The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1931, Page 2

eR RP TE fh Call jor Suppo rt of Mooney | Conference Sunday, Oct. 11 Trade Union Unity Council and International Workers Order in Appeal for Class War Prisoners | NEW YORK Unity C 0 that has been called by the New York District of In- ional Labor Defense this for y, October 11, at 10 am. ati Plaza, 15th Street and Irving The T. U. U. C. statement, signed by John Steuben, acting sec- | retary, follows | “The Trade Union Unity Council | ef Greater New York, which repre- sents the revolutionary unions and | leagues and minority groups in the reformist unions, with a membership of over 16,000 wor fully supports the conference for united action for the freedom of Tom Mooney, the Harlan miners, the Scottsboro boys and all class war prisoners, called by the International Labor Defense. ‘We call upon the workers to reply to the call of Tom Mooney for ac- tion that will arouse the masses to demand the unconditional release of all class war prisoners throughout the country. The T, U. U. ©, calls upon the workers of New York re- gardless of their union or political affiliation, as well as all unorgan- | fed workers, to undertake this strug- | gle as part of our general struggle | in this period of sharpened class battles. “The bosses’ agents within the/| s of the working class, the A. F. of L, its Muste wing, and the renegades of Communism, have con- t y sabotaged and blocked every effort in the past for developing such a campaign. We therefore greet the | steps of the International Labor De- fense in seriously undertaking to or- ganize a movement in this country, as well as throughout the world, that will be so mighty and strong that it will force the ruling class to open the bars and free our best fighters. “Elect delegates to the United Front Conference on October 11.” The statement of the I.W.O., is- Schaeffer, district secret- es in part: “The International Workers Order declares its complete solidarity with | and support of the movement to free.| Mooney and tall class war prisoners | and considers this as part of our own stru@tle. While Mooney, the Harlan prisoners, the Scottsboro boys, the five Paterson silk workers and | the other brave fighters are in jail, | no worker is safe. They are the| symbols of our own struggle and we cannot suecessfully protect our- | selves unless we free them. | “The I. W. 0. branches in Greater New York to | select delegates to the October 11} conference and to actively partici- | calls upon all its | pate in this great defense move- ment.” Philadelphia F Unity Progr PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 8—A meeting of fur workers called by the local of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union of Philadelphia, was | held Wednesday night. The meeting was called for the purpose of acting | on an invitation from the Interna-| tional local for a conference. A lively | discussion developed on the question | of unity and one union. | The workers present enthusias- tically endorsed the unity program adopted by the New York fur work-| ers, and elected the following 5 dele- gates to attend the conference: §.)| Burt, D. Glen, J. Newman, M. Shul- | man, J. Lowel. Many of the mem- bers of the company union local were | present at this meeting, and partici- | Pated in the discussion. At the same time that this nieet- ing was going on the executive com- mittee of the company union met. Realizing the extent to which the International Pur Workers was ex- posed at the unity conference in New ¥ork, the executive board by a ma- jority vote decided not to take part} im the conference which it originally had initiated. However, many of the workers be- longing to the company union ex- pressed their readiness to work for unity, despite the official decision of What’s On— FRIDAY Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League will hold a membership meeting tonight at 29 E. 10th St. 8 p, m. Final arrangements for tomorrow's demonstration at City Hall will be made, Everybody out! ae eet | Tremont Workers Club. will hold a lecture with Ray Rago- win on the “British Situation,” at 736 | Tremont Avenue, cd eee I. W. 0, Youth Meets ‘Will be held all over the city to- night at 8 p.m. as follows: Sports Branch 408, 1400 Boston Rd., Jamaica urriers Adopt | am Like N. Y. the executive board. | Cooper Union Meeting. | NEW YORK.