The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1931, Page 6

f Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co, tne. daily except Sunday, et 50 East New York City Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. 13th St., Page Six N. ¥. ‘elephone ALgonauin 4-7956 Cable “DALWOLK, aWorker Ey mail ever; Dies orty ULS.A. : of Manhattan and Bronx. ywhere: One FACTS FOR “HUNGER MARCHERS Ne. t Br LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION IEF before the spe- clal committee of Senate taking testimony against unemployment insurance was P. 'T. She! e of Matthew Woll’s Nation: ic Federa Assisted by the cour- the time partial in order :to keep the advc s of unemploy ment insurance from testifying. Sherman and Woll opposed old age pensions in New York State before the present pension law was passed there ‘They have for years bet nsistent enem: 0 Social insurance of every sort. Hunger ma who fight for unemployment urance clearly fight not only Hoover and the capitalists but the Woll Civic Federation and the A. F. of L “ADQUATE” RELIEF. The Emergericy Work and Re! New York City refuses even to register for any kind of “emergency job” workers w are not heads of families or who are under 21 years of age. Even the head of the Hudson Guild says, ion was not made for them last ing is even promised for this.” Apd “pethaps the greatest physical meed is for the women in the tenement houses. No provision hasbeen made for them,” he adds. “TRANSIENTS” ‘The private hunger marches of individual workers have increased with the deepening of the erisis. More workers are forced to become migra- tory and homeless, Reports from 100 cities to the Hoover Hunger Committee “show an increase— in number of transients—that In a few commu- nities is as high as 200 per cent.” Federated Press reports that “unemployed men, often accompanied by large families, are pouring inte California from Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico at the rate of 1,200 a day.” WALKER HIDES BEHIND MORGAN! ‘The New York City papers have been full of the Seabury-exposed graft in "the hand-out of the city’s $10,000,000 “work for relief” during the last 12 months. It was a Tammany grab bag; the boys who knew the politicians got the “work relief” jobs. So this year, in order to cover the stench a little, Mayor Walker appoints the greatest—and most respectable—robber -in America, J. P. Mor- gan, to head his emergency work bureau com- faission which will spend $15,000,000 of city funds for relief. Like the crooks who “served” the gov- ernment in’ the World War they are to “serve without compensation.” LESS THAN A THIRD FOR JOBLESS. Less than 2 third of the total sums now being collected—partly by forced check-off of workers’ wages—for the Community Chests in some 400 cities of the United States will go for any kind of unemployment “relief” (including graft and ‘overhead”). The rest_will go for so-called “char- acter building” organizations such as the ¥.M.C.A. and Boy Scouts. Yet the impression given out in the current drives is that they are to help the unemployed DRASTIC DROP IN MILK CONSUMPTION. The effects of the crisis on the children of New York City and vicinity is revealed by figures on the receipts of milk in the Port Dstrict of New York. We find that in the some of October, 1931, over 13,300,000 quarts less milk were received than in the same month of 1929. This is a de- crease of over 11 per cent. . . teous senators he hogg' must f Bureau in % is estimated officially and conservatively that in Pennsylvania alone at least 125,000 school ehikiren will go hungry this winter unless im- mediate relief measures are taken by the state government. In West Virginia the Quakers who are feeding the sterving, war style, in a few counties, repott that starvation is increasing. In one small séttle- | ment are “25 families on the brink of starvation.” In one house are seven people: “the five chil- dren and mother and father have one bed, no clothes, one c! ove, one keét- other tiny village 28 evis ym notices were ed. In the schools at least 50 per cent. of children suf: weight,” words which mean slow starvation. Unemployment Figures. vey in Pittsburgh reveals that.in working s sections of the city 50 per cent and more of age earners are totally unemployed. «This is one of the highest percentages of total un- employment found in any city in’ the countty. Employment in Ohio is 14 per cent below the level of a year ago. In the construction industry of this state the drop below 1930 is 34-per cent. Pets