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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
STATE AND LOCAL.
CANDIDATES OUT
TO START DRIVE
To Speak at Affairs
Throughout NewYork
This Saturday Mite

In some sections of the New York
District the election campaign will
be officially opened this Saturday
evening with banquets, concerts and
mass meetings at which local and
state Communist candidates will
speak.
These affairs are being arranged
with a view of raise funds for the
election campaign and in preparation
for the city-wide conference on May
22nd and the State Election Conven-
ton in Schenectady on June 10Th.
Mass organizations have been re-
quested to mobilize their membership
and also send delegations to these
section affairs. 1t is expected that
they will help make these affairs a
great event in the election cam
paign.
The Harlem Section of the Com
nunist Party has arranged a ban
ffuet to be held at the Esthonian
Workers Club, 1886 Third Avenue, at
8 p. m. Browder, Shepard, Sadie
an cen and other candidates will
speak on the program of the Com
munist Party in the presidential
elections Admission will be 60c.
In Lower Bronx, Section S, the
event will take the form of concert
and dance to be held at 500 Prospect
Avenue, at $50 p m. Admission will
be 35c.
The Brownsville Section has ar
ranged an election campaign con-
cert and mass meeting to be held at
1918 Pitkin Avenue, at p. m. They
have invited all the Communist Party
candidates in that territory and COM
rade Lena Davis will greet the gath
ering in the name of the District
Committee of the Communist Party,
Admission will be 35c.
Comrade I, Amter, District Orga-
nicer Of the Communist Party and
candidate for governor of the State
of New York will greet the workers
who will attend the banquet arranged
by Section Is OF the Communist
Party at 1910 Boston Road, at p.
m, An extensive stage program has
been arranged under the direction
of the John Reed Club. Admission
will be SOC.
Section Seven will have its affair
on May 2lst at the Laisve Hall, As
Ten Eyck Street, Brooklyn. 1t will
be delegated and mass banquet and
dance. Two halls have been secured
for that occasion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
BRONX WORKERS
TO DEMONSTRATE
TODAY FOR AID
To Demand Bread, Not
Clubs or False
Promises

A mass demonstration will take
place today at 2 pm. in front of
the Home Relief Bureau, located at
Washington and Claremont Parkway.
Hundreds Of hungry, unemployed
workers are refused aid daily at this
Home Relief Bureau. The police,
during the recent weeks, modified
in great force, broke up the demon
strations organized by the Brook
Avenue Unemployed Council club
bling and arresting the most militant
workers.
Preparations have been made to
put up a militant fight for the right
of the workers to hold their meetings
in front of P. S. No. AZ.
Leaflets have been distributed,
workers organizations have been Wis
tied, and unemployed workers mobil-
lied for today's demonstration, which
is held not only to demand imme-
diate and adequate relief for the
starving unemployed workers and
against police terror, but also against
the Socialist" party, that is becom-
ing increasingly active in the neigh
brohood as a part of the scheme of
the capitalists to fool those workers
who cannot be dubbed to submission
by the police.
Attend the demonstration today, at
2 pm, at p. S. No. 2, Claremont
Parkway and Washington Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
ORGANIZE SHOE
STRIKE RELIEF
Plans Are Mapped at
Conference

NEW YORK.-Representatives OF
1900 workers on strike from the I.
Miller, Andrew Geller, Elco and Paris
Shoe shops met with delegates of the
striking Has workers, the American
Youth clubs, w. I. r. branches and
the District Committee of the Work
ers International Relief yesterday and
formed Central Strike Relief Com
mittee.
The District Committee Of the
w. I. r. reported that strike relief
is being sent to the strike centers
but that the strikers themselves must
now take leading functions in mob
ilizing for adequate relief.
Arrangements were made whereby
local w. I. r. branches will cooperate
directly with the newly organized
Central Strike Relief Committee in
the collection of food and funds for
strike relief, Two kitchens for feeding
the strikers of 1, Miller and Andrew
Geller are TO be established imme-
diately.
Two thousand tickets for a big
concert to be held at the Brownsville
Labor Lyceum we're distributed. This
concert, for the benefit of the strik-
ers, will offer many attractions in
Guiding plays by the Dram Circle
Group of the Hinsdale Workers Club,
the Workers Laboratory Theatre of
the w. I. R., the Arteff Players and
music and dancing. Alfred Wagon
knecht, national secretary of the
Workers International Relief will
speak. The affair will be held May
%, Sunday at p. m.
The Central Strike Relief Commit
tee will meet Friday at p. m. to
discuss the possibilities for citywide
tag day. Workers organizations are
urged to send delegates.
Workers are urged to volunteer for
the collection of relief funds, to dis
tribute tickets for the benefit affairs
and to aid in technical work
All funds and food for the benefit
of the strikers must be rushed inn
mediately to the Workers 1nterna-
tional Relief, is West 21st Street,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
SHOE WORKERS
MEETING TODAY
Strike Breaks Out in
Passaic

