The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1932, Page 2

ator Page Two mt Committee, but this d Dressmakers Strike Spreads Despite Co. Union Terror #3W YORK.—The prea: ot ex t he ehop strikes, the settle strikes on the basis of tions, the widespread », the mass movement ar nakers for a real strik and file leade’ company union to de week they xecutive memb ne de of ¢ x6 spreading of the strike morning a gang of ander the leadership of ald agents of 2 attempted to attack the stri front of the Blue Bird Dr 45 W. 35th St. TI s t, drove the thugs off | Socialists Join | | Communist Party The extent to which the workers still in the ranks of the Socialist Party are recognizing the true role of that organization as another Ps is seen workers who gle, the Commu in the fact that were formerly m es of the So- list Party have joined the Com- mist Party during the course of ing Drive. Tt ber includes only the two cities of Boston and Cl the Recrt FMN VANCOUVER HUNGER DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JA UARY 29, 1932 Jobless Insurance Bill ST. PAUL, Minn—Four hundred) cations for the Unemployed Council workers, mostly A. F. of L, members, |were received. In the discussion filled the Minnehaha Hall to hear an | from the floor, the A. F. of L. leader- indictment of the A. F. of L. leaders | ship was condemned by worker after key, leading A. F. of L, officials, were A resolution was unanimously | challeged by the Unemployed Coun- adopted endorsing the Workers’ Un- | cil to appear and defend their posi- employment Insurance Bill and the|tion on uhemployment insurance at Feb. 4th demonstration, condemning | this meeting, which was held across the A. F. of L. leadership for oppos- | the street from the Labor Temple, ing unemployment insurance, and/but after sending their henchmen calling for a referendum in all local | into the meeting to try and create a | union on this question. Many appli- | disturbance, Mahoney and his gang — | evidently thought it was safer not | to appear. William Schneiderman, district or- |ganzier of the Communist Part “Twenty-one Former 400 AFL Members Endorse |R.R.UNIONHEADS | PUT OVER TEN | PER CENT SLASH Worker repeated): road workers a 19 per cent wage cut. In order to blunt the anger of the | rail workers at this obvious sellcut, | the officials added the hypocritical | stipulation that the cut remain in| force for only one ye: | Negotiations for putting over the | wage slash have been going on for | ‘eome time. The union officials were in a conspiracy with the ratiroad magnates from first. But the for- | malities of “negotiations” were gone | through as so much play in or- | der to keep workers from imme- | diately revolting against the union of- j Relief Bureaus are not relieving this ieil sent a committeee, taking with it | Bureau station. Prepare Thruout City NEW BRUNSWICK to Demonstrate, Union Sa, on February th’ JOBLESS PREPARE FOR FEBRUARY 4 Even though the Community Chest sional district which you claim to represent in Congress are starving,” the letter tells Sirovich. “The Home st by the ‘essmaker: capitalist party, and the extent to ne! ” : 5 eoming sd in paarlag anes which they are coming over into leg riya epRe feat Seen ‘ond union offict suffering. The government has tak- | ahd all the other boss agencies in f decisions for the strike will be the party of revolutionary strug-| | munist Party. Hall, Lawson, Mahoney, and Star- | yesterday agreed to give 1,500,000 rail- | en no steps to secure Unemploy- | the city of New Brunswick, N. J., pro- ment Insurance for these workers and paid no attention to the Work- ers Insurance Bill presented by the Hunger Marchers in Washington December 7.” claim “Nobody starves in our city”, the unemployed are taking no chances. And with plenty of justifi- cation, | About two weeks ago the Unem- | ployed Council of this city demon- strated before the County Court House to expose the faker Freeholders who were holding an open meeting on the county budget. After the demon- stration the Council met and at this meeting it received news of five fam- ilies actually starving. There were five children in one family who were ab- Home Relief Bureau Shut Yesterday the Home Relief Bureau closed its doors to the new applicants. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- about 20 needy families, and young single workers, Negro and white to Public School No, 13, at 239 E. Hous- ton St. where there is a Home Relief aa ARE Oorckng |ers in the form of unemployment ficials and their sellout. |solutely destitute and their mother VIN IN CLUBBING FISH STRIKERS SSES AND THUGS : ice Arrest and Beat Up Strikers are sent along with | 1 | workers and their f in the dress ICONTINURD FROM PAGE ONE? ment insurance as the only means to ward off wholesale starvation by the milies, and “The decision of the 1931 conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor and the policy of the Execu- tive Council of the A. F. L., which has again been repeated by McGrady before the Senate Committee recent- ly, to reject and fight against gov- ernment unemployment insurance is against the interests of the member- ship of the A. F. L. and of the workers, generally, abandoning them as it does to the present actual starvation, and ‘The big employers and the gov- ernment constantly use the stand of the A. F. L. leaders as one of their main arguments against the estab- lishment of a system of national gov- ernment unemployment insurance, and for the continuation of their sting hunger program. and “This critical situation makes it absolutely imperative that the great rank and file of the A. F. L. unions speak their real opinioi. on this life and death question, and see to it that ement is initiated nationally by r orgartization, in favor of unem- loyment insurance at the expense of the government and the employers, mand of the workers for the imme- diate establish: ment of government | unemployment insurance, and be it | further “Resolved, that this conference elects a committee of 15 for the pur- pose of circularizing all A. F. L. locals | and RR Brotherhoods with such # referendum and to adopt other mea- sures to popularize the demand for government unemmloyment insur- ance.” A committee of 15 was elected to carry out the actions of the confer- | ence and to lead the struggle for un- | employment insurance and the adop- | tion of the referendum for the ini-| tiation of this movement in the A.| F. of L. The committee comprise: Weinstock, Peters, Johanson, Bas-| koff, Rosen, Peer, Myers, Pockman, | Red! Horton, Weiss, Gordon, San- ger, Goykewich, and Botorlino. A motion that the conference en- dorses National Unemployment In- | surance Day, Feb. 4, received all but | two votes. | A resolution demanding the imme- | diate releace of Mooney and Billings | was passed unanimously, as well as a resolution, demanding the release of the nine Negro Scottsboro boy and protesting against the deporta- tion of foreign-born workers. and wage cuts, the role of the farmer-labor party, socialist party, and the A. F. of 1. bureaucracy, and the part played by the Unemployed Councils and the Trade Uinon ‘Unity League, under Cc’nmunist leader- ship, in the struggle against starva- tion, He pointed out that Mahoney, the farmer-labor candidate for Mayor in the coming elections on a labor-pro- gressive ticket, had essentially the openly re-actionary candidates. The only workers’ platform in the elec- | tions is that of the Communist Party candidates, Anderson for Mayor, Bartlett, Turner and Smoliak for Councilmen, JAIL THREE FOR PROTESTING AT RELIE OFFIC NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—A delega- ion of unemployed workers, elected at a meeting of unemployed today, was evicted from the fake Home Re- lie {Station at 95 Boerum St., which The rail workers must resist this | attack against their living standards | by organizing a rank and file strike FLOOR SCRAPERS | FORCE BOSS TO | 1s | same capitalist program as the more | VE UP BLDG. Strikers in the Self-Mechanics Flooring mpany, 125th St, and Park Ave., through militant picketing |compelled the firm to give up the job on 125th St. and the builder called in | another contractor who was com~ pélled to sign up with the strikers | jgranting all demands