The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1931, Page 1

ee S: : : . ; ' | 4 shiver, ane.soon to be forced-into the oncoming war. Ys Your Organization Activiz- ing All Its Members In Col- lecting Signatures for Un- employment Insurance? Dail Central (Sec Entered ‘as second-class matter at the Post Oiiice at New York, N. ander the act of March 8, 1879 Vol. VIII. No. 13 Orda he-Cod tion of the Communist international) 4 un NCD "EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931 _ orker ist Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! CITY EDITION 3 Cents 12,000 HUNGER-MARCH IN CHICAGO; SEIZE FOOD Why the Red Cross Appeal? ‘HE unspeakable hypocrisy of the Red Cross, that has been giving “relief” T to‘starving farmers at the rate of $1.19 per month per family, and con- tending this was “adequate,” has become more stinking than ever. To support the capitalist class against any taxes, which government appropriation might make necessary, the Red Cross head, John Barton Payne, only about a week ago rushed forward to testify that the proposal for $15,000,000 for human food, (itself put forward by other scoundrels tor hypocrifi¢al purpose), was not needed, because the Red Cross had $4,500,000 for “relief” and this sum was “quite adequate.” But this had hardly got through echoing over the country when Payne reversed his, position, and said that $10,000,000 more would be needed. Why? The answer is simple and clear. In the meantime, Hoover and Mr. Fish and Company had found out that the militant program ot the United Farmers’ League was being welcomed by the farmers, that even Communists were “behind” the farmers who refused to starve to death, and finally that armed farmers were demanding—and getting—tood by mass action. K So all farmers should understand that if they do get anything more than the turnips which the Red Cross gave them seed to raise last fall, {t is mot on account of Red Cross generosity, or Hoover's kindness, or of the demagogic speeches of Messrs. Robinson and Caraway, but because they, the farmers, were in action in masses, following the general line of Struggle of the revolutionary wage workers of the cities—the Communists. The Red Cross changed its mind, not because it was afraid that some farmers would starve which it “didn’t know about before,” but because it fears they will not starve to death quietly and peacefully. Yet there’ is still more: Payne makes the new appeal for $10,000,000 more clearly ‘to support Hoover's effort to kill the proposed appropriation of $15,000,000 by Congress—to offset it as “unnecessary.” When it is killed, and whether the $10,000,000 is raised or not—the farmers will still starve unless they organize and act as they did at England, Arkansas. Ih making their fight, they confront the whole tribe of incredible hypocrites which have denied a penny to the millions of unemployed workers, Starving and fighting and dying in the cities. But the dirty hypocrisy. of the Red Cross chairman stands out ‘almost above that of - Hoover. . In the treasury of the Red Cross there is lying idle $38,000,000, In the midst of mass misery from hunger and cold such as this country has ever known, this unspeakable Red Cross has the nerve to not spend a cent {or the purpose it is supposedly organized to serve. And having collected y sum for farmers’ relief and alternately asserted and denied it has enough, t asks $10,000,000. more. And it will try to collect this by gettinf the em- ployers to: rob this much out of the wage workers’ pay checks! Why does. it’ not use some of that $38,000,000 it has on hand? The, answer is simple to anyone who is not a fool. It is holding that in prepara- tion for the war that Hoover is hastily preparing against the Soviet Union, the war that is planned for 1931! It is holding that, for the same reason that Hoover refuses even a cent to starving farmers and workers, while he builds $1,000,000,000 more into warships! ‘The same workers and farmers who are asked to, forced to, starverand Against this whole syst of misery, starvation and war the workers and farmers must fight by first raising demands for immediate relief and adequate social in- surance, recognizing the fact that only a fight carried on to overthrow capitalism and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government can save them from further misery, war and death. “Colorums” tT effort of the imperialist newspapers to make something mysterious and “barbarian” out of the fight of the Philippine peasants for land, would be ridiculous, were it not to serve as a cover-up for mass murder. Regularly and systematically, the Filipino people in general are pic- tured as naked savages lurking in the jungles on a diet of dog-meat and especially addicted to “superstitious fanaticism,” which, when there is “trouble,” marks them down as “colorums” and—of course, entitles them to, be shot en masse by the mercenary imperialist murderers, the Constabulary. It now turns out that the principal superstition