The Shoe and Leather Workers In
dustrial Union calls all shoe, slipper
and leather workers to a mass meet
ing today, Thursday, May IL, at Web
ster Hall, il9 East 18th Street, New
York, between Bird and 4th Avenues,
at $50 pm.
Hundreds Of shoe workers are
already on strike, under the leader
ship of the Industrial Union, against
the bosses lockout; layoffs and dis
charges. The strikes at 1. Miller,
Andrew Geller, Elco and Paris, de-
mand a mass mobilization Of the
thousands of shoe workers in the city,
first to support and defend the pres
ent strikes, and second to prepare for
mass strike in the shoe trade when
the season begins"-is tn statement.
in part, issued by the Union.
THE present strikes in the big
Board of Trade factories are the
signs of the ripening conditions in
the shoe industry for struggle
against the starvation conditions
forced upon the workers by the shoe
bosses, the statement continues.
A delegation of the striking shops
will address the meeting and report
on the strikes. The union represen-
tatives will propose plans for more
concentrated organization drive and
preparations for the coming season.
At the 1. Miller, the police are be-
coming more arrogant from day to
day. They try to break up every
picket demonstration. A Gordon Of
police surround the entire strike
zone. But the workers march just
the same, forming groups on every
corner in spite of the police, demon
strating their solidarity
A strike wac declared yesterday by
the workers of the Grand Slipper Co.
of PasSaic, N. j., against a wage cut
of 20 per cent and against the Yellow
dog contract.
The Union has already established
a local in Passaic. This strike is also
an answer to the runaway" bosses
who moved to New Jersey from New
York. in an effort to escape the
Union. Many slipper shops are stu
ated in Passsic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
JOHN REED CLUBS
CALL WRITER'S TO
SAVE E. BERkMAN
Joint Appeal Issued by
NewYork and Boston
Clubs

An appeal to all artists, writer's
and intellectuals, calling upon them
to raise their voice of protest against
the illegal detention of Edith Berk-
man, was issued by the John Reed
clubs of Boston and New York
The appeal states:
eve stand with the militant work
ers of America against the Hoover
Doak policy of lies. strtkebreaking,
deportations, and terror. We call
upon writer's, artists, and all other
professional workers to join us in
demanding the immediate and un-
conditional release of Edith Berkman,
and the immediate end of the depor-
tation policy"
(SignedD Carl NJ. Carlson,
John Reed Club, Boston.
Oakley johnson,
John Reed Club of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
ARREST 4 JOBLESS
IN RED HOOK
Refused Relief at the
Relief Buro

A committee Of the Red HOOK
Unemployed Council together with
six starving families we're chased out
of the Home Relief Bureau at DegrsW
street Monday and the four rep
resentatives of the council arrested
Police followed up this attack on the
starving workers by raiding the
headquarters of the Council at $50
Hicks st. AS yet the names Of only
three of the arrested, Pete Larocco,
Joe zagarella and Anderson. are
known
The conditions Of the unemployed
in Red Hook are so desperate that
investigators of the relief agencies
who come around to gain in the
empty pots OF the workers have been
beaten up by enraged unemployed
The activities OF the Unemployed
Council in this section where Or
ganization has up to now been
unknown have already won a number
of victories for the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
BUILDING THE MILITANT TRADE UNIONS

