The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1931, Page 2

Bronx Coliseum Jubilee Will Help Daily A id Kentucky Strike} On January Ist, 18,000 Kentucky iners will make the tirst mass attempt to throy off the feudal yoke of the coal yperato They will sirike in all the Kentucky coal mines. Their strike against starvation must not be allowed to be efeated by starv on. The Daily Worker is the best means of lying mil- of workers for the support of thaze miners and for relief contributions. This means that the Daily Worker must reach millions of workers. It must do what it has done for the last eight ye -be a real organizer in all the strug- gies of the working class. The celebration of the eight ye of existence of the Daily Worker will be celebrated in a monster Anniversary j 3rd in the Bronx Coliseum. been ¢ re will be a pageant, performances by workers ilee to be held January A fine program has DAILY WORKER. EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931 The American Workers Delegation Returns from the Soviet Union ranged for this evening. groups th Daily Worker Anniversary at Coliseum Jan. 3rd TO BREAK STRIKE FOR CHEAP BREAD. Rank and File Commit- tee Calls Upon Work- ers to Stand Firm The Rank aod, Sue Committee | leading the bread strike in Coney Island has issued the following state- ment to the strikers: | On Monday night a big mass meet- ing, called by the rank and file strike committee, was held at the Board- walk Hotel. Reports and further plans for the strike were discussed. UNION HEADS TRY 73 Banks Failed in One | Week, Bank Sheet Admits NEW YORK.—A hundred per cent increase in bank failures over last week is reported by the American Banker, the leading magazine in the banking field. About 10 banks fail | every day in the United States, ac- | cording to the latest figures. The American Banker states: “There were 73 banks which | failed to open their doors the week | just passed, as compared with the | 30 which wet out of business the previ-us week. “The States whiche were hit the hardest during this week are Massachusetts with eleven closing, | Towa with eight, New York with seven and Nebraska with six. “The total number of banks esentations of working class music. Admission is 35 cents, 25 cents with the coupon which At the same time another meeting | Which have been closed through- was being held at Pythian Hall, which | out the year has reached 2,044, with deposit liabilities estimated at under the heavy, continued pounding of the crisis. In St. Louis the Frank- lin-American Trust Co. was taken over by the First National Bank in| order to try to prevent a failure. The president of the Franklin-American Trust Co. mysteriously shot himself. The new institution is supposed to have resources of $200,000,000, In Atlantic City, the Guarantee Trust Co., the Marine Trust Co., the Atlan- | tic Safe Deposit and Trust Co., the | Neptune Trust Co., and the Seaside Trust Co. made a similar merger. | Another Boston bank shut down. |The Charlestown Trust Co., with | over $3,436,000 in deposits crashed on | Monday. NEW BOARD WILL AKE 40,000 CAB DRIVERS JOBLESS Borxd. of Control Cveete Monorely In Raskob’s Favor to of Tei Control yesterday at Bosrd of Aldermen that giv ower to this Board to regu- he taxi-ceb inc ry. ‘The limi- of Abst will follow s 40.009 icab drivers driven the indu The powers of the Board are unlimited. The black- list (called the Lousey list by the hackmen) will be more vicious than | now by tie police hack bureau. Ab- solutely nothing was said about im- proving the conditions of the drivers and it was openly admitted that the the bill was unification of taxi industry—which virtually a monopoly The republicans taunted the demo- for being afraid to pass the bill | the election but this sham op- | n showed itself up when they | spoke in favor of strengthening the power of the existing police Hack Bureau and for the “limitation” of | cabs” on the streets, The Tammany | bunch