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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

CRIMINAL CODE" IN REQUEST ENGAGEMENT HEADS DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM NOW AT THE STRAND,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

A picture that can be seen twice and enjoyed more completely the second tmie is the one heading a great double feature bill at Warner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

Edmund Lowe, Jeanette Macdonald, John Mack Brown and Eleanor Boardman at Fox-Poli Palace To- morrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
The Hunger Government

asst September detailed Survey county county, of the
regions that while there
for cattle and horses there mo shortage of
food"
Today the truth beginning come out And the truth the CHASTITY
death hovers hundreds of thousands
hap number not confessed by those
out affected the drouth
gmpses permitted the effort to
capitalist which,
corporation refund" taxes already paid
deliberately consciously insisted that starvation DEATH pegra and
typhoid the farming population
situation not faminebut murder murder OF the people by
government interests than rattle
the interests of the victim into which has set its
fangs!
officer Kentucky made far back
July this wncr aid
please note that the State Drouth Board according
to Louisville dispatch puohshed IN the NJ T. Times OF Jan ~ l0na
estimate correct last September What done about
Again. that seventyhree out
eighty Mississippi e people suffering severely while
lin the news great of
literally starving eating
with pence in the form typhoid and peaa threat
ening literally thousands thousands with death!
America The richest country earh And
It is but not Masses only the few!
all the big capitalists endorse Al Smiths appeal
foget politics. relief contributing
to the Red Cross 1t was the kind OF capitalist politics which
prompted Al Smith, bit of
Essentially head
lines about the farmers as about the unemployed Hoovers Conference
Prosperity 1929 with its mo discharge of work
equally hypocical Hoovers Douth Re
which at first mo shortage of human food and
after appoprang these
reoan farmers that give security at per cent and
interest refuses do anything at all until the sacred OF
threatened then shoves the job to the Red Cross which openly
al accompnce murder
But the hunger government going escape
But the armed farmers
City swept the shelves of store
must could Them
going multiplied the unless something done
to relief instead of hypocrtic promises
workers farmers to
death the midst of plenty And the the
of finds that out the better
should struggle
full compensation for
the unemployed for the Unemployment Insurance
should the demonstrations for real relief to be held the
nation o February 10.
Both will learn through struggle capitalist
that by its overtowa
insure themselves against starvation with their Work
ers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
WOMEN MEET AT
PLAZA TODAY

Today the working wornen's con-
ference on International Won1en's
Day will meet at Irving Plaza to plan
mass campaign to organize the
working women for struggle against
unemployment, wage cuts, high rent,
the high cost of living, and the war
plans of the bosses against the Soviet
Union, the only country where the
working women have won real
equality.
The bosses set aside Mothers Day,
which is intended to fool the work.
ing women into believing that the
bosses have any regard for mother
hood.
The revolutionary working class
movement has set aside March 9th as
International Women's Day, which
symbolizes the struggle of the work
ing women against exploitation. IN
ternational Women's Day is the day
on which working women of the en-
tire world demonstrate their interna-
tional solidarity against capitalism.
Workers from shops and working
women's organizations are called up
on to send delegates to this confer
ence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Red Cross Helps Bosses SAGE
Money at Expense of Jobless

To give the American workers and
farmers the kind of "relief" that led
500 Arkansas farmers with arms in
their hands to storm grocery stores
to keep their families from starving
the chief liar of the American boss
government, Hoover, has started his
publicity organization working to get
$10,000,000 for the Red Cross slop
houses.
Forced to admit that millions are
starving because of the bankruptcy
Of the capitalist system, Hoover has
enlisted every Strikebreaker and
enemy of the workers to appeal for
Red Cross funds. Among those who
are in Hoover's charity begging out
fit to keep the workers from fight
ing for unemployment insurance, are
eX-President Coolidge, the democratic
candidate for president, AL Smith.
who made millions out of the Bank
of United States crash; Mary Pick
ford, movie actress; the chief inlper-
ialist cloun, Will Roers, and Judge
John Barton Payne of New York who
is the head of the Red Cross jim
Crow organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Workers and Workers Organizations!
Support the Dressmakers Strike!