putting these tasks into erect in the
very near future.
About two months have elapsed
since the preparations for the drive
began and about six weeks since the
recruiting drive actually started. We
must, therefore, record the steps
already taken by the various unions,
the results, as well as the weaknesses.
Especially must we fearlessly bring
out some of the glazing weaknesses,
so that we check them on time.
Organizational Consolidation
The T. U. U. L. conference stressed
the Importance Of consolidating our
recent gains, to change and perfect
our methods of organization. This
decision is now beginning to take
root.
The Metal Workers League has
shown some serious weaknesses in
giving leadership to its shop groups.
1t is now eliminating this weakness
by assigning leading comrades to
work with the shop groups. We shall
soon check up and see how this de-
cision is being carried out.
In the Marine Workers Union, the
method of visiting ships by the port
organizers is being changed. From
now on, the visiting of ships will be
organized with definite concentration
lines that will be followed up not
only upon their return. but also in
those ports where we have locals OF
the Marine Workers Union.
The Needle Trades Union is now in
process of recognizing certain trade
sections on a shop, building and
block basis.
The Railroad Workers League has
stopped running from one yard to
another and has picked definite yards
for concentration. There is also a
slight beginning in the building trades
in recognizing the opposition groups
on a proper functioning basis.
AS part Of our organizational con-
solidation, the unions are starting a
campaign of getting back those mem
bers who have joined and since
dropped out, to increase the number
Of dues paying members.
The ONCE Workers Union, for ex-
ample, set itself task of having one
thousand dues paying members at
the end Of the drive.
Our Taxi Drivers Organization ha'
the weakest dues paying systrln
During these two months this must
be basically changed.
The Shoe Workers Union is utiliz-
ing this slack period for strengthen
ing their shop Organizations and &C.
t,ylzipssthe; pselnbessmn 10 ~, AZ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

The recent conference Of the Trade
Union Unity League in New York
was a very important mobilization
point for the coming economic strug-
giles Of the workers in New York and
vicinity. The keynote of the whole
conference was: preparation for
struggle.
AS a result Of the increased activ-
tiles of the revolutionary unions, in
dustrial leagues and opposition groups
during the past year, it becomes pos
sible at present and in the very near
future to broaden out the struggle
involving new strstas Of the working
class. In the past period, the TUUL
unions in New York have conducted
many shop strikes in the shoe, metal,
furniture and other industries. At
the present time, it is possible to de-
velop mass strikes in the above in
dustries as well as to make inroads in
the marine, transport, metal, building
and printing industries.
Two Months Drive
The degree Of success in broaden
ing out the struggles depends primar-
lily on our ability to prepare and or
ganize these struggles. When we
speak about preparations, we mean
basically to strengthen ourselves in
side the factories. With this view in
mind, the conference decided to mi
tiate two months mass recruiting
drive-April and May. Above all, the
recruiting drive of the T. U. U. L.
must result in establishing firmer
roots in the factories Of the most i'm
portant industries, such as metal and
chemical, must strengthen the Marine
Workers Union and develop organiza-
ton on the railroads.
AS a result of the recruiting drive,
we aim to broaden our present shop
groups and form new ones. We aim
to recruit hundreds Of Negro workers
into our ranks. We shall further
strengthen our influence inside the
ranks Of the A. F. Of L. and develop
mass unity movements of workers
against the offensive Of the bosses.
Unity OF Employed and JobIess
We must also lay the basis for
bringing about unity between the EN-
ployed and unemployed through TAX
ing serious steps in organizing the
unemployed into the Unemployed
Councils and revolutionary unions
Failure to accomplish this will spell
disaster. OF course we have no illu-
sions that the above tasks will be
fully accomplished in two months.
We expect, however, that the work
done in this direction during these
1e3p spQpths gijl ny tbs BAGS tpE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
Meet of Unemployed
at 81 Graham Avenue

The Unemployed Council of Will
liamsburg has arranged a special
meeting for tonight, pm, sharp, at
81 Graham Avenue. This meeting is
of great Importance. A comrade from
the City Unemployed Council will
discuss the shortcomings in our Or
ganization.
Everyone should come down to
participate in the discussion and help
intensity the struggles for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and immediate relief.
Many workers in the. section have
been refused relief by the Home Re
lief Bureau. These workers are ac-
tually starving. They come to the
Unemployed Council and ask to be
led in a fight for relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
Tenants of LaGuardia
Nephew in Rent Strike

