The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1933, Page 3

LEER OSG i: BOER AM 5 On Food As Rising Costs Slice Wages Workers Buy. Less B Report; Only United Fight of Workers, Farmers, Can Defeat Monopolies utter, Sugar, Officials | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Further startling evidence of the starvation *ffect of the Roosevelt program came to light yesterday in the official report of the U. S. Department of Agriculture which revealed that “a reduction of 4 per cent in domestic consumption of butter was reported for the first eight months this year.” Since butter is a last type of food to be dropped from the food list, experts have always considered the consumption of but- ter, sugar, etc., to be accurate indi- cators of the trend in the standard of living. Recently. it was reported by the Sugar Institute, consumption of sugar has dropped this year below last year. At the same time that it reports shrinking consumption of butter, the Agriculture Department reports a steady increase in production of but- ter, so that today there is a record surplus of 174,857,000 Ibs. of butter. Recent official statistics indicate that the real wages of the Amer- jean workers haye been slashed since the beginning of the Roose- velt administration. The reported 6 per cent increzse in wages has been eaten up by the 8 to 20 per cent rise in the cost of food. The net result has been an actual wage cut of from 2 to 15 per cent for the entire working class, This information from the Depart- ment of Agriculture comes after the recent release of the Agricultural Ad- justment Administration showing that the price of foods paid in the cities has risen sharply while the price received by the farmer has dropped, giving added profits to the Monopoly middlemen. The A.A.A. report indicated that the farmers now get $6.62 for food that the city workers must pay $17.95. staple of everyday diet and always the (Prices Rise in Boise | While Wages Decrease (From a Worker Correspondent.) BOISE, Idaho—The N.R.A. here has put the price of groceries up 40 per cent and wages have not been raised one per cent. In fact, they are 25 per cent lower. Hundreds of men are working on farms for room and board. Hundreds of men are sleeping out on the cold ground with- out beds. In fact, I don’t have proper food to live. -There are many little children on the streets begging, yet the banks are full to overflowing with | money, but nothing for the poor. Still jthere are 95 per cent who are look~- ing for Jesus Christ to fix all this. We |have not had a raise since last June. T went up to the Salvation Army to see the Lord’s Captains, to see if they could get the Lord to give us a good rain. The captain was out, but the lady in charge said the “Lord was busy and could not take it up before Noy. 3 or Nov. 5.” Therefore, if you have any Daily Workers, please send them to me and I will distribute them where they will be read. Hold Jobless Relief Conference in Auto City on November 18 DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 9—With a MASS. HATS PAUL’S MAKER TO WEARER Stephen 1. Stetson Hats UNION MADE $4 -- $5 367 Broadway, Chelsea Mass. CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Daily, qvorker Friday, November 10th: Michael Gold will lecture on “M« American Revolutionary Literati at 1373 48rd Street, Brooklyn, pices of Branch 71 1.W.0. Clt-Grand Youth Club, Street, N.¥.C., will ha showing of “Land of Le “Struggle for Bread.” Concert and Dance given by the Harry Simms Br. 1.U.D. at the Co- operative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East, at Prolet Pen, L wit be on on the programa, ‘ae mission 1c, CAPS Aus- and the Saturday, Nov. lith: Mt. Eden Workers Center, 288 E. 174th St, will hold 2 Concert and Dance. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra will entertain. Porto Rico Anti-Imperialist League will hold 2 Dance and Movie show- ing at 240 Columbia St., Brooklyn. House Party and Entertainment at the home of Comrade jutoft, 631 E. 168th St., Apt. 42, Bronx. Aus- piees Saceo-Vanzettl Br. 1.L.D. Spaghetti Party, Dancing and En- tertainment at the studio at 28 East 14th 8t., Apt, 12. Adm. 0c, Rosalyn Simons will dance. Jerome Workers Club will hold a house party at home of Wyner, 1755 Weeks Ave., Apt. 8-D, Bronx, House Party gvion by Unit 83 at 1978 Vyse Ave, Apt. 1-E, Bronx. hard winter looming for the work- ers, a conference has been called by the Committee of Action for Unem- ployed Relief for Nov. 18 to discuss the problems confronting the unem- ployed and to demand immediate re- lief and unemployment insurance. ‘The Committee of Action calls upon all organizations of workers and farmers to send delegates to the conference, which opens Saturday, Nov. 18, at 1 pm, at the Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5969—14th St., De- troit, Mich. Red Flag Floats All Night Atop Yonkers City Hall Flag-pole YONKERS, N. Y., Nov. 9.—Atop the 60-foot flagpole before the doors of the City Hall here a bright red flag with a hammer and sickle and the words “Vote Communist for Cash Relief ‘and for Immediate Payment of City Employees,” waved through- out last night and this morning un- til 10 o'clock. After frantic efforts, the city for- ester, using a rope and steeplejack board, managed to get the flag down. It had been tied to the very top of the slender pole, The hoisting of the flag has caused a great deal of discussion in the working-class sections of Yon- kers and an uncomfortable feeling in the bosses’ sections, A worker, watching the flag being taken down, said significantly, city’s plenty in the red but this is one time when I think it will take 7 to wipe out the boss kind of red.” Yonkers city employees have been going unpaid for three months. A heavy vote is expected for the Com- munist candidates, William R. Gill for Mayor, Frank Johnson for Comp- troller, Robert Robbins for Common Council President, May Downle and Agnes Basides for Justices of the Peace, and Charles Sanders for Al- WELCOME LITVINOFF CELEBRATION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 1933 at WEBSTER HALL, 119 East 11th Street DR. PAUL LUTTINGER, Master of Ceremonies JACK TYLER’S BAND PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NATIVE.WEST AFRICAN DANCES Tickets on Sale at Workers’ Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. and 799 Broad- way, Room 235. — Auspices: Friends of the Soviet Union. ADMISSION 50c GRAND OPENING TODAY Russian Village BAR, GRILL and RESTAURANT Management: ANICHRA 221 Second Avenue - [near 14th Street] Telephone: TOmpkins Square 6-9307 Russian and Gypsy Music Beer on Draught Tasty Russian Food Free Lunch Bar DECORATION by J. ANCHUTIN DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1933 STRUGGLES FOR RELIEF AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE INCREASE FamiliesCut Down || yews prizes |Steel and Mine Workers Launching Hunger March; Soviet Talk Barred PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9.—Students of the Central High School were for- bidden the use of the school audi- torlum by Dr. John L. Haney, their principal, when they requested the | audience to hear an address on So- pee recognition by, w. Curtis Bok. Women Win Vote MANILA, Nov. 9.—A bill passed to- |day by the Insular Legislature gave women the right to vote in the Phil- ippines after January 1, 1935. Fili- pino women are the first to be en- franchised in the hee ble City Charged With Tenement Fire Deaths NEW YORK —Responsibility for the roasting to death of 11 Negro children, women and men in the fire which destroyed the tinder-box tene- ment at 361 Briston St. Brooklyn, was placed directly at the door of the city and state governments by a mass meeting of white and Negro workers Monday night at 361 Am-/ St. sembled workers vigorously denounced | the pestilential housing conditions forced on the Negro masses by the Tuling class policy of residential seg- regation of Negroes. It demands the abolition of slum conditions and seg- regation. Copies of the resolution were ordered sent to Mayor O’Brien, Mayor-elect LaGuardia and Gov. Lehman. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Workers’ Self-Educa- tional Club. N. J. Laundry Union NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 9.—Rank and file laundry laundry workers here successfully defeated an attempt to organize a union of laundry workers under the A. F. of L., when they ex- pelled the racketeer officials and elected their own leadership last week, The new union, known as_ the Laundry Workers’ and Drivers’ Union has a membership of over 500. At its meeting last Friday, the workers voted to apply for membership in the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union in N. ¥, A committee of 20 Negro and white workers were elected to protest to Governor Moore against the proposed state laundry code by means of which the laundry bosses intend to legalize starvation wages in the industry. Longshoremen Near |St. Louis Quit; Demand Committee Recognition CAIRO, Mo.