Get Full Unemployment Msurance. A story in the New York World-Telegram in- dicates what a break you get if you're an ani> mal but not a human being. It reads: £ “So many New York City families feeling the pinch of hard times are beginning ‘te turn their animal pets outdoors that the number of strays picked up by its agents has doubled in the last few weeks, the Humane Sociéty an- nounced today. “: “People who find it impossible to maintain their pets are requested to ‘telephone the so- ciety, which will assume care of unwanted animals. The telephone -number is Chelsea 3- 5635.” Mayor Murphy's Detroit “Relief.” In September 1929, the Detroit Department of Public Welfare (a city department) was “caring” for 3,000 families: on January 1, 1930, the hum- ber had risen to 14,000 and in December, .1930, to over 45,000. Then in the summer of 1931 at least 15,000 were dropped from the relief rolls. Certainly more need this limited “welfare” aid than last winter, but actually only 15,000 are getting anything now. This means that at least 30,000, worse off than they were last year, are nearing the starvation point. And new appli- cations to the Welfare Department have jumped to more than 300 a day. Of every 100 apply- ing for help, 40 have never received any help from Welfare Department even during the peak of last winter. Mayor Murphy—white hope of the socialists and liberals—is afraid to tax the rich. So he is now following the Hoover example of calling for handouts from the rich to a “Feed a Family Fund,” hoping this form of panhandling will net enough to put a few thousand families back on the lists. And this Welfare Department, with its fund cut down drastically, refuses to do any- thing for.any families with less than two child- dren. At least 500,000 persons are in the families of the jobless of Detroit, officials admit. ‘The av- erage income of a sample 1,000 families of the 15,000 dropped from the list last summer be- cause the city lacked funds, was $2.60. And yet the officials lose their tempers when authen- tic charges are made and proved that hundreds have died of starvation in Detroit while thous- ands are dying of slow starvation. Those who still get relief are now paid next to nothing, the allowance to a family having been cut. Some 9,000 families have been cut to $1.75 a week for adults and 37 cents a week for a child. Out of this, rent, light and gas as well as food have to be paid. The ¢ity controller contends that a jobless man can eat quite well on $1.75.a week! Meanwhile Detroit papers show -pictures. of police being instructed in the use of tear gas grenades and short range tear gas guns, Unemployment “Relief” In Philadelphia si Yise of unemployment has been so acute that the relief expenditures of ten leading charity agencies of Philadelphia rose from $102,756 in September, 1930, to $517,554 in Sep- tember, 1931, an increase of 404 per cent. But this doesn’t begin to touch the actual need. Tf you are lucky egough to get any relief at all from the Bureau of Unemployment Relief, you draw'—for a family of five—just $9.10 a week, which fg about $16 a week less than is required te.maintain even the minimum subsistence level of life as; previously determined by private char- ity statisticians. This $9.10 allows you nothing for rent, clothing or incidentals. De. Beury, the well-salaried president of Temple University, indicates his approval of this standard of relief when he declared that “the depression will teach the people appreciation of spiritual and cultural things.” Nearly 300,000 unemployed in the city are now getting a taste the spiritual and cultural joys. Nice to Be a Horse. @ne of our Philadelphia correspondents in- forms us that when a traffic horse in that city has outlived its usefulness it is sent to the meadows of Bybery, where it spends the rest of its days well fed and secure in’ the green fields. But when a Philadelphia worker has out- lived his period of service to his exploiters, well, we quote from our correspondent: “Thirty persons, mostly workers, have leaped from the Delaware River Bridge since it was opened. “Hundreds ‘of dispossessed workers have . Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! P.O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me.more information on the Cum- munist Party. enepacsecee Seenecediecesrcces AGO csseee the Central Office, Communist Patty U. S A. 87 Station D. New York City. sought refuge in the deserted industrial district on the west side of the Schuylkill below Spring- garden, Others have sought refuge in: the music bowl on Lemon Hill. From both places they were driven by the police, “Early in November the Metropolitan Upera Company had its premiere at the Academy of Music. All the overwhelmingly generous patrons of the workers of Philadelphia were there—the Drexels, the Biddles, the Stotes- burys. The papers reported hundreds of yards of the most expensive silks, and scores of karats of big diamonds and pearls. On the same night Mrs, Anna Nathan, 21, of 3540 North Warnock St., shot her three children to death and then killed herself: ‘Only yester- day, said a neighbor, ‘Mrs. Nathan told me her husband had been out of work for almost a year, except for the little jobs which he could pick up for a week or so as chef in lunch wagons. His last job was in a wagon near Broad and Tioga St, where he made but $15 a week.’ She said she would kill her- self if her husband could not get work soon.” Flops and Financiers, The city has several louse-ridden. flop houses. One marine worker, secretary of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, who -exposed condi- tions in the Seamen's Institute: -25-cent flop house, was recently arrested for slandering the | institution and was given three months. Home- Jess workers who rebelled against flop house con- ditions a few months ago. were framed up. One worker early this year got 90 days in jail for de- manding decent food at the filthy Lodge for the Homeless. Many of the wealthiest people in: Philadelphia, it is admitted by the United Campaign, private charity drive, contribute not a penny to the re- lief funds. All of Hoover's pleas for giving to the private charity rackets in order to avoid un- employment insurance and federal relief, have had no affect on these cynical millionaires, Let the workers—the unemployed—come and force it out of us, if they can, is the attitude of these capitalists. Graft. . Such public “emergency relief” as there is in- volves the blacklisting of workers, undercutting union wages in the job given, high overhéad salaries and graft. The Mayor’s Committee for the Relief of the Poor and Unemployed was found saturated’ with graft, high-pressure pro- moters having received 20 per cent of the amount taken in during last winter’s drive. Out of a collection of $400,000 some $50,000 actually reached the unemployed r from “malnutrition” and “under- echoalee, ie —— Bl This is the second of a séries of three articles on the history of the vicious death frame-up against 60-year old Negro farm hand, Orphan Jones—a frame-up brazen in its savage torture of the worker by the police in order to extort a “confession,” open denial by the courts and the governor of Maryland of the simplest con- stitutional rights such as the right to select his attorney; followed by open lynch incitements by leading officials of the State and of the County of Worcester; with an attempt to lynch the lawyers of the defendant and two investi- gators sent to Snow Hill by the International Labor Defense, an attempt by the court to force the LL.D. attorney out of the case, and finally insistence by the court of bringing Jones to trial on Dec, 8 in Cambridge on the Eastern. Shore, where armed lynch gangs of rich farmers have been hunting Negro workers for days, searching the jails for Negro prison- ers, * 28 8 ¢ ar By BILL BRENT ‘ (Part IL) HAN JONES was arrested on a Monday and the stdte’s attorney announced that he would have a trial the next Monday. The In- ternational: Labor Defense then employed a lawyer to see Jones and defend him. But the bosses.in Snow Hill had had enough of the I, L. D. and din’t want them in the, case, so Judge Joseph L. Bailey, a fat-bellied tool of the bosses and as mean and vicious as any judge in Har- lan, Ky., ‘or ‘Scottsboro, Ala., made an order that no lawyer employed by the I.L.D. could see Jones. ' Just the same the LL.D. lawyer went down to Snow Hill when they took Jones back there a week later for his trial. And the lawyer saw Jones and ‘told him that he was from the I. L. D. So when the judge asked Jones whether he had a lawyer (which he had to ask accord- Liberators! ‘Through: every large city advance hundreds of Negro and white workers, joined. by hundreds more, as they proceed along the line of march on the capital at Washington to demand unemployment winter relief for them- selyes and their families. Already these delegates from the Unemloyed Councils, Communist Party, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, trade unions, and other mass organizations who present these demands before Congress