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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
FAKERS
SUPPORT GRAIN
Ryan Comes Out For
His Tammany Pal

NEW YORK.-Joseph P. Ryan,
president of the international Long
shoremen's Union, and president of
the New York Central Trades and
Labor Council, and the whole G. T.
and L. G. have come out officially
endorsing and defending the Tam
many prosecuting attorney Grain,
now so openly tied up with the rack
eteers, graft and the police horrors
that the governor has been forced to
order him investigated
Grain is the chief of all the as
sistant district attorneys who have
been so actively getting Jail sem
fences for the jobless, 1t was Grains
office which got the six months SEN
fences for Foster, Minor, Amter, Les
ten and Raymond, leaders Of the
jobless. Grain is back of every
frame-up of strike pickets, back Of
the prosecution for violation Of
anti picketing injunctions.
But Grain is part of the Tammany
machine, and Ryan is a member Of
the Tammany policy committee, anc
most of the rest of the Contra
Trades crowd are in the TammanS
machine, which is a grating ma
chine.
They gave their support to Crair
when he was elected, and they sup.
port him now when he is found out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Food Workers Will
Banquet S. Weiner
Jailed Militant

NEW YORK CITY. Sylvia Weiner,
militant food worker who is serving
3o-day sentence for her activities
in the cafeteria strike last year will
be welcomed on her release from
prison with an affair arranged by
the Women's Department OF the Food
Workers Industrial Union and the
Workers International Relief jointly,
on Saturday, April 4 at 8 p. m, at the
union headquarters.
Workers, and especially food work
ers are urged to attend the affair
at which Russian movies will be
shown, special entertainment ar
ranged and dancing tickets are 25c,
which will go partly to building the
WIR children's camp and to the Food
Workers Industrial Union. The af-
fair will be part of the drive the
Women's department is making to
win more women workers into the
union. Remember the date and the
place: Saturday, April 4, at union
headquarters, IS w, 21st st. and turn
out to welcome Sylvia Weiner from
Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Birth of a Nation" Picture Is
Used to Incite Racial Prejudice
Bosses Fear United Struggle of Negro and
White Workers

savior" of the South under the ban
ner of the Holy Cross"
1.-THE significance of the widely
heralded revival o. this vicious pic
ture is of extreme importance at this
time. Throughout the South, this
picture is being shown--in Dallas,
Texas, where our comrades were
nearly lynched for fighting for the
rights of both Negro and white work
ers against starvation and boss ter
ror. Its purpose Is very plain. The
Communist Party Is rallying the
masses of white and Negro toilers,
workers and farmers, together for a
joint fight against the hunger Sys-
TEN and the bosses are now trying
to use this picture to instill the in
sidious poison of race prejudice, TO
stir up lynch mob spirit, TO glerify
and prepare the ground for the xxx
and other fascist bands, and thus
10 smash the growing unity of the
dIl0 WlbtC lllN
ar. utilizing al means. press, films,
church, etc, to spread their race
hatred poison.
Every class conscious worker must
expose this latest and most vicious
attack on the Negro workers and the
working class as whole. Our an
syer must be increased organization
into the ranks of all working class
organizations, above all the Coninlu-
mist Party. and the wiping out Of sll
traces of white chauvinism. WORK
ersl Rally your friends and shop
mates to the mass protest demon
strations on March % against lynch
ings, deportatiens and boss terror
generally. Smash the bosses attack
on the Negro and foreign born work
ers! Strengthen the fight against
starvation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
100 IN FISH Pa
RADE IN HARLEM
Workers J e e + and
Hoot Takers

