The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1933, Page 1

district. Vol. X, No. 5 SHANHAIKWAN STREETS PILED WITH DEAD AND WOUNDED; TOWN IN RUINS | Relations Tense Between Imperialist Bandit Powers; Japanese Grab Menaces U. S. Loot ARREST LEADER Hoboken Plant Rushes Arms for] d | So. America War (By a Worker Correspondent.) HOBOKEN, N. J.—For a con- siderable time the Elevator Sup- plies Company, between 14th and 15th St. has been manufacturing ammunition which is being shipped | to South America. They are now engaged in fulfilling rush orders | of cannon shells, capable of being shot to the distance of seventy- five (75) meters. | About five months ago this com- pany lost a big contract for one thousand five hundred (1,500) ma- | chine guns and ammunition val- | ued at four billion (4,000,000) dol- lars. However this contract was given to a Boston firm since they produce each machine gun $25.00 cheaper. A worker was recently firrA because he refused to work every day in the week. ‘The workers of this shop should elect a broad shop committee so \as to follow the example of the Ferguson Furniture Company, also | of this city, who have recently gone | }) \, drawal of the wage-cut and union conditions. —I.C.C. TART ANTI-WAR STRIKE ON SHIP Colombian Firemen Tie Up Gunboat Firemen on several Colom- bian warships have gone out on strike against the unde- 2] war between Colombia Peru. South American uispatches admit that the Colombian gunboat Cordoba} has been delayed at the Brazil- | iam port of Para by a strike of its firemen. As in the case of most of the Colombian warships, the Cordoba, is commanded by an American cap- tain as part of Wall Street's aid to its Colombian puppets. Several of the warships and troop transports were sold to the Colombian govern- ment by U. 8. interests since the be- ginning of the conflict, with the sanction and approval of the state department. The anti-war action of the Colombian firemen must serve to ‘mspire the toiling masses of the U. 8. A. for the necessary fight against imperitifist wars and U.S. which is the chief in- stigator of the two undeclared wars now raging in South America. Quick and decisive action is abso- fee essemial to prevent a new world imperialist war. Workers, farmers and intellectuals and all persons opposed to war face the duty of actively supporting the South American anti-war Congress called for Feb. 28 in Montevideo, | Uruguay, of building United Front Anti-War Committees in industry, | among the unemployed, in the uni- versities, everywhere. Hold demon- strations! Protest the war moves! Stop the production and shipment of arms! The Paraguayan command yes- terday flung its troops in a reckless but futile counter-offensive against the victorious Bolivtai army, equip- ped with arms and munitions from the U. S. Savage hand to hand to hand fighting resulted, with huge casualties on both sides. The Para- guyans were finally driven back. Tuesday’s ‘Daily’ to Expose Fake Relief Worker the bankers’ fake relief campaign, the Gibson Committee drive. The capitalist and social starve and die for the Seceeen crisis. Every man, woman child of the working class hould these facts. Exceptional efforts should be made on the part of all readers place next Tuesday's issue of Daily Worker in the hands the massey of employed and unemployed werkers of New York ity. Place your bundle orders EVERY READER GETS A NEW SUBSCRIBER! 1. Mention the Daily Worker in all leaf- Jets, posters and cards issued in your 2. Visit former expired subscribers and ask them to renew their subs. 3. Take advantage of the combination of- fers in subscribing for the “Daily”. Dail Central At Least 3,000 ) Civilian Men, Men, Women and Chil- | dren Slaughtered by Bombardment | Only | being | ‘out on strike demanding the with- | | | Unicred as second-claes matter at the Pest Offies at EEP2. New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 6, 187 OF CHINA UNIONS, Quick Protests | Can Stop Murder | (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 5.