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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Public Hearing on Hunger
Tonight; JobleSs to Testify

ployment Agency gives out plenty of
jobs but workers are too lazy to
work. Another demand was that the
workers who come to the agency for
Jobs be given free lunches. Answer;
If you are hungry go to the police
station and you will be fed. When
the delegation reported back to the
meeting at Leonard and Church SITS.
many workers wanted TO go to the
station house for meal but the po-
lice stopped them.
j. Louis Engdahl will act as judge
and chairman at this hearing. In
vitations and challenges to appear at
this hearing and defend themselves
have been sent TO Mayor Walker, Al
derman FaSller, Alderman Wronkler,
Commissioner of Welfare Taylor, as
well as many other officials of the
City and Charity Institutions. There
will be a working class jury elected
at the hearing. A worker from the
Unemployed Council will act as pro-
secutor.
A big crowd is expected and as this
hearing will start promptly at 8 pm.
all workers who wish to attend
should come early.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
W.I.H. Brass Band

the Chernishevsky Club, 1872 End Ave.
(bet. 9TH and Sth sts.) tonight pm,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Red Week to Counter
Forced Contributions
{ Al Smiths Canvas

Capitalist papers are printing daily
reports of voluntary" deductions
from workers wages to swell the
funds of the Gibson Smith fake re-
lief committee
Besides these forcible wage reduc-
tons, AL Smith is making prepara-
lions for a block to block canvass be-
ginning November 16. Thousands of
rich young men and women are be-
ing modified to squeeze out contrib
utions from the workers for this Wall
Street-Tammany Hall Committee.
This shameful campaign of the bos-
ses and their politicians will be met
by RED RELIEF WEEK organized
by the Workers International Relief
and the Hunger March Committees
of the Unemployed Councils.
Red Relief Week is going to be a
mobilization campaign Of all militant
labor organizations to raise the ne
cessary funds for the National Hun
ger March to Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
FORCE RELIEF AT
JEWISH CHARITY
Women Tell of Their
Family Sufferings

NEW YORK.-When several women
told of their suffering and lack OF
aid from any source, at meeting
held by the East Side Unemployed
Council at Henry & Montgomery SITS.
where Tammany is registering job
less workers, the rtceting decided to
bring their cases to the Jewish Social
Welfare, 239 E. Broadway, and de-
mand relief for them.
A committee of Is of the one hun
dred workers who marched down to
the charity agency was elected to put
the needs of the women to the agen-
cy and demand immediate action.
A Miss Rosenberg of the charity
body attempted to bolt the doors SO
as not to permit the delegation to
enter and despite the protests of the
workers persisted in refusing them
adnittance. However, after she had
call'd for police, the delegation sue
ceede ! in getting in and forced IS for
a Mrs. August, who was the neediest
of the group.
At a meeting of the East Side IN
employed Council three working class
mothers of unemployed families told
Of the suffering of their families and
the difficulties in getting relief from
charity agencies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Bronx Hearing On
Suffering Nov. l3
Challenge Pres. Bruck-
ner to Attend Hearing

When a delegation of Unemployed
Councils of the Bronx visited Boro
President Bruckner Nov. 2 to demand
immediate relief for many desperate
cases Of need, the Tammany presid-
ent sought to counter the demands
by saying that the delegation had
picked the worse possible case.
To prove that the case presented
to President BruclIner is typical of
Thousands of jobless families in the
Bronx, the Unemployed Councils
challenged Bruckner and other off
Gals to attend public hearing at
the Ambassador Hall, Third Avenue,
near Claremont Parkway on Friday,
Nov. IS, to defend themselves and
their action towards the unemployed.
Ore of the witnesses that will tes-
t-fy will be Isaac Cohen, 1417 Frank
lyl Ave, q carpenter, who has been
unemployed for three years and after
waiting four days at the registration
office at $40 Southern Boulevard has
not been registered.
Many oCher witnesses who have
been refused relief by various charity
organizations will tell of their ex-
perienceS and suffering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
i. s. TO INCREASE
LIVING COST TO
! MEET DEFICIT
Sales Tax Plan Will
Hit Workers; Incomes
Not Touched

