The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1933, Page 1

Onn remeron a erotenetety . js Erin Memorial Meetings Saturday, 7:30 P.M., Bronx Coliseum and Arcadia Hall Worker. expected of every worker. As soon as you have a couple of names, send it in and get a new to fill your list. me, Vol. X, No. 16 Who Will Be Next? Somheff, a Cleveland worker, has the * honor of being the first to complete a col- lection list and to forward it to the Daily This is an example of what is But don’t wait Central Dail (Section of the Communist International) y, Worker Porty U.S.A leads their fight. the Follow Their Example! The workers of Detroit are answ the wage-cut offensive of the aute kings with dollar bullets to save the paper that They have sent $125 to “Daily” and are promising more soon. ing What about the workers in other cities?. ss matter at the Post Oifies at "GS? New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879, ~NEW YORK, THURS DAY, JA YUARY 19, _ 1933 FOUR MORE A. F.L. LOCALS ELEC] THED: DELEGATES TO PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE Representatives of Workers” Organizations to| Meet in Irving Pla Plaza Hal}, Will Plan Huge ‘United F Front State Wide Con-| ference on Labor Legislation | NEW. YORK.—Local Union America (A.F.L.) have ae UUCCALIS ALL TO ATTEND LENIN MEETINGS ‘Lenin's Teachings ~Are Guide to All yeptts Worker Struggles” | SEW YORK.— The Trade onitg Council of Greater New York, *elis-upon all workers and all its af- flated unions and leagues to rall their membership for the Lenin Me- p Meetings to be held Jan. 21 atthe Bronx Coliseum, 177th St., and the. “Brooklyn Arcadia Hall, 918 Hal- | -St.. Brooklyn. The statement of EE TU.C. says: “Lenin, the leader of the Prole- iprinn, Revolution, is honored and rer by workers throughout the Lenin’s writings and teach- sperve as a guide to workers Ee vhere in organizing for the StYuggie against the exploitation of the ‘capitalist class, for the establish- | ment’of a Workers’ Government. This Great leader of the working class had no ‘interests apart from the toiling | Masses; he was always ready to dis- cuss“With workers their experiences and-problems, “It was this intimacy withthe lives and requirements of the workers and peasants which made-it possible for Lenin to outline so clearly and directly the path which the workers should follow in. riding themselves of their oppressors. “The T.U.U.C. urges the workers of | New York to honor the memory of | our great leader, Comrade Lenin, in & fitting manner, by making the Le- | ‘Memorial meetings real mass Wadeestrstions of workers who in the spirit of Lenin and under the guidance of his teachings will carry on. struggle for the organization | of the workers for their immediate demands and against this system of capitalist exploitation.” ~ “Browder, Hathaway Speak ‘Earl Browder, General Secretary the Communist Party of America, will be the main speaker at Arcadia Hall.” Pageantry and music is’ also on the pro’ 7m, fot both Arcadia Hall and the Goliseum. C. A. Hath- away, District Organez rof the New York District of the Communist Par- ty will be the principal speaker at the. Coliseum. Both events start at 7:30. 142 OHIO BANKS NOW CLOSED COLUMBUS, O.—Two more Ohio banks: have collapsed this month, | The Farmers Bank of Savannah, in Ashland County and the Farmers Banking Co.. of Wayne, in Wood County, making a total of 142. fy -Tmportant Issues 21 and January 25 {NEW YORK.—On Wednesday, |Sanuary 25, James Casey will begin series of articles in the Daily worker on the plot of the capital- liticlans end the A. F. of L. rs in New York State to block e demands of the workers f inemployment insurance and : at the expense of tne gov- nt and the employers. These | cians and A. F. of L. leaders , “busying themselves in carry- ng through theh orders of the ith the plans moving forward he United Front Conference ‘bany, called by the New York *, cf L. Trade Union Committee Unemployment Insurance and it is imperative that the e reactionary lezdership |d be made known to all em- d and unemployed workers. ler your bundies ofthe Daily 3 Saturday’s (January 21) ion of the Daily Worker will | in a number of special Lenin Daysarticles omitted through lack | . from the Lenin Edition the week before. Among them ‘icles on: Block Organization Unit Functioning, Filipino rs, Exposure of Kings Coun- pital, ete. z-of the Daily; Jan. | legates Sunday. | The Huntington, | | League unions, Union | mse | | | | | | Kedzie. § and Local Union ‘the Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers International Union of | voted to send delegates to the preli- Minary conference for unemployment insurance and labor Je- | Zislation, meeting in Irving Plaza Hall Sunday at 2 ‘for single unemployed workers. Points Out Tasks Sunday 37 both of| | J. Stal'n, Communist Union and outstanding leader of the toiling masses of the world, who in his speeches at the joint plenum of the Central Committee and Cen- tral Control Committee of the C.P. general secretary of the Party of p.m. Lecal Union 1087 of glaziers, | affiliated with District Coun- | cil No. 9, has voted to send