The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1931, Page 1

$13,000,000 Workers’ Savings Lost in A. F. of L. Bank Headed by Green, Woll, Ryan, Chief Opponents of Unemployment Insurance and National Hunger March! NEW YORK. Robbing thousands of employed and unemployed workers of their hard-earned savings, the Federa- tion Bank and Trust Co., in which Wil- liam Green, president of the A. F. of L., and Mathew Woll, labor faker, and vici- ous enemy of the Soviet Union, figure prominently as “directors,” closed its doors, tying up $13,339,206 in deposits. Other labor fakers who had a pro- minent part in the bank and its failure ternational tion; William Kohn, stery Workers Union and John Si are the same A. F. Vancouver A. F. of I feat unemployment i: are: J. P. Ryan, president of the In- Longshoremen’s <Associa- Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor. led the proposal which passed at the save the huge profits of the bosses. head of the Uphol- of the A. F. of L.; These | ated in th of L. leaders who At 3 p. bank faile .. conyention to de- rs’ A. F. nsurance, and thus At the time the bank was closed Sup- erintendent of Banks Broderick, who is under criminal indictment for the crash of the Bank of United States, reason for the crash. The bank gayi e garment: district at 34th St. m., a few hours before this d, the chairman of the print- of L. local of the printing shep of the Advertising Craftsmen on 31st Street made a deposit which was accepted even though the Jabor-faking officials knew the bank was ju to crash, A young apprentice, been slaving for years, had an of $250, and at 3:30 he tried draw $40 but was refused, although the banking hours are up to 6 0’ Friday. Workers in many shops were The printers in the Journal-A Mirror plants lost a great deal o! A man from the bank, with a union st about | card, would come up to the shop and col- who had | lect. One worker lost over $1,000 which | this mon account | he worked many years to get together. | faced wit to with- | The union fakers used to make it “easy” for the workers by More than 40 international and 150 clock on | get the deposits. hit hard. | local unions owned merican- | peddled to them by f money. | ficials. In order to “strengthen” the sending men up to organize stock, which was the union bank of- bank, Green and Woll got 400 locals to deposit their funds in the bank, and now ey is tied up, and the locals h a total loss. All workers who stand to lose their life savings in this bank crash should a mass demonstration at the bank to demand immediate payment of their say Federation headquarters, which is un- der the leadership of Mathew Woll! ings, as well as at the Civic. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central ey Section of the Communist fateraeional ) «Worker founict Porty U.S.A. In 30 Days the N tion of the Nat Yew York Sec- ional Hunger March Leaves for Washington. Support the Fig ht for Imme- diate Relief and Unemployment Insurance at the Expense of Entered as second-class VOL. VIII, No. 262 at New York, N. Y. antler the act of March 3, 1870 innate matter at the Post Office N ow YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931 _crry EDITI the BoSses and Their Gov’t! ON JAPAN IS SPEARHEAD OF WAR DRIVE ON SOVIET UNION ! Will Hayes, the World-Tele-, gram and Unemployment Insurance S THE DEMAND for Workers Unemployment Insurance grows stronger, the economic crisis deepens, and as the drive for the National Hunger March gets under way, the bosses turn loose their big shots in the anti- uhemployment insurance campaign operating under the name of Emer- gency Unemployment Relief Committee—Hoover’s committee. Will Hays, thé mountebank of moviedom, making a radio appeal for the Hoover-Gifford Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee on Oc- tober_26, said, amang other things: . “I can already observe legislation drawing anticipatory measures to draft relief if we fail to volunteer it.” “I do not refer to the proper use, as a constitutional police power in periods of emergency, of certain moneys raised by taxation. . . . I refer to the abortive extension of that proper function into fields of deadening pittances romoting idleness. . . .” Hays sees unemloyment insurance in the offing. Here he makes it clear that the blatant ballyhoo organized by the Hoover administration, with the wage cutters, usurers and “grinders of the faces of the poor,” and their hired publicists, yelling their heads off about “emergency unemployment relief,” with “each community taking care of its own,” is nothing more than a powerful effort, financed by the biggest capitalists and banks, to prevent the establishment of Work- ers. Unemployment Insurance, pasties by the government at the ex- pensé of these same billionaire exploiters. While Hays was supposed to be speaking of “the poor whom we have always with us,” he actually made his appeal in behalf of the rich and asked that they be relieved of as much of the burden as possible by the workers ‘whom they are still good enough to hire—at reduced