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

aoe he DAILY. WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931 “~~ Tailors in Mass Meet Draft Demands for a Genuine Strike Committee of 75 Instru sive Work to ( NEW YORK Respor call Rank tee id File ected to Carry on Inten- Irganize Strike mt speed up and wage and the conditions engendered with- gre eme. agreemer children the demagogy of the Hill- evs met mass mee the so-unemployment in- after work t Webster ind is shown to be used @ report of the r eaucrats to their own aq@- strike i lengthy re Unemployment Insurance become a source of graft The nd co disbursements ption. show that this fund was mishand- ming wu ituatior led. The funds are used in order the Hillman ' to secure the payrolls of the officials, ney of tal ments be rade in dues ig the need | stamps instead of cash to the work- or a genu ni Y he ment of the graft fae sharp] scheme initiated by Hillman vorkers Racketeers Hillman’s Gang. YKLYN WORKERS (0 FORM RELIEF : strike. Demanding that upon the shops, lution puts forward the following de- mands JOMMITTEE OF 100 is trying to sidetrack ie of conditions by a fanfare tra-clique fight for control of the money the warning sounded 1 the resolution The resolution joint. that the local racketeer out an integral part of the Hill- man machine and it and its under- will be used against workers in the coming a real strike, based be called the reso- , po aye ad atopy De- Introduction of the 40-hour week, Miners’ Vic tory 1YC=| week werk, guafinies siihinam pends on Workers wage scale, division of work and Saidariky abolition of temporary card sys- oc lidarity tem, increase of unemployed insur- BROOKLYN, N, ¥.—A-meeting of | Suse THnH to 5 peteent Ad Bie éx- all workers volunteeri ganization of a Miners’ Relief Com- mittee of 100 in Williamsburgh will be Thursday, July and, 8 p. m., at the Workers Center, 61 Graham Ave Brooklyn. In a statement given out Brooklyn office for miners’ said: “The victory of the striking mili- tant miners depends upon the soli- darity of the workers throughout the country Relief is the cry of the day for the miners. Food is what the miners need to continue their battle against starvation. The statement further adds that Hoover intervention in the strike tuation in alliance with John L. ‘wis means more terror and sub- agation of workers to return to e mines in worse condition than were before the strike. The olidarity of the workers will smash \ mee against the miners.” Members of working class organ- ations, workers from shops -are -aligd upon to come and help us arm the Williamsburgh Penn.-Ohio viners’ Relief Committee, to help ‘he miners. ing for the or- by the relief it nev VOLUNTEER HELP WANTED: URGENT! If you have an hour or two to! spare Thursday, Friday and Sat-/| way, wont you please come up to the Circulation Department of the Daily Worker, 8th floor, to help get out some important cor- respondence in connection with {the financial campaign. We are badly in need of help and will ap- préciate any assistance you can give us. On— What’s *\. DHURSDA ‘Printing Workers’ Industrial League Will discu e resolution of the | Red International of Labor Unions at 7:30 p.m. at 16 W. 21st St. All prifters and bookbinders are urged to come. Sige Re Joe Hill Branch f a Meets 6:30 p.m. at 130 W. 26th St Mapleton Workers’ Ciab Meets at 8:20 at 1684 66th St Brooklyn. pense of the bosses to be control- led by a rank and file committee to be elected of employed and un- employed at a mass meeting, abo- lition of the impartial machinery, no firing, the right to the job, and all other union conditions to take the place of the present sweat shop conditions. Committee of 75. The Committee of Forty is to be increased to 75 to include employed cutters and tailors. The committes was charged by the assembled work- ers with the task of continuing the / organization of shops, of populariz- ing the rank and file program, of calling meetings of groups In every shop and local, and