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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Metal Workers League
Meeting Fri, Nov. 13

The regular membership meeting
Of the Metal Workers Industrial
League will be held Friday, Novem-
Der 18th, p. m. at East 10Th ST
AT this meeting the most import
ant items of business on the agenda
will be:
The final preparation for the mass
meeting of unemployed; part-time
and employed metal workers, being
held during the following week.
Our participation in the Washing
ton hunger march conference and the
march to Washington.
Every member must attend this
meeting on Friday night and bring
with you metal workers from the shop
and from among the unemployed
metal workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
HILLMAN CLIQUE
ORDERED TWELVE
TAILORS FIRED
Deprived Family Men
of Livelihood With No
Trial, Warning

NEW YORK.-Acting with terror
ist vindictiviness the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers bureaucrats yester-
day caused the discharge Of twelve
Italian tailors Of the Barbano Shop
at 1875 Blocker Street because they
were suspected of being in sympathy
with left wing policies.
AL workers are family men, and
their discharge came suddenly, with
out warning, trial or charges lodged
against them.
No reason was given for taking
them off the job A report was car
ried to the Hillman gang however
earlier in the week that one of the
workers had said that both the A.C.
w officialdom and the defunc Inter
national Clothing Workers Union
(the Orlofsky racket organization)
were both racketeer bodies and did
not represent the workers in the
shops. No definite proof of any
statement however, was brought
against the twelve family heads now
condemned to starvation together
with their families
Work of Impartial Chairman
Workers of the Weintraub e. Fox
shop on lower Broadway learned that
the impartial chairman Of the in
dustry was decidedly in favor of the
boss when he ordered that the boss
need but pay one weeks wages to the
worker that he owed two weeks pay.
Angered, the workers organized re-
sistance in the shop, refusing to per-
nit the work to go out until they
receive their full wages.
When two right wing members OF
the trade board of the coat depart
ment, A.C.W., fell out, one of them,
Louis Goldstein slashed the other,
Glickman, about the forehead at a
meeting yesterday. At first ordered
arrested, Goldstein was taken out by
Glickman and Phillip Weiner, a bus
mess agent. There was no trouble in
getting Goldstein out as the captain
explained I'VE don't butt in on the
Amalgamated affairs"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Auto Production Says
to New Low Figure

Automobile production has sagged
to new low figure of 14.6. Last
week the figure was 1876 and last year
the figure was 53.6 This means that
in one year of the crisis. from 1880
to 1881, production has fallen about
20 per cent. In two years of the
is, from 1929 when the figure was
100 until the present time production
has fallen by about Sc per cent, and
still continues to fall.
OF the eleven plants completely
shut down, only one has resumed OPP
Grafton, states the Grams Automotive
Reports, but the total number Of
automobiles produced was again
lower than the previous week" In
the lower priced field" continues the
report, further reductions of output
were the rule, and the second largest
in this field remained closed SO far
as assembly operations were con-
cerned. In the medium priced field.
also, output generally declined, al
though the level of operations was
already so low that decreases in the
aggregate were small numerically"
The auto industry is one of the
countrys key industries. The auto
figures, therefore, give the lie to the
claims of economic recovery peddled
by the capitalist press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Council Gets Action
on Needy Case
Mass Pressure Forces
Charity to Act

- (By A Worker Correspondent
Mrs. Rosdeick, $50 East 3rd Street
came to the Downtown Unemployed
Council last Friday asking them to
help her get relief. Her husband has
been unemployed for a long time
they were completely destitute and
starving. She told of going to the
Jewish Social Service, 319 East Bird
Street two weeks ago for help and
they informed her that they would
investigate, Days passed, but no in
vestigation followed and meanwhile
her family was hungry She went
to this same charity organization
again, and the same business fol-
lowed, as in all cases, promise of in
vestigation and nothing done.
Finally she came to the council.
The worker of the council Immediate
ly modified and sent a committee
with Mrs. Rosdeick to the charity Or
ganization and demanded they give
immediate relief and not promises. AS
result, an Investigator was sent
out at once, the committee went with
the investigator. When the investi-
gator saw all the workers in front of
Mrs. Rosedeick's house she immedi-
ately gave her $500 and promised
more saying Il don't want no trouble,
/ don't want no trouble" Mrs Ros-
deick's husband was also promised a
job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
F S u Backs Nov. Fl
Demonstrations for
Defense of USSR

