The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1931, Page 1

ORGANIZE AND SUPPORT THE NATION AL HUNGER MARCH TO WASHINGTON! M OBILIZE FOR THE BIGGEST MASS DEFEAT THE HOOVER STARVATION PROGRAM! FIGHT FOR FREE U YEMPLOYMEN T INS WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central O-ga (Section of the Communist International) a2 PROTEST IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY! URANCE FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT AT EXPENSE OF CAPITALISTS etter Se ered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act f March 3, 1879 CITY EDITION Vol. VIII, No. 250 cw YORK . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1931 Central Committee Calls for Utmost Support of National Hunger March TS Unemployed Councils’ Committee for the National Hunger March hhas issued a call to the workers of the U. 8. to mobilize and par- ticipate in the National Hunger March to Washington on December 7. ‘This Hunger March must be made a mass demonstration of the unem~- ployed and part time workers against starvation and for the demands of unemployment insurance and immediate winter relief. The National Hunger March will unite all the struggles of the unemployed workers on 2 local basis and mobilize mass support behind the demands upon the federal government. The National Hunger March is the most important. immediate task of the Party. Hand in hand with increased starvation and misery, the cutting off of the miserable local relief, the spending of more billions of dollars | for war preparations, the bosses increase their demagogic propaganda to fool the unemployed workers through all kinds of fake schemes and so-called “relief plans.” The workers of this country have by now the experiences of the past “relief” plans of the bosses and their government as well as the pledges of the Hoover government to “maintain wags.” In their starvation schemes the bosses haye the full cocperation of their | loyal agents, the A. F. L. officials, the Musteites and the Socialist Party. © ‘The third winter of the economic crisis is approaching. More hunger ind misery, evictions and wage cuts are facing us. It was the Communist 2arty of this country which led the monster demonstration of March 6, (929, it was the Communist Party which urged and helped the workers ‘in the organization of the Unemployed Councils to lead the struggles against eviction, for immediate relief, for unemployment insurance, as well as organizing the workers in the struggle against wage cuts, stagger system and lay-offs. The Communist Party calls upon the workers of this country to rally behind the call of the Unemployed Councils Committee to help to make the National Hunger March to Washington a gigantic demonstration against hunger, for the demands of winter relief and Unemployment In- surance. The only way to make the Hunger March a success is through developing local struggles for the immediate demands of the unemployed workers, to intensify the struggles against evictions and above all to build the organization of unemployed—the Unemployed Councils. ‘The National Hunger March must be a rallying point of broad masses of the workers, employed and unemployed, white and Negro, men and women, youth and adult for the mutual demands, for Unemployment In- surance and the struggle against wage cuts. ‘The Central Committee calls upon the Party membership to give full assistance to the Unemployed Councils in the prepfration of the Hunger March. Every District and Section Committee as well as every Party Unit shall consider the National Hunger March as the most im- portant immediate task of the Party and draw in all possible forces for the support of the March. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U. S. A. | Young Communist League "Calls Youth to Fight for Relief NEW YORK—“all young workers, fight for immediate winter relief and unemployment insurance, against discrimination for young workers, against hunger and wage-cuts! Not one cent for the bosses’ war, but all war funds for the unemployed! Or- ganize for the National Hunger March to Washington on December 1.” This is the beginning of astate- ment issued yesterday to all young workers, employed and unemployed, by the National Executive Committee of the Communist League of U. 5. A. The statement tells of the cruel misery of the young workers and children of unemployed and wage- cut parents. It tells how the boys aud girls both sleep on garbage dumps and in parks because they have been discharged or their parents evicted. It describes the war preparations, and the brutal orders of Governor Roosevelt and Governor Pinchot t6 the militia officers to prepare to erush the demonstrations of the un- employed this winter. It tells how the farmers are being Griven into pauperism dnd their children starved. It describes the ar- rest for “vagrancy” of hundreds of young workers who have to hitch hike around in search for work. It tells of the terrible toll of lives given to disease by these young workers, starved until they have no resistance left. Demand Winter Relief. The statement announces the fol- lowing demands, put forth by the ‘Young Communist League for the young workers to organize to sup- port and to fight for: 1. $150 cash for winter's relief for all unemployed young workers. 