The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1933, Page 2

wary PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb, 13.) — World-wide mass pressure has| ASHES Mobilizing All Bronx Tenants to {Racket Fight High Rents and Evictions Hlectrical_Werkers forced the release of all but one of} the Haitian workers and intellectuals | ‘ cee A held prisoner here for opposition to § Dispossess Notices | U. S. capitalist exploitation. Benjamin | Fi te Poguaro de la Paix is sul! held and by “Benefit” Society the government announces he will be ives Lie to Denials deported to Santo Domingo, where the authorities have already signified they will execute him. Continue the fight for his release! CHILD VICTIM OF H. R. B. IS BURIED Father, Asking Doctor, NEW YORK.—Smarting under the exposure of its executive committee | as an agency which evicts tenants, the Forkers Sick and Death Benefit | Society, landlord of the house at 556 Fox Street, arranged a meetng yes- terday between its attorney, Whte, and the strikn gtenants’ house com- mittee. A stenographer took down everything that was said, being par- ticularly anxious to get the names and politcal connections of the chair- y. man of the house committee and Was Arrested other active members. ‘The negotia- — tions resulted in no decision, and NEW YORK.—The end of another| another meeting is scheduled for chapter in the persecution of Harry| Thursday. Vescere, of 1750 Harway Ave. and of} The Sick and Death Benefit offi- unemployed workers throughout the} cials have written the Daily Worker | city, was reached Sunday when his| denying that anybody was given a six months old daughter, pitiful vic- | dispossess notice, ‘“ercept one tenant tim of the 25th and Benson Ave.) who asked for it, However, it is a Home Relief Bureau's relentless “re-| matter of court record that eight lief” policy, was buried in the Calvary | dispossess notices have been served Cemeta: {on tenants at 556 Fox Streeet, and | Vescere had applied time and time} the date of eviction is approaching. again for medical aid for his child, an! in the neighborhood are called | Once, when Mallon, the brutal As-/ to picket this house this morning. sistant Supervisor, thought Vescere | Rally Against Landlord was coming too often, he was arrested! einstein, the landlord at 451 along with ten other members from | claremont Parkway is a member of the Bath Beach Unemployed Coun-| Bakers Local 507 (AFL. union) cil. Their case will come up at the when the members heard that Rein- W. 8th St. court in Coney Island on | stein had evicted two tenants two Friday, Feb. 24, Mallon kept saying | weeks ago and proposed to evict four that the Home Relief Bureau did not) more next week, the entire local, ex- | supply doctors. When Vescere re-| ecytive committee, repramanded him, ported that his baby had died he| and are sending a delegation to tell was told at the Bureau that it did/ him he will either have to give up supply doctors. When Mallon Was/ the practice of evicting unemployed confronted with this he claimed that} workers or get out of the union. Vescere had never asked for medical) The house committee and unem- aid! ployed council calls for a mass picket Mrs. Thibolt, the Supervisor, has \jine in front of this house this morn- | told Vescere that his relief would be) ing, ‘Communists Call All to Movement Against High Rent i] NEW YORK, ections 5 and 15 (Bronx) of the Communist Party, District 2, have issued the follow- | ing statement on the movement against high rents and evictions: “The struggle for reduction of | rent is part and parcel of the gen-! eral struggle of the working class against the burdens of the capi- talist offensive. Throwh mobiliza- tion of the masses and through daily struggles under leadership of unemployed councils, the workers will be able to force the landlords to lower rents and to stop evic- tions, and force the capitalist state to give adequate relief and. pass the Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill. “Therefore we call upon our! | members and sympathizers, and | working class organizations, to help and actively participate in Wednesday's parade and demon-| | | stration.” Bronx Tenants Move Toward Mass Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Wallace Ave.; 1377 and 1392 Frank- lin Ave. and 828 Dawson St. Preparatory Meetings Yesterday Middle Bronx and Bos- ton Road unemployed councils call- ed a meeting of all active organizers | and pickets at 2 pm. to make pre- Vr Gavan dua | [Picket Rent Strikes | agreed to no evictions of joblesss, | cut off unless he dropped his connec- | parations for Wednesdays demonstra- tions with the Unemployed Council. | When the reporter for the Daily asked him what he would do he said, “Leave the Unemployed Council? Why should I leave it? I already got three More people to join!” The Bath Council will fight to keep Vescere's relief from being cut singe the Bu-| packed the Acme Theatre, East 14th Yeau does this when the results of| gt. at the opening Sunday of the its policies haye made possible the! showing of the Soviet film “Life Is Claim that “there is one less mouth} Beautiful.” | to feed. Waiters, Waitresses Mass Meeting Today; Struggle for Relief NEW meeting held at Bryant Hall last Monday will report its ways and means of fighting for jobs and relief for the unemployed workers, at a mass meeting to be held at The Unity House 140 West 36th Strecet, at 2:30] p.c, tomorrow. After exposing a racketeer who wished to introduce the “Share the Work,” scheme, which throws the burden of unemployment on the shoulders of the workers and releases from responsibility the Gibson Com- mittee Home Relief Bureau and the city officials, the waiters and wait- resses present elected a committee to find ways and means to get relief for those among them who have no jobs. All waiters and waitresses are urged to attend the mass meeting. WANTED TO REPORT NEW YORK. — Comrade Jones (Bass) is instructed to report im- mediately at Section headquarters of the Party, 2075 Clinton Avenue. (Signed) SEC. COMMITTEE 15. WHAT'S ON-- IMPORTANT NOTE: In view of the critical financial situation in the Daily Worker, organizations are urgently asked to enclose money, at the rate of one cent a word per in- sertion, with announcements. Tuesday MASS MEETING for Recoguition of Soviet Russia tonight at &@ pm. at Irving Plaga, 1th and Irving Place. Speakers: Corltss Lamont, Maurice Sugar, recently returned “from Soviet Union, Jesse Crawford, Negro > Pugitive trom Chain Gang. Ausnices Friends of Soviet Union. Admission 2c. © EXHIBITION—'The Social Viewpoint in PArt at the John Reed Club, 450 Sixth “Ave. More than 200 paintings, drawings ‘and sculptures by leading revoluti Vaympathetic artists. Open week- §9 to. 6; Sundays from 2 to 10. Admission 10c. on “Cul- Rorty and tonight at 8:15 Auspices [iewis Corey participating. ha.m. at Chaffard’s, 232 ‘th Ave. (seaetie of Professional Groups. © GLASS in Social Forces in American Fis- Dory led by Pelix Morrow tonight at 3 p.m Tit American Youth Federation, 122 Second f “The Struggle for Bridge Plaza Workers Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Worker. under capable instruc- MEETING of Williamsbureh Un- fed Council, Thursday, Feb. 16th at 8 Sharp. Ali organizations of Williams- territory asked to send delegates. Or- "of bvsiness—Election of Buro and Al- conference. F ‘ eo aturday OFFICE WORKERS UNION holds !ts 5th pannel Dance this Saturday, Feb. 18th at Weriem Casino, 100 W. 116th St. Pop- ur Negro jazz band, entertainment and Admission in advance 35¢; | FURNITURE WORKERS eet! meeting of cabinet makers, ma- hime ends and carvers, Feb. 18 at the eniture Workers Industrial Union Head- . 818 Broadway. Both members and lom-members of the union are invited. <8 BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS ing of Barbers and Hairdressers ‘ 8:30 p.m., Feb. 16 at Workers Cen- _ 80 E. 13th St., Room 204. Important matters to be taken up. Non-mem- ‘admitted. Members bring thelr mem- ip books. Beach Unemployed | } | YORK.—A rank and file| ities of life under capitalism. Rather, | committee of thirty unemployed wait-| the theme is made to serve as a ve-| ers and waitresses elected at a mass|iucle for a graphic presentation of tions. Open air meetings in the vi- cinity of 1,400 Boston Road and Stage and Screen held last night. At all these meetings the petition jfor relief, against evictions and against high rents was circulated by the Committee of 50 elected at a “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL” NOT AN ESCAPE MECHANISM NEW YORK.