The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1931, Page 2

Page Two CoE _DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1931 a PARTY MUST BE ON BALLOT IN et 'C. P. MAY BE KEPT OFF BALLOT ON ALL DISTRICTS B’KLYN FIRST A. D. Workers Should Aid In Collection Of Signatures The slash of 10 per cent in wages cl d by the United States Steel Corporation is the signal for a drive in all industries to reduce the standards of living of the workers le From the ndpoint of the Election Campaign burning issue should serve as a bilization call to the working- ss for intensified struggle to re- this latest maneuver of the rul- ss of Wall Street to make the ing workers shoulder the entire burden of the economic crisis, In the house-to-house canvas to signatures to enable the Com- r ighters to get on the ballot we have an exceptional chance to bring the message of struggle rally the workers behind the Com- munist Pai for the fight against the ruling class and its policy of starvation for the workers. The collection of signatures to place the Communist Party on the ticket in New York enables us to prove to the workers that this latest wage slash means that the bosses’ government will make the wi class pay for every fake unemnlov- ment relief program proposed by Hoover, Gov. Roosevelt, ‘Welker. In vractically every important citv so far, the unemployment relief funds have bren handed ‘ent to the rackcteers pnd gangsters. Now these funds will he used to buy votes to sunvort the hosses’ parties, One tak is to arouse t! m the Inves-to-house sienstures keers canvas as the ness intesds program in eve city. Our teat in the collection of signatures is te exrese Soover’s speech cf fak- ery before the American Lacien in Det-oit where he workers into giving 1p battle for the that, ~ pus tha bosses’ mouthriece to put ever rede an’ in ever . on who ¢ in’ the af the iebless end. sterving. tte: nvining [davs of the steprtym-a dive form now mntil Oct. 1 nasties worker should to avoues the Communist in the to supnort the wive ene how a ‘at for real and im- and the entire own enjiection oF signatures is a to win the work- ig rans of the Petty. At this time wa foc9 the third consecutive r* the worst crisis in the his- cavitalist class. the scaclass of New York will res- «+ never before to the call to ct the 6*\ cut for the collection of signa- end to make this election n yield a tremendous Red y at the polls | What’s On— THURSDAY TUUL Plumbers very important meet- 24th, 8 p, m. at 108 Members must at- kers Lahoratory Theatre time are called upon take play, “Haywood Broun’s Flection R in room 206 at the Workers Center, > East 12th Street, at $ p.m a be Laund?y Workers! Come to the mass meeting of the | L. W. Union September 24th, 8 p. m. in Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave, near Claremont Parkwa Let us. build our union, a union that the bosses will fear ee. ce Young Defenders No. 3 Ts holding a raffle and social af- fair tonight at 257 EB. 10th St, 8 p.m. Refreshments! Dancing! Fun! Join in! Admission free! Workers Ex-service. Lengue, Br. 2 Will hold an open-air meeting at Fifth Ave. and 125th St. 8:30 p.m Good speakers are requested to come early. soe. Mapleton Workers Club The regular membership meeting will be held tonight at Im- portant! 8 p.m, Women's Council. Section Member- ship Meetings Will be held Sept. 24 to discuss the role of the Communist Party in | at 569 Pro- the Election Cmapaign spect Ave. Main er, Comrade Schaefer. Williamsburgh, 61 Gra ham Ave.: Bath Beach, 48 Bay 28th St. Brooklyn. All meetings will start at 8 p.m Co eae Intern’! Workers Order, Youth 405 Will meet at 2081 Brvant Ave, Sep- tember 24, 8:30 p.m. All young work- ers and students invited Middle Village 1WO Meets tonight for the pre-plenum Aiecussion at 1 Fulton Ave, Middle Village, L. Inter, Labor Def, Tom Mooney Br. i eee Will hold an open-air meeting to night at 14th St. and University Pl., 8 p.m. Prey Mee Workers Px-service. League, No, 1 All out for the regular membership for | ce) ise vital issue hefore | nt reKef for the | ho have a few mo-| eed Shock Troops to Collect 900 Signatures BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Commu- nist Party will be kept off the First Assembly District in Brooklyn unless |there is a speedier collection of sig- natures, The First A. D. is in one of the most exploited sections of Brocklyn {embracing the Negro population