The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1931, Page 1

Fight for $150 Cash Winter Relief! | On with the Preparations for the National Hunger March! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist tee ) Norker Rnunict Party U.S.A. The Bosses Are Trying to Stifle the Lawrence Strike! De- mand the Right of Free Speech! Entered as second-class mat: at New York, N. Y.. VOL. . Vu, No. : 259 der the act of March 3, 1879 iter at the Post Office NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 CITY EDITION —— Price 3 Senin HOOVER! MORGAN! MAKE PUBLIC THE SECRET WAR AGREEMENTS! WORKERS! TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST THE WAR-MAKERS! Hoover-Stimson-Morgan ! You Plan a new war of conquest—a new blood bath for work- ers! You plan in secret—you threaten the lives of millions of workers! What are the secret plans you have made? Workers! Demand the immediate publi- cation of all Hoover-Laval-Morgan “conversa- tions”, pacts and treaties ! The Meaning of Lawrence Support the Strike Against Wage Cuts! ‘HE workers of Lawrence ce have given the first answer to the latest wage cuts that beginning with the steel industry swept the entire country. This fact, in addition to the general importance of a strike of nearly 25,000 textile workers makes the battle in Lawrence of the greatest im- portance to every worker. Coal miners and textile workers have headed the fight against wage cuts. Both the bosses and the workers have their eyes on this struggle. On its outcome will depend much as to the course of the further wage cutting drive of the bosses. The recent cut of the workers’ wages was not meant to be the last one. Already the Steel Institute speaks about new wage cuts for the steel workers. The bosses, encouraged by the fact that the workers in the steel industry and in other industries did not answer the wage cut with mass strikes, are now out to follow up with another wage cut. If the workers of Lawrence succeed in defeating the wage cut it will become a ing point in the struggle of the workers to halt the lowering of the standards throughout the country. ‘ A successful struggle in Lawrence will be the greatest help to the trike movement in other industries. With the aid of the workers in other ries the Lawrence strike can be brought through to a magnificent © workers in Lawrence are putting up a splendid battle. They are doing honor to the Lawrenée traditions. Thus far all schemes of the bosses, all maneuvers of the government, all the terror of the police and ell the cunning treachery of the American Federation of Labor officials, have not been able to break the ranks of the workers. They stand solidly st the wage cut. This is the strongest point of the strike and furnishes the basis for victory. The National Textile Workers Union affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, is organizing the strikers on the basis of the united front cf all workers of each milf and each department irrespective of their union affiliation. The United Front Rank and File Strike Committee is organizing the workers in militant mass picketing and is showng to the workers how to block all attempts to break the strike. Thus far it has eeded in gaining the active support of all the great masses kers but its influence is growing. The UTW through its policy of radical phrases to cover treachery has been able to mislead many workers. But already these workers have shown that they are not going to allow the UTW to fool them into accepting the wage cut. As the strike develops the National Textile Workers’ influence 1s growing. The experience of the Lawrence workers is a great guarantee that the UTW will not be able to break the strike as they did in Allen- town, in Danville, in Paterson, and in the hosiery industry. But most important of all as to the outcome of the struggle is the ability of the Rank and File Strike Committee to become the real authoritative organ of the strikers, to bring large numbers of workers into the strike leader- ship. And this depends upon the correct application of the united front by the National Textile Workers Union, the quick organization of the strike committees on a mill basis, The NTWU is working in this direction. The workers of the country have more than a usual stake on this fight. The workers of the entire country not only in the textile but in all industries must rally to the support of the Lawrence strikers. In the first place we must show to the Lawrence workers that we understand that their fight is our fight. This we must show by real active support. Relief is necessary at once. All workers and all workers’ organizations must act promptly and send relief to the RELIEF COMMITTET OF THE UNITED FRONT STRIKE COMMITTEE in Lawrence. Delegations of workers should. be organized who will go to Lawrence and present their pledge of solidarity and support to the Lawrence strikers. In every shop, in every workers’ organization, in every workers’ comm ™ity, the support of the Lawrence strike must be raised. Ir the A. F. of L. unions we must raise