The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1931, Page 1

' ’ 3 i Pe ee ee ee ee bl ts all SEPRBdSRPF Geant ty BOTA evto e457 Na 8 A St. Louis Worker Collected 1,250 Signatures for Unem- ployment Insurance. You Can Do As Well. Begin Today (Section of the Communist international) —— pe a Entered as second-class matter at the Post Oftice at New York, N. ¥., ander the uct of March 5, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OF — WORKERS THE WOREQ CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents =a QBLESS CONFERENCE PLANS 180 HUNGER MEETING Filipino Peasants Bravely Fight Against Landlords for Land! Fight the Wage Cuts PEN wage-cutting on a broad national scale is now the policy of the capitalists. The hypocritical Hoover propaganda that wages have been maintained and will be maintained, has served its purpose to help Green and Woll prevent strikes, and now is abandoned. The big boss has spoken. Mr, A. H. Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank, spokesman for the real bosses who tell Hoover what to do, repudiated the “official” pro- paganda of “high wages” and openly called for general wage cuts, in his report to the stockholders yesterday. Wiggin said: “It is not true that high wages make prosperity. Instead pros- perity makes high wages... . American industry . . . may rea- ‘PEASANTS OF Negro Worker Burned Alive as 4000 PHILIPPINES Look On and Police Absent Selves IN REBELLION MARYVILLE, Mo., Jan. 12.—While the bosses police and militia conven- iently remained in the background, of mob of 200 men travelling in eii- pensive automobiles burned a Negro sonably ask labor to accept a moderate reduction in wages designed to reduce cost... .” That is clear enough. A day after Wiggin’s lackey, Matthew Woll, admitted wage-cuts averaging 12 per cent for 1930, under the official \ worker alive this afternoon, while a |huge crowd of 4,000 looked on and | Kill 10 Constabulary Resisting Eviction by cheerea. The Negro worker, Raymond Gunn 6 ene |ageous when he was taken into the Victim Taken by Auto-; scnooinouse. Grimly and without a ; Fat] | plea for mercy he laid down on the ists From Unresisting roof to be chained by the mob lead- Police ers. = | from their eiipensive automobiles. panel vas DeGuat and The lynchers moved with the utmost | pune Wes PROUBR Yeas betes | deliberation, taking their time as if ed around him. He uttered not one} He maintained his contemptuous | silenc towards his brutal murderers PREPARES A COMPLETE SECTION ORGANIZATION TO LEAD THE CAMPAIGN | Elect 10 Delegates, 5 Alternates to Carry Bill te Congress; Push Signature Drive | Workers Relief Offers to Lead Gathering of Funds to Feed State Hunger Marchers assured that there would be no in- cry as the torch was applied by his slogan of “no wage cuts,” we are given the word from the real rulers of America that now we shall have general “moderate” wage cuts. If “no wage cuts” becomes in reality a cut of 12 per cent, we may expect “mod- erate wage cuts” to become 40 to 50 per cent. The war is on! Wiggin’s statement is the official voice ot capitalism, calling for a general, more sweeping, attack on wages. The bosses are determined to double the cost of the crisis to the workers, who already in 1930 paid about ten billion dollars in lost wages. Workers! You must fight against the wage-cuts, or else you will see your conditions of life, even when you have a job, cut to the starvation level of fascist Italy, and then to that of the starving and oppressed coolies of China and India! The fight against wage cuts must be hooked up closely with the fight of the unemployed for reliet and insurance, order to prevent the bosses using one group of workers against the othe: must throw out of your ranks the agents of William G Woll, and of their allies the soczalist party, who work Wiggin, Morgan, Hoover & Co.! Organize in the r unions of the Trade Union Unity League, and in the Unemployed Coun- cils! Fight the wage cuts! “Poetry” and Fascism ‘HE prime mirister of wage-cuts, speed-up, the hangman of the Indian masses, has turned poet. In an article “On old footsteps,” which ap- peared in Sunday’s Herald Tribune, Mr. MacDonald was anxious to prove to the world that, after all, he is made of finer things, and will perform @ flight from politics into the realm of mysticism. ; How come, that on the very eve of general strikes, when revolution 4s growing in India, when the world is in the grip of the worst economic crisis, the head of the British Empire is treating us to a piece of “pure” literature? But the truth of the matter is that the article of “labor” prime minister, when torn of its mystical cloak, is a political expression of the hopelessness that is embracing at present the capitalist world and particularly the statesmen of the declining British Empire. When Mr. MacDonald looks at nature he does not see blossoms and sunshine, but heavy, big clouds and “the trees, like ourselves, had