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The daily worker., 1931-03-23

lists. Their true face is shown when
they add this independence is to be
of the kind enjoyed by Cuba. Santo
Domingo, Haiti, Panama and Nj
caragua, where American imperial
ism is ruling with an iron fist
through the native executioners of
the people, such as the bloody Ma
chado.
"We demand real independence for
Porto Rico. The Porto Rican peo-
pie will achieve their independence,
real self elf-determination, not by the
grace of their imperialist oppres-
sors, but only through revolution
ary struggle of the workers and
peasants, and with the powerful sup
port of the Latin American workers
and the workers of the United
States. Only such a struggle, under
the leadership of the workers of
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands,
will finally achieve the independence
which will wipe out imperialist ex-
ploitation and the betrayal of the
n1isleaders, such as Iglesias and
Campos, and give to Porto Rican
workers and peasants the shops and
the lands"
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
CONN. COMMUNE
MEETS ON 18TH
Serio and Maurer to
Speak
By RYAN WALKER

NEW HAVEN, March 22.-For the
first time since the International La
Dor Defense has been organized in
Connecticut, it will join in the COM
memoration of the heroic Paris COM
munardS.
Two celebrations will be held, one
in New Haven on Wednesday night,
March %, at Ukrainian Hall, 222 La
fayette ST., at which Comrade Serio,
facing deportation to fascist Italy,
will be the main speaker, speaking
both in English mad Italian, and one
at Hartford on the same evening, at
Ukrainian Hall, 27 Albany Ave.
George Maurer, assistant secretary of
the LID will be the main speaker at
the Hartford meeting. Both meetings
will have musical program in ad-
dition to the speeches.
These meetings will also be used to
mobilize the masses for the March %
demonstrations against deportations
and lynching.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Longshoremen MislcoderS in
Orleans Approve Arrests

NEW ORLEANS, La, March o.
arrests of striking longshoremen
take place daily. The police, city Of
ficials, Steampship company bosses
and the A. F. Of L. and International
Longshoremen's Association mis-
leaders are working together against
the strikers. Several days ago 100
more Negro strikers we're arrested;
arrest of white longshoremen is
also taking place daily.
In view of the growing militancy
Of the 5000 striking longshoremen,
who are battling against huge
Wage-cut, the union officials are
dealing with the police and mayor
Holt Ross, representative of the A.
F. of L. in New Orleans, is urging
1le strikers to obey the injunction
and break the strike. The same ad-
vice was given by T. ]. Darcy, presi-
dent of the longshoremen's fake
company union. Il have always ad-
vocated that the men observe the
law" he said. This means he wants
the strikers to obey the injunction
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Big Bosses Are Choking Off Small
Capitalists and Higher Paid Workers

WASHINGTON, D. c., March IT,
Crushing out of the small capitalists
and the higher paid ranks of the
workers, and enormous and rapid
growth of the income of the very
rich, is shown in a report jast pub
lished by the commissioner of in
ternal revenue of the United States
government.
The figures cover the period from
the beginning of 1920 othe end of
1929, that is, just about to the be-
ginning of the severe part of the
industrial crisis. Since the depres-
sion got well underway, it is COM
mon knowledge that this process has
been remarkably speeded up, the big
corporations surviving and the
smaller ones and private firms going
to the wall, while the unemployment
evil creeps over the Whole working
class.
The government figures show that
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
,JOBLESS COUNCIL
EXPOSES CHARITY
Chicago Unemployed
March to Jewish Aid

CHICAGO, March %. - Recently
Unemployed Council No. 13, iwth 40
jobless workers in its ranks, marched
through the employment office of
the Jewish Aid and forced their way
into the superintendent office, Mrs
Frank. At first she refused to talk
to the committee of the unemployed,
but when she discovered thousands
of workers were behind them, she
gave in.
The committee demanded that re-
lief be given to the unemployed with
out the usual third-degree questions
prying into the private lives of each
unemployed worker, They pointed
out that the lavish Aid had de-
liberatedly broken up family of
eight because they refused relief.
The action of the Unemployed
Council is convincing the workers in
TIE Lawndale district that by organ
izing they can get more relief, in
stead of depending on the vultures
of the charity organizations.
Another march was organized to
the Jewish Aid, and when the super
intendent would not see the unem-
ployed, they marched through the
building One of the unemployed
told the council how he was thrown
out by thug when he asked for
relief. One woman said she asked
fol charity, was refused, and the
next day she found her husband
dead of starvation.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
DenOunCe Terror
in the Philippines
Workers Support Inde-
pendence Struggle

