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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Swindling Small Depositors

MIR K the who president of the Bank
wi Richard Sherman Deputy Assist
Attorney total deposits hrunk from
1908 900 on September
What before the and humble
deosios knew that the sha somebody
the inside were getting out from
wi nothing to the small depositors
these people? their names,
safely that they friends of those who robbed the bank from
the nothing
depostor They undoubtedly big deposior
losing they
that another cruel swnde being The
absolutely prevents workers and other small depostors from actually
getting cynical windle
capitalist in the crime against the small de-
poosreate boast that after applying Tor loans many de-
finally changing their minds And these capitalist sheets
claim that this shows return of confidence
Hypocrisy The trick to get the deostors sign their
deposits the final
depotor required further
Fo the the United States
the deposowiH
to make good!
And small deposios security
bank books! So they will have their
the
end that such thing impossible
Others security
have security who will endorse their
loan However they could
1eposiors of the bankrupt bank. a
The workers. the small depoitors those
lars at the cost of sweat and selfsacrce robbed
And is becoming plain that the
Mr. Broderick is protecting the bank robbers He
quesonsthouh he public official
ing the bank for fifteen months
while yet there chance that the small dpoos might their
money
gather
assuring" Steue
by the fact that he confidence
the the Superintendent
friend of the small depositors
hcane, tricks
to cough by insisent and militant protest.
Organize to defeat the swnders and robbes
dsgoge your money they pockets
with Organize for protest that will compel attention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
WOMEN STARVE IN
CITY FLOP HOUSE
300 Sleep In Bug In
tested Dump

NEW YORK. At the municipal
lodge, known among the workers as
a flop house." on third avenue and
twenty-fifth street, there is a young
married woman, Mrs. Constantine,
barely eighteen years old, who is not
only starving herself, but her I'M
born child is also being starved to
death, even before it comes into the
world. Mrs. Constantine is one of
three hundred women who sleep in
the women's dormitory each night,
amid filth and bed-bugs, and with
only one sheet and one thin blanket.
Her husband, now unemployed for
months, is housed in the mems lodg-
ing quarters. Each morning at five,
the unemployed men and women are
awakened and after being fed
heavy breakfast Of: small bowl Of
oatmeal, without milk or sugar, one
cup Of coffee, without milk or sugar.
They are turned out into the street,
and told not to come back until six
o'clock that night. None are allowed
to stay in the building, unless too
cick to sit up or unless kept there
to do work around the flop house,
for a few hours.
Mrs. Constantine is wearing an old
pair Of cast-off shoes which do not
fit, and in her condition, made her
quite lame and sick. She asked to
be allowed to stay at the lodging
room and rest, but this was denied.
Over the radio, the Mayors Un-
employment Relief Committee are
announcing that mo one should give
to those who are soliciting aid, for
the public relief is quite adequate to
take care Of all case" - -.s~-s4--..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
ELIZABETH JOBLESS IN
DEMAND FOR RELIEF NOW

|. ELIZABETH, N. j., Dec. 21.-The
Council Of the Unemployed here has
sent committee of five to present
the following amendments to the
city budget for 1881:
Turn over for immediate relief
to the unemployed the $990,753 slated
for repayment Of loans and interest
on city debt.
2.-Cut in half the city officials
salaries where they amount to over
$500.
All this relief to be distributed
through city board of shop workers
and the Unemployed Council.
The committee demands also that
the city council passes the following
measures:
Absolutely no evictions.
All vacant apartments for the
free use Of the unemployed.
3-No payment of bills for gas,
electricity or coal. by the jobless.
4.-Free food and clothing.
5.-Free transportation for all the
unemployed workers and their FAM
lilies. ~ y - V, WV,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
ATTEMPT TO STOP
PIONEERS CIRCUS
Hall Cancels Contract,
Central Opera Secured

