The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1931, Page 2

Fage ‘Two ——— 965 DELEG ATES S FORM W ORKERS pe CULTURAL FEDERATION IN N. Y. | NEW YORK—Two hundred seal tixty-five delegates, representing 130] organizations, met) ‘ t ng Plaza, 15th| n an enthusiastic ached the Wo r on of the New| York District In a hall decorated wtih revolu-| posters and slogans, with the | Workers of World | at white let- d curtain, the delegates, g organizations with a to- | hip of about 20,000, dis- | neir problems and tasks and | inclusive executive com- 35 to direct and co-or- CALL BLUFF OF SOCIALIST MAYOR| lazoned mittee of Reading Jobless Prove} There Is Starvation 8.—The so- re has been) 0 starvation in this town.) The council of the unemployed went | 9 him last week with a list of actual ases, The first was that of a moth-| ather, and seven children living | on what the father could earn at one | a rk a week, and about to be} evicted. They have two small rooms, the seven children sleep in one and | the parents in the other, and the house is a fire trap with only one! entrance ‘The mayor was urged to come and | see for himself. a after he had got himself a s ctive as a body e came, He had to admit the | hell of a hole” but in| ne said there was | could do but to give a} fe Pi r worth of gro- ceries. Which doesn’t help the other | cases Another case was that of a Negro | worker, unemployed, with three chil- dren and his wife about to have an- other child, and facing evcition. When the Unemployed Council came to the | mayor with these facts, the mayor said he couldn't do anything, and “you people 1 make me sick.” Newark Jobless Conference Held NEWARK, N. J., . June 5.—A city anemployed conference was held at 20 Ferry St. at which many workers’ organizations were représerited. Aft- er hearing the reports of the Trade Union Unity League and the Unem- | ployed Council organizers an enthu- siastic discussion followed in which all the delegates tceok part. Ways and means were discussed on how| best to carry on the work amongst the unemployed and to build as many branches as possible, throughout the city. Resolutions were adopted and sent | to Governor Miller of Alabama and Governor Larson of New Jersey de- manding the immediate uncondition- at release of the nine young Negro boys sentenced to the electric chair in Scottsboro, Alabama, and the five Paterson textile strikers charged with murder. An executive committee was elected | and decided to call a new and much broader conference for Friday, June 19, at 8 p. m., at which conference | definite organizations steps will be taken to affiliate all organizations | present to the Unemployed Council. | Negro Athlete To Go| To Svartakiad NEW YORK —After the track meet on Sunday at Protona Park, the executive board of the Eastern District of the Labor Sports Union met and selected William Duff, a Ne-~ gro athlete to go along with the delegation of seven to the Berlin Spartekiad. Duff is a member of the Jamaica Poverit, a section of t he Labor Sports Union. What’s On— MONDAY Unemployed Councils, Downtown Br. Open-air meetings at 6 p.m. at 14th St. and Ave. B, at 7:30 p.m. at Seventh St. and Ave. B. 7S Council 35 of Jamaica Will have its first educational meeting at 8:30 p.m. at 109-26 Union Hall bt, at the Finnish Hall. Dr. J, ©, Hoffer will speak on “The Cause ul the Aconomic. Crisis.” Brownsville Branch J. L. D, Meets at 118 Bristol St. Brooklyn, at 5:30 p.m. Discussion on Seotts- boro case, PSG * Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League Branch 2 will hold an outdoor meeting at § p.m. at 110th St. and Fitth Ave. All worker-ex-service- men are urged to gome around, pisioas Downtown Unemployed Conneil -Open-air meeting at Tenth St, and Second Ave, at 7:80 p.m. ” WEDNESDAY ‘Workers of Newark, Attention! Juliet Stuart Poyntz, just