The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1931, Page 1

Organize an Unemployed Coun- cil in Every Workers’ Neigh- borhood of Twenty Blocks; Register tiie Unemploy- ed; Investigate Starva- tion Conditions. e Dail Central -Orsa (Section of the Communist N Interna Norker —EdRunit Party U.S.A. tional) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Entered as seccnd cl: Vol. VIII, No. 61 ¢ ) UNEMPLO ass matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. onder the act of March 3, 1979 <>" NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MARCH 11, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents UNEMPLOYED LEADERS FLOGGED; PROBABLY LYNCHED y Kad Central Committee has received copies of certain leaflets which have been distributed in the Anthracite coal fields. These leaflets, signed “Communist Party of America” and printed in red ink, call for preparations for armed uprising of the workers, They are quite evidently the work of either some irresponsible, politically ignorant person, or of hired provocateurs who are trying to arouse confusion in the ranks of the unemployed movement and provide “evidence” for capitalist courts. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States of, America denounces all such uses of the name “Communist Party” and Warns workers against such persons. The Communist Party of the U. S. A. a section of the Communist International, is not issuing at this time, leaflets calling for armed in- wurrection. The Communist Party, as the Party of the proletarian over- throw of capitalism, is leading the organized struggle of the masses in their fight for unemployment insurance, for immediate relief for the unem- ployed from government. treasuries, against wage-cuts and speed-up, for thé building of unemployed councils and the revolutionary trade unions. ‘The Communist Party of the U. S. A. points out that the slogan of armed insurrection or any variation of it is a correct, political slogan only under conditions of a revolutionary crisis in the country. There is no such revo- Intionary crisis in the United States at the present time. All those who attempt to make use of such slogans at this time as slogans of action are therefore playing the role of provocateurs. Workers must beware of such Provocations, | | | CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U. 8. A. Make March 28 A Day of Protest! Ee anyone had the illusion that the failure of Congress to make’ into | law the proposals of the Fish Committee, indicated any disagreement with whet was proposed, they were seriously mistaken. If anyone thought that capitalism was short of laws against the | working class, the actions, violent and arbitrary, being carried on in every ‘ection of the country, against the workers, should prove that when capi- ‘alism wants to attack, that laws enough will be found—“reasons as plentiful as blackberries.” démand deportation of all foreign-born workers who either are or might | bécome Communists? There was no new law necessary. Hoover's new Secretary of Labor had not sat in his new chair for ten minutes before he had found an old one, one that allows him the same arbitrary au- thority over the lives of workers as the Caesars had over the lives of Roman slaves, Did- the czarist conspirator and forger, Mr. Djamgaroff, agree with Mr. Fish and Mr. Woll that workers should not be allowed to read the Communist press? New laws are not needed. The gentleman who is running the post office department for the purpose of seeing about that very thing—and the incidental rake-off from post office leases for the benefit of the republican party national committee's treasury—will put his finger down, blindfolded, on any one of the thousand and one “rules and regulations”—and bar from the mails the “Young Worker,” “Vida Obrera,” the “Young Pioneer!” The passage of new laws is not only unnecessary for capitalism, but it might be harmful—there might be some publicity. “If we are going to make an attack on the workers, let's not say so, but just do it!” This, precisely, is what is being done! ‘The ambassador of Mussolini is asked if he would like to kill an Italian immigrant named Serio. The ambassador wires to Rome and then tells Mr. Doak that he would be delighted. So the United States gov- ernment decides that Serio not only-must be deported, but that it, the government of the United States, insists on him going to no other land but fascist Italy! . Is there any law to decree exactly where he must go, so long as he is pushed beyond U. S. borders? No matter! Law or no law, Italian workers in this country must be taught a lesson! Made tame! * Afraid to strike! Fearful of resisting wage cuts! Scared of joining the other workers in demanding unemployment insurance! And for exactly the same reason, hundreds of workers are being rounded up and deported every month! Thousands face the swift and despotic decree of deportation, without trial, the uprooting of their lives from every tie binding them to the American working class, and a forcible ejection in handcuffs from “the land of the free!” On the excuse that a worker who occupies the humble and incon- spicuous position