wages, of course. If you don’t believe this we will have to quote again from the ‘World-Telegram report of the Hays speech: “And the so-called rich cannot do it alone. The shrinkage in securities, combined with suppressed buying power, hasn't left: him enough to carry his usual burden and ours besides. He has the responsibility, too, of conserving enough of his depleted resources to maintain our jobs.” Hays, as the combined clown and czar of the movie industry, has to worry along on a salary tof $250,000 per year. It is easy to understand why he is so heated up about taxes for unemployment insurance and sven lest workers expect his bosses, ditect and indirect, to dig deep enough into their bankrolls to actually relieve any substantial amount of unem- ployment. Even in this fake drive he admits that the bulk of the “emer- gency relief” is to be taken from those workers still employed. As ih the world war, the task of the Gifford Committee is to con- vince masses of workers growing daily more skeptical of the wisdom and beauty of capitalism, that it is their-duty—their “patriotic” duty—to bear the burdens created for them by their bosses—and to continue to bear them, calmly, patiently, world without end, extending only the palm for reluctant charity instead of the fist of organization, mass struggle, and Febellion. ‘The World-Telegram says that “Will Hays . . . voiced an appeal for relief funds which the World-Telegram believes is one of the sanest and most human utterances made since the depression. It is with this in mind that Mr. Hays’ speech is printed today.” The above quotation is printed today by us “with this in mind”: That the World-Telegram quite obviously is not above taking advan- tage of the misery of millions of hungry workers in order to cadge from ‘Hays some generous and profitable movie advertising contracts—in addt- tion to the fact that it is a valiant fighter for the protection of the huge profits of the American capitalist class, like all other capitalist sheets. That it speaks of itself as “liberal” at times, only shows that it is a little cleverer and dirtier than the average capitalist daily. Our task now is to prepare the National Hunger March, to rally the workers against the Hoover-Wall Street starvation program, to organize the fight for adequate winter relief and Workers Unemployment Insur- ance equal to full wages. This will be a big step forward in the struggle to “relieve” the capi- talist class entirely of their “usual burden”—the control of goverriment, industry and natural resources, Build Mass Labor Detense The building of a mass organization of struggle against the growing terror regime in the United States is the central task before the sessions of the National Executive Committee of the International Labor Defense beginning in New York today. Mooney, Harlan, Scottsboro, Camp Hill, Imperial Valley, Centralia, persecution of striking miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and €entucky; of textile workers in New Jersey, New England and the South, with numerous other struggles, call for the-rapid broadening of the mass base of all defense activities. On the growing resistance of the working class to mass unemployment, wage cuts and the whole capitalist offen- sive, thousands of new police persecutions will take place. There will be scores of arrests in the National Hunger March! In carrying through its important work the LL.D. Plenum has the Avie of the recent Plenum of the International Red Aid that raised the immediate necessity of building all of its 65 national ions into mass organizations. Such exist at the present time only in the Sovict Union, China, Germany and a few other countries, This necessity grows datly with mass persecutions developing parallel to labor's resistance to be ever-growing unemployment and hunger, and oe sharpening war ger. CORRECTION * | Yesterday's call in the Daily Worker was incorrect in that it gave the time for reporting to the Section Head- | quarters at 5 P. M. The time is 5 A. M, Tuesday, Nov. 3, Election Day. Workers who cannot report at 5 A.M, quarters of the Communist Party in| should report as soon as possible tour neighborhood at 5 A. M. so that/| thereafter for work in connection All militant workers who can pos- sibly.do so, should act as watchers an Tuesday for the Comifunist Par- ‘y. Report to the Section Head- LAWRENCE PICKET LINES KEEP FIRM AFL, Governor, Boss} Effort to Break Strike Fails “Kidnapping” Trickery Workers’ Voté Rejects 5 P.C. Cut “Offer” LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 30.