The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1931, Page 1

% ats Organize to Resist and Prevent Evictions of Jobless and Part-time Workers for Non-Payment of Rent =—— WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Central Orga (i Section of the Communist iy TO Norker Rfrunict Porty U.S.A. Free the Arrested Lawrence Strikers! Every Worker Should Rally Behind This .Demand to Defeat the Terror of the Bosses! Defeat the Wage Cut Drive! VOL. VIII, No. 258 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 <25 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1934, CITY EDITION —— | — Price 3 Cents DIVIDE CHINA, DESTROY U.S.3.R. IS U.S.-JAPAN POLICY SS Morgan Declares War 'T as J. P. Morgan determined the entry of the United States in the last World War, so now the figure of Morgan overshadows the Hoover- Laval SECRET AGREEMENT for the RE-DIVISION OF CHINA and for WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION. ‘The re-division of China, signalized by Japan’s seizure of Manchuria (approved by Stimson and assisted by Briand at Geneva) is THE out- standing and most visible FACT of world significance. Yet the Hoover-Laval Statement does not mention Manchuria, un- Jess by inference that these spokesmen for the two strong mperialisms “explored every aspect of the many problems in which we are mutually interested.” Does this silence on China mean that Hoover and Laval did not discuss China. It would be stupid to think so! It would be stupid twice over to imagine that the similar failure to mention one word about the Soviet Union in the public statement of Hoover and Laval means that these imperialist bandits, who invaded Soviet territory before, and who together encouraged the Chinese mili- tarist attack in 1929, have “forgotten” the most mortal enemy to world imperialism. Workers will understand that when we assert, as we do, that the SECRET AGREEMENT reached between Laval and Hoover—and Japan— for the re-division of China and the suppression of the Chinese Soviets as the FIRST MILITARY MOVE toward ARMED INTERVENTION AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, they need not expect to see these im- perialist conspirators reveal their conspiracy in a public statement. A secret agreement is SECRET! Yet a wealth of evidence, multiply- ing every hour and putlished in the news in sometimes open and some- times concealed form, proves the anti-Soviet nature of this secret agree- ment as well as establishing its existence. We do not only state this, but call every revolutionary worker to relay the alarm of our warning to every worker and farmer. ‘There can be no doubt that Japan, in moving MORE TROOPS into Manchuria (which Brigadier General Reilly, U. S. Army declares “will involve Russia”), the SECRET movement of Japanese troops into NORTH MANCHURIA, and above all, the statement by a “Japanese government official” that Japan “MAY WARN RUSSIA,” is supported by France and the United States. ‘That this may well mean the opening of a new ARMED PROVOCA- TION against the Soviet Union by world imperialism is obvious. ‘The workers of the world are about to celebrate the Fourteenth An- niversary of the Soviet Power, of the New World, the world of socialist construction, which inspires the poor and oppressed of all lands to follow its revolutionary example. But world capitalism, rotting with crisis and the masses into seas of misery, has yet the power to decree the only “solution” it knows, war to rmlistribute colonies, war on the workers,’ @ new blood’ batti for the masses* ‘And it is precisely because the toilers of the earth are inspired by the advance of socialism under the Soviet Five Year Plan, that the reac- tionary powers of world imperialism NOW, TODAY, are bending every effort to destroy that inspiration before socialist’ construction can be COMPLETED! ‘These definite actions, and the role of imperialist France in them, were certainly proven by the confessions of the lesser conspirators cap- tured and tried by the Soviet courts. And now we see the sinister figure of Morgan—who spent the last three months in France—the same Morgan who orders wage cuts and rejection of unemployment insurance, as the determining hand, as the hand that is SECRETLY beginning war to destroy the Soviet Union. ‘Thus the N. Y. American of Oct. 26 freely states that: “It is also contended that the Franco-American conference was personally arranged by J. P. Morgan. A few days before Premier Laval announced his plans to confer with President Hoover, Mr. Morgan held frequent conferences with the former at Paris.” Workers, J. P. Morgan has declared war! War upon your wages, against the demands of the unemployed for food! Against the banner- bearer of working class hope and struggle, the Soviet Union! Let your answer be to strengthen your struggles! Organize and strike against wage cuts! Demand all war funds go to feed the jobless! Vote Communist in the nearing city elections! Demonstrate on November 7, Fourteenth Anniversary of the Soviet Revolution! Protest the rape of China, Defend the Soviet Union! 