The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1931, Page 1

Vote Commur'~ ‘or Free Un employment Insurance Equal to Full Wages } to Be Paid by the Gov't! ° WORKERS Support the National Hunger OF THE WORLD, : aon apt for $150 Cash co, inter Relief for Each ITE! _UN Central : Jobless Worker > &) (Section of the Communist International) ‘Vol, VIII, No.252 Saw inawtcararattarr se - _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1981 _arry ermion “Price 3 Cents JAIL WORKERS FIGHTING WAR IN POLAND AND JAPAN [What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March? | This department, a calendar list of events and actions in connection | with the National Hunger March to Washington, will be a daily feture | in the Daily Worker until the demonstration in the capital Dec. 7 and the return of the 1,200 delegates to their home cities. , | Each district will be held responsible for the news in its jurisdiction. Each district is expected and will be required to give a daily answer | | to the question which heads this department. | 1. Minneapolis—United Front Unemployment Conference held on | Friday, Oct. 16. Endorsed National Hunger March. City Hunger March | on Noy. 20. A r-port on the public hearings is promised in a few days. | 2. Cleveland is arranging 6 public hearings. When will they be | held? Where will they be held? Send this information. 3. Philadelphia has arranged @#hree public hearings. where? Send this information. 4. Chicago, Pittsburgh Buffalo and Boston are arranging public hearings. When and where? Furnish the names of the halls and the | street addresses 5. No definite information in regard to the public hearings has been | furnished as yet by New Yor, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, New | Haven, Birmingham, Kansas City St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C. Send at} o1ce a short report on our plans. | 6. Kansas Clty, Mo—Xhe City Council Unemployed Committee, | elected at the Hunger March Conference Oct. 11 arranged a city tag | day for Oct. 18 to help fniance the State Hunger March to Jefferson City on Oct. 24. What was the result? Rush in a report. 7 Pittsburgh! What are the preparations for the Westmoreland | County Hunger March? What is the date? 8 Michigan—Preliminary march in Oakland County attacked by police and broken up after long battle. Workers showing tremendous interest, enthusiasm and militancy. 9. ALL DISTRICTS! Send in your order for you: , share of the million special four-page Hunger March pape When and More Support for the Ken- tucky Miners! \OUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY is again the scene of heroic strike strug- gle. starvation wages. 1,300 miners in the Straight Creek section have struck against With their famities, more than 6,000 men, women and children of the working class are on the battle line. It is a continuation of the struggle in the Haflan arca and the same brutal “and bloody methods have been invokéd by the coal barons and the local govern- | MARCH IN More Police Attacks; Hungry People Are Beaten Up | |\7th Ave. Downtown: Friday, Oct. 2nd Ave. William W. Weinsto: Protest In Chicago Pontia ¢ City Limits » Seene of Struggle The Missouri state hunger march, local demonstrations and city and county hunger marches going for- ward, with teh general demand of immediate relief, and special local demands in each case. All the dem- onstrations help to mobilize mass support of the National Hunger March on Washington, Dec. 6 and 7, to demand that congress pass the Unemployment Insurance Bill, Peak ee CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 19.—As part | ot the preparations for the Cook County Hunger March, set for Oct. MANY CITIES Oct, 24, is one of a whole series of | |for world war! | Soviet, Union! announced- Bill Dunne, ¥. Amter, Jack Rally in Jarge masses! members of your organization, Defend the Soviet Union! Workers! Onto the Streets | to Demonstrate in Masses Against Imperialist War! Protest the War Against the Chinese People! Protest the Bloody Invasion of Manchuria! Smash American, Japanese and League of Nations plots Smash imperialist intervention plot against Support Chinese revolution! off Chinese Soviets! Join the demonstration in your section. | Harlem, Thursday, Oct. 22nd, 8:30 p- m., 137th St. and Earl Browder, and others. Meeting places in other sections of the city will be son and others will speak. Watch for announcement of meetings in your section of the city. mintang Government, agent of Yankee imperialism. Show. your solidarity with Chinese and Japanese toiling masses. Demand hands | 23rd, 8:30 at 10th St- and| ne, Stachel, Engdahl, Tom John- | Bring your shopmates, and | i Down with the bloody Kuo-| Lawrence Strikers Reject Se he a IN LAWRENCE Hoover Speech Condemns | } GREAT MASS PICKET LINE ! Answer Ely’s Scheme By Determination to Stop Wage Cut UTW Oppose Militancy | Strikers Up at 4 A.M.;| Line Blocks Long LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 19.