returned from the Soviet Union, will speak on the “Workers’ World; My Experi- ences In the Soviet Union” at 8 p.m. at the International Workers’ Order Menter, 6 Belmont Ave. Auspices of ahe Friends of the Soviet Union, Ad- tnission, 25 cents. * 6 . Downtown Unemployed Council Open-air meeting at Fourth St. ‘and Ave. B from 6 to 7:15; at Unt- Nie Pl. at Mth St. at & y Downtown Unemployed Coun- ids a regular daily open-siy at 11:30 am. at Leonard ane | he RB Ne | many languages was represented. | man, was occupied with nine reports. | proletarian culture; | member of the Presidium of the In- | | ternational Union of Revolutionary | | Writers and Artists, on the Charkoy | | man Proletbuehne, | fighting proletarian culture | form a National Workers’ Cultural | Federation. ‘Patience’ Opens At dinate all the proletarian cultural work in New York and vicinity. | ‘Culture is a weapon!” was the dom- | inant note of this conference, at} which every form of cultural work in | Included in the hnoorary Presidium | of the conference were Maxim Gorky | and Krupskaya (Soviet Union), Lud- | wig Renn (Germany), Henri Bar=| pusse (France), Tomas (Hungary—| now in jail), Ho Lo Sun (China) and | Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, | | Upton Sinclair and William Z Fos- | ter (United States(- The first session, of which William | Gropper, proletarian artist, was} chairman, and H. T. Li, whom the Hoover government is trying to de-| port to fascist China, was vice-chair- Alexander Trachtenberg, of Interna- tional Publishers, speaking for the conference committee, discussed the development of the proletarian cul- | tural movement thus far, showed its | great possibilities for the future and laid down the tasks for the broad- ening and strengthening of prole- tarian cultural activities as a mighty } weapon in the class struggle. Michael Gold, editor of the New Masses, spoke on bourgeois and| A. B. Magil, a Conference of the international rev- olutionary writers and artists, held) last November; A. Bonn of the Ger- on proletarian | theatrical work; Paul Keller, direc- | tor of the Federation of Workers’ | Choruses, on proletarian musical ac- | tivities; William L. Paterson, of the | League of Struggle for Negro Rights, on cultural work among the Negro | masses; A. Markoff, director of the | | Workers’ School, on educational | work; Si Gerson, of the Labor Sports | Union, on cultural work among the | | youth; Harrison George, of the Daily | | Worker, on the role of worker corre- spondence in the cultural movement; | and Jack Stachel, assistant national | | secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, on the role of cultural work jin trade union activity. | Stachel. fresh from the field of the | Pennsylvania mine strike, made &/| stirring appeal for the creation of a} would be an integral part of the) working-class struggle, Following | his speech an appeal for relief funds | for the striking miners raised $60.18. The afternoon session, of which Trachtenberg was chairman, Glassford, a Negro worker, was vice- | and| chairman, produced spirited discus- | | sion from the floor, John Dos Pas~ sos, famous American left-wing writef? was present at this session and. greeted the conference. Greet- ings were also read from many in- ternational and national organiza- tions, magazines and individuals. | Resolutions were adopted in sup-| port of the mine strike, against the Scottsboro and Paterson frame-ups and for the release of all political prisoners in the United States and) other capitalist countries; against the persecution of the foreign-born; supporting the Daily Worker; against the imperialist war preparations and for the defense of the Soviet Union, | and a draft resolution on the tasks of the federation. Greetings. were also sent to the International Union of Revolutionary