which finds itself in the most squalid misery. | Nine hundred signatures must be collected to put the Party on the bal- lot in this assembly district. | A helping hand from every worker jis necessary, There remain but eight days to col- |lect this amount of signatures. | The Communist Party appeals to every worker to help put the party of their class on the ballot, by help- ing to collect signatures. Section Six | appeals to members of Section 5 who | have successfully placedgthe Party on the ballot in Bronx to help place the | Party on the ballot in Brooklyn. The Communist Party appeals to |every member of the Trade Union Unity League, revolutionary unions, to the class conscious workers in the A. F. of L. and Amalgamated to put their Party, the Communist Party, on or Jimmy | the ballot in the First Assembly Dis- | trict. Beginning Wednesday the comrades are to come to the Boro Hall Com- | munist Party headquarters, 73 Myrtle | Ave., and get their petition to collect | signatures, Comrades should come right after work. The headquarters will be opened | every evening from 6 p.m. on. | For those comrades who volunteer in a shock troop from Manhattan | and Bronx, they can take either the | BMT or IRT to Boro Hall. Help place | tne Communist Party on the ballot. /NTWIU EXPOSES | FAKERS’ “UNITY” | ae ‘Rank and File Will Form United Front The Fur Department of the Needle | Trades: Workers Industrial Union has issued the following statement on the unity conference which had been proposed by various cliques in the tight wing union. | “It appears from the press state- |ments that the Joint Council has been nailed to the wall by the deci- sion of the Cooper Union meeting of the furriers for real unity in the ranks of the furriers on the basis of real struggles for union conditions in the shops. The Joint Council now seeks through all sorts of maneu- vers to break up the conference so as to prevent the Industrial Union from uniting the furriers for real strug- | gle. “From the present reports we |learned that the Council, evidently | smuggled in the paid lackeys of the bosses, Stetsky, and Kaufman into the sub-committee. This act on the part of the Joint Council exposes more clearly than anything else the aims and objectives of the fake | peace maneuvers of the company | union agents. ‘The whole fake unity campaign of |the cliques is exploding like a bub- |ble under the powerful blow of the | masses of the furriers. The furriers at | Cooper Union have adopted a pro- |gram of real unity on a common | program of action. Regardless of fake | maneuvers of the company union, the \turriers, under the leadership of the |Industrial Union and the United | Front Committee, will go forward in | building unity in the shops in the |struggle for union conditions, of | building a powerful union that will |defend their interests from all their agents. COUNCIL WINS | FOR WORKERS Tuesday the representative of the Harlem Unemployed Council, Com- ‘| rade Lealess, won a real victory for the workers in the 121 Court where |eviction notices are being handed out. Lealess came to represent Mr. |and Mrs. Hansen of 1710 Park Ave.. | who were slated for eviction with their four small children because | they could not pay their rent. Han- |sen has been unemployed for a long |time. Hansen exvlained how he had been terrorized by the police, the charity organizations and the bosses’ | political parties for refusing to starve |peacefully, ‘While Lealess was de- | fending Hansen and all of the other | workers in the court the judge asked |on the orders of the fur bosses, has | meeting of WHSL tonight at 79 5. | . 10th Et, § p.m. Special program, | him whether he was # lawyer. ° “ | Lealess replied that he was an un- Plumbers TUUL | Will hold a very" important meet. |C™Ployed worker and had been a ing at 108 FB. 14th St. at 8 p.m. All| Miner, lumberjack, dish washer or members should attend without fall. | any job he could find. cikalteliteanaie sagt hit All of the cases that were heard Hronx Workers Take Notice | before the Hansen case got five days The Tremont coe Club has| before the eviction can be served. moved to a new headquarters at 736 | Tremont Ave. The Club is open every | Besinning with the Hansen casé the night. All workers are urged to join, | judge increased the time allowed before the eviction could be served Build a workers correspondence | to ten days. All workers who are group