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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
BELATED REPORTS
RED VOTE GAINS

Not even yet, over five weeks since
the day of election, have the cap
italist election officials of Chicago
released figures on the large Com
munist vote increase in that city.
Only now, have the Maryland state
vot eflgures been mace public, as far
as the Communist balloting is con-
cerned. Both Illinois and Maryland
gave out the Republican and Demo-
cratic figures right after election day.
In Maryland, Samuel Parker, Me-
gro waiter and Communist candidate
for governor received 1855 votes. Isa-
dore Samuelson, Communist candi-
date for attorney general got $40
votes. Lena Lipman, needle worker,
candidate for comptroller got 995
votes. George Reilly, young laborer.
candidate for Clerk Of the Court Of
Appeals, got 1852 Communist votes.
Two years ago the presidential
candidate on the Communist ticket
got 636 votes. The gain between that
and the high point Of the vote this
year is l25 per cent. Lipman and
Samuelson got more votes than their
Socialist opponents.
There will be city election in
Baltimore In the spring Of 1881 and
the Communist Party will be in 1t
to elect. Valuable lessons were
learned from the campaign this year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
BIG CROWD HEARD.
HATHAWAY TALK
Amter to Speak at the
Next Forum Meet

NEW YORK.-Several hundred
workers had to be turned away for
lack of room when Clarence Hatha-
way, editor of the Daily Worker.
gave clear and comprehensive ex-
position of the forces that are rap
idly driving toward another i'm
perialist world war and primarily to
a military attack against the Soviet
Union.
The intense interest of the audi
ence was manifested both in the
serious attention paid to the speaker
and to the lively discussion and the
numerous questions raised. A shock
of unmitigated joy and pride flashed
through the audience when Hatha-
way made reference to the fact that
the workers and peasants govern
ment in the Soviet Union, with the
help of the G. P. u, can take good
care of the counter-revolutionary
wreckers within the country. The
audience cheered and applauded Wig
orously when the latest Sunday
newspapers report of five of the
counter-revolutionary intervention
plotters and wreckers were SEN
fenced to death, was read by the
speaker.
The two forums held thus far this
season show that the Workers
School Forums have become an in
dispensable institution to hundreds
of revolutionary workers of New
York. Next Sunday the Forum will
be held in the afternoon at the r.
wing Plaza. /. Amter, member of
the March 6 Unemployed Delega-
ton, recently released from jail,
who is now the district organizer
of the Communist Party, will speak
on the very important topic "Ram-
say MacDonald-Social Imperial
ist." Comrade Amter will analyze
the role and nature of the labor
government of Great Britain and
the very long strides taken by the
Macdonald Government toward open
fascism, as expressed in the Mosley
manifesto for dictatorship.
Although this Sundays forum will
be held in the afternoon all the sue
ceeding forums will be held Sunday
nights at the usual time and place.
Some of the most prominent leaders
of the Communist movement are
scheduled to speak on successive
Sunday nights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
UNITED COUNCILS
CALL CONFERENCE
Preparations Made for
WIR Bazaar

NEW YORK. With the joint
bazaar of the Workers International
Relief and the United Councils of
Working Glass Women only a few
weeks away, the bazaar committee
announces the need of all workers
and workers organizations to COL
lect material to be sold at the bazaar
enabling workers to buy useful ar
ticles at greatly reduced prices.
The United Councils of Working
Glass Women is calling a series of
city-wide conference to intensity
their activity in making blouses, pill
lows, lamp shades, ETC., and in col
lecting material for the bazaar. The
conference will be held at: 270O
Bronx Park East; 400 Boston Rd.,
Bronx; 143 East ST., N. Y; 43 Bay
18th ST., Brooklyn; 118 Bristol ST.,
Brooklyn; 81 Graham Ave, Brook
lyn, on Thursday, Dec. II at p. m.
The w. I. R. branches and scouts
are also active in collecting material.
All material collected, is urged to be
brought . the bazaar offices, at 131
w. 18th St., and at 799 Broadway,
Room 535
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
POLICE
KILL WORKER IN
GENERAL STRIKE
Struggle Flares Up
Again In Spain

