The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 1

Rally in Masses at the Bronx Coliseum Tomorrow Night a= —— Dail WORKERS OF THE WORLD, ee ae UNITE! EVOLUTION Central Orga 7 d : a &) ‘The BRONX COLISEUM ‘(Section of the Communist International) VOL. VIII, No. 267 pre eneag eage gmp aarp ee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1931 CITY EDITION Aca VOROSHILOV, RED ARMY HEAD, CALLS FOR PEACE IN FACE OF IMPERIALIST WAR MOVES ON BOD Workers! Out in Masses Nov. 7 Fight War on Soviets, Hunger! NEW YORK.—The huge Bronx Coliseum at EB. 177th “St. is expected to be jammed with workers this Sat- urdey evening, November 7, at the tall of the New York District of the | Communist Pariy to celebrate the 14th birthday of the proletarian revo- lution. The celebration of this No- vember 7, the day of the rejoicing of millions of toilers throughout the world over the might achievements of the Soviet Unton in building Social- ism amidst decaying capitalism, will be a day of mighty mass demonstra- tions of the proletariat in defense of the Soviet Union, from the imminent danger of an armed imperialist at- tack. Earl Browder of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party and other speakers will analyze the moves of, the Wall Street imperialist bandits together with the Japanese landlords and capitalists, and the League of Nations to utilize the invasion of Manchuria by Japanese imperialism for war on the Soviet Union, which means war against the toiling masses throughout the world. Japanese and Chinese revolution- ary workers will sound the clarion tall of the solidarity of the workers in the oppressing imperialist countries with the toiling colonial masses against their common oppressors. Charles Alexander, a Negro worker, will hail the Bolshevik revolution. as the great liberator of all the oppress- ed peoples and nationalities. He will point to the significance that the 14th anniversary of the November revolu- tion coincides with the 100th anni- | versary of one of the bravest fighters and leaders of the Negro people in| the struggle against chattel slavery, the heroic Nat Turnér, whose name is | lan inspiration to the toiling Negro | masses cruelly oppressed by Wall Street imperialist government, to fol- low the example of the Russian work- ers and peasants for complete na- tional liberation by destroying capi- |talism, by uniting with the white revolutionary proletariat in joint struggle against hunger, discrimina- tion, for the right of self-determina- tion in the black belt, and for a work- ers and farmers government. An exceptionally good revolution- ary program has been arranged for this great celebration of the triumph of socialism over capitalism. A work- ers’ chcrus of hundreds of voices has prepared for the occasion stirring revolutionary songs, the brass ba:-d of the Workers International Relief and the Red Front organization will pro- vide music, while the Workers Lab- oraicry Theatre has been rehearsing @ mass revolutionary pageant which will cepict the st:ugete of the workers in capitalist America against mass hunger, destisu'son and death, and the triumphant construction of so- cialism and the creation of a new and beter life for the maesce All workers are urged to provide themselves with ticvets in time as thousands will have to be turned away. And come eat The Tramp of the Hunger Marchers Will Shake the Complacency of the Full-Bellies By EARL BROWDER. have almost ceased—the last Times, Oct. 31, Page 10. ington Dispatch.) Oct. 26. State Bank of Avon, Merion Title and Trust Co., Oct. 27. Sunbury, Pa., Oct. 28. Co., Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 23. Citizens’ Trust’ Co., Bellevue, Oct. 23. ippi, West Virginia, Oct. 22, “I am happy to note the very great change which is evident in the credit sit- uation since the announcement of financial plans on Oct. 7... The small bank failures ing only seven out of 20,000 total.” (N. Y. Special Wash- HOOVER LIES! The Financial Chronicle published on Oct. 81, lists the following 33 bank failures, re- ported in the last week of October: Amherst Bank, Williamsville, N. Y., Oct. 23. First National Bank, North Rose, N. Y., North Branch Title and Trust Co., Security Trust Co., Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 26. .Mechanics, Trust and Trust Co., Belle Vernon, McKean County Trust Co,, Bradford, Pa., Ickesburg State Bank, Ickesburg, Pa., Oct. 22. Citizens’ National Bank, Phil- PRESIDENT HOOVER IS A LIAR Bank of Cameron, Cameron, West Va., Oct. 21. First National