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The daily worker., 1931-01-06
"Inhuman-- Also Dangerous

WITH SNUG hypocrisy typical capitalist its most
fdeastc moments the N Y Telegram comments
by forcing them food
for their starving families as follows:
must not let Americans starve to
it would dangerous
nkepated in the light of facts
The American government only death
sentences death the
whether the victims Americans oregn-bn
the government sentences them to death just the same they are
job they suffering from cap
robbery primarily, drouth incidentally.
hit by drout to death
deliberately that starvation rife and would
refused for human food saying that the
starving masses OF the cities might also expect soeng ana "0uo
be dangerous precedent"
farmers the honor of
confronting the capitalist government with precedent quay dan
refused ave They needed food and they
chew that.
the direction of these hpoee
still it, the Senate rider to the
fake Drouth Relief Bill proposing OoooOo more for loans being elm
mated quickly passed
The capitalist government said that
the Red Cross relief was ADEQUATE senator CaWa now reveals
figure suppressed by the capitalist that the Red Cross relief
month for starving family! This is as stated above
letting the dah is insisting that they StarVe
compelling them to action just
The forces should be united The fighting farm
Action township county and get
with each other spread their struggle depends on
uniting white Negro and overcoming in Arkansas
prejudice for the benefit of united action
the militant of the cities for aid alyng
themselves with the Unemployed Movement They good
demand relief
aid should the proposal the United Farm
League compensation expense
capitalists produce gamblers OF losses by small farmers
should realize that the drouth only the
landlords bankers
capitalist market monpoes and imple
Let poor by township Committees of
of
YokN Mills
paying rents! Refuse to mortgage
evcons
Congress to do
much through the motions of adding 5ooooOo for human food
other will the capitalist
from again evading the cutting down again
capitalists that letting the toers starve not only
mhuman, but also very dangerous
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
PERTH AMB0Y JOBLESS
PLAN HUNGER MARCH

PERTH AMBOY, N. j., Jan. S.
There are 1000 out of work in this
industrial town. When the Raritan
Copper Works rumored that it would
open one blast furnace, 400 were
there to try for job.
The Committee of the Unemployed
distributed leaflets showing that
nothing is being done by city, state
or national government for the job
less. The leaflets state that the
American Smelling and Refining Co.
has only a few hundred in the shop
now, and that the same is true of the
Raritan, the National Lead, and the
Standard Underground Gable Co.
The evictions take place. The leaf
let distributors we're chased off COM
pany grounds by guards, but held a
well attended meeting across the way,
and the crowd marched several blocks
to another meeting. Meetings will
continue. Plans are discussed at these
meetings for a hunger march on the
city hall soon.
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
SeVen Unemployed Suicides
Are Reported in One Day

Griffin, an unemployed youth, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the abdomen. He died last night.
He had been out of a job for several
months.
In New York City, Abraham Alt
shuler, a laborer who had been out
of work and ill for several months,
ended his life by eating roach powder
and then jumping from the roof of
the five-story building in which he
lived at 1101 Kelly ST., the Bronx.
He died an hour. after his leap.
Another jobless worker, Thomas
Dowd, 35, killed himself in furnish
ed room at 489 West 22nd ST., after
he had rented the room for the night
with rs cents of his last dollar. His
body was discovered with a % calibre
revolver clasped in his hand.
On the same day, George j. Gelies,
a Bronx janitor, who lost his saw
ings in the crash of the Bank of the
United States, hanged himself from a
steam pipe.
Molly Weinstock, 70, of Sc Broome
St., respondent because her hus-
bands wages had been cut lately,
forcing the family into starvation
existence, jumped from the roof Of
a five-story tenement.
The daily worker., 1931-01-06

Jobless suicides which got into the
boss press, yesterday, where they
we're squeezed into out of the way
corners on inside pages, counted up
to seven for the previous day.
In Chicago, 19-year-old Sally Mil
Ter put bullet into her brains after
vainIy trying to find work. Being
young and pretty the boss press grew
a little sentimental over her and re-
ported the suicide as follows:
Pretty Sally Miller vas bundle
clerk in a State ST. department store
She didn't get much when she worked
Sally was 10. Two months ago, like
lot of other girls, Sally was laid
off, She tried to find another job
But everywhere she met with the
same answer, No Chance
"The girls sister went into Sally's
room the other day. She found Sally
dead. She had sent a bullet into her
head"
In Ridgefield, N. j., Frank Cum
bano, 6S, of 322 Third Ave, N. Y,
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid. He had been out of work
for months. He was one of millions
who have been thrown on the streets
to starve by the bosses.
In Long Branch, N. j., William
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
Sbeed-Ub and Mechanizatl0m
Sh0W Need tor Organization

