The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1932, Page 4

D ATLY WORKER, WORKERS’ CORRESPONDENC! MILWAUKEE WORKER PREPARE FOR HUGE ELECTION CAMPAIGN’ Pledge 5000 Wiiaakunes Pe Put Gommnuntiste| On Ballot In “Socialist” Town . Hansbrough, Bill 1 Clark, Ed. Nehmen and Grace Brown Candidates Blair (By a Worker Correspondent) MLLUWAUKEE, Wis.—The spring elections in Milwaukee for mayor, and other city officials, for 27 aldermen, and 20 members of the County Board of Supervisors, will offer an opportunity for our Party to expose the starvation policy of the bosses with their socialist and non-partisan politicians, and to rally the workers behind our demands. “Socialist Hoan” rk hero of “miracle in for property who accomplished a ——municipal financing” the Socialist part; major candidate of the bosses is Mayor Hoan—the | STATLER HOTEL CUTS PAY; HOLDS | JIMCROW DINNER | owners—who is cutting tax rates, while the city has only $760,000 in its budget for unemployment relief through public works, and who op- poses the mild La Follette program jof relief because “it takes too much | away from Milwaukee, and leaves her very little.” Blair on Communist Ticket M anageme - G alls 10| A few non-partisan politicians, Car- ana Per Cent Cut Cooper’ ere to 1 (By a Worker Correspondent) OLEVELAND, O.—Recently Man- ager Dugan of the Hotel Statler hed! a meeting with the employes in which he said how sorry he was that the present crisis jasting so long and that their business is also hard hit. He said that the management is willing to cooperate with the em- ployes by cutting their wages 10 to 15 cent until the “depression” is per Jimerowed Negroes There are a good many Negroes working in the hotel, so when it came to giving a supper for the employes, Mr. Dugan divided the employes up, putting the Negroes on one floor and the white workers on another. He said it was not right th should eat together. But he does not say that they can't rk together; in fact, he sees to it that they must work toge' that he can cut wages at playing off one group of workers against another. Mr, Dugan has forgotten to men- tion one thing. Before the present business crisis he held no meetings with the employes to tell them the company wanted to cooperate with them, when millions of dollars were coming in which could have raised their wage He has always paid a starvation wage, good times or bad. I don’t believe Mr. Dugan cuts his own wages, He must have his and the company must have its profits no matt where it comes from. So they © it out of the employes. Mr. Dugan does not care if the colored and te starve or not, so} long ompany makes its profit: The time will come when the em- ployes will realize th ney must cooperate together and not with the bosses. | | ney, Westphal, are “opposing” Mayor Hoan, this pet pride of the third party of the bourgeoisie, but the only eppo- sition against Hoan will come from the Communist Party candidate, Fred Basset Blair—Organization Secretary | of the Wisconsin Section, leader of the March 6th, 1930 unemployed dem- onstration, who served one year in| the work house for his loyalty to the working class. About more candidates will run for aldermen or supervisors that in- clude Raymond Hansbrough, Negro working class leader, Bill Clark, Ed Nehmen, and Grace Brown, Y.C.L. The ratification conference held Jan. 10 endorsed these candidates and elected a broad committee to carry on the Election Campaign togehter with the Communist Party organiza- tions. Prepare Signature Drive Although the legal requirements for signatures for mayor is 1,300, the con- ference decided to secure at least 5,000 signatures for Basset Blair, and three times the number necessary | for aldermen and supervisors. This will be possible with the full mobili- zation of the Unemployed Council} | and other revolutionary mass organ- izations. An opening gun in the campaign | will be the Lenin Memorial meeting | at Columbia Theatre, 10th and Wal- | nut Sts., the biggest hall ever gotten for this occasion, which must be pack- ed by the workers. Lists are being given out to raise $1,000 campaign fund, and a big con- {cert and banquet has been decided upon for Feb. ner Hall. rally behind the candidates of hte “Working Class Against are Capitalist Class,” to register in time others to register, to appear at one of the headquarters and to get peti- tions and campaign material, and leaflets for the Lenin Memorial. 