—A_ large audience ing body for the movement against high rents, and signatures obtained. Each of the takes the lead tonight in arranging open air meetings for the same pur- pose in its territory in the Bronx. Tomorrow is the high point of the demonstrations in preparation for the The film is both highly entertain- ing and instructive. The story re-| yolves around the love triangle theme. | This, however, is not presented in| the inane manner of Hollywood pro- | ductions seeking to stupefy the minds mass rent strike. The day begins of the masses and provide a senti-| —- 4 mental escape from the bitter real- Ne girhouee peers at 9 am. at all Parade Starts At 5:30 p.m. big mass mectings | will mobilize to start the parade from three points: 174 Vyse St., 170 St, and Franklin Aye., and from 2027 Mon- the laws of dialectics controlling the processes of both nature and society. Scenes from the Civil War when | the Soviet proletariat was heroically | terey Ave. struggling to maintain its newly A - seized power against the White Guard | Torch light parades will proceed bandits, emphasize the law of dialect- | {rom these points through the streets ies taught by Marx and Lenin of so-| and past the struck houses, before cial contradictions, of violent changes| each of which demonstrations will be Monterey Ave. and Tremont St. were | recent con’erence as the main guid- | unemployed councils | in society, which the bourgeois schol- ars try so hard to conceal. A sym- {bolic presentation of the violent al- terations, eruptions and cataclysmic |changes in nature shows nature it- | self giving the lie to the futile denial | by bourgeois scholars of the contra- {nial based on their fear of the class | struggle. | The film further gives glimpses of | the creation of a new society in the | Soviet Union, of a new and beautiful | life from which exploitation of man by man already has been abolished. unemployment solved, material and |cultural standards of the masses | raised, race hatreds being wiped out | and the Soviet toilers finally smash- ling the last remnants of capitalism to discover that “Life Is Beautiful.” —Cc. B. ae ee ae WORKERS FI.OCK TO SEE SOVIET FILM ON “JIMMIE HIGGINS” ‘Thousands of workers attended the showings of “Jimmie Higgins,” a WUFKU film from the Ukraine, shown by the Workers Film and Photo League, Friday and Saturday in the Fifth Ave. Theatre. The film was heavily cut by the | censored but outside influences were few days in advance of the showings. It had been planned to show it un- | cesored but outside influences’ were | at work and it was submitted to avoid complete disappointment to the au- dience. However, it is still worth see- ing. It ts a fantasy, based upon the novel of the same name by Upton | Sinclair. The story is that of a rank | and file socialist worker who pro- | gresses from California where he loses his family in an explosion of |@ munition plant during a demon- | stration in support of the Bolshevik revolution. He is drafted and finally arrives in Archangel. Here he makes a contact with the Bolsheviks and | accepts leaflets to distribute in his | barracks. He is tortured to find out | the location of those supplying him j the leaflets and goes insane. The dictory character of evolution, a de- | conducted, All the parades concentrate upon {the big mass meeting in Public | School 54 at Intervale and Freeman | streets, | Winters To Speak Carl Winters, secretary of the Un- | employed Council of Greater New | York will be the main speaker at the | big mass meeting. Volunteers will be called for to take the lead in or- | sanizing and striking their houses. | It is known already that reports of | at least half a dozen new strikes will |be made at this meeting. | ‘The meeting will obtain further | Signatures to the petitions of the Committee of 50, and probably a committee will be selected at the meeting to take the petitions to Al- bany the last of this month and pre- sent them as demands of the Bronx workers, to Governor Lehman and the state legislature, Endorse Albany Conference The question of full and active Support of the Albany conference and of representation from the Bronx workers to the conference will be taken up. Various other activities on Wed- nesday will be undertaken in sup- port of the movement. The Cam- breling Ave. Unemployed Council will lead a demonstration at 2 p.m., starting at 2420 Bronx Park East and parading before the struck houses in that neighborhood, The East Bronx Unemployed Coun- cil will hold a separate mass meeting at 801 Prospect Ave., Union Workers Center, from which a delegation will go to the main mass meeting at Pub- Ue Schoo] 54. Wednesday's demonstrations have been endorsed by the Communist Party, sections 5 and 15, in the Bronx, and by the Women's Councils of the Bronx. ‘Neckwear Toilers Meet ‘Broken Up; Members | Ai Lua, LUDSDA XY, FoonUAR 14, 1935 = = A on East Side; Down < iy only Council Moves NEW YORK.