The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1931, Page 1

a x WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central — Seckion of the Coast sereceeenat ) Norker he-Co Raumniet Party U.S.A. ae To Go-AND STOP “Tee 5 JAPanese 7 o Sees WHele I WANT Fin) & ee EAR EDntered as second-cl: at New York, N. VOL. VIII, No. 269 . s matter at the Post Office ler the act of March 3, 1879 <G26 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9% 1931. 2 MILLION MOSCOW WORKERS HAIL SOV ® The Masses March Forward! 'UNDREDS of demonstrations of overflowing numbers and unprecedent- ed enthusiasm on November 7, gave full proof that the workers and small farmers of the United States recognize the socialist success of the Soviet Union and are determined to defend it! And not only in America! Throughout the world, the great centers of capitalist industry—stagnant and rotting with crisis—saw the rulers of the future, the world industrial proletariat, yegistering unmistakable readiness to march on through whatever sacrifice to the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of Workers’ Rule! It is the contrast between the life and Joy and freedom of the toilers ufider the socialist society of the Soviet Union, and the miserable ex- istence, starvation and oppression suffered by the toiling masses under capitalism, that is the most dangerous “commodity” to capitalism that can be “dum.cd” upon capitalist countries—and no tariff decrees can shut it out! " The capitalists may continue to lie about the “misery, sadness and oppression” supposedly “suffered” by the Soviet toilers. But American workers, with fully 40,000,000 hungry; and American farmers, of whom millions aré bankrupt and destitute, know very well that when more than a million workers parade with shouts of joy in Moscow, and while waiting to march, “sing and play kissing games in the streets”—that the American capitalists lie! The American. capitalists have triedto deceive the masses by stories that socialist industry was “impossible,” that the Bolsheviks “might build factories but they cannot run them.” Yet their own journalists are forced to admit, as Walter Duranty in the N. Y. Times of November 8, is forced to admit what the Daily Worker has always contended: “The Russian peasants and masses are learning industry and learning it fast... Donetz coal output at a record figure of 141,000 tons for Noy. 5, and Stalingrad keeping up a steady rate of 104 or 105 tractors daily, the Pulitoff tractor plant near the same level and no less steady, and the new AMO truck factory and Kharkoy trac’ or plant beginning steady upcurves of output.” This contrast, thrown across the background of closed factories, wage cuts, unemployment, breadlines, jails and repressive terror against the toilers of the capitalist world, cannot but move them as it has moved them, to a determination to struggle against capitalism and o defend ‘THEIR counry, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against the WAR ‘THAT IS NOW BEING PREPARED AGAINST IT! ‘The American workers who filled the New York Coliseum to over- flowing, battled police and tore down the gates to enter into the cele- bration of the birthday of the Soviet Power; the thousands who defied and struggled with the murderous police on the Plaza at Los Angeles for the- same—purpose;and-the impoverished farmers of Dakota and Alabama who gathered in their schoolhouses and humble homes to hai) the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Proletarian Revolution, give warning to the war-makers of Washington, Tokio and Paris! The toiling masses will defend the Soviet Union from these imper- ialist bandits who would destroy it! And they will—i: view of the IM- MEDIATE DANGER OF WAR-turn out full strength to give their clear challenge to the war-makers, on November 21! Speed the Collection of Funds for the National Hunger March $30,000 Needed—Period for This Immense Col- lection Very Limited—Major Attention Must Be Given Campaign for Finances—Great Danger in Delay IE Workers International Relief and the National Committee of Un- employed Councils for the National Hunger March very urgently and sharply calls for the immediate mobilization of all forces to collect the $30,000 necessary to carry through the National Hunger March. There is extreme danger in any delay in this campaign for finances. All cities and districts that elect unemployed workers as hunger marchers to Washington, D. C., have been notified several times that all expenses necessary to take their quota of marchers to Washington and back must be collected in the city and district. Add to this the extra fund neces- sary in Washington, in several stopover points, for leaflets and national organizers, which must also be collected in the cities and districts, then all comrades will realize why we stress the finance campaign. All equipment needed to transport the marchers, places to house the marchers at stopover