—Longshoremen mem- bers of the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union walked off the job in this city, which is near St. Louis, when the boss, Mooney, refused to rehire & member of the dock committee. Mooney stated that the dock com- mittee didn’t mean a damn thing to him, As a result of this action the men voted for @ complete stoppage until assurances of full committee recog- nition were granted and the men re- |hired. The men in St. Louis are |veady to support the action of the | Cairo marine workers to the limit. =< Home Relief’s Given to Negro Unemployed Monday’s installment of Elizabeth Potamkin’s first-hand ac- | count of Home Relief Bureau cruelties revealed the severe torment under | jojo, which not only the pauperized workers, but also the relief employees, are | oynty Superinte ndent of Charities, | forced to work, The third installment of this first-hand exposure follows: Wres I visited Mrs. O'Malley the Salvation Army in its “kindness” has given her a stale loaf of bread. She cut the bread in two when I was there and said, “My neighbor hasn't had a thing to eat for days. Td better give her some of this.” ‘When I first came to Home Relief, there were dreary days, rounds of marching in the snow and rain to homes destitute—meeting people bit- ter, angry, oppressed. Not a happy happened. What can be funny about | hunger, misery and slow starvation? It was stark and grim. But to the Home Relief Bureaus came the Unemployed Councils and they cut through all the bunkum of Home Relief. They came with direct, immediate demands for relief of the jobless. These groups beaten, threat- ened, thrown into prison, but they came again and again. They are still coming. Not the Tammany Way When the Unemployed Councils first came to the bureaus, the feeling among the workers in the bureaus was one of terror. None of us were used to honest direct means, Tam- many never works that way. Super- visors grew alarmed. They did not know how to cope with such an ap- proach—so simple and direct. The telephone buzzed. The almighty ones were trying to think up ways of meet- ing with these people, Will they take money? Let's give them everything they ask for! This is just what we want to avoid. Militancy from peo- Ple asking for what belongs to them. To some of us workers it was the first breath of something heroic, sin- cere and hopeful. When the Unem- ployed Council came to the Bureau on East Broadway I walked to the Death of 11 Negroes, Mass Meeting Protests | A resolution adopted by the as-) Drives Out AFL, Votes! to Join Indus. Union falatacnato =— nothing funny ever) ‘Unemployed March on Pittsburgh, for. Relief, on Nov. 28th \ City Withholds Per mit; United Front Action | Committee Formed PITTSBURGH, Pa, Noy. 9—A United County Hunger March will) be held Tuesday, Nov. 28, two days! | before Thanksgiving, at the call of} | the Joint Action Committee, wh has 366 delegates from the steel | workers and miners of Allegheny County. The permit for West Park has al- ready been endorsed at mass mes! ings embracing over 3,500 workers, while trade unions numbering 3,200 have similarly endorsed the March and the demands for which the March is taking place—increased re- | lief and unemployment insurance. Steel Union Active Fifty thousand leaflets are being | printed in addition to the 10,000} | stickers. Union leaflets, leaflets in different languages, are likewise be- ing issued. The Steel & Metal ‘Work- | ers’ Industrial Union has made ar- rangements for calling a series of | mass meetings prior to the march | in order to involve the unemployed | and part-time employed steel work: | ers. Mass delegations, and several dem- | onstrations in preparation for the) March have been organ’zed. Commit- | tees of 100, of 75, etc., have been in-| creased. Eviction fights and strug-| gles against sheriff and constable | sales are growing. | | The Women’s Sections of the Councils held a Conference on Nov. 1} and decided to organize many) women’s delegations