Writers and Ar- tists, the International Workers’ Dramatic Union and the Left Writ- ers’ League of China. ‘The conference instructed the Ex- ecutive Committee to work for a con- | vention to be held in November in| conjunction with the 14th anniver- | sary of the Russian Revolution, to Erlanger’s Theatre “Patience.” or Bunthorne's. Bride, is the fourth of the Gilbert and Sul- livan series by the Civic Light Opera Co. and will be presented at Er- Janger’s Theatre this evening for the customary fortnight’s run. First pro- luced at the Opera Comique, London, April 23, 1881, the opera ran for more than 400 consecutive performances. It was presented at the Standard ‘Theatre, New York, five months after its English premiere. A study of the giant Do-X, the largest airplane in the world, and the Zeppelin on rails, both made in Germany, are among the most inter- esting sights of “Nomadie,” Dr. Sin- gelow’s travel and adventure film now playing at the Cameo Theatre. HIPPODROME On the screen: Lew Ayres in “Up for Murder,” wieh Genevieve Tobin and Prunell Pratt, Vaudeville: Ruth Roland in person, the Briants, Frank Libuse, Joe and Jane McKenna, Christensen Bros. the Forum Boys, Stetsen and Monroe and Grant. Charles Norris’ novel, “Seed,” has been transferred to the screen and is to be seen at the Franklin The- atre, with H. Lois Wilson, John Boles and Genevieve Tobin in its leading roles. Billy Glason, the Southern- aires, NBC's creators of “Southland Sketches,” Gene Sheldon, “A Rhyth- mic Humoresque,” with George Libby, and the Flying Russels are the stage acts. Wednesday to Friday: “Good Bad Girl,” starring James Hall and Mae Clark, is the screen feature. On the stage: Manny King and his associ- ates headline the vaudeville bill. Hope Vernon, Betty and Jerry Browne, “Oriental Mysteries.” with K. T. Kuma, and the Lido Ladies ther acts, | eiation expired on June 1. Communism Say FoR You To. | SSTAND UPL’ \ \ | aty SOCIAL Office Workers of Crucible Stee! Co. Get Wage Cut} NEW YORK.—On “on June 10, the of- fice workers in the Crucible Steel Co. were informed that they would not} get two weeks’ vacation this year, ye that they would be laid off ir during June and July without pay. This follows a wage cut on Febru- ary 13, when all the office workers | |had their pay cut 10 per cent. On February 13, also, thirty-six sales- men were fired. In October pf 1959 25 per cent of the office force wa laid off “temporarily” but were neve taken back. FAKERS AID WAGE CUT ON WAITERS nstea ‘Desperately Trying to Prevent Strike NEW YORK.—The rank and file | members of Waiters and Waitresses that | Local Union No. 1, A. F. of L. are in| men’s Council having organized the | revolt. against the co-operation of the labor fakers with the bosses in the latter's attempt fo put over a huge wage cut. ‘The agreement between Local No. |1 and the Restaurant Keepers’ Asso- After 4) weeks of negotiation on a new con- tract the waiters conceded several points. The bosses, however, insisted jon a wage cut of 25 per cent for the day workers. The day workers re- ceive $20 for 6 days’ work. The night workers $25. The bosses demanded that the night workers should also take the same pay as the day work- ers, which méant a 40 per cent cut | for the night workers. ‘The labor fakers called in Mayor Walker to “arbitrate”, To this the bosses gladly agreed. At a meeting held at City Hall a few days ago not only Walker was present but the other fakers, Tom Farley, who was |thrown out of the building trade union, Sam Turkel, L. Rubenfled, and Rifkin, who brazenly sold out Local No, 1 a few years ago. These fakers urged the workers not to strike. And in order to bring further pressure on the workers to accept the wage cut, the bosses had President Flore of the International write to Local No. 1 instrueting the workers not to dare go on strike until they should re- ceive his endorsement. The history of all hitherto ex- isting society is the history of class struggle. —MARX. deal BUSINESS SCHOOL DAY AND EVENING Commercial—Secretarial Courses Individual Instruction Open the entire year Mth St, at 2nd Ave. N.