—The Industrial Union | has decided to arrange a mass meet- | ing at Cooper Union Thursday, Oct. 15, where the Industrial Union dele- gates to the unity conference in the fur, trade will give a full and detailed report on the conference and the | further plans of the union to unite | the workers for struggle not only in the fur trade but in all other branches of the needle trades. All needle trades workers, cloak- makers, dressmakers, fur workers, men’s clothing workers, millinery workers, and all other needle trades workers are called upon te mobilize and come en masse to this meeting, Unemployed Open Forum, A meeting of unemployed fur workers was held yesterday afternoon at the office of the Industrial Union. They discussed the present unem- Ployment in the fur trade and de- cided to organize for a struggle. Defi- nite plans will be aeted upon at a membership meting of fur workers to be held in the very near fyture. eee WAGE CUTS ISSUE PATERSON RALLY John Ballam Slated as Main Speaker PATERSON, N. J.—Announeing that the main issue in the local elec- tions is that of fight on the wage cuts sweeping the silk, dye and hos- jery mills and unemployment relief, the Communist Party will hold-an election campaign mass meeting to- night 7:30 p, m. at 205 Paterson St. John J. Ballam, Communist can- Youth 412 at 109-26 Hall Lil The Red Colony Youth, 2700 Bronx | Park East, Bronx; Brownsville Youth | Branch 407, at 1844 Pitkin, Brooklyn, | There will be interesting discussions | at all of them. Young workers and students Invited. eee ee Metal Workers Industrial League | Will hold its regular membership meeting tonight at 5 East 19th st., | top floor, at 8 p.m. A report will be given on the Pittsburgh Metal | Conference and the steel wage-cuts Employed and unemployed metal workers are invited. | ag ee Bronx Hungarian Workers Home Will hold an open forum tonight on the “Manchurian Situation,” at 785 Westchester Ave. Comrade Lusty will lead discussion. 1 gies Harlem Progressive Youth Club tonight at 1492 Madison Ave. ng workers and students are rae te Friends of the Soviet Union Marcel Scherer, Nationa] Secretary ef the FSU. will speak at 48 Bay | Street at § p.m. (West end of the} Bay Parkway line) Coney Island. ‘Workers are invited to attend, eee Alfred Levy Br. LL.D, and Workers Culture will hold a ra- tifieation meeting at 8 p.m. at 524 Vermont St. pe ae Bronx Workers Club | Will hold a lecture at 1610 Boston | Rd, at 8 p.m. All invited, | Pa | a ‘ SATURDAY International Workers Clab Will have its next physical train- ing hour at. Hungarian Workers Home, 450 H. 8ist St., Saturday, Oc- | tober 9, at 7:30 p.m. All workers are | welcome. Spartaco Branch No. 561 In ers Order, will celebrate inaugura- tion at 2450.80. Oakley Bivd., Chi- cago, Ill, Free entrance. Bronx Workers Club "Will give a dance at 8 p Boston Road, All invited, ee Benefit for Miners Relief A concert and dance, first of its Kind, for the benefit of miners, re- Nef, ‘will be held in Ukrainian Hall, 160 Mercer St, Jersey City, on Oc- tober 10, at 8/30 p.m, under the aus- | pices of the Workers International ip the first event of jts kind be held in Tatney Ghy, Pod wv ‘Th ever t | where with didate for governor of New Jersey is scheduled to speak. The hosiery strikers who recently walked out against the enforcement of the 35-45 percent wage cut pact of the American Federation of Full Fa- shioned oHsiery workers are reported foreed back to work by threats from the national and loeal officials. “Five-Year Plan” Film at Acme Theatre Sun. The outcries against “forced” la- bor in the Soviet Union have been growing louder as the success of the Five Year Plan is acknowledged even by its most violent enemies, But, far from being forced to labor—as the U. S. Tariff Commission recently admitted was the case with workers in over a score of other countries ex- porting goods to the United States (tin, copper, nickel and other ores, rubber, tea, coffee, manganese, to- bacco, ete.)