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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
JOBLESS DEFEAT
PROVIDENCE COPS
Elaborate Scheme Fails
to Smash Meeting

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. "a
The Unemployed Council won another
victory Saturday night, against the
police department attempts to prevent
open air meetings which support the
National Hunger March.
A few days previous the police
tried to pull Dorette Harmon, the
speaker, from the platform, but the
workers packed around the platform
and put up such a fight, that the
police were forced to retreat
This Saturday the police posted
three fruit sellers on the corner,
with large push carts, and promised
them protection" 1t is worth while
mentioning that these push carts
we're directly blocking the water
plug, which is against the law.
However. over 300 workers gathered
before the meeting opened and be-
gan arguing with the peddlers and
police. The neighborhood workers
pointed out to the peddlers that in
the future they would not be able
to find customers to eat their bana-
mas. Then a dramatic scene occurred.
A worker jumped from the crowd,
paid the peddlers for the bananas,
and threw the bananas into the
crowd.
The crowd jumped forward, kicked,
cheerd, and applauded. The police
were booed, and the speaker raised
by the crowd to the platform. The
meeting continued until II p. m in
spite Of added police, who made some
attempts to break up the meeting,
but feared for their safety and re-
treated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
FORCE ANOTHER
CHARITY TO GIVE
" A.I.C.P." Wanted to
Smash Up Family

NEW YORK.-The Lower Bronx
Branch Of the Councils of Inc Unem-
ployed at recent meeting had
before it number of cases starva-
ton among the jobless. One is that
of Mrs. Gordon of 529 E. 135th ST.
She has five little children and has
just received letter from the prin-
cipal of Public School 40 stating that
her little girl is suffering from NAL
nutrition starvation and she must
do something about it."
Naturally, Mrs. Gordon wants to do
something. Her husband has been out
OF work for a year, and the whole
family is hungry. She has been given
dispossess notice by the landlord,
eviction to take place Monday.
The Lower Bronx Branch immedi-
ately took several of these families
along with a committee and went
into the Offices Of the charity in low
err Bronx. the Association for the
Improvement of the Conditions of the
Poor" Miss Lyle, in charge of the
charity office pleaded poverty and
advised the families be broken up.
the children placed in orphan asy-
lums, etc. Just what capitalists al
ways advise while they accuse Com
munism of breaking up the home"
The Unemployed Committee posi-
lively refused to accept this as an an
swer, and after a long argument got
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
YOUTH HUNGER
HEARING T0NITE
Charge Tammany with
Starving the Young

NEW YORK.-The Youth Com
mittee of the Harlem Unemployed
Council has called a special Open
Hearing where unemployed young
workers will testify to the starvation
amongst young workers and children.
The hearing will be held tonight at
8 pm. at Lafayette Hall, l3lst st.
and Seventh Ave.
A special youth jury will render
verdict after the testimony is in,
but adult workers are invited to at
tend.
The youth invite the Tammany
Hall officials Of this city TO come and
defand themselves against the charge
of deliberately conspiring to starve
the young workers, to discriminate
against them, to evict them and of
causing the death of hundreds of
young workers and children in the
city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
WORKERS FIRED
WHO REFUSE TO
AID RED CROSS
This Is What Bosses
Call Voluntary"
Contributions

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Two work
ers on the new RedCross building,
one OF them Negro, were fired on
Nov. 18th, because they refused 10
contribute part Of their wages TO the
annual Red Cross roll call.
A notice has been posted over the
pay window, calling for Red Gross
contributions. Unskiled workers were
supposed to give $1o0 and skilled
workers $500 from their weekly pay.
Those who gave said they did so in
order to keep their jobs. A stone
mason quit his job rather than con-
tribute the five doolars. Two other
workers who refused to contribute TO
the graft fund were fired at one, the
boss, McClosky, stating that the men
had no right to job if they refused
to contribute.
The Negro worker was the first one
to be fired. He was paid $500 for
the five day week. When he told the
paymaster that he had large family
and could not afford to give part of
his pay he was told, "You haven't
got job here"
Although it was reported that the
workers were rehired after consider
able protest was made throughout
aI,;x - -
workers and robbing part of their
wages to create buddle fund for the
Red Gross to pay high salaried Off
Gals, while they refuse to feed starv-
ing miners in Pennsylvania and Ken
lucky because they were not starving
through an act of god" is being prsc-
ticed nearly in every industry in the
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
TUUL CALLS ALL MEMBERS
TO TAKE PART IN TAG DAYS
BROOKLYN;