on December 7, have been. greeted along the way by hundreds’ of thousands by Negro and white workers, demonstrating their solid- arity with the Hunger Marchers. The Liberator, weekly organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, draws together Negro and white workers, solidarity their struggle against misery, starvation and poverty forced upon them by the bosses. The Liberator, now in a campaign for 10,000 new readers, leads the fight against discrimination in relief, and segregation of Negroes into lodging houses, even worse than the white workers are forced into, The Libera~ tor demands equal relief for all workers, Negro and white, native and foreign-born, young or old, men or ‘women, and expose the treacherous |schemes of the bosses to split the GREET NEGRO AND WHITE HUNGER MARCHERS WITH THE ‘LIBERATOR’ Greetthe Hunger Marchers with unity of thes@ workers fighting side ji by side for unemployment insurance, against race discrimination, lynching, and for Negro rights. workers battling against hunger. ing to law), Jones said yes, that the I. L. D. lawyer was his lawyer. But the judge said that no lawyer connected with the International La- hor Defense could defend. anybody in his court. He did this because the boss class courts, as well as the bosses themselves, are afraid of the work- ers when they are united. They see the white and Negro workers joining together in the In- ternational Labor Defense for their own protec- tion against the terror of the police, against the Police frame-ups of workers, and against police rich lawyer from Snow Hill to “defend Jones,” as they said, but really to see that the hanging was done in a legal and quick way. Of course the I.L.D. lawyer had to leave then, but he came back and he came back with a petition to move the case away from Snow Hill. Now, according to the law, when such a petition is filed in a case the judge has to move the case and the lew says that anybody who is a friend of the pris- oner can file the motion, so even if the ILD. lawyer couldn’t act as a lawyer in the court at Snow Hill he could still act as Jones’ friend, and so the court had to acecpt the petition, Judge Had a New Trick. But then the judge decided to try a few tricks himself. He decided to move the case to'Cam- bridge, a town not far away. .Now, down on the. Eastern.Shore of Maryland, where all this hap- pened, they don’t have a judge in every town, but one judge travels around and has several courts. And fat old Judge Bailey, who was never hungry in his life, is also the judge in Cam- bridge. He figured that he had Jones now, but he was still afraid of the International Labor Defense, He was afraid of their lawyer and he was afraid of what two investigators for the IL.D., who were then in Snow Hill, would find out about this case. So he wouldn’t decide any- thing all day, but kept the lawyer in court until the afternoon. In the meantime the police ar- and combine it with the December 5 and unless bills New York. of Put the Liberator | ‘Por of & meeting. of ‘nine have had to miss the issue of Nov. 28 this procedure will have to be re- peated. Collect for papers and send the money immediately to The Lihb- erator, 50 E, 13th St: Room 201, Action, Orders, Reporis J. H. of North Little Rock, Ark, Build the Liberator into a mass | enclosed 80 cents for a bundle plus organ which fights persecution of the Negro workers! am into the hands of Negro and white |°f the L..8. N. R. “Phis'ts just the beginning,” he writes, “and’we expect | We want’ reports from other dis- Greet the Hunger Marchers with| to have bigger orders hereafter.” tricts, Shoot them in! The Liberator! . Temporary Drop in Bundles Because The Liberator finds itself ‘nan extremely critical situation due exceptipg Boroughs $8; slx montha, $4.50, eh By bee as THE FIGHT FOR ORPHAN JONES rested one of the LL.D. investigators on trumped- up charges and got a crowd of people to. wreck interference with their demands for food and clothing for the unemployed and part-time workers, and the bosses don’t like that, They are afraid of the workers if they are organized together. So the judge said that Jones* to have another lawyer, and the judge appointed a the automobile in which the investigators were going around, so that the other one. couldn't get away from the village. Then they gathered to- gether all the rich farmers from the whole Eastern Shore of Maryland and when they had about 700 of them they released the 22-year-old girl investigator, Helen Mays, on bail and the judge told the lawyer