The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1931, Page 1

i or ed BA S46¢RRS TS FF Tp Rada Te Saat a » “@ SR RB OD ee Check Up Activity in Signature Collection in Your City. Unemployment Insurance Must Be Demanded by a Huge Mass of Workers Daily, <W (Section of — the Communist ond NO international) orker unist Porty U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIE. No.14 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander act of March 3, 1872 ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931 MOBILIZE TO HUNG ER-MARCH ON C “American Justice!” WORKER ORGANIZATIONS — E horrible roasting alive Monday in Marysville, Mo., of another Nezro victim of boss persecution and terrorism throws a vivid light on colossal hypocrisy and brutality of the American ruling class. This latest outrage occurs at precisely the moment when Socretary Stimson is mouthing his hypocritical protests against the shameful con. ditions revealed as existing in the Wall Street slave colony of Liberia, and when the United States imperialists and their social-fascist agents in the labor movement are prating their damnable lies about forced labor in the Soviet Union. In this latest act of terrorism against the frightfully persecuted Negro masses, the capitalist’ state apparatus throws to the winds all pretense of justice to the Negro masses, all pretense of protecting its Negro pris- oners, all pretense of guaranteeing the constitutional right of trial by jury. Raymond Gunn, accused of murdering a white school teacher, was deliberately handed over by the sheriff to a boss mob traveling in auto- mobiles while he was being taken to court. The justice afforded this most brutally oppressed section of the working class in the capitalist courts is Notortous, but once again the bosses proved that the process of legal lynching was too tame to satisfy their brutal hatred of the Negro masses. They accordingly arranged with the sheriff to meet his car and take over his prisoner. ‘The state militia, mobilized for the purpose of intimidating the Negro population and preventing any resistance to the lynchers, was held in a near-by armory while he lynchers went leisurely about their gruesome work, The boss press for once admit that “neither civilian officers nor a National Guard battegy, mobilized in a nearby armory” offered any resist- ance to the boss mob leaders. This same vicious boss press, north and south, openly supported the lynching, declaring “the guilt” of the Negro victim in their headlines and stories. Apparently there will not be even the usual pretense of “investiga- tion.” The sheriff quite naturally refuses to investigate himself. The judge who was waiting to carry through a legalized and respectable lynch- ing, has “not made up his mind” whether he will bother to call a Grand Jury to investigate “the incident.” The State Legislature of Missouri yester- day kicked out a resolution calling for an investigation on the ground that even such a pretense would imply that the officers and mob were as guilty as the victim, of whose “guilt” there was only the flimsiest “proof. The New York Times not only supported the lynchers in its head- line “Burn Negro Killer on Victim’s School,” but yesterday had the ef- frontery to state in an editorial “All Quiet on the Negro Front” that the solution of the bosses’ “Negro Problem” was proceeding very saisfactorily. ‘And the occasion for this statement is the lynching of another Negro worker! This dirty, lousy sheet of the bosses thus clearly indicate the bosses method of solution for the problem of the oppressed Negro min- rity in this country. The working class must give a smashing answer to this method of dealing with ers must be vigorously pushed. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense must make every effort to expose in advance the lynching plans of the bosses. The entire working class must be mobilized for support of the demands of the St. Louis conven- tion of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, for the death penalty for all lynchers, and for the right of the Negro majorities in the “Black Belt” to decide and control the gévernment in that section, with con- fiscation of the land of the rich white landlords for the Negro and white workers who work the land. Militant struggle is the only guarantee against the lynching terror of the bosses, Masses Out to Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial Jan. 21 at Madison Square Garden “Unemployment can only be