NEW YORK.-At a mass meeting
of the Philippine Anti-Imperialist
League, recently organized in New
York, the following resolution was
passed;
I'VE, at this mass meeting of Fill
pino and American workers in New
York, March Is, 1881, send our ira
ternal greetings to the Anti-Imper-
ialist League in the Philippine Is
lands, to the Proletarian Labor Con-
gress and the Peasants Confederation.
1--WE fully endorse their struggle for
immediate and unconditional inde-
pendence, and pledge ourselves to
carry on the struggle in the United
States, to enlist Filipino and Amer
lean workers and farmers in COM
mon struggle against the imperialist
oppressors.
I'VE demand the immediate release
from prison of the peasants of Tayug,
Pangasinan province, who we're right
fully fighting for their land against
the landlords and their supporters;
we demand the immediate release of
Comrades Manahan, Ambrosio, Evan
gelista, and all others who have been
arrested for carrying on a real strug-
gle for independence of the Philip
pines
I'VE pledge ourselves to carry on a
struggle in the United States against
race discrimination and for the unity
OF all toilers."
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
BOYS RAN AWAY
FROMSTARVATION
Steel Workers Family
Were Starving

AKRON, Ohio.-There was hunger,
gnaWing and raw, at the home of
George Balyint, an unemployed steel
worker here, and John, IA and Mike,
10, felt it. They ran away from home
in the hope of seeing their smaller
brothers and sisters have little more
to eat. They trekked northward, two
little hungry figures. Where they
slept and how they got food no one
knew. But near Sandusky at, dawn,
a tramp espied two huddled figures
in ditch. There was snow on the
ground and the figures looked frozen
and cold.
They were not dead however, and
the Sandusky police picked them up
as runaways. And now Balyint, who
wants his sons to come back, has no
money for their transportation.
The Balyints live in a small house
that is cold and only the kitchen
somewhat heated. Unemployed, un-
able to obtain relief, the family of
two parents and eight children are
living on the ragged edge of starva-
ton
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Wagner, Fake JObless
Aid, Cheated of His
Price By Republicans

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 90
The fake employment insurance and
job agency bills of Senator Wagner
of New York did not even get him
as a reward the Craftsmanship (and
the political prestige) of heading an
investigating committee. President
Hoover vetoed the bills and the re-
publican party violated all prin-
cipa1s of senatorial courtesy and
precendent by nudging him out of
the Craftsmanship of the senatorial
committee to investigate, which came
into existence through Wagner's ac-
tivity.
Wagner, democrat, and two re-
pubncans, Hebert and Glenn, were
appointed on the committee. Vice
President Curtis did the usual thing,
by naming Wagner first, which would
ordinarily make him chairman.
But, evidently acting on instruc-
tions, Glen and Hebert, the major
ity of the committee, proceeded to
elect Hebert chairman.
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
democratic national executive COM
mittee, has issued to the press a
statement which is one long, wild
yell of indignation and protest, but
it isn't doing any good.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
SOVIET FILM At
8th ST. PLAYHOUSE
Transport of Fire"
Excellent

NEW YORK. - The 9Th Street
Playhouse is this week showing
Transport of Fire" an Amkino pro-
duction based on episodes in the his
toric revolt of 1905 against the ter
Icristic Czarist regime. The film
deals particularly with the efforts
and activities of the revolutionists to
smuggle arms past the very elabor-
ate police and spy system which
Czarist Russia erected against the
efforts of the toiling masses to free
themselves. Hence the title, "Tran-
sport of Fire"
The film is in keeping with the
excellent record established by Am
kino for productions that are ar
tistic and depictive of life in con-
trast TO the blah-blah mush Of the
Hollywood magnates.
1t shows clearly the terrible Gar
ist terror under which the workers
and peasants were subjected to
wholesale arrests, executions and
exile on the slightest suspicion Of re-
volutionary activity. 1t traces the
rising revolutionary sentiment of the
masses, the growing preparations for
struggle, the secret meetings and
conspiracies, the poignant cry Of the
Russian masses I'VE cannot endure
this forever"
Here one sees, too, the change in
the policy of the revolutionists from
terroristic acts against individuals to
the work of organizing and rousing
the masses for mass action and re-
volution under Lenin's sage advice
that I'VE shall never accomplish any
thing by merely destroying indivi-
duals"
The film is well worth seeing.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