The temporary lull in the series of
general strikes in Spain has come to
an end. Associated Press reports
from Valencia Tuesday tell of street
fighting between strikers and police
in which one worker was killed, one
cop was seriously wounded, many
were hurt, and fifty arrested.
Clashes occurred Immediately after
a 48-hour strike had been declared
in Valencia. The capitalist press was
absolutely silent on this general
strike, and no news was published
about it until the severe collisions
took place resulting in the death Of
a striker.
While the cops were carrying on
roundups of strikers, fresh fights
started throughout the city. Three
street cars were overturned and at
tackled by crowds of strikers who in
sisted on the stoppage of street car
service to make the strike effective.
The authorities are blaming the
Communists for leading the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
MEET SUNDAY IN
FIGHT TO FREE s
Rally for Imperial Val
ley Prisoners

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting in
behalf Of the eight Imperial Valley
prisoners who are serving sentences
Of up to 40 years will be held at the
Manhattan Lyceum, IS East 4th St,
Sunday, 2 p. m.with j. Louis Eng
dahl, general secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, B. D.
Amis, and Anna Burlak as speakers.
The meeting is under the auspices
of the district I. L. D.
This mass meeting Is part of the
campaign carried on by the Inter-
national Labor Defense for the free
ing of the eight workers who were
imprisoned for their attempt to or
ganizez the workers of the Imperial
Valley, known as the death valley"
into a militant union. Their hall in
FL Centre was raided while the work
ers were preparing for a conferencs
of all the agricultural laborers in the
valley.
Eighty-seven workers we're arrested
and thrown into huge trucks and
jailed. Many Mexican workers were
deported and eight imprisoned after
a frame-up trial with a number of
stool pigeons and dicks as the only
witnesses for the prosecution.
J. Louis Engdahl will take up the
whole history of the case and tell
of the amnesty campaign which will
be shortly undertaken by the Inter-
national Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
|L.S.N.R. EXPOSES
| PITTS. FIRE TRAP
Negro G hi | d Was
Burned to Death
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a worker correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11.-As a re-
suit of Investigations carried out here
by a committee of the League OF
Struggle for Negro Rights, of fire
which took the life of 6-year-old
Negro child on Thanksgiving Day,
the following interesting facts have
been unearthed:
The fire, which broke out when the
widowed mother of seven children
was preparing the MONDAY meal for
her children, started on the second
floor of the house, where the chill
dren were. The house is one of a
block of six similar homes, each with
three rooms, one on each floor, each
home having only one entrance, the
front door, and no fire escape, or
even hallway connecting the three
floors.
When the fire broke out in this
souse on Sweeney Way the children
shouted in alarm, and one little girl
of six rushed upstairs to the third
floor to escape tn esmoke. There be-
ing no hallway for escape, but only
stairs connecting each room, the
child on the third flor was burned
tc death before the fire was put out.
These facts make clear that this home
is another of the hundreds of fire
traps into which Negroes are segre-
gated in the "Hill' district of Pitts
burgh.
The mother, whose husband, a
hod-carrier, died two years ago, has
been supported by the local "Wel-
fare" Fund, which paid her rent and
gave her less than $40 per week to
feed her children on. The children
were repeatedly forced to ask as
'sistance from neighbors, who also are
among the poorest paid workers in
the city.
1t / sto fight against segregation
OF Negro workers and to force con-
domination of the hundreds of fire
traps in this city, for which Negro
workers are forced to pay exorbitant
rents. and to fight against evictions,
that the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights is now beginning a cam
paign, in which it has the co-opera-
ton of the Unemployed Council on
the "hill," which is calling a mass
meeting for Wednesday night, Dec
10, at the Pythian Temple, POLL Cen
ter Ave. (Wylie Ave. entrance), to
discuss these problems. Admission is
free. All workers are urged to at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
SHARP INCREASE
in N. Y. JOBTESS
Out of Work Grow in
Oct. by 100000