2. Unemployment insurance amounting to full wages for all unemployed young workers, to be paid by the state. 3. Six-hour day for all young workers under 18 and the seven- hour day for all above. 4. Abolition of child labor under the age of 14 and government maintenance of thos now employed under that age. 5. No discrimination against Negro young workers. 6. Opening of public buildings for the use of the unemployed youth, under the control of the young workers; free use of gyms, bath houses, play grounds, etc., for the unemployed youth. : % The opening of vocational schools for young workers on the basis of full wages, these to be un- der the control of the workers and financed by the government and employers. 8. Free food, shoes, clothes, books and carfare for the children of unemployed, part-time workers ond atrikers, 9. No discrimination against young workers in giving out relief. 10. Enough relief to be paid to part-time young workers to make up their full wages. 11. No evictions of young unem- ployed workers in boarding houses, Y. M. C. A’s, hotels, etc. 12. Abolition of all vagrancy, anti-hitch-hike and other laws aimed against the unemployed youth. 13. Communist League proposes that young workers take part in demon- strations, open meetings, hunger marches, organize youth hunger marches, form youth sections in other hunger marches and send youth dele- gates to the unemployment confer- ence to be held in Washington, D.C., when the national hunger marchers reach there Dec, 7. ‘The statement ends with an appeal not to let the employers use young workers as scabs, and for young workers to join the Young Commu- nist League. MINNEAPOLIS No forced labor in any form. | 'To win, these demands the Young | Vio | = PROGRAM! DEFEAT THE HOOVER HUNGER | THE HOOVER PROGRAM By BURCK Make the Line of Hunger March An Unbroken Class Front! Twelve million workers are unemployed. Millions more work only part time. Wage cuts in all industries slash the incomes of those still employed. Industrial production con- tinues to drop. Hundreds of thousands of farmers are ruined and in want. There is mass hunger and actual starvation in America —-the richest country in the world. | Wall Street government, spending a billion a year for war purposes, and now organizing openly for war on the Soviet Union, refuses any form of relief for the starving mil- lions- Banks, railway companies, steel companies all tap the treasury for hundreds of million with the tender help of Hoover, Congress meets on December 7 No representative of the working class is in Congress. No spokesman of the working class is heard in the halls sacred to the robber class of America. The legislative forum where anti-working class laws are passed is closed to the toiling, robbed and hungry masses of American workers- But Washington—the seat of Hoover-. “cll Street Gov- ernment—will hear the thunderous voice of 12,000,000 job- less workers when Congress opens on December 7. Twelve hundred elected delegates, marching from every important industrial center in the United States, bearing MILWAUKEE karamez0e i" DETROIT NOV: 30% SU reg mov aS. ” Leaving CHICAGO NOV.29 or “ cHicAaco bn --= A ae TOLEDO Leavin DEC. 437. cy AV HEELING pec3 Ss INOIANAPOU> u Nov 30 5 CINCINNATI _ pec 1 the mandates given them by masses of workers assembling in hundreds of mass meetings, coming directly from the scores of struggles against evictions and for immediate re- lief which have made America a battleground for bread since March 6, 1930, speaking in the name of the martyred dead in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Yorkville, Los An- geles and Birmingham, and in the name of the hungry mil- lions of unemployed and EMPLOYED workers, will present to Congress the demand for unemployment insurance fur- nished free by the government at the expense of the capi- talists, the demand that all war funds be turned over for unemployed relief. The 1,200 marchers, bulwarked by mass delegations from the big cities in the vicinity of Washington, will expose be- fore the working class of America, and the whole world, the monstrous state of affairs in Which billionaire bankers, rob- bery railway companies and huge corporations like the steel trust are given grants of millions from the U. S. treasury while 12,000,000 jobless workers and their families are con- demned to slow starvation: A CRUST OF BREAD ON A BAYONET—this is the Hoover program for “relief” of the unemployed. Stinking CLEVELAND w pec 2? [PRO cHEestER Wav. 29 YounaSTOWN Li pec 34 BINGHAMP Ton UW eC 15F PITTS BURGH vec 4 ea Accentrown ry recs NEw @. CHAMBERS BURG Bartimore vec. 5% 3 &) staRntinG Pont () Ntour stop ovER, S¥Racuse NOV. 30 fh scRanton pec 24 CONFLICT OF | U.S.-JAPAN 4,000 HEAR FOSTER IN In League Council Strikers Leave U.T.W | Meeting; Now Build As a result of the pressure exerted | E i | by the United States imperialists the Real United Front League of Nations Council voted on Thursday to “invite” a representa- | tive of Wall Street to participate in| the Council sessions over the Man- eer churian war situation. The only|Fakers In Secret Meet vote against allowing the United) With Mayor’ States imperialists to sit in on the} ‘With Mayor's Board conferences was by Japan. The vote| LAWRENCE, Mass. Oct. 16.