The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1933, Page 3

Nation-Wide Unemployed Relief Cuts As NEED NATION WIDE DRIVE TO COMPEL ADOPTION OF JOBLESS INSURANCE BILL e Page Three Joblessness Aids Spread of Mental Illness Is Report Psychologist Has Com- pared Jobless and Employed | Minor Not } ‘ | Yet Mayor, But City Hall Flag Says ‘Hands Off Cuba’ Food Price Food Baskets to Replace Cash Relief; Plan New Taxes on Food Products; Roosevelt Admits “Miners Are Starving” WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—There has been a drop of 2.9 percent in the number of families on relief rolls in August as compared to the previous month, This occurred in forty-two states and the District of Columbia in- volving 55 percent of the nation’s urban population. It therefore ts indi- eative of the general relief cuts prevalent throughout the country. According to Harry L.. Hopkins,e— federal relief administrator, who|federal unemployment insurance. made the report, tnere has been an| This requires a national drive to in- increase of 6 per cent in the cost of |Vvolve every community, which will relief. Reasons for the increase are |make its demand on the president to due mainly to the rise in prices of | call a special session of Congress to food products, a rise in price of cloth- | enact unemployment insurance as a ing for children returning to school, | law. and a claim that the bookkeeping system has caused charges for July | and September bills to be recorded for During the month of August there | Bre ak Conn. Dyers were 1,390,655 families.on federal, | and Cleaners Strike state and local relief, while in the | previous month there were 1,432,159, The cost for relief in the same period | | CHICAGO.—The American Psy- chological Association yesterday heard a report that unemployment conditions prevailing in the capi- talist world contributing to the alarming spread of mental diseases. The report, by O. Milton Hall, | of the New York Personal Research | Foundation, covered a survey of 360 unemployed and part-time em- ployed men. Sixty-three per cent of those employed part-time had a better morale than the completely unemployed. ! Sue to Keep Dancer Unclothed at Fair CHICAGO.—The fight for a “high cultural level” at the Century of Progress Fair here continues un- abated. This latest step is a suit for injunction against the Fair admin- istration to keep the dancers on the fairway unclothed. dropped from $30,716,046 to $28,984,- 567. The speech of President Roosevelt last week before the Conference on Mobilization for Human Needs was a clear indication that steps will be taken to curtail relief. After admit- ting that “we are going to have un- employment throughout the United States,” the president shirks respon- sibility and throws the whole prob- lem of relief for the unemployed to “{ndividual citizens” and to “private organizations.” Miners Starving While newspapers carry screaming headlines of the N.R.A. putting an end to starvation, Roosevelt told the conference of social workers that miners have been starving for many weeks, “There are cases in some of the coal mining sections of this coun- try where families have been starving week in and week out over a long period of time,” the White House chief said, Starting with forced labor camps, the administration is pursuing a defi- nite policy to eliminate cash relief and place the unemployed on food basket rations. It is with this inten- tion that Harry Hopkins announces a plan whereby the federal relief ad- ministration will buy the sows which are to be slaughtered in the emer- gency hog reduction campaign. It will use them for relief distribution. The project includes the buying of some $30,000,000 of dairy products for the same purpose. The money for this to be raised by a processing tax on these products to be paid by the con- sumers. In this way workers will have to pay @ federal tax in addition to existing state taxes on food products The unemployed also will have their independence completely taken away and they will have to depend on food baskets for existence. Not only is the Roosevelt adminis- tration forgetting completely its pre- election promise of “unemployment insurance,” but it 4s endeavoring to discard cash relief. This makes it necessary to exert pressure on Roose- yelt to bring about the adoption of NRA, AFL Take Hand But Workers Expose Both of Them NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 14. —The cleaners and dyers strike here, now in its fifth day, is sticking strong with all the ranks of the workers solid. The bosses of the industry