near 3ist St., Coney Island. Admission will be 50 cents. living quarters? | Many cannot find | e small rooms | e, | e. With the same instrument, the | “~ DATLY WORKER, N W YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931 | THE ADVE TURES OF BILL WORKER . Food For, my : (Peorr IT Is For. i ™ “SH | APows Fok ‘ear Aas } Food, UNLESS Ws 5 Me & | Some Caramity [= Sh Rp ay 48 \ COMES ANO Vey. DestRoys — /. Paer of THs } WHEAT \ Run Fou Geay | Capra | NEW YORK—The gjrike con-| | ducted by the Needle Trades Work- jers’ Industrial Union against the |firm of Cohen & Greenberg, 366 W.| {37th St. was settled Friday after- noon. The agreement provides: a} }40-hour week; re-settlement of prices; no discharge; increase for | the lower paid workers | Picketing demonstrations has been| arranged for shops on strike Mon-| day morning. These shops are: | | Needleman & Bremmer, 263 W. 40th | St. the millinery shop of Berge &| Aranoff. Knitgoods Conference | Widespread preparations are being |made for the knitgoods workers’ {conference called for June 14th Steps will be taken to form larg rank and file committees to lay the | basis for strike against the bad con- | ditions. | On Thursday evening at Webster | Hall, at a meeting of Local 1 of the |company union, the International} | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, | “ylesinger reported. One of the| and file workers pointed out that: zy Ie } day “ evening, at.” Webster | the meeting of Local 1 so-called administration | at the | arranged to report on its excursion uch Schlesinger, member of the Ge | Executive Board, which considered | the conflict between the cliques of | Local 1 and 17, one of the rank and RUSSIAN WHITE — GUARDSGET AID FROM TAMMANY | NEW YORK—There {s a squabble | going on among the local groupings | of the Russian white guards here} as to who should be at the head of the struggle against the Soviet Union. They are fighting over who| should stand close to the American | circles financing the anti-Soviet! campaign. | At the head of one of these group- | {ings is B. Sterling. His rival is J. 1.| Lisitzin, who leads another clique. | From a discussion which goes on| j between them in the organ of the} white guards, “Novoye Ruskoye Slovo,” we learn some interesting | facts: Lisitzin in his “Reply to B. Starl- ing and the Conference of Veterans,” published in the “Novoye Ruskoye/ Slovo,” on May 30, 1931, under Point | 3, writes the following | “The fact of a dinner and a con- ference in the club of the same Mr.| B. is confirmed by Mr. Starling. But} he asserts that no “plans were orig- inate.” Then what is it that they were conferring about at the confer- | ence? Here again appears a very) bashful omission. The conference had a very “casual” private charac- | ter. However, Mr. B. himself stated in the press that the conference had} a politicla character and was at-| tended by Tammany Hall men. It means that plans were originated. Did they speak about the Russian national organizations? Neither omissions nor unfounded denials coul refute the information which I have obtained.” Under point two of the Lisitzin writes: “In the name of the Peasants’ Union and the United White Organ- izations spoke the owner of the gambling club, Mr. B.” “Who is this Mr. B. that Mr. Lis- itzin bashfully ‘covers with the fig- leaf of an initial? One needs not a great eal of imagination to know this is none other than Bernadsky, one of the white guard counsellors of Congressman Fish and a close friend of former Police Commissioner Whalen. Here then is where the plans of the Whalen-Fish documents were originatde in a gambling joint frequente by “high society,” drunk- ards and prostitutes. Here it is then where the rulers of New York, the bosses of the democratic party con- fer with their white guard tools as to how to deport Soviet trade repre- sentatives, to achieve the breaking of trade relations between the U. S. and the Soviet Union as a first step towards war. ‘This is but one branch of the en- tire anti-Soviet attack the threads of which lead from Washington. “Reply,” TLL BE | trade, FINGERPRINT BILL €0/ You AND Your HILDREN May ae Roy | THs Waear ts ales Foe use 'S PRoduceo \ FoR tte Peopiry Bi 2 CAN MAKE S DONT LIKE | Your Loos! WHO ARE You? You Don't Come BEGIN ME! LAM Aaly t q*t ! a Commonym! C_ OFF THE RACE OF TE FOR ANY SYSTEM TAATAMARES I By RYAN WALKER .4 le $s made a speech in which he pointed out that all that has