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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Unemployed Battle With Police
and Put Widows Furniture Back
Mass Meeting Before Municipal Flop House
Brings $50 Recruits for Organization
of the Unemployed; Two Arrests

NEW YORK.-Unemployed Coun-
ellis we're active here yesterday. At
"a Suffolk ST. where the landlord had
decided to throw a widow named
Yetta Stacker and her three children
out. the Down Town Council of the
Unemployed came down and in spite
Of a sharp fight with the police and
two arrests, put the furniture back
on the sixth floor. And, at last &C
counts. Mrs. Stacker and her family
we're holding the fort.
Patrolman Joseph Shea tried to in
terfere when he saw big crowd of
tenants of the locality collecting
around at the. call of the council,
denouncing the landlord for evicting
these jobless workers and carrying
up the furniture. But the crowd
booted the cop out Of the road and
went OH doing their duty by the fur
nitlre.
Either Patrolman Shea or the land
lord called out the police reserves,
and sharp fight took place. In the
end the crowd was smashed and Lo-
renzo Roggero and Meyer Silver ar
rested and charged with disorderly
J conduct. But the furniture was back.
The Madison Square Council of the
Unemployed held a mass meeting in
front of the Municipal flophouse at
First Ave and 25th ST, with Van
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
NEW STATIONS
FOR TAG DAYS

NEW YORK. connected
with the hunger march to Albany
have to be met The Workers In
ternational Relief has established
ne wstations for the tag day collec-
ton Saturday and Sunday. The new
list is published below. All volun-
teers go to the nearest station Sat-
urday and everybody should volun-
teer.
Here are the stations:
Down Town-27 E. Fourth ST.. is
w. 2lst ST., 131 w. 18th ST., 30l w.
29th st.
Harlem-30S Lenox, 20 w. 115th, is
W. 126th, $50 E. 81st.
Bronx--569 Prospect Ave, l472
Boston Rd., 270o Bronx Park East,
2061 Bryant Ave.
Brooklyn--61 Graham Ave-, 1876
Flushing, 312 Columbia, los Thatford.
1891 32nd St, Coney Island; 140 Nep-
tune Ave, Brighton Beach; rs jack
son Ave, Long Island City.
New Jersey-93 Mercer St, New
ark; FOG Market ST., PatersUs=.
Yonkers-252 Warburton Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
See Mass Migration to Soviet
Union AS World Crisis WOrsens
Smash Boss System and
Follow in Wake
of Soviets

One Of the most remarkable move
ments, the emigration of workers from
the capitalist lands Of misery to the
Soviet Union, is predicted by Walter
Duranty, New York Times correspon-
dent in Moscow, in cable dated
February 4. The process is already
beginning. With the worsening of
the crisis in the capitalist lands, the
movement will be Speeded up, Duran
ty thinks.
Nothing like it has happened since
the mass migration Of workers to the
United States, beginning In the early
part of the last century. 1t by no
means signifies that the workers will
in this way solve their problems in
the capitalist countries. Even should
the movement reach the pace equal
to the height Of immigration into
the United States, the sharpness of
the class battle and the inevitable
overthrow of capitalism will not be
lessened one whit.
The significant fact is that there is
basis for the movement, that the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
COME TO UNION
SQUARE TUESDAY!
Demand Congress Turn
Over War Funds to
Feed Starving!

