The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1933, Page 2

PAGE TWO ‘AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2 The Forced Lab or System in the U. S.| Walter Wilsen’s Book Just Out Is a Smashing Exposure FORCED LABOR IN THE UNITED ¢ STATES, By Walter Wilson. With an Introduction by Theodore Drei- ser. International Publishers. Priee $1.00. Reviewed by GRACE HUTCHINS IORKERS should be with | la- armed labor in the colonies. A closing chap- ter, answers sharply the false state- ments about “forced labor’ in the thing imaginable from baby buggies facts on the subject of forced bor, what it is, where it really does exist, and is responsible for it continuance. Nothing could be more | timely than a book on this subject, | prepared, simply and in- written. Such a book is Wilson's Forced Labor in the United States, prepared under the di- | # convict most important. rection of the Labor Researdh Asso- ciation. | The general interest in the problem | of forced labor is one result of the| anti-Soviet crusade of American capi- who seek an embargo on Soviet goods on the false charges of forced labor. This, in turn, led to the “dis- covery” that much forced labor ex- ists m every cmpitalist country and/ a tremendous amount of it in the United States. Walter Wilson ex-| Soviet Union. | HO are the prisoners today in American jails and penal insti- | tutions? Mainly workers, whose acts were “crimes against property,” whose “confessions” were wrung from them | by torture—by the third degree. As this book shows, only too clearly, | “third degree tort are reserved | especially for the unemployed, the unskilled, the foreign-born, the Ne- gro and militant union workers.” | Extent of Convict Labor ‘These workers in the prisons of the U. S. are exploited to produce con- | vict-made goods, valued at about | $100,000,000 a year for state and fed- | eral institutions alone, and at many) millions more for city and gounty| institutions. In state prisons and | Organizations Partici- pating in Raising Funds | for the ent forms of in the prisons of tl the chain gang, peonage to coffins, from lumber to fla) from farm ma mity jails, on s ior rk author in this firs orced talism before prese gettable descriptior nv U: labor, work clot An Opening Wedge Here is an unemployed worker in Palo Alto, Cal, who was forced by the city to work at shoemaking for nothing except a bit of food and a bed for one night. Now Roorevelt is plotting to extend forced labor on a national scale, in which the unemployed will be herded into military forced labor camps. doing the task re punished b; egree of tortu: of these fiendi: used monly ts and ide the st nent on bread ar wate & nent in sweat boxes, agir jon (ll walls, drenchi cold jwater and confiner - jacket. Reyolis and St these conditions have t in prisons all over the U. S. in recent] y and Wilson gives the facts} about these revolts. | One of the most valuable chap: ters in the book is the one on fore labor in the colonies and sem! lo: nies of the U. 8. It deals with th |little-understood “wee on conditions | jin the West Indies Cuba, Haiti | and Guatemala as typigal of other} Central American countries, in Li- | beria, Hawaii the Philippines. Workers will d these sections full of important information, little- nown in n America, on the ex- tent of peonage, cont: labor and other forms of forced r in these colonies, In tht closing chapter on “forced labor” in vhe Soviet Union, Wilson nswers in a convincing manner the capitalists’ attack on the workers and farmers’ government. By means of quotatiens from capitalist eye-wit-| nesses themselves, as well as from workers and workers’ delegations, he vroves conclusively that neither lum- ber nor any other commodity exvort- ed by the Soviets, is produced by forced labor. This book, Foreed Labor in the United States, is so interesting that @ worker will not want to put it down when once he starts to read it. If a lar seems impossible to find in this time of deepening ¢risis, workers in unions or mass organizations should club together and buy a copy of the |book by pooling dimes and nickels. It |may be obtained from local workers’ book shops or from the Workers’ Li- brary publishers, Box 148, Station D, |New York City. “Social (0 wonder Norman Thomas didn’t protest very hard against Roosevelt's. military forced labor camp scheme, The Socialist lead- ers in Milwaukee have been push- t” Milwaukee Leads the Wzy , 1933 | i Bo ing that sort of thing right aloag. Here is an example of forced labor in the “Socialist” ety, for which the workers are peid about $2 a week, and that in scrip. Postmaster Tries to Bar Scottsboro Defense Stamps NEW YORK.