had the gall to shift the whole matter on ‘our great” Mayor Jimmy | idea of jatar “at care eine coon os BORICH TBLLS OF TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM AT KY. CONVENTION Leader of Hunger |March Will Speak | In Yonkers Friday PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 20. — | Frank Borich, National Secretary of the National Miners’ Union, just back |from the history making Kentucky Herbert Benjamin, National See- | | District Convention, told, in an in- | retary of the Unemployed Coun- | | terview with the Dally Worker, addi- cils, U.S.A., and alse one of the| | tional facts about the convention, leaders to the \National Hunger|| ‘The convention was held,” said March to Washington, will speak | | Friday, Dec, 25, at 8 pam, on the | | the unemployment situation and | the line to be taken to further the | fight for Unemployment Insur- ance Equal to Full Wages and Im- | | mediate Winter Relief, Sol Har- | per, Negro delegate, will speak of | | his experiences on the March.) | | Also Dr. Bauerburg, Yonkers physi- | | cian, will give a report regarding | the terrible conditions prevailing |among the workers as a result of Hunger Hoover's relief. The sec- | retary of the Unemployed Coun- | | cils of Westchester County will act jas chairman. Music will be fur- | nished by the Red Front Band, | | which for the first time in history | played the “Internationale” on the | U. S. Copital grounds. The place | is Manhattan Hall, 63 Main St, | Yonkers, N. ¥. Unemployed are | to be admitted free of charge. Ad- mission 25 cents. ‘TO MEET INN. J. Pioneers to Have Mid- Winter Camp | A two-day conference for Pioneer | leaders will be held by the N. Y. Dis- | trict of the Young Pioneers on Jan. 2nd and 3rd. The conference will | take place at New Brunswick, N. J., on the first day, and at Stelton, N. | J. the second day. | All Pioneer leaders, circle instruc- tors, and persons interested in build- |ing a strong Pioneer movement in | | New York will attend the conference. | | The year and a half of Pioneer work | under the “new line,” and ot draw | up a new Plan of Action for the Pioneer organization. | All workers’ organizations will have % representatives at the conference to | discuss how they can help build the What's On— | Pioneers. Representatives of the WEDNESDAY Hotel and Restaurant Workers Communist Party and. the Young Communist League will also speak. Borich, “with miners in doorways, windows and on the stairs to protect ;it from the gun thugs who had | massed in a building across the street. All the armed guards of the operators in Harlan County, the famous machine gun crew that wears shirts of mail under its coats, were called out of Harlan, and to Pineville, where the addition of the Bell coun- ty operators’ killer, it was intended | to smash the convention. | | “But these men, with plenty of | murders to their credit, did not dare | to attack this convention. “Enthusiasm for the convention | ran so high that even in the midst | of a terrific rain, a rain so hard that it was very dangerous»to drive cars on the road, over 350 delegates came. | ‘The operators’ armed guards kid- napped the man who had money col- lected with which to buy gas for thi delegation from Wallins Creek come to the convention and did not let him go until after everything was | over. So 60 miners and ten women, each with several small children, | walked through this storm, in order to attend the convention. “Seven or eight small coal oper- | ators at the convention, among the spectators nearly fainted when the demands were adopted and a deci- sion to strike all Kentucky coal fields went through with mighty en- thusiasm. | | | | i “Before the convention met, the city officials came down, found the | Secretary of the Western Pennsyl- Walker's promise “that no operator) wi hear the report of a hotel | or cab-driver will be eliminated from | worker delegate to the National | Hunger March at Bryant Hall, {2nd the