—Nuan Ping, chairman of the All-China Union Federation and a member of the Executive Committee of the Anti- Imperialist League, was arrested yesterday in Peiping by the Kuo- m‘ntang authorities, | He is now being held in the Chansueiyan prison, where he is subjected to inhuman tor- tures. There is great danger that | he will be immediately executed | by the Kuomintang murderers. | Some reports declare he may be sent to Canton, South China, | where the danger of his execution is also extreme, Prompt interna- tional protests are necessary if hi life is to be saved. At least 3.000 Chinese civil- ian non-combattants were kil-| led in the destruction of the! North China city of Shanhaik- wan by bombardment by the combined land, naval and air forces of Japanese imperialism. Tens of thousands of others were wounded, many crippled for life, including large numbers of women, children and infants. Fighting, which stopped with the capture of the ruined city by the Japanese invaders, is expected to be resumed shortly as the Japanese bring up their forces for the invasion of Jehol Province and North China. Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang, Nank- ing commander in North China, is reported to have referred the Japa- nese demands to the Nanking gov- ernment. Meanwhile, he is reported to be concentrating his troops south of Shanhaikwan. The Japanese have repeated their demand for the with- | drawal of Chang from North China. They have openly implied that he is one of the pawns of U. S. imper- ialism in the increasingly bitter struggie between the two imperialist rivals for supremacy in the Pacific and control of China. Struggle of Big Powers. Present indications are that Nank- ing resistance to the Japanese ad- vance Will be stiffened under the in- fluence of Wall Street imperialism, thus precipitating a situation in North China similar to that in South America where U. 8S. and British im- perialists are in armed struggle thru their native puppets. MALYGIN PASSENGERS SAFE COPENHAGEN, Jan. 5.~-All of the Passengers and some of the crew of the Soviet ice-breaker, Malygin, are reported rescued by the ice-breaker Sedov. The rest of the crew is said to have abandoned the Malygin and will cross the ice to Svalbard. TENEMENT FIRE KILLS TWO NEW YORK.—Two badly burned, unindentified bodies added to the mounting total of deaths caused among the workers by New York ten- ement fires. The bodies were dis- covered on top of the five-story building at 629 Columbus Avenue, where fire broke out yesterday. For Self-Determina- tion in the Black Belt The bulk of the Negro popula- tion (86 per cent) live in the Southern states; of this number 74 per cent live in the rural dis- tricts and are dependent almost exclusively upon agriculture for livelihood. Approximately one- half of these rural dwellers live | |in the so-called “Black Belt,” in which area they constitute more than 50 per cent of the entire population, The great mass of the | Negro agrarian population are subject to the most ruthless ex- ploitation and persecution of a semi-slaye character, In add'tion to the ordinary forms of capitalist exploitation, American imperial- ism utilizes every possible form of slave exploitation (peonsge, share- cropping, landlord supervision of crops and marketing, etc.) for the purpose of extracting super-prof- its. On the basis of these rem- nants, there has grown up a super- structure of social and political inequality that expresses itself in lynching, segregation, Jim-Crow- ism, ete—From C. ¥. Resolution on Negro Question, ICELAND FUR DYE SHOP IS TIED UP | Strike of Fur Dyers Starts Campaign NEW YORK.—The opening gun of | the campaign by the Fur Section of | the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union t6 organize the fur dyers was fired with a bang when the Ice- land Fur Dye Corp. shop at 11-19 Hope St., Brooklyn, was completely paralyzed by a strike called by the Fur Section. Thirty-four workers came out on strike, and the ten that remained behind yesterday morning were in the shop only because they had been locked in the night before. The police moved into action early in an effort to break the strike. Signs were torn from the hands of the picketers and two were arrested, only to be released later. The police de- clared that no picket lines would be allowed, but Wednesday night and yesterday there were mass pickets in front of the-shop,.including-all. the strikers and scores of rabbit workers. The demands of the strikers are for Shorter hours and an increase in wages. The present wages are 20 to 30 cents an hour, and the workers are forced to work 50 to 90 hours a week, including Sunday. Yesterday morning, at a meeting at 61 Graham Ave., the strikers elected a strike committee and a negotia- tions committee. Among the speakers at the meeting were Mike Madina, from the Rabbit Fur Workers sec- tion; Sam Burt, manager of the fur department; and Dominick Fliatani, leader in the strike. STRIKE WON AT GOLOVEINE SHOP | NEW YORK.