NEW YORK.-A rent strike u
going on at 32l5 Holland Ave, Bronx,
This apartment house is managed by
a nephew Of Congressman LaGuardls
and the name "Laguardia" appears
in the firm name of the realty COM
pany.
Under the leadership OF Williams
Bridge Unemployed Council all the
40 families in the house are organ
ICED in the tenants league and ars
standing fast.
Thirteen of them have received
dispossess notices.
The Tenants League holds open air
meetings in front of the house at
8 p. m. every day. The police have
tried three times to interfere, but
the nailitancy of the workers is so
great they have not been able to
break up the meetings.
The Unemployed Council calls on
all workers in the neighborhood 10
come to these open air meetings,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
sCoTTSBoRo DEMONSTRATION,
IN W. /. r.. NEwsREEL AT ACME

On the same program with Road
to Life" the Soviet tslkie, the Acme
Theatre, 14th Street and Union
Square, is presenting the latest W.
l, r. Newsreel, which contains many
important scenes from the working
class front, Some of the highlights
include: Scottsboro Demonstration in
Harlem. the mass funeral march in
Detroit, Mother Mooney at the Trade
Union Unity League conference and
scenes at Henry Ford'S factory, where
the four Young workers were MUIR
dered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

THURSDAY
win meet at los E; 18th ST., at p. m.
Marcel soherer
win give an illustrated lecture at 2S7
Schenectady Ave, Brooklyn, at p. m.
Bill Haywood Branch, lid
meeting OF the Bill Haywood Branch,
I'D, will be held at lao Neptune Ave,
Brooklyn.
The West Bronx Branch, FSU
win meet at Paradise Manor, II W. Mt
Eden Ave, Bronx. at p. M
Union Workers Club
Comrade Carl Hacker, District Organizer
OF the ND will speak at the Union Workers
club, s57 Westchester Ave, Bronx, on the
"Frsme-Up System"
Sergsi Radamsky
Wal speak on Music and the Life Of
Musicians In the Soviet Union" At the WIR,
10 W. 'iss st., at $50 p m.
The Medical workers Industrial League
VIII have a mass meeting at the Irving
Plssa, Irving Place and 18th ST., at Q pm
Or. B. tiber will speak.
ALI members Of local councils OF the
United Council OF Working Glass Women
are called upon TO participate in the dem
onstration 10 take place at 70 noon in the
fur market, goth st. and Seventh Ave, to
protest against unemployment.
Michael Burd, District Secretary of the
". T. r., viii speak on 1.-THE Role Of the
". I. r." at the Concoop Branch, 270O
Bronx Park East. at Pr m
A special membership meeting OF the
office Workers Union will be held at q
m. at Labor Temple, 14th Street and and
Avenue.
Alteration Plumbers Of the Bronx will
have a meeting at 1880 Southern Boule-
ward, at p. m.
meeting of the Furniture Workers In
dustriai Union will be held at l0s East
18th Street, at 7:3o p. m.
c.s.em No. IS viii haV. an orsani,s-
tisnai talk at ssl Leggett Avenue, Bronx,
at . p. m. All workers Of the neshbor-
hood are invited.
ne srsnr workers Club will meet ct
sss Prospect Avenue. At $50 p. m.
Ben Gold will speak at the fremont
wssksss Club. 2o75 Clinton Avenue, Bronx
at p. m. All workers are invited
comrade Carl Brodsky viii lecture on
the coming elections at the Harlem Pro-
xrsssive Youth Club, 1888 Madison Avenue,
Ind floor. at 8 .. M.
comrado Jack stschei will speak in the
lay room Of Carpenters Local soso, Labor
II ssOnesnpIoymen IN the Buildina In
lustry ana IT'S solution, AL bgfI4tpf i
rsxss sssknnv sss' ityftsk " l@REest-&.1
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

RKo Proctor's 5sth Street Theatre
offers Maurice Chevalier in "One
Hour With You" and Sins Pay Day"
with Dorothy Revier and Mickey Nc
CURE, as its attractions this Satur-
day, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Wednesday to Friday, Bill Boyd in
Carnival Boat" will be the screen
feature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

