The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1931, Page 1

| : ee i 4 ee OO ST Membership All Collective Endorsements and Filled Signature Lists Must be in the Hands of the National Campaign Com- mittee for Unemploy- ment Insurance by February the 5th \ NO) Meeting to Decide Upon the Demands of. Dress. Strikers, Th ursdc Doiimnist Party U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist international) Vol, VIL, No. 28 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187° Sa NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1931 ~ ——— STATE HUNGER MARCHES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE BILL New Plansto ‘Kill Bolshevism’ {NE Single thought occupies the minds of capitalist “statesmen” through- + out; the. world—how to fight Bolsheyism at home and in the colonies, and prepare for war against the Soviet Union. ««» Another interesting plan in this direction was yesterday cabled from Shanghai to the N. Y. Times. Shanghai is on the other side of the globe... but the plan made public from there was hatched in Washington, and its objectives embrace the world. This is the proposal by Prof. Paul Monroe, which he is now discussing with the Nanking Government, to provide Chiang Kai-shek With the money necessary to strangle the Chinese revolution, by assigning for that purpose the Young Plan repara- tions being paid by Germany to France and England, who it is proposed shall assign these reparations payments to the U. S. which makes the loan to China. The proposal contains the provision that these reparations payments from Germany are to be made by “deliveries in kind,” in goods, to’China and expended under U. S. supervision. “Unless something constructive is done soon, Wi dissolve into a mass of Communistic excesses. says Monroe, “China The “necessary reme- SPARROWS POINT STEEL - WORKERS VOTE STRIKE; ARE FIGHTING PAY CUT Openers, Feed Boys and Shearmen “Organize Strike and Grievance Committees Negro and White Workers United; Bethlehem Steel Tries to Stop Movement’s Spread dtes.” he fifids, ‘are impossible without large funds from abroad.” * Thus the Professor expects not only to deliver a crushing blow to Bol- shéevism in China, but at the same moment to Bolshevism in Germany, the menace of which he sees arising from Germany's lack of markets, Consequent unemployment, and the pressure of the Young Plan payments. ** At the same moment, Monroe urges, this would weaken the tempta- tion of Germany to sell her goods to the Soviet Union, and thus help complete the. economic blockade of the capitalist world, weaken Commu- nism, and create more favorable conditions for the capitalist war. This scheme of Professor Monroe, more complicated and far-reaching than the Pittman project for a “silver loan” soon to come before the Senate, is another evidence of the seething, world-wide conspiracy in Which the whole capitalist class is engaged, sharpening the white terror at-home and in the colonies and preparing the war against the Soviet It is of a piece with the Fish Committee report in Congress, the police clubbings and killings, the wage-cuts and speed-up enforced by state Militia and police power, the deportations of foreign born workers, the Give to illegalize the Communist Party, the frantic attempts to smash le movement for unemployment insurance, *.. The, capitalist elass is not only in. the midst of a financial and if- dustrial panic. They are also in a moral panic. They tremble before the ‘menace of revolt of the million-headed working classy which they Riave’ condemned to misery and starvation. In this pahic, deepening Yisibly from. hpur to hour, the capitalist class is capable of committing “Sty “crime, any enormity, against the workers and farmers, and against “ibe whole human race. They are driving straight toward the supreme “phime— imperialist, war. “ee But the new iniperialist war comes ina different world fromithat of 1914, The working class is in power in one-sixth of the earth, and vic= toriously building a new socialist society. The magnificent successes of ‘He<Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union, which makes the capitalists Trantic with fear, is at the same time the guaranteé»of destruction of ‘eMpitalism whet “it launches the new war. For within every capitalist ehuntry, there is a growing, ever more rapidly growing, artay of worker _ ternsry and-desperate, who are realizing deeper &very hour that the capi- talist sys