to demand a) turkey for Thanksgiving for all un- employed. On Wednesday, Nov. 15,) all of the local committees and dele- gations will unite on a county scale, and many hundreds of women are} expected to go to the office of the) Relief Board demanding turkeys. Activities all down the line are be- | ing increased, and the Councils are | making a determined effort to build | and strengthen the Councils and| | block committees. Considerable suc- cess is already being made. Citizens Leavue Indorses Thus far, four locals of the Un- employed Citizens Leatue have in-| dorsed the County Hunger March | and decided to officially participate | in it. A’ whole broad section of the League leadership and rank and file is fighting the sabotaging efforts of the Lieberman-Socialist clique which | controls the U. C. L. County Central | Committee and the rank and file is working on the united front basis. | Thousands of steel workers, miners, | | building trades workers, etc., are ex- | | pected to attend the County Hunger March and to make it a powerful} demonstration against the Roosevelt | hunger program. In connection with Hunger March the Unemployed Councils of Allesheny County has organized a darn~> in order to raise finances to carry through the Hun- ger March. The dance will take place Saturday, Nov. 18, at 8 pm. at the Superior Hall (formerly Labor Ly- ceum), located at 35 Mil'>r St., Pitts- the County burgh, Pa, Tickets can be obtained at U. C. headquarters, 1524 Fifth | Ave. $9,046,055, for Wardidus-_Hetiet Cuts for Jobless | | ‘This new cruiser, the Astoria, is now under construc- “overhead” for high salaried tion in Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington sta! a cost of more than nine million doliars, It will be jaunched Dec. 16, At the same time the present un- employed relief grants of the Roosevelt government total only S: 83, much of which will never reach Fight for Unemployment Insurance, Relief! the unemployed after the ‘ etc, is deducted. ichigan, Arizona and Titin on dollars for war funds. He i of the unemployed for adequate relief and unemploy- ment insurance. Build Unemployed Neighborhood Committees to fight for the demands of the unemployed workers! Build Unemployed Committees in all A. F. local unions! Form Unemployed Committees in all workers’ or- gant Build the Unemployed Councils! For the united front of ali unemployed and part- time workers, regardless of affiliation, in the Aght for ment Relicf and Insurance! tons in all workers’ organizations for the » Workers’ Unemployment Insuranc2 Bill! | Send gates to the National Unemployed Con- | vention in Washington, January 13! Fight against cuts in relief! | Demand adequate unemployment relief from the city, county and state governments! fh Fight against evictions! Demand free light, gas, heat, rent, clothes and shoes for all unemployed! Demand no discrimination against Negro workers in the giving out of relief! Food for the children of the unemployed! Demand Unemployment and Social In- surance from the federal government! — Detroit Relief Cut 40 P, or 15 P. C. of City on Lists |Big Rise in Profits For Weirton Steel; | NRA Breaks Strike | NEW YORK.—After defeating | | the strike of 14,000 of its workers | with the help of the N. R.A. and | Jobless Councils Preparing Forced Laborers | A. F. of L, officials’ the National | | | Steel Corporation have just re-| | for Relief Strike | ported a profit of $755,565 for the | | | quarter ending Sept. 30. The workers were driven back | without wage increases and with- | out union recognition. But Ernest {T. Weir, chairman of the board, | reported that 2,156,832 shares, held mainly by a few stockholders, will draw 35 cents each. | For the first mine months of | | | 1988, toe net Pr ae Psigez:| | ‘The Unemployed Councils of De- 919, or 77 cents a share in the| |{Tolt have uncovered the following corresponding period of 1932, be- to how the new plan fore the N. R. x was passed. | é: Mexicans Tricked IT, Mich.