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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
What's On -

CITY CALENDAR SHRDL SIR sH RsHH
Alteration Painters, Dewntown section,
has changed its meeting place to 80 Avenue
B. The next meeting will be held tonight
at p. m. All painters are welcome.
Alteration Painters, Bronx. will meet at
1895 Southern Boulevard, at p. m. All
members are urged to attend.
An open air meeting under the auspices
Of the once workers Union will be held in
front Of the New York Telephone Company,
i$0 West Street, near VeSey at IL noon. All
workers are urged to be there
A meeting of the beginners and advanced
classes Of the photo dept, of the Workers
Film and Photo League will be held at is
West 2lst St., at 8 o'clock.
TUESDAY,
The Pinkus Gordon Branch, I. L. D., OF
the Alfred Bleyer Shop, has called a mem
orial meeting in COMMUNICATION OF the
memory Of Ptnkus Gordon's death, at 7e5
Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, at 8 p. m.
An open forum Of unemployed furniture
workers will be held at 100 East 18th St,
at y. m. Carl Winters ana speake1t
from the Industrial Union will speak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
A Neev Book for Workers Children

be the privilege of every workers child to read
Aside from these few items, however, the Red
Corner Book contains great variety OF new and
fascinating stories that are simple enough for
the nine-year old to grasp and interesting
enough to delight the fourteen-year old
Perhaps younger children will like the story OF
Little Black Murzuk best OF ALL Little Black
Murzuk lives where 'the bananas rpen and the
monkeys chatter and the elephant scratches
himself against the bamboo" and he and the
monkeys and the elephant come most realistic
ally to life in drawings in red green and black
Several historical sketches bring home the story
Of Wat Tyler and the Paris Commune as it
really happened. The book even includes few
simple articles crafts and sports And little
Button-Nose tells how she pushed her sled into
Lenin and what happened, The stories Of the
Soviet Union vie with New Russa's Primer in
their simple description of the Five-Year Plan
and no one, young or old, will want TO miss the
story Of the building of Trakostroy on the wild
steppes where once the feld-llioe hid
Although there is no word Of agitation in the
book yet every line brings out the class struggle
and the chasm between workers and BOSSES
1t is high time to get such material into the
hands Of workers children, The church and the
school in all their viciousness have been sitting
the protest in the Threats of our children long
enough We owe it to>the revolutionary move
ment of tomorrow to put books such as the Red
Corner Book in the hands of those who will one
day be its leaders. Let US hope that the Red
Corner Book is only the first of the books which
sh; Il reach children far and wide and bring
them closer to the struggle for better world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
BIG PROGRAM FOR
AMTER BIRTHDAY
Organizations Urg ed
to Get Tickets Now

NEW YORK.-The banquet ar
ranged In honor of the 50th birthday
of Comrade Israel Amter New York
district organizer of the Communist
Party. bids fair to be an outstanding
event in the revolutionary movement
of this city. Comrade Amter. as a
mass leader in every struggle of the
workers stands out today as an in
spiration and symbol of the best pro-
letarian revolutionary leader. His 50th
birthday becomes a significant event
to the alrge masses Of workers.
From the response of workers from
shops and al lmass organizations it is
evident that there will be an overflow
crowd at the banquet. All mass or
CARNATIONS are, therefore, warned to
procure tickets for their membership,
and elect official delegations to the
banquet without delay. Tickets are
available at the district office of the
Communist Party for the banquet,
which will take place on Friday, April
is, 8 pm. at the Central Opera
House, 9th st. and Third Ave.
The Service Bureau of the Workers
Cultural Federation arranged an eX-
traordinary program for the ocea-
sion. The well-known Prolet Buhne
will offer two of their best short
plays Gifted cartoonists will enter
tain with their chalk talks; Ivan
Kusmenko, we'll known Soviet bari
tone, will render Soviet songs OF
tsruggle and socialism; the Freiheit
Gesangs Verein and the Red Dancers
will be there at their best,
Get your tickets early, Organiza-
TONS select your delegations. Make
sure that your members are provided
with tickets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
Tammany Gangsters
Attack Workers for
Exposing BlOck-Aid