de-| §.U., analyzed the achievements and the defects in carrying out the Five-Year Plan and pointed out the path to victory in the building of a classless socialist society. Long Island, ! loca! of the United Brotherhood of arpenters and Joiners of America | (A.F.L.) has voted to send delegates. | FAULT OF DEFECT IN GRAIN AREAS Rural C. P. Members Are to Blame; Out lines Remedy number Union Unity and workers’ mass organizations which have rallied to the call of the New York State AF. of L. Committee for Unemployment ance and Relief, for the preli- minary conference. Plans State Session Sunday's confer rangements for involve ever: nce is to make ar- and make plans to and kind of work- ers’ org: tion in New York state in a conference to be held in Febru- ary in Albany. The Albany sessio will last at le work out bill surance, ag By N, BUCHAWALD. (European Correspondent, Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (By Ra- \dio)—The Soviet prees pub- evictions, against | child labor, against injunctions and | for other sorts of labor legislation. | lished today the speech of J. It is proposed by the A. F. of L.| Stalin, general secretary of the Committee that the whole Albany | conference then proceed to the legis |COmmunist Party of the Soy- lature to Jay these bills, the first jiet Union, entitled: “Concern- actual legislative proposals of the | j ivity i 2 Vi ” masses of workers through their | "2 a A ia nc Vt Sa elected representatives, ever to come | The speech was made at the before the legislature in this session.| recently concluded joint plenum (full session) of the Central Com- mittee and Central. Control Com- mittee of the Communist Party and is deyoted to an analysis of Party work in the village. Against Injunctions Workers of New York State are thoroughly dissatisfied with the pro- posals made by Governor Lehman in his message to the legislature. Leh-| statin pointed ‘out’ the difficulties man's proposals, where they mean | in this past year’s'grain deliveries in anything at all, mean something bad. f a number of regions cf the Soviet Union despite a better crop than in 1931 as the main shortcoming of the rural Party organizations, The rea- ms for the difficulties in the grain deliveries, Stalin said, are to [be Lehman's proposal for a “shorter | found “not in the peasants’ attitude work week,” bears all the earmarks | toward the Party and the govern- of the stagger system of wage cut-| ment, but in ourselves, in our own ting. ranks,” Lehman's plan for minimum wage The first reason for the short- and higher age standard require- | comings in rural work is “the fail- ments for child slaves does not at} ure of our comrades on the spot all lead to abolition of child slavery. | to appraise the new circumstances With none of these proposals of | created by the institution of trade the governor can New York workers | in grain on the part of the collective be satisfied. They will, themselves, | farms.” Instead” of assuring “an through their own delegates in con- | energetic campaign for grain -deliv- ference assembled in Albany, make | eries to the ‘state as a prerequisite other and concrete proposals, and | for the trade of the collectives, Stalin will call for mass support of these | pointed out that many. Communists prope: ls. neglected state: deliveries. and em- phasized the storing of the grain’ in exaggerated quantities for other pur- poses, thus retarding deliveries to | the state. The second reason given by Stalin for the defects in rural work is the failure of. Party workers to realize | that the transition to collective ag- riculture .as the prevailing form of economy does not decrease, but in- creases the guiding role of the Com- munists in improving agriculture.” Party Must Guide Farms. Under individual farming, every peasant took care of his own plow- ing, sowing, harvesting and sowing, | with the Party only occasionally giv- ing advice or warning. With the For ance, the governor proposed not the abolition of labor injunctions, but merely a change in the method by which injunction “violators” wil! be tried. | POLICE FIRE ON CHICAGO JOBLESS Wound 5 “AS Workers | Fight Back | BULLETIN CHICAGO, ML—Fifty-three work- ers, mostly Negroes, were arrested today in a jobless relief fight. ate CHICAGO, Jan. 18—Five workers were wounded here this morning when pdlic2 opened fire on a dem- enstration of 2,000 unemployed at the Emmerson relief station at 22nd and The demonstration was held to demand recognition of the unem- ployed committees, immediate action} 18 TO vA] YEARS on various cases and $5 cash relief | Negroes Barred from Jury; Workers Crowd (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) A committee of 25 had been elected to present the demands, but a large police fovee inside and outside the relief station refused to let them en- Court ter and began to club the demon- strators. The workers fought bac! BULLETIN. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan, 18.—Angelo Herndon, militant Negro organizer, was sentenced to eighteen to twenty years for organizing Negro and white workers. militantly and the police started fir- ing, wounding Max Tenenbaum, Mrs, Kaplan. Mrs. Booth, Francis Kirka and Weiner, a member of the Young People’s Socialist League. In the struggle five cops were injured. New squads of police were rushed to the scene and they finally succeed- ed in breaking up the demoristration, arresting three women and ten men. Detectives armed with machine guns patrolled the area throughout the rest of the day. Later in the afternoon another demonsiration of 500 workers was held before the E. 50th St. relief station, the workers shouting: “We want food and clothes and we want them | now.” Police broke up this too. BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 18,—The habeas corpus hearing, at which at- torneys for the International Labor Defense will demand the release of Roy Wright, youngest of the Scotts- bero boys, was postponed by the prosecution until Monday, Jan. 23. The trial of Mrs. Alice Burke and Wirt Taylor, arrested on Noy. 7, when they attempted to address an Unemployed Mass Meeting here, was postponed over the objections of the International Labor Delense attorney. F. 1 Irwin. to Feb. | { | | | | | | | | the Soviet j a drop of $107.92 from Tuesday’s receipts. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Only $42.60 Received esterday; Life of the “Daily” Threatened! on GER! Only $42.60 was received yesterday in the sampaign to raise $35,000 to save the Daily Worker from suspension. This is | i \| } 1 Workers, friends of the Daily Worker: you have not failed the Daily Worker in the past. Will you fail it now? move once more toward the Soviet border in Asia; now determined struggles against wage and railroad workers ow are or: ganizing when the war clouds when the steel cuts, when the fight for relief, for anemploy ment insurance and against evictions has become the fight of milions; when the toilers throughout the world are coming to grips with their oppressors in a life-and-death struggle for bread and freedom? Ask yourself the question: Can YOU do without the “Daily” Readers, every one of you At least $1,200 must be contributed laily if your to live. Sound the alarm! Dig into your pockets and send eve Make your friends, your shopmates, } ness of the situation—collect all you can today and rush it to the Daily Worker. once! personnally 1 50 East 18th Street, New York City! sponsible for the yur organizations ree period”? in this cent you can at Amalgamated Bank Slashes — of Workers: Third Cut Since June NEW YORK.—Sidney Hillman, { their own union to protect them in pay; who sells out strikes in the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers, is, just like any other boss, slashing also the wages of the workers jn the Amal- gamated Bank. On Friday, Januayy,13, the workers | ‘of the Amalgamated bank were | forced to accept-a 10 per, cent wage cut, the third since June. Although this is a “Labor bank” | and professes to recognize a union of its employees, it carried through this cut in an arbitrary manner, not consulting with the workers, just as it did the two previous cuts. Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, is the chairman of the board of directors of this bank at a salary of $10,000 ayear. The workers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Union should be interested to learn how Mr. Hillman’s sell-out policies in their Union are carried through in their own bank. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers remember who are constantly fighting this sell-out policy of Mr. Hillman in their own Union, and should rally to the support of the |workers in the Amalgamated Bank by bringing the question up at their union meeting and comparing the $10,000 salary of Hillman with the measly wages of the clerks in the bank. This show of solidarity be- tween the ‘rank and file are ready to tween the rank and file of the Amal- gamated Clothing Work2rs Union and the workers in the Amalgamated bank will show Hillman and _ his clique that the rank and file are ready to answer all and every maneuver that they make to lower the condi- tions of the workers, whether carried out in the union or in the bank, A. F. of L. in Plot, Too Although the workers in the bank are supposed to be members of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Ac- countants Union of the A. F. of L., no attempt has been made on the part of this union to resist this w:ge cut. Hillman and the American Federa- tion of Labor fixed things up among themselves and in this manner are workers “protected.” So terrorized are the workers in the Amalgamated Bank that they have not even dared to call upon this instance as in the two previous times when their wages were dras- tically lowered, These workers are treated, in the same manner as any | business firm treats its unorganized | workers. Union dues are collected, of course, | bub ‘the bank officials take care of | that in the form of the check-off. A | group of workers had to resort to a | leafiet distribution from the outside | in the attempt to mobilize the others | in the bank to demand a hearing on the question of this recent cut. These workers should not accept timidly the’ position into which they