points, food for the marchers in cities they pass through aad at stopover points MUST BE SECURED AS CONTRIBU- TIONS. The trucks required to transport the marchers should be se- cured free of any charge. Gasoline and oil should be solicited as a con- tribution and cities through which the marchers pass should have these contributions prepared in advance. Demands upon the cities must be made for sleeping quarters and failing in this free and heated halls shall be secured as sleeping quarters. Food that will keep should already be collected and stored to be used for meals for the marchers when they pass through or stop over in your city, The broadest mass collections ever undertaken are possible upon the issue of Unemployment :Insurance. Private and city capitalist charity institutions realize this and are plarining immense mass collections. In New York City the former governor and presidential candidate, Smith, 4s mobilizing 15,000 collectors for a house to house, store to store, office to office mass, collection. ' The mass collections of the bosses and their politicians for starvation charity is actually a campaign against unemployment insurance. We must establish our own mass collections to fight for unemployment in- surance. We must at once establish our own mass collection apparatus, advise workers to give to our fund instead of to the capitalist demagogues and fakers, ask them to financially support the fight for unemployment insurance and immediate relief. The United Front Hunger March Committee in every city, in coopera- , tion with the Workers International Relief, should at once give the most | detailed attention to (1) visiting workers’ organizations for contributions; (2) decide upon dates for tag days and house to house collections and mobilize the largest masses of employed and unemployed workers for these mass collections; (3) hold a city-wide income affair; (4) take col- lections at all workers’ meetings, mass demonstrations, local hunger marches. Every possible means ot raising funds must be developed. We issue a warning to all committees in the cities in charge of the local struggles and the National Hunger March. Further delay and lack of application to the campaign to finance the National Hunger March will be disastrous. Meet at once and mobilize your forces to collect the $30,000 needed. Unemployed Councils Committee, National Hunger March, A. W. MILLS, Organizer, Niro Workers International Relief, ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, Secretary. DEFEAT FAKE BALLOT MOVE IN LAWRENCE United Front Program Smashes Effort to Break Strike UTW Approved Trick Bosses Increase Terror In New Effort LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 8.—The United Front program has triumphed for the time being over the balloting plan to divide the workers and break the strike of 25,000 textile workers against a ten per cent wage cut. Saturday forenoon, the Citizens Com- mittee and all its sub-committes which have been canvassing senti- ment in union locals, clubs, fraternal orders, churches, and among the business men, met and indefinitely postponed the fake ballot for which enormous preparations have been made during the last week. They were* expected to announce at this meeting the date on which the strikebreaking ballot would have been taken, but their own reports show that the militant, never-beaten work- ers of Lawrence are determined to win this strike, and the ballot would be a joke, without enough going to the polls to make it possible to fake any majority for a return to work ID ON PAGE THREE) BERLIN WORKERS HAIL TRIUMPH OF SOVIET UNION Workers ‘Demonstrate In Prague (CONTINU! (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Nov. 8—Street demon- strations in celebration of the 14th Anniversary of the October Revolu- tion were held at several points in the center of the town yesterday in defiance of police prohibition. Work- ers marched cheering the Soviet Union. The police were prepared for the demonstration on the previous day. Demonstrations were dispersed and several arrests were made. Street demonstrations in workers’ quarters, however, were more difficult to dis- perse. Yesterday the Communist Party organized twenty indoor meetings. There was a tremendous enthusiasm and many recruits were won. There were no serious-incidents reported in the provinces. aie ner (Cable by Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Nov. 8—~Yesterday the Friends of the Soviet Union held a tremendous mass meeting here. A large force of police concentrated near the hall. Prominent speakers addressed the meeting, including Pro- fessor Nejedly of Brunn University. When the speaker declared the Czech workers would defend the Soviet Union against all enemies, including the Czech bourgeoisie, the police de- clared the meeting closed and ejected the masses. Lively dmonstrations in favor of th Soviet Union occurred on the streets, where several collisions occurred ‘and many were arrested. ‘Betsy Ross Presents Red Flag at 14th An- niversary Meet CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov, 8.