The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1931, Page 1

_ Seainst Wage ctits, for real and’adequate relief to the starving farm popu- If You Have a Filled Signature List in Your Possession, Send It At Once to the Organiza- tion You Received It From. Get Another Sig- nature Blank and Fill It Out Central Organs at New York, N. ¥., under Vol. VIII, No. 23 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office SS the act of March 3, 187° WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! “CITY “EDITION a __ Price 3 Cents CONSTITUTION ALLOWS NO AD 10 JOBLESS ROOSEVELT ® Little Red Riding Hood YOOVER'S most recent “service” {o the American masses is now at hand in the form of the report of what was called the “Commission on Law Enforcement.” It found that there is no law enforcement. This is shortly after Hoover's “Commission on Employment” discov- ered that there is very little if any employment. The two things are reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood fairy tales where that lassie, in her innocent wanderings, discovers that what ap- pears to be a harmless and kindly old grandma, turns out to be a fierce wolf in disguise. In political realities, of course, Little Red Riding Hood Hoover and Grandma Wolf are one and the same capitalist class rule, | and the fairy tale is only for those of simple minds. | Only those who fondly and foolishly imagine that capitalism can be cleaned up, fumigated and made habitable, could thing that it can or | will “settle” the question of intoxicants. The absurdities of the Wickers- ham commission ‘report are merely the reflection of the absurdities of capitalism, which can neither abolish liquor or drugs or prostitution or any other anti-social part of itself, because it cannot abolish the basis of these in the contradictory social relations of economic classes. We see, therefore, that even the pretense of virtue, the so-called “prohibition” laws, are the source of a varitable ocean of filth and graft | that floods into the highest office of capitalist government. This is capitalism at its “cleanest”, workers! This reality of a governmental partnership between Hoover and Al Capone! » Naturally, along with such rottenness, a fierce quarrel rises between those. who have the rich cream of corruption, and those who would like to have it. From this comes all the noise of battle about “repeal” or “not to repeal”, Hypocritical as usual, Hoover is “playing safe”, dry but ready to go wet if necessary; maintaining what is euphemistically termed “an open mind.” | But there is a more serious side of this business to the workers. The heaven-rending screams bf “wet” and “dry” are echoing through the capitalist press in such volume to the exclusion of real issues of life or death importance to millions of workers and poor farmers. What the hell do ten million jobless workers care about “prohibition” —which amounts to a question as to whether alcoholic poison shall be dis- pensed legally or illegally—when these millions of workers are. starving? Is it more important to those workers who are employed that they pay twenty-five cents instead of fifteen for a glass. of beer, or that the em- ployers of this country are launching a wage cut campaign to drive down the standard of living below even the European level? Can the whole terrible situation of famine and death among the poor farmers be made more pleasant to them by either the majority or the minority report of the Wickersham Commission?’ m This despicable hubbub about prohibition should not fool any worker. Workers will know that whether capitalism is wet or dry it is still capital- ism; that only when they, allied with the poor masses of the farms, over- throw capitalism, can they get rid of all the crime, corruption, and hypo- crisy of capitalist society. ¥ n the meantime, the workers should not be swayed by minor issues, ) fighting for their immediate interests, for unemplpyment insurance, odyon 28 well as the jobless workers. WAR MOVES | ON USSR. INCREASING Wall Street Journal Calls For End To Soviets On all sides the capitalists are agi- tating and preparing for war, par- ticularly against the Soviet, Union. The Wall Street Journal one of the leading mouthpieces of the imperial San Antonio. Bane, to Other Cities to Plan Demonstrations SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 25.— Five companies of the 141st Infan- try, Texas National Guard, have signed the lists demanding the pas- | Sage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Through mass pressure of the workers belonging to it (many of them now unemployed) the Texas ists and bankers of the United States) National Guard permitted speakers in a special article in its Saturday|ot the Trade Union Unity League edition calls for open war against the|and the Council of the Unemployed workers’ republic which it calls an\to address the militiamen at their “enemy of Western civilization”, —| drill period in the armory here. Then capitalism. all the men in Headquarters Com- “The American system of govern-| pany, Co.’ A., Co. G, Co. F, and Com- ment”, says the Wall Street Journal,} pany M, signed the lists, and many “is the most ‘complete and definite ex-| also expressed their determination to pression of the principles upon which| fight for immeédiate relief for the the Western civilization is based, and | jobless. is in the most complete opposition to} Over 1,000 signatures have already the system which the Soviet govern- | been secured for the bill. Reagan, in ment is endeavoring to establish in| charge of the signature drive, got Russia, and eventually, everywhere.” | 500 of these himself. Fast Progress. The T. U. U. L. is only two ‘months old in San Antonio, but has already (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | |established a Workers Center at 404 ‘BUD APEST POLICE. and a half Nebraska St., and\is mak- ing arrangements for an organiza- tion campaign among the farm work- ers of the vicinity and ,in the Rio Crande Valley, “Winter Garden Sec- ATTACK MARCHES : 7 Hunger Marches In_ | Mexicans, putting in up to 14 hours p— + 4 Bre “lS ae pressed | In the plasterers, roofers, painters NEW: YOUK. Win 25.—Cabled re- and carpenters’ local “unions (A. P. Ports to the con’ alist press over the L.) the membership has signed the ting $1.50 to $2.50 for it. a day for the whole family, and get- | Gives $1. A Week to “Daily”, Calls On Others to Do Same ‘The liquidation of the deficit of the Daily Worker must take on much faster form than up to date. The continued everyday struggle to keep up.the paper becomes sharper. Even under these trying circumstances, we have concrete evidence that the workers will liquidte the deficit and establish such methods that in the future we will not fall so far behind. A letter received from Long Island says: “I feel that we who still have our jobs must carry the extra load. We dare not lose the Daily Worker, as it alone in America fights for Un- employment Insurance, against evic- tions and all evils thé employers try fer force on the working class. I am, FIGHT ANOTHER EVICTION TODAY Stop 2 Wednesday; All at Court Today! NEW YORK.—The Down Town Council of the Unemployed put back the furniture of two evicted families last Wednesday. One, the family of K. Grossman at 241 E. Second St., was followed by the arrest of Mus. Grossman. She pointed out that her husband a needle worker, had no work gor @ year and that there, were two children. The judge asked sarcastically: “Did Bowery bums or the Communists put the furniture back?” but he did not dare go on just then with the be 24 tion and gave Mrs. Grossman days more. She had been aleid with disorderly conduct by the land- lord. The other eviction stopped was at 88 Rivington St. i All jobless and militant workers are called to demonstrate today against the eviction of Nathan Schweier at 167 Suffold St. There will be another meeting of the jobless in front of the Tammany agency at Leonard and Lafayette Gis, today at 10 a. m., and all job- less are called to demonstrate inside and outside of the special pean) courtroom at 32 Franklin’ St. (corne! of Lafayette), where the Oct. 16 dele- gation—Nesin, Lealess and Stone— are to be railroaded to jail without a jury trial for laying the demands of the jobless before the city board of estimates. . ‘There was the. usual be Yon ha St. meéting on Saturday. therefore, donating $1 per week to help it coming out day by day and I trust others will follow my example. | Enclosed find $3, covering 3 weeks.” Unemployed workers’ delegations are now preparing their marches to the various state capitols. All along the line of march, the Daily Worker must be the forerunner; it must be the advance scout to prepare the field and organize committees to assist the marchers on their way to the state capitols, The*Daily Worker must not only appear every day, but there must be no delays in getting it out on time. Due to our financial condition, al- though we do get the paper out, we do not always catch the proper trains and even in reaching the news stands. in New-York City. This condition can only be eliminated by liquidat- ing the deficit. Comrades: See that you send your contribution in, get your fellow- workers and also the organizations in which you are a member to do like- wise. DO THIS NOW. RUSH ALL FUNDS TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. HOLD NEGRO RIGHTS MASS MEET Foster to ‘Speak Today m Workers’ ers’ Struggles NEW YORK. —Stressing the im- portance of the Leagué of Struggle for Negro Rights mass meeting to- night at St. Luke’s Hall, 115 W. 130th St., at 8 o'clock, the city committee of the L, 8. N. R. has isswed the following statement: “This mass meeting is of great im- portance, especially in view of the many problems facing