—Action by the Uni- ted States Post Office to attack the Scottsboro Defense Campaign of the International Labor Defense by pre- venting the use of the Scottsboro penny stamps now being sold to raise funds for the fight to save the nine innocent Negro boys has been sharp- ly challenged by the ILD. The LL.D. has issued an attractive penny stamp, to enable all workers, employed or unemployed, to contri- bute to the defense to whatever amount they may be able. These stamps are to be affixed to the back of letters written by the buyers, to spread the mass defense, and to ad- vertise their sale. In a letter to the IL.D., Post- master J. J. Kiely, of New York, threatened to refuse to accept any letters on which these stamps are | affixed } The LL.D. immediately took legal steps to have this threat withdrawn, pointing out in a letter sent to the postmaster by Joseph R. Brodsky, at- torney in the Scottsboro case, that this is an illegal threat, as a deci- —_»~- Dance and Entertainment Domestic Workers Section Food Workers Industrial Union Thurs., March 23, 0 P. M.} Estonian Workers’ Home » 27-29 West 115th Street ADM. IN ADVANCE 25e. AT DOOR 3c.) Dail | Daily, <Worker CONCERT & THEATRE} Sunday, March 26, 8 P. M.| | | | | | Spartacus Workers Club 269 West 25th Street PROGRAM— SKIT—“BROADWAY, 1923" by Theatre Collective JACK SHAFFRON—BASSO JOSEPA HABERGRITZ—VIOLINIST JULIA RABERGRITZ AT THE PIANO ly CHALK TALK—BILL SIEGEL OF THI JOHN REED CLUB Admission 25e—Por the Benefit of Section | s 2, Communist Party 1] “SHAME is a gripping account of life in the Soviet Union, with its new for the toiling masses, whose enthusizcm, consciousness of power, collective initiative and sense of own- ership and resnonsibility pervade the story.” -DAILY WORKER. “The New Soviet Film at the Cameo pro- vides the most complete, intimate and convincing picture of life in present-day Russin that has yet been revealed in the cinema, Alive, human and _real.’* HERALD-TRIBUNE ENGLISH TITLES | tion | Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. | Clarence Hathaway Union will be presented for discus- sion 10 cents. WORKERS PROTEST MATSUOKA’S BLOOD BATH PLANS IN DEMONSTRATION AT BOAT TOMORROW MORNING Imperialist Arrives on Leviathan on Murderous Mission of Japanese Imperialism with U. S. Against Workers NEW YORK.—A thunderous protest demonstration tomorrow morning at 9 a. m., at the foot of West 18th St., Pier 59, will greet Yosuka Matsouka, when the latter arrives on the Leviathan to consolidate the war plans of American and Japanese imperialism, which will bathe the workers of the world in blood if they remain passive. Office Workers Hear Hathaway Tonight NEW YORK —The Office Work- ers Union will hold a mass mobiliza- meeting tonight, 7:30 p.m. at will speak on the ‘New Administration and the O: Workers.” Plans for the next t of the Office Worki months wor! jon. All m jar workers urged to attend. nbers and all white col- Adan’ Unemployed free. * Matsouka’s mission is a mission of murder-negotiations! He comes | to buy munitions and other war | materials! He comes to talk over | with Roosevelt division of spoils in China! To decide, if it is possible, joint imperialist plans of attack | against Soviet China and the Soviet | Union! This Japanese murder-agent, whose imperialist career dates back to days of education received in the United States in 1900, at University of Ore- gon, was until recently (Aug., 1929), vice-president of the Japanese-con- trolled South Manchurian Railway Co. He was Japan's chief delegate at the League of Nations, where he pre- sented Japanese imperialism’s stand on her plunder-and-rape objectives in China. He has been a busy, imper- ialist diplomat, holding many s tarial posts in behalf of himself and his rs since 1904, when he was The Mew Soviet @& Morality! 