The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1931, Page 1

" | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ‘Dail Central . wae Section of the Communist International) red as sccond-cl _VOL. VIII, No. 268 matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 <3 ‘NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931 = U. S. TRIES TO PROVOKE WAR, CALLS FOR CREDIT BOYCOTT ON TH CELEBRATE 14th YEAR OF WORKERS’ RULE IN SOVIET: UNION! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR ON WORKERS’ FATHERLAND! ALL OUT TO BRONX COLISEUM TONIGHT! ‘Thousands of workers will be turned away tonight from the huge Bronx Coliseum at 177th, Street where the New York District of the Communist Party has arranged the celebration of the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The great triumphs of socialist construc- tion in the S-viet Union, which is the only country in the world that has abolished unemployment, and where the wages living standards of the masses has risen tremendously as a result of the successful building of socialism, surrounded by a world of decaying “capitalism where mass hunger, insanity, suicides, deaths, fascist and police terror against strik- ers and militant unemployed, and imperialist war constitutes the only solution of the ever worsening crisis, will be outlined by the speakers. The New York workers will give their answer tonieht at the Coli- seum to the feverish plans of the imperialist powers led by the United States and Japan to attack the Soviet Union before the 5-year plan is completed. ‘Tonight’s demonstration will mark the beginning of a cam- paign organized by the Communist Party to rouse the brord masses to | rehlize the iminent danger of the war prepared against the Soviet Union, and to develop revolutionary mass struggles against the imnerialist bandits. ‘The planned attack against the Soviet Union is part of the plans of the Imperialist powers under the leadership of the United States to crush the growing fights of the workers in all capitalist countries and the hero- ic revolts of the colonial masses against their mass hunger program for bolstering up the profits and dividends of the millionaires for compe- tition for control of the world’s markets and for imperialist world war. War against the Soviet Union is war against all workers and colonial peoples. War against the Soviet Union is an imperialist war to force the most terrible exploitation and fascist reaction upon all workers. Answer the threat of imperialist war against the Soviet Union by the Wall Street bandits! Rally by the thousands at the Bronx Coliseum! Hail the Russian Revolution on Its 14th Anniversary! victorious Russian revolution is/ entering the 15th year. ‘This is the answer the Russian tollers and the toilets of the whole world have given to. the early prophecies of the capitalists and the reformists the world over who predicted the collapse of the revolution. Instead the capitalists are faced with the collapse of the whole system of capitalism which is in the midst of the greatest crisis in the history of capitalism, at the very time when the Russian workers and peasants are completing the third year of the Five-Year Plan of building Socialism. The crisis of capitalism has brought misery and poverty to the work- ing class and the toiling masses of all capitalist countries. But in the Soviet Union the workers’ standard of living has increased tremendously. Every day brings news of wage cuts in the capitalist countries and big in- creases in the wages of the Soviet workers. In the capitalist countries the workers are facing unemployment. Thirty-five million workers and their families face actual starvation. In the Soviet Union the workers have abolished unemployment and have established security never known before in the history of the world. The growth of socialism in the Soviet Union and the growing depth of the crisis in all capitalist countries has exposed the policy of class collaboration of the reformists of all brands as the bosses’ policy which means ruination to the toiling masses, and shown the workers the way out through the class struggle. In the: capitalist counties of Germany and Great Britain where the socialists are part of the government, we witness the cutting of wages, the cutting down of unemployment benefits by the capitalists with the full assistance of the reformist rade union Jeaders-and the socialists. The Hilfredings, the McDonalds and the Hendersons are only bring- ing misery to the workers. They are carrying through hte bosses’ of- fensive against’ the workers. In the Soviet Union the workers control everything and ‘aze putting an