—Four of the Japanese imperialists and the | thousand attended the National Tex- other actions which occurred in the] tite Workers Union and rank and past several days, and which have z ae just been revealed, indicate a sharp- Score “Arbitration” file strikers’ mass meeting in Lin- coln Court yeste: afterncen to hear William Z. Foster, general se retary of the Trade Union U- League and to further build up t united front of the 25,000 textile workers striking here against a ten per cent wage cut. W k al) | ti Hundreds of workers left the Uni- or ers e ega ion | ted Textile Workers meeting on Law- rence Commons to walk to the Lin- coin Court meeting Foster urged the workers to carry on their struggle with solid ranks and to build and strengthen ‘the uni- ted front leadership, the ran: file strike committee elected by t strikers themselv and the uni! | front strike committees in each mill (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Mass Farewell to ‘to the Soviet Union Demonstration at 10 lam. at Pier 56, W. 14th St., S. S. Laconia ah | Dates and places for mill meetings at all mills were announced to be Today at 10 a.m. a farewell dem- | held within the next 5 days. He onstration will be held for the Amer- | warned that the employers are try- iean Workers’ Delegation to the 14th | ing to cut wages heré fo the level anniversary of the Russian Revolu-| of the Southern mill workers and tion at Pier 56, W. 14th St. The dele- | described the starvation conditions in gates will sail on the Laconia (not | the South. He told the meeting thet | Caledonia as previously announced). | the fakers are allowed to meet on |'The demonstration will also demand | the Common because they are help- a halt to the imperialist maneuvers | ing the mill owne:s cut wages, while |against the Soviet Union in Manchu- | “we meet in a back yard because the | ria. | bosses are afraid of militant organi- | The delegation consists of ten | zation.” Foster urged the strikers to \ workers from three besic Industvies | comes He TigDt to. mnie gn. se And one-wir industey: mikelesanstat: f Comme te cemnne Aue Aeemmen ot | mining and chemical. Two new dele- | Hie» acrented | waiba. Weaees: Oe lentes have just been added: R. B.| warned them of A. J. Muste’s strike |Hudson, one of the leading members | dient aba gnts ages Se oe bn jof the Marine Workers Industrial | oi ed piaed y Dene ages a he | Union in New York, and Mrs, Lyneh, | P? Y,, BODE BP Bens OME - of the jobs. Muste speaks on the wife of a Negro coal miner of Penn- | Goinmon today sylvania, who was one of the most | cap age | Foster pointed out that.the pre- active in the recent strike. t | sent “arbitration” to which the U.T. The delegates will bring greetings | w. agrees is a scheme to break. the of solidarity from the American toil- | strike and cut the wages. ers to the Soviet workers and peas- | Piser, Bramhall,’ Cerknsltted ants. Their sailing is of direct con- ‘The chairman of the meeting wa: cern to every worker and friend of | Rubin Pizer, local strike leader, whe the Soviet Union. All out to demon-/ 45 just been released by the im- istrate today! migration authorities after they had ae | to admit that there is nothing wrong | Communist Party Candidates | | about his U. S. citizenship. Pizer and Speakers Election Campaign | | and. Samuel Bramhall, Communist | conference meeting to be held \today at Workers Center, Room | 207, at 4 p.m. All those who are| |active in the campaign must be | | present, || |Raid N. Kensington | Communist Party to | Jail Jobless Leaders. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct, 16—| The Communist Party headquar- | ters in New Kensington was raid- | ed last night. Three leading mem- } {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) bers of the section committee were arrested, John Sara, Nick Tcer- megas and Wilkins. Wilkins is the | Communist candidate for consta- | ble. t Fire engines were called out and were ready to use the water hose. | ‘The terror campaign is being in- | tnsified to imprison the leaders of | the unemployed. } Workers are being mobilized to | fight this terror and for the relief t demonstration to be held‘on Mon- | day at 7 pm. at 1125 Third Ave., | despite police threats.. Demonstra- | tions are being organized in the | surrounding towns of Alleghany Valley. The Communist Party is holding a series of election rallies throughout the valley. There is to be a county hunger march in this county soon. The last two weeks have been a/ series of ever greater mass dem; onstrations of the New Kensing- ton unmployed miners and steel workers for immediate relief, with the city government alternately making promises and breaking them. A few days ago, state troopers, city police and firemen beat up and gassed a crowd of | 1,000 which was marching on @ city conference of the mayor, bor- ough council, American Legion j and Red Cross. shenanigans) I BOSTON LEAVING Boston, io} pec a PROVIOENCE Deewy mew Cy vec 2 ORK POINTS WHERE Two COLUMNS MEET ar