The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, ' UNITE! Dail Central ‘(Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class ” Vol. VIII, No. 245 matter at the Post Office <2 at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931_ L § TO BRING WORLD WAR. CITY EDITION — Price 3 Cents FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND WINTER RELIEF! Diplomacy ---The Doorway to War 'T IS a sardonic jest of history that on the day Hoover sent Chiang Kai- shek “felicitations” on the anniversary of the Chinese “republic,” the Japanese minister delivered an ultimatum to Nanking, asserting in effect the determination to perpetuate Japanese domination over Manchuria, either directly by Japanese troops or indirectly by a “friendly” govern- ment. All disguised, of course, as Japan’s fervent desire to “protect the Manchurian people.” Since this is merely copying after Washington’s method of “pro- tecting the Nicaraguan people” and “withdrawing the Marines,” it is nothing new in the practice of imperialist banditry. But the fact that Washington pretends to credit the children’s tales of “withdrawal of troops” and “conflict between the Japanese military and the civilian Cabinet” as long as Washington has, shows that such excuses by Stimson cover up another reason for delay inaction by Amer- ican imperialism. Preparations for action ae, of course, NOT being delayed, as proven by the secret dispatch of 19 U. S. warships to the danger zone. But the slow motion action seen in the U. S. attitude toward Japan is not due to lack of hostility to Japan or any “desire for peace,” but because Wash- ington understands full well that a war threat hurled at Japan will mean a challenge to England, and a new world war under circumstances not imniediately advantageous to it. Neither is the prossect encouraging, as admitted by the N. Y. Times correspondent at Genea, who points to American imperialist isolation. Hence the apparent “slowness” of Stimson covers up a feverish activity in both diplomatic ue to gain allies—if possible, France—egainst Enc snd and Japa secret military activity for immediate wor in an, the dispatch of 19 U. S. warships to North Chinese of Génerel Hines and a score of U. S. “observers” to M ‘uria, the Washington imperialists are working day and night to put America o} r footing. Thus, the “breakfast” Hoover gave Oct. 3 to Bernard Baruch, N. Y end head of the War ndustries Board. the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Army Ordnance Association brousit 10,000 munition makers to Washington on Oct. 7. ‘Thus, the expected amalgamation of the Atlantic and Pacific steam- ship lines and their recent complete submission to supervision by the U. S. Navy Department. ‘The Hooyer-Stimson, regime is pushing the toiling masses of America headlong into a new world war! Workers must watch every word of the liars at Washingion, and understand the falsity of their words By watch- ing their deeds still closer. Workers should understand that Stimson’s word about “acting with the League of Nations” is false; first because the League is hostile to American imperialism, and second, because Stim- son in the next breath says that—“This government may not feel war-. ranted in delaying its step even a few gays. Why? Not because of the “Nine Power Treaty,” or the Kellogg Pact! Not to “save China”! Not even to “protect American lives” since none are in danger! But to protect American imperialist ‘interests which, for some years have been “encircling” the Japanese South Manchuria Rail- way with “Chinese” lines built with Wall Street capital! For these and equally “noble” ends, Stimson is’ beginning to let re- sentment at Japanese seizure and destruction of these “Chinese” railways show in his diplomatic actions—and diplomacy is the door-way to war! Feer of the possible overthrow of the Nanking government by the infuriated masses of China is one thing, if aimed at Japanese imperial- ism alone. But Washington fears that China, already partly ruled by Soviets, might become wholly “Red” and against all imperialisms—which is another reason for Stimson’s “caution” up to now, for, says the N. Y. Times: “It is realized that should Russia and China be thrown together by outside events, the world would be confronted with a problem of major proportions.” Stimson, the imperialist insect, dabbling with the lives of millions, may be appalled by the forces in conflict. But he is the insect in con- trol and is secretly pulling wires in every direction as he drags American toilers toward the battlefield! On guard, workers, against the nearing war! On gufrd, to defend the Soviet. Union! Send Off for U.S. Delegates to Soviet Union Tonight BOSS POWERS ACT TO WAR ‘ON SOVIETS ‘Wall St. and Japan’s Cabinets Meet in Military ¢ Crisis Fear Revolt of Masses |Hoover-Stimson Move \To Get More Colonies NEW YORK.