The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1931, Page 1

| ® — Central ‘Orga x=) faumiet Party U.S.A. ( Section of the Communist pee }) “CITY EDITION Entered as PEER I, matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. uader the act of March 3, ae NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 By 1931 Price 3 Cents _ JOL. VIII, No. 266 GENEVA HINTS PLAN OF EAST-WEST ATTACK ON U.S.S.R. Sympathetic Strike Shuts Down World’s Biggest Woolen Mill as “ 3000 JOBLESS U.S.S.R.! Demonstrate Nov. 7! Workers! Hail the the 14th "Anniversary of the “IN KENOSHA Proletarian Revolution! Come Out in DEMAND AID Masses Saturday to Bronx Coliseum! | HOOVER'S “HALLOWED TRADITIONS” OF LYING 000,000), a school board officials says: “Their morale is shattered, their suffering is intense.” Teachers fall to the floor in the class room, overcome with starvation. TRY TODESTROY SOVIET BEFORE Smash A nike ro Plot Against According to the “hallowed tradition” of the American capitalist class, its spokesman, President Hoover, has issued a “Thanksgiv- ing” proclamation. NEW YORK- Answering the war moves against. the Soviet Union, tens of thousands of workers will cele- brate the 14th anniversary of the vic- torious proletarian revolution in mighty demonstrations of warning to the imperialist Wall Street bandits that the workers will defend the So- viet Union with all their power, while | nese and Japanese speakers will de clare the solidarity of the toiling | masses of China and Yapan with the socialist fatherland of all toilers, the Soviet, Union, and will call upon the workers and farmers of the U.S.A. to nmash the plots of United States, Japanese, French and British impe- rialism to divide China, crush the | [Police Attack Workers and Throw Tear Gas to Break Meeting Jobless Council Active with abundant harvests.” Hoover says: “We have been widely blessed Hoover, the. spokesman of American cap- italism, is a liar, and the Daily Worker means to prove it point by point, day by day! An army of 3,200 sheriffs are foreclosing on 401 farmers every day in the year, ac- Hoover says: “The health of our people has increased.” Yet on Oct. 24, in the city of Washington, James L. Fieser, acting chairman of the Red Cross, stated that because of the unemploy- ment:—“Reports reaching the Red Cross indicate that a serious health problem may 5-YR. PLAN ENDS ‘Workers! Make the November 7th Celebrations Huge Rallies for the Defense of the Workers’ face the nation for several years to come. And Homer Wickenden, of the United Hos- pital Fund of New York, declares there is “an abnormal and progressive increase in | hospital cases.” | Hoover says: | with all men.” | But he lies, because he has waged war on | | | | | cording to the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Farm Economics; 40,000,000 peo- ple, the unemployed and their families, are starving in the cities. “Education has advanced,” Hoover says: In only one school of Detroit, 498 chil- dren were absent when school opened, be- cause they lacked clothes or shoes, and three who attended broke down and cried because they were so hungry they couldn’t study. In Chicago, where thousands of teachers remain unpaid, (the city owes teachers $17,- Jobless Demonstrate in Portland, Ore. KENOSHA, WV Noy. 4.—Three thousand demonstrated in front of the City Hall Monday night in sup- port of the demands of the Unem- ployed Council which were pre- sented to the City Council, The demonstration was broken up and the workers gassed by hundreds of policemen and many plainclothes- men, some imported from Wauke- gon and the “socialist”? city of Racine. The workers militantly resisted the attack. Hurl Tear Gas Bombs About a dozen tear bombs were used, nine workers were arrested, | |of them were not members of the | they intensify the fight against the | capitalist mass hunger and murder} campaign. The central demonstration in New York will be held at the huge Bronx Coliseum, E. 177th St., on Saturday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. Earl Browder, leading member of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party, will be the main speak- er. I Amter, organizer of the New York district, will be chairman. Chi- Chinese revolution, and attack the { Soviet Union. The workers of New York will give their reply to the bloody imperialist war plots against the Soviet Union this November 7, when they hail teh mighty achievements of Soiialism in the Soviet Union, surrounded by a decaying system of world capitalism, which cannot continue its exis ence without forcing mass starvation and war upon the workers. Socialist Republic! The Anti-War Campaign is already gathering great impetus and receiving great