YORKThe dressmakerS Of
shaving under the most appalling
partnership with the union
the of the workers
bad
the workers
|or a strike.
supported by the workers in
industries The all other
in their struggles.
Help the demakcrs strike to the
Workers Industrial w. Every individual
workers organization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
3 MEN DASHED TO
GROUND ON JOB
Scaffold Breaks; Two
Killed, One Injured

NEW YORK.-Two workers were
killed when a scaffold at 48th st. and
34th Ave, in jackson Heights, was
broken, due to the crumbling of the
building.
The brick on the building was laid
yesterday and had not yet dried. The
stones were put upon the wet brick,
causing the wall to fall, and the
workers were dashed to the. ground
with the falling brick They were
unearthed by their fellow workers.
Two OF them were dead and the third
severely injured.
The scaffold upon which the work.
ers were working was condemned two
weeks ago by the safety men, but the
foreman had forced the workers to
continue on the same rotten scaffold.
Charlie, the foreman of the bricklay-
ess. is continually shouting and yell
ing at the workers to work faster and
more efficiently. He Keeps Yell a
Lot of workers walking the streets,
you know what you can do"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Speed the Drive for
Signatures to Bill
for Insurance!

sincerely to be hoped, place much re-
lance upon the aid that might be
rendered by the Farm Board after
1t had set up a distributive organi-
cation to deliver such wheat and to
see to its conversion into flour, charg-
ing the expenses to others. By the
time that the necessary ARRANGEMENTS
had been perfected it is probable that
those who had not already been re-
lieved would have starved to death.
The fact is that the proposal can
not be seriously considered as a re-
lief measure. 1t is an old plan in a
new guise for getting rid of Farm
Board SURPRISES"
Get Signatures!
There you have it, from capitalism
itself. There is going to be starva-
ton, death for the jobless. If any
relief is obtained by the 100000
hungry unemployed, they will have
to take it. They will have to enorm-
ously speed up he collection of sig
natures for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. They will have
70 arrange mass demonstrations in all
cities on February 10, the day the
bill is presented to Congress. These
demonstrations must be so big they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

This report, according to people who
have seen it, indicates there are more
than 100000 workers in this country
without jobs, and that the part-time
employment is far greater than ever
before stimatted-running into the
millions.
When Hoover heard of this report
he gave strict orders that it should
not be made public under any condi-
tons. This shows how the bosses
government attempts to keep from
the workers the facts about increas-
ing unemployment.
The Daily Worker, months before
showed that the unemployed were g.
100000 and is now over 1O,O0o,OOO The
Daily Worker, ever since the crisis
began. has been giving as accurate
figures on unemployment as possible
from all the data available.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Hoover SURPRISES Report
OF 100000 Jobless in US.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Hoover is
suppressing a report showing there
are more than 100000 unemployed
in the United States. This report is
now in the hands of Col. Arthur
Woods, head of the so-called Emer-
gency Unemployment Relief Com
mittee.
Efforts made by the Federated
Press to get copy of this report
have proven fruitless. The report was
based on inquiries made in all parts
of the United States by the staff of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
They were instructed to report on
the unemployment totals and the
amount of part-time unemployment
in their respective districts and towns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Textile Worker Aged 20 Gets
AS Signatures in Three Days

lures. When I stop to talk to one
worker on the street Immediately
large group gathers around me and
they are all eager to sign; why I'll
have 1000 names collected before the
week is over"
In this spirit he goes from house
to house, approaching every worker
he meets on the street, approaching
every worker at the factory gates. He
has also visited a number of clubs in
the city, where he has left lists and
made arrangements to come back for
them after the membership has
signed them.
Another has also collected over 200
names himself, by going not only to
the factory gate but also to the docks,
where the seamen we're very eager
to sign the petitions. In this way
not only will the quota be reached
by Feb. /, but the workers of New
Bedford will go over the top.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
T0bless Will StaYve Before
HOOUeY'S Wheat Reaches Them