The Friends of the Soviet Union
will participate in the demonstrations
arranged for November 81 thruout
the country for the defense of the
Soviet Union and the Chinese masses
against the war moves of the i'm
perialists in Manchuria.
The F.S.U. calls upon all its mem
bers and sympathiers to join in the
demonstrations and to do active work
to bring to these demonstrations tens
of thousands of workers.
The war preparations are moving
fast. 1t is. evident that imperialist
America is using the present stu
alton to push forward its plan to
smash the Soviet Union.
On the Far Eastern border jap
anese troops, are permitted to &C.
cupy strategic points close to the
Soviet borders. White guard soldiers
are endeavoring to provoke an at
tack on the Soviet Unto min order
to embroil the Soviet Union in the
present war Anmunitions are be-
ing shipped to Japan.
The imperialist countries, headed
by imperialist America, are now iib
the most serious crisis they have ever
seen. They cannot find way out
and so each imperialist country is
trying to get the market of Man
churia, China and the Soviet Union,
and stand ready to carry on their
war of invasion in order to provide
their capitalist class with profits.
The workers and friends of the
Soviet Union in the United States
must not permit these war prepas.
ations to go on. We must denlsrss
strate on Nov. 81. We must mike
this demonstration a mighty dem. nd
that:
American workers want hands sfs
the Soviet Union"
The withdrawal of all n,ilitTy
forces from the Far East and China.
Immediate publication Of all s9c-
ret treaties the United States has
gone into with France, England, Pc
land, Rumsnia, Japan, etc.
That all loans for ammuniti0ns to
Poland, Japan and other imperialist
countries be stopred.
Stop all shipments OF ammunitions,
chemical explosives, etc.
Demonstrate November Fl. Hands
off the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
DRESSMAKERS IN
CONFERENCE CALL
Unity In Shops Is Main
Slogan

NEW YORK.-Urging all dressmak-
ers to elect delegates from the shops,
the United Front Committee of
Dressmakers, in a leaflet issued yes
terday, called a shop delegate confer
ence for Saturday, November %. 1881,
at u noon at Webster Hall, 119 E.
18th st.
Telling of the purpose of the con-
ference and the need for unity among
the dressmakers upon the expiration
of the agreement with the manufac-
turers the leaflet says in part:
The slogan for unity must be
taken up in every individual shop.
The purpose of the Shop Confer
ence which is called for Saturday,
November 20, is to consolidate the
United Front of the dressmakers
so as to make sure that the coming
strike will be genuine strike for
ursion conditions, led by and for
the dressmakers.
The United Front Committee of
Dressmakers stressed the imperative
need for a solid united front of all
workers in the shops on 'the basis of
a clear cut struggle against wage re-
auctions and sweat shop conditions.
The committee pointed out that the
officials of the IL.G.W.U. were op-
posed to the united front policy and
that the workers would have to effect
unity over the heads Of the company
union officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Add New Victims
to Hunger Death
Toll Turnout Land

II can't get a job" Sam Harris of
Hutchinson, Kansas told reporters.
Il have nothing I can mortgage, no
one will lend me money unless 1 put
up security. My boys, that one is
Daniel and this is Delfert are the
only things I have" So Harris des-
perate from long unemployment and
in need Of an immediate operation
on his nose offered to pawn his two
children for 5000. Later on when
get work I'll redeem them, he said.
BROOKLYN, N. Y. - Daniel DON
nelly, 20, killed himself because he
got up too late for work. After
months of job-hunting he finally got
a job as a steam shovel operator, the
day he was to start work he over
slept. He knew how brutally strict
the bosses are on lateness especially
during the crisis and felt before even
going to work the job was lost, and
all the months of painful searching
wiped out. Rather than face the
same heartbreaking grind of looking
for another job he shot himself.
PERORIA, III. - Sick, without
Job, unable TO get relief Edward Fl.
Paris put gas hose in his mouth
and committed suicide
ROCK ISLAND. III. -- Mrs. Bessie
WEIGH, age 50. killed herself, She
was a widow and had fourteen year
old child to support, but could get
no job
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
KLEIBER'S LAST WEEK WITH
PHILHARMONIC

