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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
GRACESPEAKSN
ALBANY MONDAY
Mass MEETING Is Called
fo-' Labor Defense

ALBANY, N. Y.-Jim Grace, one OF
the outstanding leaders Of the Ken
lucky miners and the man for whose
head the coal operators offered a
bride Of $4,000, will be the chief speak,
er at mass meeting TO be held here
Monday, october rs, at pm. In
Garments Hall, $50 Clinton Ave.
Grace, who faces charges Of Grim
inal syndicalsm for his activities in
the struggles Of the Harlan County
miners, will tell the story Of the Har-
Ian class war and show that the only
way to free the Harlan miners, Tom
Mooney, the Scottsboro boys and all
other militants now in capitalist jails,
is through the united efforts Of the
workers. The meeting here has been
arranged by the New York District
of the International Labor Defense,
under whose auspices Grace is now
making a speaking and organizational
tour of New York State and northern
New Jersey.
Tuesday, october 81, at 8 pm,
Grace will speak in Schenectady at
the Sons Of Italy Hall, 121 s. Ferry
st. On Thursday, october %, he will
talk in Johnstown, N. Y, at the Slo-
yak Home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
WILLIAMSBURG
ELECTION MEETS
Speake rs to Cover
Many Corners Sat.

Election street corner meetings will
be held in the 18th Assembly Dis
trict, Wilhamsburgh, Saturday. Oc-
tober "a, at 8 p. m. with Domenick
Flaiani, Communist Party candidate
for assemblyman from the 18th
Assembly District. Williamsburgh,
Saturday. october "a. at p. m. with
Domenick Flaiani, Communist Party
candidate for assemblyman from the
18th District.
Special autos will tour the COM
mittees and speakers to cover a good
number Of street corners.
Among the corners where meetings
will be held are: Grand and Leonard,
Grand and Graham, Metropolitan
and Manhattan, Montrose & Bush
wick and other streets.
In addition to F1aiani who will
speak at all these meetings other
speakers will include Fred vigrnan Of
the editorial staff Of the Daily Work
err, DeLewis and Palmeri Of the Sec
ton committee and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March?
DAILY EVENTS OF THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH


On Dec It'll there will national Hunger Washington
rayng
being made Every his this important
mobilization Daily this calendar
will Of 1900
delegates to Washington.
of activity Daily Worker
without delay The whole campaign must be unified Each district will
be held responsible It's territory
requires to the following questions:
l. Open public hearings unemployment The following cities
such hearings Chicago Pittsburgh Buffalo, Boston Phil
adhia Cleveland New York. Detroit San Francisco Seattle New
Haven Birmingham, Kansas City, St Paul. Charlotte, N C.
public hearings will
when will these meetings hed being organized
detailed
until the these meetings Daily Worker
will popularize these meetings But must have Information
City, MoThe City Council Unemployed Committee
day Jefferson
City Oct. "a What the result? Rush In a
4. City Oct
suppression of Unemployed Council meetings
MISUNDERSTANDING In Oakland
police battle Workers showing tremendous
interest enthusiasm and milancy.
Baltimore MdProest meeting at City Hail. Oct %
jail workers blocking eviction
Negro.
Avena Pa-Commitee Of Unemployed Council will
PRESENT relief to city government Oct. 20.
BuffaIoUnempIoyed Council demonstration at City
Gil immediate relief Oct rs at Public Hearings will be
49, place will later
Sacramento a struggle Unemployed
right Oak MunicipaD Auditorium for
meeting relief Oct. rs.
TO- New York-Thcre public hearing Manhattan
the Downtown Unemployed
Council md EastS side Council
Reading March to the City Hall takes place Wed
will put their demands to the
supported administration.
MoAn preparations for the Missouri State
which begins October a. Over $4,000 leaflets have been
distributed
ALL DISTRICTS! Send in your order for your
share of the million special fourpage Hunger March paper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
DEFENSE
CALLSPROTEST
ON TORTURES
10, 600 On Hun G er
Strike In All
Polish Jails