NEW YORK. THE Negro workers
of Harlem turned a cold shoulder to
the parade and meeting called by the
Negro lackeys of fascist Ham Fish
and other imperiaists for yesterday
afternoon. The affair arranged as a
counter demonstration to the success
full demonstration in Harlem on Sat
urday against lynching and deporta-
tons proved fizzle of the worst
kind. Only 100 persons participated
in the parade down Lenox Ave. to
125th st. and through 125th to Sew
enth Ave and up Seventh Ave. Few
of these were workers. The Jewish
group had about 25 members, the
Garveyites another %. Then there
were about 25 members of other
church groups. The reformist lead
ers, numbering about 25, rode in
automobiles. The U. N. I. A. band
headed the parade.
Negro workers on the sidewalks
booed and jeered as the reformists
went by in their cars. Workers
shouted to them asking where in hell
they thought they were going.
Reports circulated in Harlem short
ly after the parade that Fascist Fish
was so discouraged over the fiasco of
the parade that he might not attend
the indoor meeting in the evening.
Fish, with the aid of fellow imper-
iahStS in the Tammany Hall organ
ization, had succeeded in uniting the
Negro reformists in a desperate at
tempt to again divert the Negro
masses from militant struggle against
the boss system Of lynching, Jim
Crowism, deportations, starvation and
imperialist wars. They had offered
the Negro workers, in place of the
struggle against lynching and Starva-
ton, meeting Gin honor of his I'm
perial Majesty Halle Selasse. First,
Emperor of AbySsinia and his son, the
prince recently born" In addition, a
few of the tens of thousands of
Negro unemployed in Harlem were to
be given a free meal for single day
as the price of their desertion of
the struggle for Negro rights. The
Negro workers threw this insult back
into the face of the traitors.
Just before the fiasco parade be-
gun, groups of Negro and white
members oi the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights had distributed
leaflets along the line of march call
ing upon the workers to repudiate
the Negro lackeys of imperialism and
the fascist Fish.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
STRIKERS FOIL
PLANS OF LILA.
Workers Rescue Lead
ers from Gang

NEW ORLEANS, Lathe strike OF
longshorenen which began on Febru-
airy 23rd, after private interests who
bought some of the United States
Shipping Board Gulf Service pro-
posed to cut wages from 30 to 65
cents an hour and overtime from
$i.20 to 81 an hour, continues in spite
OF the arrest and failing Of many
militant workers.
The International Longshoremen's
Association takers we're out to drive
the Marine Workers Industrial Union
from town, but the MWIU foiled
them. On the night when William
Harvey, and Harry Hynes, two MW1U
organizers arrested by Federal au-
thorities for calling upon the strikers
to smash the injunction by mass
picketing, we're released, one OF the
workers was tipped that there would
be- trouble so a group OF marine
workers we're at the prison gates at
midnight to get their leaders when
they would be released.
A gang of I. l.. A. gunner in two
cars was waiting to take them for
ride. The workers had a taxi wait
ing and as soon as Harvey and Hynes
were released they were whisked
away by their fellow workers. The
police had the riot squad out with
machine guns, and a police car fol-
lowed the strikers all the way to the
Union Hall with a machine gun.
One of the strikers writes in, We
expect if we hadn't been there that
the same thing would have happened
as happened over in Texas, and We
weren't taking any chances"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30

NEW YORK.-In an effort to COM
bat the work of the Communist Party
in uniting the Negro and white mass
es the Dallas bosses are showing the
Infamous Birth OF a Nation" in this
city, This is a direct attempt to stir
lp race hatred between the white and
Negro masses in order to defeat the
growing unity OF these workers In
the struggle against starvation and
for unemployment relief and insur-
snoe. It is the work of the same
bosses who recently murderously at
tackled Cooler and Hurst, and left
them for dead in the woods because
these two comrades had fearlesSly
advocated full equality for the Ne
gro masses and working class salidar-
ity of white and black. A comrade
who visited the showing of it says:
Having heard so much about the
Birth of a Nation" and knowing 1t
would be of interest to other workers
to know what il means we went TO
see it. Its lesson, comrades, is in
deed a serious one and one which
every class conscious worker should
understand and expose. The pic
twe itself was first shown in 1914
and is acclaimed by the boss press
as the greatest film OF all time.
This picture deals with the South
during and after the Civil War. 1t
is calculated to rouse the most in
tense Negro batting prejudice among
those who see it--by picturing the
Negro slaves who had been freed
by the Northern capitalists during
the Civil War. as brutal Savages,
whose desire was to rape or marry a
white woman. The Negroes are pic
tured as drunken brutes, unfit for
anything but avery. The murder
Dus Ku Klux Khan is glorified as the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
VAUDEVILLE THEATRES

