The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1931, Page 5

. Va ~~ Hundreds: of Jobless Women Sleep in Chicago Parks; Suicides Mount «HUNGER PEAN CHICAGO, Sept. 24—That *huin-7 dreds of homeless, destitute unem- ployed women workers are forced to | sleep in the parks of Chicago, admitted today by Mrs. Elizabetd; Conkley, commissioner of public, work. Because of the thorough exposure this state of affairs gives to the: par} pidly deepening crisis of capitalism | and the lies of the bostes who.ssek to cover up the sufferings of -the masses in an attempt to “justify” the denial of unemployment relief, | the city: administration is quite gi red up by the exposure, Mrs.-@oms / kling herself declares: shin “Unemployment and need~ ims pose an appalling strain upon standards, and women struggling to maintain their respectability have come to us at their wits’ endvand literally writhing their hands;’?. She further admits that proéurers | for rich men are active amone'the homeless woman workers, decoying | numbers of girls to satisfy thé tusts | of the rich who oppose being" ‘taxed for unemployment relief but axe ways ready to satisiy their lus’ T the bodies of working class worth driver, in desyeration by ur refitpigy ment and suliering. In tu time, winter is rapidly approad’ to add to the misery of the con men and women workers who haye been thrown out of their jobs" and their homes by the bosses, McKEESPORT, Pa., Sept. 24.~The ‘oss press here reports that work, unable to provide for his .wife and three children, John sutheran. ‘Out of | - [Ev ery Jobless Suicide | | A Murder by the | 1. Capi talists_ : | 54, ot 1034 Worth ngton Avenue Clairton, ended his lif’ by hanging nself in Shady Park, near his home | éatly yesterday, police reported.” | The boss press tried to cover up| by the capialists by quot- this-mur | ing the police as saying that “wel- | | fare organizations in the Pitcairn} { district have provided food and cloth- | jing at different tmies.” Two other unemployed workers } ere are in the McKeesport Hospital | today, expected to die, as a result | of an attempt to end their misery. | The boss press reports that they are | |‘alleged to have atempted to end their lives because of the unemploy- ment situation.” They are Marion Witherspoon, 64, | of 1116 O'Neil Blvd., and John Noyak, | 37, of 27 Linden Avenue, father of | four small children. Mrs. Wither- | Spoon’s husband is 72 years old, out of work and destitute. Local workers are organizing Un- | employed Council to mobilize the job- Jess for the fight against starvation, | and for unemployment relief, at the | Same .time pointing out that. suicides | do not offer a solution to the prob- lems of the unemployed and their families, and that only by a militant {fight will the bosses be forced to | give adequate relief. | | | | - PROVIDENCE, BR. I., Sept. 24—The Providence Bulletin reports the at- ON SYNDICALISM- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Chicago. Lawyers with wide ‘exper> jence in labor cases are vitaly,ne- cessary for the defense’ because. such issues, as union organization,, Com~ munism, etc., will be upperomsi.. at the trials. The prosecution .is..de- termined to attempt to inflame-this conservative farming community:with the Red issues. The I, W. W. policy of obstruct | ing the entry of these IL.D.Jattor> neys is doing the defendants im- measurable harm, and even endan- | gering their lives. Mahler, se¢retary of the General Defense Councils ad- mitted to me that the presenb~at- torneys in these murder cases do not understand the serious poliicalissues involved.” Reynolds offered as an illustt&tion, the prosecution's line as indicatedin att article in the Mount Sterling Cra zette-Courier, printed just previous to the release of Jesse London ‘Wake+ field and Arnold Johnson. That, are ticle declared in part: ‘This paper has repeatedly warhed against Communistic and Red teach- ing in this country_and we admire erators’ judge and himself a~ aree mine owner—Editor Daily Wot er) in fighting both. There is no plaée } in the United States for such .doc- trine and it will have to be stopped. There has been altogether too, much leniency shown agitators of the type of the man and woman in jgil. in Harlan (Jesse Wakefield of the LL. Arnold Johnson of Civil Libert: Union—Editor Daily Worker) and ihe » jfise the better off the United States FRAME-UP IN KY. sooner such culprits are shot at sun | | will be. Most of the distributors of {Communistic literature and. the teachers of the doctrines of the Reds jcome from -foreign elements and should be made to face the firing squad for the protection of humanity. “All honor to Judge Jones and Sheriff Blair in their efforts to } drive enemies of the country and its flag out of Harlan county, It useless to send men and women |.of the stripe of the Harlan agi- { tutors te the penitentiary. There | |. thoy will be fed on ice cream and |.cake and taken.to preture shows; play foot‘all, basket wll, base ball, | tennis and all too s.0n will be par- doxed or paroled to go cut to