The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1931, Page 2

Page Two “Times” Staff Man Admits Hunger, Terror in Harlan Tries to Excuse Operators But Says Babies Starve While Gunmen Kill Miners NEW YORK.—Louis Stark, one of the labor editors” of the New York Times, has started a series of articles on Harlan, Ky. The| first appeared yesterday and, along with an : | abundance of excuses for the operators, makes} ome interesting admissions of the starvation and reign of | terror these operators have set up. Stark says: | . the Harlan County operators have been fighting or their economic lives with all the weapons they can muster; ty sk with rifles and machine guns and pro- f vests; the po- @— —-————___ ______. rery of the, Patches were a godsend during the al dominance of | Summer, but they are exhausted. in their coal], “Children in these communities beg reductions and)! Strangers. Fathers, unable to find work, cannot buy school books or clothes for them. Some children | have to remain at home and others go to school without food. Principals report many in school without break- sher armed wage two, three ; se are com- | £48t or lunch. rs have| “Miners, working three days a week are un- any —some times two and sometimes four—and earning between $9 and $12 a week, remain in debt to company (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) W orker Vets March on City Hall Friday; To Put Demands tee of m the bread | ge Even the workers in uniform, the x-service- | sailors in British and Chilian navies, ve been granted|are fighting to defend their stand- | permis: rch on Friday morn- | ards of living—are fighting against | ing, Octeb at 10 o'clock, up| hunger. Join us in our fight for Broadwa! ne Cu House | work or adequate relief. Join with to the City the other workers who are also fac- | ing the same conditions as we are | so that unitedly we can gain our de- | mands and protect ourselves against the hard conditions that face us this he Ame! coming winter. Join us so that we of Foreign Wal can fight together and so that one terans are de- group of workers can not be used e€ gainst the other.” es Send Greetings to Magnitogorsk | is now pr of the $1.00 to $20.00 deducted URES _DATILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931 OF BILL WORKER | THE_ADVEN Hod ow : : YOu Gora Taxé ANOTHER WAGE cur penal Th. 7 a ( Five, GhILY Gve%u DATS Awe ees, “ans ME Were Tuenes No E OF L Achar NG SYSTEM DESTROY — By RYAN WALKER eine = ‘S TuRNGD He Commun |sT STEEL WORKERS IN GARY HOLD MASS MEET WED. Railroad Office Pay Cut Forecasts More CHICAGO, IIL, Sept. 28—The an- | nounced wage cut of 10 per cent of | living like rats, while all over the unemployment, and wage cuts.| the steel workers is affecting 14,000 | city of St. Louis there are empty in the Chicago region, including 9,- 000 of the “Gary workers of the U.S. Steel Company. The workers in Gary steel mills are working only part time and this new wage cut put their wages even be- low the starvation level. The Metal Workers Industrial League is under- taking the campaign to organize workers and prepare and lead them in struggle. A mass meeting will be held in Gary with Wm. Z. Foster as speaker at Turner Hall, Wednesday night, Sept. 30, against the wage cuts. A number of delegates were elected from the Gary steel mills and others to the National Steel Workers Con- ference held in Pittsburgh R. R. Cuts Pay NEW YORK. — The Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad on. Oct. 1 will cut wages of office work- opposite the the Bowling subway sta- ons are ask- ttention of ivicemen ng them to join Organ mands a ipporting these de- ed to send delegations istration of the American Leg- inst the payment of ed Compensation (Sonus) d the determined thst relief or of their on shall be tak- marched on Broadway in | 1919 and now we will march Hall determined to fight starvation cial leaflet widely distrib- and fight against un. is only a part of the s against hun- SIX PITTSBURGH BANKS IN CRASH 10 Banks Closed With $60,000,000 Lost PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 28.—With men the we six banks cosed over the week-end, the total of-insolvent banks here Ww the last two weeks total ten with lost deposits estimated at $60,- 000.000. The Pittsburgh-American Bank and Trust Co. and the McGillick Savings and Trust Co. were closed Friday by the State Banking Department. A run on the former bank withdrew $700,000 of the $3,000,000 deposits, it was reported. The lost McGillick bank deposits total $300,000. Declara- to the effect that the depositors Te receive a full return on their lost money is in line with the usual es to forestall immediate mass n of the depositors. other banks, the Bloomfield Co., the Garfield Bank, the ac Four Trust Han sylvania cle d Saturday. The deposits of the| ied banks in the order named 22,000 bove four banks. | paign lton State Bank and the Penn- | Bank and Trust Co. were/ ers from 7 to 10 per cent. Next comes the slash in pay for} the other workers on the railroads. | The same tactics were carried out On Completion of Big} United States Steel Workers In USS the Corp: \400 Workers Live in | Shacks Like Rats | Call it “Hooverville” | ST. LOUIS.