in your factory, shop or | faced with eviction should follow the neighborhood. Send regular letters | example of the workers in the 121st fo the Daily Worker, r ve cour | THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER THe BiG ONE, TOLD me TO J FIGHT THe 4 SOMIET AND You are GOING OUT To FIGHT AND AS TAM SENT OUT To Save : CIVILIZATION. FROM THE By RYAN WALKER | COMRADE RED Leste Borer ree ra OLDIER,, We MUSTH | ated LAN! FROM MAKE YHese Bror ea THe fovle, DON THAT A y, NT TACK OF AND ‘YOU= SPYGU_ONLY, FARMER BoY (WTiqutens £ ARE FigHting| Mei {I< 7 THAT STANDS For THe onny|||iCaPiraust gf y = (al We Gawy You |iCkains AT) LINE ILL Ge fo} Foe BRorecr Rep ROSS We LAND ¢I\ ALVA CET XG " lon ARMY FF 4AND-OUy ter ANDA |] A WHITE Wook] : b MARKER. \ WHITEGOODS AND UNDERWR MEET Need of Real Strike In Trade Subject | A mass meeting, called by the In- dustrial nion, of underwear workers, will be held at Irving Plaza tonight, right after work. At this meeting Plans will be presented for an im- mediate drive in the white goods trade against the wage cuts which are being carried through jointly by the bosses and the company union agents. The meeting will also dis- cuss the fake strike which is being boosted in the capitalist press as well as in the yellow “Forward” to| mislead the workers into believing} that it is a real strike. The workers | at the meeting will relate their ex- periences with the company union |and the fake organization drive last season which only resulted in low- ering the already miserable condi- | tions of the workers. All white goods workers from union jand non-union shops are called upon |to be present at this meeting and |help organize for a real drive to se- cure union conditions. A series of block meetings, organ- ized by the dress department to mobilize the workers for intensifying the shop strike campaign on a united front basis has met with good re- sponse on the part of the workers. At all meetings there is concrete ; discussion on the actual work to be carried through. All dressmakers of 37th St. are! called upon to attend a meeting of| their street in order to set up the machinery and go on with the work amongst the dressmakers employed on that street. A building meeting of all furriers employed at 115 West 29th Street} will be held at the office of the union tonight right after work. The pur-! pose of the meeting is to intensify the campaign for unionizing all the fur shops in the building and to dis- | cuss the policy of the union with re-| gard to uniting all the workers in the} fur industry. JOBLESS, HE KILLS SELF. Old, discarded by capitalism, a man about 70 committed suicide in the rest room at 61st St. and Central Park West by shooting himself in the temple. He was raggedly dressed, his pockets were empty, all silent but strong testimony of starvation. [New Anti-Racket Law, Directed at Working - Class The Anti-Racketeering _ bill passed by a special session of leg- islature in Albany is nothing more than a camouflage to equip the capitalists with more legal wea- pons to crush the working-class, The bill defines a racketeer as one who “seeks to compel another to |join an organization whether formed under the laws of this state or another.” The bill nowhere spe- cifically defines the nature of this compulsion to be prohibited. This means if a worker is striking against a wage cut and he is pick- eting a shop to stop scabs he can be criminally prosecuted for seek- ing “to compel another to join an |class war prisoners. organization.” |Slipper Workers Out On Strike Against Wage Slash Over 130 workers of the Melrose Slipper Co. went out on strike yes- terday demanding the recognition of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ In- | dustrial Union and the withdrawal of the last wage cut. At the three shop meetings that were held before the strike was de- clared, the workers proved by their spirit that the boss will not succeed |in getting them back to the shop with nice speeches and empty promises. All workers are determined to carry a stubborn strike -for guaran- tee against wage cuts, discrimina- tions and discharges. All workers joined the union, Endorses Mooney Release Campaign Protection of Foreign Born Aids the Campaign NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee for the Protection of the Foreign Born issued the following statement endorsing the campaign launehed by the International Labor