have followed all the well-known tricks in this strike. The A. F. of L. labor fakers were called in first to try to take over the strike, but the strikers stuck to their independent union and refused any assistance from the A. F. of L. Then the bosses tried to raise the “red” scare in the strike and through the loeal press attempted to spread the idea that the workers would use ‘“‘violence” to close the shops. Then Miss Anna Weinstock, of the National Labor Board of the NRA, apepared on the scene at the request of the bosses and the A. F. of L., and was completely un- masked by Gene Schwartz, organ- izer of the union. Finally on Wednesday, every cleaning and dyeing shop in the city was closed and the bosses called the strike committee in to confer with Egan, chief sell-out artist of the A. F. of L. in this state. The chairman of the strike cOmmittee, himself an A. F. of L. committee member, condemned the A. F. of L. to Egan’s face, refused any offer of “help” from the A. F. of L. and condemned Charlie Lennon, first chairman of the strike who was bought off by the bosses and was present at the conference. The statement in the Daily Work- er Wednesday that the strike was being conducted in co-operation with the T.U.U.L. was erroneous. ‘The union of the cleaners and dyers is an independent union. BUFFALO ATTENTION! ld FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! Soviet Film Version of M. Gorki’s Famous Novel “Mother” "190 Also: “BUILDING OF SOCIALISM IN U.S. 8. R. and meral | “LENIN”, Great Revolutionary Leader in Action MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, at 8 p. m., LIBERTY HALL » —Oorner Niagara and Austin Streets— This battle was begun when the mayor—after seeing the show several times—issued an order that Sally Rand must wear more than a pair of slippers and a waving fan in her dances. | Sarasota SY nt Na | Child Neglect Higher, | Say Welfare Workers | NEW YORK—Child welfare workers in convention at the Chil- drens Society headquarters here | yesterday announced that the cases | of neglected children reported was still at an unusually high level. Cases involving brutality were markedly on the decline, but cases of children whose parents were forced to neglect proper medical and other care for their children were increasing. Garvey Loses Print Plant in West Indies KINGSTON, Jamaica—Debts claimed yesterday the printing plant of Marcus Garvey, notorious Negro misleader and racketeer. The plant was sold at public auction. unable to make up his mind about H H leaping into the river. In the mean- French Air Champions | fin: Philadelphia police. had been Hop Off for Moscow | »otifed of his suicide plans through a note left to his wife, mother of LE BOURGET, France, Sept. 14— three small children. Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, French diane neord"nt hee toa ox © Ed Welfare Island Quiz; Fail to Probe Murder of Matthews Hurricane in Mexico (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) MEXICO CITY.—Southern Mex- | ico was greatly damaged yesterday after a hurricane hit the coast and tore inland. The hurricane was re- ported early yesterday as advanc- ing northward and imperiling the] appeared with the witne that the assistant district attorney was still angry over an attorney ac- companying Shahian. The bull- dozing tactics which the Harts Island warden had staried when * the flag pole right next to the early in the morning. The Ta: jobless Worker PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14—While police dragged the Delaware River for his body, Michael Safian, a 31- year old steamfitter, unemployed for two years, sat on a narrow girder of the bridge above thinking of things at home, and about the stories in the newspapers about the NRA, bringing back jobs for everybody. For ten hours Safian sat huddled in the chilly rain of the early rain cities of Vera Cruz and the Tam- pico area. 6,000 Calif. Grape his m Drar Strike Until Victory, ciate attorney. Price refused. Photo (right) shows red flag bearing the | slogan “Hands Off Cuba,” which waved on | many Mayor O’Brien, until a cop saw it William Engelhardt, (left), vaguely felt that | the red flag was somehow not part of the official schedule and frantically turned in a Drag River for His Body - Shei had first appeared, had stopped b: <untz’s protest. | Pickers to Carry on {37.24.07 Rees oot be permitted in the room as asso- | “Judging by the way all prison | call for the Emergency Squad, as the re- sourceful individual who put the banner on the flagpole naturally removed the halyards, making it impossible to