The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1931, Page 1

] { VETERANS MARCH ON CITY HALL TODAY TO DEMAND INCREASED RELIEF Dail Central U.«& ee unist Party U.S. (Section of the Communist on rker Y FROM THE CITY WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ UNITE! A. Entered as second-ct at New York, N. Vol. VII, No. 237 niktter at the Post Office Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879 <n NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931 FEELING FOR STRIKE HEIGHTENS ON DAY OF WAGE CUTS 518 NEW FACTORIES IN ONE YEAR SHOW SOVIET TRIUMPH The American Naval ‘Mutiny’ Re under the eyes of President Hoover, as he sits in the White House at Washington, there is a “mutiny” of the U. S. Navy going | on!. This is all the stranger, because it is organized by Hoover himself! Workers should not be surprised at this, when they recall the saying of Marx that—“History repeats itself, once as a tragedy, again as a farce.” When the sailors of the British Fleet refused to obey orders in re- sentment at the wage. cut, it was because of the real tragedy the wage cut, brought to their families ashore. Now comes the farce of Hoover pretending, not to cut wages—there is no farce about that!—but to “cut | the nav building program.” And, lo and behold! Forthwith and overnight an entirely unseen and: bloodless “mutiny” develops! The N. Y. Timés, as a good patriotic paper should, reports it on Wednesday, Sept. 30, under the headlines: “Fight On Navy Cuts Stirs Hoover's Ire—He Detects ‘Back-Fire’ Move- ment Against His Policy-of ‘Cut to the Bone.’” Where are the “loyal” armed forces to come to the rescue of Hoover? Will.the mutineers be court-martialed and shot? In fact—who are these “mutineers”? ‘The industrious Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Times sought high and low for the “rebels” who should, without doubt, be marching, foot.and horse, up Pennsylvania Avenue under a red flag. But, alas! ‘And all the journalist could find were some unidentified “naval officers” who “had nothing to say,” the correspondent reports, “but are gritting their teeth and keeping quiet.” Not a bad tactic, this “keeping quiet” when one has “nothing to say,” either in the armed service or among civilians. And the,sole “mutineer” identified for purposes of publicity turns out to be a civilian, a leader of the republican party, a close friend of Hoover, and his virtual appointee es Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, Congressman Britten of Minois. How shocking, that a dear friend and fellow republican, who only the day before breakfasted with Hoover at the White House table (at | public¢expenss, it is true!) should now turn traitor! In fact from all accounts workers must conclude that it was all a put up job—this whole “slash” in’ the navy, and the traitorous “back-fire” and the resulting “anger” of the president! For, workers, in spite of the loud noise about the “cut” in the navy, what, really took place was the signing of contracts for FIVE MORE DESTROYERS! Workers should get eccustomed to this method of increasing the navy and other war preparations—this method of trying to pull the wool over their eyes by such farces. ‘Workers should not be fooled by.the headline “Six Destroyers Given Up,” a headline followed by interesting fiction about a “back-fire” from well-rehearsed “opposition” at which Hoover is, in turn, “angered,” when after all the terrifying tale is told, the correspondent puts at the very end of his story, the following: “Shortly afterward the secretary announced the awarding of contracts for the construction of five destroyers.” Why all this farce? The reason, workers, is that millions of you are having your wages cut and millions more unemployed and starving! You are demanding food, clothing and shelter for yourselves and your loved ones—demanding immediate relief for the destitute, and Unemployment Insurance at the cost of the bosses and their government! What's more, you are demanding that all war funds go*to feed your starving wives and children! But the capitalist government, in the midst of a trade war and facing ultimate armed war with England especially, facing a clash with Japan over which, shall rob Manchuria, and anxious to out-do France in mob- ilizing the capitalist world for war on the Soviet Union—intends to arm itself as never before! “While the capitalist government will not “cut” its war preparation by’one gun or one ship, it is determined also not to give one cent to the Starving workers! Yet if it does both these things openly and frankly, ® real genuine opposition will be heard from the starving masses, Hence this hypocrisy, this pretended “cut to the bone” in the Navy—which turns out to be FIVE MORE warships! Workers, against your real opposition, Hoover manufactures a fake ‘opposition” and stages this despicable farce in the hope of silencing you! More than ever you demand: { All war funds to the unemployed! Winter relief of $150 to each job- less worker! Immediate aid to the starving! Unemployment insurance at the cost of the capitalists and their government, to be administered by-the workers, not by capitalist grafters! All Demonstrate Tomorrow! . Demand Mooney’s Release! Worker Organizations Mobilizing; All the ‘Workers Go to Union Square; Demand . Release of Prisoners NEW YORK.