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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Summary of Subscriptions
District Apparatus
Must Be Strengthened

In districts where Daily Worker circulation
shows little increase, the reason may safely be
attributed to the lack of strong apparatus
for distribution. Daily Worker representatives
in the districts, sections and units who do not
function satisfactorily, should be rsnoved and
replaced by comrades who are capable of in
vOlving every member of the Party and the
Young Communist League in one of the ma
jOr campaigns of the Party at the present time.
BY decision of the Central Committee. the
Daily Worker should be on the order of bust
ness at every unit meeting. Papers should be
regularly sold before factory gates, in the
streets and from house to house.
Daily Worker representatives who do not get
the cooperation of the Party in the $4,000 circu-
lation campaign should inform the national Of
flee of the Daily" and steps Will be taken tc
wipe out any neglect or Indifference on the part
Of any leading comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Least ExcusabIe
Dron in Detroit

Some districts show decrease due, apparent
ly to the false idea that the $4,000 circulation
campaign is over. Nothing is further from the
truth The Central Committee, determined to
put the 10000 circulation drive over, has decided
to continue the campaign until February Is.
The biggest and least excusable drop was in
Detroit. Last weeks order was not stimulated
by extra orders This week, the figure goes
down by 500. This is serious drop. 1t shows
that leading bodies in the district down to the
units in both the Party and League are not
sufficiently activized. A systematic plan of
work to increase the circulation has not been
carried out One of the great weaknesses in
the district is the absence of Red Builders
News Club. This, in spite of the fact that
Detroit has thousands of unemployed, and is
one of the most important industrial centers
in the country. A club must be formed imme-
diately to put the Daily" into the hands of
these workers.
Table for Chicago shows a decrease of 773
However, last week, due to extra orders, the in
crease was 1o16. making a net gain for Chicago
of 243. Chicago leads in the 3-cornered race
with Philadelphia second and Detroit last
District l3, California loses % this week Dis
trict Is. Butte, drops by %. District 10, Denver
shows a decrease of 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

In last weeks tables, the total increase in the
Daily Worker campaign for $4,000 circulation APP
peared as 2527. This figure was boosted by extra
orders on hunger marches, etc. This week. the
total decrease is 1910, leaving net gain of 1487
for the two weeks. This gain is apart from the
extra orders on the Lenin Memorial Edition, Sat-
urday, amounting to 1880, which are excluded
from these tables
The largest gain for the week is in PhiIa-
delphia, which put on 1876, the largest increase
in the district since the beginning of the cam
paign. This is due mostly to the formation
of the Red Builders News Club two weeks ago.
District 8, Minneapolis, shows solid gain of
80, following another gain of A last week Dis
trict 10, Kansas City, puts on a gain of &c, fol-
lowing an increase last week of 40. Last week
Pittsburgh District 81 aided by extra orders.
put on 1903. This week she lost only ST. showing
a real gain.
District II, Birmingham, put on solid in
crease of SO daily.
District Is, Connecticut, shows an increase of
SO. This, however, is the result of second
order for 1000 from Danbury and go from
Springfield, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
LOCK OUT TO HIT
100000 IN BRITAIN
Railroad Men Prepare
for Strike

With more than $50, 900 weavers out
in a lockout enforced by the bosses
to put over wage cut, it is expected,
according to cable reports from Lon
don, that 100000 textile workers will
be effected within day or two
The 100000 striking miners in the
South Wales coal fields are expected
to return to work in a few days after
strike of nearly three weeks against
wage cuts. A sell-out agreement was
drawn up between the bosses and the
labor government postponing the
wage cut to future date.
A strike is threatening on the Bri-
fish railroads in view of the an
nouncement of the railroad owners
that they intend to cut wages of all
adult railroad workers by $l50 a
week. The National Wage Board is
now meeting to discuss the pending
wage cut.
Under pressure Of the rank and file,
= T. Cramp. general secretary Of the
National Union Of Railwaymen, and
collaboration Of the Shiny MacDon-
aid government, SAID that the wage
proposal OF the employers would
make it impossible tor a large num-
Der Of railWaymen TO lead any kind
of life worth speaking of. He fayors
a wage cut but not one of such size
TO force resistance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Large Cities Should Add
To Red Builders Clubs

