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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
SENT TO VACANT
LOT FOR A JOB
Tammany Agency Is a
Gyp Place

NEW YORK.-Anothe typical case
OF the low fraud practiced upon job
less workers by the Tammany free
job bureau was told the Daily
Worker yesterday by a food worker
The worker has long haunted the
Lafayette st. agency in desperate
search of work. Today, when the
call for dish washer was sent out
he pushed up in front and was picked
for the job.
The lunchroom at the address
given4 585 Coney Island Ave, South
Brooklyn, proved to be a vacant lot.
Spending the second nickel that
day the worker returned to the city
agency and complained of being sent
to an empty lot.
The Tammany clerk tried to pooh
pooh the workers protestations, but
seeing that he demanded an explana-
ton, threatened him: "I'll have cop
throw you out"
The worker told the Daily Worker
that such occurrences are very fire.
quent and the Tammany bureau is
more of gyp agency than the regu-
lar fraud employment agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
VAUDEVILLE THEATRES

Dist STREET-Saturday to Tues
daY: Dora Vaughn, Charles Withers,
Enrica Theodore and Novello, Nor
ran and Stone. On the screen: "Beau
Ideal Wednesday to Friday: Joe and
Fete Michon. Aunt Jernina, George
Taps and Dance Mannequins, Sid
ney Page, with Marie and Peggy
Earle and Ell Cleve. On the screen:
Leon Tolstoy's Resurrection"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES: Noble
Sissle and Ambassadors Orchestra,
Guadsmith Brothers, Walter Walters
and company; Hal Sherman. with
Dorothy Ryan, Wan Wan San Chi
nese Ensemble, ee Starr, Barsoni and
Kharum and Fields and Bell. Screen:
"Little Caesar" with Edward G. Rob-
inson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
BOTH STREET-Saturday to Tues
day: Kitty Doner, Ray and Harrison,
Pop Cameron. with Gang, Leon Ma
vara. Screen: "Beau Ideal" We'd
nesday to Friday: Georges Carpen-
tier, Piletto, Earl Faber and others.
Screen: Resurrection"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
DEMONSTRATE TODAY IN NEW
YORK AGAINST STARVATION
6coNr1NuEp FROM PAGE ONE,

walton and for immediate substantial
relief set for Feb. Is as the day of
international struggle against unem-
ployment.
Demonstrate in support Of the rep
resentatives of 100000 unemployed
in Washington. Force the capitalist
congress to vote immediate relief and
to pass the Unemployment Insurance
Bill,
The unemployed councils and
unions in every section of the city
are giving warning to the capitalist
government that they will not starye
in silence. Employed and unem-
ployed together will tell the capitalist
politicians and BASES government
that they have lost patience with
their talk about fake investigations,
and grating charity. The burden of
unemployment will not be placed
upon the shoulders of the employed
workers.
Immediate, adequate relief and I'M
employment insurance will be the cry
of tens of thousands at Union Square
at noon today.
Join the fight against hunger!
Out on Union Square!
Many Speakers.
There Will be six speaking stands
at Union Square today.
Many organizations, unions, the
Councils of the Unemployed, the
Communist Party, will have speakers.
Among them will be J. Louis Engdahl,
representing the International Labor
Defense. Engdahl is just out on bail,
waiting trial in Canada for speaking
against the terror there. Irving Pot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10

Brooklyn, Bronx and Harlem are get
ting ready to strike.
THE thousands of organized work
erS of greater New York are coming
to your aid. Hundreds OF labor and
fraternal organizations held a mighty
city-wide conference a week ago Sat
urday where they gave moral and
financial support to the coming strike
and pledged more.
Strike Demands.
"The General Executive Board of
the Union decided to make victory
in the coming strike more certain by
demanding, now:
1.-The recognition Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
the union that fights for your in
terests.
"2.-The 40-hour 5-day week.
"3.-Guaranteed minimum wages
For operators. $44; for pressers, $50;
cutters, $50; finishers and examiners,
$28; diapers, $32; floor girls, $40.
A 20 per cent immediate in
crease in wages for all underpaid
workers in the suburbs and regulated
increase up to the minimum scales.
"5.-The right to the job and
against discharges.
"6.-The abolition of discrimination
against all Negro dressmakers, and
for the right of Negroes to work in
every shop and every craft on the
basis Of equal pay for equal work.
"7.-Unemployed insurance.
"DresSmakers awaken! You have
suffered enough insults, slavery and
wage cuts. You are now at the mercy
of your boss. He can cut your prices
whenever he pleases. If you dare tc
complain you are fired. The day is
soon coming when you will put ar
end to this slavery and force the
bosses to respect your union and your
rights.
THE fat jobbers have piled up
enough millions from your hard worl,
Forward to the great dressmakers
strike!
Prepare your fellow workers, your
shop and your building. Report now
in the union office, 131 w. 28th ST.
Make arrangements for the strike
Secure. information and advice.
Forward to the recognition of a
real union. Join the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union now!
Forward to better conditions"
Realizing that the struggle of the
dressmakers for better conditions is
but part of the struggle of workers
all over America, the N. r. w. I. U
urges all needle trades workers to add
their numbers to the thousands who
will demonstrate in Union Square to.
day at noon.
The Daily Worker will soon begir
to print the donations by organiza.
tons, individuals and shop groups tc
the Dress Strike Fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
Show fragments of
An Empire" Feb. 18th
Under WIR Auspices