—the workers in the Sov- jet Union are steadily achieving bet- ter working conditions. The seven- hour day and the five-day week are making hours ever shorter; wages are increasing; unemployment has been abolfShed and their housing, cultural and health facilities are in- creasing. Working and living conditions of Soviet workers are shown in “The Five Year Plan: Russia's Remark- ing,” an Amkino production, show- ing at the Acme Theatre 6n Union Square, beginning this Sunday. The great industrial projects under con- struction, among them some of the largest in the world, the new life on the great state and collective farms, the socialist cities springing up every- their communal living and activities, the workers in the national republics at work, play and study—all these phases of the life of the workers and peasantry in Soviet Rugia may be seen on the screen. “THE ADVENTURES OF BILL __DAILY WORKER WORKER Rememper- THe SICKER ou ARE THE BETTER You ARE! HEART FA\LORE PERIO( PRAIAS OF CAPITALISAN eer ONER f : HOUSE TO HOUSE «|| Special War Vets RED CANVASSING THIS WEEK END Party Platform Will Reach Thousands Of Workers As @ result of the mobilization now going forward in all sections an army | of worker agitators will invade: all working class * neighborhoods going | from house to house with the Elec- | tion Campaign platform of the Com- munist Party and yygth Election Cam- paign coupons to appeal for support of the campaign program and funds. | The workers in the fraternal organ: izations, clubs, in the revolutionary unions and workers in shop and fac- tery who will support the Commun- ist Party program of struggle in this election campaign shall report to the Communist Party headquarters jn all boroughs this Saturday /and Sun- day, and volunteer for, the Red housa to house canwass to reach the work- | ers with the Party platform, The, Young Pioneers, the Young Communist League, all revolutionary workers and their families can and should respond to this Red Drive, to} help sell 50,000 Communist Party | Election Campaign Platforms and to| Faise $5,000 through the sale of | coupons for the Red Election Fund. | ‘The attention of the working class | organizations is also called to the eoming conference of women work- ers to send delegates to Irving Plaza Hall, this Saturday, October 10, at 2 p.m, to rally all women workers from | shop and home for the election cam- | paign struggle for immediate unem- | ployment relief for the jobless, for | the fight against wage cuts, and the high cost of food and rent, for the | fight to bring down the cost of milk, | for all local and immediate demands | of the working class as well as for | | the basis fight against capifalist class and its program of hunger and op-/} pression of the workers, | Workers organizations should see | that delegates are sent to. represent | them. Today and tomorrow are final re- gistration days! Remember if you do not register you can not vote, All class conscious voters who are cit- izens should go to the polling place nearest their address and register in erder to cast a vote on Election Day for the Communist Party. IN MIDDLE BRONX Landlord Breaks Into Home With Marshal Without giving his tenant any not- iee the landlord at 1478 Wilkins to- gether with a city marshal forcibly broke into the home of Schneider, an unemployed worker and his fur- niture dumped into the street. This vicious act took place when the fam- ily was absent. * Upon learning of this eviction the Middle Bronx Unemployed Council mobilized its members and fighting Police interference put back the fur- niture, An open air meeting was held and the neighbors informed of the in- tentions of the landlord and the need for the organization of neighborhood committees to fight evictions, Paterson Needle Shop Strikes PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 8—In the face of rotten conditions, the work- ers of the Em-Kay Needle Shops walked out yesterday, the second time in three weeks. The first time, their militancy won slight better- ment in conditions. However, they grew worse and worse. Constant de- Jay in handing out pay, “Shrimp” Weinstock’s crankiness and nagging showed the workers that something real must be done about it. There will be a meeting of Em-Kay needle workers under the leadership of the Needle Trades Industrial Un- jon at 742 Main Ave. today to or- ganize and fight these conditions, Demands aganist favoritism and un- | || The Labor Sports Union will | | | FIGHT AGAINST LIGHT, GAS RATE Jobless Councils Lead; Get Names, Delegates NEW YORK.