The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 1

f WwW ' ' ' PENNA. HUNGER MARCH FORCES PASSAGE OF 43,000,000 BILL =| WwW Fe Arree We, po Ye Sa Denoustare, eT Tat, Dai Central Vol. VIII, No. 98 Kntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., nnder the ly (Section. of —r 2-Cons NO) the Communist ae tional) Norker WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 22 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 40,000 May Day Organizers HE DAILY WORKER reaches exactly 1866 cities in the United States. In most of these towns and cities there is as yet no organization of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League or the Unemployed Council. In all these cities and towns there are workers and poor farmers. In all these cities and towns there is unemployment, suffering, exploitation, hunger and misery. In all these towns there are workers and farmers who are ready-to demonstrate their solidarity. with the organized masses of workers in the rest of the country and throughout the world on May Day. Forty thousand readers of the Daily Worker can become forty thousand organizers for May Day demonstrations. Each reader of the Daily Workers has a duty to perform for the great cause of the working class on May Day. Each reader of the Daily Worker knows at least ten to fifty work- ers in the factories, mines as well as those who have been thrown out on the streets unemployed. Bring these workers together, discuss with them a plan to hold a demonstration, a parade or a meeting on May Day. Choose the besi speaker to address the meeting. Use the Daily articles and editorials as the basis for the speeches. Print if possible a leaflet calling the demonstration or the meeting., Get in touch with other workers’ organizations. Order some copies of the May Day edition of the Daily Woker. Readers of the Daily Worker can become organizers of the working class. Readers of the Daily Worker are the nucleus of the revolutionay movement in cities where the Communist Party is not yet organized. Readers of the Daily Worker have the benefit of steady reading of working class news and articles that must reach all workers in your town or city. In cities where the Communist Party, Trade Union Unity | League and Unemployment Councils exist, get in touch with them for information and cooperate with, them. In other cities and towns initiate this work through the workers you are in daily contact with. If you require advice write to the Daily Worker or the the Communist Party, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Inform the Daily Worker of your plans and the results of your meetings. Farm Board Wheat Dumping. HEN the Farm Board was set up by the Hoover administration with the consent of the democrats and the enthusiastic hurrahs of the “pro- gressives” and so-called “socialists,” the program which Hoover furnished to the Board to guide it, spoke grandiloquently of its function as to insure “orderly marketing.” And it was added that such “orderly” supervision was particularly necessary in case of “harvest congestion.” According to Hoover, such “congestion” would be unusual, and the Farm Board would act only in such “emergency.” But since it is clear that “harvest congestion” comes neither with ruinous floods or devastat- ing drouth, but with the customary and “normal” rainfall, it is equally clear that the “great engineer” started from the assumption that normal rainfall is not normal at all, and that drouth is usual. Of course it is not a “harvest” congestion, but a market congestion, due to the poverty of city workers unable to buy bread, that has caused the Farm Board to resort to unprecedented hypocrisy. In spite, howver, of the fact that the worst drouth in many decades caused a loss of the expected crop, the surplus wheat has been greaier than Mr. Hoover seems to have figured would occur with normal rains. And the farmers who, driven by debt to the banks and rent to the land- lords, were forced to sell immediately. upon harvesting, lost calamitously through the price fall on the world market, while those who lost their crop—and particularly the jobless millions of the city—had no money to buy the surplus. But the Farm Board did have money. And it bought. But not until after the farmers had sold their wheat at ruinous prices to the grain speculators. It is these speculatorrs and the rich farmers, who could afford to hold off the market, who profited by Farm Board buying at an ‘average price of 92 cents per bushel. This, Hoover and Hyde calling \“helping” the farmers! And about this time, last autumn, Secretary Hyde, Congressman Fish /fand the whole tribe of demagogues at their heeels set up a cry through- yout the country—indeed throughout the world—about |Soviet “wheat dumping.” Soviet, it was “discovered,” had sold some 7,000,000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago market as a “hedging” sale against an equal vol- ume of purchases, A perfectly legitimate operation indulged in both be- fore and since by the Farm Board itself. But about this quite usual | and insignificant affair, Hyde pawed the air for weeks, and Fish was “alarmed” in every edition. But, lo, what do we see today, but the Farm Board actually dumping 275,000,000 bushels of wheat on the market! Supposedly “in Europe,” and supposedly ‘without depressing” the American market—‘if possible.” We assure ‘the farmers that it will not be possible. Wheat will fall still