The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1931, Page 2

Page Two COMMITTEES TO The Miners of Vania were unc part wage cuts to take pl Penns Western nized for when announcer of new June 1 and reduced wages own to star- vation level th struggle. But ing wu that ly 32,000 men in Was nd other counties is the rapidity with ‘which the strikers themselves build’ from below their organization of mine strike committees. section and strike committ and relief e corps. By es of from 15 es and whites with women ted, were jp in each of the 33 mines on Delegates from these committees and from mine mass meetings of IA MINERS BUILD OWN | the most | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUES JUNE 16, 1931 FIGHT SPRY ATION N.M.U.!” shouts the District Com- mittee, and the miners, knowing that | they have at last their own union, are responding in whole groups, Lo- cal unions are being chartered daily at the mines on strike and some that are not. Meetings of the members | only are called at once, and officers elected. The local immediately pro- | ceeds with the organization of the women members of the miners’ fam- | | ilies into the Womens Auxiliary of | the NMU. The women are especially | active in relief, of course, but th | one in force, some of them carr; | ing their babies, right onto the picket | line. The young miners, equally ac- tive, are called together in separate | | meetings, in addition to their full partciipation ni the regular loca! | | meetings of the NMU, and in these youth meetings delegates of the young | | miners are elected to the union ex-| | ecutive committees. The local unions | | are linked up into sections and dis- | trict organizations somewhat like the | strikers to the number of 250 swarm-| strike committees ed into Pittsburgh on June 3, and| attended the first big meeting of the | Pennsylvania District Rank and File} Strike Committee. There they laid down a program for continued or-| KIDNAP, FRAME ganization directly in line with the efforts already made by the strikers themselves. The local strike committee set up sub-committees in charge of relief, and form othe rsub-committees to build workers defense corps. The lo- cal strike committees send substantial groups of delegates to the section strike committees now being formed. ‘The section committees co-ordinate and direct the efforts of the local committees, and stimuate the initi- ative of the locals. The section com- mittees elect their officers and ex- ecutive committees and the same sub committees as the locals, all with the task of removing friction and gen- erally directing the strike and relief activities in their sections. | From local committees and section | Committees delegates come to the Pennsylvania District Rank and File Strike Committee. It conducts the whole strike in accordance with the policies of the National Miners Union and its decisions are binding on sec- | tion and local committees. The wage | seale committee of 12, a sub commit- tee elected by the district committee, plus five more members, makes up the executive of the district com- mittee and is constantly on hand directing the strike between sessions of the district committee. This exec- utive committee reports to and is re- sponsible to the district strike com- mittee. The local strike committees meet daily; the section committees at least three times a week, and the district committee meets about once-@ week. This strike machinery is of the broadest kind. Strikers elect the com~- mittees and serve on them wtihout regard to union membership. But one of the most encouraging things about this strike is that these miners entirely disgusted with the United Mine Workers of America, have be- gun to flock into the Natoinal Miners Union. The NMU grows by thou- sands daily. Three thousand applica~ tion blanks provided for the day of the first big meeting of the Penn- sylvania District Rank and File Strike | i} A FOOD STRIKER | Dick Gets Worker by al | Low Ruse | { | Last Friday morning Salvatore/ | Adelchi, a striking food worker, was awaiting trial in the Jefferson Mar-| | ket Court. He went out of the court- | room for a moment to get a