The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1931, Page 1

~ A St. Louis Unemployed Work- er Secured 2,500 Signatures Through His Individual Ef- fort. Have You Secured 250, or Even the First Twenty-five? \ - Dail (Section of wa the Com nan ist rs ist interna sor Seo Porty U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VII, No. 19 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Of at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187° © SB a NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21 city EDITION Price - Cents _ MASSES OF NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED BATTLE POLICE er *enin Memorial---A Fighting Memorial EVEN years ago today, Lenin, the leader of the revolutionary workers and peasants of the world, died. Just five years before his death oc- ) curred the savage murder of two leaders of the German working class, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, at the hands of the social demo- cratic murderers of the workers. Seven years after the death of Lenin, the workers and peasants have not time to mourn—they are in the midst of struggle for which Lenin in his life work laid down the policy and method. Today, with 25,000,000 workers unemployed in the capitalist countries, with tens of millions of the poor and tenant farmers in a state of poverty, with world imperialism preparing gigantically for another imperialist slaughter—with China and India in revolt, and the workers and peasants of the other colonial coun- tries in rebellion against the economic crisis that is pressing on them, the teachings of Lenin become ever more vivid. Never before in the history of the United States was Lenin so, much the leader of the American working class. The economic crisis, which has thrown 10,000,000 Workers into the streets to starve and put millions more on part-time; which has cut wages to, the bone, and is speeding up the workers at inhuman speed. The economic crisis, which is pauperizing al- ready poor farmers, driving them off the farms, and torcing them to shoulder rifles and go to the cities in search of food for their families. The economic crisis, whose bottom has by far not been reached, and which is forcing Amerio «a imperialism to search for markets in tne hope of getting out of th% crisis, and hence is bringing it into the sha-pest clash with British ivperialism. The crisis which is affecting every capitalist country, while the Soviet Union, with its proletarian government, is puild- ing up socialism and is collectivizing the farms—brings forward tne snarp- est challenge of the system of the proletarian dictatorship with its >ising plenty and culture to capitalism with its misery and degradation for the qnasses. ‘The struggle in this period of imperialism is not only against the im- perialists an‘, their government, but also against their fascist allies, the soe ist party and the fascist leaders of the American Federation of Labor, wh, iccept and support these attacks on the workers—who intensify them, as the best tools of capitalism. The struggle is one in which the leader- ship of the Commsnist Party comes to the fore; in which the masses ot workers ‘and pauperized farmers recognized the need of organization and struggle, and seeing in the Communist Party the leadership that gives organization and policy, follow the Party in the struggle against misery and imperialist. war. Against imperialism, they turn to the Soviet Union, which despite ‘all lies Of capitalist and socialist lackeys, stands forth in this day as a beaton light. When they look at the Soviet Union, they cannot but think of tie leader of the Party which led the Russian workers and peasants to yic- tory—Lenin; of his policies and tactics for the revolution and looking at America today, the workers and poor farmers are recognizing ever more. that the policies of Lenin, that the Party of Lenin, the Communist Party, are their only guide. ‘Therefore the fear of the Soviet Union, the eagerness of the capi- talists to keep Lenin’s teachings from the masses. But on this seventh anniversary of Lenin’s death, his teachings are more’ alive than ever. And on this seventh anniversary the workers declare: We Will Not Starve—We Will Fight! We Will Fight Against Imperialist War! We Will Defend the Soviet Union Against All Intervention Plots! if Imperialist War Comes, We Will Turn It Into Civil War, Destroy Capitalism and Establish the Rule of the Workers Through a Sovict Gov- ernment of the U. S. This the workers have learned through the Russian Reyoluiion, as against the lies, misleadership a treason of the socialist and A: F. of L. leadership, Thus Lenin is alive today = the mind, determination and struggles ot workers throughout the world. This neither.Fish, Walker, Rockefeller, Woll, Hoover, nor Norman Thomas can suppress. Conditions make for revolution and these conditions are ripening. The Communist Party ot Lenin is molding the will and providing the organization of the workers for struggle against thg conditions of misery and starvation and for vic- tory over the ruling class, 1931 is the fateful