to oarry on the struggle for improved sonditions. The resolution further the Committee of 75 to issue an open letter to the entire labor movement exposing the racketeering, gangster- ism, graft and corruption of the Hill- man administration. JOB SHARK HAS FOUR ARRESTED. When the owner of a racketeering employment agency pulls out a gun and opens fire on unemployed work- ers, whom do yon think the cops ar- rest? One guess is sufficient: the workers of course! This is at Muller's Employment Agency, 1209 Sixth Ave. This agency had swind- led a worker out of some money making him pay for a job that did not exist employment Council learned of the case and Tuesday a committee went to the agency and demanded the "money back. For answer, the owner, pulled out a gun and started to fire. One bullet ¢ame within four or five inches of hitting | an unemployed worker by the name | of Schwab. Cops immediately ap- | peared on the scene and arrested Perez and Gortez, two of the unem- ployed committee. ‘They were charged with disorderly conduct ana tried Tuesday night in night court, 314 W. 54th St., the murderous Mr. Muller appearing as the compiain- ant The tammany court, fearing the anger of the unempioyed work- barred all members of the Un- instructs | 2 ee { TF TAM Wron j \Jev me Ricer—|| al \| }} | yng ruey Tete Me THAT (ot Tae | | \US. Tae (oLery | ley ANO THe |} |PPaducers | STARVE. | | | | } i | | NEITHER & De You ket oe He’s Right, All Right WHO Do THe TAEIR OWN. LAWS + "UNION THose WORK# MAKE AND THe re Rover By RYAN WALKER THe Tene Me" THAT IN THE USSRATHEY HAVE A 5S Year | Membership Meeting; CEM RAZOR 00. of Knitgoods Workers PUT OVER PIECE anaes eorae mon WORK, CUT PAY the knitgoods dep't., of the Indus- {2 Workers Fire d, trial Union.will take place Thursday | tight after work. Considerable pro- Terrorize Workers on the Job gress has been made in the knitgoods department, since the last organiza- tional conference. The slow period is being utilized, in order to lay the | basis for mass organization campaign ae during the coming season. BROOKLYN, N. Y—Tuesday at 2) 4 report will be given on-the work | Pm. the Gem Razor Oo. here began ig be followed by a discussion, All | the plan of introducing wholesale knitgoods workers, regardless of. | Plece-work for all the workers in the | whether they have already joined the plant. union or not, are called upon to at- | Asa scheme the change from week | tend this meeting. work to piece-work started in one| ~ | department. The “frame makers,” who have for years been working in the plant, were affected by the new speed-up, wage-cut devices of the company. The frame makers’ department on the second floor of the plant were were geiting 33 cents an hour. The company, not satisfied with this miserable wages they were pay- ing to the workers came forward to make more profits and speed the workers more. The plans in the introduction of piéce-work means a wage réduction of $3 and $4 per week per man, | The company demands that the workers are to put out 1,200 frames a day at 18 cents per hundred. The amount demanded by the ¢s’ Industrial Union: |comany cannot be put out even by| R. & R., 231 W. 29th St.: | | the most exerienced man on the diate $5 increase for every worker job. With a good day’s work all a | and an additional $5 on August ist. man can put out is some 900frames, | All finishing and lining to be done we INDUSTRIAL UNION. WINS SEVERAL WAGE INCREASES Company | Union Panic Call on Police Allies: - NEW YORK —The following shops | shops are still on strike: Weissberg | & Fassman, 330 7th Ave.; Bader & Son, 214 W. 29th St.; Kushner &) | pany aroused the entire department. | The workers refused to accept the bosses’ changes. At this revolt of Agency Give Again Fake Passes BROOKLYN, N. Y¥.—Some 200 | workers waited from 6:30 a. m. until| Williams String duet 10 a. m. for a chance to get & job| enrich the program for the eyening. at the Gem Razor Co., yesterday. ‘COPS A H A R G Ei mir ee TOILERS WAITING) ‘FOR JOB AT GEM State ‘Employment Friday, July 3rd BROOKLYN, N, Y.