de-| veloped around the e of these | locals is only a cover under which} the corrupt administration of Local} 1 seeks to cover up its misdeeds—its | sanctioning of the wage reductions | and reorganization which are daily | carried through by the administra-j tion. His remarks as well as the remarks of the other rank and filers along the same line, met with great response from the members present} who are beginning to recognize, that | the only way to fight against all] these evils is by organizing and tak- ing up the struggle in and around | the shops. The Quilt Department of the In strial Union settled two strike Risenberg of Allen Street and Pose: id Kar of 120 Moore St rooklyn. | The strike against other shops is| being carried out energetically. | A very important meeting of Quilt} workers will be held at the office of the union, Wednesday, 6 p. m. | Dressmakt membership meeting will. be held on Thursday, right after work, at Memorial Auditorium, 344 W. 36th St., between 8 and 9 o'clock A general membership meeting of the dress department wil! .be held ‘Thursday, to report on the activities of the past season nd to work out plans for beginning early prepara- | tions for an organizational drive during"the coming season. All work-| ers of the dress trade regardless of craft are called upon to attend this meeting. sclera Knitgoods workers elect Aelegates to June 14th conference, despite the unemployment in the Knitgoods The workers from various shops are meeting at the office of the union to elect the delegates and to bring in recommendations to the conference. The conference promises to be an important event in the life of the Knitgoods workers. Whitegoods workers to hold meet- ing Thursday, right after work, at the office of the union. At this meeting the Trade Committee will report on the activities and will pre- pare plans for developing the strug- gle against the wage cuts which are widespread in the Whitegoods shops, as well as the struggle against the racketeering undertaken by Local 62 with the help of the bosses. White- goods workers are urged to attend this meeting. 10 PROTEST MICH. New York Meets to Hit Anti-Worker Measure NEW YORK.—tThe City Commit- tee for the Protection of Foreign Born, New York City, representing a large number of working-class or- ganizations, condemns the passing of the anti-working class bill in Michi- gan that calls for registration, fin- ger-printing and deportation of the foreign born and that has been signed by Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. “We consider the passing of this bill only as a starting point and warn the workers of New York that similar laws will be passed here if we do not at once organize ourselves for mass protests,” the committee declared. The City Committee for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born has decided to hold a series of mass protest meetings against the Michigan bill. We urge all working-class organiza- tions, whether affiliated to the City Committee or not. to participate in these meetings and to immediately send resolutions and protest against the Michigan law to the Governor of Michigan. ‘The meetings will be held in Brook- lyn on June 25, in Manhattan on dune 26 and in the Bronx on June 27. Delegates from the City Commit- tee will visit affiliated organizations to secure their co-operation in ar- ranging these meetings. Every ef- fort will be made to organize the workers and raliy them to fight for the repeal of the Michigan Jaw, and to prevent such measures of being passed in the United States. \ManyMeets Plan Organization DEFENSE SAT, SUN. Smash Scottsboro and| Paterson Frameups! | NEW YORK—With thousands of | dollars needed to smash the frame- | ups against the nine Scottsboro boys | and the five Paterson textile strikers, | “S@ving of $5,500,000 to users.” It all workers are urged to support the house-to-house collections that will be held this Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, by the New York District of the International Labor | Defense, | All workers who already have col- | | lection boxes should start collecting| have been only fifty or sixty cents during the week, with special con- | entration on Saturday and Sunday. | ations will be announced in a few Ledgings for Jersey Delegates Are Need || The New Jersey Ratification Convention of the Communist Party will be held at 57 Spring- field Ave., Newark, June 14. Out of town delegates will be