Next week marks the last OF Erich
Kleibers direction of the Philhar-
monte Orchestra this season. This
Sunday afternoon at Carnegie he Of
fers the Overture to Handels "Es-
ther," the Love Scene and Fete of
Capulet from Berlioz' Romeo and
Juliet" and Beethovens "Eroica"
Symphony. q
His final program is scheduled for
Wednesday evening, Friday after
noon and Saturday evening at Car
negie Hall, and next Sunday after
noon at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music. 1t includes the Overture to
Schubert's 'fRosamunde," two sere-
nades from Mahler's Seventh SYM
pl,ony, German Dances Of Beethoven,
Sinfonic Concertante for ViDlin,
Cello, Oboe, Bassoon, and Orchestra
of Haydn, and the Blue Danube"
Waltz Of Johan Strauss.
The advanced series Of the Phil
harmonic concerts for Young People
opens next Saturday morning at
Carnegie Hall under the direction of
Ernest Schelling. The first concert
devotes itself to the Overture, and
uses as illustrations the overtures to
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro" Bee
thovens "Fidelio," Mendelssohn's
Midsummer Nights Dream" Schu-
bert's "Rosamunde," Wagner Tam
hauser,' and the 1872" Overture of
Tchaikovsky.
The first opera of the season of
the New York Opera Comique, Lort-
zing's THE Poacher," will be present.
ed at the Hackscher Theatre, Fifth
Avenue and 104th Street, on Monday
evening, under the direction of Ernest
Knoch. William Hahn and Patricia
O'Connell will sing the leading roles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
THEATRE GUILD TO PRESENT
SHERWOOD PLAY AT MARTIN
PT(tE

The Theatre Guild will open its
fourth production of the season,
Reunion in Vienna a comedy by
Robert E. Sherwood, which has Al
fred Lllnt and Lynn Fontanpe in the
cast, at the Martin Beck Theatre on
Monday. On the same evening, the
Group Theatre production Of Paul
Green's 1.-THE House of Connolly"
which has been playing at the Mar
tin Beck will move to the Mansfield
Theatre.
Elmer Harris. author of Marriage
for Three now tthe Bijou Theatre,
has completed Poor Mems Daught-
ers,' new play which will be prod
uced by the Shuberts later this sea-
son.
Lambert Carroll, author of the lib
retto of "Everybody's Welcome" at
the Shubert Theatre, joins the cast
of the musical comedy tonight re-
placing Lewis Marchand.
Wesley Ruggles, the director Of
"Cimarroa, directed the Radio Pic
ture Are These Our Children which
opens at the Mayfair Theatre tomor-
row, Eric Linden, Airline Judge, Ben
Alexander and Mary Kornman head
the cast.
The Cameo Theatre beginning to-
day will present Heroes ALL" series
of pictures of every front during the
World War. These pictures are COM
piled from authentic sources.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Big PrOletarian
Program This Sat. at.
Cultural Center

NEW YORK.-The official opening
of the Cultural Center, So w. 18th ST.,
which is now the home of the Work
erS' Cultural Federation, the New
Masses, the John Reed Club, the John
Reed Club Art School and the John
Reed Club Gallery, will be marked
by a housewarnning that will take
place on Saturday, November IA. The
Cultural Center will be open all day
from am. until after midnight.
The housewarming will be featured
by an exhibition of proletarian paint
ings by John Reed Club artists.
In the evening the program will in
clude dancing, entertainment and a
few three-minute speeches by we'll
known writer's and artists.
Workers and sympathetic intellec-
tuals are cordially invited to the
which marks the
opening Of the first Cultural Center
of its kind in the United States.
The entire three-story building will
be open to all visitors throughout the
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
NAT TURNER MEET
HARLEM SUNDAY
Honor Revolutionary
Negro Leader

NEW YORK. - Negro and white
workers will celebrate this Sunday,
November Is, the Tooth anniversary
of the heroic revolt of Negroes lead
by the great revolutionary Negro
leader, Nat Turner, with mass
meeting at Lafayette Hall, 165 West
131st Street. Speakers at this meet
ing will include Jim Allen, former
editor of the Southern Worker;
Charles Alexander, of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights; Henry F.
Cabot, organizer of the Section A
of the Communist Party.
There will be an entertainment
program featuring the Staten Island
Workers Chorus of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights
Nat Turner's revolt against the
Southern white ruling class was one
of the 30 recorded instructions of
the Negro masses against their OPP
pressors. Nat Turner was legally
murdered by the slave owners gov
eminent on Nov IL, 1881. The bosses
tried to crush the resistance Of the
Negro masses with terrific reign OF
terror. but this did not prevent other
revolts. Today, the bosses are using
the same terror against the Negro
masses in order to crush their rising
resistance against the Hoover Hun
ger Program, national oppression
and lynching. Especially are the
bosses alarmed at the growing unity
of white and Negro workers as, un-
der the leadership of the revolution
airy organizations, the workers are
smashing the boss erected barriers
between them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
123 WORKERS OF
CHICAGO TO BE
TRIED ON NOV. 10
All Were Arrested In
Fighting Hunger