grown old and the axe had been laid to their roots . . . they had modernized it and the modern thing was in decay. The wheel of the mill was rotting.” Why such mystical poetry? Why is this “accomplished” statésman’s poetry full of old age, decay and rottenness? Oh, no—this is not mere “abstract” and “pure” poetry! It is a reflection of the decay and rotten- ness of the capitalist system, made so obvious by the present world econ- omic crisis. The millions of unemployed crying for bread, the teeming millions of oppréssed peoples rising in revolt, make the “gentle” poetic soul of MacDonald read signs on the wall and ask, “whither capitalism?” he in hopelessness seeks peace and “intellectual” consolation in the mystic world. Any wonder then that the concluding sentence of ‘his article is, “Thus the generations flicker in the darkness and go out.” “Capitalism on trial” is the explanation for the appearance of our new poet. The mysticism of the bourgeoisie, their growing patronage of religion, reflect the dying and rotting away of capitalist system. But no class has ever given up power voluntarily or committed suicide. The greater the mystical hopelessness that embraces the bourgeoisie, the more it sharpens its fascist weapons. Mysticism and fascism are the “intellec- tual” and physical weapons of a dying class against the newly rising world Tepresented by the Soviet Union. When our mystic “poet” got through writing his article, he was doubt- Jess more inspired to meet Cook and the mine owners to jointly work out practical plans of attack on the starving miners. INDIA MASSES IN PROTEST AT REBELS’ MURDER M’Donald Government Acts As Hangman Broadcast Lenin Edition Five thousand patients have been admitted to Hospitals in New York in 12 days. Dr. J. G. William Greef, com- missioner of hospitalis attri- butes the large number of cases to “lower resistance induced by the unemployment situation,” i. e. starvation. The Lenin Memorial Edition of the Daily Worker, Saturday January 17, will tell the workers how to wipe out starvation. Broadcast this edition. Rush orders. 60,000 circulation campaign news on page 3, BOMBAY, Jan. 12.—Angered at the execution of four Indian revolution- aries by the MacDonald social-fascist lackeys of imperialism, Indian work- ers an dpeasants held huge protest demonstrations throughout India to- day, clashing with the police in sev- eral cities, A general strike was declared throughout most of the country as a protest against the executions. In Bombay, angry workers, rejecting the treacherous leadership and _ pacifist nonsense of Gandhi, made attempts to set up barricades. Large forces of police and military were sent against the workers, and Tampa Has a Nice Secret Breadline TAMPA, Fla., (By Mail).—McKay, the mayor, and his citizen's commit- the Land Robbers} yas ‘taven trom unresisting police Manila dispatches reveal that an} armed peasant revolt at Tayug, in| Pangasinan Province, northwest Lu- | on, is threatening to spread, follow- | ‘arts captured | for days inflicting severe losses on| the American officered constabulary. | The cause was clearly the decision | of the Philippine Supreme Court up- holding the seizure of the ‘land of | pei nts by the imperialist | Esperanza Estate which co’ | stolen from the peas-| utrageous robdery of the | d and fought | of Peasants, are in Manila. | 100,000 acr everything the have, the peasants revolted. The imperialist press, 1 as usual, tries to make out tha peasants, who are Catholics, are | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BIG « “REASE IN | League Fights Them NEW YORK. — The courts are turning out ever larger numbers of jeviction notices against unemployed tenants. There are three municipal courts in Brownsville and East New York, and in only one of them, the| one at Utica and Eastern Parkway. there were last week more than 300 eviction cases on the books! | The family of H. Friedman, of 587) | Prepare e of mine delegate: Brownsville Tenants ‘cut decision. | cision. { |sadistic tormentors and the flames officers as he was being marched|terference, ‘There. was none. |sadi ntors NEW YORK—The unemployment confer ce last night had 170 into court today to answer the charge| Shingles were ripped from a sec- | “"Veloped his body. | Rew delegates, representing 115 more organizations than at its first of killing Velma Colter, 2 white|tion of the roof, The bare rafters] The crowd of 40,000 lingered long) ™¢ ting. The meeting Dec. 19 had about G00 delegates, representing school teacher. formed an formed an improvised] after their victim had eiipired, then| 750 ganizations, The roof of the one-story school |stairway on which Gunn was led to! they slowly st away from the re ee wee house*where the murder is alleged to| the top of the roof. |scene without interference of any NEW YORK.