The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1931, Page 2

DAILY Wi ORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931 THE ADVEN URES OF BILL WORKER __ rage £8 ee 11 RED ELECTION N. Y. Strikebreaker, RALLIES SET FOR Received Hundreds — By RYAN WALKER , —We’ll See for How Long the Suspense is Over — len ARE You Going To LeT Yours ¢/, WW “Way FaPa APA Lee Famicy STARVE IN ORDERTo Give BRONX SATUR. Communist Candidates | To Speak NEW YORK.—The election cam- paign is in full swing in the Bronx. It started out with collecting 14,000 | signatures and a very successful sec- tion ratification banquet and i now ues with house to house can- ssing ahd big political mass rallies. On Saturday, September 26, at 8 p.m., there will be eleven open air rallies at the following places, where the candidates of the Party will ex- = the role of the three political | the democratic, va es, and socialist. | 180th St. and St. Nicholas Ave., Y.C.L, to take care. | 174th St. and Vyse Ave., Y.CL to take care Aldus and So. Boulevard, Units 3, and Wilkins, Units 7, 8, 9, 10, 16 and 17 180th St. and Daly Ave., Units 18} and 19. White Plains Rd., 224th and Combrelling Ave., St. 12 and 14. pect and Longwood Aves., Units Units 11, nd 25 163d St. and Simpson Ave., 139th St. and St. Ann’s Ave., 5) and Y.C.L. emont and Washington Ave., Yoo. B At these open air meetings hun- dreds of party platforms are being sold and the workers are recruited into the “Vote Communist Clubs A large truck with Communist slo- | gans is ing, stop ing at busy of the pres- wage the different issu election; unemployment, speed up, war danger, etc. on ent cut, Ball to Help Get Funds to Put Out Paper, ‘Vida Obrera’ | NEW YORK.—Mexican music, as well as an excellent program of Lat in American entertainment, will be one of the important features of the Vida Obrera dance, Saturday night at the Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue. This dance is being run to obtain | funds to re-establish Vida Obrera | (Workers Life), the Spanish lang- | uage organ of the Communist Party. | This paper has been repeatedly at- tacked by the government which | recognizes this as a powerful weapon of the Latin American workers in the | | United States. Mailing rights have | been suppressed. Every worker should come to hits dance, where besides having a good | time, with an unusual program, he | will help Vida Obrera to appear and | take a vital part in the present struggles of the Latin American workers, What’s On— FRuDAY | litecsstional Labor Defense, Alfred Levy Branch at’ pm, the ILD. Broo 1W0, Youth Branch No. 404, The Intwor 1 | £:30 p,m. at the E noff, 1151 46th St., ung | Sports Br. 1WO. will meet 8:30 p. m., at 1400 Bos- | ton Road. All young workers and | students invited. . Middle Village Youth Branch Young workers and students are invited to the open forum to be held tonight nt 1 Fulton, Middle Village, Loug Isinna. Youth IWO, Jamaten Branch Will have a discussion at Finnish Hall, 109-26 Union Hall St., 8:30 p.m. Bronx Will meet at 8 ton Ra. Branch 30 p.m. at 1400 Bos ee. Freinds of the Soviet Union, Williamsburg Branch will hold mass meeting at Grand Assembly Hall, 318 Grand Street (near Havemeyer), Pauline Rogers 1 speak on “What I Saw in the Soviet Union.” ORE es Harlan Prisoners Speak. Jessie London Wakefield, just re- leased from prison in Harlan, Ken- tucky and Bill Duncan, one of the striking miners will speak at 1373- 43rh Street, Brooklyn, September 25, at 8:30 p.m. All workers are invited | to hear them, (em: * Metal Workers Industria! League| A very important membership meeting will be held September 25, % p.m, at 6 E. 19th St, Every mem- ber must attend and should bring a fellow metal worker with him, em- ployed or unemployed. le Cie Workers Laboratory Theatre Will have its regular membership meeting September 25, at 8 p.m. at 799 Broadway, in room 830. All in- terested are invited, eee wien of the Soviet Union nurg will hold) a Assembly Hall, 318 Grand republican | ing from meeting to meet- | corners and | spreading the Communist standpoint Of Thous. in Graft Rockerfeller’s Chief Thug During 1929 NEW YORK.