The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1931, Page 1

) 4 f , : : ci alia al Eee ee. ' SCENES IN ALBANY WHERE HUNGER MARCHERS DEMANDING RELIEF FOR JOBLESS Hunger Marchers entering Albany and starting to parade through the streets with placards showing the demands -for unemployment relief, insurance, no evict'ons, etc. the state. About 200 came from New York City. and gained recruits in the towns om the way. These marchers were from all the cities in They had held meetings and formed unemployed councils See eee le WERE CLUBBED The state police killed one representative of the jobless while the assemblymen shouted approval, and wounded 18 others. Here is one of the wounded getting medical attention at the Workers International. Relief headquarters. Tuesday the marchers went into the state capitol building and their committee appeared on the floor-ot the assembly room and tried to present the demands of the sarving to the state assembly. State troopers clubbed them from the br''ding, after a hot fight. of the capitol building. The Unemployed Councils Are the Fighting Organizations for Immediate Relief and Unem- ployment Insurance for the Unemployed Workers. Or- ganize Them Everywhere (Section of Norker —-SDUnumict Party U.S.A. the Ki dewie, Pe lv ioccu ss Picture shows some of the marchers being driven down the steps WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIL, No. 57 Entered as second class matter at the Post Office <€gp2l at New York, N. Y., onder the act of March 3, 1979 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents HUNGER MARCHER MURDERED IN STATE LEGISLATURE CHARLES HEIT DIES FROM FRACTURED SKULL, RESULT OF CLUBBING WHICH WAS ASSEMBLY’S ANSWER 10 JOBLESS 3 More Shops Join Dress Strike; Enemies of the W orkers On Trial By G. SAFAROV (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, March 5.—DEADLY enemies of the working class, those who can not be forgiven, face their judges in Moscow. Why is it that Gro- man, Ginsburg, Sher and. company DO NOT DARE to say a word in de- fense of their wrecking work? Why do they not dare to defend their social democratic base actions? Is it because Bolshevik machine guns are directed against them? Nonsense, you worthy Wild dogs of the yellow press" ‘They do not dare because MILLIONS OF EYES are concentrated on them. Today. these millions of eyes in the Soviet Union; tomorrow there will be still more numerous millions of eyes of toilers ail over the world. ‘Was not every wrecking blow at millions of bushels of grain, against millions of tons of pig iron delivered by the designing, treacherous hands against the Five-Year Plan in the Supreme Economic Council, dealt also directly and indirectly at millions of proletarians at the benches, millions ,of collective farm members and peasants? They deliberately reduced the output so the country should always be in need. They deliberately cut at the raw material base of industry so as to produce unemployment. They | took away bread from industry, hiding the Kulak’s excess stocks behind columns of professorial figures. They strove to turn to nothing the super- human efforts of the enthusiasts of Socialist construction—millions of the rank and file of the proletariat—they so erected factories so they should not work, so that need and dissatisfaction should prevail, so that Socialism should succumb and ‘capitalism come out victorious. Abramowitch, and other members of the Executive of the Second In- ternational, returning from the wrecking journey to Moscow, gladly re- ported to Hilferding that the Five-Year Plan was doomed, and all chances were favorable to include Germany in the united Anti-Soviet front. Hil- ferding subsidized those who tried to kill SOCIALIST work by false figures | and calculations.. From behind his back came the advance payments from Poincare, transferred through the Industrial Party of Ramsin. ‘They not only PREPARED war but tried to blow up IMMEDIATELY, NOW, prior to any intervention, billions of hours of labor of the proletariat of the U. S. S. R. ‘They wanted to put in their dynamite charge to prove it impossible to build Socialism in one country! ‘The socialist “Vestnik” wrote of the inevitability of the collapse of planned economy, while at the same time Groman in the Planning Com- mission was receiving his first $25,000 from the Industrial Party! “Under Soviet conditions, when prices are regulated by the state, inflation takes shape, mainly strengthening the commodity shortage” (January 24, 1929), declared the menshevik lady wrecker, Domanevskaya. Bhe had just received through the post information from the same Sher who spoke in the State Bank favoring the increase of the share of the Private trader as a means of reducing emission of currency. A few months later the same Sher, on instructions from the foreign menshevik delega- tion, arranged with the bandits of the Industrial Party and the Kulak group of Kondratyev, to create an artificial shortage of goods in regions where there would be probable Kulak uprisings. * . The criminal wreckers and the socialist interventionists found it im- possibie to recruit a single live worker for social democracy in the U.S.S.R. ‘They, heroes of the bureaucratic underground, took VENGEANCE on this ADVANCED working class. Not for nothing did Abramowitch, during his stay in the U.S.S.R. strongly