The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1931, Page 1

‘I Lawrence Bosses Demand Lynching of Strike Leaders to Put Over Wage Cuts “We shall do our best to defeat the terrorists, make your Te sponsibility for their acts clear to the Lawrence | toilers of America and win the strike, | “DAILY WORKER.” | for leadership in their struggle against | mass unemployment, wage cuts and | Lawrence starvation, we notify you that we hold your government responsible for the lives and safety of the strikers and their militant leade! “Mill owners’ press in Lawrence today calls openly for lynching, forcible sup- ion and deportation by extra legal bodies of strike leaders and members of Communist Party. Press calls for ‘per- manent lasting action; swift blows as evil and venomous as these red vultures’ attempt to strike,” and urges in mur- derous language the physical extermina- tion of union organizers. Undeniably the terror campaign urged by whole Lawrence press is a rejection of the right of workers to organize, strike as- The Daily Worker, as the official semble and picket. organ of the Communist Party, has sent the following telegram to President Hoover and Governor Ely: | | | munist, Party and the voice of hundreds ! | “As the official spokesman of the Com- of thousands of workers who look to us | WORKERS Workers! Vote the Hammer OF THE WORLD. al << Ol } oe .and Sickle Tommorow! Vote ? ¥ For Your Class! Vote UNITE! ee Central -Orga ? Rimunist Party U.S.A. Communist! (Section of the Communist International ) at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3 TEXTILE STRIKERS! FORM YOUR MASS DEFENSE COMMITTEES! DEFEND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE! C4 All Workers! Rally to the Defense « of the Vote For Your ee Vote W ANT 10 END ms ommunist! ‘War STRIKE THRU Vote Against Imperialist War, Against Star- vation, Against Wage Cuts! T E R RO R | S M IORKERS! The Cor auiniat Party of the United States calls upon you to vote for your class when you go to the polls tomorrow by voting Communist. We call to your attention the fact that in every militant strike against wage cuts and the speed-up which drives you to the limit of human en- durance, as in the mining and textile strikes, the police appointed by the machines of the Republican and Democratic parties, and by the “socialist” pe~ty in the cities of Reading and Milwaukee, gas, club and jail and you. We call your attention again to the fact that the courts and in the hands of these three parties of American capitalism have Lawrence Strikers MICHIGAN DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH | S O vi et P eas ant Million S : | PR E p A R E 7 0) Attain Higher Standards ATTACK USSR Money Income, Social and Cultural Life Advances Rapidly FROM POL AND @ for the Collective Peasants _—. 2Q, %, (Cable by Inprecorr) \Pilsudski Made Head | MOSCOW, Nov. 1—In the midst of the of Polish, Rumanian world crisis of capitalism, the Soviet Union ap-| Armies in Attack proaches its Fourteenth Anniversary with ad-| é : : \France Orders Moves |vances on all front of Soviet agriculture in con-| [Prepare Vicious Drive, Against Striking Workers oa judg railroaded hundreds of strikers and unemployed workers to jail and prison because they fought for the working class. . Vote as you Strike! Vote Communist! | We call your attention to the fact that lynching of Negroes, the | shooting down in the streets of unemployed Negro workers, the murder of Negro sharecroppers for organizing to resist robbery and bloody ter- | | Seek End to] Picketing Insist Workers Drop Union, | LACE rs —tFRoM WORTH WEST CHICAGO | ee Sau e Nous trast with the American farmers’ situation. |The total cultivated area has increased from approximately |320,000,000 acres last year to 345,785,000 this year. Collective farms, whose average income as well as social land cultural life is considerably higher than the individual ‘British Resist Attack of U.S. and Japan The war plans of the ronan ja¢; the: heads. OF 108 -sanaieidls the, avieminy to railroad thesnine «| Take Cats | farmers, are now the central figure in the villages. 15,022,000/imperiailsts’ on the Scottsboro Negro boys to tlie electric chair to check the struggle for | peasant families have renounced as | ‘ Negro liberation, iscarried on by the capitalists through their Republican BULLETIN [Bravo | wasteful the antiquated methods of} [>—- Se —— |western frontier of the and Democratic parties, that these murderous deeds are condoned by the Morlarity of the Massachusetts DEC. SE | jngividdal tariitig and have com-| | USSR Pays Debt of “Socialist” party and the hands of the boss class murderes upheld by such Socialist-liberal organizations as the National Associationfo r the “Ad- vancement” of the Colored People. The Communist Party fights for the liberation of the Negro masses— for self-determination of the Negro masses in the Black Belt of the South. It organizes the working class to carry on the daily struggle for Negro rights—against all forms of persecution, discrimination and terrorism. Vote Communist! Workers! The Communist Party carries on the daily struggle for Workgrs Unemployment Insurance equal to full wages, furnished by the government at the expense of the capitalists! It organizes the fight for | | and to have the whole wage question | immediate cash