and permit scabs to work so the
strike can be broken.
At the same time, the Shipping
Board is taking a hand in the prose-
cution of the three leaders of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
who are now in a federal Jail await
ing trial for urging the strikers to
smash the injunction. The Shipping
Board, with the help of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association
and the International Seamen's
Union, was effectively breaking the
strike, when the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union took a hand, urging
the strikers to put up a militant
fight. This was followed with mass
picketing by Negro strikers, a Sc
we're fight between police and the
strikers, and hundreds of arrests.
Even strikers who stand near the
dacks are arrested.
Despite the arrests and terror, the
Marine Workers Industrial Union is
issuing leaflets to the strikers. The
latest leaflets addressed to Negro and
white striking longshoremen urged
them to elect a rank and file strike
committee and take charge of the
strike.
The leaflet went on to say:
"You have been striking for four
weeks, and the ships have been
loading and discharging. You must
stop this! The only way you can
do this is by spreading the strike.
The I. S. U. and the I. L. A. are
working with the bosses and refuse
to call out the seamen. Elect a rank
and file committee. Your rank and
file committee must issue a strike
call to the rank and file of the sea-
men and all onther workers on the
waterfront. Your rank and file
committee must use all means to
stop scabbing. Your rank and file
committee must call upon the soI-
darity Of the working class of New
Orleans to support you in your
strike"
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
World Exchange Bank
Depositors Are Called
To Meeting TOnig h t

NEW YORK-A mass meeting of
all working class depositors of the
World Exchange Bank will be held
tonight, o'clock, at the Manhattan
Lyceum, to demand immediate pay
ment in full of their savings in this
latest bank to close its doors in this
city.
A call for the meeting, issued by
group of worker depositors, points out
that from past experiences with the
Bank of the United States, the
Chelsea Bank and others, it is the
small depositors who suffer most by
these closings. We must not allow
the small clique of the board of
directors of the bank to rob us of
our hard-earned savings. We must
organize for f-protection."
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
FRANKLIN THEATRE

"The Last Parade" with Jack Holt
in the leading role, is the screen fare
at the Franklin Theatre until Tues
day. On the stage Dave Genaro, and
his Youngsters of Yesterday" is the
headline attraction. The Wilson
Brothers, King Brawn, Roy Gordon
and Drifting High" revue completes
the bill.
From Wednesday to Friday Lone
ly Wives starring Edward Everett
Horton, is the screen feature. Char
les Withers and his "Opry," Reynolds
and White; Pilcer and Douglas; jim
Mcdonald and the Five Emersons
round out the vaudeville bill.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
ANTI -IMPERIALIST LEAGUE EXPOSES
HOOVER'S VISIT TO PORTO RICO

NEW YORK.-ExpoSing the pur-
pose Of the visit Of the imperialist
President Herbert Hoover to Porto
Rico and the Virgin Island, the
Porto Rican New York branch of
the Anti-Imperialist League has is
sued a statement in which it says:
I'VE brand as hypocrisy and an
outright lie the statement inspired
in Washington through the capital
ist press that Hoover by his trip
hopes to relieve Porto Rico's plight"
that the Presidents sympathy has
been aroused by the sickly children
and the Islands high death rate.
mot for the purpose of relieving
the suffering and poverty Of the
Porto Rican workers, is Hoover max
ing this trip to Porto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. but to devise news
means of crushing the rising revolt
of the Latin American workers
against American imperialism and
against the unbearable conditions of
4SlpGEldu5L tAplOlJdllOIl
CLOSE to 50 per cent of the work.
ers and peasants Of Porto Rico are
in an actual state of starvation.
Hoover is not bringing with him an
appropriation for the immediate re-
lief of the unemployed and starving
workers and peasants-he is bringing
instead his secretary of the navy
and the secretary of war. What he
is coming for is to perfect prepara-
ticns for war against the American
inperiahst rivals and against the
national liberation movement in
Porto Pico, Virgin Islands, Cuba
Haiti and other countries of Central
and South America.
"In this Hoover will find a ready
ally and co-operator in the socialist
party Of Porto Rico with Iglesias
ct its head. Iglesias, the friend of
William Green of the A. F. of L.
and Hillquit and company of the
u S. A.
"The nationalist party, while pre-
tending opposition to American i'm
pelialism. declaring that they will
not participate in the reception of
Hoover, and putting forward the de-
mand for independence of Porto
Rico, in reality mean that they want
independence of the native bour-
geoisie to have the right to exploit
the workers and peasants of Porto
Rico without having to share their
spoils with the American imperial
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
HIPPODROME

