The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1931, Page 1

i By Demanding That the Bosses Give Up Wealth, That the Government Use All War Funds for Relief for the Unemployed, You Are Dealing Capitalism a Big Blow Daily, Central (Sectio n oft NG) the Comer iin ist international) OF Gantet Party U.S.A. WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! j he VII No. 21 tered as second-class matter at the Post Office <gyo21 at New York, N. ¥,, under the act of March 3, 187" _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Conts "4,000 HUNGER MARCH THRU AKRON IN SNOW STORM Bnand, Henderson, Push War Plans Acainst Soviet Union Another “Solemn Manifesto” ‘WALL ‘STREET Part of N. Y. Demonstration on January 20 'TY-SEVEN capitalist nations, through their premiers or foreign ministers, have signed, at Geneva, what is sonorously called a “solemn manifesto.” As usual, while the newspaper headlines say it is a “pledge to keep peace,” the text of the manifesto itself says nothing of the sort. What it does say is that those who sign it are “more determined than ever (sic!) to use the machinery of the League of Nations to prevent any resort to violence.” This might mean most anything—but certainly does not mean a pledge to keep the peace. If al] these capitalist diplomats are “more determined than ever” to kep the peace—against what malevolent mystery are they contending that insists on way in contra their fervid wishes for peace? But—they @re not, please take note, “more determined than ever” for peace, The “solemn manifesto” does not say that. It says that they are more determined than. ever—“to use the machinery of the League of Na- tions.” And for what? Not to keep the peace themselves, but to “pre- vent” any resort to violence, One does not find anywhere a “pledge” to keep. peace themselves, but a-determination to “prevent” violence—evi- dently violence coming from somebody else, not the signers of this “solemn manifesto.” This “solemn manifesto” would be solemn nonsense were it not artfully designed to cover up the war moves at Geneva and lull the masses into a false sense of security. The chief success of imperialist France so far in this conference is the apparent winning over for the Pen-Europe idea of Briand, which is and can be no other than a Pan-Europe capitalist war against the Soviet Union, of British imperialism, repregented by the “labor” government’s foreign minister, Arthur Henderson. Of course this strengthening of the League is, by conicidence, not only aimed at the Soviet Union, but also at Britain's greatest imperialist: rival, the United States. It is not for nothing that the Kellogg Pact was not mentioned in this “solemn manifesto” suggested by Arthur Henderson, to the effect that the “machinery of the League of Nations” wovld bo used to “prevent and resort to violence.” Yet is was immediately to the benefit af Briand, who had spilled the diplomatic beans as to war plans against the Soviet Union, that the “solemn manifesto” be signed. This is clear even to a political infant. A “European Union” without the Soviet Union would be territorially and politically absurd. Yet Briand left it out. More: When the question was raised of inviting the Soviet Union, Briand protested that there were some questions to be discussed “in which intimate and fraternal collaboration with the Soviet is impos- sible’; and added that, for example, the matter of Article XVI of the League covenant, might be discussed. Now it happens that Article XVI speaks of the duty of member gov- ernments of the League of Nations, to allow the passage through their territory of armed forces directed against any other nation which “refuses oe the League's decisions.” The. Article was especially written to to permit French troops passage through Germany to Sats against the Soviet Uniotm whenever Poland wishes to create a dispute and the Soviet “refuses to accept the League's decisions.” ' \ After that remark, Briand certainly needed a “solemg manifesto” to pull him out of the hole. .Bu no worker anywhere, either in Europe’ or America will be fooled by all this rather reeking and obvious maneuver about “peace.” Workers will know that the more stich hypocrisies are flaunted by capitalist diplomats, the more danger there is of war. Especially is the imperialist world massing its forces around the Soviet Union, eagerly seeking an excuse to locsen the horrors of war against it before successful socialist construction emerges too impregnable to attack American workers, therefore, will not be fooled by the “solemn manifesto” of Geneva, nor the Kellogg Pact of Paris, nor any other pacifist device, but will stand guard over the fortress of Communism in a capitalist world, " hel Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! ‘CONFER ON DRESS |SERIO TO SPEAK STRIKE, JAN. 31, AT MASS MEETING All Worker Groups to/To Fight Persecution Send Delegates of Foreign .Born NEW YORK.