the Negro masses throughout the United States. ‘The recurrent waves of terror against the Negro workers and poor farmers to keep them from fighting starva- tion, wage-cuts and savage repres- sion; indicate the struggles facing the Negro toilets in their common fight by the side of the white work- ers and poor farmers.” William Z, Foster, Herbert Newton, editor of the Liberator; Richard B. Moore, Bill Siroka of the Young Com- munist League, will be the speakers. week-end indic=.te greet hunger dem- onstration in Central European coun- tries. | Admitting that the’ unemployed workers of Budapest in need of bread, the police however suppressed several hunger demonstrations. The fascist | authorities tried to draw a red her- | ring across the trial of mass siarva- | tion by shouting that the “Work or | Bread” cry of the demonstrators was | part of a “Moscow plot. Alrea: |many arrests have been made and) Communist functionaries jailed en} masse. Raids upon workers centres and homes have been frequent. cee RIO de JANEIRO, Jan. 25.—Show- ing its true fascist colors, the police | of the Vargas government raided | Communist centres and homes in an attempt to suppress the hunger marches scheduled to be held in all the large centres of Brazil demanding food for the starving unemployed Brazilian workers. Troops were marched into the cen- tre of Rio to suppress the hunger marchers and the police mobilized to cover all points the marchers were to assemble, Due to the arrest of the Communists and the raging terror the hunger march was not held on the 19th as planned.- (CONTINU ON PAGE THREE) THREAT ANOTHER LYNCHING iN §f0. Frame- -Up N Nawre Wor-|.. ker On Fake Charges KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan. 25.—A Negro worker, Rudolph Gibson, has been arrested and framed. He was érst jailed on a murder charge, and is now being held on the charge of “rape.” The local secretary of the International Labor Defense inter- viewed Gibson ih jail and announced “that from all evidence it is obvious that the whole thing is a clear-cut frame-up case.” If Gibson is convicted it might re- sult in another Jynching like the one in Maryville, Mo., or in legal murder. Attempts were made to stop the I. L. D. from holding a mass meeting on the ground that the Negro workers were too much agitated over the Gunn lynching. The trial of Gibson is set for Monday. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 25. — Inspired by the huge hunger marches organized by the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party, 300 unemployed ex-servicemen started from Philadelphia yesterday morning on a hunger march to Washington to demand tiie immediate passage of cash bonus for ex-servicemen. was a spontaneous demonstra- but due to lack of organization and contact. with the revolutionary the This tion, servicemen allowed themselves to be discouraged. Only 34 arrived at Chester in the 135 mile walk to Washington. When the 300 ex-servicemen left Philadelphia hundreds of workers cheered them on. But no preparations were made along the line of march, together with the workingclass or- ganizations to rally mass support. The vets were led by John Alfen, a mem- ber of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which in itself dashed cold water ‘on the beginning of a brilliant demon- stration. “We're all unemployed,” said John workers movement many of the ex-| of 300 Vets On Hunger March to Washington for Bonus, Relief Inspired by T. U. U. L. and Communist Hunger Marches; But Permit Bad Leadership To Play Down Fight Dippy, one of the marchers and a member of the Twenty-ninth Divi- sion in the world war, “and we Niwven't anything. We're going to walk, even if lots of the boys are hardly able.” More and more ex-servicemen are verging on starvation. In New York, according to the Veterans Bureau, there are 60,000. There are hundreds jousands throughout the coun- try. ‘All sorts of fake organizations are trying to mislead them, like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Some capitalist congressmen are up the cry for a “cash bonus”, but the only way to get it is by working with the millions of other unem- ployed workers who are preparing for the mass hunger marches on Feb, 10th, when the Unemployed Delega- tion will present its demands to con- gress. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League is also mobilizing the unem- ployed and employed vets to fight for the bonus on the basis of militant workingelass action. Five Texas Militia Companies ° Back Insurance; March feb. 10. MARCH ON MEETING OF Dress Strike Denionsixation Wednesday | at 36 & 8 Ave... Open Air Meetings All Over Needle 1 Section Today at No ganizations Prepare Conference NEW YORK. — A huge strike dem- onstration will be held in the dress | trade district Wednesday at noon time at 36th Street and 8th Avenue. This will be a demonstration to wage a valiant struggle -against thé sweat shop conditions to which they are jat present being subjected. While the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is mobilizing the}; workers for the coming striké in Feb. Emergency 297 Fourth Dear Sirs Ths Exergen Te have reached ou registered with us letor. Work Bureau Says Prosser Committee Orders : | EWERGENCY WORK BUREAU New York SEVEN STAT New York Mayors Homeless Unem Seen eIn Trades} on; Hundreds of Or- But Promise the International, the company u uses every opportunity to demons lits servility to the bosses eek | yy. they forced upon the ar ers| Fight Will. Go On; of Brownsville section a reduction in Armories: ( wages to Ip “stabilize” industry The kers are tryi smash this International lerous and action of for better bes Jan; 2 fight ALBANY, N s : 2 Council of the Unemployed her HO ED ON PAGE TWo) picketed yesteray by a delegati |; up State street and paraded in 6d eral? Starve! state governors with pla || Call Upon Workers to Put Party on Avene Ballot N. Y.—All workers and members of the r are urged to tonite at 61 Graham Ave., n, to collect signatures to out the Communist Par ty on the ballot for the special 7th congres- sional district election. If 2,000 signatures are not secufed by tonite the workers will not be re- presented on the ballot. All par members in New York “must help. Communist P Me) liz send n be given eith Yours truly, — Sunuee the leader s advising, OND W. HOUSTON This is the notice from the loudly ballyhooed Emergency Work Bureau, with its millions of dollars unemployed” sent -to a father of a after he had ran after a job from There are nearly a million jobless in New York; Jobs, nothing for the others. collected to “end the misery of the family of five, out of work a year, this committee for three months. 24,000 have temporary othe) toiag for insurance vieuabuaal d 10! Nessin, Stone, ee to ) Speak | For Million Jobless at Trial: NEW YORK.—Dispensing with at- torneys and speaking in the name of the 1,000,000 unemployed workers of New York City, Sam Nesin, Milton Leader of Jobless Sam Nessin, who on October 16, hurled the demands of the tens of thousands of N.Y. 030s ep Uors into the faces of the corrupt Tam- many politicians. Nessin, Milton Stone and Robt. Lealess are held for trial on charges of “unlawful assembly” after they were set upon and brutally beaten by Tammany thugs. Stone and Robert Lealess, the three leaders of the unemployed demon- stration of October 16, will appear in Special Sessions Court on Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The hearing is listed as the first on the calendar. The case of the unemployment del- egation is just such an attack upon the working class as was evident in the conviction of the March 6th del- egation Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, The denying of a jury trial and other means of “capitalist justice” are belng used in an effort to raijroad them to long jail terms. Three charges have ; been’ placed against each member of the idelega- tion: unlawful assembly, outraging public decency and endangering. pub- lic peace. Speak for Jobless. By defending themselves, the three militants will attempt to break eae Pane legal trickery of the ‘capitalist courts and t8 show that this trial is an effort to gag the hundreds of thousands of starving New York workers who are demand- ing immediate relief and unemploy- ment insurance. The International Labor Defense, | New York district, which is handling | this case, appeals to all workers to| demonstrate Monday morning within and before the courtroom and to de- mand the release of their leaders. To show to the Tammany grafters that the workers of New York City resent this attack upon the entire working class through their attempts to imprison Nesin, Stone and Lealess be on hand at an early hour. NEGRO KILLED AS ‘OHIO MOB GROWS | Hungry Worl orkers Tried} to Get Food BYCRUS, Ohio, Jan. | than 7,000 boss-minded persons are attempting to form themselves into| la lynch mob to lynch three Negro | ; Workers here who defended selves from being local sheriff when they of stealing food. them- brutalized by a | were accused | One of three brothers was killed by |a member of the mob. The workers | saw that they were about to be) | lynched and one attempted in a des- | perate attempt to escape. A railroad | detective shot the Negro worker. | ORGANIZE TO END |STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! Arrest Farmers’ Organizer in Ark.; Fight Won Demands LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 25,-— Angered by the fact that the starv- | ing farmers, refusing ta accept as | “adequate” the Red Cross relief ot about $1.19 per month per family, had forced by their armed demon- | stration at England, Arkansas, the giving of relief in that particular area of about $15 per month per family, the capitalist authorities have