—A huge united front conference on unente have taken plave was saturated with | Gunn who had pleaded and pro-|sort from the officers of the bosses | ployment, technically the second session of the New York Cam- gasoline which the ringleaders took|tested at first was calm and cour-|law and order. paign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, met last night os eee ee iY Weel ee: ——__——— in Irving Plaza Hall. It was made up of the 600 del ates : 5 who formed the first conference and launched th campaign GERMAN RED MINE|}65 Hatters Join Danbury tec, Dec. 19, plus Gas UNION IS FORMED for Big Fight On Wage Cuts (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLI, Jan. 12.—-At a conference in the Ruhr dis- trict yesterday, it was unanimously decided to launch a revolutionary miners’ union. The decision was wel- comed enthusiastically everywhere. The’ miners are considering a strike which is prevented by the govern- me announcing its still more hameful arbitration d ion. The unions rejecte he capitalist press con- ers it certain that the government will make the wage cut decision bind- ing and that the reformist union lead- ers will capitulate. Over 300,000 min- ers are affected by the wage-cut de- rien ae A cable dispatch to the New York Times from Esen, Germany, telling of 10,000 miners who gathered to form the revolutionary miners’ union, says that the workers are mobilizing the the 6 per cent wage- | Strike; Repulse U.S. Agent DANBURY, Conn., Jan. 12. — After being locked out of the | Polish Hall and the Syrian Hall by agents of the bosses, nearly }one thousand workers jammed two halls to capacity, and| ;overfowed on the stairway and sidewalk, to cheer the fur! strikers and the organizers of the Needle Trades Workers In-| dustrial Union and the Trade®>— Ses Union Unity League. entctiacted The speakers were June Croll, | William Schneiderman, Fred |cut, has greatly encouraged the st. Biedenkapp, and Ray Leven-|€s in the other two shops, the Na |thal, as well as a number of strikers| tional and the Eastern. Funds and who spoke in Syrian, French, Polish |f00d is being collected for the strik- land English " ers, Relief will be given in a few| | Bi for two hours|{2¥S:, Coffee and doughnuts are al-| | The workers stood for two hot 8/ready served the pickets. | jlistening to the speakers, and roared Hatt Must Joi | |their approval of a motion pledging peered eee oes | full support to the fur-workers strike,|_ The hatters are being called to a and condemning the lying attacks of | Hatters mass meeting at the Union the bosses, who are circulating leaf-| m8 | llets raising the bogey of “Commu-| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | ists” and “Orders from Moscow, Rus- |sia,” and quoting the red-baiter,’ Jail Youth for Hamilton Fish. | Selling “Young The audience at the meeting had é < to sit on boxes and improvised bench- Worker” in Calif. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—James Mur- es, because the Y. M. C. A. had used 20 year old member of the its influence to see that no chairs} The | Young Comunist League, was arrested was forced to whi ve in to the demands of the strik-/ rs and return the 20 percent wage- |could be rented for the strike head-_ p! |quarters anywhere in Danbury. | East 98th St., Brooklyn, is faced with | entire working class for struggle, in- /speakers had to address the crowd for selling the “Young Worker,” offi- freezing in the street by an eviction notice dated for January 24th, al- though he only owes rent for the |last two weeks in December. He is a| |militant cloakmaker who has been lout of work for more than fifteen |weeks, during which time his family | of seven children have been close to| |starvation. His wife heard of a so-| |called “Tenant Center”, operated by | a petty racketeer named Gitlin with an office at 304 Stone Ave. and went there, expecting help. Gitlin asked for $2 as a starter, but he was “satis- fied” with the $1 he finally got from Mrs. Friedman and promised all kinds of help to her. Friedman came to the Brownsville Workers Tenant League be€ause he had heard of the militant fighting |methods of that workers organization. |The Brownsville Workers Tenant League has sent committees to or- ganize the tenants of the block into a fighting committee to stop the evic- tion. The Brownsville Workers Tenant |League has its headquarters at 1844 | Pitkin Ayenue i cluding women and working class children. from wheel-barrows as platforms. cial organ of the YCL in the streets. | The victory of the workers in the He faces a year in prison, on the | Chase Bank Head Calls for Bigger Wage NEW YORK.