emphasize turning to the leaders of the Sec- ond International towards active support of intervention, called forth by “the harmful influence” of the successes of Socialist construction on the social democratic workers in’the Western countries! They, the heads of the Second International, who appeal for “law” under the protection of capitalism and fascism are now straining all their efforts to hide and conceal and brush over their tracks. Did not the same Hilferding who gave social-democratic money to the agency of the In- dustrial Party at the same time rob in the interest of the German pourgecisie the werkers at home?. Those Blums and Vanderveldes, who constitute the public opinion of the Second International, were doing wrecking work against the proletariat of the U.S.S.R. in order to assist the sharks of capital, The workers of the west must help the workers of the U.S.S.R. and themselves. They must help expose and pilorize the intervention, the agents provocateurs of wrecking. BRONX MOBILIZING FOR WOMEN’S DAY NEW YORK.—The units of the setion of the Communist nd the branches of the Wom- Thursday noon in front of the Giant Laundry, where hundreds of Negro women are slaving 55 hours a week for $8 to $12, 10 Open Air Meetings. Between today and Sunday there will be ten open air meetings all over the Bronx, ENGDABL TO SPEAK Borough Park workers will hear s Councils are organizing a num- ber of shop gate and open air meet- ings in order to mobilize the terribly exploited women workers for the In- ternational Womens Day demonstra- tion to be held Sunday, March 8, at 1,30 at Ambassador Hall. » Unit 24 of the Communist Party ts arranking 8 Shop ate iuesting on Dally ‘WotR asa Comrade Louis Engdahl, National Secretary of the International Labor Defense, this Friday evening at an open forum at 1373 Forty-third St., Brooklyn, New York. The subject will be “The Role of the Communis' Press in Workers’ Struggles.” Bring your shop mates, . Proceeds. to. the 7 ON for THREATWAGE CUT FOR ALL STEELTOILERS Go.J own Not a day es now without re- ports of wage-cuts. But the latest news from the steel industry indi- cates that the big drive of the pres- ent wage-cutting campaign is soon to come. The Wall Street Journal (March 5, 1931), | must be saved—and at the expense | {of the workers’ wages. | They start their propaganda as follows: wage-eutti “There |\Bosses Want Profits to| end Wages D | dence of Abramowitch’s stay in Mos- witch during the discussion on the speaking for the’ that the court had received a tele- | leading Steel bosses, declares profits | | gram from Abramowitch, which was | | reau of enly a limited amount of business to | | be had and, with steel plants operat- |ing only slightly above 53 per cent | of theoretical capacity, the cost per ton has been so high that little or | nothing has ben left for net profits for many of the steel companies.” This, of course, is a lie, because the Steel companies. have all been pay- ing good profits. They want to in- | crease their profits at the expense of | the workers’ wages. The Wall Street Journal says: “That something must | be done to bring about soméwhat in- is eased profits for steelmakers is the iview held in responsible quarters.” Now, what is the remedy of the Wall Street Journal? They quote ‘%ne of the leading steel bosses, who gives the answer: “Reduction of costs!” That is, first, reduction of wages. The Wall Street Journal ad- mits that “a number of smaller steel companies. throughout the country reduced wage rates some time ago,” and now the big companies will do it. They say the workers won't feel it much, because they are already on starvation pay under the stagger (co UD ON PAGE THREE) | statements | courts. “Socialist” Leaders Supplied Money for War On Soviets Abramowite Court; Enrages His Ikov: Quits After 25 Years MOSCOW, March 4.—The” accused | Mensheviks continued to give evi- Groman’ stated that Abramo- ‘titude of the Second International in faver of intenvention named sev- eral leading personages amongst | others there were Hilferding and | Breitscheid. ‘The acused received with indigna- | tion the information Iyrylenko o read to them verbally. In the tele- gram Abramowitch denies the Bu- the Mensheviks in the U. S. S. R. ever held communications with | the foreign delegation of the Rus-/ sian Mensheviks that visited Mos- | cow in 1928. He promises to send by pest a statement, that he will give under oath before a certified Ger- man court. Krylenko, after the statements of all the accused, declared there was not much to be said about the con- tents of the telegram, but he ques- tioned them if there ever was a pre- cedent in the history of social dem- ocracy where the members made on oath to bourgeois | All the accused declared | unanimously that they did not know | of such facts in the history of the social democracy. Yakobovitch em- phasized that in view of the state- ments of the accused it was Abramo- witch's duty to prove an alibi for the period of his stay in Moscow, but Abramowitch confines his proof to his own statement on oath. The aged defendant, Ikov, got up and declared, visibly excited, that for more than a quarter of a cen- tury he, contrary to the others of the accused, never resigned from the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THR NEW YORK.