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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
HATTIE CARNEGIE
GIRLS CO M P Z 7 E
To See Who Can Make
More Articles for LID


NEW YORK.-The workers in the
Hattie Carnegie dress shop on 4sth
st. have issued challenge to the
workers in the Hattie Carnegie shop
on 57th st to engage in socialist COM
petition in connection with the an
nual bazaar OF the New York District
of the International Labor Defense.
The bazaar will be held Feb. 1922 at
Star Casino, 10Th st. and Park Ave.
The girls in the 49th st. shop have
already started work preparing all
sorts Of articles for the miscellaneous
booth they will have at the bazaar.
They have issued statement declar-
ing:
1--WE want to help free all class
war prisoners and fight deporta-
lions and the capitalist terror by
doing our bit to make the i. L. ID.
bazaar a success. We challenge the
workers in the Hattie Carnegie
57th st. shop to establish a booth
OF their own and prepare more
articles than we will have in ours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
YONkERS TOILERS NESSIN CASE GOES
DEFY POLICE BAN TOTRIAL FER. 18TH
Will Fight for Streets
Today

YONKERS, Feb. II. Yonkers
workers will demonstrate today
against police brutality and for the
right of workers to the streets.
Chief of Police Quirk was so noti-
fled yesterday by a committee COM
posed of Milton WEIGH, organizer of
the Unemployed Council and Shelkin,
an unemployed Yonkers worker.
The committee which notified the
chief of police was met with threats
and oaths to get the hell out of
here"
The delegation protested this action
in driving them out and interpreted
it to mean that the Yonkers police,
notorious for their vicious attacks
against the militant workers Of this
city in their struggles for unemploy-
ment insurance and against the bos-
ses hunger system, will unleash the
harshest brutality against the work.
ers at today's demonstration.
Yonkers workers, unemployed and
employed, are determined, however,
to fight for the right to the streets
and will be out in large numbers to-
day. The demonstration takes place
Larkan Plaza at ~ noon today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
To Greet Hunger Marchers
On Road to State Capital

away the wealth they wiring out OF
the workers blood.
And when finally you arrive on
the outskirts of Albany, hunger
marchers, you will be met by another
army! The Unemployed Councils Of
Albany, of Troy, and of Schenectady,
will be there in solid ranks to swell
and reinforce your ranks. You will
then march thru the workers sec
ton of Albany, where the proleta-
riat, who have already come to trust
and rally behind the Unemployed
Council Of Albany, will give you
most revolutionary welcome. The
workers Of Albany, Negro and white,
men and women, employed and I'M
employed, have shown tremendous
enthusiasm for our movement. They
will receive you as their fighting
comrades, and share with you their
militant experiences, as well as their
meagre suppers and board.
This, hunger marcherS, is how the
workers along the line OF march TO
Albany will greet you. But comrades,
you must expect and be prepared
for, another kind Of treatment. And
that is, from the vicious tools Of the
boSs-class, the police and state
troopers. These will try to interfere
with your demonstrations, will try to
weaken your ranks. This enemy is
not new to us workers; they are the
same towards and DULLES everywhere,
and we must answer them on the
march, as we do in our deinonstra-
lions at home. The weather may
also be very cold, and the problem
of food and shelter is a great one.
But we workers are used to hard
ships. and in this march, We must
display the utmost courage, patience,
and determination. in order to over
come them, and march VIGOROUSLY
towards our goal.
Unemployed Councils Of Tarry-
town, PeekskiIl, Duchess Junction,
Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Albany,
Troy, Schenectady.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Walker Said He Was
"Too Busy"

NEW YORK. - In a court room
crowded with unemployed workers
and surrounded by uniformed cops
and detectives, the case of Sam Mes
sin, Milton Stone and Robert Lea
less was called and put over to Wed.
nesday, February 18th, because
Walker was pressed with business. "
Nessin, Stone and Lealess who are
charged with unlawful assembly
because they were ordered beaten UP
by Mayor Walker when they pre-.
sented the demand of the unemployed
at the October 10th demonstration
at the Board of Estimates, are de-
tending their own case. Jury trials
have been repeatedly refused them
and they are being given the same
treatment accorded to Foster, Minor,
Amter, Lesten and Raymond, when
they were railroaded to Jail by spe-
cial sessions court. composed of Tam
many judges.
When Nessin told Walker that he
represented the grating Tammany
politicians, during a oBard of Esti-
mates meeting on October 18th.
Mayor Walker ordered them beate
up. All of the defendants were sew
erely slugged in the Board of Est.
mates Chamber and later beato
nearly to death in the basement O
the. city hall.
When the trial comes up a.
Wednesday, they will be tried beft
Judges Salmon, Feschi and HeaI
Mayor Walker has been subpoened
as one of the witnesses, and the as
sistant district attorney announced
that he would be present on Wednes-
day. The trial is scheduled to be
held in the criminal court building,
Center and Franklin Streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
RELEASERAYMOND
ON FEBRUARY 20
Plan Meet at Irving
Plaza

