The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1931, Page 2

Conference Friday to Fight Sell Out By ALP. Unions Delegates to W IR Conf. “Report On Building | of Workers N. J., Aug. 31—The among the si PATERSON, activity event the sellout of the st A. F. L, machine, The prepare the strengthening of the lines, greater unity in the tion to prever nst those 1t-door mass Tuesday lace ers ne speaker be Julie will Conference Friday A great effort is being din all N.T,W. and for the conference will take place Friday, Septem- ‘urn ‘Hall at 8 p. m. "for the pankese at a} Wednesday night the Syri- rs will meet at the Turn to mobilize for the conference the Jewish and Italian workers meet on the samé night. A. F, L. Sell Out Workers importance of the conference time ean be seen from the revelations that have come out about the continuation of the A. F. L. sell- out plans. Last Thursday the A. F. of L. leaders had the offer of the manufacturers for a five cent price voted down at their meeting. The United Front General Strike Com- mittee and the National . Textile Workers Industrial Union immedi- ately pointed out that this was a maneuvre on the part of these mis- leade ers at a price slightly over five cents which would be agreeable to the boss- es, The very next morning after the | five cent price had been voted down workers in several shops of the U. T. W. went back to work at slightly over this price. A list of these shops is now being compiled and will be published soon by the N.T.W.U. In all of these shops only the weavers were taken into account in the fake se‘tlement all of the other crafts were foreed to go back at the same condi- tions as previously or even worse. At the meeting at which the manu- facturers price offer was voted down the leaders of the A. F. of L. unions The were given the right to negotiate at | any price ovpr this level. They have | already let workers go back at. this | price, not above it, and the scheme as @ whole means only sellout of the strikers by the fakers. Svecial Picket Line Mobilization Tuesday morning there will be a soecial mobilization for the picket line, Every member of the strike com- mittee will be in the line which will be led by J. Rubin, secretary of the Onited Front General Strike Com- mittee. The picketers will carry signs nd will concentrate on one mill where the workers have gone back on. a fake settlement. This picket dem- onstration will show the workers that the N.T.W.U. will expose and fight the fake settlements to the finish. Shop meetings will be held Tues- day morning and others will be held every day until the Friday confer- ence. These shop meetings will dis- cuss the strike situation and will elect delegates to the conference. Every attempt is being made by the N.T. W.U. workers to reach U.T.W. strik- ers on the picket line, around the shops and in the section headquart- ers to get them to elect delegates as well Unity Efforts Gain The efforts which are being made to gain unity on the picket line with the U.T.W. workers :are getting re- sults despite the opposition of the U. TUESDAY International Labor Defense, Gene Debs Branch Has its regular meetings on Wed- nesday in the Shule, at 2700 Bronx Park East, Bronx. All invited. Comer om” Red Builders News Club. will hold an open-air meeting 125th Street and Lexington Ave. Bp. m. at at ee he International Labor Defense, Steve Katovia Branch will have an open-air meeting 7th Street ong Ave, B, te 8 p.m. 1Wo Youth Branch No. 7. will meet September Ist, 8 p. 11 Fulton Ave., Middle Vintage, 4 All young workers and students in- vited at * WEDNESDAY Workers & a rvicemen’s Lengue Branch No. 1. Don't forget the executive meeting September 2nd, 7:30 p. m. at 79 East 10th Street. Red Builders © will hold an open-air meeting at 1661st Street and Prospect Ave. for popularizing the Daily Worker, a ae THURSDAY Workers E-servicemen’s League Branch No. 1, will hold an Open-air meeting on Soth Street between Leington and Ave, at 8 p.m. Members should ve the hall at 7:30 p.m. Workers Esperanto Group, will have an important member- ship meeting at the Hungarian Workers Home, 350 Bast 81st Street in Room 8._ All workers interested in learning Esperanto should attend. CR BA Franch 405 Youth Section Iwo, has its regular meetings this Thursday, September 3rd at 134 E. ith Street, at 8:30 p. m. ae “ate Printing Workers Industrial Leagne. will hold ecinl membership dat 7:30 p,m. in the Bast 19th St. Printing worgers of all crafts are “ig to attend, lactase made to get | 's in order to sell out the work- | International Relief CW. ‘Associated leaders. These eaders try every method to prevent mis: Gilt Edge Building, Monday morning, the picket line of the N-T.W. and the U.T.W. worke! of the Prudential ilk Company was being led by Ben | Kirshbaum of the NTWU. The