—Picketing continues Jat the rent strike at Ith St. and| Avenue A, and at Sixth St, and First | Ave. Evictions are expected here soon. | |The strikers have the help of the Down Town branch of the Unem-| ployed Council. This branch has just) moved to new headquarters at 518 East 11th St. and asks anyone who has furniture to donate to give it to) the Council to fit up the new place, | Neighboring Landlord Tries $300 Bribe on House Comm. Member, NW YOFK,—Six eviction notices served at 828 Dawson Street call for | mass picketing this morning by all} workers near this place, The house committee had a conference with the landlord yesterday, and the landlord acceptance of Home Relief checks, | improvement of sanitary conditions and recognition of the house com- mittee But he refused the demand for 15 per cent reduction in rent, and| the strike still goes on. So active has one member of the house committee at 828 Dawson be- come that the landlord at the near-| by house, 824 Dawson, has offered, $300 if he will move out of the block. | The offer has beeen rejected, Fight Evictions of 2 Fur Workers; Gang Helping the Landlord NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades) Unemployed Council calls all to help in mass picketing this morning at} 11 am, against eviction of two fur} workers, They are Mrs. Babitz, 1950 Daly Avenue, and Zucker, 1690 Vyse| Street. s Thugs of the International Fur) Workers Union have come to the help| of the landlord at 1950 Daly Avenue, | and a specially large mobilization is needed there. ‘Brownsville Youth | | Win Relief for Two ‘Young Negro Workers ae gaisg 1 NEW YORK. — Mass pressure | brought to bear by the American | Youth Club of Brownsville forced the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities to grant food and clothes checks to two young unemployed Negro workers. These Negro workers had previously | appealed for relief to the United Jewish Aid, but their appeal was re~ | jected. The United Jewish Aid makes | it a practice to send unemployed ; workers who ask for relief to the | Jewish Social Service at 799 Broad- | way, which in turn sends homeless | unemployed who are over 21 to the flop house. ‘Local 95 Officers in | Scheme to Lengthen Control to 3 Years NEW YORK.—“Chieftans” of Local | | 98 (Housewreckers) of the A. F. of | L. which under their leadership has gone in three years from assets of $46,000 to a deficit of $1,500, will at- | tempt, at the next election, to hand | themselves the control of this local | for a period of three years instead of the previous six months as the results of a bit of steamrolling which was done at the last meeting of that local. At the meeting “Bootlegger” Tora- sov reported that Morrisy, the Presi- dent of the International, held a con- ference three weeks ago at the Hotel Commodore with the officials of the local, where he proposed that the local accept a decision of the Inter- national to elect the “executive” for a period of three years instead of the previous six months. The newly elected delegate, Kes- sili, read the motion in English. Ta- pocob, another henchman, made a motion to accept the decision “in or- der to save the local from utter col- lapse.” The majority of the mem- bers, who do not speak English, did not understand what was proposed and did not vote. When Chairman Kozlov saw that only a negligible minority voted, he declared that a count was unnecessary and that the decision was accepted. Manhattan Workers Lose Hundred Million NEW YORK.—The Merchant's As- sociation of the Department of Com- merce was recently supplied with fig- | Racketeers Prey on DISCRIMINATE IN |Shoe Workers Face Big Struggle; On Two Fronts | | | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | when members risk their all in de-| fiance of the present administration, | at a time when the most militant members openly and fearlessly, on the floor of local union meetings, voice their indignation at the sell-out tac- tics of the present administration. And Now, Silence Six months have passed since the elections in Local 3. During these six months not a single leaflet has been issued by the “New Deal Group.” The/| activity of the “New Deal Group”) consisted only in the distribution of! leaflets, The silence of the “New Dealers” at @ period when all the available forces | must be gathered for a concerted} drive against the present system of| gangster rule condemns them as be-_ trayers of the cause and exposes; them as office-seeking individuals who are not concerned with the mis- erable conditions forced upon the members as much as they are with! being elected to office. . ‘We can safely say that such “lead- ers” are not only “New Dealers” but “double dealers”; the members of Local 3 will settle their account with such office seeking and opportunist “leaders.’ ‘Who and What Is Behind the “New Deal Group?” The “New Deal Group” has re- ceived financial and moral aid from the former reverend, A. J. Muste, chairman of the Conference for Pro- gressive Labor Action. This is proven by the “Open Letter No. 2,” sent by Muste to members of Local 3, This “open letter” was a call by Muste for a meeting held June 21 at Labor Temple, on 14th Street. In the ‘open letter" Muste was very libe in praise of the “New Deal Group. We shall tell what Muste’s interest) ‘was in that group, but first a word on) Muste’s record: | In the South, Muste and his or-_ @anizers worked hand in glove with all sorts of labor racketeers. _Muste’s special task there was to organize the textile workers with his radical) talk and then to sell them out to the textile employers of Elizabeth-| ton, Marion and Danville, | In the Illinois coal fields, Muste so handled the revoit of the miners against Farrington, Fishwick and Walker, corrupted leaders of the old United Mine Workers, that the| miners were sold out by his new) Progressive Miners of America as badly as by the U. M. W. A. | Musteites were prominent in the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and | helped put over 30 to 45 per cent wage cuts in 1931. ‘The “New Deal Group” was organ- ized by Muste to prevent a real united front against the present sys- tem of corruption and gangster rule in Local 3, “New Dealer” and Double-Crosser John Sullivan John Sullivan always poses as “a son of the peepul,” yet electrical) workers begin to see that he always | double-crosses the people whenever he gets a chance, Johnny is peeved because after all his dirty. double-crossing, he is un- able to successfully run for president of Local 3. This same Johnny wants it understood that he is a “leader” and in order to prove it places his} signature near that of President) Frank Wilson, a labor faker of the) first_ rank. When the “Unemployment Relict Committee” was appointed by Pres.! Wilson, Sullivan was one of those | | appointed by him. This Wilson-ap- | pointed Relief Committee provided no! relief for the unemployed and hungry | members of Local 3, but instead ac- | tually took away the small amount of | relief that was received by them| prior to its appointment and diverted | the use of these funds to the pay-| ment of dues, to provide further) sources of income for the adminis-| tration. | Johnny Sullivan | John Sullivan 1s the pride and| flower of the New Deal Group. It he had a spark of real unionism in him, he would have fought and ex- posed the “relief committee's” actions | —but Johnny runs true to form, a worthy pupil of Muste. Sullivan and Moe Smith defended the administration from a demand! SNOW SHOVELING Many Turned Away;| Have to Have ‘Notes’ NEW |YORK.—Thousands of un- employed workers who were waiting for hours in the cold in front of the offices of the Street Cleaning Depart- ment discovered that even for a snow clearing jjob th had to be the friends of the bosses of this city. Only those men who presented letters from Democratic and Republican clubs or organizations affiliated with thes workers’ enemies got jobs, By I. ROSENBERG j NEW YORK.—A situation where | 50 per cent of the workers stay totally unemployed with the other 50 per cent slaving for 25-30 cents an hour, 60-70 hours a ek dur the few so-called “busy” weeks must precipi- pate uncompromising and struggles on the part of the sho workers. There is no escape from such struggles. The task of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union is to cry talize this sentiment for organization, | |for unity of the rank and file and for the development of leading forces | in the shops in order to raise the confidence of the workers in their | organized strength and their union. | In the carrying out of this task w must have in mind not only a strug- gle against our open enemies, the employers and slave drivers, but also the conscious tools of the bosses, who who Workers all over the city have seen} how the Street Cleaning Department, | an instrument of the politicians, used the snow clearing as a bait to catch the workers and make them sign up} with thos: political clubs which work} s against the interest of! |spread pessimism in our rank of At the station on Sixth Street, be-| doubt the possibility tween Avenue A and B, jobless work-| strikes and of impr ers waited from 12 noon until 8 p.m.