the support of the Lawrence strike. We must raise relief. We must pass resolutions endorsing the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee, the only strike committee of workers in Lawrence and condemn the strike breaking activity of the UTW officials. ALL WORKERS HAVE A GREAT DUTY TO GIVE FULL ba TO THE LAWRENCE STRIKE! deat LABORITES ARE SNOWED UNDER National “Government Wins Big Majority As the Daily Worker goes to press incomplete reports of the British el- ections indicate that the “socialist” Laborites have suffered a tremend- ous defeat. The MacDonald Nation- not yet ou Bronx Jobless Will Protest at Boro Hall On Monday On Monday, November 2nd, thou- sands of-unemployed in the Bronx will demonstrate and march from 149th St. and Third Ave. to Borough Hall. Bruckner, president of the Bronx Borough, was notified to be at his office, for a large delegation will visit him to present the demands of the unemployed, including the im- mediate opening of a number of Free al government has won by an over- whelming majority and the Conser- \ vatives alone will probably have a majority in the House of Commons. As early as 12:30 a. m. the Labor Party had lost 35 of their 280 seats in Parliament with the Conservatives winning 32 of them. All of former cabinet ministers or other high officials in the MacDon- ald Labor government were defeated. These included Arthur Henderson, Tom Shaw, J. R. Clynes, Margaret Bondfield, A. V. Alexander, and J. H. Hayes. Sir Oswald Mosley, the lead- er of the New Party, the open fas- Milk Stations for the starving chil- dren of the unemployed. The 1622 Bathgate Ave. Unem- ployed Branch is carrying on a day to day activity to prepare the work- ers for the Nov. 2nd great Hunger March. cist party, was also defeated. On the basis of this landslide the National government, or a Conserv- ative government will take the next steps toward the execution of the starvation program of the bourgeo- isie. INCREASE IN WAR RUMORS AIMS AT USSR Wall Street Admits Japanese Will Not Leave Manchuria Agreed ta By U. S. Exploit China Under “Monroe Doctrine” While the Japanese continue send- jing more troops into Manchuria under agreement with the United States and France the capitalist press is gradually increasing the ru- toward the Manchurian border and munitions being shipped to “inde- pendent” generals within Manchuria. All of these rumors are part of the preparations of the imperialists to “draw the Soviet Union” into the Manchurian conflict—to attack the Soviet Union. The financial editor of the New York American admits that ‘‘the view prevails in well informed quarters that Japan intends to~solidfy and make permanent her position in Man- churia.” The “well-informed quar- ters” which are the source of this view are the leading banks in Wall Street which have prepared the sec- ret understandings with Japan and with France regarding not only the redivision of China but of part of the British colonial empire. Bitter attacks on Great Britain are being made by the Japanese impe- rialist press. This is reported by the New York Times Correspondent in Tokio as follows: “Press attacks on the British at- titude at Geneva continue. Several journals today suggest that Britain is trying to ingratiate herself with China in order to regain Lanca- shire’s trade and counteract Jap- anese competition.” In the special statement which was made to the press of the United States by Hikoichi Motoyama, the publisher of the Tokio ‘Nichi Nichi” he states that the invasion of Man- churia by Japan is in the interest of the United States thus admitting the agreements of the two imperialists for the redivision of China. "It is my firm conviction that (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) In the Soviet Union wage in- creases and the universal introduc- tion of the seven-hour day. In cap- italist America wage cuts and the slave stagger plan. Attend the No- vember 7 celebration mass meet- ings. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Oct. 26.—"As Lawrence goes, so goes the industry,” said the members and visiting dele- gates at the National Board meet- ing of the National Textile Workers’ Union, here, Sunday afternoon. Then they got busy planning for new big textile strikes sure to come in the Blackstone Valley and elsewhere as a follow-up to the Lawrence strike. And they thoroughly discussed the plans for winning the Lawrence strike of 25,000 mill workers against the 10 per cent wage-cut. The National Hunger March on Dec. 7 was endorsed and the Trade Union Unity League call for anti- war demonstrations. \ President Jim Reid of the N.T.W.' There were-only two points on the, plus all expenses. presided, and the meeting was at~- tended by Jack Stachel, assistant secfetary of the Trade Union Unity League, and by Phil Aaronberg, na- tional executive board member of the T. U. U. L. It had present, also, especially invited, the chairmen and secretaries of the mill locals of the mors of Soviet troops being moved | Tchopin Musical Club to Give Concert to Aid Miners’ Relief The Chopin Musical