The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1931, Page 1

ELECT DELEGATES TO C. P. RATIFICATION CONGRESS, a Worden How Ler Tuy Way. T GRow WHEAT. fe ‘TRADE Fale Co Dail Central U.K ASecrion of the Communist tatonyationsl ) e- EP Amunist Party U.S.A. at New York, N. Y. Vol. VIII, No. 222 Entered as second-class matter at the Post’ Office <n » under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931 = Victims of Imperialism in the Chinese Floods ‘ENS of millions of men, women, and childrtn ge facing horrible death from starvation and horrible diseases, while hundreds of thou- sands are drowned, in the flood which have devastated vast regions of China. BOSS PRESS TOLD TO LE 30,000 Negro and White’ | Workers Boo “Big Bill”; | Back Communist Speakers HOSIERY PAY CUT IS URGED CITY ‘EDITION nt S OUSE FRIDAY, SEPT. 18th WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! ee Price 3 Cents_ 125 Delegates From 3 States ‘The capitalist press speaks very little about this tremendous calamity, to compare with which there are few examples in history. And when they speak of it, it is always as a “natural catastrophe,” and “act of god”! But this-is no natural catastrophe. breakdown of the river-control system, the decay and disrepair of the dykes, dams, canals, dredging, of the whole system of water-control and irrigation which was built up through centuries. This system of river- control has collapsed; this is the direct cause of the floods and horrible drowning of hundreds of thousands, rendering homeless many millions of persons. And why did the river-control collapse? ‘The answer is simple. but not one of them will mention it. All the money which formerly went to keep up the river-control has for several years been stolen by the militarists who are in the pay of the imperialist powers—of England, of Japan, of France, and above all of the United States. Worst of all of these criminals, whose work brought catastrophe to China, has been the Kuomintang Government at Nanking, the govern- ment of Chiang Kai-shek. And it is precisely this government which has been maintained in power by American imperialism, by Wall Street, by the Hoover Government in Washington. Full responsibility for the catastrophe must be placed squarely at the doors of the White House in Washington, at the doors of Wall Street which controls the White House. These criminals, and their criminal agents in China, the Chiang Kai-sheks, cannot escape the responsibility by cries about “acts of God.” These are the fruits of imperialism! Since 1927, the Chinese workers and peasants have been engaged in bloody struggle to overthrow the power of imperialism and its agents, the Kuomintang. In this struggle they have been joined by all that is best and healthiest among the Chinese intellectuals. In spite of an unheard of t: r, which numbers its victims in hundreds of thousands, the revo- lutionary movement of the masses has thrown up Red Armieg with the aid of which it has inflicted defeat after defeat upon the militarists, and has established Soviet Governments over vast territories in Kiangsi, Hunan, Kwaxgtung, Fukien, and Hupeh Provinces, with a population of about 60 millions. The Kuomintang hangmen maintain their power there where the foreign imperialist gunboats, airplanes, and soldiers are able to uphold them. Only a few weeks ago, in the so-called “International Settlement” of Shanghai, governed by a British council, the chairman of which is an American, Fessenden, the “civilized” police of the imperialists seized an- other group of Chinese leaders, the finest flower of the Chinese peoples, including the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Hsiang Chung- fa, and turned them over to Chiang Kai-shek who shot them after pro- tracted tortures. At the same time, they seized the secretary of the Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Secretariat, Noulens, and his wife, Swiss citi+ zens, who were also turned over to the Chinese hangmen, and who, have been tortured in Kuomintang jails, and who ar soon to face a firing squad. Workers of all lands, especially of the United States, must raise their voices in hot protest against these enormities, against these crimes be- side which those of the Neroes of the past pale into insignificance. Work- ers must at the same time organize actions of solidarity with the Chinese masses, the victims of these historical crimes. The Workers International Relief, with sections in many countries, has announced an international solidarity action with the victims of imperialism in China. It is of the most .profound importance to all workers to support this campaign. Together with the collections of funds, which, insignificant