The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1931, Page 3

@ ters of Unemployed Branch No. 8, \y ‘against, wage cuts and unemployment, - | The bodies of the murdered work- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931 EXPOSE STARVATION IN THE UNITED STATES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED during the week of November 1 to} November 7. Every effort must be made to give these hearings wide publicity among the workers and to draw wide masses of workers into at- tendance. The hearings shall be held in popular workers’ halls in work- ers’ and Negro workers’ quarters. The workers should be invited to come and tell of their starvation conditions, The testimony at the hearings should cover every phase of the sub- | fect. It must include first hand ex- perience with evictions, local relief systems, charity organizations, city flop houses -and breadlines, hobo camps, stagger system, high rents, high prices, low wages and wage cuts, disease, suicides, A, F, of L, relief measures, discrimination against the youth, Negroes, foreign born, women. All these facts should be brought out by workers witnesses. Besides, there should be @ statistical present- ation showing the amount of unem- Dloyment and part-time work in the city, the extent of mass starvation locally as exemplified by increase in tuberculosis, city hospital cases, ete. Special attention should be paid to} the conditions of the children, | Cover Every Phase To organize the hearings in each | city there should be set up a special committee from the Unemployed Council. This committee shall sys- tematically assemble the testimony. This testimony shall not be merely of a general character but so far as practicable be specialized and con- crete. Thus a number of workers who have special knowledge shall testify on evictions. Other selected groups shall testify about the flop houses, city relief-plan, ete. So far as possible the questions to be asked of workers (after they have made their statements) should be carefully prepared in advance and be designed to draw out all the salient facts. Bridges of workers cduld be dele- gated to go to special sections of the city or district where conditions are exceptionally bad to gather facts there. A small committee should be selected ta gather the statistical ma- terial, Care must be taken that the witnesses are actual workers unem- ployed or employed. Carry On Struggle This campaign of exposure must |not substitute for other phases of the struggle for unemployment re- Nef, against wage cuts, etc., but must on the contrary stimulate and strengthen them. To this end there- fore the note of struggle and the loos! struggle emphasis must be kept to the front in the entire investiga- ‘the investigations must not ion, only bring out what conditions are, but how to organize to fight against them. The material thus gathered shall be utilized in local demonstra- tions, in fight for relief of individual | and econerete ‘cases and for arousing and organizing the workers gener- ally. Keep Records Stenographic records shall be kept of the hearings. These shall be typed. and copies sent to the Daily Worker, Labor Unity, the T.U.U.L. and made available for the Unempleyed Coun- cils. the hearings. The larger Districts could publish these reports in pam- phlet form to be distributed widely. Besides these hearings the Unem- ployed Councils and the T.U.U.L. will gather nationally starvation statis- ties. This material together with that of he local hearings in addi- tion to’ furnishing agitational mate- rial will be presented in Washing- ton by the National Hunger March delegation. It-is necessary to make immediate preparations locally to earry through these hearings effectively. The press shall be mobilized to give publicity to the preparations and the conduct of these hearings, (Signed) National Committee, TUUL . Wm. Z. Foster, Secretary. MASSES ROUSED BY MURDER OF TWO JOBLESS CCONTINUDD HHOW PAGE ONE munist Party and the Unemployed | Council, the workers, white and Negro are rallying in tremendous protest meetings \against this latest terror against the unemployed workers. Di- rectly after the police massacre, hun- dreds of workers gathered at the scene of the murders and held a protest meeting, cheering the speakers of the Unemployed Council and the Commu- nist Party, and pledging their soli- darity in the fight against evictions, for unemployment relief and for full equal rights for the Negro masses. Another mass demonstration will be held at the same place every night until the mass funeral. Meetings will also be held at many other points throughout the city of Cleveland to rally the masses for united protest and struggle against boss terror. Mass Functal Saturday | The riass funeral will start at 1) o'clock Saturday afternoon ‘from the | headquarters of the Unemployed | Couneil at 38th Street and Seovill| Avenue. Bishop William Montgomery | Brown will be among the speakers. | { | All workers are urged to demonstrate stan’ | their solidarity at the mass funeral | |/ and protest against the police murder | | of unemployed workers. All workers’ organizations are urged to participate and to mobilize their whole member- ship behind their banners and pla- ecards, The League of Struggle for | Negro’ Rights, the International La- bor Defense and several revolutionary unions have already joined the grow- ing mass protest against this latest police outrage. | "The capitalist press is not only t¥y- ing to justify these brutal murders of unemployed workers.but is galling for an intensification of the terror to ‘erush the