can not be disregarded, must be so
militant that their demands will have
to be considered!
The National Campaign Committee
for Unemployment Insurance has is
sued the followin special call:
''All workers, all examinations which
have participated in the drive for
signatures for the Unemployment IN
surance Bill are called upon to send
in all filled signature lists at once.
do not stop collecting your sigma
lures, collect more than ever before,
but mail all filled lists in your pos
session to us.
"An workers organizations are
called upon to send in their collec-
tive endorsements of the Bill stating
in each instance how many members
in the organization.
There are a number of national
workers EXAMINATIONS which have not
yet endorsed the Bill and sent such
endorsements to us. These oraniza-
tons, like the International Labor
Defense, the various national unions
and leagues of the Trade Union Unity
League, are requested to mail their
endorsement and the number of
members in the national organization
which gives this endorsement.
"All local and district organizations
OF the T. U. U. L. are requested to
mail to us all filled lists and collec-
tive endorsements they have in
hand"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

While the government can find ST.
000,000,000 in taX-return presents for
the bosses and their big corporations,
and easily puts its hands on $1,000
100000 for war preparations, it is re-
fusing to give one penny for unem-
ployment relief to the 100000
American workers without jobs.
The Red Cross drive for 100000 900
will be made in the shops and mills
and in reality will be forced on the
workers now employed and whose
wages have already been cut S9,000,-
100000. The entire press and publ
city machinery of the country is
being put into use to put over this
S10,000,000 Red Cross drive, but the
unemployed workers will not be fed
by it.
Even should the entire sum be used
for relief, it would not feed the TO-
100000 unemployed for more than a
day. The fact is, however, that the
big publicity organization will be
paid; the directors of the Red Cross
will get heavy salaries out of it, and
what is left will be handed over to
soup kitchens where the workers will
be treated like dogs if they come for
food. This is capitalism's answer to
the demand for bread.
Workers. Don't stand for it! Or
ganize and fight for immediate re-
lief locally. at the expense of the
boss governments and for unemploy-
ment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Jan. 3d.
In New Bedford the signature drive
has just got under way. At the I'M
employment conference a quota of
1000 signatures was set for the city.
Already over 1880 signatures have
been collected by few energetic
workers who have turned them over
to the city committee of the unem-
ployed.
One of those most active in col
Letting signatures for the Workers
Insurance Bill is an unemployed tex
tile worker of some 10 years of age.
AS soon as he was approached with
list he stated why that's one OF
the best things started yet, give me
about so of those lists and in two
days he returned with 1926 names.
The very next day he returned with
another $50 signatures and he is still
on the job daily. why, it's the east
est thing in the world to get sigma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

The need for mass mobilization to
pass the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill and to force local gov
ernments to grant immediate relief
was never so clear as now, with the
blasting, almost as soon as they
bloom, Of one after another of the
Hoover fake relief schemes.
The latest of these growths is the
bill approved by the Senate Agricul-
tural Committee, to authorize the
Federal Farm Board to make avail
able 100000 bushels of the wheat
bought with federal funds months
ago, and use it to provide food for
the starving unemployed. Presumably
the idea is to hand out the wheat
in paper bags through the police de-
partment and the Salvation Army
breadlines, and let the hungry chew
it dry. Anyway, no appropriation for
grinding, milling, and baking it into
bread is in sight.
Nothing To 1t.
But even wheat to fill your pockets
with is a false hope, as the Journal
of Commerce points out in it's issue
of January %. The Journal of Com
merce represents real big capital, and
the editors know that the average
worker never sees it. So they can af-
ford to be frank. They say:
Gas method of providing relief,
the plan is thoroughly undesirable.
The organizations that are engaged
in feeding the hungry will not, it is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
SPECIAL ELECTION
SIGNATURE DRIVE