NEW YORK-To counterfeit the
widespread religious propaganda in
the schools, the Young Pioneers have
prepared great Anti-Santa Circus,
which was to have been held at
Irving Plaza on Christmas Day.
Under pressure of the police authori-
ties the owners of the Irving Plaza
broke their contract with the Pho
neers and refused to allow them to
use the hail. Webster Hall also re-
fused to rent to the Pioneers. AS an
answer to such manoevers of the
police the Pioneers are taking the
Central Opera House, which is much
larger tina nthe previous hall, and
are preparing a more elaborate pro-
gram.
The same police will be portrayed
at this circus together with their
rulers, John D., Hoover and Co.
The workers of New York together
with their children will answer these
undetermined tactics by demonstrat-
ing their solidarity with the Pioneers
and by jamming the Central Opera
House to overlooking on Christmas
Day at p. m. The admission is only
Is cents for adults and children 2 for
7 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Vol. VII. No. 3O5
Capitalist Class Justice.


the
Soviet Government flew Soviet
Central Committee RENTED the death sentences.
that the
a disarrned defeated
Friday Sofia
according N. trial
with seventeen Communist youth including 17year old high school
with completely Communist membership
in Communist organizations"
that agents the political police entered
courtroom, youthful denounced
they acquainted
Let the Times tell how Justice
proceeded in capitalist Bulgaria:
gendames latter rushed
with led with rifle
wounded the head with bayonet
trial they fought to
the scene"
capitalist activities
capitalist here and in Europe
criminals
a publicly denied
adds that witnesses Mortified
by trial"
the judge sentenced these
ordered them
daey to prison
of
beangs hundreds of
guilty
rikean
capitalist bottom the in America in bloody Bulgaria
its struggle because
this saagery capitalism the
the woewho such proof of the fall
of capitalist courts is to strengthen all their class
anizatons revolutionary
all class struggle the Communist Party!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Push Navy War
Program Ub to
81 loo, 100000

WASHINGTON Dec. 21--That at
least $1,1O0,0O0,0OO will have to be
spent to limit" the American navy
was the main point in the testimony
of Admiral William V. Pratt, chief
of naval operations, before the House
Committee on Naval Affairs on Sat
urday.
Previously Hoover declared that
only $800,000,000 would be necessary
to build sufficient ships with which
to "disarm," but now Admiral Pratt
says an increased sum is necessary
The 81 100,00O,0OO will be voted for
war preparations, but the unemployed
workers are being fooled by a fake
$118,O0o,000 building program, not. a
cent of which they will ever see.
In previous testimony Admiral
Pratt said that there was no par
ity" because the British naval bases
made the British navy superior to
the American navy To make up
Pratt now asks for $3OO,00O00O more
for war ships and cruisers, and ad-
vises speeding-up merchant marine
building as part of the war prepare
tons.
The merchant marine, which is
definitely part of the war moves
would cost another billion,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
OVER 5000 BIRMINGHAM
NEGRO, WHITE JOBLESS
PUT UP FIGHT FOR RELIEF
New Haven Police in Vicious
Attack on Girl Shirt Strikers
Kick and Club Leaders-Savage Sentences By
Courts-Bosses Offer Gunner S25 For
Every Strike Leader Taken For Ride

taken a hand in the effort to break
the strike, with the arrival here OF
U. S. Labor Department Conciliator
Anna Weinstock, who has already
conferred with the bosses but refuses
to see strike committees. The church
too is functioning in its traditional
role of betrayer of the struggles of
the workers. A local Catholic priest
is attempting to inject himself in to
the situation, but the girls have
unanimously voted against accepting
his invitation to a conference at his
church.
A big strikers dance was held last
night at the Labor Lyceum, with a
large number of strikers and SYM
pathizers present.
A mass meeting is scheduled for
this afternoon at which Tom Di
Fazio, italian organizer, and June
Croll will speak There will also be
a defense mass meeting Tuesday to
organize defense for those arrested
and facing vicious sentences in the
bosses courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
OPEN DRIVE FOR
WORKERS CENTER
Organizations Urged
to Help

NEW YORK.-The 8-day drive for
the New York Workers Center and
Workers Printing Press, which serve
the working class in it's struggle, will
open with a banquet in the Workers
Center, 35 E. 18th ST., Sunday, Jan.
18th. The speakers at the banquet
will be Comrades Browder, Minor,
Bedacht, Foster and L Amter.
All sections and fraternal organi-
zzations are urged to elect 2 delegates
to this banquet ana also to raise
money to help maintain the Work
ers Center.
At present the New York Workers
Center is housing most of the insti-
buttons of the Party and the &C. of
the Party will move into the center
shortly. In order to bring the build
ing into proper shape, some immedi-
ate funds are needed and we ask all
sympathizers to support the 8-day
drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22