have been forced, but must assert | by organizing also the rank and file | opposition to the sell-out by the offi- | cials of the B.S. & A. U. The Office Workers Union of the | Trade Union Unity Council wishes | to assure these workers that they stand ready to offer them any assis- tance that they may need in carry- ing through any action to protect | their working conditions, Forced Through The leaflet issued by the protesting group of Amalgamated Bank em- Ployes describes how the wage cut Was put over, as follows: “Monday, January 9, Mr. Murray, our cashier, asked for our signatures agreeing to accept a 10 per cent cut in our salaries. We were hurried, not allowing us time to think it over. We were given the impression that all the | other employes had already applied their signatures to this agreement. Noticing our reluctance and hesita- tion, Mr. Murray made a remark to the. effect that there was no use hesitating, as our salar‘gs would’ be cut with or without our approval. “Then why our signatures? If Mr. Murray were truthfulu and frank, he would answer: ‘That’s to save our face. We're supposed to be a labor bank and we can’t take any chances; we must have PROOF that you all agreed to the cut (whether you did or not)!’ “Tis is the third cut since last June. “1—June, elimination of overtime CITY EVENTS LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS, JANUARY 21 Huge Mass Memorial Meetings at 7:30 p.m,, Saturday, for Bronx and Manhattan workers at Bronx Coliseum, for Brooklyn and Long Island workers at Arcadia Hall. MASS MEETING AT HOME RELIEF BURO Indoor mass meeting to demand more relief. Meeting to be heid Jan. 23 at 2:30 p.m. at Public School 230, Albermale and Dahill Road, Boro Park. SAM WEINSTEIN FRAME UP TRIAL TODAY Workers and delegations from workers’ organizations sheuld go to the Sam Weinstein trial today at 9:30 a.m, in Bronx County Court, Tremont and Arthur Sts. « « INTERNATIONAL CONCERT AND BALL, BENEFIT OF C. P. Fourteen workers mass organizati: ions co-operate to give a concert and ball with splendid Reyer Sunday night at Manhattan Lyceum for the benefit of Section 1 . . of the Communist Party, New York District. ¥ LAST LENIN PAGEANT REHEARSAL TONIGHT-MANHATTAN LYCEUM | The last rehearsal for the Lenin Memorial pageant will be held tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. All comrade; in- volved must be present on tine. hasan, FIGHT EVICTIONS TODAY Demonstrate this morning against evictions in rent strike at Monterey Aye, Take Third Ave, “L” AT 2027 MONTEREY AVE, 2024 to Tremont, themselves and demand their rights | | a8 Union members, should take action | “2.—August, 10 to 15 -per cen , another 10 per cent cut. “In each case we had nothing to | Say about it! | “We are supposed to have Union | | te¢ognition in our Labor Bank. Why are we not given the opportunity to voice our organized orinion on ques- | tions regarding our conditions? We must insist upon our rights Sells Out Strikes The |same Hillman clique whict slashes the wages of its “Labor Bank” employes is cutting wages of | the Amalgamated Clothing Worke The Daily Worker printed on Tues- day a statement of the Rank and} File Committee in the Amalgamated which told of instances of fake strikes declared out of season in col- laboration bétween the Hillman clique | and the employers, of Hilllman’ laboration with ithe bloody River bosses, who called in priva thugs and murdered a strikers’ son. Speakers Class Starting; Urge Responsibility NEW YORK.—The District Agit Prop Department of New York Dis- trict, Communist Party, announced | yesterday that the District Speakers | Class will start on Saturday, Jan. | 28th at 3 p. m. at the Workers Cen- | ter, 50 East 13th St., second floor. |. This class which will train a new} | corps of Party speakers is of para- mount importance. It is a step for- ward which will enable the District | and sections to meet the growing de- mand for Party speakers which has} inereased tremendously in the past several months, owing to the wide growth of the influence of the Party among broad seciions of work-| | ers in the New York District. The District urged all section agit-| prop departments to immediately | turn in the blanks of their applicants | | So that the necessary check-up and examination could be done. All t blanks must be in at the District 0: fice no later than Friday. Application blanks must be in by Jan, 25. Protest Against Failure of Speakers te Fulfil! Assignments The following resolution was adopt- ed by the Williamsburg Workers Club for publication in the Daily Worker: “The Williamsburg Workers Club expresses its sharp protest against the promises made by the District Of- fice of the Communist Party and the Jewish Bureau and the failure of the lecturers assigned to show up at our | meetings ‘We consider this the great- est crime on the part of the Jeading comrades toward a workers’ organiza- tion. In our club, on six different | occasions one after the other we ar- | ranged for speakers. On each occa- sion, large numbers of workers wait- ed several hours for the speaker. At | the end of this time, they had to | leave, disappointed, with