3 What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March? DAILY EVENTS OF THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH On Dec. 7th there will be a national Hunger March to Washington, rallying the workers of the whole country. Widespread preparations are being made. Every worker must do his share now for this important mobilization. From day to day the Daily Worker in this calendar of events will give the details of the preparation of the march of 1,200 delegates to Washington. News of unemployment activity should be sent to the Daily Worker without delay. The whole campaign must be unified. Each district will be held responsible for the news in its territory. The D-ily Worker requires answers to the following questions: 1. Open public hearings on unemployment. The following cities have arranged such hearings: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Boston, Phil- adelphia, Cleveland, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, New Haven, Birmingham, Kansas City, St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C. 2. How many public hearings will be held in your city? Where and when will these meetings be held? How are they being organized! Have you prepared to send in detailed reports on these public hearings? Do not wait until the day these meetings are arranged. The Daily Worker will popularize these meetings. But we must have information now. 3. Duluth City Hunger March, Oct. 26, Court House Square. Press calling for violent suppression of Unemployed Council meetings. 4. Michigan.—Preliminary march in Oakland County attacked by police and broken up after long battle. Workers showing tremendous interest, enthusiasm and militancy. 5. Buffalo.—Unemployed Council calls demonstration at City Coun- cil for immediate relief on Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. Public Hearings will be held in Buffalo on Oct. 28 and 29. The place will be announced later. 6. New York.—There will be a public hearing at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. Fourth St., Nov. 5, arranged by the Downtown Unemployed Council and the East Side Unemployed Council. Bronx—Hunger March to Boro Hall, Nov. 2. On Nov. 6° public hear- ings at Ambassador Hall, Third Ave., near Claremont Parkway. | Reading, Pa.—A Hunger March to the City Hall takes place on Wed- nesday, Oct. 28th. The unemployed will put their demands to the “so- cialist” boss-supported administration. Youngstown, Ohio—County Hunger March, Nov. 2. Detroit.—Public hearings on unemployment, Ferry Hall, 1343 E. Ferry,, Oct. 28. Kenosha, Wis.—City Hunger March, Nov. 2. Chicago—Cook County Hunger March, Sat., Oct. 31, 2 p.m., at Union Park. Cleveland, Ohio.—Pubtic hearings, Nov. 2, Ukrainian Temple; Nov. 3, Polaski Hall; Nov. 4, 510 Western Reserve Bldg; Nov. 6, Hungarian Hall, and Rayford-Jackson Hall; Nov. 6, South Slav and Hungarian Hall. ALL DISTRICTS! Send in your order for your share of the million special four-page Hunger March paper! PICKET LINE AT CITY HALL IN LAWRENCE Demand Relief Funds For Strikers; Hit Terror Red Candidate Speaks 6,000 Picket At Wood Mill At 5:00 A. M. LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 26.—Hun- dreds of workers marched and pick- eted City Hall at ten o'clock this morning to back up their demands for a permit to use the Lawrence Common and for city funds to be used for strike relief. The City Hall inside and outside was lined with police and the doors were barred. The police commander refused to admit the whole committee but told the strike leader, Fred Beidenkapp, that he could kick a small committee of ten. The United Rank and File Strike Committee picked ten spokes- men who were admitted into the city hall but not into the council chamber and pointed out that a week ago the city commissioner had refer- red the whole matter of the permit to the city council which was in session today and before which tne commit- teé intended to appear to receive an answer. ‘The committee or ten inciuded the police surrounded the committee of ten as soon as they were admitted and threw Smith out. Fresh detach- ments of police came down the strect (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) THOUSANDS TAXI MEN THREATENED WITH BIG LAY-OFF General Motors Gets a Monopolist Grip on the Industry NEW YORK.