Page THE MILITANT Saturday March 22, 1930 Business Men Jeer COLD COMFORT FOR WORKERS IN Parade of Jobless LOAN SOCIETY REPORT Where To Buy The Militant LOS RAIL CLERKS ASK SIX HOUR DAY IN NEW PACT CHICAGO Workers on the Chicago Eastern Illinois, represented by the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, are demanding a hour day in the new agreeSAN FRANCISCO (FP. About 250 Cold comfort is held out to the nation report is the smallness of the sums, lack ment to follow the one that expired March jobless workers, augmented at the City Hall millions of underpaid and unemployed of which drives workers into the arms of 14. They also demand eight hours pay for by crowd of several thousand, have workers by the yearly report just issued the pawnshop fraternity. Of the nearly six hours work and in addition want an marched again to demand work or wages of the Provident Loan Society. After an 500, 000 loang made last year, almost 18, 000 increase of cents an hour on the hour from the city authorities of San Francisco. nouncing 498, 537 loans made Yast year, were for to 4; 38, 000 were for to 9; basis.
Once more they were fobbed off by vague The largest classification of workthe amount of which, 44, 032, 832, was 46, 000 were for 10 to 14; about promises of municipal work when 5, 000, ers now get for eight hours, according greater than in any previous year, the 35, 000 were for 15 to 19; and nearly as to system chairman Hallihan of the 000 city bonds are sold.
report predicts another year of increased many were for 20 to 24. Fifty three per Brotherhood.
It was a pitiful procession, nearly all activity and usefulness. Apparently the cent of all loang were for 49 and under.
men in overalls and worn working clothes, society, which makes its money out of the final touch of grim humor is added SEATTLE One unemployed demonone man on crutches, a handful of women, want of the workers, does not look forward to the society report by the announcestrator was given 60 days in Jail, 32 were one with a baby in her arms. As they to any improvement in employment or ment that among its ex officio members fined and three released when cases aristrudged down Market St. preceded and fol wage rates.
are Mayor Walker and Police Commissing from the March demonstration were lowed by a row of mounted police, well Incidentally the report throws light ioner Whalen of New York, who sent poheard in court.
dressed people on the sidewalk jeered and on the enormous profits made In the lice armed with tear gas and machine booed at them.
money lending game, even when on a res guns to break up demonstrations of the The workless, headed by Harold Har pectable and legitimate basis. Nick city unemployed.
vey, demanded unemployment insurance, named the Philanthropic Pawnshop. the emergency relief, a hour day and day Provident Loan Society was organized in PITTSBURG PAPERS INCOMPLETE week, no overtime so that jobless men 1894 to lend money to needy persons at ON WESTINGHOUSE RECORDS ANGELES, Calif. Western News could have a chance, no eviction for non no greater rate than per month or Box 604, Arcade Station.
PITTSBURG. Westinghouse broke all payment of rent, abolition of the vagrancy fraction thereot. or 12 a year. The supSAN FRANCISCO, Calit. McDonald 65 law. The supervisors met them on the city posed legal rate of interest in New York recordsin sales billed, orders booked and Sixth St.
hall steps, and the mayor made another in state is annually, but this does not earnings in 1929, was the glad news in the WASHINGTON, Gale ok Shop gratiating speech which did not sit well apply to pawnbrokers.
financial columns of the Pittsburg papers. Tents St.
Profits were 27, 062, 611, equivalent to a with the workers. We didn expect anyBig Profits for Loan Sharks PITTSBURG, Pa. A News Co. 220 dividend of 10. 15 a share.
thing when we came here. said Harvey, Federal St.
The 12 per year which the society Other Westinghouse records broken and we are not disappointed. When we CHICAGO, ILL. Cheshinsky Book Store, charges the unfortunates who come to it come again it will be to take what rightduring the year, which the Pittsburg 3720 Division St. Horsley Book Store, for loans resulted last year in net earnpress did not see fit to print, include: Re 1623 Madison St. Walden Bookstore, fully belongs to us. We don want sympaings of nearly 2, 275, 000. of this amount, cord uncertainty of employment; record 311 Plymouth Ct. Britscke Store, 1611 thy; we want relief.
nearly 1, 000, 000, 000 went to pay inSaidichi Kenmotsu, arrested Dec. 14, wage cuts, and record speed up. Kedzle and on various newstands terest to the holders of nearly 20, 000, 000 SPRINGFIELD, ILL: Joe Angelo, 431 No.
has been ordered deported to Japan as a worth of gilt edged certificates of conΦ We. sy St.
Communist. He is out on 3, 000 bond and STATE JOB FIGURES CONTINUE tribution. which are practically bonds on BOSTON, Mass. Shapiro s, Beach St, Four will appeal to the federal court.
DECLINE the misery of the borrowers. It is also near Washington, Andelman 284 Treother radicals are held in San Francisco Interesting to note, states the society, NEW YORK Despite every effort of Pres. mont St. Newsstand, 38 Causeway St.
for deportation, three Russians and a that over 6, 000, 000 of the outstanding Hoover and Sec. Davis to pump lite into ROXBURY, MASS. Goldberg Store, 636 Greek, certificates of contribution are held by 120 the Hoover prosperity corpse, the figures Warren St.
As an indication of the unemployment educational, religious, charitable land continue to give them the He. Employ DETROT, MICH. Aidas Book Shop. 1713situation in San Francisco, recent statephilanthropic institutions.
ment is still on the downgrade in New 24th St. and on various newsstands.
ment made in a private conversation by In its 35 years of business the Phil York state, according to the state labor MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Engelson News an official of the Industrial Assn. 18 sigAnthrophic Pawnshop has grown from one department. The index number of emCo. 234 2nd Ave. So.
niicant. The association, father of the rent free room on the ground floor of the ployment in Empire Stat actories areKANSAS CITY, MO. Buehler Book Stor American plan in Central California. 20 West 12th St.