year of war against the Soviet Union-it is likewise the fateful year of the destruction of capitalism in more sections of the world and the establishment of more Soviet Republics. The Lenin Mem- orial is a fighting memorial—a day of mobilization and demonstration—a day of revolutionary inspiration and preparation for struggle. oe to the Lenin Memorial! Demonstrate in masses! lepesd pickea y Square Garden resound with the working class answer to Fish and, jo uke imperialists threatening war on the Soviet Union! “Dear Max”---Alias “Red Whisperer” E.2®, oh, where, are the charges about the “whispers” by “Reds,” who blew over the Bank of United States? It turns out that “Dear Max,” as Mayor Walker addresses Attorney Max D. Steuer, was the one who not’ only told his wife to withdraw $54,000 from the bank on the day before it closed, but insisted, when she was halt- persuaded by a bank official to leave the deposit, that she not engage in “conversation” but “get the money.” “Not conversation, but money,” should be the Steuer family motto. At least one of them, since Steuer, who addresses Tammany’s Mayor, Mr. Walker, as “Dear Jimmy,” has another motto, directed to the Tammany leader. That is, the very significant motto: “Command me!” That was the words he used in conclusion of a letter sent Walker. Mr. Steuer had his orders, evidently, when he struck a pose as a heroic defender of depositors. And again when he horned in as an “investigator” of the Tammany bank. But, what hypocrites are these! They and their “socialist” pals of/ the “Forwards,” all chiming in with great headlines and stupid but ven- emous lies to the effect that the Communists had “whispered” and the im- pregnable fortresses of capitalism had fallen into ruins! So the “Red Whisperer” was Mr Max D, Steuer, attorney for Vice Squad detectives who framed up women; attorney for Mr. Warder, bribe taker Superintendent of Banks, the “Dear Max” of the Tammany Mayor! So the “Red Whisperer” who upset the banking system of the United States, was none other than Mr. Steuer, who insisted that his wife with draw not only part of the $54,000 she got early in the last day the bank was open, but commanded her to get the rest after the bank had closed and thousands of poor workers were storming the doors behind which Mrs. Steuer was taking out the last cent of the $54,000! That $54,000 was a part of the loot—the loot taken by “those in the know” before the workers lost their life's savings! ‘Taken by a Tammahy henchman “commanded”--to use his own words—by Mayor Walker. Taken by these almost incredible bank robbers who loot the bank from the inside and then try to escape-by turning their guilty fingers toward “Red whisperers.” Let the workers learn this lésson! Let them understand that those who attack the “reds” and who pose as tinsel heroes are the same who rob them, lie to them, and club them with police blackjacks when they venture to protest! Look at this rotten mess, workers! This is the picture of capitalism! | : defeats CHINA ANTI- RED DRIVE IS SMASHED 900,000 N anlinaTtoops| Useless Against Communists With more than 900,000 troops com- pletely paralyzed by desertions and the Nanking government, headed by Chiang Kai Shek, is forced to admit the disaster and ruin of its | enti-Red drive, according to a cable to the New York Times, dated Janu- ry 19, from its correspondent in shanghai, Hallett Abend. “Nanking’s anti-Communist cam- ; Daign in Kiangsi province continues to be disastrens for the govern- ment,” cables Abend. “There have been minor defeats and serious de- , | sertions on the part of the soldiers, while the selidarity with which the reasontry is giving its support to the Reds is complicating the situa- tion.” The report goes on to say that the entire army of 900,000 men led per- sonally by Chiang Kai Shek, whe so bembestically announced the smash- ing of the Communists by April first Rally to Lenin Memonal at Madison Square Garden Strike Committee in Session Tomorrow; Struggle Nears NEW YORK.—Yesterday noon, the {Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union carried through four open-air meetings for the dress strike prepara- tions, These meetings took place on (36th St. and Eighth Ave, 38th St. \and Seventh Ave., 23rd St. and Sev- jenth Ave. and 27th St; and Seventh | | Ave. Masses of dressmakers attended. Because of the miserable conditions in their shops they are preparing to irespond to the call of the Industrial | Union for the dress strike. | Today at noon the Industrial Union {helds six open-air meetings for the dress strike, on the following streets: 36th St. and Eighth Ave., 38th St. | and Geventh Ave., 335 W. 38th St., 38th St. and Seventh Ave., 236 W. 26th St., 119 W. 25th St. The slogans and the demands ot the union in the coming dress strike and military situation which prompts the government to maintain so many | troops at present in camps.” The | troops are kept in camps to keen them fro mgoing over to the side ot the Red Army, This latest the analysi nrevicusly information confirms published severe! times ed drive. ilure now In flict, thi opens fhe way ed victories for the Soviets in latest for in- Alderman Moves for $10.000,900 for Jobs NEW YORK.