The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1931, Page 1

» Ships, Too.” (, OT waces Ducuaace MoRe WoRKweR ‘ CAN KeED UP oe. Ed Dividends Yo Frocn. Hovvees stm A BiG Stock Howdee an 1 MUST Have Ay ET Sie aia Dail Central Org U.. (Section of the Communist rs ) Worker Rfauniet Porty U.S.A. WORKERS OF THE WORLD; UNITE! ! Entered as second-class at New York, N, Y., under matter at the Post Office <i" the act of March 3, 1870 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931 CITY ED ITION —= Price 3 Cents MASS FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR CLEVELAND NEGROES Protest the Murder of Negro Workers in Cleveland! Organize! More murders of workers by police! And again, in Cleveland as in Chicago, the police act under the bloody plan of ‘Shoot the Negroes first!” Tt is not an accident that fhe police terror against. the workers in Cleveland, as in Chicago, broke out most sharply in a district inhabited by the most persecuted workers—those who suffer most in the presnt unemployment starvation and are most cruelly robbed by landlords. The Negro workers are the worst sufferers, segregated into dreary and un- sanitary slum tenement houses, often houses that have already been condemned as unsafe and deserted by even the white working class— and-in these filthy barracks the Negro workers are charged the doubly high rent which is made possible by the brutish Jim Crow segregation system. Having even less rights in court, the Negro workers are the most easily evicted, andthe worst criminal acts of brutality against them are considered the natural right of every big and little exploiter. The unemployrsent movement, with the support of more and more tens of thousands of workers in all American cities, has reached its sharpest struggles in opposition against €victions, especially of Negro ten- ants, from ‘thelr homes because of non-payment of rent due to unem- ployment. The solidarity of the white and the Negro workers—the wip- ing out of the color line within the- unemployed movement by the Un- employed Councils under the influence of the Communist Party, has shown not only in Chicago and Cleveland, but also, in the black belt of the South, that the dead weight of white chauvinism can be thrown off and the working class united in this fight. Spontaneously in every city the landlords and real-estate sharks have recegnized, the greatest danger to their privilege of robbery in precisely this new fcct—never before seen in America—of the fighting of Negro and white workers together for the right of all. The first glaring example of this came to light in the South Side landlords’ conference in Chicago just before the recent murder of two unemployed Negro workers there in the struggle against evictions. “In that conference, led by white and Negro rezl estate operators interested in the double rent of Jim Crow apartments on the South Side, the Chicago leaders of the reactionary “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” and some of the De Priest clique as well as a representative of the Chicago De- fender took the lead in calling upon the police to use force against the workers on the streets who were interfering with the eviction of unem~ ployed Negroes from Jim Crow apartment houses in the South Side segregated ict. This special mobilization of police violence for purposes of evictions in the Negro segregated districts seems to be occurring in all cities now. Oi course it is not an accident that the police terror and murder of workers broaks out in its sharpest form at the point of sharpest per- secution—the segregated Negro and working class districts! G ‘ . But the Negro and white workers have shown that precisely at this point-of greatest suffering of our class is also to be found the finest and most courageous working class solidyrity and determination! Negro work- ers who see families starving and children and household goods set out on the sidewalk at the beginning of the winter, have shown them- selves to be among the most courageous, intelligent and indefatigable fighters against this reign of terror. The working class, black and white, has shown that it is not lacking in courage. But individual courage alone will win no fight. If the whole- sale death by starvation and exposure: to cold weather of tens of thou- sands of workers this winter is to be prevented—something more than courage is’ required. The police assgults upon and murders of workers can be curbed only by the establishment of powerful mass organizations. Mass action and not merely individual bravery—united action and not scattered individual action is what is required . The working class accepts the challenge at the point of sharpest