—Tonight at 8 p. m. hundreds of New York workers, gath- ering in Cooper Union, 8th St. and Fourth Ave., will give a stirring send- off to the 14 workers who constitute the American Workers’ Delegation to Soviet Russia. The delegates will sail Wednesday, Oct. 14, on the Aquitania to attend the 14th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution. ‘The send-off will also be for a group of 12 Negro cotton growing special- ists who are sailing to spend two years working in Soviet Turkestan, ‘The delegation consists entirety of workers from the three basic indus- tries: metal, marine and mining and every one is a militant fighter for the working class. Four of the delegates | are Negroes; they are Morris Wik- man, seaman, New York; Sam Lang- ford, steel workers, Gary, Ind.; A. J. Lewis, steel worker, Youngstown O,; and J. W. Jones coal miner from the Upper Monongahela, bituminous dis- trict in Pennsylvania. Among the other delegates are Smith Hopkins, of New York, Thom- as Burns, of San Francisco and J. Johannsen of New Orleans, all mem- bers of the Marine Workers’ Indus- trial Union; Martin Crampo, steel worker of Monessen, Pa., who was elected by the recent conference of the Marine Workers’ Industrial League in Pittsburgh; Paul Baum, | mine striker from Brownsville, Pa., and J. B. MeLA&chlin, Nova Scotia miner, ‘The delegates will spend five weeks in the Soviet Union, will visit the huge new Magnitogorsk steel mill, as well as many other great industrial and agricultural centers, making a detailed study of the magnificent vrogress in the upbuilding of social- ism, and pledging the support of the American workers in the defense of the Soviet Union. On their return, | they will give a report to the Amer- ican: workers, At the meeting tonight delegates and members of the Negro special- ists’ group will*speak, 2s well as Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union; W. W. Weinstone, of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; and Joshua Kunitz, American writer who has just returned after 14 months in the U. 8. S. R. Three gifts from the American working class will be given to the delegates to present to the Soviet workers through the Central Council of Trade Unions: a banner, @ moving picture camera and a statue called “Udarnik,” trooper, made by the proletarian sculptor, Adolf Wolff. The evening will be rounded out with a fine en- showing of a Soviet newsreel and music by the Red Front Fighters Band. Admission is 25 cents. 1,200 Burlington Workers Meet, for Fight on Wage Cut BURLINGTON, N. C., Oct. 11.— Twelve hundred workers met today | protesting the ten per cent wage cut in six textile mills here and making plans for organized resistance to this starvation measure. Many workers spoke and joined the National Textile Workers’ Union. The main speakers were Clara Holden and Binkley, a Soviet shock! tertainment program, including the | | NEW YORK—Virtual war cabinets met in Tokyo and Washington res- | pectively on Saturday to take up the ‘repeated military actions in Man- | churia and the whole aspect of sharp | imperialist conflicts which grow more intense each day. Particularly sharp is the latest ;action of Wall Street, through Hoover |and Stimson. They now bluntly ex- press their concern at the rapid war | movements of their rival, Japanese imperialism, in Manchuria and are taking diplomatic and military steps to insure Wall Street's share in the colonial plunder of China, This \leads daily closer to a gigantic war in the Far East. | The present situation rises oyt of a whole series of military actions of | Japanese imperialism in Manchuria. | | The latest was the bombardment of | Chinchow, the temporary capital of | Manchuria, when the Japanese at- | tempted to wipe out their former ally, |Marshal Chang Hseuh-liang. | In Paris the League of Nations of- | ficials sees war as a matter of im- | mediate concern. | “The possibility of war between | Japan and China has increased to | such an extent,” cables the New York | Times correspondent, that Briand |has stopped his conversations with |Laval over the Hoover visit and is | rushing to Geneva to take up the | Manchurian question. It is not only a question of war between Japan and China (that is, with Wall Street backing Nanking), but the capitalist papers make it clear that the action of Stimson along with the League of Nations is | openly directed towards war against the Soviet Union. The imperialist powers above all, in the present sit- |uation, fear the rising revolutionary |wrath of the Chinese masses which nisy crush all their attempts to slice (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SOCIALISTS FALL QUT IN STRUGGLE FOR UNION GRAFT NEW YORK.—Calling on the work- |ers of the Howard Clothing Co. to | resist the threatened wage cut the | firm is now seeking to put through with the aid of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers officials, the Amal- | gamated Rank and File Committee | issued a leaflet at the Brooklyn shop of the company. | Telling of the conditions forced on the workers in the shop and the strikebreaking activity of the A.C. W. clique the leaflet states: “Right now, the union misleaders are engaged in breaking a strike in the canvass department of our shop. The canvass makers could no longer endure the inhuman con- ditions, They were forced.to rush | their lives out for a wage of $18 | and $26 a week. The canvass mak- | ers, as one man, stopped work and | were ready to undertake a fight for better conditions, but again the same thing is happening. The same Amalgamated officials who scabbed away the strike of the Kriz pressers, are now doing everything in their power to break the strike of the canvass makers.” The attempts of the socialist party and the Forward to reconcile the two warring socialist factions that split