Kept Husbands" the new Radio
Picture, makes its initial bow at the
Hippodrone today. Dorothy Mackail
is starred and supported by Jael Nc
Crea, Clara Kimball Young and
Mary Carr.
The story is by Louis Sarecky and
was directed by Lloyd Bacon.
The vaudeville bill has Honorable
Mr.. WI with his Chinese Collegians;
Joe Young with Myra Langford, Billy
Riddel and Eleanor Gibson; James
Burke and Eleanor Durkin; Harry
Van and Joe Ward; Eddie White;
Grace Edler, and the Reed Brothers;
Madam Ella Bradna, and the Four
American Aces and a Queen.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
LID. Concert and
Dance in Elizabeth
Saturday, March 28

ELIZABETH, N. j., March 20. -
The International Labor Defense OF
Elizabeth, N. j., is arranging an In
ternational Concert and Dance for
Saturday, March %, pm, at the
Lithuanian Liberty Hall, 269-273
Second st.
The Lithuanian Choir of Elizabeth
and the Ukrainian Mandolin Orches-
ira of Newark will participate in the
concert as well as some individual
talent. The proceeds of this affair
will go chiefly for the Prisoners Re
lief Campaign, and for the defense
OF the three comrades who are be-
ing held before the Grand Jury in
Elizabeth.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

in 1920 those reporting incomes of
$4,000 to $4,000 a year, that is, the
better paid ranks of the proletariat
and the smallest business men, were
getting, altogether, an income of
Sc, 1874, ,543,368. But in 1928, a year
of unprecedented prosperity, this
group got only 5000, O,90O,943. 1t got
somewhat less than one-third of the
income that it had iIrs4920.
During this period the U. S. De-
partment of Labor Handbook of La
Dor Statistics gives the cost of living
as falling only from 200 to 171:3 Goo
being the cost in 1919.
During the same period, the same
source indicates that the wholesale
prices of commodities fell from 1914
to 977. But in spite of this great
decrease in prices Of the stuff they
sold, enough work was screwed out
Of that lower paid labor to make
millionaireS richer than ever.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Boxing Feature At
L.S.U. Club Dance

Many young workers and students
attended the first dance of the Alec
Athletic Club, affiliated to the La
Dor Sports Union, Saturday Night
in the Gym of the Cooperative Col
ony, 2700 Bronx Park East.
The main feature was two boxing
matches under the auspices of the
club. The young workers at the
dance were pleased with the pro-
gram and announced that they want
ed to join the club. Membership
is now open.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Socialists Joke Over
Their Secret Desire
to Kill the JObless

NEW YORK.-Heywood Broun, the
socialist clown of the last election,
candidate, and Louis Adamic, author
ofy the book Dynamite" are having
their grim little joke over the unem-
ployed. Broun, suggested that the
best way to get rid Of the unemployed
is to gather them all in Central Park
and NOV them down with machine
guns.
Now Adamic. writing in the World
Telegram, declares that he has in
terviewed two dozen unemployed, and
they hail the suggestion with delight,
because they do not have the price
of either a bottle of carbolic acid or
a room full of gas with which to end
their miseries Adamic, as an ex-
machine gunner in the world war, of
fers to do the shooting.
It's all a joke of course, just a
merriment between Broun and
Adamic, neither of whom ever goes
hungry, but, There's many true
word spoken in jest" The mere fact
that Broun, who will address the So
cialist meeting today on unemploy-
ment is utterly opposed to the mass
demonstration of the jobless to force
relief from capitalist society, leaves
him with hardly any other way out
for solution of unemployment than
just such a massacre.
Workers who know what hunger
means in all seriousness, will turn
aside from these testers, and build
Unemployed Councils III.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
| KILLED; 4 HURT;
MINE EXPLOSION

SHENANDOAH, Pa, March o.
greed for super profits and failure to
take proper precautions took several
more working class victims today,
when one worker was killed and four
seriously injured in an explosion. of
gas on the fourth lift of the Locust
Gap colliery of the P. & R. c. & I.
Company this afternoon.
Joseph Strobe, as, of Ashland was
killed Immediately. Those injured
are: Thomas Wood, Locust Gap, John
and William Holton, both of Girard-
vile, and John Joyce, of Kulpmont.
The four were all badly burned about
the face and body.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Books Needed for
National Training
School of the C. p.