— Twenty two hundred workers packed every available inch of space of the Slovenian Auditorium last night on the occasion of the celebration of the 14th Anniver- sary of the November Revolution. Hundreds more were turned away. Betsy Ross, great great grand- daughter of Betty Ross who made the first American Flag, presented a red flag made with her own hands to the Com- munist Party as the workers cheered. Tom Johnson accepted the flag in the name of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party. I, 0. Ford, Communist candi- date for mayor in the coming special election, received a ten minute ovation when he appeared on the platform. Fifty-three workers joined the Communist Party, Working-class organizations and the Young Com- munist League presented applica- tions for membership in the Com- munist Party from over sixty of their members. Workers contributed $449 to the Communist Fighting Fund. CALL TAILORS T0 A BRKLYN MEET TO FIGHT PAYCUT Ben Gold, Hertz and E. Oswaldo to Speak at Meet Monday Despite the interference of Amal- gamated Clothing Workers officials, tailors in Brooklyn show an interest in the meeting called by the Rank and File Committee for Monday, No- vember 9, 8 p. m. at the Royal Manor hall, 16 Manhattan Ave. where the latest developments in the Amalga- mated will be discussed. Sol Hertz, Eurepi Oswaldo and Ben Gold will be the speakers at this meeting. That the tailors are looking for- ward to this meeting was indicated in an incident that occurred at the Amalgamated Labor Temple, 1. Arion Place, when an ACW official tried to tearup leaflets advertising the mass meeting. The official was immediate- ly grabbed by an indignant worker and forced to replace the leaflets, which were picked up by the work- ers around the place. See Cut in International Shop. Police stopped the weekly meet- ings before the International Yail- oring Co., 4th Avenue and 12th St. an Amalgamated preferential shop, upon orders of the bosses. A wage cut is pending in the shop and the employers and ACW fear that rank and file meetings before the shop would result in action against the slash. Vestmakers in the Wm. P. Gold- man shop, Brooklyn, makers of GGG clothing, were yesterday notified of a 15 percent reduction in a lot of 700 special coats. That the cut will spread to other departments is seen by many. The Amalgamated officials are taking no stand against the cut. but are tacitly aiding the bosses to effect it. Workers’ Correspondence js the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it. about your day-to-day struggle. 3 AFL LOCALS © Call for Fight on War [ET PEACE POLICY ‘USE WHITE HIT STAND ON. Makers on 14th Anni- GUARDS FOR JOBLESS AID Condemn AFL Conven- tion Decision Against, Jobless Insurance | } WantImmediateAction Painters “Act to Get | Jobless Relief NEW YORK. — Three American Federation of Labor locals, expressing the sentiment of the majority of their membership, condemned the decision of the recent American Federation of Labér. convention in Vancouver against compulsory unemployment | insurance, during the course of last week, Carpenters Local 1164, after a long | discussion at its membership meet- ing, adopted a resolution seule ing the stand of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy against unemployment insurance to be paid by the govern ment. The resolution. was ans | unanimously. 5 Painters Demand Relief. ‘The members of Painters Local 499 | went on record as sharply scoring the | A. F. of L. convention fight against | giving unemployed workers insurance | at the cost of the employers and their state. A committee was elected to work out proposals for unemploy~ ment insurance and immediate relief. ‘The committee was charged with bringing in definite measures to the next meeting. Another painters’ ocal, 905, raised the question of immediate relief for the unemployed, and distribution of jobs under the contro! of the rank and file. A committee of five was elected to take up the proposals: An unemploy- ment fund to be esteblished on the basis of a cut in the wages of offi- cials, to that of the average wage of workers, reduced union expenses, The unemployed union members are to be exempt from dues and assess- | ments payments. Action on the above proposals will be adopted at the next meeting of the local. STRIKE IS SOLID AT H.