that sucks their blood must. be destroyed once agi for all, and that, #%e Soviet Union they see the only fatherland of tf workers, ‘ must; defended at all costs. SHOCK TROOPS LISTS BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 2. — A strike is rapidly developing at the Bethlehem Steel Co. mills at Sparrows Point, here. The openers and feed boys and shearmen have voted to ‘strike, after reading leaflets distributed by the Metal Workers In- dustrial League of the Trade Union Unity League, calling for HOT ANGER IN |. te abr named ex DANVILLE AT UTW BETRAYAL have elected-a grievance com- mittee of 11, and will see the Fake Agreement Used) to Betray the Tex- management Tuesday. They demand no wage cut for the tile Strikers DANVILLE, Va., Feb..2. — Mass openers, no installation of handovers jon shears, and no firing of the feed geinst the United Textile Union flamed up here today boys. A strike committee of 17 has been realization by the lecal tex- that they Had “been elected. There are, Negro workers on both the grievance and strike shamelessly betrayed by that treach- erous organization. committees. They cail on the hot mill workers So sharp is the resentment of the} strikers that Francis J, Gorman, lead- | to support the strike. The company was afraid to let the hot mill. work- jers come.in contact with these work- ers-who have yoted to strike and. | told 1,500 of them “not..to: come to. | work’ today, but to come Tuesday. . The strike will probably start Tues- day, unless the company yields. er in the betrayal, found it conveni- Cal] Meet of Small ent to be out of town when the news : broke that the announced agreement | Depositors of Bank with the company whereby the strik-| } 9 ers were supposed to be taken back} of United States in the mills. without question as to} 4 meeting of depositors of the | ir union membership was a ‘direct! Bank of the United States will be jlic used by the U. T. W. misleaders neta under the auspices’ of the Com- |to facilitate their betrayal of the mittee of 25, United Depositors Com- TO DAILY WORKER Red Shock Troop donation have been mailed to all the sub- seribers. These call upon the workers make donations and get other: workers to donate to the Emergency Fund. “This is our last call for funds in the campaign to raise $30,000 which | represents the deficit in the Daily | Worker. Close to 50 per cent of this | has been raised. We must complete the other 50 per cent. Unless this’ amiount is raised we will be faced with | the problem of not publishing the/ EVICTED NEGRO ON TRIAL TODAY Accused of Entering His Own Home pinnae ~NEW YORK.—Upper Bronx Coun- cil of the’ Unemployed calls on all workers to be in the magistrate’s éourt at 1014 E, 181st St. this morn- ing to attend the trial of John Smith, a’ Negro worker whose landlord has hed him for “being unem- ployed and entering on the premises” after an order for his eviction was issued. ‘ family was evicted last week, ind the, Council of the Unemployed #ld-@ meeting outside. The workers igsembled there then put the furni- ware back. “The landlord had Smith arrested, the cage was dismissed, y the cop brought Smith “summons, ordering him to sgqurt todey on the charge as stated wove. It ts said to be based on Bei 4 600, Section 485 of the _ 50 Cents a Day. - 4: ree: Down Town Council of Unem- ‘léved held its usual meeting at ithe ‘ammany- agency at Leonard and | ‘Mayette Sts. yesterday, and will! ‘Sta enother today between 10 a. m. ie-t00n. Several thousand workers théred at the agency found the] bs were a few itions open n > Sweep the sidewalks all day for Yeents @ day.. They crowded around i ye council's speakers, although the pete officials tried ‘their usual tac- & of shooing them tp the stairs, bent payne tried to cause Daily Worker. The workers are entering into new struggles. The dress makers’ strike in New York City and the Strikes starting throughout the country are the first indications of the orzanized struggle of the employed workers against the speed-up, etc. The war veterans are facing a sim- ilar situation that face them in 1920. They are making demands for cash payments of the face value of their bonuses. There are 4,500,000 ex-ser- vicemen, a’ great majority of whom are workers. Many of them handi- capped by their experiences in the world war anda great majority of them suffering along with the other unemployed workers. The capitalist politicians and the officers’ controlled organizations