glass! of water. A detective pounced on) him and said: “Come along with) me.” <Adelchi protested, but the de-| | tective told him he would bring him | back in a few minutes. The detec-| tive took him up to the Bronx, tell-| ing Adelchi that somebody wanted | to see him. They waited in front! of a cigar store until another detec- | tive came with a car and took them to detective headquarters. After an-/ other wait, 2 man came in with a/ woman, and the man accused Adel- | chi of assaulting him on April 22, | Adelchi had never seen this man} before, but a little thing like that didn’t matter. Adelchi is now in the Bronx Coun- | ty jail, charged with felonious as-/| sault. Had it not been for the fact that he succeeded in informing the | New York District of the Interna-/ tional Labor Defense, no one would | have known of this brazen kidnap- ping and frame-up of a militant worker. Adelchi has been finger- printed and intimidated in an ef- fort to‘extort a “confession” from him. The-New York District of the I. L. D. fs now investigating this case and is trying to secure Adelchi's release. The kidnapping is evident-' ly one of the new tricks devised by the police department to trap mili- tant workers when ordinary “legal” methods won't work. Young Liberators | today. | the Communist Party, the League of Conf. On June 19 Committee vanished like hot cakes} THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER See Taat TAM NoT Py Tee SED WHILE TAM ELLY FILLING TF ANYBODY “TRIES ‘TO STOR MY RELLY FILLING OPERATION- JAIL “Them OR EXECUTE THEM JUDGE —And the Army By RYAN WALKER HELL FIRE ANDO ETERNAL AMNATION WHO SAYS Hor L CANNOT FILL MY; oe ANYONE WITH — BUT INSPITE OF The Arey Pouce JUDGES oR. CHUR CAPITA’ go GE SmasHely ene ‘BELLY WITHOUT HAVIA: \ —TOQ WERK FoR nae CHURCH 4 So 93 \ es ree ope ( Force Admissio Was in Precarious Situation, Speculated | | NEW YORK.—Put on the defen sive, a representative of the Ba of Athens, which sued the editors of the Empros for publication of} facts on the conditions of the bank declined and the deposits fell off by | $1,000,000 from January 1 to March | 21, 1931. Profits for the same three | months only amounted to $700 and; the entire profit for 1930 was $1,600. | its assets and resources, at Traffic Most of the bank's resources were Court yesterday. invested in speculative stocks and} When cross-examined by defense | bonds, rather than in government} and municipal securities. While no dividends had been paid | by the New York branch the main ° in Greece continued to pay| At this point workers in the court-| out h dividends of 55 per cent in| room exclaimed at the reluctant| 1928, 35 per cent in 1927. In addi- confession, which so angered thej tion Greek officials received bonuses. judge that he ordered them evicted. A motion by defense counsel for Protests at this high-handed proce- | dismissal was denied. The judge, not dure arose from the crowd, but they | liking the turn affairs were taking, | were forced out of the room. | delivered an attack against the de- | attorney, Jacques Buitenkant, the | bankers’ man said he could not an- swer on the financial condition of | the bank Testimony wormed out of the|fendants. The gist of his lecturo was | Bank of Athens representative re-|that in the present crisis it was} vealed the precarious situation of the| much better that depositors know | less of the condition of the banks, | bank, and the fact that the Empros, | and that if newspapers would print | rather than overstated the situation, | underestimated it. {the actual situation many more The bank resources had constantly | banks would close. WIN STAY INGA. |DEFENSE CONF. LEGAL LYNCHING. IN JERSEY CITIES Court Allows Appeal|Mass Meeting Friday for Downer in Passaic MACON, Ga., June 15.