Although Red Builders News Clubs have shown
rapid increase since the start of the $4,000 cir
culation drive. there are still some large cities
where such clubs have not yet been formed
Philadelphia is good example OF circulation In
crease via its newly formed Red Builders News
Club Such large cities as Seattle, San Francisco,
Oakland, Detroit and Cleveland, are losing a
splendid opportunity in rounding UP hundreds
OF readers and subscribers through newsboys
VINO spend most of their time in spreading the
Daily Worker throughout working class neigh
oorhoods Unemployed workers who form the
REQ Builders News Clubs earn their expenses by
getting the paper at cent and selling for 3
cents.
u y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

total disability, In the meantime,
rent on his humble home had
up to the sum of 1890 and
some lawyer had a garnishee against
his insurance for the sum of $3.50.
Though how this was unanswered he
was unable to explain and he further
stated that he had signed no papers
Or hired no lawyer.
Threatened With Eviction.
This man has six children depen-
dent on him to provide food and
shelter. And his case is closed be-
yond appeal, He is broken in health
and, of necessity, broke financially.
He is two months in arrears in rent,
which means threatened eviction.
He has tried every available means
to get his case into court So far he
has met with no success. This man
has appealed TO the Communist Party
as the last court of appeals, for he
has stated he has received no charity
from the so-called charitable .nstitu-
tons, though these fake charities
have received eight or nine million
dollars from the workers.
Comrades, shall his appeal go I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Mounted Police.

Then the mounted police were let
loose, and for half an hour Park Row
from Chambers ST to Mail st. was a
scene of flying boots trampling into
crowds, Of police and detectives on
foot in groups OF two or three pounc-
ing on isolated individuals, and beat
ing them up. The crowd, with its
front broken still held its ground,
bcoing and yelling, and individuals
attacked by the Iammany sluggers
put up desperate resistance in some
cases. But between 2:3O and 3 p. NJ.
the bulk of the demonstration was
over.
Even so, these $4,000 New York
workers had put up the most militant
and on the whole the most successful
resistance for a long time.
The ambulance and patrol wagon
came in; several were arrested, and
many injured.
The police made a show of not us
ing clubs The Police Commissioner
had publicly stated they would be I'M
armed and courteous" Great use OF
charging mounted policemen was
made, horses hoofs taking the place
of the usual blackjacks. But even
his fake was not we'll maintained
When a couple Of jobless had one
nounted cop half off his horse, he
pulled a gun on them. The Daily
Worker reporter personally saw a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
CHICAGO LENIlN
MEET JAN. q
Emphasize Success of
5-Year Plan

CHICAGO, Jan. l8-The class con-
scious workers throughout the entire
world will commemorate the death OF
Lenin, the great leader of the success
full Bolshevik revolution, on January
2lst.
The Five Year Plan of socialist
construction OF the Soviet Union,
which will be completed in four years,
is the successful continuation OF
Lenin's work and teaching. While
the capitalist countries are in the
midst of severe economic crisis, and
millions of workers are walking the
streets without jobs and actually
starving, in the Soviet Union there is
no unemployment.
These meetings are taking place in
a period of acute and sharp political
and economical situation. Because OF
the successes of the Five Year Plan
and the growing world crisis OF capt.
talism, the attack on the Soviet
Union by the imperialist countries is
imminent. More than ever before,
the workers must be ready for the
defense of the U. S. S. r. and at
the same time they must mobilize the
workers and poor farmers for strug-
gle against their own oppressors. The
necessity of building the Communist
Party, Young Communist League,
Trade Union Unity League, must be
brought before the masses. The meet
ings on the occasion of this anniver-
sary must be utilized by the class
conscious workers for the mobilization
OF broad masses for the overthrow
Of the present capitalist system.
At the same time. the workers will
commemorate the murder of Lieb-
knecht and r. Luxembourg, in 1919,
who were murdered by the German
social fascists,. Ebert, Scheidemann,
and Noske, the saviors of German
capitalism.
The main speaker at the Chicago
Lenin Memorial will be E. Browder,
member of the &C of the CPUSA.
A revolutionary play, and music, will
be the features of the program. Ad-
mission Is cents. Unemployed free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill

The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes:
IUnempIoyment insurance at the
unemployed worker and IS additional for
2The creation of National Unemployment
raised using unemployment insurance.
b levy all capital and c)
all incomes of $4,000 a year.
S.That the Unemployment
administered BY Workers Commission solely by employed
and unemployed workers
All who the lists circulated Ma
honal Campaign Committee
diary organizations congress pass BILL
final form posdb amended by the meetings ray
and elect the delegation
by) amended by the delegation
bill will follow the
All workers called to help collect this
bill Get the cooperation of all
nature drive. ALI organizations
the collection of signatures Write Campaign
Committee for Unemployment
York City, for signature blanks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Mounted Cops Trample Hungry Workers;
Squads Of Dicks Beat Up individuals

mounted policeman riding up and
down after the fight at F'ranklins
statue, handing out blackjacks to the
patrolmen.
Two and Half Hours.
The demonstration started before
noon. The sidewalks all around city
hall square we're packed by 1880. AL
entrances to the square we're blocked
by solid line of police, which was
later doubled. Squads of mounted
police we're posted all about inside.
Heavy platoons of police we're massed
on each side of the entrance to city
hall. There was a patrolman evsry
twenty feet all around the railing
which surrounds the square. Mount
ed police were about 30 feet apart
in the street all around the square,
Broadway, Mail St. and Park Row.
There was a second thinner line of
cops around the square on the cut
side edge of the sidewalk. Cops we're
thick on the opposite side Of Broad
way and Mail Street.
This was the heaviest police mob
ilization used so far against the
starving jobless of New York.
While the fighting went on at
Franklin's statue. one flaming sign
remained fixed to the pedestal. 1t
said, THE government answers the
demands of the jobless with black
jacks and police brutality. We de-
mand Unemployment insurance."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
scting Mayor Practically Tells the Unemployed TO Go
on Starving; Cant Do Anything"

12-All employment agencies, such
as the City Free Employment Bureau,
State Labor Department, Social Ser
vice Exchange, Y. M. G. A., Y. W. G.
A. and the Welfare Council shall con-
duct their work through the City
Board composed of the workers.
Corrigan didn't seem to like the
reference made by all of the speak
ers to the Soviet Union, where capl-
talism has been oyerthreWn and there
is no unemployment. He offered to
pay the fare of any ten who wanted
to go back to the Soviet Union. He
admitted under the present system
of society we can do nothing more
He said he had a stenographer pres
ent and would take the demands "un-
der advisement"
In closing the interview Biedenkapp
said II desire to state very emphati-
cally we are not asking for charity.
The unemployed workers who are Of
fered nothing here will continue to
fight against starvation until they get
adequate immediate relief and unenl-
ployment insurance"
The following are the names of 8
injured workers:
out.
M. DI LARIO, all his teeth knocked
out.
JOHN HIDALGO, possible fractured
skull, severe decorations, broken arm,
a hospital case.
ROSE ROSEN, IS years old. frae-
tured arm.
ANGELO FARARA, severe laeera-
tions.
ALBERT BURNS, decorations Of
head and arm.
HERBERT LEVY.
DORTHY ROSS. wrenched back,
A. BERNAL. 70 S. oxford st.
Someone, no doubt worker, was
seen carried out on a tsertcher from
city hall into an ambulance. There
is rumor that comrade was killed.
Five cops are reported TO have been
injured in their attempt to beat the
hunger marchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Jail Red Editor In
Germany for Articles;
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Jan. 19.--The Supreme
Court at Leipzig sentenced the re-
sponsible editor Of the International
Press Correspondence, Heinrich Kur-
ella, to twelve months in fortress
on the charge of preparing high trea-
son in connection with several arti-
Giles published in the German edition.
Yesterdays nationalist demonstra-
tons on the sixteenth anniversary OF
the foundation of the German Reich
was interrupted by proletarian coun-
Recommendations. Workers demon
strated in the Leipzigerstrasse where
many were arrested Workers dem
onstrations before the sport palace
were dispersed by police who used
their clubs freely.
-. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
AET IT'D - -
atz bsagAt - - O - - 49,
IN FALL,
EVICTION THREAT
HANGS OVER HIM
Appeals to Workers to
Fight for Insurance
New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
I wish to call the attention Of all
comrades and fellow workers TO one
case of many as to how the workers
compensation law Is applied. And
this particular case is concrete ex-
ample Of this fake law of the capt.
talistic system. But in so doing the
writer must give facts which can be
verified.
This is the case of Frank George;
Of Italian birth, but with a residence
of 80 years ia America, residing at 81
Borden Ave, Long Island City, near
the Jackson !. r. T. station
And this is the story told in broken
English and the writer will try to
give the details as he told them with
out exaggeration.
ScaffOld Breaks.
Some four years age. scatfold
broke on which he was working. The
fall thus incurred fractured his spine
and also caused a rupture, rendering
this man incapable of doing any work
and only after being confined to his
bed for months has he recovered sui
ficiently to take care Of himself. His
case came before the board of work
ing mans compensation and he was
awarded $4,000 for his injury, but this
award came only after SO months OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