—Thousands.of taxi- cab drivers will be thrown out of work with the consummation of the proposed consolidation of six of the largest fleets by the General Motors Co. under the name of the New ‘York Taxi Co., a veteran taxi driver informed the Daily Worker yesterday. Formerly divided into small fleets and individual owners the industry during the last two years was brought under the control of the monopolist General Motors Co. According to the report of hack- men hundreds of taxi drivers are be- ing fired daily for low booking and high mileage. A taximan who has driven on the streets for many years writes “General Motors is preparing to cut our commission and at the same time preparing to cut the number of cabs, which means 40,000 drivers will be out of jobs, as the 12-hour day and 6-day week will remain.” The Taxi section of the Transport- ation Workers Industrial League, af- filiated with the Trade Union Unity Council, is fast gaining influence among the taxi drivers. The section meets every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at 5 East 19th St. Children Conference to Be Held This Sun. At Workers’ Center NEW YORK. —The first mass chil- dren’s conference will be held defi- nitely this Sunday, November Ist, on the 2nd floor of the Workers Center, 35 East 12th St., New York City. It has come to the attention of the Pioneer office that there was con- fusion because the original date set was for last Sunday, October ,25th. This date was changed to November 1st because of a plenum which was called beforehand by the Interna- tional Workers’ Order. Many organizations were not no- tified about the change in time. Thousands Rally to Toledo Hunger March Get Police, Legion and Infantry Ready But Unemployed Express Their Demands Kokomo Unemployed Council Stops Eviction And Forces Mayor to Act; to Watch Out TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 26.—Five hundred un- employed workers, under the leadership of the Unemployed Council, started a hunger march to City Hall last Thursday and rallied thou- sands in the demand for immediate relief. Some of the columns of the unemployed were three blocks long and covered the whole street. The police as well as the American Legion were mobilized, and a company of infantry was gotten ready, but the demonstration kept on. The city hall publicity director, Vern Smith. The! CALUMET AREA STEEL WORKERS MEET TO ORGANIZE CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 26. — Fifty- seven delegates representing ten groups in various steel mills met in the Calumet Section Steel confer- ence in Hammond, Ind. today. Seven- teen fraternal workers’ organizations. and three unemployed councils sent delegates. There were 10 Negro workers present and four women. ‘The main report on wage cuts and the fight against them was made by Comrade Jurich, district secretary of the Metal Workers Industrial League. Discussion that followed from work- ers in the steel mills demonstrated that conditions of the steel workers since the wage cut are growing worse all the time. In one steel plant the workers reported that 30 per cent of the steel workers were forced to take groceries from the steel company in- stead of money. There is actual starvation in this steel region. The workers are in excellent fight- ing spirit, the reports showed, and there is a determination to organize and lead a strike against the wage cuts and the worsening conditions. A resolution adopted calls for or- the struggle around immediate is- sues. An organization committee of nine was elected to carry on further or- ganization measures. This is the best. conference of steel workers held in this district and shows the movement of the workers to organization for struggle. FINE PROGRESS OF OIL IN- DUSTRY MOSCOW, Oct. 2. — During the first nine months of the current year 16.5 million tons of petroleum were produced in the Soviet Union, or 3.3 million tons, or 25% more than in the first nine months of 1930. In 1913 9 million tons of unrefined. oil were produced in Czarist Russia. During the first nine months of the current year 571,000 metres were bored, as compared with 270,000 metres in Czarist Russia in the 12 months of the year 1913. ganizational tasks and to develope | square, and all the streets leading to it, were jammed with people. Hundreds of signs calling on the workers to mobilize for the Na- tional Hunger March to Washington on December 7, for unemployment re- lief, as well as urging the workers to organize to resist evictions, wage cuts and starvation, were carried in the march, Fight Evictions, KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 26.—At the call of the Unemployed Council here over 100 workers gathered in front of JOBLESS ARE OPENING UP Boston, Indianapolis to Expose Lot of the Unemployed | Making Preparations| To Lead to National Hunger March, Dec. 7 BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 26.—As part | of the series of public hearings throughout the country to expose the starvation conditions of the millions of unemployed, in preparation for the National Hunger March to Wash- | ington on December 7, public hear- | ings will be held in Boston on Friday, November 20. Besides, the following preparations are being made to mobilize a huge mass movement behind the fight for immediate unemployment relief and for unemployment insurance: 1, General membership meeting for mobilization of all members of Trade Union Unity League will be held in Boston on Wednesday, Octo- ber 28, at 751 Washington St. 2, Plans are laid to send delegates the house of an unemployed worker who was being evicted with his wife and seven children. The workers forced the constable to leave without evicting the family. © A ‘committee was immediately elected that went to the mayor who “promised” that in thecase and in all future cases “homes” would be pro- vided for the evicted. The Unem- ployed Council is organizing to force the city to stop evictions and to see to it that the unemployed are not thrown out on the streets, EXPOSE GESTURE OF BOSSES TODAY Jobless to D emand Real Relief NEW YORK.