The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1931, Page 1

.CELEBRATE 14th YEAR WORKERS me, NOV. 7 AT BRONX COLISEUM WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ; 9 ( a labe of the Comments sacral Norker Rfounict Party U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter at New York, N. Y., _ VOL. vil, No. 265 der the act of March 3, 1879 — at the Post Office ciry EDITION = Price 3 Cents _ U.S. RUSHES ‘OBSERVER’ TO ) DIRECT ANTI. LSOVIET MOVES IN CHINA Why Do the Bosses Want tol Run the Communists Out of Lawrence? AWRENCE workers, you have come out on strike against wage cuts, it is for you to decide what the mill owners’ newspapers are aiming at in calling for the Communists to be run out of Lawrence. Isn't it funny, that all the big shots of the U.T.W. are welcome, wel comed by Governor Ely, welcomed by the mill owners, welcomed by the mill owners’ papers, but the Communists are to be run out? What does this mean, anyway? Did Governor Ely get excited about the wage cut? No! He only got worried when you struck against the wage cut! Then, what did the A. F. of L, come into Lawrence for, when its con- vention, at Vancouver, B. C., denoynced strikes as “bafbarous”’? Did the A. F. of L. then send its organizers into Lawrence to LEAD “barbarism” to suceess? Of course not! They were sent to MISLEAD and BETRAY your strike. That’s why THEY are welcome. Can you doubt it. when these very same “organizers” in the Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers’ strike in Allentown, Reading, Philadelphia, actually forced a wage cut of nearly fifty per cent that even the bosses had not <iemanded! Here you are, workers striking in defense of your simple right to live, for a piece of bread. Does the law, any law, all laws, supposed to PRO- 'TECT your right to strike and to picket, work? THEY DO NOT! Instead of that, the very people, the capitalist mill owners, their cervants in public office—the very ones supposed to UPHOLD the Jaw, are breaking the law to “run out the Communists.” THEY made the laws. the right to strike, to picket, to organize. But when you really DO strike, DO picket, end DO organize—and when you refuse to be BETRAYED, then the czp‘talists violate their own law to break your strike, to drive > ou back to werk at starvation wages! Workers, you have the DECIDING voice! And you will NOT give up your right to strike, to picket and to organize! You will defend your loaders and yourselves against the mill owners’ murderers—for ONLY by militant mags action, on the picket line and in defense of your rights, can yeu save yourselves from complete slavery to the mill owners! Unite in defense against all enemies! Defend your leaders against is of the bosses! Demand An Accounting from _. Green and Woll! |ATTHEW WOLL and William Green, vice-president and president, re- spectively, of the American Federation of Labor, are against workers unemployment insurance, the National Hunger March, and support the war drive against the Soviet Union. Their New York “labor” bank failed Friday. When the now defunct Federation Bank was launched, headed by President Green and Vice-President Matthew Woll, the late and un- lamented Peter Brady, Sullivan of the New York State Federation of Labor, and a choice collection of lesser labor racketeers, the Wall Street press gave it a great send-off. “It marked a new era in the relations of capital, ” ete., nauseam. Last Friday the Federation Bank failed for $13,000,000. The Wall Street press chronicled this sad fact in discreetly modest news items the day following—and has remained silent on the matter since. Thousands of workers have been robbed outright by this gang of crooks. Savings have been lost and union treasuries emptied. The close union of the Federation Bank officials with Wall Street, the National Civic Federation and the government could not prevent the crash—even thouzh the bank was organized to fool and plunder workers and to help create illusions that would make workers easier prey on the job for the big capitalists, Matthew Woll’s daily denunciations of the Communists and the Soviet iniou and his open attempts to incite boycotts and war against the Soviet Union did not prompt his masters to save his bank—even though jhey run the risk of opening the eyes of new thousands of workers to the tue character of these bosses’ agents. Now they are covering up their .ontemptible thievery from workers as best they can. Workers of the A. F. of L.: Demand an accounting from the fakers ‘sho lost your money. Raise the question of these “labor” bank failures fa every local union. Expose, and throw out of the labor movement, these fat vultures who ete. ad prevent. your fighting against wage cuts, who fight c-.inst unemploymente | insurance and who are helping Hoover-Wall Street government prepare @ new imperialist war—war against the Soviet Union which they will demand that YOU fight and support! Support the National Hunger Maveh! Nov. 7th Celebration to Greet Achievements of Soviet Union Workers to Demonstrate for Defense of the Workers’ Republic, and Against Starvation in the United States ‘The law, the capitalist law, SAYS you have | NEW YORK.