though they will be compared with the enormous needs, have deep political significance and results, must go the explana- tion to the masses of the true meaning of events in China, the revealing of the tortures of a nation of 450 million people under the heels of imperialism, and the exposure of the hypocritical “relief actions” of Hoover & Co. which exploit even this catastrophe to make “better busi- ness” for capitalism. Help the millions of victims of imperialist rule in China! Down with the Kuomintang murderers, the Nanking Government of Chiang Kai-shek! Down with the gunboat rule of U. S. imperialism in China! draw the battleships and armed forces from China! Long live the Chinese Soviets and Red Armies, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Participate in the solidarity action with the Chinese victims, by set- ting up Committees for Aid to the Chinese Flood Victims! With- National Solidarity Tag Days For Miners Relief, Sept. 26-27 PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11—The drive for the big National Solidarity ‘Tag Days, Sept. 26 and 27, is in mo- tion. Without any letup of the present efforts for steady inflow of relief to the Penn-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief Committee, these days are being set aside to reach every person in the 200 cities where the W. I. R. has connections, to bring in a large collection of funds for relief, and for a demonstration of workers’ solidarity with the miners. ‘The tag days were planned at the W. I. R. National Convention, held in Pittsburgh Aug. 29 and 30, when delegates pledged their city organiza- tions to back these tag days without any letup of the activity for immedi- ate relief. Plans of organization for the Solidarity Tag Days have been sent to all section committees of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RATIFICATION CONGRESS WILL RALLY WORERSK FOR CAMPAIGN organizer of the Communist Party sharply attacked this action of the commission. The letter ctained the following statement: “The workers and small consumers of gas and electricity in the city of New York who are bearing the sharp- est result of the crisis, which is get- ting worse, will not tolerate the open robbery that is being perpetrated not only in the loss of their jobs, and The Communist Party Ratification Congress will be held this Friday night, September 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Central Opera House, 67th St. and ‘Third Ave. All workers’ organiza- tions should be represented to sup- port the campaign to complete the signature drive and to participate in the Tag Days to take place this Sat- urday and Sunday, September 19 and 20. It is the direct result of the | It is known to every newspaper in America, | | * . Se a The speakers at the Ratfication Congress will include Israel Amter, J. Louis Engdahl, Ben Gold and greetings from workers !n basic in- dustries. The Ratification Congress will also rally the workers against the rob- bery of the workers by the electric trust which had the rates of elec- tricity raised to a minimum of $1 from September 1 on. In a letter to Maltbie, head of the Public Service Commission, which vented the workers from present- ing their demands for lower rates at the meeting of the ‘commission on Geptember 11, Israel Amter, district therefore their earning power, but of higher gas and electric rates that are being imposed upon them. The Pub- lic Service Commission in granting the higher rates to these two giant corporations, proves conclusively that the government and its various de- partments not only operates in the interest of, but is representative of the trust capitalists of this country. “In the name of the millions of small users of gas and electricity the Communist Party of U.S.A., District No. 2, demands: “1) The immediate reductions of ON MISERY Suppression of News On Unemployment, Starvation Ordered Boss Press Responds Daily Suicides Tell of Workers’ Misery In an attempt to curb the militancy of the ‘working masses throughout the country, the Hoover administra- tion on Sept. 11 ordered all of the capitalist press to start a thorough- *| going campaign to make the workers and the farmers) believe that the hor- ror facing them this winter would not be worse than’ ever before in the history of the country. The day after these orders were given out all of the capitalist papers carried dispatch- es from Washington which .proved by all sorts of lying figures that un- employment was not much worse than last year and that all of the stories of starvation were “exaggerated.” This campaign of lies about the present widespread starvation thru- out the United States is part of the