The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1931, Page 1

: | Speed the Signature Collection Campaign for the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Now! WORKERS | OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII, No. 3 Eatered at New (es cocond-clase matter at the Fost Office York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3. 1879 CITY EDITION ° Price | 3 Cents 12,000 IN HUNGER MARCH ir DETRO T CITY HALL 150,000 British Miners Strike; 30, 000 Out in the Rhur District CLEVELAND JOBLESS TO What Capitalists See for 1931 WALK- OUT IN Bh sce rarely has a new year begun with financial opinions on the immediate future in so great perplexity.”—-A. D. N., in the N. Y. Times. Carl Snyder, of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, says he agrees with Sir Charles Addis, British authority, that the present depression is “the most serious in 100 years.” In 1930, U. S. exports fell off 26 per cent from 1929; imports fell off 31 per cent. A Berlin dispatch to the N. Y. Times states that: “Americar sales to Germany are sure to have a lower value than in 1929.” A London dispatch says: “The coming year’s outlook for revival in mutual trade between England and America is not considered promising.” Another London report says that city is “hesitant” in forecasts, but “Conditions in British market give little ground for hopeful expectations.” From Berlin, general European forecasts say: “1930 is ending with- out any clear sign of world trade revival.” Then it adds, in effect, that capitalists still hope capitalism is not done for, by saying: “The idea that the present business crisis is exceptional, that it foreshadows permanent decline, is rejected everywhere.” Paris reports say: “We are still faced with a cris’s. There is a feeling that we have not yet emerged. It is not felt here that the coming year, at any rate until near its close, will witness the end of this process. There is great lack of assurance.” “america must recover first,” say Rome reports. At Cleveland, Lionel D. Eadie, of the American Capital Corporation, says:-““The unemployment situation next year would be more acute.” Col. Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co., says: “The present depres- sion is deeper than any, though so far not the longest, the depression of 1881 to 1885 having lasted forty-five months.” Ayres is willing to give it time. A collection of opinions from American capitalists in the N. Y. Times is headed as showing: “Temporate Optimism.” Bankers, however, “Ap- praise Future Cautiously.” The Times preludes the bankers’ words by saying that they are: “Even more than usually ‘conservative in their ap- praisals of the economic outlook.” Rome C. Stephenson, president of the American Bankers’ Association, illistrates the above by beginning his remarks with an “If.” Arthur Lehman says: my opinion, will be slow.” Willis H: Booth, of the Guaranty Trust Co., whistles bravely: “We will have to forget our troubles; time will meesure the upturn.” George V. McLaughlin, of the Brooklyn Trust Co., says he—“does not venture to set the approximate date for reversal in the downward trend.” Lewis E, Pierson of the Irving Trust Co., says: “The business spirit of the country is greatly-in need.of a-keying up. Recovery will be slow. ‘This depression in some form may extend well throughout the year 1931.” How the Daily Worker Grows ‘HE Daily Worker circulation is growing every day. But there are still some illusions about how it grows. Some comrades think ‘that it is a natural process which carries itself automatically. That is a. mistake. ‘The Daily Worker grows exactly in the degree that its readers work to secure new readers, to the extent that new subscribers are secured and the money sent in, or new bundle orders established for shop and street sales. ‘And’ While ‘we are ‘growing steadily, yet this growth is not nearly asifast as js easily possible if all our friends will really do a little prac- tical work us each day or each week. We set ourselves the goal of 30,000 new readers before January Ist. But we only got 8,000 new ones during our campaign, and only doubled our circulation in the year 1930. We must do better than this in 1931. And the first step is to really finish that job of getting the 30,000 new readers. The campaign for circulation is therefore extended. And this ex- tension must be the signal for more organized, systematic work. At the same time, we must again report that our deficit is far from being covered for the winter. Money contributions are absolutely neces- sary on a much larger scale. Do your part! PROTEST MURDER |MINERS’ BOARD OF INDIA WORKERS) PLANS CAMPAIGN “We must now await the return of confidence, which, in. | NEW YORK.—vhe following wire was sent late last night to Sir Emse Howard, British ambassador in Wash- ington by General Secretary J. Louis Englahl,, of the International Labor Defense: “International Labor Defense speaking for hundreds of thou- sands of American workers de- nounces death sentence passed against fopr textile workers active in workers struggles Sholapur, » India. American workers d PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 2. — Re- ports showing acute starvation, mis- ery of whole towns of unemployed or part time miners, were made at the Dec. 28-29 session here of the na- tional board of the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union. This is the first meeting of the board since the union convention last July. From Everywhere. A majority of the board members and a fair number of rank and file organizers and active members at- S56 immediate release these and all other Sholapur left wing labor leaders, We demand bloody attacks against Indian worker peasant masses cease.’ INTL LABOR DEFENSE. wet ie LONDON, Jan. 2—The courts of the British imperialist government denied a reappeal on the death sen- tences against the four textile work- ers who were charged with leading it at Sholapur, India, where 43 Indians were given long sen- of imprisonment struggle around the textile at Sholapur has been growing its intensity during the past year the workers finally revolted the miserable conditions im- them by the British and bosses. Many workers were and shot by the police and December 1 a police inspector was four textile workers were with leading a revolt and quickly brought to trial and sen- death. ternational Red Aid (the le workers defense organiza- leading a militant campaign the lives of these workers and ‘upon all militant labor or- to mass protests against “legal” murder of these four class leaders, HILe i ati tended; the session was representa- tive of every important field. William Z. Foster reported from the national committee of the Trade Union Unity League, to which the M.O.S.W.LU. belongs, and national secretary Berich reported for the na- tional office of the union. Both pointed out as weaknesses: anarchistic methods of finance, slow- ness to develop struggles and seize opportunities to lead struggle. These are hangovers of the old “Save-The Union” days, and the idea that only paid organizers do the work must be knocked out. Everybody must or- ganizé, Tash reported on the R.LL.U. con- gress and the Miners International Committee of Action. , Negro, Youth Reports. Hawkins reported on Negro work, Bochus on youth, Kemenovich on organizational points, in which he emphasized especially formation of mine committees. ‘The Mine Worker was thoroughly discussed by all present, and the board took under consideration a pe- tition from some of the locals and the Ohio district conference to change the name of the union, and decided to have a referendum on that. It was decided to call special con- ferences and conventions in all dis- tricts and sections to discuss with the membership the decisions of the national board, GERMANY IS SPREADING Will Involve 450,000; Cook, MacDonald Betraying More than 450,000 coal miners in| South Wales and in the Ruhr mine district of Germany are involved in a fight against wage-cuts. Wales 150,000 are already out on strike and in the Ruhr 30,000 have walked out under revolutionary leadership. | At a delegates conference of all the Ruhr mine union representatives the news of the strike of 150,000 South Wales miners was greeted with wild enthusiasm. Cook, MacDonald Betray. LONDON, Jan. 2.—Over 150,000 coal miners in the South Wales coal min- ing district are out on strike against @ wage-cut made possible by the mines act introduced by the MacDon- ald labor government. The miners, who had bene promised a seven-hour day without wage decreases, were | handed a seven and a half hour day, | and the question of wages was left | up to the bosses. cuts when the new law goes into effect that the miners are striking. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ | Federation, and Ramsay MacDonald, who have been working close to the bosses, hope to be able to call off the strike today after a conference with the mine owners. The main task of the British misleaders of labor is to | keep miners in other sections of the country from walking out in sym- pathy with the South Wales strikers. Cook and MacDonald were able to smash a strike of 92,000 miners about a month ago in Scotland. Cook and MacDonald are banking on the hope that the terrible condi- tions of the miners, due to unem- ployment and starvation wages, will (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Speed ‘Up the Unemployment By WM. Z. FOSTER. Campaign; Fight Starvation! It is based soundly upon the ter- every phase of it. In South | It is against wage- | That there is in many Party districts a serious underestimation of the vital importance of the strug- gle around the issue of unemployment is now plainly manifest. This underestimation is evidenced by the inadequate and lackadaisical manner in which the | Party line on unemployment is being put into effect. The immediate and drastic correction of this weak- ness is of the greatest importance for our Party. There has been a clear line laid down for the un- employed campaign. This includes the establishment of local unemployment councils, the setting up of local united front movements with workers’ organizations. the development of hunger marches and other local struggles around programs of immediate relief, the securing of mass signatures for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, the election.of delegates to present this bill to Congress, the making of prepara- tions for a great national unemployment demonstra- tion on February 10th, etc. A Fight Against Mass Hunger. It is a logical and definite program capable of mob- ilizing mass forces and of developing’ real struggle. It is also well within the possibilities of our strength Concise, detailed directives have been sent out on Nevertheles district is the dency izational weak: rades. There is tain underestima struggle. Kill 8 Imperialist Invaders Se sad | Fight for F Freedom|s iy H cnr From Imperialism REVO UP PANAMA Prem +. .NEW.YORK. — Showing a sharp | revival of the struggle of the Sas e Imperialism raguan masses against the invasion and occupation of their country by | 1Y. anke | armed forces of Yankee imperialism | | reports from Managua state that 8 Not Alarmed | wounded in a two hour battle between| NEW YORK.