NEW YORK, April "A meeting
called by the Unemployed Council
to expose the bosses block-aiding
racket was attacked by Tammany
gangsters at 18th St. and Avenue B,
last night.
The self admitted Tammany chief
tain of that district, declaring that
there's no starvation on 18th st"
gave the high-sign to his toughs to
attack. The speaker was severely
bruised
The workers of the neighborhood
are preparing for large demonstra-
ton on the same corner and inten-
sive canvassing is going forward to
build strong block committees to
fight the "block-aiders". to expose
starvation and to carry on a wgor-
Gus struggle for immediate relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
TRADE COMMITTEES MEET
PLAN BLACKLIST
FOR TAXI NJ E n

NEW YORK.-The big taA.cah
owners are planning for the tan~
drivers cut in commission, q struct-
err blacklist, more discipline and q
more efficient system Of spying, Tne
Taxi Section of the Transportation
Workers Industrial League, at E.
18th St., has exposed this plan OF
the bosses in an open letter to Maui
rine Hotchner, the chairman OF the
Board of Taxicab Control.
The Board of Taxicab Control
wants peace in the industry" The
letter of the League points out that
this means starvation and wage-cut-
ting by the bosses. 10000 taxi drivers
are out OF work. The Hack Buro
and the police department are work.
ing hand in hand with the spy sys-
tenn of the Terminal and other large
fleet-owllers against the taxi-dr1vers.
The Taxi Drivers Section OF the
Trade Union Unity League makes the
following demands, for which 1t urges
the workers to fight:
Eight-hour day, no drivers to
work singles, which means work
ing 16 hours: a minimum weekly
wage to replace the commission sys-
tenn; abolition of the blacklist; no
firing for low bookings; no segreg'
alton of Negro drivers into separ-
ate garages; no discrimination a.
gainst taxi-drivers on streets or
in courts; the right to organize into
a rank and file union; unemploy-
ment insurance for every hack
man out of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
LID. Asks Funds
toPuSh Fight For
9 SCottSbOro Boys

1--WE wouldn't even give you a piece
of bread if you were actually starv-
ing" is the brutal manner in which
former employers of the Seottsboro
parents reject their appeals for work
to take care of their families. This
is especially true of the Atlanta
parents, where even the mothers of
the Scottsboro Negro boys now facing
the electric chair were forced to
work, mostly as domestics, for South
ern families.
Thus, in addition to the judicial
lynehing of the boys, Southern
white supremacy" seeks to starve
out their families.
This crime is met by the 1nterna-
tional Labor Defense not only with
relief to the boy prisoners, but also
with relief for their families. This
amounts to a considerable amount
weekly, but must be met ahead of all
other expenses in the protest cam
paign and the legal defense struggle,
declares j. Louis Engdahl, General
Secretary of the Internatioal Labor
Defense. THE Scottsboro parents
and the boys in prison facing the
electric chair are, of course, only a
few of the hundreds of prisoners and
prisoners dependents continually
receiving relief from the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. This is one
ameng many demands for financial
assistance that presses down upor
labor's defense organization"
The denial of the rehearing by the
Alabama State Supreme Court mus
spur the raising of the $4,000 Fight
ing Fund for ScottSboro to carr,
this fight to the workers of America
and every country in the world, anc
to the United States Supreme Court
Send all contributions to thu
Scottsboro Fund, international Labor
Defense, Room 430, 80 East It'll
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
PLAN Big MOBILIZATION TO
DEMAND MASS JOBLESS AID

tory be brought down TO the head
quarters through home visiting,
leaflets.
4. That all workers clubs, frater-
nal organizations, block commit
tees, unemployed councils, trade
unions, ETC., issue special leaflets in
the field of their activity TO mobil-
lie them for the fight.
5. On April IA the indoor meetings
TO be held in every one of the work
ers' campaign headquarters with
the largest number of workers at
tending, employed and unemployed.
8. A demonstration at City Hall
on April 18th to present the de-
nlands of the " orkers to the board
of aldermen, the City Council to
issue 100000 leaflets for this call.
Z. A call to all central bodies of
working class organizations, to issue
leaflets for the city hall demonstra-
ton also.
Temporary list OF workers head
quarters follows:
Bronx - 3e45 White Plains ROAD
1887 Brook Avenue, 1925 Southern
Boulevard, $50 East 1Seth Street,
Harlem-6 West 135th Street.
Yorkyille- $50 East 81st Street,
Midtown-3el West 2ath Street,
Downtown-l34 East 18th Street.
Waterfront, 140 Broad Street.
Williamsburg, 81 Graham Avenue.
BroWnsNlle-646 Stone Avenue.
Red Hook-450 Hicks Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
ReliefNeeded to Help
.Va.-OhiO MinersWin