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 11.-Unem-
ployment is rapidly growing worse
in New York state, according to Ia
test reports of Frances Perkins, In
dustrial Commission. Never since
unemployment figures were kept in
this state, that is, since 1914, have
the unemployment figures been SO
high.
The drop in employment for Oc-
tober, among factory workers, was
3 per cent; in New York City it was
3 IL per cent-the only time this
was exceeded in one month was in
the early part Of the crisis of 1929
when there was drop of 51-2 per
cent.
What is happening in New York
is indicative of what is going on
throughout the entire country. The
jobless army is growing larger all the
time. The three per cent drop for
the month, applied to those at work
in October, would mean that at least
250,000 workers lost their jobs in that
one month alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
.LARRI0LA ADMITS
5YFAR PLAN is
BLDG. SOCIALISM
Completely In Accord
With Marxism

PARIS.-"Le Soir" reports that
Professor Labriola, an ex-rninister
and professor of the University of
Naples has delivered a lecture in
Brussels on the Five Year Plan in
the Soviet Union. LabrioIa is So
cialist.
He declared that the FRYE Year
Plan was the greatest effort ever
made to achieve Socialism. The plan
was completely in accord with Marx
list economics. He declared that the
Soviet authorities were doing every
thing possible in order to reorganize
all branches of economic life on So
cialist principles. In conclusion he
declared that there was no reason
for the statement that the Five Year
Plan would not be carried out fully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12

LONDON, Dec. 10.-Today's official
unemployed figures show an increase
of $4,000 since last week. This brings
the total to 2,305,639 jobless in Great
Britain.
The result of the treachery of the
reformist leaders is that the revolu-
tionary miners union has recruited
many new members. The best mem
bers of the reformist union destroyed
their cards and Joined the new union.
BERLIN.-Yesterday afternoon the
bourgeois fascist socialist parties
voted down all the Communist pro-
posals on behalf of the working
masses in the Reichstag. The Bruen-
ing program remained complete.
PARIS.--A telegram from Hanoi
states that in the early morning
hours of November % five Indo- Chi
nese reyolutionaries were beheaded.
The murdered victims were: Ngyuen-
Van Toai, Tran Van Hop, Than
Nam, LIE Yang Huy and Bal Xuan
Mai.
The executed revolutionaries were
five of the group of ten, who had
been sentenced to death in the trial
of May %, 1880.
This telegram, stating laconically
the murder of five fighters, shows
that French imperialism is continu-
ing its "pacifying" Of Indo- China by
the most ruthless methods of white
terror. There are still rs victims,
waiting in the prisons to be beheaded
like their comrades.
x
WARSAW-AtK oWel trial took
place against 81 workers accused of
being members of the Communist
Party of Western Ukrainia. Forty-on
of the defendants were found guilty.
Their sentence was as follows: Four
were sentenced to eight years each;
one to six years; nine to five years
and 81 to four years each. In total
a term of 1911 years of Imprisonment
has been melted out.
The county court at Lublin SEN
fenced ID members of the left social
lists to a total of 81 years imprison-
ment.
In both trials the prisoners accused
the prison authorities of terrible tor
lures of the prisoners. One of the
defendants said: "They could not
maltreat animals in such cruel way
as us"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12

City Near Bankruptcy.
Mr.. Ashton, city treasurer, made a
hypocritical plea to the delinquents
that they pay the rent and taxes
1t will prevent court action. he said,
and relieve the city's financial dis
tress. 1t will furnish funds to the
council to appropriate for the relief
of the unemployed.
Now isn't that nice of the Ware
gang. They had to mention the un-
employed workers in order to collect
about s7,ooo,ooO to Slo,ooo,Ooo from
the unemployed workers who cannot
pay taxes, in order "to relieve I'M
employment" as they put it.
They talk of relief in order to fool
the workers.
Must Stop CONVERSATIONS.
Now it is obvious that they intend
to carry out mass confiscations, but
there is no way of stopping these
robbers only if the $4,000 workers
whose homes are threatened with
seizure get together and fight it.
Then the city council would hesitate
and wouldn't. even think of trying it.
The organizations that can fight this
battle against mass confiscation are
the Councils of Unemployed, who
demand tax strike for jobless
workers, no evictions and a fight for
real unemployment relief at the
bosses expense.
Unemployed Councils are at SO N.
Tenth ST., 1881 N. Franklin st. and
1902 Kensington st. Join now.
Philadelphia is the vaunted "City
of Homes" with about 425,0oO indi-
vidual one and two-family houses.
Sheriff sales during the last few
years have averaged about 1000 a
week, but the sharpening of the crisis
has brought about the condition de-
scribed above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
PASS THE BUCK
BUT NOT RELIEF
Anything But Pay Real
Relief =