FRANKLIN Dorothy Mackaill,
playing the leading role in Kept
Husbands" is the screen attraction
at the Franklin Theatre until Tues
day. On the stage Casa Iona Or
chestra is the headline attraction.
Henry Bergman: the Stedn1ans;
Metz and Ellis; Leon and Dawn; and
the Tate Brothers complete the bill.
From Wednesday to Friday, THE
Hot Heiress," with Ben Lyon and Ona
Munson in the leading roles, is the
screen fare. On the stage: Joe Young
and Company; Dippy Diers and Ben
nett; Mickey; Harry Stanley and
company; and the -Four Racketeers.
HIPPODROME-- Screen, Behind
Office Doors" with Mary Aston and
Robert Ames. Vaudeville: Leatrice
JOY, in person; Bob Murphy, Piletto
Jack Flynn, Harring on and Green
Don Calvin, Mangeans Internationals
and Meehan's CANNES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
HOLD CONFERENCE
in BRONX MAR. 81
Protest Deportation
of Chinese Workers

To organize protest against the de-
portation of Chinese workers to reac-
tionary China, the Chinese Anti
Imperialist League and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense is calling a con-
ference of workers and workers Or
CARNATIONS on March 81.
At present there are many Chinese
workers held by immigration authori-
ties for deportation and certain death.
The Chinese Butchers are not salts
fled with calling upon the boss SOL
diers and sailors to put down the
Chinese Revolution, and they are
asking for the lives of the militant
Chinese workers in America.
The Young Defenders is cooperat-
ing with the lid and the Chinese
Alliance in calling the conference,
which will be held at 1400 Boston
Road at $50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Theatre Guild to
Present Getting
arrie d.

The Theatre Guild will open its
revival of Shaw's comedy, Getting
Married" at the Guild Theatre this
evening. Henry Travers, Helen West
ley, Dorothy Gish and Margaret
Wycherly are in the cast.
On Tuesday evening, William r..
Doyle's comedy, Lady Beyond The
Noon" will open at the Bijou Thea
ire. The cast includes: Valerie Ber-
gere. Irene Hutaine. John Colds
worthy and Donald McLelland.
Right of Happiness" by Roy Da-
wilson, will come to the Vanderbilt
Theatre on Thursday night. Herbert
Rawlinson. Anne Sutherland, Robert
DuRoy and Roth Holden are the
leading players.
On Saturday night, "The Great
Man" is scheduled to open at the
Ritz Theatre with Walter Woolf and
Valerie Valaire as the principal play
ers. Paul Hervey Fox is the author.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
i. s. and AT of |
Admit Wage Cuts

WASHINGTON. March 2-Fur-
ther admission of extensive wage
cuts was made here today by DR..
julius Klein. Under Secretary of the
Commerce Department, who has just
returned from a series Of talks with
employers. Wages are being cut, he
said, especially in Wisconsin and
New England"
Figures quoted in the March issue
of the Labor Review reveal that dur
ing the month ending January Is,
1876 establishments in fifty industries,
affecting 43,5o7 workers, made cuts
in wages averaging 1912 per cent. The
Labor Review gives the decreases as
follows: food industries, IS; textile,
IS, iron and steel, 81, lumber, g.;
paper and printing, 81. During this
period, the Labor Review claims in
creases in % establishments aver
aging 3 per cent.
These figures do not take into
consideration indirect wage cutting
which is going on simultaneously
with direct wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
PUT DEMANDS TO
CHARITY OUTFIT
DoWnto town Jobless
Council Fights
Eviction

