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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
A Call to Readers
TO Come to Meetings
With Editorial Staff

NEW YORK.-Closer contact
between the Daily Worker read
els and the editorial staff will be
the main purpose of a meeting TO
be held Saturday, January II, at
6:3O pm, after work, on the End
floor of the Workers Center, IS E,
18th Street. This is not a meet
ing to carry out the necessary
work of collecting funds for the
Daily Worker. Tt is something
never before done
Every reader Of the Daily
Worker who is interested in i'm
proving the contents Of the paper,
who mas valuable suggestions and
criticisms to make is invited to
partake in this gathering. Els
peciaIIy representatives Of work
ers' organizations should come
with. concrete suggestions Of
drawing the Daily WoyEer close
to the life and struggles OF their
organizattcE
There viii be a report from
Courade A. Landy for the edt-
torial staff on the problems Of
the Dolly Worker, plans for es-
tabHshing closer contact with the
readers.
There will be open discussion
from tas floor. Every worker who
has the betJerment Of The Daily
Worker at heart is invited to at
tend and do his part in contribute
ing to the editorial end Of the
Daily Worker.
This matter should Immediately
be taken up in your organization.
Elect delegates to put the views
of your organization before the
meeting. Every reader should do
his part.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
REGISTERING FOR
WORKERS SCHOOL
Spring Term Will Open
Soon

NEW .YORK.-The Spring Term of
the Workers School for which regis
tration has already begun, will give
many new courses in addition to the
original schedule. Some of the new
courses are: History of the Commu-
mist International, by R. Baker; Ne
gro Work, by Amis; Workers Cores
pondence, by V. Jerome; Political
Economy, by j. Minded; Revolutionary
Literature, by E. Jacobson, etc. These
courses are added in order to enable
the workers to develop themselves in
various fields of revolutionary activi-
ties.
Other courses in the School, like
English, Russian, Fundamentals of
Communism, Trade Union Strategy,
Organization, Marks m-Leninism,
Dialectic Materialism, ETC., will be
given additional facilities so as to
meet the needs of the workers.
On account of the fact that many
workers who attend the School are
suffering from unemployment, wage
cuts, ETC., the School Committee has
decided to reduce the fees for all
Courses. The political courses are So
each and the language courses are Sc
each for the entire term The Com
mittee also decided to offer special
scholarships to students who are sent
by the Communist Party and Young
Communist League units, revolution
airy trade unions and mass organiza-
tons. Special arrangement will be
rode for the unemployed
The Spring term will have the ad-
vantage over the Fall Term upon the
completion of the new school floor
with spacious sound-proof rooms. a
student council room, library with
well-Selected books, an auditorium
and other facilities. In order to
secure enrolment in the various
classes desired workers are urged to
register as early as possible. Catalog
OF the Spring term is ready and will
b. sent to the workers upon request.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
P20SSFR CLIQUE
HINTS BLACKLIST
Forcing Workers to
Donate to Fund

NEW YORK.-The Prosser Com
mittee) here has settled down to an
eighteen weeks campaign through
the corporation heads to force every
employe to pay tax for unemploy-
ment relief, thus shifting the burden
OF caring for the jobless onto the al
ready miserably paid workers and off
the capitalists whose system caused
this crisis.
Full directions and collection list
are being sent out.
The signing of the collection list by
by the employee gives the boss legal
right to check off his wages for a
period of IS weeks without regard to
how much he sets, whether he goes
on part time work during that time,
or any other possibility.
The committees instructions, In
slightly yelled language, suggest fir
ing ar > blacklist for those who do
not sig" np. Part Of a form letter
for bosses to send their employees
states: Every reasonable effort
should be made to have a 100 per
cent responses. A notice will be pub
lished at an appropriate time, show
ms the number Of the employees in
each department, the number sub
scribjng and the percentage subscrib-
ing. A list Of contributors will later
be prepared, but still show no
amounts. $50 no one can check up on
what the committee gets?)
THE cooperation of all officers and
employees in the creditable DISCHARGE
of their responsibilities in this matter
will be greatly appreciated"
Ryan and Munson.
The Committees campaign IL d.
wded by industries. sub-committess
IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE ON UNEMPL OYENT MONDAY E3O
COMING EVENTS In
JOBLESS CAMPAIGN