-M. KNITTING Two Injured _ Workers} Are Still in Hospital BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Still main- taining a solid front, strikers of the H & M Knitting Mills have the mill completely paralyzed. With militant picketing and the police forced to arrest some of the gangsters, the ter- ror against the strikers has been broken. Picketing goes on steadily throughout the day. Steinhart and Atotsky, the two workers attacked by gangsters last week, are still in the hospital in a serious condition. The knitgoods department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union issued a call to all knitgood workers to help the strikerson the picket line Monday morning at 210 Varet Street. The strike at the Vanity Knitting Mills, 140 West 2Ist Street is still being conducted by the union. versary of Soviet Rule \Voroshiloy Says Soviet Follows fide Peace Policy, But Is Ready to Defend Its Achievements 300 Delegates from All Over the World Greet Triumphant | Advance of Soviet MOSCOW, Nov. 7.—Busy factories today | were stilled as over two million workers poured | through the streets of Moscow and into Red} Square in celebration of the fourteenth anni-! versary of the proletarian dictatorship. Above the heads of wide columns of marchers was a forest of red banners and flags bearing such slogans as “Long Live the} Fourteenth Anniversary of the Workers Rule,” “Long Live| the Coming World October,” “Only the Destruction of Capi- | talism and the Establishment of Socialism Can Liberate the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 20,000 N. 'y. Workers Pledge to Defend USSR Los Angeles Workers Battle Cops, Celebrate 14th Anniversary Despite Terror NEW YORK.—Twenty thousand workers roared support | of the Chinese masses against imperialist aggression and for | defense of the Soviet Union in the November 7 Revolution cele- bration here in the Bronx Coliseum, Saturday night. Marked throughout by high enthusiasm the meeting showed | the response of the wees masses to the threat of a new GWU LS world and a concerted imper- IL QOFFICTA ialist attack on the Soviet Union. The applause that greeted James} Ku, Chinese worker and F. Kito, Ja~ | OF DRESSMAKERS Orenly and frankly, before the eyes of all workers, the dress membership meeting, on the basis of a proposal anese speaker demoristrated the bond of solidarity between all workers against their imperialist and native | ‘i Pers bat Fe i oppressors, (Industrial Union Calls the Communist Party and chairman | of the evening struck the keynote of | the Dress Shops the defense of the Soviet Union was| new yORK—At the dress mem- the outstanding task of the world} Earl Browder, member of the Cen- | Hall on November 5th, the Needle tral Committee of the Communist | Trades Workers’ Industrial “Unton ning, anayzed the basic re-groupings | to by all means help to bring about among the imperialist powers and the | the unification of all dressmakers, rected against the Soviet Union. | they may hold or what their union A thunderous roar from the assem- | affiliations may be. tion “How many here are ready to defend the Soviet Union.” STAB UNITY MOVE: Israel Amter, District Organizer of | for United Front in the meeting when he declared that | prolétariat, |bership meeting held in Memorial Party, the chief speaker of the eve- | once more demonstrated its readiness war preparations and secret pacts di- | regardless of what political. opinions bled workers greeted Browder’s ques- Fully thirteen thousand hands were raised it was estimated when Browder | asked how many had voted for Am- ter in the recent elections. This com- pares with the 1,728 votes Tammany | reported for the Communist candi- date for Borough president of Man- hattan. Jim Grace, Kentucky miner and organizer for the National Miners Union, Stimber for the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League, Chas. Alexan- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) UNEMPLOYED OFFICE WORKERS ‘The Office Workers Union yester- day called on unemployed workers to | be present at union headquarters, | Room 303, 799 Broadway, November 9, at 3 p.m. 500 Harlan Miners Defy Terror to Testify. Before Dreiser Committee at Mass Meet _ STRAIGHT CREEK, Ky., Nov. 8.—From miles around miners, their wives and chil- dren trooped down into this miserable, wretched mining hollow until over 500 of them filled to overflowing the Glendon Bap- tist Church this evening to attend a meeting held under the auspices of the National Miners Union and the International Labor Defense to test the right of the miners to hold public mass meetings. The Dreiser Investigating Comntittee was present on the platform while the speaking was going on. Never before in the history of this Kentucky mountain mining camp had a meeting of this kind been held. Dozens « of miners were forced to stand outside because of lack of room. The company stool pigeons were planted throughout the hall, but they were not able to terrorize the members of the National Miners’ Union. Flux Rages The meeting took place after the Dreiser Committee had visited the homes of many miners whose families were vir- tually dying of starvation. In one place a little girl had just died from the deadly flux disease, caused by starvation. Nearly the entire family had been afflicted. The father, mother and six children lived on less than 25 cents a day. At another shack, the father had a hole