Steel This carries with it great mtansification of
production The old Byers plant in Pittsburgh, which
formerly produced 1000 tons, it said out
10000 tons, with the forces. In u S. Steel Co.
tube mill furnace does the work of 750 mer with
80. delegate reported that in the mill where he
works 104 workers in department have been sup
planted by machines operated by two men.
In the coal industry naturalization also goes ahead
The Illinois mines widely mechanical For example,
the Orient mine which formerly employed 1000 work
ers has only 800 and turns out even more coal,
the Illinois delegates said In mines and steel mills
workers reported actually coIapsing from
exhaustion. Rank and file go slow" movements are
developing.
Incorrect Use of Partial Demands
The Board meetings critically examined the reas-
why they have not made greater progress notwith
standing the evidently increasing rehabilitation of the
workers In both instances it was recognized that this
largely due to incorrect of partial demands
that it is the common tendency of T. U. U. L. unions
to rely too much upon general slogans and enough
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The daily worker., 1931-01-06
10000 Welsh Miners Firm in
Demands; Kill 3 in Rr4hr Strike
Workers in Ten Textile Mills in England G(
On Strike; Expect 100000 Out; $4,000
Swedish Textile Workers Out

unable to betray the 10000 strikers
owing to their determined fighting
spirit
The reformists have appealed to
the government to find temporary
solution with a subsidy. Saturday
the minority miners conference at
Cardiff elected a provisional strike
committee aiming to organize relief
and take over the leadership of the
strike withdrawing the safetymen
who are permitted to stay on the
job by order of the reformists. Greet
ings we're sent to the Ruhr strikers
A. minority pit delegate conference
will be held next Saturday to elect
d central strike committee.
Textile Workers Begin Strike.
Workers in ten Burnley cotton mills,
where the eight-loom system has been
introduced, struck yesterday The
owners threaten to close all mills un-
less the workers go back to work.
Yesterday a successful minority con-
ference elected a strike committee for
the textile strike. Over 100000 tex
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
For Real Aid to Worker
Veterans

Wo questions giving the republican
federal aid to the unemployed and for cash
the adjusted certificates Times Washington
correspondent Jan. 4h
These two questions intimately up majority
World War veterans workers and have been suffering with others of
their class from unemployment and cuts No workers job secure
the
Bill about which concerned
to
certificates which
payable in 1945 or in of death
capitalism this
the
failing holding the worker veterans of the rank
Legion posts everywhere demanding cashng
Legion Monthly
Country by Philip telling
Convention Boston short paragraph he
wasde a proposal pay
adjusted compensation certificates which
minority report voted down after John r. Quinn of Cali
fonia National adjusted
pensaion law enacted spoke against it. The rocaD
Legion leadership part
member expect anything from such leadership which the
the fascist leaders the Veterans
pressure file S trying find
trick the form miserable 25 of the certificates
Hines OF the veterans Bureau indeed seems to favor this But is all
deceit since most of the worker admittedly
rowed nearly % their certificates difference
ridiculous sum to call relief Also Hines intends discriminate be-
tween those whom he thinks need" and those
Only the Workers headquarters
Third fight payment
Indeed feeling
buddy business on worker veterans whose
vital interests hostile to theirs be taxed
value o. their certificates to be turned the fund the
poycd under the Workers Unemployment Bill
AL workers should the
League and all
from the Legion and " mieaders
payment OF the Service Certificates effective well supporting the
struggle for unemployment insurance
The daily worker., 1931-01-06