Alderman Corrigan. acting Mayor
n the absence of Mayor Walker, re-
ieCted the demands of the unem-
ployed when the delegation walked
into the city hall and presented them,
He admitted there was great unem-
ployment and starvation and said
that the city was doing all it can, -
but it couldn't do anything else.
The unemployed delegation arrived
at the City Hall at 1:55 p, m They
we're escorted into the building by a
clothes cops Two members of the
large number of uniformed and plain
delegation were practically thrown
out of the city hall-Patriek O'Boyle,
Of the downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil and Ed. Stevens Of the Midtown
Unemployed Council
Four Spokesman.
Four spokesman, G.. Biedenkapp,
Richard B Moore. Frieda Jackson, OF
the United Councils of Working Glass
Women, and Charles Oberkirsh, OF
the Food Workers Industrial Union,
spoke for the unemployed workers.
At first Biedenkapp protested be-
cause of the election of the other
two members of the delegation. Then
each of the spokesman showed up
the starvation faced by the New York
unemployed; how capitalism drives
workers to hunger and suicide, and
the intention of the unemployed to
fight for their demands. Then the
demands were presented as follows:
l. SIS for each unemployed work.
er, up to $25 for families.
?. No evictions of the Unemployed.
3. Free gas, light and coal for
families of the unemployed
4, 20 per cent reduction in rents
up to $50 per month.
5. Free food and clothing for the
children of the unemployed provided
in the schools.
6. Opening up Of all vacant apart
ments, armories and public buildings
to house the unemployed
T. No discrimination of workers
because of race, color, nationality Of
sex.
8, All schools and public halls b.
opened as meeting places for the un,
employed.
g. The immediate release of Harry
Raymond, the delegate of the unem
/ plo"ed on March 9th.
10. The unconditional release o
Nesin, Stone and Lealess. the Octobe
10th delegates, who were severed,
beaten by the police
IL. That the distribution of all re
lief, cash, food and clothing shall b,
conducted by City Board, composed
of workers from factories, shop coun
ellis and the Unemployed Councils
this board to be directly elected b.
the workers. The City Board o
workers for Unemployment Emergen
cy Relief shall constitute City En-
ploymcnt Bureau in place Of all pri
vate and city agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

but there in that wilderness 1t was
still worse. The workers, some in
ragged clothes, were shivering (and
there isn't even place to warm up.
We took our tools and walked out
TO the road, but all of sudden I saw
a Spanish worker who was with us
collapse and fall while walking to the
road.
The Tammany Waterman did not
even let US stay minute. We were
ordered to go on" and four men took
this fellow worker and carried him
into a shack. He was put there just
like rag, without any care.
That happened at 8 a. m. and only
at II a. m. the ambulance came. For
three hours the worker was lying
without any care. When the ambu-
lance arrived there was nobody to be
saved. He was dead.
He was a Spanish worker. 80 years
cid, out of work for months 1t was
gradual death by slow starvation on
the breadlines. He could not stand
the exposure after being weakened
and collapsed.
I see no way out unless we work.
ers organize and fight for the I'm
employment Insurance Bill.
NEW YORK.-Lashed by the cold
wind, undernourished and poorly clad,
two workers on the Prosser committee
park work at City Island, dropped
lead last Saturday from exposure to
the cold.
They had asked the foreman,
Brown, to warm up, but were refused.
they collapsed soon after and died in
the ambulance.
When stripped of their clothing it
was found they had no underwear or
socks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
MASSES OF NEW YORK JOBLESS
BATTLE POLICE IN DEMONSTRATION

dustrial Union, who know all about
cops, That squad of Tammany slug
gers retreated. The fight was 50
swift and fast that it did not even In.
terrupt the speakers.
After that about fifty police, in-
Guiding several mouned, were massed,
and struck the crowd in a combined
charge, where it was weakest. There
was no mobile force Of the workers
defense corps to rally at the threat
ened point or to, take the attacking
force in the rear. After a pushing
and smuggling match for five minutes,
the police smashed their way In ana
tore down the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Big JObless
Army in JOhnstOwn
Johnstown, Pa
Comrades:

