The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1933, Page 2

_ PAGE TWO DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933 Expose Bosses’ Onslaught Against Negro Workers’ ‘umn Double Death Rate in _ Harlem from Disease; | Gibson Food Is Fatal Cnildreh of Harlem CURMINGS, CHILD | MASS FUNERAL ATT | 1PM. TOMORROW Demonstrate Hospital Death \ Harlem “Household” Happy, a Soviet Nursery Plan to Unite ~ J » — All Workers in ‘gals May 1 Action NEW YORK.—Pointing out the | deepening of the crisis as evidenced by the collapse of the banking struc- Against ) f ( ildi y i i’ | ture, and the inflation program of Taxis coy ee [Brattain NEW YORK—A mass funeral Crowded in Disease Breeding Holes bankers, the New York District of the | Communist Party yesterday called | upon the workers of New York to | speed the preparations for May First and to join in one United demon- stration on May Day—Labor’s day of ¥ solidarity and struggle the world over. Stating that the inflation of the | currency does not only mean the loss | of the life savings of many workers, for Mrs, Cummings and her child, both of whom were sent to their death by the Harlem Hospital au- thorities refusal of immediate at- tention for the pregnant woman, will be held tomorrow, Thursday at 1 p. m. at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th Street, in Harlem. Whole Family Living on Can of Food Each a'; Day; Puts One Child in Hospital Starting today the Daily Worker begins a series of articles that will throw the spotlight on the hushed facts concerning the appaling conditions to which the Negro children of Harlem are subjected. Authentic facts were dug up in the hidden archives of capitalist NEW YORK. — The 20Us treatment of Negro patien lem Hospital in the f protests refusal of the admit and th her new bort Negro and w of the Har spital Agains declared s. Cummir a statemen ion to smash p of Tammany by the Tammany boss FIGHT AGAI SEND YOUR DELEGATES TO PLAN and their children are forced to live | , in the richest city in the world, NST CHILD MISERY! social “research” institutions by Judith Fisher and Howard Craig, two | students of the Workers’ School class in Revolutionary Journslism. Other equally authentic but hitherto hidden cases of death and misery were told directly to the Daily Worker reporter by Negro work- ers of Harlem. By DAN DAVIS NEW YORK.—Samuel Frazer's face began to puff up one d His lips became swollen and sore. He felt sick. Being a Negro workers’ son, he was shipped to Harlem Hospital. Joseph Frazer, 217 West 142nd St., his father, was not allowed to see his son during the two weeks the hospital kept him. Nor in the only land where the workers and farmers rule—the U.S.S.R. The best cared for children in the world. Colored children at play | the ruination of thousands of small | depositors, but that it will bring | untold misery to the masses of toilers, | employed and unemployed through | rise in food prices and a general | lowering of the workers’ standard of | living, the Party called for the great | unity of all workers—Socialist, A. F. | of L,, ete., for one United May Dem- onstration in the struggle for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance— DOCTORS WILL EXAMINE STARVED labor’s central demand this year. The final arrangements for the May Day action will be decided at the United Labor May Day Conference id would they tell. him what the@ rout "2 - - | street gangs by the youths, whose } Houble ly . ie ay as only af. |-play is unsupervised. P, S. 68, at 116 ter Samuel’s working class grit | West 128th St. confines its play- | pulled the child through that the | ground facilities to two narrow alleys | hospital told Mr. Frazer that “It|on either side of the building. These | W something the boy ate.” The alleys are occupied for the most part | | “something” the boy ate was Gibson | by ontelde toilets. | NEW YORK.