The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Orga Conn eevee had the Communist Seeetoal) Norker unist Party U.S.A. — = Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 CITY EDITION Vol. VIII, No. 246 U.S. THREATENS WAR ON JAPAN FOR “National Unity”---for Big Bankers warmth with which Hoover's heart beats for the ENTIRE popula- “National Unity” program tion is seen in the way his eral welfare,” is working out Firstly, the $500,000,000 edit. pool” “for the gen- established by the big bankers, 30,000 Protest Murder of Cleveland Negroes: White, Negro Wiss. Show Fine Solidarity in Huge | will, according to the Annalist, either: | (a) Purchase ONLY the “sounder” gsecuritics held by the smaller banks that are “in trouble”—in which case the smaller banks will be no better off than before if they escape being entirely swallowed by the big | ones, or; (b) If the big banks take over ALSO the “watered” stock and other “frozen” assets of the smaller banks, the banking system as a whole will be, as the Annalist diplomatically puts it “not improved.” | Considering the dog-eat-dog ethics prevailing as the most lofty senti- ment capitalists are capable of, no more than one guess need be given as to what the big bankers will do; or anything be hazarded on the absurdity of “unity” among bankers, each of whom is savagely bent on | his own advantage in the grand confusion of mutual robbery. ‘This leaves aside the basic “liquidity” of the New York banks which initiated the “credit pool’ with a credit extension to it of $150,000,000, whith, we are told, is two per cent of their combined time and demand deposits, or $7,500,000,000. Yet we have just read that the total cur- rency in circulation throughout America is $5,246,000,000. While the big bankers, “essentially sound” as these figures would indicate to a blind man, are thus gobbling up the “best” securities (and they are none too good!) of the small banks, and if they do not actually gobble these small banks up, are letting them go to the wall with catastrophic results for the depositors whom Mr. Hoover expressed him- | self concerned over, there is another phase of the “national unity” pro- gram worth while noting for workers. In the name of “netional unity” the railroad companies, loaded and slopping over with watered stock, are to be given by orders of the Santa Claus at Washington, a gigantic “loan” of over some $200,000,000. Workers, did capitalist arrogance ever go further? Here, over 11,000,000 workers are jobless, and with their families they count upwards of at least 30,000,000 men, women and children of the workers. Does the capitalist government move one finger to feed and shelter these? Does it devote one cent from the national treasury for this vast mass of suffering humanity? Not a move! Not a cent! Indeed, every possible lie and crooked maneuver is exerted NOT to feed the starving workers! But for the railroad capitalists—$200,000,000, or $300,000,000—whatever they want! ‘Workers, did you ever see clearer proof of the capitalist class nature of the government? Do you understand the absurdity of talk about “na- tional unity” when the “nation” is based on a system of robbery of the masses by a handful of big capitalists, when even these capitalists are each trying to swindle each other? How different, workers, it is in the Soviet Union! There the million masses are—after they have overthrown the capitalists and taken gov- ernment into their own hands—REALLY UNITED! And not to rob the tolling masses—to say that “the masses are robbing the masses” is evi- dently nonsense—but to exploit and develop natural resources, to build socialism for the benefit of all who toil! When, and only when, you have overthrown capitalism in America and established your own Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, will the government dispossess the captialists and see that the toiling masses are fed, sheltered and clothed. Then, and then only, can there be unity for Mass Funeral for Murdered Workers Pledge Carry Forward Fight for Unemployed Relief and Unconditional Negra Eq Equality CLE VELAND, On Oct. Ree -30,000 white} and Negro workers gathered in the heart of ithe Negro section of Cleveland on Saturday for the mass funeral of John Rayford and Ed- ward Jackson, leaders of the Unemployed Council, who were murdered by city police on Tuesday night. Later, over 10,000 workers, maintaining perfect working class discipline, marched five miles through streets lined with tens of thous- sands of sympathetic workers to the Harvard cemetery, where | the final meeting was held as the bodies of our comrades were lowered into the grave. The growing solidarity, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Unemployed Coun- cils, of Negro and white workers was expressed by the fact (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KENTUCKY GOVERNOR PLANS | HUNGER; MINERS STARVE NOW LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 11.