struggles of the worlers for ii te: unemployment relief, for special insurance and against dis- erimination against the Negro work- ers. The workers, white and Negro, must answer these attacks with un- breakable solidarity and grim deter- mination to carry forward the strug- gle against the starvation program of the bosses, ‘The Cleveland District of the Com- munist Party last night issued a state~ ment denouncing the murder of the two Negro workers and the wound~- | The statement di | saere was prepared ‘the bosses as a part of the terror with which the bosses are try- ing to force wage cuts and their star- ‘vation nrovrem down the throats of the working class, Y | Many Workers are now flocking into the ranks of the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council, On the night of the massacre 200 work- ers joined the Communist Party at e mass protest demonstration which ‘yas held on the scene of the mur- ers following the police attacks, si ‘ers will be on view at the headquar- '3804 Scovill Ave., where they will be under constant gerd of an honor guard of workers, ‘Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhoed. Send regular letters: to the Dally Worker, a (STATE COPS VICIOUSLY CLUB MINERS {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? — town field, where 1,660 are already on strike and the strike is spreading, miners are deeply aroused by this brutal attack. One ex-serviceman who has said, “I didn’t give- the American flag up to the Germans in the war; let me carry it now for pro- tection,” was beaten When the state police saw him, and a trooper shouted: “Take that god damned flag off that son of a bitch of a Nigger!” The captain of the state police told National Miners Union organ- izers: “We recognize the U.M.W.A, here. You better not assemble on the highway. There won’t,be any ar- rests, but it will be just too bad,” The U.M.W.A, is already putting its strike-breaking threats into ef- feet. e * . UM.W.A. Organizer Dalyrimple warned the miners that unless the men return to work he would “use good union men” te scab on them. U.W.M.A. Orders Scabbing, Machine men who were of long ding on the U.M,W.A, relief list were cut off and ordered by the offi- | cials to scab in the Rosedale Mine, where the miners struck 100 per cent. At U.M.W.A. local meetings their organizers make hour-long speeches about the necessity of working, but avoid and suppress any expression by the rank and file. ‘When one miner made a motion to abolish the assessments for U, M, W. A, relief, he was expelled for 99 years. At Reevesville the U.M.W.A. called a meeting and when one miner asked the organizér what the wage scale was the organizer told him that since Oct. 1 the rate was 22% cents a ton. All the miners then walked out of the meeting, The seale was originally 38 cents. Three anda half months ago the U.M.W.A. made a contract reducing it to 30 cents. Just before Oct. 1 the U. M. W. A. agreed that it should be cut 25 per cent. This started the strike. Yesterday N.M.U. organizers, go- Representatives of the capital- | | ist press should be invited to attend |Millions for Wool Co. Bosses; Cuts For Their Workers! William M. Wood, late presi- | dent of the American Woolen Co., | drew $1,000,000 a year salary andj} additional amounts were drawn out of the company's treasury to| pay his income tax. Present offi- cials get similar salaries. These great salaries, in addition to big profits for the stock own- ers, are paid out of the profits) made on workers who were, .ac- | cording to government figures, getting an average in 1930 of 51 cents an hour and making an average of $24.98 a week, when | they worked a full week. These | wage figures are much larger than the facts, because of direct and | indirect wage-cuts since they were gathered, and because they do not allow for part time wages. i] STRIKE SHUTS ANOTHER MILL IN LAWRENCE PAGE ONED {CONTINUED F ion is planning big meetings on Fri- | day and Saturday. Many workers jare joining the N.T.W.U. daily. The | youth and women workers are espe- cially militant against the active ter- |ror and threats of the bosses. Ru- mors are being spread that the bes- ses intend to import scabs by the wholesale. - Plot Against Leaders Lawrence officials are not even pretending to observe their own laws in the fight to smash the textile strikers back to slavery. They boast through the capitalist press how they “worked a finesse” on the nine work- ers arrested yesterday, by not im~- mediately seeking warrants, and thus preventing their obtaining beil the same day. This keeps them in cells and out of the strike, at least for a time. Another trick of the Lawrence of- ficials is designed to yse the U. 8. \and Bill Murdock from the strike area. Mayor Landers and Safety Commissioner Peter Carr yesterday |held a conference with Assistant U. |S, Attorneys Thompson and Schenck about withdrawing bail on the de- portation charges against Berkman and Murdech, so they can be held in jail and not allowed to lead the strike. These deportation. charges were brought at the time of the last Lawrence strike this spring, and U.S. deputy commissioners of immigration. then admitted before witnesses that the charges were invented to. “pre- vent strikes.” Arrest Red Candidate The ninth worker to be arrested yesterday was Samuel Bramhall, Communist candidate for Mayor of Lawrence, charged with speaking without a permit, Others arrested yesterday were: Edith Berkman (re- leased on bail and re-arrested teday, charged with speaking without a per- mit); Reuben Pizer, of Haward 8t., also charged with speaking without a permit; Bendros Dongian, of Hamp- shire St,, for inciting to riot; “An- thony Finelli of Chestnut St., Mines Pappas of Saratoga St., Frank Mo- tulis of Chelmsfoyd St., Jacob Robsko of Lowell St., and Vincenzo Di Tom- meso of Cantillion St., all accussed of creating a disturbance. ing from house to house, saw only empty cupboards, without even « erust of bread, Today the first mea) was served at the soup kitchen opened at Liberty by the Workers’ International Relief and Penn.