Fragments Of An Ernpire,- the
Sovkino film which gives an intense
and vivid picture of the results Of
fourteen years of the Russian Reyo-
luton, the film that astounded world
critics with its unusual photography.
VIII be shown Sunday, Feb. is, 1881,
from 2 to II p. m, continuously, at
the Hungarian Workers Home, $50
E 81st ST., under the auspices of
Solidarity"
The picture tells the amazing story
of a Russian soldier, shell-shocked
during the World War, who awakens
IA years after the revolution to find
q new, strange world, ruled by work.
ers.
Tickets can be obtained at the
Workers Center, so E. 18th ST.; at
the National Office, w. I. r., 1871 w.
18th St; at the Hungarian Workers
Home, $50 E. 81st ST., at IS cents.
Members of the unemployed council
will be admitted for IS cents.
In intermissionS, a young, prole-
tartan artist will give a short piona
recital.
Additional places where tickets
may be bought will be published in a
few days.
The Philharmonic-Symphony Or
clestra, under the direction of Ber-
nardino Monilari, will give their next
concert at Carnegie Hall on Thurs
day evening, with Efrem zimbalist
violinist, as soloist. The program:
Brahms, vol in Concerto in D Major;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10

ash, of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, will speak. Others
are Herbert Newton, Negro worker,
facing trial in Atlanta, Georgia, where
they want to electrocute him for or
ganizing Negro and white textile
workers. Richard B. Moore of the
Harlem Tenants League, a Negro
worker, will speak. Fred Biedenkapp,
leader of the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, is speaker. Ober-
meier, cafeteria strike leader and an
official of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union, will speak. Leeds will
speak in the name Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. The Un-
employed Councils are represented by
O'Boyle, John Lembke and Stevens.
The Workers Ex-Service Mems
League will have as speaker. E.
Levin Ga member of the Daily Worker
staff, Henderson Of the Labor Sports
Union, SAFER Of the N. r. w. I. u,
Chinese worker, women. young
workers, and others will speak
The Needle Workers, meeting in
mass demonstrations for the dress
strike in the dress market today at
noon, will be invited to march in a
body to Union Square and Join in
the demonstration.
The Madison Square Council Of the
Unemployed will call mass meeting
at II a. m. at 25th st. and First Ave-
tthe municipal flop house, and in
vite all jobless there to march in a
body to Union Square.
The Down Town Council will call
all waiting for jobs that do not exist
at the Tammany fake employment
agency at Leonard and Lafayette, to
meet at 1890 q. m. and to march to
Union Square after the meeting.
The Labor Sports Union calls all
its members to meet at w. 18th ST.,
Room 300, not later than 1880 q. M,
and march to Union Square.
Other organizations have their own
meeting places and will parade to the
square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
Employers Boast of
I.L.G.W. Agreement
to Break Strikes

NEW YORK. = Jed Sylbert, gen.
eral manager of the Association of
Dress Manufacturers (the employers
has addressed a letter to non-mem-
bers of his association similar to the
one recently photographed and re-
produced in the Daily Worker. In
the letter to the non-members, the
association gives all the instructions
that it gave the members, such as
preventing mail from reaching the
shop chairmen except mail sent by
the association or the 7. L. G.. w. u,
and firing all who are mot right
wingers. But he adds in this letter
to the Independent bosses: "Our as
ISOLATION has an agreement with the
international Ladies Garment Work
ers Union. Under this agreement,
our members 1.-THE employers are
protected against strikes"
Memorial for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
DEMAND ROBBED
SAVINGS OF BANK
u. S. Bank Depositors
Demonstrate Feb. 81