—Six National Miners’ Union leaders in Mingo Hollow, to which the Straight Creek strike is likely _to spread at. to one of the operators from ten coal states and one of the governors of those ‘states. ‘These conferences all lead to a new the general welfare. Until then—unity among all toilers in struggle against all capitalists! 100,000 Workers Demonstrate Against MacDonald Program Over one hundred thousand work- ers employed by the state and other workers demonstrated in London Sunday against the hunger program of MacDonald in the largest demon- stration ever held in London. The workers marched with twenty bands and with thousands of banners. The workers paraded to Hyde Park where dozens of speakers denounced the hunger program of the capitalist class of Great Britain. They carried ban- ners on which were: “Postmen See Red,” “Stop Cutting Our Wages and Keep the Eighth Commandment in Force,” “Ninety Per Cent of Us Re- ceive Less Than Forty-three Shillings a Week,” “Serve, Yes; Serf, No!” The capitalist press is forced to admit that the Communists in the demonstration gave it real spirit, en- thusiasm, and proletarian determin- ation. It was the Communists in particular who called to the tens of thousands of workers watching the parade to join in the demonstration against wage cuts and against high prices caused by the inflation policy of MacDonald. Later on in the day thousands of workers led by the Communists de- monstrated in front of Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, where the workers are imprisoned who were given a month’s sentence after the demonstration at Parliament on the answer of the workers in it, sing- ing the “International” and the “Red Flag.” ‘The latest news of the election campaign reveals that the election “struggle” 1s one between the Con- servatives, the MacDonald Laborites, and the tariff Liberals on the one The Labor Opposition the free trade liberals are shout- ing demagogic phrases against the tariff, tho both Henderson and Lloyd George stated openly only recently that they favored a tariff policy. The “struggle” on the tariff is part of the united action on the part of all the capitalist parties, Conserva- tive, Labor and Liberal, to keep the actions of the workers within the de- mocratie bounds Qf Parllamenéary action and to prevent them from following the Communist Party of Great Britain in militant actions out- side and inside of Parliament against the hunger budget of MacDonald. The scab activity of the Labor Op- position can be seen from the meet- ing of Henderson with Lloyd George. Henderson got part of the Lloyd George campaign funds, reports the New York Times: “It is rumored that as a result of his visit Mr. Henderson received $25,000 from Mr. Lloyd George’s campaign fund in order to strengthen the fight against tar- iffs.” In this the Opposition is again re- vealed as part of the capitalist ma- chine for the purpose oi misleading {the workers and to prevent them from a determined struggle against British imperialism. Kaplan Blacklists 300 Permit Men; Will Give the Jobs to His Crew NEW YORK. — Last Wednesday Sam Kaplan, the big racketeer in the Moving Picture Operators’ Union Lo- cal 306, of which he is president, called a meeting of “real good union members.” It was a picked crowd. No permit men were allowed in, and not all card holders, only the 300 that Kaplan feels he can trust, those tied up to his machine. He made a mis- take on one or two, and so we have this story. Kaplan expressed himself as very much peeved over the exposure of his million and a half dollars graft on the permit men during the last cou- | ple of years, and told the boys he was going to make an example of the permit men, whom he called, “the scum of the earth,” and other names. A blacklist is being made of per- mit men, with 150 names already on it, and the same number more to! add. These will be fired, and will get no more jobs. The jobs will be distributed to the “good boys,” those present at the meeting, who will double up, working two shifts a day, making double wages, and starving Kaplan's enemies out of the indus- its any time, have been indicted on an old frame-up dating from the strike at Premier mine last spring. It is a clear cut attempt on the part of the coal mine owners and their county authorities to prevent the spread of the strike. Walter England, Jess Killian, Sol Redmon, Jasper Ellison, Peter Carso, and Tom Coyne are charged with shooting at scabs on June 3, at the Premier strike. They are held for Defense attorney, Goldman, of Chi- cago, arrives here Monday to pre- pare these as well as the previous Harlan cases. The shooting was all done by the scabs, the pickets, assembled on the highway leading to the mine were all unarmed and in their shirt sleeves. About 80 shots were fired at them by the mine guards to break up the picket line. ar ees LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 12.