4 FIRST FILM OF THE SECOND 3- YEAR PLAN AMAT PM, ¢ FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GISH in AU ‘UMN CROCUS | MOROSCO THEATRE, Aath st. W. Byes. 8:40 h St. W. of Bway Mats, Wed., Thurs, & Sat., 2:40 S50 JEFFERSON Mth st. «NOW | WIMMIE DURANTE and BUSTER KEATON in “WHAT! NO BEER?”) Added Festure:—“OREY THE LAW,” with LEO CARRILLO and LOIS WILSON ———____—___ | CLASSIFIED WANTED TO BUY—Cash paid for old gold, | teeth. 915 E. 163rd St. Davis, Dept. Store, FURNISHED ROOM TO LET—Ail improve-! ments, for two—$5 a week: also light housekeeping. 357 West 48rd St, N. Y. i Banned by Hitler Starting Today ‘DANTON The Revolutionist | FRITZ KORTNER| woraers Acme Theatre 14TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE OPEN AGAIN TO SERVE OUR PATRONIZING- COMRADES New Health Center Cafeteria IN WORKERS CENTER OUR MorTo: FRESH 50 EAST 13TH STREET ROLETARIAN High Consul at Shanghai for Japan. ; He boasts of having developed the} diplomatic art of how best to hate the imperialist rival in America, because of his American education, The demonstration ts being led by American Committee Against th War. WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pure Food Proletarian Prices DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY | | 107 Bristol Street | (Ret. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B'klyp | PHONE: DICKENS 2-20: | Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 6-8 PDL intern’ Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Versonas Care ot DR. JOSEPASON Dr. WILLIAM. BELL OPTOMETRIST 106 E. 14th St., near 4th Ay. Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Helf Price White Gold Filled Frames____ $1.80 ZYL Shell Frames —_—_ 31.00 Lenses not include COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey &t. Doctors Speak Friday Against Child Misery NEW YORK.—After conducting a medical examination of Brownsville workers’ children at the New Lots Workers Club, 771 Sackman St., last Saturday, which exposed the suffer- ings of the 150 children present, a nposium on “Child Misery” has been arranged for this Friday, 8 p.m. at Ambassador Hall, Third Avenue and Claremont Parkway, by the Workers International Relief Medical Unit. Speakers will be Dr. S. Tannen- baum, Dr. Paul Luttinger, Carl Win- ters, Alfred Wagenknecht and repre- sentatives of the Parents and Teach- ers Association, BROOKLYN Brownsville _Proletarians | | SOKAL CAFETERIA | 1689 PITKIN AVENUE ston of the Circuit Court of Appeals has established, in the case of print- ed matter on the outside of envelopes exposing the Mooney frame-up, that such use of stamps is legal. At the same time, the I-L.D. point- ed out that such a threat is plain discrimination in a-class case, as the post office permits affixing of Red Cross and other racket stamps on letters. Workers are called upon by the .L.D. to answer this challenge by buying larger quantities of these stamps, pasting them on the back of every letter they write. False Rumors Do Not Stop Dyers Strikes | NEW YORK.—In spite of the false rumors spread about the settling of the strikes in the B. & M. and Pros- pect shops, the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union informs all workers that both strikes are being continued successfully. Mass picketing and demonstrations in front of the B. & M. shop last week, in which workers of many cleaning shops participated, has shown to the bosses that no strike- breaking activities or letters to the tailors will slacken the spirit of the strikers, who are determined to win. Upon information received, some of the workers of the Weintraub local who were sent to do the work of those out on strike have stopped working, and new scabs are working now. The Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union, 233 Second Avenue, appeals to all tailors to continue their sup- port by refusing to give work! to the B. & M. and Pros‘f:ct shops which are out on strike. |300 ON STRIKE TO RESTORE 1932 WAGE SCALE FINDLAY, Ohio, March 21.—Three hundred workers of the Cooper Cor- Poration here went on strike yester- day against a wage-cut, demanding that the 1932 scale of wages be re- stored. 