the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, was futile, a trade paper reported yesterday. The socialists of the Or- lofsky group are now engaged in building a dual company union to compete with Hillman for control of the lucrative racketeering in the in- dustry. A meeting of rank and file groups of the A, C. W. will be held Monday, October 12, right after work at 83 East 10th St > | Call for National Hunger March to Washington, Dec. ‘Councile. sf Unemployed in 12 Cities and Their National Hunger March Committee Urge: Local Demonstrations, Sharper Struggle Against Starvation, to Culminate in Demand on Congress To the workers of the United States:— We call upon you to fight against the mass starvation that is en- gulfing the working class. We call upou you to organize, under the. lead- ership of the Unemployed Councils, a great National Hunger March to Washington, to demand that Congress adopt the necessary measures of unemployment relief, to meet the present condition of growing starva- tion. Let us not stand idly by and allow our families to starve! Let us organize and fight for the right to live! and textile workers are fighting in their great strikes! ‘The situation of the working class has become intolerable and it con- stantly grows worse. ployed, and many millions more work only part time. Daily the economic crisis deepens and tens of thousands more are thrown out of work. Sweeping wage-cuts take place in every industry, capitalist “plans” to cure the crisis fail dismally. The great industries remain idle, although millions are in want of the necessities of life. The government holds 200,000,000 bushels of wheat, but the farmers are poverty stricken and the | city workers are famished for bread. Children are dying for want of milk, while milk is being dumped by the milk corporations. Every day workers, driven desperate, kill themselves. It is capitalist chaos and bankruptcy, Thus the capitalist system is rotting all over the world. Only in the Soviet Union are the industries flourishing, the wage standards rising, and the toilers free from ‘the tragedy of unemployment and capitalist ‘exploitation. Capitalist Policy Is Starvation. ‘The policy of teh capitalists in this. country is to make the workers starve. Their sole concern is to protect their own profits, sweated from our toil. They slash the workers’ wages mercilessly, they throw millions out of jobs, depriving us of all means of making a living. They reduce the workers to beggary. Their relief program is a contemptible one of “charity, with its miserable bread lines, flop houses, etc. Parasitic stopk- holders live on the fat of the land; but the workers who built the in- dustries and produced its riches, are thrust into destitution and starva- tion. The government—local, state and national—enforces this capitalist starvation program. Everywhere it protects the capitalists and starves the workers, The Hoover government rushes with hundreds of millions to aid the banks. It spends three billions yearly for part, present and | future wars. But it has nothing for the unemployed workers and the bankrupt farmers. We are referred back to the crooked local politicians and professional charity sharks. The local governments arrest, club and shoot down the workers wherever they make mass demands for relief. In Chicago and Cleveland, the police brutally murdered demonstrating unemployed workérs. Either Fight Or Starve. Manifestly we must fight. It is either fight or starve. We must not be turned from the path of struggle by the glib. demagogy of such ele- ments as Governors Roosevelt and Pinchot, Mayor Murphy and the A. F. of L. officials and the socialist party. ‘Theirs is only the Hoover starva- tion policy dressed up in liberal, trade union and radical phrases. Only by mass struggle can the starving workers force the capitalist government to grant relief, In every city we must organize the broadest local struggles, demonstrations and hunger marches—against evictions, against mass layoffs, against wage-cuts, against the stagger plan, against forced labor, for cash relief from the city, for free rent, gas, lights, etc., for the unemployed, for free food and clothing for school children etc. These local struggles must be the basis for the National Hunger March, which will in turn further organize and intensify the local struggles for relief, as well as unite the whole movement nationally. March to Washington—Demand Insurance! ‘When Congress assembles early in December, the delegates of the workers, the National Hunger Marchers, must be there to fight against Let us fight as the miners | Fully 12,000,000 workers are now totally unem- | the starvation of the workers. The working class has no representation in Congress. The main demands of these millions of unemployed work- ers, whom the marchers will represent, will be for unemployment in- surance, equal to full wages for the unemployed and part-time workers, for special winter relief in the amount of $150 for each unemployed worker and $50 for each dependent, for the 7-hour day without reduction in weekly earnings, for the initiation of a federal program of furnishing work.to the workers at union wages, for the abolition of the brutal terror and discrimination against Negroes and deportation of foreign-born | workers, demands for the ex-servicemen and poor farmers, etc. The marchers will