—Central Opera House was packed last night on the occasion of the Ruthenberg Memorial with an enthusiastic crowd which turned out to honor the memory of the founder of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. and to greet the 200 hunger marchers just returned from Albany where they forced the pot-bellied agents of the bosses to listen to the demands of the unemployed workers for relief and unemployment insur- ance, In military formation, just as they marched to, and acted in, Albany, the hunger marchers entered the Central Opera House, Jed by their captains, Negro and white, men and women. Received with a tremendous: ovation they occupied the platform midst con- tinued cheering. . “If any one thinks that only our hunger marchers were damaged, then they are decidedly mistaken,” said Jack Johnstone, leader of the delega- tion, Of 5 hunger marchers who were st | injured by the’ murderous state troop- ers one, Comrade Nielson spoke, and Heda a by his militancy that the “wa, hunger. marchers were not. discour- New York Hunger Marchers Report at Ruthenberg Meet aged by what took place in Albany. On the contrary. “What we must do is organize, organize,” said Com- rade Anne Rollins, a woman captain of one of the companies. Sidelights on the march and the attempt to place the demands of the | it unemployed before the state assem- bly were given by Comrades Bieden- kapp, Nesin, McKenzie, Rogers, a Negro worker, and Silverman, leaders of the delegation. Put Off Yonkers Case of Two Demonstrators YONKERS, N. Y., March 5.—So many workers crowded into the court room of ‘Judge Boote today, ready to protest the contemplated railroad- | ing through to jail of Weich and} Walton, that/the case was postponed, ostensibly because the chief of po-| lice was not fully prepared. The prosecution and court hope in this way also to drag out the case and wear out the defense. ‘The two were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct because of |S! their part in. the ‘unemployment dem- onstration, oe hte Sends Lying Telegram to Soviet| | Ex-Service Men Meet 4) Former Followe 4 “jor Fe |X Mis” >) Vi i>, ( Coon" EY YOKINEN s RACE PREJUDICE. Speaks At WV Mass Meet! in Harlem NEW YORK. — August Yokinen, who was arrested by immigration | authorities for deportation fo!’ his open admission of error a. day's mass trial in permitting the} boss ideology of Negro inferiority to | influence his attitude towards his Negro fellow workers, last night ad- dressed a mass meeting at the Fin- nish Workers Hall, 15 West 126th Street, on the subject of the strug- gle against white chauvinism. Yokinen declared that he recog- nizes he is being persecuted by the bos government and its terrorist ag- ents in revenge for his pledge at} Sunday's mass trial to fight side by side with the Negro workers against | discrimination, lynching and national oppression. He again pledged him- self to the struggle for Negro rights and said whether he Stays in this country or is ~ Dass government to Finland he will con- tinue the struggle against all forms of national and racial prejudices and oppression, Another speaker at the meeting was Comrade Richard B. Moore, na- tional Negro director of the Inter- national Labor Defense, who acted as defense attorney at the mass trial. Moore pointed out that Yokinen re- pudiated the Communist Party and program of unconditional equal- ity for Negroes he would not have been persecuted by the boss govern- ment which jim-crowed the Negro Gold Star mothers on their visit to the graves of their sons and husbands murdered in the imperialist war. Yokinen was released Tuesday on $500 bond on the demand of the In- ternational Labor Defense. Fifteen Negro workers were among those who greeted him at South Ferry upon his return from Ellis Island. there is so much unemploy-® Tonite on Heit Murder NEW YORK.—The Workers Ex- Servicc Men’s League calls a meet- me tonight at 7:30 at 79 East Third , to take up the question of pro- a against the murder of their fel- jJow ex-serviceman, Heit. NEW YORK.—It strike and shops are still walki swer the Needle Trades Work to the fools and hypocrites and A. F. | croak: “You can't strike in ha: gente ”” Three shops, one an I. | L. G. W. shop, joined the strike | Lyi brave ay. More than 1,800 dressimakers have | | Bast Broadway for the benefit of the| won improved conditions since the strike began on Feb. 16th. | gaits include increases in wages, a |40-hour 5-day week, recognition of ; the shop committees and of the union. When it is considered that} before the strike these 1,800 dress- makers worked 60 and 70 hours a week for starvation wages, the gains of the strike so far are obvious. The Workers International Relief {continues to provide lunches ‘for sev- eral hundred strikers every day A general meeting of the Organ-/ ization Committee will be held to- night in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Plaza. Today at 11 a. m. all unemployed dressmakers are urged to be present], at an important meeting to be held| in Bryant. Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42nd} Street. Plans are being completed by the Finance Committee for the bazaar to | 2 held at Star Casino for the benefit of the $15,000 Dress Strike Fund. A conference of the “Support the Dress Strike Committees” of the Women’s Councils will be held tomorrow at 1 in the union hall, 131 W. 28th St., to discuss plans for gathering and cook- ing the food that is being served to ce striking dressmakers. The con- ference will also take up the matter These | ng out—and that’s the best an- ers’ Industrial. Union can make of L, misleaders who rd times, you can't strike when Jof collecting merchandise for the| | bazaar. | The East Side Workers Club will} hold a concert tomorrow night at 196} Strike Fund. The Downtown Workers Club will |hold a° dance for the same purpose | tomorrow night at 11 Clinton St. Stops | Eviction of | Pregnant Woman NEW YORK.—The Downtown Un- jemployed Council held a large open air meeting yesterday at the fake em- ployment agency at Leonard and Church Streets. Workers marched from that meet- ing to the headquarters of the Coun- cil where they greeted the returned | Hunger Marchers and heard their re- |port. About 300 workers participated. |day in stopping the eviction of Mrs. Kleine, a pregnant woman, whose) husband has been unable to find a} job for the past six months. She had been disposed from her home at 260 East 4th St. The Council held an open air meeting in the block, or- ganized a Tenants League and ral- lied the workers to put the furniture beck. Working Women in Forefront of Fight for Jobless’ Children The International Women's Day demonstrations all over the country will sound raging protest against the murder of Comrade Charles Hait, killed by the capitalist henchmen at the N. Y. state capitol while going to present the demands of the thou- sands of unemployed workers in New ‘York state for unemployment insur- ance at the expense of the govern- ment. The working women of the United States, who are suffering hunger and Starvation while the bosses who live ‘in comfort and luxury refuse to give one cent to relieve the unemployed, will answer the murder of our fight. ing comrade by greater organization, | by more determined struggle to win their demands. These meetings will sound the clarion call to the working men and women of the shops and factories to rally in'greater numbers of the Un- employed Councils, to take the place of the comrade who fell on “the bat: lefield._ “The cynical disregard of the starvation of thousands by Mayor Walker and his Board of Estimate, who are spending millions for graft * against the unem- but declare that * law to provide re) ployed, will only .\ | the struggle of t f the very system Wine. —.. millions of workers to starvation. Open-air meetings, in preparation for International Women’s Day, are taking place in all sections of the city. The Young Pioneers, the Chil- | dren's Workers’ School, are mobil- | neighborhoods mothers and mass demonstrations. Many meetings have already beat announced and many are being ar- raigned by working women’s organ- izations. Working women in Coney Island will demonstrate on Sunday, March 8, at 2 p.m. at 2921 W. 32nd St. Coney Island, and bring The Council was active during the | |izing to canvass the working class | their} their sisters to Na | Aenemblymen Gloating: Over. Murder; “Only 1,800 Back at Higher Wages) Wish More Clubbea” s now the 25th day of the dressmakers’ | Troopers Led By Keely Heit An EF Ex-Service Man With Family | ALBANY, N. Y., March 5.—Fhef, murdered a nunger marcher Tuestry |in the state assembly room of. tt capitol building here, murdéred him with a blow from a state Ppoliceman’s club which fractured his skull, Charles Heit, of Poughkeepsie, unemployed ex-serviceman, wounded in France, died in the hospital in Schenectady today from the effects of the terrible beating given to him and 18 other jobless representatives as the | answer of the state legislature to their |demands for relief to save the lives |of the starving jobless of New York state. Heit leaves a wife and. chil- dren. He was a member of tHe | Poughkeepsie Unemployed Council. Three hundred marchers and job- less in the gallery of the assembly were protesting the action of the -po- lice in dragging bodily out of the room the representative committee of twenty they had sent to present de-. mands for unemployment insurance, jimmediate relief for the jobless, no evictions, and other demands. They were yelling “We want work or wages,” when the state troopers, headed by Captain John M. Keely be- gan a most brutal slugging and club~ bing and drove them all from the building. It was during this attack that Heit received mortal injuries. While the clubbing was going, Tams many and republican assemblymen (CONTINUED 02 PAGE THREE) Mooney Speaks Out! Monday The “Daily” Starts His Article “For 15 years I have hesitated to tell this story, and, much as I regret it, I cannot remain silent any longer. The rank and file of the trade unions have always believed in my innocence. ‘They. have worked for me and.-have given their nickels, dimes and} dollars to help my defense, But t their desires and wishes have been. subverted and sabotaged bythe jJabor leaders. The ‘leaders’ of the A. F. of L. have always told the politicians in public office to ignore any protest coming= {fori the unions in my behalf.” So says Tom Mooney, framed up for life imprisonment for lead- ing the struggles of the working class and already with 14 "Years of prison life behind him. And he doe tell it! Read Tom Mooney’s own inside story of the black treachery of the A. F. of L. bureau¢rats, big and little. Itwill run serially in the Daily Worker, starting Monday.