campaign carried on by the capital- ist class against the workers. The railroad and steel industries are pre- paring to slash the wages of every worker in those industries. These wage slashes will be followed, accord- ing to the admissions of the capital- ists themselves, by wage slashes in every other industry in the country. What the capitalist class fears is that. the resistance of the workers to this hunger_.campaign will grow. sharply in the coming months. For this rea- son these lies are being intensified. They want to prevent the mass pres- sure of the millions of unemployed for immediate relief and unemploy- ment insurance. The New York Times report 1s typical of those in the capitalist press. This report, based directly on the “figures” of the Hoover propa- ganda bureau, lies thoroughly about the number of unemployed last win- ter and then “proves” that in the first place the number of unemployed will not be much greater than last year and in the second place unem- ployment does not mean hunger or starvation. The report goes on to “make clear the distinction between unemployment and conditions of act- ual distress.” “Distress” probably means to the capitalist class and its Hoover administration death from starvation. The unemployed will be “taken care of” this winter as they were last win- ter according to the Hoover report. “Confidence was expressed that as the problem was solved last win- ter, so it will be taken care of this winter. In this connection it was asserted that there was no occasion for alarm and that nobody would starve.” This is the promise of starvation for thousands of the unemployed this winter. This promise is already be- ing carried into effect. The Daily Worker is carrying stories daily of syicides due to unemployment and starvation. These reports are taken from the capitalist press solely and are only a glimpse of the most ter- rible misery that the capitalist class is inflicting on the working class in the present crisis. These suicides in reality are occurring by the score every day without exception. It is these suicides, this misery, this star- vation and terror that Hoover has ordered the capitalist press to hide from the workers. ‘The answer of the working masses to this campaign of lying of the Hoo- ver administration must be to broad- cast every suicide, every case of star- vation, every wage cut and speed-up scheme and to organize.the workers and farmers, in million masses, against this horror. Fight against hunger. Build the Unemployed Coun- cils. Fight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance under the leadership of the Communist Party. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! Tag Days For Election Campaign Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19th, 20th Get Your Boxes Now All Fraternal Org... Unions. .Clubs Workers in Shop and Factory Support the Red Drive Call Today For Material Elect Delegates to the Election Mass Ratification Congress Friday, Sept. 18th at 7:30 p. m. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE, 67th St, and Third Ave. CONTINUED ON #AGE TWO) All Workers Are Welcome! 291 Delegates at Cook County Hc doves Conference Raise Demands for Immediate Relief—Plan Hunger March | 5,000 Chicago Workers Resisting Eviction of Unemployed Worker Fight Back as Police Attack CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Thirty thousand | workers, the majority of them colored, greeted | wildly speakers of the Communist Party, the} Unemployed Council, the Trade Union Unity | League and the International Labor Defense | at the Washington Park open forum Sunday afternoon. Big Bill Thompson, ex-mayor of Chicago came to the park | to try to win the Negro masses from the Communist Party. Big Bill wanted to show the bosses he could succeed where Cermak and the Negro reformists had failed. He boasted about WORKERS RESIST "Teese ss cae “fores and told} F ASC IST PUTSCH the destitute unemployed how very, | | ails SMASHES very much he sympathized with them. | Communists Call On He preached patience and dependence upon the boss-controlled machinery Workers for Front Agaiast Fascism to force the bosses to give relief. He called upon the workers to support BERLIN, Sept. 14—The putsch of the fascisti Saturday night in Styria, Austria, collapsed completely. Fierce collisions occurred between the putschists and workers. At Kapfen- berg. the fascists turned machine guns on the workers and two were killed and many weunded. At Bern- beck and Hoenigsberg and other towns the revolutionary workers dis- armed and drove out the fascist leaders. Machine guns and rifles were captured by the workers, The Socialist leaders called on the workers to remain calm