afflicting the Philip- pine its is nothing more or less than catholicism, rather unusually connected, it is true, with the “strange belief” that American imperialist and native land grabbers have no right to steal their land upon which they and their ancestors have lived for generations. This tendency is not new in the Philippines. For the Roman Cath- olic church robbery of the peasants’ land was one of the chief causes of the century long war against Spain for liberation, and was definitely con- nected with the fight of the Filipino catholic priesthood for autonomy, for independence from the gredy Spanish priests and their hierarchy of robbers and rapers and land grabbers. We thus see that the religious issue is really subordinate to the fight for land and against imperialist ‘oppression, ‘i f American imperialist rule has only certified the domination of the Roman hierarchy and continued the Archbishop of Manila as a partner, not of the Spanish crown, but of Wall Street. The Archbishop ot Manila ‘is one of those who has had hundreds of peasants evicted from their land. ‘He is reported to be the biggest landlord in the Philippines. And he ‘works hand in glove with the American land-grabbers and their despica- (ble servants, Quezon, Osmena, Roxas & Co., against independence and the impoverished masses, It is quite logical, therefore, that the 1,000 peasants of Pangasinan vinee, robbed of their land by the Spanish Archbishop of the Roman the rol approved by the native politicians of the Supreme and sealed "with the authority of American imperialism, should and raise the demands: Philippine independence from American rule; independence of the native Catholic church, and for their own Tand—by resisting eviction and by burning ot the land deeds. It is to be noted that the Roman Pope remains silent on this ghastly rol and starvation of the devout Filipino peasantry, while urging daily prayers for the “salvation” of Soviet Russia! Byt the Filipino peasantry have found a way more effective than prayer—the cutting edge of their bolos and mass revolt. Ten constabu- lary dogs of impérialism have gone to their reward, and imperialist “jus- tice” now finds'itself trying to “explain” that the 13 girl studerits in the catholic convent who participated in the revolt and are held for murder, are “colorums” and herefore “fanatic savages” who should be raped, _ “water-cured” and executed at once. , Byt all American workers will understand the fairy tale about “re- ligious fanatics” and “colc ” is a cover for mass murder of peaceful but proud peasants who revolt against outrageous robbery and oppression. And every American worker, knowing that his own class in the United tates cannot be free without the freedom of the Philippines, will demand that; will the withdrawal of every American soldier from the Islands, and will raise a protest everywhere at the robbery and murder of the Philippine peasantry! Renort of Editorial Staff At Saturday Meet. ety problem of improving the | MTugele. There will be a report Daily Worker will be brought up | 2¥ A. Landy, for the staff, on the and all readers who came to the | *oblems of the Daily Worker. meeting on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Chen the floor will be thro-yn open ‘830 p. m,, Workers Center, second [F discussion, All working class floor, will be given an unity organizations should send dele- By rates’to present the problems of Pad bey their suggestions. ‘heir organizations so far as the ‘Tiis meting is called by the Daily Worker is concerned in re- vorting their activities. .-Bring your shop mates! Come m time, so there will be plenty of _*pportunity for discussion, Ht i 5,000 Jo bless From All City Lead | the BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—A delegation of five Negro carpenters was sent to the Unemployed Conference hy the A.F.L, Carpenters Local 1888. The local is made up of Negroes. The delegation declared its support of the fight against evictions and for unemployment insurance. One member, Haines, was elected on the delegation to go to Washington. NEW YORK.—The Second Confer- ence of the New York Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insur- ance, which was held at Irving Plaza of Action which calls for indoor mass meetings to be held all over the city on the night of January 16. ‘These mass meetings are being called to ratify the delegates elected to Washington for the presenting of the Unemployment Insurance Bill on February 10 to Congress. The mass meetings will also endorse the Bill and stimulate the activities of work- ers and the organizations to which they belong on the signature collec- tion campaign which starts on Satur- day, January 17, and includes the 18 and 19 of January. The meetings will be held in the following places: Harlem, Thursday, January 15, 8 p. Attack; ‘USSR MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (By Mail). Four of the Gastonia defendants who escaped prison sentences in No. Caro- lina of 15 to 20 years, who