like the Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars refuse to give them any consideration and tell them to suffer along with the rest of the ‘workers who are in distress. The Daily Worker is the only spokesman for the masses of world war veterans employed and un- employed. a These new struggles and the strug- gle for unemployed insurance are reasons why the Daily Worker must not cease publishing even for one day. More than ever before the Daily Worker is needed in the struggle of the masses of workers. Every subscriber receiving a Red Shock Troop donation list should im- mediately enter his own contribu- tions and get other workers to con- tribute likewise. ‘ Use the self-addressed and prepaid envelopes fof remitting your dona- tions. Readers who have rio dona- tion list use the Red’ Shock Troop list on Page 3. Rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50.E, 13th St., New York City. trouble, but did not succeed. The Usual march from the open- air meeting to an indoor mesting at 27K. Fourth St.. headquarters of the Down Town Council, too': place..there Wes a good mesting and 15 oined the council, Five hundred signatures to the Workers’ Unemfloyment Insur- ance Bill were secured, 100 Daily Workers and 55 Labor Unities were sold. 3 ’ ‘This council gives an entertain- ment Friday night at 131 W. 28th St, to raise money for organization work. The best talent is volunteering, and there will be dancing to good music.! wants Wall Street to have SUBSCRIBERS | | strike. The agreement was said to have been arrived at between H. M. Mor gan, president of a Virginia coal mine, who. was supposed to “repre- sent” the strikers by agreement with the U. T. W., and Dr. Carroll Flip- pen of Charlotteville, bréther-in-law of H. R, Fitzgeralg, president of the mills here, for the management. | Fitzgerald now denies that the mill management had entered into an agreement “of any nature, directly jor indirectly” with the U. T. W. or its representatives. “He deelared the |mills “were under no obligation, ex- | pressed or implied, t6 take back the strikers.” In the meantime, the U. T. W. is carrying out its betrayal by telling | mittee, at Public School 64,’ Walton | Ave. and 170th St., Bronx, Tuesday | evening, 8 p. m., Feb: 3. All phases of the situation will be | discussed and depositors will be ad- {dressed in English and Jewish. . De- poSitors and all those effected by the | closing of the Bank of U. S, are in- vited.. 4 the strikers to go to the mills and apply, not for old jobs, but for’ work, If they are turned away they are to come for consolation to their Judas Jeaders. In the meantime, the police and National Guard have been mob- ilized by the mill bosses to intimi- date: the strikers. + | A plan to bolster up the tottering Nanking government of the Chinese militarists has been sent to the U. S. state department by Professor Paul Monroe of Columbia University, so- called Chinese expert, who is now in China. This.plan is‘at the same time aimed against the Soviet Union. Cable reports from Shanghai detail- ing the plan state that Professor Monroe. that the war debts owing to United States, mainly from Germany, be given to the Chin- ese Nationalists so they can be strengthened in their fight against the Reds. Monroe declares his plan kills two birds with one stoné. Instead of Ger- many paying the former Allied pow- ets directly, Germany should be per- mitted. to. ship its goods to China. This would be credited as.a loan to China. It would give the Chinese militarists money to smash the ad- yancing Soviets, and it would supply @ market.for Germany: so that it would be able to pay its war debts, and not rely on the U. 5. S. R. asa market, aiding the 5-year plan ad- vance. The main thing that Monroe is concerned about is “Communistic excesses.” His whole document is filled with references to “China go- ing Red,” China making an alliance with Russia, “which would strengthen Communism there as well as in.Ger- many and in Europe generally.” ‘ While the professor: suggests: the details be worked out) between’ the United States, Britain and France, he the lead- (on Prof. Monroe Works Out Plan for Nanking Drive on Soviets ing role. ‘Professor Monroe has been in closé touch' with the Chiang Kai Shek go ent. He is also a bosom friend of John D. Rockefeller, dr., having made a trip to China in 1921 with the oil robber. Undoubted- ly the plan has the approval of lead- ing Wall Street