The coal miners Of Eastern
Ohio and the Panhandle section
of West Virginia are engaged in
a deathe struggle with the coal
operators. They are fighting
wage cuts which mean starvation.
They need the support of every
worker in the country. Send
them relief.
If the Ohio West Virginia min
ers are to win their brave struggle
against starvation, if the U.M.W.A.
takers are to be prevented from
selling the strikers out, relief
must be sent to the strikers and
their families at once.
Send food, clothing or funds for
the Eastern Ohio West Virginia
mine strikers at once to the Work
ers' International Relief, I6 w.
21st St., New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
Workers Condemn Music
at Prospect Club Debate

NEW YORK-The largest crowd
that ever packed the Prospect Work
ers Club unanimously endorsed the
program of the Trade Union Unity
League, Friday night, following de-
bate between William F.. Dunno, who
spoke for the 7. U. U. L., and A. j.
Music, head of the Conference for
Progressive Labor Action
Over thousand workers had to
be turned away at the door on ac-
count of lack OF seating capacity, and
all during the evening masses OF
workers crowded the block in front
of the club.
The subject of the debate was,
(which Way Out for the American
Working CLASP" and from the thun=
derous applause which greeted Com
rade Dunno and the bees that
greeted Mr.. Music 1t was obvious
that the workers prefer the revolu-
tionary line of the Trade Unien
Unity League.
corliss Lamont, instructor of phil
oSopiy at Columbia, was chairman.
After brief introduction, Gomrade
. Dunno launched into q concrete
speech, plainly and simply giving the
line and revolutionary policy Of the
Trade Union Unity League and ex-
posing the line OF the so-called Music
group as the line Of reaction against
real revolutionary struggle.
Long ago we have characterized
the Music group" said Dunno. "It
lis necessary for the socialists to have
their right wing and their left wing.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

even that.
Against this plan to lstarve TO
death thousands of the working
class we must organize the most
stubborn fight, to force Tammany
Hall and the bankers to give relief to
every unemployed worker. without
cuts or discrimination" Winters said.
He then proposed the plan of action
proposed by tn eUnemployed Coun-
Gil for discussion and adoption.
In the discussion, John Steuben,
organizer of the Trade Union Unity
Council of New York, in supporting
the plans, promised that the T. U.
u. G. would help mobilize the trade
unions and their members in the
fight for the unemployed.
He proposed that the conference
send a telegram to Mayor Walker
with the demands of the conference,
demanding hearing before the next
meeting of the board of aldermen.
This was accepted.
Delegates from the floor told OF
conditions of the unemployed, that
suffering is increasing, and Of the
determinations against many and Of
the successes in getting relief when
they went in large bodies and de-
ternlined to fight, All delegates spoke
for the plan of action. Additional
motions were accepted to mobilize the
workers from the bread lines in this
fight These motions were from the
delegates coming from the bread
lines.
Wiseman, District Organizer of the
Unemployed Councils, in calling for
support for the plans for mobiliza-
ton, appealed for finances from the
organizations represented to help
carry through the campaign, which
demands 100000 leaflets from the
Unemployed Councils, besides the
many other expenses. In spite of the
fact that the delegates did not come
prepared, many responded, besides a
collection from the delegates them
selves.
The following decisions were
adopted;
1. That all workers organizations
open up existing headquarters in
the mel ghborhood of the Home Re-
lief Bureau stations, to be kept
open day and night for the next
two weeks for the registration of
the unemployed in the neighbor-
hood.
2. That all workers organizations
assign forces to act as organizers
In these headquarters. to register
on the supporters cards of the I'm
employed Council-to organize daily
protest Open-air meetings at he
Home Relief Bureau stations daily.
3. That the workers In the terri
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11