are now in Moscow, issued a statement an- swering various attacks carried in the capitalist press of the U.S. The statement declares: In view of the campaign conducted by the socialist and capitalist press, as well as by the leaders of the Civil Liberties Union, we, the undersigned, who have actively participated in the Gastonia strike, arrested for our strike work and sentenced to long term imprisonments, state the fol- lowing: " It is not true that we have escaped ‘Unemployed Meets All Over on January 12, endorsed a Program | ‘Four Gastonia Victims Answer Hunger March jm., St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St.; Bronx, Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m, Am- bassador Hall, 3875 3rd Ave. Mid-Town, Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m., Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. & 42nd St. Downtown, Friday Jan. 16, 8 p.m. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Williamsburg, Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Crisis Will Be Worse in 1931, Keynes Says LONDON, Jan. 13.—Commenting on the huge decline in British for- eign trade for 1930, amounting to 1,670,000, and the worsening crisis in all basic industries in Britain, pushing the unemployed army over the 2,600,000 mark, John Maynard Keynes, one the leading British boss economists painted a gloomy picture of the future of world capitalism. Nineteen-thirty one would be worse than 1930 was the main theme of Keynes speech over the tadio yesterday.. Keynes called for war measures to attempt to pull British capitalism out of the crisis. He said the international financial situation would grow much worse in 1931. Worker’s Land’ capitalist class justice for personal reasons. We are Communists, or- ganized revolutionaries, and we do not act as individuals, we do not act on our ‘own accord or out of personal considerations. We act in the inter- ests of the working class movement. Our actions follow upon the advice given to us by many comrades that | we could be much more useful to the | revolutionary movement by staying out of prison as long as possible, by carrying on Communist! propaganda | and by mobilizing and organizing the | working class, Open Fight on Terrible | published’ by the International Pub-| mn | | SHOR WORKERS MEET THURSDAY, Conditions in Trade NEW YORK —It is now over one) year since the organized shoe bosses | of Brooklyn and New York with the active cooperation of the U. £. Dept. and Shoe “Union,” broke their agree-| ment with the Independent Shoe Workers Union and locked-out 3500 | workers who refused to work under open shop conditions. Since then the wages of the work- ers have been reduced to a starvation level and the conditions in the shops and factories have become so utterly | unbearable that even scabs are re- volting. | working hand in hand with the bosses in getting injunctions -against the workers and cutting wages, has been trying to capitalize on the rs’ | misery by fake strikes and li yur | ing the past year the fake B. and S. has betrayed the workers in every shop where the bosses called them in to put over another wage Cut. Every .shoe and slipper worker should attend the mass meeting ar- ranged for by the Independent Shoe Workers Union, which will be held at the Lorfain Hall Thursday eve, Jan. 15th, at p.m. The shal will be F. G. Biedenkapp,’ SAlex- | anderson, J. Magliacano, J. Johnston. { Workers Bookshop to | Give Big Reductions for Purchases: Now sages NEW YORK.—The Workers’ Book- shop, now located at 50 E. 13th St., is offering 20 per cent: reduction on all! of the books carried in stock, during the week of Jan. 13 to 19, inclusive. All of the Marxian-Leninist: classics | lishers are included’ in this sal Complete sets of the Moscowagtews, containing the proceedings of {he'tria! of the leaders of the counter-reyolt- tionary “Industrial Party,”-are being sold at 15 ‘cents per set. .Twenty per cent reduction on. subscriptions to| | We also know that the: leading (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) Inprecorr, Communist, Communist 3,000 MARCH ON DULUTH CITY HALL; 2,000 AT CLEVELAND FOSTER MEETING (NVADE DULUTH CITY COUNCIL Serve Relief Demands, on Steel Trust Mayor; Big Demonstration. | DULUTH, Minn., Jan, .13.—Three| thousand hunger marchers on the! Duluth city hall sterday. They | Chicago Jobless Send! 100 to Demand Relief | From the Mayor CHICAGO, Ill thousand milita Ji a 13. jobless ~Tw hunge! | marched down the middle of Madison| St. here yesterday, with banners and /| placards and shouting for “Work or Food.” ‘Ten thousand more followed along the sidewalks, and when the} parade stopped at Canal and Madi-| son, a giant demonstration of 12,000] BIGGEST INDOOR CLEVELAND MEET Endorse Insurance Bill} Will Gather More Signatures CLEVELAND, Ohio., Jan. 13.