NEW YORK. - Harry Raymond,
who together with Foster, Amter,
and Minor, was imprisoned for pre-
senting the demands of the unem-
ployed to Mayor Walker during the
March 9Th demonstration in New
York, will be released ON February
Goth. On that day the prison gates
of Harris Island will swing open once
again.
Mass delegations from the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, the IN
employed Councils of Greater New
York, and the International Labor
Defense, will greet Raymond when he
Is released on February goth at 10
a. m. from the Municipal Building
opposite City Hall.
A mass meeting of welcome has
been arranged at Irving Plaza on
February Ord, p, m. Every work
ers' organization should be present to
welcome the last of those four who
represented them so courageously on
March 9th. Israel Amter and Harry
Raymond will be the speakers of the
evening. Come and bring your
friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
VAUDEVILLE THEATRES

HIPPODROME-Eddie Leonar
and Black Face Artists, Ben Blue,
Pepito, Weston and Lyons, Clyde
Hager, Barsoni and Kharum, Luster
Brothers and Six Franklins. On the
screen: 1.-THE Seas Beneath" with
George O'Brien.
85TH STREET-"LittIe Caesar .
with Edward G. Robinson. On the
stage: Venita Gould, Mural Kaye.
the Hickey Brothers, Harry Hol-
brook and Sons O'Guns" ensemble,
Morton and Mayo.
Dist STREET-Harry Delmar and
his revue, Ray an dHarrison, Fleu-
fette Jeoffrie, chappelle and Carlton.
Screen: Little Caesar" For the Sec
end half Otis Skinner is the screen
attraction in "Kismet." Vaudeville:
Jay @. Flipper, the Gaudsmith
Brothers, Jack Sidney and company,
Charlotte Lensing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Gan American
Tragedy" in Revival
at Waldorf

This week will see three new plays
and four return engagements of old
plays on Broadway. The new pro-
auctions are: Heat Wave" opening
at the Fulton Theatre on Tuesday
night. This opus is by Roland Pert
wee and has Basil Rathbone, Betty
Lawford and Selena Royle heading
the cast.
1.-THE Gangs All Here" a musical
show by Oscar Hammerstein I'd,
Morrie Ryskind, Russell Grouse and
Lewis E. Gensler, is due at the I'M
perial Theatre on Wednesday. Ted
Healy and Tom Howard are the chief
comedians.
THE Great harrington" by Frank
lin Russell, opens at the Avon The
atre on Thursday night. Otto Kru-
ger, Charles Dalton and Suzanne
Gaubaye are the principals in this
comedy.
death Takes a Holiday" is the
principal item of the old productions
to return here. Philip Merivale will
again play the chief role in the Ca
sella opus, which will be housed at
the Ambassador Theatre. The others
include:
"Topaze," the PagnoI satire on
crooked politics and politicians in its
original French. opens at the Forty
Ninth st. Theatre tonight. This play
has been translated into Russian and
has been playing in Soviet Russia for
almost year.
Gods of the Lightning" by Max
well Anderson and Harold Kicker
son, will open at the Provincetown
Playhouse on Wednesday night and
"An American Tragedy" Patrick
Kearney's dramatization of Dreiser's
novel, will be presented at the Wal
dorf Theatre on Friday. Roy Har-
grave and Ruth Nugent play the i'm
portant roles in this revival.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17