BROOKLYN, N. EVERY worker
is called upon to cooperate with the
Communist Party Section 6 to collect
signatures to place the Party of the
working class on the ballot in the
special congressional election which
will take place on Feb. II.
The Communist Party must collect
In the It'll congressional district 1000
signatures to be able to participate
| in the coming election.
Every worker is called upon to come
Saturday from p: m: to help us
collect signatures at 81 Graham Ave-,
Brooklyn.
Sunday morning at 10 a. m. mem
bers of the Williamsburgh Workers
Club, Womens Council, Y.CL. and
Party members are called upon to
come to the section headquarters for
a special election campaign mobil-
izatior-
Only four days remain to place the
Party on the ballot. Every worker
must take his place in the struggle.
IThe duty of every class conscious
worker is that of placing the Com
nunist Party on the ballot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

Power shut off for hours in the building of the
DAILY WORKER office and shop because there
money to pay the electric bill.
Lack of funds to pay immediate obligations stopped the
linotype machines and the presses plunged the editorial Of
flee into darkness.
Comrades, this incident illustrates the need for
pletng the $4,000 Emergency Relief Fund immediately
There must be reoccurence of Thursdays disaster.
Nor is this danger The DAILY WORKER appears
today because found possible to borrow $500 required
to pay the electrical company This money must be repaid
by tomorrow morning there will not be sufficient funds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
2,5OOHUNGER
MARCH THRU
PATERSON
Fake Agencies Close
When Jobless Take
to the Streets

PATERSON, NJ, Jan. 23-TWenty-
five hundred workers today demon
strated at the Court House to back
up their committee presenting de-
mands of the unemployed to the
county authorities. From headquar-
tiers of the Unemployed Council the
workers marched to the Court House,
where their delegation of nine pro-
ceeded to the meeting of the County
Board of Freeholders and presented
the demands that had been formu-
lated at conference held a few days
ago.
Pace, in the name Of the confer
ence, presented the demands, Gold
berg spoke in the name of the I'm
employed Council, Rubin in the name
of the National Textile Workers
Union. Vafiadis, section organizer of
the Communist Party, when attempt
ing to speak, was denied the floor but
got it later. The demands put forth
we're:
AL salaries shall be cut down
to $4,000.
2-$1,5Oo,oOO be taken from the
budget.
3.-That the $3,500,0O0 appropriated
for building county jails and $4,000
set aside for fighting mosquitoes shall
be handed over for unemployment re-
lief.
4.-That all public buildings be
opened up to shelter the unemployed.
5.-$12 for each jobless worker per
week, and 81 more for each depen-
dent.
In answer the delegation was in
formed that "the board has no au-
thority to make such changes"
March Through City.
Leaving the Court House, the dele
cation spoke to the mass of workers
assembled before the Court House.
Rubin, Taft, Silverman and others
spoke. Then they marched is blocks
through the city, passed the office Of
the Unemployed Council and the fake
food distribution" office to the union
hall of the National Textile Workers
Union. The directors of these Of
fices locked them up when they saw
the jobless coming Three or four
hundred workers gathered in the hall
held a meeting there, Is joined the
Unemployed Council, 100 signatures
we're procured and considerable lit
erature and Daily Workers sold.
Fifty workers went by truck from
Passaic to Paterson to participate in
the demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

'bers of the Industrial Union.
The answer was a strike called
by the N. T. W. l. u, to which
the entire shop responded 100
per cent. This splendid demon
stration of strength compelled the
bosses to recognize the shop commit
tee and the shop chairman, and to
consent that henceforth prices will
be settled not at the whim of the
bosses, but by the shop committee,
The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union is at present conducting
strikes at the Nagler and the Atlas
dress shops. The workers OF these
shops are determined to enforce union
conditions.
Strike Activities.
The General Strike Committee held
its first meeting Thursday night and
has taken up very important ques-
tons in connection with the coming
strike in the dress trade. The Cen
eral Strike Committee has decided
to call upon all the workers in the
needle trades to Immediately pay up
the SIS tax and to make contributions
to the $4,000 strike fund.
The strike committee is also set
ting in motion the general strike ma
chinery. All the members of strike
committee will participate in the open
air meetings called for Sunday in all
sections of the city.
A call will be issued to all workers
to support the dress strike. That this
call will receive the proper response
is already evident by the preparations
being made in all workers organiza-
tons for the January 3lst confer
ence.
The conference of workers organi-
cations to assist the dressmskers in
their coming strike will be truly rep
reSentatiye of thousands of workers
organizations who will send their del
egates to the session at Webster Hall,
on January 81, at p. m. This con-
ference will decide on WAYS and
means of how best to assist the dress
makers in their strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
MEETING IN BORO
HALL ON SUNDAY
Lealess and Stone Will
Speak