NEW YORK. - At meeting of
all the local borough committees of
United Depositors with 10 present,
Bank of United States, Sunday 8
p. m. February 9Th, the following re-
solution was unanimously adopted:
Samuel Rosoff who is putting
forth the so-called Rosoff reorgani-
cation plan for the Bank of United
States, has not fully presented his
plan wit henough detail and the
names of his hackers, so that we can
judge its validity and usefulness in
safeguarding depositors' money, we
go on record that we advise depos-
itors not to sign the Rosoff subscrip-
ton blanks until we get more de-
tails, in order to be in a position to
accept or reject it.
THE United Depositors Bank of
United States, are also opposed to
the Steuer plan to segregate 70 mil
lion dollars of the Bans assets and
the plan Of the stockholders and de-
poSitorS association to reorganize the
bank, becaue all those plans do not
guarantee payment of 100 per cent
of our money.
We demand that the state shall as
Sass the stockholders 25 million dol
lars as the law provides and we shall
apply to Police Commissioner Null
rooney for a permit to parade on
Saturday, February cit, in favor of
our demands.
A demand was made that the
stockholders of the bank be assessed
$25 million dollars to pay the small
depositors, and that demonstra-
ton be held Saturday. February 81,
in favor of the demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
Metal Workers League
Pledges All A i d to
Dressmakers' Strike

NEW YORK.-The following reso-
luton was adopted at the last meet
ing OF the New York Local Of the
Metal Workers Industrial League:
"The New York Local of the Metal
Workers Industrial League, after lis
Neoine to report of the represor+a-
tive of the Needle Trades Industrial
II,,son on the coming strike. PLEDGES
Us FIJI support to the dressnakors.
We rled~e ourselves to be in the
front rnr'-s on the picket line, collec--
ing relief for the strikers and their
families, and do all other duties Of
z working-clas organization"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
Youngstown, Neev Brunswick
Demonstrations Add to List
Workers and Jobless of 60 Cities Now Known
to Be Planning Mass Support of Insurance
Bill Today; Others Will Join In

Today in So cities and industrial
towns throughout the U. S., there
have been announced demonstrations,
hunger marches and state hunger
marches in support of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill. 1t is
very probable that there are nuner-
GUS other demonstrations called at
toe late date to receive publicity in
the Daily Worker and it is almost
certain that there will be some spon-
taneous demonstrations of workers
not organized for support of the bill,
but who nevertheless know of it's and
demand its passage.
The latest demonstrations to be an
nounced are those of New Brunswick,
N j., and youngstown, Ohio.
In New Brunswick 1000 demon
strators for immediate relief for the
unemployed stormed the city hall on
Jan. 20, and the city officials answer,
ed them with arrests and police at
tacks, adjourned the session of the
city commissioners, and slipped away
to avoid giving an answer to the
starving unemployed workers.
Out Again
Following that, thousands of New
Brunswick workers signed the demand
that Congress should pass the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill,
and today they will be back at city
hall in solid masses at 10 a. m, to
demand again the passage of that
bill and again to present their de-
mands for immediate relief from the
city government.
They want $40 week for each un-
employed worker and 50 more for
each dependent until the national
unemployment insurance begins; free
use of empty apartments, public
buildings and armories for the job
less; free gas, electricity and coal;
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
7ElI4IIEEi'F TO GO TO
THE DESERVING
Small Bourgeois Will
Get Aid


NEW YORK.-While denying relief
other than the lousy breadlines for
unemployed workers and their fam
lies, many of whom are facing STAR
vation and are being daily thrown
out of their homes by the landlords,
the boss charity takers are attempt
ing to organize relief exclusively for
the bourgeois "respectables" whose
bank accounts have dwindled away
or whose mortgages are due.
The boss press yesterday printed a
number of letters released by the
Mayors Committee to show the
plight OF this deserving class" whose
businesses have suffered or who have
lost their big jobs as result of the
crisis. One of these boasts of her
husband being "a descendant of one
of the first settlers on Staten Island,
who came here in 1875" Another is
a college graduate whose "bank ac-
count has dwindled and was forced
to borrow on my insurance policy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10