response, the Central Committee of the Communist Party announced today. At more than 350 mass meetings in every section of the country on Noy. 7, the 14th Anniversary of the Proletarian Revolution in Russia, the Anti-War Campaign called for by the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Trade Union Unity League will be brought directly before hundreds of thousands of workers in the form of reso- lutions urging unity of working class action against the Hoover-Laval secret war pacts and the war drive against the Soviet Union and the Chinese workers and peasants. These resolutions will urge mass demonstrations on Nov. 21 and the setting up of Joint Anti-War Committees by all workers’ organ- izations—unions, clubs, fraternal and benefit societies, etc. * . * “The Chinese-Japanese squabble, even “We have dwelt in peace the Nicaraguan and Chinese peoples, and is now leading the block of imperialist powers that is actually moving troops and supplies preparatory to war on the Soviet Union. , Hunger March Will Expose at Capitalist Pakery Workers Rally to Defeat Open JOBLESS MISERY — Scabbery of Governor Ely, 0 BE EXPOSED | By I. AMTER. } ‘ $ r Hi 7 r } : Council. The firemen and the le- though it develops into a war may not be as | IG the coming winter, the bosses of this country have been carry- | 5 ss = “ is i Pee nce uum mica auaitot waaay rooes ae ere eeeet st i U I W a Lawrence Officials IN FOUR MEETS. detrimental as it appears. It might even stimulate trade a bit, and if Russia becomes the money was taken out of the pockets of the workers, by forced con- + Mee hoodiums, with. the connivande| tributions, although call them “voluntary donations.” | tributed” by big capitalists, they did not state that the greater part of | | In New York, they are collecting $12,000,000 in charity relief—for the purpose, they tell us, of providing home relief and also jobs. They are registering the workers, who gather at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, waiting in the cold. Young workers are not registered, for the bosses have declared that they will provide no jobs for them. Negroes are dis- criminated against, Negro women being compelled to register in separate lines. But now they tellus (Nov. 3), that although 38,200 men and women out of 1,100,000 have already registered, only 4,000 jobs will be open— “when they get the money for them.” Four million dollars has already been collected—what is the money being used for? Already and again for graft! ‘The struggles of the unemployed and part-time workers, whose num- bers are growing, will intensify. The workers will not tolerate this playing around with their sufferings. Unemployed marches in the cities and towns. Demands on the local and county authorities. The workers are getting in a mood to fight, unafraid of the consequences. What have they to lose? The workers in the American Federation of Labor are showing their resentment of the boss attitude of thé leadership of the A. F. of L., in rejecting u.employment insurance. Therefore the March on Washington, to bang at the door of the U. S. Congress and to tell Mr. Hoover and the representatives of the bosses | who make the laws, that the WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES | Center and tried to pick a fight, but | because of the large number of | workers there, they waited around | until late into the night, breaking several windows, Unemployed Council Active The Unemployed Council was or- ganized during the election campaign | and has taken care of numerous cases of starving families. Only a few get | one dollar or two dollars worth of | groceries and there is mass starvation |among the seven thousand unem- ployed who were brutally refused re- lief by the relief agencies, | After sending the committee to | the Relief Director, Saftig, they were |referred to the City Council. Only two members of the committee were permitted to enter the Council |meeting and after presenting their | demands, they were flatly refused by | the tools of Nash, Simmons and jof the police, went to the Workers Rank and File Strike Committee Calls Strikers to Smash Sell Out Move MAYNARD, Mass., Nov. 4.—The whole mill here was shut down when 18 girls refused to work on scab warps brought from Lawrence. The mill is owned by the Amer- ican Woolen Co., and is called Assabet. It is the largest woolen mill in America. The A. F. L. agreed with Temple- | ton to send back U. T. W. members to finish work un- finished at the time of the strike. This decision was rail- roaded through a meeting Monday night of the U. T. W. loeal. White and Punch of the U.T.W. read the constitu- tion to the meeting and interpreted it to mean that only the members of the U. T. W. are recognized as strikers! They announced to the meeting, “We are not going to have any picketing!” The United Front Rank and File Committee is calling a mass meeting Wednesday of May- nard workers to block this sell-out program of the U.T.W. LAWRENCE, Mass., No. 4.