solved by war!” Thus the American capitalist class prepares the American masses for another slaughter! Pershing, Wood, Joffre, Clemenceau—all write their “war” memories, to fire the people for another war! ‘The U. S. imperialist government prepares its war budget of nearly @ billion dollars! Airplanes, fast cruisers, gases, explosives—this in face of the “peace” pacts and “disarmament” treaties! The trial of the leaders of the “Industrial Party” in Moscow re- vealed that war is plotted against the Soviet Union! The Soviet Gov- ernment must be overthrown, say the imperialists, as the only “solution ‘the-Negve-minority-question, The work of organizing de- | fense squads of white and Negro workers to physically resist the lynch- of capitalism. eration of Labor. termined voice: Union! Defend the Soviet Union! UNITE AGAINST DRIVE TO DEPORT NEW YORK. — The deportation arive of forelgn-born militant work- | ers carried,on by the Department of | for their defense and will join in the of unemployment,” because socialist production is undermining the basis “Dumping,” “persecution of religion,” “enforced labor”— these are some of the baseless, lying charges of the imperialists, and their hirelings, the socialist and fascist leaders of the American Fed- On Wednesday, January 21 at Madison Square Garden, the masses of New York, in honoring the leader of the world revolutionary move- ment, Comrade Lenin, and the leaders of the German revolutionary workers, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, will give another answer to the imperialists. They will pack the Garden and will declare in de- We will fight against your intervention plots against the Soviet Not a penny for imperialist war—all war funds for the unemployed! Fight for immediate unemployment relief and insurance! Your imperialist war we will turn into civil war! Out to the Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, January 21! Let this be your answer to the enemies of the working class! secution inaugurated by the Depart- ment of Labor. ‘The Sub-Committee against Depor- tations meeting tonight asks of all foreign language organizations to have sepresentatives at this confer- ence at the National Office of the International Labor Defense. LAST 8 DAYS OF THE WORKERS CENTER DRIVE All the militant workers are urged to intensify the Workers Center Drive second conference to be held tonight | #24 make the last 3 days of the ba- at 6p. m, in the National Office of | 2#@r a huge success. Completion of the International Labor Defense | the building and the moving of the where the Sub-Committee against Deportations will meet. When the drive against militant foreign-born workers commenced as * the result of the present economic depression the Department of Labor mobilized all its forces, drafting into thelf service the municipal police throughout the country in arresting workers and turning them over to the immigration officials and then de- ported often to fascist countries. ‘The International Labor Defense has had during the year 1930 approxi- mately 100 foreign born workers to defend before the immigration offi- cials in their @fort to stay the per- oS seas Central Committee to the new head- quarters depend upon this drive. All the Units, unions and fraternal organizations are urged to help us to | | HOLD BIG DRESS STRIKE CONFERENCE ON JAN. 31 ‘HUNDREDS CONFER ON DRESS STRIKE 'Needle Workers Plan Mass Action NEW YORK.—Hyndreds of dele- gates from needle trades shops gath-| Trades Workers’ Industrial Union| for the Strike and Parade Despite Cops | the United Front Conference in sup- | port of the Coming Dress Strike! The | conference will be held Sat., Jan. 31, |2 p. m. in Webster Hall!” says a call sent out yesterday by the Needle jered in Webster Hall last night to, and the Trade Union Unity Council. |lay plans for speeding up prepara- This call was endorsed by the shop 10,000 Demonstrate | NEW YORK.—“Send delegates to Mayor Walker Endorses M me Evictions of Jobless Workers NEW YORK.