Defense to free Mooney, the Harlan miners, the Scottsboro boys and all The seatement follows: “For fifteen years Tom Mooney has been confined in a dungeon in California. Everyone knows that he was framed up but the state still refuses to release him. Thirty-four miners in Harlan, Kentucky are | facing a frame-up charge on murder for striking against unbearable con- ditions. Nine young boys in Scotts- boro, Alabama are condemned to death in the electric chair on a trumped up on charge of rape, con- victed on the testimony of two ‘no- torious women. “Foreign-born workers are being terorized by the Department of Labor agents, threatened with deportation and especially are they being vic- timized when they go on strike against starvation and misery. These attacks are not isolated. The attacks on the Harlan miners, the Scottsboro boys, Mooney continued to stay in prison, the persecution of the foreign born are all part of a gigantic at- tack against the whole working-class to smash their resistance, to force down their standard of living, to pre- vent the workers from organizing to- gether and fight against all per- secutions, “The National Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born calls upon all its affiliated organizations as well as other working-class bodies to rally around the campaign launched by the International Labor Defense. The foreign born and na- tive must unite to smash all attacks against the working-class, whether it comes in the form of persecution against the foreign born or an at- tack such as in Harlan case or the Scotsboro. Let the campaign to free Tom Mooney be the opening signal for a united front of all workers to strugle against all kinds of terroriza- tion and persecution. SENDOFF MEETING FOR LOUIS HYMAN Leaves for’Plenum of Int’] Red Unions The Needle Trades Workers of New York and the labor movement in general will bid farewell to Com- rade Louis Hyman on Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. Comrade Hyman is going on an extensive visit to the Soviet Union and to represent the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union at the November Plentim of the Red International of Labor Unions. This meeting will be a demonstration of solidarity with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, a demonstration against all attempts of the imperialist powers to attack the Soviet Union as well as a demonstration for revolutionary trade unionism. Many organizations, such as the TUUL, the Communist Party, the Freiheit, IWO, ICOR, Friends of the Soviet Union, have already design- ated their representatives to greet the workers assembled at the dem- onstration. The speakers at this meeting are I. Amter, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, candidate for borough president, P. Yudich, of the Freiheit, T. Talmy, of the Icor, Marcel Sherer of the FSU, R. Salzman of the IWO. There will also be a concert pro- gram prepared by the Workers Theatrical Alliance (Artef), a recital by Miss Bigley, soprano-and other numbers. All cloakmakers, dressmak- ers, furriers, millinery workers, etc., will bid farewell to one who is in the front ranks of the struggles. Last night at the meeting of active members of all these trade branches final arrangements for the mobili- zation of needle trades workers for this mass meeting to be held on Sunday, Sept. 27 at Central Opera House, 67th St and Third Ave. Vida Obrera Ball Rallies Workers to Support Paper Under the auspices of a group of Latin American workers there will take place a big dance for the bene- fit of the Vida Obrera. Danson Tan- gos, fox trots and other native Latin American dances with native music by members of the Vida Obrera group will be a feature of the affair. Others will give several solos of pro- letarian songs from the Latin Ameri- can countries. A real good time and | Latin American atmosphere is prom- ised. The Vida Obrera was banned from the mails by the Wall Street govern- ment together with other working class publications for carrying the message of the Communist Party to the millions of Latin American workers exploited in the factories and farms throughout the U.S.A. United Front Committee of Latin American workers is holding this af- fair to provide funds for the reap- pearance of the Vida Obrera. ‘The dance will take place at New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., Saturday, September 26 at 8:30 