—The Citizen’s Committee last | | NEW YORK. — The unemployed workers will hold four mass hearings | to expose and fight against the hun- ger and misery that exists among | hundreds of thousands of working class families in this city. | The Unemployed Councils which are organizing the mass hearings in | | four different parts of the city have | | been formally invited the city offi- | cials, the City Welfare Commissioner | and the charity organizations to ap- | pear at the hearings. Unemployed workers who have been suffering | hunger and evictions will testify to | the fake relief and deception prac- | ticed by the city government, bank- ers’ relief committees and charity or- | ganizations. | All white and Negro workers who are unemployed and hungry are urged to come to the hearings and | | demand IMMEDIATE AND ADEQU- | ATE RELIEF AND UNEMPLOY- }ancial columns, involved even in a minor wa forced to give up her . She may be five-year plan, which has cauSed no little concern in this country.” In these few lines buried in one of its fin- the “liberal” World-Telegram of October 29 openly and cold bloodedly admits what the Daily Worker has tried to hammer into the mind of every worker, It admits that | behind all of the secret confere | and other cities by the imperia’ nees held in Washington, Paris ist bandits is the now matured plot of the imperialists to make war on the Soviet Union, to Socialist construction, and to d peasants rule in the only country@ where capitalism, with its economic crises, mass starvation and misery, lynch law and race hatred poison |have been abolished. Every new fact | that comes to light proves this. \destroy the Five Year Plan and its gigantic achievements in rown in blood the workers and ‘NEW FLARE OF REVOLT AMONG DEMAND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, AND THAT AN END BE PUT TO THIS MOCKERY OF THEIR MISERY. On to Washington, December 7th, must be the rallying call for the labor conferences. Full mobilization of the unemployed and employed workers’ organizations, Negro and white, to present in a determined, not to be mistaken manner, the demand of the 12,000,000 unemployed for Unemployment Insurance! night passed the following resolution: “The Citizen’s Commit- tee views with increasing alarm the continuance of the forced closing of the textile mills in this community; that it is con- vinced of the fact that the workers in those mills, as do all) —Sothers in our community, regret the | lowering of their wages and the need | that makes such action necessary; | MENT INSURANCE. | Yesterday's dispatches from Man- | At the mass hearings, delegates will | churia report a further advance of | | be elected to the City Labor Con-|the Japanese armed forces—toward | BRITISH T ARS | ference which is going to be held |the Soviet border, with its first blow | | November 22, at which the final pre- |directed against the Soviet-Chinese | parations for the National Hunger | |owned Chinese Eastern Railway. The March to Congress will be made. Japanese troops are moving toward | The Dates of the Mass Hearings | the city of Tsitsihar, a highly impor- | others, just as the city manager, |O'Brien and the grafting police | Sullivan refused a permit. Workers Indignant There was tremendous indignation among the workers, including the business men, for the gas attack in| Government Takes Action Against 24 Reopen Kansas City ‘ 1 1 1 { the heart of the city. There will be | | Plant to Speed Work | that, atte: mitti d “ e e at, after unre! ing and unsuc- German Crisis Worsens; Big pms" neg Cea er eae a come us| The mang ening Inthe dom 08 wee pln, Northern : ’ zg on War Materials| agreement, the committee is con- | section will take place tonight at Manchuria, The advance of the| Sailors L f G Id M I fl e (CONTINUED ON PSGE THREE) vinced that the mills will not recede | Manhattan Lyceum, at 8 o'clock. J.|Japanese troops on Tsitsihar was | | KANSAS CIT, Noy. 4.—In line with | f theit tie d dete: S| Louis Engdahl, National Secretary of | preceded by the United States im- | LONDON.—Rumblings of revolt. OSS 0 0 9 ore n ation sre ee eet Syure antes | the International Labor Defense, will |perialists rushing an “observer” to | . Failure of the combined efforts of international capitalism to halt the economic processes which are under- mining German capitalism is shown in the tveekly report of the Reichs- bank issued yesterday. The report admits that the gold coverage fell to 26.9 per cent, with a decreeve during the week of 12,199,000 marks (about $3,000,000). Inflation is proceeding at a rapid pace, with an increase in worthless paper money of 373,101,000 marks (about $93,000,00) during the same week, The sharpening of the finan- cial crisis 1s thus further intensifying the economte crisis, and creating the conditions for the further impover- ishment of the German masses, al- ready suffered biterly under the com- dined atacks of German and inter- aational capitalism, In the meantime, in Paris, the Ger- man ambassador Leopold von Hoesch waited on Premier Laavl to receive orders for the Bruening Government, based on the recent secret pacts ar- rived at between Laval and Hoover. ‘These orders call for a further attack on the standards of the German masses, through wage cuts, and the lowering of the dole. ‘ At the Paris conference the bribe of a decrease in reparation payments was also held out to the German capitalists in the effort to complete the anti-Soviet front, by drawing Germany into the war plot against the land of workers and peasants rule. In an article in “L 'Information,” Count Fernant de Brinon, a confi- dante of Premier Layal, admits that France has received from the United States a free hand in ‘solving” the European situation in the interest of capitalism: “It can be affirmed, in effect, that Mr. Hoover has agreed to con- fide to France the task of discover- ing: i= the general interests, a new settlement of reparations; and that in exchange for this settlement, he has engaged himself to support before Congress an equivalent re- duction in debts owed America.” METAL WORKERS STOP WAGE CUT Recently the workers at the Krischer Mfg. Co. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, were offered a cut on viece work rates. After trying tie reduced rates one and a half days they de- cided to strike against them Two days’ militant strike activity tinder the leadership of the Metal Workers Industria! League’ brought the boss to his knees and his recognition of the shop committee has resulted in the old rates being restored. Had they been organized before the strike they could have brought out all the work- ers in the shop and could have gotten increased rates all around. The activity of the Metal Workers Industrial League during that strike resulted in 54 of the strikers signing applications for membership in the League. MOB ATTACKS LL.D. LAWYER: Defending Negro Farm Hand SNOW HILL, Md., Nov. 4.—Ber- nard Ades, International Labor De- fense attorney defending Orphan Jones, framed up 60-year old Negro farmhand, was threatened with | lynching by a‘ mob of rich farmers and merchants today when he ap- | peared in court to demand a change of venue for Jones, who has been |several times threatened by mobs of local farmers, ‘The lynch mob milled around Ades and a women companion, Helen Mays, when they leit the court room for lunch, and followed them into a lunchroom, Deputy sheriffs who were present took their time in interfering and then arrested Miss Mays on a charge of having a loaded pistol in her handbag. No other arrests were made. Orphan Jons is framed up on a charge of murdering a rich farmer and his family. The basis of the charge is that he had had a quar- rel with the farmer who robbed him of a day's wages at .0 cents an hour. A fake confession was extorted out of him after 16 hours of the most brutal and revolting torture—torture that one capitalist reporter compared fo a concentrated Spanish Inquisi- the secret pacts arrived at by Hoover and Laval for immediate attack on the Soviet Union, the manufacture of | gun stocks has been resumed by the Penrod Walnut Veneer Co. The business of this company had practically ceased to exist, but di- rectly after the Hoover-Laval con- ference in Washington, work was re- sumed. mined to adhere to the wage cut which has been declared; that the committee feels that many of those now out on strike are willing to ac- cept the reduction and return to work, while others are unwilling to do so; that the committee feels that in, as in in other matters in this de- mocratie country, the will of the ma- | (conTINVED ON PAGE THREE be on Nov. 11, at Lafayette Hall, 165 | W. 131st St. | ‘The mass hearing in the midtown | section will take place Nov. 16 in the Church Auditorium, 336 W. 36th St. In Brownsville, the hearing will take place on Noy. 14, at the Workers Center, Christopher and Pitkin Aves. NEW YORK —Election returns f for the Bronx show an increase ot 1,283 Communist votes over last year, 6,283 votes were polled for the Communist assembly candid- ates as against 5,000 votes polled in last year’s elections. Communist candidates for the board of alder- men polled a total of 6,444 votes. BUFFALO, N. Y;, Nov. 4.