The National Committee of the
Unemployed Councils has issued the
following directions after an snaly-
sis OF five weeks work in the drive
for 1900 signatures to endorse the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. The Daily prints this important
statement in full.
1. 1--WE emphasize once again the
need for concentrating our main ef-
forts on the development and multi
pneation of the LOCAL STRUG-
GILES around the most immediate
and pressing needs Of the unem-
ployed in the neigboroods, flop
houses, bread lines, etc. against
increasing, widespread attempts to
curtail relief; against evictions; for
more adequate relief; against diseri-
mination and abuse of workers in
need of relief; for free food to school
children, etc.
3. More attention must be given
TO the mobilization of the workers
themselves in these struggles and to
the development in the process OF
the united front committees, elected
by the workers themselves, in the
blocks, neighborhoeds, lighthouses
factories, unions and other places
where workers gather.
3, AL leading committees of the
unemployed movement must con-
sciously direct the struggle in such
a manner as to link even the most
minute issues with our central issue
Each partial struggle must be UNI
deFsteed by the workers who engage
in 1t as struggle for greater meas
ure of security and the Workers I'M
employment Insurance Bill must be
ing the maximum possible security
against unemployment and It's effects
understood as the means OF proYid-
upon the living standards of the
to the present session of Congress, as
workers.
4. Instead of sending a delegate
was originally proposed, we will de-
fer presentation of our demands to
Congress until such time as we have
consolidated and organized greater
proportion of the mass sentiment for
unemployment insurance into con-
scious support of our Bill. Ouch pre-
sentaten will probably take place al
the opening of the next session Of
Congress.
s. In the meantime, we shall
continue even more Systematically
to gather signatures and secure col
lective endorsements for our bill
This shall become part of our daily
activity as means of establishing
contacts with workers and the or
gsnizations of which they are mem.
bers and Of drawing them into tht
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11

They must have their right wing to
keep in contact with the bourgeoisie
and their left wing to maintain con-
tact with the masses. The Music
group representative left wing. When
the Thomass and Hillquits have all
been completely discredited and have
been driven back into the ranks OF
those they support, there will still
remain this infected spot-the Music
ties
Dunno then proceeded TO expose
the recent Music sellouts; the Dan
vile affair, where MuSte's aids called
out the National Guard against the
workers; the recent selleuts in the
garment industry; in Elizabeth and
West Virginia.
All Of these accusations Mr. Music
was unable to answer. His whole
line OF debate was one of attack
against the Communist Party and
the T. q. U. L. He quoted voluni-
nously from Party self criticism, as
though he had made q discovery.
Indeed, the audience nearly laughed
Music of the stage when he said
that his movement was lie aiding the
fight to free Mooney.
None Of the pertinent questions
asked by Dunno were answered by
Music. And when Music completed
his talk the applause was so feeble
that one could scarcely hear 1t. On
the other hand applause shook the
house in favor of the T. U. U. l..
program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
Plan Economics at Cost
OF Vets, Rank and File
Government Workers

WASHINGT0N.-Ba sin g
their whole economy" pro-
gram on a sweeping attack
against the lower paid civil
service employees and wound
ed World War veterans, the House
Economy Committee, meeting with
President Hoover Saturday, agreed
to shift more of the burdens of the
Treasury crisis onto the shoulders of
the workers and government en-
ployes.
More than $1ss, 75e, 600 of the $21o,-
100000 proposed by the committee for
economy will come directly as re-
suit of the Inauguration of a whole
system of wage cuts, mass dismissals,
stagger plan, unpaid overtime, and
repeal of sick leaves and vacations
with pay for rank and file civil SER
vice employees.
The single point on which the Conn
mittee and Hoover were fully agreed
was the refusal to touch in any way
the appropriations for the War and
Navy Departments, Even the pro-
posal to consolidate the two depart
ments was fatty turned down.
A significant feature of the iS
measures for economy was the fact
that the only ones which carried
specific estimates to reductions
in expenditures to be accomplished
were in those departments affecting
the civil service employees and the
World War veterans. The remaining
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
Brooklyn Workers
Force Relief Buro
to Cough Up Aid

