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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
PLANS PLAY READINGS
Community Drama Guild Sponsors
Series of Three.

A series of three-play readings, I'M
der the direction of Mrs. William j.
Peters will be presented by the Com
munity Drama Guild beginning We'd
nesday night at 8 o'clock at the Arts
Club, 2017 I street.
The program will be given through
the cooperation of Mrs. William E.
Chamberlin of the guild, and L. Mil
nor Dorey, dramatic chairman of the
Arts Club.
THE House" by r. F. Rubinstein,
will be the first play to be read, by
the Montgomery Players, with Mrs. r.
H. Rice as director Mr.. and Mrs r.
wing Day, Mrs. Raymond Sanford, Miss
Martha Roberts, Miss Anna Moore Con-
verse, Mrs. Jane Plummer Rice, HUI
bert Teitman, Morris Edwards and
Ralph Fowler, will compose the cast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
RAPIDAN FISH PLENTIFUL
Favorite Hoover Trout Brought
From West Virginia Hatcheries.

WINCHESTER, Va, January (P).-
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Hoover should find his camp on the
Rapidan River in Madison County at
tractiye again next Summer has in
creased by thousands during the last
week
Agents of the United States Fish
Commission have been stocking the
Presidents preserve with large numbers
OF trout brought from hatcheries in
West Virginia. They are said TO be
Of the variety for which the Executive
has liking and are already of good
gize
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
JOBLESS TO ANSWER CONGRESS- STARVATION Plan
The Fight Goes On!

THE working ob
the unemployed action of February 10th
step forward, the and higher
stage. what does this advance consist?
the less and unoganzed movement of
Unemployment has become def
mite organized
year ago connection
February together throughout
the country, and with a common aim and strategy
the monheaded don't
know what they want Today they do not come before the capitalist
both nationally and locally and the workers have
clear idea of precisely what they fighting for
Fourth, higher
advance from March 9th last the lighting front has entered
directly into the seats of government The struggle against aa
hoped
ohand which the Fish committee hoped to obscure with
batting forced its into the halls of the national capitol
that
that
seats of capitalist power.
Fifth even the capitalists recognize that the mass against
unemployment Unemployment beyond
halted the
change in
bombs
these still the main argument and will doubtless remain but
force supplemented
the tasks of the
dagogy by showing that words are not accompanied by deeds that
there
eclipse past prep
araon for the demonstrations of February 25h There should be
persistent effort mobilize support
especially the part-tme workers. all of whom suffering Bit
e from the attempt of the capitalists to unload the whole burden
the crisis the shoulders of the workers.
illusion spread capitalist pedde
things getting better give
CHASTITY
the million
and their children getting will continue
The demonstrations of February 25th International Fighting
Against Unemployment should the the National
cation their different localities united struggle
other lands who likewise struggling against capitalist starvation
should the movement to stage of struggle wherein the
asts will understand that the starving millions will
Build Unemployed struggle I'm
employment Insurance! Onto the streets organized
t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
BEST SPEAKERS
AT KATOVIS MEET
Tomorrow Honor Brave
Victim of Police

NEW YORK.-The speakers at the
mass demonstration tomorrow, COM
memorating Steve Katovis, WHO died
at the hands of the police while at
strike demonstration at Millers
Market in the Bronx a year ago will
be the best in the organizations spon-
soring the memorial meeting.
Jack Stachel, assistant general Sec
rotary of the Trade Union Unity
League will speak, and the T.U.UL.
particularly urges all workers to come
to the meeting and honor their fellow
worker who died for them. Other
speakers will be Fred Biedenkapp,
Obermeier of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, and j. Louis Engdahl
of the International Labor Defense.
The meeting is at Ambassador Hall,
1861 Third Avenue, Bronx, at l p. m.
tomorrow.
The mass meeting is being held
under the auspices of the Trade
Union Unity Council, the Building
Maintenance Workers Union of which
KatoVis was member, the Food
Workers Industrial Union, the Inter
national Labor Defense and the United
Councils of Working Glass Women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
Aid the Cuban Masses!