contact—the point where the worst brutality is turned against the Negro workers, The solidarity of Negro and white workers must be developed to its highest point, Above all, the white workers must must go over a still more active and vigilant support of Negro demands against the special discrimination, segregation, high rents and evictions. This solidarity in action must aim to break down and destroy the hideous Jim Crow segre- gation system! The white workers must show in action that they cast aside the slave ideology imposed upan them by the ruling class—white chauvinism, the superstition of “race superiority.” Every case of dis- crimination against Negroes, especially within the working class and its organizations, must be ruthlessly denounced and exposed by white and black workers together. Draw the whole mass of Negro working class population into the organizations of struggle of the working class! Draw the whole mass of the white working class population into this struggle and into these organizations! Thousands of white workers, as Well as Negro workers, must be ‘organized, into the League of Struggle for Negro Rights which must be built up to mass proportions. ~ Cut of the growing solidarity of Negro ‘and. white workers, power- ful organs of struggle can be developed—especially the trade unions under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League in the coal and steel industries which will~be the centers of tremendous struggle this winter. Powerful Unemployed Councils of black and white workers together can reach ten or one hundred times their present strength! And when Congress meets on December 2 if not sooner), intending to ignore the starving masses and to ratify the decision of Hoover’s Wall Street con- feren¢e to grant financial aspistanCe of $500,000,000 to the parasite capi- talist class of bankers and trust heads—let the capitalist Congress head the noise of marching millions of black and white workers together, de- termined to compel tae parasite capitalist class and its government to grant unemployment relief! : Not the least of all the fruits to be won by this solidarity is the wiping out of division in the American working class—the wiping out of the Jim Crow line that splits the skull and body of the American work- ing class and makes it powerless. White and Negro workers! Show that solidarity now in your pro- test against the murders of the two Negro workers in Cleveland! Workers of other cities—organize your mass protests! Moving Toward War-- Talking “Peace” ORKERS! Secretly and while talking “peace,” the ‘Hoover govern- Ment has moved nineteen warships ir‘o the “battle zone” of North China and Manchuria! ‘The revelation is made that—‘Japan Moves Yorkers, these are moves toward war! You snow, or should know, y STATE COPS VICIOUSLY CLUB MINERS |Police Decree West Va. Strikers Must Not Fight Wage-Cut Split Child’s Scalp UMW Orders Scabbing Relief Is Urgent CASSVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 8.—Seven carloads ‘of state troopers crashed into the picket line at the Cassville Mine, where the whole crew of 500 is striking against the United Mine Workers’ 25 per cent wage-cut. , The police viciously clusbed the Pickets. One child, ten years old (miners’ women folks and children were picketing against starvation, too), had his head cut open by a j State trooper’s club and was thrown to the pavement with body and legs | badly, bruised. One miner's ribs are probably broken. The state troopers’ violent assault forced the pickets to the road, down which ‘they were herded, with the police in automobiles occasionally | riding into them and the police leap- | ing’ out at times to club again.' ‘Throughout the Fairmont-Morgan- * (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VOLUNTEERS WANTED — for THE LABOR DEFENDER 80 E. 1th Street, | Room 430 | | Especially volunteers who can | operate hand graphotype machine, Seraaete for Caldities Grows; Bosses Arming Mass Heavy Forces Near Soviet Union as Japan Keeps Spreading Troops Through Manchuria NEW YORK.—While Japanese imperialism ‘pushes its war to make Manchuria completely a Japanese colony, Wall Street has quietly been, rushing 19 warships to Chinese waters in order to get its share of the colonies. The latest news of the direct military action of United States im- perialism published in the New York Evening Graphic, states that “the United States moved a score of its warships into strategic points within the ‘battle zone.’” This b-s been going on for some time, though the capi- {CONTINUED OF PAGE THREFY Vets to Demand Relief at City Hall Today at 10:30 Support the Fight of the Worker Vets Against Starvation NEW YORK.