Club, 2 work- ers’ organization, will present a con- cert program for the benefit of the miners, Friday, October 30, at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., under the auspices of the Workers Interna- tional Relief. The excellent program will include the following: the Chopin Concert Band of 30 pieces; the Russian- Ukrainian Collective Choir of 100 voices; Wm. Deelow and Dmitrishina in a duet; a Russian balalaika or- chestra of 30 pieces; Jack Shafron, bass; an accordion orchestra; a violin solo, and a one-act play. There will also be jazz and folk dancing to two orchestras. All the money collected at the af- fair will be turned over immediately to the Workers International Relief for the purpose of paying the freight charges on 16 carloads of potatoes that were contributed to the starving miners by r-‘ccestern farmers in a JOBLESS STORM FAKE AGENCIES OPENED BY CIT Cops Beat Up Up Many In Bronx Line NEW YORK.—Over 1,500 workers stormed the Bronx office of the Emergency Employment Committee Tuesday. A riot squad was ordered into action by the police department against the shivering workers when they tried to rush the door in the vain attempt to get registered for jobs that do not exist. Many tattered unemployed were beaten black and blue. Some of the jobless had been in line since 4 o’clock in the morning. | The opening of the “Emergéncy Employment Committee” offices in| various parts of the city is an elec- | tion trick of the Tammany politi- | cians to raise the hopes of the work- j ers and make them believe there are ; jobs to be obtained. In order to slow up the work of registration the workers are forced to remain in Ifthe for hours. office at 1085 Broadway there was a| line blocks long, while only 20 registered. The cops told the others | to leave the line and go home. Many had been there since daybreak. BRONX ELECTION DANCE. The Bronx Section of the Commu- nist Party will hold a dance Tués- ; day, November 3, at 569 Prospect Ave., where the results of the returns of Bronx polling stations will be given by incoming watchers. The Liberator Band will furnish the dance music. Carl Brodsky will be the main speaker, | Endorse Nat'l Hunger March On December 7 to Washington N. T. W. in Lawrence, a delegation of six from six different mills sent directly by the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee of Law- rence, and a delegation of three, one from each of the three locals of the N. T. W., in the important Black- stone Valley. No distinction was made between invited delegates and the regular board members in dis- cussion and voting. Prepare National Conventions. order of business: the Lawrence LAVAL SAILS AFTER TALK WITH LAMONT Warns of Dangers to Capitalism During Coming Months Fear German Collapse British In Attack On Conference The last official conference of Laval before sailing for France on ‘Tuesday was the meeting with Thom- as Lamont of J. P. Morgan and Co. Before leaving for the United States Laval conferred in Paris with J. P. Morgan himself, The conference with ; Lamont completes the conference of | the United States and French im- perialists. which started not when ver met Laval but when Morgan met him, and which ended not when Laval left Washington but when he loft Thomas Laniont. DULUTH, Minn. Oct. 27.—Over 1,800 workers took part in a hunger march to city hall, and despite the threatening rain, paraded to the capitalist city governmént to present their demands. The city hall was packed with police when the workers arrived. A delegation, however, was allowed to go into the Council meet- ing. The City Council tried to evade responsibility for unemployment re- lief. The unemployed delegation forced the City Council to have a special open session to listen to the Jobless workers and the demands for relief on October 30, at 2 p. m. Several hundred workers marched from the Square to Camel's Hall, where an organizational meeting was held. The workers pleaded support The firm of J. P. Morgan and Co. to the National Hunger March to _ ates leader of the United States Washington, D. C., on December 7. rialists in the conferences with ie 1. Rees imperialists .for- the. re- alignment of ‘the world imperialist Prepare for National Hunger March to Washington On| Dec 7. New Councils Formed Minneapolis, Chicago, Springfield, Trenton, Active In Plans for National Relief Drive Many of the unemployed signed up with the Unemployed Council. Ce Jobless Demanded Lodgings BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 27.