28, at South Side Tur- Mass Action Forése Bosses To € siedy, Ohio. the need of food, clo working 5 necessities hourly. The ial Service Federa- tion is the lergest charity institution in Toledo at the ‘present time. ‘The city has been furnishing them with money to carry on relief work, these funds are rry on relief work If you are Caan and receive help from the Social Service Federa- tion they send one basket of grocer- ies a week. The amount of the or- der runs from two to four dollars a week according to the size of the family, they send cabbage, turnips, beans and cheap oleomargarine. ‘They do not send enough wholesome food such as’ fish, egys, meat, fruits, etc. Action Forces Relief. ‘The Lueas County Council of Un- employed have been fighting the re- lief organizations with some success, so far we have forced them to pay rent and move every family that has been evicted in the last few months. We also have forced them to give food, clothing, shoes, etc. to. worker: whom they had refused relief. The real estate sharks, mortgage compa- nies, credit houses, politicians, char- ities, gas and light companies, et mre all aware of the fact that there is an active Unemployed Council ment in Lucas county. enever we have reasons to call on se fakers they treat 's with a semblance of respect, but ¢3 soon as we turn our backs they av: plotting ways to break up the Council. One of their favorite-methods is to pay spies to start rumors to get the com- rades fighting among themselves. ‘The workers don’t fall fc: that line any mote, as they know the only fight they hav with the boss class and their starvation prograin. Build 16 Branches. * There are sixteen branches of the Council in Lucas county at the pres- ent tive Weemil] have td organize a m good cuts of } | rive Relief to Jobless’ in more of near sections the county in future as we had a new e office the first of Janu~- is about the same. type of mayor as Murphy of Detroit. One of the first acts of the new mayor was to first several hundred workers and cut wages. The new mayor appointed a sky pilot who is alleged to be a Klu} Kluxer as the welfare director for | the city of Toledo. We can always expect such acts out of any busi- | ness man who is put into public of- fice especially if they are backed by ) the capitalist press. —A Bricklayer, OLD A.F. OF L. MAN JOINS STRUGGLE Scores Wm. . Green On Unemployment Stand Barstow, Cal. Daily Worker:— J was always a great advocate of the principles of the American Fed-~ eration of Labor. that in union there is strength and also that anything that the bosses are forced to give the workers in the form of wages has been forced out | of them by the organized masses, ‘Today, however, I am opposed to the charity stand of William Green and the leaders of the A. F. of L. 1 am in favor of unemployment in- surance paid by the government and would like to help in the signature drive endorsing the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. I want to be recognized as belong- ing to the Communist Party. —J. 8. ney EDITORIAL NO'WE:—We sug- gest that J. S. write at once to the Datly Worker sending us his ad- dress. We will be glad to have J. S. play In book would like to I ae we can come over and sez ki All workers are asked to} and to get | _| several auxiliary Always believed | ‘a, but we { Father Cox Reaps Big Profits on Misery of Shantytown Unemployed PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Shantytown is jJocated at old St. Patricus Roman | catholic Church. Within two blocks | you can hear through a loud speaker, ; also through radio, Father Cox's speeches and preaching. How he is helping and what he did for the workers of Shantytown; also how he }feeds them, not only Shantytown but many thousands of workers in his soup line. Through his church, radio and | loud-speaker, he calls upon the peo-j ple to give him funds, money, cloth- ing and most anything, even old fur- |niture, for the benefit of the poor | people. He also calls upon them to | visit and look Shantytown over. Exhibits Workers. | And, fellow-workers, his preach- | ings bring results. Every week-day, but especially Sunday, leys of Shantytown are crowded with visitors. Special guides appointed by Father Cox's manager directs the people through the alleys. The; guides open every door and explain] to the visitors: “Here are Polish men; | tight here Slavish; right there Irish, | Negro, Russian.” And they tell the visitors that Father Cox is taking care of them. ‘The special duty of the guide is to | prevent, any one from speaking to aj |visitor. Father Cox has a sfore in a center of our Shantytown where | “mayor” appointed by him sells| holy pictures, magazines, holy stat- | ues, clay dogs, Indians and other lkinds of clay figures. And there is| |a big sign: “All profit goes to Father | ee to help the poor boys. Also aj hoe shine parlor for the benefit of! ‘Se poor boys.” | People buying all the time. People | giving money funds, just to help the boys and every visitor is satisfied and all say, “Yes, Father Cox is a won- the little al- “(man in this country. i No, no work we workers in ieee support ov lf by past USE CHL RELIEF | MONEY FOR COPS; HUNGER SPREADS -employed Council | Demands Shelter, | Clothes, Food ity Hoe | (By a Worker Correspondent) | CHICAGO—Though thousands of | omilies in Chicago face starvation. | though cases called to the attention | of the relief agencies have actually | starved to death before receiving re- lief, the Emerson Relief Commission is using the funds collected largely jfrom workers already suffering from wage cuts, to defray the police ex- penditures of the city of Chicago. To relieve special traffic police from the duty of protecting school | children at busy street intersections | jand thus enable them to be used to strengthen the regular forces of re- Pression, the commission has placcd police on its pay roll. | Funds Collected from Workers | The funds of the commission are j collected from workers, who have ‘sums deducted from their pay with- out their consent, which they can seither accept or quit. ‘The express | purpose for which this money is col- | lected is to provide lief to the unemployed that employments Insurance! No Feder: Relief” of Hoover may be carried out. | The Emerson Commission has fre- quently called upon the police to} intimidate, disperse and arrest com- \mittees and delegations of uneinploy: |ed workers who were protesting the | measure of relief given by the com- ‘mission. Probably for this jon it | tvels that the defteying of p27) ev- penditures is one of its obligations. The report rendered by the com- mission on Dec. !7th lists over $18,000 under the head of protective ser- vices. Meanwhile mothers see their children grow stunted and sick and speak of them as one woman Iately | spoke to the writer, “Look at them. They're all underweight and stunted. They don’t get enough to <at.” The bankers, politicians and big industrial interests confronted with jthe victims of their greed are not content with the usual police repres- sion and attempts to outlaw every working class manifestation ag starvation through the criminal dicalism law, but now in their des- peration openly use the moneys fileh- ed from the workers’ pay to incrense i their instruments of oppresston, ' Unemployed Counei{s Organize Against Them ‘The Unemployed Councils are de- termined to smash through the police terror, the criminal syndicalist laws and all other opposition to a stand- ard of living for the unemployed; that shall be such as they are en- titled to as human beings. The Coun- cils conceive of this standard as fol~ lows. Sanitary shelter, good food, good clothing, and recreation, At present they are in the city of Chicago daily compelling the relief | ajencies to take care of an increas ingly large number of the unemploy- ,ed and are at this time adding to thelr activities a vigorous fight for the small workin class home owners, who are thrast2ned hothe ore of | homes because of thelr lack of ; | official organ, |ion, the National Auto Workers Un- Had Fwo Workers Jailed su Distributing Leaflets; Collects Huge Sums Then Selis Clothes to Jobless ting our food supply, by going out every day to butcher shops, Ge and bakeries; otherwise we would strave to death with Father Cox’s| derful man. There is not a better help. Also Father Cox did not build our shanty’s, he got only permission from the Penn. R.R. Co. for us to FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL WORKER A fifteen-year old girl filling patent medicine bottles in an American factory. She must stand on her feet Young Communist League demands nd four hours voertional training e all day. She earns $8 a week. ‘The a four-hour day for these workers, ach day with full pay. laces Glin Toleds In Attempt to Quell Jobless) vopumes sep UP: TOLEDO, Ohio.—AN the banks savings are all gone except a small have brought so much pressure to give relief in many cases, months in a camp are now campe in all in the garrison, When asked why the troops are answe' with us all summer. E plan for using the sailors age ast ing friends with the sailors. The the workin: class and belong the Toledo garrison. Why not keep (By a Worker i Oakeekpuaaent) The Unemployed Council activities have been se numerous and have started to sit up and take notice. We have forecd them to actually So great is the fear among the bosses that a great ed movement will develop during the coming montks set np # nayal garrison in the center of the city. nayal training ships which were always quartered during the winter with a company of machine gunners, send the boys to a far off desolate place? itorial Note—The workers of Toledo can spotl the bosses’ nice te us, here are closed and (he workers’ | ten per cent, bear on the bos: 3 here that they ass unemploy- hat they have The recruits from d right in the center of the city, There are about a thousand men camped in the city, the politicians them with us all ~~ them by fraternizing and becom- satlors come from the ranks of Why not form a committee in A. F. OF L, BERIND | FISHER BOSSES Auto Bos Agency Operates es” py (By # Worker Correspondent) FLINT, Mich.—'The American of Labor fakers are not a bit better than their brothers in other cities. They, are working hand in hand with the auto bosses in every manners pos- sible. This week they came out In their the “Weekly Review,” | telling the bosses that theresare 1,000 | workers in the Fisher Body Plant, who belong to the revolutionary un- j ion. ‘They are also supporting the police commissioner, who is well known for leading the attack against the strikeghere at the Fisher Body Plant where the cops slugged and beat workers. Scavarda, an A. F. of L. leader, states in the *Weekly Review’ that their paper is the only one that knows how to fight the Reds. 1600 IN’TACOMA HIT BREADLINES: Council 28 2s Ahes ad Wash. U nemployed Forg oma, Daily Worker: Over 1,000 workers and some chil- dren were driven by hunger to the breadlines in this city ‘Thanksgiving. ‘The local capitalist press brags about it as if to make out they were well; fed and only got hungry one day in the year. On Dec. 7 the Citizens’ Employ- ment Bureau called the workers to register for jobs—that don’t exist; and now when most see through this sham, the local julges, lawyers and bosses come out with still another campaign to “Lick Unemployment.” In this last move the stores are to sell stamps at 1c and up to the “pub- lic,” then the funds are to go for construction work—so they say! Conditions on the’ breadlines are terrible and the County Welfare is cutting down on relief. build. Workers Built the Colony Every bit of lumber, all kinds of material was carried on our own backs and we built the colony our- selves. In Shantytown all profit. all funds, all offerings should go to the starv- ing poor workers. But it goes to Father Cox's pocket. So you see, out of Shantytown he made a zoo. He has a soup line, yes. What does he give to the workers? Nothing but slop. All rotten vegetables cooked and diluted with warm water. It's dished out in a small bowl with a half a cup of coffee with a bad.smell. Do you workers think a man could live on it? Of course not! We Shanty- town workers don't eat the slop. Makes Profits On Store Now clothing: we get some, if we need a pair of trousers we are given two pair in order to use, one pair to patch up the other pair, The same thing with shirts, stockings, coats, overcoats. Father Cox has a second hand furniture store just like | the Salvation Army and the I. P. 'He collects from people for nothing. but he is not giving it for nothing. He is selling it to the poor. The same thing with gocd clothing. Had Two Jailed Father Cox is misleading the work- | ers in Shantytown and is putting them to sleep so they will not arise against their oppressors. Father Cox } is a tool of thes? oppressors. He is attempting to lead the workers away jfrom organization, organization that | the capitalists fear. As an example of this two workers allempted to distribute some leafiets in the soup hall calling on the work- ers to organize. Father Cox had! them arrested. The ‘International Labor Defense is defending these workers. We must build a strong ee Ooeney in Shantytown. SOVIET BUILDING A NEW COMMUNE: Great Strides Rory yard In Auto | Works Construction Nizni Novgorod. Hello, clear comrades! We wish to tell you how we live and | work here in the USSR, how we are fullfilling our Five-Year Plan ir Four years, and how we are setting up our foundry in the Avtozavod— our socialist giant of which you have no doubt heard. We all staried to work here in the foundry in the {month of August. We began straight away with the most urgent work—- that of covering the roof v. the foun- dry with sheee iron. Within a few days time we already began to work | at a fine rate and earned 10 rubles each per day. We feel that we are working not for a master, but for ourselyes, for our own proletarian State. During this work we were quite a number of times rewarded with money-prizes and other things. We have a rest day after every five days work. We are un- led workers. Iu our free evenings wo study Politics and other