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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
JESUS ARMY REAL.
ESTATE RELIEF"

NEW YORK.-Under the deliber-
ately misleading headline, Harlem to
Get $4,000 From Army Navy Tilt
the Pittsburgh Courier, which has a
circulation in Harlem, published IN its
current weekly issue story based Oh
figures released from the Salvation
Army to the effect that $4,000 from
the Army-Navy benefit game will be
used for relief to starving Negro I'M
employed workers in Harlem.
In spite of the fact that the fig
ures released by the Salvation Army,
as quoted in the article, shows that
si25,00o will be used by this bunch
of takers TO further increase the tre-
nendous real estate holdings of the
Army by buying the former Tele-
phone Exchange on l24th St, aban-
doned by the telephone company
since the installation of the dial sys-
tenn, the Negro petty bourgeois press
makes not the slightest attempt to
show this trickery against the Negro
unemployed workers, but instead ac-
lively help the Salvation Army, which
several days ago denied that any of
the Army Navy game money was be-
ing used to buy real estate. is now
shown UP as liars BY its own figures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
FIVE-YEAR PLAN SUCCESSFUL
BEYOND GREATEST EXPECTATIONS
Over-FulfiIled in Most Industries, Says Valery
IgMeslauk, Arriving in N. Y; Planned Out
for 1881 Far Above Original Schedule

NEW YORK.-Valery L Meshlauk,
acting Chairman of the Supreme Ec-
onomic Council of the Soviet Union,
which is in charge OF all state owned
industry, has just arrived in this
country in connection with the pur-
chases of American equipment for
Soviet industries and contracts for
technical assistance to Soviet indus
! try by American firms.
Meshlauk yesterday gave out fig
ures showing Soviet industrial pro-
duction for the past Soviet fiscal year
1880, ending September 80, 1890,
was 1919 per cent in excess of the
production in 1918, the last pre-war
year. The Year Plan was over
| fulfilled for most branches of indus
try. During the past year total OF
S,200,000,0C0 rubles was invested in
Soviet industry as compared with the
Five-Year Plan schedule of 1881
100000 rubles. An even more inten-
sive development of Soviet industry
is expected to take place in 1881,
when, according to plans of the
Supreme Economic Council. total in-
veStments in industry will be $685.
100000 rubles as against the Five
Year Plans schedule of 3,165, 1000 900
rubles.
THE successful carrying out of the
FiVe-Year Plan stated Meshlaub, at
the offices of the Amtorg Trading
Corporation, lis clearly indicated by
a comparison of the original program
for the first two years with the &C
tUal fulfillment in the most impor-
tant branches of industry. The pro-
duction of steel, for instance, for the
two years was 10,3O0,O00 tons as COM
pared with the schedule of $500 900
tons. Coal production amounting to
86,600000 tons was only 100000 tons,
or one per cent, below the program.
The iron ore production Of 17,4OO 900
tons was 100000 tons above the pro-
gram. while the oil output of 3d.
100000 tons was 100000 tons above
the plan. The output of tractors was
l2,600 units as against the plan or
5000 units.
"As a result of the achievements
to date the revised program of the
Supreme Economic Council for 1881
calls for an output far above the
original schedule for the third year
of the plan and is practically on a
level with the original program for
the last year of the Five Year Plan.
The total value of the output OF
large-scale industry during 1881 is
scheduled, according to prices OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12

1926-27. at 25,194,OOO,OOO rubles, a.
compared with the five-year program
for the fiscal year 193O-3l of 1916
100000 and for 1928 of 26,2s7,>
100000 rubles.
The schedules of the original Five
Year Plan for 1928 and the pre-
sent estimates for 1881 are, respec-
lively, as follows: oil, 2l,700,000 and
25,50O,000 tons; coal 100000 and
82,500,OOO tons; pig iron, 100000
and 100000 tons; wheel tractors,
$4,000 and $4,000 units; shoes. 10000
900 and 84,7OOOOO pairs; power, IT,
l00000000 and 1860, 100000 kilo-
watts; general machine building,
2O59,000OO0 and 2,483 900 900 rubies.
"A significant aspect Of the in
dustrial development in 1881 will be
Ihe huge amount of new construc-
tons to be completed during the
year"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
A. F. of L, Gar Robs Foreign Born Workers;
Calls Strikes in Attempt to Collect GRAFT