extremely | bad results for our club. Among the speakers who failed to show up were Comrade Amis, Puritz, Bedacht, Jer- ome, Hathaway and De Santes. “We demand a statement in our | press from the District and also from | (CONTINUED ON PAGE WO) | would | the earliest suitabl DANGER GROWS OF ARMED FIGHT WITH JAPAN FOR DIVISION OF CHINA L001 inese Authorities Instigate Raid on Offices of U.S. Singer Mac hine Company oe Masses of U.S. M ust { Jnite With Japen Toilers Age ainst War- Mongers WASHINGTON Jan Hvover at the $Vhite Hous ation between U.S. and Japane supremacy in ihe Pacific and cont offices of the U, gave srim ¢ struggle between Wal of the I with the Hoover Ho Gover are strictly pro! uthorities a war sentiven Ss ana pei the “demonstr have been impossible wii knowledge. F therefore ction Grows Acute | | aid on the. offices of the ls, firm follows on | and counter charges | t S by the two imper- | rivals, the Japancs: charging that the U. S. was ¢: ig to organ- Japan, e a war loi Nanking Gov- ize a united front again had contracted to m of $2,000,00 to the ernment, The Wa: Government declared tha a mpt by J: to penetrate beyond the Great \ problem. ment thus clearl tention to go to momen: protection of U. and spheres of influence in at the same time that, gether with other Imperialist powers, ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) to-| confer “witl y tense situ rivalry for of the erialism for while head- HARLEM. Sain | Japanese imy China, Many More Expected Out Today: ; Meeting Called Tonight t Local 101, more shops are ex- of the is: now gro. wo! 1 Unity Council, to include the Ne- t oroceeds from 60 per cent m the dollar. A major demand of the strikers is that the at 8 a.m. 8 am. present the barbers in Harlem ar forced to work 17 or 18 hours a da Another demand is for 60 per c= 27 West 11 g has beer by the Bar and Hairdressers League. The league announces that it is the duty of every member to attend this im- portant meeting, and that special ef- fort must made to draw in as ma: Negro workers as possible. * Sth St. Demonstrators Outwit the Brownsville Police Huge Mass Meeting in § Spite of Reveking of Permit and Cop’ s Trap, Wins Concessions NEW YORK.—Two hol and demonstrating workers, with other masses of sympathizers in attendance, outwitted th» police in Brownsville yesterday, demonstrated cessions in the! The police granted agreed upon, from three council headquarters to Stone and Pitkin and then in a hedy to a de- monstration at Christopher and Bel- mont, near the Home Relief Bureau in Public School 150. Police Break Promise Then the police suddeniy revoked the permit late Tuesday night, and massed foyces of police, a patrolman every yard or so around the assem- bly points, with mounted police, side cars, riot wagons, gas bombs, and even one machine gunner mounted on a roof near the Relief Bureau. Every effort was made to nt the march from starting. Six work- ers, walking, not marching, from the Crown Heights Unemploved Council headquarters at 1964 Atlantic Av were arrested and three of them: Pollak and Manning were viciously blackjacked, until Pollak was drench- ed with his own blood and Manning was so badly stunned that he had to be carried.. The others arrested are: Schneiderman, Papcin, Klein and Cook. All six are held on $200 bail on disorderly conduct charges and their cases will come up this morning in Gates Ave. court. at 495 Gates Ave. International Labor Defense attor- neys Tuber and Hauptman will de- fend them and workers should fill the courtroom. Witnesses of the beating should report to the Defense attorneys. Evade Police Trap But the bulk of the workers simply marched around the police trap and started a huge demonstration at the Home Relief Bureau. By the time the police realigned their forces and got down to Christopher and. Bel~ a | \ | t the Home Relief Bureau, rnd forced some con- fight against police brutality and for more relief, » permit Tuesday and the line remployed ® of march was mont there were some 2,000 workers there and the meeting was in full swing, with a committee being elec- ted to present demands on the Relief Bureau for: 1, Remeval of all police from the | Home Relief Bureau. 2. All workers arrested for. mak ing demands on this bureau to be released. 3. No more red tape and relief to be given registered workers within three days. 4. Ten dollars for each family per week, with $3 additional for each de- pendant, and for single workers $1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 7,000 COMMUNISTS JAILED IN JAPAN TOKIO, Jan. 18—-The Japanese press today carried admissions of the arrest of 7,000 persons last year for working class activities. All are charged with being members of the Japanese Communist Party. ‘The news stories followed the lift- ing today of the press publication bat on Communist activities. The ban was designed to cover up the growing mass arrests and persecution of revo- lutionary workers and anti-war fight- ers, A large number of students, physicians, lawyers and university professors, haye been arrested in 1932, all charged with Communist activ- ities. have just received 7