¥.C. TOmpkins Square 6-6584 SOL-ART STUDIO 101 E. 14th Street (Around Corner of Klein's) Passport Photos $1.50 PER DOZEN MADE IN 10 MINUTES pan nnn We Invite Workers to the — BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts. MELROSE DAIRY VEGETARIAN BESTAURANT Comrades Will Pleasant jways Find 16 to Dine at Our Place. 1187 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx (near 174th St, Station) ONE INTERVALE 9—0149 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 135, 1931 TO Day Stand Up! To-morrow SAS FAG A SANS To ALL workers “STAND UP 3 Te waned ee. Downtown Council Force Down Rent In East Side Tenement | RENT STRIKE IN BRONX CONTINUES | | NEW YORK.—The Downtown Un- | Saat lemployed Council held a meeting } Held Demonstr ation in | Crass, June 11, at ath gt. and Ave- pia night nue A, where about 800 workers heard speakers of the council. —Holding an open | The council, while holding meet- | jair demonstration Saturday past to} ings on the concentration block at rally support for the strike of Negro|4th St. and Avenue B, canvassed | tenants at 3874 Third Ave. against | tenement house at 215 E. 4th St. and | ° exorbitant rents and bad sanitary | |organized 28 tenants to force the conditions, the Tenants League suc-j landlord to reduce the rent by $5 for ceeded in informing the neighbor- | each tenant. hood of the reason for the strike and| ne House Wreckers Union, Loca! } the need to spread it |75, officials refused to give the floor The landlady who is charging the|to a council representative, Milton | Negro tenants 30 per cent more rent | Stone, when the latter requeste. it than white tenants and is vicious in| But the rank and file members de~ her use of police and courts to fight} manded he speak on won the vote the tenants, called the police for the | stone spoke five minutes and got $3) |Bronx | BRONX. N. demonstration. In a maneuver to|for securing a new hall for the get the Negro tenants, eight in num- | Downtown Council. ber, from the apartment house she} ‘The Council meets daily at 1:30 has put up a sign saying that the | ym. at 87 BE. 10th st. house was open for white tenants | : 3rd DAY BRONX | te push the strike vigorously. BREAD STRIK' ade ree Bere the Aira | served on the tenants will come up | |in police court at 162nd and Wash- | ‘Rally More Support As sabe | today. An Interne-| Tenants League Leads The Tenants League and the Wo- | Negro tenants into a house commit- | jington Street | tional Labor Defense attorney will defend the tenants. | Workers in the neighborhood are urged to turn out at the court at }2 p.m. in a demonstration of sup- | port of and solidarity with the rent strikers. BRONX, N. Y.—The third day of | the Bronx bread strike found the/ working class housewives putting up a militant fight to win their de-| mands from the bakers in the neigh- borhood of 180th Street and Arthur | | Avenue. On Saturday, at a mass meeting {held at 2109 Arthur Ayenue plans | were laid for the next few days. | Committees were elected and finan- ces raised to carry on the strike At 6 p.m. an open air meeting was held to be followed by mass picket- ing. Picketeers carried placards | telling the demand for 5 cents bread. | Police, called by the boss bakers, descended upon the picketing wo- | men, swinging violently and clawing viciously at the signs. The demon- strators however kept their ranks _————————$——$ ——— } \Fly-By-Night Boss | Skips Owing Worker | Full Week’s Wages NEW YORK.