— Picketing went, on at all mills as usual in the strike here of 25,000 tex- tile workers against a general 10 per cent wage cut. United ‘Textile Workers Union and A. F. of L, Jeaders made strong ef- forts this morning to stampede the Arlington picket line. The informa- tion was that a few scabs might try | to enter the Arlington mill late in| the forenoon, but the A. F. of L. pro- posed to take the pickets to Shaw-| sheen, three miles away. About 50 went to Shawsheen but the rest came to the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee meeting. The alleged kidnapping of “Red Mike Shulman from the Shaw- sheen picket line by three men in a sedan at 5 o'clock yesterday after- noon is being made into a huge pub- licity stunt with big headlines in the Boston and Lawrence newspapers, with statements of Watt, Gorman and Reviere, misleaders, in an effort to try to impress the strikers with the “militancy” of the A. F. of L. Shulman is one of the crew of So- cialists imported to make speeches with radical phrases for the United Tetxile Workers Union. After the~publicity this morning Shulman himself appeared in a nearby town, Hewburyport, stating that the kidnappers held him over- night and then released him. The American Textile Workers | Union meeting last night voted un- | animously by the rank and file not to consider a five per cent cut as proposed by Governor Ely in yes- terday morning’s papers. (Additional news on page 5) The Soviet Union spends billions on social insurance. The Wall Street Government ‘spends billions Tammany and AFL in Arrangement to Cheat Worker of $1,000,000 Taking advantage of the desperate conditions of the dock builders, Tammany by special agreement with the corrupt officials of the A. F. of L. Dock Department and Dock Build- ers Union have arranged to fleece) the dock workers of $1,000,000. A contract for the building of three piers has been awarded to Allen H. Sooner & Son, who through the traitorous agreement of the union Officials will be able to work the men day and night in straight 8 hour shifts, with no overtime paid for night work. The job which would or- dinarily take 600 working days, re- ports the New York Times, will be completed in 330, and boasts Tam~ many “the arrangement will save the city nearly $1,000,000, which would ordinarily be paid in overtime. BRONX WORKERS PARADE TODAY « IN MASS RALLY Thousands of workers will gather | today at 4 p.m. at 149th Street and | | Prospect Ave. to demonstrate against | cutting wages and starving the whole | wage cuts, unemployment, high rents, high rate of electricity, for unemployment relief, unemployment | insurance and the other immediate demands put forward by the Com- munist Party. In view of the immediate war dan- ger threatening the Soviet Union, the | thousands of workers will show their readiness to defend the only workers and farmers government, where there is no unemployment, misery and starvation, where 160 million people are building a new society, the Soviet Union. The line up of the parade will be as follows: 1. The Red Band of the International Workers Club; 2.— Groups of the Young Pioneers of Am- | erica; 3. Members of the different | schools; 4. Units of the Young Com- | mun’.. Le=zue;. 5. Members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union; 6. Members of the Building Trades Workers; 7. Members of dif- | ferent A. F. of L. unions and TUUL | groups; 8. Workers of different As- | sembly Districts; 8. The Workers | Clubs and sport organizations. The parade will wind up at Long- wood and Prospect Ave., where Bill Dunne, editor of the Daily Worker and Carl Brodsky, candidate for as- semblyman in the 5th A.D, will be the main speakers. on war. Attend the November 7 Celebration mass meetings, Be at 149th St. and Prospect Ave. at 4 p.m. sharp this afternoon. Calif. Bosses Plan to Deport 2 Of Imperial Valley Prisoners SAN. FRANCISCO, Oct. 30.—Car- tying out the brutal capitalist denial of the rights of the workers to strike against starvation conditions, the California State Parole Board today decided that five of the Imperial Valley prisoners must serve five year sentences (including the time they have already served) and that of the five, two must be deported when paroled. The five are to be paroled as follows: Oscar Erickson and Danny Roxas, on July 18, 1932; Lawrence Emery, on February 18, 1933; Braulio Oros- co, on November 28, 1931, and to be deported to Mexico; Eduardo Herre- ra, on April 28, 1932, and to be de- ported to Panama. The question of parole for Carl Sklar and Tsuji Horiuchi will be de- cided next week, the board declares, ‘The Imperial Valley prisoners were originally sentenced to 42 years each for their working class activities in leading a strike of agricultural workers in the Imperial Valley. As tests mobilized by the International Labor Defense against these savage sentences, one of the prisoners, Frank Spector, was released a few months ago, A few weeks ago the California bosses revoked their privileges on reading matter, denying them the right to receive the Daily Worker, Labor Defender, etc. The International Labor Defend- er, in line with its militant fight for the release of all class. war pris- oners, the Imperial Valley prisoners, Mooney and Billings, the Scottsboro boys, Harlan miners, etc., is demand- ing their immediate release. All the working class organizations are urged at once to wire their demands for the immediate, unconditional release of the Imperial Valley prisoners to Charles Neumiller, president of the Prison Board