The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1931, Page 2

__Page Two SELL NEGRO WORKERS TO MARYLAND FARMERS AT $1.60 PER HEAD WORKERS LINED UP, INSP INSPECTED BY FARMERS; ARKANSAS JOBLESS Escaped W. Seles 4 Tells. MPRESSED FOR COTTON FIELDS Sacre of Forced Labor Recruitment to Baltimore Afro-American Phillips County, Ark., Orders Unemployed to Accept Starvation Wages for Picking Cotton of Fac ce > Arrest BALTIMORE, Sept. 27—The wide pread e: ence of forced labor in the United States was fur ealed this week with the exposure by the Baltimore Afro-American of the recruitment in this city of 200 unemloyed Negro workers and their were told ., for wo! 1 pet day. They n Shore ners met were fer where some fi the boat to rec There the wor put on the auction block in numbers of fours and fives, while the up and down ins As each farmer paid the sl: agency 0S1.60 per ‘Ss were walked them. selection he ing empleyment not leave wanted of we wage to be paid Afro info t stated that ins ead of corn shocking the first day ke was put to work picking tomatoes. A woman who was al- read: rking on the place told him there was but a slim chance of his getting the $1 per on withou food from ment office a food, nor did t by Phillips County authorities for forced labor in the cotton fields. In their campaign to supply planters with laborers during the cotton pick- | ing season, the county authorities have ordered all unemployed workers to report for work picking cotton at the starvation wages set by the planters or face arrest. Several| truckloads of impressed workers left | here today for the plantations, or ficers followed the trucks to arrest those workers who refuse to accept | the starvation pay of the planters. | Tricks Fail On Melrose Strikers | Picket Demonstration | This Morning | W YORK—The strike at se Slippers, where over workers fight for recognition of the Shoe a Leather Worke: Indus- the 125 trial Union and the withdrawal of the last| wage cut, is in splendid | shape. Within the last few days the boss orted in vain’ to all kinds of get the workers back to the far as to take out | to make the work- | 1e is moving out of s found that he placed | s in storage. Then he ask workers not to have ing to do with this Union, | to scare them with talk of nd Communism. | e shop meeting the workers ressed their sentiment on all these attempts and said that as | as the Union fights for their sts it is their Union and they | will strike until victory. When groups of workers went up | for their pay they were told “the bos wants to speak to the whole shop.’ The strikers were prepared for s a move. and then the Committee answered | They listened for a while | DAILY WORKER, NE EW. Y¢ ORK, MOND AY, SE PTE “THE ADVE rv RES 0 OF BILL WORKER MBER | 28, Tee —A Worker’s Answer — By RYAN WALKER ——_ \ ConVENTION . \ \ AND Now Fig \la THE AMERICANILE } ) AS USQAL IN ANNUAL THe WAR For mY Rosser | | BP A MATTE Wout. | CAN Gion) WORKER: a T Fouqa'r 1 WANT, Me- Reds _ ™ PUTTING, aT for. BEER} (TM Foe WAGE Curs For The 2 LINE Does ie He BUT IWant, v4 MY Beer THIS Yea BREAD On ane my een Fes IS WAS PUT OVER ON ME WAILE LT WAS LW EUROPE TRY Bee as eee. SAFE WY Bosse. ‘ eRe S. Novaing NEXT YEAR — WIT Me BU AND Tt HAVE NO JOB AND No Becie ae SELF - BUT BUY If Tee” TM FIcHy Beg Kan tr apa a I'M READY To Cots. LAY OfFf Go FiGa The READIES” SOVIET. Whew AND STARVATION_ Le ORDER If WEN eae FoLLow ing | (Food Destroyed ty LOFT WAGE CUT | As Workers Starve SAN FRANCISCO, — growers will pull up 6,000 acres of trees as part of the California de- | struction plan adopted with the | support of the canners to halt the | “surplus.” Peach| | i Cee Fae 9 LOS ANGELES.—Thousands of cases of eggs were smashed in the streets by business men to boost the egg trade. SOUTH CAROLINA.—Legislat- ure passes bill prohibiting the planting of cotton for 1932. | BOSTON.—Fruit ship ordered to dump a cargo of bananas. ee NEW YORK.—Fishermen dump- | ed fish from both pond traps and vessels beca merchants pur-| posely offer low prices. This is reported by a fisherman who says, | | “I know because I'm a fisherman | | and at order from my boss I have | | dumped tons over the tide off | Tayville, L. I. | Paes | BRAZIL.