—The elec- tion returns so far are inadequate, but from all indications there has been a Democratic landslide. Com- manist watchers were barred at many polls, Four election booths out of three hundred and fifty indicate an increase of three times over that of last year in the Communist vote. The Jamestown, N. Y., Communist vote for Anderberg, candidate for mayor, was 626; Raider, Hunt and ‘Ohman, candidates for councilmen, tion, Wl, 579 and 576, respectively. Tammany W' Wins; Robs | Workers’ Votes Carlson was r-elected mayor with 4,851 votes. In several wards the Communist vote cast was one-fifth of the total votes, Gertrude Welsh and Joseph Ago- vio, Trade Union Unity League or- ganizers, were sentenced to 30 days in jail each and six other unemployed workers received suspended sentences in eviction cases. Judge Peter Maul deliberately postponed the sentence until after election faring th indig- nation of the masses, . 8 8 NEW YORK.— Using the same gangster methods that have brought Tammany into power and kept it Gangsters and Police Terrorize Workers at New York Polls there, Tammany Hall democrats suc- ceeded in winning the elections. With increased contempt for all legal pro- ceedure, the Tammany politicians, police and gangsters have used strong arm methods in order to steal Com- munist votes and to eject Commu- nist watchers from the polling places. At the final count of votes for the Borough President of Manhattan Israel Amter, Communist candidate, was given 1,798 votes, Levy, the Tam- many democrat, 247,110; Carrington, republican, 65,891 and Thomas, so~- socialist, 48,438. Workers Intimidated ‘The elections in New York were marked with intimidation of all kinds. Not only were Communist watchers beaten up by Tammany thugs with the aid of the police in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRES) | be chairman. An Unemployed worker | that city, in line with the leading role | will prosecute. In Harlem, the mass hearing will | the work of dividing up China and} | American imperialism is taking in | pushing the anti-Soviet war plans. War against the Soviet Union is | being prepared on both the Eastern | and the Western fronts. General Mc- Arthur, chief of staff of the United States recently accompanied French | | military officers in a review of the | | armies of Rumania, Poland and other | puppets of French imperialism. Gen- jeral Gustav Orlicz-Dreszer, a high Polish army officer, is now visiting in the United States. Marshal Pil- | sudski, Polish dictator, has been |made a marshal of both the Polish and the Rumanian armies. These jand other steps have been taken to |speed up the co-ordination of the AGE THR! Glendon and Tinsley | \Ky., Miners Win DemandsAfter Strike the Glendon Baptist Chureh at} | Glendon, 300 miners and 100) womenfolk heard a report on the settlement of the strike they had declared against the company. Seventy miners of the Dean Branch Coal Coat Tinsley, also | under the influence of the Na- tional Miners Union, won a three | weeks str’*> ocainst trading at | the auy’s stores and are now saized in the National Miners | Union. ik | imperialist armed forces for the at- | | still continue in the British fleet. | despite the continued statements of the British government that the |sailors are ‘satisfied to leave the ae of the wage-cut in the hands f the government, This came to the Itighe on November 3rd through & |statement issued by the Admirality announcing the dismissal from the jservice of tweny-four sailors who “continued conduct, subversive of discipline” at the home ports to which the ships were sent after the | sailors had mutinied against a slash jin pay. Although the First Lord of the Admirality promised in the House of |Commons that no penalties would be inflicted on the sailors and now tries to pass the discharging of the ;men as a purely routine matter, the jaction taken by the Admirality is |nevertheless a severe disciplinary measure against the sailors involved. |The men were drummed out of, the |Naval barracks by a guard, dis- |honorably discharged and blacklisted ‘throughout England, thus making it |difficult for them to get other em= gragauen A reign of terror has been going lon in Portsmouth since the mutiny, |the police failing al}, civilians who \they thought were sympathetic with |the revolting sailors. The govern- |ment has not taken back the wage- |cut and it is reported that in all |sections of the lower deck there is a rising discontent. A detachment of sailors at Invergorden refused to parade upon their arrival at ‘onal racks and declared their intentions of making further demonstrations) against the wage cuts, ) a8