—A stay of| PATERSON, New Jersey. — A execution has been granted in the| mass meeting will be held in Passaic case of John Downer, Negro worker |on Friday. June 19, 8 p.m, at 39} railroaded to the electric chair on 2 | Monroe St. to demand the release of framed-up charge following protests | the Scottsboro and Paterson prison- to the Governor of Georgia from ers. Comrade William Patterson from many organizations throughout the |New York will speak at the meeting. country. Execution had been set for| United Front Defense Conferences Among the organizations pro- | are being held In Perth Amboy on testing this new legal lynching were | June 20, at 3 p. m. at 308 Elm St. An- other one in Passaic on June 21, at 2 p.m. at 39 Monroe St. Paterson will holq a conference on July 8, 8 p.m. at 205 Paterson St. The Labor Defender Drive is being stimulated in connection with the Struggle for Negro Rights and the | International Labor Defense. Several Georgia Negro organiza- tions are enlisted in the right to| save Downer. At a hearing Saturday AGAINST THE FWIU Racketeers, Court in Attempt Smash Drive NEW YORK. — Cooperating with the strike-breaking A. F. of L. Groc- ery Clerks Union to smash the or- ganization campaign of the Food | Workers Industrial Union among the fruit clerks. The Supreme Court of the Brond granted a temporary in- junction against thé revolutionary union. The injunction is a sweeping one and is intended to cripple the or- ganization drive now in progress among the fruit and grocery clerks. Technically. the injunction forbids the industrial union from organizing shops under the jurisdiction of Local 338, Dairy, Fruit and Grocery Clerks Union, A. F. of L., but in reality it applies to all shops in the city. A. F. of L. Strike-Breaking. Wherever the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, Fruit. Clerks Dept. or- |ganize a shop, the A. F. of L. gang breaks in, and concludes an agree- ment with the boss ousting the F. w. 1. U. This already has occurred in about ten shops whieh the latter succeeded in organizing. ~ Hearings on the injufetion arenow held before Judge Black of Special terms, Supreme Court of the Bronx. “Seed” at Jefferson Theatre” Charles Norris’ novel, “Seed.” ‘has been transferred to the screen and is to be seen at the Jefferson The- atre from Saturday until Tuesday. John Boles, Genevieve Tobin and Lois Wilson fill the three major roles. On the stage the Vercelle sisters and company, the Donatella brothers and Carmen, Wilton and Weber, Manny King, Will Aubrey and Worthy and Thompson. Wednesday to Friday, “Good Bad Girl” is the screen attraction, with James Hall and Mae Clark in its ‘Heonerete plan of action, and formu- as delegates carried them out to be filled. The office help at the N.M.U. office, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. is working madly to get more prepared, and is always behind. Organizers stand around clamoring, “Give me 70—Knot Hole mine has just struck solid and I’m going out there.” “Give me a couple of hundred, I’m going out to Bell mine and they are yell- ing for them,” ete. “Every miner a member of the TUESDAY Downtown Unemployed Councti Open-air meeting at Tenth St. and Second Ave. at 7:30 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 Center, 5 Belmont Ave. Auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Ad~ mission 26 cents. * Downtown Unemployed Council Open-air meeting at Fourth st. and Ave. B from 6 to 7:15; at Uni- versity Pl. at 14th St. at § p.m. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- _eil holds a regular daily open-air meeting at 11:30 a.m. at Leonard and Chureh Sts. ‘WEDNESDAY Steve Katovis Branch 1.L.D. Will hold an open-air meeting at 8 Pp. me. at Fourth St. and Ave. B. -Bacco-Vanzetti Branch LL.D. General membership meeting at 1472 Boston Rd. at 8 p.m. Plans and ways and means to make the Scotts- boro-Paterson Defense Campaign cover wider territory will be dis- cussed, * Paes eae ‘Workers’ Film and Photo League Meets at 8 p.m. at 799 Broadway, Room 614. Immediate matter con- fronting the Jeague is “Proletarian Photo Week” in July and prepara- tion for the International Photo Bx- hibit, to take place in Berlin in Oc- tober. The matter of a film and photo school will be discussed. hea 4 Geer THURSDAY Downtown Unemployed Council Open-air meeting at Seventh St. and Ave, A at 7:30 p.m. Tee eee Women’s Councils 6, 15 and 9 Will observe the departure of Com- rade Garelick for the Soviet Union at 300 Wallave Ave. Bronx, at 8:30 p.m, All workers are invited to come. eS Steve Katovis Branch LL.D. Will hold an open-air meeting at & p. m. at East Tenth St. and Sec- ond Ave, . Illustrated Leteure In Williamsburg. The achie’ ments of the Five ‘Soar Plan will be illustrated at a lecture at & p.m. at 795 Flushing Aye., Brooklyn, by M. a aS Sorkere. tate hangin trem a eben ei Scottsboro Defense Is} Chief Issue | NEW YORK.