—Over one hundred unemployed homeless work- ers went in a group from the unem- ployed Council meeting today to the Salvation Army quarters, Brookline and Washington Streets and de- manded free lodging. A few days ago the committee of the Unemployed Council after put- ting their demands to the institution were promised lodging for 50 to 75 jobless. They tried to squirm out of their promise by saying they will only deal with individuals and called in five cops to enforce their position. But when they saw the determina- powers, for tne preparations for the attack on the German revolutionary masses and on the Soviet Union. The final stage in these conferences was the Lamont-Laval meeting after which, the New York Times reports, “No information was given out as to, the purpose and .nature of this con- ference.” At the banquet Monday night Laval reemphasized that the main fight of the imperialists is against the Soviet Union. He mentioned this in the hy- pocritical phrases common to capital- ist diplomats as follows: “The duty of statesmen is to ne- glect no practical method of coop- eration for the common good—as we declared yesterday in Washing- ton. While respecting their nation- al traditions and laws, they should seek means to protect every home against poverty and our civilization | against the dangers to which it ts At the! © xposed, “This is the ideal which guided us during our conversation.” The statesmen of the imperialists realize that the working masses of the world are looking more and more to the path taken by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union as the way out of capitalist class, war and crisis. For this reason and in order to widen the markets of exploitation the imperialists are intensifying the at- tack against the Soviet Union, where ‘the working masses are celebrating the fourteenth anniversary of their (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “Spread and Win Lawrence Strike!” Says NTW Board Meet “Delegates from Lawrence mills de- scribed how the strike started in the spinning room of the. Wood Mill. They told humorous stories about the failure of the carefully concocted propaganda of the American Woolen Co. officials intended to persuade the workers to take the cut. When the manager of the Wood Mill told the workers that everybody, even he, him- self, was to take the cut, the workers asked him what his salary was and whether he couldn't afford it better than they could. Payment of low wages to workers and huge salaries to the big bosses is a tradition with j the American Woolen Co. President Wood used to get .$1,000,000 a year, Just what the present president, Noah, gets, is not (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FINAL ELECTION RALLY WILL TAKE PLACE THURSDAY NIGHT In all boroughs of the city at street | ndstings, and from house to house, line workers will be mobilized to at- tend the final election rally to be held by the Communist Party, New York District tomorrow, Thursday evening, at 7 p. m. at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. The endorsement of the Communist Party platform in this election struggle by the various fra- ternal organizations and unions and the splendid meeting held by the U. 8. Bank Depositors at Public School 65 last night, which unanimously and enthusiastically voted to support the Communist Party and raised a storm of protest against Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate, are indications that the working class will turn out for a record breaking meeting Thurs- day night at Webster Hall. This mass sentimént must be translated into support for the Communist plat- form at the polls on November 3rd, when at least 100,000 votes should be cast for the Party as the leader of all struggles of the working class. Every class conscious worker should be at Webster Hall on Thursday night to support the C. P. immediate demands for unemployment relief for the starving jobless workers of New York and to enlist in the ranks of the Communist Party for revolutionary struggle in New York and to enlist in the ranks of the Communist Party for revolutionary struggle in the shops and factories and on the poli- tical field in the interests of the working class. All out for the meeting on Thurs- Celebrate U.S.S.R. 14th Anniversary Sun. In Jamaica; Amter Speaks NEW YORK.—Preparations are in full swing for a mass turn out on November 8, at 8 p.m. at the Fin- nish Hall, 109-26 Union Hall Street, Jamaica, where the 14th year of triumphant proletarian rule and the building of the new world will be celebrated by hundreds of Negro and white workers, including also farm- ers from the surrounding villages. The Communist Party, Finnish Workers Club and the Women's Council elected a joint committee to make all preparations for this eent. An interesting program is being ar- ranged, Two open air meetings are strike (with its implication of other, known, but it is something com-' being held in preparation for this. strikes soon) and the preparation for the National Convention of the N. T. W. U. The convention was post-| poned to next spring and prepara-/ ning rooms in Lawrence and, “what tions made for an enlarged National Council meeting soon. parable. One delegate told how he had worked nine’ years ago in the spin- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 'orhere will be a mass distribution of leaflets in which all the organizations will participate. ‘The unemployed of Jamaica show keen interest.in this Anniversary and many of them will be present. day night! Among the speakers at the meeting will be: I. Amter, J. L. Engdahl, Ben Gold of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, representatives of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, Unemployed Council, T. U. U. L. Bill Gropper will draw cartoons of the reaction- ary pape ar a W.LR. PREPARES HUNGER MARCH Organization Shows New Growth NEW YORK.