NEW YORK.--A wild goose chase
for relief as one boss charitable in
stitution after another passed the
buck to the next one was told the
Daily Worker by an unemployment
worker, Ira Allen.
On Dec. /, Allen, being in imme-
date relief, went to the Prosser Com
mittee, 40 Wall ST., the committee
that is raising 100000, ostensibly
for relief. At the Prosser place he
was referred to the Emergency En-
ployment Committee on 297 Fourth
Ave-, where part time starvation jobs
were being handed out. After wait
ing hours and hours in line he was
told on the second day to go to the
city employment bureau. There he
was told to go to the Municipal Lodg-
ing House annex, a refrigerated
place.
Kept On the Run.
The next few days Allen spent in
running from the Municipal Lodging
House to the st. Paul Church, 2l7
Broadway, where he was given meal
ticket and referred to the Trinity
Church at 70 Wall st. To complete
the vicious circle Allen was then
given a card to the City Mission at
SO Blocker ST., where upon presen-
tation of the card he was told to go
back to the Trinity Church address.
Allen is but one of the many thou
sands of jobless workers that are
being driven, insulted, referred to
this and that, all in the bosses fran
tic effort not to pay cent out OF
their swollen profits for real relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
RED BUILDERS HAVING
BEST OF LUCK"

From E. Mazzerello, secretary OF
Sacramento Red Builders News Club
comes this message:
"The Builders Club received the
Lenin Medallion this morning from
the New York Red Builders News
Club, and we thank you. Our lit
tie club of ten members is being
knit closer together and is begin
ming to look like an organization.
We are having the best of luck
with the work because of the will
ingness of the members to put out
their best"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
INDIVIDUAL WORKERS
JOIN $4,000 DRIVE

Indicative of the awakening spirit
of individual readers all over the
10000 readers is the letter from K
Hanna, Los Angeles:
Send five copies of the Daily
Worker every day. We must get
10000 circulation for our paper by
Jan. /. Compared with the num-
Der Of workers, the circulation of
our paper is not enough. Many
comrades do not realize that the
Daily Worker is the only English
mass paper in the United States.
Will send more money shortly"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
LACKAWANNA UNIT
ENTERS $4,000 DRIVE

Lackawanna is starting race with
Albany to determine which city will
Guido the other in the drive for
10000 circulation. P. Stevens writes:
1--WE have decided to begin with
five copies of the Daily Worker to
sell in Lackawanna. We are also
challenging the Albany Unit in the
Daily Worker Red Shock Troops
Campaign plan. Begin sending
Daily Workers at once"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
1000 A DAY FOR 5
DAYS" KANSAS CITY

Mel Wermblad, Daily Worker rep
resentative at Kansas City, writes
"We are planning special drive
on Dec. Is 10, 20, at which time
we will need about 1000 copies
daily. Our activities will include
Red Sundays as well as week-ends,
at which times the comrades will
take up house-to- house cam
paign.
Eve will start organizing all
units in our district for this work."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12

Ave.
Inter-school activities such as sing
ing and speaking chorus, brass band,
symphony and mandolin orchestras
are also being developed In the vari-
GUS branches.
Two methods Of teaching are fol-
lowed: group and individual in
struction.
The w. I. r. music school instructs
in Ill the instruments which can be
used for brass bands, symphony and
mandolin orchestras, etc.
Theory OF music Is also taught II
connection with all its classes.
All workers and workers children
who want musical or dance instruc-
ton should enroll at the workers In
ternational Relief. 131 West % st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
Ware Plumber Gang to Confiscate the
Homes Of $4,000 Philadelphia Jobless
Workers Who Cannot Pay Small Taxes
Wanted "City of Homes" Now City of More
Than Thousand Sheriff Sales Weekly
Workers Must Fight This Robbery by Or
ganizing Into Unemployed Councils and Strike
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA has out that the city admin.
stration intends to confsca the homes of $4,000 workers
because they could not pay their taxes water rent 1t
that these workers had been out of for quite while
because would risk losing his home he is supposed
own because he could not pay the taxes.
Nevertheless the city machinery set in motion to carry
through their dirty plan and the sheriff has been instructed
to seize the homes of all who fail to pay the taxes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
BIG BANK CRASH
IN NEW YORK CITY
Thousands of Workers
Affected