—Another Latin Amer- | Ocotal and Apali. Associated Press| ican government was overthrown in reports claim that the invaders mur-| the Panama republic Friday, in a U. S. marines were killed and two dered eleven and wounded four Ni-| clash between opposing bourgeois demonstration. They were S. Segal | | caraguan independence fighters. | fractions. President Arosemena was and Sam Katz. Segal was choked | The heroic fighters for Nicaraguan | captured and jailed by the rebels, and beaten up by Patrolman No. freedom succeeded, however, in wip- | Who set up a provisional junta (coun- | 1802. Workers in the line denounced | cil) government. the fighting. Rebels captured arms from the po- | lice station and took the presidential palace by assault in typical coup d'etat fashion. Yankee imperialism does not seem alarmed over the up- set, and the U. S. consul had a con- | ing out the whole imperialist detach- Eight were killedin ment, supposedly busy “repairing a telephone line.” The imperialist forces claim that | Miguel Ortiz, a lieutenant of General | Sandino, was in command of the Ni- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Czarists Promised Money from Boss Gov’ts for More proof of the war plottings against the Soviet Union is contained in a bragging statement issued by “General” Ivan Miller, so-called com- mander-in-chief of the Czarist army remnants. A Paris dispatch quotes | Miller as saying he has 100,000 coun- | ter-revolutionary troops ready to plunge against the workers’ republic just as soon as his imperialist back- ers put up the money they promised him. “We are ready to wage war,” de- clared “General” Miller, “and we await only a suitable international situation and finances which will surely come from one of the pow- ers desirous of seeing Bolshevism crushed.” | ference with Dr. Harmodio Arias, a conservative party leader and wealthy cattle raiser capitalist, who heads the Junta, War On [ ISSR Other members of the Junta are | prominent business men, capitalists, es | and one, Dr. J. J. Villarino, is physi- ; Miller's admission that finances | cian in the Yankee endowed Herrick | “wall surely come from one of the | clinic. Panama City lies only a | Powers desirous of seeing Bolshevism | stone's throw from the Canal Zone, crushed” is additional evidence to | but only a small force of U. S. troops that brought out in the trial of the | were sent to guard the legation, wreckers of Moscow that French, whereas when in 1925 the workers | (CONTINUED ON ‘/PROTE of Nicaragua in Hot Battle AT CITY LODGING rific situation of mass hunger and growing radicaliza- tion of the workers the program effect satisfactorily. is gross neglect of some or campaign being carried on as aggres- sively as it should be. is not being put into In practically every district there all phases of it. In no pecially widespread is the seriously wrong ten- (despite repeated warnings | ignore the smaller industrial towns and to limit the from the center) to unemployment campaign ta the great cities. The | struggle against unemployment is the central cam- paign of our Party, but it is no exaggeration to state that only a fraction of the available strength of the Party is now ‘being used in: the work Into the Fight Against Unemployment! It is idle to ascribe this lassitude simply to organ- ss or to the inexperience of local com- a political element in it—a cer- ion of the unemployment situation and its possibilities tor the development of the class The sooner this fact is clearly realiz ed the PAGE FIVE ST TOMAY NEW YORK.—Tod: the Municipal Lodgings, 25th St. and First Ave. the jobless, led by the Downtown Council of the Unem- ployed, will demonstrate for shelter at 1p. m, at | every night instead of five nights a | prevent | month, as now, for heat on the dock and better food. The police are doing their best to the unemployed there from learning of the demonstration. Yes- terday they arrested two unemployed workers distributing calls for the the attack and displayed their proval of the demonstration. In spite of an attempt by “Soap- box” O'Brien and some Dodge trucks loaded with bread and marked “May- or's Committee,” also “Police Emer- gency Fund” to disrupt the meeting of the Downtown Council yesterday at the Tammany fake agency on La- fayette St., the meeting was held suc- cessfully, One Negro worker with one crutch followed the crowd all the way to the indoor ap- | tho MARCH MONDAY; MILLS OF YOUNGSTOWN CUT PAY Demand Relief, End} of Detroit Mayor’s Forced Labor Threat to Seize Food) Murphy Evades Issue; Fight Is On! DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 2.