—Tw6 thousand came to mass meeting here walked right into the city gounpil|to 16,000 was held, from which | esterday, at whih Willam 2. Foster mecting. A committee of wmem-| delegation of 100 was elected to goj Wa the main’speaker. They enthus+ ployed workers, read the demands for|to the city hall with demands for) iastically endorsed the Workers Un- immediate relief, and spoke over ‘an| hour to the stee) trust mayor, Snively, and, the council members. The mayor and the counceil-refused | any aid. The demonstrators paraded. and held an organization meeting. at | which many joined the Council of the Unemployed. and signed <he de-| jmand to pass the Workers -Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. The demands for unemployment relief made on the state ~governor Olson in the hunger march-onthe state capitol were read by Karl Reeve and Herman of the state un- jemployment committee, and endorsed by this demonstration. Reeve and Herman were on the committee making demands on the city council. The chairman of the committee of labor and the bosses AFL. Boot | was Hurwitz, of the Trade Union| Unity League. SUPPORT WORKER CENTER BAZAAR Support the New York = Workers Center by patronizing the’ 7-Day Bazaar at 35 East 12th Street.. The bazaar goes on, from 11 in the fore- | The fake Boot and Shoe “Union” | noon till midnight. The restaurant which furnishes best food at prole- tarian prices is open daily. All the profits derived from this bazaar goes for the purpose of the completion of the Workers Center to enable the revolutionary institutions to go on with their work. The moving of the Central Com- | mittee to the new headquarters de- | pends on the success of the bazaar. | All the comrades are urged to popu- larize this affair and to spend their evenings at the Center. There is dan- cing every night. . A donation of 25¢ and 10¢ for un- employed admits you to the bazaar. All articles are sold below~value~as most of them are donated by working class organizations. immediate relief ' Mayor Thompson found it conven- ient to be away, and Breen, repre- senting Thompson, refused to act on} behalf of the unemployed. Eat and Don’t Pay. The masses of jobless felt some-} thing must be done at once, however, and all who could get in packed Rak- lios,, Thompsons, and Child's restaur- rants at the finish of the demonstra- tion. They ate heartily and walked out shouting, “Charge it to Mayor Thompson.” A hundred crashed the street cars and rode away without paying fares The plans of the march had been changed, and the originally an- nounced demonstration at city hall was not intended to be held. How- ever, several thousand gathered | there, anyway. This demonstration was a tremen- | dous protest against starvation, even | though the demonstrators were lashed by cold wind and a flurry of snow. The delegation which went to the city hall was led by Phil Franktfeld, Otto Wangerin, Banks (a Negro un- employed worker). The speakers at the demonstration were Wangerin, Matheson, Frankfeld, Donald Burke (recently released from a jail term given for leading jobless), Louise Morrison, Gray, Joe Dallett (of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League), Bill Gebert, John William- son, Bydel, Williams (speaking for the Communist Party), Satir (for the Young Communist League), Banks, and others, (leaders of the Councils of the Unemployed). 274 At Conference. Sunday the United Front Confer- ence on Unemployment was attended by 274 delegates representing 137 workers’ organizations. There were tepresentatives from 67 fraternal or- ganizations, 3 A. F. L. locals, 13 Trade Union Unity League groups, 5 Youth organizatior=, 23 unemployed coun- T= ‘ches, the Communist Party, the |cils, International Labor Defense \¥. Cc. L., the Young Pioneers, and | workers’ children in school. Settle for your tickets and contribu- tions at the office of the bazaar, 35 East 12th Street, New York City. Comrades are urged to have their lunches at the bazaar restaurant. The conference laid out plans for | Speeding up the collection of signa- ‘tures for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. Drop of 4.1 P.C. in N.Y. State Employment ALBANY, N. ¥., Jan 13—Again all records of unemployment in the state of New York were broken when. there was a drop of 4.1 per cent in factory employment during the month of De- Breaks Record ;cember alone more than 50,000 work- ers lost their jobs and were added! |to the army of the unemployed | “It is now late to talk of prevention | of unemployment,” said Miss Perkins, | employment Insurance Bill, Hun- dreds of signatures were collected for | the bill, and lists were distributed for gatherings of more signatures, This is the biggest indoor demonstration so far held in Cleveland. POLICE ATTACK YONKERS MEETING Jobless Hunger March Thursday at 7 P.M. Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. 