—Hundreds of thous- ands of bags of coffe dumped into | |the sea. All of this to keep up | profits for the capitalists in face | of w cuts, unemployment and | starvation, \ | w | | er’s Day, | Last Saturday it was announced that }are on the right path. IS 4TH IN YEAR| Workers Must Organ- ize and Strike For the fourth time in less than a year, the workers of the Loft candy plant (which employs over 1000) in Long Island City have received a vi cut. The first one was last Christmas, then another one was handed out at Easter and on Moth- the girls were given a cut. starting Monday, all the workers would have to put in 60 hours a week instead of the 48 they have been working. The workers are not to get a cent more for this extra time. It is a direct wage-cut! The girls at the Loft plant which includes ice-cream, bakery and candy | departments, have only been making about 14 dollars a week. The men —from 18 to 25 dollars. They used | to get 35 before the cut epidemic began. When the latest cut was announc- ed, the workers, most of whom are young workers, were furious. They | immediately discussed the situation of having to live on starvation wages and decided not to go into the fac- tory on Monday. The Loft workers The only way of defeating wage-cuts is by that all his speeches will not help | f unless he calls the union represen- tative with the Shop Committee for | the farmers until the n w o'clock to start t | striking. But a strike can only be | successful if it is well organized. The | bosses are strong and the workers LNDRY WORKERS for the boss that was oatmeal w and fat meat rep) were fo to 7.30 at nN ped were en they slipped out to the e came out to avoid only after the farmer's w and pleaded i trouble with “Balt: she told her people,” that they proceed unmolested HELENA, Ark., ployed workers a band were allowed to Sept being ir Rogers to Speak On Socialism In U.S.S.R. Recently returned after spending over a year in Soviet Russia, Pauline Rogers will describe her own experi: ences as a participant in the great work of building Socialism in a talk | tonight (Monday) at 8 o'clock at La- bor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. | determined struggle of the strikers | ¢ Her talk, which is being given under | the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, will be illustrated with slides of the latest economic and cul- ‘ural developments in the U.S.S.R. What’s On— MONDAY — Workers Anti-religious League meet tonight at 108 E. 14th St 8 attend. eh owe WAL, Harlem Br. meets tonight at the Spanish Work- ers Center, 110 W. 116th Street, ee Friends of the Soviet Union, Downtown Br. will hold a mass meeting at the La- hor Temple, 14th St. and 2d Ave. Pauline Rogers will speak on “What w in the Soviet Union.” Vege Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Branch No. 2 will hold an open-air meeting at 161st St. and Prospect Ave, 8 p.m, All good speakers requested, Re Alteration Painters, Attentiont All painters are called upon to at- tend a mas: Road, 8 p. m., under the auspices of the Building and Construction Work- ers League. eae Ex-servicemen’s League, Branch N. 1 tnight at 79 Hast 10th St., Pp. m. Imprtant plans for a de. Workers meets rope Mae Interaational Defense, ‘Tom Mooney Br. n open-air meeting on 14th | siversity Pl, 8 p.m. invited will hold St, and workers m. |All workers are urged to | | support the strikers@on the picket an official conference. With this an- swer they all marched out. On Monday at morning all strikers will be in the front of the shop to demonstrate Le determination to strike hey win their just demands. " Other slipper shops are already or- | ganizing to follow the splendid ex- | ample of the Melrose strikers. Many mectings of such shops will be held tonight to mobilize the workers for struggle. TRY TO FRAME DRESS STRIKER Knitting Strike Solid; Underw’r Shop Drive NEW YORK.—Unable to stop the of Needleman & Bremmer, the bosses and company union agents are once more resorting to frame-ups. Yes- terday noon, Fay Losoff, one of the active strikers, was arrested on the picket line ang brought to court in| an effort to frame her up. The fraud was so obvious that the judge was compelled to release her on $25 bail. The workers are determined to go} on with the strike. Active dress- makers are called upon to support ‘these workers on the picket line. Vanity Knitting Mills. All the efforts of the bosses of the Vanity Knitting Mills to break the | strike of the workers who went out meeting at 1610 Boston | to fight against the 20 per cent wage cut have been in vain. The picket- ing of the shop continues regularly. Knitgoods workers are called on to line, Underwear Organization Drive. The mass meeting of the under- wear workers held on Thursday night at Irving Plaza was very suc- cessful. Despite the fact that the entire officialdom of the company union and their paid gorilla