—Hundreds of work-| In a determined counter-attack ers’ organizations are determined to | against the government persecution help make the coming strike of the | of the foreign-born the International dressmakers a success. A victorious | Labor Defense has called a mass strike of the dressmakers will enable | meeting for tonight at Manhattan the workers in other trades to fight | Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., at 8 p. m., for better conditions. It is therefore | to mobilize workers to save eight of in the interests of every worker and | their comrades who now face depor- every workers’ organization to do the | tation to death or long imprisonment utmost to help the drassmakers in | in fascist countries, their coming strike. Four of these workers, Guido Serio, A conference of workers’ organiza-|Eduardo Machado of Venezuela, tions will be held Jan. 31 at 2 p. m.|Saaichi Kenmetsu, Japan, and Tao in Webster Hall, to discuss ways and | Husan Li, China, will address to- means of giving assistance to the |night’s meeting and call for a struggle dressmakers’ strike. Reports indicate | to defeeat the campaign of the De- that this conference will achieve good | partment of Labor which during 1930 results. Every branch of the Inter- national Workers’ Order, every work- ers’ club, every section of the working ¢lass movement should be represented at this conference. Tonight at 7 p. m. there will be a mecting of active needle trades work- ers at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. ORDERS TO SHOOT to increase this number in 1931. Other.speakers will be J. Louis Eng- dahl, national secretary of the Inter- national Labor Defense; I. Amter, dis- trict organizer of the Communist Patty, and Robert W. Junn, Boss Press Renorts Admit Lenin Big Meet (By a Worker Correspondent) BEHIND MOVE FOR MURDER Use “Peace” Slogans to Fool Working Masses In Geneva under the very same} slogans of “peace” which rang through the air on the eve of the World War in 1914, the imperialist | deported 16,631 workers and intends | GIVEN EMPLOYEES (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I had a business appointment with a friend of mine in the, Hall of Records the same af- ternoon of the City Hall Unemploy- ment Demonstration on January 20, “My friend arrived in time to see the beatings that the police gave the Unemployed and he overheard a man say to another (the speaker seemed to be the Superintendent of the build- int or an Asbistant) that they were giving strict orders to sheot to kill any of the demonstrators if they dared to come into this building. Do you get thé tremendous signi- ficance ot his—Fou know that this Hall of is located right op- posite City Hall and there was a chance of some fo the demonstrators veing forced by pressure of the pol- Two reporters of one of the New York capitalistic dailies were 60 as- tounded by the pageant and band Tausic that they admitted ruefully, “that it was a shame that we couldn't |» give you fellows a break with our sheet but that the office would give us hell were we to bring in the right stuff.” However, they consoled this spondent with the statement that they'd try to be easier then the other capitalist: papers, at the same time assuring us that were we to have this sort of band and draiatics at each. demonsrtation, Communism would rise by the thousands, ico attack to enter this building. Fortunately it did not work out this way, and if any of the workers did enter they gould have been shot with a@ wonderft*excuse that they tried to destroy the City's records. Another page in the History of the Onn, of frame ups, powers are preparing an attack against the Soviet Union. Every | measure taken at this gathering of 27 capitalist nations, just concluded, | | was specially directed against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. While the cpen leadership of this | war preparation is in the hands of Briand, whose war role was exposed |in the Moscow wreckerg trial, and Arthur Henderson, Labor Minister | jand imperialist agent, Pertinax,| famous political writer on the French | capitalist newspaper, Echo de Paris, | | Says that the guiding reins are in the hands of British and American fi- | naniciers. | “The idea of this final declara- | tion to give some kind of appear- | ance and substance to the colorless ard mediocre work accomplished an commission be- | Qerderson,” said Per- | British Foreign Min- ister tock bir crs from finan-lérs in| England as‘ csprcially from th> ye financiers. It is a fe York market rated by news dispatches rep: ing a European war as immi poiisay nee sent - In order to coverup these war. pre- ON PAGE THRE PINUED PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan, 22—Te 22.