torn in his stom. ec ea by the Industrial Union leadership, elected a committee of 25 rank- and file shop workers to go to the mem- bers of Local 22, I. L. G. W. U., as- sembled in Bryant Hall the same evening, and ask them to elect a similar rank and file committee for the purpose of together working out plans of how to mobilize all dress- |makers for a genuine rank and file strike under the leadership elected through the shop committees for the |establishment of union conditions in the dress shops. Bureaucrats Stab Unity Move. | The bureaucrats of Local 22 as well jas of the Dress Joint Board in al- liance with the Lovestoneites and the police, once more demonstrated their readiness to by all means keep the dressmakers divided so that the bosses can exploit them even to a greater degree. In spite of the over- whelming protest of the dressmakers present at that meeting, the commit- tee was kept out by the police, who are always at the disposal of the bureaucrats, The chairman of the meeting even staged a “nervous breakdown” in an attempt to gain the sympathy of some of the workers. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union has at all times point- ed out to the workers that the com- pany union leadership will never per- mit the workers to unite for a real struggle against the bosses. The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will continue with the work in mobilizing not only its own member- ship brt ‘ imbers of the com- pr’ 0D as well, to continue the uggle started at the last member- WAR ON USSR U. S. Peoope Give Aid | to Japanese in War on China Masses \Grandi Coming to U.S. Coe U. 8. Press te Back Japanese Invasion | BULLETIN Fruits of the anti-Soviet plot of the | Japanese and United States insper- | jalists in Manchuria are beginning to | show themselves more clearly. A | Universal Service dispatch from Har- bin, Manchuria, reports encourage- | ment by the Japanese imperialists to White Russian officers to organize a | White Russian Army against the So- | viet Union. The report declares: | “Former Russian imperial army "| technicians and officers are al- legedly being recruited in Mukden and elsewhere!” The threat is openly made that | these forces will be used against the Soviet Union, Serious fighting raged yesterday in | the streets of Tientsin’s Chinese quarter, between Chinese policemen | and other Chinese armed by the Ja- | panese imperialists. Dispatches from | Peipine declare the police were at- | tacked by forces which poured out of | the Japanese concession. While the Japanese Chinese tools | were carrying out their attack, | American and Italian troops were |drawn up on a bridge head, ready | to intervene if the battle went against | the Japanese tools. This is direct evidence of the leading role that | American imperialism is playing in the war on the Manchurian masses jand the Soviet Union. Another dispatch from Peiping de- clares that a second major battle is imminent in Manchuria. The dis- patch brazenly announces that it is “deemed likely to involve Soviet Rus- sia.” In the meantime Chinese General Ma has intrenched his forces directly parallel to the Chinese Eastern rail- } way. The Japanese are reported to be preparing to cut the Eastern rail- way. eee, WY Japan yesterday gave a point blank refusal to the League of Na- tions fake request that she withdraw her army of occupation from Manchuria. The Japanese Army continues its advance toward the Soviet border. At the same time the anti- Soviet front was pushed further to- ward completion by the sailing for the United States of Dino Grandi, Italian fascist foreign minister, Grandi is coming here to hold a secret conference with Hoover and Stimson who are leading the attack for American imperialism against the Soviet Union. Poland has cut down all elxpenses except its military bud- get. A dispatch from Warsaw states: “Expenditures already have been reduced in allmost every depart- ment as compared with this year, the Ministry of War, with a $92,- 000,000 budget, alone escaping a cut.” The military budget is one- third of the total expenditures. The French-owned munition plants in Poland and other European border states are reported to be working overtime. Continued Efforts To Involve Soviet ..The American capitalist press con- tinued Saturday and Sunday their efforts to involve the Soviet Union in the war in Manchuria. The Sat- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) heads of the leadership of the com- pany union. ‘The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union will also mobilize all dressmakers in the trade, Negro and white, young and adult, Italians, Spanish, Jews, and all other nations alities working in the trade for # real struggle on the basis of a united front against the bosses, for the establishment of union conditions in iship meeting and bring about the|every shop where dressmakers are uatty, of oe Sryasinnbers, over. the | working. a ie