of janitor, might “overthrow the government by force and violence’—but for the real reason that he publicly declared that white and Negro workers should unite against capitalism—he is carried off in handcuffs the next day for deportation, and by a government which winks at the daily murder of Negroes by lynch mobs. ~ No worker, native or foreign-born, white or colored, can witness this attempt to break the resistance of the whole working class to the capi- ‘talist offensive on wages, hours and the rising demand for unemploy- ment insurance, without his blood boiling! ‘+ These foreign-born workers have a right to remain where they are, “3 a part of the American working class! Their sweat produced the ~ dollars spent by Mr. Fish and if anyone should be deported it is he and not they! They have a right to unite with other workers, with Negro workers, in the common cause of all workers against all capitalists! Nor shall the gum-shoe attempt to open a wholesale attack on une working class be allowed to pursue its sneaking way without protest! ‘The National Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-born has called for nat‘on-wide protest on March 28th. Let every worker respond to \ that appeal! Let the capitalists feel the class solidarity of the workers of all races and nationalities! treasury. But when it is a question |ers in the place. MANY NEGRO UNEMPLOYED ARESTARVING Detroit Auto Plants. Fool Workers; Cut Pay and Jobs BULLETIN NEW YORK.—All captains and lieutenants of the Albany march and all marchers are to report at the Trade Union Unity Council open meeting at Manhattan Ly- ceum, Thursday night at 7:45 p.m. | Sra NEW YORK.—Unemployed marine workers gathered in two vigorous | meetings across the street from the Seamen’s Institute Saturday and/ Monday and cheered while speakers exposed that church and shipowners’ institution for its crimes against the | workers, particularly the unemployed. Leaflets were distributed. The meet- ings were under the auspices of the Marine Workers Council of the Un- employed and the Marine Workers | Industrial Union. While the Seamen’s Institute was being shown up, the private police of | that concern were continuing the| crimes. Three detectives beat up a/ Negro marine worker, Alfred John-| terday, and last night another Ne- gro worker was beaten up inside for | criticising the treatment given work- | ‘The demonstrations have so far had | the effect of making the Institute put in 15 more beds. A municipal flop house for marine workers has’ also been opened at South Ferry. ee ° (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich., March 10.—On March First the Detroit Free Press and the rest of the capitalist press announced: “Auto Workers Rush to Fill Big Orders.” But on March 2 a notice was posted on all the time clocks at the Graham Paige Motors that from that date un- til further notice the plate work from 8 a. m. instead of 7, and on that day we were all sent home at 3:30 p. m. instead of 4:30. On March 3 they started a stagger system, one gang to work one week and another to work the next week. This will give the average worker in this plant about $44 a month to starve on. I think it is time we joined the Auto Workers Union. Si ek. we FORT WORTH, Texas, March 10. Roberta Lindsay, Negro worker in the city welfare department told the Social Workers’ Club here at their recent meeting that Negro workers, “never prosperous, are peculiarly hard hit by the present unemploy- ment crisis." The club is trying to work out some palliative program for a little more relief to quiet the in- dignation of the starving Negro and white jobless here. Cea age AUSTIN, Texas, March 10.—Chas. McKemey, head of the state labor bureau, declared recently that some of the road contractors were paying as low as 12 cents an hour for road work. SUN PICKETS DEFY ARRESTS 15 Held to Trial At Special Sessions NEW YORK.—Picketing continues FURRIERS ASSAIL SORKIN, KAUFMAN Rank and File Meeting ~ Begins Struggle NEW YORK. — Rank and File urriers, about a thousand of them, 4ainly from the International Fur Yorkers Union packed Irving Plaza i last night at the call of the ited Front Rank and File Commit- and enthusiastically cheered the akers who denounced the treach- ries of the ruling cliques in that A. of L. union, ‘They enthusiastically adopted a solution pointing out that the ‘sin, Kaufman, and Statsky gangs ways promise everything to the mbers of the union when these ques are struggling with each other ‘the right to sell out the furrier: of fighting the employers to win something better than the present miserable conditions, all these cliques are equally ready to betray. The resolution calls for organizing full force in the Sun market, where the food workers struck last week against outrageous conditions and were met by a united front of the @ rank and file movement to over- | bosses’ association and the police. 