—Ten hosiery mills are now on strike and the workers are determined to con- tinue mass picketing in spite of police attacks. | Yesterday 300 mass pickets were clubbed away by an army of police and Bell detectives. Guns were pulled by the detectives and strikers were beaten up where they lay on the Mussolini and Hitler have been pic- ings of ung »1 worke’ huge masses ‘of worker of the mene fase ist offi tured as ready to throw their coun- | He gaye as an excuss struggle for irgmediate un- | Deld in Berlin The leader, tries into war on the morrow.” order, the e that mesh announced that the fascist Series of Terrific Battles on Philadelphia Picket Line. 1 Me, we ae Oklahoma Governor Orders | THREAT TO SEVZE | All Jobless Meets Smashed — poweR IN FER. nemployed Proceeding boOp to ‘Open Warehouses,’ ‘Wotkingmen’s Army’ Rank and File Joins | Unemployed Councils; Organizing Fast | Kill Communist on His} (Cable by Inpreco: BERLIN, Jan chel, Conimunist ad yesterday by f: suburb. The hou reports the attack was ab provoked. Hoeschel wa ) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 22.—William H. Murray,! recently inaugurated as Governor of Oklahoma, and who was elected on a much ballyhooed platform of “liberalism” and “friend iship for Labor,” has come out openly and ‘bluntly as the cist hesreally is. “In’one of the first “Public instruttions ssued sinc® he took ov ver officee————— ee ate ‘ks ago, he “warned’|the Oklahoma workers and farmer. topes ita ieo| led by the Communist Party and the sheriffs ‘ayors and police ~ : she nee : , .n % pol "i Unemployed Councils—particularly is against pei fass’ meel- City, have succeeded in 22. geois pre psolutely un- nurdered on , five fas- were captur Yesterday e 2 closed meeting groups, armed to the tee patiently ing the signal for at- | tack. A fascist putsch (armed upris: ing) is probably at the end of Febru- ary, | s under the cover of In- ternational Unemployment Day, Discussing the putsch prospects, | Goebbels ann iced that the Re to wehr (republican army) was beh the , but resis a, were im- ey for unemployment relief will available within a few days The pe ss eee is, that I NEW GAIN BY m: be (CONTINUE ON PA THREN) d ance from the Little is feared Reichsbanner (socialist s ause although it is num- ally strong, lership is cow- ardly. The chief resistcnce is ex- | pected from the Communists. Goeb- | bels said the latter must be wiped out | more thoroughly than in 1919. 20,000 in Berlin alone must be ‘ex- |terminated. The s'ruggle must be e “Severe Blow” Nationalists ound. Some lying on the ground | ere badly, injured. Eleven: were a rested in addition’ to those alread, jailed. The day before a regular battle was | police is’ expected. the | from. The news of an important victory | g1 of the Red Army in China is being ; suppressed in most of the capitalist staged by tass pickets with the police A: cable datha ‘aan: 31 | newspapers. and detectives in front of Schlatter 2 and Zander Hosiery Co. mills, where jto the New York Herald-Tribune from | sp ¥ | Shanghai, hidden away at the bot- | 600 workers are on strike.. Twenty tem of the page, tells of the recap- Ries ete pec a a ture of Tungku, the Communist: cen- he DUE TO PRESBUT BUSIN BEGINNING JANUARY 1OTH. The huge wage-cutting campaign The story of thd wage-cutting in the Worker Correspondence page. One of Thousands of Such Netices PHOENIX TRIMMING CO. drapery ond Uphotiery 2000 NORTH RACINE AVENUE ‘Telephones Lincol ‘Ail Departmen BE NECESSARY TO PUT THROUGH A TEN PER CHT CUT that is today sweeping the country can only be halted by the militant struggle of the workers under revolutionary union leadership. ter in Kiangsi provitte which was taken on Dec. 20 by a division of | Chiang Kai Shek’s troops: | ‘This: cable states that on Dec. 29 the Communists badly defeated the 5th Division which was holding Tungku. “Tungku,” says this cable, “is