in recognition | jof the Building and Construction | Workers Industrial League. ‘The strikers succeeded in taking down the truck driver that delivers material on the jobs in sympathy with | them. One more job where two floor | scrapers were working was also stopped. | The spirit of the strikers is splen- | did. They are determined to fight un- til victery. The Building and Con- While the delegation went inside a large group of workers gathered around outside to hear the speakers. Upon the demand he Council, the social work supervisor was forced to declare that these famities would re- ceive immediate attention, Midtown Council March Today Today the Midtown Unemployed Council will lead a hunger march to the Home Relief Bureau at 10 E. 34th t, There will be two lines of march. On the West Side the marchers will assemble at 11:30 a.m., on the cor- ner of 63d St, and Amsterdam Ave, from where they will march down Amsterdam to 53d St., then east to Ninth Ave., south to 40th St., east to Eighth Aye., south to 38th St. and sick in bed. Immediately a committee of six was elected to go to the poormaster for re- and a doctor for the Lei vo tne ie sick. At City Hall the committee was told |the poormaster was out. But the chief of police was in, and he chased all six committeemen to the street. The committee was determined to obtain relief for the destitute. It went to the Community Chest Headquar- ters, Twelve clerks were in the office “working.” They informed the com- mittee that the “lady” in “charge” was out to lunch, Determined upon definite action, |the committee refused to be put off or bluffed. So the committee was re- then east crosstewn to 10 E. 34th St. /ferred to the “assistant” head lady. The East Side marchers will as- | This one also tried to put off the semble at 12:30 p.m., at 29th St, and | committee and got angry when the Lexington Ave., marching north to | workers demanded relief, not words, 34th St. and thence west fo the “Nobody is starving in New Bruns- Home Relief office. _ | wick,” this assistant said haughtily. At noon a series of open-air meet- |““But there are five families actually ings will be held in the needle | dying of starvation that we know of!” trades market, awaiting the march- | the committee insisted. A heated ar- ers, and joining their ranks as they | gument ensued and this “lady” who is pass. The West Side column will | fattened by the money contributed by pass through 40th and 34th Sts., | workers for the relief of workers had between 12:30 and 1 p.m., making it | the committee ejected. possible for employed workers in There were many other workers | has closed down for the second time! suction Workers Industrial League,| this section to come directly into | seeking relief at the headquarters. theretore bes it The union represented were: % ‘ in an attempt to avoid giving rellef that teads this shop strike, calls upon| the mareh from the shops, These joined the ejected committee “Resolved: that this conference of Local 9 Bricklayers; Local 2090 sung Catt For Pickets. vorkers, W! ; o ‘ Aas ce aRER as A. F. L, local unions of New York, | United Brotherhood of Carpenters |‘° ae, vee ee came | ail floor layers and floor scrapers to|, Resist Smashing Hunger Meet | and marched with thm to the Un- aeainn asks tb oeteeNt On assembled on January 27th, 1932, and Joiners of America; Local 499, | imemployed ' ocme to 5 E. 19th St. and report their| Yesterday the Unemployed Council | employed Council where they got a : r seis Ik + of the W. & R.| goes on record in favor of the fol-,German Painters and Decorators’ | Calling a mesiing Gna nearby hore ee cuts. The league will lead the | of 493 E. 135th St. held an_ open air | real sandwich and not a cup of coffee, isd ; This hop | ¢ workers unemployment insur-} Union of New York, N. ¥.; Local 10,| ner, the spckesman of the delega-|*ttike with these workers against the | meeting at 139th St. and Brook Ave. x ance bill: |The cop tried to disrupt the meeting Ero oe | put the workers resisted. One woman | demonstration on January 30 in front LIFE” OPPENS AT | told the cop that her electric and gas ‘of President