400 Towns and Cities in SOVIET RUSSIA have already TORGSIN STORES An order on TORGSIN gives your relatives a possibility to buy all kinds of merchand also imported goods, at low prices, in any quantity. FOR INSTANCE ——-———, Ie » kile* | WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn. N. ¥ GARMENT DISTRICT Sneakers Sor 05 piece aerican pound — | Si ee * Kilo is 21-5 Phone Tomkins Sq. 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SVECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where alt radiente meet | 302 E. 12th st. New York JA E MOUNTAIN ican & Ohinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades Comrades meet at STARLIGHT RESTAURANT 117 East 15th Street Bet, Union Square and Irving Place HOME COOKING —COMRADELY ATMOSPHERE Menagement: A. Jurlea from Pittsburgh Ponsetabeleh ts ve ds nts bon darlaibnati. i 29 EAST 4TH STREET NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations Telephone: ORchard 4-4520 WORKERS, JOIN THE PARTY ‘ | . OF ,Y To towns where there are no Torgsin stores yet, Torgsin ships the order by parcel post. Go to the neighborhood branch or office of the following banks or companies end send a TORGSIN order to your relatives, In New York Amalgamated Bank 13-15 Union Square Am-Derutra Transport Corp. 261 Fifth Avenue American Express Company 65 Broadway Gdynia America Line 89 Broad Street Hias, 425 Lafayette Street Manufacturers Trust Co. 55 Broad Street Postal Telegraph Cable Co. 67 Broad Street Public National Bank and Trust Co. 76 Wilitzin Street R.C.A. Communications, Inc. 64 Broad Street, In Chicago Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank 111 W. Jackson Boulevard | | | GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE in U.S.A. 261 Fifth Ave. New York,NY. | Preceetis to Political Prisone: Because He ‘Starving Worker Refused Relief Lives in a Shanty \Committee of Unemployed in Pittsburgh Forces Food Order from Welfare Agency That Would Condemn Worker to Death for Having No Home Pittsburgh Association for Improvement of Poor. Mr. Jas, Rich, 347 Junilla St., rear Pittsburgh, Pa. Dear Sir: . 211 Woed St... Pittsburgh, Pa. March L4th, 1933. With regard to your application of February 24th for relief we wish to inform you that one of the re- quirements fo granting relief to single men is that they must live in a private dwelling. As you state you are living in a shanty we are therefore unable to grant you any relief. Yours very traly, W. W. ROBINSON, Supervisor. PITTSBURGH, Pa, — A few days ago an unemployed worker in Pitts- burgh received the above leiter whieh yvetuses the worker relief because he lives in a shanty. This worker, James Rich, is 67 years old. at the time Rich received this letter he was very sick. For some time he had been existing on the little he managed to scrape up from a few of the neighbors who were living on relief orders. Last week he was too weak to get out of his shanty. This letter informs him to die in his shanty, that he would get no food. When this letter was read to the Humber Block Committee the work- ers strongly condemned this outrage- ous “new deal” and elecied a com- mittee to thoroughly investigate this case and bring this case to the wel- fare agency for prompt attention. Upon investigation the committee found the weifave worker had visited Comrade Rich. She asked how he had managed to make out until now. When he informed her that he was struggling against starvation, she CHILDREN POISONED MR. WYNNE ADMITS NEW YORK.—The Commissioner of ‘Health’ Wynne of New York City let the following admission slip out in a release he just sent to the press after several children became sick (poisoned) by food served in P. S. 3 in Brooklyn. “Investigation indicates that the trouble was apparently caused by sandwiches filled with chopped eggs, celery and mayonnaise dressing, and was probably due to bacterial con- tamination whose source has not yet been discovered.” Workers can rest assured that this bit of information will be played down by the boss papers. Of course Mr. Wynne can then say, well I pub- lished it, didn’t I?” and continue to poison children. 