—The disclosure that | Peter De Vito, of Jamaica, Queens, received $503,000 from Rockefeller to break the 1929 Stanjard Oil Strike of gas stations handers and drivers, was made yesterday when he was arrest- | ed for failure to file a proper income | | tax on this huge sum. | De Vito is said to be at the head | of & professional strike breaking }agency. Federal Attorney Ameli of Brooklyn said of De Vito: “He is the biggest racketeer in the strike-breaking business and is reputed to be the only man in Greater New York who can suc- cessfully break a strike at any time.” During the 1929 strike of gasoline |Pay Reductions Spreading in Steel, Textile, Copper, peExtended toRailroads AT-TRBONE Sery 24. Commodities Gain; » Rubber Industries, May, Confidence Returns~¥ awe St. Rally Carries [Stock Prices scree MoreWageCutsOrdered;, _ |Market in Lon BILLIONS OF Dotbarys To THE FUuL Pee: | workers, Rockefeller used professional scabs and strikebreakers to man the gasoline stations and trucks. Bosses Use De Vito. | De Vito is said to be hired by all the big employers in breaking strikes |and his temporary falling out with | the federal government was due to an oversight on his part. He will be used again in the coming strikes of the workers against wage cuts. ‘ANTI-RELIGIOUS GROUP ACTIVE Two Branches Formed Already in City of state, city and private charity A working “class Anti-Religious | agencies would not meet the demands organization, the first of its kind to/of the jobless this winter. Purdy be formed in the United States, has | admitted that all his organization | been organized in New York City. | would do would be to estimate the | It is called the Workers’ Anti-Relig- | extent of the need of the 750,000 ious League and is affiliated with the | jobless and their families totalling | Workers’ Cultural Federation. | well over a million in New York | The need for such an organization | alone. ADMITS CHARITY RELIEF WILL NOT | AID THE JOBLESS Bosses to > Malet the: Workers Still In the Shops For Funds | Declaring that he estimated the| number of unemployed in New York | at 750,000 or more, Lawson Purdy, a director of the Charity Organization Society, said that the combined forces | has long been apparent, but the pre- | Purdy, in line with the policy of sent crisis has brought into sharp- | | the bosses to make the workers still | {ened relief the anti-working class/ working pay for their role of the church. Among the pri- | charity said that the employed would mary functions of the Workers’ Anfl- | be mulcted heavily. Religious League will be to expose! 4 total of 5;553,884 “persons were anc fight the anti working class a¢- | given limited amounts of food, cloth- tivity of the churches during strikes, | ing, rent, fuel and found jobs to the miserable | {Harlem YCL Mass ‘Meet to Protest Chile Threat The Harlem section of the Young Communist League has called a mass | meeting in the Spanish Workers Cen- | ter, 110 W. 116th St., Friday, Septem- ber 25, 8 p.m. in defense of the Chilean leaders under threat of ex- ecution by the Chilean bourgeoisie. This meeting will be a rally to bring the Latin American workers lof Harlem to the Young Communist League demonstraton on Saturday in front of the Chilean consulate. 2 PENNSYLVANIA BANKS IN CRASH | Money for W Most Part | Lost to Depositcrs WILKES-BARE, Pa—The Dime Bank Title and Trust Company with deposits of $2,505,3389 and a capital | of $4,603,744, was closed September 2. by the State Department of Banking. j their aid to the ruling class in the | extent of $1,486,757.84, from October | . ° e | Keeping of the Negro masses in sub- | |31, 1930 to June 30, 1931, the Mayor's jection and their participation in the | committee for the relief of the un-| partment | imperialist campaigns against the | employed reported. Soviet Union. The role of the mis- imperialist governments, as well as the attempts of the churches and | their auxialiaries like the YMCA and the YMHA to bribe the working class with hypocritical gestures of char ity will also be exposed and combat ted by the