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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
CONTINUE FUR
CONFERENCE ON
UNITY THURS.
VIII Make Concrete
Plans for United
Struggle In Shops

NEW YORK. The continuation
Of the unity conference between the
Needle Trades workers Industrial
Union and the Joint Council, elected
by the rank and file Of the fur work.
ers, will meet TO plan out a Joint
Struggle for better conditions In the
shops. at the expiration Of the agree
rnerit in the fur trade. The meeting
is tomorrow, p. r1l at Webster Hall.
The members Of the Joint Council
as well as the members of the In
6ustrial Union have approved the re-
port Of the first unity conference and
will instruct the delegates to con-
duct the work for the unity confer
ence Of the furriers.
At this conference, concrete plans
for united struggle for conditions in
tire shops, against the injunctions,
against gangsterism, will be discussed
and decided upon. :
Ali fur workers. members Of the
Industrial Union and the Joint Coun-
Gil, as well as all other fur workers
are called upon to attend this unity
conference. -.
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IONLY 3PC. OF DRIVE QUOTA REACHED,
MOBILIZE FORCES FOR RAPID ACTION
i'm 5000 = Il MO. SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE
in this vital work?

in this vital work?
There are the same circumstances
however which must be taken into
consideration in Analysing the pro-
gfeSs made so far in the drive. Due
to its financial condition the Daily
Worker has been slow in sending out
subscription books to some of the
districts. This flaw is now being
overcome. The comrades were in the
midst of mobilization and work for
the hunger march when the drive
opened. The change of work from
bundle circulation to organized sub
scr1ption activity takes some time,
but this change was vital and a nee
essary one for the sterilization of
the Daily Worker circulation at this
time, -,
However these and whatever reas-
ons there may. have been for holding
up immediate action for the drive
notwithstanding, work must now
speed aheadl Preliminary planning
NtlcEt ~ ID SJlh 1IcCESSdI y lnuSb NC
carried on at top speed and work
started.
The massorganizations must be
drawn into the drive, through the
committees of action not only getting
members of mass organizations to
subscribe but also seeing that they
go out and get subscriptions from
their fellow workers at shop and
factory and from workers in their
frsternal organizations and homes.
Systematic canvaSsing must take
place, workers neighborhoods must
be strategically covered, no territory
wasted, and workers approached for
short and long term subscriptions.
Every important factory and con-
certra ton point should be covered.
The Daily Worker subscription drive
can and should become our strong
est ally in penetrating to new forces
of workers in the shops, mines and
: Subscription activity must be tied
up with unemployed work, the work
of strengthening the unemployed
councils, taking advantage of the
new ground broken by the hunger
narehers and all future activity ef-
fectively linked up with work for
short and long term subs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
Cuban Communist Party to
\ Establish Official Organ

:. NEW YORK.-To help the Cuban
Communist Party establish an Of
fetal organ to aid it in its heroic
fight against the Wall Street terror
ism, led by the bloody president, Ma
chado, the New York District of the
Communist Party has issued a call
fcr financial and other support to
the Cuban revolutionary workers. A
Statement issued by the New York
District says:
The economic crisis has attacked
the Cuban workers and peasants with
special ferocity. Cuba, a country
Of supplying raw material, chiefly
sugar, is under the heel Of American
Imperialism which has a fascist pup
pet government led by the brutal die
tator, Machado The condition OF
the Cuban working class has been
reduced more and more till the
masses are on the verge Of starva-
ton.
The Cuban masses have not &C
cepted this condition willingly, but
have carried on militant battles
against the Maehado fascist govern
ment This government, acting on
instructions from Wall Street, has in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16

stituted a system of terror against
the militant workers, and particu-
1srly its most advanced section, the
Communist Party and the revolu-
tionary unions.
Gas an underground Communist
Party with the greatest difficulties
because Of the terror in reaching and
leading the masses, the Communist
Party of Cuba has decided to publish
a paper whose first appearance will
be on the anniversary Of the murder
of Molla on Jan. 10. The Commu-
mist Party of the U.S.A., District New
York, considers it its special revolu-
tionary task to assist our sister Gu
ban Party in issuing this paper and
keeping 1t alive.
1.-THE District Committee of the
Communist Party of the United
States of America calls upon all SYM
pathizers Of the revolutionary move
ment to assist it in carrying out this
task. We ask you as individuals and
organizations to make contributions
to this cause. Make a contribution
and at the same time make a regular
pledge SO that the publication Of this
revolutionary organ may be assured.
Address all contributions to the Dis
trict Office, Communist Party, so E.
18th St., New York City. Mark in
side For Cuban Communist Party "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
McAdoo Admits Capitalism Drives
to War; Soviet Union for Peace

