The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1933, Page 1

Y | More Small Affairs! AND RUSH PROCEEDS DIRECTLY DA TO THE ILY WORKER! Vol. X, No. 49 Entered as second-class matier ai the Po: GRP 2 New York, N.Y., ander tho Act of Mareh , 187%. Dail Central Orga Office at _NEW YORK, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1933 _ We (Section of the Communist International) orker Omynynist Party U.S.A. eE9) The Crucial Week! SPEED DONATIONS *# TO KEEP OUR “DAILY” ALIVE! CITY EDITION DEMAND ROOSEVELT GRANT HEARING ON JOBLESS AID —- U.S. IN NEW THREATS TO JAPAN GOVT Note to “League and Hull Statement Is Provocation DECISIONS IN SECRET Workers Defend China People and U.S.S.R. In a note to the League of Na- tions, joining in its censure against Japan, the Wall Street Government further dramatized last Saturday the developing wai tween Japan and the U. S, for the mastery of the Pacific and _con- trol over China, ‘The note was dis- patched by Sec- retary of State Stimson after a secret conference with Senator Cor- dell Hull, of Ten- nesee, president- elect Roosevelt's Minister appointee for “2 Secretary of State. The note praises the action of the League, into which ‘that body was manouvered by the U. S. Government, and declares that Washington reserves the right for further independent action. The dispatching of the note was preceded by a public statement by Hull in which he voiced the plans of the incoming § $ E Roosevelt dicta- » torship for a more aggressive foreign policy and attack the. Japan: cse violation of the Kellogg Pact and. other. trea- ties, by which the Japanese imperi- alists have stolen @ march on their rivals in the joint imperialist plans for the looting and partition of China. The incoming Secretary of State threatened aggres- sive action to protect the U. S. spheres of investments in North SUDAO ARAKE Japan War MINEO OSUMI Japan Navy Minister \CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEEDLE WORKERS AID FOOD STRIKE NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers Unemployed Council in a statement issued last week comes whole-heartedly to the support of the Food Workers Industrial Union and the Foltis-Fisher cafeteria strikers. ‘The food workers are urged to help on the picket line and to show soli- darity with the strikers in every way. Many of these cafeterias are in or near the garment shop section. Needle workers aré particularly call- ed on by the Needle Trades Unem- ployed Council to be at demonstra- tions led by the strikers and the Fw.Lu, Nine of the Foltis cafeterias are now on strike, and the movement will probably spread to other places. Five In Court Today Five workers who were arrested last Tuesday when the Foltis-Fischer Beene at 799 Broadway came out strike, will appear at the Essex Market Court at 2nd St. and 2nd Ave. in this city for trial today on charges of disorderly conduct. Two of the workers, Jack Burns and Jack Cory, were eating lunch at the time that the strike took place. They were arrested together with workers on the picket line on the same charges. The other workers are A. Thomas, Klein, and Kovacs. \Slow Week, But 25 Dress Shops Struck ; All Picket Toda y! NEW YORK—In sn'te of the holiday week and the fact that it was a slow werk the Dressm>'crs’ Unity Committes has succeeded in declaring 25 more open shops on strike in an effort to improve the cond'tions of the dressmakers. Eight additional settlements were made in the last three days, in which the workers gained partial improvements of their cond’tions. Over 20 shops are still on strike and the Dress Unity Committee calls on active members to come in the morning to either J%1 W. 28th St. or to 140 W. 36th St. for picket duty. The Industrial Union calls upon its active members to participate in a mass picketing demonstration this morning at the Best Coat and Apron Supply Co., 305 E. 43d St. where about 100 workers are conducting a militant strike. Chicago Wires $200 to the Daily’; Danger Great--This Week Decisive--Speed Ai d FROM Chicago came a $200 money order yesterday with the following wire: THIS COMPLETES FOUR HUNDRED. PROSPECTS TO REACH QUOTA GOOD. WORKERS DETERMINED CHICAGO TO BE FIRST. We must hear from every district in this emergency situation! The “Daily” appears today only because your response to our appeals, plus last minute efforts by the Daily WorkerManagement Committee, made this pos- | sible. But we have no assurance that it will appear tomorrow and the succeeding days. That also depends on you. This week is decisive. The danger is very great ; The Daily Worker has not yet received enough money to pay for repairs to its Hoe press. If it breaks down completely, as it may at any