bankers. It is' being Dress Strike Committee to Report at Manhattan Lyceum United Front Conference Executive to Meet! Tomorrow; Great Mass Demonstration February 12 in NEW YORK, — The membership of the Needle Trades, Workers Indus. | trial Union will take up the detailed demands of the dressmakers in the coming strike at the mass mecting Thursday, February 5 in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The report of the genéral strike committee and the shop delegates coun¢il, as well as a review of the preparations for the coming dress strike will be given to the meeting: It is expected that all the members | of the union will be present at this | meeting to participate in these deci- sions and will help secure an effect- ive struggle for the union demands. A very important meeting will bo held today até p. m. at Bryant Hall, Sixth Avenue and 41st Street of all the young workers in the dress in- dustry. Recently thousands of young wor! ers were drawn into the industry. | They were subjected to slavery on| Lincoln Arena even a larger scale than all the other workers. The union intends to de- fend these young workers and calls ‘upon all of them to come to tonight's meeting. Friday night there will be a very important meeting .of the workers | residing and working in the Harlem section, at St. Lukes Hall, 125 West 130th Street. A speaker from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights will ad- dress the meeting. Conference Executive Meeting. ‘The executive conimittee elected by the United Front Conference Satur- day Will Rave its first meeting Wed- | nesday in the office of the union, 131 West 28th stgeet. Detailed plans for the. mobilization of all workers’ or- Ganizations.for the assistance in the | coming strike will be worked out at this meeting. A monster demonstration, of ‘ey | injured, and four members of the | CONTINUED ON PA Editor of “Uj Elore” Jailed | By Immigrat Held at Ellis Island P «> Fascist Hungary-on $1,000 Liberty Bonds; ion Authorities ending Deportation. te Workers Must, Protest nondeg forenoon, the U. S, Immi- gration officers arrested and held for deportation on’ Fllis Island Comrade | Louis Bebries, chief editor, of Uj Elore, Hungarian Communist daily. In the original draft proposals of | the Fish committee one of the }ire- posals was to call upon the depart- ment of labor to deport Comrade Bebrics, who, at the hearifig before the Fish committee, answering a question of, the ‘committee, stated that the working masses in this coun- try also, in struggling hunger and starvation forced upon them by-the capitalist class, will find that it is unavoidably necessary to overthrow the governméht of the bosses and to replace it by a government of work- ers and’ poor farmers. The arrest of Comrade Bebrics signalizes a new stage in capitalist class terror employed against foreign born and against the entire working class, since Bebries-is not only legal- ly in this country, but the ruling class has not even such an existing law which could serve as a pretense for the deportation of Bebrics. ‘We see, thru the action of the de- partment-of labor, that even before the proposals of the Fish committee ar> formally accepted by congress, f}: .vovernment goes, in practice even further than their own laws ex- tend, and start to carry thru the! proposals of the Fish committee, aimed against every group of work- ers—against the whole working class. ‘ The arrest of Bebries came two days after a raid on the Salvation Army steamship, “Broadway”, refer~ red to as the ‘floating home of un- employed sailors,” at pier 15, Staple- ton, S. I, where the Imniigration “studied” by. the state department. and police officers cooperated with neittee for Unem lective endorsements at once. Collective endorsements Worki Sick Must Reach To allow time for tabulation of the hundreds of thousands of signatures for our Unemployment Insurance Bill and the collective endorsem all filled Usts and collective endorsements must be in the hands of the National Campaign ‘Com- Insurance, 2 West 15th stret, New York City, no later than Feb. 5. | The National Campaign Committee calls’ upon’, all workers’ organizations to forward their col- TUUL local and district secretaries are to forward the collective endorsement taken at all street. breadlines and mass theetings as well as the collective endorse- ments of all hunger marches immediately. eter ign ived from New Yor! ity are nearing the 