—A wholesale further wage-cutting campaign to affect all workers in the United States is the demand made by Albert Hi. Wiggins, chairman of the Chase National Bank, the largest bank in the world, in a statement to be presented to the board of directors today. | | Wiggins’ appeal to the bosses to cut wages still further is given special prominence in all capitalist newspapers. Wages are “higher than the market situation justifies,” argues Wiggins, and therefore “reduc- tion of wages designed to reduce costs” is absolutely necessary. the workers’ wages have already been cut in one year over $9,000,000,000, the statement by one of the leading bankers shows the initiation of a still greater drive against wages. Besides, Wiggins stressed the necessity of wiping out the revolution- || ary forces of China, India and the capitalists a clear field to overcome the wage-cut drive. It has as its ob; opposition to wage cuts at home, and the revolutionary threa against capitalism in the U. S. S. R., India and China. =, charges of spreading false rumors. He | |was crying the headline of Bank Crashes in the United States, The International Labor Defense is | jdefending him, and will put up a ~| Workers’ Industrial Union will speak | at various places in the market {ers in the same hall }at noon there will be a meeting of DEMONSTRATION _IN DRESS MARKE |Leaders of the Union. to Speak Thursday NEW YORK—“Against piecework _ and long hours and unemployment,” the dressmakers and cloakmakers wil Gemonstrate Thursday at noon in the market, 35th St. and Eighth Ave. All|; the leaders of the Needle Tra This demonstration is in prépar tiul ior the coming dress strike for week work, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, All other trades are mobilized for this demonstration. Today at 1 p. m all furriers are invited to meet in Bryant Hall. Tomorrow at 1 p. m there will be a meeting of cloak Also, tomor ow tailors in Manhattan Lyceum. All the activities as well as the dem- onstrations are arranged to arouse the dressmakers of the open shops and the company union shops to send delegates to the dress strike shop con- ference on Thursday at 7 p. m. at Webster Hall. This conference will adopt all the plans for the further preparation of the strike and for the mobilization of the entire labor move- ment in support of the dress strike. TAKE A LIST TO WORK WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS 4 INSURANCE! Slashes in U S cE to free him. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Flatly contradicting himself, JoJhn Barton Payne, head of the Red Cross, has appealed, to “the public’—not to Con- | gress, for 10,000,000 more to “aid the |drouth-stricken farmers.” A few \days ago Payne firmly asserted that |the Red Cross fund now on hand, of | $4,500,000 would be “ample.” The reason Payne has “changed his mind” and is supported by Hoov- er in this appeal—which will be taken Since Soviet Union in order to give the their crisis. This is connected with jective the smashing of the militant Wilkes Barre Police Attempt to Stop - Sale of Daily Worker RUSH TO THE AID OF YOUR PAPER; SEND IN YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AB-8 2 GepsPed TESA siad fighting in the streets became gen- eral. eSveral hundred workers were injured, many’ of them seriously. Many police were sent to the hospi- tal. Police Commissioner Wilson was Jeered and stoned when he aypeared on the street. street ‘cars and taxis and absolutely tied up traffic in both the native and European quarters of the city. Other huge demonstrations oc- curred in Karachi’ and in Poona, where the executions occurred. In the latter city, huge crowds gathered before the prison to rescue the con- demned men. In Karachi crowds stormed through the city in angry protest at the murders. In both cities hundreds of workers were ser- The workers attacked | tee have established a fake bread- line here, intended to bar out every- body not a cigar maker. The mayor has stated that he does not want any | publicity on the matter. the demonstrations. Today's demonstrations follow a number of significant events, news of which has been suppressed by the British overlords, such as attacks on British and native officials, a num- ber of whom have been killed, with others beaten up by workers. Under pressure of the Communists and the rising revolutionary temper of the masses, the All India Trade Union Congress has been forced to agree to issue a call for @ general The income of the 7th Anniversary celebrations will help meet some pressing bills. However, the comrades must be warned that the money raised be sent in immediately. Un- less that is done we will be in a worse condition than before because we have planned to make payments on pressing bills from the additional income of the various affairs. However, this additional money will not materially break down the large deficit of about $20,000 that still exists. Even today, the day after the affairs, we are faced with a similar situation that we have had for the last month. We had to worry over the payments of just the current every day bills, the Post Office, the composing room wages, etc, We have received word from Wilkes Barre that news dealers have been threatened by the police. This attack by the police is the usual method used to prevent the sales of . the Daily Work + Particularly, in Wilkes Barre, in