at San Quentin, Calif. Protest the decision to deport Braulio Orosco and Eduardo Herrera! De- mand immediate, unconditional re- FOR PAY CUTS |Follows Up Vancouver Convention Against Unemployed Jobless Army Growing Philadelphia AFL in Protest Resolution WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 30. — Following up the action of the Van- |couver convention of the American |Federation of Labor, which voted against unemployment insurance, William Green, president of the A. . of ¥,., yesterday issued .a, “report” on unemployment which calls for a |through the stagger plaf. Green actually praises the capi- | tallst system for its “part-time em- ‘ ployment,” saying this should be re- sorted to more and more as a “cure” |for unemployment. This method of lwarking class, Green considers as an | | effective way to avoid unemployment | insurance. Liars and Figures The latest figures issued by the A. | F. of L. shows an increase in Lent ployment, 19.6 per cent of the A. of L. membership being out of work. | In fact, the number is much higher, | building trades being unemployed. The A. F. of L. figures state that |38 per cent of the members of the Amerjcan Federation of Labor are affected through unemployment, eith- er wholly or by part-time work. Mr. | Green says he expects 600,000 work- ers to lose their jobs in November, and sees an unemployed army of |7,000,000 by November. This is in |line with his usual lies, the unem-/| ployed army beijing | 12,000,000. | * Reject Vancouver Action PHILADELPHIA, P&., Oct. 30. —} | Protesting against the action of the | | Vancouver convention of the Ameri- | lean Federation of Labor in voting against unemployment insurance, | thereby helping along the hunger| campaign of the bosses, Local 2194 here, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners at its last meeting, passed the following reso- | lution: “Millions of workers in the United | States today are unemployed, includ- ing thousands of members of our trade. “The employers and the U. S. gov-| ernment let the unemployed starve, degrading them and their families to beggars. “The workers of this country have | produced all the wealth and have now no means of existence, and “The Fiftieth Convention of the American Federation of Labor, at Vancouver, Canada, went on record against unemployment insurance, therefore be it Resolved “That we, the members of Local 2194 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, go on record | demanding unemployment insurance |from the United States government and the employers, and condemn the decisions of the American Federation of Labor convention against unem- ployment insurance, and be it fur- ther “Resolved, that we send copies of this resolution to the General Office, to the District and to the Philadel- phia Building Trades Council, and to the press.” | | YOUTH CLUB SYMPOSIUM ‘The American Youth Club, of 78 WM. GREEN IS BY STAGGER | reduction in wages for all workers | | | | | a 10 Per Cont nt Pay Cu crease in wages. .50 per cent. Likewise all along the railroad worker). ining within a short p jat least a ten per cent \contained in all the cap F.| cially in the Wall Street finance These statements are mad | brotherhoods.” The New York “Despite this very defini that something along the line of This seems to be the only hope, judging by the market gossip, for betterment in railroad earning their wages are now 300 to 400 rubles. NEW YORK.—Rail |meeting with the big railroad bosses and plan- union officials) Wall Street insisted 9. wage reduction will be effected. | ut on 1,2 ,200,000 Men » BULLETIN MOSCOW, USSR.—The railroad engineers have received a new in- Whereas they formerly got 200 to 250 rubles per month, The guard's pay has been increased line, From a letter from a Moscow , road union officials are eriod to help put over wage cut, is the report italist papers, and espe- ial sheets. le quite positively, even though at least 60 to 70 per cent of the|there have been so-called denials of “spokesmen for railroad American states: ite statement (of the railroad | power; the fact that nothing less than actual expansion of freight traffic will be a lasting influence (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) In an attempt to stifle the voice of protest against the® Scottsboro frame-up and against the widespread wave of terror against the Negro masses, the United States postoffice at Washington has declared “The Liberator” to be “unmailable. “The Liberator” is the official organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. It had just announced a drive for a mass circulation, and the action of the government was timed to stop the paper on the first day of the drive, The decision of the postal author- ities is based on the issue.of June 27, which in a front page headline, | called upon the Negro and white masses protest against the legal lynching .of the nine innocent boys by holding mass demonstrations. The front page also carries a cartoon that shows a big brute of a capitalist judge with blood — of the innocent Scottsboro