—While tens of thou- sands of unemployed and employed workers are preparing for the local and Washington hunger marches in the fight against’ mass hunger and ‘eath forced by the bosses govern- ment of capitalist United States upon millions of workers, the workers thru- cout the world are preparing to cele- brate this November 7, the 14th An- niversary of working class govern- ment in the Soviet Union, the only country that abolished unemploy- \ment. Negro and white workers will demonstrate their determination to struggle with all their power against the imminent imperialist attack on the workers’ fatherland, and to fight the mass hunger regime of the cap- italist exploiters. ‘ ‘The mass celebration called by the Communist Party of New York for November 7th at the Bronx Coliseum, will also be a demonstration of the solicarity of the workers of all coun- tries agalnst the imperialist oppres- sors. One of the features of the Co- Hseum celebration, besides the speech | @f comrade Browder andthe special Udarity with the employed. _. wut revolutionary program, will be the de- monstration of solidarity of the in- ternational proletariat in the strug- gle against imperidlist war, and for defense of the Soviet Union by Jap- anese and Chinese speakers, who will speak in the name of the Chinese Revolutionary fighters against impe- rialism and its agents, the bloody Kuomintang government, and in be- half of the struggling masses of Japan fighting heroically in solidar- ity with the Chinese workers and Soviet masses. Negro workers will also be among the speakers. Workers from the ranks of the un- employed, ex-servicemen and workers from shops will greet the mighty achievements of the Soviet Revolu- tion on its 14th birthday. .'They will express the meaning of the building of Socialism in the Soviet Union to the workers of the United States fac- ing a winter of mass deaths from starvation against which the Unem- ployed Councils are mobilizing the struggle thru hunger marches, and organigation of the unemployed in so- WAR THREAT IS CAUSE OF WHEAT RISE Speculators Buy In Cooperation With the U.S. Farm Board Crisis Is Deepened a . Necie Bankers Will Gain From Increases The capitalist press admits now that the buying of wheat, which is greatly in preparation for the attack on the Soviet Union, is being done under the leadership of Arthur W. Cutten, one of the leading” wheat |speculators in the country. The New | York Times reprints “rumors” that this buying is being done for the Federal Farm Board—in other words for the United States government. |The Times reports that “Mr. Cut- |ten is reported to have the encour- jagement of the Federal Farm Board ,which holds close to 200,000,000 bushels of grain acquired in the course. of its price stabilization pro- | Sram, ” | Chairman Stone of the Federal |Farm Board denied that the buying | of wheat had been based “on any | | sort of understanding between the | private Operators and the Farm | Board” but admitted that the spec- julators were directly responsible for | the increase in prices, Despite the evasive denials of Stone it can be | stated that the operators bought be- | cause they knew that the price of | wheat was going to increase, The capitalist press tries to “ex- plain” that the rise in the price of wheat is due to a turn in the eco- nomic crisis. No such turn has taken place nor is there any sign of any turn from the steady worsening (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘Order Hunger March Leaflets At Once! The National Hunger “March leaflets are just off the press. The leaflets are ready for shipment at the rate of 1,000 leaflets for $1.10, postage collect. Because of the limited number of leaflets printed all orders must be sent immediate- ly accompanied by money orders. These money orders should be | made payable to A. W. Mills, 2 W. | 15th Street, Room 414, New York | City. If you want leaflets, act at once, STATEMENT OF THE, TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE . Unemployed and Employed Workers: Under the guise of a “Program for Business Recovery,” the Hoover gov- ernment, through its unemployment committee, has issuer a program for a further attack on you. The whole of the ten-point program is designed to fool the workers into the belief that the crisis-can be ended by more | “faith” in the capitalist institutions, by lowering the living standards of the workers, and aims to place the whole burden of the crisis upon the shoulders of the unemployed and em- ployed workers. The first three points dea) with propaganda calling upon the masses to buy more, to stop hoarding money and to have faith In the banks. What hypocrisy! How can the millions of steel workers who are working from one to three days and haye just had their wages cut, buy more? How can the Lawrence textile workers, given a 10 per cent wace-cut, buy more? How can the | ials for new factories and cities grow- | panded in the first two years of the ah ig Lawrence - Strikers Keep Up Mass Picketing Ren Call Nation-Wide Drive POWERS PUSH Strike Siete Police Chief Hints Lynching Against Hoover-Laval | Secret War Pacts The first steps haye been taken to develop a gigantic nation-wide campaign against the Hoover-Laval secret pacts and the imperialist war drive against the Soviet Union, the Central Committee of the Communist Party announced today. Hundreds of thousands of anti-war leaflets will be Issued. Mass meet- ings throughout the country are being organized for Nov. 21 under the auspices of the Party, the Young Communist League and the Trade Union Unity League. Resolutions against the Hoover-Laval pacts and imper- ialist war will be introduced in all uniozs and other working class organ- izations, These resolutions will call for the setting up of Joint Anti-War Committees. Wage cuts, hunger and starvation, the growing suppression of strikes and workers’ organizations, the drive against the legal rights of the | masses—all burning issues before the workers, and all part of the imper- ialist war preparations, will be brought forward in the anti-war campaign. War issue of the Daily Worker ‘is to be published for i a pamphlet on the war danger by Earl Browder will be issued at qnee. Wages, Tonnage Increase on Railroads in U.S.S.R. Communist Party Throws’ Forces Into Making Transpor- tation System “Meet Industry's Needs ~The (Cable by Inprecorr) ated heavy demands on the transport MOSCOW, Nov. 3.—With coal, | system for which they have not been metal and many other industries | fully prepared to expand at the new nearing the fulfilment of their quota | tempo required. | of daily production program, the rail- | In June of this year, the Central | road workers under the leadership of | Committee recognizing the vital part | the Communist Party are making } heroic efforts to bring transport into line with the growing demands. Shipments of construction mater- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SHOE WORKERS TO. ‘HOLD MASS MEET To Take Up Drive in| the Shops ing up all over the country, whose territory is twice the extent of the United States, are continually in- creasing; shipments of coal for cities, the fall harvest and goods to mret the rising standards of the city work- ers are also increasing. The railroad program calls for the movement of 66,000 freight cars daily. In propor- tion to equipment, this is a far heav- ier traffic program than that of America. Freight Traffic Grows The Soviet freight traffic has ex- Leather Workers Industrial Union | calls on all slipper workers to come | to the mass meeting of slipper work- ers to be held in Manhattan Lyceum, | 64 E. 4th St., on Thursday, November | Five-Year Plan from 156,000,000 tons | 5 at 7 p.m. Japan Is In ifor the division of | myth was created in an effort to jus- | | Harbin, George C, Hanson. Secretary NEW YORK.— The Shoe andj | DIVISION OF CHINA BY WAR the Robbers Cut poet | FIGHT FOR SPOILS Permanent Occupation of | Manchuria | | Translating into def- inite action the secret | agreement with Japan | China and war against the Soviet Union, the American | imperialists have rushed an} overseer” from Harbin to] Tsitsihar, near the Chinese} Eastern Railway. The main} function of this “observer” is to feed the myth of Soviet military move- | ments in North Manchuria. This | tify the steady advante of Japanese troops towards the Soviet frontier and to prepare the way for the gen- | eral attack on the Workers’ Socialist | Republic. The “overseer” is no less | than the American consul general at | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) f ¥ : ate ey fi ri ate ‘Partial Election Returns | As we go to press the first elec- | tion returns are coming in. In the boro of Manhattan Levy, |Democratic candidate for Boro President, received 217,948 votes in 800 out of the 925 election districts. Carrington, the Republican candi- date, has 56,604 to his credit, and | for heavy picketing only on Monday. | Canton and Nanking Help | day, LAWRENCE, Mass., Noy. 3.—The picket lines woye excellent this morn- | ing, as yester- | although the custom has aed with nearly as many Watt and Sylvia of the U.T.W. ar-| rived at the Arlington Mill, where | | two hundred pickets were singing | National Textile Union songs. placed the ‘They | themselves at | the line and O’Brien and the police | denkapp, Cantor and Pizer get out of | | | not divulge any more about it. It} | called Martha Stone, United Front Rank and File Strike Committee | picket captain, out of the line and| told her, “This line is going to be led by the A. F. of L. and you take your gang and get out or you will) | be arrested.” | Stone placed herself in the center | of the line and continued picketing, whereupon the cops yanked her into the car and took her to the station, | | where she was quizzed extensively by Chase of the Immigration Depart. ment and McDonald, head of the | vice squad, and others, and then charged with vagrancy. Her case is to be continued to Nov. 12 and she is now released on $200 bail. O’Brien told Stone, “You and Bie- | town right away or I will not be re- sponsible for what happens.” This morning at 8 o’clock the Ar- | lington Mill Co. called the | ‘Communist Nominee | for Mayor Fights ‘for the Strikers | LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 2—At! | the end of Monday's city council | | session, a former Mayor, William | | White, who is running now for | mayor again, proposed in the) course of a campaign speech for | himself, that the “citizens commit- | | | tee,” the A. F, of L. leaders, the | | bosses and the city council go to | | the armory, “look the doors and | | settle the strike.” Peter Carr, police commissioner, | alderman and member of the cit-| |izens committee, informed the | council that “a program which the | strikers can not refuse has been decided upon, and will lead to a| | settlement. This makes it impos sible for us to consider Whate’s proposal.” Carr said that he could | 'Relief for head of | * | to 238,000,000, as compared with 132,- | 000,000 in 1913, making an eighty per |cent growth above the pre-war jevel. | The volume of the freight traffic | has taken second place in the world. | Nevertheless, the fact that the orig- |inal quota for industry and collective farms in the Five-Year Plan which has been more than fulfilled, has cre- The purpose of this mass meeting is to solidify the gains of the union in its organization drive in the slip- per trade and to mobilize the workers for further activity. ‘The mass meeting will lay the basis for a much broader organization cam- paign in the slipper trade by re- cruiting new forces into the union. Norman Thomas, the “Socialist”, |is now clear that he referred to | | 40,414. The Communist votes are the proposal worked out by Ely | not given. In Brooklyn all the ||| and A. F, of L, leaders for the| Democratic candidates were elect- | | | strikers to go back with that cut. | ed. The elections in other cities | | | White had urged the council to) are following the same line—a de- | | | “take a stand in the strike.” The feat for Hoover and a sweep for | | | Communist candidate for mayor | Democrats, | | rose from the audience and spoke: “You heard this plea that you do something. I believe that you | | | Hoover Program for “Business Recovery” Aids _ Billionaire Banker-Bosses, Robs Hungry Millions and unemployed buy more? How can the entire working class, who are getting their wages cut, buy Extensive activities are are being organized. WORKER! March? ANDERSON, Ind.—The eviction the Unemployed Council, ee BOSTON, Mass.—Succeeding in What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March? where in connection with the National Hunger March! Local Hunger Marches, Public Hearings, United Front Conferences REPORT YOUR EXPERIENCES TO THE DAILY | How many AFL locals in your city adopted a resolution against the Vancouver Convention and for the support of the National Hunger PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A public hearing here at 1209 Tasker St., attended by 200 Negro and white workers, revealed shocking mass misery. ear ee DETROIT, Mich.—Five hundred children and adult workers de- manded free food and supplies for school children November 2. . * * workers, the Unemployed Councils here are continuing an intensive drive | for local demonstrations i the Rateal aneer March. TAMPA, Fla.—Police ANG % halt preparations here for the Na- LP eenondindos enact athena cd I: more? How can the mass of the working population, who have had their income reduced to half, buy being carried through every- of Edward Hosier was prevented by | . getting lodgings for forty homeless have already done something. You have taken sides with the | mills against the men. You have | denied the right of the workers to meet...” | That was as far as Bramhall | could get. They forced him to his} seat. Bramhall has applied for a per- | | mit to hold street corner campaign | | meetings. ‘The city solicitor ruled | that the law does not now specify | | who can give a permit, and he told | Bramhall to apply to the police. | | That means no permit. | | | more? The Hoover program is nothing but hypocrisy intended to cover up the depth of the crisis. Who Has the Money? Who is hoarding money? Is it the 12,000,000 of unemployed? Is it the | workers who have had their wages cut? The starving masses of unem- ployed and employed workers have al- tendent of all { the loom fixers who ready exhausted their last pennies. are skilled labor and section hands ‘The capitalists, the bankers, the rich | who are straw bosses into the mill are hoarding money which they for a meeting, and proposed that robbed through the toil of the masses. | they work up the Australian ballot "The Hoover government is against | of all Arlington strikers on the ques- even taxing these rich to relieve the tion of returning to work and mean- | suffering of the unemployed; they while come back théemselyes. The try to cover up this hoarding on the | | loom fixers and section hands unani- part of the rich, they try to sidetrack | mously rejected the proposition. | taxing the rich by calling upon the| For days the company agents have | penniless, starving masses to StoP been agitating among the workers of | hoarding money, | the Stevens Mills of Stevens and| “Faith, Hope and Charity!” I Bois in North Andover, a suburb of | ‘The Hoover government calls for | L@Wrence, to take a vote on coming more faith in the banking institu- back to work with the wage-cut. Last tions of the country. The bosses have | | night, at a call of the mill manage- no faith in their own banking in-|™ent, 150 did meet and listened to} stitutions, because they know from | 4tguments of the company agent, | the inside what the situation Is; they | that, despite the cut, a minimum know that if the real truth were| Wage of $18 weekly for men and a published the largest banks would be | Sliding seale for the low paid women shown to be bankrupt, only the keep- | Workers would be installed. The re- ing of the fictitious value on bonds | Sentment of the strikers present was and securities, only through trickery | 8° great that no vote on the propo- sition was attempted. The company (OONTINUED-ON AGE. THREW) | 1s trying-to call another meeting to- |) Se Lawrenea Mill Strikers Is Progressing Relief Meeting Call \Haverhill Workers Aid Strike LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 1.—Col- lection activities by the relief com- mittee of 30 of the United Front Rank File Strike Committee and the Workers International Relief already show that the united front in relief is finding response. Members of locals of the United Textile Workers are endorsing the policy that relief should be given to al! needy Law- rence strikers and their families, and are opposed to the policy that relief shall only be given to members who belong to the United Textile Workers or the American Textile Workers. Sunday the leading Italian Co- Operative in Lawrence, by an over- whelming vote, endorsed the united front policy of relief. Three hundred stockholders attended the meeting, almost all of them being textile strik- ers. John Ballam addressed the meeting for the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee. To Hold Relief Conference, M. E. Taft has been placed in | charge of collections throughout the New England states, with headquart- ers in Lawrence. He is field repre- sentative for the Workers Interna- tional Relief in Lawrence. A united front relief conference will be called in Lawrence, to which workers’ language organizations will be invited and all mill committees, department committees, representa- tion from the rank and file of the U. T. W., the American Union and delegates from the National Textile Workers Union. Collection committee of textile strikers are to be sent to New Eng- land cities. Local .W I. R. confer- efices will be called in as many cities as possible. Plans are being made to send a caravan of autos loaded with strikers, their wives, sons and daughters, for a tour of New England. Relief Work Spreads. Relief contributions are increasing. The Cape Cod Agricultural Workers Union are forwarding vegetables. Boston workers are collecting food and shipping it to Lawrence almost daily. Boston held a house to house collection. Lynn, Chelsea, Fitchburg, Gardiner and Roxbury are active in collections. Two hundred pounds of meat will come forward from Boston Tuesday. It was decided Monday that the Nationa! Textile Workers |secretaries and the W.LR. shall un- dertake shop collections at all textile mills outside of New England. Alfred Wagenknecht of the Na- tional office of the W. I. R. has been in Lawrence three days, helping the collection campaign and organizing distribution. Sa Haverhill Workers Aid Strike. HAVERHILL, Mass., Nov. 1—The workers of two Italian clubs here, the “Liberty” and the “Garibaldi”, gave a | fine response to a relief collector, for the Lawrence strikers. They did not know of the relief committee, but they were all for the National Tex- tile workers Union. They raised $16. This is typical of the spirit of the. workers in other Massachusetts towns and shows real solidarity with the strikers, Give your answer to Hoover's program of hunger, wage cuts and persecution! day. One thousand are on strike in the Stevens Mill. Strike Spreads. The whole printing department ef | 70 workers struck yesterday in the Slater Co. mill at Webster, Mass., against the declaration of the man- agement that the printers’ A. F. of L. union was no longer recognized and that a general wage-cut for all the 500 workers in the mill was go- ing into effect. There is much strike sentiment among the rest of the workers in the mal which is mostly unorganized, _ . ~ I >