—The miserable conditions of the work- ildren, the rampant starvation and malnutrition, espec among the Negro children in Harlem, is the rea- son behind the formation of the Provisional Committee to Fight Child Misery | to be held on Sunday, March 26th, 1 p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East r crime c 1 CHILDREN, SATURDAY, BROOKLYN "techn zc tu NEW YORK.—The campaign against child misery, starvation, death, | Used to elect delegates to the con- is gaining force in other parts of the city besides Harlem. It is led in each | ference. section by the united Unemployed Councils, Workers International Relief,| and Young Pioneers. The demands around which this campaign centers | ANNOUNCE FOURTH PROGRAM are: free milk, clinical service, lunches, clothes, school supplies and play- | IN “HISTORY OF RUSSIAN FILM’ py eaiaror sxc aso AR deta tien and Neg Follows Another Death. was only @ short we the Negro woman, Mr: In Harlem close to a quarter of a million Negro people | Relief Committee canned food! “Investigation at P. S. 89, 134th | grounds for needy children. i - — a ‘The fourth program of the History jumped from the hospite are withering away under the terrific lash of hunger, segre- ieee spear eet St, and Lenox Ave; P. 5. 10, St.| New Lots Branch of the W. 1. R./ Professional Workers |° Russian film showings will be Nicholas Ave. and 117th St.; P. S. 68 and P. §. 5 showed that the onty toil- ets for children’s use are situated in the outside yards. For the most part | Dovzhenko's film of revolution in the Ukraine “Arsenal,” and Protozanov’s “Two Days,” representing the late period in the South, Presented by will have doctors and nurses at 771 Sackman St., at 2 p. m. Saturday, to examine and record cases of mal- nutrition of children, At a similar gated into the -most wretcl try, ily congested area in the coun- deprived of the most elementary sanitary conditions, inated against and denied even the miserable pittance 4, and his two sisters, 6 and 5, years | old, and his mother and father, were | | getting one box of tinned stuff each Raise $225 for ‘Daily’ NEW YORK.—A& Daily Worker ben- efit party, arranged by professional liscrim that these 4 & . papas Step |week. This for a family of seven! | they were wooden structares, encrust-| affair arranged in Coney Island a| Workers and attended by many teach-| the Workers’ Film and Photo League brow of “relief” handed out by the Emergency Relief Buro. Four To One ed with filth, with wet and muddy | short time ago, 100 parents and 350|€S, succeeded in raising $225 for the| and the Workers International Re- Negro and Th Provisional Committee appeals to all working class | Until Samuel took sick the Frazers | floors, cold air and a lack of basins | needy children were present. Daily Worker fund. | lief, this program will be shown on and social ‘panleationn + Bblish in their oreanisation a U rittee | n&d managed to keep off the Harlem | and other necessities. Young children, ‘ e th R SANTEE | Saturday, March 18 at 5.30 and 8.30 yi organizations to establish in their organization a Committee | scx jist, But in Harlem there is| im grades ranging from 1A to 6B, are Brownsville branch of the W. I. R.| FAREWELL PARTY AIDS “DAILY"| p.m. at the Labor Temple, 242 East Against Child Misery. Also to send a delegate to the next | hardly a Negro worker's family that | expected to use these disease-breed- | Calls a special meeting Friday at 8) NEW YORK.