moment, it will mean a stoppage of the “Daily” and $20,000 for a new press. : Readers, we have presented the facts to you in great detail. But despite the increased response, it is still evident that they haye not yet been fully understood. VERY capitalist newspaper gets its chief support from advertising, which nets it thousands of dollars every week. The Daily Worker’s support from this ment. ' | { | is critical! source is very limited. The chief sunporters of the Daily Worker are you, the American workers, poor firmers and sympathizers of the revolutionary move- _The income of the “Daily” from subscriptions, bundle orders, advertising. etc., is $1,650 a week. The expense for paper, composition, press work, engraving, mailing, rent, wages, telephone, telegrams etc., is $2,886.25. _The weekly loss or deficit is therefore over $1,200. This mounts up until the time comes when, unless thousands of dollars are forthcoming for power, paper, press work, etc., the Daily Worker will be stopped. It was to deal with this situation that the Emergency Committee to Save the Daily Worker was created by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. knows that only the raising of the full $35,000 can put the “Daily” on its feet: it is determined to throw all the forces of the Party into the drive. And this week The Central Committee _ To save the Daily Worker the Emergency Plan we have drawn up must be carried out to the full. _ Have you seen two friends or fellow workers and sent in their contribu- tions together with your own? Haye you arranged a house party? Have collec- tions been made at your unit meetings? Have collect‘on lists gone into action in your organization? Has there been an avpeal for the “Daily” at every meeting in your locality? Has the number of workers collecting for the “Daily” in your locality been doubled? Has your organization arranged a series of affairs? Has the Party apparatus in your district thrown all its forces into the drive? Has all the money collected been rushed in? These questions must be answered with immediate action. To delay might prove fatal. EMERGENCY COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER, Received Saturday . Robert Minor, William Weiner. C. A. Hathaway. - . +» $603.31 Totaltodate . . Rush all contributions to Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York. « + $12,097.26 BLOCK FIRING OF BARGE MEN Aceomplishes Wonders NEW YORK.—On the pretext that someone cut the lines of 26 barges ‘and set them adrift at Port Jeffer- son, the 26 barge captains were fired by the Seaboard Sand and Gravel 'Co (A barge captain is not a boss like the captain of a ship with a crew under him; he is a worker in charge of a ‘barge.) As soon as notice of this whole- sale discharge came to the Marine Workers Industrial Union, 140 Broad Sureet, it went immediately on the scene and began organizing the men | into groups to fight this lock-out, The company showed its fear of or- ganized resistance; as the superin- tendent paid off the men, he pro- | mised each that he would be re- instated Monday. i ‘The men recognize this as a con- (Continued on Page Three) A Little Organization ea Threat to Entirely Stop Marine Workers’ Relief NEW YORK.—The Waterfront Unemployed Council has been informed { all “relief” for seamen will be closed down after April 1, Relief for New York seamen is being administered by the so-called Haight Emergency name Of the jobless seamen. The committee is named after Haight who is the chief maritime counsel FALE IAA US MELE SE a or the Standard Oil Company, He is at present in Georgia where on his Savannah hunting preserve, he is no doubt concerning himself with the seamen’s plight. While Haight is in the South, over a hundred marine workers sleep on the flcor of the Jane Street Y.M.C.A. mission nightly, Saturday a Negro seaman was taken out of the mis- sion dangerously ill. The house com- mittee visited “captain” Page, the manager, and renewed demands for cots for the sailors. He refused their demand and stated “I never told anyone to sicep on the floor.” The mission is one of the baits used by the Haight committee in claiming to represent the scamen. | | Relief Committee which is engaged in a campaign for $150,000 in the an empty building at 339 West St. It is three stories high and is for sale. The sign says to call at the Y. ‘There is room for 50 cots on each floor and there is 25 cots on the third floor with about 100 clean tickings. The committee is going to demand the use of this building. The “Y” has an average of 100 empty beds a night. These are but two glaring examples of the many conditions under which the Haight committee is misusing the funds collected for the “relief of seamen.” Seamen are called to register with the council at 140 Broad St. and participate in the fight to enforce adequate relief and make The house committee investigated! the Haight committee come across. N BIG LOOT FROM BAKER’S LOCAL Quarter Million Gone; Figures Indicate NEW YORK.