—Followng the deci- sion of the bosses courts that unem- ployed worker: re more able to bear eviction than the thieving landlord class are able to go without rent, the) landlord hogs of this city, backed bs the police, have started a concerted drive for eviction of jobless and sick workers unable to pay rent. One thousand four hundred forty- three eviction warrants have been issued by the boss courts, and on Monday service of the first batch will begin. The boss tabloid, The Graphic, boasts that these warrants will be served “rain or shine” and jokingly observes: “So, on Monday, Marshall Jacobs’ | deputies will knock on the doors of sixty homes, the warrants will be served, and the family, furniture, pet | of jobless workers has approved the decision of the court. Only the mass action of the work- ers can stop this outrage of throwing unemployed workers with their fami- CITY EDITION ———— ls Price 3 Cents se ITY HALL, JAN. 20 DOZENS OF MEETINGS SPITE OF BITING COLD; ‘R. RALLIES TOILERS TO FEED ALBANY MARCH NEW YORK.—The Workers Inter-| national Relief is now launching al campaign in supoctt of the hunger} |marches to Albany planned by the| Unemployed Council. The hunger| |marchers must be provided with food | and shelter during the long march | }to yresent their demands for unem-| ployment insurance before the State | tions for the coming great dress| Conference held yesterday at Webster | strike, which will be called some time| Hall. Ten thousand needle workers in February. | demonstrated for the demands of the The delegations eagerly discussed COMing dress strike yesterday in the and adopted in the main, proposals| Market, 36th St. and Eighgh Ave. made for the Needle Trades Workers’ Call All Organizations, dog and parrot will be moved into the street.” “Service of the remainder of the 1,143, this boss rag further declares, | “will follow rapidly.” The Tammany: court in denying| delay in the service of evictions on) |Starve. Workers! Don’t stand for it! \¥ lies and children into the street to) government. The workers of New < City and in the countryside, and} Resist evictions! Put back the furni-| citi Industrial Union by Irving Potash. These were for the passing from in- dividual and group to mass prepara- tions for the strike. Beginning Jan. 19, there will be a series of mass \meetings in every section of the |trade, coupled with a “Join the In- rial Union” campaign. At the ne time there will be a series of demonstrations, of which the first was held yesterday. Another will take place Jan. 21 and another Jan. ma: The conference proposed to Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers Members to join the strike, and will | hold sy meetings and con- | ferences for “2 workers; as well as others for in open shops and izations, unions and militant Icc n all trades, othe clothing.and needle trades organiza- tions, aside from the dressmakers, workers’ fraternal, defense, sports, etc. organizations are invited to send delegates to a united front confer- ence, Jan. 31, The call is as follows: “FELLOW WORKERS! One of the most significant labor battles is in preparation. “The dressmakers’ strike set to take place in February is the first organ- ized offensive of the workers since the crisis began. It is a strike against wage cuts, terrific speed-up, and for |the establishment of week work on |the basis of the seven-hour day, five- day week. “This strike of dressmakers now being organized and led by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union in- jvolves a struggle against conditions that every worker suffers from and which the employers of every indus- |try have inflicted upon their workers |piece-meal. Building trades, metal, |marine, textile, shoe workers, etc., suffer. from speed-up, wage cuts, un- |employment. These conditions have been forced upon the workers by the combined forces of the employers, the police, courts, and the American Fed- (CONTINUED ON PA Eb TWO) While the boss government is handing out tax refunds of millions of dollars to the bosses, expending huge sums on war preparations, and at the same time denying adequate relief to the millions of starving job- less workers and poor farmers, hun- ger, cold and disease continue to take their terrible toll among the unem- ployed. In Reno, Calif., sevetal days ago, Jack Kronman, 34, jumped from the roof of the Lyons building, a fall ot Hunger Deaths, Suicides, Disease Take Toll of Jobless “In one county 200 families in a prosperous (sic!) community are esti- mated to be at starvation point, in- dicating much more severe conditions prevailing in even less fortunate areas. Many are unable to travelto the nearest community because they have no shoes, nor are they decently clad.” In New York City and other in- dustrial centers the health authori- ties confess to a huge increase in the sick and death rate as a result of the unemployed, declared: “Here it is proposed to permit ten- ants to continue in possession, for a} limited time though it may be, those who