—The Downtown Un- employed Council will hold an open air meeting and demonstration in front of the Chris-Dora Settlement House, 9th St. and Ave. B, today, Oc- tober 27, at 9 a. m. The Chris-Dora ettlement House is one of the many registering head- quarters that the city has established throughout the city for the purpose of registering all the workers in the various sections of the city to give substance to their pretext of offering the unemployed and part time work- ers jobs and relief. A delegation of unemloyed who are faced with evic- tions and starvation and are in need of immediate relief will be present to demand that they and the other needy workers shall get immediate relief and not fake promises. Work- ers. from the neighborhood together with workers from the breadlines, flop houses and employment agencies will testify at the public hearing which will be held at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East 4th St., on Thursday, November 5. This public hearing is to A. F. of L. local and introduce our resolution on the Workers Unem- ployment: Insurance Bill and solicit support for the Hunger March Del- egation. Open letter to membership of A. F. of L. 3. Quota of delegation from the Baston. District: Boston 20; Worces- ter 10; Providence 10; Lawrence 5; Peabody 3, and Lynn 2. 4. A local Unitéd Front Hunger March Committee of 9 is being set up of the following organizations: Un- employed Council, 5; Workers Inter- national Relief, 1; International La- bor Defense, 1; International Work- ers Order, 1; Trade Union Unity League 1. 5. Conference to nominate delega- tion November 22, in Boston. 6. Mass meeting to ratify delega- tion November 30. et ee INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Oct. 26—A public hearing to expose the starva- tion, misery and sickness among the unemployed working-class families will be held at 93214 S. Meridian St. Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2.30 p. m. This is especially important not only to prepare for the National Hunger March but also to expose the lies of Hoosier politicians about no starva- tion in Indiana. Paper Workers Meet For Red Candidates NEW YORK.—The Paper Workers’ Industrial League is calling on all the workers in the paper industry to come to a ratification meeting of the Communist Party candidates in the coming elections. The meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 29, at 795 Flushing Ave., 8 p. m. being held in connection with the preparation for the National Hunger March on Washington. The bosses’ fake rélief program will be exposed by the various workers who will testify. I. L.D. Has Proof Peterson Could Not Have Been at Scene of Crime ® BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 25.— Continuing its exposure of the mur- der frame-up of Willie Peterson, un- employed Negro worker, the southern district of the International Labor Defense today offered proof that Pe- terson was at a neighborhood party on the day the two eociety women were killed. Peterson, who was drafted during the World War and received a med- ical discharge on account of heart disease and high blood pressure, was so sick at the time of the crime that he was unable to stand on his feet longer than 20 minutes at a time. He was unable to walk without the sup- port of a cane or being led by his wife. He has been receiving constant Negro Reformists Try- ing to Block Mass Defense Movement medical attention since his discharge from the army. For the past few years he has been unable to do any work except the very lightest jobs. It was, therefore, clearly impossible for him to have climbed the moun- tain on which the killing occurred and to have jumped on the running board of an automobile and run through the brush to escape from the posse and bloodhounds which en- circled the scene shortly after the crime. Moreover, both his neighbors and several white persons are ready to swear that Peterson was far from the scene of the crime, and that pre- cisely at the hour when the crime was committed he was at a neigh- bor’s house where a little neighbor- hood party was in process. Several white persons saw him on the porch when they passed the house. This fact is important in the South, where the boss courts discount the credi- bility of Negro workers. Peterson is still in the hospital suf- fering from wounds received in the county prison here when Dent Wil- Mams, a brother of one of the dead (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HEARINGS ON. Hope to Crush China Soviets, German Revolt