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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
BRONX FAMILY
OF 11STARVING
Protest M e e t i n e
Tonight

NEW YORK-The Middle Bronx
Branch of the Unemployed Council,
in its daily fight against evictions
and for relief for the unemployed
finds that thousands of families in
the Bronx are going through actual
starvation.
A typical case was found by a
committee engaged in canvassing the
neighborhood. Mrs. Santini and her
II small children in their congested
flat Of 5 rooms at 1902 Park Avenue,
were found with no food whatever
in the house and the children SUI
fering from starvation. Mrs. Santini
told the committee their last meal
consisted of stale bread and water.
Her husband who has been unem-
ployed for 7 months was out at the
time in the vain search for work.
Two Of the children have been Bit
ten by rats which infest the flat. One
child has been in the hospital, and
Mrs. Santlnl had to beg them to keep
the child a little longer as it was
still sick and she had no food to
bring it back to health, but the hos
pital officials insisted on sending the
child home to starve.
The committee, together with some
neighbors, collected food from near
by stores to feed the family until
real relief can be forced from the
borough authorities.
The Branch calls upon ALI workers
and workers children of the Bronx to
attend a mass meeting this evening,
Wednesday, at the Ambassador Hall,
Bird Avenue, near Claremoat Park
way, at 8 O'Clock. This meeting must
elect a committee to make demands
on the borough and the city for
free food for the children of the I'M
employed in the schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Unity Meeting for All
Fur Workers, Sept. II

NEW YORK.-TommorroW at 6 p.
m. all fur workers are called to Coo
per Union for a meeting to discuss
the ylan proposed by the Industrial
Union for real unity in the ranks of
the workers. The Industrial Union,
which was organized and is con-
trolled by the workers, will take up
the most important problem of
uniting the furriers to struggle for
better conditions and will be guided
by the decision of the workers, mem
bers of both unions and the unor-
ganized are invited.
The Cooper Union meeting has
aroused widespread interest among
the fur workers. The successful shop
strikes for better conditions conduc-
ted by the Industrial Union for the
past two months has convinced the
thousands of fur workers of the real
desire Of the Industrial Union for
unity in the ranks of the workers
for militant struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Alice Brady In Mourn
ing Becomes Electra

Alice Brady has joined the cast of
Eugene O'Neill's trilogy, Mourning
Becomes Electra, and will play the
role of Lavinia. Rehearsals are I'M
der way at the Guild Theatre.
"The Good Companions, the play
made from ]. B. Priestley's novel
will open at the 44th st. Theatre
Thursday, October /.
Fay Wray, the picture star, has
been engaged to play the title role
in "Nikki', the musical adaptation
Of the John Monk Saunders short
stories, opening at the Longacre
Theatre, September 81.
The Colonial Theatre will open
Saturday, September 10, as a pic
ture house. Films announced are:
Silence, starring Give Brook, Sat
urday to Monday; "Huckleberry
Finn, Tuesday and Wednesday; and
Travelling Husbands, Thursday and
Friday.
"Zwei Herzen i'm ga Taxi" (''Two
Hearts in Waltz Tfme"), ViVennese
screen operetta, is announced to end
its record engagement at the Europa
on September %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