ployment and decreased reserves" In
simpler language, this means more
will be fired and those already out
of work are closed to death by star
vation than ever before.
What His Department Says.
So far as Doak is concerned, the
very department which he heads has
issued figures which spikes his lies.
In the latter part of 1880 the De-
partment of Labor stated that there
we're 551 wage-cuts between Oct. Is,
1929, and Aug. Is, 1880 (the period
Doak said Hoover's agreement" saved
wage standards); and this was based
on reports from only per cent OF
the factories in the United States.
In an article in the New York
Evening Post (Jan. 2. 193D William
Green was forced to admit there
were at least 724 wage-cuts in 1880.
In his speech, made the same day
that Doak spewed his lies over the
radio, Green stated that about SO
per cent of the trade union members
had to lower their standard of living
because of lowered incomes. The in
comes of wage-earners have declined
by over $6,0O0,00o000 in the past
year" Green forgot that in the New
York Evening Post article he stated
that incomes had declined over
$4,000, 0,000,000-a two billion dollar
drop in wages means little to Green
Green and Doak Exposed.
But the fact of the matter is both
Green and Doak are just plain liars
Doak lies outright and Green in less
ening the real situation of the work.
ers The Standard Statistics Co., a
leading boss statistical agency, de-
clared in the latter part of 1880 that
for the first nine months alone the
workers, due to part time employ
ment and wage-cuts, lost $9,000,000-
600. For the year the cost to the
workers in wage-cuts and part time
employment alone Is at least $4,000
100000, When the loss to the work
ers due to unemployment is added to
this, we find that the American work.
ers have had their living standard
cut about sl7,2SO, 900, ,OOO-or one-third
of the total income of the workers.
These are the facts and no amount
Of lying by either Green. Doak or
their boss, Hoover, will feed the ever
increasing aswT ~ uail,iaE3 esHpg
STARVATION. =.sass - ss-4 =; ssss-.
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
By VIM. z. FOSTER.

IN ACCORDANCE with the decision of the recent ses-
sion of the National Committee of the Trade Union
Unity League to have meetings called of all the lead
ing committees of the respective national unions and
leagues in order to survey their work and to lay
programs, the National Executive Boards of the
Mine, Oil, and Smeter Workers Industrial Union and
the Metal Workers Industrial League met in Pitts
burgh Pa. Dec 1923. These board meetings were
highly successful showing healthy condition in the
metal and mining unions despite the great difficult
ties they encountering.
In both boards careful analysis made of the
economic situation in their respective industries In
both industries there evidenced widespread
employment, and orgy of wage cutting and speed
up
In other articles have written about the unem-
poynent and wage cuts in these industries. Here I
shall dwell only moment the terrific speed-up.
Delegates from metal and coal districts reported great
naturalization propositions on all sides.
1t stated that 50o,00oO00 is being spent to
dernize the steel industry Of which $225OOoOO by u s.
The daily worker., 1931-01-06


their mothers Right this
has actual
DRAWN INTO THE MILITANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN
DUSTRIAL UNION the
ganzers should not stop this important
Comrades
ge They know the Importance
lies Of the capitalist
KNOW THAT THE DAILY WORKER is A WEAPON WORK
ING CLASS AND THAT 1T is
ENEMY OF THE WORKING the
Daily Worker shall continues that shall
shall reach worker
This the immediate
member Lack of funds se
could working
union, to funds
COMPLETE 100000 FUND AS QUICKLY AS
ton NOW before finish reading this
East 18th Street. New York .4 :. /. .,.A i
The daily worker., 1931-01-06

NEW YORK. - Thursday will see
a giant movement of the unemployed
and the workers who face unemploy.
ment in New York Thousands, rep
resenting the 250,0OO unemployed in
Brooklyn will come from the rapidly
growing breadlines of Borough Hall,
Greenpoint and Williamsburgh to
march on the seat of the borough
government. They will mobilize at
10 a. m. to IL a. m. at points in each
district and march on Borough Hall,
demanding that all evictionS of the
jobless stop, that free gas, coal and
light be given the jobless, that free
food and clothing and transportation
60 to the school children of the I'M
A1Ioloyed, that all unused apartment
hr'uses be opened to the jobless, that
milk kitchens be provided for children
They demand immediate relief and
support the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill
Defy Police Threats.
Yesterday a police captain walked
into the section headquarters in
Brooklyn and told them police would
not issue a permit for the hunger
march. But the march will be held!
Police continually break up unem-
ployment demonstrations in the
Bronx, they are the same police who
shot Steve Katovis. But on Thurs
day the jobless and workers of the
Bronx, with similar demands to those
carried by the Brooklyn workers, will
march on Bronx boro hall.
In Harlem and downtown in Man
haitian there will be demonstrations
The Harlem demonstration Thursday
is before the state employment
cy, where there are no job
for thousands who seek them.
Down Town March.
Downtown there will be open air
meetings at all the breadlines in the
morning, and burger marches on the
Department of Public Welfare at Le-
onard and Lafayette at l p. m. A
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
Militant Ex-Service Man and California
Worker Aid Daily Worker