subjects. A number of cohrades from our bri- gade went tg Stalingrad for practice in skilled work. Our whole brigade lives jn one house—an industrial commune—for the last 15 months already. We work together, rest together, together we go to the theatre, and we study to- gether. In the commune the work is all distributed in turns. There is a special fund set aside for the needs of the Communards, and with this money we subscribe to newspapers and journals, go to the theatres and cinem:.. We have elected a com- mune cuuncil which conducts the whole work and life of the commune. With comradely greetings, (Signatures) : Triganov, Alekseyev, Sokolov, Mar- kov, Averin, Feduloy, Bobkin. The POZDNAYEVA shock-brigade, Voundrs, Aytozayoda. y WORK couple of slices of old bread and, HOW FATHER COX PROFITS ‘ON JOBLESS—TOLEDO GARRISONED AGAINST UNEMPLOYED— ="MILWAUKEE ELECTION CAMPAIGN—WINCHESTER ARMS STORMED—NEWS. FROM SHOPS ‘SCHOOL CHILDREN IN FIGHT TO FORCE N.Y. CITY TO GIVE RELIEF Williamsburg Unemployed Council Exposes Milk Graft In Publie Schools 3asis to Build Strong Pioneer Groups In New York Schools (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Council of Williamsburg {bas for the last fw months been carrying of work among the children of Public School 141 and Publie School 43 and among the parents of the children. The Council has met with some success in mbilizing the parents to demand free hot lunch for the children in these two schools, also to fight against the policy of the schools to graft off the children by selling the children milk at twenty-five cents a week aii giving the chil- dren a glass of milk each morning. Lay The total cost of the milk is not ee than eight or te or ten cents at mest per child. Of course it is needless to explain that this money is going into the pockets of the Tammany Hall controlled Board of Education grafters. Only a few days ago one of the {children who has been to several meetings of the Young Pioneers and was acquainted with the demands of the Pioneers for hot lunch, clothing and carfare for the children of the unemployed going to school, brought ja note to the principal of P. S. i41 from his mother asking the principal of the school to give him the milk without money since they could not afford to pay for it. What was the answer of the principal? She asked the child about his father: what sort of work he does, how they pay rent. Of course, she did not give the child the milk as requested, but askcd the child “if he is a Communist” and be- gan threatening the child, telling him that he would be hit if he did not salute the flag, and he has been struck several times by the so called monitors who are instructed by the principal. ‘The same principal has time and time again organized groups of chil- ren to disturb our open air meetings which are held at the corner of the, school. At the Jast meeting about fifty kids were sent to disturb our meeting by shouting and creating a general racket. We, however, suc- ceeded in getting them to keep quite and to listen to the speaker. The children readily admitted that they had been told by their teachers that the “Reds” wanted to kill them and wanted to take them away from their homes and all of that kind of bunk. One of the kids told of how he was jeiven a pair of shoes after being forced to wait two years for it, and when he was given the shoes the soles were made of paper. Another child took the stand and began telling the workers and children assembled at the meeting of the attempts to inti- midate the children and to prevent them from fighting 1p the schoois for relief. The schools are supposed to be feeding the children hot lunches, ac~- cording to the various news releases | given out by the Board of Education. But is this so in Williamsburg? No. The parents must awake to the fact that not only are they themselyes being fooled by the fake relief cam- paigns of the Tammany Hall grafters but their childfen also are being util- ized by these grafters to fill their own pockets with the money that is supposed to go to feed and clothe the children of the unemployed and vart time workers of the school men- tioned. They must rally to the Un- employed Council and force the school authorities to give the children hot lunches and clothing. Only when the workers are organized can they force the grafters to act. Therefore, join the Unemployed Branch of Wil- liamsburg which meets every morn- ing at 10 oc’clock at 61 Graham Ave. The children should join the Free Food Fighters Clubs organized by the Young Pioneers, which meets every Friday at 6 p.m. at 61 Graham Ave. “All working class children are | invited. JOBLESS SMASH POLICE. TERROR AT PEORIA MEET Pledge 'to-Oally All of City In-Drive for So- cial _Insuranee PEORIA, Tll—The Hunger March report meeting, at which delegates who had returned from Washington, were to report, was held despite the police and mayor, who tried to pre- vent the meeting. We had secured a hall and some six hundred. workers came. The police then,,came and began to bar the workers from the hall, but the workers.did. not disperse and insisted on going.in, Next the chief of police and chief, of detectives threatened the owner of the hall in an effort to have him xefuse.to allow us to meet. Failing .in this they called in the mayor who finally succeeded in co- cering the ‘hall owner to close the hall. Meet in Blacksmith Shop We then went'to a blacksmith shop and held éGr iieetings. Only about fifty workers could be packed into it. The meeting finally began about 9.30, with the*police’trying to drive those who could not'get in away. Before the’ meeting was over we organized ‘an Unemployed Council with twenty members each of whom promised. to; bring twenty new re- cruits to the next meeting. A resofution"was adopted denoune- ing the action of the city official’ which 2, “committee took to the mayor. ‘The committee saw his honer entering ‘the’ building but were told, when they asked for him, “he is out of town.” >’ All evening and morning the mayor's telephone was ringing with persons’ calling him up to protest against the attempt to prevent the meeting. "™ We aré in the battle to stay and will again ¢all upon his honor the mayor on ‘Feb. 4, when the unem- ployed of the nation present their demands to the government.. A mo- tion was als’ passed in our council on this stortny’ night of organization to sign up the entire working-class of Peoria on the unemployed demands to be presented to congress on Feb. 4th and upon’ the protest against the arrest. of Gebert, and others on the charge of .crimina] syndicalism, Danville R, R. Shops Working Part Time (By a Worker Correspondent) DANVILLEy: T—The ©. and 1. railroad shops are working only two weeks out of the month. Two as- phalt concernsihere have closed com- pletely. .‘The wages are being slashed right and left something awful. The National Corn Stalks Produce Gomporstione 3 million doliar concern, is bankrupt; | Workers Storm Winchester Arms Employment Bureau (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW I!'AVEN, Conn,—The Win- ‘Republic Steel urparation | Pay tToTHE ORDER OF The above cheek represents tw Ohie. The wo: er came? to the mil WARREN DISTRICT WARREN, OHIO yuy, 0 pay on the stagger plan in every day for two weeks and was Wms Cueck No ‘OR BEARER the Republic Steel Mill of Warren, given a few hours’ work each day. The total earnines for the two weeks amounted to $3.17, but the company deducted three dollars for the Community Fund, fer p. cer Hadionad Unemployment Mnotran > rivteh Meet Vi cenis for the worker fo starve on. a orn, 2 Dry, Feb. 4. Ohio, as a contribution to the fund chester Repeating Arms Co. which went into the hands of the receiver some months ago, has now become absorbed into the Western Cartridge Co. A report wes circulated that 1900 men were to be put to work on tthe morning of Jan. 4 in this plant and by 8 o'clock there were thous- ands of jobless men in front of the factory doors. Door Barricaded. , ‘The company bosses, seeing the crowd, at once took steps to barri-~ cade the door to the employment office, The militancy of the crowd assumed such large proportions that when one of the Winchester police removed the barricade and attemp- ted to quiet the crowd, the workers rushed the cop off of his.feet. The window glass began to crash on the floor as the crowd of workers tushed over the cop and for a while took possession of the employment office. The company officials looked on fro mthe main office chagrined until a squad of police under the command of sergeant Alexander. Cops: Attack Workers, This’ spectal detachmen of police formed. jz wedge and began to attack the ers. One of the cops got a sock on the ear. Meanwhile the we who had occupied the employment™ office began to pull more workers*into the office ary the open windows. ‘Fhe police then proceeded to at- tack the ‘orkers inside the building, driving them out the other door onto Winchester Ayenue. It was e: that there were 6,000 in the crowd, native and for- eign born, Negro and white, male and female. No one got a job, for the copg;jheld the fort the rest of the day, All this happened at the beginning éur that Doak, Fish, of the cnbly Rev. tind "Walsh, Father Cox andthe Test of the patriots said would » ‘ “sunshine” to the country, ‘ , é