NEW YORK.-Mass trial of
Hoover, Green, Walker and
Thomas, Jan II, Star Casino, 10th
st. and Park Ave, at l p. m.
United Front Conference on I'm
employment, Jan. IL, at Irving
Plaza Hall, 7:30 p. m. Open-air
meetings throughout city, Jan. 10,
IA and Is. Local indoor meetings,
Jan. 16, in Bronx, Harlem, Down
town, Williamsburg, Boro Hall
section and Brownsville to elect
delegates to Washington. House
to house canvass for signatures to
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, Jan. 10.
PASSAIC, N. J.-United Front
Conference, Jan. Is, at p. M, at
Union Hall, 2O5 Paterson st.
NEWARK, N. J.-Hunger march
Jan. %. Second United Front
Conference, Jan. Is, at 2 p. m. in
Slovak Hall, So West st.
PERTH ANIBOY. N. LIMITED
Front Conference, Jan. 25, at p.
m, at Columbia Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Organizations Come
in Body to the Daily
Worker Anniversary

The Daily Worker Anniversary
affair, Saturday, Jan. 10, at st
Nicholas Arena, will be a demon
stration against the COMMITTEE
to combat Communism, headed
by Fish, Vol and company. AL
workers organizations must be
modified 100 per cent for the
Daily Worker Anniversary as {
proper answer to the fascists. Or
CARNATIONS should bring theil
banners. Vote substantial sums
for the Daily Worker Emergency
Drive and bring it along to the
affair.
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comply with, with the result that the
workers are compelled to remain I'M
naturalized.
In the present economic crisis, the
bosses are doing their utmost to split
the ranks of the working class by in
stigating one section &c the working
class against the other That is why
on the one hand, there is a campaign
OF terror and lynching against Ne
groes, and on the other hand a DELHI
crate, conscious attack upon the for
eign born.
Call For Conference
The New York District Committee
for the Protection of Foreign Born
calls upon all local provisional secre-
tarieS to arrange local conferences in
the following cities of the New York
District: Yonkers, Linden, Pough-
keepsie, of New YORK state, and Ho-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
CONFERENCE FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN BORN
Y Committee Calls Delegates All Workers ORGANIZATIONS

inals," is only an excuse of the bosses
in order to prosecute and deport the
militant foreign born workers, who
are taking part in the struggles OF
the American working class,
The workers must bear in mind that
it Is the unemployed situation that
brings the terror against the foreign
born. The present wage cuts, speed
up, layoffs, and the struggle of Che
unemployed for unemployed insur-
ance explains the present attack upon
the foreign born.
In this country. where millions of
foreign born workers are exploited
under the most severe conditions,
these same workers, if they want to
become citizens, are not only obliged
to undergo series of hardships, but
must also pay such sums of money
that it is impossible for a worker to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
SOCIALISTS AID
BANK ROBBERS
Protect TammanY Men
in Bank Crash

NEW YORK.-At a meeting of a
few hundred dcpositors of the Bank
of u S. in the Labor Lyceum in
Brownsville, on Tuesday night, Nor
man Thomas, Louis Waldman, Ship
lacon, and Louis Sadoff, socialist fax
CTS, attempted to mislead those who
had previously been organized in the
militant. United DepCsitors Commit
tee, by smoothly persuading them
away from mass action and in favor
q petition to the Governor" AL
though the Socialist leaflct called for
a. open meeting" at which "ques-
ticns and discussion from the floor
would be permitted" no one was al
lowed to speak in the slightest OPP
position to the socialist program of
betrayal, some of the discussion"
speakers being forcibly thrown off the
stage as soon as they began to ex-
pose the attempts which Norman
Thomas has made TO whiteWash the
Tammany CRATER KleseI and others
involved in the bank steal One OF
the speakers from the floor held up
clipping from the Socialist For
Hard' which betrayed the small de-
uosiiors by promising that 100 per
rert Of their deposits would be paid
Il thcl would not present their books
for withdrawal Of their few pennies
The meeting was protected" by the
usual Labor Lyceum gangsters and a
| few policemen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