NEW YORK.-Reports have been
obtained that in the village of Monte
Cello, New York, the whole popula-
ton is starving. This is not drought
stricked Arkansas, this is the state of
New York, where Wall Street is stu
ated and where the rich guzzle and
dine and prosper, and where 100000
workers and families are starved
Neither the City of New York nor
the state of New York nor the United
States government is raising penny
to relieve these workers, They even
refuse to appropriate S15,000,000 for
the starving army Of unemployed
here.
This conditio nwil continue until
the workers show by determined eff
fort, through demonstrations and
protests, that they will not tolerate
these conditions.
On Feb. 10 a delegation will pre-
sent the workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill to congress.
On that day, under the auspices
of the Unemployed Council and the
Campaign Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, in every industrial
city and town of the United States.
millions of workers will demonstrate
in support Of the bill and against
the fearful conditions of misery and
starvation, and against the vicious
wage-cutting campaign, against the
attacks upon the Negro and foreign
born workers.
They will demand that the billions
OF dollars appropriated for war be
handed over for the relief of the I'M
employed. They will expose the fake
building program Of Hoover and
Roosevelt, the hypocritical racketeer-
ing charity scheme of the corrupt
Tammany Hall grafters. They will
let the bosses of this country know
that Unemployment Insurance must
be provided for the unemployed
workers Immediately. Join in this
demand! Support the Workers Un-
employment Insurance Bill
All workers out on Union Square
on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at IL, noon. All
workers, Negro and white, native and
foreign born, young and old, en-
plOyed and jobIess. demand Unem-
ployment Insurance by demonstrating
on Union Square at noon, Feb. 10!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
PROTEST R0BBING
OF RELIEF FUNDS
Yonkers Jobless Meet
Saturday, 4 Pm.

YONKERS, N. Y, Feb 5.-After
forcing workers on starvation wages
to part with contributions to the So
called Make Work" fund originated
by Mayor Foggerty's committee, it
was discovered yesterday that $4,000
of the money collected goes into the
pockets of agencies and collectors"
hired by the committee.
The drive was originally started to
collect $25o,O00 to get work" for the
5000 unemployed here. Even if they
would get work" with this money
it would amount to about Is cents a
week for a short while. But the
money is being gobbled up by the
professional collectors before it ever
gets to the unemployed. So far $215,-
600 is reported collected" But out
of this $4,000 has already been spent
for collecting" Hundreds of COL
lectors are yet to be paid. A big
chunk of the money still remaining
will go to this friends Of the mayor
and never reach the unemployed.
To arrange swell banquets and
feeds of the Committee collecting the
funds $4,000 was spent. The $4,000
unemployed starve, but the collectors
swill on the money that is collected
supposedly for relief.
The Unemployed Council is calling
mass protest demonstration to
show up this graft and robbery that
is carried on under the name of ere
lief" The protest is called for Sat
urday, Feb. 7, o'clock, at Larkin's
Plaza Every unemployed and en-
ployed worker is urged to attend this
demonstration.
Along with unemployment, a IL
per cent wage cut has been handed
to the Smith Carpet Co. workers. In
order to break the opposition of the
workers a veritable reign of police
terror has been started. Meetings are
smashed; workers arrested and beat
! EN- up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
NEWARK DELEGATE TO
WASHINGTON ARRESTED
FIGHTING AN EVICTION
s Arrested in Newark
for Opposing Negroes
Eviction

NEWARK, N. j.. Feb. 5.-The de-
termination of the Council of the
Unemployed and the Negro and white
workers here to stop the eviction of
H. Brown. a Negro jobless worker
living at 1873 Charleston St, resulted
in a clash today at noon in which
six were arrested.
Brown had been evicted yesterday
The Council Of the Unemployed went
down, rallied the tenants and other
workers from around, held mass
meeting in front OF the place, which
was attended and supported by the
tenants of the building, and put the
furniture back
Today the landlord came with a
constable and stated that Brown
would have to move. The Council of
the Unemployed rallied again and
was on the ground starting another
mass meeting before the furniture
was put out. The attack on the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
YOUNG NEGRO WORKER BURNED.
STRUNG UP BY TULSA POLICE

TULSA, Okla, Feb. 5.-The hor-
rible burning alive of Raymond Gum,
Negro youth, by Missouri boss mob,
early this year, was exceeded in
atrocious cold-blooded brutality by
the police agents of the bosses in this
city who during the last week of
January staged near-lynching
third degree" on Negro youth
from which is it doubtful he win re-
cover.
In an endeavor to force young
Willie Ems to confess to crime he
denied knowledge Of, Tulsa police
burned the flesh of this young boy
until the stencil of burning flesh
per1neated the halls and stairways of
the police station and the shrieks of
the tortured boy rended the air. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
BIG RISE in
NAVY ARMlNC
BUSHES WAR
Excuse" Opens Way
for Biggest Arms
Race