—With the roar of the hunger marchers in his ears, Alder- man J. C. Baldwin, ropubti terday stated he would introduce motion to appropriate $10,090,000 for emergency jobs to the unemployed. Baldwin proposes to take this mon from the city sinking fund appropria- tion—which last is in line with the demands of the jobless. c: ‘has been “eized “with a curious palsy,” | Aste : ‘while the.“Communists keep up their | “il! be dispiayed on many placards gains.” . at ‘these open-air meetings. Every et th~ ren ig Street meeting will be a demonstra- Thet thr “list government is | ‘afraid of i tve~-*, among whom. tion for the strike. . The fight-against. the -Comniw: hove been carrying Dec?-Work, long hours, ban condi- op effective ~:ar-enda, is also ad- | “ins. is one every needle worker must mitted in this Intest report. “It ic | fCt Into. believed to b>» dictvsbed politica, This evening dressmakers and all (CONTINUED ¢ on pAGH TWO) 6 Open Air Meetings at Noon ‘Today Prepare Dress Strike WHERE TO SIT AT MADISON SQ. MEET All workers are requested to be in | their seats at Madison Square Garden no later than 8 o'clock. WOMEN’S COUNC]L=— Boxes 1-17; Lower Arena 1-5; Up- per Arena 1-5. YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE— Boxes 20-36; Lower Arena 6-9; Up- per Arena 6-9. FEDERATION OF WORKERS’ CHORUSES :— Boxes 37-60; Lower Arena 10-18; Upper Arena 13-15. NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS IN-| DUSTRIAL UNION— Orchestra A, B, C. D, E, E, F, G, H. | SHOE WORKERS IND. UNION AND FOOD WORKERS IND. UNION Orchestra J-N. WORKERS CLUBS— Upper Arena 28-34. | EX-SERVICEMAN'S LEAGUE— | Boxes 97-120. | UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS— Lower Arena 20-36. PIONEERS AND INT. WORKERS ORDER CHILDREN’S SCHOOLS — Boxes 61-95; Lower Arena 19-27; Upper a he 27. DISCIPLE. 7 A BOLSHEVIK DUTY; HOLD RANKS occasion for the exaction of revolu- tionary discipline. ‘The mecting must |be orderly—it must show the discip- Jine and order that workers conscious AT LENIN MEETI 3. All other comrades upon ente?- ing the Garden shall take their seats and remain there. 4. No literature shall be sold in the | j ball except the Daily Worker, Young | Demonstrate Against | Fish, and for Jobless Insurance All out to Madison Square Garden tonight, is the slogan of thousands of workers, as their answer to the! and plans} | against the Soviet Union, | for the outlawing of the labor move- | | ment proposed by the Fish Commit- | | tee. In honor of the memory of V. I. ;Lenin, greatest revolutionary leader jof all times, of Carl Liebknecht and} Rosa Luxemburg, two heroic fighters |against imperialist war, murdered by | the German social fascists, the New York working class will mobilize to |smash the feverish preparations of war against the Soviet Union, and} |for tha defense of the revolutionary organizations against being outlawed NEW YORK.—Worker witnesses heard the detective directing activi- ties of the bomb squad give the capitalist press reporters the offi- cial story the police wanted printed of the city hall demonstration. The reporters took this story, and in the | main their papers adhered to it, in- cluding the underestimation of the numbers. This dick himself wore a reporters’ card in his hat. The Daily Worker's estimate of the numbers is based on the fact William Z. Foster, Robert Minor and I. Amter, leaders of the unemployed | delegation last March 6th, recently released from the Tammany dungeon. will be the principal speakers. The revolutionary young Negro workins women and young pioneers will de-| clare their determination to rous¢ that at 1:05 p. m, the demonstra- tors filled Mail St. fro m sidteo side and from Broadway to Park Row. This is a space rather larger in. size | than the marked off square at | Union Square, which holds 10,000. | CROWD YELLS: WITH LAW”, CALLS RELIEF ILLEGAL Lu... mous Police Mobilization, But 25,000 Dems onstrators Hold Sidewalks Around City Hall Square for Two and a H a Half Hours “TO HELL AS MAYOR Deuter atin on thik unerinioged, io| Ten Thousend Jam Into Mail § Street and Hold the imperialist intervention plots) It Against Cops Who Try to Stop Speakers BULLETIN. At this time the sidewalks on Broadway to Murray St. and for an equal distance up Park Row were packed solid with marchers with placards. This accounts for 15,000 more, counting fragments of the demonstration north of Murray St. and on Chambers St., and some separated and forced across Broad- way. No attempt to estimate the spectators is made by the Daily | Worker. Capitalist press reporters were heard (talking among themselves) to express admiration for the size and courage of the demonstration, but to admit that their papers “would print no story if they could | get away with it,” and had issued orders to minimize the affair. * NEW YORK.