The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1931, Page 1

ii ake WANTED: Thousands of work- ers to collect signatures for Unemployment Insurance. Collect on streets, at shops and in neighborhoods Entered as sec: at New York. S. ¥.. Ufounict the Post Otice ot March 8, 1878 op -ebnae om ance Party U.S.A. Worker OF CITY EDITION WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3 Cents — | You_vi. 8 41,000 JOBLESS WORKERS HUNGER MARCH IN 4 CITIES The Reds Did It! Who Else Would? ENATOR ROBINSON of Arkansas, democratic champion of Hoover's Billion Dollar navy building “disarmament” treaty, on the floor of the Senate Wednesday revealed that the food riot by starving farmers at England, Arkansas, last Saturday, was not the first one, adding that news of others had been suppressed. ‘The suppression of news Of food riots must, certainly, be a fact, be- cause Robinson’s home is exactly in the same county as England, Arkan- sas, center of the armed demonstration which forced attention and broke through the censorship. ; However, Robinson has a very low opinion of the intelligence of farmers and workers, when he pretends that the outright sentencing to death of the starving farmers, by refusal of Hoover and the Congress to give real and adequate food relief, is due to the “lack of information” of these scoundrels, individually and collectively. Hoover and Congress are “not fully informed as to conditions,” says Robinson. Poppy-cock! Who suppressed the news of other food riots, if not these guardians of capitalism in the seats of power? Why, indeed, 4f Robinson himself knew of previous “trouble,” did not he, himself, speak up before—not after—the farmers themselves with arms in hand, broke through the censorship of Robinson and his fellow capitalists? It. took these farmers to jolt into the field of noisy demagogy, the whole list of brave heroes who come, a bit late, “to the rescue of the victors.” On. by one, Caraway, Robinson, Parks, Heflin and the rest, arise to “defend the starving farmers’—after the farmers have t>ken their old squirrel rifles to market to defend themselves and their ch'Icren against the starvation which these same capitalist politicians had con- niyed at or consented to! No, gentlemen and scoundrels, the farmers are not following you eny more. Mr. Fish, indeed, tells you so frankly, and declares that Commu- nists incited the food “riots” in England, Arkansas. The Daily Worker this time agrees with Mr. Fish. We have received messages of apprecie- tion from the farmers of Arkansas, indeed, Mr. Fish, for our fratern ' guidance in how to fight against all capitalist robbers—and they migh well ask you what you are going to do about it. Mr, Fish calmly ignores even such facts as are presented by his col- - leagues—the inadequacy of the thieving Red Cross “relief,” the vast num- ber of farmers and families literally starving to death, the tragic despera- tion of those whose lone years of toil are “rewarded” by capitalism by ' equally long years of misery and hunger now climaxed by the sight of their babies starving to death before their eyes. To whom, Mr. Fish, should these farmers turn if not to the “Reds,” to the Communists? From top to bottom, from village constable to President Hooyer, the capitalist government insists that these farmers starve to death—quietly é Mr,» Fish is alarmed at the discovery that what he calls “an alleged Com~- munistic organization, the United Farmers League, with headquarters at ' New York Mills, Minnesota, is calling on farmers to organize to fight _ against taxes, interest on mortgages, foreclosures and for cheaper a ‘supplies.” You left out rents, Mr. Fish, a matter of great importance, since it the share-croppers and tenant farmers would all stop paying rent, the government, Mr. Fish, would not have to feed the farmers now starving tc death. What’s the matter is landlords and bankers, Mr. Fish, not the drouth. But so long as farmers are burdened with thieving landlords, bankers, marketing and implement and railroad monopolies, they will be starving. And so long as they starve, the Communist Party will do everything pos- ible to organize and advise them to feht rather than starve to death. lah! The Indian Revolution publishes on the Jast page the second @nd last the HE Daily Worker today part of the Draft Platform of the Communist Party of India; first part appeared on the same page yesterday. Why does the Daily Worker devote this space to the problems faced * by our brother Party of India? Because the Indian revolution, for the democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants in the form of Soviets, is on the order of the day in that vast domain which is the key- sone of British imperialism. But there is another vital reason. The advancing revolutionary wave of the Indian masses will shake world capitalism and will create—no, it already has created—for us, for the American workers and poor farmers, the task of aiding and defending the struggling masses of India. Every worker in the world will be affected, including every American | sentenced to death by the military | worker, and each should understand the forces at work in India. Particu- larly must every Communist acqquaint himself or herself with the tasks of bid Communists of sina! in torehas for rallying mass support in MINOR TO SPEAK |NESIN CASE IS CLEVELAND HUNGER MARCHERS IN FRONT OF CITY HALL LAST MONDAY. Photo by Cleveland Plain Dealer. 15,000 workers standing in a downpour, while the jobless committee is addressing the meeting. Sim- ilar hunger marches are taking place all over the cuuntry. Danbury Fur Strikers Win Shop; Picketing Goes On!) 'Stri'zers Go Back With Full Recognition of) > | DANBURY, “¢ 500 fur strikers : ictually called or e today. cent cut instead DEMONSTR ATE AT GREEK CONSUT \Protest Against White Terror in Greece _ Hundreds of comrades, members 0: | the Communist Party of Greece and militant workers have been thrown into prisons, and’ hundreds of others | have been exiled into different islands surrounding Greece and left there without food and shelter to die, Six members are under charges of treason and the | fascist Venizelos government, i$ de-| | termined to send these six working | class leaders to death, Two Greek Communist soldiers in| the military camp oi “Kalpaki” were court of Giannina, because they dared | to protest against the atrocities of the | fascist military officials, and to or- | ganize the soldiers for the “Defense | of the Soviet Union.” A demonstration before the Greek cana will take place on Monday, noon, at 63 Park Row. The Commu- ike yielded. managers called for a conference yesterday, of 20, and were rejected flatly by the strike of the Central Comtnitiee | l>oedle Trades Workers Union, No Wage | Cu.s and Union Conditions —Sunbiwek: shop was-won by the The fi TI st of the three shops proposed a ten per committee. Now the boss agrees, the strikers go back, without dis-, crimination, and without aj wage cut, they go back organ- lized in the Needle Trades Vorkers’ Industrial Union, and witli an elected shop committee, and they {have pledged $100 for strike relief in| the rest of the strikes. The National and the Eastern are still on strike. | Repudiate Club. The Syrian American Club held a} meeting on the strike with a con-) gressman speaking against the strike and against the Needle Trades Work- | (CONTINUED O} PAGE THREE) | MELLA MASS MEET SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 To rally mass support for the revo- lutionary struggles of the Latin | American workers and peasants, to! commemorate the murder of Julio} | Mella, on orders of Bloody Machado | , of Cuba, a mass meeting will be held Sunday, Jan. 11, at 3 p. m, at New | Harlem Casino, 100 W. 116th St. |and ifs Unemployed Councils, ATTN. Y. BANOUET To Mark CEC Removal to Workers Center NEW YORK.—On the occasion of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party moving into Jork- ers’ Center, workers’ tions have arranged a banquet’ in thev honor. Comrade Robert Minor, who is 2 member of the Central Commit- tee and who was arrested together with Foster and Amter on March ¢ in the Unemployment Demonstra- tion, has been in the hospital since his release for an operation. He has been convalescent, but on this occa- sion Comrade Minor cannot resist and will represent the Central Com- mittee at the banquet. Hundreds of organizations in New York have already elected delegates and have contributed money for the maintenance of the Workers’ Center: All Party units have elected their delegates and are sending contribu- tions towards the building fund. ‘The workers employed in the Bronx Co-operative stores have contributed a half day’s wages each and are send- ing four delegates. All organizations are requested to notify their dele- gates to attend this banquet. Those organizations that have not elected delegates as yet will be represented by their officials. Payments for banquet tickets shall) ‘be made to the Workers’ Center, 4th _ 3% S sim Mm, SET FOR TODAY LL.D. Demands a Jury Trial | NEW YORK.