end to poverty forever. In the U. S. the richest country in the world with the’ granaries and warehouses: filled with life’s necessities, 12 million unemployed, millions of part-time workers, millions of underpaid workers and their families are facing starvation and want. The AFL leaders and the socialists are helping the bosses to put through wage cuts and are each in their own way fighting against the workers’ demands for unemployment insurance. The capitalists-imperialists of the world are panic-stricken at the turn of events. They witness the rising sovialm in the Soviet Union, the growth of the Soviets in China, the rise of the national revolutionary movement in India, Latin America, etc., the rise of the proletarian struggle in.Germany,. Poland, France,.the growing militancy and struggle of. the workers in all capitalist counties. And what answer have they to otter? Their answer is more attacks on the living standards of the Workers, no relief. to the umployed except charity crumbs, and the ‘pastening of war on the. Soviet Union and the heading off of the grow- ing revolutionary movements in the colonies, the crushing of the risin: tide of revolution in Germany the putting down of the struggles of the workers everywhere. They think that through war they can push bac the developing events. At this moment war already exists. ‘The imperialists of the world are making war on the Chinese masses. While Jajan is sending here soldiers into China and is threatening to invade Soviet territory, the U. S. and other imperialist powers are part of this war drive. The U.S. is taking the lead in making war on the Chinese peoples and on the Soviet Union. The AFL leaders, the Greens and Wolls, the leaders of the socialist party, the Hilyuits and Thomases are part of the war preparations. Hil- ‘quiet’ openly allies himself with the czarist agents in the U. S., while the pacifist Thomas appears on the same platform with the Hous¢ of Morgan representatives speaking for “peace.” ‘We must resist with all our power the war against the Soviet Union, \- our fatherland. We must resist the atiacks on our living standards. \ Heartened by the victorious Russian revolution we must gather all our forces to defeat: the capitalist attempt to solve their crisis at he expense of the workers and through war on the Soviet Union. Workers! Employed and unemployed workers in the AFL unions! “unorganie-d workers! Members of the Trade Union Unity League! Or- anise and fight against wage culs. Might for unemployment insurance for all workers at the expense of the bosses and the government. Fight against bosses’ terror against the workers and their organizations, Fig!’ azainst imperialist war. Demand all war funds for the unemployed DzZrEZND THE SOVIET UNION and the CHINESE SOVIETS, rally to the Big Mass Demonstrations today, November 7th, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD, ‘Trade Union Unity Lezgue—WM. Z. FOSTER, Gen. Secy. (COPS BEAT UP’ CHILDREN OF) MILLSTRIKERS: |Slug Lawrence Pioneers at A’ Hike; Trample On Women | and Children LAWRENCE, Mass., | Nov.6.—Massachusetts ‘Lieutenant Governor | Youngman have both secretly |left the state and the press is jevolving many theories. A rumor has been spread widely |among the loomfixers who are members of a small independent j union with the leaders close to the bosses, that the militia is to be or- dered into Lawrence as soon as the fake vote is taken and that the Dem- ocrat Ely tried to shift the responsi- bility on to the Republican Young- man who stole the march on the | Governor and disappeared simulta- | neously. The loom fixers expect Fred Cook, secretary of the state, to order the militia. { Attack Pioneers Forty police in two cars and a patrol wagon caught eighty young textile Pioneers on Denrock Road | after they had finished a three mile hike and were preparing to eat their lunch. The police were led by Marshal O’Brien. The police smashed the march, chased the children around the country and carried away Loretta Starr, the Pio- nner Director. Crowds of children reassembled and demanded the re- lease of Starr but were again dis- persed. Starr was later released after having been questioned at the police station. Terror Continues, | There was fair picketing this morn- ing with much police interference. John Ballam who is organization sec- |retary of the United Front Rank and | File Committee and a representative lof the National Board of the Trade Union Unity League was arested on the Wood picket line this morning, charged with vagrancy and released on $500 bail with the prosecutor se- curing a continuance of the case to try to work up a more serious charge. “This is the man who has been mak- ing speeches inciting all the riots recently,” the prosecutor argued in court this-morning. |front of the city hall. list candidate for Mayor, Bramhall, will be the speaker. . Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’s series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! Telegram to the Daily Worker PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 6.—John Bukas, Jr., active Communist worker, was elected ville, Ohio by the votes of min- ers and steel workers, stration. Union organizer, in Peace Township, East Ohio, seceived five hundre and seven votes. iylvania and Eastern Ohio. / Hackett workers cast twenty papers announce today | ithat Governor Ely and) Harlan Miners Tell of — Terror to Dreiser Group ‘Committee Met In Pineville By Mmers’ Representatives; Whole Country Watches cannot be justly accused of Y. Times of Nov. 5, 1931). 1. himself, expressed to the sentiment, if, as a result of its advices to American business men, the latter have refused to provide Russia with the leng- term credit facilities requested-” | a special Washington dispatch to the N. | BUT WHAT ARE THE FACTS? “No less an authority than Mr. Hoover the Peace Conference, the opinion that the | post war reconstruction of Europe would be difficult if not impossible, while Russia re- mained ‘closed’ .., in other words, while Rus- sia remained Bolshevist.”— (Walter Duranty, anti-Russian (From 2 lday at th Russia.’ writer during “I said: in the N.Y. Times of July 19, 1931, comment- ing on the PRESENT crisis in capitalist Eu- rope. Duranty was present, at the Versailles Peace Conference). “President Hoover I know very well. One had an intimate talk with him. of Russia came up. | “Hoover said: ‘To tell the truth, Marsh, the ambition of my life is to crush out Soviet ‘Even if you starve the women and children?’ “Hoover said: ‘Yes! by Benjamin C. Marsh, Secretary of the Peo- | ef 2 ples Lobby in Washington, pubiished in the |U, §. Ambassador in Secret Conference With Japanese San Francisco Daily News, August 13, 1931. with Hoover, e Department of Commerce, I The subject pe '—From a statement PINEVILLE, Ky., Nov. 6—The Dreiser Committee was met in Pineville by forty min- ‘There will be an election rally in| The Commun- | to the City Council of York-} Communist votes. York-| out of one hundred and thirty ville was recently the scene of| votes cast were for the Com- a big unemployment demon-| munist candidate. Bob Fibert, National Miners| ed by Communists in Tylerdale, Communist} mining camp, and forty-nine at candidate for Justice of Peace| Meadowlands. . Other votes in the lo-} munist votes has been reported ral elections in East Ohio show] by workers throughout the dis- 1 decided increase over the pre-| trict. The elections in Western vious Communist vote and in-| Pennsylvania were carried jicates the growing influence|throughout under the worst of the Party, in Western Penn-| terror against the Party ever ageously facing the danger of todey as to how they were black- listed, harrassed, beaten up and fired at when they joined the Na- tional Miners Union to fight against starvation. Possession of the Daily. Workers was considered sufficient reason for company gurimen to raid their homes, the miners said. Minér Hanged With Barbed Wire. Caleb Powers, a miner with six | children, told how he was threatened with death and jailed several tines for collecting food for starving min- ers’ children. Judge Jones told him he could go free if he would stop his union activity and leave the county. Powers refused. Now he is | unable to get work and is constantly threatened. He told of one miner, named Miller, 4.10 was hanged with barbed wire on Ivy Hill for union and relief activity. Four hundred company gunmen who terrorize Harlan County miners have sudenly gone into hiding to prove that while the Dreiser Com- mittee Hearings are on that “there is no terror.” Two officers of the Kentucky State Militia met with the coal operators and Harlan authori- ties just before the hearing. Sheriff Lies. Sheriff Blair in a statement made the Dreiser Committee leaves.’ ——————— ing in, said the Dreiser Committee, after he said the militia was not com- ers and their wives, representing the National | Miners Union, the International Labor Defense |PQLICE RAID RED and the Womens Auxiliaries. from. Harlan County and Straight Creek where the strike was recently won. under the National Miners Union leadership. Miners Greet Committee Many miners quit work to greet the committee, cour- being “put on the spot” after A score of miners testified “cannot stay in Harlan.” “Orderly citizens will be protected,” he said altho he had said the same thing twice before when Bruce Crawford and ‘Boris Israel were shot by his thugs. Jeff Baldwin is facing death for testimony given, told of his brother being shot down in cold blood a few months ago at the Workers Inter- | national Relief station. He said all | the miners testifying are doing so despite the fact that they know the operators will mark them. Mrs. Viola Grace wife of the NMU organ- izer, told of her home ‘being raided five times by company machine gun crews... All who testified to their homes being raided stated that the raiders declared that the UMWA was “OK, “we belong to it.” The Deputy Sheriff told Mrs. Grace, “It is the reds and snake doc- | tors who belong to the NMU, we are | jout to get.” Begin New Terror Campaign A new wave of propaganda and at- tack against the NMU has been opened up by a vicious campaign in all local newspapers. The American Legion leads in the attempt to smash the growing NMU and is laying the Turn to Page 3 for Important . 5 Snowhill Story Turn to Page 3 for a report of the brutal lynchc gang attack on the LL.D, attorney and other rep- resentatives in Snow Hill, Mary- land, and the latest developments in the attempt of the rich farmers of Worcester County and the boss courts to legally lynch the inno~ cent aged Negro farm hand, Or phan (Lee) Jones. OFFICES TO STOP COUNCIL'S WORK Kansas Citv J Police Ar-| rest Fifteen KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 5—A) police raid on the Party headquart- | ers took place yesterday. Three} comrades were arrested. This raid jwas only the aftermath of a series} of attacks and arrests lasting two |, days. The police stated quite openly that the attacks were being made | because of two things: 1. The Hunger |March and the “trouble which the reds are stirring up among the un- employed.” 2. The strike which the Communists led in the Liberty Gar- | ment Company. Among those arrested were Paul Cline, District Organizer of of the Communist Party, John Dawson, Trade Union Unity League secretary, W. G. McCuiston, secretary of the Unemployed Councils and twelve | | | | oa Ee | | on the Soviet Union SOVIET UNION AS WORKERS HAIL 14th ANNIVERSARY HOOVER'S GOVERNMENT LI LIES “It is further contended on behalf of the Department (of Commerce) that it U. S. Supplies Arms to Japan inWaronChina Department of Commerce Spreads Lies About Financial | Crisis in the Soviet Union Premier; Japanese Press Praises Stimson BULLETIN. Following out the systematic attempt of the capitalist press to invotve the Soviet Union in the war which the American and Japanese impe- rialists are now waging in Manchuria, the New York Evening Graphic yesterday ran the unfounded screamhead: “Fear Russia May: Join War.” It distorted as a war statement the call of the Communist Internationa! to the workers of the world to fight for peace and oppose the war plans of the imperialists against. the Soviet Union. In the same article, the Graphic admits that Japan is buying huge quantities of munitions in the United States. The article says: “Japan, it was learned, is importing war supplies from thp United States and shipping large quantities of gold here, apparently to @?- blish a solid credit basis on which to make future purchases. Shippers in Sam Francisco have asked for rates on war insurance, for cargoes to Asia.” The article also said that the action of the Department of Com- merce “in advising American business firms against ‘long term contracts” with Soviet Russia” may be based “on belief that Russia soon will be in- volved in war.” 2 * * The Hoover Government Advanced the cam- paign against the Soviet Union eo step Thursday by ordering a financial! boycott of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Socialist Republic. This is a further step in its attempt to maintain and push its leadership in the anti-Soviet front. On Thursday the leading capitalist papers ap- peared with a simultaneous attack against the financial stability of the Soviet Union obviously inspired by the Wall Street Government in Washington. This attack declares: “Due to what it regards as the uncertainty. involved in collections by American business firms of payments for ex- ports to Soviet Russia, the Department of Commerce is ad- vising business men to deal with caution in their credit ex- tentions to that country.” This is in effect the long threat- | ened financial boycott against the | Soviet Union. It occurs simultan- | eously with the actual war moves | ' already taking place in Manchuria, | ||Se cret War Pacts! where the Japanese Army is steadily | |Defend Soviet Union! advancing toward the Soviet frontier, | | and in Poland and Rumania, whose | | WORKERS! intention to join the military attaci:| | Today the workers throughout was hinted a| | the world hail the triumph of 14 Workers! | Smash the | others. | basis for a new clash. A full page ad in the Pineville Sun signed by the | American Legion uses the Fish Com- fiittee report for the basis of an at- | jtack against the NMU. They quote | William Z. Foster's testimony on re- | ligion, seeking to work up the KKK | terror. | .Winning Candidate in in Salt Lake City Polls. 