demand that all war funds be applied to unemployment | relief and be administered by the Unemployed Councils. They will de- | mand the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. | Elect Marchers at Mass Meetings. | ‘The National Hunger March must be a gigantic mass movement. | | | | | The marchers are to be elected at great local mass meetings, made up of employed and unemployed workers, members of A. F. of L. and T. U. U. L. unions, workers’ fraternal organizations, unorganized workers from the shops, etc. Delegates will come fro mall of the important centers, from New York to San Francisco. In the many cities through which the | marchers will pass they will be greeted by big mass demonstrations of | the workers, Similarly, on their return journey from Washington, the marchers will report along the routes to mass meetings of workers. The march will be fully organized. The approximately 1,500 marchers will be regularly elected delegates, organized in unit formations, and thoroughly disciplined. The march will be directly under the auspices Of-the: Unemployed Councils. The T. U. U. L. and its iffiliated unions will co-operate. ‘The Workers’ International Relief will organize the commissary and medical services jointly with the Unemployed Councils. Made up of men and women delegates—youth, Negro, foreign-born and native—the marchers will be thoroughly representative of the working class. Four Main Columns. ‘The march, proceeding principally by trucks, will go in four general middle and north Atlantic states, (2) starting at Buffalo, proceeding via Scranton to Philadelphia; from the West and Northwest, and proceeding by the ‘northern route via Detroit, Clevelan dand Pittsburgh; (4) starting at St. Louis, including delegates from the South and Southwest, and proceeding via Indianap- olis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Full directives will be furnished all Un- employed Councils, giving quotas for each city and outlining the methods of organizing the delegation units and the marching columns. Workers: Without regard to the parties or labor unions to which you belong, form a great united front and fight against starvation and slavery! Employed workers, support the demands of the unemployed and part time workers! Unemployed workerfs, support the strikes of the employed against wage-cuts! Build Unemployed Councils! Organize for the National Hunger March! Build Unemployed Coun- cils! Intensify the local demonstrations and local hunger marches for unemployment insurance and immediate relief! Make the cities seethe with demands for food for the starving and shelter for the homeless! Make the National Hunger March a gigantic demonstration of the work- ers against starvation! On to Washington December 7th! New York Unemployed Council, Chicago Unemployed Council. Detroit Unemployed Council. Pittsburgh Unemployed Council. | Cleveland Unemployed Council. Philedelphia Unemployed Council. Boston Unemployed Council. New Haven Unemployed Council. San Franciséo Unemployed Council. Buffalo Unemployed Council. Minneapolis Unemployed Council. Kansas City Unemployed Council. UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH, 5 East 19th St., New York City. 30,000 Take Part in Mass Funeral for Two Negro Workers Murdered by Cleveland Police [United Mine Worker Thugs BULLETIN, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 11.—Ten thousand white and Negro work- ers marched five miles to the cemetery in the mass funeral here Sat- urday afternoon for the two unemployed Negro workers murdered by Cleveland police. Thirty thousand altogether participated in the funeral, demonstrating a magnificent solidarity of Negro and white workers in tremendous mass resentment against the police msasacre of Attack Strikers’ Kitchen LIBERTY, West Va., Oct. 11—The)\stablished last week, shortly after cd columns (1) starting at Boston and drawing in delegations from all the | (3) starting at Chicago, including delegates | unemployed last Tuesday night. . CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9—A mass delegation to Safety Director Barry from the Communist Party and other organizations, backed by the growing mass resentment of Cleve- land workers succeeded in forcing the removal to the hospital of the work- ers wounded in last Tuesday’s police massacre of unemployed. The city bosses had previously refused hos- pital attention to the wounded work- ers who, though in a critical condi- tion were held in thea cells. ‘The tremendous mass protest has} also forced the release of all work- ers arrested distributing leaflets call- ing upon the workers of Cleveland to attend the mass funeral for the two murdered Negro workers and to de- fend the Negro masses. A promise was forced from Barry that there would be no attempt to break up workers’ protest meetings tonight or to stop mass mobilization for the funeral tomorrow, Saturday, Oct, 11, One hundred thousand leaflets have been distributed. Dozens of meetings will be held throughout Cleveland tonight. POUGHKEEPSIE CLEANER STRIKE Fight Third Wage Cut; Boss-AFL Combine POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Oct. 9.