First Lord of the British Admi-
rally, A. v. Alexander, announced
Wednesday in the house of COM
mons that the British would in
crease their navy building program
This further shows up the whole
false peace campaign" with which
the leading capitalist powers tried
to cover the London Naval Confer
ence, while they laid the basis fol-
naval arms race.
This will start off a whole series
the so-called "escalator clause" Of
the naval treaty signed by Britain
the United States and Japan was
prepared for just this kind Of thing
The escalator clause said that any
of the imperialist powers could in
crease its navy higher than thai
provided for by the treaty at any
time it wanted to. Then the other
powers could build up higher, anc
SO there would be a free for all
speeding up the war preparations.
The fact that Lord Alexander al
this time says that Britain woule
build more ships indicates the
sharpness of the war danger. The
excuse that Alexander gave, anc
which Mcdonald will grab hold Of
to save his "pacifist" face is thai
Italy and France are rapidly rush.
ing to war, building at furious
pace. Alexander said that Britain
was building 46,145 TONS of war YES
sells, but that France was laying
down 100,6S4 tons, and Italy 100,777
U. S. Congress has before 1t bills
Of over $200000,000 for immediate
warship building, and Admiral Pratt
chief of operations of the U. S. Navy
stated that an expenditure of $1,100,-
100000 would be necessary. Now al
this is changed. The latest announ-
cements in the House of Commons
means that the ante will be
showed up to two billion dollars ~
the United States.
The bosses will easily find this
money for their war preparations
When the unemployed ask for relief
they get clubs and blackjacks. Wher
the war vets demand cash bonus
Mellon, Hoover and other bankers say
they can't afford it. But money fol
war preparations is always available
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

notice the following sections
responded:
Section /. 0130.10; Section 2, $1,000
Section 3, $1,000; Section 4. $s7.52
Section 5, $4,000; Section 7, $1,000;
Section 8, $25.25. Total, $6l0.5l.
Other sections were not able to
be reached but they will undoubt-
eddy respond also. This must be
followed by the rest Of the country.
kilograms have been sent to every
district by the Secretariat Of the
Communist Party, urging all dis
tricts TO Immediately wire funds.
New York District saved the Daily
for the next few days but when
that time is up We will again be in
the same condition. It Is up to the
workers to move quickly and rush
funds to the Daily Worker.
Now Is the time TO act. Rush
funds to the Daily Worker. 80 z
18th Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
WORKER VETS TO
EXPOSE BANKERS

NEW YORK. - Excuses of bank
ers, Hines of the Veteran Bureau,
and other flunkies of the imperialist
government will be exposed in full
at the membership meeting of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League to-
night, at Is East Bird st.
The League will make a final Sc
lection of delegate to go with the
Council of Unemployed Delegation to
Washington on Feb. 10. The League
is planning to unite with the Coun-
ellis of Unemployed in huge DEM
onstration at Union Square on Feb.
10 and many other demonstrations
of the working class. The meeting
will start at 7 p. m. in order to adj
journ to attend dance Of the Coun-
Gil Of Unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

break up the picketing, the company
union ordered some of its 'gorillas"
TO int date the picket line.
Police Shoot.
A demonstration of needle trades
workers was staged in front of the
sho pyesterday morning to combat
the terrorism of the company thugs,
who were given a thorough pulnmel-
ing when they tried to interfere with
the picketing. Cops, firing their guns
over their heads as they ran, came
to the rescue of the thugs too late
to prevent them from being given a
proper lesson. Four members of the
N. T. w. I. u, picked at random,
without regard to whether they were
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
WORKERS SCHOOL
TO OPEN MONDAY
Pre-Term Assembly on
Friday Night

NEW YORK.-The Spring Term Of
the Workers School will begin next
Monday, Feb. 9. Hundreds of work.
ers have already registered for the
many vital courses offered at the
school. Big registrations are espe-
,cially recorded in the classes in the
Fundamentals of Communism, Marx
ism, Leninism, Russian and others.
In oruer to orientate the Students
with the policy, plan and admins
tration of the school, and to discuss
many important problems regarding
the school as whole, pre-term
general assembly will take place this
Friday night, Feb. 6, 8 pm. at the
school auditorium, IS E. 18th ST., sec
ond floor. All students who have
registered for the Spring Term must
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Only Immediate Response
Will Keep the Daily Alive