NEW HAVEN, Dec. 21.-Another
brutal attack was launched by the
police Friday night against the mass
picket line of the striking workers
at the Lesnow Bros. Shirt Factory.
The police savagely beat up girl
strikers with clubs when they re-
fused to diSperse, and kicked several
i'll the stomach. Five strikers we're
arrested: Sarak Zaks, 19-year old
strike leader, Esther Weisman, IT.
year old picket captain, also William
Schneiderman, Louis Weiser and
Meyer jacobson who were picketing
Esther Weisnlan was rescued from
the cops by a group Of girl strikers
who dragged her away but the cops
charged them Selling her again and,
kicking her in the stomach, threat
ened to beat her up.
The arrested strikers were all held
on $4,000 bail with trial set for We'd
nesday before Judge Whitaker who
has already handed out vicious SEN
fences of 60 days to June Croll and
90 days to Joe Jackson.
With the police and courts CO.
operating in full with the bosses in
an attempt to break the strike, the
bosses have offered gangsters $25 for
each strike leader taken for a ride.
Extra vigilance on the part of the
strikers foiled gangsters' attempt to
kidnap June Croll, organizer Of the
National Needle Trades Wc---r----5' In
dustrial union which is conducting
the strike.
The Federal Government has also
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
MORE PROOF OF ROBBERY
IN BANK OF u. S.; 5000
DEMONSTRATE AT BANK
stockholders Engaged
In Wholesale Gyp
Dealings
LOO Banks Failed
Crisis Grows Worse As
More Banks Crash

NEW YORK. - On Monday, Bro
derrick, state superintendent of banks,
announces. the loans will be given
to the 29,415 depositors of the Bank
of the U. S. who applied. Evidence
given by ker-depositors at the var
ious meetings shows this loan to be
a fake scheme which has no relation
to their deposits. The depositors
have to get other endorses to back
their loans, proceeding which they
can go through to get loan even
if they never put a cent in the Bank
of the U. S.
Meanwhile, Broderick is still keep
ing back the truth about the condi-
ton of the bank. He now refuses
to answer any questions of depositors
on what is going on behind the closed
doors of the ruined bank When the
charge was made that judge of the
supreme court got loan" Of $780,
900, and one of the directors of the
bank stuck a cool million in his
pocket as a loan" just before the
hank crashed, Broderick refused to
answer.
More Swindling.
Now some more swindling is shown
up through an examination of stock
sales by the bank. 1t is proved that
the bank officials sold stock of the
bank for $198 share with the pro-
mise that the shares could be turned
in at any time for the full amount
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22

But SO far workers have been lax their
with casual haphazard and insufficient
immediate to Emergency FUND.-.
Inc Soo0OO must be raised by
On December IT, the the
Daily Worker The Philadelphia District
Minneapolis S67.97; SEATTLE
This can no longer be excused explained
good the intentions
failure to support result
S9aI The Executive Committee the Lithuanian
BUT THIS is NOT ENOUGH The
have almost neglected the
The Daily Worker must working
will
Use the Red Shock
and organizations
Street, New .u,aSl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Full Text Of Verdict
Against Counter Reyolu-
tionary Wreckers

Beginning tomorrow, the Daily
Worker will begin publication Of
the full text Of the Verdict of the
Supreme Court Of the Soviet Union
in the recent trial in Moscow Of
the counter Revolutionary Indus
trial Party, rendered by the Court
on December 7th, which has just
arrived.
This Is the official summing-mp
of the revelations of the trial,
which revealed the detailed inter-
national conspiracy, led by the
French General Staff and particle
pated in by capitalists of England
and the United States, in prepars-
ton for war against the Soviet
Union In 1881.
Every Worker must read care
fully this document, the most inn
portant in modelling the struggle
against war and for the defense Of
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
N. Y. MEET TO HIT
WAR PLOTS DEC. 26
Bob Minor and Olgin
Among Speakers