—At a farewell party| 4th Street. Pp, m. at 1844 Pitkin Ave. to decide on a neighborhood in which to work. Dr. Maximilian Cohen will speak on) whic jescapes the clutching hand of the | | white bosses onslaught. The rate of | little white caskets shipped to the ing toilets.” Meanwhile several buildings such | as the empty Y.M.C.A. on West 135th given for Rose Covin by Doris Silver berg at 3096 E. Sixth St., Brooklyn, $6 was collected for the Daily Work-| the Committee, will be held Saturday, 2 West 115th St. For further information write meeting 0: All are urged to come so that the ‘iim and Photo League can finish a ilm on Child Misery in New York, to 27 p.m., at to M. Burd, Secretary, Provisional Committee Against Child | grave from Harlem is double the rate | st. go unused—empty monuments to | C4 Misery in U.S. A.” [er which the proceeds will be devoted. Mis to the above address of all New York City. Tubereulo- | ¢ paves that noes murders its} 4 symposium on Child Misery will pasha dis ae es sis, “a working class disease,” which | children, | be held March 24 at 8 p.m. at Am- Se poses chilaren “Bruit saice. arcane sean | bassador Hall, Bronx. It is called by A M U S E play grounds, sunny beaches and T E te Z a: Bronx Workers (eae useHOOe Ww. ie ary J, - whelesome food, stops the heart beat | LO KXeCU angara | branches, and medical aid units. Rice ABET ELTA Starved Negro Dies | of 4 Neero habla: ee one white, iad Speakers will be A. Tannenbaum, Hew Bovies iis maneos Preece on Week of March 20) TALLAHASSEE, Fla, March 14— | Giuseppe Zangara, recently co. demned for the death of Mayor Cer- mak of Chicago whom he shot while making an unsuccessful attempt to | assassinate President Roosevelt, is to be electrocuted during the week of March 20, at Raiford State Prison. Paul Luttinger, Dr. H. E. Slatkin, Carl Winters and Alfred Wagen- knecht, with also representatives of the Parents and Teachers Associa- | tion. in Street: Refused because of the worse conditions un- der which Negroes are forced to live. Hospital Assistance | No imagination is needed to know — | what happens to the children of 90 NEW YORK. ryation and neg-| Negro mothers out of every 100, who , two of the many traps set for| must leave their children to the s who live i sys-| ‘mercy’ of the city streets, while | ree ras ave tu sibs |they hunt for work. Born by mo- Negro worker who died | March 10 outside the pool room at 68 factories or take in | ‘POLISH TERROR .., (Taras Triasylo) English Titles With A. BUCHMA, Star of ‘Jimmie Higgins” —EXTRA ADDED FEATURE— | Unemployment Demonstration worxtrs Acme Theatre 14TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GISH in aken on the deait and her child COMMUNIST —World-Telegram. The New Soviet NEW YOR mittee of the upon the entire K sectio t Part; ership o GARMENT DISTRICT | thers who must seek employment in “house work” VISIT an ACTIVE SYMPATHIZER’S | he section to aitend and suppor. Lenox Ave. For lack of a better place | throughout pregnancy, Negro chil- 2 J he mass funeral of Mrs, 4. Cum- to-go, this Negro-sat in the pooltoom|dren of Harlem receive the bosses’ | DOWNTOWN ..: ae | AUTUMN CROCUS nings at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th for seven hours and was saved from} blessing of “malnutrition” even be- [oot ionosco THEATRE, rig aC Wise mee ST FILM OF 3t.. tomorrow at 1 p.m, being dumped on the street by Luis | fore they come into the world. Bank- . , Eves. 8:40, Mats. Wed. Thurs. & f FIR! sid a Gue of 14 West 73rd St., who|ers never call a holiday on misery] JADE MOUNTAIN Steinberg’s Luncheonette |‘ ne eRe Senet A Bere te) | ne BROOND: WHAT’S ON IMPORTAN T NOTE; ertion, with announcements. Vednesday PARIS C 71 39. p.m. 7 linton Ave. All wor! ‘es must attend. Ausp iternational Labor Def ©. A, HATHAWAY, di 1e Communist Party uste, on “Policies merican Working C! , &t the Tremont h Ave., Bronx Mem es Upper Section se, will debate A. J. T. AMTER, will lecture on ition and Its Perspectives, “Ger Friday In iew of the critical financial ; ituation in the Daily Worker, ganizations are urgently ~ isked to enclose money, at the} ate of one cent a word per in-| t organizer of arch | The Cummings famil a Cum- mings and his two daughters, Arlene, 10 months and Julia, 2 years old, after Mrs. Cummings and her new born child were sent to their death by Harlem Hospital. informed the owner of the place that the man was s' A policeman was | called. H etook the starved worker | cut