Bank of Newburg, West Virginia, Oct. 22. Citizens’ Trust Co., Huntingburg, Indiana, Oct. 28. Citizens’ Na- tional Bank, Kokomo, Indiana, Oct. 23. United Savings Bank, Tecumseh, Mich., Oct. 20. First National Bank, Buchanan, Mich., Oct. 20. First National Bank, Buchanan, Mich., Oct. 17. Buchanan State Bank, Buch- anan, Mich., Oct. 17. Peoples Savings Bank, Cadillac, Mich,, Oct. 22. First State Bank, Petoskey, Mich., Oct. 17. Fidelity Bank and Trust, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 23. First National Bank, Dexter, Mo., Oct. 23. Jackson County Bank, Indepen- dence, Mo., Oct. 28. Commercial American Bank and Trust, Warrensburg, Mo., Oct. 23. Bank of Slater, Slater, Mo., Oct. 26. Secur- ity Bank of Slater, Slater, Mo., Oct. 26. Citi- zen’s Bank, Liberty, Mo., Oct. 26. Bank of Henrietta, Henrietta, Mo., Oct. 26. City Na- tional Bank, Paducah, Kentucky, Oct. 28. San Fernando Bank, North Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 18. First National Bank, Balwin Park, Calif., Oct. 20.' Baldwin Park Savings Bank, Baldwin Park, Calif., Oct. 20. report show- N. Y., Oct. 26. Ardmore, Pa., Valley Deposit Pa., Oct. 23. Pa., Oct. 24. TEXTILE WORKERS PREPARE FOR HUNGER MARCH /$30,000- Campaign for Funds for March Is To Be Spurred On From Rhode Island, scene of the big strikes of textile workers under | the leadership of the National Textile | Workers Union, come reports of the delegation of the Unemployed Councils march upon Wash- | widespread activities in -preparations ington at the opening of Congress, to present the demands of the 12 million starving jobless and their and immediate relief, their action will accomplish more than a hundred | years of “reasonable arguments” to convince our full-bellied capitalist | rulers that these demands must be families, for unemployment insurance granted. Our parasite rulers, holding tight the keys to the warehouses stuffed | for the National Hunger March to Washington, on Dec. 7th. This Saturday, Nov. 7th, a mass demonstration of the unemployed | will be held in front of the City Hall, |at 3 p. m. and a committee will be | ‘Strike Ranks Solid Against Citizens Committee and Lawrence Mill Owners \U. T. W. Officials Try to Disrupt Picket Lines; Aid Police eas : Workers March to Police Station; Protest Jailing of Organizer j- | | Loretta Starr, who is Pioneer organizer, was arrested this |morning leading the Wood picket line. When the picketing }ended hundreds came down to 234 Essex Street, strike head- | quarters, and held an indignation meeting and then marched |to the police station singing National Textile songs. Swarms of police guarded the doors and@ finally dispersed the crowd. Starr was charged with intimida- \ capitalist government in the United States, as the defender of the out- to overflowing with all the necessities of life, can be “persuaded” to open the doors 2 little only through fear of the self-activization of the masses, the building of new fighting organizations of the masses, the militant mass demand for unemployment insurance and immediate relief. Only the FEAR that the million masses suffering from starvation will begin to find their own solution of the problems of food and shelter can “per- suade” the capitalist class to enlarge the crust of bread for the starving. "The Hunger March is the only kind of “argument” they understand. On with the Hunger March with all forces! But remember, that a successful Hunger March requires organization, organization, more OR- GANIZATION. Unemployed Councils and Committees must be built, involving the hundreds of thousands of workers everywhere, in block com- mittees, bread line committees, flop-house committees, employment office conimittees, neighborhood councils, city councils—all linked up together, and unitedly fighting the daily battle for bread, against evictions, for more and better housing, and for the big general demands of all unem- ployed and employed workers. On to Washington on December 7th! Shake out of their~complacency the full-bellied capitalists and their flunkies in Congress! Voice so loud that all must hear the demands of the 12 million unemployed, for un- employment insurance and immediate winter relief! _ Why ‘Hoover Lies Te EXPOSE and defeat Hoover alone is not to defeat capitalism. . The struggle led by the Communist Party is a revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of capitalism. By exposing Hoover, the spokesman of rages inflicted upon the masses, the grip of capitalism is weakened. President Hoover declared in