jndiyidualistic civilization worked well
for long time he said. at worked
while there we're new countries to
exploit. The age of individual
ism is now drawing to a close"
Speaking Of war preparations he
said that the entire industry In the
country was ready to be plunged into
war. every machine shop can be
turned into a plant for making
shells; every factory where machines
are made-even such irnocuous inn
pletnents as sewing machines and
typewriters-c can be transformed into
a nlunition plant. Civilian airplanes
may become fighting planes and
bombers. Chemical factories are able
to produce poison gas in large guam
titles on short notice"
MacAdoo urged the recognition of
the Soviet Union, failing to add that
his father-if- Jaw, President Wilson,
and the cabinet in which McAdoo
himself sat, villified the Soviet Union
in the early days Of its existence and
set the policy for the Harding, Cool
idge and Hoover administrations that
followed.
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Altogether the drive for 5.000-12
month subs has brought in total Of
100 IL month subscriptions. This is
only little over 8 per cent of the
quota total set for the drive. This
figure is expressive of rery inter
esting development however. AS
whole it was secured in short term
subscriptions. When the total figure
of $50 subs and renewals secured so
far is divided into the months Of subs
secured so we have an average of
4 months to sub.
What does this prove? 1t shows
eonclisively, that subscriptions to the
Daily Worker can be secured. The
mails bringing in subscriptions have
been very active. A mass of short
term subscriptions have come in.
These have come mostly however
from regular readers of the Daily
Worker who have subscribed for
themselves and have gone out and
gotten their shop mates and fellow
workers to take a short term sub to
the Daily worker.
If we can achieve even as much
as we have with the incomplete
mobilization of the districts some of
which have hardly started to move
there is no reason why with the mo-
bilization of the District machinery
the drive can not go over the top.
What has been lacking SO far has
been real organized work. With the
exception of Detroit, Cleveland and
Chicago, no real effort has been
made TO link up the drive for 5000
subscriptions with the every day &C.
tivity of the Party, the unemployed
councils and the mass organizations
Detroit is SO far the only district
which has taken seriously the dir
ectives to start building friends of the
Daily Worker groups, of workers to
read. discuss, correspond with and
above all at this time secure now life,
through subscriptions for the Daily
Worker. Detroit Immediately added
eleven members to its Daily Worker
Friends group and got busy, getting
subs. Where are the other districts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
STRIKE
SHOWS STRENGTH

The bosses OF the Pretty and sterl-
ing laundries are sending bundles to
the Active Laundry which is on
strike In order TO help the Active
bosses cover the expense Of the strike.
Beside that, many bosses are doing
scab duty in the Active laundry. The
bosses OF the Sterling and Pretty
1aundries, as officials OF the bosses
association are especially active IN
strike breaking.
The Active laundry Is sending
around gsoups Of ganesters to Gus
toners who Sympathize with the
union and threaten the women who
refuse to give their wash to the Active
laundry. Many working class women
chase the scabs out Of their houses.
A membership meeting of the
Laundry workers Union will be held
Thursday. December II, p. m, at
the Ambassador Hall. Claremont
Parkway and Third Ave.
1.-THE. Laundry Worker" a r1limeo-
sraphed bulletin issued by the union
urges workers Of laundry shops to
write In Of their conditions and
wages and prepare for organization:
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Says USSR Advancing
AS Capitalist
World Decays