winter relief, against evictions of unemployed workers, for free food for unemployed workers’ children. It supports the National | Hunger March to Washington to demand the passage of the Workers | Unemployment Insurance Bill put forward by the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Councils. It denounces as traitors the A. F. of L. leaders who fight against unemployment insurance. The capitalist class, through its three political parties, suppresses the struggle for unemployment relief and Unemployment Insurance. Unem- ployed demonstrations and hunger marches are broken up, unemployed | workers are killed, gassed, clubbed and failed. \ Vote Communist! ! Most important of all, the Communist Party of the United States | leads the struggle against imperialist war and for defense of the work- ers’ fatherland—the Soviet Union! Only the Communist Party points out to the working class of America the imminent danger of imperialist war. It tells the working class plainly that HooverWall Street govern- ment is leading the preparations for armed invasion of the Soviet Union. for the division of China, for a new war of conquest to be waged with the blood and lives of millions of the working class, Defeat the imper- falist war program. Defend the oviet Union! Vote Communist! Our Party is the revolutionary political party of the American work- ing class. It is the party of class war. It is the American section of the Communist International—the world party of the working class founded by Lenin. It has no interests separate and apart from those of the working class. It organizes the proletariat on the basis of class against class, working class against capitalist class, for the struggle for power. It fights as well, and as an inseparable part of the decisive strug- gle for power, for every elementary need of the masses—it surrenders not one inch of ground gained by the working class in its years of* struggle. Our party is in the forefront of every militant struggle, in every strike, in every unemployment demonstration, in every hunger march, in every, fight against evictions, in every struggle for Negro rights. Our party, has won in struggle the right to be called the most ad- eis a conscious Pa disciplined section of the proletariat. le program of the Communist Party of the United Sta’ fighting program of the American masses who now are ME (etiee in battle array against the capitalist offensive designed to drive their living standards to new low levels, to drive them into imperialist slaughter against other workers for the hén , glory and profit of the billioncire bosses and bankers who rob and starve them by the millions. Workers! Vote for your class! Vote Communist tomorrow! Central Committee, Communist Party of the United States. AFL. Workers! Take Up ‘ the Fight Against the Van- couver Convention Decisions CLEVELAND, Ohio—A meeting called by the Painters’ District Coun- cil of Cleveland on -Thursday, Oct. 29, attended by 1,500, unanimously ing they were given a leaflet of the T. U. U. L, Building Group, exposing ‘the betrayal and calling upon the workers to resist the attack of the bosses and A. F. of L. leaders and building the T.U.ULL. When Zitt, socialist business agent, tried to tell the meeting that whether you “vote down or not, you must accept a $2 cut of all crafts in the building trades,” he was through as @ speaker for the night, | called for by the entire Lawrence | State Federation of Labor, and Riv- fere, organizer for the United Textile Workers Union (American Federation of Labor, have agreed in another con- ference with Governor Ely, to accept a five per cent reduction in textile , mill wages for the Lawrence strikers referred to a commission for study, | according to the Daily News Record, a New York press service. . ..The lynching of the National Tex- | tile Workers Union strike leaders and | militant strike leaders generally, | press today, is to enforce this strike- breaking program. wees ae (Special to the Daily Worker) | LAWRENCE, Mass.,| Jov. 1.—The “Leadeyr’’, | me of the three Sun-) day papers in Law-| rence, in a two column) boldly displayed edito- rial, calls for the lyneh-| ‘ing of all Communists ‘in the strike. “As fast as the courts ‘are working to clean ‘this element out of the’ ‘eountry,” says the edi- \torial, “a new disciple, or comrade, as_ they call themselves, springs up like a weed \to fill the place vacated iby the first.” “There is need of more speedy, more de- termined, more perma- nent, lasting action; swift blows as cruel) and venomous and stinging as these red vultures attempt to strike. This is not an exhortation for the people to go over the | LEGEND «cities on Rovre WHERE DEMONSTRATIONS WiLL MI Niouy sropouses = MAIN COLUMN RouTE = Section aovre. GE Heo. PROM UPPER MICHIGAN 10,000 Los Angeles Workers Battle Police at Mooney Meet Police, Legionaires Block Entrance to the Hall Where Meeting Was to Be Held (Telegram to the Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal—Ten thou- sand workers turned out for the Mooney-Harlan defense meeting, held Kentucky miners. Speakers mounted auto radiators, trees, boxes and park benches to address the crowd. 6 Million On Time |ments in collectives. Sixty one per-| | lcent of all farms have been collec-|| Gives Lie to Rumors | the col- | Reade ssa see eelyty, we ok || The Soviet Union has deposited pees 2 ‘ || with the Chase National Bank i i and | | sults increase the productivity | |$6,000,000 to pay the obligations | income. | app | [of the Soviet Union on $40,000,000 Every region has collective high | | worth of agricultural equipment schools preparing thousands of ca-| | purchased in the United States. | |pable organizers. The large scale | | 4, part of the attack on the | collective farms in all the districts | | Soviet Union, rumors have been | | give courses for tractor drivers. The | | spread that the Soviet Union | brigade leaders constitute the bulk of | | would ask for a mortorum on its students, oganizers coming from the | | obligations. It is now admitted peasants. |tha tthe Soviet Union has made | Twenty-five thousand city workers |}no such requests but has paid | | ast yea werlnt to help ogranize the | | obligations on the date due. While collectives. ‘The bulk which remained | | the capitalist powers are sinking | lead in th ecollective work. This year | | deeper and deeper into financial | the collectives are suppyling 70 per | | stability where they find it nec- bined their lands, horses and imple- | at the Philharmonic Auditorium Oct. 31, Heavy detachments of the police red squad and Legionnaires blockaded the hall. The workers then gathered at Pershing Square, across from the hall, and fought militantly to march to the hall. Tear and gas bombs and shots from sub-machine guns were fired against the workers. Paul Walton, militant Negro worker, secretary of the Scotts- boro Defense Conference, was shot in the leg. Workers broke up a huge wooden box and used sticks to de- fend themselves against the sudden and brutal attack of the police. Tear bombs were picked up by the work- ers and thrown against the red squad. Workers. Defend Themselves. Thousands of milling, enthusiastic workers held their ground for more than an hour, shouting for the free- dom of Mooney and Billings and the Among those brutally beaten up | cent of al garlins marketed compared | | essary to suggest moratoriums, the | and arrested were Walfon, Ida Miller, | to thirty six percent last year. The Soviet Union is able to meet all Soviet Union are pro- ceeding with constant | meetings of the Polish and Roumanian general staffs to- {gether with high officers of the French staff. Pilsudski, who was in Roumania recently went there according to the capitalist press “to straighten out differences exist- ing between the Polish and Ruman- jan General Staffs." The “differ- ences,” as the result of his visit shows were around the question of how the attack on the Soviet Union should be conducted by these two vassals of France. The result was that Pil- sudski received an offer of the rank of Marshal of the Rumanian army while he was there. The capitalist |Press deliberately avoids stating | | S. Caspin, A. Clay, Rubin Venger, | Norman Edy Black and Eleane Black, | secretary of the International Labor | Defense. All were charged with | suspicion of criminal syndicalism and Ida Miller was charged with aid- ing a riot and held in $1,700 bail. » 8 6 (Minneapolis Holds Conference) (Telegram to the Daily Worker) | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Mooney- | Harlan Defense Conference met Fri- | day, Oct. 30, with 70 regular and | fraternal delegates. Two American | Federation of America loca] unions | were represented at the conference. A resolution demanding the release | of all political prisoners was adopted. la United Front Committee of 25 was elected to conduct a mass am- nesty campaign in this district. Jobless Thousands in Cook County Hunger March Despite Bitter Cold BULLETIN CAMPBELL, Ohio, Nov. 1.—As a result of the Unemployed dem- onstration in Campbell, Ohio today by the Unemployed Council, the city distributed bread, milk and cheese to the unemployed workers. Of course, this miserable relief is not enough and the Unemployed Council is going te take further action in another demonstration to meet the full demands of the unemployed. condemned the wage-cytting program of the A. F. of L. officials. ‘The meeting was called to decide on a reduction of wages of $9 for new work and $7 for old work. ‘The meeting was opened by the chairman, who announced that five minutes will be allowed for discus- sion. The maneuver to stop discus- Throughout the meeting all offi- elals that took the floor were jeered down and none of them succeeded in speaking, Secret Ballot Did Not Work. The labor racketeers who had a secret ballot prepared for that night in order to railroad through the head of the law in or- ider to clean the city of these red comrades, but it is a suggestion (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) ps et CHICAGO, Il, Nov, 1.— Despite the biter cold, thousands of workers, employed and unemployed partic- ipated in a militant county hunger march today, Over three thousand marched in the North Side line from Prepare for National Fight for Relief Dec. 7th Union Park, The well-organized participation of jthe Unemployed Branches and the militant spirit of the workers were the outstanding features of the hunger march, ‘This part of the struggle for relief leading up to the National Hunger March in Washing- ton, D. C., on Dec. 7. ‘The elected delegation that went to the country building to present the demands of the unemployed were met by a dozen uniformed cops as well as the red squad. The authorities re- |kulaks share has been reduced to | four percent. The remainder from |the non-collectivized peasantry has | been delivered to the state organiza- | tions for the industrial city popula- | tions. From July to September al- | ready forty-three percent of the | whole year's quota has been produced | compared to thirty-five and one-half | |percent a year ago. Surpass Given Quota | Several regions in the Crimean Re- | | public, six districts in the North } | Caucases, six in the Ukraine and four | lin the central black earth regions | |and others have already surpassed | |the entire year quota. From those | ‘that are lagging behind the Party is | demanding a large tempo under the | slogan of seventy-five percent of the | | | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TAREE) | | cluding the appropriation of $75,000,- 000 by the city and $50,000,00 by the county for winter cash relief. They supported the fight against eviction, for free food and clothing for school children; for unemployment insur- ance, Pee a Youngstown March Nov. 2 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 1.— The Unemployed Councils of Youngs- town, Ohio section announces the Mahoning County Hunger March to present the demands of the unem- ployed and partially employed work- ers to the county commissioners. The Hunier March will take place today at 9 a.m. The meeting points will be: Briar Mill, Workers Center, West Ryan St.; Workers Center, 348 Wood St.; Al- |cutting drive to result in a 10 per pate hls virtually admits that he did. The “Some here believe this would Marshal Pilsudski would automat- 4, dation of the forces of Poland and Wall St. Sheet Admits | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEW YORK.—While railroad union of its obligations when they be- | | whether he accepted or did not but ARES 4 — _ |New York Times reports this from R R NION HEADS Warsaw in the following: hte + iL | mean that in case of a war in which PLOT W AGE CUTS. Poland and Rumania were allied, t | leally become Commander-in-Chief FOR 1 200 000 MEN) of the combined forces.” N ’ a This arrangement for the consoli- Secret Agreements MAS officials are making a deal with the é powerful Morganecontrolled New York | Central Railroad to begin the wage- | cent cut for 1,200,000 railroad work- — ers, the Wall Street Journal of oc-|Call Workers Out to tober 30, reports that conferences are Help Win Struggle ot going on all the time with the Broth- erhood leaders and the bosses out of 2 which will arise wage cut agreements. Banteay s Sree strike at the ‘The Wall Street Journal says: ‘rusader Cafeteria on 14th Street i wee i" ‘i now in full swing. The working class : a Syn sear at e ser public has shown a tremendous spirit ayeene ecare Reegprigeunipers of solidarity with the result that the some cases conceded that condi- | piace js practically empty. The work~ tions were such that a wage cut fs | ere are aroused with indignation inevitable while others remained against the bosses who refuse to set~ j tle with the union in the neighbor-~ noncommittal on the matter.” From this it is clear that the Brotherhood leaders are united with the railroad bosses to put over the “{nevitable” wage cut. That out of this will grow a wage-cutting agree- ment is admitted by the Wall Street Journal which says that railroad hood where the boss depends almost jentirely on the workers who have continuously patronized this restau- jrant. The Food Workers Industrial Un- |{on calls on all class conscious work- |ers to come to the mass demonstra- wages will be reduced in the near fu- | tion tonight in front of the Crusader, ture when “labor hads make a deal | at ¢ p.m. This ts the fight for union with carriers now, while roads are | conditions and is going to be carried sorely in need of credit.” “Tt ts admitted,” they go on to say, referring to the conference with the Brotherhood leaders, “in almost all quarters that railroad wages will have | to be eventually adjusted.” Over 11 million unemployed in }on till such a settlement is made. | Workers come en mass to the dem- | onstration! | ‘The Harlem Section of the Com- munist Party has arranged @ mass | meeting on the “Role of the Soviet |Union and the Oppressed Nationali« wage-cut, found that it would not Workers’ Correspondence is the | Wicker Park to Union Park. There | fused to grant a hearing to the del- bert Street, Federal and Basin Sts.;| ca?” America. Unemploy- | ties” at the Lafayette Hall, 26 West sion ee floor was immediately | work ag all of the membership de- | backbone of the revolutionary press. | were over eight thousand in the line | egation. Mayor Cermak was too busy | travelton, Unemployed Council on » liquidated in the Soviet |139th St., Sunday, November 8, 4 m Pore. : ‘ Build your press by writing for it | marching from the South Side, start- attending a football game. Over pictus Union, Attend the November-7 |m. Prominent white and Negrd As the workers entered the meet-| (conTINUED ON PAGH THREE) | About your day-to-day struggle. ing at Canal and Monroe Streets to | 12,000 voted for the demands in- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THFY!) | Celebration mass meetings. speakers will be present, i wir samara i 4