—Coal operators from all Kentucky fields met here Friday with Governor Sampson as a preliminary conference Come to the Aid of Uj Elore Uj Elore reports that the paper ias been forced to suspend publi- sation for the past three days and will be forced to do so for another four or five days unless funds are cushed in immediately. There has been a €ollection cam- paign for the paper since Sep- tember 5th but funds have come in so slowly that the paper has not been able to resume publi- cation. Comrade Leitner who is acting Secretary says that the paper may be forced to suspend indefinitely unless Comrades come to its aid immediately. trial Noy. 8. The International Labor | plan, the seventh so far, for trustifi- cation and centralization of coal pro- duction. Under a smoke screen of “fnsuring good prices for coal and good wages for miners” the plans all propose limitation of production, a squeezing out the smaller mines, and increasing unemployment, without the slightest guarantee of better wages for the miners who are still allowed to hold jobs. Sampson threatened to use the militia to shut down the mines, as the governor of Oklahoma shut down the oil wells. (CONTINUED ON CAGE THREE) Sears Cabinet Workers Form Grievance Comm. Fight Starvation Pay INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 12— “We make radios for Bill Sears but can’t buy one because of the starva- tion wages ofthe company. We are against the Group System and Bonus plans and all other skin games. Every worker in the plant should join the Grievance Committee and show Sears that we are ready to put up a real fight. So begins the latest shop leaflet issued by the Grievance Committee of the Sears Cabinet Works here. Many are joining. Many who are members of the Grievance Commit- Union Unity League. 85 Striking Against Pay Cuts in Allentown ALLENTOWN, Pa. Oct. 12— Eighty-five workers, mostly girls, quit work in protest at a wage cut in the pajama plant of the Girard Co. st Lansford, Carbon County. They said it was the second cut in less than @ year. The recent flood of wage cuts that hit the American workers is meeting with stubborn resistance. From every corner of the land comes the news that wage cuts are met with bitterly fought strikes, in which the unem- ployed workers show great solidarity and fight bravely on the side of the employed workers. Even the betrayal daunt the workers, as in the case of the marine workers in Boston, whose charter has been revoked by Jos. Ryan of the A, F. L. ‘The Communist Party is setting in motion an intensive campaign to or- ganize the struggle against wage cuts. A series of mass meetings is being called this Wednesday, October 14th, in various sections of New York of the A. F, L. officialdom doesn’t | City, where members of the Central Meetings Thruout City Will Rally Against Wage Slashes Committee will address them. All workers are urged and called upon to come to these meetings as wage! cuts threaten all those workers who have not been hit in the latest attack. | ‘The meetings will be held at the following places: Downtown Manhat- | tan, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th | St., speaker, Earl Browder; Midtown Manhattan at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 40th St., speaker, Wm. W. Wein- stone; Harlem, Harlem Casino, 116th | St. and Lenox Ave., speaker, J. Stachel; Bronx, 569 Prospect Ae., Bronx, N. Y., speaker, Robert Minor; Williamsburgh, 795 Flushing Ave., speaker, Harry Gannes; South Brook- lyn, Finnish Hall, 764 40th St., speak- er, Sam Don; Brownsville, Rockaway Mansion, Rockaway and Livonia Ave. tee are also uniting with the Trade | BANK CRISIS NEAR ADMITS SCHACHT Fascists Meet For A} United Attack On German Workers Hitler Aids Bruening Reichsbank Figures Shown to Be Lies ‘The basic reason for the establish- ment of the new Bruening govern- ment and of the unity conference among the fascist organizations in Germany was openly stated by Hjal- mar Schacht, former president of the Reichsbank, as being the approach- ing collapse of teh German finances and the sharp class clashes which are going to arise out of teh tre- mendously worsened economic situa- tion. ‘The Daily Worker during the past several weeks has repeatedly called attention to the shakiness of the German finances and the approach- ing financial collapse. Schacht has now revealed that the situation of the Reichsbank is far worse than is shown in its regular official state- ment and is on the verge of col- lapse. Speaking a tthe fascist meeting, Schacht stated: “Our foreign debts are consider- ably higher than they are repre- sented in the Basle, report, but nobody dares te say so For fear that the public might ret nervous, it is not told that in com~ puting the gold coverage of the Reichsbank several hundred mil- lions of borrowings repayable shortly is included.” For fear of the effects which the actual position of the Reichsbank would have if made public, the state- ments of the Reichsbank have been deliberately falsified. The capitalist class is well aware of the terrific wor- sening of the economic crisis and of the approach of the financial col- lapse. It realizes that in the com- ing class struggles the working class, which is rapidly losing faith in the fascist “socialist” party, will be led by a steeled and determined Com- munist Party, 250,000 strong. For this reason they have not only intensified the steps of the Bruening government toward fascism, but have organized the fascist hordes for the the establishment of the open fas- cist dictatorship. This was the pur- pose of the fascist gathering at Bad (CONTINCED ON PAGE THREE) Send Your Greeting At Once for November Seventh Issue of Daily Comrades, you have a chance NOW to show your comrades in the Soviet Union that you are with them in the fight for the defense of the Soviet Union. The Novem- ber 7 issue of Trud, the Soviet trade union organ, will contain greetings on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. You have a chance now to pledge your support of the workers’ fatherland against the im- pending attack of the bosses. Send in your greetings at once. 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Allies in ILL. STATE Manchurian War Crisis (COURT OK’S Diplomatic hctate beaks Boe as Open War Threats Flash Back and Forth | WAGE CUTS | Helps Boss Politicians Chiang Kai Shek, Under Wall Street Orders, Talks of} In Attempt to Cover War As Next Step; Socialists Back War | Pay Cut Drive WASHINGTON, D. C. a, ar is rushing cles — Sines on at a headlong pace over the Manchurian Workers situation. The capitalist press can no longer) Reductions hide the extremely intense conflict between | Japanese and American imperialism over co- lonial plunder. Capitalist news dispatches here, inspired by Hoover and Stimson, do not mince words about war. They openly threaten wer. Cables from Tokyo also leave no doubt about the near- ness of war, the Japanese imperialists in the shar | state they will not stand for any intervention by the United States in Manchuria, but will go to war to get as much of Man- *ch pau territory ¢ they SEAMEN, HARBOR Pend toe Peas ba PLAN STRUGGLE Kansas City Get Many d be ot ‘the was meg: want contrac’ Charles @. on the side of Japan and against United States. The bold action of | Japanese imperialism, bringing as a response the definite threat of war from the United shows es, t r alliances e already Close Concentration Re a ee Stressed by Foster in, _ The rapid plunge to war | Present situation is show | Associated Press and dispatches. An Associated P; TUUL. Report attack on the working class and for | NEW YORK.—The National Com-| mittee of the Marine Workers’ Indus- trial Union and delegates from the ships and docks representing marine workers from the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts met in an enthusias- tic two day session at 140 Broad Street Saturday and Sunday to map out a program of struggle against unemployment, wage cuts, deporta- tions, and the general worsening of conditions on the ships and docks. Following a general report on the International of Seamen and Harbor Workers by George Mink, chairman of the M. W. I. U., and an organiza~- tional report by R. B. Hudson of the National Bureau, the conference was addressed by Wm. Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, who analyzed the past strug- gles of the marine workers, exposing the mistakes and shortcomings and explaining the necessity of following the clear cut line of the T. U. U.'L. and Red International of Labor Unions, “Every time this line has been fol- | lowed in our unions,” said Foster, “we have been successful. Take the National Miners’ Union, for instance. | ‘This union suffered even greater de- feats than the M. W. I. U. A year ago it was only a small group in Pittsburgh. But this group worked tirelessly, concentrating all its ef- forts on one mine, putting forward the economic demands of the miners | at this point until finally the miners, realizing that here was a union that would fight for them, came out on strike against a wage-cut, spreading | the strike to other mines until 40,000 | miners were out under our leadership. | We now have a membership of 20,000 ' Shop Delegates to. Help Communist NEW YORK.