Bruckner’s place to de- were shut off and her seven children mand immediate relief and to rally were starving. | the workers for the February 4 dem- The Council is- organizing a mass onstration. New York Federation of Post Office | “Immediate unemployment {fnsur-| Clerks; Local 261, Bro. Painters, | — ance at full wages (on the b: of Decorators and Paperhangers of | ;, 7 ‘: i |\“ROAD T ically refusing to hear their demands. the yearly average)—that a system! America; Locla 101, 105, 110 and 116 4 gang of cops immediately attacked | CAMEO THEATRE of federal government unemploy- Furriers Joint Council of New York; | the meeting and arrested three| The much-heralded Russian film, | nent insurance be immediately Local 848, Bro. Painters, Decorators | workers after temporarily dispersing |The Road to Life”, the first Soviet | established by an act of Congress and and Paperhangers of America; Local | j¢ ‘talking film, had its American pre- | Dress Co., 344 W.| made immediately effective, guaran- 905 and Local 121, Bro. Painters,| Following the police to the Bridge miere at the Cameo Theatre yester- teeing full wages to all workers Decorators and Paperhangers of | i tion reported the vicious action of | ¥#6e cuts. the relief authorities in hypocrit- seven until the shop has been hother shop where, Whe | holly of partly unemployed, thedligh “Ainslie; Tooal 1iGeUniteaeivo, At |natses 45 whine Gane ure ce need tance on the , Wholly or partly unemploy ough | A: ca j TO. Of! nesses to which the judge con-| “The Road to Life” is the first film | ; H e, This shop was controle?! NO fault of their own, for the entire Carpenters and Joiners of America| veniently postponed the case {0 effort of Nickola Ekk, a former as- | See Who Advertises m : | Industrial. Union and the | Period of unemployment Local 490 Bro. Painters, Decorators | Jan, 30, r litions. “For all workers, no discrimination and Paperhangers of America; Local —That unemployment insurance be 107, Paper Plate and Bagmakers paid to every unemployed worker, Union; Local, Bro. Chandelier Brass adult and youth, whether industrial and Metal Workers of N. A.; Local or agricultural, office employees and 2717, United Bro. of Carpenters and| LONDON, Jan. 27—JPaycuts ‘for {)°° Oellt Id boys” that is told | all other categories of wage labor, Joiners of America; Sheet Metal; | sailors, firemen and stewards in ves- ‘tory of these “wild boys” that is told | 7 native or foreign born, citizen or Plasterers Local 60. \sels of the mercantile marine were PY this first Russian talkie, Ameri- Concert and Entertainment Intern’ Workers Order non-citizen, white and Negro, men . orderd today by the National Mari- Can ee will as Set eae Siete Cony 3 ot He, Conn | DENTAL DEPARTMENT and women, nad without discrimins tiie Board, effective February ist. |tolowing the action and dialogue of | Party for\the formaton:ot a'New bl a 1 UNION SQUARE sistant of the celebrated stage direc- tor Meyerhold. With the exception of | several Moscow Art Theatre actors, the entire cast is composed of for- | mer homeless waifs, and it is the he poli of the court attendants The bosses pointed out the ore Your Own Daily BRITISH SEAMEN TO GET WAGE CUT empting to evade union he pretense that he ership with a shoy ional, and has locked Assistance on the picketline is also s Co, 1383 adway where the workers are i | eee 3 seigereae tion against any race, color, age or ee this film as the producers have) 4 against thi Sati out ails bi political opinion. No worker shall be ’ | ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL worked out a very satisfactory system /Sunday, Jan. 31, 8 pm. 8TH FLOOR ing to break this Geprived of unemployment insurance What's On— 1 NAT. of super-imposed titles which trans-} 105 SUTTER AVE. Brooklyn AML eek) Dore Chee Sere ee : PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE Admission 25 Cents ~ ef DR. JOSEPHSON trike by ordering workers of their : | late the talk and explain the action, | the seal work, because of refusal to take the place 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO | of strikers or to work fro less than Michael Gold, American