The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1931, Page 1

AFL, Dail orker GOVERNOR TRY DESPERATELY TO BREAK LAWRE NC EST Ai RIKE Intensify the struggle for local WORKERS relief! Resist evictions! Organ- OF THE WORLD, y: ize Unemployed Branches! UNITE! : * Prepare for the National Central PS a mmunist Party U. S. A. Hunger March, Dec. 7th! (Section of the Communist International) pul eet ss hee pelea Bet Spee eee — ee a —— = sos a VOL. VIII, No. 261 nenew York, NYownder the ct of March 3, t6r0 <u NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1931 <) ¢) CHES EDEN Price 3 Cents ADMIT JAPANESE MOVE MEANS WAR ON “SOCIALIST” MAYOR SHUNS Warliern, ‘Be Prepared! h ieiaci heeds Japan has discovered that somebody is “shipping arms into Manchuria!” Is it Japan, which has flooded Manchuria with troops and killed tens of thousands of Chinese? It is the Soviet Union! Imperialist Japan expresses itself as “alarmed” at “troop movements.” ‘WHOSE troop movements, Japan’s? Oh, no, indeed! Those of the Soviet Union! ‘Workers, we appeal to you! Look at the map of Manchuria and see for yourselves that TROOPS ARE BEING MOVED BY JAPAN TOWARD ‘THE SOVIET FRONTIER! Notice the arrogance of Japan! It sends the Soviet Union a threat- ening note demanding that the Soviet disband its troops that are ON SOVIET SOIL, while it—Japan—ADVANCES ITS OWN TROOPS TO- ‘WARD THE SOVIET BORDER! And advances by FURTHER INVA- SION OF MANCHURIA! What is the excuse Japan makes for advancing its troops northwest- erly to within strategic striking distance (at Tsitsihar) of the oviet front- jer at Manchouli? A Tokio Associated Press dispatch says: “Jt was announced that the South Manchurian Railway (which means the Japanese General Staff—Editor, D. W.), was sending an en- gineering force, ACCOMPANIED BY A SMALL DETACHMENT OF "TROOPS ‘to serve as a guard,’ to repair the Nonni Bridge, recently dam- aged by Amur troops. Repairs to the bridge, which is JUST SOUTH OF TSITSIHAR, will require about a fortnight.” ‘The old Japanese game! Every troop movement is “SO INNOCENT!” ‘But this troop movement carries the Japanese invasion of Manchuria to a NEW STAGE, to a SITTING-ASTRIDE THE SOVIET-CHINESE RAIL- ‘WAY, and a LONG LEAP TOWARD SOVIET FRONTIERS! More, Japanese troops are concentrating south and east of Harbin, as a RIGHT FLANK OF JAPANESE ADVANCE, THREATENING THE SOVIET ON THE EAST! ‘That Nonni Riber bridge! It is SO precious to Japan (though it belongs to China!) that troops are sent to fix it up, and on Wednesday it was “explained” that the bridge was “recently damaged by Amur (Chinese) troops;” although on Tuesday the Tokio United Press cor- respondent explained: “The bridge was damaged last week by bombs dropped from Japanese war planes.” Blow up a bridge yourself, then send TROOPS to repair it while “ex- plaining” that someone else did it! And the “repairs” will “take about a fortnight’—so that the League of Nations Council, when it meets again on Nov. 16 “by which time it has asked Japan to evacuate il- legally occupied zones in Manchuria,” will find Japanese troops illegally occupying STILL MORE of Manchuria and engaged in the “holy” task of seizing the Chinese Eastern Railway from the “unholy” Soviet Union— if, indeed, Japanese troops have not by that time PROVOKED WAR ON THE SOVIET BORDER! Workers! Japan would NEVER have moved these troops if it did not have a SECRET AGREEMENT with Washington and Geneva (Briand) that America and France would SUPPORT THIS ANTI-SOVIET WAR MOVE! Workers! Be on guard! The Soviet Union, the Workers’ Republic, anxious for peace so that it may complete socialist construction, is in danger! Japan, backed by the Hoover Government, is PROVOKING WAR ON THE SOVIET IN THE WEST! The Farm Board is ready with wheat and cotton to supply both France and Germany for war! Wheat prices went up 25 per cent after Laval's “talk” with Hoover! (After the farmers have sold it at low prices!) But the Hoover Government backs the wage cutters that take bread from YOUR TABLE! Hoover refuses to surrender one cent of war funds to feed the millions of jobless! Workers! Be on guard! Fight now for food to the jobless! Organize . and strike against wage cuts! Vote Communist in city elections! Turn out for the 14th Anniversary of the Soviet Revolution! Defend the Soviet Union! . To New York Party Members FAILURE of the secion and unit organizations properly to prepare —and prepare well in advance—the Election Day workers to watch the polls and do other election work on that day, is