—A stormy meeting Jast week of Bakers’ Local 505 brought out amazing facts showing hew the doforted Forvard clinue of the old administration had, in the period of a few years, squandered a quarter of a million dollars. In addition to the squandering of these funds, the clique left a deficit of $1,000, of which $800 is owed to the “Honorable” Judge Panken who sucked out $400 a month of the poor bakers’ money. The funds were originally collected for sick and death benefits of the bakery union members. The ousted Officials literally swam in money as they dissipated these funds right and left. For the first time in six years, the ‘OPEN LETTER OF JOBLESS COUNCILS | SAYS 17,000,000 UNEMPLOYED WANT INSURANCE NOW; ACT ON MARCH 4 1 | mobitize in Union Square at 11 A. M.; Employed and Unemployed, | American and Foreign Born; Unions Come in Body, with Banners | To Force Roosevelt to Carry Out Campaign Pledge of “No One Going Without Food and Shelter” | NEW YORK.—Mass At Union Square at 11 a. m. March 4 to demand relief, and to back up the demands of the Workers (state) Conference for Labor Legislation which will | meet March 5-7 in Albany. offices on 28 St.! March from Union Square to the state Relief Administration } The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union is the latest of a number of workers’ POLICE SEIZE STARVING MAN “He Don’t Need Food”, Snarl at Helpers NEW YORK.—Jerome ete single and unemployed young work- jand 14th St. {an hour before the St. Vincent Hos- | | pital ambulance came to take him ‘away. ‘Three cops and a few plain ‘clothes stool pigeons “guarded” him from a rapidiy growing crowd, bitter |in its denunciations of a land of plenty . . . plenty of starvation on bank steps. The cops had their hands full with half-hysterical y to the young Tl take care of y let her take care of me Bernstein had re- mained ut food that he so dreadfully needed. The doctor had arrived and was examining him, | when two girls approached with a container of warm milk. “This man doesn't need food. You} aren't doctors. He shouldn't drink| that,” a cop muttered hatefully at them, But Bernstein grasped the con- teiner and emptied its contents with the amazing gulps of a man who has starved for days, and the doctor | said nothing. | It is for the Jerome Bernstein's, the single workers, that “charity” does not even acknowledge to exist, | as well as the married ones who can | through mass force, gain meager | concessions which just keep them from death, that a great demonsira- | tion will take place at Union Square March 4th to march for unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the bosses and the state. MASS SEND OFF BANY MEET send-off to the three-day Mare 6, 7, Albany rence on Labor Legislation at two mass meetings, the | first in Brooklyn at the Brownsville | Labor Lyceum, 229 Sackman St., at |8 p. m., Wednesday, and the second the following night, March 2 at Man- }hattan Lyceum in New York, 66 Bast 4th Street. Speakers will be Louis Weinstock, Carl ers, Edward Gu- Q administrati oc! y in which the democratic house’ of representatives and senate scorned the demands of the National Hu Marchers last December at the opening of congre: “OPEN LETTER” SENT TO ROOSEVELT. ex, collapsed Wednesday night On| delegation of twenty-five elected by the conference the steps of the Central Savings Bank ! of the National Comiittee of Unemployed Councils on the south east corner of 4th Ave.! at Washington, which is to be held March 4th and Stretched out helpless | 5¢, will demand that Roosevelt see them and hear with hunger, he lay dazed for half|the demands of. the unemployed. has been sent to-Rooseveli by the National Commit- | tee of Unemployed Councils, as follows: | president of the United States. You and your pai were swept into power on the basis of the app¢ | to the “forgotten man” and of definite promises and pledges made to them | You spoke of “Unemployment Insurance”, about “no one going without food | and shel Pris a | steadily grown worse. mass organizations to endorse the March 4 demonstration at Union Square and to call on all in the industry to demonstrate. quarters, 96 Fifth Ave. Saturday, and go in a body to the demonstration. * * cg Shoe and slipper workers will meet at the union head- NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Mass demonstrations throughout the United States on March 4, the day Wall Street puts