industry.” Jimmy was not pres- ent by the way and they made sure | hot to put this promise in the bill. St, and Sixth Ave, Admission free. ‘ee oe Mooney Mass Meet Will be held at Hunt's Point Pal-| | includes transportation both ways, a|the convention to some other. city. Tickets for the conicrence at $1| Vania district of the’N. M. U., Kem- can be bought at the Pioneer office, | Cnovich, and tried to get him by 35 F, 12th St., N.Y. ©) The ticket | every argument possible, to postpone dance Saturday overnight | They were turned down.” night, This is only the beginning. The small fleet owners are worried and many were present in the gallery of the Boagd of Aldermen. They feel they will be squeezed out soon. The taxi-cab drivers who make from $15 to $18 per week and get fired for low bookings are faced with more hardships to scrape out an existence. As it is today the taxi-cab driver is finger-printed and “mugged” like a criminal and is treated accordingly by the police. The Taxi Section of the Trans- portation Workers’ Industrial League of 5 East 19th St. has made ‘wide ..ropaganda for the past few months | %e warn the taxi-cab drivers of Tam- | Many'’s connection with Raskob’s General Motors. General Motors | today, through its subsidiaries, con-| trol 80 per cent of the trade. With | the Board of Taxi Control will surely come a cut in commissions for the hackmen and a fare raise for the | “dear” public. | Branches of the Taxi Section have | already been formed in Harlem and | the Bronx and with the news of the | Christmas gift from Tammany many | will join up and prepare to fight for a living wage, shorter hours, no| black-list, no Jim-crowing of Negro | Drivers into separate garages, no discrimination on the streets and in| the courts and for the right to the | Job. | sGOLSCHMANN GUEST CONDUC- | TOR OF PHILHARMONIC | ORCHESTRA. o ie Viadmir Golschmann will take up| the baton as guest conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra this evening at Carnegie Hall. The program fol-} lows: Suite in F major, opus 26, Roussel; Two Gymnopedies, Satie; “Fir: Bird” Suite, Stravinsky; “Trip- tyque,” Tansman; Two Nocturnes, Debussy; Thfee dances from “The ‘Three Cornered Hat,” De Falla. |at 8 p.m, New players welcome. ace, Brone ae 5 P.m., ynder the aus jeeay, 2 meals, and a banquet, pices of the Otto Korvin Branch, I, K : L. D. Carl Haeker to speak. your tickets early, comrades! Fp Bae . . Pioneer Mid-Winter Camp. A group of Young Pioneers | leave the city om Friday for a mid- | winter camp at Stelton, N. J. The Get W.LR. Brass Band | Will hold its regular rehearsal at| the Chernivsky Club, 122 Second Ave, (between 7th and 8th Stg,), Dec. 23, Hunger March Report | Pioneers w oing have w Will be given at. the Rockaway | "loners who are going have won a Mansion, 695 Rockaway Aye. Dec. | competition throughout the’ Pioneer 23, at 8 p.m. | i troops for the building of the “New Hotel and Restaurant Workers Pioneer” magazine. The camp will Will hear the report of a hotel} last until Tuesday. An excellent worker delegate to the National program has been prepared for the Pioneers, and the branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union at Stel- ton is helping with the cooking, Hunger March at Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave, at 1 p.m. Ad- mission free. | CA ee Office Workers’ Union | Opening mass meeting of Special | Recruiting C: ign will be held at | | while the Finnish, Hungarian and other workers’ organizations are do- nating food. the Labor Temple, 242 B, 14th St, at | 8 p.m. Harry Gannes Williamsburgh Painters T U.U, Alteration and paper hangers to have Eecutive meet tonight at 80 Cook St. at 8:30 p.m, chalk to speak, * CORRECTION KENTUCKY STORY Calloway Organized 100 Per Cent A few days ago the Daily Laundry Workers' T.U.U.L, Will have a general membership | meeting tonight at Ambassador Hall, || Worker published a story from ird Ave, and Claremont Parkwa Active Laundry, Strike to be d | Pineville, Ky., telling of the or- cussed, | | ganization of the miners in Callo- Send Lory Bekdchs Rian. way, Ky., into the National Miners’ ; r membership méeting at || Union. A typesetting error made 403 sylvania Ave. Brooklyn, Dec. | | this story read that “10 per cent at § p.m. r ait workers are invited.’ | ce the miners were organised.” It should haye read: “100 per cent were organized” in the National Miners’ Union. $d W.LR, Chorus Will meet tonight at 16 W. 2ist St., top floor, at 8 p,m., sharp. All invited. tc. as Brownsville Branch, F.S.U, Will have a lecture’ by Marcet Sherer, National Secretary, on “24 Hours ‘With « Soviet Family,” at the Russian Peoples Home, 120 Glenmore | at 8 p.m. Discussion on Unemployed Ave., corner Christopher St Insurance. Admission free! . . + THURSDAY Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, Branch No. 1 Will hold a general membership meeting at 79 H, Tenth St. at 8 p.m. All members are requested to attend. Hunger Match Forum Will be held at 108 B. 14th St, at 8 p.m. Anna Lyons to speak. ‘Ad- ission free! * « Industrial League Will hold an open forum tonight at 108 TH. 14th St. at 8 p,m. All medical Medival Workers will | | | | GRUENBERG - ERSKINE OPERA | OPENS AT 44TH STREET THEATRE. George T: Bye presented the Juil- liard School of Music production, “Jack and the Beanstalk,” with score | by Louis Gruenberg and lbretto by |John Erskine, at the 44th street Theatre last night. The engagement is for two weeks. “Suicide Fleet” with Bill Boyd, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong and Ginger Rogers, is the screen feature at the Hippodrome. FIVE THOUSAND DAILY WORKER 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTIONS BY JANUARY 8th! Intern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of DR. JOSEPHBON 29 EAST 14TH STREET NEW YORK 1. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES was called by the misleaders from the International Locals 505 and 79 in conjunction with the bosses. This group, which rejected the bread strike three weeks ago and which did every- | thing in its power to break the strike | by lies, gangsters and intimidations, | elected itself as a so-called strike committee: This was done in order to sell out the workers. The Rank and File Strike Commit- | tee sent a committee to this meeting, | in order to expose the treacherous | moves and explain to the workers | present that the strike committee is | ready to meet the bosses only on the | basis of lower prices for bread.” ‘The Rank and File Strike Commit- tee appeals'to the workers to stand in back of the committee elected by them and not to be misled by any fake settlements. ‘The committee also appeals to the bakery workers who have been left jobless by the refusal of the bosses to come to terms, to co-operate with those striking for cheaper bread. Class in the Needle Trades Struggles to Take Up Union Tasks The class in “History and Class Struggle in the Needle Trades” or- ganized by the educational depart- | Committee will meet Wednesday, | headquarters of the unemployed, 422 | ment of the Needle Trades ‘Workers’ Industrial Union will begin -on Wednesday, Dec. 23rd, 7:30 p. m. at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th Street. J. M. Budish will be in charge of this class, Special lectures on cer- tain phases of the. struggle -wil) be | given by Comrades Wm. Z. Foster, A. Trachtenberg, Ben Gold, J. Bor- uchowitz, H. Sazar, Rose Wortis,-and Sol Hertz, Registration for the class is still open. Active workers are called upon to register at the office of the union. The first session of the class will | start tonight at 7:30, at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St. At this session the students will vote on a@ permanent night for holding the class. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST SIDE—BEONE RKO gis 2530>4 fh, TEFEN —RKO Acts— Bob Hope Paul Cleo Balcolm Rhythm Revels ‘Three Blue Streaks Wednesday to Friday —Oe the Sereen—- “The Speckled Band” From the Novel by Arthur Conan Doyle SEs Spence, Doris and Claire Others —___ Drecpeets terse —RKO Acts— BenAlley Radio Star, With Raymond Massey Lyn Harding Dixon and Pal Others Back Number of Inprecorrs Comrade wishes to complete files of Inprecorrs. Will buy back numbers, or exchange for duplicates. Back numbers for exchange available as far back as 1921, for Organizations workers are invited, ee vie Prospect Workers’ Center Will hold a symposium and discus- sion at 1157 Southern Blvd. at 8 p.m. | on “Tendencies Within the Club,” 8 Hunger March Report | Will be held at Rockaway Mansion, Rockaway St., corner Divonica Av: LIVE IN A— WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY We have a limited number of 3 and 4 room apartments ‘CESSARY — OPPOSITE BRONX PARK 2800 BRONX PARK EAST Comradely atmosphere—In this Cooperative Colony you will find « library, athletic director, workroom for children, workers’ clubs and various cultural activities Tel. Estabrook 8-1400; Olinville 2-6972 Vake Lexington Avenue train to White Plains Road anc Get off Allerton Avenue eee m. to 5 p. m. ev 2 10 a, m, to 5 p. m. Sunday NO INVESTMENT Office open from: Satorday 2 P.M, every ADMISSION 35: Dail Sunday, January 3rd DEMONSTRATE of the Bronx 1932 ——PROGRAM—— Pageant:—“Trial of the Yellow Press,” International Chorus Red Dancers—and many other features WITH THROW AWAY 25¢ c East 177th Street See G. BH. Daily Worker. 8th Anniversary orker Rey BSA Coliseum $1,670,970,000.” Several so-called “rescue” mergers of large banks, show the further | | weakening of the banking structure Reception for W. IR. Delegates to Berlin Takes Place Tonight A gala reception and entertain- | ment will be held tonight at the} headquarters of the Workers Inter: national Relief, 16 West 21st Street, | to greet the delegates to the 8th world congress of the Workers Inter- national Relief held recently in Ber- lin, who arrived from Germany and the Soviet Union yesterday. J. BORUCHOWITZ SPEAKS AT) FORUM WEDNESDAY | J. Boruchowitz of. the Industrial | Union will speak at an open forum} in Bryant Hall 6n Wednesday at 1} o'clock on the significance of tHe re- cent elections in the cloak locals, 9 | and 1, the maneuvers of the Love- stone-anarchist-Schlesinger cliques, | the tasks awaiting the cloakmakers | in the present situation. DRESSMAKERS’ UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE MEETS WEDNESDAY The Dressmakers’ United Front right after work, at 68 W. 37th St. ‘Needle Unemployed | Plan More Action Following the National Hunger March, the unemployed needle trades workers are beginning to organize their ranks so as to carry on the struggle more effectively, in the strug- | gle for unemployment insurance. | A meeting of unemployed cloak: | makers will be held today, at 2 p.| m. at the headquarters of the needle trades unemployed council, 422 7th Avenue. The unemployed millinery workers will meet at 2 o'clock today at 68 W. 37th St. to hear the report on the Hunger March, The knitgoods workers unemployed meeting will be held today, 1 o'clock at the office of the union, 131 W, 28th Street. The open shoppers in the} knitgoods trade have decided to car- | ry through another wage cut by de- ducting 1 percent from the workers’ wages, supposedly for the relief of | the unemployed. council of the knitgoods workers will take up this matter and work out a/ plan whereby to secure real relief for the unemployed. | The furriers unemployed council will meet Wednesday, 2 o'clock at the ith Ave. | AMUSEMENTS THE THEATRE GUILD presents BUGENK, O'NEILL'S Trilogy | Mourning Becomes Electra | Composed of 3 plays presented on 1|day HOMECOMING, THE HUNTED THY HAUNTED Commencing at 5:39 sharp. Dinner tn- termission of one hour at 7. No Mats. GUILD THA,, 52d St, W. of Bway The Theatre Guild Presents REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy By ROBERT 5. SHERWOOD. THEA, 45th St. &'S Aye, 