NEW YORK.-Workers are being
rallied to fight the eviction of Louis
Trogan, an unemployed worker 81
years oil dwho was eYicted from his
home at GIT East 9th Street, because
ne was behind few months in his
rent. The Downtown Unemployed
Council put the furniture back in
the house, and the police arrested
him and put him in jail. The hide
their tactics from the other workers
in the neighborhood the cops said he
was injured in a street-car acct
dent Not content with this he will
be tried at the Magistrates court, BIS
West 54th Street on some trumped
up charges.
The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil held very successful demonstra-
ton in front Of the Has Jewish fake
Relief society, which collects thou
sands of dollars every year in the
name of the unemployed and uses
these funds for their own purposes.
A delegation went inside and pre-
sented demands to fsker Shluger,
who gets SIS week or more to sit
on nice soft chair, and while his
stomach is full refuse workers food
and shelter. The police we're out
witted expecting the demonstration
to take place when the committee
went into present the demands and
being ready with large number of
police and thugs to attack the work
ers, when the police thought that
there was no more chance for a de-
monstration the workers came in full
force demonstrated up and down in
front of Has held large open air
meeting to which many hundreds
of workers were attracted. All this
took place despite the various at
tempts Of the police to break up the
demonstration and meeting. When
the meeting ended the workers all
marched over to the hall at 81 East
4th Street, where many workers
joined the Council. The Downtown
Unemployed Council is going to de-
monstrate in front of the Has un-
til they grant the demands which
we're put forward today. The de-
mands are as follows:
There shall be no red tape or
registration of workers; there shall
be no discrimination against race
color or creed; three nourishins
meals 10 be served to the workers
each day; all unemployed workers be
given bed every night; there be
clean bed clothes every day and not
the lousy linen which is now used
workers committee shall be grant.
ed access to the record OF all funds
collected in the name of the unem-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
WORKERS EXPOSE
FRED R. MOORE
Faker "Not Interested
in Lynching'

NEW YORK.-In connection with
the preparations for today's demon
stration in Harlem against lynching
and deportations, delegation of 10
from the Harlem Unemployed Coun-
Gil visited several Negro bourgeois
newspapers in Harlem to seek sup
port for the struggle against per-
secution Of foreign born and Negro
workers.
While the attitude of all of the
Negro reformist editors was more or
less hostile to the protest demon
strations, the editor of the New York
Age. Fred r. Moore, who is also a
republican alderman was the most
outspoken in his opposition. Moore
told the delegation he was not in
terested In the fight against lynch
ing as no one would lynch him in his
office. Therefore he would not sup
port the demonstrations.
The workers then asked his atti-
tude on discrimination, whether he
was not interested in fighting dis
elimination against Negro workers
in restaurants, etc. His answer was
that he generally ate at home. And
no doubt, when he travels he does
so by automobile, SO had no con-
Germ with the many privations and
insults Negro workers who have tc
travel by bus and train experience.
Moore further declared that he
would not support any movement
that stood for internationalism, that
is against segregation of Negro work
ers upon which the growing power
Of the Negro bourgeoisie is based.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
REJECT LUGGAGE
DISMISSAL PLAN
But Right Wing Of
ficers Still Maneuver

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-On Thursday, March
26, at membership meeting OF the
Suitcase and Bag Makers Union,
Local %, recommendation of the
Executive Committee to grant re-
organization to the White Luggage
Co. was rejected, 8 to |.
The reorganization proposal con-
sists in reducing the amount of
workers from about 1855 to about rs,
also half of the workers to work on
the piece work basis and TO reduce
the wages of the remaining week
workers.
Reject Resignation.
When the right wing manager of
the union saw how indignant the
workers are against the collaboration
policy of the union he gave in his
resignation. A rank and file worker
protested against the cowarcly act OF
the manager in resigning in such a
serious situation. His resignation
was rejected.
But even after the vote he insisted
on his resignation and proposed a
committee to take charge Of the of.
flee on Saturday. Only one would
accept on such committee. --Le
Membership Meet March 81.
Meanwhile postcards were sent out
to the White Luggage workers call
ing them to section meetings and
only the workers agreed to between
the firm and the union right wing
officials. without even calling a shop
meeting and reporting the arrange.
ments to all the workers.
A special membership meeting is
called at union headquarters for
Tuesday. March 81. At that meeting
the officials will try to maneuver to
reconsider the decision Of the last
meeting and try to force through the
reorganization Of the White Luggage
shop. Every union member must
come to the meeting and repudiate
them and prepare for q real strug-
gle against speed-up and wage cuts
in union shops as well as in open
shops.
Luggage Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
JOBLESS GIRLS LIVE ON
BANANAS

NEW YORK,-Fiye inches of
banana day is the latest Hoover
diet to keep your American women
slim, Eight girls in New York, by
clubbing together, managed to have
81 a week, with which they rent a
shabby room and buy bananas. The
bananas are laid end to end and
measured off with yard stick. The
average is five inches a day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Ex-sERyICEMENs HQ'Ts NEEDS
CHAIRS