—Four hundred work- ers, men and women, are living in make-shift shacks along the banks of the Mississippi. The shacks are | made from drift wood, odd bits of | lumber, boxes anything that could| | go to the making of a shack. With | no work and no relief these workers | are forced down to the condition of | houses. The workers call the col-| | lection of shacks “Hooverville” and “Hoover Heights” as a dedication to Hoover's capitalist prosperity for the | | working-class. | PICKET ENGEL, ROSEN SHOPS, Dressmakers, Knitg’ds Meetings Thursday The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union carried through a | god picketiong demonstration yester- day in front of the striking millinery shops, G. J. Engel and A. H. Rosen, | 42 West 39th St. The active mem- bers from the dress and other de- | partments came to assist the strikers | on the picket line. The company | union mobilized a squad of 20 police- men to protect the scabs. Mende- | NANKING URGES U.S. TO WAR ON JAPAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED | finition of her present intentions.” He added latter: “If Japanese aggression con- tinues unchecked there is almost | certain to arise some serious clash or incident, which, it is believed, is exactly what the Japanese res- ponsible for the present situation desire to provoke.” This is not only what the Japanese are waiting for but what the United States imperialists are waiting “for. The United States imperialists are “temporizing” until a “serious clash or incident” will give them some | “moral, civilized” occasion to show | its full-strength and begin a direct attack on Japanese imperialisin. While the attack of tne Japznese imperialists contmues, the capitalist press is stirring up anti-Soviet prop- aganda. Mosr-y's carries stories of troops near Manchuli.” All of these | lies are for the purpose of preparing | the united capitasist attack on the | Soviet Union as & “better solution’ to the Japanese’ invasion of Man- | churia. | capitalist piess | “Soviet massing | | | immediately [Carl Brodsky Will Teach Class For | ‘DUAL ‘SOCIALIST’ | 1| Class for first voters begins | | | | | Wednesday evening Se,pt. 30th, 7/| |P. m. Carl Brodsky, instructor. | | All workers who are citizens and | will vote for the first time this | | year should attend this class. First | | | voters are required to pass a test} | of reading and writing called “Lit-| | jeracy Test.” The class will cover | | | this point and instruct workers on | | = | their rights at the polls. Register| |, NEW YORK—The Orlofsky-Bec- see ble een |Rerman Glique that organized the | Schoo, 3rd floor, 50 E. 13th St. | |@ual company union in the men's $ clothing industry, the International WORKERS SCHOOL,| scoot ee nescence REGISTRATN NOW | of the socialist party and the Jewish Daily Forward for arbitration of the internecine conflict that developed in School Opens Up On} Monday, Oct. 5 NEW YORK.—Workers who have | lofsky group accepted upon conditions |that the investigation include the such as the Fundamentals of Com- munism, Political Economy, Trade | whitewash both company unions’ and | to forestall the development of a left Spoils Method of Reconciliation the A. C. W. over division of the not registered for the fall term of the | finances of the general offices of the Union Strategy, Organizational Prin- First Voters GRAFT UNIONS TO” GET WHITEWASH \New Division of the) graft revenue, Leading officials of the Amalagamated Clothing Workers and the International Clothing Workers Union are: prominent mem- bers of the socialist party. The Or- Workers School should not fail to register this week, the last week of| A. C. W. registration. The school will open| Openly a move to reconcile the two next Monday, October 5. warring factions of the socialist of- In the fall term important courses, | ficaldom, the action of socialist |party is interpreted as a move to | ciples, Marxism-Leninism, History of | American Labor Movement, and | many special courses on various fields | of revolutionary activities are given. The English Depertment> has been BAZAAR CONFER. | by Steel Mill When the big steel trust cut the office NEW YORK.