We may lose our Ryan Walker car
toons unless the financial conditions
improve. All of the staff, as far as
wages are concerned, have been
pushed to the wall. Even requests
for money for urgent relief in the
families of some of the staff could
not be met. The practical question
of continuing the cartoons and reg
ular contributions of one of our car
toonists must be answered shortly.
Unless there is substantial increase
in the contributions the Daily Worker
will be faced with cutting down many
essential features.
We are fighting hard to keep up the
improvements noticed by all in the
Daily Worker, but sharp. forced re-
trenchment will be necessary 50 that
the paper may come out at all.
The New York District has set a
very good example, as was reported
yesterday. With only about an hours
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Veen as speaker.

Veen as speaker.
The police tried in every way to
interfere, cutting off that part of the
crowd that was in the street, chasing
another part off the sidewalk and
hampering the audience in every way.
Still some 400 or 500 were present all
the time. Van Veen scored the capt.
talist politicians who haggle over the
SOS, 100000 relief to the farmers, afraid
of the farmers and afraid to vote
them relief, for that would expose
their lack of relief for the unem-
ployed of the cities.
Come over to the Trade Union
Unity Council headquarters, join the
Unemployed Council, fight for I'M
employment insurance" the speaker
ended, and about $50, including a
dozen Negro jobless workers, followed
to Is w. Dist ST, where, after more
speeches by Van Veen, Nesin and
others, they all signed the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill and
joined the unemployed council. Com
mittees of action were elected.
One worker told how at the 33rd
St and Tenth Ave. breadline onion
soup so dosed with pepper is served
that the directors Of that line are
able to boast: "They have too much
to eat, they never take a second help
ing!"
1t is reported that one jobless
worker, threatened by his landlord
with eviction, told the rent grabber
that he was going to see the unem-
ployed council about it. The. land
lord then offered him IS if he would
move ard not 90 To the council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
M a SIS Demonstration
Today at Noon at 9Th
Ave. and Both st.

& Bremmer at 263 w. 40th St
After breaking an agreement with
the N. T. w. l. U. and locking out
the 40 workers in their shop, all
members of the industrial union.
Needleman & Bremmer made an
agreement with the company union,
which agreed to replace the 40 work.
ers by scabs. The answer of the
workers who we're locked out was to
picket the shop. In an attempt to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

crushed long ago. Now we must
march ON so that the world proletar-
lat will say:
There is our advanced guard, our
government, our fatherland. Let us
support them against the capitalists
in bringing about the world revolu-
ton"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

boy was then placed in the city Jail
for the night and denied medical at
tention.
Next day the police took him to
the scene of the crime he was
charged with committing, placed a
rope around his neck and strung him
up. They kept him in the air until
he was half dead, then they lowered
him to the ground. Failing to force
confession out of him, they strung
him up once more. Enraged when
the youth still refused to confess to
crime he did not commit, the po-
lice savagely beat him up with the
rope they had used for the hang
ings. The nearly dead boy was then
returned to the city jail. 1t is held
unlikely that he will recover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Close Mines and Stores to
Starve Miners and Families

WILkESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 5.---Coal
companies are not only closing their
mines around Sheppton, Oneida, and
other towns In Pennsylvania, but they
are shutting up the only foods stores
in the territory, literally forcing the
miners to starve or emigrate. The
Jeddo-H Highland Coal Co. has ordered
the closing of its mines in Sheppton
and Oneida. immediately after this
they shut up the company grocery
stores and stopped all credit to the
unemployed miners.
The Anthracite Miner" 1ewspa-
per Of Wilkesbarre, in its issue Of
January 80 describes the terrible con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Needle Strike Pickets Rebulse
LL.G.W. Thugs; Police Shoot