and to leave the liquidation of the putsch to the authorities. The Communist Party of Austria issued an appeal to the work- ers calling for the formation of a revolutionary united front to crush fascism. Nowhere did any clashes occur be- tween the fascists and the state pow- er. The attitude of the Austrian gov- ernment has been extraordinarily benevolent throughout the putsch. Most of the fascist leaders were later arrested. Several hundred fascists rioted on the Kurfuersttendam in Berlin on the occasion of the Jewish New Year. Jewish passersby were beaten bloody, cafes were raided, the windows smashed and the interfors demol- ished. The police exercised extraor- dinary toleration towards the row~ dies although they were finally com- pelled to make a number of arrests. ce ae) NEW YORK, Sept. 14-—The New York Evening Post, reports today that its correspondent found that even after the gendarmerie and the police had control of the situation they did not disarm the fascisti “for some unknown reason.” The corre- spondent visited the saloons of the Heimwehr and “found the men ev~ eryvhere still fully armed—even re- taining their mavhine guns at head- quarters.” The govérnment is deter- mined to let the fascists retain their arms so that they vcn be used against the revolutionary workers in the fu- ture. In this support of the fascists the socialists are in full accord with the capitalist government. 6 ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 14. —im| St. Paul, as in every city in the coun- try, there are thousands of starving unemployed workers and their chil- dren dying of starvation on account of the impossibility of finding work and the brutal boss denial of unem- ployment relief. The Farmer-Labor Governor Olson is just as brutal a murderer of workers as other boss politicians and the capitalist class generally. Over $150,000 has re- cently been “juggled” by the local officials and grafters out of the taxes ground out of the workers. Private bond dealers have admitted “cleaning” up as much as $40,000 in one deal alone. While this game is carried on by the bosses, a little working-class boy is dead of ptomaine poisoning as the result of eating food off the city | booes. |sacre of unemployed workers ‘Party who elaborated the Commu- his nomination of his fellow-scoun- drel, Lem Small, for governor. | Thompson, who thought he carried the votes of the Negro workers in his vest pocket, was booed constantly, the workers calling his bluff so often that finally he become discouraged and ended his speech to a thunder of | Expose Demagogs Comrade Williamson, for the Com- munist Party, followed Thompson, thoroughly exposing Thompson, and how Thompson’s..administration had granted millions of dollars to the In- sull interests while arresting, club- bing and shooting unemployed Negro and white workers. Williamson show- ed that the identical tactics were used by Thompson and Cermak aaginst the | working class. He exposed Thomp- son’s Negro hangers-on, De Priest, Roberts and Anderson and showed how they had consistently betrayed the interests of the Negro masses and joined with the white ruling class in attacking the Negro workers and in responsibility for the police mas- on Aug. 3. Amid the greatest enthusiasm, Comrade Williamson presented the program of the Communist Party against unemployment, wage cuts, Negro oppression, imperialist war, and for unemployment relief, for so- cial insurance and for unconditional equal rights for the Negro people. Other speakers included Tilford, of the ILD, Gebert of the Communist nist program for the Negro masses; Mrs. Gordon cf the Park Forum; Kjar of the TUUL, Ware of the Un- employed Councils, Poindexter of the Communist Party, Kling of the Young Communist League. The speakers effectively reached the huge crowd through the use of a loud speaker. Sunday's mass demonstration fur- ther emphasizes the growing sup- port behind the Communist Party program and the awakening of the masses to the role of all betrayers, especially Thompson, who thought he had the votes of the Negro work- ers sewed up. Unemployed Delegates Meet (CONTINUED Gr THREE! Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. ichild Dies Fa Eating Gar-| bage in St. Paul; Re- fused Ambulance garbage dumps in order to satisfy his hunger. This latest child victim of the capitalist system is William Burbank of 188 State St. ‘The bosses not only forced this lit- tle working-class child to eat rotten food, but also denied him an am- bulance when neighbors notified the authorities. The police, who beat up the unemployed workers when they demonstrate against starvation, told @ woman who notified them that the child was dying of ptomaine poison- ing that it was none of their busi- ness, She then called the Ancker BY MUSTEITES Give Lesson i in Cutting | to Vicious Open Shop Mill, Berkshire Phila. Vote 700-400 | Paterson Local Rejects | Official Sellout | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 14.