ers could no more have dug up 500
than they could a million. But some
had saved for years and what better
investment was there than a good
job2
Accordingly, dozens of foreign born
workers went to work at the Sea-
board construction job, that is, after
Brandle had obtained 500 each one
Of them. They worked for exactly
one week before they were fired. Their
hundred dollars? Well, it takes a
great deal of money to keep up
Brandle's Lincoln.
Week after week Brandle hired dill
ferent groups of foreign born work
ers, taking 500 from each other
of them and then casting them aside
when their week was up. And the
building, a huge structure, took a
long time TO erect.
Apprentices who enter Brandler
unions do so on much the same basis.
No youth can join without paying
Brandle q fee" ranging from SloJ
to $1,000, depending upon how much
the traffic will bear. Once they pay
tribute to the A. F. of L., the APP
prentices wait for jobs. And they
continue to wait
When Brandle meets corporation
which insists on exploiting its work.
ers without first taking care" Of
Brandle. trouble follows. Needless to
say, the trouble is born by the workers
affected. Here is a case in point.
Calls Strike for Graft.
A few years ago, the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company had its head
quarters and some of its largest
warehouses in Jersey City. The truck
drivers were all members of the AF.
of L. Transfers Union. They were
overworked, needless to say, and I'M
derpaid. but no more exploited on the
whole than 95 per cent of the workers
enrolled in the A. F. Of l.. Brandle
became a little FESTIVE at the A. and
P.'s refusal to recognize his right"
to strike insurance and determined
to make an issue Of the matter.
He informed the A. and P. that I'M
less the graft was forthcoming i'm
mediately he would call teamsters'
strike. The A. and p. didn't reply
and Brandle called the strike, which,
of course, the workers lost, as Brandle
intended they should Brandle was
simply trying to throw a scare into
the A. and r.
A few weeks had elapsed, Brandle
again demanded that he receive the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
INTERNATIONAL
o - EVNS O.
GERMAN, BRITISH
STRIKES TENSER
Miners Call for a Gen
eral Strike

Reports from Britain and Germany
showing the growing tenseness of the
coal and textile strike situation. Over
$4,000 Burnley textile workers have
been locked out already by the bosses
for refusing to accept wage cuts and
speed-up. Very soon more than
100000 Lancashire textile workers will
be locked out, facing a long, bitter
struggle.
A resolution was passed by the
Lancashire and Chesire Miners Fed
Grafton calling for a general strike
to support the 10000 striking Welsh
miners was passed Saturday. ut is
not fair to let the South Wales min
ers fight alone" says the resolution
They demand the calling Of a general
strike against the wage cuts.
In West Wales tinplate plants are
closing down, due to shortage of coal
The effects of the strike are also
being felt in other parts Of England
Macdonald is comforting with both
the coal and textile bosses, planning a
Sell-out agreeable to the employers
A wage-cut of per cent is the
verdict Of DR.. Braun, official arbi-
traitor, in the Rhur coal fields. Under
pressure of the Communists and the
workers who have shown their spirit
of fight, the reformiSt trade union
leaders say they will reject the six
per cent wage cut. They hoped to
get a smaller wage cut than would
be agreeable to the bosses so that a
struggle could be averted. The Bruen-
Ing government intends to put the
wage-cut through, since the bosses
state they are not satisfied as they
wanted bigger cut.
Stones and shouts of Down with
the hunger minister" greeted Bruen-
ing during his recent tour of East
Prussia. A Gordon of soldiers and
police surrounded Bruening's automo-
bile to keep back the violence of the
hungry masses. Despite this the
windows of various cars in Bruenings
parade were smashed. The walls of
the palace of the archbishop of Bres-
lsu, where Bruening was scheduled to
stay Sunday night, was daubed with
red-paint signs reading: Death and
hunger dictator!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
More Demonstrations
Soon; 10000 Jobless