—The strike conduct- ed by the Tobacco Workers’ Indus- trial Union at the Goloveine shop at 110 W. 38th St. was won yesterday, with the boss granting the workers’ demand that all hiring be done thru the union. The strike had been going on for three weeks. As a result of the vic- tory a worker who had been fired was reinstated. The membership of the union was also increased by the victory. News Flash HOBOKEN, N. J.—Police attacked the picket line of 150 workers at the Ferguson Novelty Furniture Co. yes- terday afternoon. The pickets fought back, and an organizer of the Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union was arrested, later released and ordered out of town. (Section of the Communist eee, Norker Rfoumict Party U.S.A. AN 1. Send greetings fo Anniversary-Lenin the Daily Worker, ben Baresi orga greetings. All gr not later than Jan. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933 CITY EDITION CITY EVENTS CONFERENCE TODAY ON ORGANIZING UNEMPLOYED Unemployed Council calls all leading officials of unions, members of unemployed committees, unemployed council, representatives of opposi- tion groups, unemployed committees in A.F.L. to a conference on problems of organizing unemployed and part time workers, today, 6 p.m., Manhate tan Lyceum, tian ROL THEATRE PERFORMANCE, “DAILY” TO BENEFIT Performance of a revolutionary play in Russian, “The Mutiny On A Cruiser” and dance Sunday at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth Street Daily Worker to get 40 per cont of proceeds. Doors open 4 a.m. * * WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM SATURDAY AT IRVING PLAZA Amter will speak on “The Political Significance of the National Hun- | ger March,” at 8 p.m., Saturday, at Irving Plaza, in the Workers School Forum, Note change from usual time and place. * * * WORKERS’ CENTER BANQUET Provisional Committee set up by the Central Committee has arranged a Banquet to help save the Workers Center, which is in serious financial danger. Banquet is at Workers Center, 35 East 12th Street, Second Floor, at 7 p.m, Sunday, Jan. 8, Special program, All mass organizations urged to prepare for it. s * . DANCE, BENEFIT OF MARINE UNION Marine Workers Dance, Saturday, at 8 p.m., at International Seamen's Club, 140 Broad St. DEMONSTRATE AGAINST HOSTILE NEWSPAPER REFUSAL OF AID KILLED CROPPERS SAYS PHYSICIAN Hold Mass Funeral for| Heroes of Negro Struggle PROTEST MOVE GROWS Demand Release of Croppers Still Jailed BULLETIN BIMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 5—That Cliff James and Milo Bentley died as a direct result of the refusal of Tuskegee Institute hospital and Macon and Montgomery County authorities to give them medical attention, has been confirmed by report of a private physician em- ployed by the International Labor Defense to examine their bodies. The physicians report states that both of these leaders of the Share Croppers’ Union, who were wounded by landlord-police lynch gangs Dec. 19, in Tallapoosa County, died of trumatic pneumonia brought about by refusal to give them medical at- tention, and by their treatment and exposure while in jail. ey eyUs Mass Funeral Today. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 5.—At 1 o'clock Friday, Birmingham white and Negro workers will pay their last tribute to the two murdered Negro cropper leaders, Cliff James and Milo Bentley, in a memorial meeting at the Jordan Funeral Home, 28th Ave. and 27th St. The meeting will be addressed by leading Negro and white speakers. It will be followed by a mass funeral, with the workers marching right across the city to Grace‘ Hill Cemetery on the South | Side. ‘The bodies of Cliff James and Milo Bentley have been moved to the Jor- dan Funeral Parlor, 28th Ave. and 27th St., following attempts of the Negro reformist allies of the Ala- bama landlords to disrupt the plans for the macs funeral. The reformists and police had brought pressure on the proprietors of the Welsh Brothers Funeral Home to place barriers in the way of white and Negro workers visiting the biers. Forve Release of 3 Others Mass protest has forced the release of three other Negro croppers held in Montgomery jail for the “crime” of defending themselves against the at- tacks of the landlord-police gang in the battle of Reeltown, Dec. 19. The three released croppers are Ivy Moss, Jugg Moss and Thomas Moss. They had been transferred to Montgomery jail together with Cliff James and Milo Bentley. Mass pressure has already forced the release of seven of the de- fendants. Working-class organiza- tions and all others opposed to lynch- ing and massacre of the oppressed Negro people are