reported. This shows that TWO THINGS must be done. First, the slackness and neglect of election work shows a political weakriess, an under-estimation of the seriousness and necessity of Com- mounisf participation in parliamentary activities that MUST BE EX- ‘TERNJINATED! Sihcond, organization for election activity next, Tuesday must be pushed at all speed, to overcome past neglect. All comrades named as WATCH~ ERS must report at their Section Headquarters at 5 p. m. on Election Day, for instructions before taking their place at the polls at 5:45 a. m. And this doesn’t mean that 9 or 10 a. m. “will do.” Finally, ALL Party members not working or otherwise excused, should report at headquarters of their sections as early as possible on Election Day, for important-and necessary assistance in the work. Oh, no! Mobilization of Young Workers In Detroit for the National Hunger March 1. Young workers are a decisive factor among the unemployed and special steps must be talen to mobilize young workers in all preparatory work. 2. Michigan State Conference of Unemployed Young Workers to be held in Detroit.on Nov. 9th, to be used to popularize the Hunger March, to develop special youth issues and to organize youth committees and youth groups of the Unemployed Councils and Block Committees. 3. All Unemployed Councils to pay special attention to youth activi- ties, youth demands and youth organizations. 4. Delegates from Nov. 9th Youth Conference shall report on the youth program and activities at all conferences. 5. All demonstrations and marches shall organize youth and chil- dren sections with special banners, slogans and youth demands to be included in all demands presented by governmental authorities. 6. Every block committee shall set as-its task to organize a youth group and a children’s group and prepare special demonstrations around, youth and children demands at the YMCA and Board of Education. 7. The children’s demonstration being org@nized before the Detroit Board of Education on Noy, 2 shall raise the question of the Hunger March and shall be supported’ by the Unemployed Councils. 8, In electing delegates for the State and National Hunger March, every Council shall bear in mind the importance of having adequate youth representation, So far, Detroit is the only city which sent in a program for the mobilization of the youth for the National Hunger March, What are other d icts doing to mobilize the young workers for ‘the Hunger March Send in reports. " ATTENTION: Detroit. We expect Detroit shall issue an Unem- ployed Bulletin—San Francisco is doing it, New York is issuing one, why not Detroit. Districts send all information, plans, etc., to A. W. Mills, 2 W. 15th St. Room 414. UNEMPLOYED Stump of Reading ‘Out’ | ‘When Unemployed Demand Relief Nat'l March Preparing Jobless Councils Grow Throughout Indiana READING, Pa., Oct. 29.—Five hun- dred workers demonstrated at the Reading city hall yesterday demand- ing immediate unemployment. relief for the “socialist” city administra~- tion. Mayor Stump, “socialist,” and the councilmen were absent from the city hall fearing to meet the unem- ployed workers, The demonstration endorsed the National Hunger March to Washing- ton, D. C. Dec. 7. The Reading workers, employed and unemployed, sent their fraternal greetings to the workers of the Soviet Union for the 14th anniversary of the Russian Re- volution. Indiana Preparations INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct, 29.— Preparations for the Hunger March to Congress on Dec. 7 are now going ahead in many cities of Southern and Central Indiana. On Nov, 22, a huge conference called jointly by the Unemployed Council and International Labor De- fense at Workers Center, 932% S. Meridian will bring together many delegates from organizations in In- dianapolis including members of the American Federation of Labor unions as well as delegates from many out of town cities to elect delegates for the National Hunger March, to plan local struggles and demonstrations on Dec, 7 and to demand the release of Ted Luesse, Indiana Unemployed leader and all class war prisoners. On Nov, 15 at the Workers Center at 2 p. m. a public hearing is being (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KENTUCKY MINERS IN GLENDON WIN THEIR DEMANDS Have Own Checkw’gh- men, Mine Committee MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Oct. 29.