con- tinue their ne‘erious work. Ttey would be much sa.ec in a pine box | six feet under ground. Sentimen- tal sympathy for perpetual erin ingis, outlaws, and pirates has been altogether too great in America. Let's get rid of it? ” There were three arrests of strikers yesterday at Wallins. The Kentucky A. F. L. convention e today passed a formal face- | saying resolution offerrd by the U. M. W, A. delegates asking Governor Sampson to do something about the Jan situation. The resclution cor- tained no word of conceranation for the murder of minc strikers by im- jpetiea and local gunmen of the op- erators nor any demand for the re- lease of the imprisoned Negro and white miners facing legal lynching in the coal operat»:s’ courts. | RR Misleaders Plan To Break Strike Against Pay Cuts (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONE) cerning the wage reductions, ant it was again stated that President Hooyer had no comment to make.’, “It Had To Be Done” ...... Secretary of Labor Doak, who:did speak, told the workers to follow the lead of Green, who came out against strikes, and advised the workers>to accept the wage cuts. “It is deplor~ able, but apparently it could not-bo avoided,” was his comment." ®vat ‘was put into office specificallytorput over a wage cut on the railroatis, ax he was an official of the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen before: ie Sut entered the Hoover cabinet. unions are preparing to agr wage cut, while at the sane laying the basis to attempt to ¢rush any strike, is shown in the “latest editorial in “Labor,” official organi in Washington of the railroad broth, erhoods. This editorial follows, the Hine of Green in carefully ayo! any mention of strike or arousing workers, while at the same time. de- Ploring wage cuts as “immoral.’ The editorial goes to great length with phrases above the “bankruptcy” of the system that resorts to wage cuts, but ends up by discouraging strikes. “When President Green of the A. F. of L. declared that the wage- euiting campaign launched by the Steel Trust is ‘morally wrong and economically unsound,” the editorial says, “he was speaking with almost painful restraint.” The “painful restraint” of Green and the organ of the railroad *broth- erhoods refers to the restraint against against the workers, striving to keep them from striking. Against this open strike-breaking policy of the A. F. of L, and railroad | brotherhood officials, the wo: must act now to resist wage cuts in ; the’ industries where they have al- ready been made and to prepare for a strike on the railroads where wage | cuts. will next be attempted. Joseph P, Ryan, president of the | International Longshoremen’s Union | wnas agreed to a five per cent wage | cut on overtime for longshoremen, the bosses want more, and they know they can get it from the union mis- | leaders. Wage cuts have been announced | by the Mellon-owned Pittsburgh Coa} Co., where the office workers will get @.10 per cent wage slash. This will next spread to the miners who are elready on a starvation level. A worker in the General Motors €o. plartt in Detroit writes to the Daily Worker calling on all auto- mobile workers to prepare for the strike. He says: In the “Mirror” of today General -Motors announces a 10 to 20 per cent cut. I would like to see this item in the Daily Worker so the -workers of the General Motors, that is, of the Chevrolet Co, the Cadillac Motor and LaSalle Co., the Fisher Body plants and the Ternstadt Co., the Buick Co, and the Oakland-Pontiac Co., get to- gether and organize against this wage cut. I am calling to all slaves -of the General Motors plants to organize at once and strike against this unhuman exploitation of Al- fred Sloan and Fishers, Fellow workers for the two years we work only part time and now our. ex- _Ploiters come along and tell us that we get the cut in wages— organize and strike and let this be .the answer to our bosses.” Communists File 9 ‘Candidates In ; San_. Francisco “SAN FRANCISCO, | Cal., Sept. 25.— The Communist Party today com- pleted filing the following candidates for the San Francisco elections: Mayor, Sam Darcy; Sheriff, Charles Bakst; Supervisors, Louise Todd, Is-. idore Gross, Thomas Ray, Henry cen, Paul Orr and Edwar’ Harris, empted suicide of an unemployed ‘orker who is now in the hospital n a critical condition Despondent because of unemploy nent, John P. Bowden, 65, of 224 Hanover St., attempted to end his rday by inhaling illuminat- | with such rapidity that even the boss press are forced to report some of them and to admit the cause to be | unemployment and starvation LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24—William | Paul Spink, unemployed worker, com- mited suicide y rday by shooting himself through his head. He leay | @ destitute widow and a ten-year old little daughter. Two days after the boss press had reported this suicide of a jobless worker, the Los Angeles Illustrated News published an editorial with the usual boss ballyhoo about no worker being permitted to suffer |Clearly the advantages the capital-| Seve to make the struggle for ex- from hunger. The editorial after | parroting Hoover's line of belittling the suffering of the unemployed and part time masses, declared: ee . there is not the remotest danger that any resident of the United tSates will suffer from hun- ger or want in the meantime.” wat ee SPOKANE, Wash., Sept.