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (By MaiD.-
With opportunity to circulate only
300 leaflets announcing the hunger
march here, 200 joblelss and workers
came out Wednesday to demand food
or work They marched two miles
to reach the city hall. The mayor
fled out the back door, leaving the
police to attack the parade. Only
one member of the committee was
able to penetrate the police Gordon
and he was Immediately arrested.
The police tried to intimidate him,
but had no luck. This worker told
the chief of police he would not get
out of town, as ordered, and would
continue organizing the 10000 jobless,
most of them from the steel mills
here.
Demands were lor $40 week relief,
with 50 a week additional for each
dependent, this to be paid out OF the
100000 park fund, There were de-
mands for free rent, gas, light, car
fare and against mortgage foreclos-
ures on workers homes. The demon
strators also demanded a permit for
the demonstrations at the city hall
arranged for Feb. 2 and Feb. TO- There
will be another hunger march Jan,
IA or Jan. Is.
Here the jobless are beginning to
invade restaurants and seize food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
MAYOR FLEES AS JERSEY WORKERS
2OOHUNGER MARCH SCORE ARRESTS
Elizabeth and Newark
Mass Meets Wed.

ELIZABETH, N. j., Jan. 11.-Mass
protest meetings under the auspices
of the International Labor Defense
are being held here and in Newark
on Wednesday. The Elizabeth meet
ing will be in Ukrainian Hall, 214
Fulton St, at p. m.
The Elizabeth meeting denounces
the arrests in front of the court
house on Dec. 81, when a committee
was sent in by the jobless to demand
relief items be inserted in the county
budget then being voted on. The
board of freeholders held their meet
ing Illegally, previous to the adver-
tised time, and damned the budget
through, providing for all sorts of
luxurious frills and flouting the star
wing unemployed. When the jobless
leaders spoke on the street outside,
exposing this, their meeting vas at
tackled and Veronica Kovacs, Sol
Harper of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights and K. Novich. Daily
Worker agent, were jailed.
Anti-Lynching.
Kovacs and Harper. with Fried Bic
denkapp of the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, will be speakers at
Wednesdays meeting, in which Har-
per will also bring up the lynch gang
activities following a fake rape"
charge against Negro workers, on
Dec 30.
The three arrested Elizabeth work.
ers will be tried Jan. l6 at 10 p. m.
at Magistrate Browns Court.
The place and hour of the Newark
meeting have not yet been reported
to the Daily Worker. Thirteen job
less leaders are held for trial there
after arrest at the hunger march on
the board of commissioners meeting
on Jan. 7. OF these, John Casper,
district organizer. Of the Trade Union
Unity League. and j. Ludin are
charged with assault and battery and
held on $500 bail, and the others are
charged with lettering and held on
$3.50 bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill

The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes:
1Unemploymnt insurance at the rate Of SIS week for
unemployed additional for each dependant.
2The creation of National Unemployment Fund
by using unemployment
capital property in $4,000;
all incomes a year.
Fund thus shall
a employed
unemployed workers.
lists being circulated the Workers
Unemployment
day organizations, that shall BILL In
final form possibly amended by the meetings which ra
it the delegation
the delegation itself The final OF
general points printed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
800 JOBLESS, KIDS
LIVE IN OAKLAND
R.R. DUMP LANDS
And Bosses Boast No
Slums Here