Casella, Serenade; Loeffler, "A Pagan
Poem; Wagner, 1.-THE Ride of the
Valkyries." The same program will
be repeated on Friday afternoon.
At the Students Concert on Satur-
day evening, at Carnegie, the follow
ing program is scheduled: Riinsky-
Korsakoff, Symphonic Suite. "Sche-
herazade": Casella, Serenade; Loci
fler, "a Pagan Poem; Wagner. 1.-THE
Ride Of the valkyries." On Sunday
afternoon, Feb. is, this program will
be repeated at Carnegie Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
FIGHT SOON FOR 40 HOUR FIVE DAY
WEEK, GUARANTEED WAGES
Strike Starts On Same Date In New York and
Philadelphia Dress Shops
All Forces Rallying for Struggle Against I'm
possible Conditions

NEW YORK.--Dfessinakers from
every shop and from every part of
The city will stage a, gigantic demon
stration tomorrow night, right after
work, in Lincoln Arena, Goth st. near
Broadway.
These dressn1akers subjected to
sweat-saop conditions that amount to
virtual slavery, are determined to
wage a united battle for improved
conditions, shorter hours, higher
wages and recognition of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
This demonstration in Lincoln
Arena will be the final mass meeting
before the actual calling of the strike
and it is consequently to the interest
of every dressmaker in New York t
be present.
Philadelphia Strike.
In Philadelphia, where the dress
makers are to go on strike simultan-
eously with the workers in New York
q final mass meeting will be held in
Boslover Hall, Seventh and Pine Sts.,
on Thursday, at p. m. The union
has issued call to all dressmakers
in Philadelphia, organized or unor
ganized, members. of the N. T. w. l.
T., the fighting industrial union, or
members of the I. L. G. w. u, the
company union, white dressmakers
and Negro dressmakers, employed
and unemployed, to attend this mass
meeting in Boslover Hall. Louis Hy
man, ]. Goldman, Ellen McLain and
others will speak.
Call Issued.
The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union has issued the following
call to the dressmakers of New York:
'Dressmakers, forward to the final
mass meeting for the dressmakers'
strike. Be there! Vote on the COM
ing strike! Vote for the improve
ment of your conditions that you will
demand from your bosses. Demon
SlIEJG your pOWCL anu dCGC1llAlidGAO4I.
1.-The N. T. w. I. u, the only union
fighting for your interest, will soon
carry out in life the decision and the
viii Of thousands of suffering dress
makers.
your bosses and the L L. G. w. u,
the organization that helps the bosses
enslave you, will try their best to fool
you and scare you or, with fake prom
Uses, stop you from joining the strike.
DO not listen to those who work hand
in hand with the bosses against you
Your conditions are miserable; you
must strike to win a real union and
better conditions. All dressmakers
will unite in the coming strike. The
bosses and their paid International
agents will not and cannot stop your
rightful strike.
1.-THE mass workers strike commit
tee is organized.
1.-THE dressmakers in New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
RED BUILDERS CALL FOR BOOKS.

Red Builders News Club calls on
Daily Worker readers to furnish them
with books and pamphlets for their
library they are building up at the
Red Builders News Club new head
quarters at 102 West 18th ST. Bring
the books to the d. w. office, Room
sos. IS East 12th st
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10

Vote against finger printing, reg.
istration, and photographing the
foreign born. Elect delegates to
local Conference for Protection of
Foreign Born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
CORRECTION ON PAGE 4.

The article on page 4, through an
error reads: "The Imperialists Gain
N Ally. 1t should read: 1.-The So
cialists Gain An Ally"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
What's On
TUESDAY

TUESDAY
Young Needle Trades Workers.
meet tonight at the Youth Dept. of
the union at 131 w. 2sth st. at $40
y. m. Final arrangements for the
Lincoln Arena mass meet and the
dress strike. Presence urgent.
WEDNESDAY,
A Special Meeting.
OF the Alfred Levy Br. 1. l.. y. takes
place y. m. at 524 Vermont st. Talk
on Fish Committee Report"
Lecture.
"Culture as a Weapon in the Class
Struggle" at $3.50 p. m. Auspices u.
e.. w. c, w. No. Of Wiliiamsburgh
at 61 Graham Ave. Bring your fell
low worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10

CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18
TODAv IS TIL
Anniversary