*24.—The Spokane Spokesman-Review reports another suicide of a jobless worker in this land of plenty where the bosses try to fool the workers with social demagogy like there being not} “the remotest danger that any res- |ident of the U. S. will suffer from |hunger or want.” { MORE LEADERS. OF NMU ARRESTED The Spokesman- Review story declares, in part: * “Found hanging to a beam in the} $ | the DAILY W ORKER, NEW is ORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1931 [PROTEST AT IN BRITAIN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) night against the MacDonald hunger wage-cut and dole cut program. Ta jing followed.a week of demon- strations on the part of the workers. Police, mounted and on foot, charged workers who defended ther with cluk y workers were i jured ar rrested This is the the ques nswer of the workers to ion of the Journal of Commerce in its editorial of Fyiday. | The Journal of Commerce as! ‘How long will it take for the worker to realize the situation and demand re- dress” against the direct wage-cuts of the MacDonald government and | the wage cuts for the entire working |class through the inflation of Ci | Paper currency in England? “ T! | Journal of Commerce points .out as | ist tion, hope to gain through the infla- | | _ “In other words, the British em- ployer hopes to deceive the worker into thinking that unchanged nom- inal wages which buy less goods are preferable to reduced nominal | wages with living costs at a lower level.” ort bi from a sterlin: far the British pound will sink and 9 now severely all other-capitd fected by i. capitalist cour tle most hurried i Sta meet the competition 0: | >on ‘ Hi at Britain on the wo: ident norra of 1 da conference of financial (7 | ional ix s to discuss measures to be tak | hi h manufaciv spanish mar usiness making s to en to prevent Br from flooding the i cheap goods : Germany is b hit severely b; ack the increased competition of Britis tt a ei manyf The New York Tim reports rlin that h ¢ di B “The continuing depreciation of the Enzlish pound, is bein watched with preat anxiety in Germany where it is reallzed that each penny the pound Joses in value monns a loss to the German balance of | ver trade,” Leas This increased competition on the | >® world markets is being brought about at a time “when the market which English commodities can flood is extremely Nation ped aie ch minister of financial ex ie usly opposed Bank of Enp}: ndin v the infl: ion policy of which | Small. : a pee p attack ¢ nch expe “On the other hand, this should ; ie fhe world’s: mz s. French banker ANAS Se bare ade det aceaana have openly stated the present war PO ‘ial pee: Routes {state with Great Britain. |tries that even the German domes- | tic market is expected to be threat- In the attempt to deceive the work- | as to the meaning of the infla- | tion the socialists have taken the lead to maintain the profits of the | attack on the workers. capitalist class. The Daily Herald writes that the dropping of the gold standard began a | “currency revolution and dropping | the gold standard may change the | economic habits of mankind on a new and scientific basis.” woodshed in the rear of his home at| N. 4108 Adams yesterday afternoon, Herman Dau, 40, unemployed laborer, met his death by shooting himself |in the head, police declared last eve- | ming after an investigation. Dau had | been out of work for more than a year.” Workers! Organize against un- employment, starvation and evic- tions. Refuse to starve! Don’t com- mit suicide, but fight back! Fight for unemployment relief for your starving families!’ Fight for social insurance to be paid out of the war funds by taxing the rich and to be | administered by committees of workers! Stop the murder of work- | ers by the capitalist denial of re- lief. Join the Unemployed Councils and the Communigt Party! Solidarity Days Are A Call for Action INUED FROM PAGE ONE) tho ats starve. Under the Jeader- ship of, the Workers International | Relief all miners relief committees must institute real mass collections. | Solidarity Days coupon books have been sent to 150 miners Relief Com- mittees. Every one of the 150 must get into action. Many thousands of | workers and sympathizers must go to the shops, into workers’ neighbor- hoods, onto the sireets and sell Sol- idarity Coupons or collect in tag day boxes. The firm establishment of the National Miners Union in all mine fields depends upon this. The strug- gling, starving miners and thildren depend upon you to help them build their fighting union and to fight starvation, Great Britain in the interest of the | capitalist class is called by the organ of the s st party putting “the economic habits of mankind on a new and scientific