NEW YORK.-In indicating that
the United States Treasury faces a
deficit of possibly $2,500,000,000 for
the current fiscal year, the govern
ment yesterday through Universal
Press dispatrh made clear its pro-
gram to press further starvation plans
on the backs of the workers.
The deficit, says the dispatch, is
due partly to a decrease in revenue
through income tax returns and
partly to an increase in the expendi-
lures for building and for the Farm
Board To increase the revenue, how
ever, the government makes no pro-
Sosals about increasing the income
taxes, but proposes a selective sales
tax which will increase the cost OF
living for the working masses.
The Wall Street government pro-
poses to take not one cent from the
nillionaires; all funds to meet the
deficit will come from the workers
Workers, prepare for the National
Hunger March to Washington on De-
cember T. Demand that the million
aires be taxed to pay unemployment
insurance to the jobless. Fight the
selective sales tax, which means an
increase in the cost of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
November Issue of "The Communist Is Ready

The November apnearance
day. 1t Is 14h USSR anniversary
anayze the
throughout the capitalist current problems of mass
work. take the struggle
pst theories OF planned economy
workers and of the Socialism
No Party member revolutionary himself or her,
self TO be without this follows
What Means the Revolution Fv
Robert -
Some Problems Of Mass Work,
The March Of the Revolution by q. Fosetr
The Struggle for the Masses, A. Lozovsky.
in
United States, by Alex
The World Credit Crisis Pavda
September
Capitalist Theories Economy Harry Cannes
The Present Struggle In
The Philosophical the
Mrsky
Cultural Compuves Caricature of Marxm
by A Landy
District Section
Communist and that
member of the opportunity urged buy it.
Individual sending
csc to Workers Library Publishers
City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Strike At the I'll & MI
Knitting Mills Goes
On i'm Full Strength

NEW YORK.-The strike against
the H. and M. Knitting Mills, con-
Quoted by the Industrial Union is
continuing in full force despite the
attempt of the bosses to terrorize
the pickets with the aid of gorillas.
Realizing that the union is ready
to go on with the struggle as long
as will be necessary, the firm is at
tempting to mislead the workers by
creating the impression that it is go
ing out Of business. Two large signs
were hung up in front of the factory
stating that the shop is closed. The
workers who recognize that this is
but trick on the part of the boss in
the hope that he will thus succeed in
fooling the union so that 1t will take
off the picket line, will go on with
picketing until the boss has been
forced to terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Legal Advice Given
TO Workers by the
Foreign Born Comrsi.

NEW YORK-Since the establish
ment Of the Department for Legal
Advice by the Committee for the
Protection Of the oreign Born, this
department has been kept busy by
workers Of different nationalities and
with various claims, who have applied
for legal aid and advice. During the
last weeks-Oct. 14-28-the commit
tee has handled 90 cases, out of
which are: II regarding natraliza-
ton; 9 unpaid labor; 8, claims by
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The workers realize that the De-
partment for Legal Advice is of great
Importance to them and pledge to
affiliate their organizations with the
Committee for the Protection of the
Foreign Born, 81 Union Square, Room
sos, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
JAPANESE NEWS
MEN GO ON STRIKE
Demand Back Pay and
Reinstatement

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. by MaiD
-Thirty-one newspaper men and
printers Of the Japanese American
News, who have been out on strike for
over a month demanding the REIN
statement of dismissed workers and
the payment of back wages, have now
been locked out. They have organ
lied a newspapernens union and are
fighting under the leadership of the
Trade Union Unity League.
The owners of this outfit in order
to cheat the workers out of their back
wages, declared a fake bankruptcy.
Some workers were thrown out and
scabs hired in their place The men
then went out on strike and demand
ed reinstatement and full payment of
back wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
GICE'S "COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW .
OPENS FRIDAY AT PLYMOUTH

Counsellor at-Law," Elmer Rice'S
new play, will have its premiere at
the Plymouth Theatre tomorrow
night. Paul MUM plays the chief
role. Other players are: Louise Prus-
sing, Anna Kostant, Jennie Moscow
itz and Jack Leslie. Rice is the au-
thor of Street Scene" and THE Left
Bank, which is now playing at the
Little Theatre.
Polina Earle has arrived here from
London to join the cast of 1.-The Good
Companions" at the 44th Street The
atre.
The Yiddish Ensemble Art Com
pany will open their season this week
in 1.-THE Golem", by Leivick, vt the
Civic Repertory Theatre. Later a
repertory Of plays from the Hebrew,
Russian, French and Italian will be
produced in Yiddish.
Arthur Hopkins begins rehearsals
of the New Hope williams play this
week. The play is a comedy called
"The Passing Present, by Gretchen
Damrosch. The production will be
designed by Robert Edmond Jones,
and is due here next month.
Erich Kleiber will remain here an
extra week to conduct the philhar-
monte concerts originally scheduled
for the opening of Arturo Tosca-
minis regime, which will now begin
on November 26.
Bach's 'Actus Tragicus" and Mag
nificat" constitute the program OF
the second concert of the Society of
the Friends Of Music this Sunday
afternoon, at the Metropolitan Opera
House, under the direction of Artur
Bodanzky.
Miriam Marmein, dancer will ap-
pear at Washington Irving High
School this Saturday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
.PRAVDA WRITES
ON THOS. EDISON
Electricity Sinks in US
Rises in USSR