On August ls. 1917, the Italians
started their second and most
spectacular offensive against the
AustrlanS. IN was reported the
most important and longsjt sus-
tained assault upon the enemy A.
ms own territory since the war be-
gan.
In the early stages of the drive
Austrian casualties reached 10000,
OF whom over $4,000 we're kno.n
70 be prisoners. The AuSrians also
lost immense amounts OF war ma
terial, principally abandoned in tbs
vast intrenched camps on Bainsiz-
"a or captured under convoy in the
ChiapOvano Valley.
On this date also an official re-
port was given out saying that
since the beginning 0f the offensive
on the Russian front on July 10. A.
600 Russian prisoners had been TAX
en- BY Austro-G Germans.
10 was likewise officially stated
on this date that the armed forces
OF the United States included:
regular army. sos. TOO; national
guard. 81 900: reserve corps. 3D.
600. total land forces. 7lO.O24: sea
forces. 2331l7: grand total. 943.l4l.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18

Census figures showing an increase in the export"
marriage OF Texas and a decrease in marriages performed
inside the state are attracting wide attention. The Texas
press has naturally commented at length, and papers in other
parts of the country are discussing the supposed effect Of
the Texas law on Texas marriages.
That law was intended to serve a good purpose, and is
evidently doing so. The fact that so many marriages are
performed in neighboring states for couples who might have
been hastily wed in Texas offers pretty good evidence that
such a law was needed. 1t is not unreasonable. 1t merely
forces a couple who think Of getting married to wait at least
three days before taking the leap, which often is a leap in
the dark, no matter how long it may have been considered
in advance of the event. The prospective husband must
also have a health certificate.
Any doctor will be glad to tell the uniformed or the
skeptical that the health certificate is a necessary pro-
lection to girls and women, preventing much needless suf-
fering and the probable birth of diseased children. And
the doctor will not approve of the health certificate mere
ly because he or some other member of his profession may
be paid a fee for signing it. The fact that a medical ex-
animation costs money is one of the objections made to the
marriage law, but the man or youth who cannot pay for
However, free medical service may be obtained almost
anywhere nowadays by persons not able to pay for it.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18
Daily Health
Talk

What was once known as the
vitamin theory Is now regarded as
q we'll established scientific fact.
Two hundred years ago a careful
observer said that neither med
icine nor surgery would help a
patient with scurvy. This man
named Cramer suggested the use
or green vegetables or the fresh
juice OF oranges. lemons or citrons.
as a relief for this disease. Some
other observers confirmed this OBJ
servation. BY 1904. sailors in the
British navy began 10 receive
rat,ons OF lemon juice. Whereas
thousands OF cases occurred pre-
viously during any year, the number
was AZ once reduced 50 that the
disease became exceedingly rare.
Among the japanese a disease
called beri beri was exceedingly
n-evalcnt. The number OF cases In
the navy numbered annually from
IS 10 10 per cent Of the entire
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18

force. About 1885 a Japanese named
Takaki reasoned that diet had
some relation 10 the disease, and
succeeded in having the diets of the
sailors modified by substituting
barley for the polished rice that
had been the chief constituent Of
the diet previously. At once beri
beri practically disappeared among
the sailors.
Finally in 1897 an observer named
Eljkman studied a condition IN
birds produced by feeding them
polished rice, and found it could be
cured by feeding rice polishings
to he birds. He Is credited with
perhaps tie most important obSer-
walton in the development OF the
knowledge OF vitamins. It IS i'm
portant because it emphasized the
fact that there was some substance
IN foods essential 10 proper growth
and health. From that time on
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18
Quotations

For years / tried tO get rid uf
this. Now I find that my fat Z.
money in the bank.
Marie DRESSER, actress. ?
Nicaraguan mothers used 10
frighten their children NV telling
them If they misbehaved they
would call the marine with "eyil
eyes-as q matter OF fact. a nick
name sometimes applied 70 me.
-Smedley ID. Butler.
There must NJ "A god Ny luck.
Prank Clarke. wartime aviator.
It's my mission In life 10 be the
despised critic, the laultflnder. I
must carp and scOld till everyc-5
deSpises me. That's what I was put
here for.
Sinclair Lewis.
Tennis Is making buns OF our
young players.
DIR. Sumner Hardy. president az
the California Lawn Tennis Asso-
citation.
Wages IN America are generally
conceded 10 be on a higher level
than elsewhere. but the average
industrial wage throughout the
country Is no more than SIS per
week.
Matthew VOL. vice president on
the American Federation Of Labor.
We are an meditatlng IN the busl-
ness world whether there will be
any fittest when the survival comes.
Thomas IL. ChadbOurne.