commit- tees surrounded the hall in an ef- fort to terrorize the workers and thus keep them from going into the meet- ing, it was well attended and the problems of the shops were thorough- ly discussed, also the plans for or- ganization of shop committees for the shop as the first step toward de- | veloping the struggle against wage | cuts. All the speakers explained the mo- | tive for the fake strike engineered by Executive members must at-|the company union as a means of | 7:00 o'clock in the | until | Conference Form Union Call to About 150 laundry. workers met last day night at Ambassador Hall, | Claremont Parkway and Third Ave., Bronx. About 60 joined the organ- ization. This is the answer of the rank and file to the betraying fakers, Brooks and Bloom, of the former racket-controlled union, I. Blum of the organization com- mittee reported on the plans of the organization committee for the com- ing four weeks. The report was dis- | cussed by the rank and file from the | floor. The main point in the report was the proposal of the organiza- tion committee to call a conference on October 18, at which the union ll be definitely organized. The con- mce is to be composed of dele- | cates from the shops, with one dele- | sate to every five workers, The former officials, Brooks and Bloom, were further exposed when | two workers reported how these fak- | ers went to the bosses to represent a | worker who was fired from the West- |boro Laundry, without the worker knowing about what. While Brooks told the worker to go back on the job, the boss told the worker he does not |want him. This is another example of the dirty work of these fakers, A membership meeting 1s being called by the organization committee for next Thursday. At this meeting the conference will be discussed and the question of strengthening the or- | ganization in the shops will be taken | up. | Acamsepuiea onmeton CHAMBER MUSIC FOR WORKERS AND STUDENTS The People’s Symphony Concerts announce for the season a series of |six chamber music concerts on Fri- day evenings and a Saturday eve- ning series of six artists’ recitals. The Chamber Music Series is to begin on | October 23 and the Artists’ Recitals | on October 24. Both series take place in the Washington Irving High School. A club subscription for stu- dents and workers for each series is $1; for both courses, $2, Tickets are obtainable at the office of the Peo- ple’s Symphony Concerts, 32 Union Square. Patronize the Hygrade |maintaining open shop conditions| Dairy & Vegetarian Restaurant | and discrediting unionism in the eyes | of these unorganized workers. The meeting adopted a systematic plan | of work, A PLEASANT PLACE TO EAT Special prices from 5 to 9 p. m. 149 West 28th St., near 7th Avenue NOW ORGANIZING must get together in one union, re- gardiess of what department they vork in, so ‘that they present a united front against the bosses’ at- | tacks, The only union in the food | | industry that is leading the fight | against wage cuts is the Food Work- jes Industrial Union. \Group Theatre to Pre- sent New Paul Green Play Tonight The Grovp Theatre, an organiza- tion headed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, will present Paul Green's “The House of Connelly” at the Martin Beck The- atre this evening. This is the Group | Theatre's first production in New| York, and the company includes | Margaret Barker, Franchot Tone, Morvis Carnovsky, Mary Morris, Stella Adler, Eure Stoddard and J. Edward Bromberg. The play is con- cerned with the conflict between the old and new South. The play. has been directed by Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Crawford; the settings by Cleon Throckmorton, the Theatre Guild: is sponsoring the engagement. Beginning Tuesday evening, Philip Goodman will open Vincent Law- rence’s latest play, “Washington Heights,” a domestic drama, at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. The cast is headed by William Harrigan and Jo- anna Roos and includes Constance | McKay, Jane Bramley and William Crane, “Payment Deferred”, by J. E. F. Dell, which Gilbert Miller imported from London, is scheduled for Wednesday night at the Lyceum Theatre. Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester and S. Victor play the principal roles, Lee Shubert’s presentation of the Julian Wylie production of “The Good Companions,” ‘dramatized by J. B, Priestley and Edward Knob- lock from the novel, will have its Thursday night. The company is headed by George Carney, Hugh Sin- clair, Vera Lennox, Valerie Taylor, Frank Petley and Ernest Jay. KNITGOODS WORKERS, ATTENTION! NEW YORK.