—Sam Nesin, Robert Lealess and Milton Stone will be in special session court today, in the criminal court building, called to tria: withont a jury and facing three year terms for daring to voice the de- mands of the jobless who sent then: into a oard of estimate “public’ meeting here on Oct. 16. Mayor Walker had the delegation, of which these three were members, beaten up in the board room. The three now to be tried were not only badly beaten with clubs and black- jacks, but are charged with assault, insulting the mayor, etc., all of which means that they simply asked that money now spent by the grafting city officials, turned over to the bankers, or handed the labor hating Police, ke used to feed bint starving unemployed. All jobless workers should be at Franklin and Lafayette St. court to- day, at 10 a. m, to attend this trial. The LL.D, demands a jury trial. SPEED-UP TAKES TOLL BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Melvin Camp- bell, 26-year-old laborer, was killed when the bucket of a steam shovel Struck him as he was working in the come, UbM Of the Catskill water tunnel, ANE acca | nist Party of District No. 2 calls upon all workers of New York to demon-| ihe auspices of the Anti-Imperialist | strate against the white terror and | League, will have among its icekers| for the Freedom of the two Commu- | Robert W. Dunn and J. Louis Eng- nist soldiers and of all class war) dah], Admission is free. prisoners. The meeting, which is called under NEEDLE TRADES BANQUET NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is holding The article on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New Jersey ALL OUT TO DAILY 7TH ANNIVERSARY Saturday ‘five at the St. Nick Rink NEW YORK.—The workers of New York, realizing the importance of the Daily Worker as their chief weapon | against the starvation sentence im- s the D. & B. whose} posed by the bosses upon over ten million workers thrown on the streets to starve, and on many others forced to work part time for starvation wages, will rally to the defense of the Daily Worker this Saturday night and will make the Seventh Anniversary Celebration at St. Nicholas Rink, 69 W. 66th St., a gigantic mass demon- | stration against the attacks on the Party and its press by the notorious Fish Committee and other fascist groups, ‘The struggle a imemployment | and for real jobless relief, as’ ex- pressed in the hunger demonstrations now taking place over the cou! all ‘y, under the leader- | ship of the Trade Union Unity League will | find further expression in Saturday's night demonstration as leaders of the Communist Party analyze the situa- tion facing the suffering masses and outline the program for action in the coming weeks, In addition to addresses by these veteran lead of the working cla: there will be lent program of revolutionary music. All workers are urged to come to St. Nicholas Rink this Saturday night | as an expres ssion of their support of | the Daily Worker, their solidarity with the movement for real unem- ployment relief in place of the fake charity hand-outs, bread-lines and taxes on the meager wages of em- marches and| OVER 12,000 BROOKLYN UNEMPLOYED IN WIGHTY RELIEF DEMONSTRATION; COLLECT SIGNATURES NOW FOR BILL REFUSE T0 HEAR ROLPH EXCUSES Delegations From All) Over California in Hunger March SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 8.—Ten | thousand unemployed, with delega- |tions from all over the state hunger | | } | | marched on the capitol building yes- | terday and demonstrated for imme- diate relief. Governor Rolph refused to hear the elected committee of the jobless in |chambers. He asked to speak to the |demonstrators. The demonstrators | came right back at him by refusing | | to listen to him. | For one hour the crowd demanded | that Rolph hear the committee. They met Rolph with cries: “We'll | fight! We won’: starve!” Rolph could | not speak, The committee then called upon; the workers to march to the city hall | plaza, and 5,000 marched, singing ; Workers’ songs, and pledging to con- tinue the fight for immediate relief | for unemployment insurance. Many | are signing the lists, demanding that | | congress pass the Workers Unemploy- | ment Insurance’ Bill to he presented | Feb. 10 in Washington. 150,000 Welsh Miners | Still Out; Expect New Strike Wave in Ruhr London cables report the strike ot 150,000 Welsh miners unchanged,| | with MacDonald appealing to the} mine bosses to compromise in order to avoid sharper class battles. The Lancashire cotton mills are nearer to a complete stoppage, with 500,000 faced with lock-out for re- fusal to accept a. wage cut and speed-up. | (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 8.