at 10:30 and said he would call an The ambulance However, on wded conditions in hospitals and government “economy” policy he which limits the budgets of the hos- pitals only to the fat salaries of the politicia seated in good hospital jobs, this sick man was pronounced “O. K.” He was found dead. in a door near the poolroom at 11 p. m. Governor Mil "ALA. ATTORNEY GENERAL, ADMITS. * HE KEEPS NEGROES OFF JURIES, ler Says He Got 150,000 Scottsboro was | account of| | starvation) in Harlem. | way to get these statistics would be for the working class and its chil- dren, Negro or white. No Shoes To Leave In Though he was already well on the road to recovery, Samuel Frazer could not leave his bed during the last few days he spent at the hos- pital. His only pair of shoes were at home. The appropriation for free clothing and hot lunches for the quickly thinning bodies of Harlem school children is practically nil. It is almost impossible to get figures from canitalist sources on malnutri- tion (the besses fancy word for The quickest American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12 & 18 Welcome to Our Comrades | Comrades meet at 117 East 15th Street Bet. Union Square and ftrving Place —HOME COOKING —~—COMREADELY ATMOSPHERE to deduct those few hundred Nerro chi'dren who are not suffering from malnutrition. Filth, Cold, Disease Outmoded school buildins, over- cv owded classrooms, unse~ # ~y toil- ets, and other disgraceful conditions are other methods which the city Phone Tomkins Sq. 4-0554 John’s Restaurant | SPECIALTY) ITALIAN DISHES lace with nfmoxphere where all endicais meet 202 © 12th St. New fort STARLIGHT RESTAURANT Management: A. Jarich from Pittsburgh | Y. C. | 39th ST., WORKERS PATRONIZE “Employees Entrance” CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street | Pure Food Added “NAGONA” Feature with LOLA BUELL ee F proletarian Prices || C/assics of the Screen! 325 Towns and Cities in SOVIET RUSSIA have already TCORGSIN | | at a very small charge. RKOJEFFERSON Mth St. & NOW with Warren Williams and Loretta Young WORKERS’ FILMS- STRUGGLE FOR BREAD—The dramatic Story of the making of the workers’ paper the DAILY WORKER, can be shown We are also booking SOVIET FILMS Every organization should take advantage of this opportunity te use the film for stimulating activities, ee ij CAN BE SHOWN ANYWHERE AT A NOMINAL COST Information—Bookings at 5-YEAR PLAN ed A WEAPON IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE drives, etc, | STORES | | | | Gs! 7 . ®t 8:30 at Boro Park Workers Center, | “ote | bosses, under Tammany Hall, use to An order on TORGSIN Se eae Case Protests St ur Tamaya a soured (ORSSEL'S | DAILY WORKER DISTRICT OFFICE, 35 East 12th Street ispiees of Boro Park School 2, IWO and ——__—— i ra bry a 's_ of moxchansise, ‘ omens Council 25 | In interviews published in the New York Times on Saturday and Sun. | °™ beeen orntee ihre ote also imported goods, at low Tels) Al 41764 as. sing | 22% both Gov. B. M, Miller of Alsbama and the State Attorney General | °{S 21 price teiete skid ths prices, in any quantity. PROSPECT WORKERS CENTER is calling| Thomas E. Knight, Jr. brazenly defend the original Scottsboro mock trials | "S, Charges, ~! Organizati Partici mass meeting, Wednesday, March 15. A| : h M3 se, | Surface, before the man who carries — FOR INSTANCE — ‘ganizations artici- gart of the Albany Uneniployed Confer | amd the death sentences avainst eitht of the nine innocent Scottsboro Ne- | SWface, berore the man Who canes | aS reas oe ce will be given by our delegates, Stein | gro lads. They both justify the exciusion of Negroes from the juries which a scHbel Ay anes Bipsrinten dent | 10” | pating in Raising Funds DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY d Skolnick. “Come all ——— a dicted aid, tried, the: boys, Pe aac OmnentG X ne | 107 Bristol Str ‘ i > 63" 28e . ‘eet DAILY WORKER CHORUS rehearsal PUSH SCOTTSBORD Negroes Kept Off