The headquarters of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League is badly in
need of chairs. They ask any work
ers clubs and organizations to donate
any extra chairs or benches to the
League. Communicate with 70 e
10th ST., N. Y. C..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30

Fight lynching. Fight depcrta-
ton Of foreign born. Elect dele.
gates to your city conference for
protection Of foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day ON your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
TUESDAY

Workers Ex-seryicemen's League
Open air meeting at seth st. be-
tween Lexington and Third AYES. at
s p. m. All eservicemen are urged to
attend.
o
Young Defenders and Other Clubs
Arc called to conference OF the
Anti-Imperialist Chinese Alliance to
prepare for the defense night of the
Chinese workers held for deportation,
at $50 p. m. at 1900 Boston Rid.
Executive Committee
or the Workers Ex-Serviccm ems
League meets regularly at 8 p. m. at
20 q, 10th St
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
| What's On
MONDAY

Workers Laboratory Theatre Of WIR
Meets every Monday. Wednesday
and Friday evening at 1871 W. 2sth
st. Many workers are needed for
acting, writing and staging.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
BAN ON RADIO DOCTOR
SUSTAINED IN COURT
Kansas Broadcaster Loses Appeal
From Decision of U. S.
Body.

The District of Columbia Court Of
Appeals today upheld the Federal Radio
Commission in ruling that radio sta
tons may not diagnose, and prescribe
for treatment of the ills Of unseen per-
sons.
The ruling was handed down by
Justice Charles H. Robb in the case of
Station KFKB, Milford, Kans. The
commission previously had refused to
renew the license of the station, which
is said to have been operated chiefly
in the interest of DR.. ]. r. Brinkley.
1t was a medical question boz"
conducted by DR.. Brinkley, to which
the commission objected. The physi-
clans diagnoses, it was charged, were
based on symptoms described in letters
addressed to either the doctor or the
station.
The commission held it is inimical to
public health and safety for physician
TO prescribe treatment in such cases.
Justice Robb's decision was handed
down in accordance with the recent
radio act. which limits the jurisdiction
of the appellate court TO questions Of
law and makes the commissions factual
findings conclusive, provided they are
supported by substantial evidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
MOTOR CYCLE OFFICER
HURT IN COLLISION
Policeman LeFoe in Serious Con-
dition After Accident at Trim
idad Avenue and Neal Street.

Policeman J. r. lie Foe, attached to
the Traffic Bureau, residing at 1924
Trinidad avenue northeast, was injured
today when the motor cycle upon which
he was riding collided with an automo-
bile at Trinidad avenue and Neal street.
LIE Foe was taken to Casualty Hospital
and treated for internal injuries, posi-
BILE fractured pelvis, numerous bruises
and shock. Physicians said his condi-
ton is serious.
The driver Of the automobile, Perry
-Delaughter of No. Rittenhouse street
northwest, was arrested by ninth pre-
cinct police and charged with reckless
driving. Police said the brakes on his
car will be tested. According to the
police report, LeFoe was going home
when the accident occurred. He was
thrown about 20 feet when his motor
cycle crashed into the automobile.
Policeman LeFoe a year ago set a
record for issuing a large number of
traffic tickets. He has been commended
several times for courtesy. A year or so
ago he was commended by Rev. Joseph
R. Sizoo. pastor of New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, for courtesy ex-
tended to the pastor in rushing him to
a hospital when he was Ill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02

All Perfect!
French Heels
Cradle Soles
Stop-Run Stripe at Welt
AZ Gauge
Silk Plated Tops and Feet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
90 DAYS IN JAIL GIVEN
TO DRIVER IN COLLISION

A sentence of 80 days in Jail and a
fine of 500 or 80 more days was given
in Police Court by Judge Ralph e.
Given this morning to Melvin D. Davis,
colored, l4l1 D street southeast, charged
with driving while under the influence
Of intoxicating liquor
E. F. Griffith of 1886 Massachusetts,
avenue, southeast, reported that yester-
day a car driven by Davis collided with
his machine at Eleventh street and
North Carolina avenue southeast, and
that the driver failed to stop. Grifith
said that he chased Davis car for three
blocks, overhauling it and forcing Davis
to stop.
Davis admitted that he had been
drinking. but denied that he was very
drunk" as alleged