—Twelve sand Detroit jobless and workers rched on the city hall this after-| noon and waited massed around it while their committee went in to tell Mayor Murphy that if he did not provide relief through the city the jobless would take the bread they need to keep alive. “We will seize food before we will scab,” they told the author of one of the most cruel “relief” fakeries so far developed, a scheme that results in forced labor at starvation wages, intended to cut all wages for all workers. “That will be too bad,” of the determination of the jobless not to starve. He returned evasive answers to all demands for $20 per week relief from the city, with $5 additional for every dependent; for no forced labor, for no eviction and for free food and clothing for the school children of the unemployed He tried to deny fovted labor, but the committee, headed by A. Gerlach, | | proved it to the hilt. When the committee reported to the crowd the mayor’s attitude they were very much dissatisfied with it. They vow to come back here 50,000 strong on Feb. 10, when their signa- | tures for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill are being presented to | congress in Washington. The jobless will also muster full force at the next event in their strug- gle, the great mass meeting at Dance- land Auditorium, Jan. 11, at which William Z. Foster will speak and | where the delegation to take the sig- | natures (which all must collect) to Washington. Meanwhile intensive or- ganization of the councils of the un- employed is the thing. The hunger march today was pre- | ceded by several throughout the city, | in which hundreds joined, and by a mass meeting in Grand Circus Park, from which the march to the city meeting at 27 E. Fourth | hall started. Propose to Shoot Workers Wh Protest Against Unemployment “: British, American imperialisms are financing the war preparations against the Soviet Union, and have promised these agents of black re- action more money just as soon as | plans are perfected for the actual slaughter. Miller said half of his “army” lives in the Balkans and in countries bor- dering the Soviet Union, and the other half is in Paris, under the pa- tronage of Briand, Poincare and other | declared a rent strike, a big force | of Yankee troops invaded the city and bayoneted the workers. Wash- ington officials say that U. inter- | | vention is “unlikely” now. LAUREL, Miss., Jan. 2.—Shooting out-of-hand of any unemployed work- er “whose countenance is not cheer- | ful and happy” or who “in any man- S. | Leading the fight of the peasantry | ner, talk, suggest, intimidate or think | | against Yankee land grabbers. most | that industrial, financial or economic of the Central Committee of the Com- | Conditions are or may become bad,” munist Party are in prison, An/|is the latest method proposed by the American worker, Frank Morgan, |l0cal fascists for dealing with starv- | only recently served six months in |img unemployec Negro and white French boss politicians, and anti-imperialists. | prison for aiding the Communists | Workers in this section, Such a law was proposed at last Rush the $30,000 Emergency Fund to A Triumphant Conclusion ANSWER THE BOSS ATTACK ON THE DAILY The breadlines are growing. In the capitalist press, President Green of the A. F. of L. (an organization said to be very profitable to its of- ficials) expresses great joy because unemployment in December increased | only 5 per cent. He “forgets” to mention that so many are already out | of work that “the normal increase in unemployment at this season of | the year” has simply been trebled and moved up a few months. The | capitalist press absolutely promises that “things are on the upturn” and that everything will be lovely by 1932—perhaps. In the meantime the capitalist press advises the workers to be cheery, to eat the slop handed them in the “charity” kitchens without complaining, and if they must die of hunger, to do so quietly in some out-of-the-way place where they will not offend the sensitivities of the bosses who suffer so keenly from the present crisis that they must sometimes do without an extra motor-car in order properly to bring out their daughters before society, Only in the working class’s own paper, the Daily Worker, is the truth being told about the growing depression. As the Central Organ of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker is helping to change BREADLINES | INTO HUNGER MARCHES. The Daily Worker is fighting the class | struggle; it is helping to organize workers to demand unemployment in- surance, to fight further efploitation, to expose thc’ boss plot against the | Soviet sUnior. and to the fatherland of 1 ‘Id proletariat from imperialist war. The Daily Worker does not fight “for” the working class. THE DAILY WORKER IS THE VOICE OF THE WORKING CLASs. Never have workers needed a voice more. Never has the struggle against us on all fronts been so keen, And never has the capitalist class fought more bitterly to strangle the voice of the workers, to cut off the means by which workers discover the truth of their conditions and ORGANIZE to fight oppression. The failure of capitalist banks becomes a signal to attack the Daily Worker. The Forward, organ of the “socialist” party, adds its little yelp to the chorus. The situation of the Daily Worker is crucial. COMRADES, WE DARE NOT