Juries “P. S. 5, located at Edgecombe Ave. 29 BAS] 14TH STREET | Sugar | for the (Bet Pitkin otied A whattan Lyceum sharp. All invite Ne) DUAL Attorney General Knight admits,!and 140th St., has no outside play- bbad So aout | | " PHONE: DICKENS #8019. TEE ALPRED LEVY BRANCH, ILD, in that Negroes are habitually excluded | Sond. | Ts inside yards ave littered Best besa tes ‘Bai Office Hours: 8-10 AMa 1-8, 6.8 FM. Erinetion ‘with the Hinudele Youre O1us geod Seared ees in | Matte eens . | We Carry @ Full Line ot h | 1 hold an o) air mee on behalf Bal wi from juries in Alabama, because “nN | toilets are filthy and the walls of the | | Sult of Clothes (Ladies)..1 i” Central Porty USA. instein this ¢ out sia ti RS ean “ i ; Sneak i A3 Sam Weinstein this event = the opinion of the white landlords | classrooms are hidden by dust. The | STATIONERY [ered i wie om there the workers wil asdale St. wh 1 be held ited to attend = aso DAILY WORKER BANQUET Siete amare | Mas | 90 ema avenue versity Ave., their demands before Judge| ViCiOUs altack o} i pessed: Ne- ‘ a companies and send a TORGSIN | VIE S NG Work Done Under Persoms) Case etueisn a it Hawkins tomorrow for a new iii Psos e, ee saree Laat with at MANHATTA) LYCEUM, 66 E. 4th St. order to your relatives. 10 Days That Shook the W orld @ DR. JONEPBRON in & change of venue for the approaching| this open defense of the origina « New York RRA Ia) Beonom) tsboro trials from Decatur to reise vere oe moe iad ane on MARCH 19 at 7:30 P. M. Anat In a ke = TCNIGHT at 8 P. M. veining four ‘ Al ttorney General Knight declare, Amalgamated Ban | Hospital and Ocalist Preseri : Be eet the Nit typical Smperial'st hypocrisy, | ALL’ ORGANIZATIONS ARE INVITED TO SEND DELEGATES leper haelaai sin see nf OcalistFrescriptlons Filed ECTURE by Comrade Taft, on the ae a statement 0 ago the he boys will rec ‘tair a , 5 fel Y vem Baa Germeny, giver ee |I. L, D. charged a conspiracy between | (net tie atest eae ae ane MICHAEL GOLD will act as chairman. | Am-Dervtra Transport Corp. | PING PONG TOURNAMENT rkers Center? 1 vd.. Wed-| Judge Hawkins and State Attor ley hler ef fy a8 201 Fifth Avenue Brownsville Youth Center Bee menroh Sth eo @ pe. Adm. free. |General Knight to fix the new Gris GC ainerr arate or os Speakers: | American Express Company 1k TTENTION—Brow: she orkers.| ‘Tials in northern Alabama, the bet-| ~ aswide thunder. of protests MOISSAYE J. OLGIN, Famous Author and Editor Morning Freibeit | 65 Brondway | Red § White Gels 'Fittes mobilization for our vy|ter to ‘insure legal or extra-legal| WOrG-wice = thu darle Gdynia America Line ed Sparks st ae e Gitare by Biedenka: and| lynching for the boys. against this brutal attempt of the CLARENCE A, HATHAWAY yn) ames -—. + $1.00 lerism,” ‘Thursday, Ma Sutter Ave. All invited . # RIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION—Lec- >} by I. Amter, on “How Can We Lift $ Orisis?’’ March 15, at 8:30 p.m. at nklin Manor, 836 Franklin Ave., Brook- r * eos AP'S COMMUNE meeting commemorat- 62nd anniversary of the Paris Commune fremont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton Ave. Hearing : on Before Judge Hawkins The defense attorneys will follow ‘|up their action tomorrow with a de- mand for the right of private audi- ence with the nine innocent Scotts- boro boys and an appeal for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that | the eight boys in Kilby prison are incarcerated in the death house. Samuel 8. Leibowitz, famous New and capitalists) Negroes are not of sound judgment” and are “not fit- ted to determine between right and | White ruling cless to burn nine in- | nocent working class children in the electric chair, | Flood of Protest | Gov, Miller admits receiving “more | than 150,000” telegrams and resolu- |tlons from all parts of the world | | protesting against this hideous crime | of the white ruling class. lack of an outside playground, be- ides AT SPECIAL PRICES ffording