these so-called shock brigades' OF
workers are rebuilding Russia. For
example, it is decided to rebuild some
filthy, antiquated villages. i. In a
short time, like a miracle almost.
new village stands in place of the
old"
Speaking about the failure ana the
fakery of the capitalist powers In
their disarmament falkland McAdoo
knows because he has done great
deal of this fakery himself-he adj
mitted that only the Soviet Union
offered real disarmament proposal.
"It is singular fact that amid all
the Worldwide talk of disarmament"
said McAdoo only one great nation
has made an official proposal for
complete and universal disarmament
on land and sea and in the air. That
nation is Russia. /. :"
''At the Geneva Disarmament Con-
ference in 1927 Russia offered to dis
arm completely If the other nations
would also disarn. The proposal OF
Litvinoff, the Russian delegate, was,
to quote his words: The general and
complete disarmament of all land,
sea and air forces within year. The
Russian proposal was voted down"
without pointing out the rapacious
struggle of the imperialist powers Tin
which McAdoo himself had a leading
part in slaughtet1ng workers in the
last war; he admitted, 1.-THE primary
cause of all wars in modern times Is
economic strain, and that in turn Is
the result of intense financial ana
commercial competition"
McAdoo practically admitted that
capitalism is breaking down. "The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
EXPOSE TREACHERY OF LOVESTONE,
e ANARCHIST CLIQUE IN LOCAL q
Fake Progressives Finally Admit They Are
Under Orders Of Corrupt Administration

NEW YoRK-Duing the last few
weeks several items have appeared In
Che Tammany Jewish DAY" dealing
With the so-caIled Conflict" between
the leaders Of the International
Ladies Garment Workers and the So
called progressive" administrations
controlled by the snarchist-Lovestone
combination in some Of the largest
locals. The issue In dispute seemed
to be the question Of the payment Of
the 1915 tax imposed by the bureau
cratS Of the mGwU on the members,
which was rejected by an overwhelm-
ing majority Of the membership Of
these locals.
Throughout this so-called dispute, !"
1t was clear to the Industrial Union
that the rejection OF the tax on the
part Of these fake ''progressives" was
nothing but a n1aneuver to win favor
with the members and to be used as
bargaining power with the bigger
chiefs of the ILGWU.
Time and again the Industrial
Union has made clear that there is
no difference between the fake prog
ressives and the reaetionsries, that
they all have but one policy--to work
hand in hand with the bosses against
the workers.
A MausuVer
The latest move of these fake prog
ressives was in admitting the United
Front Committee to the meeting of
Local % and then shifting the matter
to their so-called frank and file COM
uittee." on the very next day, &C
cording to the statement of WON
ems Wear" of December 7, the leaders
Of Local 20 assured Dubinsky that
the Communists" las they choose to
term the United Front Conn1ittee)
were admitted to the Bryant Hall
meeting TIC minimize them as q, nuis-
ance.
These nlaneuvers show clearly that
the aim of the fake progressive ad-
ministration, the same as that of the
Schlessingers and Dubinskys, is tt
prevent the building Of united front
Of the workers for effective struggle
1t also proves that all the maheuvers
on the part Of the so-called progress
sive" with regard to the tax, etc.
were merely used as 6 means to gair
personal advantages.
The industrial Union calls on the
workers TO answer these fake moves
Of the company union agents, no mat
ter what name they go by, and rally
to the United Front Committee or.
ganize united front shop committees
in their shops. and prepare the basi!
for real mass united front STRIKE
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Third Ave. on framed up charges.
All workers should come to court.
The hoodlums had repeatedly at
tempted to break up dances at the
Prospect workers Club and had de-
nanded graft for protection" They
were told the club was perfectly ca
pablo Of protecting itself, and when
they came the next Sunday and with
their rowdy tactics attempted to
wreck the club, they were thrown
out. Several club members received
knife wounds.
The club will do its utmost to de-
fend its members The International
Labor Defense, the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, Union Ave. Workers
Club, and many other workers or
CARNATIONS are uniting for defense
against the gangsters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
NEEDLE WORKERS
TO MEET, He A R
MARCH REPORTS
Manv Other Meetings
About City for
Same Purpose