—The Knitgoods De- partment of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union calls on knitgoods workers to come to the union office, 131 West 28th St., Tues- day at 7:30 a. m. for special work that will last not more than 30 min- utes. Unemployed knitgoods work- ers are asked to report daily. One way to help the Soviet Union, is to spread among the premiere at the 44th St. Theatre on | | workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” y Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. “One Big Ball” Oct. 3) | Will Help Trade Union| Unity Council to Build) NEW YORK.—The One Big Ball} of the Trade Union Unity Council to be held on October 3rd, at Rock- | land Palace, 155th St. and 8th Ave. + is one of the means by which funds | will be gathered to make possible | more activity and preparations ea the coming strikes and struggles: | ‘Every class conscious worker must | fulfill his duty towards our revolu-| tionary movement by selling tickets | and getting his fellow workers to} come to the ball. It will be the big proletarian affair of the year with dance music furnished by the John C. Smith Negro orchestra, and a spe- | cial program arranged by the Work- | ers Cultural Federation, including | such features as: John Reed Club} artists, who will draw cartoons, and | Workers Laboratory Theatre, which will present a play. John Reed Club to Start School For Workers’ Art) i To develop artists for the revolu- tionary press and to teach workers | the technical side of cartoons, post- | ers, painting, ete. which can be} utilized in the working class move- ment, the Artists’ Group of the John Reed Club is opening an art school at the new center of the Club, 63 West 15th Street, where classes will be held three nights a week in both the elementary and more advanced | forms of art. The various classes in the cartoon, composition, poster, illustration and | life will be headed by a group of | capable teachers consisting of Grop- | per, Burck, Lozowick, Siegel, Pass, | Bard, Quirt and others who under- stand the technical side of their sub- jects as well as the needs of the working class movement. Classes will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings with a monthly tuition fee of three dol-| lars. Registration opens on October | 2nd from seven to nine, at the head- quarters of the club, 63 W, 15th St. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BRONX Today to Tuesday JEFFERO NSH Edt Ave. BERT 8 %X° g| WHEELER New Reduces and nm 95 ROBERT to 3 p.m. WOOLSEY “CAUGHT eevee) PLASTERED” | Lew Pollack With and Co. Hariaiine | Dorothy Lee The Melfords Made of FRESH VEGETABLES & FRUITS AFTER THEATRE SPECIAL LUNCH 50c DINNER 65¢ ARTISTIC SURROUNDINGS cC~_. Y FOODS Frufood | VEGETARIAN | | RESTAURANTS! * |. 153 West 44th Street 110 West 40th Street (East of Broadway) ‘True Food Is the Key to Health Gaz deal DAY AND EVENING Commercial—Secretarial Courses Individaal Instruction Open the entire year 14th St. at 2nd Ave. N.Y.C. TOmpkins Square 6-6584 (USE UNION FUND TO HIRE SCABS Members of Locals 24) and 42 to Protest NEW YORK. J, Engel and H. A. Rosen shops, 42} W. 39th St., continues in spite of} the efforts of the officials of Local} 24 to break it. The strike commitvee has issued a special appeal to «all members of Locals 24 and 42 (company union). It reads in part: “When the trimmers scabbing on us at the Engel and Rosen shop: complain about the low prices and are unwilling to remain scabbing, your dues payments are used to pay them from $7 to $10 extra out. of | | Local 24 treasury in addition to what the boss pays them. “Instead of helping you to fight for your prices or settling your disputes and complaints, Miss Oppenheim, Mendelowitch and all the other or- ganizers spend their time breaking our strike. “We appeal to you as working girls striking for a living wage to sign this petition demanding that | Local 24 stop sending scabs on our) | jobs and to withdraw the scabs al- ready sent by your local.” Below the appeal are blanks for signing the petition. All members of Local 24 and 42 should sign this) petition and turn it over to the strikers. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- |} dustrial Union stands ready to form united front committees in all the | shops for the purpose of fighting for | conditions regardless of the trade union affiliations. All workers are urged to come to | the picket line, 42 W. 39th St. Soviet “Forced Labo: Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! | AMUSEMENTS he strike at the G.