—The Councils of the Unemployed will have a delegatioin | to present a petition signed by thous- ands of names, at the open hearing of the Power Commission at 80 Cen- ter Street, Friday Oct. 16 at 2 p. m. Five thousand names haye already || been collected on the petitions, de- manding the immediate, reduction of gas and electric light rates to the original rates in foree before Sep- tember 1, * ‘They demand no meters be cut off fer non-payment pending reduction of the rates, They demand free gas and elec- tricity for the unemployed workers. ‘The petitions declare for organiz- ing and striking against the robber rates unless they are reduced. The Unemployed Councils urge all workers and small consumers to get petition blanks frem the nearest Un- employed Council, or from 5 W. 19th Street and gather more names. Enought blanks have already been | printed to gather 250,000 names. Workers should call a meeting of all in their house, form a group and elect a delegate to go with: the-rest te the Power Commission hearing, On Sept. 1, the New. Work Edison Co. and the Consolidated Gas in- troduced what they ¢alled “Gheaper rates.” The rates are indeed cheaper for big concerns using a lot, but they are much higher for the ordinary housekeeper and they include a $1 minimum rate for everybody. This comes at the time when the Edison Company admits it made $37,100,000 in 1930 and the Consolidated Gas made $69,200,000 in the same year. Cuisick, Kentucky Miner to Speak to Writer Delegation Asa Cusick, ex-police chief of Evart Kentucky, miner, active organizer for the National Miners Union, fiery one armed fighter against the Kentueky egal barons will be here Friday night to speak at a dinner at Teutonia Hall, 158 Third Ave., 7 p, m, te writer del- egates who as members of the Com- mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners are cooperating with the International Labot Defense to “break down the wall silence and ter- | ro” in the Kentucky mine velds. Cus- iek is in a position to tell a few things about this ‘wal ef teror and silence” to the delegation. He is one of ,the 34 miners indicted on a brazen frame up charge of murder. Frank Palmer of the Federated Press wil preside and Samuel Or- nity wil speak in the name of the delegation who wil include Theodore Drieser, Samuel Ornitz, author of “Hauneh, Paunch and Jowl, Jose- phine Herbst, Ann Rochester, who wrote “Labor and Coal;” Lester Cohen, author ef “sweeping,” Edward Dahlberg, writer of “Bottom Dogs.” The delegation {s working to draw in prominent southern writers, law- yers and college men of prominence. Page Tomorrow | NeW YORK. — The unusual spectacle of the Daily Worker | staff eating a meal at the Bagaar, at Madison Square Garden, will be one of the features Sunday | night. The grand opening of the} Daily Worker - Freiheit - Young Worker took place last night, with |a special feature. | On Sunday night, the Daily | Worker staff will go to the Bazaar |in a body and provide the rare| sight (that is, if it meets with the approval of those whe run the |bazaar, and if the rush of paid customers is not ‘too great) of providing themselyes with the ex- cellent food that is being served at this bazaar. The oceasion will be a send-off for Ryan Walker, staff cartoonist of the Daily | Worker, who is leaying for the | Soviet. Union. This is by no means the main feature as there are cultural pro- |grams arranged by the workers’ | cultural organizations. Music of every variety will be there. There | |are 50 booths with all sorts of merchandise at the lowest prices. give exhibits Friday, Saturday and Sunday. night. The John Reed | Club booth has the original car- }toons for sale of all the leading artists of the revolutionary move- |mént, such as William Gropper, |Jake Burck, Ryan Walker, Phil | Bard, Quirt, and all the rest. Don't miss the bazaar which is @ rallying point for collection of funds for the revolutionary press, Needle Trades Open Forums Sunday, Bronx And in Brownsville NEW YORK.