8:40Mats,Thurs.,Wri&Sat. Martin Beck Eve. MUSIC School of Music Production of AND ACK AND BEANSTALK A fairy opera for the children ORCHESTRA of 36 Conducted [by ALBERT S'TOESSEL 44th St, THEATRE, West of Bway, George T. Bye presents the Juilliard | Keys. 8:30, Matinees Wed., Fri, & Sat. | Subscriptions. | COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW By wits ELMER RICE PAUL MUNI, ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ey, 8:20 Plymouth wo There. & Sat. 2130 25c 43nd St, All Seatn & Bway tol P.M. CAME “FRANKENSTEIN” The man who made a monster 6th Ave. HP ts ODROM & 43rd St. BIGGEST SHOW IN NEW YORK BKU ae acis | ‘Suicide Fleet’ Incl. aa gousny, | BILL FLOYD Red Builders, help get subscriptions. Pierce through stone walls of cap- italist press with 5,000 Daily Worker in the Center, 35 Admission at the d Adm. at door 35c. COMMITTEE Delegates from all midnight and Suppers with 8-Day. Carnival! to celebrate the completion of the NEW YORK WORKERS’ CENTER December 24 to 31 THURSDAY—X-MAS EVE.— COLORLITE DANCE FRIDAY, DEC. 25—ANTI-RELIGIOUS NITE . Performed by the Proletarian Cultural Fed. SUNDAY, 8 P. M.—RED BANQUET FOR CENTRAL Luncheonette—Entire week of Carnival; 11 a. m. to East 12th Street joor 40 cents Prominent Speaker rey. organizations. Music and Entertainment. RED HATTERS BAND Given by the Young MANHATTAN LYCEUM, JOHN REED ARTISTS RED XMAS DANCE | CHRISTMAS EVE, Thursday, Dec. 24th ADMISSION 50¢ Read the Young Worker SOVIET FILM Communist League 66 E. Fourth St, N. Y. TO SCORE TERROR AGAINST TOBACCO TOILERS IN TAMPA Bill Dunne and Eng- dahl to:Speak at Pro- test Meeting Tonite A meeting to protest the injunc- tion terror against the Tampa cigar- makers who struck against worsen- ing conditions in the shops and against increasing political repres- sions will be held today, at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. at 8 p. m., under the auspices of the Tobacco Workers’ Industria} Union of New York. Among the speakers scheduled speak at the meeting will, be Dunne, editor of the Daily Wor * J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- tary of the International Labor De- fense and several speakers in Span- ish. : Flaying the terror against the Tampa workers the Tobacco Work ers’ Industrial Union of New Y¢ in a statement said: “The bosses of Tampa have be- gun a violent offensive against the tobacco workers in order to destroy the Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union which is leading the strug- gle for the bettermant of tie workers’ conditions and against the imprisonment of more than forty workers by the authoritie, Already the bosses have organized the “Citizen's Committee,” which is nothing more than a jynch or- ganizing group, in order to terror- ize the workers and break their militant fighting spirit.” to Bill The unemployed || 4 yEIGHBORLY PLACE LO BA's Linel Cafeteria Pare Food—100 per cent Fyzidair: Equipment—Luncheonctte and Soda Fountain 830 BROADWAY Near i2th Street JADE MOUNTAIN AMERICAN and CHINESE RESTAURANT Open It a. m. te 1:30 2. m, Special Lunch 11 to 4...35¢ Dinner 5 to 10.. .55¢ 197 SECOND AVENUE Between 12th and 13th HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVENUE Phone University 4-2061 Patronize the Concoops Food Stores 2700 BRONX PARK EAST “Buy in the. Co-operative Store and help the Left Wing Movement.” = AU Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronz MELROSE Dany a (near 114th St. Statiog) INTERVALE 98-0149 YELEPHONE Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUB Bet. 12th and 13th Ste, Strictly Vegetarian food BUTCHERS’ UNION Local 174, A. M 0, 2B. W. ot NA Office and Headquarters: Labor Temple, 243 Kast Aith Street Boom 12 Roguler meetings third Sund: Smployment Bureat at 6 P. every first 2» 10 A M, open every ai oe ay WORKERS’ HEADQUARTERS— LABOR TEMPLE 15 WEST 126th STREET Telephone HAriem 17-5750 RESTAURANT, POOL ROOM, STEAM BATH, SWIMMING POOL, HALLS FOR RENT FOR ALL OCCASIONS