—A Vaudeville Party has been arranged by the | newly formed Williamsburgh Branch | | of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights for Friday, July 3rd, 1931, at | Graham Ave., Brooklyn. The star attractions are many. | Palomar Bros. will be there. The Sutton’s Quartet and Ben will further All proceeds will go for the defense Girls and boys, men and women of the nine Scottsoro Negro boys. ere all too weary to grin. An old fossil of a watchman kept to push the workers back outside of (the gates. In many instances the watchman would say, “If you ain’t gonna listen |to what I tell you, you ai get an interview for a job.” { “State Employment Agency” | | at Jay and Johnson Ave., aware of |the fact that twelve workers were | |fired a day before because they re- in | fused to accept ptece work and wage cut, had immediately sent another batch of workers, thus increasing the | number on the standing line at the | posses of Paterson were forced to re- | factory gates. The 'é gonna | Make it a Scottsboro night. all to the affair. BREAD STRIKE Come ‘Meeting Friday of Pat- erson Workers PATERSON, No J. — The baker duce the price of bread from 8 cents The workers were told to wait,| to 5 cents a ound. Two of the baker- were settled today by the Fur De-| however, from 9 a. m. when the em- partment of the Needle Trades Work- | ployment oftice was to open; the while the others were forced to come ies settled with the strike committee. watchman announced it would open | down in price. The only bakery that imme- | “later” and “later.” refuses to come down in prices, that When 10 o'clock arrived the po- | Slugs and arrests the pickets, is the lice were called to chase the work-| | ers away from the gates. Those workers who were faked by Purity Bakery, a socialist co-opera- | tive. The strikers are organizing block and house committees that which would mean that the worker inside. Rose & Greenberg, 330 Sev- a ; cannot earn more than $1.62 a day. enth Ave.: An immediate increase of |*he “State Employment Agency” | will help them carry on the fight ‘This dastardly move of the com-|$10 for every worker. Following’ Were also chased away by the cops. | more effectively. A mass meeting The appearance of the cops aid] has been Say for Friday eve- | not quite please the workers. Shouts of “ want to eat,” 8 p. m. at the Workers Center, 61 GOES FORWARD JULY 4 WEEKEND AT FOUR CAMPS rogram Art ranged by| ae Party District | . The Communist Party will take; over the program at the four prole- | tarian camps upstate Fourth of | July week-end. Theatrical, musical | and sports talent from the city will be present and featured on the pro- | gram. ‘ituation. Local and national leaders of the | © Me | bloody war Party will be among the speakers at the affairs as Camps Kinderland, I y, Nitgedaiget and Wocolona. Swimming, soccer, baseball and other sports will feature promin- ently on the program. All in all the program for the week-end promises to be quite en-} joyable. For further information and rates call Stuyvesant 9-6332, or stop in at | Room 505, 32 Union Square. | DEFENSE OF MILL RY { WORKERS THURSDAY EVE. | NEW YORK.—A meeting of active | millinery workers will be held on} ‘Thursday night right after work at | office of the union, 131 W. 28th; The question of unemployment, &t. the Berg & Aronoff strike and other important questions will be taken up is meeting. All millinery work- called upon to attend. > ning at Carpenters’ Hall, where a re- | port will be given on the situation | and future plans made. All workers of Paterson are urged to attend the | meeting and also to participate in| the daily picket lines. if you | | what happened Tuesday | The Madison Square Un- | Muller, | the workers in the department the company became alarmed. However, to terrorize the rest of the workers in the plant the man- ager ordered to “pay out” those who refuse to accept the company's pro- | posals Twelve men were fired. The