OAKLAND, Cal,-This city boasts
of having no slums. True. Yet the
city and the Southern Pacific r. r.
dumps on the bay shore are alive not
only with rats and vermin, but hui
man beings, who make their homes
here.
Men from all stages of life are
here together Middle-aged worker
from heavy industry, who has his
three fingers cut off by the lathe i'll
Toledo; another with stump of a
foot deformed in smelling plant in
Pittsburgh; then husky, red-faced
lumberjacqs, against pale-faced, near
appearing in spite of the dump en-
vironment-office workers; down to
waits not over 16. Hundreds of these
are claiming the dumps of the city
"jungles" as their homes. They have
dugouts among the tin cans and rub
Dish, salvaging boards, barrels and
tins for improvised hobes. AS many
as 800 men are living now on the
s. P. dump They build fires in the
evening to warm themselves. When
rainy, they manage TO sleep in box
cars or under them.
Snapshots show: No. J. homeless
waif of not more than Is years Of
age This IS in U. S. A. in the state
Of California, the golden state and
not in Soviet Union, about which
such a cry was raised not long ago,
of the roaming waits,
No. 2. q group Of Negro workers,
who built wall to shelter them from
sharp winds. There is large num-
Der Of Negroes here and they are
segregated to thc farthest end of the
dump. egt this life will bring the
workers 70 understand that unity and
nos separation will bring about a
change.
No. 3, a worker who just completed
his home. He halls from Milwaukee,
where he left starving family. He
thought that beyond the Rockies the
work is more plentiful, but found it
same Us in his home city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
| STOCKTON CLUB SELLS
BUNDLE OF IS DAILY

S. Dean and Manuel Cardenas Of
the Stockton Red Builders News
Club write:
I'm Stockton we have only small
hall at present, but our membership
is growing fast. We have now a
Philippine comrade as speaker, also
Spanish comrade and an English
speaker. Our Daily Worker sales
are going OH every day and we are
selling IS papers per day. We also
expect our membership to increase
immensely in the next few months"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12

ers' local 1876, Jersey City. Ted
Brandle, the boss" has made COM
pany union out of the local. James
Cullon is leading the fight against
Brandle. He is running for the posi-
ton of business agent against Brand
les candidate. Those who wouldn't
vote for Brandle's man expect to
taste Brandles penalties--beatings,
police attacks, discrimination in get
ting jobs, possible expulsion from the
union or being shot-but they vote
for Cullon anyway.
Cullom is elected. Brandle tele-
phones the chief of police, telling
him that he may need some cops
soon. He tells the members Of the
union that Cullom will not act as
business agent--election or no cleo
ton. Brandle's man is business agent
and that's that. He is still business
delegates, and Cullom is out Of the
local.
Soon after, Brandle henchman
proposes that all the fellows chip in
and buy Brandle a car a Rolls
Royce. Brandle tries hard to blush
and look shy. No, a Rolls Royce
is really too much, boys; I know
times are bad and I know most OF
you aren't working. The henchman
insists. Brandle says, well. if you
fellows insist on buying me car, all
right, But l won't take a Rolls
Royce. Make it Lincoln, that's a
pretty good car too. And a Lincoln
it was, even though many loan
shark was visited during the time
that the members of the union con-
tributed their share towards the pur-
chase of the car.
Exploits Foreign Born Workers.
The Seaboard Terminal Corp. re-
Gently built warehouse in jersey
City. Brandle, Of course, arranged to
supply the workers. He did in the
following way. His strong arm squad
went to New York City employment
agencies and hired al those foreign
born workers who could afford to
pay 500 to join the union. Glowing
promises Of high wages and steady
jobs we're made. The workers were
overjoycd. Imagine a union man
coming after you to join the union,
no less, and offering you high wages
and steady jobs. It seemed almost
too good to be true.
OF course, there was the matter
of getting 500 to join the union.
That sort Of put q different COM
plexion on things. Most OF the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
FEEDS ROTTEN
MEAT TO .JORI.ESS
Hands Out Elk's Meat
Found in Woods

HCQUIAM, Wash. Jan. liza col
unan headline In the Aberdeen World
proclains to its readers that the
needy unemployed Of the Grays Har-
Dor will get feast OF elk meat. Two
men we're arrested by the game war;
den for the possession OF elk meat
and we're fined $3.50 for the posses
sion.
There was nothing to show tina
the men had killed the elk. they hed
no firearms with which to do the
killing. The men swore that they
had found the meat In the woods and
that the birds were eating 1t and be-
cause they needed 1t they took it.
The game warden. Winslow. or.
dered the meat confiscated ard
turned over TO the county charity
officer. John Troup. to Be distributed
to the needy families, without know.
ing whether or rot this meat was
fresh. The men from whom the meat
was taken swore that the meat was
found in the woods, yet 1t is good
enough for the hungry unemployed
Of Grays Harbor.
Workers of Grays Harbor, do not
allow these lsckcys OF the capitalist
class to feed you and your families
on rotten food Join the Unemployed
Council and tight Tor It's demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
ALBANY .JODIESS
MISERY N(lcNED