The picket line at the Vanity Mill
where the knit goods workers have
been fighting lockout for the last
egiht weeks, found the boss had
hired a professional gorilla to attack
them. They drove him and his
gang from the block.
A meeting of the Organization
Committee of the knitgoodS workers
will take place Thursday right after
work.
Millinery Meeting
A membership meeting of the mil
inery workers will be held tomorrow
right fater work at Bryant Hall, 9Th
Ave. and AZ st. At this meeting a
report will be given on the organi-
cation campaign which has resulted
in the unionization of a number of
shops and has brought consider
able number of new members into
the union.
The strikers of the G. j. Engle and
H. A. Rosen will report on the mil
liant struggles conducted by the
workers of these shops against the
combination of the bosses and the
strike breaking officials of Local "a
who are attempting to break these
strikes by sending scabs.
All millinery workers are called
upon to attend this meeting.
Ia Shops Struck
Since Monday, IA fur and dress
shops have been struck in the drive
OF the Needle Trades Workers IN
dustrial Union for better conditions.
A number of these have already ap-
piled for settlement. There are no
settlements without wage increases.
Workers in all branches of the needle
industry are urged to bring their
complaints to the union office, 1871
West % ST., and help to unionize
their shops.
All underwear workers are espe-
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FOR KENTUCKY
MINERS THURS.
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uty, and the mere possession of lit
erature carried by the U. S. mails
has brought Understanding indict-
ments for criminal syndicalism, car
rying 81 years or $4,000 fine or both.
Yet plenty of people are not afraid
to tell newspaper woman they be-
lieve in unionism.
1.-THE NMU. organizer claims $500
and comedies that the I.WW. had
218 members at the time their secre-
tary was converted to ours. A we'll
informed man who favors the I.W.W.,
though he is not miner, says the
I.W.W. have 500 members and gives
the NMU. 1000. At the peak the
U.M.W.A. had only 5000 dues-paying
membership, this man says, although
$4,000 people, including families as
well as miners, signed a union petit
ton against Sheriff Blair last spring.
Now he does not know of one, but to
be fair he comedies they might have
100 in the whole county.
IT looked in vain for UM.W.A.
members. Finally the jailer said one
day, There are some good union men
here, not all reds I asked him for
names and he told me two. One I
could not find and the other showed
me his card with dues unpaid since
April. The UM.WA. sold us out
he said: I think the Nationals tax
in the day here Bob Childers, UNI
WA. organizer, resides in Pineville,
Bell County, and no longer works the
Harlan district.
Dues are big factor in union
enrolment. The N.M,U. requires no
payments at all from the unemployed,
and payments only in proportion to
earnings from those at work-per-
haps 10c to Csc a month. The I.W.W.
charges 81 initiation fee, soc to the
jobless, and SOC month dues.
1.-THE NMU. gives relief at Evarts
and has soup kitchens at Wallins
Greek, Pansy and Elcomb. 1t plans to
open others at Molus and Cawood
but people are afraid to rent them
facilities. The soup kitchen near
Harlan where two men were killed
may be reopened-if men brave
enough to take their places can be
found Nine cases of clothing re-
Gently came in for the NM.U. from
Pittsburgh and seven cases of milk
from Atlanta, but the need of course
is much greater.
lone of the outside NMU. organ
izers who is not even indicted for
anything had two bullet holes in his
windshield-from deputies, he claims
and the bullets missed him by an
inch. He merely got a faster car and
continues to ride up and down Har-
Ian County organizing.
"One thing all the different taxi
drivers who ever drove me in Harlan
agreed on: Something is bound to
take place this winter. Things are
getting tenser and tenser. Now that
they're driven underground you can't
tell what they're going to do. This
county is SO on edge that If kid
was to set off a firecracker on Main
st. probably dozen men would be
dead before they'd stop to find out
what happened"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
HIPPODROME

bad Girl'' is the screen feature at
the Hippodrome this week, with
James Dunn and Sally Eilers. Vau-
deville acts are: Healy & Cross Med
ley & Duprey, the Rimacs and Ha-
vana Orchestra; Lou Kaye g. Co., AL
Gordon's Dogs, Terrell e. Fawcett,
the Lordens and Doris Girton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
By RYAN WALKER

cially called to report their shops to
the union office, which is open daily
from 8 am. to pm. A statement
OF the industrial union yesterday ex-
posed the maneuvers of the company
union for a fake strike in the un-
derwear industry, and laying down
plan for organization for a real fight
against wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Polish Fascists Raid
South Brooklyn YCL
Headquarters Sat.

Last Saturday night, after at
tempting to break up a mass meet
ing of Polish workers at 136-15th ST.,
South Brooklyn, gang of Polish
fascists raided the headquarters of
the South Brooklyn Young Commun-
ist League at 557 Third Avenue.
Windows, furniture and literature
were destroyed. The red flag and a
hammer and sickle insignia were
torn from its place and an imper-
ialist flag substituted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
SHOPS
WELLPTCKETED
10 Arrested But Drive
Goes on Everywhere

NEW YORK.-Good picketing de-
monstrations were carried through
yesterday morning in front of a
number of needle trade shops on
strike for better conditions. In many
instances the scabs sent by the COM
pany union were driven off the pick
ct line despite the protection of the
police and the thugs Of the company
union. Ten workers were arrested in
front of the j. H. Engle and G. K.
Rosenberg shops when they began to
drive the scabs away from the shops.
The arrest of the ten girls only
served to increase the militancy of
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. at 73O pm.
at the Grand Fraternity Hall, 1926
Arch st.
st. Louis, Mo, Sept. Is, with con-
ference on Sept. 29.
Oother demonstrations are being
arranged for Erie and Columbus, O.,
Allentown and Reading, Pa; Balti-
more, Md. Washington, D. c.; and
Trenton, N. J. Most of these are
being prepared for the week begin
ming Oct. 1.
In connection with the United
Front Campaigns, tours have been ar
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the Imperial Valley prisoners and all
class war prisoners.
The following list Of demonstrations
have been announced since yester-
day:
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 81 at 73O
p. m, in the Public Square.
Akron, Ohio, Sept. II at 7 p. m, in
Perkins Square.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. %, at 7.90
p. m. in Old City Hospital Lot, 18th
st. and Central Ave.
Toledo, Ohio, Sept. II, at 7.30 pm,
at Jackson and Summit SITS.
Youngstown, Oh, Sept. %, at $50
pm, at Basin and E. Federal SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
MOTHERS, KIDS
STARVE, DEMAND
FIR E F GOD
R a | | y Workers for
Protest Friday at
Board of Health