work- ers from the other departments. even though a number of them are still | working on week-work, will soon feel the new changes now going on within the plant. In a short period of time all work- ers will be put on a piece-work basis. thus reducing the wages of everyone in the plant. At present, beside the introduction | young girls. This means that a number of} workers who have worked within the | plant for a number of years will be fired, The workers who until last week were getting time and a kuarter for overtime, plus 25 cents for lunch, | Son, 253 W. 27th St. The campaign is developing in full swing, workers employed at dogskins was held in the office of the union. Th meeting was well attended and the workers decided upon plans for im-| mediate struggle for July raises and) improvement of conditions. There is a great deal of interest manifested in the membership meet- ing that will take place Thursday | night at 7 o'clock at Irving Plaza,| 15th St. and Irving Place. dustrial Union has called upon all workers, regardiess of whether they are right wingers or left wingers, to | participate of piece-work, the company is als0 | present their plans for intensifying replacing a number of men with the struggle to reestablish union con- ditions in the fur trade. Last night a meeting of th in the discussion an A meeting of Negro furriers wil be held in the office of the union, | 131 W. 28th St., Thutsday, right after work, After this meeting the Negro workers will go to the membership | meeting. The successful organization drive | The In- ie ‘The Boro Hall Unemployed Branch | e|held a meeting at the State Em- | ployment Agency and exposed the {CAMEONOW |fake way they give passes to work- |g 42. nd STREET & B'WAY ~ ers, referring to the passes given to | the workers who were sent to the) Gem. | The Boro ‘Hall Branch of the Un- employed Council pledged to carry | — on work among the unemployed in | ina RT =a SULLIVANS sia the territory in solidarity with the Gem workers for organization of |“PIRATES OF PENZANCE” these workers. “Thrift” Prices Ev. 50 te $2. Wed. Mats. 50c to $1, Sat. While the meeting was going on| Mate, ‘Bde te $1.50 “HELL BELOW -TERO” Adventures in the mountains of the moon in equoterial Afric: | At the Agency a cop from 100th pre-| ERLANGER THEA, W. 44th Street ‘cinet, Badge No. 6868, made an at-| PEN. 6-7963. Evenings 8:30 (New Modern Air Cooling 8. m) tempt to disrupt the meeting, by 2 Wks Ber’s SEATS trying to hold a meeting for him-| suny is) LOLANTHE’™ Now | can’t give us a job, give us eat,” were | heard from almost all lips of work- | |ers present there, | 6th Ave: BIGGESE SHOW IN NEW YORK | sre | John Barrymore | acts | in “SVENGALI” MODERN VIRGIN Better than “Young Sinners” And by the same , author A} With Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Rawlinson and ROGER PRYOR BOOTH THEA. 45th W. of Bway.) Evs. 8:50. Only Mat. Wed., 2:40, No Performances Saturday self. i‘ The workers gave him @ number | of arguments that put the cop out- | side of the picture as a speaker. Then, in order to evade the anger ! | of the workers, he jumped on a car | | and departed. | ny 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. |Worker Servicemen to Elect for August Ist Demonstration All Workers’ Ex-Servicemen are requested by the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vice Men’s League to be present at a regular meeting of th organization | this Friday, July 3rd at 79 Bast 10th Street Committees are to be appointed for the August first Anti-Imperialist War Demonstration, We ex-servicemen who fought th the last war to end all future wars, are realizing the seriousness of the Preparations for another are under way by the same boss class and it is therefore |the duty of all ex-sérvicemen, whose wounds are not yét healed from the last war, to lead the August first Demonstration against another cap- italist war. We also appeal to all exiservice- | men who are not yet members of our \ Organization to join in protest