the most important Communist , Stronghold in the Yangtse Valley. When the Reds were driven out of the city early’ in December-it was found that they had established a Communist college, a hospital, a bank which was issuing Red netes, and | pclitical headquarters. “Their recapture cf t* onhold is a sereve b1z77 12 aunt's campaign to eradicate the ‘Communist movement.” In fact, this is about the tenth sugtess “severe blow” administered by the Red Army to Chiang Kai Shek’s 900,000, troops. Through defeats, de- | sertions and hostility of the peasants, Short. and merciléss: Within e'~ht days Hitler must rule unchallenged. ane Trimmings .. « LOOPS «= ROPE PORTIERES ‘PLUSH BATH RUGS 1656-7 Gov't Milli | WASHINGTON, Jan. Mellon, secretary of the t who handed his friends and himself over $2.000,000,000 in income tax returns, now refuses to grant the war’ vet who are starving by the hundreds ot thousands any cash bonuses; which ‘wey demand. Mellon said that if CHICAGO, SSS CONDITIONS IT WILL PHOZNIX TRIUMING CO. it would cost $2,100,000,000, and, ot} course, the capitalists need all this | money now to prepare for another war. The same answer is given to all other unemployed workers who | by the bosses and their government this Phoenix Trimming Co., a copy Over | the bonus demand was complied with | INVADE SENATE 6,000 Take Part in Job- less Demonstration DENVER, Colo., Jan. 22.—Three thousand hunger-marched through the streets of the capital of the state jot Colorado yesterday, and 6,000 joimed in the demonstration pefore the capitol building. A committee of 12 were elected hy senate to demand relief for the star- | ving. Swarms of jobless packed the gal- lery to back up with their presence | the demands made by Charles Guynn | and Allander, the spokesmen of the | unemployed During the demonstration there was one arrest, Council of the Unemployed. TRANCE-TALY OPEN RACE ARMS “Parity. Are PARIS, Jan ament race Negotiations Smashed 21. —-' An open n l-now go on full | force between Frar the result of the comy over Neither France nor Italy Nay h itself provided for nited ar gotiations separat the question “parity” the London practically took . but en up These have failed. sociated Press dispatch from me s Official sources say Ttaly s prepared to build gun for gun with France in naval construction this ar, because there appears to be little hope of renewing the construc- tion truce ivhich expired last month This, it is said, is independent of Italy’s normal prczram.” ORGANIZE TO .D STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! EN LMellon and the big corpo: not a cent for the worl erans and ott nemployed. Mellon’s letter stating that this de- mand if complied with would have “far-reaching consequences,” came only after 50 veterans from a number of states marched-to the Capitol de- | |manding the cash bonus. They were \led by a number of Congressional | fakers who are trying to get votes by exploiting the demands of the war | veterans, tions, but war vet- IN COLORADO the jobless and went before the state | Fred Reskin of the | SEIZE FOOD AFTERWARDS; 3,000 MARCH ON STATE LEGISLATURE IN DENVER 110,000 Demons trate; Are Told Capitalist Law Says ‘Starve’ “Must Helo Ourselves” Eaters, “Charge It to City,” Get Groceries | AKRON, O., (by mail)--Four thous sand Akron and Kenmore workers and unemployed marched through the streets Tuesday in a snowstorm, four abreast in a solid line to the city hall to demand immediate relief to the unemployed. The march started from Kenmore | wath about 75 workers from Barbers jton (4 miles from Kenmore and 8 miles from Akron). In an icy wind 500 Barberton and Kenmore demon- strators marched to Perkins Square in Akron singing and shouting their | demands. | At Perkins Square, Ferrel, secretary of the Unemployed Council was chairman with DeReméer, Cowan and West speaking, and at 3:45 p.m. the line formed and marched four abreast through the heart of Akron to the Armory lawn across the street from the city hall. Here the workers that were on the sidewalk joined in the lem tration, now numbering 10,000, | Delegates were selected gnd went into the council chambers while the meet~ continued on the outside. The gation of nine we: ite the inci] chamber and waited until 4:15 pointed time and then took the denouncing the city council as tools of the bosses and for their Iy- ad told them that the Kenmore are e while the ware- houses but will organize nd take what they need. The chairman of the city council then, atta sovietism and econ- ontic theories,” said the city “is 1 it ca not “to nds we must chan, of black brea ation left with the parte that thousands of work ‘Ss Would be damn glad to jiave black bread. The deleg: reported back to the workers ng in the fall snow that in order to eat they help themselves. the meeting was adjourned roups of workers went to the res- aura id ate their meal and then | told the cashier to charge it to the city council and walked out. The Second Akron gonference unemployment insurance will be held ‘on Workers Cen- 3 faa m. for in Akron at the Akr | ter on Jan Mellon Tells Starving Vets Sah TIES ions aa gprs Only 23 at Mass Meet Tonight NEW YORK.