Roosevelt, its new hunger and war pres- ident, into the White House, will be on such a scale that the incoming admin- | istration will not be able to ignore them. The workers and farmers, and ex-sol- diers are not going to starve. The increasing fights against evictions and fore- closures, the great demonstrations for local relief, ‘the state marches of workers and farmers, show that | the struggle is rising to higher stages every day. Inau- ation Day will be a milestone in the development of mass ruggles, with the principal fire directed toward the federal at Washington. Roosevelt, nead of the Dem- sponsible for the contemptible w ratic Party i On March 6th, two days after his inaugural, a An - open letter “Sir:—On March 4th you will be inaugurated F. D. Roosevelt. “Since the election campaign, the situation in the United Ste The number of unemployed has increase (CONTINUED ON PAGE IHREE) bernick, Mark Cr and Sam Ne: | In calling on the workers York to jam the halls of the two send-off meets, the Provisional Com- mittee of the Workers’ Conference declarec that: “Th s Conference will be a united front of employed and unemployed workers, and will include delegates from trade unions, unemployed or- ganizations and workers’ fraternal organizations of all political shades. “This Workers’ Conference will discuss and present demands to the State Legislature in the form of Bills on Unemployment Insur- ance, aganst evictions and high | rents, against injunctions, child la- | bor, sales taxes, etc. “The Legislative Committee head- ed by Assemblyman Marcy has al- ready announced that they will propose no unemployment insur- ance bill at this session, in spite of all the promises of Roosevelt and Lehman-to.the-‘forgutten man,’ Demands of ‘Forgotten Maw’ for March 4th Demonstration in U.S. The following demands will be presented by the delegation of the National Conference of the Unemployed Councils to President RoOseyeit on March 6th in Washington: ik 2: Hide Immediate direct federal emergency cash relief appropriation of $50 for each unemployed worker, man or woman, without discrimination, plus $10 for ecch dependent in addition to local relief. Immediate enactment of a system of federal unemployment and so- cial insurance by the government through taxes upon wealth and ome and the diversion of all present appropriations for war pure to relief and insurance. This unemployment and social in< ce bili shall embody the following provisions: 2) Unemployment and social insurance for each worker, irrespec~ tive of nationality, color, age, sex or political opinion, when in- capacitated ior work for reasons beyond his or her control whether for unemployment, sickness, accident, maternity or old b) The insurance shall be equal to the average full wage of the worker in the particular industry and territory, but in no case $10 per week and $3 for each dependent union rat or unsafe healthful conditions shall con- and The insurance shall require no waiti tinue for the period of unemployment. The workers shall make no contributions to the insurance fund nor shall the government cojlect such funds through taxes on articles of mass consumption, through sales, manufacturers’ taxes, etc. The relief and the Unemployment and Social Insurance fund shall be administered and controlled by the workers, through commissions composed of rank and file members elected by the workers’ organizations war veterans’ a r ed compen- sability allowances 10 discrimi< Full and imme: payment of ion certificates; no cut in the nation in hospitalization. Immediate cash relief to the impoverished farmers to the amount of $500,000,000 and legislation prohibiting the seizure of farms or other property for the collection of debts, rents, interest or taxes. Ad- ministration of the relief funds through the farmers’ own organiza tions, Federa? legislation prohibiting foreclosures on the homes of the un- employed workers for non-payment of taxes or mortgages, and fore bidding the eviction of unemployed workers from their homes; pro= vision of adequate housing for the homeless. Federal legislation guaranteeing the workers the right of free speech, press, and assembly, abolishing completely the use of the injunction. Federal legislation ensuring the Negroes their rights; abolishing dis- crimination, segregation and jim-crowism; penalizing lynching; and granting the Negroes the right to form self-defense corps against forceful attacks. For enactment of the above legislation the Unemployed Councils de~ mand that Roosevelt call congress into session within ten days of Presen+ tation of these demands, with unemployment relief and unemployment _and social insurance as the first-order of bi & ,