Continued from Page One)
crashes in the South and West, the
Journal of Commerce, leading Wall
Street organ complained that the
banks were not in very good posi-
ton, and that these crashes could
not be taken as local" matters. Their
prediction has now come true.
There are now many promises that
the Bank of the United States will
reopen, but the Measuring" state
ments of the vice-president, Herman
S. Gottlieb, made last night to thou
sands of depositors turned out to be
untrue when the depositors attempt
ed to get their money this morning.
How severely the workers are hit is
shown by the fact that one man stood
in line two hours to get 81, undoubt-
eddy the last bit of money he had
left between him and starvation.
There will result tremendous SUI
fering among the workers from this
closing-up.
On November "a an attempt was
made to merge the Bank of the
United States with the Manufacturers
Trust Co., the Public National Bank
and Trust Co., and the International
Trust Co. The merger failed to go
through, as the capitalist newspsp-
ers put it because of failure to agree
on details. The fact undoubtedly is
there was more fundamental reason
and that these other banks knew of
the situation which led to the clos
ing.
A number of Wall Street banks
who can see a chance to make money
out of the misery of the masses, have
offered to loan depositors of the
United States SO per cent of their
reposits at the rate of per cent. This
shows, first of all, that these deposits
are not worth more than half of what
the workers put in the bank, and be-
sides the banks ask per cent when
the workers are only given per cent
on their deposits.
The financial papers state that the
condition Of the Bank of the United
States had been disturbing the stock
market for days before the So branch
es closed up.
NEW YORK.-About thousand
people were reported to be standing
in line Thursday at the Manufac-
turers Trust Co. bank at Simpson and
Southern Boulevard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12

Every Party member,
every Young Communist
must sell rs copies of the
Daily Worker before fac
tory gates each week to be
in good standing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
WORKER CORRESPONDENCE
BUILDING CIRCULATION

We receive an encouraging note
from the secretary of the workers
correspondence group in Oakland
California:
Proceeding with our CORE
spondence. Have called a confer
ence for Dec. 20. We wish to spread
out more in the shops. The sale
of the Daily has increased from
IS to 125 daily. We know that
after we have built up mass
Worcorr League embracing all the
industries we will increase it still
more"
RED BUILDERS NEWS
CLUB MEET NETS SALES
The Red Builders News Club held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
W.I.R. HASCLASSES
IN MUSIC, DANCE

The Cultural Activities Dept. has
established music and dancing schools
as follows.
27oO Bronx Park East cooperative
House,.
. 1900 Seventh Ave. (rIarlem Coope-
yative House,.
III West 2Sth st. (N1anhattan).
s-~A- AAAh Aa1a Man, utracht
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
Los Angeles, Kansas City and
Detroit Boost Orders in Drive;
Small Centers Shoav Increases

Detroit day and 200 on Saturday
showing it is still pushing
BobMe Hall,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
Two More Banks Close Down.

Two banks closed down in North
and South Carolina Wednesday. The
National Bank of Greenville, N. c.,
closed its doors. 1t had deposits Of
$1,021 200. The First National Bank
of Ayden also closed its doors after
heavy Withdrawals of deposits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12

successful meeting at University
Place, corner 14th st. The meeting
lasted 21-2 hours and the speakers,
all unemployed workers, addressed
an audience of some 800 workers.
Eighty-five copies of the paper were
sold.
Many workers gave five and ten
cents for the paper and others con-
tributed so that the paper might be
distributed free.
Lena Rosenberg, Lehigh: 81 have
made arrangements with<a number
of small boys to sell the Daily
Worker on the streets. We have
decided to order a bundle of so
copies"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12

membership meeting called on
Wednesday. Getting good coop
Grafton now. Red week extended.
Street sales picking up. Increase
so copies daily"