In an obituary Of Edison the
world-famous American inventor to-
days "Pravda" writes, inter ALA, the
following:
Thomas Alva Edison outlived his
epoch. The electric lamp of his day
has long ago burned out. The bour-
geoisie has cast itself into the arms
of othehr prophets. Hase, Spengler
and others are now carrying on a
campaign against machinery, against
machinery against modern tech
nique. Electricity is developing in
to sharper and sharper contradic-
ton with the capitalist productive
relations. However, the high-volt-
age net tolerates no hindrance.
Capitalism has enjoyed Edison's
services, but it has not made use of
electricity to the full and it never
will Edison died at the sharpest
point of tn eworld economic crisis.
Power stations all over the capitalist
world are operating at very low pres
sure. ro-technical workshops
and laboratories are being closed
down. Electricians are waiting in
long lines at the labour exchanges
in the capitalist countries.
AMY in one country in the world
are the inventions of Edison eXpe-
riencing new impetus-in the Sow
let Union. This year, which sees
the death OF Edison, will see the
opening of new power stations in the
Soviet Union with a total capacity
of LIS million kilowatt. The capa-
city of our power station in Shire
rovka has just been trebled. The
Dnyprostroi power station is gradu-
ally approaching completion. A So
cialist net of high-voltage overland
central stations is being spread over
the Soviet Union. Gigantic electro
technical factories are developing
Elektrosavod, Elektrosila and others.
The inventions of Edison will be de-
veloped to the full in the Soviet
Union only, where the Soviet power
has inscribed on its banner so
cialim plus electrocity!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
JOBLESS FORCED
TO CHOP WOOD AS
FLOP HOUSE PAY
Feed Them Razor Thin
Meat

The city wood yard flop house pro-
vides sleeping room on the floor for
several hundred unemployed workers.
The worker has the privilege to sleep
on the floor in cold roomn, wrapped
in newspapers to try to keep from
freezing and getting lousy, and there
are plenty of lice without any pro-
visions for delausing or taking a
bath. There is one black towel for
all
You get up $50 a. m. all fresh from
the restless cold night-chop wood
for exercise" till 10 o'clock, and then
you get your breakfast which con-
sits of stale bread and black juice.
called coffee. Then you are chased
out into the street. If you should
dodge the exercise" in the form of
chopping wood, you stand no chance
to get the flop the next night.
The Salvation Army is then your
next place for your dinner banquet,
which consits Of sandwiches and or
swallows of coffee. The baloney is
cut with safety razor and put on
the punk with brush like gold leaf
because it is so thin. This you get
every day except Sunday, when you
are supposed to fast or rather feast
on the Bible, when Mr.. Fat Belly
thumps the Bible and Tamborine and
praises himself, telling us all about
heaven and hell.
The unemployed of Providence
know that only through fight and
struggle will we be able to get re-
lief for the unemployed and and I'M
employment insurance. There are
10000 unemployed in Providence
alone. We must organize and fight.
We must join the Unemployed Coun-
Gil. Demonstrate and demand relief
from the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Needle Trades Workers
to Hold a Membership
Meeting Thurs. Nor. 5

The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union has called member
ship meeting of dressmakers for
Thursday, November 5, at Memorial
Hall, 344 w. 36th St., at S o'clock.
At the executive council the pro-
posal of the dress trade committee
that this membership meeting elects
a committee of rs to come to the
membership meeting of Local % of
the International, which will be held
the same evening, with the proposal
for similar committee to organize a
united front of all dressmakers for a
strike under rank and file leader
ship, was discussed at length. 1t was
decided to adopt this proposal.
All dressmakers are therefore called
to come to this meeting to discuss this
proposal and make their decisions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05