worker knows what fight capitalism
wounded
few dollars of Compensation given in the attempt him
attempt
unemployment Insurance.
for his rights fighting
ING THE CLASS FIGHT. KNOWS IMPORTANCE
DAILY WORKER IN THAT FIGHT that
faces supesi from lack Of and he sending
$4,000 Emergency REGULARLY.
A California worker wries
"You might be curious person
dime to the Daily
i RECOGNIZE IN THE DAILY WORKER TREMENDOUS FORCE
FOR THE EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATION WORKERS
FOR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE i am pleased to the
number Of articles sent in by worker
given the Daily Worker
workers forced to live the tricks grating
Every briefly here things
Three families OF children who have not had shoes their feet
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
REDCROSS LIE
ABOUT ARK.
F A R M E R S
Pretends None Starve,
But Admits Families
Get But S1.19

HING TON, Jan. 5.-The
cynical capitalists of the federal gov
ernment are Shocked" at the news
that hungry farmers in Arkansas,
armed and determined that their
children must not StarVe, descended
on the stores at the town of England
and forced the hyocritical Red Cross
to distribute food.
Only three weeks ago, it was re-
ported on the floor of congress that
200 high school children at England,
Ark, were starving. The common
schools were not reported. And the
same condition was known to exist
in wide areas. But the capitalist gov
ernment refused to appropriate
cent for human food" claiming that
the Red Cross was giving adequate
relief"
$1.19 Per Family.
That this was a scandalous hypo-
crisy is shown by the statement Of
Senator Carraway, that the Red
Cross had been paying each family
the ridiculous sum of $1.19 per
month. And, as usual, the starving
farmers were investigated" and
browbeaten with police methods by
the Red Cross as the unemployed are
treated in the cities.
The local Red Cross agent pretends
that there are 'imposters" and talks
of these boarding food" though how
anyone can hoard" on $119 month
is mystery.
A government drought relief"
scoundrel named Henry M. Baker,
sent from st. Louis, pretends that
the whole affair was caused by about
forty men from one section of the
county" and the capitalist press has
generally sought to belittle the num-
bers involved. Yet the facts are that
$1,500 worth of ofod was distributed
after the demonstration, and at the
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The daily worker., 1931-01-06
Dodk and Green Lie About
Wage Cuts to Fool Workers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Following
in the footsteps of his master, Secre-
tary of Labor Doak, in a radio speech,
attempted to feed the hungry mil
lions by a pack Of the raweSt lies yet
uttered by boss spokesman. After
saying that Hoover protected the
earnings of the American workers in
the present crisis, Doak added: In
all the major industries today stand
ards of wages hold fast because of
agreements brought about by the
president"
On the same day, William Green,
president of the A. F. of L., made
speech assuring the workers that
everything would be rosy, though he
tdmitted that the workers this winter
were faced with increased unem-
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
THURSDAY A DAY OF
MASS DEMONSTRATIONS
BY new YORK JOBLESS
Hunger Marches in Brooklyn and Bronx Will
Mobilize Thousands to Demand Relief
Harlem and Down Town Demonstrations at
he Jobless Agencies; Active Preparation

delegation will go in with demands
for 20 per cent reduction in rents up
to $50, for immediate relief amount
ing to SIS week for single workers
and up to $25 for those with families,
no evictions, etc.
There will be a series of mass
meetings in the five New York boros
Jan. 16; the downtown meeting will
be at Manhattan Lyceum, 730 p. m.
The hunger march on the New
York city hall is changed from Jan.
16 to AIN. 20.
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
JORTF5'SS F5'SS BLOCK
N. Y. EVICTION
$500 Meet in Spite Of
Rain; 425 Names

NEW YORK.-Almost $500 jobless
crowded the pavement and over
flowed into the street today at
Leonard and Lafayette street to hear
the speakers of the Downtown I'M
employed Council of Greater New
York. While the speakers were ex-
posing the fake employment agency
run there by Commissioner Rybicki,
an unemployed worker tainted in this
very agency from starvation. The
speakers told the workers that unless
they organized to fight against the
fake charity and fake employment
bureaus of the bosses a similar fate
awaited them.
The crowd remained from 10 a. M
to p. m, even in the rain.
Stop An Eviction.
An indoor meeting was held at the
Downtown Headquarters, 27 East 4th
st. There twenty-five workers joined
the council. Yesterday this council
collected 425 signatures to the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
While the indoor meeting was in
progress one of the members brought
in an eviction case. A committee of
twelve was Immediately organized.
They went to the house at 226 Clin-
ton Street and brought the furniture
back into the house.
The council will have their usual
meeting at 10 a. m. this morning at
Leonard and Lafayette.
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
B'KLYN JOBLESS
HUNGER MARCH
TO BOR0 JAN. 5
Breadline and Indoor
Meetings Scheduled