Preparations for the free food"
demonstrations this Friday, in front
Of the Board of Education, seth st.
and 5th Ave. and the Brooklyn and
Bronx Boro Halls, are going ahead
at full speed.
Tonight, in the Bronx and Down
town, indoor mass meetings will be
held to mobilize for the demonstra-
tons. At Ambassador Hall, Third
Ave. near Claremont Parkway, the
Bronx meeting will take place, and
in Downtown at SAB 9th Ave.
Among the delegates to see Boro
Pres. Bruckner of the Bronx will be
Mrs. Goldsmith, of 1471 Washington
Ave, widow whose children are
starving. When she applied to the
Social Service on fremont Ave. for
relief, she was refused. Another de-
legate will be Mrs. Santini of 1902
Park Ave, mother of II children,
whose husband is out of work for
the last months.
The campaign for free food and
clothing for the children of the I'M
employed is led by the Young Pion-
GERS of America and the Unemployed
Councils. In statement issued yes
terday the Young Pioneers declare:
Health Commissioner Wynne says
that our parents should give us good
food, vegetables, and milk. How can
we get these things when our parents
are out of work. Only if we put up
fight for free food and clothes will
be able to win anything"
Among the organizations backing
the mass meetings and demonstra-
tons is the Food Workers Industrial
Union, the Womens Council, and the
Workers International Relief. The
FWIU, has issued a statement call
ing upon the food workers to par
ticipate in the free food demonstra-
tons.
Women's Councils Mobilize
The Central Executive Committee
of the Council of Working Glass Wo-
men calls upon all council members
and other working class women to
join in the protest demonstrations on
Friday, to demand free food and
clothing for children of unemployed
workers and better school conditions.
All the Bronx members of councils
are to meet on fremont and Third
Ave, at IL sharp-there join the rest
of comrades.
All the comrades from Brooklyn
are to go to Fulton and Court Sts,
at IL sharp.
Ali the comrades from downtown
and Harlem are to go to seth st. and
Lexington Ave, New York City, at
1890 sharp.
Bring your children with you, also
your neighbors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
WoI kers of Many Cities Make
Il. d. Amnesty Preparations
To Raise Demand for Unconditional Release
Of Tom Mooney, Harlan Miners and All
Class War Prisoners
NEW Notwithstanding class ore