basis.” Scientific | wage cutting by inflation. Ths is | the voice of the “socialst” pace mak- ers for captalist attacks on the) diate future. | working class. | The first severe shock on the New |York Stock Exchange as a result of the suspension of the gold standard came Thursday. The capitalist press calls this a “mysterious and unex- plainable development”, particularly after the rise on the stock market on the previous day. One of the most important causes for the break was the “rumor” that one of the largest | | banks in France had failed. This in- | dicated to the capitalist class that the effects of the financial crisis had | hit even the strongest of the capital- | jist powers very severely. The market \ broke despite the deliberate support of th big banks aided by the resources | |of the Federal Reserve system. In order to strengthen their posi- | tion the foreign banks have been sell- ling their holdings of commercial pa- per in New York and the market for this paper slumped sharply. The | Federal Reserve system became 80 slump that it took the “unprecedent- ed step” and dumped $125,000,000 in- to the market in order to prevent a worse break, The pound sank as low as $3.49 yesterday and all other foreign mar- tremendous uncertainty of the capi- talists in those countries as to how ANNIVERSARY TOUR } A DAYS IN THE USSR and Return SS One Way $185.00 fearful of the possible results of this | kets fluctuated wildly indicating the | The cutting of the living stand- Congress, has prohibited all gold ex- ards of the masses of the workers in|ports from the country and will ap- The competition from Great Brit- ain.is expected to be so sharp in the coal, machinery and textile indus- Ine from mold; that reas ‘caurht in London ened by British exports, ‘This significance of the w cutting cy of the British capitalist class German captalists will answer this | with further wag? cuts, aided by the | {German socialists just as the Brit- |ish socialists are aiding the British is the es for French support of the ‘oy of enrrency deystua- < the earmarks of the infletion provram that condemned when car- sh by Germany, and Jast- Moreover, the reduction of wages in coal mining will, it is ex- pected, be permitted, by the govern- ment in order to strengthen the German industry.” ee | In Colombia, Pr lent Olaya un- der dictatorial powers granted by »d from r countries off to the gold te effects of the infla- the ris n denied by the nd by ae mem- Hone] |point a committee to supervise for- ROv arn leign exchange rates. The financi situation of the Latin American coun- tries which was serious before the present financial crisis has been sharpened to such a degree that t is slim possibility of preventing them from complete coll: in the imme- Another of the mea- sures of Olaya is designed to cut im- ports sharply. This will hit particu- larly the United States and Great n the prices ‘of a sharp atteck on th ¢ British wo: ing stands Nor will wont A he foolich Britain, the two chief exporters to ink that tha nef: flore will Colombia, and will sharpen the strug- | rot he affected.” r Albert -Hum- gle between them for the contracted | nhries, retiring chrirman of the market, . é National Joint Industrial Council ‘The financial war between France | for the mitting indvetry, sald Jand the United States is becoming| 1 ® * the council's annual sharper. The bankers of these two No economy that can countries are now struggling as to |which shall benefit most from the | he r tosses suffered by Great Britain on| the ships the world credit markets. The Times | th | reports this from Paris quite sharply °° as follows: £ “The question whether the franc or the dollar is destined to repiace the pound sterling in the leading role in international’ markets was uppermost today in Paris finan- cial circles, which have seen the pound divested of one-fifth of its value.” L'Intransigeant, one of the greatest capitalist sheets in Paris, writes that, | “In the final analysis the pound sterling has lost its leading role in | “ the world market. The question is | sparin whether the franc or the dollar will | replace it.” ‘The results of the struggle are al- |" ready apparent. In Roumania all | ™Y possible je bet eon the ports whi nd the door of household cou'd wipe out or evs! the rise in the price t wheat Ane fo the difference in rive the rate of exchanze.” So serious has the crisis developed in India that ulation,” one being that “all sorts of rumors are the vould be un- tomorrow in ci govérnment of India able to pay its tr | which is pay day.’ of MacDonald in England. The India government is planning: to introduce economy proposals, ’ This is ‘sweeping un- i of all MacDon- ald used in introducing the “econo- budget in Great Britain, which gram the same pro- | ¢ helng locked upon as | wat thatpiice | The imperial goy- | ernment in India will follow the lead | transactions are being carried on a has attacked the British workers so | franc basis while in Czecho-Slovakia severely. Hello U. S. A. 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