begun a campaign of repression. This was shown by the arrest here of an organizer of the United Farm- ers’ League, Frank Brown, together with an alleged “assistant” named Zini, and the arbitrary banning of any farmers’ mass meetings by Mayor Lawson of Little Rock. The United ‘Farmers’ League, whose national headquarters are at New York Mills, Minnesota, Box 278; is popularizing its Program of Action and organizing Committees of Action and Relief Councils among the farm- ers of this region to fight for ade- quate immediate relief and better the general conditions of the share- croppers and poor tenant farmers. The League program is enthusias- tically welcomed by the farmers, who se@ in it the one way to struggle against capitalist starvation. It is for this reason that Brown and Zint were arrested and are being held in- ,communicado by Sheriff Blake Wil- liams, regardless of the fact that they had violated no law and had simply called a mass meeting. Mayor Lawson evidently has decided that the constitutional “right ot assem- bly” doesn’t apply to Arkansas farm- ers, ordering’ the police to “prevent assembling for unlawful purposes.” “We don’t need any Communists here,” says Mayor Lawson. “We in- tend to deal firmly with any radicals or Bolsheviks! who persist in efforts to organize our people into Commu- nistic groups.” Which is to say that farmers are forbidden to organize— except into those organizations fay- ored by the capitalist government Farm Board. A dispatch from Little Rock to the N. ¥. Times of Jan. 25, tries to give a “cheerful” picture of farmers’ con- ditions, saying that they “are down in the valley where the going is rough just now. But with the help of a generous people” they will “get over the rough spots” and are “con- fident that the path ahead leads up- ward toward the peaks.” But neither capitalist press bunk ‘nor capitalist repression will stop the fight of the Arkansas farmers. ‘ALBANY JOBLESS HUNGER E GOVERNORS sists He Has Asked All To Throw Open Armories To The ployed In Cities Has a‘Joker, They Don’t Have To Do It If “Already Adequate Relief” Albany Worke ‘s Demand Cash Relief, No Evictions, | Denounce Sleeping On Cement Floors ip of the re, the governor’s mansion was on of the jobless who marched front of the sessions of seven “Gove Less Talk — and More Ac ‘We refuse to starve”, Finally a representative of Governor Roosevelt canie out, cast a few sneers, “You don't hunery and red a Roosevelt at 12.45 e of one Negro and ell, secretary of the » Unemployed) ented to Governors t New York; Norman Ss. Case of Rhode I. d; Morgan Lar- ew : Wilbur Cross of ut; J. B. Ely of Massachue hot of Pe ania; and . the demands Jerse! The statement the pointed out of commitee Your city, county and state gov- ernments, as well as the federal government, all refuse to give us unemployment insurance. AU we get is “charity investigations,” and promises about “better times ahead.” But meantime, we must eat, we must feed and clothe our children, we must have roofs over our heads. We refuse to starve! We have therefore elected a com- mittee from among us to go to your conference and present: to you on own behalf. as well as Ja behalf of the hundreds of thousands of workers in your states, the fol- lowin, 1 employment relief of $15 each week must be paid to all single (CONTINUE! THREE) Two Workers, Jailed for Hunger March, To Be Tried The capitalist class, replying to the unemployment demonstrations and hunger marches of the workers with arrests and beatings, will on Tuesday and Wednesday try to send two more este to jail. On Tuesday, Isidore Bogusloff, and on Wednesday, Serop Soghomanian, both arrested in the hunger march of Jan. 20, will be tried in the First District Magistrates’ |Court on charges of felonious assault. This outrageous charge has been |trumped up against them despite the |fact that both workers were severely beaten by the police. They are being jdefended by the N@w York District of the International Labor Defense. Though Bogusloff was a bystander, not a participant in the demonstra- tion, the I. L. D. is defending him, as ‘well. as Soghomanian, in accord- ance with its policy.of protecting all workers victimized in the course of the class struggle. Soghomanian. an Armenian worker, was on Saturday Teleased on $1,000 bail furnished by the I. L. D. Lenin Meet Tickets Must Be Settled for All units of the Party and YCL as well as all mass organizations to which tickets for the Lenin- Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial Meeting were given, are asked to settle up at once for the tickets. The District Office is in a severe financial situation which caused the cutting off of the electric power in the building last we Pleage turn in all money at once. District Bureau, District 2 Communist Party of U. S. A ALL OUT FEB. 10 IN MASS DEMONSTRATION TO BACK UP INSURACE BILL DELEGATION TO CONGRESS