-Ohio- ‘West Va.-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee. More kitchens are being opened as fast as food can be obtained to dis- tribute through them. Intérnational Youth Day Campaign + SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER Twenty-Five Cents for Two Months Subscription YOUNG WORKER (Published Weekly Name .. ~ Address The only youth paper fighting for the every day needs of the young workers : YOUNG WORKER Post Office Box 28, Station D, New York City, N. Y, |government to withdraw Berkman | Hoover Plans Attack The conference of Hoover and the | political leaders of both leading cap- italist parties showed clearly the ex- | treme sharpness ef the conflict be- | tween the United States and France al the present time. The statement Proposed by Hoover at the meeting was 2,000 words in length. The state- Battle for Colonies Grows; Bosses Arm (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) talist press has kept the matter quiet, while Wall Street prepared its armed | forees to share in the colonial plun- der of China, and to build up the war front against the Soviet Union |in Manchuria. The Graphic, telling of the secre- cy of these open maneuvres, says: “Shifting of the United States ships frem various perts on the Pacific Ocean and China Sea has been quietly going on for the past two weeks, it was learned today, under orders from the Bureau of Navigation in Washington. No official statement has been made.” The dispatching of warships to the Manchurian “war zone,” took place at a time when Japanese imperial- ism likewise was concentrating its armed forces in Chinese waters. The armed forees of both imperialist powers are moving forward. to strengthen their respective drive for colonies—and at the same time they are moving closer to the Soviet Un- ion! American imperialism is not only sending its naval forces, but the news | leaked out yesterday that Major General John L, Hines, commander of the Philippines Department of the United States army, one of the lar- Best divisions of Wall Street's mili- tary forees, is making a hurried trip on a battleship to China, in connec- j tion with the Japanese situation in Manchuria, Before that, Stimson had been tak- ing @ direct hand to strengthen Wall Street's share in Manchuria, ‘though in public statements the State De- partment repeated its fake policy of “amicable settlement.” Stimson sent Lawrence E, Salisbury, second secre- tary ef the United States embassy in Tokyo and George 0, Hanson, Con- sul General in Harbin, to Southern Manehuria ‘to’ investigate” the sit- uation, Meanwhile, Japanese imperialism | is rushing to fasten its grip on Man- churia. Airplane bombing is inereas- ing. The latest report stating that | Japanese planes dropped 50 bombs | in the attempt to demolish the Chi- ckow railway station, At the same time the Japanese are creating nat- ive puppet autonomy movements to | de away with their former ally, Mar- | shall Chang Hseu-liang. | The armed strength of Japanesc and U, S. imperialism in China, ac- cording to the Graphic, is now as follows: “At present there are more than @ seore of United States ships, in- cluding cruisers, destroyers, gun- boats and submarines at various ports in China, The United States 8. Houston, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, and three other American — men-of-war are at Nanking, with. other shipy at Shanghai, Chung- | king, Hong-Kong, Amoy, Wuhu, Hshin Ho, Ichang, Swatow, Chang- | sha, Chefoo and Kiukiang, “The Japanese government to- day ordered five Japanese warships and 400 marines te reinforce their fleet in Shanghai. In addition, fourteen Japanese warships have been ordered to Hankow, Ching- kiang, Shasi, Ichang, Chungking, Port Arthur, Lnkow, Chefoo, Tsing- tao, Nanking, Wuhu, Kiukiang and Changsha.” War is being rapidly prepared in Ching in the struggle for colonies. Thousands of the Chinese masses are being slaughtered, and as the Chin- ¢se workers in Shanghai rise in pro- test, the Nanking government beats them down, jailing hundreds. The concentration of these armed forces near Manchuria shows the growing danger of wer against the Soviet Un- fon. Bvery worker must rally against the approaching imperialist war. IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE OF U.S. | AND FRANCE SHARPENS ACUTELY | on French Interests; Laval Almost Calls off Visit Here ment as it was finally issued con- tained only 1,500 words. The New York Times reports that “most of the deleted portion was said to relate to | the president’s comment with refer- ence to the coming visit of Premier Laval.” The original statement was Hoover's proposal that the moratorium on in- | ter-country debts which expires July’ | 1, 1932, be extended by a number of | years. The purpose of this proposal | is to save the United States invest- ments in Germany at the expense of French imperialismu. The Wall Street Journal writes that at the conferen- ces of the bankers with Hoover, “It was pointed out that an ex- tension of the moratorium would ease the German situation and make it possible for the banks to get their credit out of