Drive Part OF Preparations for
Struggle
The present drive of the unions,
industrial leagues and opposition
groups is not a mere drive for new
members, gotten by hook or crook. "
The very purpose of the drive will be
defeated if this will be the approach.
Our major aim is to strengthen our
selves at the point of production and
right there prepare for struggle.
This idea has not yet penetrated
into the minds of many of the unions.
The Building Trades League is one
of the worst examples.
The Shoe Workers Union can serve
as a good example Of how TO Link up
the drive with the preparations for
struggle. A special sho conference
was called; discussion was developed
with regards to the next tactical steps
the union must take and it was de-
cided to begin now to prepare for a
mass strike in the shoe industry when
the season starts. The same thing
can be said about the Knitgoods de-
partment Of the Needle Trades Union.
The Marine Workers Union has
been a mere propaganda organiza-
practically since its birth. However
the union is now beginning to realize
that either it gets into action, or 1t
will disappear altogether The active
participation of the Marine Workers
Union in the present coast-wise long
shoremen's strike is healthy devel-
opment.
One Of the major tasks of the
Marine Workers Union is to build
ship committees capable of develop
ing Job action on board ships, as well
as to develop a rank and file move
'iient in the International Longshore-
mems Association in order to prepare
for the coming wage cut.
Preparation for struggle means or
ganization. The Transport Workers
League failed to understand this and
can therefore be good example OF
how not TO prepare for struggle
nj January the -Iransprt tasls
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
Needle Trades Elections
This Week; Many Meetings

2sth Street for all furriers. The
meeting will work out demands to be
presented by the Committee of One
Hundred, which will go to Kaufman's
convention in Philadelphia for that
purpose.
Knitgoods workers are called on to
elect delegates from their shops and
come also as individuals to the Knit
goods workers Shop Delegates Con-
ference, Sunday, May IS, at noon at
Irving Plaza Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
ARREST 6 WHO
FOUGHT EVICTION
Held for Putting Back
Furniture of Negro
Family

NEW YORK.-Six workers we're
arrested by Tammany cops while
putting back the furniture of an
evicted Negro family at st. Paul and
Third Avenue, the Bronx, yesterday
Not sooner did they begin to lift
the furniture of the unemployed
worker who has been out of work for
many months, and is one month be-
hind in rent, than the uniformed
thugs seized Morrison, Brody, Low
son Of the Unemployed Council and
three other workers sndsplaced them
under arrest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
NOTICE TO ALL SECTION LITER.
AZURE DIRECTORS AND
COMMITTEES

There will be special meeting of
all Section Literature Directors and
their committees tonight, Thursday,
May 18th at so East 18th Street. 5th
floor. No section to fail to be re-
presented.
Dist. Org Dept.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12
IRISH WORKERS MEET
TOMORROW.

NEW YORK.--An important meet
ing Of the Irish Workers. Club will
be held Friday night at 2o72 Fifth
Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

Prepare for the Straw Vote
on the Bonusl .sa.s.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

These Of course are only begin
nings, and we still have a long way
to go in order to change bssically
our organization activities. However,
even these meagre improvements
showed concrete results, as is evi-
dent from the steady increase Of new
members the unions are recruiting.
New Members
January .................. 1o4s
February .......,........... 1858
March ..................... 9oss
-
Total ..........,......... 45oS
Drive Part Of Preparations for
The Washington times., 1932-03-17

morning from Newport R. t. where he attended banquet
given by the Friendly Sons Of ST. Patrick, will be the
guest Of the Washington branch Of that organization at
the banquet they will give this evening at the Nayflower
Secretary Adams to Attend Banquet
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Charles Francis Adams
and Mr. Claude Bowers welknown journalist, will also
guests the banquet when the president of the society
Col Arthur Brien will give the traditional toast 'To
the President of the United States Secretary Adams will
give the second To Erns Offerings and the third
toast To the Day We Celebrate will be given by Mr.
Bowers
The other officers of the Friendly Sons of ST. Patrick
Mr. Martin j. Mcnamara secretarytreasurer and Mr.
Will P Kennedy, historian Membership in this organiza
ton which is political and non-sectarian is limited to
100 and there branches in number of other large
cities throughout the United States.
The New York branch, of which George Washington
was member will celebrate its 148th anniversary this
evening, and the Philadelphia society, which is the oldest
in the country, is celebrating its 161s anniversary
The setting for the banquet at the Mayflower will be
the Garden and Jefferson the walls of which have
been decorated for the occasion with of Ireland and
the decorations of the grdiron table will be in keeping
with the spirit of the day.
The program of entertainment will include operetta
written by Mr. Thomas W. Brahany in which ten members
of the Gridron Club will take part.