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. Wednesday LOUIS LOZOWICK, lithographic artist | will speak on “The Revolutionary Viewpoint in Art” at John Reed Club School of Art, 450 Sixth Aye., tonight at 8:30 p.m. This 1s one of series of lectures held under aus- pices of school. Admission 15 cents. C. HATHAWAY will speak at mass mob- ilization meeting to launch recruiting cam- paign of Office Workers Union, tonight, March 22nd at Stuyvesant Casino, Ninth St. and Second Ave., at 8 p.m. MEETING of Daily Worker chorus tonight at 8 p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 68 B. 4 St LSCTURE by Comrade MeQuistion, N. Y. Port Org. of Marine Workers Ind. Union tcnight, 8:45 p.m. at 216 E, 14th St. Sub- ject: “Marine Workers Role in War and in Defense of Soviet Union.” MEMBERSHIP MEETING, Sacco-Vanzetti ranch ILD tonight at @ p.m., 792 Tremont Ave PROF. SCOTT NEARING will speak Wed- nesday, March 22nd on ‘The Organization of Production” at Burnside Manor, 85 W. Burnside Ave., Bronx (near University Ave.) 8 pam. Admission 28c. Auspices PSU., Bronx Branches and N. ¥. District. OPEN FORUM, 8 p.m. at Prospect Workers Center, 1157 Southern Bivd. Subject: “Na- tional Problems in Soviet Union.” Speaker from Toor." MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING to- night at 8 p.m. ’sharp of Building Mainten- ance Workers Union, at Finnish Workers Hall, 15 West 126th St., near Fifth Ave. APTERNOON CLASS IN ESPERANTO be- gins 3 p.m. today for beginners. Hungarian ‘Workers Heme, 330 E. Bist St., Room §. All interested should join. Instructi SYMPOSIUM tonight at m1, ; Franklin Ave., Broo: cal Dilema of the In ley Johnson and Branch ILD. Admiseion tel 5e, Re ea Thursday UNTERTAINMENT-DANCE Thurs Mar. 23, given by Domestic Workers Section of strial Union at Esthonian 13th St., 3:30 p.m. Tickets in advance $e, At door 35c. ee day DR. 3. LIEBRR will speak ct Tremont} | Workers Club, Clinton Ave., Priday, 6:39 pan, “Exfect of Capit on Workers i ANNOUNCEMENT PLAYWRICHTING clas for beginners starts Friday evening, Maret: dist at the Workers Laboratory Theatre, of WIR, 42 East 12th St. Register now. TONIGHT Prof. Scott Nearing will speak on “The Organization of Production at BURNSIDE MANOR 85 W. Burnside Avenue, Bronx (near University Ave.) ADMISSION 250 AUSPICES: FRIENDS OF THE SOVIFT UNION, BRONX BRANCHES & N. Y. DIS- TRICT, ROOM 330, 799 BROADWAY, N. Y, asked whether he could hot keep on struggling. She promised however to send the worker a letter. She sent A Homeless Worker eeimaiibal This unemployed worker is among those forced by the bosses to live in one of the numerous Hoover- yilles that now dot the wide stretches of the United States. Be- cause a Pittsburgh worker lived in one of these places he was denied relief on the ground that he had no home, the letter, printed above. Demand Food Order. After getting this information the emergency committee went to the welfare agency and demanded that they issue a food order for Comrade Rich. The girl at the welfare office informed us that a city doctor would be sent. We told her that what Com- rade Rich needs is food, not only a docicr. She promised that Comrade Rich would be taken care of. The doctor visited Comrade Rich and proposed to take him to May- view, an insane asylum. Rich re- sisted this proposal. The emergency committee went back to the welfare agency the next day and forced the welfare to give Comrade Rich a food order. Relief Graft. Last year it was reveaied that the county commissioners had stolen four hundred thousand dollars from the welfare fund. Just this week it was revealed that it takes $803,000 to ad- minster relief in Allegheny County. With all this graft |they demand workers to starve because “funds are getting low”. We workers in Pittsburgh are sick of this and are fighting against starvation and the proposed commis. sary plan. ‘We are organizing fo: more relief. JUBILEE ll th CELEBRATION of the MORNING FREIHEIT (The Only Jewish Revolutionary Working Class Paper in America) Saturday Eve., April 1 — TWO HALLS New York *™ MECCA AUDITORIUM 55th Street, Between 6th and ith Avenues Tickets 35c, 55c and 83c (tax included). 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