U.T. W. agent tried to break the unity of the picketers by making vicious re- | marks about a ing the line. and 2 N.T.W.U. captain lead- He even went so far | orce a captain of the as to try U.T.W. to head the line. The workers both U.T.W. and N.T.W.U. protested against these actions. The U.T.W. ers asked what difference it de if the line were led by a N.T.W. U. captain so long as they Ses ed] AFL Tries to Break Unity The same attempt to break unity of the strikers was shown | the picket line at the Mercaritile Si | Co. on Madison Ave. Here two NTWU , | Workers joined the picket line of |discussed the need for unity with | the other workers on the picket line. | They pointed out they could get out | the scabs better if they were united |and also discussed the Friday con- ference with these workers. The UTW | workers were interested in the plans | for unity but as soon as the UTW |captain noticed this he tried to iso- late the NTWU strikers. He demand- ed that the workers march two by two and that those from the shop should march together while all other workers should march separately, The UTW-Associated fakers do not want unity, because if the workers are united in struggle they cannot be sold | out by the fakers. The délegates to the Workers In- ternational Relief conference at Pittsburgh reported at the mass meeting this morning. They saw and | heard of the dire need of relief for | the miners and pointed out the need for relief and the building of the WIR not only for the miners but for the textile and all other struggles of the working class. The Lithuanian workers’ at their outing yesterday raised money for the relief of the textile workers by selling clothing, articles and furni- ture. They have decided to have these picnies every two weeks. The admission is free and all money col- lected is turned over to the relief fund, A mass meeting is being called for Wednesday at the Turn Hall by the Women’s Department of the NTWU for the purpose of hearing a speaker | who Has just returned from the So- viet Union who will describe the fa- vorable conditions of the women workers there. At this meeting the conference on Friday will be dis- cussed and delegates will be elected to it. There will be a program in- cluding a strike play, singing and drawing by a cartoonist, Election Meeting Is Broken Up By Cops in Port Richmond NEW YORK.—An election cam- paign meeting of the Communist Party was broken up last Saturday night by Port Richmond police in Staten Island. ‘ A permit for the meeting had been secured over the telephone. Between four and five hundred workers were listening to the speakers when, after the meeting had proceeded for more than an hour, half a dozen police thugs demanded of the speaker a written permit for the meeting. The speaker informed him that as usual with election campaign meetings no written permit was required. The po- lice then demanded that the meeting be closed. The speakers refused and continued to address the workers, ap- pealing to the workers to support their right of free speech and free- dom of assembly. The crowd cheered the speaker. The police then tried to break up the meeting by the tactic of “invit- viting the speaker to come with him to find out about the permit. The speaker insisted that the police should themselves find out about the permit. Finally some one of the committee volunteered to go with the officers. The desk sergeant informed the officers the meeting was proper but should be moved to the next corner. The meeting was moved, when a police sergeant appeared and started the argument all over again. In- formed of what had taken place, he pulled the speaker from the platform and threatened him with arrest, and with half a dozen other uniformed thugs attacked the crowd of workers, breaking up the meeting. At the same time a meeting which the “socialist” party was attempting to hold on another corner was al- lowed to proceed. This meeting had no audience as all of the workers had come over to the Communist meet- ing. It was the socialist gang which | urged their police allies to break up | the meeting. CALL DRESSMAKERS TO MASS MEET ON SEPT. 3 The Rank and File Committee of 25 of the dress department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, yesterday sent out a call to all dressmakers to attend a mass meeting in Cooper Union, Thursday, September 3. The question of a drive in the trade against worsen'ng conditions and Wage cuts by a united front effort ae be the chief point of the agenda. the strikers. At the | the | at | THE ADVENTURES _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931, ——-=" OF BILL WORKER WHAT'S You CRYIN? | SAY HALF PINT, SOLIDARITY MEET TO PUSH \“Free Imperial Valley Fighters, Harlan Miners” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONT) Defense, which