peasanty starving
regime absolutely by
ingon.
National independence
banquet
strike would than
the besta fortunes brute every
labor those
Vol of the A. F. of the allies Macado ackey
Today after of casual bucery
today with 100000 obe literally starving; only
Gently renewed imposition of martial
dragged from their homes,
the eldsnartial
against cuts picket the disappear
martial law throughout Cuba
as constitution keeps the bloody butcher
1eraism in power
The future Cuba the
Communist Party
of its members to the task raying actions
the fight for bread and national freedom Imperialism
The called nationalist" opposition themselves
ardlce
american imperials. unable
I'll of action is Nachado confne
Tnngs by ndduaa tactic rejected
which Machado intensity the
worker
Yet driven by utter starvation the Cuban striking
ay facing bavey the fortunes
odiery.
Against this terror the Communist Party
as upon all workers of the
workers of mpeaist of Cuba
demonstrate their protest today, February
eattery Place at South Ferry
Down with American mpeaist Cuban
masses in their fight for bread
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14

betrayed and sabotaged by the A.
F. of L. leadership but the entire
militant section of the American
working class, Mooney says:
"They (the A. F. of l.. leader
ship have not only betrayed us,
sabotaged our defense, and viIified
our characters; they have been
equally vilIainous toward other
militant workers. Did the A. F. of
l.. make any effort TO prevent
Sacco-V anzetti, the noble labor
martyrs, from being burned in the
chair? Have they raised hand
to help the long suffering CentraIia
boys? Or the victims of the 1922
Railroad Shopmen's Strike. John
Cornelison and Calude Merritt?
Or the eight Imperial Valley or
GAMERS convicted solely because
they tried to unionizc agriculture
workers? All these men are serv-
ing like ourselves i'm California
penitentiaries. but not word, not
a gesture do the labor leaders
make to help them, or u.s.
A vigorous amnesty campaign for
the release of all class war prisoners
is now being conducted by all Mill
tant organizations through the In
ternational Labor Defense and a drive
for million signatures is on through
out the continent ..a..sA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
JOHN D., SILVER
KING CALL FOR
WAR ON USSR
Want to Stamp Out
the Workers
Republic

John d. Rockefeller, Sr. living in
luxury at Daytona Beach, Fla, while
millions of his wake slaves starve to
death, and Senator Tasker L. Oddie
of Nevada, big silver mine magnate,
used Lincoln's birthday as an &C.
casion for an attack against the
Soviet Union.
Rockefeller stamped his feet and
foamed at the mouth declaring: "We
must denounce that thing, and by
that mean that thing over in Rus
sia." To this bloodsucker of the
workingclass, the very name Com
munism is poison because it means
parasites like him will not be able
to live on the blood and sweat of
millions of toilers.
Senator Oddie's speech was along
the same line, but was put over more
cleverly. All the old familiar phrases
against the Soviet Union, except the
one about Matchmaking women, was
packed into Oddie's speech. He
blamed the Soviet Union for every
thing but earthquakes. The Silver
Trust senator ended his talk by de-
manding war to stamp out world
Communism.
Not only did Oddie blame the
Soviet Union for the world crisis of
capitalism, but he blamed the Soviets
for the Reorganization of the gold
and silver standard, and especially
charged them with causing the drop
in the price of silver.
"The soil of unemployment, pow
erty and distress is fertile for the
planting and growth of Soviet propa-
ganda," declared eddie. But he stop
ped there without letting the workers
know that unemployment, poverty
and distress for the workers under
capitalism is the by-product of pro-
fits for the bosses.
Oddie demanded an embargo on all
Soviet products, and if this did not
destroy the workers republic then he
urges bloody conflict by the i'm
perialist powers to do the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
New Campaign For
Unconditional
Release

lean bankers and industrialists.
Without the Greens and VOLS the
security of the employers would
be considerably diminished, for the
function of the A. F. of l.. leader
ship is to fool the workers and
make them amenable so the en-
ployers."
Then the pamphlet points out that
it was the Soviet workers who saved
Mooney and Billings from the hang
man while the corrupt leadership of
the official American labor movement
was either silent or tried it's best
to help send them to the gallows:
"The Mooney Billings case has
always been and must always be,
a vital part Of the general struggle
between the workers and the en-
ployers. Mooney was saved from
the hangman's moose only through
the mass protests and pressure of
Russia and the rest OF the world.
The workers and all sympathizers
Of labor must again be reused"
Mooney also stresses the fact that
not only he and Billings have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
Only 3 Congressman
Out of 800 Even
Acknowledge Bill
And They Are Evasive
Stick to Form and Let
the Hungry Die