NEW YORK. - A conference to
mobilize international protest against
the mrderous torture of political
prisoners in the fascist countries and
the colonies will be held In this city
on November 81, at Manhattan Ly-
ceum, &c E. 4th ST., at 8 pm.
The conference is called by the In
ternational Labor Defense, which has
issued call to all workers organiza-
tons, trade unions, benefit societies
Negro societies, shop committees, etc
to elect at least two delegates to the
conference, If membership Is over
fifty, to send additional delegates
one for every rs members, or major
fraction thereof. All workers are
asked to take up this question in
their organizations and to secure
contributions from their organiza-
tions and shop mates. These con-
tributions will be sent to the poll
teal prisoners Of any country that
the workers may designate. The Call
declares, in part:
THE capitalist governments are
using white terror against the work.
ing-class fighters by arresting tens
and hundreds of thousands Of them,
torturing and numbering many thou
sands of these prisoners. Their fam
lilies are left without any help, In
starvation. Recently in the Polish
prisons, 10000 political prisoners car
ried on hunger strike for four days,
to protest against the brutal fascist
regime Of the Pilsudski government.
Similar white terror is taking place
in fascist Italy, Finland, Rumania,
/ China, Cuba, Philippines, and many
other capitalist, colonial and semi
colonial countries.
ut is the duty of the working
class throughout the world TO or
ganize strong united front strug-
gle against the bosses white terror
One of the most important tasks be-
fore us is to support the political
prisoners and their dependents in
foreign countries morally and eco
nonically."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
FUR WORKERS AND JOBLESS TO
MARCH IN MARKET ON SATURDAY

NEW YORK.-The second demon
stration OF employed and unemploy-
ed fur workers against work on Sat-
urday, against speed-up, piece-work,
and against the fascist McGrady-
Kaufman clique, has been arranged
by the fur department Of the Indus
trial Union, Saturday. October 24th,
at 7 O'Clock in the morning.
The Union calls on all fur workers
to report to the office and march
TO the fur market and end up with
an open air meeting at 2sth Street
and It'll Avenue, Saturday, at 10
o'clock.
Communist Party Election Ratifica-
tion
The election campaign committee
OF the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union which has actively par
ticipated in nobilizing the Needle
Trades Workers for the Communist
Party election campaign, is arrang-
ing a ratification meeting on Mon
day, right after work, at Webster
Hall, 1is East 18th Street. At this
election meeting, Ben Gold, J. Boru-
chowitz, and other leaders Of the In
dustrial Union, as well as the out
standing candidates Of the Commun-
list Party, I. Amter, VIM. z. Foster
will speak on the present election
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
WAGE CUTS AND
LAY OFFS RAGE
IN NEWARK, NJ.
Accidents Increase AS
Public Employees Face
Serious Wage Cuts

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. 32.-Two
hundred twenty laborers we're laid
off at the Picatinny Arsenal for an
indefinite time in Dover, N. J.
Western Union workers received q
10 per cent cut in wages at the same
time.
Alvin A. Jonus and Frank Many,
workers, lost their lives when they
plunged eight stories with their
broken scaffold from the Prudential
Bldg, Newark.
Wilbur Henderson, also a worker,
was killed in a conveyor belt in the
plant OF Morris County Sand &
Gravel Co. in Netcone.
Some $4,000 public employees are
threatened with wage cuts. A con-
ference was held and another one
called for October %, to prevent cut.
Police say they will strike if their
wages are cut.
The school teachers Of Newark arc
not included anlnog the public en-
ployees, but were present INDIVIDUALLY
at the conference.
Representatives Of the Newark
School Teachers Association say that
Newark's 1900 teachers lose their
second scheduled salary increases and
they fear that there may be re-
duction in their salaries.
A more efficient means has been
devised to make workers pay into the
Community Chest by weekly or
monthly installment plans. This
must be done because most OF the
workers have received wage cuts or
are working part time.
Unable to get sufficient money
from the rich to fill the charity re-
lief funds, the unemployed are faced
with more humiliation BY bcing called
upon to fill the Arnistice Day
Parade.
The Unemployed Council has Sc
cured headquarters at 80 Elm St,
Newark. 1t will begin Immediately
its task of organizing unemployed
block committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
E. SIDE ELECTION
MEETS TONIGHT