is leading the cam- paign for the release of all class war prisoners, will bring forward the de- mand for immediate liberation of Mooney, Billings and all of labor's fighters held in the prison dungeons of the capitalist class. The ILD yesterday wrote to the WIR requesting that the issue of Tom Mooney’s release, as well as all other class war prisoners be included in the Labor Day demonstration, and that the ILD participate in the af- fair. The WIR replied, agreeing will- ingly, to the suggestion made by the defense organization. The correspondence exchanged be- tween the Workers International Re- lief and the International Labor De- fense follows: August 31, 1931. Workers International Relief, New York City. Dear Comrades: We have noted that you are ar- ranging on Labor Day a big soli- darity demonstration in Starlight Park in behalf of the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners who have been struggling for many weeks against starvation and hunger. At this gathering undoubtedly many thou- sands of New York workers will participate. We feel it is appropri- ate on this day to bring forward the issue of the freedom of Tom Mooney and the other class war prisoners. | The arrests and terrorization of | the workers of the United States are closely interlocked with the of- fensive against the working class, against their wages and worsening living conditions through mass un- -employment, etc., and the issue of Tom Mooney, who is a symbol of the oppression of the working class by the trust magnates and bankers fits in with the purpose of such a demonstration as you have ar- ranged. We would therefore request that this demonstration be utilized to open up the renewed struggle for the liberation of Tom Mooney. ‘We would ask that speakerss of the ILD address the gathering, that a resolution be adopted at this demonstration and that we appeal to the workers to take’ the issue of Mooney to their organizations and to commence the most vigorous and most determined struggle for his liberation, in which also the issues of the Scottsboro cases and the 34 miners of Harlan, Ky., who are now being tried on a framed up charge of murder must also be brought forward. In view of the shortness of the time we feel sure that this request will not only heartily meet with your approval, but also will find a hearty welcome among the thousands of workers who are be- ing aroused to demonstrate on La- bor Day in behalf of the reyolu- tionary labor movement, Fraternally yours, INT'L LABOR DEFENSE. International Labor Defense, New York City. Dear Comrades: The Workers International Re- Net gladly accepts the proposal to bring forward at Starlight Park on Labor Day the demand of the working class for the release of Tom Mooney and the class war prisoners. Tom Mooney’s imprisonment for the past fifteen years, after the ex- posure of the ghastly attempt to hang him by a conspiracy of cor- poration detectives, police and offi- cial heads of a corrupt trade union burocracy, is a monument to the martyrdom of the whole working class. Only the mass pressure of the workers of the whole world saved Mooney from death on the gallows, and only furtheg mass pressure can compel the corrupt officials to release him and the hundreds of other prisoners of the class struggle now suffering in capitalist jails. We will make 2 place for your speakers on the program of the “Solidarity Festival’ on Labor Day. Fraternally yours, WORKERS’ INT'L RELIEF, MINE RELIEF |Bronx Workers March Against Persecutions Of the Foreign Born Six hundred workers marched in a demonstration against persecution of foreign born workers in a parade from 161 Prospect Ave, to Wilkins and Intervale, the Bronx, Saturday after- noon, Negro and white workers marched the entire distance with many others joining in. Many children joined the march and later joined the Young Pioneers. Thousands of workers who lined the sidewalks manifested sympa- thetic attention to the slogans and | purpose of the demonstration. Many worker organizations and clubs of the Bronx took part in this demonstration. WIN STRIKE IN MILLINER SHOP Milliners Make Boss Give Higher Prices As a result of the organization drive. conducted by the Headwear Dept. of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union the trimmers of James §. Duncan, formerly Cohen and Kaplan, have gained an increase from 25 cents to $1.00 per dozen hats, and union recognition. Everyone of the 40 trimmers laid down their work when Mr, Cohen refused to ad- mit their organizer into the work- room for the purpose of helping the committee to settle the prices. The strike was declared Thursday after- noon at 3 o'clock and by Friday morning, the firm realized that they will not be able to carry out their threat to employ Local 24 grils. They inserted an addin the papers but not one girl cared to apply for the job when they saw the picket line down- stairs, As a result of this the bosses came to terms Friday, granting all the demands of the workers. The organizatio ndrive is going on in full speed. All millinery workers are urged to bring their complaints to the union so that the union might help them in improving their con- ditions. There will be an organization committee meeting on Thursday, September 3rd, right after work, at the office of the union. “SOCIALISTS” AID HIM SAYS MAC DONALD ‘bi yard From Wall Street Bankers NEW YORK.