15 throw the cliques, to organize strug-| A. F. L, United Hebrew Trades, the gles in the shops for better condi-| were arrested under the blanket in- tions in spite of the cliques, to fight | junction obtained by the A. F. L. for the conditions of the 1926 agree- | and the employers and used in all ment won under the left wing lead+ | strikes. where workers really try to ership and now given up. by..the}get. something for themselves. cliques, to elect rank and fUlers, ta}.. mitten. were arrested yesterday on office, to build shop committees, the picket line. They were held for special sessions under Paragraph 600 . (violating an injunction) by Magist- big Workers Meeting} sate mebonatd, with bail set at $50 i Fifty other pickets, arrested on the va orkville, Thursday line at Sun markets, will be heard NEW YORK—The Food Workers | tomorrow. They have been released Industrial Union calls a meeting for | on custody of their attorney, Thursday night at 8, at Hungarian] The women in the neighborhood Workers Home, 350 East 81st St. The | are very sympathetic to the strike, meeting is to discuss the conditions| refuse to buy at the scab shop, and confronting the food workers in | protest police brutality. The markets Yorkville where wage slashes and|on strike are at 194th St. and St. jong hours, confront bakery, cafe-| Nichols; 188th St. and St. Nichol TASTING SLOP F SB ED TO THE JOBLESS Re ee Goy. Wiiliam H. Murray, of Oklahoma, usin; sloppy soup line in cheap publicity stunt, while hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma workers and farmers and their families starve. Filipino Farm California Strike; Wage Cut mn |Employers Use National Prejudice; Local Au-|COP N) ARREST 13 thorities United Wi Laborers In th Japanese Bosses; TUUL Issues Call; Two Jailed SAN LOUIS OBISPO, Calif., March 10.-Hundreds of Mass Meeting Did the Fish Committee, Matthew Woll and Secretary Stimson’s sister | °°. in front of the place at 5:30 yes-| Filipino and other farm laborers are on stri and the employers’ association demand 40 cents an hour. PROTEST MASS MEET TONIGHT Tight Deportation of Yokinen NEW YORK. — The Communist Party (Section 4) will hold a mass meeting tonight at the Finnish Work- ers Hall, 15 West 126th St., to pro- test the vicious attempt of the boss government to deport August Yo- kinen following his pledge to fight against the influence of the boss poison of race prejudice within the working-class. The meeting will serve to rally Negro and white work- ers, native and foreign-born, in a united front against persecution of Negro and foreign-born workers. The night mass meeting will be preceded by a series of open air meetings on the following corners: 132nd Street and Lenox Ave., 132d and 5th Ave., 127th St. and 5th Ave., 114th St. and Lenox Ave, between 11 and 1 o'clock Another meeting at Lenox Ave. and 140th St. will be held at 6 o'clock, and one at the same hour in front of the I. R. T. shop at 99th St., from which the workers will march to the Finnish Workers Hall for the mass protest meeting. All workers are urged to support these meetings. The workers must defeat the attempt to deport Yokin- en to fascist Finland because he pledged to fight all kinds of discrim- ination and lynching activities of the bosses against Negro workers. Speakers at the mass meeting will be Richard B. Moore, national Negro director of the International Labor Defense, August Yokinen and others. $53,000,000 FOR WAR ON SOVIETS PARIS, March 10.—The French im- perialists have just signed the agree- ment for a loan of $53,000,000 to Ru- mania. The Rumanian government is a vassel of the French financiers, and the loan is to be used for war preparations against the Soviet Union. ® here, and have | out a picket line of 60. The wages paid were 35 cents per hour, tried to cut them. The strikers organized, but the Agricultural Workers Industial Union is active. A curious feature of this strike is that the employers are | mostly Japanese, holding land on dummy corporations. The employ- ers are bringing the national issue as | sharply to the front as they can, cal- |ling to their help all the Japanese population in California. They are bringing in Japanese as strike break- | ers from Sacramento, Fresno, Bakers-| field and Salinas. They are getting | some Americans and Mexicans as} scabs, but are relying on Japanese, | whom they are filling with the wild- | est national chauvinism, representing that it is their duty to help the Ja- panese employers smash this strike. State supports Employers Although there is no hesitation on the part of the state authorities to use just this sort of national preju- dice against the Japanese, in this case all local authorities and the} American landlords and capitalists stand solidly with the Japanese em- ployers. The police have already arrested | Frank Deverro, a Filipino strike| leader. In Watsonville, about 100 miles north of here, where the land- | lords are mostly Americans, the police | have also arrested Frank Riberal.