pm., admission for men 50 cents, women, 25 cents. THE NEW SOVIET FILM AT THE CAMEO THIS WEEK 60 Demonstrate at Chilean Consulate to Save 10 Sailors The ten sailors who led the Chilean revolt a few weeks ago await death. It is within the Power of the American working- class to halt the firing squad, The ery of “Freedom for the Chilean | Sailors” must be spread through- cut the country immediately. We dare not wait. Last week a dem- onstration was held in San Fran- cisco, This is not enough, The Young Communist League of New York calls upon all workers to rally at the Chilean Consulate, 17 Battery Place at 1.00 p. m. Save the fighters for a Workers Chile! Demonstrate! Red Union Members Called to Tag Days Call By Ben Gold and John Steuben Under the signature of Ben Gold, The. secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and John Stueben.of the Trade Union Unity League, a call to all members of the revolutionary unions for energetic support of the Communist Party election campaign drive for funds was sent out. The members of the revolutionary unions are called upon to turn out for the Red Election tag days, Sat- urday and Sunday, Sept. 26 and 27. The call also stresses the necessity of getting in the needed sigrfatures to place the candidates of the Com- munist Party on the city ballot. UPHOLSTERERS IN DRIVE ON AF OF L Score AFL Attempt to Break Strike NEW YORK.—Workers of the Na- tional Parlor Suite Co. and the State Upholstering Co., 411 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, yesterday joined the strike of the upholsterers against the bad conditions in the trade, under the leadership of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union. Having failed in their previous efforts to break the present strike of the Brooklyn upholsterers, the mis- leaders of Local 76, A. F. of L., have resorted to the tactics of sending gangsters to follow leaders of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union. Chorast Strikers Score A. F. L. The strikers of the Morris Chorast shop, one of the largest in the trade, yesterday adopted a resolution scor- ing the attempt of the A. F. of L. misleaders to break their ranks and expressed their determination to fight to win better conditions in the trade. The resolution reads in part: “To disregard any agreement made between the bosses and Local 76 fakers and to continue to fight for real union conditions and for an agreement with the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, which is the only workers’ union in the furniture industry.” | The workers also pledged to fight the A. F. of L. fakers and called on all workers in Local 76 to unite against the bosses and their agents, Cuneo, Roter and Hatch. An entertainment and dance for the benefit of the upholstery strikers will be held at the Cooperative Colony Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East, Saturday, Sept. 26, at 8 p. m. Admission 25 cents. AMUSEMENTS “RUB His was the harsh and tragic life of the sea... , his home on the rolling deep... . UNTIL, ,,% j= A Worker Finds Himself! AMKINO PRESENTS ICON” And Then He Crossed the “RUBICON” SEE THIS SOVIET FILM AT THE 42nd ST. and BROAD). iY The new order of Soviet Russia brought him a fresh meaning in life, new ideas, and new am- bitions.... | NOW A Theatre Guild Production “HE” By ALFRED SAVOIR Adapted by Chester Erskin GUILD W. 52n4. Eves. 8:40 Mts. Th. & Sat. 2:40 One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. MAE WEST IN ‘The Constant Sinner’ ROYALE Thea, 45th W. B'wy. fves. Food Clerks Support . C.P. Election Drive The food clerks in the Food Works ers Industrial Union have organized open air meetings to be held through- out the city in support of the election campaign of the Communist Party. The first meeting will be held Thurs- day night at 8 o'clock at 174th St. and Bryant Ave., Bronx. Another meeting will be held on Saturday at Allerton and Holland Aves., Bronx, at 8 o'clock. COMING! coMn ONE BIG BALL of the Trade Union Unity Council 5 EAST 19th STREET JOHN C. SMITH NEGRO ORCHESTRA Feature Presentaton by WORKERS CULTURAL FEDERATION Rockland Palace 155th Street and Eighth Avenue Saturday, Oct. 3rd Admission 60c. Advance 50c. lntern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of DR. JOSEPHSON Cooperators’ Patronize EDT 6 CHEMIST { 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. ¥. 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