—A large number of militant labor organizations will join in the great demonstration in Union Sq. tomorrow at 12:50 p.m., that will voice the demand of tens of thou- sands ‘of workers for the immediate, unconditional release of Tom Moo- il the Harlan prisoners, the Scotts- boro boys, the Imperial Valley and Centralia prisoners, the Paterson five and all other working class fighters “whom the jails of~ capitalism How hold fast. . _ Among the organizations that will participate are the Trade Union Unity League, the New York Dis- trict of the Communist Party, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union, the National Textile Workers Union, the Shoe and Leath- er Workers. Industriel Union, the United Councils cf Working Women, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born, the Workers Cultural Federation, yaricts locals of the American Federation of Labor and many others. Tomorrow's demonstration, . ar- ranged by the New York Dis::ict of ithe International Labor Defense, will ‘bean answer to the call. of Tom Moo- Pah ney from his prison cell in San Quen- tin jail to launch a broad united front movement to free him and _all other class war prisoners. It will expose the treacherous role of the “socialists”, tne fake progres- sive Musteites and their Lovestone al- lies, who are trying to stab the free Mooney movement in the back. The demonstration will also mobil- ize all workers “and workers’ organ- izations for the great mass Mooney- '|Harlan-Seottsboro defense confer- ence, to be held Sunday, October 11, at 10 a.m, in Irving Plaza, 15th, St. and Irving Pl. Every workers’ organ- ization—shop groups, revolutionary unions, A. F. of L. locals, fraternal and cultural organizations—is asked to send one delegate for every five member *, prea cde SEER PAY S*4SHED iN PONTIAC BRICK YARD (By a Worker Correspondent) PON” ‘©, Mich. — In the Boice »2@.4) aovith Yard here in 1927 we got $8.42 for 35,000 bricks. I hired out here the other day and all they will pay is 35 cents ‘an hour for 11 hours a day. We get no noon hour off and one has to eat on the jump. 1200 GARY STEEL MEN Hall Overcrowded As Foster Speaks On Resistance ‘Drive - Chicago Jobless Act |Prepare for a Hunger March on City Oct. 31 CHICAGO, IL, Oct. 1—Twelve hundred Gary steel workers yester- Foster, secretary of the Trade Union ‘Unity League, for organization and Strike, against the wage cuts. Hun- dveds of workers were turned back as the hall was packed and many stood ‘on the street listening to the speech- es Many joined the Metal Workers | Industrial League and there was an | excellent response among the workers for organization and strike. Foster also addressed 3,000workers in Washington Park in Chicago, dis- cussing unemplqyment, wage cuts and the national hunger march to take place early in December, | Five hundred workers of south Chi- |cago prevented the arrest of Joe Tash, National Miners Union organ- izer, at the meeting. Ten thousand jobless workers stormed the Chicago |free employment agency at 310 West | Madison St. demanding jobs. Police have surrounded the whole territory lin the vicinity of Evergreen and Mil- waukee St. where street meetings were held and are brutally attacking workers everywhere who are assem- bling in thousands on the street de- fying the police order to move on. Ten workers have already been ar- rested. At an eviction case at 2600 Potomac Ave., two workers were ar- rested. é The Chicago Unemployed’ Council applied for a permit for a hunger march to the city hall to 'take place on October 31. Attempts to postpone a definite answer on the part of the city officials will only meet with mass pressure on the part of the jobless workers until the city will be forced to give this permit. ‘The October 18 conference in prep- aration for the hungér march as- sumes special importance. All organ- izations are sending delegates t6 this conference. INSULL CUTS WAGES (By a Worker Correspondent) AICAGO, Ill, — The Sam Insull Companies have been cutting the Yet Insull and the other utility com- panies are charging the same rates for their products in spite of the lower costs of materials and wages. Silas Strawn’s mail order house sells shirts that cost less than two dollars a dozen for over a dollar apiece. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. ° HIT PAY CUT day cheered the call of William Z. | 5-Year. Plan Advancing While in U.S.. Mines, Mills, Factories Close BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—Starting from this land of mass hunger and starvation as well as continuous drastic wage cuts, a delegation of around 14 American work- ers, under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, will go to the Soviet Union to take part, along with workers’ delegations from all over the world, in the celebrations on the 14th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The workers of New York will ratify the two New York delegates, two marine workers, at the mass meeting tonight*in Cental Opera House. The meeting, which has been arranged by the Friends of the Soviet Union, will start at 8:30 p. m. The delegation of American workers, which is being elected mainly from mills in such basic in- dustries as metal, mining and marine, will see for themselves the tremendous drive forward of the lear decisive year of the Fige Year Plan. They ah ‘ by the Soviet trade unions, and nya ’ abo! ive weeks. A special visit will be made to the gigantic steel mill at Magnitogorsk, which is soon to open. This mill opens a new era of heavy industry in the Soviet Union. The workers from America will present the work- ers in the Soviet Union with a banner expressing | their solidarity. When they return they will report | the results of their observation to hundreds of thou- | sands of American workers. aa (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Oct. 1.—In the course of the third and decisive year of the Five-Year Plan of socialist in- dustry, the Soviet Union has been enriched by 518 new factories, mills and mines. A large number of these have already been opened during the past nine months. At the very beginning of the fourth quarter of the third decisive year, two giants of socialist in- dustry are opening: the Kharkov tractor works and the Moscow Automobile works. These are to be fol- lowed by the huge Magnitogorsk and the Kuznetzk metal mills; in Nijny Novgorod, an automobile factory and the first ball bearing plant in Moscow, the Berez- nikv chemical mill in he northern Urals, the Ural Machine Building works and others. Open Two World Giants On the first day of the fourth quarter, the two world giants built by the working class in the Soviet Union are able to report their vietories. The Kharkov Tractor works was built and equipped in 15 months. Tomorrow, when the giant tractor plant begins its operations in Kharkov, the Amo Automobile Works in Moscow will celebrate its reconstruction, enabling it to start mass production of powerful 244 ton trucks. This will be the greatest truck factory in the world. The Stalingrad and Kharkov Tractor works, the Amo works and the Nizhni Novgorod automobile fac- tory, the Moscow ball bearing mill, the Samara car- buretor factory, and the Ufa motor works are all either completed of in the process of construction. They tes- tify to the Soviet’s ability of assimilating at an un- precedented pace the technique of the new industry in automobile and tractor construction. The completion of the Kharkov t.actor workers in- sures further speedy industrialization of agriculture and opens up great prospects for machine and tractor service stations and the consolidation of a machine base on the collective and state farms in the Soviet Union. The completion of the Kharkov Tractor works and the Moscow automobile giant factory also marks the victory of Soviet industry along other lines of qualitative growth. By assimilating such complex industries as the pro- duction of tractors and automobiles, the Soviet Union has achieved the greatest heights of modern technique. The Kharkov Tractor works and the Moscow Amo works have concentrated on the latest achievements in advanced technical thought. The working class of the Soviet Union built these factories and placed them at the service of its industry and agriculture. Soviet Union Advances—Capitalism Decays The capitalist world writhing in the clutches of the crisis, ts following the path of curtailing of technical progress. The Soviet Union is capturing the advanced technique and assimilating the latest attainments and applying them to its factories, and re-equiping its in- dustries on new higher levels. The builders of the new giants in the automobile and tractor industry are today congratulated by millions of the working class which sees in the triumph of the new factories, the triumph of its cause. The builders of the Kharkov and Amo works are honored on the day of their triumph by the detachment of fighters for the world revolution on the other side of Soviet frontiers. For the opening of the new factories is new proof of our forward movement despite the prophecies of all shades of opportunists, despite the sceptics and | whiners. The opening of these factories is a victory for the shock brigades of the world proletariat and a victory for the general Leninist line. Lewis Gang Asks Pinchot Mass Protest Against. Sentencing of Powers CONCERTED ATTACK UPON WORKERS’ PAY YESTERDAY: UNITED STRUGGLE NEEDED |Bethlehem Plants Follow U. S. Steel in Cut of Ten Percent; Mass Meetings Rally Men Strike Expected As Gulf Coast Longshoremen Suffer; Hosiery Boss Shows AFL Is For Cut BULLETIN BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 