—Replying to a cable | Workers’ pay they said no wage cuts | from the workers at Magnitogorsk, | Will follow for the steel workers. On U.S.S.R., announcing the completion | October Ist the wage cuts came for} |lowitz, one of the company union | agents pointed out to the police the girls to be arrested. Frank Schwartz, | Betty Falk, Ray Leiner, Fanny Le- vine, Clara Tanenbaum and June of a great Magnitogorsk Steel Plant, the largest in Europe, to start opera- tion October Ist, the National Com- mittee of the Friends of Soviet ings “In the name of thousands of American workers and friends of the Soviet Union, we hail the completion of the Magnitogorsk Steel Plant as a tremendous victory of socialist construction. In response to your invitation to participate in the cele- brations, we are sending an Ameri- can Workers Delegation from the | battlefields of the class struggle, from the steel, coal, metal mining, ; auto, marine, chemical and electrical power industries, to weld more firm- ly the bonds of solidarity between the American and Soviet toilers. We pledge to mobilize large masses for the support of the Five-Year Plan and the defense of the Soviet Union.” The delegates, about 15 in number, are now being elected by trade unions, shop groups and conferences of workers’ organizations throughout the country; they will sail about Oc- tober 15th and will spend five weeks in the Soviet Union. The two New York delegates, both marine work- ers, will be ratified at a big meeting and entertainment at Central Opera House—67th St. near Third Ave., on Friday, October 2nd, at 8:30 p. m. In connection with the delegation the Friends of the Soviet Union has started a campaign of greetings to | the Soviet workers and peasants on the 14th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Greetings are 25 cents each (10 cents for the unemployed) and lists may be obtained from the F. S. U. office, 80 East 11th St., New York City. The Friends of the Sov- iet Union calls on the American workers to answer the capitalist wage cutting campaign by sending these greetings and by joining in the cam- for an American Workers’ Delegation to Soviet Russia. PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS FOR CHILDREN The Philharmonic-Symphony an- $1,463,000, $422,000; $253,000, and | nounces for two series of orchestral No promise of return on| concerts for children and young peo- osits. were made by officials of | ple conducted by Ernest Schelling at Carnegie Hall, each series consisting of six Saturday mornings each. | Series No. 1 will be of a more ele- What’s On— wt 408 WEDNE Workers DAY— Bx League, 1¢, 8 p.m growing, comrades—Le Wi hotd ting and st ing s ‘ coenagean mentary nature than Series No. 2 and is designed to explain and il- lustrate the vartous instruments of the orchestra. The first concert on . Ave, |November 7 will be devoted to the All invited to | string section. Soloists will be Mishel! Piastro, concert master, in the Gav- otta from Bach's suite for violin, and Alfred Wallenstein, first violincellist at 26th |in the Song of the Minstrel of Glaz- Our ob jounow and the Allegro Appasionat: "| ag Saint-Saent ion has cabled the following greet- | | around a million steel mill slaves. | On the ratiroads the same thing is coming, as not only the Lackawanna but the Pennsylvania, one of the big four, cut office workers’ pay. In | the words of Green and Woll, the management of the Lackawanna an- nounced that it “deeply regrets the |necessity for this action.” But the | action goes on and only the counter- action—organization and strike of | the workers under revolutionary lead- ership—will stop the wage cutting drive. ht Soe Tugboat Workers Face Pay Cut NEW YORK.—Over 4,500 workers are threatened with a wage cut of m $5 to $15 a month. The Marine Workers Indtstrial Union has issued a leaflet to the tugboat workers, ex- posing the Associated Marine Work- ers’ misleadership. While there is talk of a strike the Marine Workers Industrial Union calls on the work- | ers to take over the strike and make it a militant fight against wage cuts under rank and file leadership. A leaflet has been issued to the | tugboat workers telling the workers: \“The strike committees should be in- structed to present their demands to |the companies, demand an answer jand if refused, an immediate. strike | should be called. The strike must be | militant, with every man picketing | and every effort made to keep scabs out.” FUR FAKERS IN NEW MANEUVER NEW YORK.—As was anticipated, the Fur Joint Council of the Inter- national Fur Workers Union again went back on its own “Unity Con- ference” and nullified the decision of jits own subcommittee, It forbade | the sub-commitee to carry through the decision for an open conference in the presence of the furriers. The Unity Conference which was scheduled to meet on Monday, was again postponed until Thursday on the flimsy excuse that they could not | secure a hall. | The fur workers can readily see | through these maneouvres of the | Socialist politicians, paid agents of the bosses, A. F. of L. union, who are | afraid to continue their fake Unity Conference after they were forced by the Industrial Union to submit to the demands of the furriers for an open conference. The company union heads realized that every fake manoeuvre whth wthich they meant to mislead and interfere with the struggles of the fur workers has turned out to be a soomerang against them. Thousands of fur workers gathered last week in on 620 tugboats in New York Harbor | |Croll were taken to jail. These strike-breaking