— While officials of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Ho- siery Workers claim ten thousand members present at the member- ship meeting, only 760 voted for | the agreement and 461 against. This one year agreement calls for a 30 to 45 per cent cut, check off and settling of grievances by an impartial chairman. The “social- ists” as officials of this union signed this agreement. The National Textile Workers Union is organizing the workers against the wage cut agreement. * os NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—According | to the Women’s Wear Daily, a trade | publication, the Philadelphia local of the American Federation of Full Fa- | shioned Hosiery Workers voted to accept the hew wage agreement ac- cepting wage cuts up to 50 per cent for workers in the mills of the Full | Fashioned Hosiery. Manufacturers of | America, The vote was 700 to 400, the journal reports. Alex McKeown, Independent Labor Party and Socialist Party candidate for mayor of Philadelphia is presi- dent of this local, and was active in | concluding the new wage cut agree- ment. The Women’s Wear Daily reports the counter-comment of the Ameri- | can Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers to the statement of the Berkshire Knitting Mill, the big- | gest open shop mill in the country at | Wyomissing, Pa., that it would not cut wages as follows: “There is no desire on our part | to enter into a controversy with a particular corporation or mill ex- ecutive; sooner or later it will be necessary to deal with these con- cerns or individuals. “Delegates to the convention 2n- ticipated that anti-union firms would seek to obs‘-uct the union's plan by issuing declarations simi- Jar to those which Mr MeCullaugh has authorized. Of course, the Berkshire doesn't want the union LOC TEE a cdots Terror Against Homeless Jobless NEW YORK.—In a vicious drive against homeless unemployed work- ers, plainclothes policemen arrested seventeen workers seeking rides on the subway and took them to the} 57th St. police court yesterday. Some were severely slugged by the police before brought to court, with the comment “You pay a nickel and think you can ride all night in the subway.” Brutal sentences were immediately handed out to them, five getting 30 days, one three months and a mem- ber of the Marine Workers Industrial Union six months. threatened 90 days apiece for the homeless workers if they again sought to sleep in the subway cars. Ten were dismissed. More Jobless Suicides Pile Up Guilt Of Murderous Capitalist System Hospital, which also refused to send an ambulance and a doctor to the | boy. Finally she hired a taxi and took the dying child to the hospital. By this time the child was uncon- scious. He died shortly after arriv- | ing at the hospital. After murdering this working-class child, the only action of the St. Paul city government is to pass a law that no child under 16 should be al- lowed near the city dumps. In the meantime, all over the country the bosses are destroying food while countless thousands of working-class children die like flies of starvation. Pe TE 3 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14. Man Kills Wife, Slays Sel: headlined admission of working-class At Mine Meet Hold Mass Funeral for Two Harlan Miners Murdered by Boss Gunmen |Postpone Hearing of Nine Miners to September 28th; I. W. W. Tries to Block Defense <a WINCHESTER, Ky., Sept. 14.—Hearing in the case of the 9 Harlan miners transferred to Winchester, Lincoln County, has been post- poned to Sept. 28 when trial dates will be set. Four of the miners are Negroes. All nine are charged with murder in a frame-up attempt of the coal oper- ators and the boss courts to break the strike. The traitorous role of the I. W. W. leaders was further exposed before the miners today when the I. W. W. tried to | narrow down the defense possibilities by instructing its at- ~® torney, Golden, not to read the Crim- The magistrate | 'BELYN WORKERS, RALLY FOR FREE, FOOD ON FRIDAY Demonstration Will Be | Held at Boro Hall Plaza | BROOKLYN, NO Y¥.