against |the coming imperialist war. “SEROY 657 Allerton Avonu’ Extabrook ayis BRON Now SPEND YOUR.VACATION ATi=— “The Farm in the Pines” Electric Light, Near M. Lake, B.F.D. No. | Box 78 All Improvements M. OBERKIRCH, Kingston, N.Y. Phone Stuyvesant 5816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all cadicals, meet 302 E. 12th St, New York MELROSE DAIRY VSFerrarian RESTAURAS Comrades Will Always Fi Pleasant to Dine at Our F 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., (near 174th St. Station) RELEPHONE INTERVALE 9—9149 Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12th and t3th Sta. Strictly Vegetarian food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant f Sa ke 1600 MADISON AVENUE on and Pi employed Council from the court- feeregs ok vibe coring eastern lof the Industrial Union in the fur| All the workers showed that they. Phone University 663 aispices of t room. elie ah trade and the response of the work-| will participate in the City Hall dem- {| ~ ee ona Lat Perez and Cortez were defended by | ‘hat everyone will be working on) ESe St) So rte union has|onstration for immediate reiet ont] CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N. Y. ~Boats leave for the camp every day from 42nd Street Ferry | Good entertainment—DANCES at the Camp BEATRICE—CALL OR WRITE AT | “straight time” and no more “25 sells ‘cents to be given out for lunches.” | created a panic in the ranks of the | company union agents, In Wednes- The methods of terror going on as pe in every department, in order to in- | day’s “Forward” Kaufman 4s raising . Branch 401 1.W.0. Youth Branch Meets at 2061 Bryant Ave., Bronx alk on “Health and Youth.’ Jacques Buitenkant, representing the | New York District of the Interna- |tional Labor Defense. Despite the Tuesday at 12:30 p. m. EAT IN JACK’s LUNCH BAR AND mtown Youth Branch 1 evidence produced that Muller had | 7 : | th f vadketesti d is call-| ONCE. MOTHER t 134 E. Seventh | .|the cry of racketeering and is cal . IS DYING FOR > SDiseussion st the literary ‘eve | @eliberately opened fire on the work | AMSA te Renters is Becoming oD) 4 +o, g conference with the police| YOU. CAMP UNITY, WINGDALE, N. Y. RESTAURANT Autos leave from 143 E. 103rd St. every day at 10 a. m, Fridays at 10 a. m: and 6:30 p. m. and Saturday, 9 a. m,, and 4 p. m. for the camp The comrades are requested to come on time, in order not to remain behind. CAMP WOCOLONA art New Russia’ a's Primer. | ers, the two workers were found guilty. They will be sentenced today (Thursday). But Muller was still not satisfied. | When the trial was over, he went | | outside, pointed out two more un-|comany straw boss immediately had |employed workers and had the cops | him fired. arrest them. The New York I. L. D.| ‘Terror, more seed-up, more wage- | commissioner in an effort to aid him lin strike-breaking activities. The workers in the fur market today an- swered this new strike-breaking scheme of Kaufman by coming in larger numbers to the office of the union and taking out books of the On deartment 5 last week the workers were ordered to work over- | time until 8 .m. A worker refused for some very good reasons. The Perth Amboy Renders’ Meeting t 8 p.m. at 308 Elm St. Movie, | fominent speakers. All reader id friends of the Daily Worker are wed to try to come is 36 AVENUE A (Corner 3rd Street, New York City) |Picnic of U. C. W. W. of Lakewood Vicinity Sunday, July 5, 1931, 1 P. M.| | Downtown Unemployed Council Holds an open-air meeting at 7th At. and Ave. A at 7:30 p.m. At 11:30 SOLLIN’S +m, an Open-air meeting will be held | ; Industrial Union. ot Leonard and Church. |is now seeking to have them re-/ cuts, is expected in the plant. The At MONROE, N. ¥.