Boge Pres Adin¢s MORE JAPANESE TROOPS SHIPPED $e At Bela Power 10) NORTH BORDER Not Made Public Hit At British Power! On USSR in Europe (Report Preparation of Behind the official statement which was issued Sunday by Hoover and | Laval on their conferences, secret | agreements have been concluded which the capitalist press refuses to reveal. These agreements, which the | capitalist press calls “understand- ings,” were for the redivision of the | world colonial empires, the pushing | down of Great Britain to a position | of secondary importance, the leader- | ship of France on the European con- tinent as against England and in the | attack on the German masses as well as in the attack on the Soviet Union | on the western front. conclusion of the conference openly admits that these “understandings” have been arrived at. and that they are of “far reaching” importance. The Times report states this in the fol- lowing: “A joint statement issued by the rresident and the Premier late this afternoon indicated the char- acter of some of the conclusions reported, but was not illuminating with reference to them and wholly failed to mention other ‘tentative understandings which resulted from the White House conference.” “The understanding reached by the President and the rremer were of a character more far- Teaching than the joint commu- nique indicates. It was agreed at the outset of the conversations that the cornerstone of the discus- sions should be the instability, both economic and political, of Central Europe.” The continued worsening of the {economic crisis and the growing fi- nancial instability of the entire cap- italist system has intensified the de- termination of the imperialists to crush the rising militancy of the German masses which is a direct threat to the entire system of im- perialist exploitation and to crush the Soviet Union in order to add this one sixth of the world to the capital- list sphere of exploitation. These are the “Ideals of courage and charity, sympathy, honor, gentleness, good- ness and faith” about which Hoover talked Sunday to the Methodists as- sembléd in Atlanta. He pointed in this speech to the danger of Bolshe- vism for world capitaiism, concealing it under hypocritical phrases as fol- lows: “The governments know that the life of the world can not be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.” “The kinds of evil now rampant in all lands are not alone a menace to government. They are destruc- tive to all that human life for which governments and churches alike exist.” The basis of the Hoover-Laval agreements were laid in the confer- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Polish Imperialists Militarize Railways WARSAW, Oct. 26—The Polish government is preparing to militarize the railways in order to be able to break strikes, The Minister for War has brought in a draft bill for the consideration of the Seym. Accord- ing to this draft every railwayman up to the age of 60 years is to be regarded as a member of the Polish Reserve. He can be called up by a simple decree of the Cabinet. He must then take an oath and is sub- ject to martial law. Refusal to per- form his normal duties would then be mutiny and render him Hable to military penes'ties. The New York Times report of the | War Notes to the Soviet Union Behind all of the conferences of the League of Nations the Japanese jare increasing the movement of the | troops into Manchuria. This increased } movement of troops is being done jwith the agreement of the United States and means the attempt on the |part of the imperialists to carry Haronghs the redivision of China and the colonies by war, to crush the | Chinese Soviets and to open the im- \perialist attack against the Soviet Union. Supported by the other imp the Japanese government is preparing for war against the Soviet Union as the next step-in-its- imperialist in- vasion of Manchuria. The capitalist press reports that Japan is preparing diplomatic notes to be sent to the Soviet Union. This is admitted in a ‘special cable to the New York Her- ald Tribune from Tokio This ceble reads in part as follows: “The Japanese government may address a warning to the govern- ment of the SovietUnion to refrain from any action “liable to enuse trouble” in Manchoria, it was stated in official circles here this morning following receipt of reports of Rus- Sian activities in northern Man- churia,” As part of this growing preparation for the attack on the Soviet Union the Japanese are broadcasting impe- rialist reports of the mobilization of Soviet troops on the Manchurian frontier and the reports that the So- viet Union is supplying Chinese troops in Manchuria with arms. Uni- versal Service reports that Japanese (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Nov. 7th Edition Solidarity U. S. S. R. It is hard to believe! But to date orders for only 10,000 copies of the Nov. 7th edition have come, not many of which have been paid for. 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