plOyed councils gathers Mon
day at Irving Plaza at 1880
p. m, sharp. Further activity
Of the N. Y. Campaign Com
. mittee will be presented, amend
ments to the Workers Unemployment
! Insurance Bill will be proposed and
discussed; intensification Of the sig
nature drive and election of delegates
to Washington to present the Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill to Congress
will be on the order of business.
Every delegate to the December
18th Conference is a delegate to the
conference on January IL.
The 600 delegates at the previous
/ conference are expected to turn out
in full force, a record attendance of
delegates is anticipated with many
more workers organizations, shops
and unemployed represented. All new
| delegates are urged to have their Gre
dentials in the hands Of the Commit
tee at IS West 21st st. at once.
Among the delegations will be that
from the Independent Shoe Workers
Unior.
The joint council of the Indepen-
dent Shoe Workers Union at its last
session voted to fully endorse the pro-
gram Of the Trade Union Unity
League on unemployment insurance
and to recommend to the next mem
bership meeting Of the union to issue
a call to all shoe and slipper workers
everywhere, employed and unem-
ployed to devote every spare moment
of their time to collect signatures for
the unemployment insurance bill
drafted by the Communist Party and
endorsed by the T. U. U. L. The coun-
Gil will also present its program for
the 1881 organization drive and how
to combat the pnbearable wage and
shop conditions prevailing in the in
dustry
F. G. Biedenkapp, general organ
| lzer Tor the union, stated that for
e,ery shoe worker employed there are
two unemployed and that the wages
in 1880 were 60 per cent less than in
1929 before the bosses at the instiga-
zion of the u. S. labor department
made $500 workers breadless by lock-
ing them out.
Reports from the committee show
that more impetus is being given to
the drive for signatures. In the past
week 10000 additional names have
come in on the lists but this is insult
ficent and much more attention must
be given to stimulating the drive for
signatures in every working class
neighborhood, in the shops and among
workers organizations and the I'M
employed
Police brutality during the hunger
demonstrations shows clearly that the
bosses are not going to give relief to
the workers and that only by strong
organizations of the unemployed
modified to fight for their demands
will this be forthcoming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

boken, New Brunswick, Newark, Eliza
beth, Passaic, Patterson, Beyon, Perth
Amboy Union City and Jersey City
OF New Jersey State.
Each organizations or minority
group of an organization or factory
is entitled to send one representative
for each so men'bsrS to the local con-
ference, and each local conference is
entitled to elect one delegate for each
100 members to the state conference.
which will follow the local confer
ences.
Now is the time. more than ever
before, for the native and foreign
born, Negro and white workers to
unite against the bosses slogan of
divide and rule" and build solid
front under the banner of Unite and
Fight"
S. HORWATT.
District Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
SALVATION ARMY JIM-CROWING
NEGROES FROM THE BREADLINES
Unemployed Women Are Turned Away With
out Food While Salvation Army
Men Draw $50 per Week

that they let the white line in first,
and handed them some black coffee
and a piece of stale bread. For this
is what they had waited in line for
two hours! Then, they let about fiji
teen of the Negroes in, and told the
others that there was nothing left for
them. The Salvation Army has dis
eliminated against the Negroes for
so long, that that is why so few come.
The next day I went into the Will
low for a cup of coffee. The sally
who had questioned me was there
with his wife, and he called me over,
for an argument. He said he was
doing the work of God, serving the
poor" "Why don't you work with
the Unemployed Council, if you really
want to help the workers?" 1 asked
him. what do they pay?" he asked.
Nothing. They can not" ooh
we'll" he answered, chat is different.
I make $50 a week here He said a
lot more, about God is Furnishing
the people now for not believing in
him." and that the Salvation Army
lost $4,000 in the U. S. Bank crash.
I told him this money was collected
on the pretense of feeding the hun
cry, but that they had put it in the
bank instead, and I also told him
Maybe if I got $50 a week I might
pray three times day. But show
me your God, where is he?" MY
dear girl, you are too young to talk
that way"
BY this time a crowd had gathered,
and what these workers told the
sally" was a plenty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
BY B. FRANCES.