NEW YORK. there will
be two Workers Party Election mass
meetings and parades on the lower
East Side. A parade will start with
an open-air meeting at 7th st. and
Avenue A, from where 1t will wind
down through Avenue 3, going down.
town in militant anti-war process
sion. Workers gathered at various
open-air meetings will be rallied to
the march, which turning uptown
shall end at 10th st. and Second Ave
At the final mass meeting William
Weinstone, Lena Davis and other
prominent speakers will address the
workers.
Another election rally will be held
at Whitehall and South SITS. at $50
pm. Harry Cannes and Harry Ray
mond, members of the Daily Worker
staff, will speak on the Manchurian
War and the workers election. The
Workers Communist Party platform
will be put forward.
This meeting will also be an cleo
ton rally and demonstration for the
seamen and dock workers, who are
swelling the ranks of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23

odile tears over the tragedy. A dis
patch sent out by the United Press
admits:
Poverty and the futile hunt for
work, placed heavy burden on
the Ward family at ReeseviIle.
Every day Russell Ward, 40, a
tOolmaker, left the home and start
ed the rounds In search of work.
Every night Ward returned home
with the same old story--no Job,
no prospect of job"
The United Press story deliberately
hides the fact that this mother and
her four children were condemned To
death by capitalism.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 1s.-The three
small children Of Mrs. Alexander
Donohoe returned from school yester-
day to find their mother suicide
a victim of the capitalist starvation
program for the working class.
The father has been out of work
for three years, except for a few odd
Jobs Yesterday was the eighth BIRTH
day OF Raymond, one of the young
sters. 1t was to have been bleak
birthday. Mrs. Donohue' could nc
longer stand the anguish of seeing her
children denied everything and often
going to bed hungry. She had kept
the family on bare subsistence ra-
ton through wages earned cleaning
offices in a downtown office build
ing. But the wages we're pitifully
small-starvation wages.
She leaves three young children
Raymond, 8; Helen 10 and Mildrea
8. There is also an older girl, Fran
ces, II, who has been living away
from home, working with family for
her board alone.
SOUTH BEND, Oct. 19.-Five chill
dren were left fatherless and penni-
less tonight when John Skierkowski
36, of TIA S. Haley ST., died of poison
he drank at his home.
Out of work. Skierkowski drank the
poison in one room, while his starry
ing children were crying for food in
another.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
NAACP BLOCKS
MEET FOR 9 BOYS
Fear Exposure By
Scottsboro Mother

NEWARK, Oct. 90. - Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother OF two Of the Scots
boro boys, was refused permission to
speak at the Friendship Baptist
church last night when she declined
to permit the pastor of the church
to muszle her criticisms Of the MA
ACP leaders for their traitorous be-
trayal Of the nine boys.
Rev. R. D. Ponder, the pastor OF
the church, had previously given his
permission for Mrs. Wright'S appear
ance. In the meantime, however,
local leaders Of the NAACP, fearing
the exposure by this Scottsboro
mother Of the treacherous support
given the Alabama boss lynchers by
the NAACP, brought pressure to bear
on the pastor When Mrs. Wright
appeared at thu church, accompanied
by several speakers from the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, she
was advised that she would be per-
mitted to speak in the church only
on condition that she made no refer
ence to the NAACP. This condition
she at once rejected.
The pastor then tried to close the
meeting, but member of the LIS.
Mr.. took the floor and told the
workers what it was all about, and
how the pastor was attempting to
censor the speech Of the Scottsboro
mother In order to cover up the
traitorous activities Of the NAACP.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
5000 MASS AGAINST HEARST
PUBLICITY BREADLINE IN SO.

delegation was elected from the Of
flee on Columbus Circle and told
that the unemployed ought to be
thankful for what they were getting.
Back on Union Square the crowd
grew so rapidly that the riot squad
was called out. But the militancy Of
the workers forced the police to re-
frain from attacking anyone. After
the report of the delegation was de-
liyered to the demonstrators, a vote
to support the Communist Party in
the election campaign was carried.
The demands Of the Unemployed
Council include the following:
y We demand at least substan-
tial hot meals every day for the I'M
employtd.
q We refuse to eat in the streets
like dogs. We demand a warm, clean
messroom or lunch hall for the I'M
employed to eat in.
- Stop discrimination. AL unem-
ploytd workers to receive food with
out any special cards or registration.
A. No discrimination for Negroes,
foreign born and young workers.
s. We demand sanitary and warm
sleeping quarters for the unemployed
and homeless workers. Open up tht
public building, such as armories,
empty buildings, ETC., for the unem-
ployed.
81 Lynch rooms and feeding Of the
unemployed to be administered by a
commission OF worktrs elected from
a. Trade Unions, b. Fraternal
workers organizations. c. And a
committee of workers elected by the
unemployed workers from the Un-
employed Councils of greater Ntw
York.
We demand that Mr.. Hearst stop
Immediately the cheap publicity
campaign, using the misery OF the
unemployed as a publicity campaign
and grant the demands of tht IN
employed workers. We demand that
Hearst through his newspapers make
our demand known for "AlI War
Funds for the Use Of the Unem-
ployed,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
RED RALLY TO
EXPOSESEABURY