AS the masses of unemployed and
employed workers prepare for huge
demonstrations on Feb. 25, "Interna-
tional Fighting Day." letters from the
speaker of the house of representa-
tives and from two congressman give
further proof that the U. S. govern
ment is the enemy of the workers
and jobIess, that it is carrying out
the orders of the capitalist class Of
the United States to starve these
100000 jobless into compliance
with the employers plans for war
and wage-cutting.
After two months Of demonstra-
tons, mass meetings, united front
conferences and collection of sigma
lures, in which nearly a million and
a half of jobless and workers par
ticipated, the delegation of 40 from
all over the country appeared in
Washington, Feb. g., and held public
HletGlIlSS'
Sent to 800 Congressman.
On Feb, z they sent a letter de-
handing the floor oil congress to pre-
sent the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, which provides that the
war funds shall be taken over and
used to pay each jobless workers SIS
a week and SO more for each de-
pendent. This letter was sent to
about 300 senators and representa-
tives in congress.
Only two of thes even answered
the letter, and both did so in a for
malistic, off-hand and evasive man
ner What do they care how many
CONTINUED ON PAGE. FIvE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
SUBPOENA WALKER.
FOR COURT TRIAL.
Jobless Delegation to
Appear On Monday

Mayor Walker was yesterday
(Friday) served with subpoena re-
curing him to appear as a witness
at the trial Of Sam NeSin, Milton
Stone and Robert Lealess, leaders OF
the unemployed demonstration on
october 10th. The trial will be held
Monday morning, February 18th, in
Special Sessions Court, Part 6. The
New York District of the Information
al Labor Defense is handling the
case.
When Lealess called at the Mayors
Office with the subpoena, he was
again refused admission as had hap
pened at his previous call Wednesday,
Police Captain O'Connor at the door
took the subpoena, brought it into
the mayors Office and told Lealess
the subpoena had been served. He
refused to give receipt for it..
Though the subpoena has now been
legally served, the failure to serve
it in person on the mayor may be
used as pretext to permit Walker
to dodge out of appearing at the trial
and facing the barrage of embaTas-
sing questions which the three de-
fendents are preparing for him.
Nesin, Stone and Lealess were the
leaders of an unemployed delegation
which on october 10th, at a meeting
of the Board of Estimate, demanded
immediate appropriations for the re-
lief of the hundreds of thousands of
starving New York workers. When
Nesin denounced as Tammany graft
ers the judges who had sent to jail
Fosted, Miner, Amter and Raymond,
leaders of last years tremendous
March 9th unemployment demonstra-
ton, Walker ordered the three work.
ers thrown out, savagely beaten and
arrested.
They are now facing charges of
unlawful assembly, outraging public
decency and endangering public peace,
involving long prison terms. The
three workers have been denied jury
trial and are being tried before the
same crew Of corrupt Tammany judg-
es who railroaded Foster, Minor,
Amter and Raymond. Instead of
being defended by attorneys, the three
workers will conduct their own cases
and viii expose this trial as an eff
fort to gag the demands Of the 1000
900 unemployed workers Of Greater
New York, A-----'-- -.----- --------------- :
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
LONCWORTH PROPOSES TO
ONLY "REFER" DEMANDS
FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE
HUNGER MARCH TO
ALBANY, FEB. 10
Tag Days Today and
Tomorrow for Funds;
Conference Monday