further. And if the Farm Board can explain how it is selling wheat yor 40 cents a bushel that cost it 92 cents, and selling 275,000,000 bushels, | without calling this dumping, then, words have lost their meaning! Nor is this exactly what one might call the “orderly marketing,” for which President Hoover established the Farm Board. Indeed it is quite the opposite, and the American farmers must learn that until capitalism is overthrown and a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government can give them real assistance, there can be nothing “orderly’ about agriculture, except the systematic robbery of the farmers by the big capitalist class, Of course, Mr. McKelvi, of what is ludicrously called the Grain “Stab- ilization” Corporation, tries to pull the Farm Board out of the mud by explaining that it “is faced with a continuously changing world situation.” Very annoying, no doubt, to Hoover's “orderly marketing.” And the Farm Board's advice to the cotton growers to grow less cotton has already re- sulted in them growing more wheat! The poor and middle farmers should realize they have nothing to expect from capitalism and its “remedies.” Unless they join with the workers against capitalism, unless they themselves form Committees of Action in every locality, and fight against rents, taxes, and debts, they will face further impoverishment, They should realize that only by uniting with the city workers in mutual struggle against finance capital, can they to improve their conditions. And on May First the farmers should '14-Yr. Old Boy Among Eight NegroY ouths Sentenced to Burn by Boss Court Lynch Verdict ILD Exposes Lynching Records of Court That | ugene Williams Is 19 Years of Age; Bi Point Scored for New Trial Demand White, Negro Workers Throughout Country Continue Thunder of Denunciation Against Murderous Frame-up of Alabama from workers’ m: gaumec, Mich., St. Louis, Mo., E Pa., and New York United Fr 3. Al N. ¥., room lynch’ CHATTANOOGA, Tonn., Negro workers sentenced to burn in the electric chair by the the International Labor | has definite proof that one, like Roy Wright whose trial was | postponed, is only 14 years old and not 19 as lyingly recorded en * by the boss court. | Scottsboro, Ala., boss court, FIND STARVATION CASES IN B'KLYN | Jobless to alee Facts | new trial for all eight of the to Borough President | NEW YORK.—Armed with a list | | of specific cases of starvation right | in Brooklyn of unemployed workers’ families, a delegation to be elected at an open air meeting before the state | free employment agency at Jay and | Johnson Sts., Monday at 10 a.m., | go, right after the meeting, to see Borough President Hefperberg. They will demand that something be done right away for these desperate work- | ers. | The meeting and delegation to the borough president was decided upon | by an indoor meeting of jobless, who | | followed the council's speakers’ to its | | headquarters, 73 Myrtle Ave. Tues- | day after 350 had hearu them expose conditions here before the state em- | Ployment agency. One worker even the city officials not save, himself to death. Lpirotulos, 335 Pearl St. Some of the starving families, | members of which will probably in the delegation president, are: Jobless man, 134 Bridge St., of two children, months, is facing eviction, | Starvation, and was refused relief to the borough | father | tor obtains definite proof that Eugene Wiiliams, like only 14 years old, therefore illegally sentenced to electric Condemnation of Scottsboro lynch verdict pours in on Governor Ss meetings i workers send protest to Hoover on mob and court will | DRESSMAKERS | His name was Bill| Non-members are also invited to be | dress jobless for eight | report on the decisions of the Na- facing | tional Executive Board, including a SUNDAY NEWS, APRIL. 18, 1031 Wall St. Lies Prepare for War on Nicaraguan People BANDITS BEHEAD AMERICANS Sioux Ci ‘se, Mich., Albany, N. y Day Conference. y, Towa; Ne- Y., Pittsburgh, Apri] 22.—Of the eight young| Defense | The youth, whose name is Eugene Wil- liams, was therefore sentenced to the electric chair in. open violation even of capitalist \laws. The importance of this fact lis that it strengthens the case for framed up and railroaded youths. | After arranging the fight for a new trial and engaging George W. +Chamlee, local-attorney, as chief de~ )—. elit gees Tell of: “ Outrages of Massacres nested by Suri ‘tie: BEGIN , ‘AMERICAN RY R ate TELL Gis {Exodus Follows U. § Warning to Quit Country, Clippings from the capitalist newspapers a few days before the imperialist President Hoover issued his order to kill Sandino and bombing cities and villages in Nicaragua that support the fight of the Army of Liberation, battling against Yankee imperialism that is devasiating Latin Americ: fense counsel, the New York attor- | “ neys, Joseph Brodsky and Allan Taub, Police Terrorize Election Signer sent here by the I. L. D., left for! | Would Bar Party from New York to report to the national office of the I. L. D. Additional news on page 3. MEETING TODAY NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., April bi if °2.—Information to the effect that the chief of police and several of his henchmen are going the rounds of the working class neighborhoods, ter- |rorizing and threatening all workers | who signed their names to the peti- | tion of the candidates of the Com- | | Elections “and Plans For Future Activity NEW YORK.