that coun- try if necessary. The Administra- tion pointed te the difficulties in connection with this step.” The “difficulties in connection with this step” of taking out United States investments from Germany by lengthening the period of time in which Germany does not have to pay reparations are with Premier Laval, the representative of French finance capital. The Journal of Commerce points out that, “The French are determined not to be jockeyed inte a position of Tacoma Cops Beat Up 9 Year Old Workers’ Child ‘TACOMA, Wash,—A nine-year-olg child of a worker was brutally beaten and terrorized last Sunday morning by three policemen, who accused the child of breaking into a shop window and stealing a few articles, The cops played with the child like a cat with a mouse, releasing him several times, only to run him down and resume their brutal at- tacks on him. According to the child, he was homeless and had no place to go or anyone to take care of him. Tampa Cigar Plants Threaten to Close | Daily Worker: | Only 4,000 children registered for school at the beginning of the term | this year. More and more workers | are getting laid off at the cigar fac- tories. We are expecting all the cigar fac- | | tories to shut down till after Christ- | mas, as all the Christmas cigars are | already mande and packed, due to | the speed-up. | I worked fourteen hours unloading | a car of green railroad ties. The boss |paid me 80 cents for my labor. {is hard to get any kind of ‘a job | here, I am going to join the Com- | munist Party at Ybor City, as I can well see now that us hungry unem- | ployed workers will never get any- | thing unless we get together and | fight |the antagonisms between these two imperialists rivals, Hoover immediately changed the It | congress with for subsequent proval.” The first of Hoover’ for a fund of $500,000,0 scribed by the leadin out the country is it is raised, will not be the billions of dollars of sets” of all of the ba: the country. These “frozen” because the shar the crisis makes it imposs banks to sell them in o the cash, They need this ca mediately to pay off thous: depositors who wish to wit! their deposits in order to save the from being lost in the bankruptci of more and more banks. accomplished facts constitutional ap- ab Another important prop of Hoover was that the banking laws be jehanged so that the Federal Re- | serve system be permitted to invest | its funds in types of securities which | the Federal Reserve system was not allowed to in in pi cause they were not | sound. In this financial ver proposes that the Fede! crisis Hoo- ‘al Re- f their hands the uns ties they hold. This cannot in any degree however change the basic sharpened economic crisis which is responsible for the weakness of these securities, | Gradually the is capitalist pr disadvantage and any untoward | statement to more or less insignific- | releasing the news of the very rap/d move by the Administration might | ant phrases. The French capitalist | worsening of the economic situation bring about cancellation of the proposed visit of Premier Laval.” ‘The rank of one of the leading French banks came out immediately with the statement that, “Prolongation of the Hoover mor- atorium would involve a loss for France of two and a half billion frances yearly. I don't know where this sum ean be found,” The French budget is already faced with a deficit of $240,000,000 “and upward” as the result of the rapid worsening of the economic crisis in France. To this would be added the additional loss of two billion francs ‘or $80,000,000, | class has already sent two of its fi- |mancial experts to the United States | to prepare the way for the struggle | when Laval gets here, according to | the Associated) Press. ‘Vice Governor Charles Farnier, ef the Bank of France, sailed for the United States today to confer with the heads of the Federal Re- serve Bank in New York. He was accompanied by Robert Lacour- Gayet, director of the bank's eco- nomic section.” The conflict of the imperialists, | particularly France, the United States | and England, is sharpening at an| increasing tempo and is paving the in the country which Hoover ex- |meeting. The New York Times re- ports that “Some of those who heard him said today that the conditions |he depicted were more distressing than they had realized.” ‘The econ- omic situation is even worse than the capitalist politicians have been allowed to know. “Somebody” told the capitalist press that it had be- come known that $800,000,000 had been withdrawn from circulation for purposes of hoarding. While the capitalist press reports the “progress” the bankers are mak- ing’in carrying through the Hoover Hooyer tried to have the stage all | way for armed struggle among them. | plan, it is also forced to admis that set for Laval’s visit, but as soon as They are trying, however, to solve | these plans are practically useless to Laval heard by telephone of the | the crisis in capitalism by a joint at-| stop the worsening of the economic Hoover proposal he was ready to call off his trip, pieture of the extreme sharpness of |tack against the Soviet Union in ' selves, erisis and the financial phase of it This is a very clear | stead of armed struggle among them- Jin particular, In the first place, | Ogden L. Mills, under-secretary of AM-DERUTRA TRANSPORT CORP. Exclusive Forwarding Agents On All Ship- ments To U.S. 5S. R. For Amtorg Trading Corp. And Others. The Only Authorized Agency In The U. S. And Canada For Transacting Direct Busi- ness On Parcels to SOVIET RUSSIA. 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