NEW YORK.-The latest election
schedule now involves Colonel Ed
ward c. Darlington, Republican cam
didate for President Of Manhattan
with George w. Olvany. formerly
boss of Tammany Hall, in graft
deal in connection with the city
piers. So sure is Darlington Of a
Tammany whitewash that he made
the opportunity as an election cam
paign maneuver to testify before the
Seabury -Hofstadter Committee. An
election campaign rally Of the Com
mlnist Party which will be held next
Thursday evening. october 20, will
deal with the fake investigation Of
this committee and expose the rot
tenness of the Republican, Democrat
ic and socialist" political machine
which is staging this fake investiga-
ton in an attempt 10 further fool the
workers.
On Election Day there will be =
special leaflet issued by the Com
munist Party telling the workers why
they should repudiate the racketeer-
ing and gangster parties of the boss
class and vote Communist this year.
Preparo Ions are now being made
to instruct the workers how to use
the voting machine on Election Day
in order to cast their vote for the
only revolutionary party of the work
ing class, the Communist Party.
The workers must Immediately vol
unteer TO act as Red Watchers at the
polls and to go out this Saturday and
Sunday from house to house among
the workers as well as in the shops
and factories to mobilize the working
"'-~s 70 support the Communist
Party In the election struggle which
; on harder than ever after No
yember 3, fighting for the interests
of the working class against the boss
class.
Everybody out on the streets this
Saturday and Sunday and from house
TO house to sell the Communist Party
Election Platform, 10 recruit Red
Watchers for election day, and to get
the working class of New York To
register a tremendous vote for the
Communist Party on November 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
SONG OF LIFE" CONTINUES AT
CAMEO

THE Song of Life" t"Das Lied
vona Leben"). hailed by European
critics as the first motion picture to
pioneer into a new talkie technique
continues for a second week its first
American showing at the Cameo The
atre. Alexis Granowsky, formerly
head Of the Kameray Theatre, Mos
COW, directed this film. The Cesartan
operation scenes which caused the
Berlin censors to forbid the film were
not cut by the New York censorship
authorities. Aribert Mog and Margot
Ferra play the leading roles In THE
Song OF Life"
On the same program the Cameo
offers S. M. Eistenstein's first sound
film effort, "A Sentimental Ro-
nance" Eisenstein Is the young So
Wet director, now In Mexico making
q film, responsible for 'Potemkin.' -
Ten Days that Shook the World"
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
SOCIALIST FAkER
HAS TO RETREAT
y n emrloved Workers
Won't Hear Karin

The yellow Socialist nominee for
e+o+e senator, william Karlin, and a
few Of his helpers came to give out
their hooey to the unemployed work.
ers of the Down Town Unemployed
Branch and tried to hold an open air
meeting on It'll st. and Ave. A. The
workers refused to listen to the So
c:alist takers and demanded that
they get off the platform. The so
cialist answered by calling the police.
This enraged the workers and they
tore the socialist banner. turning
over the platform and chasing off
the speaker. The police arrived just
in time to protect Karlin from the
workers ire.
Despite the police protection Karlin
didn't dare to open the meeting
again. The socialist left, followed by
boots and jeers of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
Long Island Movie
Show to Raise Aid
For Miners Families

NEW YORK.-1n order to help the
Workers International Relief, 100
Broadway, raise the funds required
to pay for the freight charges on
is freight cars loaded with potatoes
contributed by farmers in spirit of
solidarity with the striking miners,
the Long Island Workers Club, Ill
4th ST., Long Island City, is present.
ing the Soviet movie, "Old and New"
at its clubhouse on October "a.
The W.I.R. urges workers to sup
port this affair for the benefit Of
the striking and blacklisting miners,
and to rush food and funds to the
W.IR.
Don't let these potatoes rot on a
railroad siding while thousands Of
miners starye!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
What's On