—After working seven days for a sign painter boss at 35 W. 125th St. H. J. Verdades, a sign painter, was told he had no pay com- jing to him. Later when he treid to collect the money after haunting the offices of the industrial commission- er of the State Department of Labor, he found the boss had skipped town. Verdades was sent on the job by NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES | the City Employment Bureau, Leon- CAST SIDE—BRONX | ard and Church Sts. The boss proved } a =a to be a typical’ fly-by-night, small fry who did not scruple to make Ver- dades work hard and then skip ow- ing him $29. = All Comrades Meet at Ke FN 8 ins § BRONSTEIN’S | [3:01 Fysees Vegetarian Health 9:45 a.m. 25° Sun. and Hol. Prospects iat Geo. Libby &Co, Billy Glason Restaurant $58 Claremont Parkway, Bronx Patronize the ‘BOSSES TO BURN | her husband) | have said not a word nor made even | much mo: (ee Store to 5 P.C. of Sales NEGRO MONDAY Victim Railroaded To Cc hair The Concoops Food Stores and | Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park East, | are donating 5 per cent of their to~ al receipts for June 18, 19 and 20 to the Daily Worker! This means {that the more food sold on these days the more funds the Daily will By sou HARPER Judge lynch will stalk into the Ful- ton, Powors, Atlanta, Geergia, on|receivel And the more: funds. the Mrondet Tune 416, i | Daily Worker receives, the greater John Downer, @ Negro worker, one | ‘he chances of its surviving the pres- of several arrested a few weeks ago | CM? ct at Elberton, Georgia, accused of “at-| Comrades of Manhattan, Brooklyn, tacking” a white woman, is being| Bronx! Take the elevated up to the the above Stock up Bronx Concoop during |days and buy till it hurts. with delicatessen, meats, poultry, fish until you can’t stand up. Buy all the pies and cakes you Ihave been denying yourself for » | months, to save the “Daily.” Remem- ber every can of bei rushed to the electric chair, after a farcical “trial” just a few days ago. This “attac according to the | capitalist press, was made in the eve- |ning, too dark for the accuser to recognize any particular type of Ni gro, but a “nigger attacked he right in front of her sweetheart (now He is accused of hold- ing a gun on her sweetheart and jraping her at the same time. This | Wrong on the fruit. \is evidently a lie. because physically | barrel. limpossible. But the capitalist as After your shopping is over, drop has sent Downer to his death. into the Cooperative Restaurant for The Negro reformist organizatiors, |a bite. It will make you eat a lot to to date, including the N. A. A. C. P., | every swallow is that ncome for the Daily sus- campaign for $35,000.. You can’t go Buy it by the that a protest. They are too busy help-| taining fund. ing the lynchers at Scottsboro | Remember the dates, Thursday, L. S. N. R. and I. L. D, have sent| Friday and Satur June 18, 19 telegrams of protest. and 20 of next week. Come early and bring your friends and relatives! Use your Red Shock Troop Fist every day up your job, The worker | \ next to you will help save the Daily | Worker, CUT WAGES 10 PER CENT. St. Louis street carmen received a | 10 per cent wage cut. Motormen and and retreated to rally more workers | conductors average less than $35 for by holding another meeting. @ seven-day week. Company officers The crowd had grown and the de-| get as high as $30,000 a year. They monstration was considerably | are also to get a 10 per cent cut. | strengthened. | Equality in capitalist America. AMUSEMENTS SEE SOVIET RUSSIA SMASHING ITS WAY TO SOCTALISTIC SUCCESS AMKINO PRESENTS The 5-YEAR PLAN RUSSIA'S REMAKING—A Talking Film (In English) “If you want to * i f what ix going on in the Soviet Union, see the Five-Year AILY WORKER. CENTRAL THEA: 47M AT: Daily at IEVES. soe! Bd St. & Bway HOe to $1.00) Incl. Su 6th Ave BIGGEST SHOW IN°NEW YORK LEW AYRES IN ‘Up for Murder’ GILBERT and SULLIVAN S| 6 42 nd STREET & B'WAY {1 THRILLIN NOMADIE Interesting Camera Tour of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and German, ACTS RKO with Genevieve Tobin ‘Cast 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” EAT AND DRINK THE BEST AT THE LOWEST PRICES PURE FOOD LUNCH ORTHEAST CORNE! 