—It looked as though all the workers in Lawrence were on the picket lines this morning. The lines formed two by two after women strikers had roused the sections where mill strik- ers live at four o'clock in the morn- ing” by blowing “horns and ringing bells. ‘The picket lines’ stretched for blocks around the mills, blocking all the entrances and showing real mass determination to keep the scabs out. Importation of 50 additional police failedto’ intimidate the pickets, ‘This, the first really enorhous mass | Ely’s Hunger Edict 340 Arrested in Poland; Prepare Attack On USSR (Cable by Inprecorr) WARSAW, Oct. last three days the police have made TOKIO POLICE “ HEADS MEET FOR ATTACK U.S.—Japanese Fight Sharpens Over Loot In Manchuria Hold Secret Session 19.—During mass arrests of revolutionaries. Three | hundred and forty have been arrest- ed including 16 leading Communists. | Nine revolutionary organizations in| Warsaw have been suppressed and | their offices closed. WARDEPARTMENT ORDERS BUILDING. OF MORE PLANES Stimson Prepares New Note to Japan The admission of the United States delegates to the League Council in the discussion of the Manchurian sit- uation has sharpened the conflict of iam the United Stat id Ji tually. Munitions Plante Are) ee © | Ss a result of the violent opposition Consolidated For |of Japan the proposed plenary ses- Imperialist War Sion of the council was postponed and | private meeting of the thirteen del- egates to the Council was scheduled In preparation for the next impe- ;Tialist war the United States War De- |partment is experimenting with planes of new design, which are ex- jinstead The meeting of the Japanese | delegation in Geneva has caused “in- tense excitement.” The Japanese delegates. have cabled their govern- }ment for further instructions for |carrying on the conflict. The de- |peeted to be faster than the British planes which are the speediest now picket line, is the answer of the/in use. The War Department expects | ment against the miners which in Harlan County last summer filled the jails with workers and died redder this “black and bloody ground.” The strike is led by the National Miners’ Union. Imported gunmen augment the forces of the local thugs. Strikers and organizers are hunted like wild animals. the bands of revolting serfs in the Dark Ages—but remain unbroken. They are forced to meet in the woods and caves like the strike lines Meanwhile the government speeds up the trials of the scores of miners arrested during the Harlan strike. It is trying to railroad 34 miners to the electric chair for defending themselves against. the armed attacks of the coal operators’ hired murderers, The terror must be smashed. The International Labor Defense cam- paign to free the Kentucky miners calls for unlimited support. Relief for the striking and blacklisted miners and their families must be col- lected. Send it through te Workers International Relief and the Na- tional Miners’ Union. The strike must be won and with the support of the working ciass it will be won. Unite our forces for the defense of the Kentucky miners. Smash the reign of terror in the Kentucky coal fields. Lift the pall of murder by coal barons’ mercenaries which today is smothering the miners of south- easiern Kentucky. Fight for the unconditional release of every arrested striker and organizer! Feed the Kentucky fighters! Their fight is our fight! Send Funds to Save Potatoes Donated to Starving Miners! PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 19.—Car- loads of potatoes contributed to the starving miners by the Mid-Western farmers will be sold for charges by the railroad within the next two days to pay the freight! The potatoes are lying in the freight yard here, and the miners @te starving for lack of them. ‘The farmers of Wisconsin packed 71,000 pounds of potatoes into one _ car, instead of the usual 40,000 ~ pounds. They did it becauc> they kew of the intense hunger in the coal fields. Now these potatoes will either spoil or be sold to merchants by the railroad companl unless money is raised for the C.O.D. freight charges. . Meanwhile another baby died in the Coverdale tent colony. A long line of miners and their families, all rag- ged and many without shoes or coats and all with empty stomachs, form- ed for a mass funeral procession. The priest at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic church told the family he unless $600 is raised | would have to have $20 spot cash be- fore he would attend the funeral. The child's father rejected this offer. The funeral procession leaves Co- verdale Hall this morning. Families