—A most enthusiastic shop delegate conference of over 100 Negro and white women delegates assembled on Saturday, October 10, at Irving Plaza, New York City, in support of the Communist Party in the coming city elections. Comrade I. Amter, candidate for president of boro of Manhattan, ad- dressed the conference in behalf of the Communist Party. He pointed out the growing misery and unem- ployment that exists at the present time. The wage cutting campaign of the bosses at this time is a direct attack on the working class. He pointed out the importance of win- ning the women for the Communist Party in the coming elections. The questions of high rents, milk for the babies, and the fight against the high cost of living were immediate problems confronting the working here says: “A plain-spoken threat of war drove State Department officials teday to a nenewed study of the Manchurian situation. “As they began their study a dis- patch was laid before them telling Negro, While Wo: GALVESTON, Oct. 12 ports here and ai Houston | gro longshoreinen, or of the speech by President Chiang Kai-shek of China asserting that if the Council of the League of Nations failed to obtain a ‘just settlement’ of the differences be- tween China and Japan his country would resort to war.” The voice of Chiang Kai Shek is the voice of Wall Street in this in- stance and shows the significance of the “note” to the League of Nations. Further light on this note and its (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREDP) miners in the National Miners’) Union. Just like the miners built their union, so can the marine work- lers build theirs—by putting forward | simple economic demands, by con- | centrating the greatest efforts on one point, the weakest link of the in-| dustry.” Foster's report was followed by re- | ports from all ports by branch secre- | ship | Plans of action were sub- | taries and from the ships by delegates. mitted by th2 delegates which were discussed and submitted to the Na- tional Bureau which met to draw up a plan of work immediately the adjournment Sunday. Preparations were made to launch a gigantic campaign on the water- front to rally the marine workers to the big struggle for relief and unem- Ployment insurance that will take place within the next Election Drive man,” official organ of the Com- munist Party for work amongst wo- men. Comrade Nelson in opening the conference pointed out the need of organization of women workers and the tasks confronting the delegates on their return to their respective shops and organizations, and the need of the conference to select a working committee to further the work. A very fine discussion fol- lowed with many of the delegates participating. A cable of solidarity greetings to the International Women’s Confer- ence of the International Workers Relief was sent to the conference. A unanimous vote of protest was car- ried against the cold blood murder of the unemployed Negro workers in Cleveland. A telegram to this effect was sent to the covernor of Cleve- class women. | Comrade S. Margolis, chairman of | the conference, pointed out growing need of the “Working Wo the | ¢ Jand. A ~. sing committee of 27 was| after | two months. | solid organized, stuck | against a wage-c’. The major in these | 4,000 walked a lines posted a cut cents to 65 cents an | piration of the agreer International Longshoremen’s «A: | ciation. The shipowners imme ately began hiring unorganized Ne- |gro and White workers to scab, but | this force walked out 100 per cent when they learned of the strike. The officials of the LL.A., a racke- | teering outfit which Jim-crota its Negro members into separte locals and discriminates against them, {5 |trying to patch up the strike in a | sellout agreement, as it did in the | gulf ports strike last year. The Ne- | gro and white workers are militantly | standing solid and the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union is calling upon them to set up their own strike cam- (CONTINUE INSULT NEGRO IN N. Y. RESTAURANT |Restaurant Man Talks , .Of Breaking Dishes NEW YORK.—The management of the Bohemia restaurant on 10th St last Wednesday insulted a Negre worker, Comrade Harold Williams, who had entered the place with two white comrades. As they were eating, the chauvin-' istic manager walked over to their table several times with the inten- tion of attracting the other diners to them, at the same time remark- ing that it would now be necessary to break up the table and dishes used by the Negro comrade, Com- rade Williams offered to assist him in the undertaking and to break up a few more things if it became ne- cessary. The Negro and white workers. of New York must unite to smash all chauvinistic practices and insults against Negro workers! Smash the jim crow practices of the white rul- ing class! Defend the Negro work- ers! Down with capitalism and its. race hatred poison! On with the | fight for a workers and farmers gov~ ernment, for the dictatorship of the proletariat and the destruction of the capitalist dictatorship! ON PAGE THREE) Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht” wved by the conference to further he work series in paraphiet form at 10 cents: per Copy. pre oct