| tions. We must carry tr e and then were driven by an emer-/against such elements who take the gency squad of police and told t0/ attitude that “the worse for the shoe ““beat it,” while on the opposite side | workers—the better. This way they stood another line with notes which} will wake up.” Such an attitude is were “taken care of” immediately, only an excuse for lack of faith in | s The same one-sidedness had been| the masses of shoe workers now look- shown at the stations on Tenth|ing for a way out of their miseries: Street between Avenue A and First|Such an attitude leads to passivity Avenue, Ninth Street and 11th Ave-;8nd stagnation. Such an attitude nue, The workers who were passed|Weakens our struggle ag up on 6lst Street and 1th Avenue | Dos: es and opens the way for fakers sent & petition to the Department of} and racketeers to undermine the ; fr confidence of the workers in real » 0 | Street Cleaning demanding that no) 1 and file unity in the sho discrimination be shown against the| unemployed workers who applied for these temporary jo) Such dangers are clearly 9) ed by the activity of the so-called “Fe- | Dh |deration of Shoe Workers.” ; wor soos {by a self-appointed dictator, “Birds of a Feather” | falo, a former captain in the Italian 4 Royal Guards. Garafallo is collabor- | Fleck to Bankers Club jating with a ‘clique which is out to make a racket out of the miseries | NEW YORK.—A _ correspondent |of the shoe workers, who was there, though not as a| Seven self-appointed individu banker, writes the Daily Worker: |head this “Federation of Shoe Wo “Here's an expressive picture of | rs.” They call a meeting once a year capitalism for you: j to tell the mem| fe seven “Bernard K. Marcus and Saul|are the “leade' The ‘ ration Singer, whose depredations in the Bank of United States brought ruin to thousands of worker-depositors, had lunch today in the Bankers Club on the top floor of the Equitable Building, at 120 Broadway. Proving that degrees of villainy are imma- terial when the villains are capital~ ists, Samuel Seabury, the civic re- former, sat at another table im- bibing his soup.” by the members that the officers’ salaries be drastically cut. At the last meeting of Local 3, held Thursday at the Central Opera House, both John Sullivan and Moe Smith insisted that such a cut in officers’ salaries would result in a wage cut for all members of Local 3. The assertion that a cut in officers’ salaries would result in a cut i members’ wages is an absolutely false one, entirely unfounded. ‘The cut in officers’ salaries would amount to thousands of dollars per quarter in our local, and would, if placed into the unemployment relief fund, tend to solidify the ranks of the members and encourage them in their struggles against the attempts of the bosses to force a wage cut. Jack Rubenstein, expelled from the) Communist Party and now a mem- ber of the renegade Lovestone group, is working side by side with Muste and against the interests of members of Local Union No. 3. Rank and File Must Expose Fake “Leaders” The Rank and File Group, while leading i. generally correct line of action, has completely neglected to expose the “New Deal Group.” Un- less Muste and the so-called “leaders” with him are exposed and eliminated from the scene, the Rank and File Group will find it very hard to form a united front of all workers of all groups for a concerted drive against the administration and in the inter-| ests of all members of Local 3. Though we commend the militant action of the Rank and File Group, nevertheless, we feel that the lack of action in the direction of unem~ ployment insurance is a_ serious shortcoming. The Rank and File Group should immediately become part of the New York A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment In- surance, PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Satter Aves.) B’kizn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hoars: 8-10 4.