To the army OF militant workers
who on February 10 start on their
march to Albany, the workers
through whose cities you will pass,
extend greetings of solidarity. When
you Come to- Tarrytown, the oppres-
sed workers there will joyfully greet
your militant determination, and
make room in their crowded homes
to put you up for the night. The
next morning, when you march on
ward, a chosen squad from the I'M
employed of Tarrytown will Join
your ranks and march along.
When you pass thru Croton and
Ossining, the exploited workers there
will take courage from your exam
pie, and they too will form Unem-
ployed Councils. In Peekskill, the
newly organized workers, employed
and unemployed, will hail you as
their more experienced comrades. AS
many as possible will share their
suppers and beds with you, wanting
to learn from your experiences how
they can better carry on the struggle.
In Beacon, and across the river in
Newburgh, the workers will be eager
" on the streets. joining and sup
porting your demonstrations before
the factories there. In these cities,
you will find so per cent Of the
workers idle, and the most miserable
conditions prevailing for those still
on the job. For these workers, your
nilitancy and determination will be
a beacon light, and when they I'M
derstand what your purpose is, they
will be less terror stricken before the
vicious police thugs, and begin to
fight back.
When you arrive in Poughkeepsie
and Hudson, you will see further
marks of capitalist desolation. You
will see the huge factories shut down,
you will see the miserable wooden
shacks in which the workers are
compelled to live. and you will also
see here, as everywhere else, the
grand mansions and estates in which
the boss-robbers swell and guzzle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
GANG EXPELS 3
UPHOLSTERERS
Officials Railroad Ac-
tive Members

NEW YORK-By nobilizing a
force of strong arm men, and limit
ing voting rights to these members
If the ruling machine who are given
what few jobs there are, and SO can
nay their dues, the officials of Up
holsterers Union Local rs (AFL) have
exnelled three active members. "a
The real reason for the expulsion
of Kramer, Pusstay and Borodkin
was that these have led the fight in
the union for rank and file strike
committees in the recent strike which
the officials lost completely, in IL
shops with 200 members. and because
they fought the ten per cent wage
cut which the officials are forcing
On the members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Cafeterias
Cut Wages 2S p. c.;
Workers Talk Union

NEW YORK.-Wages in all Willow
cafeterias were cut 38 per cent last
week. Bus boys who were getting $18
a week with $175 for food allowance
were cut to $l3 week with $lO5 for
food. Counter men and all others were
cut too.
Most of the crew at the cafeteria
in the middle of the 14th Street block
between Fourth Avenue and Irving
Place all quit, but not in an organ
lied fashion, as a strike. Some of
them, however, said they were going
up to the Food Workers Industrial
Union at 16 West 21st Street to see
what could be done to organize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
A.F.L. BUROCRATS
EXPEL MILITANTS.
Statement of Furniture
Workers Ind. League

NEW YORK.-The officials Of the
Upholsterers' Union expelled three
members of the local: Borodkin, Pus-
tay, and Kramer, although the ma
jority of the membership was against
the expulsion. The officials resorted
to fascist methods, mobilizing their
clique of strong arm men, and sup
plying their men with paid-up men,
bership books, so they could vote for
the expulsion Of these members.
The reason why these members
we're expelled was because they con-
stantly exposed the bureaucratic and
reactionary policies of the officials,
they fought against the sell-out of
the last strike. because they fought
against the readjustment scheme
which resulted in a 10 per cent to
25 per cent wage cut.
The purpose of the officials in ex-
polling these members was, mainly,
to weaken the opposition on the floor
OF the meeting and terrorize the
workers of the local who belong to
the Furniture Workers Industrial
League. and to keep other members
of the local from joining the Furni-
cure Workers Industrial League, SO
they may have free hand to fur
ther proceed with their corrupt and
destructive methods. si.s'isas j
Members of the Furniture Work..
ars' Industrial League belonging to
Local rs and other A. F. of L. unions
are there with the purpose of expos
ing the reactionary policies and
methods of the A. F. of L. misleaders.
and to fight for the militant policies
of the Trade Union Unity League
and the Furniture Workers Indus
trial League.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
League calls upon the members of
Local rs to fight against further at
tcmpts of the officials to expel the
2ctive and militant workers of the
local, to intensity the fight against
the takers in your local and to fight
for the following policies proposed by
the Furniture Workers Industrial
League affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League: 1. A militant fight
against wage cuts and speed-up. O.
For the rank and file control of the
lecsl through the Shop Committee
system. 3. For broad rank and file
Strike Committee to lead strikes. 4.
For one union in the furniture in
dustry.
Fight against explosions!
Fight for democracy in the union!
Join the Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union!
Attend protest mass meeting, Feb.
20, at 1880 p. m. at Is w. 2lst Street.
New York City.
(Signed) Executive Committee, Fur
niture Workers Industrial
League,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
PUT FURNITURE
BACK IN HOUSE
Unemployed Council In
Successful Action