—An open forum of dressmakers has been arranged by the United Front Committee of dressmakers for this Sunday, Octo- ber 11, at 11 am, at the Workers Youth Center, 105 Thatford Avenue, Brownsville. The discussion will be on the rele of the United Front Committee in the dress trade, In the leaflet is- sued, the committee calls on all dressmakers regardless ef their po- litical opinions to come to this open forum, The left wing groups of the LLG. W.U. have arranged an open forum this coming Sunday, 10 o'clock in the morning at Ambassador Hall, 3875 3rd Ave, Bronx. The subject for diseyssion will be: “How To Build a Union In The Interests of The Workers.” All workers living in the district are called upon te come to this meeting. r Council Put Back Evicted Family Tammany deputies evicted, A. Schnieder and his family from their rooms at 1474 Wilkins Avenue, Bronx, N. Y, This worker was unemployed for a long time and what little mon-, ey he had managed to save up for a “rainy day” was robbed by the officials of the defunct Bank of the United States. When the deputies came they found the door locked be- cause Mrs. Schnieder was out of the house, they entered through the fire escape like second story thieves and threw the furniture from the fire- escape, There was a sick baby in the house but this did not stop them. The case was reported to the Un- employed Council who immediately came to Schnieder's assistance by holding a demonstration in front of the house and rallying the workers of the neighborhood, who together with the council put back the furni- ture. The children also took part in the demonstration. “EAST OF BORNEO” AT CAMEO “East of Borneo, the far Eastern Drama with Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, and Georges Renavent con- tinues on its second week at the Cameo Theatre and its third on ‘Broadway. This unusual story, an Indian legend filmed in the jungles of the Maylay Peninsula is the work of George Melford, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER —Just So Much More Hooey— SEND-OFF TO THE U.8.8.R. AMERICAN WORKERS DELEGATION MINE STEEL MARINE WM. W. WEINSTONE BEN GOLD Cent. Comm. Com. Party \ Secretary, N.T.W.U. JOSHUA KUNITZ Noted’ Author Sink satathba RED FRONT BAND Latest Soviet News Reel from the Soviet Union « COOPER UNION 1 2 Sanitary conditions will be worked out MONDAY, OCTOBER ADMISSION 25 CENTS 1931 ‘You are BSUS = T nay BE We: aa Hoover’ TAM Essen ti To Rev ‘i hi (TS Te UND! Heanor — FAURE BUT- Rememnen. a By RYAN WALKER HERE’S OLD Doc HOoEY Hoover Tas STRYCH NINE Witt - mee. our RABREL re Tor, WN MAYBE . | (Role of the Ch ‘Statement of the Chinese 1,, the Prevent 'Bureay, C. C,, CP.USA. Capitalist Crisis On TH. Tsiang and His csiow"vesgue’ ai tout ts ne Book “Red China” ; open forum Sunday afternoon, Oc- | tober 11, at 2:30 p.m. at 63 West 15th | | Street. The speaker will be Bennett Stevens, author of “The Church and t Workers.” He will speak on ‘The Role of the Church in the Present Crisis.” The admission price is 10 cents; questions and discus- sions will follow the talk. ANOTHER FAKE Whereas T. H. Tsiang, a Chin- | ese student ,often visits meetings | and headquarters of the Party and | | mass organizations, and whereas | there has been some misunder- standing about his status in re- gard to the Party, the Chinese Bureau of the Central Committee | {deem it necessary to state that | T. H. Tsiang has never been and is not_a member of the Commu-| | nist Party and does not belong to| any mass organization under the leadership of the Pafty. His re- cent book, entitled “China Red” does not represent what the title is supposed to represent. It con- tains nothing about the Chinese Soviets, nothing about the Red Army, and practically nothing about the Chinese Communist | Party and the Chinese. workers | and peasants. It is full of per= sonal quarrels, family pedigrees, petty stories and bourgeois poems. It here and there depicts a Chin- | ese “woman Communist” as a person almost akin to a fanatic. The book is yellow and black in substance and only “red” in paint, | | Party merhbers and sympathizers ‘are ‘advised not to be attracted | | hospital for objecting to this looting. and deceived by the fascinating | The strike is conducted with the title of the book and the seeming k aid of the