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. Louis L. Schwartz SURGEON DENTIST ures on the 1931 factory census of Manhattan. Compared with 1929 fig- Announces ‘The removal of his fear to larger his mind steel him not to give his comrades away and he sees millions of Jimmie Higginses coming in the wake of a successful revolution. The technical portrayal of American types is not so good but the theme and its method make up for that. At least several hundred Pioneers, guests of the Film and Photo League, seemed to think this and sang lustily If you didn’t see this showing be sure and attend wherever it is shown in New York feain—J, A. METROPOLITAN TO REVIVE MONTEMEZZI OPERA FRIDAY Montemezzi’s opera, “L'Amore dei Tre Re,” will be revived on Friday evening at the Metropolitan Opera House with Bori and Johnson in the chief roles. Other operas of the week include “Parsifal,” as a special mati- nee this afternoon with Leider and berg and Martinelli; “Manon,” Wednesday night with Borji and Lauri-Volpi; “Lakme,” Thursday eve- ning with Lily Pons and Martinelli; “Goetterdaemmerung,” Friday after- noon with Ljunberg and Melchior; “Rigoletto,” Saturday afternoon with Lily Pons and Lauri-Volpi and “Aida,” on Saturday night with Rethberg and Martinelli, Melchior; “Faust,” tonight with Reth- | scene of his torture and the events | ° of his past life thet flash througn| Resist Tax on Wages, NEW YORK.—A meeting of the Neckwear Workers, directly affiliated with the A. F. of L., was held on Thursday night, for the purpose of making the workers give up 10 per cent of their wages to the unemploy- ed of the union. The rank and file opposed this, putting forward a reso- lution to elect a committee of 25 jobless to force from the bosses 3 per cent unemployment relief, to be distributed by the unemployed. While the workers were trying to take a vote on this resolution, an A. F. of L. executive interrupted in spite of rank and file objections, say- ing that the proposal was not legal. The objections to her talking grew louder as she continued, until a pro- testing girl was threatened with blows by a friend of the bosses. In the confusion that followed, an- other bosses’ friend, protected by ; More like him, tried to convince the | rank and file with a black-jack, to listen to this robber. | ‘The meeting broke up in the hys- | teria with which the executives had | tried unsuccessfully to make the workers give up 10 per cent of their | wages, The rank and file is more | than ever determined to get relief! from the bosses, ures a fall in the number of manu- featuring, printing and pt plants in Manhattan, of 2,460 less than the number operating in 1929 is shown.’To the bosses this means that production value fell $1,124,~ 607,643. To the worker !t has meant 62,185 were thrown out of their jobs and a 1 Union Square (8th Floor) Seite 803 ‘Tel. ALgonquin 4-9805 intern’? Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT their total earnings dropped $153,- 80 FIFTH AVENUE 811,132. 13th FLOOR Tuesday, Feb. 14—8 P.M. 4D Work Done Under Versona! Care @ OR JOREPABON MASS MEETING 7 RECOGNITION OF Mott Haven 9-8749 DR. JULIUS JAFFE THE SOVIET UNION SPEAKERS: Surgeon Dentist Corliss Lamont 401 EAST 140th STRNUET er Assistant Professer ef Phil- osophy at Columbis University, and Maurice Sugar Prominent Lawyer und Lecturer; re- cently returned from Soviet Rassta; represented Jesse Crawford, Sone. FUGITIVE FROM A_ Gi CRAIN GANG, in the extradition Proceedings. AT IRVING PLAZA 19TH STREET & IRVING PLACE ADMISSION 25 CENTS Auspices Friends of the Soviet 100 Broadway, Room 320, N.Y, (Cor, Willis Ave.) WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pare Food _—Proletarian Prices % BROOKLYN Tonight at 8 P. M. BRIDGE PLAZA WORKERS’ CLUB 285 RODNEY STREET will show the movie “THE STRUGGLE FOR BREAD” Ed\ Roy ce will speak on “The Revolutionary Press, Its Role and Significance” ALL PROCEEDS FOR THE DAILY WORKER SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Meeting Rooms TO HIRE Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ete. IN THE New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME 27-29 W.115th St, N.Y.C. hone UNiversity 4-0165 AVALON Cafeteria 1610 KINGS HIGHWAY OPEN DAY AND NIGHT DEWEY 9-9512 “RENDEZYOUS” ation, no method | | has no program of orga! |program of struggle. Their jof work is vicious agitation amor \the Italian workers against all oth |nationalities employed in the sh |The “Federation” heads try alway to stir up national prejudices and | hatreds. | The only way to counteract this |disruptive movement is through an jintensive exposing of their actior {They broke up the organiation at |the Amo Shoe Company, They try to |disorganize the workers at Weissman- | Sass. The “Federation” is fast on the road of becoming the open age: jof the bosses attempting to destroy the militant Shoe and Leather Work- \ers Industrial Union. Only a systematic and pe concentration at the shops to win the confidence of the workers; to |inculcate in their mind the full sig- | (nificance of the united front from below; to imbue such workers, who have been misled by the Federation with the spirit of rank and file unity with the rest of the workers in the shops belonging to our union or not jbelonging to any union, only such concentration will defeat the schemes of the Federation and of all other | agencies playing into the hands of the bosses. | To accomplish this our Organiza tion Committees must be enlarged. ‘The Italian Department of our union | tent spirit of the Italian workers and w in larger and larger numbers m into the Organization Com- the to d of t mittees. We are facing struggles; the tasks ahead are difficult. We must be di termined to overcome these diffi- culties with an approach of confi- dence in the workers, with an under- standing of their daily grievances and with a fearlessness to lead’ strug- based upon a program of unity of mployed and unemployed shoe workers, Our union is the hope of the shoe workers to destroy the ferocious ap- petites of the bosses; to establish decent working conditions in the shops; the 44-hour week; minimum base prices for Fitters, Cutters; to raise the prices of lasting on all jes of shops; to bring about re- nition of Shop Committees and the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union; restriction of over- time opening an opportunity for the unemployed to find work and at the e time to raise the standard of the prices generally, This is our program of demands. s is what we must organize for the immediate objective of gle against wage cuts, dis- , discrimination, Shoe Workers! ¥Yeur place is the Shoe and Leather of Workers Inéustrial Union in the Rank and File Organization Com- mittee. Let us join our forces! Unemployed Council Hits Vicious Attack by White Plains Paper NEW YORK.—A stinging reply to the White Plains “Daily Reporter,” which recently published an editorial, roublemakers,” directed against the White Plains Unemployed Council was sent February 9th by the Un- employed Council to that paper which so far has suppressed the reply. The editorial attacking the Un- employed Council was published after a delegation of the unemployed work- ers marched into the White Plains Council Chamber and demanded adequate unemployed relief. The editorial called the delegatior. “Communists... (who) seek to inject themselves into every situation where there is the... possibility of creating a disturbance , The reply by the Write Plains Unemployed Council states in part: “Those whom you call Communists have during the last three weeks taken a firm stand against cuts in relief, They have taken a firm stand against sending single unemployed to the County Home and to the unclean and vermin-ridden Salvation Army, and they will continue to rally the workers of White Plains against these vile conditions, The Unemployed Council consists of unemployed workers regardless of their political opinions. In the ranks of the Unemployed Council we have | members of the Democrat, Republi- ‘an and Socialist Parties. “In spite of your attacks and of the police department, the Unemployed Council of White Plains will continue to organize the workers for imme- diate cash relief atd, unemployment insurance at the expense of the state the must become an active force to raise |and employers.” | AMUSEMENTS “St AMERICAN PREMIERE!—NOW! Sra ) PUDOVKIN’S “3x, savt “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL” COMPLETE ENGLISH TITLES —Special Added Fexture— MAY DAY CELEBRATION in Principal Cisies of Europe TOM MOONEY DEMONSTRATION pone Atte Theatre| | | 14TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE ELMER RICE’S THE PEOPLE NEW PLAY iN TWENTY SCENES WE, EMPIRE, B'way & 40 St. Tel. PE. 6-2670 s. 4:20 Sharp, Mats, Mon, & 2:30 ARY BOLAND in Irving Berlin’s Revue Success of All ‘Time! 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