are living on a bowl of soup a day. The potatoes they can not get until money for the freight is contributed would be a life saver for them. ‘Twelve people are crowded into one tent at Coverdale, five sleeping width- wise in each bed. There are many more sick children in the colony. ome parents sleep on the ground so that the children can have warm beds. These starving strikers, and those of Kentucky and Westmoreland County and West Virginia ask the workers of every industry to come to their help, Send funds to cover the freight bill on those potatoes to Penn-Ohio- W. Virginia-Kentucky Striking Min- ers Rellef Committee, 611 Penn Ave., room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa. _ Red International Central Council Meeting Dec. 1st ) The National office of the Trade tion here, and to assist in planning Union Unity League has received no- | the strategy of the next struggle. tice from the Secretariat of the Red International of Labor Unions, of which the T.U.U.L. is the American section, that the greatest attention must be paid in the worke*s’ press and in all unions and leagues, to the paration of the session of the tral Council of the R.LL.U. The eouncil meets December 1, and T.U. U.L. representatives will be present, fo report on the struggles and situa- x ee The communication of the R.I. L.U. will be published in tomorrow's issue of the Daily Worker. It outlines the agenda, as follows: 1) The state of the R.IL.L.U. sec- tions, and the part they play in the economic struggles and in the organ- ization of the unemployed move- ment. The reporter will be Losovsky, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | 31, a big demonstration will be held in Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 24. The demonstration is also against the po- | lice terror used here against jobless. | It is particularly a protest against | the arrest of ten, mostly young, | workers in the demonstration of | 2,000 jobless at a branch office of the | United Charities last Tuesday. The | | demonstration had no permit, and| ; was broken up only after a sharp; | fight. Attack Marchers, DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 19—Prep- | arations are being rushed for the | Oakland County Hunger March. A truck caravan, with some 200 dele- gates, has been touring the factory towns of the county, organizing the march. Thursday they were met at the city limits of Pontiac by the (CONTINUED ON CAGE THREE) 320 Delegates Hold | Jobless Conference In Cook County, Ill. CHICAGO, Il, Oct. 19—The ook County Unemployed confer- nce was held here on Sunday in ‘he Peoples Auditorium and repre- sented 210 organizations. Three aundred and twenty-two delegatts were present, including 34 mem- ders ‘of trade unions. The confer- once included five A. F. of L. lo- rals, a large delegation of block zommittees, branches of the Un- 2mployed Council and fraternal organizations. After the report by Mates, of the Trade Union Unity League, the Unemployed Council delegates discussed wage cuts and starvation and formulated de- mands, including winter cash re- lief and struggle for unemploy- ment insurance. Bill Gebert, representing the Communist Party, received an ovation from the delegates. He ex- posed social demagogy, pointing out the means of struggle for un- employment insurance. The conference elected a com- mittee of 30 to organize the hun- ger march to take place October 31 to Union Park and the National Hunger March on December 7. A delegation of ten was elected to protest to the city council against the police terror. A youth session was held with 62 delegates, mapping out the youth demands, The conference unseated the ‘Trotzkyite delegation on the basis of their support of the Hoover stagger system. ‘This was the biggest and best represented conference ever held in Chicago which will lead to a tremendous development in prep- aration for the huge Hunger March on October 31 and the Na- tional Hunger March on Decem- ber 7. President Hoover, notorious for his an-| nouncement two years ago that the depression | would be over in 60 days, and unceasing foe of | unemployment insurance, landed Sunday night | from the battleship Arkansas, and made a nation-wide radio speech from the commandant’s headquar- | ters at Fortress Monroe. The speech was entirely about the necessity of everybody giving something so the hungry unemployed would not all starve to death this winter. It opened a campaign for com-| ELECT CHILE ‘AN -~®munity chests in about 1,000 Amer- } ican towns, the money to be spent in various forms of “relief” adminis- tered on a basis of racial discrimina- tion, and in many cases, as payments Jobless to Starvation 26,000 strikers to Governor Ely's dec- to have “within eigh months a for- Jaration that the mills should re- | midable array of