NEW YORK. --- Tannlany police
fired their revolvers into the air, six
thugs were severely beaten and four
members of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union we're arrested
yesterday when strong-arm men en-
ployed by the International Ladies
Garment Workers, (the company
union) attempted to prevent mem
bers of the N. T. w. I. U. from pick
citing the shop owned by Needleman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

ditions resulting from this move:
1T has struck stark terror into
the families, that for the most Fart
we're dependent on the mines at
these towns. Deserted villages they
will soon prove. even IL some of the
mon have to leave behind little
hcmem. into which they have sunk
life time of effort in the saving
line" .'ys.,
This is the picture of the condi-
tons of the miners in places where
mines have recently shut. But In
those places where the miners have
been out Of work for six months or q
year the situation is appalling,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
TO BUILLUNEMPLOYED COUNCIL
FOR MARINE WORKERS

NEW YoRK.-A mass meeting will
be held with speakers from the Down
Town Council of the Unemployed and
from the Marine Workers Industrial
Union today at noon at Fulton and
West SITS, to form Marine Workers
Council of the Unemployed.
There are many jobless longshore-
men and seamen now. The Marine
Workers Industrial Union, lao Broad
ST., is cooperating with the Coun-
ellis of the Unemployed to organize
them for fight for immediate re-
lief and unemployment insurance,
and to help the struggle OF the en-
ployed marine workers. ,.,..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
NOTICE

All comrades or sympathetic
workers who have cars and are
able to give tho use OF them to take
tho Unemployed delegation to
Washington. February 10th, should
report 10 The headquarters Of the
Trade Union Unity Council, l6 W.
2lst st. The "trip will take a maxi
mum Of two days time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
United Front Session
Saturday on Jobless
Drive for Insurance

NEW YORK.-There will be a
united front conference on unem-
ployment Of all workers organiza-
tons south of 18th st. Saturday at
2 p. m. at 81 E. Fourth st. Dele
gates from unemployed councils,
unions, International Workers Or
der branches and all other sports,
cultural, defense, fraternal, ETC.,
groups Of workers should send dele
gates. Many delegates have already
been selected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06
Order NoaU for
Saturday Issue

Read what the Jersey City
Armour Packing House workers
say about the speed-up system
in their plant. Read how the
Lodi coatmakers won their
strike. Read how the girls in
the National Electric Co. in
Ambridgc, Pa, get tuberculosis.
Miner sees S happening strpy-
giles in the Illinois coal fields.
Thirty cents day is wage ia
California cotton fields. More
worker correspondence In next
Saturdays issue. Order extra
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more, s8~rer 1000, before Fri
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

Read the list of returned Red Shock
Troop Lists to see IL your list has
reached the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-06

Use the Self-Addressed and Pre-
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Red Shock Troop Donation List.
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Men, Women and Children
the Entire Family of Every
Unemployed and Employed
Worker Should Take Part
in the February Tenth
Demonstrations
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-08-06
TOWN COUNCIL HAS QUIET
SESSION MONDAY EVENING
City Officials to Continue Good
Will Tour Tonight

Continuing the second annual good
will tour of the Mayor and Town
Council of Oakland, Grover C. Stem
pie, mayor, and members of the cour1-
Gil will journey to Kitzmiller this
evening, where they will meet with
the city officials of that town to talk
over the civic affairs and other prob
lens.
They will be accompanied by the
Gilbert Brown Boys Band, of Oak
land. The party will leave at 6
o'clock.
At the regular monthly meeting Of
the Mayor and Council on Monday
evening, day policeman was ap-
pointed for the month of August to
enforce the parking regulations and
to assist the many visitors and tour.
lists in becoming acquainted with the
roads of this vicinity. Lee R. Mason
was named by the council for this
work. ........ ...... .-..
James Collins was given the con-
tract for removing the pump house
from the lot on north Third street,
to the Bradley farm where it will
house new motor operating the well
which was drilled last fall. A report
of the street committee showed Water
street completed, with the work on
Pennington street to begin in Septem-
Der.
No report was made on specifica-
lions for a swimming pool. It was
felt by those interested that it was
too late this year to begin operations,
but that plans would be made for it's
erection in the spring of 1882.