—On June 19th the | Young Liberators will have their first Youth Conference at the Move- ment Hall at 226 E. 43rd St. This conference will be held for the pur- pose of mobilizing the broadest sec- | tion of Negro and white young work- ers for the defense of the 9 Negro youth of Scottsboro, Ala., who are sentenced to die in the electric chair July 10 on a fake frame-up charge of attack. It is also true that the League of Struggle for Negro Rights had its conference on May 24 which was in general a success. But this alone is not sufficient. The broadest sec- tion of the working class youth must be mobilized to save these boys from the electric chair, in spite of the NA ACP leadership to sabatoge the de- fense of these 9 boys and especially the hypocrosy of Mr. William Pick- ens, who at first took the stand for the defense of these boys and who now is attacking the defense of these boys, as a result of the pressure from the capitalist contributors of the NA ACP. Young Negro and white workers— rally to the defense of the 9 Scotts- boro boys by electing delegates to the Scottsboro youth conference, Friday at 7:30 on June 19, at 226 E. 43rd St. at the Movement Hall. The history of all hitherto ex- isting society is the history of class struggle —MARX. Apple Selling Now Gives Way to That of Ice Cream Sales NEW YORK—Ice cream whole- salers are taking advantage of the continued great unemployment to employ workers upon a low commis- sion basis to peddle ice cream. The Landau Sales Co. 146 West 23rd St., have unemployed workers out on the streets selling ice’ cream bricks. The company even provides the sign “Unemployed” to boost sales. Federal Judge Bascom S. Deaver de- nied a writ of habeas corpus on be- half of Downer, but allowed an ap- Scottsboro and Paterson Campaign. Some comrades in Newark as well as ‘in Paterson have accepted the chal- | peal. ‘This had the effect of staying the legal murder of this worker. Labor Defender subscriptions during the drive. Section 3 Concert And Dance Friday To Be Gala Affair NEW YORK. — Section 3 of the Communist Party will give a concert and dance Friday, June 19, 8:30 p. m., at the clubrooms of the Hammer and Sickle Workers Club, 122 Second Ave. Music by the Musical Club of the Bronx, a sketch by the Workers La- boratory Theatre, and songs by the Preiheit Singing Society anq dancing will be features of the program. Tea will be served. Proceeds, for the Daily Worker and Young Pio- neers. Admission 25 cents. Facts Give Lie to Prosperity Bunk of AFL Bureaucrats (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK—The A. F, of L.! union officlals in the building trades try to soothe us building trades work- Call Meet Depositors of the Bank of U.S. NEW YORK. A mass meeting of the Bank of U. 8. depositors will be held under the auspices of the United Depositors Committee, Wednesday at 8 p.m, June 17, at Public School 65, Forsythe and Hester. Sts. This is one of a series of mass meetings which are to be held all over Greater New York to urge the State Banking Department to rush the reorganization plans. The com- plete silence of the Superintendent of Banks is causing great uneasiness among bank depositors. All deposit- ors and those interested are invited to attend. —————————— | | SOLLIN’S RESTAURANT 216 EAST 14TH STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Regular Dinner 65 Cents lenge to get the highest number of | yipby and Hap Farnell. Jeading roles. On the stage: Lew Pollack, Hal Nieman, Ruth Sherry, the Kellys, Jim and Nancy, George Stockholm, Sweden, which is vis- ited by the camera in “Nomadie,” now at the Cameo Theatre, shows the Gota Canal, which was built about a century ago. It is 240 miles long and it takes two and one-half | days to make the entire trip. Atone | point of the canal a ship is raised | 300 feet above sea