urged to at once send protests to Judge McCord, at Montgomery, Ala., and to Gov. B. M. Miller, in the same city, demanding the immediate release of all share- croppers held in jail for the “crime” of defending themselves in the Reel- town Battle, Dec. 19, against the at- tacks of the armed posses of the landlords, SENATE BODY TO HEAR BENJAMIN Will Get Jobless De- mands Saturday WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The sub- committee of the manufacturers’ committee of the United States sen- ate has notified the National Com- mittee of Unemployed Councils that it will hear them on Saturday. This decision came after continued delays and attempts to evade the demands that the representatives of the mil- lions of hungry men, women and children be heard. This committee did not act be- cause it wanted to, but because it was forced to make a pre- tense o! considering the demands because of the rapid development of the nation-wide fight for immediate winter relief and unemployment and social insurance. Present Hunger March Demands. The representatives of the Unem- Ployed Councils will present the de- mands that were put forth at the National Hunger March on Decem- ber 5. More than a month has al- ready passed and still the political agents of Wall Street are killing time, hoping that the movement will die down so they can continue with- out challenge the policy of aiding the rich ani starving the poor. The National Committee has as- signed H, Benjamin to appear before the senate committee and present the harrowing conditions of the unem- ployed and part-time workers of this country and press the demands of the workers as against the quack proposals of the bosses, the liberals, the progressives and other elements engaged in trying to dupe the masses and defeat the mass struggles. Avalanche of Telegrams. An uninterrupted flood of tele- \Five Now Going On As | [Demands for Which! New York Workers | Are Now Struggling) 1. The immediate listing of all | unemployed for relief; the elim- |Imation of the bureaucratic red tape at the relief stations and the beginning of relief payments with- in three days after registration 2, Increase of relief to $10 a| week for all unemployed families of two, and $3 additional for de-| pendents, with $1 a day for single | workers, pending the adoption of | Federal Unemployment Insurance. | 3. No evictions of unemployed | | or part-time workers and the sus- | pension of the eviction laws in its |application to unemployed and | part-time workers. 4. Immediate reduction of all| rents by five per cent and the| |adoption of a legislative enact- | ment to this effect. } 5. No discrimination in regis-| | | tration or in the payment of relief | |against Negroes, single workers, youth and foreign-born. 5,000 IN FIGHT ON EVICTION AS RENT STRIKES SPREAD, Toilers Mass Against 4 Evictions Today | NEW YORK.—A demonstration of 5,000 rent strikers and sympathizers, | fighting evictions at 1433 Charlotte | St., end a new strike which has grip- ped nine apartment houses at 11th) St. and Avenue A, marked the rapid- ly spreading struggle against evic- tions and high rents, and the grow- | ing militancy of working class ten- | ants. Negro Worker Joins | ‘Thousands of workers cheered when | a Negro worker, employed by City | Marshal Chase, to move the furniture | of four families being evicted at} Charlotte St., refused to do it and joined the pickets. The intense feel- ing of solidarity in this struggle against landlord-police terror found expression again when neighbors of the evicted families offered to house them until other provisions could be made. Twenty dollars. was donated by the 170th St. Block Committee, also leading a strike there, to pay for storage costs of the evicted fam- lies’ furniture. Masses Fight Eviction Marshal Chase had no easy task evicting the Charlotte St. strikers. The doors of the Suilding were bar- | Ticaded, aid every inch of the hall} ways had to be fought through. Eggs, tomatoes and water bags rained on the heads of the deputy and his as- sistants. In the meantime, outside, the 5,000 sympathizers acted in soli- | darity with those inside. Speakers addressed the pickets from the fire} escape. The workers voiced their re- | sentment with loud boos which could | be heard for blocks around. One of | the workers was badly clubbed by | the police. It took over 75 police to | comply with the landlord's orders, but eviction of four families was all they could do in this day’s “work.” March in Solidarity Four other evictions will be at- tempted tomorrow, but