—Today, at 7 p. m., | with all the millions of boodle can | at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth |munist Party for office, has come | He was so tormented by | St., there will be a mosf important |into the hands of the Communist | | hunger pangs that he went to the} | meeting of dressmakers in the Needle | Party Election Campaign Committee. | fifth floor of a house and threw| Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. The police head has stooped to the dirty trick of especially threatening ane a ae oken® Mee | the unemployed. “All relief, little as it The business will be election of a | VS has already been denied to them. trade executive committee, plans for further activities, recom- mendations to shop delegates council | for paid and unpaid dress organizers, rorizing methods of the police, many workers have refused to take their names off the ballot. The election campaign committee has protested the attack of the police. special report on It calls attention to the fact that the the situation in ‘New Brunswick Ballot) In spite of all threats and the ter- | | from the police department and the} the I. L. G. W., and particularly by | bureau of charities, Locals 22 and 89. Another man, 180 Pearl St., the} The Needle Trades Workers’ In- |solo support of a widowed mother | dustrial Union calls all to come out and two little sisters, jobless for the | and picket the Jerry Dress Co., 500 last three months. The whole fam-| Seventh Ave., Friday morning at 7:30 ily is without food, the sisters have | @- m. This shop has an injunction petition has already been filed with two Communist candidates running for city commissioner and other of- fices. Mass meetings are being ar- ranged to further protest this attempt | to bar the Communist Party from the elections. lunch, gas and turned off, and the family is now threatened with eviction. Unemployed worker, of 44 Johnson St., father of five children, unem- | ployed ® month, no food in ‘house, whole family starving. Fifteen ten- ants joined the league in this case. Another jobless, 194 Pearl St., in dire need, gas shut off, to go to school without breakfast or | #nd mass violation is the way to lights have been | Smash it. unemployed for four months, family | there, wife sick | against the eviction. The Communist candidates call for (as part of the party’s platform): Work or wages for the jobless; im- mediate relief for the unemployed; in bed. An old worker, Spanish-American | | War veteran, 60 years old, says, | “Wherever I go for a job, they tell | me I am too old.” The council visits the block of ev- ery reported case up for eviction, or- ganizes a tenants’ league branch and mobilizes for a fight gage foreclosures on jobless workers’ and free carfares and lunches for the children of the jobless. The jworkers are preparing their May Day demonstration with renewed vigor as an answer to this attack. unemployment insurance; no mort- | homes; free rent, gas and electricity | ‘Show Up Hoover Role in War Against Nicaraguan People Demonstrate on May Day Against Slaughter of Nicaraguan Masses; Support Fight of Army of Liberation MAY 1 DEMONSTRATIONS START OFF IND., OHIO HUNGER MARCHES Steel Trust Makes Its $104,000,000 Yearly; Lets Workers Starve Indiana March May | Mass Protest To Endorse | Demand For Insurance 9 BUL LL aTIN. PHILADELPHIA, April 22.—As a direct result of the state-wide hunger march and demands made on the state government yesterday, the Pennsylvania legislature has been forced to pass a bill for a $3,000,000 loan for relief of the unemployed in elphia. The demand that the whole $6,- 000,000 loan authorized for councils unemployed Philadelphia shall he used for unemployment re} d not just the $3,000,005 set aside by legislative action. This . demand . will . be hacked up by. a huge May First demorstratien at the city hall p in Philadel- phia, and similar demonstra- tions in other e'ties. At these May 1 mm meetings, the workers will hear the reports of their hunger marchers to Harrisburg. May First strations in demon- the fae- te eo oxy etntne int. EHS, NEW YORK.Exposing the role of Hoover in preparing war tory states of Ohio an] against the Nicararaguan people by sending the largest naval Indiana and marine forces to Nicaragua ever sent to any Central Ameri-| northern the Anti-imperialist League of the United States |can country |has issued a statement calling on all anti- pee to figt it the murderous attacks of the>— Hoover - Stimson government | jagainst the workers and peas- {ants of Nicaragua. The state- | |ment of the Anti-Imperialist League in full follows: workers are called upon to protest and fight against the continued send- jing of marines to slaughter the Nic- | araguan anti-imperialist fighters. De- | mand the marines be withdrawn from | Nicaragua! Support the fight of the |forces fighting against Wall Street | | imperialism. The struggles for the liberation of | Nicaragua from the claws of imper- ialism has now taken a sharp turn involving not only the Army of Lib- eration under Sandino but also the | Nicaraguan workers of the northeast- ern coast. It is a desperate struggle of the Nicaraguan people against for- eign oppressors and the rule of Yan- cered National Guard of the puppet government of Moncada. The im- |perialist government of the United States is answering this brave fight ence with warships, machine guns, aeroplanes and bombs.