the an- ree rig Liar sat err eeaneaanrS an melee’ Ae nb aA aa a thracite and also the textile territory, the comrades have been trying to build up the circulation and reach the workers. Unless we get sufficient funds to help liquidate the defi- cit we will be forced to devote all of our time in trying to meet every day the daily needs of the Daily Worker. This makes it impossible for us to build the circulation machinery so that we can put up a strong resistance to new attacks that will be made to interfere with the sale.and dis- tribution of the Daily Worker. This new attack adds a new difficulty for the Daily Worker. Comrades, send in all funds collected. Make every effort to raise your quotas in the $30,000 drive. The open attack of the Fish Committee is followed quickly by the attack in Wilkes Barre, perhaps in other cities. The office of the Daily Worker can. only be able to meet these emergencies through the immediate assitance of the Red Cross Drains Workers for Boss ‘‘Relief” On Farms out of the wages of workers by big corporations, and will not be given by capitalists—is the “urgent messages” trom Kentucky saying that there is danger of “actual starvation,” other messages from Texas that farmers are threatening to take up arms to get food if relie is not forthcoming, and a new threat from Arkansas farmers that they will repeat on a wider scale their action of Jan. 3 unless “relief” is real. Also, the reversal of “opinion” by Payne and Hoover on the “‘adequacy’” of Red Cross relief, is clearly coming from the fear that “Communists” are backing up the sarving farmers in their demands. Hoover and Payne thus have been forced by fear of these farmers “going Bolshevik” to make | another pretense of more relief. The growth of the United Farmers League, whose headquarters are at New York Mills, Minnesota, pointed out by the fascist congressman Fish, is worrying Washington. | Over 100,000 are starving in only) three of Arkansas’ 72 counties, and 3,000 cases are expected by spring. 65 es ue Canadian Farmers’ Demands. WINNIPEG, Man., Canada, Jan. 12. —An evidently spontaeous movement of Saskatchewan wheat farmers, with a “charter of liberty” making de- mands on the Canadian and British governments, has been started at Wilkie, Sask. Some of the demands, such as those against monopolies for farm pur- chased goods, crop insurance at gov- ernment expense and abolition of grain speculation, are correct; while another, demanding price fixing for wheat, is an illusion, and if put into effect lons that have voted Workers’ Unempleyment Ins ance Bill since then and en- dorsed the campaign for insurance and relief. 4 was so t be al- and were main re- am Nesin, loyed Coun- was to re= mittee. is the exact number of de at the time tl discussion from the low. New York District Secretary lin of the Workers Intern: ef reported the Ta ade by the W.LR. to feed er marchers on Albany ance end lace in The confer program for lections, Bronx, H. liamsburg, Brownsy nd to creat the Boro com- uch se s where they do not as Yorkville, Midtown, Ridgewood, Greenpoint, South Brooklyn, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, ete. Basis of Activity. section committees are to re+ all favorable concentration points in their territory, such as fac« tories, markets, employment agencies, charities, etc., and to organize unem- ployed councils and tenants’ leagues. | The conference decided on 180 open= air meetings (places to be announced later) in the period from Jan. 13 to |15. Similarly six mass indoor meet- ings are to be held Jan. 15 and 16 to endorse the bill and ratify the delegation of 10 (and 5 alternates) to be elected at the conference last night to go to Washington Feb. 10. Preparations were made for a huge hunger march on New York City Hall Jan, 20 and for a Union Square dem- | onstration Feb. 10. | Full details of the action of the conference will be carried in a later | story. | The | port Readers Urged to Attend Daily Worker Editorial Meeting The first meeting of its kind, where all the readers of the Daily Worker who are interested in discussing the improvement of the paper will be given an opportunity to voice their suggestions and criticism, will be held Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Workers’ Center, 35 E, 12th St., at 6:30 p, m., on the second floor. This meeting is called by the edi- | torial staff of the Daily Worker. There will be a report on the edi- torial problems of the Daily Worker by Comrade A. Landy. All workingy class organizations are urged to send representatives to discuss closer con- tact with the struggles of these ore ganizations and the Daily Worker. Worker correspondents, too, should come to this meeting. Every part of the paper will be discussed. The main jobject of this meeting is to establish wader capttalism would not) closer connection with all readers an cgranades in the tig. Bush je the farmers, it to draw them into the life of ¢ ee