BROOKLYN:
6. Graham Ave
7e5 Flushing Ave
962 Suffer Ave.
los Thatford Ave.
1874 Pitkin Ave.
1878 43d st.
40 Neptune Ave.
48 Bay 18th st.
1921 w. 32d st.
"Take notice that there are over
5000 boxes distributed for these two
Tag Days. A proper distribution OF
forces will enable us to defray all ex-
penses of the Hunger March. To over
come all emergencies we call upor
organizations and workers participat-
ing in the Tag Days to observe strictly
the following rules:
ALI money collected for the Hun
ger March must reach the W.IR. Of
flee not later than Monday the 30th
"2-Organizations and workers par
ticipating in the Tag Days should
have proper committees placed at tht
stations. Do not tire out one comradt
all cay by leaving him or her ii
charge at the headquarters without
giving proper assistance for release
| for an hour or so.
"3-Be sure to register the collect.
ors' names and number of the box ant
be sure to give receipt for The
amount Of money collected. Collect.
ors should be urged not to be salts.
fled with being in the streets one o.
two hours and immediately return.
ing their box, but upon returning
they should be urged to take res
for one half hour or so and agar
go out collecting.
"@To make the collection effectiv,
| every station should have q number
of leaflets and wehn teh comrades arr
making their collections in subwayi
there shall be two comrades, one tt
hand out the leaflets and the othel
to make the collection.
Use the Button.
"5-The WIR. has q proper but.
ton, for the support of the Hunger
Marchers. Collectors should get it anC
give one to everyone who has con
tributed toward the Hunger March.
"6-We particularly urge that ever!
station have a few comrades in tn,
evening who shall be the special mes
sengers to bring the money to tn,
new WIR headquarters at is w. 21s
st. The office of the wIR will b,
open all day until late at night. Thi
is particularly urgent as on Monday
November 80, the office of the WIZ
must pay in advance all expenses
such as trucks, Coliseum, food, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
Parasites Use Workers AS
Dogs In Game Hunt ReVelS

full, because some of these degen-
crates are drunk. They shot two
workers last year. The workers work
ten to eleven hours q day and re-
ceive three dollars; 30 they decided
to strike for four which they were
paid last year. The strike was not
organized, scabs were brought in,
and 1t was broken. Because a mill
tant Negro led the strike, Negro
workers are Disseminated against
and are not hired now.
Last year three hundred ducks
were shot, and there was no market
for them, so they were thrown on
the dump. The workers were not
allowed to take any game to eat.
Workers, it Is about time TO stop
these parasites from amusing them
selves by using US as dogs, and en-
joying themselves at our expense,
forcing us into misery and degre-
daticn.
Join the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, and the revolutionary
unions to resist these blocdSuckers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
FARMERS DEMAND
N @ 7 A XES, N @
FORECLOSURE

TOIVOLA, Mich, Nov. 25.--A mass
meeting Of farmers in Toivola Peoples
Hall, on Nov. Is, one of many mass
meetings of the mortgage ridden,
highly taxed, and impoverished far
n1ers in Houghton and Ontonagon
counties, adopted resolution which
points out just what the causes of
this misery are, and demands post
ponment of tax payments, morato-
rum on mortgage payments, no fore
closures of sales, county and town
ship work for the farmers with cut
ting of county officials wages, aboli-
ton of certain useless county Off
cials, like the county agent; and free
medical aid for farmers and their
families, without the present man
killing red tape and delays.
The resolution was ordered to be
sent to the county supervisors of
Houghton county to be read at their
next meeting, Dec. 8, and to the far
merS committee OF action.
There are practically no jobs in
either of these counties. There is a
blacklist on county work against all
who are not very subservient to the
officials. On November 10, super
patriotic school teacher, Miss Olson,
called the township board and deputy
sheriff to come 40 miles to the school
at Misery Bay, and help her expel
l4-year old Esther Spiegel, who had
managed to distribute the "Pioneer"
for year in that school. Esther also
led group of eleven other pupils on
strike against overtime work as pen
atty for alleged minor attractions of
the rules.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
FSU LECTURES ON
THE SOVIET UNION
Symposium Last Sun.
Proved Successful