ALLOW OUR PAPER TO FACE SUSPENSION. It is necessary in the struggle. The back debts must be paid. Telephone communications must be opened. The presses must be put in order. THE DAILY WORK- ER MUST APPEAR TODAY, TOMORROW, EVERY DAY. THE $30,000 EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN MUST BE RUSHED TO A TRIUMPHANT CONCLUSION. This is the working class answer to the boss attack on us and our paper. There is a Red Shock Troops Coupon on page 5. Subscription blanks may be obtained from the Daily Worker office, or you can make your own. Rush funds immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 Eas4 th Street, New York, Monday's meeting of the Laurel city commissioners. The commissioners were reported ty be unanimous for adoption. Any worker who insisted on dis- | cussing the mass unemployment and | misery of the workers and attempted to organize the workers to fight against unemployment and for real relief would be declared guilty of a misdemeanor. Under its provisions, ‘the boss paper, the Laurel Leader- | said Mur- | phy, when the committee warned him | THREE CLEVELAND PARADES TO MEET | Dependants of Jobless Join Demonstration; Must Have Food | Jobless, Workers Unite |Both March on Jan. 5 in Youngstown | | In the great industrial cities of: | Cleveland and Youngstown the job- less and militant workers will march. on the city halls Monday and demand immediate relief for the unemployed. | In Cleveland, starting at 5p. m, from three separate points the par=7 ades will converge on city hall and | send in a delegation to make demands The mobilization points are: 30th St. and Central; 30th St. and St. Clair; West 25th St. and Lorain Ave. All workers and jobless are urged to bring | their wives, children and acquaint~ ances. Any worker or member of & workers’ family in Cleveland who is not starving now, soon may be. The bosses and city government will do nothing for the unemployed’ unless they are forced to. Cleveland jobless demand the city turn over funds now meant for big" alaries and items that do the work- jen no good, to make up a fund to | pay each jobl worker $15 a week if single, and $25 if he has a family to support. Youngstown Wage. Cut Workers in the big steel town of Youngstown, where the mills have de= clared a wage cut in agrcement with the fakers of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Union will hunger march Monday at 7 p. m. on the city hall and demand relief. The ‘demands of the jobless are linked | with the demands of the workers whose already low wages have been cut, because the bosses think that 20,000 unemployed in the city give | them all the chance to cut they need. Organizers are proceeding to jing for formation of mill commi |tees and strike against the cut are |being distributed. The appeal of the |league for funds for the struggle has resulted in the first donation, $25 th the International Workers Or- Ambridge, Pa., Naess Monday. MEET TO FIGHT CUBAN TERROR Commemorate Murder of Mella, Jan. 11 NEW YORK —The plans for the workers will hunger Call declares, “City policemen would meeting to commemorate the death be instructed to deal justice at first of Julio Mella and to protest against | day. hand without granting the right of |the terror maintained by the lackey trial.” This justice, the boss paper reveals, would consist of calling on the work- er “to whistle fifteen bars of ‘Glory, Glory Hallelujah’ and dance immed- | jately for fifteen consecutive min- utes.” Upon failure of the starving worker to dance and sing for the bosses’ police, “the officer or officers | are hereby empowered and directed to shoot such one.” PROSSER GANG REFUSES TO PAY SICK JOBLESS | NEW YORK.—“You will not get paid for New Year's Day, and if any- body is sick, he don’t get any pay either. ‘Let that sink into your heads!” said the superintendent of about 150 men working on the $15 a week Emergency Work Bureau jobs at Bronx Terminal Market, yester- This outfit, part of the Prosser Committee machinery, has over $8,~ 900,000 to spend, but has been tight- | ening up in every way lately, making the jobless who have to toil for it more miserable. Work at the market is heavy, unloading cars. The men had previously been nromised nav for Jan. 1, ws governments in Latin America, which is to be held Sunday, Jan. 11, at the | New Harlem Casino, by the Anti-Im- | perialist League and other organiza- tions, were laid at the preliminary conference last Sunday. | “The meeting will demand the in- | dependence of all colonies and semi- colonies from imperialism, We have absolute confidence in the anti- imperialist sentiment of the American workers when we ask of them full support of the struggles of the work- jers and peasants of Latin America ‘against bourgeois and foreign impere ialism oppression.” This was the key- note of the report delivered at the preliminary conference by Armando | Rodriguez, a Porto Rican worker who | acted as chairman. The room was filled with delegates | from many organizations directly af- filiated to the Anti -~ Imperialist League. The secretary reported that the District Executive Committee of the International Labor Defense will actively cooperate to make the Mella Memorial a real success. All branches of the I. L. D, are re- quested to send two delegates to the Ean conference next Sunday,