— A strike started Tuesday in the Uni- ted Cleaners and Dyers’ plant against a wage cut. There have been three wage cuts in the last’ few months. The walk-out was complet. and the plant is crippled badly. A strike committee is elected, which is carrying on the struggle, and re- fuses to accept any settlement made by the AF. of L. The boss imme- diately sent his own car to New York to get Weintraub of the A. F. of L. Cleaners and Dyers local there. ce nse ieee aaa thugs of the United Mine Workers of America attacked the relief kitchen at Liberty, yesterday, break- ing windows while state police were conveniently absent. The captain of the state troopers had previously told National Miners’ Union organizers that: “We recognize the U. M. W. A. and “There won't be any ar- Weintraub walked right jp past the keepsie and scab, rests, but look out!” The West Virginia miners in the Morgantown-Fairmont field are strik- ing against a 25 per cent wage cut which U, M. W. A. District Presi- dent Van Bittner in agreement with the operators, imposed upon them week before last. ‘The Liberty Relief Station was strikers gathered in front of the shop, and held a long friendly talk with the boss, and came out and began to quiz and bully the strikers. He told them the A. F. of L. does not recognize the strike. But that will not stop the struggle. ‘The strikers urge particularly the spotters, cleaners and pressers of New York to refuse to go to Pough- = dial the strike broke out. It was set up by the Workers International Relief and the Penn.-Ohio-West Va.-Ky. Striking Miners’ Relief Committee. While Van Bittner's thugs attack the relief strikers back to work, and state po- lice raid the picket lines and club men, women and children, the U. M. | W. A. resorts to open strike-breaking, supplying machine men to go into the mines. Machine men who have been kept on the U. M. W. A. relief | list for just such emergencies are now told they must work in the struck mines or they will be cut off the list. The strikers are consolidating their ranks under N. M. U. leadership. A mass defense corps is now guarding the relief kitchen. But there must be food in the kitchen to make it worth guarding! Send funds and food for these strikers, and to the striking miners of Kentucky! Send it to the Penn- sylver.-Onio - West Virginia-Ken- t-osy Striking Miners Relief Com- {mittee at 611 Penn Ave, Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa, 5 FRM aa tT station to starve the! CREDIT POOL CANNOT STOP "BANKRUPTCY |Banks Frozen Assets |Cannot Be Relieved [Boss Press Admits |More Gold Exports | Gold Loss Already | Very Serious | Not a week has passed since the | publication of the Hoover credit | plan and teh serious writes of Wall | Street have to admit that it is either | impossible to carry out the plan of where the machanics of the plan are established, the plan will not only have no effect as far as proving the | economic situation is concerned, but | will have practically no effect in staving off the financial crisis, where it does not actually worsen it. The financial editor of the New York Post points out that the plans for the new credit pool are very vague. “Preliminary reports on the op- | eration of the new corporation are not clear on the point of hof far it is willing to go in an attempt to stop hoarding. On the contrary, such vague terms as lending on “sound assets,” making advances to “deserving and responsible” bor- rowers, etc., are used. For the general public, of course, there generalizatiens will soon lose their force.” The “vagueness” of the ternis rises from the fact that the credit pool | | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ACT TO OVERCOME LABOR SHORTAGE IN SOVIET UNION |Young Communists to Mobilize Forces for End of Fluctuation Energetic steps by the Soyiet gov- ernment, the Communist Party .and the Communist Youth League, to overcome the shortage of 2,000,000 |industrial workers urgently needed |to complete and man important in- |dustrial units under the Five-Year Plan were reported by Walter Dur-~ anty, Moscow corespondent o@ ‘the New York Times. The Communist Youth Pravda and the Youth League has set about to mobilize its membership to end | the fluctuation of workers especially on construction jobs, and to draw | workers from the collectives ihto in- dustrial life, Duranty writes. The Youth Pravda points out that the industrial workers increased from 11,000,000 to 14,000,000 from 1928 to 1930, but that the industrial labor shortage was acute in many indus- trial sections. Duranty attributes the lack of flow from the collectives to industrial cen= tres to improved living conditions of | the peasants. ‘The building trades is urgently in need of at least 500,000 workers. Writing in the Sunday Times for | Sunday, October 11, Duranty says: “In this period of world-wide economic distress, when unemploy~ ed are numbered by millions in every large industrial country, there is no unemployment in the Union of Socailist Soviet Republics, On the contrary, there is an ac- tual shortage of labor everywhere, from factory operatives and con- struction gangs to white-collar | clerks and movie actors, which ts reckoned at fully 2,000,000 today.” GANDHI READY TO POSTPONE CONFERENCE Gandhi, in London to bargain away the Indian revolution,. an- | mounced that he is willing to post- | pone the solving of the Indian prab- jJem. “England must be given « chance to regain its feet,” says the skeleton with the loin cloth, An honest revolution takes advantage of the enemy, every weakness of Gandhi