NEW YORK-A mass protest DEM
onStration against the interventionist
plots of international Imperialism as
has been revealed in the Moscow
Trial against the eight conspirators
who were in direct link with the gen.
eral staffs of France and Great Bri-
tain and other imperialist nations,
with the aim to attack the Soviet
Union thereby Gripping the five year
plan of socialist construction, will
take place on Friday, Dec Goth, p.
m. at Star Casino, lis E. 107th ST.,
New York City.
Robert Minor will make his first
address since his arrest and impris-
onment as result of the unemploy-
ment demonstration of March 9Th.
Lem Harris, newspaper correspon-
dent at Moscow, just returned from
the Soviet Union, will relate his ex-
periences of his troubles through the
Soviet Union.
M. Olgin, editor of the Jewish Daily
Freiheit, will speak on the latest
achievements of the five year plan,
and on the trial of the eight con-
spirators.
There will also be a concert and
other entertainments. The admission
will be Is cents at the door. Come
EN- masse and demonstrate for the
defense and recognition of the Soviet
Union. Auspices Friends of the
Soviet Union, New York District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Daily Worker Debts Grow. Emergency
Fund Support Is Still insufficient.
Telephone cut off for non-payment Of bill.

Telephone cut off for payment Of bill.
The Daily $4,000 printing bills.
The Daily Worker $1,000
These immediate remove the
danger not only but also
Center and the printing plant
1t hardly not
ceved in weeks; that
OF outstanding notes that which
The Daily Worker the fighting working
the Daily Worker and other militant working
Party forced unemployment attention
ganized
to dudc workers into believing
to distract the working from the with
prohibition enforcement the Daily
the bank crashes and the crisis organizes
The working class needs the Daily Worker. --f-~ ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
COPS BEAT WOMEN
ASKING DEPOSITS
More Than $4,000 Now
Organized For Mass
Struggle
B'klyn Meeting Tonite
Tammany Judge Finds
Depositers Guilty"
B'klyn Meeting Tonite

NEW YORK.-Following meet
ing OF, 5000 small depositors of the
Bank of the United States on Friday
at Hunts Point Palace in the Bronx
more than 5000 Idepositors and work.
ers, who sympathized with them,
demonstrated in front of the Free
man st. branch of the defunct bank
on Saturday morning at II o'clock.
One or the neutrality-suspicious. COM
mittee, representing over 5000 depos-
itors attempted to get up and speak
to the crowd in front of the bank
The doors of the bank had just been
slammed shut at IL O'Clock, and the
depositors in line protested, demand
ing the right to make application for
the loan"
Cops Beat Depositors.
The police in front of the bank
began to attack the crowd, but they
stopped very soon and called for re-
Inducements. Mounted police, riot
wagons and bunch of cops and
dicks rushed to the bank The
speaker was knocked to the ground
and beaten.
Bessie Lapidus, depositor whose
money was robbed by the Tammany
bank officials, was beaten in the ribs
and over the heart for demanding
the return of her deposit.
Eight were arrested. Lillian Ger
Der, one of those arrested, was dis
charged. The others, Harry Metz,
Joseph Levitt, Oscar Mailman, Alvar
Allen, Yetta Schechter and Bessie
Lapidus were tried before Magistrate
Flood, found guilty of disorderly con-
duct and were given a suspended SEN
tence. Flood, who tried the March
6 delegation in the preliminary hear
ing, is the magistrate who refused
bail to William z. Foster. This Tam
many magistrate, whose brother was
pinched for murder and let out on
small bail, has the gall to find work.
ers guilty for demanding the return
of their money stolen by Tammany
bank officials.
Meet Monday Night.
There will be another meeting of
the Bank of U. S. depositors on Mon
day at $3.50 p. m. at 1873 43rd ST.,
Brooklyn, where further organiza-
ton will take place. Over $4,000 de-
positors have already met in differ
ent parts of the city, have organized
themselves, formed committees and
will meet to work out plans to de-
mand the return in full of the de-
posts of workers and small mer-
chants.
%.E
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to fight
for their deposits, a committee of
worker depositors of the 86th Street
and goth Avenue Branches of the
Bank of United States have called
mass meeting of depositors for this
evening, o'clock, at 48 Bay 18th
Street, Coney Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
FAKE RELIEF CASH
FOR WAR PURPOSE
CongressAssuresWage
Cut On Public Work