the workers are gathering forces. Already a march of some 500 workers paraded thru the streets, four abreast, over to 1392 Franklin Ave., where they made con- tact with the rent-strikers there. Two evictions are scheduled at Charlotte St., and two at Franklin Ave. All workers are urged to attend either of these to help the eviction fighters make their stand. Strike Spreads At the same time, beginning 9:30 a. m. picketing will begin at 11th St. St. and Avenue A, scene of the new strike. This strike is also being led by a block committee of the Unem- ployed Council with headquarters at 96 Avenue B. The splendid militancy of this organization is winning sup+ port throughout the city, and al- ready three additional houses in that neighborhood have asked the Com- mittee to lead them in sympaihy strike, The tenants at 11th St., composed of workers, artists and writers, are demanding: 1) Recognition of the House Committee; 2) Twenty-five per cent reduction in rent; 3) No evictions. Enthusiastic street meetings have been held, strike signs are in the window, and picketing is going on. Bryant Ave. Strike Spreads Another house came to the sup- port of the 1049 Bryant Avenue strikers when tenants at 1041 struck today. The same miltiancy and de- termination to defeat the landlord, characterizes this strike. An open- air meeting was held Wednesday and two of the tenants spoke. The spéak- ers were Levine, King and Sass. To- morrow night, at 7 p. m., at 1049 Bryant Avenue, will be held a mass demonstration under the auspices of the House Committee and the Bry- ant Avenue Block Committee. Again, on Saturday, Jan. 7th at 4 p. m., all of the tenants will hold a meeting to plan further steps in the struggle. Following the militant set-back to the provocation attempted by the landlady’s daughter during which po- lice were called and seven carloads of cops beaten back by the rent-strikers, the landlady offered to settle. But the tenants refused to negotiate | Demands! | plotting | Street, | Ave., | ger Marchers’ Deman‘s!” SEND GREETINGS FOR THE ' VIVERSARY EDITION! r the special Ninth Memorial edition of Jan, 14, Get your friends and shepmates and nizations to send eetings must be in 9 Price 3 Cents ‘NEW YORK JOBLESS MARCH ON ROOSEVELT CONFERENCE; CIRCLE HIS BLOCK; FIGHT COPS; DEMAND UNENPLOYMENT INSURANCE Chant of 4,000: Turmoil ; Big Demonstration Pr ident-Elect Arriv “We Want. Unemployment Insurance’ Police Unable to Crush Crowd, It Returns to the Circle eceded by He Refuses to See ’, Rises Above Squads Shouting Demands As Pres- Elected Delegation NEW YORK.—Shouting Roosevelt and his congressional agents, proposal of the National Hunger Marchers for $50 winter relief their demands for relief and Garner, Rainey, insurance, demanding that Collier and the others take up the and unemployment insur- ance, 4,000 New York jobless marched from Columbus Circle on Roosevelt’s home last night. Their ranks were crested by scores of defiant banne , {Got Theirs, We Want Our “No Sales Tax!” to Madison Av corner of Madison and 65th St. They were met there by Tam- |many police, blocking the whole street and preventing their entrance to the block where Roosevelt lives and was then entertaining the congressmen and ge cuts and relief cuts Circle Roosevelt House The demonstration swung no! on Madison, and turned west on 6 turned south again on Ee and approached Roosevelt's block from the other side, never more than a block from the house where the congressmen were conferring | with him. Their shouted slogans and the rousing strains of workers’ songs could be heard all over that fashionable part of town. Police Attack Then the Tammany tiger pounced, defending profits against the de- mands of the jobless. The proces- | sion was attacked by scores of burly Police before it got to the corner of 65th St. and Park Ave. A wild scram- ble resulted, the jobless fighting to bring their demands right to Roose- velt's door step. Finally the workers were driv: back to 66th St. and along it fighting and marched in a body back to Columbus Circle. That was the state of affairs as this was written at 9 p.m. last night. First Demonstration Roosevelt refused to see the dele- gation sent him by the demonstra- tors—police were sent to club them instead. Just before the main procession got under way, scores of unemployed streamed across from Central Park, and stood in a shouting crowd across 65th St. from Roosevelt's house. Roosevelt drove up in a kind of little procession of his own, sirens of the autos shrieking, but not able to drown out the