United Charities Building, to 15 offices, liable barometer of industrial activity, ST. LOUIS, MO. Foster B conducts an employment agency for skilled 13 of them in buildings owned by itselt. slumped contrary to the usual seasonal Store, 410 Washington Ave.
workers, particularly in the building trades From 20, 804 loans in its first full year of gain of between January and FebruPHILADELPHIA, Pa. Newstands at 19th non union men, but still workers. Noroperation, it has increased to 498, 537 in ary. In only two other years since 1914 and Market, Cor. 15th and Market, mally about 500 apply every month, and are 1929. In the whole 35 years it has made have factories cut forces in this period in Cor. 13th and Market, cor. placed anywhere in the west where Jobs are 11, 253, 932 loans, totaling 599, 271, 213. 1919 and 1920.
Warwicks News Depot, 262 11th St. 11th open. Last month 1, 500 applied, and just 18 Earnings on these loans amounted to The decline since November has and Market, cor. 5th and Market, men were given jobs. 26, 988, 086. In addition to paying regular pulled employment down from the fall cor. 5th and Pine Sts. cor. Interest to certificate holders, a handsome peak, announces Comm. Frances Perkins 9th and Locust Sts. cor.
DESTITUTION PALL OVER NORTHEAST surplus of 10, 626, 071 has been accumuBO that February was lower than any NEWARK, Alter Stand; 58 Prince PHILADELPHIA St fated, of which nearly 2, 000, 000 is invested other February since 1914. The index of PHILADELPHIA. Destitution wide in real estate.
employment now stands at 92. compared SCATTLE, WASH. Raymer Old Book spread in northeast Philadelphia, Beat of Store, 905 Third Ave.
Reveals Workers Extreme Poverty with 100 for 1925 27.
the city textile industry. More than 2, 500 TACOMA, Wash. Raymer 1317 Pacific St. As in any pawnshop, would be borrowSt.
are on strike against wage reductions in hosers are compelled to leave pledges in SAYS MUSIC WASTED ON FUTURE TORONT. ONT, CANADA: On varlous lery and carpet mills. Welfare associations the form of clothing, furniture, watches, WAGE SLAVES newestands.
are unable to cope with demands for reor other goods that can be sold it the MONESSEN, Pa. FP. This suburb NEW YOR. On various newsstands in Het and appeals are being made for pri loan is not repaid. Increasing hard times of Pittsburg and flet of the steel trust New York and Brooklyn; Biederman Bookvate charity, but the big dailles refuse to are shown in the rise in number of cases through its subsidary, the American Steel store, 20 Ave and 12th St. Rand okstore, notice the situation.
where the pledges are sold at auction, from Wire Co. will no longer waste its taxes on East 15th St. The Milltant, 25 Third Ave.
less than in 1927 to slightly over providing an acquaintaince with art and CALGARY, ALTA. CANADA: Boston News CHESTER, Pa. Two workers, Ray in 1928 and 1929. The same trend 18 music for children designed to be mere Co. 109 8th Ave. West Peltz and Charles Holmes, have been shown by the drop in surplus realized for wage slaves.
In addition to the stores listed above, The Militant also can be obtained through charged with sedition as the result of borrowers in these sales from 85, 000 three Presumably under pressure of the members and branches of the Communist speeches they made to the unemployed be year ago to only 70, 000 last year, while American Steel Wire, the school board fore the Ford plant gates in Chester. George League of America.
losses from sales falling on the society has installed an efficiency expert who has Carter, a Gastonia defendant, was given went up from 20, 000 to 35, 000 in the promptly fired 26 teachers as an economy 10 days in jail for speaking to the Ford same time.
measures and eliminated the art and music JUST RECEIVED!
job hunters.
One appalling feature of the society training meagerly granted in the public school system. These subjects have no practical value, he explained.
In protest the school superintedent has. Entertainment and Dance :resigned. This school district has a rule The Bulletin of the that no teacher is allowed pay during sick Opposition also ness unless she reports to a physician. IN RUSSIAN) WORKERS HELP JOBLESS CONTAINS LOS ANGELES Two hundred Jobless The Articles on the Presented by The Militant Players union printers were given work when members of Typographical Local 174 voted to. THIRD PERIOD. OF THE glve up one day work every two weeks.
The 300 will get in four days each week, MISTAKES OF THE at the according to Pres. John Dalton.
COMINTERN MILITANT HALL BY ALBANY, new threat to the 35 THIRD AVENUE (Near 8th Street)
already crippled 48 hour law for women Trotsky 1e offered by the Miller Bill providing for Admission 23c AII Welcome the day, 10 hour shift. Under various 250 each 18c in Bundles Aucyices. New York Branch, Communist League of America (Opposition. exemptions, women can now be worked Order From 49 3 hours week in New York state on THE MILITANT the hour bable.
26 Third Avenue, New York, NY.
THS MILITANT, Vol. III, No. 12 March 22, 1930 Published weekly by the com munist League of America (Opposition) at 25 Third Avenue, New York, Subeription rate: 00 per year; foreign 50. Five cents per copy. Bundle rates, centaper copy. Editorial Board: Martin Abern, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, MauIce Suector, Arne Swabeck. Entered as second class mall matter November 28, 1928, at the Post Omice at New York, under them of March 3, 1879. Total No. NO. Money Wins SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930 at p.