Almost thousand workers were
turned away from Webster Hall on
Sunday at the Friends of the Soviet
Union symposium. Bill Dunno, the
Communist Party representative at
the symposium, spoke on the role of
the Communist Party in the Soviet
Union. Comrade Dunno took the
place of William 2. Foster.
Waldo Frank, well known novelist
and critic, made an eloquent appeal
for the defense of the Soviet Union,
where the government is sincerely
devoted to the cause of mankind,
while every other government in the
world, without exception, is as ex-
clusively devoted to the property right
of privileged few"
On Thursday evening, December 3,
at the same hall, Webster Hall, Pro-
fessor H. w. L. Dane, who has re-
Gently returned from trip with Ber-
nard Shaw In the Soviet Union, will
give the first in a series of lectures
on 1.-THE New Culture in the Soviet
Union" His subject will be the New
Soviet Theatre"
Other speakers in this series are
Marcel Scherer, Mike Gold, Harry
Allen Potaml1in, Louis Lozowick, josh
ua Kunitz, and others - all Of whom
have been to the Workers Republic.
Admission to q single lecture is
twenty-five cents. The whole series
can be heard for two dollars, which
includes years subscription to the
new magazine being published by the
Friends of the Soviet Union on jan
uary /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
By a Worker Correspondent

tAy WORKER Correspondent
CHESTER, n. Y.-Robert Goelet,
who is a millionaire parasite, has
an estate near Chester, N. Y. Every
year he has his friends come to his
mansion to hunt pheasantS and
ducks. About a hundred workers
are hired to be used In the place of
dogs chasing pheaSants. These
workers form line, and run over
the land in straight formation,
routing out the birds, going through
hriars, swansps and over rocks;
tearing their clothes and cutting
themselves, besides getting vet. If
they break the line by shying away
from these obstacles, or do not go
fast enough they are maltreated by
the game keepers, the bosses tools.
Two Workers Shot
At lunch time liveried servants
come on the field bringing fancy
food and champagne for the para
sites, while the workers eat stew.
After lunch the hunt Is resumed;
now the workers must be very care
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)

station. Answer the vicious attack OF
Mathew Vol and others by raising
the necessary funds that will enable
the nnarchers to reach Washington on
time
Go to These Stations:
The Workers International Relief
has issued the following statement:
The Tag Days will be on Noyem-
Der IS and 20. The Workers Interna-
tional Relief depends greatly upon
the income of these two days to make
possible the financing of the $50 and
some odd number of delegates that
will go from this district on the Ma
tional Hunger March. To overcome
the emergencies which have already
arisen we urge all workers to be sure
to be out on these two Tag Days and
help collect minimum Of $4,000.
Report at the following stations
Saturday and Sunday:
BRONX:
7e5 Westchester Ave.
1922 Bathgate Ave.
aloe Arthur Ave.
14lo Boston Road.
2T00 Bronx Park East.
MANHATTAN:
Is WI I26th st.
Spanish Workers Center, E. 10th
st.
14S E. 103d st.
Hungarian Workers Home, $50 e.
SIst st.
Czechoslovak Workers Home, BAT
e. I'D st.
30l w. 29th St
131 W. 28th ST.
16 ". 21st st.
l42 E. Sd st.
1876 East Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
HUGE MASS SEND-OFF FOR HUNGER
MARCHERS AT COLISEUM, DEC. z

The delegation of six elected by the
workers to present demands to the
last meeting of the Board of Alder
men will report the reply of the
Tammany grafters to the demands of
the unemployed.
Party Members Duties.
All unemployed comrades report to
the Coliseum on Wednesday, Deem
Der End, at 4 p. m. sharp, The Sec
ton organizer or a member of the
section buro must also be there at
the same time. All other comrades
should come to the hall Immediately
after work. The hall will be divided
into sections, as on November It'll,
and various comrades will report to
their sectino organizers in the hall
for activity.
The comrades in charge will have
to see that order and discipline is
kept at this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
THOUSANDS in
DEMONSTRATION
FOR UNITY MEET
Win Strike Against 20
Per Cent Wage Cut