100,000 total. The Benevolent’ and Educational All Sienistieie Lists ‘cand Ecdorseninnts New York by Feb. 5. paign Committee has shot over the 200,000 total, with, many district ‘atures. still on hand. The ci . Points out again that all filled lists must come ents, ‘ of si for.vard at once two days. Belitz has now Federation has just f the collective en- dorsements of 41 bra “The total of indie, tn Jocal,and vidual 'signatures received by the National Cam- bundled the Starvation Army, and lined yp the unemployed sailors, lured by the Starvation Army's prom 18 of 400 unemployed for deportation. sailors are held | The New York Conference for the | Protection of Forcign Born, to be| held at Itving Plaza, Irving Place} and 15th St., on Feb.-8th, at 11 a: m,, | (and a whole series of such confer- | | Must Feed, House 150 MORE DEMONSTRATIONS FEB. 10; DELEGATES T0- START FOR WASHINGTON Jobless Delegates Hop Freights From West; All Arrive Feb. 9 Textile Workers Come From North Carolina BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. Yesterday at 4 p, m. 1,000 jobless | in the Ritch St. soupline: rebelled and held a mass meeting to de- neunce the slow distribution and rotten food. Those inside seized control and began a real distribu- tion, The jobless fought police re- | serves for an hour and held out until the heavily armed riot squads | ived. One’ worker is seriously 2. Unemployed Council are sentenced to 90 days. Raskin and } Fred Lowry Adams, 24 and 28 years old| respectively ,hopped a freight train | in Denver last Wednesday and are} beating their way to Washington, D. C., ci ving the demands of the min- ers, t workers, and other western shop and mill workers for unemploy-! ment insurange, the National Com- mittee for Unemployment Tnsurance | heard yesterday. The two delegates from Denver ex- | peet to arrive in Washington on Feb. 8th | The National Campaign Committee will make public dress of’ the | delegation headquart ton, D. C., tomorrow. In Washington | an arrangements committee wil at-| tend to housing and feeding of the 150 worker delegates who will demand | s in Washing- | ¢ trict and local headquarters. The total of signas tures must reach the half million mark within John. Belitz, the New York worker/ who lost the record for individual signature collections to Mowe of St. Louis, has regained first place. , Workers in Baltimore collected 850 and 950 sign- atures respectively. ae ie Collective endorsements from the large Foster and Lenin meetings, all demonstrations and - hhynger marches should be sent in by air ‘mail from all western cities: All signature lists and shipped +to,New York immediately. ences thruout the country) will or-|of Congress the passage of the Work- | ganize the foreign-born and native} ers Unemployment Insurance Bill on| Negro and white workers for the| Feb. 10. struggle against deporting uncmploy- All delegates must arrive in Wash- | ed, or any other workers-—-for the} ington during the ea morning of | release of Bebrics, and all other| Feb. 9. The first Session of the dele- workers held for deportation—ggainst | (CONTINUED ON "PY the proposals of the Fis! GE THREN) —and against the discrimination | CHRYSLER VALUES HIS Lire. | against the foreign born in the city) NEW YORK, N. Y.—Walter P., of New York. | Chrysler, enriched by thousands of | Be sure that your organization|#utomobile workers, puts a high| seriiis delegates to this conference. | Yale on his life. He has taken out $12,000,000 life insurance, Pierre S. | District Committee for the Protec-| Du Pont, manufacturer, also rich | tion of Foreign Born, Room 505, | trom the exploitation of workers, has | 32 Union Sq. N. ¥. City. insurance totaling $7,000,000, Fish Committee Directs New _ Attack for War on Soviets| A new phase of the Fish Commit- tee’s attack against the Soviet Union is seen in the international crive against Soviet goods. While the Con- gressional Committee is “investigat-| pressing itself mainly in cries for) ing” so-called convict labor in the embargoes on ce goods, ar U. S. 8. R, a perfectly timed cable| Shown by the campaign in Britain from Helsingfors is featured in the | @sainst so-called convict labor. The capitalist press, emanating from a| Propaganda undér the guise of “So- mysterious ex-OGPU agent who had) Viet dumping” is greatly intensified been in Helsingfors over eight | in France and Germany. months. His statement is written in| At the same time, Professor Mon- ‘ | toe, a Rockefeller representative in | Shanghai, sends a document to the | state department. calling for creating markets in China for Germany so it | will not have to Jean on Russia for markets. In this way, argues Mon- oe, @ double blow will be directed against Communism—in China by support to the Nationalist govern- ment; and in Germany by saying German capitalism and keeping it from trading with the Soviet Union, All these events are directly con- nected with ‘the growing crisis in the capitalist countries and their active war preparations against the Soviet Union, The Fish Committee in the United States, which gave the first big drive to war against the Soviet Union, is not resting content with merely printing its report. It is tak- ing active steps toward war. The lies accordance with the wishes of Fish Committee. The international phases of | anti-Soviet war preparations, the the | ex- | reporting tens of thousands ‘onimittee and not be kept on file in dis- collected 2,900 signatures. Two Union are just’ beginning. Th ©". ternational unity of the bosses in this ery shows their cooperation in pre- pariag war. The drive against the standard ot living of the American workers, against unemployment insurance, and for deportations, takes place along- side of the war ict headquarters should be GRAF? ON RED about convict labor in the Soviet, MINE AND STEEL TOWNS SEETHING | Tear Gas in Ambridge: | New Councils Formed and Action Planned BULLETIN. BUFFALO, N. ¥., Feb. 2. — Eight thousand unemployed are marchi- ing in-demonstration through. the streets of Buffalo. Scores are fight- ing with the police, pulling them off their horses and beating them up when they try to ride down the jobless. The masses;are angered at the refusal of the city council to grant demands for relief made today by a committee of 35, Sev= eral workers including the chair- man of the delegation, Kenneth |. Kalke, were beaten up by police and are held incommunicado. - Others arrested were rescued by the dem- onstrators. At the same time that word js ‘re- ceived from the more distant’ points that their delegates to Washington to hand the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill to Congress are-start- ing, comes news of a considerable number of more cities and industrial | towns arranging demonstrations and hunger marches to back up this bill The bill is presented“Feb. 10, and the demonstrations will take place on a national scale, that same day. More and more, one governor r after another blandly-as+ as sures the delegations of the unem- ployed who come ‘o see them, that nothing cam be done for them under “our system” of government, the part-time workers and the jobles: through the terrific barrage of pro- Ppaganda against the Soviet Union now being released. They begin to realize that in the Soviet Union there {CONTINUED 2 THRE) CROSS RELIEF PARIS, Ark., Feb, 2.—The so-called “relief” for drouth-stricken farmers is being distributed from here. This means that certain local merchants are relieving themselves, while the farmers are first insulted, then cheated and robbed. The scheme is to send the unfor- tunates to those stores which charge double prices for all goods furnished on Red Cross requisitions, and allow the local Red Cross officials a “rake- | off” on all such business, Only a mass protest against this obvious robbery, by the-farmers form- ing their own Relief Council to lead he protest and fight for the right of their own elected council to super- vise and take charge of the relief distribution, can stop this graft, upon the starving. Farmers here understand quite-wetl the need for an alliance with the revolutionary workers of the cities, and all who are asked gladly sign | the list demanding, passage of the | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. me New Offer for District Pages — In order to make contacts that will develop into pérma- nent circulation, each district In the Party should have a special page in the Daily Worker once a week. This will allow each district to build up its circula~ tion on the basis of added in- terest attached to local news. The Daily Worker offers any district the second page of the naticnal edition, on which can be published four columns of district news. This offer is made on condition the district order 2,000 extra copies of the Daily each week at $8 a thou- sand, payable in advance. Any day of the week can be selected except Saturday, }