NEW YORK. - The first public
hearing to be held in New York in
preparation for the Washington
Hunger March will be held tonight
at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th
Street. At this hearing the City and
Charity grafters will be put on trial.
Workers from the breadlines, relief
agencies, Lighthouses and employment
agencies have volunteered by the
hundreds to testify at this hearing
and expose the fake charity and "re-
lief" schemes of the bosses.
Five workers who we're delegates
yesterday morning on a delegation
which went TO see Commissioner Of
Welfare Taylor will also be witnesses
and report what the Welfare depart
ment offered them when they de-
manded Jobs or relief from the City
Employment Agency.
This delegation presented the de-
mandS Of the unemployed to the
Commissioner of Welfare and re-
ceived the following answer on some
of their demands. The first demand
was that the workers who come to
the agency be given jobs or relief
from the City. Answer: City En-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Furrier Attacked
By Kaufman Thugs
Lies Near Death
Gangsters Try Bully
Workers Who Joined
Industrial Union

NEW YORK.-With murderous vi.
ciousness two gangsters of the Kauf-
man International Fur Workers
Union stabbed Benjamin Strong, a
furrier and adherent of the Needle
Trades Workers Union, and felled
the latter to the ground in an attack
at the zaritsky shop, SO E. Broadway,
yesterday where a settlement with
the NTWIU was recently concluded.
Steinberg and Willie Yaecker,
Kaufman's thugs, slashed Strong so
severely that he fell in pool of his
own blood and now lies in critical
condition struggling for his life.
Kaufman's Own Thugs.
The gangsters, sent by kaufman,
arrived at the zaritsky shop to in
timidate the workers who had repu-
dated kaufman and adhered to the
NTWIU The workers called up the
union and asked for assistance in re-
sisting the gangsters. The business
agent together with two furriers, A.
B. jenkins and Benjamin Young
fastened to the shop.
Arrived there the Steinberg thugs,
outnumbering the workers, attacked
with knives and in typical thug IA
shion assaulted Strong from the rear.
The police refused to take any ac-
ton. The Steinberg thugs, assured of
police protection then proclaimed
that they would continue their muir
derous work and break up the poll
for elections to the Joint Council.
The gangsters openly boosted that
the company union received money
from the Forward" which permitted
them the luxury" of gangsters.
The poll for elections to the Joint
Council was heavy around mid
afternoon and indicated a full turn
out of the registered furriers.
At an open forum of the regis
tered furriers held Tuesday the work.
ers expressed their rage against the
cowardly thuggery of the kaufman
clique and decided to elect commit
tees to protect the polls and the work.
erS of the Zaritsky shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Jobless Girls Suicide
i'm n. Y. Job Agency
lBs a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The Hedland En-
ployment ureau at 64th and Madi-
son Ave, shark employment agency
for domestic help, is daily the scene
of grim working-class tragedy.
Starving girls wait here day in and
day cot for the job that never comes.
Those that are hired go off after
paying good price for their Jobs,
to the utmost drugery at the lowest
pay Imaginable.
Two starving and respondent girls
committed suicide in this office dur
ing the past year and one attempted
to finish everything" but was res
cued by a group of her fellow work.
ers. The last suicide to take place
here happened two weeks ago when
starving and jobless worker drank
poison in the wash room One Of the
girls hanged herself in this same
room last spring
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
List Of Meetings
for the November
18th Anniversary
DISTRICT 2

DISTRICT
New York City-BronX Coliseum
E. 177th ST., Bronx. Speakers;
Browder, Amter.
Newark, N.J.-Russian Hall, So
BrOome st. Speaker: IL. Gordon.
Elizabeth, N.J.-Russian Hall,
4OS Court st. Speaker: Lena
Davis.
Jersey City, N.J.-Workers Cen
ter, 1902 Anderson st. Speaker: G.
Sishind.
Linden N.J.-Linden Labor Ly-
ceum, Frank st. Speaker: Tomash.
Perth Amboy, N.J.-3OS Allen St.
Speaker: J. Steuben.
Paterson. N.J.-205 Paterson st.
Speaker: Carl Winter.
PaGsaic, N.J.-Speaker: Harry
Raymond.
Bayonue, N.J.-Noy. 8, 2 pm,
Capital Hall, 10 w. 22nd St.
Speakers: Hope, Borisoff.
White Plains, N. Y.-Speaker:
Fliani.
Ossining, N.Y.-Speaker: Sadie
Van Veen.
Yonkers. N.Y.-Open-air meet
ing. Speaker: Carl Brodsky.
HOboken, N.J.-Workmen's Circle
Hall, ITO Grant st. Speaker: ].
Mason.
New Brunswick. NIL Plum
st. Speaker: A. Markoff.
New Rochelle, N.Y.-22 Church
st.
Hicksville, L. Workers Hail.
81 Broadway, Nov. s, 5 pm. ....
Bronx Hungarian Workers Club.
1885 Westchester Ave-, Nov. 6, $3.50
pm. Speaker: Shaw.
Jamaica, L. Finnish Hall,
1926 Union Hall St. Nov. 5, 8
pm. Speaker: 1 Amter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
FARM WORKER AUCTIONED
IN FRANCE