1—Three wage cutting agreement signed by the International Longshoremen’s | thousand longshoremen here voted | Association in New York yester- to strike against the sell-out and | day. \ While steel workers organize and prepare to fight the ten per cent wage cut ordered, not -only in United States Steel Corporation mills but in Bethlehem and other big com- |panies, the railroad companies make their first steps toward a cut, and a wage slash is under way for Gulf | Coast longshoremen: ‘ | October Ist is a historic day for a concerted attack in‘many | industries on the workers’ wages and the workers’ standard = living: All sorts of companies, including especially the -RATIFY WORKER DELEGATES inemployed workers to smash the | united wage cutting drive of the bosses. The sitvation in steel and on the railroads is closely connected. It is known that a meeting of railroad executives in Washington recently de- cided to cut wages on the roads just as soon as events in steel justified it. They mean that ‘hey will slash their own men unless such a revolt takes place over the ten per cent general wage cut in steel to prove that the working class in general will not stand for further lowering of their standard of living. Hail Completion of the | Soviet Steel Plant | At Magnitogorsk The successful completion of the | huge new steel plant at Magnito- | | gorsk, U.S.S.R., the largest in Europe. To Smash Glen Alden Strike BULLETIN. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 1.—Scores of mine pickets were arrested today by the local police. Forty-one women were among those jailed. i ean HARRISBURG, Pa. Oct. 1.—Fifty-six United Mine Worke strike-breakers headed by secretary Kennedy of the U.M.W.A. visited Governor Pinchot and asked him to co-operate with them and with the company to give pro- tection to scabs in the Glen Alden strike. The governor answered: “I will use all the power of my office to guarantee miners their constitutional rights as Amer- ican citizens to work where and under what conditions they will.” For Strike Activities ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 1.—Trade | Union Unity League Organizer Pow- ers was sentenced today to four months imprisonment and a $50 fine because he defended himself against attacks by seabs and police in the silk strike. Powers defended himself, bringing | out the determination of the T.U.U.L. to fight wage cuts of every sort. ‘The judge is blocking an appeal of | the case. The International Labor Defense and the National Textile ‘Workers Union are preparing a mass protest | meeting. | will be celebrated by hundreds. of | workers and other friends of the} | Soviet Union at a big meeting and | | entertainment tonight at 8:30, at |Central Opera House, 67th St. near | Third Ave. | At this meeting ,which has been | | arranged by the New York District |of the Friends of the Soviet Union, | |the two m-~ne workers who will be |the New York vrembers of the| American Workers’ Nelevation to the Soviet Union, will be ratified. This | delegation, which will consist of | workers from basi¢ industries, will at- | tend the celebration of the 14th an- | niversarvy of the Russian revolution and will spend. five weeks in the U.S. 8S. R. But because of the Watson Parker law providing for lengthy red tape proceedings in changing rail waces and ‘because of the general situation, | the roads are already making the first | Propaganda and legal moves. Yes- | terday attorneys of the roads appear- ed: before the Interstate Commerce | Commission, and made perfunctory arguments for an increase in freight | and passenger rates.- They know that |such an increase is not likely, as it | would first of all not be economically desirable; the rate that will make the | most money for the roads is lower, yather than higher. Secondly, any | capitalist party in power will hes- | itate to raise freight rates in the ;midst of a crisis, when wholesale | prices are down even if the cost of wages of the workers right and left.’ Since the governor is commander in chief of the Pennsylvania state police (“The Cossacks”) and also of the Pennsylvania state militia, this answer means that bayonets, ma- chine guns, tear gas, Clubs and re- volvers will be used, at the request of the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, to drown out in blood the fight against starvation of 25,000 miners around Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. * * WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 1.