here June 13th. All comrades who can put up delegates for one night || should get in touch with Harry |) Silverman, 121° Springfield Ave. wark, Unemployed Council Newark Plans Picnic] NEWARK, N. J—The Unemployed | Council of Newark is planning aj huge section picnic on July 5th, at Pocahntas Park, Hillside, N. J. | Races and games will be held. | Also a first class orchestra will be at hand for the benefit of those who like dancing and all this for a smail | admission price of 25 cents. “THE GONDOLIERS” CONTINUE AT ERLANGER’S. “The Gondoliers” continue for an- other week at Erlanger’s, and will be followed a week later by another of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas— “Patience.” As in the case of “The Mikado” and “Pinafore,” “The Gon- doliers” have been drawing large au- diences at the theatre in W .44th St. Howard Marsh, William Danforth, Frank Moulan, Joseph Macaulay, Ruth Altman, Vera Ross and Celia Branz, Dorothy Seegar and Sudworth Frasier, comprise the chief artists in the operetta. The opera “Patience” was first offered in New York in the early “eighties,” and has been re- vived here upon one occasion since that time. An earlier generation of comic opera devotees will recall the work as an Oscar Wildean satire. AFRICAN FILM “UBANGI” AT THE CAMEO THEATRE The all-talking film “Ubangi,” pho- tographed in the heart of the Afri- can jungle now current at the Cameo Theatre, where it is in its second week, contains some interesting scenes of wild animal life in this lit- tle-known part of the world. The picture is a record of the Davenport- Quigley expedition which spent some five years-in the African wilds. The expedition was heaaed by the well known scientists, Drs. Louis Neuman, Jacques Maus and Daniel Davenport, who conducted a medical group to this part of the world, Dr. Davenport brought back many en- grossing pictures of native life, which are now being shown for the first time at the Cameo. Many villages in the Belgian Congo were visited, as well as Angola, the Cameroons, Ni- geria, the Sudan, Abyssinia and Western Uganda. RADAELLI, ITALIAN TENOR, AT HIPPODROME, The Hippodrome is presenting “Good Bad Girl’ on its screen this week with Mae Clarke, James Hall and Robert Ellis, heading the cast. On the vaudeville program are Ra- daelli, Italian tenor and star of the La Scala Opera Company of Milan; Brems, Fitz and Murphy Brothers; Maurice Colleano and his Family; Jean Boydell, Sidney Tracey and Bessie Hay, George McClennon, the Crystal Trio and Davids and Glass. stb Ava. & 430 8 BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK ACTS REO “Good Bad Girl” with MAP CLARKE Needle Union Settles Strike;/T0 COLLECT FOR Electric Rate Raise Gives Power Trust Millions Graft By HARRIET SILVERMAN. The electric light bills of small users will be doubled next month on the basis of the new rates ordered by the so-called Public Service Com- mission. But “big business” will save money. The new rates are called a , firing the workers on this ground | Sloan who is a member of Jimmy Walker's Employment Committee, can't prove this, nor can he bluff his way out of the charge that the com- pany fired these workers just when their vacations were due, which nets the company extra millions! | ‘The extent 40 which the electric | light and power trust has a strangle- fits and dividends of the light and/o1q on the bosses government was power trust will be placed on the} backs of the workers | again exposed at the recent Gover- }nor’s Conference held in Indiana. Governor Pinchot, a reactionary who likes to pose as a liberal, in his speech | before the conference, charged that the electric power trust is cleaning is clear as day, that once more, the whole burden of increasing the pro- The minimum bill is to be $1 for electricity, so that even if your’ bills a month, hereafter no matter how little you burn, the Electric Light Trust will demand and get mo tess|UP at least half a Billion dollars than $1.00 and up. The new ruling|® Year in graft. “The power of the utilities.” said Pinchot, the same goes into effect at the New York and Brooklyn Edison Company, the | S¢ntleman who had nothing to offer = I |the Unemployed Delegation that United Electric Light and Power Garapany andthe eNew York ang |came demanding relief for the starv- ¥ | ing workers of the state, “is mani- Queens Electric Light and Power Co. v t Instead of reducing the rates at this | fest in every political assembly