have made it have lost sight of the fact that it amounts to a shifting of a public responsibility upon a single class which is not financially able to bear it.” Mayor Walker who had made an|Prepare International sorts of glib promises that the city Women’s would stop evictions and pay the rent g os Day | NEW YORK —The Communist eT COVERS bee ey cot cee toe UP BANK ROBBERY for Saturday, Jan. 24, at 2 p. m,, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Has New Fake Scheme to Fool Depositors to mobilize the Negro and white NEW YORK—Max D. Steuer, crim- women in shops and factories, in working-class organizations, into a inal lawyer and Tammany politician who admitted he made money United Front Demonstration for In- through stock deals in the wrecked ternational Women’s Day. Bank of the United States, tried to put over a fake “reorganization” scheme at a meeting of depositors in Cooper Union, Wednesday night. When Sol Wolin, one of the mem- bers of the United Depositors’ Com- mittee, representing 20,000 small de- positors, tried to talk on a resolu- WORKING WOMEN MEET JAN, 24TH On International Women’s Day, Sunday, March 8, the working women throughout the entire world will dem- onstrate in international solidarity against unemployment, hunger, wage~ cuts, speed-up, lynching, against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, where working women have real equality. Working women! Send delegates to this conference! es along the line of march, must} ture where evictions have occurred! | be rallied to help to feed, clothe, and| Join the Unemployed Councils in| shelter the marchers on their way to, their fight on evictions and starva-| a} , not only from their own| tion! | po but to demand from the jcities the necessities of life for the] hunger marchers who are represent-} jing hundreds of thousands of unem- ployed wo: This important task faces the Workers International Relief. Every workers organization should set up a Workers International Re- lief Committee, affiliate to the W.LR. and immediately proceed to collect funds. The long march begins in the week of February 10. TORONTO DRESS HSOPS ON STRIKE TORONTO, Canada, Jan. 15.—Hun- dreds responded the first morning,! ‘Tuesday, to the call of the Industrial Needle Trades Workers’ Union for strike in the dress shops here. More are joining the strike every day. The company union is officially sending scabs, protected by sluggers. The company union has been branded as a scab agency at a large mass meeting. The strikers are fighting through, boldly facing and defying the terror of the police and the bosses and com- pany union sluggers. tion exposing Steuer as the attorney for the former State Bank Superin- tendent, Warder, who took a bribe of $10,000 for faking bank reports, he was not permitted to speak, and the Tammany dicks who Steuer had at the meeting pushed him down. Steuer, through his stockholders’ group, is trying to keep back mass pressure of the 400,000 small depos- itors by promising them 50 per cent WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—While 10,000,000 unemployed workers are told to starve, the government is ready to approve another bill for war Add $74,030,000 to War Fund; Demand It for Jobless 70 feet, crushing his skull and break- ing his legs. Kronman was out of work and despondent. He is sur- vived by a wife and a small daugh- ter. He is only one of hundreds of jobless workers who have committed suicide in the past year. In Denver, Col., Frank Pleban, 82, cast on the scrap heap by capitalism, ended his life with a pistol shot in his room at 1545 Larimer St. Conditions in Kentucky are a good example of mass suffering. Here the Red Cross admits: mass unemployment and the refusal of the bosses’ government to provide unemployment relief. The New York Tuberculosis and Health Association admits that “the unemployment situation is causing an increase in tuberculosis. After every period of unemployment, many work- ers and their families have been found to have developed tuberculosis. This has been due to lack of proper food, heat, poor housing and other things.” In the South pellagra is on the increase. Boss Campaign to Conft on their deposits. At first, the Tam- many grafters who robbed the bank of over $100,000,000 promised 100 per cent—now they drop to 50 per cent, and when the report of Broderick, ‘Tammany state bank superintendent, is finally made, the depositors will be lucky if they get ten cents on the dollar—unless the small depositors organize