CHICAGO, Ill.-Capitalist jus
tice" is once more reaching out to
seize workers for its yawning jails.
On Nov. 16 workers numbering 123
are being dragged into the municipal
court of Chicago-because they dared
oppose the hunger program Of the
bosses.
Seven of these workers we're mem
bers OF the demonstrating group that
on Aug. 3 stood their ground under
the blast of police revolvers that
killed three of them, when they re-
fused to allow destitute Negro fam
lily to be thrown into the streets be-
cause the rent wasn't paid
Three were killed and some twenty
more arrested. Seven of those now
face "jusCice" in the capitalist court
Twenty-eight workers were seized
during a demonstration before the
Polish consulate in Chicago when they
protested against the imprisonment
and torture OF militant workers in
Poland.
The bulk of the workers facing Jail
on Nov. 16 were arrested at eviction
demonstrations and demonstrations
before charities. Some we're arrested
for distribution of leaflets.
The workers are being defended by
the International Labor Defense and
separate jury trial has been asked
for each one. The cases will be tried
in Judge Fardy's court at 18th and
State SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
MIDTOWN PUBLIC
HEARING MONDAY
To Expose Misery In
Midtown Section

A public hearing to expose the mis-
cradle conditions of the workers in
New York which is being covered by
the lies of politicianssand bosses and
to7show up the lies about adequate
relief given to all the needy" is being
held by the Midtown Unemployed
Branch together with the unemployed
councils Of greater New York, Novem-
Der l6, at Church Auditorium, 1874 w.
Seth ST., 7:30 pm.
Workers are invited to come and
testify about their experiences at en-
pigment agencies, flop houses, char
ity organization, with evictions, and
all other forms of misery that work
ers subjected to. This hearing like
other hearings being held throughout
the country, will serve as a trial of
the capitalist system and its meth
DDS OF relief Letters have been sent
out to the officials Of the government,
charities, etc, to defend themselves
81 they can against the accusations
shat will be made at the hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
To Open Workers
School in the Bronx

NEW YORK.-The Bronx Section
of the Communist Party is opening a
Workers School at 500 Prospect Ave-
nue.. Courses already arranged in
clude elementary English, intermedi-
ate English, fundamentals Of Commu-
nisn, history of the American Labor
Movement, and public speaking.
Information regarding the date of
opening. hours Of the classes, fees,
etc, can be obtained any evening at
500 Prospect Ave, between 7:30 and
$50 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Brooklyn Laundry
Workers to Meet
Urge Fight Against
More Wage Cuts

The organization committee of
laundry workers of Brooklyn,
branch of the Laundry Workers
Workers Union, yesterday issued
call for meeting at the Workers
Center, Pitkin Ave, near Christopher
ST., Friday, November 10. at p. m.
The committee called for a strugg-
lie against the hc1~aval CT the AF'Tl
ccal 80, laundry drivers and against
the recent racket union of the bosses
under the name of the Equity Laun-
dry League. The need to take up a
determined stand against wage cuts
in the industry was also pointed out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
WELFARE HEADS
EAT UP MOST OF
FUND COLLECTED
Phila. Probe Last Year
Proves This But
Bosses Keep It Up
BY LESLIE COPELAND