NE WYORK.-Organized in groups
Of 25, marching fro none small fac
tory town to another, all the way
to the state capitol at Albany, the
New York hunger demonstrators will
start out Feb. 10. They will be joined
in all the industrial cities they pass
through by other marchers, and will
converge on the capitol building to
tell Governor Roosevelt and the
state legislature that something must
be done for the starving jobless of
this state.
There are million out of work in
New York City alone, and the pro-
portion is greater in, smaller upstate
towns.
The state labor commissioner, in
her last report, admitted that there
was a further fall in employment last
month-things are getting worse.
Activity.
The Unemployed Councils of New
York have some heavy activity ahead.
Feb. IA and Is there are tag days
to raise funds for the March on AL
bany.
Sunday, at IL a. m, there is a
meeting in Irving Plaza Hall of all
those taking part in the state hun
ger march. They will there organize
into groups of 25.
On Monday, there is a conference
in Irving Plaza Hall at 7:45 p M,
where all the delegates from the New
York jobless to Washington will be
present and report. This meeting is
the third session of the New York
Campaign Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, and all workers or
CARNATIONS have a right to send dele
gates.
Send Off Wednesday.
On Feb. Is there will be send-off
for the state marchers, at 8 p. m, at
New Star Casino. All the hunger
marchers will be there. There will
be speaking and the Workers Inter-
national Relief Band will play.
There viii be street meetings lead
ing up to the great Feb. 25 demon
stration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
Needle Trades Industrial Union
Wins Strikes In TqvO Dress Shops
Another Shop Goes On
General Strike In
Dress Trade Soon

NEW Notwithstanding proof of
the fear that bosses have for work
ers who are united and organized
was afforded yesterday when dress
makers in two shops won the de-
mands for which they had gone on
strike less than "a hours before.
In the Cohen and Rosen shop, 159
West 25th Street, dressmakers stag
ed spontaneous walkout at II a. m.
Thursday, when they heard that the
N.T.WIU. would soon issue a call
for general dressmakers strike. BY
4 p. m. the same day the dressmakers
had won the following demands: re-
cognition of the Needle Tradse Work
ers Industrial Union, reduction in
hours from so to 40 a week, and an
increase in wages for operators, pres
SerS, finiSherS and examiners.
In the G. and K. shop, 1853 West
10Th Street, the dressmakers walked
out at l p. m. under the leadership
of the N.T.WI.U. when a fellow
dressmaker was discharged because
she had left little earlier the day
before to go to a dance. Inasmuch
as the girl was employed on piece
work basis, and the boss paid her
only for work that she turned out,
and since, moreover, the girl had
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
Tom Mooney, In Prison Noev for IS
Years, Sends Militant Greetings to LID

NEW YORK.-Tom Mooney who
is now spending his fifteenth year
in prison on the most spectacular
frame-up charge in American labor
history, sends his greetings to the
International Labor Defense through
George Maurer, Pacific coast Or
ganizer, who has just visited Mooney
in San Quentin.
Mooney sent his greetings to all
the members of the LID. and its
affiliated organizations throughout
the world and stressed in militant
terms the necessity of arousing the
entire working class for the freeing
of all class war prisoners and the
bringing Of gigantic pressure" to
bear upon the ruling class as the
only method of achieving that aim.
just prior to his message of greet
ings to the LID. the organization
that is conducting militant cam
paign for his unconditional release,
Mooney issued pamphlet exposing
the corrupt leadership" of the
A. F. of L. who helped frame him
and keep him in prison for the past
fifteen years. In the words of the
pamphlet:
"The bureaucracy Of the A. II. Of
L. and its whole conservative
machinery are pillars Of Tho Amer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
THREAT OF COPS
AGAINST TENANT
L a n dlord Evicting
Jobless Negro

NEW YORK.-The function of the
police and courts as agents of the
landlord-bosses is further brought
out by a letter sent by the Albert
Paul Construction Corp. to Mr. Fair,
an unemployed Negro worker of 159
w. 133rd ST., threatening the use of
the police against him is he resisted
eviction or tried to organize the rest
Of the tenants in the house against
the bosses policy of not only throw
ing workers out of work to starve,
but throwing them on the streets to
freeze as well.
The letter, after demanding i'm
mediate payment of the rent, de-
clares that "a copy of this letter will
be sent to the police department"
and covertly threatens police burial
ity against this unemployed worker
unless he comes across with the rent.
The landlord is especially incensed
that this worker has tried to or
ganize the other tenants in the house
to fight the rent robbery of Negro
workers and resist the evictions of
the unemployed. The anger of the
landlord shows that the worker-ten-
ants are on the right track. Tenants!
Organize House Committees! Or
ganize Tenants Leagues! Resist
rent robbery! Resist evictions! Join
the struggle for unemployment in
surance! Fight against the bosses
hunger system!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
OLGIV TO SPEAK
AT FORUM, SUN