level. CATSKILL MOUNTAINS Ideal place for vest and recreation.. Airy rooms, shady lawn, pure water, excellent table, plenty milk, ome. Swimming and bathing in sw: tain water. $13 per week. WILLOW REST FARM GREENVILLE, N. Y. COCO & BASS INVITE YOU 70 ——PATRONIZE——_ BARBER SHOP 1500 BOSTON ROAD Corner of Wilkins Avenue BRONX, N. Y. Our work will please the men, the women and the children ers that normal times will bring us again the blessings of prosperity. Facts and figures, however, speak to the contrary. A. Peterson's article in the Com- munist of June on “Rationalization and Its Consequences In the Build- ing Construction Industry In the United States,” is rich with facts and THURSDAY 18 figures of how a united front of real y 1 estate investors, builders, govern- eee AY JUNE 4 ment institutions, engineering science in collaboration with the union offi- cials worked to devise means and ways to speed construction and the workers, the results of the speed-up and the tasks for the workers in the industry. Building trade workers especially should get the June Communist, read this article and discuss it with their fellow-workers. ’ —A Building Trade Worker, (5% ‘The men are forced to work long hours to make $1 to $1.50 a day. Sanitary conditions at the place| every day un your job. The worker Nm Use your Red Shock Troop List sext to you will help save.the Daily ! { i STOCK UP FOR WEEKS TO COME Buy in Cooperative Stores and Help Save the “Daily” of the total income on these three days goes to the $35,000 fand to Save the DailyWorker SAVE THE DAILY WORKER AND SAVE MONEY CONCOOPS FOOD STORE and RESTAURANT. 2700 BRONX PARK: EAST n That Bank of Athens /AFL INJUNCTION |Gold, Needle Union Head Back From USSR to Report'LAYS OFF 25 MEN NEW YORK.—A mass demon- place on Tues and 7th Ave. Ben Gold, secretary | of the Needle Trades Workers’ In-| dustrial Union, who has just re-| turned from the Soviet Union, where | he spent nine months, will bring greetings from the workers in the| U. S. S.'R. to the furriers of New! York. A huge mass meeting and reception has been arranged by the| Industrial Union at Central Opera | House, 67th St. and Third Axeoue,| Wednesday night, where Gold will} give his formal report to the needle} trades workers. Knit-Goods Conference. | Sixty-nine delegates, representing | knitgoods shops that employ more | than -2,000 workers, attended the} conferenceon June 14th at Irving) Plaza Hall. The delegates from the| shops discussed at great length the | present conditions in the trade, the | misery, wage cuts, discharges, speed- up and discrimination suffered by| the workers in the knitgoods shops and decided to get agtively into the drive of the Industrial Union to bring about union conditions in the knitgoods trade. The conference condemned the strike’ bréaking activities,of the In- ternational, particularly against the | workers of the Gropper Knitting mills and decided on the following ated the following demands, around which to rally the workers for strike | struggles: Activities during the months June and July. 1, Continue building and enlarg- | ing shop groups. "2" Continue building organization | committees with representatives from | shop groups. This committee to| consistof at least 50 workers by the beginning of August and. to sub-| divide on a section territorial basis. | of LYING PRESS BOSS stration of fur workers will take | with , 12:30 at 29th St. | brings Continue membership drive| the slogan, “Every member| Bloch Talks Prosperity in a new member before} y ‘ x eee | But Fires ‘Em 4. Establish 1 or 2 knitgoods| NEW YORK. — Paul Bloch, own-" centers (markets) jer of chain’ of capitalist newspapers Activities during the season: | who has been printing a lot of bunk 1. Initiate an organization drive. | about “prosperity coming”, and who ivip this drive, | publicly announced he would not lay Puseag fois Grtye, uen dato ile any of his workers during the eee for simi kes. | present crisis, last Saturday fired:28 | of his news writers. An ad manager, 3. Strikes and stoppages shall be| who haq been with the paper 45 conducted according to the follow-| years, was thrown on the streeig. ing