activites of |the agents of the bosses and the |provocateurs are arousing great re- | |sentment among the millinery work- | |ers who are strongly In sympathy }with the strikers. The Needles Trades Workers In- dustrial Union calls on all the ac- tive workers, especially the millinery rkers, to report on the picket line jevery morning, noon and evening. | ‘The dress dapartment of this. in- dustrial union has decided to call a series of branch meetings in the re- sidential sections. All dressmakers of Harlem: Negro, white, Italians, Span- ish, Jewish and allother workers are called to attend a meeting at the Spanish Workers Center, 111 West 116th Street, Thursday, 8 o'clock. At this meeting, there will be dis- cussion on the organizational work carried on by the union, the United Front policy for struggle to improve | the conditions of the workers. The Bronx meeting will take place at 8 o'clock at Ambassador Hall. Knitgoods Meeting A membership meeting of the knit- goods workers will be held on Thurs- day, 7:30. The knitgoods department has made considerable progress in organization work in the shops. At this meeting, the accomplishments of the union will be discussed and plans for broadening the campaign will be made. Section 3 Meet at | Int'l Tailoring Co. An open air meeting will be held under the auspices of Section 3, of the Communist Party in front of the International Tailoring Company, 12th Street and 4th Avenue on Wed- nesday at 12 o'clock. Two speakers from the rank and file group of the Amalgamated will | speak. We call on all tailors to be present, Cooper Union and discussed the program of the Industrial Union for united struggle in the shops on the basis of a demand for higher wages and union conditions and hailed as the only program for unity and the building of one union against the bosses and their agents. The answer of the furriers to the latest action of the Joint Council will be to join the Industrial Union in large numbers and to create a United Front for struggle in the | shops. | The Industrial Union is starting a which include left-wingers, right wingers and all other workers and is planning a United Conference to work out a program to help the | biggest affair of the working class campaign for unity in the shops | AT CENTER THURS Biggest Affair of the Present Season | Only one working week is left for the successful preparation for the season, the Daily Worker-Morning Freiheit-Young Worker Bazaar.Music dancing, sports, exhibitions by work- ing class sports organizations affiliat- ed to the Labor Sports Union, and the attractiveness of one of the best bazaars that New York~District has even seen, promises the colorful event. A chance to relax, meet old friends make new ones, dance, have a good time socially, and pick up some real- ly rare bargains in merchandise, while strengthening the revolutionary movement by supporting the revolu- tionary working class press is af- forded every worker within riding, walking or commuting distance of Madison Square Garden on October 8, 9 and 10. For the purpose of activizing com- rades everywhere there wil be held the second bazaar conference at the Workers Center, 35 East 12th Street, this Thursday, at 8 p. m. All dele- gates attending the last conference must be at this one to show what has been done to popularize the bazaar. Reports must be made, tickets accounted for and a general resume of activity prepared. Every unit, every branch of a mass organization, every workers organi- zation must have a delegate present. MARINE WORKERS | There will be a special meeting of | the Marine Workers Fraction on Tuesday, September 28, at 9 p.m. at the Workers Center. The comrades should first report at their units and then go to the Center. The meeting will be very important and every comrade should attend. Communist Party District Secretariat YIDDISH ENSEMBLE ART GROUP AT CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE The Yiddish Ensemble Art Com- pany have taken the Civic Repertory Theatre for the present season, open- ing the week ‘of October 26. The company will be conducted under the same repertory system as the Civic Repertory and the Moscow Art organizations. A series of modern and classic plays will be presented in Yiddish. Among these will be the works of Pinsky, Levick, Dymow, Gottesfeld, Ash, Tolstoi, Gorky, Tehekov and Andreyey, The opening performance of Mary Ellis and Bsail Sydney in the John Emerson-Anita Loos comedy “Cher- ries are Ripe,” at the Gaiety Theatre is set for Mondey evening, Oct. 5. The cast of Bugene O'Neill's tril- workers win better conditions in | the shops. ogy, "Mourning Becomes Electra” pleted and contains Alla Nazimova. | will start on October 5. reorganized and new methods of grading are worked out and new ma- terial prepared for the students. | While hundreds of workers have | registered for the courses, the Com- | munist Party and Young Communist League units, trad? unions and other mass organizations have not all sent in t heir members for the courses on a scholarishp basis as offered by | the school. This must be done not later than this week as the classes | The Workers Forum, conducted by | the Workers School will start on Sunday, October 11! The first se-| ries of the season will include speak- ers such as A. Bittleman, W. W. Weinstone, I. Amter, Louis Eng- dahl, Robert Minor, and A. Landy. Students enrolled in the school will get special rate of admission to the Forum. Build a workers correspondence | group in your factory, shop or | neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. 