—Tonight, at Ukrain- ian Hall, 15 E. Third St., at 8 o'clock, En uel Levine, formerly of the U. Mavine Corps, will speak on the ject of “Fake Veterans’ Organiza- General discussion will fol- mn low, All ex-servi en are urged to at- tend and complete the formation of their own permanent organization by electing a National Executive Com~ ee and to proceed to form Posts of Ex-Servicemen in every state of the union. | A large number of letters received of the notice which appears above, will appear in the ay Sea Saturday issue of | the entire Nationalist army’has been rendered practically helpless. s tensifying their campaign for funds. addition to donations of $500 and $100 additional. The South Slay Workers mill center, donates $100. The Bulgarian Byreau of the Communist Party -in Detroit, notified us that its donation of $330 for the Daily Worker was sent to the District of the Party. It is through the continuation of be able to liquidate the | deficit and save the Daily Worker, demand unemployment insurance. Millions can be found for war prep- | | Our appeal for funds to liquidate the deficit is beginning to show that the workers and t%¢ various working class organizations are in- Sentence Two Red News Builders to Six Months in N.Y. for Selling Daily Worker HELP COMPLETE THE $30,000 EMERGENCY FUND IMMEDIATELY The viciousness of the capitalist class beginning to be shown more openly. T: Worker in the subway stations in New were sentonced ‘9 6 months. But the Red Builders Club of Newy York ‘s determined that there will be more Red Builders and more Daily Vjorkers sold. Comrades, these are trying times for the press of the working class. These are critical times in the struggles of the workers. Without the Daily Worker we cannot properly mobilize the masses of workers to struggle against hunger and starvation, Comrades, carry on this intensified work to fill the quota to liquidate the deficit, Send funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New Nork City. ninst the Daily Worker is Ted Builder: ‘ins the Daily The Finnish workers’ clubs in noted in our appeal, advanced $200 Club\in Youngstown, Ohio, in the this intensified work that we will / NEW YORK.—Admission was made from ex-servicemen from all parts of {ube count desiring to be organized jinto the ’ Ex-Servicemen’s here at the Regional Office of the |peague is the motive force behind | Veterans’ Bureau at 225 W. 34th St | this natiqnal organization drive. } that hundreds of thousands of war | veterans sre starving. Over 60,000 | cases were taken up in New York alone, and Richard Harris, liason of- ficer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New Jersey, said “This condition is general throughout the country.” | Commander W. J, Rauschkolb, of Big | Six Post 1522 of the Veterans of For- | eign Wars, said: “At least 90 per cent | | of our members: need the money | | now!” Which means, of course, that | 8C per cent of the war veterans are | jon the verge of stata" toi.” | Yet the ¢ ers- who yell for | bonus2s are paring. for another | war to kill off millions of workers. The only organization fighting for real relief for war veterans, the. Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, de- mands that all war funds be turned over to the unemployed; that the ex- servicemen organize as workers to de- mand relief through militant action, FM eat ai Hoover Honors Graft'ng Dead Pres. Hoover will join in the ceremonies dedicating the $750,- 000 mausoleum of President Harding at Marion, 0. who died just in time to avoid fur- ther graft charges in the Tea- pot Dome scandal. $750,000 is a neat Ii sum for the corpse of a corrupt swindler in the country’s oil wells. Unempoyed workers who demand funds for bread are clubbed and beaten. The Daily Worker shows how to fight for unemployment insurance. Lat- est news on 60,000 elreulation ative pg. 3.)