physical dangers, is i for Organizations sponsible for the formation of RICHARD B. MOORE CARL BRODSKY 1. AMTER ‘ntertainment—Chalk Talk, John Reed Club Workers Cooperative Colony * Kilo is 21-5 American pound — | To towns where there are no Torgsin stores yet, Torgsin 89 Broad Street THURSDAY, MARCH 16 Hias, 425 Lafayette Street Manufacturers Trust Co. 55 Frord Street Postal Telegraph Cable Co. ENTRANCE FEE 10c Bridge Plaza Workers Club 105 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn PRIZE TO WINNER AND RUNNER-UP Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St, First Door Off Delan Bt Telephone: ORchard esto #7 Bread Street | Public National Bank and Comrade Mac Harris — oe Attorney ; i “ By Trust Co. ‘Wednesday, March 15, 8:30 p.m. Aii| York attorney, arrived here yesterday! ne Times interview with Miller 2700-2500 BRONX PARK EAST plenty kers welco Membership must at-|to plead the motions being pressed) o 4 Knigh (OPPOSITE BRONX PARK) Viliiam Street L.Ausplees: Upper Section, TLD. |by the defense. With Lelbowitz are| and, Henle Paar: Contac” ae iS R.C.A. Communications, Inc. Ms end La Fede tee, the Daily Dr. WILLIAM BELL s! ; ee, Sox wnt + 4 orker, le wil ew ie organ- (NSDALE WORKERS CLUB will hold | sees see Secaiy, au eve beat clares: | has now REDUCED THE RENT | 4 Broad’ Street, faation of the taannaal Dive Pein OPTOMETRIST Tauarters, 319 Hinsdale St, Beookign, "| of New York City. | “Constantly, it is reiterated that | ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS In Chicag a j|88 Problems of circulation. The com-| | 106 K. 14th St., near 4th Av. 2 ae |-—-———— | the Negroes will receive a fair trial, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES | rades are requested to make all) !——————___ celebration in honor of the Ukrainian | cellist Thursday, 8 p.m. at Pierre Degeytor| yet nowhere is there the slightest “Asda " | Amalgamated Trust and arrangements to make the tour of fon of the IWO will be tendered by the Sask Ri.) pai doth ” Admission 35¢.) goubt that they will be convicted Kindergarden; (lasses for Adults and Children; Library; Gymnasium; Savings Bank Comrade Harris a success, Comrade BROOKLYN ET hcren, tate evening, for tun igen te Ce a second time because nowhere is | Clubs and Other Privileges Til’ We Savkbtin wonighaee Marris will visit the following cities: ig its quota of 100 members set tor! Friday there any doubt of their guilt.” a 4 * a P | ¥or Brownevillo Proletariane ist, the end of the membership dive. |" ecrome by 1 :90| In the words of Gov. Ross Sterling NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED 4 Mhaca — Mayeh 14 and 15 SOKAL CAR beeecarkesaed Pp Banner will be presented. Epeaker,|P.m- at Boro Pa 109 | of Texas, in refusing a stay of execu- 3EVERAL GOOD APARTMENTS & SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLE é i ETERIA | tives Auenloeé Boro Pare School 3 two Lee Ross: “It may be that this oe J Schenectady Mawehoae: & 1689 PITKIN AVENUE ABS IN SOCTAL, SYSTEMS at the Gon-/ snd Womens Court 2 Negro is innocent bat sometimes it ichenectady—March 18 & 19 ae rorkers: lub, jerome Ave., ‘ } ‘Toth. St. pam, aherp, Saturday is necessary to burn a house in order Lexington Avenue train to White| Office opem deily | A/bany—March 20 , * CONCERT-DANCE Saturday night 8 p.m.| to save a village.” That is, to e Plains Road, Stop at Allerton Ay ie) Friday & dey mm. te pam. | . ? WORKERS--EAT AT THE ursday erie ee alle aT A ;| decaying capitalism and its system Station, Tel. Extabrook 8-1400—1401| Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE in U.S.A. || Gloversville—March 21 TSTANDING CONCERT OF SEASON. recital by Percy Such, eminent British | | dawn. Auspices Council of Wor Admission 40 cents, With this ‘kers Clubs. ticket 266. |of monstrous national oppression of the Negro people! | 261 Fifth Ave.New YorkNY. 1!) yonkers—Mareh 22 $$$! , Parkway Cafeteria ‘Neac Hopkinson Ave, } Breotiva, wx