military craft rep- open today and that the strikers jresenting great departures from should go back, taking the 10 per standard types aloft on service tests”. cent wage-cut with only a fake| he capitalist press dispatch from “minimum wage” proposition which | washington specifies some of the applies only to the neverseen full’ planes that the capitalist class is week's work, and a very thin prom-/ preparing for the next imperialist é pe THREE) | «among the distinctly new pur- suit types are two-place combat planes which may be the forerun- (CONTINUED ON P. TWO YEAR TERMS FOR THE MINERS. OF CANONSBURG ners of new tactics, and a new at- tack model will have an inclosed bomb bay and machine guns con- tained in stream-lined landing wheel housings.” In addition the capitalist class is | consolidating its plants for the manu- facture of war materials. On Monday REVOLT LEADER AS RED SENATOR Commute Death Sen- tence of 15 Others SANTIAGO, Chile—The sympathy of the population of Chile with the navab mutineers is demonstrated ‘by the fact that the leader of the revolt Alexander Caldera, who has been sentenced to death by court martial, has now been elected to Parliament in Santiago as a candidate of the Communist Party. As a result of the revolt 3,.000 sail- ors are threatened with demotion in rank and hence a pay reduction. But in order to prevent the revolt from flaring up again the acting minister of national defense was sent to Tal- cahuano to try to settle the “diffi- cult situation.” ‘The government has been forced to commute the death sentences of 15 sailors to life imprisonment Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’s series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! Inflation Program Speeded Up on Orders from Wall Street ‘The leading financial wviters of the capitalist press are already sounding warnings of the inflation policy that the government is now pushing through. Lewis Haney, director of New York University Bureau of Busi- ness Research, admits frankly that the inflation policy of the bankers is already being put into effect by the ‘Treasury Department through the issuance of currency on the basis of the new notes of the credit pool. ‘| Haney wiites as follows in the New York Journal: at starvation wages for forced labor. Just An Incident. Hoover evidently forgets things, but he proved that he learns nothing. He called the depression a “passing incident in our national life,” claimed again that it was largely due to “events abroad,” without saying how it happened that it started here, and insisted that only private charity | could save “this civilization and this great complex which we call Amer- ican life.” But still, in the face of the millions unemployed, he claimed, “the num- ber who are threatened with priva- tion is a minor percentage of our whole people.” Hoover's speech and the community chest drive offer nothing but crumbs to the jobless, and condemn to starve to death hundreds of thousands of workers, unemployed as Hoover him- self admits, through no fault of their owm. Hoover and the charities have ® program that means freezing, evic- tions, misery, lack of clothing, mal- nutrition for millions of children, unless the workers and unemployed workers force granting of real imme- diate relief, and the passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Prepare for the National Hunger March on Washington, Dec. 6 and 7! Demonstrate in every city and state for immediate relief! “The forces which stand for cheapening the dollar by artificially increasing the supply of bank credit are organizing. They have begun their propaganda. “Despite the obvious distrust of our monetary system both at home and abroad and the huge loss of gold, the inflationists propose to inflate our credit, Already a step has been taken by the Treasury to let down the bars, They have agreed to substitute the notes of the new credit for commercial { Pinchot’s Police Stand |the capitalist press announced the Ready With Rifles |consolidation of the Hercules Powder | | mand by Japan that the entire ques- | tion of the appointment of the United | States delegate to the meetings of |the council be reconsidered has |“aroused gravest concern” in the League because it means an obvious sharpening of the conflict with the United States. The London Times on Sunday car- ried an article by Bland, a journalist- bankers’ agent pointing out the dan- gers of armed conflict between the United States and Japan that are rapidly maturing as the result of the Manchurian crisis. Bland writes: “What then shall it profit the world if, in endeavoring to suppress ; the causes of enmity between China and Japan, the League of Nations foments new ones of a far more dangerowy nature between Japan and the United States?” All of the imperialist powers