children — dripping from his hand, which is Jabelled “The Hand of Justice.” On his desk be- fore him is a book labelled “Lynch Law.” ‘The cartoon, which the au- thorities evidently did not like, was called “Capitalist Justice.” ‘The letter officially notifying “The Liberator” of its being barred from the second class mails, is signed by J. J. Kiely, postmaster of New York, and declares: “The Solicitor of the Post Office Department has held the issue of June 27th, 1931, of “The Liberator,” submitted for consideration in con- nection with the application for en- try of the publication as second class ‘Thatford Ave., Brooklyn, has arrang- lease for all of the Imperial Valley ed a political symposium for Noy, J, matter at New York, N, Y., to be unmailable and the Third Assistant ™ "U.S. Tries Suppress Liberator For Fight on Lynch Terror view of this no further consideration will be given to the request for en- try of the publication as second class matter at this office.” This decision of the postal author- ities follows upon the mass outpour- | ings of Negro and white workers in Chicago and Cleveland in tremendous | demonstrations against the massacre of Negro unemployed workers by the police. New frame-ups — such as the | Orphan Jones and Willie Peterson cases —- are now being carried out against the Negroes and it is the first concern of the ruling bodies to try to suppress the voice of the struggle against these, atrocities. “The Liberator” will not be sup- pressed, but will fight all the Marder and will put over its drive for mass circulation in spite of the govern- ment, declared the Editorial Board of “The Liberator” on receipt of the letter. “We will not stop publication. We will continue as we have before in the front ranks of the struggle for | Negro rights. We will continue to get our paper to our agents and sub- scribers as we have done before. The upon the Negro masses and the unity of white and Negro workers by push- ing the drive for 10,000 new readers to a successful conclusion. We will fight this vicious governmental at- tack upon our paper. The fight of ‘The Liberator’ against the present widespread terror must and will go on, and we will get our paper to its readers — pnd many thousands of new readers, in spite of the tyranni- | cal act of the government of ‘white workers will answer this new attack | bs ei] Admit That Japan’s Troops Were Sent to Strategic War Point Railroad Union Heads Helping to » Cut Wages ‘Meet With Billionaire Railroad Owners in Effort to Force josaehieabs ‘Nov. 7th in Defense of U.S.S.R. China Masses Resist |League Meet Nov. 16 to Sanction War When the League of Nations meets again on Nov. 16, supposedly the date for the completign of the withdrawal of Japanésé troops from Manchuria, it will be the occasion for the con- solidation of the imperialists.for the attack on the Soviet Union on the Polish as well as on the Manchurian front. The capitalist press points specifically to the fact that “Japan's attitude in the military zone, as well as Tokio’s diplomatie stand, is notice- able stiffening.” | Capitalist press reports have to ad- mit that the troops and engineers which are being shipped into north- |ern Manchuria are for the purpose of the attack on the Soviet Union. While the Japanese state that the move is to repair the bridge which was blown up, the capitalist press ad- mits that “the Taonan-Tsitshar road is vitally strategic if Russia moves.” The Japanese are not waiting until “Russia moves” but are sending more jand more troops into that area. During the past several days the Japanese delegate to the League of Nations, Yoshizawa, has been meeting with Briand daily in order to pre- pare the attack on the Soviet Union simultaneously on the eastern and the western frontiers. In these meetings |the detailed plans for the attack are being worked out, the plans which were admitted by Representative Si- rovich in a statement based on con~- fidential information which was pub- lished in the Daily Worker yester- | day. The reported “concern” of League circles over the new develop- ments in Manchuria as possibly pro- | longing Japanese occupation is there~ fore the most brazen hypocrisy. The capitalist press reports sharp struggles between the Japanese and “bandits” in Manchuria. On Thurs- day almost 500 Chinese are admitted to have been killed by the Japanese imperialist hordes in clashes &t Mok+ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) JOBLESS SEAMEN TO DEMONSTRATE NEW YORK.—The Seamen’s Un- | employed Council and the Marine | Workers Industrial Union will hold @ mass meeting and denionstration in front of the United tates Shipping Board on West Street, Monday, No- |vember 2, at 10:30 am: to demand the enforcement of the manning scale on all Shipping Board ships. A committee will be elected from the ranks of the unemployed seamen to present the following demands ta the Shipping Board: 1. Enforcement of the manning scale on all ships. 2. No shipping for two watch ships, 3 door, 4, That men be put to work on No jobs through the back