yell of the jobless across the street: “Roosevelt, what about relief!” “What about the Hun- “We want Unemployment Insurance! Police attacked this smaller crowd but very shortly afterward the Col- umbus Circle demonstrators were in sight. Bread Line! ‘The 3,000 demonstrators had an ob- | in capitalist starvation Right alongside of ject lesson while they met. them was a bread line of 500 or more | destitute and homeless workers. The ss What Are Your Men Roosevelt, ” “Tet The Bankers Wait And Feed 16, |velt didn’t want to hear the demands of the jobless, but he had to. They marched from Columbus Circle, behind their elected committee north on Madison Ave., a shouting, but “When Do We Eat!” “The Bankers With Our Roose- In Congress Doing 6,000,000 Jobless !” , along 59th St. iplined army, and to the Fight Lehman’s Plan to Slash Relief, Schools | NEW YORK.—Governor Lehman red his first message to the GREEK WORKERS FORCE THROUGH RELIEF PROGRAM Demand for Workers’ Legislature yesterday. District Or- | ganizer Hathaway of the New york! Control Granted by District of the Communist Party ete lawanae’ it ax “most reactionary dle- Charities |regard of workers, rights and the — rights of the hungry unemployed.” | NEW YORK.—The united front | “Lehman proposes,” Hathaway | action committee of Greek unem- | pointed out, “economy for the bank-| ployed workers, through its militant ndlords and capitalists, at the | se to the workers of cutting relief, cutting down on the hildren, cut- | k, and no| | labor legislation of an; ortance. | “This is a continuation of a~ | paign which is shown in New York by mass misery, by starving to death | }of children, as in the Fiametti case, | by thousands of evictions, like those |ncw being courageously fought on | Charlotte St. and Franklin Ave. State-Wide Struggle “All these mass struggles will in- crease, and should lead during this session of: the state islature to a] state conference o: employment | and labor legislatic which A. F./| of L., Trade Unio Unity and independent union locals, shop | groups, workers’ language and frat-} ernal organizations, Socialist branch- es and Communist Party and veter- ans’ and all other workers’ organi- | zations should send gates. Such ja conference she rk out con- | crete bills on labor and unemploy- | | ment relief legislation and present | down | schooling of workers’ ting down of public v League, | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'TWO) NEEDLE JOBLESS | WIN VICTORIES | Spread Struggle to 3 Relief Bureaus | NEW YORK.—Twelve cases of real starvation were taken by the Needle struggle on the West Side in the last two weeks, has already forced the Archbishop in that neighborhood to contribute $158 to cash relief for needy cases. As a result of these struggles, the archbishop and the central commit- tee of 10 Greek charity organiza- tions, of which the archbishop is the head, were forced to meet with the delegation of the united front com- mittee and to grant the demands of the unemployed workers. This meet- ing took place on Wednesday at 2 o'clock in the cathedral at 74th St. and Lexington Ave The archbishop appeared at the conference with all his robes on. He had no proposal except to say that he didn't want any women on the delegation. This, of course, the work- ers refused. Present Demands Then the workers, through Mike Daniels, their spokesman, presented their demands. These were 1. Creation of central unemployed relief fund. 2. Money to be provided by taxa- tion of all the rich GreeX business- men, banks, proprietors of newspa- pers, agencies importing and ship- | ping, ete. 3. To give immediate sums and monthly donations. 4. Five per cent of all treasuries of local charities, fraternal and |community organizations, etc. (10 hurches) to go to fund. a | 5. Fund of $500 per month from | Greek Government to consulate for Greek poor in New York, to be turn- ed over to central relief fund. Workers’ Control 6. Fund to be under direct con- line was maintained by the New York | Trades Unemployed Council to Home Journal as one of its advertising stunts. ‘The demonstration heard Sam Weissman open the meeting at 7:30 and tell of the National Hunger Hunger March on which he was a delegate, and the placing of the de- mands before congress. He told of congress’ failure so far to take up those demands for consideration, and proposed the election of a committee from the demonstration to march on Roosevelt’s conference with those very same congressional henchmen of hi: and demand they take up in congress the demands of the Hunger