bosses in the association, sympathy of its author. “ | | and is intended to cripple the cut | rate bosses outside of the -organiza- tion. The men are getting $20 now, and are theoretically striking for $25, but they don’t expect to get it, | Officials Thugs Take $15 from Each Man NEW YORK—The usual annual fake strike in the barber shops 1s on. The Journeymen Barbers’ Association | declared a ‘stoppage Monday, and sent gang’ of thugs to bring in everybody working in barber shops | along 14th St. and below. They were driven in droves into Webster Hall, llth St. and Third Ave., and found themselves prisoners there. No one was allowed out. Those who tried to get out and avoid paying a $2 de- posit on the $15 “initiation fee” were | Slugged. One man was sent to the Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! AMUSEMENTS =| TCAMEO 2nd 'o CAMI swy Week 3rd Week on Broadway “EAST of BORNEO” With ROSE HOBART ° and CHARLES BICKFORD JULIAN WYLIE’s PRODUCTION GOOD COMPANIONS By J. B. Priestley & Bdward Kno- block From Priestley’s Famous Novel Company of 120—16 Seenes 44TH ST. THEATRE, W. of Br'dway Evgs, 8:40, Matinges Wed. & Sat. HEPPOPROME::, Ave. BS & 4ard St, IGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK KO) TOM MEIGHAN A Theatre Guild Produetion E” By ALFRED SAVOIR | Adapted by Chester E: W. 52nd. Eves, GUILD Mts. 'Th. & Sat. 2:40 x Col. 56-8223 The Group Theatre Presents The House of Connelly By PAUL GREEN Under the Auspices of the Theatre Guild Martin Beck TPP A>, St. & 8 Ave, Mat. Thurs & Sat, Penn 6-6100 MAE WEST IN ‘The Constant Sinner’ “An wound and respectable as Belas- co's ‘Lulu Belle’.”—The Nation, Thea. 45th W. Bw: ROYALE fp ie Weare 45th Hives. 2130. Workers Correspondenve is the backbone of the revolutionary press, eae 38 : nel. “ 7 coc eee: hed fla! Be a bey 8 Asia in Revolution! A Dramatic Masterfilm! TODAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY Storm Over Asia Pudovkins Great Masterfilm of the Present Revolution in Asia Made in the U.S.S.R. by Mejrobpomfilm in the U.S.8.R. iraction | “ACISTE IN HELL” Attraction 14th STREET MECCA THEATRE 13s" See For Yourself— :. The result of this industrial revolution! The making of a new civilization! AMKINO PRESENTS SOVIET RUSSIA'S YEAR OELAN ACME THEATR Union Square at 14th Street ~ _ Popular prices, continuous performance 10 A.M, to 11 P.M. Based on Dante's Inferno Noon to Midnight Last Show 055 P.M, . ~~ BARBER STRIKE ‘4 FSU MEETINGS | WILL RATIFY ~~ DELEGATES Two Delegates Will Speak in Brooklyn Four mass meetings to ratify the two New York members of the Amer- jican Workers’ Delegation to the So- | viet Union will be held Friday, Sa‘- |urday and Sunday nights in Wew | York and vicinity, Tonicht at 8 p |™m. Maree] Scheref, national |tary of the Friends of the Govi Union, which is organising the dele- gation, will give an illuctrated talk jon the “Five-Year Plan and What It |Means to You,”,a: the Bath Berch | Workers Club, 48 Bay °3:h St, | Brooklyn, | Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock: | two New York delegates, George V7:% |man, Negro seaman, and Smith H |icins, also a seaman, will’speck At the Russian Home, 129 Glenmore St., Brownsville. At the ssme meeting | Ray Ragozin, New York distr c retary of the F. S. U, will give an iNustrated talk. Sundey at 3 artist and etary of the John Rez recently returned fron will speak ot the B Auditorium, 2709 Broy: On the same night a mesting be held in Passaic, with Lena Cher- nenko, active in the struggics ef the textile ‘workers who has"ju from the U.S. §, R.. Scherer as the speakers. £2 s talk will be illustrated. The meet- ing will be held in Kenters Audi- torium af.7:30 p.m. at 239 Mouree St. Passaic. | DREISER’S “AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY” AT HIPPODROME The Hippodrome beginning Satur- day will begin the shewing ef “An American Tragedy,” the scre2n ad- aption of Theodore Dreiser's great novel. Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sid- ney and Frances Dee are starved in this outstanding Josef von Sternbevs production, This is the first popular price showing. Cooperators' Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 9915 HHONX, Nw. 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