| The United Press (capitalist news| service) states frankly: “Arrested on| suspicion of being a leader of agita- | tors for increased wages to Filipino laborers, Frank Riberal, 25, local Fili- pino, wes questioned by county and city officials tonight” (dated March 4 at Watsonville), T.U.U.L. Calls for Solidarity The Agricultural Workers Indus- trial League of the Trade Union| Unity League has issued a statemen pointing out to the Japanese workers lured to scabbing on these farms, that they are fighting to cut their own standards of living when they yield to nationalistic arguments. The call has gone out for “the working class against the employers,” with- out regard to nationalities. The strike is still largely un-| lease from white lawyers or through | Hungry Worker Dies Helping Jobless Man ATLANTA, March 10. — Sut- fering from starvation and worn- out with tramping the streets look- ing for work, Felix Henderson, 53-year old unemployed worker, dropped dead when he went to the aid of another jobless worker who had collapsed from starvation. Henderson had returned home from a fruitless quest of work. He was hungry and sick. For months he had pounded the streets look- ing for a job, but none came. A young boy told Henderson that a man had fallen in the streets. Henderson went out to help him up and himself dropped dead of exhaustion and hunger. | | DRESS STRIKERS Today At 2 P.M. NEW YORK.—Picketing by striking |dressmakers here resulted in sharp clashes with the police and scabs. | Several strikers and scabs were bruis- | ed and 13 strikers were arrested. | Despite the attempts to break the! strike the strikers will report for | | picket duty today at 7 a.m. at Bryant | | Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42nd St. | Mass Meeting Today | | The entertainment committee of | the Union held an entertainment and | concert in Bryant Hall Monday which | was attended by a large crowd of strikers. Today at 2 p.m. there will| be a mass meeting of strikers at the same place. The finance committee of the Un- | ion is completing plans for the Monster Bazaar to be held in Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Avenue on March 19 to 22. The proceeds of this affair will go to swell the $15,000 dress strike fund. The com- mittee urges all workers and working- class organizations to contribute and collect merchandise for the Bazaar, | as well as sell advertisements and greetings for the bazaar magazine. DEMONSTRATION | TODAY AT 11 AM. Against Cuban Fascist Terror NEW YORK. In connection with the deportation by the Wall Street puppet government of Cuba of seven militant workers who are being sent | to Spain on the “Manuel Arnus”, now | in this port, the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense have called a protest demonstration for today at 11 o'clock at 34 South Street before the steamship on which the workers are imprisoned. All workers are urged to come out. and demonstrate against the bour- geois Cuban tools of Wall Street and in solidarity with the deported mil- itants. Demonstrate against the Machado murder regime! Demon- strate against Wall Street exploita- tion and oppression of the Cuban workers, Garveyism In Collapse, Misleader _ Tries to Cash In on Properties KINGSTON, Jamaica, B.W.I., Mar. 10.—Repudiated by thousands of dis- gusted followers who saw no reflec- tion of their struggles against starv- ation and national oppression in either its program or its activities, split wide open by conflicting fac- tions selfishly battling for the right to milk the toiling Negro masses, the Garvey Movement is in collapse. Marcus Garvey, czar of the move- ment since its inception and the man most responsible for its reformist pro- gram and consistent betrayal of the; liberation struggle of the Negro mas- | Jamaica Masses Are Enraged As Garvey Quits With Spoils country within six weeks for Lon- don.” The “Black Man,” official mouth- piece in Jamaica of the Universal Negro Improvement Association of August, 1929, as the Garvey Move- ment is officially known, has been suspended. The Black Man Printing ses, has openly announced his i: Publishing Company has been for the association in the island will also be sold. Marcus Garvey himself be- came a real estate agent and auc- tioneer only a few weeks ago—evi- dently in preparation for his present move. Mass Anger Aroused ‘The announcement of Garvey’s in- | tention vo cash in on the properties of the organization has evoked a ter- rific wave of toass anger, Thousands of foliowers, once blind to the point of fanaticism to the glaring betrayals of their struggles by Garvey are now turning on him in a fury quite as blind as their former fanaticism. Al | ers. tion; Beaten in Jail; Coder and Hurst Left for Dead; Now Missing Arrested Leading Unemployment Demonstra- Given to Lynch Gang Thursday; Taken to Country, Flogged Lynchers Meet in Police Station and Wait for Thei Victims; Police Knew Plans Fight Must Go ae This Is Most Extreme of Many Cases of Terror; for Relief, for Organize to Carry On Race Equality DALLAS, Texas, March 10.