--To demand imme- diate- relief against starvation and full cash payment of the “Tomb- stone” bonus, the Workers Ex-Serv- icemen’s League and a Committee of Veterans from the Relief Lines calls on all veterans of the world war, ex- servicemen and workers in New York to rally in.a mass demonstration at City Hall Park in front of City Hall at 10:30 today. ~ The meeting will open promptly on schedule, the vets massing in front of City Hall steps where they will be addressed by prominent speakers from the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s The meeting of Hoover with the leaders of the democratic and re- publican parties in the White House was a@ definite step in the fascisation of the capitalist government of the United States. The purpose of this meeting was to put through the most important financial measures, through dictatorial decrees by Hoo- ver, of the orders he had received from the four leading Wall Street bankers at the secret meeting with them Sunday night. The capitalist press reports that Hoover is deter- minedly opposed to calling a special session of congress to pass on the bankers’ program. Some of the lesser fry of the politicians want such a session ‘in order to have the de- Financial Plans of Hoover Are Definite Fascist Step Capitalist Press Admits Deerees Cannot Prevent Worsening of Economic Crisis crees’ legally sanctified. The Ger- mania, the organ of the Centrist party of Germany, points out the fascist nature of the decrees—which the Germania knows well from the fascist developments in Germany. The Germania stated: United States, too, has confirmed the experience that the parliamentary machine—which on the other side of the Atlantic works with particular awkward- ness—is unequal to the new tasks and breathless speed of contem- Poraneous history, and that even the government of what is still the best consolidated country in the world finds itself compelled to face (CONTINUED ON PAGE /THREE) League, At,11 o'clock sharp a com~ mittee of eight war veterans will enter the chambers of the Board of Estimate to present the ex-service- men’s demands. While the demands are being presented inside the City Hall by the committee, the ‘mass | meeting will continue outside until the committee returns and reports on | the results of the meeting with the Board cf Estimate. Among the chief demands to be |-Put forward by the vets will be de~ | ‘mands for increased relief of $80 | a month for all married veterans, | $10 a month for each dependent, $60 a month for single war vet- verans and similar relief for widows and orphans of the veterans. The demonstration will demand that veterans will not be discriminated against for fighting for relief or | for their political views and that | the city stop at once its jim-crow | tactics used against Negro and for- eign born vets. The fight of the veterans for re- lief and the fight against unemploy- ment is only part of the fight of the entire working class against hunger and wage cuts and for unempicyment insurance. Only by an organized and united struggle of all the workers can the working class stop the wage cuts and defend their standard of living. ‘Therefore all workers should join the ex-servicemen in their fight against starvation by pouring out in great masses at City Hall today at 10:30. CONDITIONS IN AUTO INDUSTRY | WORSE, Records from six states show a 30 per cént decline in the number of automobiles sold this September in comparison with September, 1930. ‘The number units were 11,872 in.1931 and 17,179 in 1930. STRIKE SHUTS ANOTHER MILL IN LAWRENCE Still Growing; More Out at Kunhardt 2,000 In Picket Line | Police Attack Again; Union Grows Rapidly LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct, 8—One hundred and fifty workers left the Prospect mill, and thus closed the last of \the American Woolen mill plants. The Independent Kunhardt mill has offered the workers conces- sions to return. They declare that the wage cuts are only for the work- | ers receiving $18 a week or more. Three departments walked out this morning at Kunhardt. Others are expected to follow tomorrow. Two. thousand strikers marched to- tile Workers Union mass meeting, cheering and singing. The strikers demand the use of the Common for their meetings. A committee of 50 strikers was elected to interview the mayor. After the lot meeting thousands marched, and attempts were made to speak. The police attacked when Edith Berkman, organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, began to} speak. Berkman and Harry Cantor, | representative of the International Labor Defense, were arrested during the march, All the cases were con- tinued. The National Textile Workers