10,000; Communists 5,000 : At Kinloch, Pa., twenty-two Seventy-orie votes were poll- Many: Votes Stolen Wholesale stealing of Coni- witnessed. In Masontown, F ayette County, °20- Communist. votes were ‘recorded whereas one worker knew. of thitty workers who voted straight Communist. The total Communist vote in| Pittsburgh is not yet available. At Bentleyville mining camp, seventy votes for the Commu- nist candidate’ were cast, and seventy-nine workers in Mon- essen voted for the Communist ticket: despite the Bishop ter- ror against the Party. Communist, candidates in these localities were running for the first time. The Com- munist vote in mining and steel towns was more than double the socialist’ party vote. Communist Elected to Yorkville Council As Red Vote Grows in Mine, Steel Towns; Big Utah Vote — SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.— Haye Bales, Communist Party candidete for mayor received 5,859 votes, and got fourth place, running very close to third. The highest winning! | candidate polled 10,789 votes and the present mayor who r: for re-election and who was} considered a very strong can- didate got 6,649. The lone can- adidate running as a democrat polled only 4,747. In 380 voting districts the Communist Party had absolute, majority and in 51 we had a majority over the present may-| or. The present mayor was} backed by the Mormon Church and also had control of the po- litical machine which he util- ized to the fullest extent. few’days by League of Nations of- | | years of victorious’ Socialist con- ficials. struction in the Soviet Union, At The attack on Soviet finances and | | the same time the imperialist rob- bers in Washington, Tokio, Paris, etc., have joined in secret agree- ments to destroy this hope of the workers and oppressed in every corner of the world! The new world slaughter looms biggre every day! The robbers are plotting to destroy 14 years of vie- |torious Socialism. They are plot- ting to destroy 14 Sears of victor |ious Socialism. They are plotting against your lives»as if you were. so many wooden Checkers! Re- member the slaughter of 1914-1918 for Wall Street's profitet The workers want no war! They want immediate relief and unem- ployment tnsurance! Not a cent for imperialist warl Every penny for immediate unemployment. ren, lief and insurancél » Down with the. “Hooyer-Laval Secret War Pacts! . Defend. the Soviet Union! Down with the war om the Chinese masses! Workers! The workers of the Soviet Union depend upon you! (CONTINUED ON PAGE ' WIN KANSAS CITY | NEEDLE STRIKE 250 Workers Accept T.U.U.L. Leadership 3E THREE) | | KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Under the of Needle Trade Workers’ Industrial Union, 250 work- lers in the Liberty Garment Company won a partial victory after a two days jstrike. The strike was settled on the \basis of two concessions on the part of the employer. These two conces- |sions were the firing of the slave driving manager, Mr. Ascher, and a 25 per cent raise in pay. the This victory has been won in spite of the police and the wholesale ar- | Workers! Take up the. fight rests of leading members of the| | against the secret pacts, and the | Needle Trades Workers’ Ind‘sttrial | | ever growing menate of war! | | Adopt resolutions ¢% ‘protest every- | where, in unions, in shops, in fra- ternal organizations — wherever |workers meet! . Organize joint Union. The main strike breaking efforts of the owner of the Liberty Garment Company, who was backed | by all the big manufacturers of Kan- sas City (who showed great fedr of | workers committees of action! the possibilities of a general garment strike) were directed towards ng the workers away from acceptance of militant leadership. The hue and | Spread the fightdar and wid |Prepace to demonsttate all |the country on Noy, lst! ery of Reds was raised not only by the bosses, but by all of the police and by the newspapers. |City have been greatly’ increased. The As a result of this strike, the pro- |Needle Trades Workers’ Union has spects of a general strike struggle by |8ained much in prestig¢ and in ore the needle trades workers of Kansas ganized strength