—That it is not his fellow “Socialists” who make it diifi- cult for him to put over the pro- gram of the leading British bankers and other exploiters, but the rank and file trade unionists who show signs of putting up a militant class fight, was the declaration made Sun- day by Ramsay MacDonald. Showing his basic agreement with the so-called opposition leaders like Henderson and company in the la- bor party and Trade Union Council, Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the new British imperialist national coal- ition government, said: “It is not the Socialists who stand in our path. It is the trade union section which opposes us, The trade unionist (that is, the rank and file worker) looks at his money and says, ‘I am this much poorer,’” In short, MacDonald does not fear the “Socialists” in the opposition, all (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Hoover Speech Shown “Hot Air’ in Article Just how much “hot air” is in the speeches made by government offi- cials from Hoover down is constantly being exposed by contradictions in what they say in speeches and what actually happens. In an article on unemployment, written by Royal Meeker and appear- ing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the writer states in the first part that “,..the expenditures for public works of all kind by federal, state and local governments has increased but little since the onset of the de- pression in 1929.” But still Hoover in his Indianpo- lis speech said “..,I am a strong advocate of expansion of useful pub- trebled our federal expenditure.” One way to help the Sovict Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. DEMONSTRATE! : ON SOLIDARITY DAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH With the Striking Miners and Textile Workers at STARLIGHT PARK in the Afternoon and at BRONX COLISEUM r (adjoining) in the Evening SPEAKERS; WM. Z. FOSTER, WM. WEINSTONE and others GAMES: Under the direction of the Labor Sports Union DANCING: Indoor and Outdoor ENTERTAINMENT: Continuous on huge open-air stage CONCERT by 50-piece Orchestra PAGEANT by Workers’ Laboratory Theatre Dancing and Continuous Entertainment in the Afternoon in Starlight Park Concert, Pageant and Speakers at Mass Meeting in the Coliseum at Night Restaurant Operated by the Food Workers’ Industrial Union Games, ADMISSION,-15 CENTS; COMBINATION TICKET, 50 CENTS Under the Auspices of the W, I. R. and Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee Communist Party Week in Wocolona ‘THIS ENTIRE WEEK IS PARTY WEEK IN CAMP WOCO- LONO. DON’T FAIL TO COME OUT FOR THE WEEK OR LABOR DAY WEEK-END.—YOU MUST REGISTER. Communist Party Week in Nitgedaiget ANSWER THE CALL OF THE CAMPS FOR THE PARTY WEEK. JOIN US IN NITGEDAIGET FOR THE WEEK OR LABOR DAY WEEK-END.—YOU MUST REGISTER. "9 Gets ‘High Praise | | lic works in hard times and we have | ,, —Try’n Laugh That Off— By RYAN WALKER Vou BertTER FIND Your | Pappy — HIM FoR (Ts | | A HARD WI Sit ee | ei ap as TE T WAS IN Wree yy He Sovier |\YOO'LL Nesp | \GOIN' To BE UmMonl, NTEl2 bee 000,002 Plans for | Solidarity Day to Be Made on Wed.) Final plans for the Solidarity |Day Festival and demonstration | to be held 2t Starlight Amusement | | Park, September 7, will be drawn |up and approved at a meeting in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., 8 p.m., Wednesday, September 2, All participants are urgently Tequested to be present. BATHROBE SHOPS DRAWN IN DRIVE More Workers Joining in Movement [Final RED RALLIES IN JERSEY TO SPEED nor Ends Tour The organization campaign in the bathrobe trade a few days ago is spreading out in the various sections. Today two Brooklyn shops joined the ranks of the strikers, A mass meeting was held where Oswaldo, the organizer of the In- dustrial Union reported on the con- ditions of the strikers and proposed the strengthening of the organiza- tion committee. A number of addi- tional workers joined the organiza- tion committee and immediately committees were organized to call down some shops that still remained at work. The settlement committee is in ses- sion acting on the new applications that have come in during the day. Carteret, Freehold, Kearney, membership received, well known speakers. ty candidates as speakers. Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker, AMUSEMENTS WORLD FAVORITE OPERA “THE MIKADO” “Thrift” Prices Ev*. 5% to $2. Wed. Mats. 50c to $1. Sat. ———_ Mats, 50 to $1.50 ERLANGER THEA, W. 44th Street ey 66-7963. Evenings 8:30 Next Opera beg. Mon., Sept. 7 “Merry Widow” with Donald Brian 8 42 ad STREET & B'WAY TOLSTOLS MIGHTY STORY THE WHITE DEVIL With LIL DAGOVER and IVAN MOSJOUKINE The Jew Helps Russia Build A Stirring Epic of War and Revolution in which the declassed are reborn— \> Masterpiece of Soviet Cinema Art ,¥ EVERY DAY One Week Only CONTINUOUS FROM 1 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT - FOLKS THEATRE SECOND AVE. and 12th ST. Prices: Matinee 250 Evening 35¢ and 50c Communist Party Week in Unity WE EXPECT EVERY WORKER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PARTY WEEK, COME ALONG TO CAMP UNITY FOR THE WEEK OR LABOR DAY WEEK-END. YOU MUST REGISTER. RED FRONT OUR BATTLE IS GREAT, OUR FIGHTING IS VITAL PROLETRIAN CAMPS MAKE US READY AND STRONG PROLETARIAN CULTURE, SPORT AND RECITAL TEACH US TO FIGHT WITH A SONG COME TO WOCOLONA COME TO NITGEDAIGET COME TO UNITY AND KINDERLAND— THEY ARE ALL WITHIN THE REACH OF YOUR HAND Automobiles leave for Camp Unity every day 9 to 19 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. from 143 E. 103rd St. FRIDAY—9 to 10 a. m. and 6 p. m. SATURDAY—9 a. m. to 10 a. m. and 5 p, m. STNDAY—9 a. m. to 10 a m. We also take passengers to Kinderland Headquarters for Children—143 E, 103rd~St, for information call at the office of all 4 camps 32 UNION SQUARE, ROOM 505, TEL, STuy. 9-6332 Communist Party Week in Kinderland YOU CAN'T STAY HOME WHEN ALL WORKERS GO TO THE CAMPS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PARTY WEEK. COME EO KINDERLAND FOR THE WEEK OR LABOR DAY WEEK-END.—YOU MUST REGISTER. ELECTION DRIVE Candidate for Gover- NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 31—The Communist Party Election Campaign in New Jersey is going ahead with full force. A successful state tour in behalf of the Party candidate for governor, John J. Ballam has just been completed; more then twenty cities were covered in this tour. An excellent response was received from the workrs, especially in those cities where a Communist meeting was held for the first time. Attendance at the meetings was from 300 to as high as 1,000, especially was the attend- ance big in the new cities, such as Bay- onne, Hoboken, etc, Much literature was sold, and applications for Party An election campaign rally will be held in Elizabeth Thursday, Septem- ber 3, 8 P. M. with five open air meet- ings in the sécond Ward where the Party has a candidate for Council- man, R. Edwards, a Negro worker. This rally will end with a torch light parade to a central point in that terrirtory which will be addressed by Friday, September 4 a big indoor election rally will be held in Pater= son at 8 P. M., with Communist Par- Saturday, September 5 an election rally will be held in Perth Amboy at 8 P. M. with about five meetings in various parts of the city, all to end at a definite time and march to the GuLBERT =™4 SULLIVAN SOW *CAMEONOW central rally at the City Market Grounds, at the corner of Smith and Elm Sts. at which the Communist Party Assembly candidates of Middle- sex County and well known Commu- nist Party speakers will speak. In addition to these rallies the reg- ular weekly election campaign meet- ing will be held in Linden, Jercey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, New Bruns- wick, South River, Trenton, Passaic, Lodi, ete, Meetings are also being ar- ranged for in Long Branch, Carteret, Freehold, Atlantic City, Roselle, Mor- ristown, Kearney and several other cities. In Morristown for the first time in the history of the Communist Party a meeting will be held Satur- day, September 5 at the Green Park, opposite the Lyons Theatre at 8 P. M. County conferencés will be held Sunday, September 14 in Union and Hudson Counties. A tour of Middle- sex County cities will be made by County candidates beginning Septem- ber 15. A County tour is also being arranged in Essex County. The New Jersey Election Platform of the Communist Party is off the press in pamphlet form, and can be gotten at the rate of $3.00 per one hundred copies. Workers and their organizations are urged to order the Platform and help spread it htrough- oat the State. Help paint New Jersey Red, Place a platform into every worker's hands,.in New. Jersey. Send order to New Jersey Election Cam- paign Committee of. the Communist Party, 121 Springfield Avenue, New- ark, N. J. Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR AU Work Done Under Personal Care of DR, JOSEPHSON Cooperators' SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, 4, ¥. 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