Newark, N. J., on September 17, 1928, ina speech to members of labor unions that he intended to “abolish poverty, to protect labor, to maintain its prosperity.” A He declaved that he stood for “full and stable employmnet,” for -“full work, all the time.” Hoover lied. There are 12,000,000 unemployed. In Hoo “’s speech accepting the presidential nomination, he declared: “with impressive proof of magnificent progress... mo one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.” ‘The Communist Party challenges the whole system for which Hoover stands. Capitalism creates endless misery for the great majority of the population—the workers, exploited farmers and their dependents. Hoover files to protect the robber capitalist system and the robber capitalist class. Hoover declared in his nomination speech: “Equality of opportunity is the right of every American, rich or poor, foreign or native born, irrespective of faith or color.” ‘Hoover lied. Thousands of deportations of foreign born, breaking all records in this respect, seventy-five Negroes lynched and murdered since last May to suppress their struggles for liberation, the murderers aH unpunished,’ mass starvation of the poor throughout the land—these are some of the proofs that Hoover lies, these are some of the proofs that Hoover lies to conceal the mountain of misery with which capitalism weighs down | the working class. He lies to increase the burden on the workers—not to lighten it. ‘The statements of its’ spokesman, Hoover, are as false as the hopes capitalism holds out to the working class. By exposing Hoover we help to expose the whole system of American capitalism, and we will not for- get to include as parts of the Hoover-Wall Street machine the American Federation of Labor leadership and the socialist party, its extensions into the ranks of the working class, elected to go before the meeting of | tion and creating a disturbance. Her the city administration on Monday | case was continued this morning and night, to demand immediate relief. | This committee will report back to the workers in front of the City Hall on Monday evening. A demonstration in front of the| Municipal Lodging House is also planned. A mass meeting was held by the Unemployed Council on Thursday, at 71 Richmond Street. A United Front Hunger March Conference will be held on Nov. 22nd, at 71 Richmond St., Providence. Committees are to visit al Jorgani- (CONTINUED ON CAGE 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- lly accompanied by money orders. | These money orders should be made payable to A, W. Mills, 2 W. 15th St., Room 414, New York City. If you want leaflets, act at once. + held over to November 12th with bail at $1,000. «ew LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 4. —wWednesday afternoon offi- cials of the United Textile Workers’ Union, of the Amer- ican Textile Workers’ Union, and of the small independent Loom- fixers’ Union, met with Mayor Lan- ders and the Catholic priest, McDon- ald, in conference in the city hall on arrangements for the secret bal- loting on a return to work with a 10 per cent wage-cut. The United Textile Worker lead- ers and the little fakers of the Amer- ican Union said absolutely not one word about the Citizens Committee ballot plan at their meeting on the Common Wednesday afternoon, .... “VOTE ON THE PICKET LINES!” But if the U. T. W. leaders are giving consent by their silence and by participation in conferences to the strike-breaking ballot proposal of the Citizens Committee, the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee and the National Textile Workers Union is not. To hundreds assembled at Lincoln Court lot Wednesday, speak- — (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 3,000 AT TAMPA SCOTTSBORO AND MOONEY MEETING Deputies “Kidnap and Beat Com. Crawford (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) TAMPA, Fla. — Three thousand workers attended a Mooney-Harlan- Scottsboro Defense meeting held here in one of the most successful meet- ings held in this section. Police patrolled outside of the hall and wanted to break up the meeting but were deterred by the size of the crowd. Jim Bonille spoke. Comrade Crawford was later kid- napped and beaten unconscjous by deputy sheriffs. * 8 fe To Speak Over Radio for Mooney. SUPERIOR, Wis. — W. A. Harju of the Tom Mooney Branch of the international Labor Defense here will speak over station WEBC, No- vember 10, at 6:15 p. m. Central Standard Time, on Tom Mooney and the movement for his release and for amnesty for all class war prisoners. 