FRIDAY
Bronx Park Youth Club
VIII hold an important meeting
and entertainment in the Gymnasium
of the Workers Cooperative, 200
Bronx Park East. All workers in
vited.
Rehearsal for November 7th Pageant
Will be held at the Workers Cen
ter, % e. 18th St, at $3.50 pm. All
workers invited to participate.
Friends Of the Soviet Union Invite.
workers of Harlem TO see the latest
pictures OF the Five-Year Plan to-
morrow night at the Finnish Labor
Temple, Is w. 126th st.
lid, Bill Haywood mr..
Comrade Taub will lecture on
workers Defense IN Court" at $40
Neptune Avenue, Brighton Beach
Brooklyn, at $3.50 pm.
TWO Youth Committee
All youth branches are called upon
to be present at the opening Of the
Plenum at the Central Opera House.
67th Sc. and srd Ave, at 8 p. M
Everybody will march In.
NEW JERSEY
Election Campaign Dance
Given by Unit 3, Communist Party
Saturday October ~. at Hungarian
Workers Home, 37--16th Ave. Ad
mission 35c.
Elizabeth
Election Campaign Dance given by
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
of Elisabeth, N. J. at Workers Cen
ter. los z. Jersey st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
METAL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL
LEAGUE

A very special membership meet
ing Of the League is being held Fri
day, october %, at 8 pm. at S East
18th Street Second floor. At this
meeting the Executive Board will re-
port the result of the enlarged Ex-
ecutive Board meeting held this week
at which a thorough analysis of the
situation in the league and the pos
sibilities for an organizational drive
A plan Of work for the fall and win
ter will discuss and will be presented
to the membership meeting on Fri
day by the board.
Zach member, and every Metal
Worker in the City who is concerned
about the serious conditions on the
Job should attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
MEDICALGROUPTO
HELP MARCHERS
Plan for Washington
Drive, Dec. 7th

NEW YORK. part of its work Of
aiding the American working class in
its fight for unemployment insurance
and immediate winter relief, the N.
Y. Medical Corps of the Workers In
ternationa1 Relief, 7s9 Broadway, has
met TO draw up plans for the Corps
participation In the National Hunger
March.
As q step in this direction, the
Medical Corps has arranged to visit
sympathetic doctors to secure the
necessary first aid supplies. The
Corps also urges all workers who find
10 possible, to collect medical supplies
and forward them to the Workers
International Relief, which will dis
tribute them to the various W. I. r.
First Aid branches.
The Medical Corps also voted to
call upon the Medical League of the
Trade Union Unity League to CO.
operate with the wIR Medical Corps
in the gathering of first aid supplies.
In order to coordinate the activity
Of the various w. I. r. medical corps,
the N. 2. Medical Corps plans to or
ganize a committee of doctors and
nurses to draw up general directives
amount and kind of medical sup
plies needed, etc.
An outline of the duties Of the W.
+. r. Medical Corps viii be forwarded
to them by the Medical Corps of New
York. In those cities along the lines
Of march where no medical corps
have been established, directives will
be sent for the building Of such CORPS
In addition the Medical Corps will
send out a call to workers in the
large industrial centers along the
lines Of march, urging that doctors
be obtained who will be prepared to
treat any marchers who may need
attention as they march through the
cities.
The Workers International Relief
joins its Medical Corps in calling
upon workers throughout the country
to aid in carrying out the plans fol
making a complete success of the
historic National Hunger March tc
Washington. And in calling upon the
workers to push through this Ma
tional Hunger March, the w I. r
brings forward the reminder that the
campaign for food and funds for the
striking miners and textile workers
of these strikers are starving anc
must still be carried on. Thousands
many thousands more are on the
verge Of starvation. The Workers
International Relief is the only or
ganization that supplies relief te
these heroic workers Don't let them
starve! Help these strikers carry ont
their struggle for improved condition:
and help National Hunger March
force the bosses to supply unemploy.
ment insurance and immediate relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-23
WILLIAM POWELL IN ROAD TO
SINGAPORE" AT HIPPODROME

The Hippodrorne's screen program
beginning Saturday will be THE
Road to Singapore" with William
Powell. The chief vaudeville acts IN
clude: Lew Pollack with his company,
Mel Klee, the blackface comic; and
Billy Lytell and Tom FAINT. In add
ton the show boasts Of "TelepaH-
sion," new novelty; Joe Wong, with
Miss Ft,rni: Joseph and Roxy La
Rocca: Ed Ford and the Six Amer
lean Belfords. THE Road to Singa-
pore" cast includes. Doris Kenyon,
Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern. Alison
Skipworth and Lumsden Harr.