Un- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Strike Dress Shop in Boston; Needle Unity) Conference Saturday BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 8—The Nee- | dle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union | has declared a strike in D. Gordon’s Dress Shop, at 786 Washington St., Boston, in answer to Gordon's firing | of two workers without cause, and to his continuous attack upon the wages | of the workers. ‘The dressmakers rank and file committee has issued a call to all | dressmakers, calling upon them to| unite, to come on the picket line, and) to follow the example set by Gor-| don’s workers. ‘The rank and file committee of the raincoat, sheepskin, and leather- coat workers, has issued a call to all workers of these trades for unity and struggle. The committee announces an open meeting on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 4 p. m., at 751 Washington St., | Boston, Struggle of 25,000 Is| WALL STREET SENDS 19 WARSHIPS TO CHINA Masses Rotised by the Murder day ftom the Wood Mill picketing to | meeting of white and Negro workers. at 46th St. and Wood- Lin¢oln Park for the National Tex- | of Two Jobless ‘Protest Demonstrations Being Held Throughout Cleveland Including Scene of Murders |Party and Unemployed Council Uniting White and Negro Workers for Mass Funeral Tomorrow CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 8—White and Negro workers of Cleveland will turn out in thousands this Saturday for the mass funeral of the two unemployed Negro victims of the police massacre last Tuesday night. John Grayford and Edward Jackson, two militant Negro workers and members of the Unemployed Council, were im- mediately killed when police fired point blank into a peaceful land, protesting the eviction of an unemployed Negro worker. Four other workers were critically ® wounded and are held in prison where they have been refused hospital treat- ment. Other workers wounded were See Daily Worker \Staff Eat Sunday at \Red Press Bazaar ‘A special feature page of ex-| servicemen’s correspondence—let- | | ters and articles written by war | | veterans, ex-soldiers and sailors— | exposing the recent betrayal of | the American Legion and the gov- | ernment’s starvation policy in| dealing with workers who fought | in the last war, will appear in to- morrow’s issue of the Daily | Worker. A letter from a group of vets in| the Dayton Home for Disabled | Veterans, telling how 1,500 veter- | ans tote up their Legion member- | ship cards and pledged to march | to Washington at the head of the | | workers’ unemployed delegation to | | demand immediate relief and un-/| employment insurance from the | government, will be one of the) feature stories. A letter from a| group of workers in a U. S, Army base, an open letter to the Amer- |ican Legion, an article telling just |how the “Tombstone” Bonus works, a story of how the bosses | evicted an ex-serviceman and his family from his home and many other excellent letters from war, vets will be published on this spe- | cial page. Don’t miss this issue! your special bundles today! is the last call! This | The National ial Exeentive Com- mittee meeting of the Trade Union Unity Ledgue, held in Pittsburgh on, October 4th and 5th, decided upon a national exposure of the starvation con- ditions of full and part time employed workers in the United States—and to intensi- fy the struggle for immediate relief and unemployed insur- ance. that when the armed forces of imperialism, the t>men of world ban- aitry, cluster areund the prospective loot of colonies and markets, one rifle shot may set off a world slaughter. Not that such a shot is the cause! No! The cause lies in the com- mercial and trade rivalries of capitalist imperialism, The division of China, torn to pieces by imperialist wolves, is » process that, has been going on since Britain forced opium upon China by war in the middle of. the last century, and stole territorial concessions. Do not be deceived by any alleged “cause” of the war other than that the American tmperjalist bandits want the same Manchurian loot Trade Union Unity League National Executive Calls for Unemployed Council to Take Testimony of Workers, Week of Nov. 1-7 The action taken by the Na- tional Committee fs a direct reply and challenge to the or- ganized propaganda and activi- ties of the capitalist press and capitalist politicians and their agents to conceal the true sit- that is being seized by Japanese imperialist bandits, . Do not be deceived into thinking that American imperialism is “pro- tecting China.” It has supervised and aided with arms the butchery of the Chinese workers and peasants by its lackey, Chiang Kai-shek, and itself sought t@ grab