remove it from the ground. The cop had to shinny up fifty feet of the flagpole to remove the banner and re- place the halyards. office of Tam- mmany brave, | Events “I can’t stand it any longer,” he peste sRORRR SORA SPV /ONCAT Anti-Fascist Meeting. Finally discovered by the cops,|__ PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—An anti- | Fascist mee Friday night, Sept. bor Lyceum, Second and Cambria Sts. under the auspices of the German Anti-Fascist Committee of Philadelphia. ing will be held Safian was locked in a cell pending |further hearing tmorrow. The police magistrate, before whom the jobless worker was brought to- | | day, was severe and optimistic even {in the face of growing unemplo; ment. “Suicide is a coward’s way,” | the modern Solomon cried angrily. “Find me a job! Find me a job!”| PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The the unemployed’ steamfitter shouted, | fight for complete independence of as the magistrate turned to the sta-|the Philippine Islands will be dis- tute books to find out just what the | cussed at a mecting to be held Fr | penalty is hen a hungry man at-| day night in the Mart B temp | 1083 W. Girard Av ~ }Mmons, gen secretai partner of the guard who knocked | Anti-Imperialist League will be the | my teeth. out.” | main speaker. The meeting is called “Why bring all those people|by the Filii here,” Kuntz interrupted. “Why League. doesn’t the district attorney pro- ae ae ; duce this man’s partner for identi- John Reed Club Affair. | fication? This farce has “gone on| BOSTON, Mass.—The John |long enough. We came here in| Cub of Boston will hold an al good to offer evidence to the | this Saturday auth¢ of a murder this man|™., at 825 saw committed on Welfare Island. | will s We were and are ready to ec te | ven with the distri ice | groups will entert to bring the murderer before the asked to bring books and pam bar of justice. | for the “We have been ready to coop-| th you in every wa you have been witness who came to though | ining thi | in good faith office to cro e witness. And during all that t Ai CU weil eos s Soar DELEGATE ATTACKS NRA AT JERSEY STATE CONVENTION OF AFL; OFFICIALS WORRIED ‘To Accept NRA Is to Give Up Right to Strike,’ He Says; Demands Jobless Insurance; Fakers Rush Through Resolution ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 14—The State Federation of Labor Con- vention here at the Ambassador Hotel was thrown into a bitter turmoil when John G. Hirschfield of Waiters’ Local No. 508 made a brilliant attack on the NRA and demanded that the A. F. of L. join the fight for unemploy- ment insurance. The A. F. of L. bureaucrats were forced to mobilize all their forces to oe TE ¥ . —®rush through a resolution favoring ¢ jthe NRA after Hirschfield got 200 Auto Workers = =="« After exposing the sweatshop con- | ditions in the very hotel in which the A. F. of L. was meeting, justified by Strike in Philly; |the NRA, Hirschfield said: Auto Union Grows ae we accept the NRA we are giy- g up our birthright for a mess of \potage. We give up the right to | strike, the most essential right of or- y|ganized labor for the promise of | politicians we can’t trust. Demand 25 P.C. Pay Rise, End of Bonus, “Unemployment insurance is the at Kensington La- | Filipino-Independence Meeting. | ino Anti-Imperialist | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. FIRST TIME FAMOUS SOVIE IN DETROIT! T MOVIE “1905” Based on Gorkl’s Novel “MOTHER,” and 2 New Soviet Newsreels. A Reel of Lenin Never Shown THREE NIGHTS ONLY! TUESDAY, Sept. 19th, 7:80 p. m., at Martin Hall, 4059 Martin WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20, 7:30 p. m., at Finnish Haul, 5060—1éth THURSDAY, Sept. 21,.7:30 p. m., at Yeomans Hall, 3014 Yemans ADMI88 FOR BENEFIT OF DAILY WORKER ION 15¢ WORKERS OF PHILADELPHIA ! Attend the MASS PROTEST MEETING AGAINST GERMAN FASCISM Rally to save the Comrades in the affair of the Reichstag Fire! FRIDAY, SEPT. 15th, 8 P. M. KENSINGTON LABOR LYC: EUM, 2916-24 N. 2nd Street Admission Free! Comrade MARIA HALBERSTEDT, s Germ speakers in egitsh ‘vill address exile teacher, and other prominent the meeting ANTI-FASCIST FRONT OF PHILADELPHIA, Pa, PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Communist Party Outing for Support of Dist. School W. LR. CAMP, LUMBERVILLE, PA. Seturday and Sunday, Sept. 16th and 17th Program: Music — Chalk Talk | Freiheit Gesangs Ferein Interesting Lecture Price for Adults: (including Food and Sleeping Accommodations) $2.10 Children $1.25 TRUCKS LEAVE W. I. R. OF FICE, 473 N. 4th STREET Saturday, September 16th, at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Sunday, September 17th, at 10 a. m. ROUND TRIP FOR ADULTS 75c ~ CHILDREN: 50c for one; 75c for. two 14.