realize |Co. and the Paper Makers Chemical WASHINGTON, Pa., Oct. 19—| Pennsylvania State Troopers with | rifles in their hands guarded the doors of the court room here today when the rest of the Canonsburg case | prisoners were sentenced. Masses of | workers were barred out. These state | police are commanded by Governor} Pinchot and have been continually | | used for strike breaking. The Canonsburg case arose from the arrests of miners after 1,500 of them had marched to a strike break- ing meeting addressed by United Mine Workers leaders in that city in June. Eleven were railroaded through in| most outrageous fashion to a verdict | of “guilty.” | This morning, 19-year-old Stella | Rasefske was sentenced to two years in prison. Her mother, Anna, was | sentenced to a year and a half. The/ others got sentences of from six) months to two years. Last week Lea ‘Thompson was sentenced to two years. The International Labor Defense is | preparing to appeal the cases and/ needs: money for that and for bail | for the prisoners, who are now being rushed to the workhouse at Blawnox./Superintendent William A. Watson of paper as security for government deposits in banks.” H. Parker Willls, another bourge- ois financial expert, points out that the inflation policy will mean the es- tablishment of an “irredeemable pa- per currency,” that is, the United States will go off of the gold stand- ard, He goes further and points out that this step 1s in complete disre- gard of all the rules of sane capital- sheets n't orddpabe aber een Co., as well as the Western Cartridge |the serious consequences that may Co. and the Winchester Repeating | Tesult for all of them through the Arms Co. These consolidations will |Utbreak of a new world war and result in the formation of bigger | 2%@ Sttempting if possible to post- plants for the turning out of chemi- | P0n¢ the outbreak of the confliet cals end munitions. These are the |*™one the imperialists through the preparati KOKOMO JOBLESS the Soviet Union. While the diplomatic conflict goes on in Geneva, Washington and Tokio, the Japanese imperialists are en- trenching themselves for the winter SEIZE COAL IN A in Manchuria. They are “erecting immense winter barracks in Chaliuho and other cities, digging trenches FACTORY YARD and stringing wire barricades, and evidently planning for indefinite oc- Lali kets, cupancy. They are also erecting an * . airdrome near Yungchi sufficient to Police Attack, ‘Make | tciter 150 planes.” All of thése Many Arrests | preparations are not only. for the | purpose of entrenching themselves KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 19—-Hundreds | for the imperialist exploitation of of unemployed workers here stormed | Manchuria but for the purpose of the coal yard of the Pittsburgh Plate | preparing for the attack on the So- Glass Co. Friday night and carried | viet Union which is the next logical away large quantities of fuel to keep| step in the Japanese imperialist themselves from freezing. | move. Police broke up the raid with dif-| * while the Japanese are entrench= ficulty and made scores of arrests.|ing themselves in Manchuria they Among those taken into custody was|are continuing the attack on the | Japanese workers. In addition to the the coal yard. It was said that a re-| meeting of leading generals on Sun- port that the coal was to be given | day there was a meeting of the Home away caused the crowd to assemble. Minister with the chief.of the metro- When it wasn’t given to them, they| politan police of Tokio and the chief took some of it. |of the Police Bureau of the Home Last Wednesday, Clovis Lewis, Un- | Office. This meeting was to inten- employed Council organizer of In-| Sify the repression of ‘the militant dianapolis spoke to a crowd of 300| Japanese workers and to prevent any in Kokomo, with the American Le- resistance of the workers under the gion parading around the meeting | leadership of the Communist Party and threatening to break it upfl The|to the imperialist actions of the Legion leaders, knowing that the rank | Japanese bankers and to the hunger and file of the union are for unem-| Program of the’ capitalist class. ployment relief, did not dare to or- der an attack on the meeting. Or- ganization of the jobless in Kokomo is progressing. Committees are be- ing elected to fight specific cases of KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 17.—Levett Keller, 37, world war veteran, hanged himself here yesterday. Keller was cited for bravery by General Persh- eviction, ing, but the citation was about all he got in the way of gratitude from thé MISH4~~..A, Ind. — Milo M.| bosses for killing his fellow workers Brew 29-year-old unemployed |in order to protect Wall Street's ine v > ker, Committed suicide this ater: vestments. His 4-year-old daughter A