—No word has been recetved of Lewis Hurst and Charles Coder who were kidnapped last Thursday night by an armed g: and brutally whipped with dou unconscious soaked in their ow that the two working class mil- itants are dead. Kidnapping, a horrible flog- ging, and probably lynching, is the answer of the capitalists and city authorities of Dallas to the demand of the starving workers here for unemployment relief and unem- | ployment insurance. City Authorities In Plot. Further confirmation of the co- operation of the authorities with the kidnappers is contained in the state- ment by the 16-year-old son of George Clifton Edwards, Dallas at- torney who defended Hurst .and| | Coder and was kidnaped with them at the prison gate when they were. released. He states that an officer at the City Hall had told him not to worry about his father, that “he would not be hurt.” Edwards was dropped off within city limits with-| out injury, while Coder and Hurst were driven into the country to be beaten up. Met In Police Station. The entire job was arranged in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ?EPORT HUNGER MARCH AT MEET Trade Union Unity Council to Hear At the open meeting of the Trade Union Unity Council this Thursday in the Manhattan Lyceum, three main points will be discussed: 1) The hunger march to Albany, what it ac- complished politically and organiza- tionally, and the next step to be taken in the fight against unemploy- ment and for unemployment insur- ance. It is necessary to recognize that we have entered into a new phase in the fight for immediate re- lief and for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The National Unemployed delega- tion to Washington plus the hund- reds of hunger marchers to various cities and states have proven to large sections of workers that the govern- ment whether directed by the demo- cratic or republican parties, will give no relief to the unemployed, and that it requires much greater political pressure in order to force the gov- ernment to pass the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. This re- quires organization, the building of Unemployed Councils, Tenants Lea- gues, and the organization of revo- lutionary unions. A program of ac- tion will be presented for discussion. The other two points will be a dis- cussion on the dress strike, and a report from the delegates of the Council to the trial of Yokinen who was expelled from the Communist Party for his white-chauvinist ac- tion. The TUUC must draw lessons from this trial and fight to break white-chauvinism among the work~- The hunger march to Albany is a graphic example of how white and Negro workers in struggle break down in one united blow the capital- ist white-chauvinist “education”, the purpose of which is to divide the white and Negro workers. All workers are invited to this im- portent meeting to be held in the Manhatian Lyceum, 64 East 4th St., Thursday, March 12, at 7:45 p, m. sharp. ORGANIZE TO END IBELIE. STARVATION; DEMAND ang and taken into the country ble ropes. They were left lying yn blood and the feeling here is MENSHEVIK PLOT "IXPOSED AT MASS MEETING, MAR. 18 Get Facts on Hillquit and Abramowitch Shown By Trial | NEW YORK. — On Wednesday, |Maréh 18, at Central Opera House, 67 Street arid Third Ave. the Cuth- |munist Party will hold a meeting ex- posing the role of the socialist party, | of Hillquit, Thomas, Abramovich, Dan |and the other Menshevik plotters | against the Soviet Union. Their war plots have clearly demonstrated in the trial just concluded in the Sov- iet Union, for which the 14 counter- revolutionary plotters in the Soviet Union received up to 10 years’ sen- tence. The workers still following the so- cialist party will be given a splendid opportunity to see ‘‘their” party in action. The acts of the American socialists who on the one hand ‘have professed sympathy for the Russian “people” and, on the other hand, had engaged in damnable, foul conspira- cies against the government of the Russian workers and peasants, show the character of the socialist party. It is a party of treason to the work- ing class, Leading members of the Communist Party will speak at the meeting. March 18 is also the anniversary of the Paris Commune. The Paris Com- mune taught many lessons to the re~ volutionary working class, and the leaders cf the Russian Revolution profited much by these lessons in preparing for their revolution. This day will also be commemorated at the meeting, i All workers in the shops should at- tend this important meeting. Bring along followers of the socialist. party, so that they may hear the truth about this treasonable party. Make this meeting a meeting of demonstration for the Soviet Union and against all traitors to the working class. CHINA RED ARMY WINS VICTORY Gov’t Troops Beaten By 20,000 Reds Reports from Hankow by the As- sociated Press tell of another decisive defeat administered by the Red Army of China near Sinyang, 100 miles north of Hankow, against the Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist troops. When the Nationalists sent an army of 10,- 000 against the Communists, the sol- diers mutinied and joined the ranks of the Red Army. Later another army was sent against the Red Troops. ‘These were routed. The Na- tionalist troops were driven south along the Peiping-Hankow Railway. The Associated Press tells of the first mutiny as follows: “Ten thou- sand government soldiers mutinied recently to join a band of Reds. Red propaganda and the soldiers’ belief that they were to be disbanded were believed to have caused the mutiny.” ‘They go on to say that “Tt was un- derstood fighting was continuing and the loyal troops .hed been driven