—On beautiful Lake Walton—Swimming—Boating, etc. : i Fai Be sosciitey tongue: s(t bosses will succeed if the workers will ae vidgtiadiotar ae MR. FEREEDLANDERS FARM Revolutionary Entertainment. <ESTAURANT Holds its regular indoor meeting | allow themselves to be terrorized by Hi bs nay F 4 to join the rank WEST FARMS A return ticket to Camp Wocolona is only $2.60 {15 EAST 14TH STREET t Pythian Hall on Madison Ave. | EVOLUTION FILM, “MYSTERY OF | the company’s straw bosses. In the morning ani Take the Erie Railroad. ond 125th St, at & p.m LIFE,” AT CAMEO FRIDAY Th th " to give and file organization committee. Farmingdale, New Jersey 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents neath eanswer the workers are ivi generat, memnershin 4 meetin at | pain aC aenaes why stay ot to Mee ag ee te vee oes Admission 25¢ for Family CAMP KINDERLAND : Regular Dinner 65 Cents 2 ‘ om 3, at 30 p.m a ni jay-Ol men Teplace em 1 Rota al ue teen p Life,” which will open at the Cameo = fe pa ieaiahite wae ue ORGAN. Perth Aiihoy Proceeds to the Daily Worker Fund ceedgebis JUNE yin am ey epee Haar must . | . office one week in vance at /—Children Perth Amboy uy Worker eee Seine einen xo IZATION. e r of 7 years or over are accepted.—Registration for adults at Gottlieb’s Hardware Witt noid am important meeting at |in the film and talks on evolution| Every Gen Razor worker should|/ READERS MEETING 32 Union Square—Rates for adults $17 per week. cis gaia SAVER CE 2 p.m. at Workers’ Center, 308 become a member of the Metal Near 14th St. Stayvesans 5074 Imperial Barber Shop ) |in Dayton and the defense of Scopes Fe eens, And frends of whe lin the evolution trial, Dr. H. M,| Trades Workers’ League, the only) Thursday, July 2, 1931, 8 P M. | J. DIAZ, Prop. For information about Call Stuyvesant 9-6332 Alt Weas ‘et sround, y, _ in| union of the metal workers which 1890 SEVENTH AVE. these f bre * * * | Parshley, professor of zoology | : At Bet. 114th and 218th Ste. any of these four camps ae ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Outdoor Meeting | Smith College, is co-talker with | fights im their interests. 308 ELM STREET + Ot the Workers) Ex-Servicemen’s| Darrow in “The Mystery of Life,”| Prepare today to fight back your | maa aah Cutlery Our Specialty eha “University Pivat 730 pm. | And the task of expounding the | boss within the plant. Section No, Perth Amboy, New Jersey a scientific data falls on his shoul- Get in touch with the Metal Trades VEGE-TARRY INN Rthiationst Later, Sports Club W. LR. CHILDREN'S CAMP Use yonr Red Shock Troop List | have a place or who can find a wery day ex your job. The worker | 4 will helo save Poets a/ 1 UNION SQUARE sTH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care Registration hours from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. Special meeting at 7:30 p.m, at 227 7 | ders , Workers’ League, 16 W. 2ist St., New | ane ll fe FS CREME TOPE ——— | York, or with the Brooklyn office, 61 | Movie, Prominent Speakers BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD Advertise Your Union Meetings FRIDAY | ACT IMMEDIATELY! Graham Ave. MODERN IMPROVEMENTS Wi Here. For Information Write to ete ela aigaal 5 SRT en | Organize and strike against piece- | — =|] $3.00 PER DAY—$20.00 PER WEEK ingdale, New York Advertising Department The one mon istric ‘ain- | a E a {fii te Gato the Traden | Union work, against wage-cuts, against lay. yy ig (bengue, mosis “at 8 pine at | | ing School opens Monday, July 6) | off 1} Intern’l Workers Order P. 0..BOX 50 OPENS JULY 6 The DAILY WORKER Manhattan Lyceum, 66 12th St. || A number of students have no|| Join the Metal Trades Workers BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.! 50 East 13th St. New York (it | ’ > ¥ i lace to sleep. Comrades who| | DENTAL DEPARTMENT x, Pe SNS ‘i * oh ' i | |place to sleep. Comrades — League. ) eiswal ghawoon ilies a: Register your child now! Proletarian rates i Take ferries at 23rd_St., Chrletopher & Barclay St., or Hudson Tubes to ‘ken, Lackawanna Mallroad Berkeley Helghts, New dorsey Soviet “Forced Labor”-—-Bedacht’ | series in pamphlet form at 10 cents place for these comrades must | immediately notify Comrade Gra- | SUNNY ROOM—Sublet or rent very reasonable. Near park, 68 Lenox to 799 Broadway, Room 330 Progen?