| Upholstery Strike In Need of Relief As Strike Spreads The Furniture Workers Industrial | Union continues to spread the up- holsterers’ strike. Another shop has joined the strike, the Stern and | Erlick shop in Greenpoint. At this time, the fifth week of | the strike, many of the strikers are without a penny and in immediate | need of relief. The F. W. I. U. calls upon all furniture workers, in the A. F. of L. unions to join in with workers of other trades in showing their sglidarity with the strikers by | sending immediate contributions to the relief fund. The T. U. U. L. upholsters group in Boston has responded to the relief | call with $15 and a promise of more. | Send all relief to F. W. I. U., 5 East. 19th Street, New York City. Strong picketing must go on, work- | ers are called to join the picket lines by reporting at Lorimer and Ten- | yeck, Brooklyn, the strike headquart- ers, at 6:30 a. m, HOUSEWRECKERS MEETING TONIGHT 2,500 Jobless; All Must Struggle NEW YORK.—With a mass meet- ing called to meet today at 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., the Trade Union Unity Council Speeds up its campaign to organize the house wreckers, The Trade Union Unity League (of which the T. U. U. C. is the local central body) states: “Housewreckers who still get as low as 30 to 40 cents an hour, an hour union scale. There are 2,500 of them unemployed in New York. All the gains for which they fought, for 15 years are Swept aside. The once powerful Local 95 is now dis- integrating, not through the fault of the membership but because the leaders are unwilling to take up the fight for better conditions. The meet- |, ing called at Manhattan Lyceum is to discuss what must be done to fight for a piece of bread.” Every housewrecker should come! |Prepare Attack on | New York Jobless Tammany Hall is getting ready for this winter by putting through an- other law which on the surface has the appearance of being directed against criminals but which will be Cooperators’ | used as an additional weapon to ter- Patronize rorize <nd persecute militant work- S E R re) Y ers. CHEMIST Holding a meeting “behind closed doors” writes the New York Times, a | conference of the city’s agencies con- | cerned with the enforcement of crim- inal law, called by Mayor Walker | yesterday, decided that “The chief new weapon is the law which permits |the arrest and sentence of the per- |son with no visible source of income who consorts with criminals.” This law will be used against militant un- employed workers, who will be sen- tenced as criminals for not being able to show any income, 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 BRONX, N. ¥, Intern’l Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of DR. JOSEPHSON —_—_—_—_— 3y6uaa Jlevesunya DR. A. BROWN A Theatre Guild Production ED SAVOIR Chester Erskin ie The Group Theatre Presents || The House of Connelly j By PAUL ¢ Under THEATRE GUILD Martin Bock Jr's 's io Thurs. & Matinees: turday Dentist 8M EAST 14TH STREET (Corner Second Avenue) BIG }IPPODROM ‘1 SHOW IN NEW VORK 6th Ave, & 43rd St, | Bias a | Tel. Sesteee 7248 RARR is (atin | Mary Ann HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 4-0081 MAE WEST IN ‘The Constant Sinner’ ROYALE Thea, 45th W. 8:40, Mts, Wed, & ves. t. 2:30 All Comrades: Meet at q ONE BI of TRADE UNION 5 EAST 19 JOHN J. SMITH, Feature presentation by WORKERS CULTURAL FEDERATION * ROCKLAND PALACE SATURDAY, BRONSTEIN Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Cliremont Parkway, Bronx G BALL the UNITY COUNCIL . MELROSE th STREET DAIRY VEGETARIAN Negro Orchestra Comrades will Seen Find it : Pleasant to Dine at Our Place, 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174th St. Station) St ELEPHONE INTERVALE 9—9149 16th Street a: 8th Avenue Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant | SPECIALTY: 'TALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet OCTOBER 3. Admission 60c. 302 K, 12th St. New York In advance 50e. We Invite Workers to the BLUE BIRD CAPRTEPIA GOOD WHOLESOME FOOD Fair Prices A Comfortable Place to Eat 827 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Sts. Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian food _———— Patronize the Cencoops Food Stor: anny Restaurant 2700 BRONX PARK EAS Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to Advertising Department “Buy in the Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” The DAILY WORKER New York City 50 East 13th St. H | and in general do not get the dollar i work |) acre eae :