— Glendon miners, in the Straight Creek section, which is 30 miles from Harlan County, scene of bitter strike battles, have won recognition of their mine committee, the eight-hour day, their own checkweighmen, no dis- crimination, pay for overtime, as well as pay for dead work. They won the demand of no back rent before Oc- tober. At the Caroline mine they won the fight for no discrimination, eight- hour day, their own checkweighman, overtime pay, etc. At Coleman the miners also won the fight against. discrimination, for the eight-hour day, as well as for their own check- weighman. Eleven miners, who were recently arrested in connection with this strike, were dismissed. Victory of National Bloc Increases Menace of War (Cable By Inprecorr) LONDON, Oct. 29.—Today’s Daily Worker declares that the National Hunger government won an oyer- whelming victory, thanks to its un- scrupulous election methods in the electoral machinery, intimidation and threats of further wage-cuts, dismis- vals and police terror, The ruling class was never 0 united against the workers as in this election, There has never been such an unparalleled stream of lies in the press, pulpit and radio against the workers. A period of increased attacks on the Attac and Manchurian Border Wall St. Goss pcneiil “Warns of Russian Menace” HARBIN TELLS LIES Stirs Up Propaganda In War Move While the Japanese imperialists are sending more troops into Manchuria and are broadcasting rumors of Soviet troops being moved into that zone, the Hoover eo---* >" is informing the . = t it is watching the whoie situation with “some evi- dence of disquiet.” The Hoover gov- ernment has given out as part of its “unofficial” information to the cap- italist press the “crystalization of the Russian menace” in Manchuria. The New York Times carries this “unof- ficial” information as follows: “It was interpreted that there had been some crystalization of the Russian menace which has always loomed in the background of the Manchurian crisis between Japan and China, probably precipitated by some movement of Japanese troops in Manchuria toward Mon- golia.” The Times then continues the un- dercover attack on the Soviet Union with the information from Washing- ton that the “Christian” General Feng Yu-hsiang has a large force of troops in Magnolia, that it would be regarded as significant . . . should any movement be made by him to- ward the Manchurian border.” The Times adds that any move that he makes will be as the result of sup- port of the Soviet Union. “His officers are largely Russians, with some Germans, and he is so situated that the necessary sup- plies for any campaign he might undertake at present would have to come from Russia.” This entire “information” from ‘ SOVIET UNION LEGIEN ID eo ceee SOUTH MANCHURIAN R.R. JAPANESE OWNED. aR. - LY OWNED BY SOVIET: CRINESE cOsTE RN St 2B ApAnEse AL CHINA ne noah MOVING NORTHWARD, ARD' SOVIET FRONTIER AT MANCHOULI, OWNED R.R. SIE: JAPANESE TROOPS ARE Tow SHADED Ai JaneareN omens LM) Workers! Defend theVictories of REA -HEAVILY OCCUPIED BY JAPANESE TROOPS ING SOVIET FRONTIER AT POGRANICHNAYA» Washington is part of the Hoover preparations for the attack on the Soviet Union. While the capitalist press repeats the rumors of the Japanese and United States imperialists that the Soviet Union is supplying Chinese troops with munitions and is con- centrating more troops on the border it is forced to admit that these ru- mors have no bafis in fact and originate directly in Harbin the cen- ter of the counter-revolutionary white guard elements. The Times admits this in the following cable from Tokio: “The White Russians doubtless intends to protect those interests themselves, but despite sensational rumors from Harbin, which is not known to be a fountain of truth in times. of excitement, there is no reason to believe the Russians are aiding the Chinese or to expect a clash between Japanese and Rus- sians.” The rumors and “information” from Harbin, Tokio and Washington have a single aim—to prepare the attack on the Soviet Union, and to cover the sending of thousands of additional Japanese troops into Man- churia for this attack, for the re- division of China and to crush the Soviets of the Chinese masses. working class, increased oppression of the colonial peoples and the increased danger of war on the Soviet Union opens up. ‘The policy of the labor party alone made possible the tremendous victory of reaction. The labor leaders began the work which is now being con- tinued by the National hunger gov- ernment. The whole policy of the labor party is directed to rescue capl- talism and conceal from the workers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 14 Years Socialist Construction All Out November 7th! Demonstrate Your Determination to Fight Against the War Markers! MOSCOW, Oct. 28—The Russian workers are preparing to celebrate the anniversary of the November Revolution by the October gifts i (workers collectively presenting the new fac- tories to industry) and increasing the tempo of Socialist Construction. Throughout the country, factories and collective farms are checking up their work under the slogan of realizing the conditions explained by Comrade Stalin in a speech to the leaders of industry on the twenty-third of June of this year.