to demand the full return of their) savings. i Many schemes of reorganization have been proposed before, but they are put forward in an effort to stall the angry depositors along. e expenditures antounting to $74,030,000. This bill passed the Naval Affaii Committee of the Hous of Represen- tatives yesterday and provides for the building of one aircraft carrier and 114 airplanes to cost $27,650,000— enough to feed tens of thousands of starving workers; -20,780,000 for one plane-carrying cruiser—enough to buy plenty of milk for starving chil- dren of unemployed workers; and the Red Cross insists -10,000,000 is plenty for millions of starving farm- ers. 17 ond Mislead Workers Intensifies Need for “Daily” $30,000 CAMPAIGN MUST BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION A large New York,department store advertises a sale on knitting yarn so that women can “make sweaters, scarfs and socks for the unemployed.” (Three hanks are enough), The New York Evening Post discovers that the anemployed are eating six meals—a slice of moldy bread and a cup of watery coffee—in the “charity” breadlines. A newspaper advises ‘its readers not to give money to workers who ask for it because it “keeps them from working on the many government building projects to relieve unemployment,” (Try and f d them.) “Jimmy” Walker, Tammany mayor | of New York, who lately advised starving workers to eat ice cream, now helps the eviction of workers and their families in the middle of a bitter winter because his tender heart breaks at the thought of the” “poor” landlords. > Every capitalist newspaper, every organ of capitalism ts engaged on the one hand, in attempting to delude and mislead workers with mean- {ngless promises of fake “charity”; and on the other hand, to dispossess, exploit and take from workers the last necessities of life. ONLY THE WORKERS’ OWN PRESS IS HELPING THE WORK- ING CLASS IN ITS FIGHT FOR BETTERED CONDITNIONS—PUEM- PLOYMENT INSURANCE, WORK OR ‘WAGES, The boss-press, the boss government and boss-business know this. Every attempt is made to destroy or suppress the Daily Worker‘ AS A PART OF THE INTENSIFIED CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE WORKING OLAss. Worker. But, Comrades, the urgency of sary Celebration, the growing circulation and influence of the Daily the situation is not yet sufficiently four submarines at -17,600,000—while |_ realized. Much of the money raised at the Seventh Anniversary Celebra- tion is still outstanding. The $30,000 Emergency Campaign is still lagging. MANY DISTRICTS HAVE NOT YET AWAKENED TO THE IMMEDI- ATE NEED FOR AID IF THE DAILY WORKER IS NOT TO BE FORCED | TO SUSPEND. Yesterday the Daily Worker published a part of a letter from a worker who compared tho Emergency Campaign to a Five-Year Plan. ‘This must be our attitude. To save the Daily Worker is the must imme- diate and urgent task of the working-class in this country.. EVERY DIS- TRICT, EVERY ORGANIZATION, EVERY WORKER must set a quota and a time limit. We have been accused, by a comrade, of requiring 160 days for a two months task. The accusation is justified. There is hardly a district that has not lagged in important work. THE DAILY OR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAY PAST OBLIGATIONS and make it pos- sible for the paper to appear. We must overcome this situation, ‘i THE $30,000 MUST BE RAISED, Turn NOW to page 3. Send the Red Shock Troops Coupon with all that you can spare. Arouse your fellow workers, your organization, your unit, Send all funds IMMEDIATELY to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th ‘Street, New York, a ca : Vow WORKER IS STILL FORCED TO DEPEND ON LAST MINU'TE LOANS | The boss government can find plenty of money for its war prepara- tions, but not a. cent—unless_ forced by mass action—for the unemployed. For this year alone the navy depart- ment plans to spend $142,935,000 to build new war vessels. Demand that the millions spent for war preparations®go tt the unem- ployed in the form of unemployment insurance! Drys of Sabotage Trial Depicted at the Came Theatre| NEW YORK.