Yesterday, on my way home after
day of job-hunting, 1 passed by the
Salvation Army headquarters near
Boro Hall, in Brooklyn. On the right
side of the doorway stretched line
,ver a block and a half long, COM
used entirely of white. On the left
side of the door there was a short
line, of perhaps 20 or &c., composed
Of unemployed Negro workers. So the
Salvation Army has established the
Jim-C Growing of unemployed in the
oread-line!
This made me mad, so I went and
stood in line with the Negroes. Right
away cop ran over and hollered
Here, you girl, all whites on this
side" r
Then one of the managers came
out and called me in. What do you
want here?" he asked. Some food,
said. I'm unemployed and hun
cry" "Well, we can't feed women
here" he said, this is for men" Then
ne began to question me, What is
your name? What nationality? Were
you born in this country?" When
told him I was Jewish he told me I
should go to a Jewish Institute, in
stead of coming to the Salvation
Army for food "When money is
dropped into your kettles, do you ask
if it is Jewish or PROTESTANT" I asked
him. I'm unemployed, and you
claim to feed unemployed"
Well, they sent me away, without
telling me where to go to get any
thing to eat. But before l left, l saw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Central Committee
OF the c. P. Z. S. A.
M0UeSIMtONeWHOme

Sunday, Jan. II, and the week there
after, must receive the most earnest
and universal support of the Party
and all its friends. The welcome, Or
ganized for the Central Committee of
the Party at the occasion Of the
transfer Of its headquarters to the
new Workers Center, must take the
form Of the most substantial support
of the undertaking, and, first Of all,
the form Of mass participation in the
bazaar and mass contributions at the
banquet on Jan. II, 1881, at the Cen
ter, IS E. 18th ST., N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
TWO EVICTIONS
FOILED BY B'KLYN
TENANTS LEAGUE
Gates Ave. Court Judge
Evicts 43 in One Hour

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Forty-three
workng-class jobless families were
ordered to be evicted within a period
of five days by Judge Fish Of the
Gates Ave. Court yesterday within
period Of one hour and five min
utes.
Judge Fish, being a landlord him
self, stated at the court: st am hay
ing the same trouble with my ten
ants"
FelloW-Worker zeus Selas, a baker,
who has been unemployed for eight
months, was the only case not. or
dered evicted, being defended by the
Williamsburgh Tenants League rep
resentative in the court.
City Fakery Exposed.
Max Weidy of the WilIiamsburgh
Tenants League stepped before the
bar when Judge Fish ordered fellow
worker Selas to answer the landlord
charges of non-payment of rent.
Weidy of the Tenants League
pointed out the misery under which
Sales and thousands of workers are
facing.
He stated: "This fellow-worker has
to support nine children. He went
before the Mayors Committee and
all he got from this committee was a
promise and a ticket for a rotten
meal in the breadline. Eight weeks
ago the Mayors Committee promised
this worker job" Weidy continued,
and the United Hebrew Jewish Aid
also promised him a job, but all he
received was promise. Workers
cannot live and cannot pay rent with
promises they receive from the city
committees"
At this point the judge thought it
was too much and stopped him and
ordered the case postponed for more
investigation until next Monday.
Fellow-worker Sales has not been
able to pay gas for two months and
electric for four months.
Two children of this unemployed
worker were forced to stop attending
Public School So due to the cold
weather and having no clothing to
wear.
Another Victory Scored.
Sam Hirsh of 511 Bushwick Ave,
who compelled by the misery was
forced to give away three of hisehil-
dren because he was unable to feed
thenb was ordered evicted last week
by the landlord, Sam Lewis.
The active mobilization of the
worker tenants in the whole building
by the Williamsburgh Tenants
League and by the members of the
Women's Council forced the landlord
to withdraw the eviction proceedings
against Sam Hirsh.
The organized tenants of 511 Bush
wick Ave. elected committee to 60
before the landlord and stated: IF
you will evict Sam Hirsh we win go
on rent strike and will not give you
a penny for three months"
Facing this united front of the ten
ants the landlord said: ''Please, don't
do that. I will withdraw the evic-
ton proceedings and will not ask
Hirsh for a penny until he gets
job"
These victories of the Williams
burgh Tenants League must be, util-
lied to strengthen the League by
drawing in more and more tenants to
join its ranks.
The League meets every Friday
night at p. m. at the Workers Gen.
ter, 81 Graham Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
TAMNANY HOLDS
TWO FOR TRIAL
Trying to Get Revenge
for Demonstrations