"Why Proletarian Literature 2"
will be the topic of a lecture given
by M. J. Olgin at this Sunday Forum
eb. 18th, 8 p. m. at the Workers
School Auditorium, 35 E. 18th st.
second floor. Since it is important
to have an proper estimation of the
role of proletarian literature in the
revolutionary movement, workers
should not miss this chance to get
correct orientation. AS usual, the
forum will be marked with lifely
questions and discussion.
Conrade Olgin will also continue
his lectures on the Bolshevic Revolu-
ton this Saturday, eb. 14th, 8 p. m.
at the School Auditorium. This will
be the third of series of six lee
lures on this vital subject. Since
the lectures are so arranged that
each one is complete by itself, work
ers will be benefited by any lecture
they attend. However, it would be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
WORKERS STRIKE
in UPHOLSTERY
Demand Definite Pay
Day from Boss

The workers in the Commercial
Upholstery Shop, 240 Newport Ave,
Brooklyn, have been working for a
number of weeks without getting
paid and on Feb. 7 they decided to
demand their wages from the boss.
The boss was clever enough to hake
the workers believe that by Wednes-
Gay, Feb. IL, he would pay them all
off, that is, whatever he owed them
as back wages.
When Wednesday came the boss
again tried the same trick and at
tempted to delay the pay day for
another week, which most likely
meant few more weeks. The work.
ers did not like this evasiveness on
the part of the boss and decided to
make final demand for their wages.
So militantly did the workers back
up their demand for pay that a
physical fight almost took place and
resulted in the firing of one man
who was one of the most militant.
The workers interpreted this action
of the boss as the start Of a cam
paign of firing of any onthers who
dared to fight for what was theirs.
Finally the workers decided to strike
in sympathy with the fired worker in
order to force the boss to take him
back.
The strike began Friday, Feb. 49,
and the workers held a meeting inn
mediately and selected a strike COM
mittee of three and decided TO hold
a strike meeting at the I, U. U. L.
headquarters the same afternoon
where the final vote will be taken
on the demands which are as fol-
lows. 1.-The worker who was fired
| for hsi militant action to be imnls-
diately taken back. 2-Definite dlN
be set for pay day. 3-No discr W.
| nation and no discharge OK 10Y
J strikers for being on strike, ..
= Nl.a, Art a. M 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
Speed the Red Shock Lists

Red Shock Troop lists are still slow
getting here. We took special
,caution in sending out self-ad-
,ssed and prepaid envelopes so that
little details Of mailing the lists
h the contributions would be
,ided. Monday is again approach
and that is the hardest day we
re.
'wo weeks ago at the beginning
the week we were not sure and,
fact, we had no hopes of getting
the paper. 1t was only through
nediately mobilization of the COM
es in New York City that the
ler came out. We are again facing
same situation unless the COM
es send in their Red Shock Troop
Immediately.
trikes are again breaking out in
coal fields under the leadership
new unions. The Needle Trades
kers are again mobilidng u New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14

York City, as the opening attack
against the bosses, the dress-makers
throughout the country. The work.
ers, employed and unemployed, are
carrying on combined fight.
Hunger, eviction, starvation facing
the unemployed workers; wage-cuts,
speed up is the lot of those workers
who are employed.
The Daily Worker modified for
these struggles. More Daily workers
are being printed now than ever
before. We are closely approaching
actually printing Of 10000. This
means new heavy burdens on the
press which must be met during this
critical period
Get your Red Shock Troop list out
of your pocket, circulate it around
the workers, mail in the money i'm
mediately to the Daily Worker.
80 East 1sth Street. New York City.