The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil yesterday VIGOROUSLY defended an
unemployed workers family from
eviction and returned the furniture
to the fiat of M. Epamaska, of 236
Monroe street, while cops looked on
and dicks stood around, but did moth
ing in the face of rs workers from
the Council.
Epamaska, jobless for months, was
out looking for work when the city
marshall put the furniture out on the
sidewalk, where Epamaska found it
on his return from fruitless search
for work. In the meantime, the
workers wife had been sent by some
one to the Unemployed Council at
27 East 4th Street, and the Council
Immediately acted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Furniture Workers
Protest Meet Feb. 20

NEW YORK.-The Furniture Work.
ers' Industrial League calls upon all
furniture workers to come to Pro-
test Meeting against the expulsion
campaign initiated by the officials of
the Upholsterers' Union Local TO-
This meeting will be held on Friday,
Feb. 10th, 7:30 p. m. at l6 w. 2lst
st., City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
new YORK lid IN
SOLIDARITY WEEK
Support Struggles Of
Negro MaSsesl

NEW YORK.-The first of a series
of open air meetings was held on
Thursday night at Lenox Ave. and
Hath st. under the auspices of the
Santiago Brooks Branch of the In
ternational Labor Defense in opening
Solidarity Week. The Latin Amer
lean workers called upon the Negro
and white workers to combine their
forces to combat the class that dis
eliminates against a worker because
of his color or nationality.
The special Negro number of the
Labor Defender was widely circulated
and several applications were re-
ceived
Speakers pointed out that while the
Negro workers we're being lynched,
jin-crowed and segregated, a sharp
attack has also been launched against
the foreign-born workers, this being
prevalent in the numerous workers
facing deportation. Among the work.
ers up for deportation is member of
the Santiago Brooks Branch, Ma
chada.
Other Meetings Called
The Santiago Brooks branch will
hold other meetings at this corner on
the 14th 10th and 10Th. Special efforts
will be made on the 10Th to persuade
the crowd to remain intact and pro-
coed to the district bazaar at Star
Casino.
The Gonzales branch will hold
meeting next Thursday at Tooth st.
and Third Ave. and the Nat Turner
branch has arranged meetings for
Thursday at 133rd st. and Lenox
Ave.
March first the combined branches
viii hold mass meeting at Harlem
Casino, 116th st. and LeCnox Ave. to
protest against the deportation of
Machada, Ii, Serio, Bebrics, and other
workers.
Rudolph johnson, young Negro
worker, very militant and active, and
one who is being defended by the
LID against the boss courts charged
with assaulting police officer dur
ing a demonstration recently, will be
toured through the Buffalo district
according to M. Stern, organizer The
tour is arranged as follows: Niagara
Falls, 18th; Rochester, 18th; SYRIA
cuse, 18th; Utica. Doth; Albany and
Troy, 22nd; Binghamton, 23rd;
jamestown, oath and Buffalo 26th.
Twenty thousand leaflets dealing
with general persecution of the Ne
gro and white workers have been
printed and are ready for distribu-
ton along with the Labor Defender
and other LID literature. Five thou
sand will be distributed in Buffalo.
All Branches Must Act
In every district, section and town
there are many Negro organizations,
lodges and clubs. The branches must
be modified to visit these organiza-
tons for affiliations and support of
the LID.
Solidarity week is an important
part of the Months Plan of the
LID and every effort must be made
to build our Negro department.
The Negro workers must be mobil-
lied to fight with the white workers
for the release of all class war pris-
oners. against deportations and all
forms Of white terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
M any Cities Report
Marches Prepared
for Feb. 25