657 Allerton Avenue BRONX, N. ¥. Katabrook 3215 Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care |) of DR. JOSEPHSON | Phone Stoyvesant 3816 | John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St New York Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet 12th and 13th Ste Strictly Vegetarian food SOLLIN’S RESTAURANT 216 EAST 14TH STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Regular Dinner 65 Cents Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to Advertising Department The DAILY WORKER 50 East 18th St. ‘New York City | wing movement. The division of the graft and racketeering revenue ac- |cruing to the A. C. W. caused~ the first ‘split between the Hillman so- cialists and the Orlofsky socialists, and a new arrangement of the spoils is considered tantamount to an agreement. 2f Tear Down Standards At present both socialist factions are feverishly competing with each other to curry favor with the em- ployers, offering wild — concessions that are rapidly tearing down the present standards. Workers of the Fishkin shop were called to a meet- ing by Hillman group and piece work at lower rates offered to the em- ployers. Orlofsky countered with an offer to send out goods out of town to be made up still cheaper than Hillman could offer. Protest Arrest and Torture of Tradé Unionists In China SW YORK.—The American Sec- tion of the International Jyridical Association, protesting against the | arrest and torture of Secretary Nou- | lens of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference and his wife, has sent the following cable to Madame Sun Yat | Sen: “September 28, 1931. International Juridical Association, American Sec- tion, protests torture Noulens and wife. Authorize use our name their behalf.—Carol King, Secretary.” Madame Sun Yat Sen is the widow of the great Chinese statesman. Civic organizations and trade unions thruout the world are calling upon her to intercede on behalf of the Noulens. Mr. and Mrs, Noulens, who are Swiss citizens, were recently arrest- ed in the International Settlement at Shanghai by British Police, for engaging in trade-union activities. The International Juridical Asso- ciation, a world-wide organization of lawyers and laymen whos purpose it is to develop organized opposition to the growing wave of reactionary le- gislation and prosecution in many countries, was formed in 1929 in Berlin, its international headquar- ters, at a Congress attended by 72 lawyer delegates from twenty-seven countries, An American Section has recently been formed, with head. quarters at 799 Broadway, New York City. Wage cuts were forced on the workers of the Sirota shop, 84 Fifth Ave under the pretext that more work would this be secured. Call for Strike The Amalgamated Rank and File Committee yesterday scored the dual company union in its sham fight against Hillman and call for a united front in the shops for struggle against wage cutting ‘The Progressive cutters group has called a meeting, Wednesday, Sep- tember 30 after work at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, to ratify candidates on opposition to the Hill- man machine slate for elections in the cutters local. AMUSEMENTS canna | A Theatre Guild Production “HE” By ALFRED SAVOIR Adapted by Chester Erskin GUILD W.5 v. 52nd. Ei Mts. Th. & ves. $:40 Sat. 2:40 MAE WEST IN ‘The Constant Sinner’ Thea. 45th W. B’wy. Dyes. ROYALE 8:40. Mtg. Wea. @ Sat. 2:80 The Group Theatre Presents The House of Connelly By PAUL GREEN Under the Auspices of the Theatre Guild THEA., 45 Martin Beck floes Aue Matinees: Thurs. & Saturday One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. GROPPER WILL DRAF RED FRONT BAND BOB MINOR Prof. H. W. L. DANA—LOUIS LOZOWICK Just Returned from the Soviet Union RATIFICATION MEETING F.S.U. WORKERS DELEGATION TO THE SOVIET UNION CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE Friday, October 2, 1931, 8 P.M 25¢ IN ADVANCE . Friends of the Soviet Union, 799 Broadway, N. Y. SECOND MASS CONFERENCE for the Daily Worker Morning Freihcit Young Worker BAZ AAR Thursday Evening, October 1st, 8 o’Clock 35 E. 12th Street (Room 205) Comrades, the time is VERY SHORT! EVERY organization must be represented at this very important conference. The delegates are expected to report concretely what their or- ganizations haye done to make the bazaar of the Communist Party a tremendous success, ose ee =