—. ready the brutality of the state cops (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) . City Hall in Thousands of workers stormed the City Hall in Salford, Lancashire, the center of the textile industry, on Thursday, in a militant protest egainst the dole cuts and the wage cuts of the “Socialist” MacDonald. Thursday morning thousands partici- peted in a march to the City Hall, where they were met by scores of police on foot and mounted. The workers resisted the attack of the police determinedly, Many workers were beaten by the police and tram- pled by the horses, The workers used clubs in resisting the police and shouted “Remember 1914 to 1918.” ‘The militant de:nonstration. of the workers of London against the hun- Lancashire Workers Storm Mass Protest = ger program of the MacDonald gov- ernment continued Wednesday night. Thousands of workers accompanied a delegation to the Borough Council at the Battersea ‘Town Hall. They demanded that the cut in the dole be teken back, that rents be reduced ten per cent, and that child and ma- ternity benefits be increased. The workers in. the demonstrations car- ried Red flags. Four thousand postal clerks, many in uniform, marched in protest against the wage cuts of the Mac- Donald budget from Clarkenwell to Victoria, The police were forced to suspend traffic in the West End of London for over an hour. “Third Big Parade” of Vets Marches on City Hall at 10:30 Among the speakers at the meet- living for the workers is: not down. ing will be Robert Minor and/ The reason for the appeal for high- Louis Lozowick, executive secretary|er rates at this time is given away of the John Reed Club, who has just returned from a visit to the So- | viet Republic of Tadjikistan, travel- | |ling through parts never before seen (CONTINUED ON THREE) NEW YORK.—Veterans of the World War will again march, but this time the “Big Parade” marchers will parade to demand of the city author- |- | ities relief to keep themselves and their families alive during the win- ter. The ‘Third Big Parade” under the auspices of the Committee of Vet- erans from the Relief Lines and the Worker Ex-servicemen’s League will on City Hall today at 10:30 a.m, to place a series of demands to city officials for immediate unem- ployed relief and a stop to the hu- miliation and discrimination at the hands of officials of the various re- lief agencies. The ex-solders will fall in line at Frcadway, opposite the Custom House near Bowling Green and South Fevry subway station from 10 a.m. Reciting’ the worsening condition of single and family veterans, the de- mands include that the present agen- cies handling relief cases give every- one a hearing without discrimina- tion, that more cases be heard every day, and further that a report of cases be published to fight misuse of | veterans will place before city au- funds, graft, discrimination and other abuses. Two of the oustanding demands the thorities are: Increased relief: $80 a month for married veterans (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) by an American. An excellent en- tertainment program is being ar- | ranged, including the Red Front | Fighters Band and a chorus. Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. Troopers in Hose Strike Area; Full Fashion Ends Picketing READING, Pa... Oct. 1.— State troopers appeared in’ the hosiery strike here yesterday and the strik- ers were caught unawares because the American Federation of Ful Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers’ officials have been telling them that Governor Pinchot is their friend and that the state police would not be used to break their strike. Persistent picketing and the mili- tant spirit of the hosiery workers have had the Berkshire mill produc- tion demoralized for two days and brought the call for state police from the mill owners. But there are per- Sistent rumors that the Full Fashion- ed Hosiery officials themselves also called for the police to give them an excuse to call off the strike. They have continually claimed that unless the Reading workers, especially the | Berkshire mill workers, came out, the successful strike in New Jersey, New York and Northampton would have to be called off. They made only a gesture towards calling out the Berk- shire workers, but 3,000 of the outside strikers marched to Reading this week and partially pulled the mill by mass picketing, The officials have (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FORCE SHOE C0. _ TO STOP PAY CUT NEW YORK.—The Melrose Slip- per Co. was forced to withdraw the wage cut which was recently put into effect in that factory. The firm also agreed, from now on to deal with the | workers collectively through their | representatives—the Shop Commit- j tee. No discharge, no discrimina- tion, equal division of work during the slack seasons, the right to belong ;to the union, are included in “this settlement. In discussing the settlement pro- posals made by the firm, the repre- | sentatives of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union pointed | out to the workers the necessity of continuing the strike as a means of gaining full union recognition. The workers, however, accepted the com- promise settlement with the full un- derstanding that the strike has taught them a valuable lesson in workers’ unity and solidarity, and that they go back to work as loyal and conscientvus union members who will see that the Melrose Shop |js a good union shop even without ‘full union recognition, f <