Manchuria “quietly” by bribing Chang Hsueh-liang (its war lord), “It encouraged attack on the Soviet frontier immediately after by all its lackey Chinese militarists, destroyers of China's unity, American aims in China are identical to that of Japan: Division of China, oppression of the Chinese masses; and AN OUTPOST FOR ON THE POyaaE UNION! WAR ? VR uation regarding the unem- ployment, and to refuse to give adequate relief and to deny imemployed insurance- “The exposures which the T. U. U. L. calls upon the unem- ployed councils to conduct will show the actual mass. starva- tion in all the industrial centers: - This measure taken by the T.U.U.L. is an. important link in the campaign for unem- ployed insurance and is direct- ly linked up with the local re- lief and the big Hunger March to Washington which is due at the time of the opening of Congress: * Below we publish the direc- tives of the T.U.U.L. for the arrangements of these ex- posures- . In order to expose starvation conditions in the U. 8. the Un- employment Councils all over the country are called upon to organize a carhpaign that will bring to light before the whole working class the starvation of the masses of unemployed prevailing among the masses in the industrial centers and the agricultural communities. The aim of this campaign ts to arouse the Juve clase ¢o fight against starv- a TT TIO EE Expose Starvation in the U. S.! Fabien by the dramatic presentation of facts through first hand testi- mony of the workers, and through abundant statistical material from the very mouths of the. bosses and | their press, The exposures are to be carried through in the form of @ series of public hearings at which the work- ers will attend and tell of their con- ditions. These hearings shall be held under the auspices of the Councils of the Unemployed with the par- ticipation of the trade unions and other workers’ organizations. The hearings will be held in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburglf, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Bridge- port, Boston, Birmingham, Charlotte. | Special attention shall be paid to the coal, steel, and textile industries, Hearings on the conditions of the agricultural workers and poor farm- ers shall be held in Denver, and in the California and Dakota districts. ‘The hearings shall be held nightly (COntENUED on FAGn Tommie Order | | taken away by the workers and treat- | ed at their homes. Answering the murderous attack of the police, the workers fought back | fiercely and several police thugs were |sent to the hospital. One of the in- jured policemen was wounded by bul- lets fired by his fellow thugs. Eleven workers were arrested, including H. Larkin, organizational secretary of the Communist Party, The Negro | | workers in the meeting were especial- jly singled out by the police for the | most savage attacks. The killing of | Grayford and Jackson was deliberate. Under the leadership of the Com- ‘Organize Struggle Against Wage Cuts In New York City A series of section mass meetings, |to agitate and organize a struggle against the wave of wage cuts sweep- ing the nation, will be held on Wednesday, October 14, at the vare ious section headquarters. Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and other leading comrades, will address the | meetings. These meetings will signalize a sys- | | tematic preparation of the workers | |of New York for an organized resis- tance against wage cuts, for the lay- ing of the basis for organizing and striking against wage cuts. These meetings must receive the widest possible hearing. Already, the A. FP: of L. has begun an intensive demagogic campaign to paralyze the struggle for unemploy- ment relief and wage cuts. Already this is linked with the epidemic of confidences and plans designed to still further fasten the burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the works ing class, In New York the campaign for ex- posing the demagogy of the A. F. of L,, ete., for organizing and striking against wage cuts in which the meet- | ings of October 14 will play an or- nizing part, must be preceded by factory meetings, widest literature distribution in factories and neigh- borhoods, open air meetings at which the October 14 meetings are to be made an integral part. The meetings are as follows: Section 1, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St, (E. Browder). Section 2, Bryant Hall (40th St, and 6th Ave.) (W. Weinstone). Section 4, Harlem Casino, 116th Street (Jack Stachel). A Section 5, 569 Prospect Ave. (Bob | Minor). a Section 6, 795 Flushing Ave (Harry Gannes). Section 7, Hall to be announced, — (Sam Don). : Section 8, Mali to be | B. D. Amis), ae SON ERO