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Thursday, Jan.
9Th, at 10 a. m. unemployed workers
of the Borough of Brooklyn will
gather at three starting points to
form into a Hunger March to the
Boro Hall
Demands for immediate relief of
the unemployed in the borough will
be presented by delegation of the
jobless to the president of the bor-
ough, Mr.. Hestenberg.
Unemployed workers of Williams
burgh will gather at Broadway and
Myrtle Ave. at 10 a. M, have there a
shorG meeting and then proceed to
march Jobless workers of Browns
vile will gather at Stone and Pitkin
also at 10 a. m. and the unemployed
workers of Red Hook and vicinity will
gather at Hamilton and Columbia
Street where they will assemble for
a few minutes and then march to-
ward the borough.
The intensive activities carried on
by the organized Unemployed Coun-
Gil in Brooklyn, has alarmed very
much the police department.
Officials of the Police Department
have already visited" headquarters
of the Communist Party of Section 6
and Section z.
In Williamsburgh sergeant of the
Stagg Police station intimated that
they will shut down the hall of the
Williamsburgh Workers Club because
the unemployed are allowed to have
mass meetings there.
All indications that a permit for
the march will be refused was made
clear by a captain which visited"
Section 7 headquarters.
Leaders of the U. c. in Brooklyn
stated that "the attempts of the po-
lice to intimidate the workers will
not stop the preparation but will in
tensify the preparation for the Hum
ger March as warning challenge
that the unemployed will not be init
Undated and starved, but they will
fight like workers for immediate re-
lief"
Beside the large number Of open
air meetings in front of breadlines
and employment agencies and factory
gates and docks, the Unemployed
Council has arranged a large num-
ber of indoor mass meetings to take
place Wednesday evening at 8 p. m.
These mass indoor meetings will be
held at the following places:
Williamsburgh Workers Hall, 7e5
Flushing Ave, p. m.
Green Point, Laisve Hall, 46 Ten
Eyck ST., 8 p. m.
Borough Hall Workers Center, Is
Myrtle Ave, 8 p. m.
Borough Park, 1878 43rd st. 8 p. m.
Bath Beach, 48 Bay 2Sth ST., 8 p. m.
Coney Island, 29ol Mermaid ST,
8 p. m.
Red Hook, Workers Center, 3l2
Columbia Street, p. m.
Among the many demands which
will be presented to the president of
the borough there are the immediate
following demands.
1.-Immediate relief Of SIS week
for a single worker and $40 and up
to $25 for a married worker.
2.-F'ree light and free heat to the
unemployed.
3.-Immediate opening Of free milk
and food stations in all public schools
and working class neighborhoods and
the immediate opening of the free
milk station in Bridge Plaza for the
children of the unemployed.
4-The immediate opening of all
vacant apartments, armories and
public buildings to shelter the unem-
ployed.
5.--No eviction of unemployed, free
rent for the unemployed.
6.--The use of public libraries and
public schools for meeting .pasocs Tor
Ma NpempinyeA ,,,,,J,,,, W rs. ssarNe
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
Panama Canal.

For the first time in years, there
will be concentration of the entire
fleet for these war maneuvers, show
ing the gravity o. the situation and
the rapid preparation for war.
The maneuve:s will be carried out
under the direction of Admiral j. v.
Chase, commander-in-chief Of the
United States fleet. He will have un-
der his command 1877 ships, 273 bomb
ing planes, $4,000 enlisted men and
2,000 officers
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
BIG NAVY MANEUVERS
SHOW NEARING OF WAR

WASHINGTON. Jan. Sin view
Of the increasing bitterness OF the
-ivalr1sa between Britain and the
United States over the struggle for
world markets. the most extended
war uaaneuvers and mobilization of
ne o. 8. fleet will take place in
ksbrAzZ and MarUh around the
The daily worker., 1931-01-06
(Cable by Inprecorr)

LONDON, Jan. 5.-Negotiations in
the Welsh mining conflict failed be-
cause the mine owners were adamant
and the reformist union leaders were
The daily worker., 1931-01-06

WHEREVER W 0RKERS
MEET, SIGN UP FOR IN
SURANCE!
The daily worker., 1931-01-06

Speed the Signature Collection Campaigns
for the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Unemployment Insurance Must
Be Won Now!
The daily worker., 1931-01-06

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