——Mr. Hoover (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) N.Y. Workers Mobilizing for May 1 Demonstration; To March from Madison Sq. to Union Sq. NEW YORK. —Feverish and ener- getic activities on the part of the revolutionary unions and workers mass organizations mark the final preparations for the largest May Day demonstration that the New York workers have ever had. All Trade Union Unity League unions and industrial leagues, revo- lutionary groups in American Federe ation of Labor unions and local unions of the American, Federation | of Labor, workers fraternal and ben- efit organizations have issued ap- peals to the workers, and are holding daily shop and street meetings and mobilizing for participation in the To Give Tremendous Mass Answer to Provo- cation of Socialists, Police, Fascists, Russian White Guards Parade in Harlem Sat. the Needle Trades Workers Industrial | prevent the May Day demonstration. Union, the Trade Union Unity | The battling needle workers, sold out League, and the Communist Party | and betrayed by the company union, held a huge open air meeting at 36th | suffering wage-cut after wage-cut, St. and Eighth Ave., the heart of the forced to accept sweat shop condi- necdle market. The response of the tions, are -naking May Day their workers was very enthusiastic. They | day of mass protest, of mass soli- expressed their indignation at the|darity struggle against wage-cuts, treachery of the Socialist Party and | against the bosses and their socialist company uriion officials in the at-|and company union agents. tempt together with the Tammany| Several hundred transport workers, | Police and Russian white guards to ea on the Third Avenue rail- way, way, where tl the company recently discharged a hundred workers and put through a cut of 50 per cent, re- sponded enthusiastically to speakers of the United Front May Day Com- mittee and Transport Workers In- dustrial League. Parade in Harlem Saturday. The Negro and white workers of Harlem are preparing to make this |May Day an outstanding event in the struggle against lynching, Jim- Crowism, discrimination and for un- employment relief and insurance. All details are ready for the huge parade in Harlem on the 25th of CONTINUED ON PAGM 'TWO) i m| kee marines and the American offi |is an attempt to get the work done | outside, and material is moved under | the protection of the police. In the May Day demonstrations all iQ HELP PICKET FOR THE SETTERS oss Association Tries To Break Strike NEW YORK.—The strikers at the Excelsior Tile and Marble Co., fight- ing for the eight-hour day, no over- | time, 44-hour work, against a 15 per | cent wage-cut and for recognition of shome of the steel -and coal industries, will ke the beginning of two he statae hunger mar- hes. One march will start jat the May 1 demonstrations jin Ohio, and by five separate and converging routes ap- proach the state capitol at Columbus. The Ohio march was originally intended for April 16, but the state legislature postponed its sessions to May 11, so now the marchers start with an endorsement of their demands for state insurance by the great May Day mass meetings, | the union are still struggling. and proceed to walk, not ride, to the state capital, which they will reach May 10. They will there hold a state conference on unemployment, for they are delegates of the masses of jobless and wage cut employed work- ‘They have organized a tile setters’ group in the Trade Union Unity League and are fighting hard to win. This is one of the largest shops in the industry. The bosses’ association co-operates with the firm, and there The workers on strike point that | the only way to stop this is by mass for freedom and national independ- | picketing all day, These workers need help and look to the Trade Union Unity Council which they say is supporting them as it should. T. U. U. C., take notice! All build- ing trades workers, come out on the picket’ line! TRY TO DEPORT NAT KAPLAN BOSTON, Mass. April 22.—Nat Kaplan, district organizer of the Communist Party in Boston, a na- tive-born American citizen, was ar- rested by the immigration authorities and is threatened with deportation! Where they propose to deport Kap- Jan to was not learned. Kaplan was picked upy when leav- | ing his home and taken to the East Boston station. authorities, in their efforts to deport | militant workers, do not limit them- selves to foreign-born workers, but have now taken the step of arresting native born citizens, Bail is being raised | to get his release. The immigration ers of the state. They will draw up a statement to the legislature, in- cluding the demands for insurance. Indiana March May 2. The Indiana marchers start from Hammond in automobiles at 10 a. m. May 2, and go through and hold mass meetings in: East Chicago, In- diana Harbor, Gary, Michigan City, and South Bend. The hunger march leaves South Bend May 3 at 8 a. m. and goes (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Scottsboro Defense Campaign Tonight. New York City, street protest meeting at 14thSt. and University Pi. Friday Night. New York City, mass protest meeting at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Saturday Afternoon. New York City, protest parade at 3:30 o'clock from 140th St. and Lenox Ave., with demonstration at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. April 28. Chattanooga, Scottsboro |] Defense Conference, with preced- ‘Tenn, ing mass meeting on April 27. Oklahoma City, mass protest meeting at Slaughters Hall, 2d and Stiles Sts.