author,| SS he tant 3 * h tevolutionary Traditions and tim declared on| ernment from funds now set aside, simeriecn Wistewy” at sos Ades ana y by the nee aie for war preparations and by taxation ®t 8:30 pm." | elements speed-up and long upon the capital and profits of cor-| 4, Landy, a membe : i — | Ceechoslovak Org. of the ©.P., U.S.A. a . Landy, a member of the Daily N (0) W PL A Y I N é 1510 W. 18th St. Chicago, Ti. the court rooin. Louis Unconscious in front of mitire court room sion, with some shouting at CHEMIST 652 Allerton Avenue O1-2-7584 BRONX, N, ¥. | Dretel Fur Shop Strikes. union rates of pay. eS THE DAILY WORKER | wrote the titles, | | of B. Dretel, 151 W.| «tsurance at the expense of the! appentuncs’ “or “the * Unemmlased | WwW CER | és a IS ense he appearance of the J: mployed j , of the largest shops iN | employers and the government—that Rig igi, od gs fant st | ‘The DAILY ORKER | Cooperators' Patronize t emr ny y t ta yce . Everybody wele a | | nae talired employing about 110 the full funds for unemployment in- |) eee eslconte . price hit pits meta flint S E R O ¥ he inju: ing the se: and 75 at! surance shall be@ratsed by the gov- Litinsky will lecture on | It he 1, have him, subscribe ts the | | Daily Rovnost Ludu 4 coni vine will speak on Jew- s is the answer of the fur- ica 7 | Worker state, w : een aati = porations and trusts and also by orker staff, will speak on “Lenin, fudge: “There is vour svslem—voUr riers to the attempts of the bosses |sharply upward taxation. taxation Wieqrate WA lie i tette Co und the Kaufman clique to continue | ypon all income over $5,000. In no, ton” Ave, at 8:80. ery body SOVIET RUSSIA’S FIRST TALKIE about 100 cops and dick weat shop conditions in the {Ur instance shall there be any contribu- Nise Sten (TITLES IN ENGLISH) Shave or Ha'r Cut trade | tions levied upon the workers in any| Dr. of the leaders Louis Palef: ish on in the U.S.S.R. at court house w Py ferglice thie oases Another shop declared on strike is |form whatsoever for this insurance. | tho Am Touth Clubs Ti what: H x aoe aon erad in the \Cohen Bros., 340 7th Ave. These work-| “Administration by the worke ford Ave, Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m, f Fi oe | Reduced Rates for Unemployed was cornered in (he ers are striking against the wage cut | that the unemployment insurance! here wit!” be a lecture at the k Livre Comma Saee, RES GA advice of cue of the cout Sn Discs work |fund shall be administered and con- Mapleton Workers’ Club, 1684 66th | atta oF Co-operative Barber Shop aitindants, Polet=: ee A very important meeting of the | trolled by the workers, through com-| St), Brooklyn, at 8:80 p.m. on the | The only Caechoslovak working clasn| = (Bey ease, LUN TH STREET. the bas Ge ee ted Front Committee will be held | mittees elected by the workers them-| ‘°° %f the Communist, Party, | daily newspaper. in. the U.S. and et. First Ave. and Ave. A) ate ea as the leader of the as- | rid ; | Comrade apehie Sare | Canada, It stands for the very same 10 o'clock in the morn- | selves. Doonping will principle as THE DAILY WORKER union, 181 W.| “Por other forms of social insur-| Ajanchuris, 2 the Prospect ‘Workers: Yearly. subsgription $6 for ¢ mo. $2. Rational Vegetarian for vel- | e—tha soci: i i . . be Ms Po who went. ba K for the devel- | ance—that social insurance be paid ee eae ae date earahe DRAMA OF THE HOMELESS WAIFS —— Restaurant the court to uire about Esposito’s will be taken | to workers to the amount of frll ky Strike at the Brooks Clubs, = 199 SECOND AVENUE eonaitior up a mee 'y members of | Wages to compensate for loss of niture Workers? R 42nd STREET POPULAR i The ice were exceptions the Unity Committee is urged to come | wages through sickness, accident, old - at 134 B. 93rd Ki | Het. 12th and 18th Ste, e 6 xceptiona - 0 p.m. Smoky and Broadway |} PRICES [ iets ands openiy: honsted oan |age, maternity, etc., and be it fur-| J cicy miner, will re- y Ww kk s! Strictly Vegetarian food were waiting for their chance Tonight atic there will | ther : Aver tine, to Butter Aver? — == Grxters. their hands on the leading be a meeting of