—Ida Fostoff | and five of her children will form | part of the delegation of workers and | their children who will present de- | |mands of free food and clothing for | ers’ children when school opens |to Hesteberg, | ough of Brooklyn. * Under the auspices of the Young | Pioneers of A., the Parents’ League | and the Unemployed Council a dem- onstration will be held at Boro Hall Plaza Friday, September 18, “at 12 o'clock noon, to demand free food | and clothing for workers’ children. Ida Fostoff, jobless and penniless; was ordered evicted from her home by Judge Powell from the Lee Ave. court, who stated, “I give you one the | week time to move out from | premises.” Workers from every part of Brook- }lyn will rally at this demonstration. The poverty stricken section of Red Hook where, due to starvation, the | infantile paralysis has mostly affect- | ed the workers’ children, will be rep- | resented in the delegation. | In a statement given out by the | | three demonstration it says “while work- ers are starving in New York Mayor Walker is spending millions of dol- | lars on graft and on trips to Europe.” | “Only the organized might of the | working class can force Walker and his boss government to give to the | clotsing when school opens.” ELECTION TAG DAYS INN. J. 50 Candidates to Run in Jersey Elections NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 14—State- wide tag days will be held Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26th and 27th in ‘many cities in New Jersey to raise funds to carry on the Communist Party election campaign work. Tag | Days will be held in Newark, Eliza- | beth, Jersey City, Passaic, Paterson, Linden, Perth Amboy, New Bruns- | wick, Trenton, etc. Readers of the Daily Worker, sympathizers and members of all working class organ- izations are called upon to partici- pate in these tag days in their re- spective cities. This year the Party has about 50 candidates in New Jersey; for mayor in some cities, for the General As- sembly and Freeholders in 7 coun- ties and John J. Ballam as candi- date for governor. A big election rally will be held in Paterson Wednesday, Sept. 16th, at Turn Hall, 8 p. m. For the first time in its history, the Communist Party will hold a meet- ing in Atlantic City, Sunday, Sept. 20th, at Moose Hall, Atlantic Ave., (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) president of the Bor- nizations organizing the | | working class children free food and | inal Syndicalist briefs written by the | attorneys of the International Labor Defense. This action of the I. W. W. comes directly after the traitorous deal | made by its organizer, Lane, with the sheriff whereby the latter secured the names of militant miners and Lane was released without bond after | having been held in jail while the boss courts refused to accept even a | cash bond for him. The sheriff had | raided Lane's home three times and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘HEARING TODAY ON YOKINEN /Gov’t Trying Deport Militant | NEW YORK.— August Yokinen, Finnish worker who is facing depor- | tation to fascist Finland because of his pledge to fight for Negro rights, will have a hearing this morning in |the United States District court in | the old Post Office Building, Park | Place and Broadway. The hearing | will open at 10 o’clock. Yokinen will | be defended by Mrs. King, attorney of the International Labor Defense. Yokinen was arrested for deporta- | tion several months ago following his | public repudiation of the boss poison ie race hatred and his public accep- tance of the Communist program of | fun and unconditional equality for | the Negro people. Protest demonstrations against the |persecution of Yokinen have been held in the New York and other dis- tricts. Hundreds of thousands of workers have registered their indig- nation at the attempt of the govern- ment to send Yokinen to his death | or imprisonment in fascist Finland as \@ deliberate punishment for his re- jection of the bourgeois ideology of Negro inferiority. Scores of workers | will be present in the court today to | show their solidarity with Yokinen. POLICE TERROR _ IN LONG BRANCH | Judge Holds Workers Under Heavy Bail LONG BRANCH, N. J.—Police again broke up the Communist elec- tion campaign meeting here Satur- day at Morris and Chelsea Aves, Three workers: Anthony German, Jr., chairman, and Rina Evans were ar- rested and J. Halperin was badly beaten by the police. In a verbal tilt with Judge Rosen yesterday morning, Isserman, attor- ney for the I, L. D. defending the three workers, was held in contempt of court and committed to jail when he refused to pay. He was later re- leased. The defendants were held under $5,000 bail each on charges of “dis- orderly conduct, distributing circu- lars without a permit and inciting to riot” and the case held over for Wednesday morning. Many workers were present in court and indicated their under- standing of the role of the police and courts in trying to stop the growth of the revolutionary movement in 9pm mH Long Branch. ‘ athe