—Marching in solid-ranks around three sides of the city hall plaza, marching under a crest of red and black these most exploited sections of the| working class to stubborn struggle against unemployment, wage cuts, | | fascist terror, lynching and the war | plans of the imperialist bossesfl A | splendid program has been arranged with the united federation of work- ers’ choruses, consisting of hund! of voices, who will sing revolutionary music of many countries, and the pa- | geant depicting the organization of the Bolshevik Party, the revolution of 1917, the imperialist intervention |plot, and the triumph of the Five- | Yeaf Plan, and growing advances of ds the countryside to defend the Soviet Union, the guide and inspiration of the toilers lettered placards demanding $15 a week for each jobless worker, no evictions,. ete., roar International’’ “On the Picket strong choruses, “We want Wor! or Wages, York City y 25,000 jobless and sterday. ring songs: “Solidarity,” “The Line:” chanting in thousand k or Wages,” “We Want Work workers demonstrated in New They defended their speakers with a militancy and for which (00 PA. MINERS two hours with a suce da and that at sever te a we vage- The M. O. S, W. I.°U. has started an energetic Geeanieatibe campaign, {City for years. has not been seen in New York One policeman | was sent to the hospital. Moestings of the of their duties display. ae 3 ad of revolutionary The District Committee of the, the world revolution | ibe: eve ues ee hing , ah a ‘rule, do viol Communist Party calls upon all Party! qn the same of the leader of the ARE ON STRIKE aawey Waa fertiee the disciplme. A*meeting or demonstra- and Young Communist League mem- first successful proletarian revolu- | crowd blocked Mail St, solid, |tion is a revolutionary action, and bers and all revolutionary workers to tion that is building socialism. with| put up speakers on the sand each member of the Party and every observe the following and as a body ciant strides, the leader of the inter.| WENDEL, Pa.. Jan. 20—Four hun-' box and street department boxes at revolutionary worker must recognize to cooperatefin making the meeting | national proletariat and oppressed died miners working for th the corner of Mail and Broadway, that revolutionary discipline is funda-/a success not only from the stand- ipjjers throughout the world, I./Co. here are on-strike against a 25, 884 defended them — victoriously mental if the army of the working point of attendance, but of revolu- | yonin, in the name of the great revo- | i : me _, against all attempts of the police to class is to pass through its training, | tionary organization and discipline: | }tionary leaders of the) German| 2°! CePt Wase-cut. They are led by | crash through and pull them down become mature for the bigger) 1. The demonstration will begin on working class, Liebknecht and Lux-|*2¢ Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Each time, the speakers, themselves fruggles and for the final struggle time and every comrade must be in omburg, the working will’ meet | Ludustrial Union. ended the blockade by giving the the overthrow of the system. |his seat at 8 p.m. to intensify the struggle against capi-| eyolt has een brewing in the) S80 to the crowd to resume its march ‘The Madison Square Garden dem-| The Party confmittees in charge) talism, to strengthen their revolu-| pennsylvania mines tor some time tor | **UNd the city hall square. onstration in honor of Lenin-Lieb-|f the demonstration are the only’ tionary organizations, and mobilize ine mines in most places are either Swarm To Hear Report. knecht-Luzemburg will be another | "es to be standing about the hall. | jtne great masse sin the cities antl|ciosed down, or work two or three ‘The parading came to an end when the delegation of 30 which had gone in about 1 p. mayor came out of the front entrance of the city hall, at 10 minutes to 2. m, to see the acting —— ~ | Worker, Working Woman, Young) pee and calls on miners to strike against | A tremendous chee? went up and sey- "| Pioneer, Labor Unity, Liberator and ORG! IZE TO EN.D| wage-cuts, eral thousand gathered within five Labor Defender. Literature may be ARVATION; DEMAND| The most terrible misery fills the | nutes arourd Franklin's statue, at families are | Park Row and Spruce Street. Czarist rash: Appeal to Sec’ y Stimson for War On Soviets Knowing that Stimson and Hoover Soviet ‘government: the sending of are good friends of the Czarist trash | spies to the Soviet Union for counter- who are constantly preparing for] revolutionary work; end urging the armed intervention against the So- viet Union, 210 of them in various| factories, mines, mills and land that oarts of Europe have sent a long| the Russian workers and peasants | document to Secretary of State Stim-| took and are building vp in their op son in Washington, urging him to| interests, and restore them to the for- | “outlaw the Soviet Union.” mer parasites, The letter of the Russian czarists| The capitalist newspapers give this fits in exactly with the demands of | counter-reyolutionary document wide the Fish Committee—urging banning} publicity, approving the preparation of Soviet goods entering the United|for armed attacq against the Work States; an armed atack against the| crs’ Republic, ~ Daily Work Worker Mobilizes All Workers American capitalists to teke-back the | sold only before the meeting begins RELIEF! jand during the intermission. The, literature agents must observe, this strictly. 