Greek furriers at 422 | “Resolved, that this conference goes * * THE THEATRE GUILD presents etal i ' rested, were charged with feloniou oe |feferendum in all A. F. L. locals and . ie Da ale ge= Mourning Becomes Electra’ ae Do the places | MELROSE axsault ELEN TW “TREES AT THE | RR Brotherhoods, so that the rank) Par fo aber Rea uon Sy Ae 'he mew musical comedy bit, with rears | $ VEORT. "The policerefused to hold Palefsicy HIPPPODROME. | and file membership of our organiza- | °** ve eee ee Composed of 8 plays presented on 1iday dan suawe sa \ where you spend | DAIRY freracnany although the four strikes The Diamond Boys head the eight- | 40HS may register their opposition to PRU e CO Nae il gebearse | HOMECOMING, THE HUNTED on WARRMOrr LAKE || YOUr Money Comrades Will Always Find 36 Bier 2a tha) ea ler'ot thee ¢ sie Diamond Boys head the elght- | the decision of the A. F. L. 1981 Con- | 1 Nba: Rie Bourth Ak, for, the: THH BAUNTED 44th Sty W. of B advertise in the |] Pleusant to Dine ut Our Place, d _ dome bevinning Saturday a = de. | Place for the benefit of the Unem- 7 Mats. SRO RSE Sa FS GREP ‘ 5 24 (near 174th St. Stati dig ar ested for the crime of de-|rmetyetrens’ latest picture, = surance and express the mass de- | yi vta* Council, GUILD THEA. 534 st. W. of Bway |OURENIB SMITH ™! Worker? LEPHONE. INTERVALE. 00109 ending himeel 1 sae om 1 ! % Sach nallhaneauns agit peed e sereen feature, other pla S sters, was beaten up by the tral ares Roar’ (sausatyeud RC The Thentre Guta resents 1 LITTLE RACKETEER | ASK THEM TO DO ITY] wanvep—rurnishea (or unturnish- the station. ‘The terror of the boxes will not cow the fish strikers REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy . Merjorie Peterson and Paul | of the star. | ‘The New Musical Comedy Hit! Answer BEST DANCING SHOW IN TOWN. | hae gba eeepc YOU SHOULD HEAR eee | ei. s.otenaentwares 5% | SEND US THEIR NAMES! ||Sonc Se oe r in ‘The action to be inken in Unis The production was directed by Ralph os .By ROBERT BE, SHERWOOD the Injunction” Corifereiice, whieh geprebaerd Me fan Fort. eel Eve. 8:40 Mats. Thurg.Sat 2:40 eck ° tr. ae t Fric Jan, vaudeville bill are bf Ave. : | ¢ Ree tale EGR i) anil clowns” freddie coe | EDITOR, DAILY WORKER isPEbROM ‘& 4ard st || Dail ily, worker SF |) in one word, sou reproach wy New Yors Ci with Andy’ Basso and Helen | | PIGGHS'T SHAW IN NEW YORK +9 with intending to do away with Meee eri ed Gua tile cams” tip: to v; Frederick Renoff, Loris Re- Ang Ae COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW er JAMES DUNN & AO WH, 18th St.. N.Y. |) your property. Precisely so: thats y 2 my " ys a en neces ae meee seem nr | da he &h Disitict Magistrat di Alex Bekefi, Russian dane- | RED DANCERS, PROLET BUEHNE and the ELMER RIC with fhe Peer aaa fc just what we intend.”—Marz. | ¢ ore Judge W Sinclair Twins; Sandy | ent Can ; ee ICE PAUL MU tarey tien “Dance Team ST | } ‘theecand on y Palmer and Pony | NEWARK MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA Plymouth Thee,W. 1 $¢2y & Revue } " : and the Knight Trour | ymouth mat. rhurs. & Sat. 2:2 ———=, AST FIVE DAYS! === stoyevsky’s Great Novel Comes to Life! | <ARAMAZOV FIRST CALL FIRST MEETING! | DOWNTOWN FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORKER GROUP at 257 East 10th Street | FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th, at 7:30 P. M. | BANQUET AND CONCERT. TO GREET THE APPEARANCE OF THE NEW UNEMPLOYED WEEKLY FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th at 8 P. M. | NEWARK RALLY | | for the DAILY WORKER'S 8TH BIRTHDAY — | | | | | 50c Per Plate | cened from th bivd ‘an of Friday, Jan. 28th Manhattan Lyceum ts esa Set | Saturday, Jai. 30th, 7:30 p.m.) Oca peyton : Dostoyevsky Fyoder Oze Anne Sten |f) f BG SUEDat Yat et eee eee bic CM Jo THE T RE rent Street 53 Broome Street, Newark, N. J. biletahare cy cies bebop Erne is ade ido Chorus, A member of the editorial staff will discuss the j [A yt? i . A f jolin Solo by jo Artist an er ers, EY ade techit +l Ra Atos esl £ Bo ae AUSPICES: Unemployed Council of Greater N. ¥., 5 E. 19th St. Tevolayoeery Boome prvmaaeatahhr ape aarti 5, Nero a ceo sl