—Increased organiza- tional activity of the Workers Inter- national Relief has resulted in the formation of 31 new branches in the past six weeks, or since the recent W.LR., 799 Broadway, announce. Several additional branches have been formed but they will not be an- nounced until the names of all their members have been forwarded to the national office of the W. I. R. Among the branches formed are: Johnstown, Allentown, Ambridge, Seward and Portage, Pennsylvania! Atlantic City, Vineland, Camden, Trenton, Jersey City, Paterson, New Jersey; Bronx, Williamsburg, Bath Beach, Midtown, Hungarian, Harlem, and New Rochelle, New York; Min- neapolis, St. Paul, New York Mills, and Kettle River, Minnesota; Owen, Wisconsin; North Ironwood, Michi- ganne, Snake River, Pelki, Green and South Cary, Michigan. Every one of these new branches is participating actively in the collec- tion of food and funds for the strik- ing and blacklisted miners who are fighting starvation in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Kentucy, West Vir- ginia and Ohio. Under directives from the national office, these branches are also swinging into ac- tivity in connection with the Na- tional Hunger March. Good work is being done by these new branches, but the W. I. R. urges an intensification of effort both in| regard to the National Hunger March, in which the W. I. R. bears the responsibility of supplying food, lodging and first aid supplies to the marchers, and strike relief, which has diminished to a certain extent, The workers International Relief is now organizing medical units all along the lines of march and calls National Conference took place, the ' 1,800in Duluth March {CALL 10,000 Demand Jobless Relief TO DEMAND STRIKE AID Lawrence M: Mass — Votes to Carry On Struggle 8 Capuani Is B Beaten Up Small Pawtucket Mill Goes Out On Strike LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct, 27.—Bill Dunne will speak at Lincoln Court lot here on Wednesday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League will speak at the same place at 3 Sunday afternoon. The United Textile Workers Union leaders, to aid the bosses defeat the strike, are following the policy of reducing the militancy of the strike. They have announced the abandon- ment of their meetings on the Com- mon, and instead announce meetings in Eagle's Hall which seats only 1,200. Gorman of the UTW is afraid to face two or three thousand strikers daily. When 2,000 appeared on the Common [én the usual time today despite the announcement, the UTW speakers , came also and conducted a meeting. Picketing went on as usual this morning, the weather being cold. ‘There were practically no scabs. Fifty strikers out of 150 on the Arlington picket line this morning marched over to the mass meeting of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. The rest went home. No Arlington pickets went to the United Textile Workers’ meeting. Capuani, who was beaten up and arrested for being one of the delega- |tion to the scity hall demanding re- ilef for the strikers, had his case *postponed to November 3, on motion of the prosecution, in order to give Immigration Inspector Chase time to find “grounds” for deportation. Bail was raised from $200 to $400. Bail was secured by the Lawrence strikers defense committee and from the In- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘STRIKE CRUSADER 14 ST. CAFETERIA Cafeteria Workers Call Mass Meet Tonight NEW YORK.—Workers of the Cru- sader Restaurant, 14th St. near Irv- ing Place, yesterday walked out on strike for union conditions in the place, and against the tactics of the employers in shifting and discharg- ing workers suspected of union ac- tivities. The strike is being led. by the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. Thousands of workers gathered out- side the cafeteria around noon and expressed solidarity with the strikers. The police, grouped in large numbers around the place, tried to terrorize the pickets and sympathizing workers, The Food Workers’ Industrial Union declared that this strike marked the first step in the organiam tion of workers in the larger cafes terias for struggle against worsening conditions. A call for a united front mass meeting of all cafeteria workers ab Irving Plaza Hall, Wednesday, Oc- tober 28, 8:30 p. m., was sent out by the union. All cafeteria workers in both organized and unorganized shops were urged to attend this meeting. upon workers to aid these medical units in the collection of medical sup- plies from sympathetic physicians, ete. Join the Workers International Re- lief, the only workers’ relief organe ization! If there is no branch in your city, communicate immediately with the National Office, 799 Broad- way, N. Y. C. OTE COMMUNIST-VOTE AGAINST HUNGER, TERROR AND WAR! —