program: ! Salaries of other employes were om. Demands: | ‘Over 25 per cent of the Park Ave. 1. A 44 hour week without a de-| Office staff were laid off. Besides crease of wages _ | firing office workers’ and news writ- 2. Recognition of shop committees | ¢"" maloch, Kigked. ou: ee: AUMibye. oF Mics: : 2 | janitors and porters, many of whom and price committees arid: settling of | had been working for the papers from prices before work. 20 td 40 years. LE Wage and price increases. Yet every day in his. editorials this No compulsory overtime. faker writes about “keeping -workers No discharge. pe the payroll,” “prosperity return- Recognition of the Union. |ing”, “keeping up wages”, and such '. Equal division of work. * |lies which all the capitalist’ papers 3. 2. aad During the drive, the plan shall be} | worked out for open air meetings in | every knitgoods section, and for call- | ing in shop groups to meetings for} organization purposes. Headquar-| ters or meeting rooms in the var- spread “to keep the workers -frem fighting against capitalism. A news writers league is being or- ganized by the Trade Union Unity League to fight against wage cuts and the rotten conditions of the ious sections shall be established for this. purpose. The conference also adopted ‘a resolution in support of the striking miners and made a collection of $10 which has been forwarded to the miners. Also a resolution protesting against the frame-up of the nine Scottsboro boys and end the demon-} strations June 27 demanding the | release of the Scottsboro nine. All delegates express enthusiasm and | request all to hep the union pre- pare for the organization drive. news writers. WORKERS— EAT AND’ DRINK THE, BEST AT THE LOWEST PRICES PURE FOOD LUNCH NORTHEAST CORNER 18th ST. & UNIVERSITY PLACE MELROSE | DAIRY ‘EGETARIAN RESTAURANT Comrades Will Always Find ft Pleasant to Dine at Oar Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174th St. Station) TELEPHONE INTERVALE 9—9149 Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day to day struggles. | | | | AMLISEMENTS | | | SEE SOVIET RUSSIA SMASHING ITS WAY TO SOCIALISTIC | SUCCESS AMKINO PRESEN TS RUSSIA'S REMAKING—A Talking Film (In English) “If you want to see # vivid film-talkie exhibition of what is going on in the Soviet Union, see the Five-Year Plan DAILY WORKER. CENTRAL TEEA3A78\M ATS, Ball, 2305 |IEVES. soe to 81.80 St. & Bway! B0c to § Incl. Sunday NOW GILBERT *4 SULLIVANS!""| CAMEO ik '0 42 nd STREET & BWAY A Jaunt Thru Northern Europe NOMADIE Interesting Camera Tour of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany “PATIENCE” “Thrift” Prices Ev, 50 to $2. Wed. Mats. 50c to $1. Sat. Mats. 50¢ to $1.50 Prices: 50¢ to $1.50 ERLANGER THEA, W. 44th street | PEN. 6-7963, Evenings 3:30 2 Wks Begg “PIRATES OF spats Mon., June 29 f 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 No. 505. — Telephone STuyvesant 9-6332. 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. 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. Autos leave every day 11 a. m., Fridays at 10 a, m. and 6:30 p.m, and Saturday, 9 a. m., and 4 p. m. for the camp. ‘These cars brings you directly t 0 the camp. CAMP WOCOLONA Y.—On beautiful Lake Walton—Swimming—Boating, ete. Revolutionary Entertainment. A return ticket to Camp Wocolona is only $2.60 Take the Erie Railroad. MONROE, ee UEEEEEIEIEEEREEEEEEEmEmenee! the 5-YEAR PLAN | Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12th and 18th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 5865 Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St. New York Cooperators’ Patronize SEROY. CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N, f. Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Don aS a Sages P Ysonal Care JOSEPHSON Gottlieb’s Hardware 119 THIRD aveNUH Near 14th st. Stuyvesant 6074 All kinds of ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Cutlery Our Specialty The. DAILY WORKER Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City ‘haat chleniinadsiniasiatnenatsianaaniel QUIET FURNISHED ROOM—Sublet chéap, East 19th St. Phone During paca ae Cea Stuyvesant 9-6332 Day, Shaw or Dunne, Stuyyesant 9-