from time the Public Service Commission saw to it that the profits of the power trust would be increased and that big business would benefit. While profiits are boosted, for the trust, the Brooklyn Edison Company recently fired close to 2000 workers although the profits last year for this one company, amounted to $84,- 169,841. The company paid $57,030,- 808 in cash dividends which is $1 000,000 more than they paid in 1929. Matthew S. Sloan, president of the | power industry was until now. con- company, calls these 2.000 workers! trolied by four main capitalist groups, casual labor”, and tries to justifythe Morgan-Mellon group which ha@ AMUSEMENTS SEE SOVIET RUSSIA SMASHING ITS WAY TO SOCIALISTIC SUCCESS AMKINO PRESENTS the 5-Y EAR PLAN RUSSIA'S REMAKING—A Talking Film (In English) “If you want to see a vivid film-talkie exhi of what is going on Soviet Union, see the F ear Plan.” — DAILY WORKER. EATRE, Bway & 47th St—Twice Daily Matinees, 2:45. Evenings, 8.45.—Pop. Prices Reserved Seats on Sale at Box Office Now to the smallest town meeting, and from the government of the least political unit to that of the largest state. Indeed it reaches the na- tional government itself.” Here we have it, the proof again thet the corporations, trusts and bankers-rule the Wall Street government, actionaty himself! Ninety-five percent of the electric TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION! The Sound Camera Makes the Dark Continent give up its most amazing and closely guarded secrets. -UBANGI A rare and thrilling record of hitherto undiscovered monsters, customs of odd humans and queer beasts. ‘CAMEO NOW K ° GO ON YOUR VACATION TO ONE OF OUR Proletarian Camps information for all four camps can be obtained at 32 Union Square. Room No. 505. — Telephone STuyvesant 9-6332. CAMP WOCOLONA Tionree, N.Y. A return ticket to Camp Wocolona is only $2.60 Take the Erie Railroad. CAMP KINDERLAND Prepare for the outing to Camp Kinderland of all Branches of the I. W. 0. The 20th of June (week-end) $2.50 per Day All registrations must be in the office a week in advance—Children 7 years of age and over will be accepted. 42ND STREET and BROADWAY (WIS. 1789) POPULAR PRICES schools and CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N. Y. Boats leave for the camp every day from 42nd Street Ferry Good entertainment.—DANCES at the Camp CAMP UNITY, WINGDALE, N. Y. Buses leave every day 3 p. m., Friday at 10 a. m, and 6 p. m. and Saturday, 9 ». m., 1 p. m. and 4 p. m. for the camp, These buses bring you directly to the camp. by Call Stuyvesant 9-6332 For information about any of these four camps the congress of the United States | but | this time from the mouth of a re- | {57.12 percent, the North America» with 14.03, the Harris-Forbes group with 12.36 percent and the Insull in- terests with 10.80 percent. Now the line up is for a gigantic merger, with the Melon-Morgan the most powerful bankers of the U. 8. out to grab 70 percent of the total which will give them 95 percent of the output of electricity. MELROSE VEGETARIAN DAIRY orsracnanr Comrades Wifl Always Find It Pleasant to Di at Our Place, 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx (near 174th Bt, Statton) TELEPHONE INTERVALE 9—9149 Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian Food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phene University 6885 Phone Stuyvesant 8816 Jobn’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: !TALIAN DISHES RESTAURANT 216 EABT 14TH STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Regular Dinner 65 Cents Intern’ Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE STH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal ot DR. JOSEPHSON “ ? Gottlieb’s Hardware 119 THIRD AVEATE Near 14th St. Stuyvesant 0074 AD kinds of ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Cutlery Our Specialty COCO & BASS INVITE YOU 70 ——PATRONIZE— A Comradely BARBER SHOP 1500 BOSTON ROAD Corner of Wilkins Avenue BEONX, N. Y. Our work will please the mea, the women and the children WORKERS— EAT AND DRINK THE BEST AT LOWEST PRICES PURE FOOD LUNCH NORTHEAST CORNER 18th ST. & UNIVERSITY PLACE ———————— The DAILY WORKER Advertise Your Union Meetings Heré. For Information Write to Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City GOOD FURNISHED no 325 W, Join the YOUNG DEFENDERS Branch No, & ACTIVE—STRONG=-GROWING SPORTS—DANCES—FORUM DRAMA 257 East Tenth St ‘Thursdays 8.30 — as