—With 15 per cent of the city's population officially ief lists, and 200 to 300 families dally being added to the rolls, a new scheme has been introduced which cuts welfare wages 40 per cent. Bitter resentment is spreading, as a result, among the welfare forced | laborers who recently marched down in three groups to the Welfare and com- cong oe mes Roreed Labor Strike Wins Relief Checks aring the men Militant Workers Near 'Seattle Win Demands Militant action Into Seab 3 om a po tea oe Rawest Deal | By ELIZABETH POTAMKIN | Iv. “Get away from that window! Do you want a brick ihfown at your head?” I was not afraid. I stood quietly gazing down. My supervisor's wrath grew large, “Get away from > that window, or there'll be blood-| shed,” she screamed. I answered, “Even if there is going to be plood- | shed, I'll stay.” 4 was no longer afraid for my job. | The little intense knot of people | fighting for all of us in the streets | of the richest city in the world, had | | liberated me. I would join them, regardless of consequences, I felt free. For very obvious reasons I was not fired for my defiance. Home Relief pretends to aid regardless of race,, creed, color or political affiliation. | This is a lie. I was kept on the job, | because I was recognized as a po-, tential red, a menace to all the rot- tenness that caused Home Relief in| the first place. | Sham Excuses Home Relief never admits the truth | of its policy. It always creates some false excuse to fool ‘the workers as | to its real intentions. Very often colored peovle cannot prove their residence. They have been mivr tory workers. They cannot read or write. They cannot prove their resi- dence and get no Home Relief. With- out regard to race, creed or color. When I tried to get relief for a! Porto Rican family of eleven, I was! told I could not give them more than $4 a week! “Why?” I wanted to! know. My supervisor, who is a col- | lege graduate, said, “Porto Ricans have a low standard of livin: “Italian women support their hus- | bands,” is another popular notion | with social workers who believe) everything that is written in text! window. I wanted to hear what they had to say, My supervisor shouted books. i Tall, gaunt Mrs. Jackson, colored, Cuts to Break vik LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 9—After | es toceiving 4,000 Méxican workers and N the strike aga ains st forced. jabor started. The suv sor of the jobs has been ying all kinds of tricks on the 's, but as a result of this im- 2.30 for rent, $1. 40 for ayments on would not be used in strikebreaking their families, which total about 20,-) 3 mt concession the strike has 000 persons, into™believing that “At the same time working se ed strength. Those of the forced labor hav who pre’ ousl, fearful of losin Other workers have been a straight 40 per cent cut in relief, with no increase in | |hours, In addition, while the old} uate wages and | Welfare checks were exempt from the oan vee ee, by ier sales tax, under the new scheme the is revealed to be-false by Jensen’s| Workers must pay the tax. statement that if-they become desti-} The Unemployed Councils are now tute, the northern-county officials will | organizing the wage workers into the care for them. = Welfare Wage Workers comet sixty Although by this-maneuvre he de- | thousand leaflets are being issue clares that he will-cut relief costs by | | calling on the men to set up co a $250,000, Jensen, since his reappoint-| mittees on the job and prepare |ment has said and done nothing about | strike for the following demands: 55 cutting his own high salary, and has | cents an hour, 24 hours work a week, made no real move-to investigate or | rent, fuel and clothing in einai put a stop to the graft and racketeer- |right of Negroes to work a rile 7 ing in his department. lic works and welfare jobs withou | discrimination. Further information Jean be secured at the Unemployed ck- Councils, 4653 (cain cedeabsred Ave. Police Stop Meet in Pa. Steel Town Atten mpting their vot along with ers to defeat Earl E. Jensen, Los Angel: s | preparing to transport them to the northern cotton fields as pickers. the system of . forced labor for relief in Redmond. Decatur, Ill, Jobless Form Council; Demand 50 P.C. Relief Increase DECATUR, mL, d Nov. 9.—The Un- employed Council of Decatur, Ill., has lof action adovted after a meeting attended by 275 workers held in the | Circuit Court, at which Carl Lock- ner, chairman of the State Commit- tee of the Illinois Unemployed spoke The following ey 55 unemployed workers joined Unemployed Council. ‘The program calls for an immedi- ate 50 per cent increase in relief— all relief to be paid in cash, no dis- crimination agai st Negro and for- eign born wi rent and electricity workers, a minim our_on work nt and social ROCKFORD UNIT ACKIVE NEW YORK.