PHILADELPHIA a.-Today start
ed the drive for 100000 in Phila-
delphia, part of the national drive
of the Clifford Committee to raise
funds for the unemployed in Phila-
delphia. Two withered, emaciated
hands held up imploringly is the pos
ter design. Bankers, executives, poll
ticians and the various charity rack
eteers are making appeals through
the medium of the press, radio and
posters appealing to the workers of
Philadelphia to support the unem-
ployed.
1t would be well if the workers Of
Philadelphia were to look into this
and see who are the beneficiaries,
the unemployed or the politicians and
charity racketeers. The head of the
Bureau of Unemployment Relief, bet
ter known as the Lloyd Committee,
is Horatio G. Lloyd, president Of
DrexeI and Co., member Of the House
of Morgan. This gentleman who,
when questioned on the floor of the
City Council during the so-called in
vestigation of the Helms Committee
for the Relief of the Unemployed and
the Poor, it was discovered that ,65c
out of every dollar went to Overhead
and commissions" admitted that he
knew very little of what was going
on, and what statistics he did fur
nish were incorrect.
Get Fat Salaries
Kingsley, of the Welfare Federation
under cross examination admiC-
ted that he was receiving $4,000
a year and that his assistant was
receiving $4,000 a year. Karl de
Schweinitz who was $40 week
reporter on the late North American
is now receiving $4,000 a year as
SacretarJ of the Community Council,
Billikoff of the Federation of Jewish
Charities admitted that his rake-off
was in the neighborhood Of $4,000
a year
AAlS WbtE ONGl O,upu WO4h AC-
ceiyed slip telling them-further
relief will not be forthcoming for
some time, you will have to get along
on your own resources ca YOU MUST
NOT COME TO THIS OFFICE. IF
YOU DO, YOU MAY BE Refused
ANY HELP IN THE FUTURE!
The salaries of these vultures and
the other personeI is Is per cent of
the entire money collected. The cost
of running the headquarters and the
seven branch offices is $4,000 per
month-a mere trifle of over $1,000
each working day. LET US HAVE A
LOOK AT THE SO-CALLED AID
ILLUSTRATORS OF RELIEF,
One chief accountant, two assistant
accountants, four supervisors, one as
sistant supervisor, 1893 visitors dnves-
tigators), II interviewers, five office
managers, Is Stenographers, 40 Of
flee assistants, one case adjuster, five
messengers, one statistician, one as
sistant statstician, four telephone op-
orators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Two Unemployed
Commit Suicide

EVANSVILLE, Ill.-Victor Meyer,
aged % and Charles Mooney both
working for Servel, Inc, we're laid off.
They could get no other job, nor any
relief, they had no funds to carry
on with. the bosses Of Servel, Inc,
we're not interested in them any
longer. Giving up the struggle they
took poison and died
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Michigan Worker
Halls Lawrence
Textile Strike

st, Joseph, Mich.
Daily Worker:
am delighted to learn through the
Daily Worker, the best paper that I
have ever read, that there are some
real red blooded men and women in
the textile industry in Lawrence,
Mass. 1 wish them great success.
A Communist to me is a person
with good common sense. A Red is
a person with real red blood in his
veins, instead Of streak of yellow
down his back.
At the next election there will be
ballots cast for the Communist Party
from my household.
My grandfather fought to help free
the slaves. We workers must fight to
free ourselves and families from the
slavery of capitalism. E. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Biggest Cincinnati Meeting

CINCINNATI, o. -- Two hundred
workers, by far the largest Noyem-
Der meeting here, filled the work.
ers center on the occasion of the cele-
bration of the i4th anniversary of
the Russian Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12

RACINE, Wis. "A resolution scor-
ing the Hoover-Laval secret treaties
was adopted at the November meet
ing here. S. Peterson for the I'm
employed Councils, E. Petersen for
the Young Communist League, and
Fred Basset for the Communist Par
ty were the speakers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
THOUSANDS OF COLLEGE MEN
ARE UNABLE TO GET JOBS

Last month 5000 college men from
different parts of the country regis
tered at the Sloan House of the YIN
CA. Already reports the YMCA
that ATS per cent have returned
home. They came to New York
backed by their college training and
boasting of diplomas but found that
the capitalist crisis is not particular
whom it strikes. Ditch digger, steel
worker, engineer, college-bred prof
fesional all alike face starvation I'M
der capitalism when capitalism can
no longer exploit them for profit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12
Rockford Meeting For Soviet Defense

ROCKFORD, III. - Workers at a
meeting celebrating the 14th anniver-
sary of the proletarian revolution
held here at the Vega Hall adopted
a resolution pledging defense of the
Soviet Union against imperialist at
tack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12

Workers Correspondence Is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for 1t.
about your day-to-day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-12

Build a workers correspondence
group In your factory, shop or
neigbborhood. Send regular letters
to the Daily Worker.