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec 21-
Congress adjourned until after New
Years last night. The last business
OF Importance was the passing of the
Hoover fake unemployment relief bill
which provides $116,0O0,oOO for pub
lie improvements.
During the course of teh debate on
Senator CouZens' amendment, which
provided that labor hired should be
at union rates, it was pointed out
that such small parts of the fund as
found its way into the pockets of the
men hired would be at a wage-cut
basis. The CouzenS' amendment was
defeated with great enthusiasm by
the rest of the senators, who are all
representatives of big business and
enthusiastic for wage They
argued that such an amendment was
unconstitutional, as it might prevent
the lowest bidder from getting the
job. Couzens made poor fight, him
self, and seemed to be talking for the
record.
Spent For War.
The bill provides about $91 100000
for roads and trails mice pickings
for Stone & Webster and other big
contractors and gives most of the
rest to the war department to pre-
pare for the coming slaughter under
the guise of improving rivers and
harbors."
Facts brought out in the debate by
Senators LaFollette and Walsh
showed 10000 unemployed in Buffalo
(21 per cent of the Workers., $4,000
in San Antonio, 5000 in New Haven,
5000 in Springfield, Mass. Senator
Willett of Massachusetts rose and
Indignantly declared that mo outside
aid should be sent to Massachusetts
cities or towns"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
CHASE BOSS INTO
HOTEL; DEFY COPS.
Protect Trade Union
Unity League
Speakers
Boss Threatened Them
Ambridge Steel Toilers
Present Demands

BIRMINGHAM Ala. Dec. 21.-
Three to four thousand workers,
about two-t thirds. Negroes and one
third white. staged a spontaneous
demonstration for unemployment re-
lief under the leadership of MEM
bers of the Trade Union Unity
League in front of a hotel where q
local capitalist had fled after threat
ening with violence the workers who
had answered his advertisement for
laborers at IS cents an hour.
The spirit of the demonstration
was so militant, the crowd protecting
the speakers who spoke in the hotel
corridors, that the police used unu-
sually gentle methods to break up
the demonstration, and no one was
hurt. The demonstration cheered
for the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill and demands for relief
from the government treasures. 1t
was the biggest mass demonstration
ever seen in the South.
NEW YORK.-Followin a week.
end in which number of local
united front conferences were held
in the larger cities to plan the work
of collecting signatures for the Work.
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill,
which proposes to take the national
war funds for the use of the jobless,
to plan local demonstrations for i'm
mediate relief, organization of the
unemployed into councils, and for
mutation of local demands, the Ma
tional Committee in charge of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Shoe Worker JObless
Meet Tomorrow, / p m

NEW YORK-The Independent
Shoe Workers Union calls meeting
of all unemployed shoe workers for
Tuesday. at / p. M, at 16 West Dist
St, to plan organized action for re-
lief and insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
MORE RAILROAD LAYOFFS
(By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

HILLYARD. Wash. Hillyard is
the centre for the railroad chops of
The Great Northern and only a few
men are working and those one half
the usual time and lay-offs are still
on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22
Tester Sn1edred;
Bad Meat Good

When a New York meat dealers
trainload of beef was con-
demned in Bush terminal New
York as unfit to eat he took it
to Jersey City where he found
that by paying $4,000 the right
man re-examined and found it
not only good but quite tasty.
II was sold to New Jersey work
ers at the usual jip prices.
Read Of boss corruption and
labor rackets in the Daily
Worker soon. Written by OlIen
johnson who exposed Tammany
Hall.
100000 circulation campaign
news page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22

Worcorrs are the eyes of the
workers press. Join your local
Worcorr group and help fight the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-22

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign
for the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Unemployment Insurance Must
Be Won Now!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10
HEADS LEGION UNIT

Mrs. r. W. Means to Direct Educa-
ton of War Orphans.
Mrs. Rice w. Means of this city was
appointed division director of education
of war orphans for the American Legion
Auxiliary, it was announced by the ma
tional headquarters of the auxiliary in
indianapolis today. In the position