200 Per C BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Noy. 5. —Commenting on the Communist successes in Tucsday’s supervisoral elections, the Scripps-Howard News declares, “One of the surprises was the showing of the six Communist candidates, none of whom polled less than 7,000 votes.” The top cap- italist vote for Supervisor was 70, 000, the lowest winning vote was 53,000, The top Communist can date received over 11,000 and the lowest 7,000. The Communists re- ceived aboit 9 per cent of the total votes cast. | SAN FRANCISCO.—The complete Over 11,000 Votes Pol- led for Red Can- didates returns of the San Frincisco elec- tions show a 200 per cent increase over the total vote cast for the Com- munist Party two years ago. E. Harris, Communist candidate for the Board of Supervisors, received 11,317 votes; L. Todd, Communist candidate for the Board of Super- visors, received 10,736; P. Orr, Com- munist candidate for Board of Super- visors, received 7,699; I. Gross, 7,211; H. Shoen, 7,110; T. Ray, 6,962. Sam Darcy, Communist candidate Frisco Communist Vote Gains ent in Two Years for mayor received 1,408. The So- ‘clalist candidate, Horr, received 574. In the mayoralty race the bulk of the opposition vote was captured by Adolph Uhl, who resorted to extreme demagogy in the campaign, even issuing leaflets addressed and signed with the word “Comrade” raising the issue of police brutality and unem- ployment relief. Many of the Communist votes were stolen. In the final tallies the num- ber of votes cast for the Communist candidate for sheriff, Bakst, did not appear. This is the first time the Communist Party has had a full ticket in San Francisco. Up until (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) K. Voroshilov. SOVIETS FOR PEACE, SCORE WAR MOVES Voroshilov Hits Japan “Red Scare”; Says Workers Want Peace |The Soviet Union has given a décisive answer to the im- |perialist war mongers operat- }ing in Manchuria in an edi- | torial in the Isvestia, govern- |ment organ, when it declared: “The Japanese military clique which is preparing an extension of its occupation of Manchuria, hoped it could succeed in weakening the resist- ance of other imperialist powers by the prospect of a conflict with the Soviet Union, a conflict much desired in imperialist circles in Europe.” “Let the western incendiaries continue their work, They will learn in time that who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.” ERS OF SOVIET UNION @ see SA nr World Communist Party Calls for the Defense of USSR Warns That Imperialists Seek to Save Collapsing Capital- ism by Attack on Workers’ Socialist Republic Calls for Support of Chinese Masses Against Japan and for Repudiation of the Social-Fascist Leaders (Cable By Inprecorr) ’ MOSCOW, Nov. 4.—The Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International issued the following appeal on the 14th Anniversary of the November Revolution: Workers of the world! Fourteen years ago \the revolutionary proletariat of Russia, under the leadership of Lenin, overthrew the bour- geoisie and established the Soviet power. Workers of other countries have expressed their solidarity in numereus mass actions, | Strikes and insurrections. The November Revolution has also had a tremendous echo in the colonial countries. 5 Building Socialism. With the support of the socialists, the imperialists suc- ceeded temporarily in crushing the revolutionary movement in the western countries, but have not succeeded despite the blockade, intervention, sabotage and insurrections in crushing the Soviet power. The Soviet workers have defeated their enemies and cleaned the country ofits former rulers and |established a Socialist Workers’ State. Socialism is no longer | 3 wert =f %a question of the future. The iU. q MOVES TO |Soviet Union is in the state of | practical socialism. There: is HOLD LEAD IN no crisis in the Soviet Union. No Unemployment in U.S.S.R. WAR ONUSSR Klementi Voroshilov, Commisar of War of the Soviet Union, in an in-| terview with the United Press reit- | erated and itemized the stand of the Soviet Union on theimperialist war against the Chinese masses in Man- churia and the provocations against the Soviet Union. When interview Voroshilov said in substance, accord- ing to the United Press: 1. Russia is anxious to preserve friendly relations with Japan and China, 2. Reports of Russian concen~ tration near Manchuria are “non- sense.” ate in “partition of China.” 4. Russia’s policies are incom- patible with intervention. 