March- | ers. Enthusiastic shouts greeted the suggestion. There followed speeches by I. Am- ter, secretary of the National Com- mi‘gz2 of the Unemployed Councils; and by Herbert Benjamin, its nation- al organizer. “Roosevelt and Hoover have the same program, starvation for the workers,” shouted Amter, pointing to the bread line. “Fight in every locality for relief and no evictions, and whiie Mr. Pri- vate Citizen Roosevelt is conferring with his lieutenants, we wiil demand from them that they take up our pro- posals nationally instead of trying to put over a sales tax on the workers!” Amter added. Organ’ze! “Rally to the Unemployed Coun- cils," was a central point in Ben- jamin's speech, and he also told of the starvation here “Negro and white, unite and fight | of approval | trol of United Front Committee of Relief Bureaus, and action was forced | action with delegates from all frat- in the great majority of these cases.| ..na1 etc, organizations. Eight cases of starving workers were| 7 ‘pach’ unemployed family to get brought by the Council to the at-/ 55 2 week and $1 for each depend- tention of the Home Relief Bureau} ent single wmployed workers to at 149th St. at the Bronx Opera | get $2 per week--churches and com- House. The bureau was forced to) munity buildings to be used for promise immediate emergency action.| ghejter of homeless, with three meals At the Home Relief Bureau at] served in them. Spring and Elizabeth Sts., three cases|” shelters and buildings to be super- | of starving workers were brought by | vised by committees elected by those |the Council. After Mrs. Goldman, | poused in them. the supervisor, tried in vain to in-| g, Gibson Committee to provide | timidate the committee, jobs for 500 Greek jobless. relief was forced for one worker, an- | other got relief from the Jewish So- {cial Service Association, and the | tion will be held next week in front {of the bureau if the third is not granted relief by Monday. Workers waiting on line for relief at that bureau were greatly encour- aged by the militancy of the Coun- | cil's committee, At the Bensonhurst Home Relief Bureau at 24th St., the Council pre- sented a case that had been refused relief several times before, but this time the bureau was forced to promise relief. | immediate | | workers declared that a demonstra-| 9. Endorse unemployment insur- ance bill. All these demands were granted by the archbishop and his central com- mittee. Mass Meeting Sunday A mass meeting has been called | for all Greek unemployed workers | next Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Greek Church on 24th St. between 8th and 9th Avenues. On February 12 there will be an enlarged conference cov- ering greater New York, to check up on the work, ard to mobilize the masses to force the archbishop and the charities to live up to their pro- mises, | WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—The for the workers’ way out of the chisis,/ glaring criminal character of the for food, for shelter, for clothing this | bosses’ efforts to make the workers winter, urged Oscar Buchanan, Ne- | bear the whole burden of the crisis is gro speaker. There were many Ne- | contained in figures released here to- gro workers in the crowd. | day, which show that while dividend The committee was elected with| payments and interest paid on bonds one vast shout of approval, and was/ surpassed the 1928 level, wages were on its way a few minutes later. Its|only a little more than half of the members were: Benjamin, Charles | 1928 figure. Klein, Harrison Dalvish, Thomas Pe- Close to $7,000,000,000 was raked in Victims of the U. S. Bank swindle will meet to protest in front of “The Jewish Day,” Saturday, at 4 p.m. against that paper's favoring owners of the hank at the expense of the cheated depositors. grams and letters from workers all over tie country has forced this| without 0 representative of the Un- employed move of the sub-committee, 1 Bess Camas a lists and bankers from stocks taiso and Celia Nadi, Both Shiahd by beg ae and bonds during the past year. and white were on it HUGE PROFITS FOR 1932 ‘Above ’28 Level; Wages Cut in Half The big Wall Street banks reaped the biggest harvest, their aggregate dividends for 1932 being 16 per cent on their capitalization, with the First National Bank, a Morgan concern setting the pace by paying 100 per cent on its stock. ‘Wages during 1923 totalled $28,232,- 000,000, compared with $50,058,000,000 in 1928. These are the very conser- vative figures of the American Fed- eration of Labor; the actual drop