—Certain weaken- ing in the Ruhr strike front is evi- dent under pressure of police terror Many Denicnceae in Bronx and Before Tammany Agency Brutal Police Attack | Hundreds of Cops Club As Meetings End NEW YORK.—Over 18,000 workers and jobless, mostly jobless, staged a day of demonstrations all over the city yesterday which for militancy and determination have seldom been equaled. Demands for immediate re- lief were carried to Bronx and Brook- lyn Boro Halls, were served on Tay- lor, Tammany politician in charge of |the Welfare Department office, were forced on the directors of the Salva- tion Army slop lines and the muni- cipal flop house at First Ave. and 25th St. The streets of Brooklyn, Bronx, Harlem, Downtown and Midtown sections rang with the singing of “Solidarity” and the shouts for \“Bread or Work” by thousands of hunger marchers. Overawed Cops Attack. The police, overawed by the size and militancy of the mass demon- strations, went easier at first than is their custom. Only the Harlem | {CONTINUED ON PAGE BIG BERLIN ANTI- FASCIST PROTEST, Hundreds of Thousands} in Funeral March THRER) (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 8—Hundreds of} thousands took part in the latest) | demonstration of workers seen here in recent years at the funeral of the worker, Willi Schneider, one of the two workers murdered .on the first | of January by the Berlin fascists. The police adopted an extremely | provocative attitude towards this | powerful demonstration. The singing | INVADE CAPITOL | OF MINNESOTA Milwaukee Jobless in Great Hunger March on Common Council BULEETIN, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan, 8— Over 1,500 signatures of the In- surance Bill have been secured here in two days, and 20° have joined the Council of the Unemployed in in that time. ae aes ST. PAUL, Minn, Jan. 8—Ten thousand workers stormed the state capitol buildin~ *-~ ‘erday while the Farmer-Li .. Party faker Olson was being inaugurated as mayor. Hundreds burst into the session and forced Olson to see them, and to agree to another meeting with the jobless delegation Thursday at ten a.m. Many of the demonstrators had hunger marched in a body from a point ten miles away in Minnea- polis, George Powers, of tte executive committee of the Trade Union Unity | League, acted as spokesman of the delegation, and presented the de- mands for immediate relief, through a fund of $26,000,000 to be approp- viated by the state legislature. Olson’s answer was to stall. ‘The demands were adopted by the workers in hall meetings previously and right on the steps of the capitol. The state house rotunda rang with the cheers of the jobless, and with singing of Solidarity and the Inter- national. Hundreds of signatures were taken | for the Workers’ Unemployment In- | surance Bill, and the campaign fot thousands more will go on. Milwaukee Jobless Demonstrate MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (Delayed in transmission)—A huge demonstra- tion was held here by jobless and militant workers, Jan. 29. ~ 2p, m. at Haymarket Square (where 25,000 workers were attacked by the police on March 6) a tremen- dous mass meeting was held under and the treachery of the reformist | of the Internationale was the signal’ the gyspices of the Trade Union leaders. However, that a new strike wave will ensue | owing to the collapse of the negotia- | tions, Fequent collisions between ikers and scabs and police took place. going on, About 80 per cent of the | miners are out in the most important | | pits in Silesia. | The police beat down hun- | At two points in the demon- | into the Reichs- dren. dreds. stration the police fired crowds wounding 2 workers. icated by the Anti-Fascist League and the Red Aid, refusing bearers admission to the crematorium. Flood of Fake “Relief” Moves Aim to Keep Back Class Fight an afternoon banquet, Jan. 18 at 2.30 p.m, at 1844 Pitkin Ave. to raise | funds for the coming dress strike. is omitted today. The tenth article in the series will appear tomorrow. \ GOING! The Arkansas farmers, fighting, armed, against starvation, look for- ward to the Daily Worker to help mobilize the workers and farmers for struggles@gainst starvation. Farmers from England, Arkansas, sent in a $5 donation for the Daily Worker and $3 for Red Sparks. $3 was collected among a group of forty starving farmers. They report that the Daily Worker is spread among the farmers and that they look forward towards it regularly. This donation does not save the Daily Worker but is a striking exam- ple of what the Daily Worker means to not only the hungry marching, unémployed workers in the cities but to the starving farmers on the