—Unit No. 4, ford Illinois, Section, raised *°) for the Daily Worker by holding en af- fair. The Unit writes: “We feel that the quota of $75 for our Section could be very easily raised if the real value of the Daily Worker was Srpeesl: ated.” The Unit pledges to do every: thing in its power. to bring the Daily | Worker to the masses of worker: for unemployed of 60 co er ef. and unemplo} surance to smash dase up a y me this nt steel town and jailed six , one of whom was given a} Injunction Threat to Tannery Strikers | tells me that her husband Tom Jack- son worked for 20 years for one firm. He was handsomely rewarded with| V import tenee, and two released. a letter saying that he had proved a/ eit te fe hace faithful worker! ‘That was all the | J0¢ Dallet, District zer of the Y., Nov. 9. Jackson family had to show for 20 on. Metal desperate of the years of labor. Mrs, told , and Fr: 2 of the 2.000 to Jimmy e she took the™ pa Valker. “I was not afraid,” she said. Why, I knew Jimmy Walker when | he was a corner bum on the East Side She was admitted to Mayor) Walker's office. He made a point of | being gallant. It certainly got the| Negro vote, When he read the letter Mrs. Jackson brought, he said: “This better recommendation than I'll) r get.” I hope this will be in- seribed on his tomb some day, It! has more merit than any of his wise cracks, Mrs. Jackson won a pen=| 4. 41, aueniase of Ae Soe sion for her husband, age 75, be-| der the auspices of the S. M. W. I. U. cause she had the courage to know | to protest the arrest and demand a bum when she saw one, ‘more relief for unemployed workers. he terror 's of Ambridge, |) 3s to crush all 1 _ The Int erna- worker: case, speech A mass pm. v 2 North Walnut, psville, Pa. une s for relief to eupnare the heroic struggle of the 1,700 workers who continue on strike. | just been organized, and a program | Page Three 'Tacoma Compelled to Endorse Social Insurance Bill F orce City Council to Ask Congress for Jobless Bill TacomaDemonstration Led by Jobless Council Wins Victory —Meass pressure tration of Taconia ‘council ‘or the passes nemployment rance Bill. Pierce TACOMA, Coun ¢ attention ment and abso> llions of opr ved by the y memorialize ed States ‘of he said Cons he “Work- Social In- 1g before. it, ccer and sub- t full measure of to be obtained in this CAMP NITGEDAIG CET | BEACON, YHONE BEAC Now N. ¥. ON 781 Open for Fall and Winter m Heat, Hot and Water in each room WHOLFSOME FOOD. REST, SPORTS, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES nation call Easterbrook 8-1400 Musicale and Lecture piponf Noy.10, 8:30 p.m. - ; HOOL FOR SOCIAL 66 W. 12th Street Ib, Pianist z Ensemble “Lecture on N. R. A. and the I. L.D Sadie Van Veen, Chairman Admission 35e—Ausp.? OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS FOR THE Daily, Worker Port Chester, N. Y. mber 9th: ivet—Chinese Restaurant. Dane- a nged by Russian forth Main Street. Cleveland November 11th: ‘ Rally and Banquet Nov ainment at Carpenter Kinsman Road, Ausptces , 0. F Dance and Entertainment at Home Owners Hall, 4323 Lorain Ave. Adm, 15c. Auspici its 13 and 102, West Allis, Wis. November 12th: Concert and Dance given by the h Workers Club, South Slay- 1 Club and the Communiat Labor Hall, 6337 W..Ma- Canton, Ohio November 15th: or! rs Press Dance being arranged rganizations in Canton at Inter- onal Workers Order, 1732 8th St, Admission only 15¢. Gary, Ind. November 11th: Vetcherinka is being arranged by Unit 11 at 224 W. 15th Bt. at @ pam. Excellent music, good eats. Adim. 108, Newark, N. J. November 12th: House Party at home of Comrade Brodkin, 119 Ridgewood Ave, Ate pices Unit 4, Worcester, Mass, November 12th: Dinner and musicale siven at Bn- dicot Hall et 430 p.m, Connecticut District * ‘The great Soviet film "1905" adapted from M. Gorki’s famous novel Mother" will be shown in the fol- lowing places on the days Ilsted be- N.E. 13—Tivele Hall, Grove, Main St., Chico) Falls, Philadelphia November 11th: Dance and Entertainment given by Unit 101 Sec. 1 at 1208 Tasker st, at § p.m, Detroit November 12th: Concert and Dance in celebration of the I{th Anniversary of the monist Perty at Martin Martin St., riven by the Section, Adm, ISe. ———— cn pe 7 ooemageamanees \