—Six thousand grape pickers on strike here, after a three-mile pa- rade, unanimously voted to con- tinue their strike under the leader- ship of the Cannery and Agricul- tural Workers Industrial Union at a mass meeting Tuesday until all demands are won. ‘ The strikers, from 150 camps, covering nine towns, voted to keep up the struggle until all of their leaders are freed. The charges of the Labor Com- missioner state that the workers are intimidated by Communist agitators was challenged at the meeting. Scores of strikers were arrested. Twenty-two are being held, includ- ing the Section Organizer of the against them are rioting and crim- Communist Party. charges inal syndioalism. A field conference will be held next Sunday at Bakersfield to pre- pare a strike of cotton pickers, Two hundred San Francisco cigar makers are out on strike. They are demanding $25 a week. Eleven have been arrested for picketing, “Leader” Warns Against the Coming Nat'l Farm Strike DES MOINES, Sept. 14.—Admit- Reno was mainly responsible for calling off mony strike actions of the daymers last year, 3 officials are present when Sha- hian is being interrogated,” Kuntz replied, “it may be necessary to ing on here in the event it is nec- Governor.” “One attorney Price returned was kept out. When Shahian entered the filled room a man named Nairn, who sat on a chair near the district attorney's desk, said: “That’s the is sharply. Dranow ry. Shahian looked at him blankly. “Do you know this man?” Price asked, pointing to Nairn. Yo, sir, I never sew him be- “Say,” returned Nairn, “sure you know me. I’m the guy what knocked your teeth out.” Shahian repeated that he had never seen him before. The assistant district attorney then permitted the supposed Wel- fare Island prisoner to cross-ex- amine the witness, “Didn’t I hit you and knock your three teeth out?” Nairn asked, while prison officials grinned in approval, “Never saw you before, Buddy,” Shahian returned. “Sure you did,” the supposed prisoner insisted. “Why, you slept in the cot next to me in the Eighth Division.” “The official records will show | that I never slept in the Kighth Division” Shahian returned. “I al- ways slept with the hand gang.” Plot Fails When this effort to discredit Shahians credibility failed, the dis- trict attorney excused Shahian and his attorney. The others, including the supposed prisoner were per- mitted to remain where‘ they were. When Kuntz and Shahian were recalled after a half hour’s wait, a Harts Island guard named Hickey was sitting in the chair vacated by the supposed prisoner. “Do you know this man?” Price have affidavits as to what is go-| cusat essary to take the matter to the| sufficient,” ; you have not asked a single qu | tion about the murder this witn “No Investigation” “From the first moment we tered here you have tried to the witness on the defensi | e, | Kuntz continued angrily. “You have made no investigation into the Matthews’ murder. You are simply trying to discredit the witness, And unless you do examine him about what he saw we intend to go before the Governor and force a full and impartial investigation of this foul murder even if the Governor has to supersede the district attorney in this matter!” Price’s face was a brick red. “I'll conduct this investigation in my own way,” he returned. Since his statement had been re- corded for future use Kuntz of- fered no objection when Price re- sumed questioning Shahian. “At the time you say you were assaulted, didn’t you tell this guard, Hickey, that a prisoner had struck you?” he demanded. struck me,” Shehian returned. ‘The only thing this guard seid to me was to ask if I wanted to go to a hospital.” “Mr. District Attorney,” Kuntz interrupted again. “If you are really desirous of carrying on an investigation into the assault upon Shahian and the Killing of Mat- thews, why do you not produce ail the guards whose names and ad- dresses appear upn the official books as having been on duty at Harts Island on the days of the as- saults? Then this witness can iden- tify those you are looking for. “Dl Notify You” “All you are doing is producing saw, or who were not involved in the crimes!” Price jumped up. furio’ his chair. “I’m through with this witness,” he announced angrily. “If I need you again, I’ll notify you.” Kuntz and Shahian were shown the door while the guard and other usly from asked, pointing to the guard. “Yes,” Shahian returned. “T do not know his