NEW woodworking class organiza-
tons of Philadelphia, st. Louis, Cleveland Gin
cinnati, Toledo, Akron and Youngstown, have
just joined those already lined up in hundreds
of other cities for the United Front Amnesty
demonstrations called by the International Labor Defense
These demonstrations will be held within the next weeks
They will raise with vgor and determination the working
class demands for the unconditional release of Tom Mooney
the Harlan KY Negro and white Miners the Scosboro boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
What's On
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
Steve Katovis LID
An open air meeting will be held
al 18th st. and B. at s pm, Sept. Is
under the auspices of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
The same niht an indoor meeting
will be held at 257 E. 10th st" at
8 pm. Comrade Taub will speak.
Nat Turner lid
win hold its regular membership
meeting at 149 West 1S6th St, at
pm, September 16.
PLUMBERS HELPERS BALL
Young and Adult Workers Attention.!
Are you out for swell time?
Are you interested on seeing the
First American Youth Union grow
and succeed?
Come TO the Plumbers Helpers Ball
to be held Saturday night, Septem-
Der 10, at Hoffmans Mansion, ZAP
Watkins St, Brooklyn. Phil Conn
and his famous Variety Club Or
chestra will entertain with some
snappy music. There will be dane
ing and all the rest. Attend and
you will not forget it.
Building Maintenance Workers.
will hold its regular membership
meeting Sept 10th, 8 p. m. at 22S E.
Seth street, 3rd floor.
Friends of the Soviet Union,
Brownsville Br.
will hold it's regular membership
meeting at 1874 Pitkin Ave, 8 p. m.
Lecture and discussion will follow,
All workers are invited.
sheet Metal workers
will hold meeting at e. 18th
Street to discuss the building up of
the Metal W o T ers Industrial
League. All members must attend.
East Bronx Branch, FsU
Pauline Rogers, recently returned
from the Soviet Union, will speak at
the East Bronx Branch of the
Friends Of the Soviet Union, 1910
Boston Road, at s p. M on The
American Crisis and the Soviet IN
Downtown Unemployed Council
VIII hold an open air meeting at
14th st. and University, Ple' at pm.
Alteration Painters
VIII have a meeting at 81 Boston
Rd., at pm. Alteration painters
invited.
International Workers order, Br. 521
win have a lecture on the 'Recent
Developments in England" at its
regular meeting, September Is, at
$40 pm. at 1915 Grand Concourse
entrance on Mt. Eden Ave. Admis-
sion free!
workers Dramatic Council
A report on the International
Workers Theatre Conference held in
Moscow will be given by Comrade
Edith Segal at a meeting under the
auspices Of the WD.C. at 35 e. 18th
ST., room 306, at s pm.
THURSDAY
Metal MOuIders
will hold an important member
ship meeting at e. 18th St, as part
of the drive to build up the MWIL.
international Labor Defense
Brownsville Br.
Will hold an open-air meeting at
Oswin St and Dumont Ave, at pm.
International Workers Order, Br. 500
will hold a regular meeting Sep
TENDER nth, p. m. at 80 e. 18th st.
There will be a discussion on the
naturalization Of the American Youth.
All are invited.
Printing Workers Industrial League
The regular membership meeting
~f the PWIL will take place Septemr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
WORKERS REFUSE TO HEAR TWW
FAKER:: SCAB FORCED RETREAT

to speak. The sound of his voice,
which is renowned for it's power, is
drowned out, with a tremendous roll
ling
'Boo-IWW faker!"
Everytime the speaker attempts to
speak he is greeted decisively with
this contemptuous, sneering denun-
citation from thousands of voices. In
the whole crowd only one man rises
to defend the speaker. He is seized
by 80 angry hands and is deposited
outside Of the crowd, like whipped
puppy.
A voice challenges the speaker,
why did the IWW organizer in
Harlan turn over the membership list
to the police for his freedom?" The
speakers attempt to answer is
drowned out in gigantic roar Be
trayer of the workers." Another
voice addresses the speaker, "Flet-
cher, why did you as a class con-
Scious worker, write leaflets for the
LILA last year, and accuse the re-
revolutionary unions of being in the
pay of the police"
The police arrive but are unable
to do anything with the crowd, which
has grown to menacing proportions.
The police worn their way into the
speakers stand and stay there pro-
tectingly. The speaker again tries
to tlak, but with the arrival of the
police the crowd has grown more
determined and drown every word
out. The speaker relinquishes the
stand to white chairman who be-
gins:
1--WE have permit to hold this
meeting"
Echo "Boo-IWW fakersl"
Some one called the police"
Again the echo, haunting, and like
a slap in the face.
The speaker tries to be defiant,
1--WE are merely asserting our con-
stitutional rights"
The workers voice, as if it had
been insulted, becomes really angry
and roars again - boo - IWW
fakersl"
The chairman cringes and Whines
Don't you believe in free speech?'
Mockingly the answer is flung at
him from thousands of Threats, Not
for the takers of the IWW. Booo."
The chairman hastily adjourns the
meeting. The police leave a passage
through the menacing crowd for the
clique Of IWW. They beat hasty
retreat with the platform on their
back. Their retreat is covered by
the cops. Denounced and exposed by
the workers they stink furtively off
the "scab-cat" has become an cal
ley cat"... A final warning from the
workers floats to them-"Don't come
back. Fakersl"
A few minutes later another stand
is set up. The platform seems to be
magnet to the crowd and they
surge toward it Immediately. A
speaker mounts it and tense, eager
faces, flushed bit by triumph, are
turned upward to him attentively
His first words are greeted with a
tremendous ovation.
"Only under the leadership of the
Communist Party, the revolutionary
unions and the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, can the workers successfully
fight against their enemies, the cap
italist class and theri tools - Vol,
Green, Thomas, Music and the re-
dictionary 1WW. Long live the in
ternational class struggled"
The crowd then become silent and
absorbed with the speakers proposals
Of how through organization and
militant struggle, can they stop the
growing number of evictions of the
unemployed in the district.
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Der 18th at 7 p. m. at r. 18th st.
All members are urged to attend.
PLUMBERS HELPERS BALL
Young and Adult Workers Attention!
Are you out for a swell time?
Are you interested in seeing the
First American Youth Union grow
and succeed
Come to the Plumbers Helpers Ball
to 10 held Saturday night, Septem-
Der 10, at Hoffman's Mansion, 142
Watkins St, Brooklyn. Phil Conn
and his famous Variety Club Or
chestra will entertain with some
snappy music. There will be dane
ing and all the rest. Attend and
you will not forget 1t.
l. ID, Steve Katovis Br.
VIII hold an open air meeting at
9th st, and End Ave, at 5 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
VOLUNTEER FOR HARLAN WORK