land. The Daily Worker is the only weapon the workers have for mobilizing and organizing, ps ini He: attack om -fhe-ackery by: the peliea during the: hunger: marches sane Sha mete tents are) mt pris pe ee ployed workers, and as an answer to the anti-working-class program of the Fish Committee. Organizations should attend en masse with their banners. Workers! Give your an- swer to the Fish Committee! Sup- port the revolutionar; your right to organize and fight! ay As the hunger marches throughout 7 aN the country increase in strength and ORGANIZE TO END) wititaney, showing that the workers STARVATION; DEMAND) win not starve quietly, the boss poli- ‘RELIEF !! ticians, socialists, democrats and re- Battling Arkansas Farmers Send Contribution to Daily Worker THE “DAILY WORKER,” WEAPON OF OF THE TOILING MASSES MUST*BE KEPT RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS! is the answer the bosses give the workers when they demand food, when they begin to fight against starvation, The bosses are using every means to intimidate and fuol the workers. The capitalist press is again be- ginning to headline promises of employment, relief, etc. We know these are fake and again the Daily Worker is the only paper that not only exposes these but gives the program of action and struggle for the workers. The deficit still endangers the existence of the Dafly Worker. From day to day we still do not know whether or not the paper will come out. We are again resorting to tempordry loans, holding off pressing bills, look- ing forward to an increase in the contributions for the Emergency Fund. Workers, join in the fighting spirit of the unemployed, hunger march- ers and the militant fighting Negro and white farmers of Arkansas. Rush all funds immediately to the Daily Worker, fe 80 East ith Sizech N. Xe Gs EN a 5 Si } aa ay Anh be Sekt Mi sah a ne Socialists, Tammany Fakers Want to Protect Bosses’ Profits; Communists Lead Real Struggle for Jobless Relief publicans, together with the A. F. of L., are proposing fake unemplo;*>-nt insurance schemes to keep the work- ers from struggling for real relief. Foremos. the bill backed by the New York A. F. of L. providing for two days’ work to all unemployed at $5 a day until May. This bill will never pass, and is not intended to Bo t 1. Gov... Roos proposing that the matter will be “si~ tied,” v° ‘ch is in agreement with the sponsors of the bill. ¢ the same time the socialists are s‘irting a sim‘'** sham campaign for “unemployment -ance” which will be more agreeable to the bosses t..an the workers. A signature drive was initia.cd, with much publicity from the ce’ “list ¢ All these measures have one aim: to keep the workers from organizing to force through unemployment in- surance and relief at the expense of the bosses. They are means of, pro- tecting the bosses’ profits and to keep the wkers starving. ‘The Communist Party is leading a real fight for unemployment insur- ance .by mobilizing the workers in of force the prospect is| for the clubbing of women and chil- Unity League and Unemployed Coun- cil. After listening to speeches by Nels Kjar and N. Ross, a Hunger March to the City Hall was formea | | and a, delegation elected to see the Mass dismissals of strikers is | banner leaders rejected wreaths ded- | : Common Council, then in session. Hundreds of workers joined the hunger march and thousands were waiting at City Hall, At this dem- onstration in which more than 2,000 workers. participated, the speakers were Ed. Mehmer, U.C.; A. Phillips ; R. Hansbrough, The. workers resisted the attempt (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) U.S. 10 DEPORT 100,000 JOBLESS Puppet Governments Aid Scheme YORK.—Under NEW the fake |scheme of -“repatriating” destitute ;| unemployed Latin American workers in this country, the Amezican bosses, together with the consular offices of the Latin American puppet govern- ments and aided by the steamship lines, have prepared a vast plan for the deportation of at least 10,000 Latin American workers who, it is claimed, are now receiving starvation aid from the bosses’ charity organ- izations. “AN those applying for relief at their respective consulates or through established welfare agencies, as well as those discovered to be in need by social workers,” who are again ex- posed as spies of the bosses, will be deported. In this way, the bosses hope to pre- vent organization and struggle on the part of the unemployed workers. The same scheme is being carried out in the Latin American countries, Brazil alone having deported 286 Portuguese jobless workers on Jan. 5, with plans to deport -