5. The United States’ position toward the Manchurian crisis is “vague and equivocal.” 6. The “sincerity or effectiveness of the League of Nations’ efforts” to keep peace in Manchuria is very dubious, he held. ‘The United Press interviewer goes on to say that Voroshilov declared Fred A. Britten, who charged that the; Soviet Union was mobilizing a war) force near Manchuria “a polit~ ical bandit” and his statement in- citing and brazen.” “There is nothing like a move- ment of troops in the vicinity of Manchcnria.” “The Soviets have never helped, nor are they helping, the Chinese or Japanese in Manchuria, All re- ports of transfer of Red soldiers to the border or anywhere in Siberia is nonsense, Not a soldier nor gun has been shifted in that region since the conflict started. “We have no doubt the so-called Great Powers would rejoice if we collaborated in China's partition, but the Soviet Union would never adopt such a policy. The Soviet’s peaceful policy is incompatible with methods of occupation and in- tervention,” Voroshilov declared. “The Soviet’s future policy de- pends entirely upon the sincerity of Japan to maintain good neighborly relation with us,” Voroshiloy con- cluded, Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedchat’s series in pamphlet furm at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! | 3. Russia would never*collabor- | Japanese Army Moves Further Toward Soviet Border BULLETIN The latest capitalist dispatches from Mukden, report heavy fight- ing in Manchuria between the Japanese army of occupation and Heilungkiang forces. The battle | raged over a five mile front. 15 | Japanese were killed and many wounded. The Japanese are rush- ing artillery and infantry rein- forcements. Yesterday Secretary of State Stim- son cancelled all previous engage- ments to hold a long, secret confer- ence with the Japanese Ambassador Debuchi and Under Secretary of State Castle. After the conference, Washington officials expressed “con- j cern” as to “what Russia may do | because of the continued advances (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) [Pinchot Police Raid. * to Stop Fayette Hunger March PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 5.—~ Four carloads of Pinchots state police and immigration authori- ties and Department of Justice men raided the house of Giam- battista last night remaining there nearly three hours searching ana confiscating all literature and some records revealed by a stool pigeon, Giambattista, a leading member of the National Miners Union, was arrested and held for deportation. Terror by the Vesta Coal Com- pany and the police increased to- day. This is connected with the Fayette County Hunger March which is to take place on Novem- ber 17 and also the large Commu- nist vote cast on election day, over 15 per cer’ < sich was brazenly and caly stolen. Preparations inue for the hunger march i | With full forces, The Soviet workers are com- pleting the basis of socialism in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) TROOPS SENT TO HARLAN TO BALK DREISER PROBE Author’s Committee Enters Mine Fields This Morning HARLAN, Ky—The committee of writers led by Theodore Dreiser, America’s leading novelist, will be met by a detachment of state troops when they enter Harlan county to- | day to investigate the reign of terror that 1s being carried on by the coal | operators and the government against the miners and their families. Governor Flem D. Sampson, in or- dering out the troops, stated that he did so “in order that there may be no doubt as to the safety of the visitors.” The real reason for the calling of the troops, however, is not for protection of the visitors, but to cover up the misery of the miners and the lack of free speech and the right of freedom of assembly which the Dreiser com- mittee went to investigate. These troops ar the same soldiers that the governor sent against the striking miners five monhs ago with ordet* to shoot to kill and who shot into a crowd of miners, killing four and wounding many. The Dreiser Committee will hold a meeting of the National Miners Union in Harlan County today to test the right of free speech and assembly which has repeatedly been denied the miners, The governor in a counter move against the Dreiser Committee has also ordered a separate “investi- gation” to be conducted by local agents of the governor. This is a hypocritical move to cover up the re- sponsibility for the terror and starva- tion in the mine fields that rests squarely on the head of the gov-