Two books, 1.-The Misleaders of
Labor" by VIM. z. Foster, and His
tory of the American Working Glass, -
by Bimba, are needed by the National
Training School.
Those comrades who have these
books and can spare to lend to the
School for about two months, please
communicate at once with the Work
ers School office (48-50 E. 18th St.,
Alg. 4-119o)
Names ard address IS ct the owners
will be taken down AID books will be
returned tight after the National
Training School is over. Good care
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Benefit for the Gary
Workers School Mar. -

GARY, March 20.--A dance for the
benefit of the Gary Workers School
will be held Sunday night, March %,
at Roumanian Hall, 1908 Adams,
Gary. Admission is only 25 cents.
Members Of the unemployed coun-
Gil admitted free.
The Gary Workers School has
classes every Friday night, at pm.
at 2l5 West 18 Avenue. Comrade
Farley is the instructor All workers
are invited to attend.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
$50 Given to Daily
By Chicago Workers

The following workers of the Row.
most Ludu Shop Committee, Chicago,
contributed $50 to the Daily Worker
Emergency Fund:
Kratochvil, $5; Fedor, $5; Mosko-
vitz, S5; Kollar, So; zuskar, S. Kor-
enick, $5; Vrabel, IS; Lennicky, IS;
G. Pekara, $5; S. Mongo, So; w.
Cejka, So; F. canecek, So; M. Nemeth,
So.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Mooney Series
Continued Tues.

The Mooney series exposing the
manner in which the A. F. l.. be-
trayed him, will be continued to-
morrow on Page Four.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
OF FIRE" AT
8th STREET PLAYHOUSE

Transport of Fire" silent drama
of the uprising Of 1905 against the
Czarist government is now in it's Am
erican premiere at the Eighth Street
Playhouse.
Produced by Sovkino and released
by Amkino, the picture boasts of
splendid cast, headed by Gleb Ku-
zantzoy and was directed by Alexan-
der Ivanoff. 1t is his first picture
to be shown here.
is promised in using the books and
the Workers School will be RESPONSE
BILE for every book borrowed.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
WEDNESDAY,


w onIns Council No.
VIII hear lecture on the Paris
Commune at G1 Graham Ave. at $40
p m Admission free.
Workers EN-Sersicemen's League
Meets on SOth ST.. between Lexing-
ton and Third Ave. at S y. m
lHer. Comm tN-~er> icemrps League
Meets regularly @v.ry Wednesday
light at headquarters. Committee
Members should be present. A.
u IA. ss4s7<1-.--
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
What's On
MONDAY

Ear0 Park Ella Way Branch LID.
AT S u. m. at 1873 43rd St. B'klyn
Talks on the work of the lid and
MOPR Admission free.
Workers Esperanto Group
VIII conduct a class for beginners
and the advanced every Monday night
AZ $50 y. N. at the Japanese Workers
Club, 7 T.. 18th St. No fee for the
course.
Workers EN-Seryicemen's Lague
Hclds an open air meet at s pm.
~ 125th st. and Fifth Ave. Good
speakers.
Council No. J6
Lecture at $50 p. m. at 342 T.. 96th
ST. brooklyn. on The World Capitalist
Conspiracy against the Soviet Union
N.I.H. Band Rehearsal
At p. m. at 131 w. 2Sth st. All
workers VIII 0 play an instrument
should come
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

TUESDAY

WeetInI OF The Press Ticket
nd Progr;Nn Committee is being
held Tuesday at s p. m. at $50 Pros
pect Ave Members concerned must
be presnt.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

Smash the anti-Iabor laws of the
bosses!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

If former Sergt. Norman Letwin of
the A. E. F. plodding home to Phila-
delphia, glanced up from the long high
way yesterday, he must have seen his
leader on the unemployed veterans
hike to the National Capital flying
home.
Letwin, a Don't Give This Man a
Ride" banner on his back said he could
hike at AZ as well as he could Is years
ago, and set out Friday to prove it.;
John Alferi, the leader, admitted his
feet had swelled and asked free lift
of the Ludington Air Line.
The two were the last to leave Wash
ington CT the six veterans who tramped
into town Tuesday to seek cash bonus,
the remnants of a company of 200
which marched out of Philadelphia last
Saturday.
Letwin got his banner lettered-"Go-
ing Back Phila Wash. Bonus Track;
Don't Give This Man Ride" and, on
the reverse side, Don't Be Fool If
You Can't Hike: Don't Give This Man
a Ride"-then inquired the way to the
Baltimore boulevard and started walk
ing.
Alferi presented himself at Wash
ington- Hoover Airport. He explained
his feet were blistered, his knees
swelled and a wife and family awaited
him in Philadelphia
officials OF the line gave him pass,