13th ar & UNIVERSITY PLACE Unusual Wholesome Dishes de of FRESH VEGETABLES & FRUITS AFTER THEATRE Low-Priced Special Combinations at 44th Street Restaurant. Anne SURROUNDINGS: UALITY FOODS TRUFOOD Vegetarian Restaurants 153 West 44th Street 110 pkg A0th Street Broadway) ‘True Beg Is bale Key to Health SUNLIGHT CAFETERIA Schiffman and Whittlin, Proprietors 68 AVENUE A.—Bet. 4th & 5th Sts, NEW YORK Phone:—Dry Dock 9021 We Invite Daily Worker Readers to CHINA GARDEN A HIGH-CLASS CHOW MEIN RESTAURANT Special 35¢ Lunch; 11 a.m—3 p.m. 50c Dinner from 4 to 9 p. m. A LA CARTE AT ALL HOURS OPEN TILL 2 A. Me 75 SECOND AVE. (Between 4th and 5th Streets) | | MAGATONE RADIO SERVICE RADIO LABORATORY AND REPAIRS Ovr long severities new life in 7enk m leading radio sets WE C ONVERT BATTERY, “Vers SINTO SLBoTRiC 2 ROM A.C, TO DC, OR BOTH—WORK GUARANTEED 138 EAST 71TH STREET ORCRARD A-5219 Hap Farne! ‘fram the Novel by Chas © Mons “ P A T I E N CE ” i} The ithern-| with Concoops Food Stores |} o2!"fisin BOLES ||“Thrift” Prices Bt*. 50.082, Wet | STATIONERY—CIGARS ‘The ying Mats.’ 50 to $1, Sat, pen Russells LOIS WILSON. Mats, soe to 81.50|] SODA FOUNTAIN-—-FAMOUS Ri t 5 t Seep eens ERUANGER THEA» torn yor ‘Stre eé | soured estauran PEN, 6-7963. Yvenin: eit 103 UNIVERSITY PLAC WORKERS— 2 Wks Beste 4 IRATES OFSE 7s NEAR 12TH STREET : Mon., June 29 ENZANCE” NOW GO ON YOUR VACATION TO ONE OF OUR Proletarian Camps Information for all four camps can be obtained at 32 Union Square. Room N¢. 505. — Telephone STuyvesant 9-6332. eee 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, Autos leave every day 11 a. m., Fridays at 10a, m. and and Saturday, 9 a. m., and 4 p. m. for the camp. These cars brings you directly t o the camp. CAMP WOCOLONA MONROE, N. ¥.—On beautiful Lake Walton—Swimming—Boating, ete. Revolutionary Entertainment. A return ticket to Camp Wocolona is only $2.60 Take the Erie Railroad. x LT CAMP KINDERLAND ; Prepare for the outing to Camp Kinderland of all schools and Branches of the I. W. 0. The 20th of June (week-end) $2.50 per Day Ail registrations must be in the office a week in advance—Children 7 years of age and over will be accepted. N. Y. :30 p,m UN EEEEEEEEEEEEE Led nfornaien, MRE goo Call Stuyvesant 9-6332 dairies, or spaghetti | you buy means an extra notch in the | R_CAMEONOW IYSTERIES of AFRICA | ‘BEN GOLD TO BE Daily Campaign WELCOMED HOME Mass Reception For \Leader On Wednesday NEW YORK.—Ben Gold. secre- | tary-treasurer of the Needle Trades Workers Industtial Union, whe has recently returned from the Soviet Union, who has recently returned from the Soviet Union will be greet~ ed by active union workers a6 the na- tional office, 131 W. 28th St. Tues- day, June 16 at noon. A mass demonstration in the fur- riers market, 29th St, and 7th Ave., will be held at 12:30 p.m. in greeting to Gold who will be the main speaker. A mass reception for Gold is now being arranged for Wednesday, June 17, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Thirg Ave. Gold will report on conditions in the Soviet Union, especially those dealing with the nee- die trades workers. 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For Information Write to Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New Yor’ City en eee QUIET FURNISHED ROOM—Sublet cheap, East 19th St. Phone During Day, Shaw or Dunne, Stuyvesant 9+ 8637. pce OR SG MEN ea SAA AI 9° BOARD WANTED — Comrade in Daily Worker wants board only, with private family. Must be neat 14th Sh Address D. F, Cireulation Dope