BROOKLYN.-A mass protest
meeting will be held Sunday after
noon at p m. at the Borough Hall
Unemployed Council, Is Myrtle Ave-.
Brooklyn, to mobilize all forces to
protest against the railroading of
Nessin, Lealess and Stone. These
workers dared to ask Mayor Walker
for bread for the unemployed work
ers and they received a brutal beating
in true Tammany style.
Bob Lealess and Stone are sched-
uled to speak at this meeting. The
trial will be at Lafayette and Leon
ard SITS. at 9 o'clock on Monday
morning, Jan. rs. Show the grafters
that the workers are awake. Bring
your friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Lack of Funds Stops Daily Worker
Presses, Distribution Crippled


to other pressing obligations and the Daily may
be forced to suspend for day
Money must be rushed to the DAILY WORKER
Every Party member and class conscious worker
take upon himself the immediate task of qudatng the
$4,000 Fund.
You will find the Red Shock Troops Coupon page
Use it Send whatever you Make contributions
regularly while the emergency lasts Point out to every
worker you know the need for saving the DAILY Only
such action this fighting organ of the working
class.
Send all funds to the DAILY WORKER, SO East 18th
Street. New York, N. X
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
WORKERS COLLIDE
WITH FASCISTS
3 Young Communists
of Budapest Tortured

BERLIN.-Last night fierce COLI
sions between workers and fascists
occurred at an indoor mass meeting,
in Griedrichshein Hall. Over a hun
dred were injured. Police arrested
fortv, twenty were sent to the hos
rital, Workers faced the fascists with
"'7"'-''o'-T, tables, etc. The hall was
devastated
Today in Chemnitz, the Premier,
Bruening was welcomed, the masses
o. unemployed greeted him with
shouts of down with the govern
ment,' whistles and catcalls. Many
police protected Bruening
Budapest reports the arrest of
Communists, Revai. Gec-coeg and
Gaydos. who were tortured in police
presidium. Revai was tortured for
four days, beaten on his foot soles,
no doctor was permitted, although
TIE victi mSuffered from heart at
tacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
FREIHEET BALL TONIGHT AT
MADISON SO. GARDEN

The Madison Square Garden will
be painted red tonight. 1t is the
night of the annual Morning Fret
heit Ball, an affair famous in the
ranks of militant workers. From
all over New York and nearby
towns workers flock in the thou
sands to this affair. a big, brass
band, singing, dancing and enter
tainment will feature the affair.
This ball will turn into huge
demonstration for our Communist
press. This year the workers will
answer, more than ever before, the
call, and. will challenge, by their
attendance, the attacks of the in
famous Fish committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

shift from going to work, de-
spite the use of tear gas bombs
by the coal and iron police.
Six special deputies and con-
stables were called in by the
company in an attempt to smash the
militancy of the strikers. Young
miners are very active. A strike re-
lief committee was elected and is
collecting relief funds from nearby
mines. The strikers are arranging an
affair for relief at Herminie No.
hall Saturday.
Call Other Miners Out.
The company announced the clos
ing of the mine for 80 days in an at
tempt to starve the strikers. They
refuse to deal with the strike COM
mittee Of 40. They insist on dealing
with each miner individually, but
the men unitedly refused.
The striking miners, together with
the district organizer Of the Mine,
Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial
Union issued call to all Hillman
mines to join the strike to stop wage
cuts.
The strikers demands are u With
drawal of the wage cut, and increase
to ten per cent above the old scale;
o recognition Of the miners commit
tee; 81 no discrimination or dis
charge Of any miner active in the
strike; ~ abolition of associate fund;
50 abolition of forced dealing in COM
pany stores; g. drivers and daymen
work every day when coal leaders
are working.