Detailed reports coming in from all
over the country show the splendid
and militant struggle that was car
ried on February 10th in support of
the Washington delegation, demand
ing the passage of the Unemployment
Insurance Bill. Outstanding in these
stories is the fact that everywhere
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17

greater plans were made for the In
ternational Unemployment Day dem
constructions on February 25th to give
the workers answer to the refusal of
Congress even to listen to the spokes-
men Of the 100000 unemployed.
'o7 Portland Mayor Waves Flag.
The Portland, Oregon, newspapers
carried huge headline on February
10th reporting the demonstration:
"JobleSs Ask City Aid" The story
tells of Fred Walker, organizer Of the
Young Communist League, presenting
the demands. Mayor Baker of Port
land waved the flag and said he
would mot have that flag slurred."
But Comrade Walker told how mil
lions were being starved under that
flag in the name of capitalism.
Telling about the thousands of
workers who responded to the call of
the Unemployed Council in Tacoma,
Washington, the report from that
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
What's On
MONDAY


All old members please report
promptly at p. m. All workers who
play band instruments are invited
to join 131 w. 2Sth St. 1st floor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Gangsters Gather

Gangsters, henchmen of the ma
chine, were there to intimidate any
members who might try to oppose the
steam roller.
The three were expelled.
This is only the beginning of the
campaign of disruption, by the Of
ficials, who openly announce that a
number Of others will be "investi-
gated"
1t should be thoroughly realized by
the rank and file in this union that
the fight is not over. There are still
many who are in or sympathetic to
the Trade Union Unity League and
its policies for rank and file control.
The fight will go on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
WEDNESDAY,

cO-Vansetti-Brnnch 7. L. ID.
A general meeting takes place al
p m at 1872 Boston Rd. Lecture
Workers Defense In Courts"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17

Fight lynching. Fight deporta-
ton of foreign born. Elect dele
gates to your city conference for
protection of foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
THURSDAY


special meeting takes place at 8 p. m.
at Stuyvesant Casino, Sth st. and end
Ave. Called by the Medical Workers
TUUL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Railroaded Out

The expulsion of Kramer and Pus-
stay came up at the last quarterly
meeting two weeks ago, and the mass
sentiment was against it. The meet
ing broke up.
The officials then hailed Borodkir
before the executive last Friday. and
after a few formal questions. the
chairman, without taking a vote of
the executive even, declared him ex-
PEELED and told him to stay away
from the meeting Wednesday night,
called to expel the other two. Borod-
kin showed the constitution, and the
officials finally decided to railroad
all three together at the special meet
ing Wednesday.
At the special meeting, only those
with paid up books were allowed to
vote, which is not the usual custom
in this union where most are out Of
work. Borodkin was allowed, by the
chairman's rule, to speak, and the
business agent allowed to speak
against him, the other two were not
allowed the floor at this meeting,
neither was any one else.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
TUESDAY


will be the topic of Nessin's lecture
at the Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil. ~ e. 4th st. at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17

We also challenge all other dress
shops to enter this socialist COM
petition with u.s.
This challenge has already been ac-
cepted by another dress shop who's,
workers are arranging a bazaa
shower in order to collect articles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17

A. y. Masll will talk on the Soviet
Onion from which he has Just re-
turned. Tho lecture will be followed
by a oSyiet film, Living Corpse" by
Tolstoy ADM. 2bo. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
Furniture Workers
On Picket Line Today

NEW YORK.-Strikers of the Com
mercial Upholstery Shop call upon
all furniture workers to come to the
furniture workers picket line this
morning at 1880 a. m. at the corners
of Rockaway and Newport AYES. in
Brooklyn. The boss has threatened
the workers that they would have
plenty of gangsters and thugs to try
to stop the picketing. The workers
must answer the boss by coming to
picket The shop.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-12-18

waived the point of dress. He
could even walk about the streets
of London with a great display
of spare brown shanks and
thighs and yet cover his face for
shame at the sight of women ex-
posing dainty calves we'll turned
out in silk!
It was another thing for
Gandhi to seek audience with
the Pope of Rome and to bring
into the presence of the most
powerful of all representatives
of the Christian Church the in
formal dress of the Indian
slums. Dress was not made the
point of the Vatican's refusal
Of the audience, but it was clear
that it was this popularity
which made it impossible.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-12-18

Ia bewildered sparrow connected
with one of his feet and came
to the ground under it. For
tunately, the bird never knew
what happened.
News of scientific interest can
be reported this week. Gilbert
Wagstaf saw a bittern Novem-
Der 30; Edmund Taylor has seen
some pine siskins irregular
winter visitors) and Eugene
Odum has noticed a few chip
ping sparrows still around his
place. The chippies may pos
sibly remain over the winter.
c. NJ. {.