Volunteers are wanted TO address
envelopes for the Harlan Campaign
any time at the International Labor
Defense Offices, 80 E. 18th ST., room
43o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

Soviet Forced Labor"-Bedacht'
series in pamphlet form at 10 cents
per copy. Read it--Spread 1t!
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-30

Aboard the special train Of the
world champion Athletics, bound
for st. Louis, Sept. 30. -tH1-
Champions Of the baseball universe
and well aware OF 1.-THE Phila-
delphia Athletics rolled westward
today seeking something no other
club in the history OF the game
has eve attained--three straight
World series conquests-
AS calmly as a big university
eleven faces the first shivering OPP
Connie Mack's champions for the
past two years sped on toward St.
LES and the first game with the
Cardinals, flag bearers Of the
national league. III ever a team
was confident-insolently so-it Is
the Athletics.
For instance, there's Big Al Sim
mons. greatest hitter of the day.
sitting on top of q pullman seat,
his eyes closed. his head thrown
back a raucous voice leading a
half dozen of his mates In song.
At the other end Of the car Lefty
Grove. the Homecoming lancer,
strives desperately TO fill an inside
straight. the big black "seegar'
that is his favor:te companion.
sticking up at an angle that
threatens to burn a hole In the
brim OF his soft hat.
There's Jimmy Foxx. the power
house that roams around first
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-30
MOVIES SIDLIGHTS

The story embodies a delightful
romance between the lead, John
Wayne, a youthful discovery Of
Walsh's who plays the role Of
'Breck Coleman" a boy who has
lived with the Indians and eked out
a living as a fur trapper and scout,
and the girl, Marguerite Churchill,
a daughter of the old south who
goes over the trail with her brother
and sister. the trail which Wayne
scouts.
The picture abounds in thrills
as would be expected of a faithful
narrative OF the brave pioneers Of
q century ago.
It is a picture for fathers. for
mothers, for the kiddies: In fact 1t
holds a strong appeal for every
American with a drop OF red blood
in his veins. El Brendel. "Swede-
character comic, shares the fea-
tured honors with Wayne and Miss
Churchill. while Tully Marshall.
Tyrone Power and David Rollins
are among the 90 principal players
who have actual speaking roles.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-30
Five Americans In
Running For Title

TORONTO, Ont, Sept. 3o-P-
There still was a distinct United
States flavor about the Canadian
women's golf championship today.
OF the is players still in the run
ming. nine were from below the
border. five from Canada and two
from Great Britain. All the out
standing favorites survived the
first round including the defend
ing champion. Maureen circuit OF
Englewood. N. r., Marion Hollins OF
Santa Cruz. Calf. former Ameri-
can champion: Mrs. o. S. Hill Of
Kansas City. Virginia Van VIE OF
Chicago. Ada Mack izie Of Tor
onto, Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser OF
Ottawa. Enid Wilson, British cham
pion. and Marjorie Kerr. another
Englishwoman.
Two all-American struggles In the
second round pitted Miss Orcuti
against Mrs. Harley HiHbie OF De-
troit, and Mrs. Hill against Mrs
John Arends of Detroit.
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famous flying tackle to win the
match.
Edwards, however. is no ones
pet. and when he starts his rough
ring stuff the New York Jew may
find the going rough, for wild
Bill" Is going to maintain that win
ming streak he has been enjoying
II 1t Is at all possible.
Sammy Cohen will make his VAL
ley debut when he meets George
Craig In the semi windup. which
means he IS meeting pretty stiff
opposition in his first appearance
here. However, Cohen is rated as
being fast and tourh. and he might
make thu Tulsa lad step to hold
his own Thursday night. Ladies are
reminded that THURSDAY viii be
ladies night, all members Of the
fair sex being admitted free.