CHATEAUROUX, France. - Men
and women farm workers are being
auctioned off to farmers here. The
workers are put up on an auction
block in the same way as slaves, dis
playing their muscles and going to
the highest bidder, who bids for their
services for the entire winter. The
average offer for services range from
s109 to $117 for a first class farm
hand for eight months to girl farm
hands who are sold in service" for
500 to s78 for the eight months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
O'HENRY'S CISCO KID" AT THE
HIPPODROME.

1.-THE Cisco Kid" will be the Hip
podrome screen feature beginning
Saturday. Warner Baxter plays the
romantic bandit of OHenry's story.
Edmund Lowe, Conchita Montenegro
and Nora Lane, are also featured. The
The vaudeville bill is headed by Mile.
Ann Codee and includes the Mccain
Sisters; the dancing Harris twins,
with Loretta; Frank Radcliffe with
Gene Rodgers; Joe Termini; lob
Stickney with Lillian Aylon and Los
Ovidus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
workers Ex-ser,icemen's League,

VIII hold general membership
meeting at headquarters, 81 w. 126th
St, $40 pm. All members requested
TO attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Liquidate Philadelphia Bank

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
Adelphia Bank and Trust Co. pro-
posed to liquidate the affairs of the
bank by payment of the depositors OF
their money in full and payment of
the stockholders. The board of d.
rectors has yet to approve of this
approval.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Meeting to Protest
Against Polish Reign
of Terror Tonight

The Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
branch of the International Labor
Defense have organized a meeting
against the fascist terror that is rag
ing in Poland at the present time.
The meeting is being held tonight at
122 Second Avenue. One of the
speakers will be Carl Hacker, district
secretary of the International Labor
Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
j. hammers Painter
Killed While on Job

John hammers, painter, TU.UL
member killed on the job today at
64th st. and Park Ave, fell off scat
fold from the 10th floor and died
instantly. His brother, who worked
with him on the job, was holding
the scaffold downstairs. Police took
the body away to the police station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Small Banks in Failures

The First National Bank of North
Rose, N. Y, was closed because Of
conditions of its affairs. The State
Bank of Avon, of Avon, N. Y, also
failed to open for business Oct. Is.
Both are located in upstate farming
communities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
Order Hunger March
Leaflets At Once!

The National Hunger March
leaflets are just off the press. The
leaflets are ready for shipment at
the rate of 1000 leaflets for S1.I0,
postage collect. Because of the
limited number of leaflets printed
all orders must be sent Immediate
ly accompanied by money orders.
These money orders should be
made payable to A. w. Mills, 2 w.
18th St., Room Ala, New York City.
If you want leaflets, act at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
TAMPA PREPARES FOR
HUNGER MARCH

TAMPA, Fla.-Tampa will be rep
resented on the National Hunger
March by delegation of five or more
workers to put forward the demands
of the workers here. Tobacco work
ers and marine workers will be rep
resented A.M.B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
-Four Missouri Banks Crash

The two banks in Slater, Mo, the
Bank Of Slater and the Security Bank
of Slater were declared insolvent Oc-
tober &c with total resources of three
quarters million dollars. Citizens
Bank of Liberty, Mo, and the Bank
of Henrietta also failed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-05
lBx a Worker Correspondent

MARYSVILLE, Pa. - The Mech
anics Trust Co., one of the reliable"
banks of Harrisburg, Pa, failed to
open its doors Saturday, october "a.
Hundreds of enraged worker deposit
tors, whose entire life's savings were
deposited in this bank gathered in
front of the building while the police
were stationed at the door to bar
entrance.
This is the second bank to fail here
within a week the other being the
Commercial Trust Co.