@——————-—__—_-_—_____ ‘These conditions must be carried | together. The American factories are through because of the changed con- | unning less than half capacity with ditions of industry and the new tasks | 200,000 unemployed in Detroit. In brought about by the success of the | Stalingrad, which is the Soviet Ford Five Year Plan. city, there is no unemployment. “When challenged last April in an Living Standard Rises : open letter from Leningrad, by the A general advance is taking place/peq putiloff steel workers to wake in the standard of living of the|up and overcome their backwardness, toilers, as for example the Donbas production of coal being increased from 97.7 thousand ton last October to 108 thousand in September of this year and now 132 thousand tons‘daily. The miners’ wages have been increased 35% percent this year. The Moscow railway shops for repairing cars and engines are also included in the gifts. |. From White Russia, Ukraine, Si- beria, from Vladivostok, Baku and Leningrad, the masses are proving their enthusiastic determination to surpass the Five Year Plan by the Seventh of November. Stalingrad whose difficulties of low output six months ago was hailed by the bour- geois press as showing that the Soviet Union can build giant industries, but are not able to run them, is now turn- ing out over 100 tractors daily which is more than any capitalist plant in the world. The McCormack plant is producing only seven Fords daily while in Ireland nag! dace is idle al- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Feeling the growing demand for relief of the masses of unemployed whose ranks have swelled to beyond 12,000,000, Hoover's “Committee on Unemploy- ment” was forced to issue a new fake scheme here Wednesday in an effort to make the unemployed believe that there are jobs in sight. ‘The new promise of “recovery,” re- calling the many previous lies of the Hoover regime, is timed with the growing activities for the National Hunger March, which is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Dec. 7, k Looms from Polish S |Rep. Sirovich Tells of “Con- fidential Information” PLAN DIVIDE USSR Aim to Attack Before End of 5-Year Plan The attack by the Japanese im- | perialists on the Soviet Union which | is being prepared in Manchuria is admitted by the capitalist press to |be the first step in teh general at- | tack of the imperialists. This is bra- zenly stated by Knickerbocker, the New York Evening Post correspond- ent from Berlin. “The conceivable consequences of a possible Soviet-Japanese con- flict are hardly to be overestimated. Moscow has constantly feared that just such events as are now trans- piring in Manchuria could force the Soviet Union into the war she has dreaded for the past decade An attack by Japan in the east would, Moscow fears, be followed by an attack by Poland in the west and neutral observers are con- vinced that a Soviet-Japanese war might well be a prologue to gen- eral European or world conflict. “The Soviet Union, with its (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) TO OPEN FIRST PUBLIC JOBLESS HEARING NOV. 5 Will Expose Conditions of Unemployed NEW YORK.—J. Louis Engdahl, Secretary of the International Labor Defense, will be the judge and main speaker at the first public hearing on unemployment which will be held in New York in connection with the Washington Hunger march. This public hearing, which will expose the role of the city and charity institu- tions in administering relief to the starving workers of the city, will be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. N. Y., on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. Workers from the bread- lines, flophouses, employment agen- cies and charity institutions will tes- tify and relate their experiences at this hearing. Defeat Gyp Agency. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil forced the Central Employment Agency, 110 Fourth Ave., to return $8 to a worker named W. A. Arnold, living at 4614 Clarendon Road, Brook- lyn. This worker paid for a job and was sent to a vacant lot. The agency refused to give him back his money. A committee from the Downtown Un- employed Council changed the gyp shark's mind in one minute's time. (mportant Notice John W. Jenkins John W. Jenkins has been called for pleading. Please report to the I. L. D. District Office immediately, 799 Broadway, Room 410, Hoover Issues New Fake Scheme to Fool Jobless when Congress opens. The candi- dates know that the National Hun- ger March will rally millions behind the struggle for relief, The purpose of the report is to revive the faith of the unemployed in capitalism and to keep them from fighting for relief. The program it- self, which contains ten points, aside from its “promises” of “working for recovery,” is in itself a program of hunger and attack against the unem- {CONTINUED ON PAGE re “UNITY OF ALL STRIKERS WILL WIN!” State, Bosses and UTW | Join in Attack | On Workers | Admit Fakers Betray | United Front Calls for Stronger Picket Lines BULLETIN LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 29.— Governor Ely in an interview given | to Lawrence newspapers this after- noon says: “I am sorry to say that up to the present time it has been impossible to make any arrange- ments for the men to return to work under a five per cent cut, and in my opinion it will be impossible to end the strike by that method.” Some others concerned are re- ported in the Boston Press as den- ying their part in’ the “settle- ment.” > The repercussions in Lawrence of the workers against the attempt of the A. F. of L. officials to betray the strike through the Governor's original offer has forced them to attempt to evade responsibility for the proposal that was announced in this morning’s capitalist papers, namely, acceptance of a five per cent wage cut. Governor Ely, in an attempt to force the workers back to work with a pay cut, got the UTN and A. F. L, officials to agree to a 5 per cent wage cuts, as a step to a 10 per cent cut. The later announce- ment of the Governor shows that the bosses want the UTN and A. F. of L. misleaders to deliver all at once—the complete cut of 10 per cent. LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 29.—The decisive moment of the strike has now arrived with an open attempt of the United Textile Workers Union in agreement with the Governor and the mill owners to send the strikers back with a five per cent wage cut and the whole question of wages to be ar- bitrated after their return to work. In fact, the secret arbitration has already been arrived at with the United Textile Workers Union offi- clals and the American Textile Work- ers officials at a meeting with the Governor and ai! the independent mill companies, The American Woolen Company has not yet agreed. This company employs 13,000 out of the 23,000 strik- ers. It is a clear attempt to split the ranks of the strikers. The proposals to return to work on the above bases was first announced today in the Bos- ton Post which is the personal organ of Governor Ely. All that is left is to persuade the strikers to go back to work and this the United Textile Workers Union promises to do. The Boston Post states: “Leaders among the strikers are also ready to agree to such a pro- posal and will make every human effort to persuade the rank and file to agree.” This means the leaders of the United Textile Workers Union and the American Textile Workers. The reason for the latest determined ef- fort to break the strike is partially because the United tSates Army has given an order for over a million yds. of woolen olive drab cloth and this order is divided among the mills with probably a time limit. Workers Determined The absolute solidarity and deter- mination not to accept the wage cut displayed by the strikers has forced the employers and state in this pre- war period to resort to extraordinary measures. Although the American ‘Woolen Company has not officially endorsed the proposal for the return of the strikers with a five per cent cut and arbitration, the inspired ar- ticle in the Boston Post says: “It is the belief here tonight that. although that corporation has shown an unwillingness in the past to come in on the proposal, their representatives, most of whom are outside the state, will ultimately agree to join with the Massachu- setts men who control the other (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)