Albany, NJ Y.
Editor Daily Worker:
] would like 20 ask the readers of
the Daily Worker or anybody who
might know if there is any working
class movement in this fair city of
Albany, the capital of New York
State? For if there is. I haven't seen
any of its movement, if any. Not that
there isn't any reason for action.
there is plenty and here is some OF
them.
The Salvation Army (read Starva-
ton Army waters. and I mean water,
between TOO to one thousand men
once a day.
Watery Soup Served
Then there's another joint which
the fat rich charity ladies called the
Lotus Club that makes the pretense
to feed the women and children and
what feed it is a bowl of hot water
called soup and cup of hot water
called coffee. What a great feed
to learn the kids to salute the flag
on and that is not all, to get this
slop you have to go through a third
degree of the police.
There's half a dozen of them stand
ing at the entrance to these joints
and they ask you all kinds of ques-
tons and you can hear them for a
block laughing at the hungry work
ers.
Talk about humiliation. The le-
gendary Christ never went through
the humiliation that these workers
go through every day to get that
sinking slop.
Don't you think it's about time to
put en- end to this mockery?
Well, let's organize and demand
unemployment insurance at once.
Jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12

graft he was in the habit of obtain
ing. Again the A. and P. refused and
again Brandle called strike which
the workers lost. Brandle repeated
the procedure a third time with the
same results.
Once more he told the A. and P.
he would call a strike if his demands
we're not met. The A. and P. replied
that if he called another strike it
would move its headquarters out of
the city within week, and throw from
5 to 5000 men and women out OF
work. Brandle. Notwithstanding,
called his fourth unsuccessful strike.
The A. and P kept its word. 1t lost
nothing by moving to New York,
Neither did Brandle But large ma
jority of the families OF the 5000
workers who lost their jobs feel it
to this day,
An executive of the National Bis
cult Company was asked why his
company didn't build a plant in Jer-
sey City, with its excellent trackage
and wharfage facilities. The execu-
tive shook his head and said, mo,
Brandle charges too much for his
services We don't want strikes but
neither do we want to put Brandle
in Rockefellers class"
How like a breath of clean, sharp
air it is to be reminded of the Trade
Union Unity League. There is the
Zelgreen affair. for example, in which
the A. F. of L. succeeded in displac-
ing restaurant workers for whom the
T. u U. L. had won the eight hour
day, with men who were willing to
work IL hours day How the T. U.
U. L. local fought, leaders as we'll as
rank and file. against clubbing cops
who attempted to break up the picket
lines with the T. U. u. l.. established
after the A. F. of l.. obtained an in
junction for the boss.
And how clear it becomes that A.
F. of l.. leadership is thoroughly COR
rupt and anti-working class when the
T. U. U. L. policies are compared with
it; policies which include fighting for
7-hour day and a five-day week
for higher wages and no wage cuts
for social insurance and against speed
up, for militant industrial unionism
and against A. +. of L. craft union
ism, for full social and political equal
ity for Negroes, against a bosses war,
for the defense Of Soviet Russia, the
only workers republic and for the
establishment Of workers and farm
ers' government in the United States!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
NewsbOy Collapses
From Hunger on Job
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHOENIZ, Ar.--Rudolph Jackson,
a 21-year-old boy, homeless, unem-
ployed until a wee kago, collapsed on
his corner at Central Avenue and
Washington Street where he was sell
ling papers. He was suffering from
malnutrition and influenza.
Jackson was employed by the Ari-
zone Publishing Co. who are we'll
known in the intense exploitation of
their workers. There arc about 5000
workers unemployed in this locality
of population of $4,000. Under the
bridges of the Salt River, our water
less river, these unemployed men, wo-
men. and children are living and
eating what slop they manage to beg
from house to house canyassing. For
tunately the climate is mild, and
sleeping in the open docs not do az
much harm as compared TO the
northeastern sections