name, but he is the! prison officials remained in close conference with the district. at- torney. “T told him that his partner had | people whom this witness never | operate in this benefit affair for the Central Committee of the C. P. The celebration star will ost 20 cents admi: ts at 2:30 and ion, portation OIT, MICH. — The Detroit Ce.egation, which was part of the national group that went to Wash- ington, D. C., to protest deportation tactics used against the foreign born, September 17, at 2 P.M., at the Fin- nish Hall, 5969 14th St, Pittsburgh Anniversary versary of the Communist Party will be celebrated here at the Interna- tional Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St., second and third floors. The ten cents admission will entitle one to speeches, dancing, Benefit Outing. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A_ bénefit i . istrict School will b> 2 = = 5 a a 3 5 a S 10 per adult, and $1.25 per child will be accepted now at 473 N. 4th St. or 1225 Germen- town Ave. s will leave 473 N. Saturday and at 10 A.M. on Sunday, Tickets for the round trip journey are 75 cents en adult and 50 cents for one child, two for 75 cents, Conneaut Petitions for Mayor Filed; to Hold Meet Tomorrow CONNEAUT, 0:, Sept. 14.—Pe- titions for a workers’ ticket with John P. Krial as candidate for mayor was filed here. A platform containing 10 major points was adopted. Among these points are: the support of the Workers’ Un- employment insurance Bill and the enactment of local relief ordi- nances pending the adoption of the insurance bill. A mass meeting will be held Saturday, 2:30 p. m, at the Work- ers’ Hall, 943 Broad Street will give a full report on Sunday, | PITTSBURGH, Pa.—On Saturday, | September 16, the fourteenth anni- | 4th St. at 10 AM, and 2 P.M. on} lonly remedy. The NRA is political |hokum and they are using propa- ganda to put it over. In many cases 14,| the old minimum wages become the “|new minimum wages. They are too the shops in |W to suit me.” | Philadelphia, who have been organ-| Hirschfield was expressing growing ized in the Auto Workers Union|rank file sentiment when he attacked during the last six weeks, went on|the NRA. strike Wednesda ing a 25| Opposition against the NRA i per cent iner 8, time| cropping up rapidly in A. F. of b. and a half for e, elimina-|Jocal unions. tion of all piece work and bonuses,| Green and other A. F. of L. of- and all ot schemes- | ficials expect similar voices to be A great many of these workers|raised at the National Convention, members of the A. F./ to be held in Washington on Oct. 3-3 nd th e mostly|and are preparing now to rush h as, carpen-| through favorable resolutions on the t la ths, ete. The | NRA as well as to cover up their ac- | bo in the automobile body in-|tions in helping the bosses lower dustzy have been working these|Wwages, favor the open shop, and skilled men, demanding from them| break strikes with the help of the | superior craftmanship, at wages as|NRA. | low 2 and $14 per week. | Piece Work » Pa., Sept s working in re forme I unions mecl painter Hoa. Union, they are Sgr ‘ hae |ing recognition of the Shop Com- from the shops asked the| cittice ohc aoe’ Gremibens DS ae . to send them a speaker] 4'i¢4 workers Union. me One to help them organize, as they could through the They expect to spread their strike crisy of the A. F. of L. in i |to all of the forty shops, and to ent harvesting for “dollar: N. J., where only” initiation fees. These work-| there are located several of the show an excellent militant spir-| largest auto body building shops in 1 are determined to win their| the country. These workers are also is. While they are not ask-|a branch of the E, G. Budd Plant se they in Philadelphia, Pa., where the Auto Workers Union is making consider- ks ago they called their ing and several of the | and DEED ELLE ELE EEL EE EEE EEL EEE EER EEE ADEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE Meet Your Comrades at the New--Modern-- Up-To-Date ALE RAIL BAR AND GRILL 106 East 14th Street Between Fourth Avenue and Irving Place WHERE YOUR NICKELS AND DIMES BUY THE MOST PURE FOOD AT PROLETARIAN PRICES KING’S BEER ON DRAUGHT OPEN DAY and NIGHT ER EEEEEEL EEE EL EEE EEE EEE PEEL EEEEEEEEE LEE EE EEE PEEP a a RE CHICAGO, ILL. First Concert and Dance of the Season! Given by the Daily Worker and Chorus Speaker: Singing JOHN WILLIAMSON Workers’ Voice SAT., Sept. 16, 7:30 P.M. AT PEOPLES AUDITORIUM Artes Ballet Organization a 2457 West Chicago Avenue Lancy ADMISSION 25c Party Real Dance Orchestra Unemployed with Unemployed District 8 Council Card, 15¢