5, During the meeting every com- rade should keep silent, and not con- verse with his neighbors. This is) specially a duty of Communists, who must teach revolutionary discipline to other workers, 6, “Do not "‘heln” *-~ -~ (Enough comradcs aye Leu assigned | {jo the work to take care of "it. | 7. Remain at the meeting til) the adjournment. Do not begin to move before the meeting is actually closed, for this merely disorganizes the meet- ing and every worker present goes Unemployed; CHICAGO, Followin, s usual habit of a thi coming better Wane the ¢ becomes worse, James A. Ud \president of the United States Steel Corporation delivered a speech yes- terday before 3,500 members of. the Jan away with a bad impression. National Canners’ Association by | For Hunger Marches BUT ONLY TEMPORARY LOANS ENABLE US TO FIGHT BACK DEFICIT The hunger marchers, 25,000 strong in New York City, thousands in San Francisco, Los Angeles and in all the leading cities throughout the. country, are showing a developed militancy of struggle against the bosses. The Daity Worker has acted as a mobilizing force in organizing these major struggles of the work-rs for their every day needs, in their strug- gle against evictions, unemployment, ete. We received a letter from Huntington, W. Va. which states as follows: . We folks down here in West Va. are very much interested in your paper....Before we have been carried along by the: local rag but thanks to your firm........woell, we want more and at once.” ‘Thess are only a few of the indications that the Daily Worker is reaching the small cities throughout the country. Comrades, this kind of circulation means organizing the workers for struggle against the bosses. These more than ever before, fight to keep the Daily Worker. is no day that passes that we are Worker appear in front of factories, in the strects, or reach our snbscribors. Comrades, there have been series of Daily Worker birthday amu- versary meetings. Contributions for must be rushed imediately. | New York, N, ¥, Proceeds for the Lenin Memorial meetings must be sent without fail immediately after the meetings. have not yet sent in thelr contributions mail them direct. publishing the paper only with the help of temporary loans. contributions immediately, Mail it to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St, show us very clearly why we must, However, there sure than we can make the Doily the Daily Worker at these meetings Workers who We are still Send your mining starving, towns. Whole U. S. Steel Head Slanders Spreads Bunk setisfaction he B 10,000,- 000 unemployed 1 employed. All business indexes still go down. | Plant operations are at the lowest level in the history of the United | States, and the unemployed are Closer to starvation. This, to Mr. Farrell, who gets mil- lions in profits from exploiting the steel workers who are still on the job “is ample evidence of returning pros- perity.” The following is a sample of the truthfulness of Farrell's speech: “The frelief given to the unemployed and the general adherence to the payment of fair wages prevailing throughout the industry have undoubtedly has- tened the recovery which is impend- ing.” The “relief” given to the un- employed has driven hundreds to suicide, and the “fair wages” repre- sent a cut of $9,000,000,000 in one year. whie for d the c his own YOUNG COMMUNISTS TRIED BUDAPEST, Jan, 20.—The trial of 13 Young Communists began here yesterday. They are accused of rev- glutionary . activity. The chief ac- cused, George Haidu, declared the court was a capitalist class court, ing whereupon he received a disciplinary sentence of six days in solitary con- _ dinement, Boe fe ESS a acne Within a few minutes signs bear- Slogans of the jobless were posted up all over the high pedastal of the statue and a child worker mounted the statue itself, waving a sign, “The Unemployed Demand Relief.” Fred Biedenkapp, one of spokesmen of the delegation, rose and spoke: “We saw the acting mayor, and told him our demands, and he said that it was against the law for him to grant any of them.” “Organize and Take 1 “Torhell with the laws,” yelled the | dobless in a mighty chorus. “We'll organize and take them!” The crowd kept growing, packing mostly on the side of the statue to- the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) REDS. ACTIVE IN ENGLISH STRIKE (Cable by Imprecorr) LONDON, Jan. 20.—The majority of the Lancashire weavers are out. Only a few mills are working. A suc- cessful Minority Movement Conter- ence was held yesterday, attended by delegates from all parts of the coun- try. Minority strike committees were formed in Burnley, Darwen, Great- harwood, Bacup, Balsingdon. The employers meet tomorrow to consied the extension of the lockout to the whole industry, involving 500,000. Due to the illness of Allen John= son, the series of articles on New Jersey will be discontinued until he recovers. >»