NEW YORK.-An elected COM
mittee from the Williamsburg I'm
employed Council on April forced
the Home Relief Bureau there to give
immediate relief for a number of
families in the neighberhood. Al
though the bureau said they would
register no new cases. they we're
forced by the workers to register
these families and to promise imme-
date aid.
The council has held open air
meetings in the neighborhood re-
Gently to expose the starvation plans
of the bosses. The Home Relief Blu
reaus are shutting down now when
unemployment is getting worse. They
do not want to give any help to work
ers who have recently been laid off
The williamsburg committee is fol,
lowing up this victory with the pres
entation of a number of demands fol-
immediate relief and no discrimina-
ton against single, Negro and womer
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
Request That TUUC
Date Be Kept Clear

The District Committee Of the
Communist Party requests that no
other affairs be arranged on Apr.
SOth, In view of the fact that the
Trade Union Unity Council Is
arranging its May Day affair that
night.
This affair of the T. U. U. G.
is of extreme Importance and
must be given the support of every
revolutionary worker of the Or
ganiEation. Other affairs on that
night, even if of small character,
can only interfere with the success
of the T. U, U. C. affair, and this
will only hamper the development
of our revolutionary unions.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE,
Communist Party of U. S. A.
District No. 2.
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items were purposely left vague in
anticipation of the rejection of any
of them that in any way interfered
with the immense parasitic bureau
cracy built up under the imperialist
rule of Wall st.
The economy proposals call for the
firing of all civil service employees
who have been working for a certain
number OF years; for the suspension
of the grants given by the govern
ment to the Federal Vocational
Schools the slash of from $39, 900 600
to 100000, 100000 in appropriations
for World War veterans; the intro
ductien of the five day week for civil
service workers who are hired by the
day; the staggering of the rest by
discharging a certain number every
few weeks and replacing them by
those who have been laid off; repeal
OF all money grants to postal en-
pleyees to pay for delivery cars. and
other conVeyances thus forcing them
to pay for them out of their own
pockets; repeal of right TO annual
leave or sick leave with pay in excess
of two weeks.
Two alternative proposals we're put
forward in place of the section deal
ing with the mass firing of en-
ployees working for more than a
specific number of years. They in
cluded a sweeping wage cut of IL
per cent for all workers getting above
$1,000 year and the abolition of
the Saturday half holiday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
BLOCK eHAIRMEN MEET roBA
Workers Force Relief
Buro to Give F God
Tickets at School Sd

NEW YORK.-Food tickets worth
SIS and in some cases the payment OF
rent and light bills we're forced from
the takers at the Relief Bureau in
Public School 81, after delegation
from the local Unemployed Council
had gone there to demand immediate
relief.
A meeting was held in front of the
Relief Bureau, at which a delegation
was elected to demand relief for six
workers in the crowd. The committee,
after an hours wait. forced Mrs. Hig-
gins, head Of the bureau, to listen to
their demands and to give some food
tickets.
Many of these workers hadtried to
get help for weeks from the bureau
without success, because they made
their requests alone. 1t was the Or
ganiZed pressure of the committee
sent by the Unemployed Council that
forced the bureau takers to cough up
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The Red Corner Book for Children Interna
tional Publishers. S125
BY RUTH SHAW

BY HUIH SHAW
THE answer 10 what you should give your son
or daughter TO read--or any workers son or
daughter, for that matter-is contained between
the gay boards of the Red Corner Book for
Children. Just issued by International Publishers.
1t is a long time since the only other book of
proletarian literature in English, FAIRY Tales
for Workers Children was first published and
in the intervening period the child OF the work.
ing mother and father has had to face many
stern realities Tho words of the ro5e-bush and
the sparrow are no longer adequate to hold the
interest nor answer the questions Of the child
who pckets With his father strikes for shoes
and milk, and who has a thousand questions
to ask about the new workers country, the
Soviet Union
A great gap is therefore filed with the pub
ncation Of the Red Corner Book, which is the
first children's book to appear since the Fairy
Tales, OF cource, one cannot pass over the
New Pioneer magazine, which monthly for nearly
a year has brought stories and news Of workers
struggles to over $4,000 children. Indeed the
popularity of the New Pioneer has shown clearly
the need for more books for the workers child.
And the Red Corner Book is the first answer TO
this need
Appropriately CROUCH, several OF the best pieces
In the New Pioneer are to be found in the Red
Corner Book. There is the story OF the Pennsyl-
vania Miners Children by Myra Page, former
editor Of the New Pioneer; an article by Julia
Davis on "Iramping"; and letter from Frank
spector in prison to his daughter which it should