League. The Workers’ Anti - League is being established on a Ne York City-wide basis at first, bi it is planned to build a nation-wid organization as soon as it is practic- Religio | How farcically adequate this sum is may be seen it is found that each person so “re- ved” received a fraction more than 2 cents. The City Free Employment Agency laced workers at jobs that would remely temporary, the longest ng for a week and the average 2. two or three days’ duration. WARK TO HOLD able to do so. Two branches in New | | York City have already been formed, | one in Harlem with temporary meet- | ing quarters at 110 W. 116th St., an the other in lower Manhattan with temporary meeting quarters at 108 East 14th Street. The next meeting of both branches | will take place on Monday, Sept. 28 at 8 p. m. at their respective meet- ing halls. A general membership meeting will be held at 108 E. 14th} Street on Monday Oct. 5, at 8 p. m. All workers and interested sympa- hizers are strongly urged to attend. | Communications should be sent to the general headquarters of the!/ League at 63 W. 15th St., New York. Underwear Workers \Come to NTWIWU for ‘Strike Leadership Alarmed at the response of the un- | derwear workers to the call of the Industrial Union for real struggle in the shops against wage cuts and for | union conditions, the company union, | Local 62, sent out hired gorillas to break up the open air meeting ar- |ranged at 30th St. and Madison Ave. ‘The workers hissed the gorillas and PARADE, RALLY Out for Election Tag ore ‘music has been obtained, and | Days in N. J. | NEWARK, Noe J., Sept. 22—The | ade of the Election Campaign in New | Jersey will be held this Saturday, | Sept. 26th, in Newark. Five meet- ings will be held at the following corners at 6:30 p. m.: West and Col- | lege Sts.; West Kinney afd Boyd | Sts.; Boston and Hampton Sts.; | Waverly Ave. and Hillside Place. The main rally will be held at |P- m. and at the finish a torch light parade will be held, going through | city. | The speakers at the meeting will be the Communist candidates for Assembly and Freeholder of Essex County, and the Communist candi- date for Governor, John J. Ballam, All day Saturday and Sunday is Tag Days and house-to-house collec- tion days for collecting funds for the New Jersey. Workers are urged to next Red Rally and torch light par- | Montgomery and Broome Sts. at 8:30 | | the working class sections of the |on Communist Party Campaign Fund in| mass | promised to go down to the meeting |in Irving Plaza en masse. | This week's activities among the underwear workers marked the be- | ginning of the organization campaign | jJaunched by the union. Many work- jers are coming to the office of the union with complaints about the conditions in the shops. The Indus- | | trial Union has appointed a special |organizer to take charge of the un- derwear trade. | The undewear department will be | open every day from 7 in the morn- ing till 7 in the evening. Workers are |called upon to bring their complaints | |nesians with all their |to the office. land habits, Carl Brodsky Will Teach Class For First Voters Class for first voters begins/ Wednesday evening Se,pt. 30th, 7! p. m. Carl Brodsky, instructor. | volunteer for work at any of the Communist Party headquarters in “TABU”, CAMEO THEATRE SATURDAY. “Tabu”, the picture that recently Played on Broadway for an extended run, will be shown for the first time at popular prices at the Cameo The- atre, beginning Saturday morning, “Tabu” features Reri, sian dancing girl from Tahiti, who has since appeared in the “Follies”, primitive life | 1 | | |in collaboration with R. J. Flaherty. the South Sea Islands. ZANGWILL’S ANN” AT THE HIPPODROME | || | Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell New Jersey cities, for the Tag Day. | SOUTH SEA FILM, AT} the Polyne- | | The story is a romance of the Poly- | “Tabu” was directed by F. W. Mur- | | nau and the story was written by him | The entire production was filmed in | | “MERELY, MARY | PITTSBUGH, Pa—The State De- of Banking yesterday closed the Merchants Savings and | Trust Co. here. The total deposits |sionaries as representatives of the when by doing a problem in division were not reported. | rae | PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The prom- sed reorganization of the closed ible and liquidation of the bank sets are now under way, with the opositors’ share a low percentage. | LSNR DANCE SAT, IN BRONX. BRONX, N. ¥.—The Alfred Levy Group of the League of Struggle for ‘0 Rights is giving a dance this | y evening in connection with | iberator circulation drive. The aK nce will be held at 569 Pros- nect Avenue, the Bronx. Excellent ® | all workers a nice e are urged to turn out for ing. | LABOR RESEARCH ASSN. RE- QUEST | Labor Research Assn. would like to know the person who mailed us me very interesting comments.on the Labor Fact Book on September \ The letter was mailed from Tre- }mont Station, New York. It was | written on buff paper in blue ink and contained a large number of book and periodical references and | also enclosed a Department of Com- merce, Bureau of the Census, release “persons ten years and over en- gaged in gainful occupations.” In | View of the value of the communica- | tion to us we are especially eager to identify and have a talk with the writer who forgot to give us neither his name or address. Phone Dunn or Hutchins at Stuyvesant 9-8637. of Execution: ‘WIR INTENSIFIES RELIEF DRIVE Mass Collection of Food Next Week Answering the desperate call for immediate relief from the starving coal miners, the Workers Interna- tional Relief and the Penn.-Ohio| Striking Miners’ Relief Committee have intensified their campaign for the benefit of the heroic ners striking against starvation. Among the activities on the imme- diate program are mass collection of foods to begin on Saturday, Sept. 26 | sections, fraternal organizations, | workers clubs and individuals are strongly urged to expend every ef- fort during the collection days to | gather the food that is absolutely | vital for the starving miners and |their families. Further directions can be obtained at the offices ofthe Workers International Relief, Room 330, 199 Broadway. Solidarity coupons costing ten cents and to be distributed during the col- lection period can also be obtained at the W. I. R. office. Workers, answer this desperate Plea of the thousands of starving miners and their families for bread, clothing and tents. Help them in | their heroic struggle against starva- tion! TABOR DEFENDER GREETS USSR Workers: ( Greetin gs Being Gathered New York workers will have an op- portunity of sending their personal greetings to the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia through the Novem- ber Labor Defender. Between five jand ten thousand copies of this issue, which will be a special enlarged | edition, will be sent to the leading factories and collective farms of the U. S. S. R., where the greetings will be circulated among the workers, | and Soviet masses and of the deter- mination of the American workers to perialist attack. ‘The price of greetings in the No- the way from: 25 cents to $100. For just a name, it is 25 cents; for a full page it is $100, half a page $65, etc. Hundreds of individual workers, as well as organizations, are preparing to greet through the Labor Defender their comrades in the Soviet Unton on the celebration of the 14th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution. Send in yours at once to the district 7199 Broadway, Room 410. damentals of Communism ical Keonomy ... at History of \f] Marxism . | 1 Economy il. History of Clans St History of Three Internatio Principles of Working Cla Colonial Problems. Revolutionary Jo Dinletie Materialinm . The WORKERS SCHOOL “Training for the Class Struggle” Fall Term Registration Will Be Closed Soon COURSES FOR WORKERS -Every Evening, Excent Sat. R, Rago, Lomdy and to end on Friday, Oct. 2. Relief | ‘WORKERS DEMAND LIGHT RATE CUT Days This Satur- day and Sunday) | Special Election Campaign | | | Days Saturday and Sunday, Sept. | | |26th and 27th. All members of | revolutionary unions, members of | |the Trade Union Unity League, | | needle trades workers, all workers | |in shop and factory, support the | Red Drive for funds: Help place | | Communist Party candidates on | | the ballot. All out for Tag Days, | | this Saturday and Sunday. | Red Election Taz Organize “to Strike Against Robbery || ‘The Communist Party, together with the Unemployed Council, Ten- ants League and United Council of Working Class Housewives is con- ducting a campaign against the in- crease in rates of gas and electricity for worker and small consumers. fa est Twice the representatives of these or- |ganizations have tried to present | their point of view before the Public | Service Commission and each time THREE VICTORIES | this has been sabotaged. ing Class Housewives are circulating {eate clearly that not only are the The Tenants League, Unemployed |AFL Shows Sympathy!, petition against the increased rates workers ready to sign but are pre- Council and United Council of Work- With Industrial Union |The signatures so far collected indi- NEW YORK.—Three struck uphol- stery shops yesterday acceded to the | pared to strike. demands of the strikers under the leadership of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union. The workers of the following shops won union conditions | such as the 40-hour week, week work instead of piece work and other de- mands including recognition of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union: | mission decides that the robbery of This will be organized within a short time if the Public Service Com- the workers shall continue. All workers must sign and circu- | late the petitions. Get them at the | Unemployed Council, 5 E. 19th St., {and at the Women’s Council, 799 Broadway. This will be a living expression of, the solidarity between the American , defend the Soviet Union against im-| vember Labor Defender ranges all, International Labor Defense office, | State Upholstery Co., 411 Bedford jAve., Brooklyn; Blumenthal Uphol- stery, 205 Grand St.; Lewis Uphol- stery Co. Gates Ave. The bossesand the foreman Nad- ler, together with officials of the AFL local 76, forced workers of the Rockford Upholstering shop into the AFL organization. The workers, how- ever, demorstrated that they saw in {the , Furniture Workers Industrial ; Union their own orga:izction, by do- nating $29.25 to help build the union WAKEFIELD T0 SPEAK FRIDAY of Ky. Terror Jessie London Wakefield, just re- and aid the_strikers. leased after spending six weeks in the Harlan County jail, and Bill | Duncan, militant Kentucky miner College Students | who faces a charge of criminal syn- | dicalism, will be the speakers at a Hear Wakefield On | mass meeting this Friday night, Sept. Harlan Situation 25, cated by the Borough Park Branch of the International Labor NEW YORK. — Jessie Wakefield, | Defense. The meeting will be held who was recently released from the | at 8:30 p. m. at 1373 43rd St., Brook- Harlan, Kentucky jail, spoke to | lyn. about 200 students of the City Col- | The meeting will demand the im- lege Social Problems Club on the/| mediate, unconditional release of situation in the coal fields. Follow- | Tom Mooney, the Harlan miners, the ing her talk a collection was taken | Scottsboro boys, the Imperial Valley up for the International Labor De- | and Centralia prisoners, the Paterson fense and a telegram protesting the | five, arrested silk strikers and all frame-up of the miners was sent to | other class war prisoners. All Boro Governor Sampson of Kentucky. Park workers are urged to attend. AMUSEMENTS ‘=——LAST DAY! AMKINO PRESENTS “RUBICON” The dramatic story of a worker who finds himself. A tense tale of the new order in SOVIET RUSSIA. ‘CAMEO 42nd ST. and | NOW MAE WEST BROAD\. ..Y A Theatre Guild Production “HE” IN By ALFRED SAVOIR ‘The Constant Sinner’ Adapted by Chester Erskin GUILD ¥, 5204. Byes. 8: Thea, 45th W, B'wy. ¥ ROYALE nse NS Mts, Th. & Sat. HEPPODROM - Today—lLast Times THE FIRST TIME IN THE BRONX sth Ave. & 43a Bt AMKINO PRESENTS BIGGEST SHOW LN NEW YORK Y E A R sae | BILL BOYD in son |The Big Gamble BROWNE Dorothy Sel PLAN Harlan Prisoners Tell he All Delegates Must Attend Second Conf.. ForP ress Bazaar All delegates who were present at the last bazaar conference must be present at the next conference, which will take place Thursday evening, October 1, at the Workers Center, 35 East 12th Street, Room 205. All other organizations which were not represented at the last confer- ence should send delegates to this conference. Every workers’ organi- zation is urged to send delegates. Delegates should be prpeared to re- port the concrete steps that their organization have taken for the ba- zaar. There are only two weeks left before the bazaar and we must do everythnig possible in these two weeks in order to make the bazaar ‘of our revolutionary press a big suc- cess. Outing Sunday By Protection Foreign Born Committee The New York City Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born will have an outing Sunday Septem- ber 27th, 22:00 p. m. at Ezra Park, 233rd Street and Boston Road. A program of sports will be given by the sport section of the Young Finnlanders’ organization. There will also be a literary program, in- cluding a lecture by a member of the National Committee for the Pro- tection of the Foreign Born. Danc- ing will take place after the program to late in the night. How to get there:—Take Boston, Westchester R. R, to Dyer Ave. Sta., Has signs to the grounds.—7 cents Von Grona Dancers To Appear at Icor Concert Saturday VON GRONA DANCERS. On Saturday, September 26th, the “ICOR” will hold its annual concert at Carnegie Hall, 57th St. and 7th Ave., New York, for the benefit of Jewish colonization in Biro-Bidjan, U.S.S.R. In the program will parti- cipate the following artists: Von Grona and his 8 dancers, an outstanding exponent of the modern dance. Workers Correspondence fs the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for tt about your day-to-day struggle. Intern’) Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of DR. JOSEPHSON “SEROY 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3216 BRONX, N. ¥, MELROSE isang RESTAURANT Comrades Will Always Find It Pleasant to Dine et Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174th St. Station) TELEPHONE, INTERVALE 9—0149 Vhone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: (TALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St. New York One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. A TALKING FILM IN ENGLISH Daly Theatre Tremont and Southern Blvd., Bronx Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Get, Ith and (3th Sts. ar Havermeyer), Pauline| | ay workers who are citizens and| | ®T¢ Seen in their newest hse eta | Burnham Strictly Vegetarian food & will speak. ||“Merely Mary Ann” at the Htppo- | i acas aaah will vote for the first time this| , f | year should attend this class. First | drome this Saturday. Beryle Mercer, English—Llementa a Women’s Counell 17 | | voters. are required to pass é-teat | J. M. Kerrigan and Arnold Lucy play Russian—Klementary clans 2) SOCIAL and CONCERT Given By will have a lecture on the 5-Year| | Pheer i wi sare tit. | | leading roles in the film version of | Spanish, Expecanto, Labor Research and Various Other Courses Advertise Yuur Union Meetings Plan, Sept. HH at 8 pm, at 140 Nep-| | of reading and writing cal | |terael Zangwill's well known story. Daily Worker Readers Club of Hoboken Here. For Information Write to oklyn. . | eracy Test.” The class will cover | this point and instruct workers on |< ‘= rights at the polls, Register Build a workers correspondence ng 1 in ately tt the Workers|| %'°”"" im your factory, shop or School, 3rd floor, 50 E. 13th St. r “borhood, Send regular letters | ww the Daily Worker, REGISTER NOW! DON’T DELAY! NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH CLASS WILL BE LIMITED! 35 E, 12th St., Algonquin 4-1199 New York To Be Held on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th At 110 Grand St., Hoboken, N. J. There will be a very interesting program—Discussion on Daily Worker ALL WORKERS INVITED ADMISSION FREE Advertising Uepartment SATURDAY "0 The DAILY WORKER 50 East 13th St. New York City assured all, cmission 360 Jo at door,