Comrades:
A few words about conditions on
employment in Johnstown, I see in
Comrado Fosters article that we have
100000 of unemployed in this com-
try. (Ihe last survey made by the
Daily Worker in its issue of January
4 shows 100000 workers fully un-
employed now.--Ed)
In the Bethlehem Steel Co. in
Johnstown there worked 10000 men
and more than half of them were laid
OFT altogether. The other half work
one day in two weeks. If you call this
employment then I don't know what
1t is. Here in Bethlehem Steel Co.
at least $4,000 men are unemployed
Or three-fourths of the whole force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

ANSWERED. No, a thousand times no
If there is no law for such cases, then
let the answer be more demonstra-
items. An increased drive for unem-
ployed insurance that the injured
workers may live. Come alive, fell
low-workers, let us face the capital
istic system with a solid front Until
such conditions are abolished in this,
the richest country in the world.
Workers, unitel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
pawr1o~ plerts
On in F''n RIast
Philadelphia, Pa.

Daily Worker:
That the canitalists are busily and
hastily preparing another blood bath
for workers and farmers worse than
the last war can be seen from the
utterance of Furman Rush, as re-
ported in the Philadelphia Record as
follows:
thurman Rush, pride of Palmyra,
n j., sees another war in the offing.
He made his prediction the other
night at reunion OF Philadelnhians
who served overseas in the 1O3rd En-
gineers, 28th Division.
BOYS. we're busy" he told his for
mer buddies. mo depression in our
line. Business is brisk. Look out for
another war"
Rush stepped right out of the army
into a job in powder making plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
German Communist
Party C. G. Meets

BERLIN, Jan. 20-Yesterday morn
ing 1900 metal workers struck in
Ludenschied, Rhineland, a ainst
wage7cuts, under revolutionary lead
ership.
A plenary session of the Central
Committee of the German Commu-
MIST Party met from the 18th to the
18th OF January. Thaelmann deliv
cred a report analysing the political
situation and the tasks Of the Party
Fifty-one participated in the discus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Chicago Now Leads
in 3-COrnered Race

The three-cornered race between Chicago, De-
troit and Philadelphia shows new development.
Chicago and Philadelphia have forged ahead.
Detroit dropped.
Now Chicago leads, having gained daily
circulation SO far in the drive of 1912, or 80
per cent of its quota. Philadelphia has passed
Detroit by making a total gain of 6S3 or 2s
per cent of its quota. Detroit has retained
gain of only SIG which is I6 per cent of its
quota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
Missouri Miners
Being Laid Off
Minden Mines, Mo.

Minoen MINES, MO.
Daily Worker.
Well here we are with Hoover's
prosperity staring lis in the face
Many miners and fellow workers and
their families, old and young, are
slowly starving.
The mines are laying off many, old
and young, makes no difference to
the bosses, they eat just the same.
Many families are In need Of food.
clothing and fuel. You see we burn
gas in this little town.
The other day the damn Boy Scouts
came around getting clothing for the
poor. They only come around to the
poor workingman thinking he can
give clothing. 1t takes the poor
worker all he scan get hold of to
clothe himself and his family.
--E. N. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21
No. S"o~s for
Childron
Syracuse, NJ Y.

Syracuse, NY.
Daily Worker.
The children of an unemployed
wo-k"~ here were unable to attend
school because they had no shoes
The joblcss worker was arrested and
taken before the iudge, but the Judge.
hearing the workers militant pro-
tests, released him.
The children were sent worn, ill
fitting shoes and returned to school
amidst the ieerins and sneers of the
teachers. Unemployed workers must
join the Unemployed Councils and
fight for the Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill.