The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1931, Page 1

' Workers Are Saying: “What Little Relief We Get the Reds Organization of More Unemployed Coun- Fought for.” eds Will Win More Relief ’ Dail Central -Orga di (Section of the Communist ’ —— International) orker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Vol. VIII, No. 62 Entered as seccnd class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. ander the act of March 3, 1979 <>"NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CODER AND HURST BRUTALLY MURDERED BY LYNCH MOB Hoover’s “Deferred Plans” ESIDES the official scoundrels in the city of Washington, capitol of the United States, there exists what is known as the “Kiplinger Wash- ington Agency.” From the National Press Building it sends out—to those who pay for it~a “Washington Letter” which, it a Limited Number of Business Executives.” declares, is “Circulated Privately to It is designed to keep the aforesaid “Business Executives” informed on “inside stuff’ of the rela- tions between capitalist business and capitalist government, In this outfit’s Washington Letter of Feb. 28, one paragraph opens up like this: “Now that Congress is about over, the administration has a number of deferred plans for executive action which will be con- structively helpful to business recovery.” And what are some of these “deferred plans” which President Hoover awaited the time when not even a capitalist Congress would be around to bother? One is given as: “Some unofficial pressure fro! m the White House to expedite eastern railroad consolidation on the 4-party plan is contemplated.” And what does this mean to the working class, especially to railway workers? Unemployment! Everybody should know that. The dis- employment of tens of thousands of railroad workers by a railway merger is one of the chief inducements for that merger. By that means, by throwing huge armies of workers onto the street jobless—and with no Un- employment Insurance—the railway barons hope to keep up the past high dividends on the enormous amount of watered stock. ‘This, then, is one of the “deferred plans” of Hoover “which will be constructively helpful to business recovery.” That it means misery and starvation to a great army of railway workers and their families is a matter of no importance to Hoover—to any capitalist. But already there have been murmurs from these workers. The rank and file have been kicking, forcing the reactionary bureaucrats of the disunited sixteen crafts to raise the question here and there, to make a show, a pretense of doing something. ‘The confidential “Washington Letter” of the Kiplinger Agency tells the Business Executives who subscribe to it, that all that has been taken care of. Also as a part of the Hoover “plans,” we read: “Officials have already taken steps secretly to get railroad labor off the track, with the assurance that consolidation will not mean the dismissal of employes. We expect news on this situation to trickle out around the middle of April.” So, railway workers, “secretly” some “officials” are taking steps to see that you are lied to! That you are to be told that the merger of the railroad companies will not mean unemployment for you. Take this tip, that anyone who tells you so, is helping Hover and the railway barons to “get railroad labor off the track”! The railroad “Brotherhood” officials have already, in conference with Hoover in December, 1929, promised to give “every cooperation to the com- panies in the handling of their problems” during the economic crisis. ~- -More-thar-ever-it-snecessary that the railway workers support.the wages and hours program of the National Railroad Industrial League calling for the six-hour, five-day week with no reduction in pay from the present 8-hour weekly earnings. Write to the N. R. I. L. at Room 8, 702 E, 63rd St., Chicago. And still further, the railroad workers should understand the need of uniting their forces with all other workers, employed and unemployed, for Unemployment Insurance, at the expense of the capitalists and under control of the workers! Support the fight of the Unemployed Councils! Build up the National Railroad Industrial League! Rush Preparations for Mar. 28 Demonstrations in New York NEW YORK.—In a joint movement to mobilize the masses against lynch- Negro Rights. Many speakers, prom- inent in the revolutionary labor ing and deportations, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Con- ference for the Protection of Foreign Born have named March 28 as Na- tional Day of Struggle against de- portations and lynching. Statements issued by the three or- ganizations call attention to the rag- ing lynch terror with its 43 victims in 1930 and 8 victims already this year. The statements also expose the wholesale arrests and deportations of foreign born militants as a move to crush the struggles of the workers against starvation and unemployment by intimidating the foreign born workers, by making them afraid to join in the struggles of the working class, afraid to resist wage-cuts, afraid to strike, afraid to fight for unemployment insurance. In preparation for March 28, street ‘meetings are being held in many cities, mass meetings have been called to rally the workers for the March 28 demonstrations. On Sunday coming a mass meet- ing will be held in New York City at the Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue. This meeting has been called by the League of Struggle for movement and in the struggle for Negro rights, will address the meet- ing. In Yonkers, preparations are going ahead for March 28. Street meetings and indoor mass meetings are being held. In Newark, N. J., open air meet- ings under the auspices of the I. L. D. and the L, 8. N. R. will be held every day during the week of March 15, in different sections of the city, to mob- ilize for the March 28 demonstra- tions. Four open air meets will be held on Saturday, March 21. On March 28 there will be a parade through the Negro section. This march will be preceded by a big in- door mass meeting in the heart of the Negro section. During the week of March 22 open air meetings will be held in prepara- tion for the big demonstration against Jim Crowism which will be held on Friday, March 27, at 8 p. m. at the Court Theatre. Throughout the country plans are maturing and will shortly be re- ported in the Daily Worker for a smashing answer of the working class to the new wave of terror against the Negro and foreign born workers. Foster to Speak at Meeting of Striking Dressmakers Today NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting to be held today in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. near Fourth St., under the auspices of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, It is expected that the major part of his address will center about the terror that is being inflicted on pick- eting dressmakers here by police, ILGW (company union) and needle trades employers’ gangsters. In/an attempt to break the strike of the thousands of dressmakers who are fighting against a starvation wage, the police have broken u.; pick- ‘et lines, beaten up the more militant, pickets and have gone out of their pickets. Girl Picket Held for “Assault” At the trial yesterday of May Feld- man, a striking dressmaker, she was held for the grand jury in $2,500 bail on an assault charge. The police are trying to prove that this woman Picket single-handedly “assaulted” armed gunmen, both in and out of uniform, Two other girl pickets were held in $250 bail yesterday—also on a charge as “assault.” They are Gerna Gitter and Sonia Shapiro, Four other pickets .who, were. ar- rested the day before. vand chraged with .ssault were, dismissed yesterday after spending the night in jail. Pearl Kleinman and A. Suivak also spent one and two days in RED ARMY OF CHINA MAKES BIG ADVANCES Workers in Cities Show Real Fighting Spirit More details on the successes of the Red Army in China are contained in first hand reports by Nallet Abend, New York Times press correspondent who is now touring the Yangtze river. Wiring from Hankow Abend reports the mutiny of 13,000 Nanking troops of the twelfth division. All these sol- diers joined the red army. Coupled with this, he states has been “the forward movement of the Commu- nists” which has “again cut the Peip- | ing-Hankow Railway at a point seven | miles northward of Hankow.”—(N. Y. Times, March 11.) ‘This shows sow close the Red Army is to Hankow, and that the approach- es to this region is being strongly fortified and entrenched by the Com- munist forces. Abend also tells of the fact that when the military au- thorities sent more troops out to “de- feat” the Red Army these troops | came periously near mutiny. The | Times correspondent states that when | the twenty-fifth division was ordered to proceed on a punitive expedition | against the reds that “the division, though not actively anti-government in attitude, simply refused to entrain for the front and the present attitude of the troops is perilously dubious.” At the sane time the first; fourth and fifth divisions of the Communist army is constantly advancing toward Hankow on the Peiping-Hankow rail- way. The Nanking twelfth division mutinied and joined the Red Army and are now fighting under the Red Flag. The Communist troops, Abend | further reports, moved southward, | trains from Hankow proceeding less | than fifty miles, while the Commu- nists hold more than fifty miles of trackage. “The countryside only six- teen miles west of Hankow,” he writes, “is swarming with Commu- nists, but Nanking has no choice in efforts to clear the Peiping-Hankow railway except to move loyal divisions southward from Chenkchow, which is a vitally strategic junction of the Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai rail- ways. Yet the government dare not weaken its hold on Chengchow in view of the unstable conditions northwest of the city.” NOTICE! Money is needed at once for care of the comrades beaten by state police during the Hunger March! Turn in immediately all Hunger March Boxes, pledges, lists, funds to W. I. R., 131 W. 28th St. 50 Delegates Invade Cal. Court, Demand Release in Valley Cases U.T.W. Now Tries to Rob the Philadelphia Strikers f 1,000 Demonstrate Sacramento; 600 in San Francisco in | 1 FRESNO, Calif, March 11.—A dele-| Defeated in Attempt to Smash Strike of 2,000) gation of 50 workers, representing] Upholstery Weavers, Kelly Asks Court to Give Him Building, Funds PHILADELPHIA, Pa., M many o ations, was assembled in Fourth State District Court of Appeals, to demand release of the eight Imperial Valley organ- They had come in two truck | yester arch 11.—Philadelphia papers’ izers. Unioos Against e Terror Militant Texas Workers Hungry Mas: 2s Also Prepare Huge May First Demonstration; Organizing Metal Workers Industrial Union, Unemployed Councils state that William Kelly, vice president of the United Textile of the department of labor ing in vain to smash the weavers’ Monday to carry on the strike which the U.T.W. leaders were betraying, and who were ex-®— pelled from the union by Pres WEINSTOCK AND cut. | Kelly wishes particularly, and will) have all possible court aid to assist | BREAK STRIKE the weavers’ local, and the head-| quarters building at 228 E, Allegheny |Shelton Weavers Tear St., said in these newspaper accounts Up Their Leaflets cumulated by the weavers on strike, | : 2s and the U. T. W. leaders, after hav- | President Green ing tried in vain for months to force | Federation of Labor and Anna Wein- these men to take a wage-cut, noW | stock, of the “conciliation bureau’ propose to. loot them, in addition. the court action. | Strike in Shelton and Bridgeport. The weavers’ strike started over a month .ago, against a 14 per cent employers and MacMahon’s men. One.of the “arbitrators” was Kelly. The U. T. W. then tried in every PAGE THREE) SEC. 2 CONVENTIO! TOBE HELD MAR.15 To Work Out Action Workers will now go to court to seize the books and records of the 2,000 upholstery weavers who voted unanimously last ident MacMahon. for not going | back to work and taking a wage ra FEN TR Y T0 | | URS him, to get hold of a treasury of $50,000, said to be in the hands of to be worth $26,000. ‘The building and treasury were ac- SHELTON, Conn, March 11, of the American The Civil Liberties Union attor- neys will represent the weavers in reduction in wages ordered by a fake “arbitration” court controlled by the way to break the strike and finally (CONTINUED ON P! Program NEW YORK.—Proposing a plan of | concrete work for the section, Sec- tion 2 of the Communist Party will} hold its section convention Sunday, | They have the aid of the capital- | ist press, which launches into a fierce | | attack on the National Textile Work- |ers Union and “Reds” in the attempt caravans, one from Los Angeles and one from San Francisco, | The San Francisco delegation was | started off by a demonstration of| 600 and when the demonstration went through Sacramento, the state capital, 1,000 cheered them on their iW at a demonstration in the city | Ze. | Twenty workers’ organization: telegrams to the appellate manding release of the Imp: ley organizers. “Membership Is Crime.” | In the court room, the prosecuting | attorney viciously attacked the Com- | munist Party-and all militant work- | ers’ organizations, stating that mem- bership in the P: ‘s nt grounds to er the criminal syndi- calism law.” The spokesman for the workers’ delegations from San Francisco and Los Angeles was twice refused the right to speak by the four capitalist | judges, who questioned his right to | egro Jobless Demonstrator Held for Trial on Criminal Syndicalist Law; Faces 10 Years City Marches to Be Held; New Britain Jobless Prepare; Workers’ Organizations Send Delegates to Conferences BULLETIN, DALEAS, Texas, March 11—Charles Coder and Lewis Hurst were brutally murdered by the mob which kidnapped them Thursday night One arrest has been made. The defense attorney, George Clifton Ed- wards, accuses the police chief of framing up a grand jury fake in- vestigation today. When the news of the murder of Coder and Hurst became known a wave of protest spread among the workers through- out Texas. The Trade Union Unity League received a letter from Hurst's father demanding the support of the entire working class on behalf, of the two victims of the bo: lynch terror. He called upon the workers to continue the fight for which his son has been so brutally murdered. The printers who printed. the leaflets calling upon the workers to demonstrate against unemployment, and for unemployment relief on February 25th, and for which Hurst and Coder were lynched, have been arrested and terrorized. In spite of this terror used by the government the work is going on. Governor Sterling is doing everything to en- courage the mobbing of militant workers, Soup kitchen signs have been hung up stating: “Radicals or reds keep out.” Se ub SOE to break down the infilience the union {®Ct #8 attorney for the defendants. has with the hundreds of strikers} The appellate court will render its | who are fighting a two loom system | decision in 20 days. The delegation, and 45 per cent wage cut in these | in the name of the organizations it two cities. They are all striking | represents, has pledged to carry on | against the Blumenthal Co. | the struggle for the release of these Anna Weinstock is the individual | Workers and for the Epeet ne ee | who conspired with the Glanzstoff | ‘Timinal syndicalism law. | corporation in Elizabethton and with bd the United Textile Workers Union to Sell thousands of rayon workers into blacklist and deeper slavery. She | |ttied to smash the Lawrence strike, | F16 of the Trade Union Unity Lea- je ee Oh pocelenincent | gue in California state prisons, serv- [gene oe utae RAS uated |ing indeterminate sentences: five of | ‘i i 8 | them for “three to 42 years” and the ibe ane eA tote yh Give pe ae Be | others, “two to 28 years”. They were aaae ‘ : | those convicted out of 85 arrested Anna Weinstock is now in Shelton, | April 15, for holding a convention t and when she arrived leaflets were | transform the Agricultural Worker distributed to the strikers, signed by For Organizing. There are eight organizers for the Agricultural Workers Industrial Lea- March 15. The election of a new! Green, urging them to drive out the section committee will be held at the |N. T. W. But the rank and file strik- convention, |ers tore up these leaflets right in Preceding the convention, on Sat-| front of Weinstock. urday, March 14, at 8 p. m. at 301| The company announced that its Industrial League into a union of the TUUL, and to lay plans for another | strike among the Mexican and Fili- pino and American truck farm work- ers in the Imperial Valley. Eleven were held for trial in El Centro, May | W. 29th St. there will be held a/ mill was open for the weavers to re-| 2 1930, under the state Criminal |make the march a success. } The fight against: unemployment goés forward sharply | now by means of a state hunger march in Ohio, and city hunger | marches planned in various cities, | Unemployment, part-time work, speed-up in the mills, re- placement of men by young workers and even by women |workers (at lower wages) is making the lives of the Mahon-| GIVE H ALL FREE T0 ling Valley steel mill slaves a| |living death. Want and priva-| tion, half starvation among DEFEND YOKINEN | those who work a couple of days a |week and actual starvation among ‘ ae pent unemployed tear them to} Yokinen, Bebrits and | Out of this inferno of misery, the Moore to Speak F vorkers anizi on the siate capital to start trom| NEW YORK—The Nat Turner, ‘oungstown, April 1. pence Brooks and Gonzalez Conference First. | branches in Harlem will lead the | fight against the bosses and their A call to all working-class organ- gaents in tt tt t izations has been distributed, urging . pen, Sevetaps. t0,,rasiroad them to send delegates to a con-| ‘0 fascist countries Yokinen, Bebrits, ference and to contribute funds to| Machado and scores of other workers | that have been arrested and detained banquet at which delegates from fra- ternal organizations and unit dele- gates will greet the Section Conven- tion. Four students sent to the Na- tional Training School from Section 2 will be present at the banquet. A supper will be served and there will be dancing. All workers are invited and admission is 50 cents. FOOD WORKERS MEET TONIGHT. NEW YORK.—The Food Workers’ Industrial Union calls a meting for all Yorkville food workers, tonight, at 8, at Hungarian Workers Home, 350 East 8ist St. | were smashed by the police, and la- | bor jurors sent to observe the trial | were arrested. | Those serving 42 years are Carl |Sklar, Herman Spector, Tetsujai | | Hariuchi, Oscar Erickson, Lawrence | | Emery. On the 28 year sentences are | Danny Roxas, Orosco and Herrera. with the active organization of steel | workers into the Metal Workers’ In- | dustrial League of the Trade Union Unity League, and with the building of unemployed councils. It is also being connected with the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Shall Not Eat”, Is Wall St. Code By HARRISON GEORGE Workers, you have heard that there are liars and damned liars. So without further ado, we introduce the “New York Times.” On Tuesday, March 10th the New York Times published an editorial. It told how at the Congress of Soviets now in ses- sion at Moscow, Molotoff had said that, in the Soviet Union: “It is our rule that he that works not, neither shall he eat. In capitalist countries they have now amended it— he that worketh shall not eat .either.” ‘The N, Y,- Times. disagreed. “In none of the Western It: said: industrial centers now in the CHILDREN DIE OF STARVATION! Not in the Workers’ Soviet Union; But in the Capitalist United States “He That Worketh| STATE oF om0 VISION OF Vir At. wae “AL ‘THs CERTIFICAIE op aOTSTICS 4 1? DEAT; is unemployment accompan- |the editor of the N. Y. Times|of Oklahoma, speaking in the ied by starvation or lack of |read his own paper? If he had|U. S. Senate on March 4, shelter and, clothes.” - read the N. Y. Times of March Look around you workers!/5, page 18, he would have read SRA tip, of husingss denression, Do vou see no starvation? Caulthe words of Senator as follows: ‘ “In a favored land, with our people are hungry; with warehouses crowded with goods, our people are naked and cold!” Now workers, to show you that the “Times,” the foremost capitalist newspaper of the country, sets the pace for all the capitalist papers for out- right faleshood, we print along with this article, the photo- graph reprint of two death cer- tificates—of babies of Ohio workers, of Mill Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, These two dead babies rise from the grave to accuse the capitalist press of lying, to con- demn the N. Y. Times editor as a liar, to damn the whole capi- talist system for what it is— a system.of murder and rob- bery and starvation for those who toil. “Malnutrition” is. a polite word for starvation. The other death certificate ironi- Thomas | storehouses bulging with food, COmmunen on BAam sme, } Pas | turn but they all refused to go back. | syndicalism law. Defense meetings! The hunger march is being linked | by the federal authorities for their labor activities. The question will be thoroughly discussed Thursday night, March 12, in the Gonzales Branch, Friday night, March 13, in the Nat Turner Branch and Monday night, March 16 in the Santiago Brooks Branch. One of the ILD attorneys has been obtained to speak at the Monday night meeting on “Workers’ Self Defense in Courts.” It is important that the members of these branches attend these meetings and bring their families. The management of the Renais- Sance Casino, 137th St. and Seventh Ave. has agreed to let us have the auditorium for Sunday, March 23, from 1 to 6 p. m. for our protest meeting at which Yokinen, Bebrits, Moore and other prominent speakers will appear. As there is another af- fair at the Casino that evening it is necessary that all ILD branches and sympathetic organizations in- struct their membership to attend this meeting on time. A canvass of all workers’ organiza- tions in Harlem will be made t rally the Negro and white workers to battle against deportation and all forms of general persecution of the boss class LSNR Open Air Meets. Tonight NEW YORK.—In preparation for Sunday afternon’s mass meeting at Harlem Casino, the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights is staging a number of open air meets in Harlem tonight, at 6 o'clock on the following corners: Lenox Ave. and 132nd, 132nd and Fifth Ave., 114th and Lenox Ave., and ene in front of the IRT shop at 99th St, ‘There will.be open air meetings for the balance of the week to rally the masses for Sunday's meeting and the struggle against i