NEW YORK. thousands of dress
makers Joined in a huge demonstra-
ton and parade through the market
yesterday noon. They answered the
call of the United Front Committee
and cheered for the United Front
Dressmakers' Conference, which will
take place Saturday at noon in
Webster Hall.
The Unemployed Council of dress
makers met yesterday afternoon and
elected its delegates to the confer
ence'
Win Strike Against Wage Cut.
The workers of Friedman Bros, q
leather goods shop, on strike since
Monday against the 20 per cent wage
cut, settled their strike today. The
determined spirit of the workers COM
PEELED the bosses to withdraw the
wage-cut and to recognize tn eshop
committee.
Four Shops Struck.
The Fur Department of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union has
declared the following fur shops on
strike:
Goldman & Son, 10l w. 37th ST.,
for working 48 hours and refusing to
pay for legal holidays.
I. j. Fox, 391 Fifth Ave. and Fox g.
Weissman, 20 w. seth St. Their shops
in Philadelphia are on strike for union
conditions.
Rucker g. Warshaw, 247 W. 30th
st. Wages were only $40 a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
What's On


THURSDAY
Alteration Painters. Attention!
An important meeting will be held
tonight under the auspices of the
Trade Union Unity League at 1910
Boston Rd, at pm.
workers Exservicemen's League
Branch l viii hold membership
meeting at Ts E. Tenth St. at pm.
Election of delegates to take place.
Bill Haywood Branch LID.
will hold membership meeting at
140 Neptune Ave. tonight at $50 pm.
Important discussion.
workers Ex-Servlcemen's League
Branch will have its regular
mem bership meeting tonight at "a W.
ia6th st. at pm. All membership
are requested to attend;
w. r.. Band
Win have an important rehearsal
for the oliseum affair at the Cernev-
sky Club, 122 Second Ave, at pm.
FRIDAY
Report ON Harlan Frame-Up.
viii be the subject of a lecture by
Harry Cannes at the Boro Park
WORKERS Club, 1873 ARD St, Brook
lyn, at $50 pm.
Alteration Plumbers, Attention!
. A mass meeting will be held at the
stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and
tenth ST., at pm.
Prospect workers Center
Will have a lecture on the Soviet
Onion at 1857 Southern Blvd. at 8
pm. Phil Bard to draw cartoons and
New Masses drawings TO be exhib-
,dted. All workers invited.
wiIIiamshurgh workers Club
Comrade Steuben will lecture at 795
Flushing Ave. at pm. on the ct. L.
Y. l.. and the American Federation
Of Labor"
International Workers order. Br. 52I
VIII have a lecture on the Man
churian Situation al regular meet
ing at l645 Grand Concourse at $50
pm.
Brighton Beach Workers Club
VIII have lecture on the Jewish
Masses in Poland" by Comrade
'hman at 40 Neptune Ave, at s
Pm.
"Maneburia"
VIII be the subject of talk by
Louis Engdahl at the Bath Beach
Workers Club, 4s Bay 2Sth ST., at
pm.
Steve Katoyis Br. LID.
VIII have a meeting at 257 e.
Tenth st. at pm. All workers are
invited.
fremont Workers Club
VIII have lecture by Vern Smith
Of the Daily Worker staff on the
Crisis" at 2075 Clinton Ave. (near
1S0th STD at $3.50 pm.
LID. Members, Attention!
A general membership meeting of
Brooklyn LID. members will be held
at, 1875 18th ST.. Brooklyn. Members
ara requested to attend.
Needle Trades Athletic Club
WIN have general membership
me4ting at 13i W. 3Sth st. at pm.
An needle workers invited,
Mig Dance and Entertainment
wv be held at the Bronx Workers
CcntSr, $50 Prospect Ave. at pm
UNDER the auspices Of the Unem-
ployed Council. Soviet movie and
L.SU. exhibition. Proceeds to go to
the Ne tional Hunger March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
WORKER BURNED
TO DEATH in PA
Western Electric Co.
Responsible

PHILADELPEIIA-On Nov. 10, dur
ing the afternoon, worker was
burned to death by a $4,000 volted
live wire on top of the new Wanna
maker building, which is under con-
struction at Broad and Chestnut SITS.
The big officials of the Westing-
house Electric Co., the concern which
Is employing workers to wire the top
of this building, had refused to shut
off the current while the men were
in the process of wiring. Just stub
bornness and carelessness on the part
of these bosses is directly responsible
for this death of worker. the young
father of two children. The young
worker in this dangerous trade.
wife is left without any insurance to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
JOHNSON NAILS
I!W.W. LIES ABOUT
HARLAN, KY.
Civil Liberties Member
Sends Letter to LID

NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. lY,-That
the I. w. W. is fabricating lies to dis
credit the work of the international
Labor Defense in the Harlan, KY,
coal fields is charged in letter sent
today by Arnold johnson, free speech
Investigator for the American Civil
Liberties Union, to Herbert Mailer Of
the General Defense Committee,
Wobbly organization.
The lie which johnson nails ap-
peared in the November issue of the
workers Defense, monthly publica-
ton of the General Defense Commit
tee. 1t states;
"Asa Cusick, Harlan murder de-
PENDANT, now on bonds, reported in
Communist press speaking for the
I. L. D. in New York City, has never
left Evarts, Ky. Cusick wired the
General Defense requesting exposure
of Communist impostor"
Johnson's exposure of this wobbly
lie follows:
600 w. 122nd st.,
New York, N. Y,
November IL, 1881.
Mr., Herbert Mailer,
555 w. Lake ST.,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Mr.. Mailer:
In a recent issue of your publica-
ton. workers Defense" you carry
statement, Communist Lie Ex-
posed" and then attempt to lead
readers to believe that the Commu-
nists had an irnpostor in New York
under the name of Asa Cusick. 1
take this opportunity to clear up GER
tain facts.
Asa Cusick was one of my cell
mates for 81 days in the Harlan
County jail. I was imprisoned for
my activities as a representative of
the American Civil Liberties Union.
I can claim to know Cusick, former
chief of police of Evarts, KY, and
now facing framed-up triple murder
charges in connection with the
Evarts battle of May 5. Asa Cusick,
while in Evarts, correspondent with
me before coming to New York and
informed me that he was coming.
Asa Cusick arrived in New York dur
ing the morning of Oct. 9, 1881. l
spoke with him over the telephone
during the day. / met Cusick on Oc-
tober at the dinner of the National
Committee for Defense of Political
Prisoners, given to promote the de-
tense of the Harlan prisoners. He
made an excellent speech to over 400
persons at this dinner. Cusick talked
about conditions in Harlan and
praised the work of the National
Miners Union and International La
Dor Defense. l spent Saturday eve
ming, Oct. 10, with Cusick and he
spent that night as my guest at my
place of residence. I heard Cu5ick
speak at an International Labor De-
Tense convention on Sunday, Oct. IL,
for the release OF Tom Mooney and
the Harlan miners and spent a good
part of the day with Cusick. His
friends in Harlan County know that
he was in New York.
For your organization to publish
articles stating that Cusick says he
was not in New York is only making
Cusick the victim of a lie. Such tao
tics by your agents only confuse is
sues and facts. You have not ex-
posed a Communist lie, because there
was no Communist lie to expose. Ac-
cording to your basis of judgment as
implied in your article, your state
ment is q lie and / demand that you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
Hunger March Needs
d Autos and Trucks

The National Unemployed Councils
Committee for the National Hunger
March and the Workers International
Relief call upon sympathizers to do
nate the services Of four automobiles
for use in tour in preparation for and
during the National Hunger March.
Also trucks are needed for the New
York delegation to Washington. Com
municate with the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, 16 West 21st ST., New
York City, or phone WA tkins 9-4936.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26

Miss Lyle's promise to grant some
relief. They will watch to see that
this is done.
The Lower Bronx Council will be
on hand Monday afternoon to join
the demonstration before the board
Of aldermen for immediate relief from
the city treasury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


ton will give mighty reception and
send-off to their spokesman. the
National Hunger Marchers, on
Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the huge Bronx
Coliseum, East 177th ST. On Deem
Der the representatives of tens Of
thousands of New York unemployed
and employed workers elected at
workers mass meetings and organ
izations and at the New York labor
conference will begin their march to
Washington together with delegates
from all parts of the country in order
to place the demands of IL million
unemployed before Congress and
President Hoover.
William z. Foster will be the main
speaker. The Unemployed Councils
and the Workers International Relief
have arranged a special program
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26

Workers Correspondence IS the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for it.
absut your day-to-day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for il
about your day to-day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26

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