—The first full ac- count of the first days of the treason trial in Moscow, which aroused world- | wide excitement, is shown for the| first time this week at the Cameo | Theatre. The eight men who were! brought to trial were charged with sabotage directed against the Five- Year Plan and preparation for an in- tervention of foreign powers. Profes- | sor Ramsin, the leader of this group of traitors, and the subsequent con- | tessions of the other defendants, sets forth in much detail their attempts | to undermine the Five-Year Plan. The defendants had established a | secret political party ‘called the In- dustrial Party, which boasted a cen- tral committee and nuclei in almost every branch of industry. The de- fendants confessed also that as a further preliminary to foreign inter- vention, they engaged in espionage on | behalf of foreign countries, particu- larly France. The first full account of the first days of the trial shows the Supreme Court and all the defendants. At the same time as the open ses- sion of the court, attended by thou- sands of workers, was going on, the | population of the Red Capital, | aroused by the treason of these plot- ters, demonstrated in thousands on} the street, showing their attitude to| the traitors and demanding a severe penalty for them. The particularly | ‘Tomorrow's | HVE INDOOR, TONIGHT Ratification of Bill at Mass Gatherings All Over City NEW YORK.—Yesterday the thers mometer hit 11 degrees above zerq which is cold weather for New York, The suffering among the thinly clad jobless, evicted by Thousands during the recent months, barred from the city shelter after five days a month lodging there, wandering the icy streets, was intens Scores of open-air unemployment meetings at breadlines and in work- ing-class sections could not be held. But many were held, the speakers talking to changing crowds, who stood voted loudly for tha Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and then moved on as their numbed feet and smarting hands told them thay had to work up a circulation. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil managed to hold only a short meeting at their usual daily meeting place, at Leonard and Lafayette, but in the course of their activities get eight new members just the same. Meetings Today. Meetings outdoors will be held to- day and tonight at the places pre- viously designated. The mass indoor meetings will be held at 8 p. m. to- and listened, night in: Bronx, Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. Midtown section, Bryant Hall, Siffith Ave. and 42nd St. Downtown, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Williamsburg, Jewish Workers’ Cen- ter, 795 Flushing Ave. Brownsville, Hoffmans 142 Watkins and Pitkin. Besides endorsing the bill and rati- fying the delegation elected at the Jan. 12 United Front Conference to carry the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill to Washington, these meetings will be mobilization centers for the campaign to collect signatures demanding the passage of the bill, and will rally all workers and or- ganizations for the great hunger march on the city hall, Tuesday, at 2p. m,, to present demands for im- mediate relief. March Tuesday. The hunger marchers will meet on Tuesday at points selected by each organization and at central rallying points to be announced later, and will send a delegation in to serve the demands. Mass endorsement of the bill has been obtained from a number of or= ganizations, aside from the unions and leagues of the Trade Union Unity League, which all endorse it. Some of the latest are: Carpenters’ Local 1164 with 1,100 members; Car- penters’ Local 2090, with 1700 mem- bers; Carpenters’ Local 2717, with 1,000 members (all A. F. of L, locals) ; Mansion, | a meeting of 400 members of the Food Workers’ Unemployment Council; @ meeting of 868 members of the Friends of the Soviet Union; Inter- national Workers’ Order Branch 8} Friends of Panover (Armenian work- e Lithuanian Working Women’s Alliance; Roumanian Workers’ Club; N. Y. Branch of League Against Pol- ish Fascism; I. W. O. Branch 47, and a meeting of 900 at New Star Casino. REVERE CO. TAKES BACK CUT TROY, N. Y.—The Revere Shirt Co. of Cohees, New York, was com- pelled to take back wage-cut, for fear of an organized action on part of the workers. Wire Orders for Lenin Edition Hoover is economizing to tide him over the hard winter. Ac- cording to the “New York Am- erican” “Nine Enlisted Men Drive Hoover Car.” In addi- tion there’s a neat little item of $1,264 “to be taken up by the committee handling White House expenses.” Daily Worker readers know that in the Soviet Union such brazen graft flourishes no more. in Memorial edition of the Daily Worker tells the difference between the lives of the Ameriran and Soviet workers. Wire orders today. exciting street scenes at night are also shown in the picture, (60,000 circulation flashes page 3)