13, — The Yonkers police attacked the meeting scheduled for Regis Hall, Monday. The meeting was in protest of brutal- ity exercised on the unemployed dem- onstration last week. The police simply gave another example of bru- tality. Weich and Liss Resist Cops. They lined the streets approaching the hall, and barred all comers. Mil- ton Weich and Liss, leaders of tha jobless, insisted on the right to use the hall, and the cops attempted to beat them up. Workers of Yonkers will not allow themselves to be terrorized and will come out Thursday at 7 p. m. to march on the city hall and demand half the $15,000,000 city budget be turned over to save the 15,000 Yonk- ers jobless from starvation. The same night the police were smashing the unemployed meeting, the city was throwing a $5,000 feed for the rich, who came to eat for the jobless. There is more than a sus- picion that this charity meal is paid for out of the official $100,000 fund being collected for “unemployment relief”. The fund is mainly taken out of the already low wages of those still working. A campaign is on to force workers to give a days work, or half a day's work each week or each month for this $100,000. NEEDLE WORKERS TO DEMONSTRATE NEW YORK. — To show the will, the determination and the power of the many thousands of dressmakers, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is calling for a demonstration on Thursday, 12 o'clock on 36th St. and 8th Avenue. The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union will soon send for the all for the mighty dress strike. In International, Moscow News. cember, as reported by thé State In- | “because the drop has already taken this strike, the dressmakers are fight- dustrial Commissioner Frances Per-|Place.” She said that the drop would ing to put an end to the misery and kins. This means that during De-|Continue at least until March, So | slavery prevailing in the dress trade. | great was the increase in unemploy-|In this strike the dressmakers will ment that the Labor Department had |fight to wipe out piece work, long to make a new chart in order to fig- | hours and sweat shop conditions. In In Los Angeles the police have raided the Daily Worker hedquarters, destroying literature and records. This is apart of the boss Mans ateengt Prosecuted on every front, to fight the working class by destroying the | Daily Worker., Comrades, our class enemies are aware of the importance | of the nswpaper, by which we are enabled to organize against a constantly. | increasing capitalist attack; which answers the boss-lig with worker truth; | toward which the working class fs turning more and more as the struggle | increases in intensity. \ % Every day the boss attempt to smother the Daily Worker becomes | pace cl TERRE colGia tan THE DAILY WORKER SHALL NOT PEND AY. THE 000 Sol $30, DRIVE MUST BE Money from the 7th Anniversary celebration is helping ‘obligations. “It must: be. rushed tothe Daily -offices’ to pay up past: » BUR Police Raid Los Angeles Daily. Worker. Office, Destroying Valuable Records 2"":22 “ WORKER SUPPORT MUST ANSWER BOSS ATTACK ure it out. The great decrease in employment took place in textile, clothing, food, wood and leather goods factories. In) showed a cut of 7 per cent in their working force, The New York figures, which are usually given out bofer those of other states, are an accurate reflection of the growth of unemployment all over the country. The figures in other states vary only in fractions from those of New York. Hence it can be seen that there was a decline of about 4 pay cent at least in employment among all workers throughout the Swere thrown out of Work dur- ing December. WE CAN NOT STOP WITH THIS. Now the Emergency C: P be rushed to a triumphant conclusion, 4 mete or A worker from Buffalo, New York writes: “A short time ago I was handed several copies of the Daily Worker. He tells how the—Daily Worker, the workers’ own paper, interested him BECAUSE IT IS~'THE VOICE OF HIS CLASS. : 2 ens Peale We mXust make it possible for the Daily Worker to reac! member of the working class every day. We must wipe out the ae ficits. We must put the presses in order so that there will be no danger of having to miss an issue because of Some simple mechanical -difficulty , Which could be corrected by the exxpenditure of 2 few dollars... THE CITY HAS MONEY FOR COPS; MAKE IT ‘There Ja\a Refi: Shock Troops Coupon on page 3. Use it! Send all a me toe ee FESO E of ers will meet in Bryant Hall, and FIED |SShore il mect a. 38,n000 Sa ‘ this strike, the dressmakers will fight to establish week-work, the 7-hour 5-day week and to build the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union as a mighty weapon in their day to \day struggles for better conditions, Pledge Support. Unemployed dressmakers met in Union Hall, 131 West 28th Street on Monday and pledged to take part in the demonstration tomorrow, and to mobilize other unemployed dressmak- ers, All other needle trades are also mobilizing. Yesterday at 2 p. m. se’ eral hundred furriers met at Bryant Hall in answer to the call of the Furriers United Front Committee, Thecase fur workers disctisséd ways to com- Moatthe scheines of Kaufman of the International Fur Workers Union to force on them taxes, and pledged to join the demonstration Thursday. ‘Today at one p. m. the cloakm =