NEW YORK.-Today at noon In
the cloak and dress market around
56th ST. and Eighth Ave, the needle
trades delegates TO the National Hun
ger March will report to those who
sent them. They will tell of the great
demonstration of 1870 marchers in
Washington on the Capitol grounds
and before the White House and A.
F. L. headquarters, in which the
whsle world learned that the jobless
of this country want unemployment
insurance and immediate relief. They
will tell of the plan for further
struggles. The meeting is called by
the Unemployed Council of the
Needle Trades Workers. After the
demonstration, dressmakers will meet
at 422 Seventh Ave.
The millinery worker delegates on
the march will report Tuesday at l
p. m. at Bryant Hall; all millinery
workers invited.
Thursday at $50 p. m a similar
meeting will take place for all em-
ployed and unemployed knitgoods
workers, at 795 Flushing Ave. This
meeting will take up especially the
struggles of the knit goods workers.
General Meetings.
National Hunger March delegates
will speak at an open air mass meet
ing at 10th st. and Sixth Ave, to-
morrow at noon. This meeting is
called by the Midtown Branch of the
Unemployed Council.
Tomorrow at 48 Bay 28th st.
Brooklyn, at $3.50 p. m. there will be
a mass meeting to which all work.
ers and jobIess workers are invited
to hear the hunger marchers' report
The Executive Committee of the
Council of Working Glass Women
calls mass meetings to hear the re-
ports Of the r1larchers. The meetings
are at 500 Prospect Ave, Bronx, at
8 p. m. Among those reporting are
Fine, Cohen, Se1flick and Gels. The
other meeting will be at 1918 Pitkin
Ave, Brooklyn, Friday night in con-
junction with the Unemployed Coun-
Gil of Brownsville Finkelstein and
jackson will report.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 15.--Admit-
ting that the capitalist powers are
rushing to a new war, William G.
NdcAdoo, secretary of the United
States treasury under President Will
son during the last world slaughter
said that only the Soviet Union is
willing to disarm and has shown the
way by its disarmament proposals.
McAdoo, in a speech before the
Southern Methodist University this
morning said that the capitalist ma
lions were reaching the end of their
rope.
McAdoo deplored the fact that the
capitalist nations were unable to stop
their decay and said that the Soviet
Union was able to go ahead "The
Russians are doing it" he said. They
have made constructive achievements
to take the place Of wsr. Every Rus
sian today is enlisted in an army Of
progress. The twelve hundred mile
railroad that reaches down into
Turkestan was built by what is known
in Russia as-'shock troops-today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16

for union conditions, directed against
the bosses and all their agents, to
build the Needle Trades Workers In
duStrial Union, the only union that
is fighting for interests cf the work
ers.
Zimmerman'S Admission
AT a meeting recently Of the so
called rank and file committee" or
gaI1ized by the combination of the
anarchist Blustein and the Love-
stonite Zimmerman, it became clear
that this whole committee is a fraud,
merely intended to cover up the
treacherolIs deeds of the Information
al and to help put through another
fake strike similar to the fake strike
of 1880.
The United Front Committee that
spoke before the membership of Local
% vent to the committee of Is to
which it was referred to present its
concrete program for bringing about
unity. Zimmerman, the appointed
chairman of that committee, refused
to discuss the question. In answer
to the statement of j. Migdol, chair
man of the United Front Committee,
that the committee had come to put
before them the concrete proposals
for unity of the workers stated. that
his committee has no power to decide
anything, that it is under the Zin-
norman supervision of the executive
committee and therefore cannot per-
NIT any consideration Of the program
presented by the United Front Com
n1ittee which includes:
I Election of a committee of IS
real rank and file workers of Local
%, rs of the Industrial Union and IS
from the United Front Committee to
arrange for a shop conference where
a broad committee to prepare strike
will be elected
2. The immediate organization of
unity strike committees in the shops,
immediate fight against wage cuts,
and other necessary steps to bring
about the real mass mobilization for
a strike under rank and file leader
ship.
The fact that the committee even
refused to discuss this program is
convincing proof to the workers that
they are opposed to the united front
and will seek to interfere with the
unity Of the workers by every possible
means.
The United Front Committee met
afterward to map out plans to bring
it's program before the masses Of the
dresSmakers. The committee divided
itself into block committees so as to
carry on the work more effectively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
Industrial Union In
Another Step Toward

DTeSSmakerS UnIty
NEW YORK. - The Needle Trades
workers industrial Union calls a
meeting for all dressnnakers for to-
morrow Ut $50 pm. TO discuss plans
for immediate organization work and
on how the Industrial Union can help
to develop b movement for United
Front.
The Rank and File Committee Of
IS, elected at the last membership
meeting To 20 10 the members Of the
IL.d.W.U. to Ask for united struggle,
win report to the membership meet
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
BREAD STRIKE
GOING STRONG