that the case would be Mmoyed from Snow Hill and that he could now ¥o home, and then this mob of rich farmers and storekeepers, led by the mayor of Snow Hill, caught all three of them, the -lawyer, the girl and the other investigator, and beat them up. Judge Bailey was there and saw it all. And the sheriff and his deputies were there and the State's attorney was there and they all saw what happened.and they all.knew the mayor of Snow ‘Hill and the other mob leaders, but nobody was arrested. Finally, the sheriff let the three I-L.D. people into the jail, where they stayed until night for safety, and then they got away to Bal- timore. * The whole object of this mob attack, in which the judge, the state’s attorney and the sheriff all played their. part, as well as the rich farm- ers and storekeepers and the mayor of the town, was to terrorize the I.L.D. lawyer and ‘investi- gators so that they would stop investigating the case and stop defending Jones and let Judge Bailey hang. Jones, with the assistance of the rich lawyer whom Judge Bailey had appointed to defend Jones. (€oncluded Tomorrow.) Sorry, comrade. your bundle was held up the first week for postage. From J. W. W. of Chicago comes a boost from 50 to 75 along with advance payment. San Francisco assures us of ‘closer supervision over Liberator machinery. “Up until now we had suffered because of too many changes of. comrades in charge,” writes M. R. How,about multiplying that single sub that came from your district two weeks ago, conirade? Raise your sub- scription figures, along with bundles! issue -of are paid, members 44 Labor Spotts Now Wearing Long Pants For a long while we wondéred’ “whether that poor liftie infant would évér bet beyond” the diaper and saféty-pin age. We refer to’ the |, Labor Sports Union; which for long after bitth barely existed with all'the ailments of infancy, heaped upon it and nobody interested in whether it lived or died, We were perplexed why, in view of the fact. that tite Labor Sports moyement in such.an-out of tlie way counrty as Uruguay, for example;-is all over thé map and monopolizes whole pages. in the Conimunist daily paper of.-Montevideo, our brother paper “Justicia.” And of course in Ger- many, Czecho-Slovakia and other Euroean couh- tries the Red Sports movement is a big’thing. Behold the little infant has grownup and is wearing long pants! Here in New-York there has been, various fields that have fallen\ before its advance, and now a Metropolitan’ Workers’ Soccer League has been formed ‘ahd’ it’-has\its own home field for the soccer season! : This home field is up at the Dykman Ovai,! two blocks north of the Dyckman: street: station on the Seventh Avenue LR.T. line, and every Sunday all soccer fans can enjoy. themselves for six long hours if they feel that way, because matches between various soccer’teams have been artanged for every Sunday beginning, at. 11 ¢. m. and continuing until 5 p, m. One reason that the youngster gréwi, $0: slowly has been, undoubtedly, the idéa.on.the part of many of our good comrades that the united front on the field of workers’ sports was.benéath. their dignity. For example, thé. Labor. Sports Union organizers in cooperation with the Needle Trades Union put some of the union's sport’ac- tivities in news releases of the union’s’activities, only to have them indignantly"éat ‘out: by the “labor editor” of a well-known Cénimunist paper in the Jewish language, who objects to “mixing sports with trade union news.” But the sports movement “is growing, and every Sunday different soccer tedins Will-play ati the Dyckman Oval, bringing “outside” teams and their mass following of workers to meet our Workers’ Soccer League teams and our’ follow- ing of workers—which is all to. the good. The games of the next few weeks. will be with the Needle Trades Sports Club versus the Bast Side Workers; the Harlem Progressive Youth Club , Versus the East Side Workers; the ‘Haflem Pro- gressive Youth Club versus the Spartacus Club; the Neckwear Workers A. C. versus the Savoy A. C. and many other which, worse duck, the Daily Worker:cannot give spacetor - Soccer, different than Rugby, is a-game rather than pure meat and muscle, and we are.sure that Sam Scarlett, the old I.W.W. whovrecently joined the Communist Party of Canada; would cnjoy geting in thé game if he could, baciiise.! ¢ was an old time soccer champion; and gaye us our enthusiasm for soccer'on the prison grounds at Leavenworth. oss il at \ But Scarlett is busy up in Catiadasemewhere. And you New York folks mustefill the-Dyckman Oval every Sunday. Admission is-only 25 cénts, so.you don’t bankrupt yourself.’ But’ you do help Labor Sports and get some air that. miost of you need. Run along cut! nage = elt ie Swindlers of Immigrants: Our rec*at Svark about the Polish workers of this ¢> ‘y sctting flim-flammed out of their life sevings, brought a letter from # German who remazks: “The Germans in this country lost even more money in helping the poor fatherland.- ‘The writer lost even moré money in helping the poor fetherland. The writer lost many hundreds of dollers. The money never benefited the German’ workers nor thé middle tlass. At the time of the ‘4flation an enormous building construction wes cn in Ger~ many, chiéfly bank buildings and: expansions. That's where the money went.” > The Red Cross Refuses Food to Union Miners, Says “Aunt Molly.’ Jackson By WALTER WIESON. OW “them thar unprincipled Red-Cross crite ters” refuse food to starving"HaiTih County miners was told to the Daily Worker today in an interview with “Aust Molly’--Jackson: of Carey, Ky., miner’s wife, nurse,:mid‘vife and folk singer of the coal war area..../suat Molly has just come to New York from he Straight Creek coal camp to share the piotform with Theodore Dreiser, John Dos” Passos; Sherwood Anderson and other noted writers at 2°“Harlan Terror Protest Meeting” in Star Casino, 107th St..and Park Ave., Sunday, Dec. 6 at 2:30 p .m. “Wa-al I don’t hardly know. where’ to begin there's so much to tell, and the Red Cross ain’t hardly wuth talkin’ about,”said “Aunt Molly, “but I reckon I ought to know all about the way it has“ treated poor folks in Harlan County. It takes its orders from the rich mine ownets, that's what it does. ne a 5 “Before anybody gits any relief they“have to wait till the Red Cross phones an operator to see if the case is worthy. ~Of course that means you don’t get nothing a-tall if yowye a union member. Them that do git réllef—mostly scabs —it an order for a few cei: 3 svorth of potaters, beans and flour. The order is good only at the company store. pir iadge ! “Yes, siree, I've had some more expel ience with them unprincipled Red Cross people;-they want the workers to go back into. slavery_in them mines, just like in slayery times before the ‘war. to lack of funds and the added bur-| z ‘4 Boe a i “There wuz some poor littlé children livin’ den imposed upon it by the post a & a ie 7 right nigh to where I live. ‘They were bares fe of a z OZ 3 iJ 2 footed, ragged and hungry. So. I.goes up to see office denying second class mailing b. Hu she’s in charge Of the Red Cross privileges, certain bundies of the| 1. Boston ..0..i++,,. ~ 80 22° 167 | 102 85 5 ; aave ain ae 3 2. ‘New York 1522 ° 920 1665 «1742 93| 12 Pineville, to see ifn I couldn't git some old Noy. 21 issue, amounting:to 827 copies | 5". Philadelphia 30 5. 183 35 —14g| Shoes of one sort, or another to git their cold were held over for lack of postage.| 4 juftato 170 4010 30| little feet off the ground. While J was waiting For this reason, the decrease of 711 205 305 205» —-109| %© See her along with a lot of other people, Mrs, shown in the circulation tables would | 6, Cleveland: ae Oy RR Oe a ae a spor sve wae eee « cate 2 oat Me} ge gee Sg] When T finally got to see Mrs, Hudson, she s 245 295 26 me that the children’s fathers ada be workin’ Chicago district adds 120, aided by | 10. Kansas. City, Bea OR as aig) BRRRBG fof loafing ‘srpumd.on as. te new bundle order of 110; New York] 11. Agriculture~ \ - ! “The doctors are, mostly ruled by the coal puts on 77, 45 of which comes from | 12. Seattle ..... 1 101 101 owners. They won't treat our folks if they can’t subscriptions, thus retaining the best | 13. California . 12 14 gz —42|Pay cash. So I have to be the doctor, widwife, record for subs since the drive started. | 13. Connecticut .. tome 1-21] Saree ashe Maha ete Ma a eee ‘ 2 gone ies We cannot stfess sufficiently the | 1& South 2 369. 1 —15 bi Sy 11. Birmingham 6 1087 618 —4g9| Old that bad flux and a Jot of other stomach need for all districts not to hold Lib- 18. Moni s Pi . diseases, I'd find out that they'd been eatin’ erator funds, but to rush them into Ge By 2 1 er 4 1 the”. 19. Denver .. 50 50 soup beans ond potatoes. I'd . the mothers the office to insure prompt printing, Aer ite ee 3 tis not to feed Labies such heavy food; but all they'd. prompt mailing, and prompt distribu-| poray 2015555 48ad 5411 do was to say with a despairing. te ‘Aunt tion throughout the country. We —m Molly, tbri's'all the Red Crone 18, ips us.” Jes 3 iar oe 4