NEW YORK. - Tammany police
and courts, wild at the success, in
spite of all the lying of the Times
and other capitalist papers, of the
hunger marchc and demonstrations
Thursday, yeSte. lay held on $4,000
bail two Of their victims. Alex
zaroff and David Boschi, the lat
ter only II years old we're thos3
picket out of the five arrested az
Manhattan Lyceurn mass meeting.
Zaroff and Boschi were taken from
the Lyceum to the ninth precinct
police station, where both were badly
beaten up by the police. They we're
brought into Essex Market Court yes
tordas-, where magistrate We'll held
them in bail for trial on fake char
ges of "felonious assault"
Allen Taub, attorney for the In
ternational Labor Defense, defended
them
Turkowitz PIuffed.
Herman TurkoWitZ, reported to
have been arrested and sent to the
hospital by police at the Lyceum
meeting, was not arrested, it devel-
oped yesterday. What happened to
TurkoWitz was this: AS he was leav-
ing the hall at the end of the meet
ing, the police made their brutal
q rye of oh
were still inside, and it was fairly
easy for the cops. Among those
moved down by the first swing OF
police blackjacks was Turkowitz AS
he lay stunned on the floor, Jack
Constantine, husband Of the preg.
nanU woman evicted recently and
denied lodging after five days at the
city shelter" started to turn him
over to see what ne could do fol
him. A policeman blackjacked Con-
stantino over the head from behind
and a New York newspaper carried
a picture yesterday showing Con
Stantino lying senseless across the
body of Turkowitz. Both are recov
ering, however. Mrs Constantine was
also cllbbed to the ground by the
police, as we'll as seven others.
New Bronx Councils.
AS result of the Bronx hunger
march. 112 new workers were drawn
into the Bronx Council of the un
employed A new council has been
termed, because of the size OF the
first one, That first one is only d
couple of weeks old. The new coun-
Gil meets every morning at 10 am at
4041 Third Ave.
The Bronx Workers Club has also
formed still another unemployed
council, which meets, at 1872 Boston
Road. Their next meeting is Mon
Gay at 10 am
Cops Jaw Broken.
Those arrested at the Harlem de-
monstration, Doretta Jarmon, Edwin
Baker and Anthony Ycrmer. are
charged with disorderly conduct.
The capitalist press states that
the policeman, Harry Kahn (who at
tackled the hunger march from the
Lafayette Street fake agency to Man
haitian Lyceum) has a broken law
bone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
INTER-RACIA : BALL

NEW YORK.-A mid Winter Inter-
racial ball will be given by Section
of the Communist Party Friday
Jan. 16, at p. m. in Finnish Ball
Room, is West 126th st. Music is by
G. j. Morgan Negro Jazz Band, and
admission is SO cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Fellow Workers:

The New York District Committee
for the Protection of the Foreign Born
calls upon all working class organiza-
tons, native and foreign-born Negro
and white, to elect delegates to the
Local Conference for the Protection
OF Foreign Born, which will be held
on Sunday, February 8, 1881, at the
Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and
18th Street, New York City. The
Conference will open at II am. sharp.
The foreign born workers find
themselves severely attacked by the
bosses, bankers, police department,
and all other enemies of the working
class. The establishment of the police
supervisional department in New
York, urged by the authorities to set
up such departments all over the
country to check up on alien Grim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

and matters became tense.
Finally another landlord. whose
house isantrely empty, let Mrs. Nell
son move N there.
Religious neighbors Of Mrs. Nelson
came out and solemnly blessed the
Council OF the Unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Fake Veterans Relief
Gets Cash, Gives Sl0p

NEW YORK.-The Boro Hall I'M
employed council is exposing an ag-
gregation calling itself the Municipal
War Veterans Memorial Association
which collects money for the unem-
ployed, and maintains a brcadline now
at 80 Clinton Street. The jobless find
that what they get is rotten soup
tsaid to be the worst in any bread
line), two slices of bad bread, and a
small piece of stale pie, with what Is
called cocoa. A jobless electrician got
a job doing SIS worth of electrical
work there recently, and was handed
a So check in payment. And he could
not cash the check!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

taking over separate sections. The
Steamship division has on it not only
j. P. Ryan, president of the Inter-
national Longshoremens Association
always ready for any class collahora-
ton SYSTEM, but Frank c. MufISon,
president of the Munson Steamship
Line, which last week started direct
wage cuts Of seamen to add to the
general campaign Of Lndirecs wage
cutting. -~s~ r----S7sF. sg$s's Nsi-s-'sSr'fs'