The bakery bosses Of Coney Island,
against whose high prices, the house
wives and working class population
have declared a popular strike, show
definite signs Of weakening after
their failure In using police and
gangsters in trying to intimidate the
strikers.
Picket lines the last few days were
REINFORCED by neighboring women
and men.
Sentiment among the strikers Is
very good and they feel that with
continued mass picketing the strike
would be quickly and successfully
concluded and the price Of bread
forced down
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
1881 Won't Do ANY
Harm. Because the
Buns Can't See It"

1881" by Paul and Claire sifton,
now at the Mansfield Theatre, has Its
faults, but is like the late steel 50
fundamentally honest a portrayal Of
industrial conditions that 1t Is al
most certain to fell on Broadway.
The boys with money enough to pay
$3.50 for seat don't want to have
the misery they have made Haunted
in their faces, and will not buy the
tickets. Broadway Is the rich mans
playground, and hardly anything
good can live there.
Two of the regular" theatre goers
sat intentionally behind me Mon
day night and agreed they would tell
their friends that 1881" was thor
rible,' that a certain scene, where
the unemployed worker. Adam,
broken and smashed to the gutter,
prays for "just one little job, God
you'll never miss it" Is "saerilege"
God didn't come through. They
finally decided, when they saw the
play wind up In broad riot with
the machine guns drumming against
a more and more defiant crowd
"Well, fortunately. it won't do any
harm, because the buns Will never
see it,
The play picks out single worker,
strong, confident, full of natural re-
sentiment against petty tyranny. He
protests against riding" by q
strawboss and gets fired. This Is
not typica 1of the mass tt1leniploy-
ment, most OF the present 12,ooo,ooo
iobless were fired without any such
excuse. But it gives the playwright
d chance TO show how this real man
is crushed, during a search for work
in steadily iengtheriing lines at fac
tory employment offices, to cumming
on the streets, and finally to mis-
sion breadline, where the sky-pilot
brings in crowds Of rich Summers TO
see the animals eat and to collect
donations for the mission that way.
Police brutality against the unem-
ployed grows continually. Graft in
city relief work is shown. A tour by
the fired worker over the country
fails. His clothes wear into rags.
Finally he tries hold-up, but just
isn't made that way, and can't 90
through with it.
The girl he is expecting to marry
gets the same deal, but there aren't
even any breadlines for women" and
she Is driven into prostitution and
disease.
Near the end, he takes q Job dish.
washing for 81 less than the fellow
just fired was getting, and accidsn-
tally runs into his girl there and
hears her story. "That makes every.
thing just perfect" he says, and joins
the bread riot outside.
The play Is by the Group The
atre, which declares: "A good play
for us Is not one which measures trp
osome literary standard Of art o.
beauty but one which Is the image
or symbol Of the living problems Of
our time" The Graup Theatre has
indeed made some progress along that
line in "1931." 1t has reached the
point OF exposure literature" IT'S
play is still afflicted with a certain
lack Of point Of view. This makes
it pessimistic.
But the situation Is way past the
stage Of mere exposure. The capt.
talist press is ringing with the deeds
Of the organized unemployed, and 10
leave this angle out entirely Is not
giving an "image Of the living prob
lens Of our times" VS..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
What's On

WEDNESDAY
Hunger March Delegates
vii report at the Italian Coop
erative Hall, Summit Ave. and gath st.
in Union City, ". J. Admission free.
Prospect Workers Center
open forum to be held tonight at
l157 Southern Blvd. at pm. IN
terestins discussion. Admission free.
Iaterns tionai H0rk ers OF der, Harlem
The newly organized branch Of the
J. w Q. will have q meeting tonight
at "a w. 196th ST. All workers are
invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-16
BRONX WORKERS
CLUB ATTACKED
Gangsters Driven Out;
2 Workers Arrested

NEW YORK - Thirty ganosters
who attempted to break up dance
at the Prospect Workers Club in the
Bronx last Sunday, were driven away
with great damage to the gangsters.
The gangsters later returned with
cops and detectives and two members
of the club were arrested and face
trial this morning at 161st st. and