The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1931, Page 1

; i | EVERY LAWRENCE TEXTILE STRIKER OUT ON THE PICKET LINE! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central UY, VO ( pectin of the cies ommate se International) orker Porty U.S.A. Vol. ‘vill, No. 270 Entered as second~ at New York, N. Y. matter at the P ler the act of M ottice . 1879 Racal NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1931 a Price 3 Cents WHITE GUARDS WAIT FOR WORD TO INVADE SOVIET SOIL Seattle and Minneapolis To Elect *t Hunger Delegates Public Hearings Preceed Election of Delegates to the National Hunger March ‘The starving workers who are el- ected from the far Northwest as de- legates to the National Hunger March on Washington, December 7 will have the longest distance to travel, but this does not hinder them in their Preparations for the National Hun- ger March. Ih Seattle, a large central Public Hearing was held in Eagle Hall, Sun- day, ‘November 8. The United Front Conference of unemployed workers is being held. on November 11, and de- legates “for the National Hunger March are to be elected then. , A Finance Committee has been elected, for the Seattle Unemployed Councils and Revolutionary trade unions realize the necessity of col- Jecting funds if the Hunger March is to be successful. Public Hearings will be held in the neighborhoods of Seattle also, by the Unemployed Branches. In. Minneapolis, the Unemployed Councils are preparing for Public Hearings to expose misery and starv- ation, the Hearings to be held from November 11 to November 14 in .the evening. The Minneapolis Unemployed Councils in a recent report says: “The Unemployed Councils being on the job at the time when the Community Drive for Funds is’ un- acy way, we find that workers fam- ilies are starving and being thrown out on the streets. For instance, a workers by the name of Heinz who has a family of six children, who has been out of work for over a year and no means for support- ing his family is being threatened with eviction. The children are go- ing to school hungry and without the proper clothing. Three of the children the youngest one 2 months old who are sick with the whooping cough are in want of proper food and warm clothing. Mr. Heinz went to the Public Welfare to get some food for his children and fuel to warm up the house, but was re- fused, Wednesday morning the Deputy Sheriff came to the house of the worker to throw hir: out, because this worker got a “made .out job, which he only started to work on Monday, which of course he could not pay his rent.” ‘The Cleveland Unemployed Coun- cil through its branches is conduct- ing Public Haerings in nine differ- ent neighborhoods of the city this week. The object of the Hearings is to bring the light of actual starva- tion conditions. of the Unemployed workers and the families as they are at this time, Lawrence, St. Louis, Chicago Workers Hail 14th Anniversary Six Thousand Workers Pledge Defense of Soviet Union at Chicago Meeting LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 8. (By Mail).—Three hundred workers, practically none of whom had ever beén at a celebration of the Bolshevik revolution before, went to Russian Hall and the hall at 21 Haverhill and heard Ballam, Kaplan, Figuerado, Pizer (General Picket Captain File Strike Committee) and others on@ the lessons of the Russian Revolu- tion. It was the largest Nov. 7 cele- bration ever held in Lawrence. ‘The crowds were very responsive. SIX HUNDRED IN ST. LOUIS MEET (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8—Six hundred workers at the 14th anniversary cele- bration meeting here pledged de- fense of the Soviet Union. The the East St. Louis celebration last night several hundred workers were attacked by thirty police thugs and the two speakers arrested. Resolutions of protest of Japanese imperialist aggression in Manchuria were adopted and sent to the Japa- nese ambassador and Secretary Stim- son. One hundred workers participated in the megting at Madison, Ill. Reset oe 6,000 JAM CHICAGO HALL (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 8—Over 6,000 workers jammed the Coliseum on the oceasion of the fourteenth anniver- sary meeting with Williamson as chairman and Weinstone and Newton ’ Thirty| per| cent. of the spectacular part, The John Reed Club gave a tableau. * Workers showed militant defiance of the brazen presence of the Red ‘Squad pledged support to the and for the defense of. the Soviet Union. ‘Two hundred were present in the meeting at Kenosha, Wis. Cops blocked the meeting in Peoria, i mark, who was later released, 4 meeting was hed by the police. A total of 47 inclusive of 7 mining towns 4 6 steel towns, were held. LAWRENCE, Nov. 9.—The Law- rence Strikers Defense Committee, a united front body elected from mill and departmental meetings without rgard to union membership, and the International Labor Defense have jointly opened an office at 50 New- bury St., close to the mills, of tho,United Front Rank and HUNGER HEARING IN HARLEM WED. Expose Starvation Pro- gram of Bosses NEW YORK.—A public hearing to |” expose the hunger conditions in Har- Jem and the responsibility of the boss- es’ government for the growing mass misery will be held this Wednesday night at Lafayette Hall, 169 West 131st Street. ‘The meeting is called by the Har- lem Unemployed Council, which has challenged the Aldermen, Assembly- men and Congressmen from Harlem together with other officials to at- tend and answer the charges against them. ‘The meeting is one of many public hearings held throughout the county to expose the bosses’ starvation pro- gram and to mobilize the masses for the National Hunger March to Wash- ington to demand unemployment re- lief and social insurance. Body of Comrade Ronald Edwards Coming to New York BULLETIN. The body of Comrade Edwards is being brought from Cleveland. A mass funeral will be held in New York on Thursday, Nov. 12, The body will lie in state all day Wed- nesday at the Finnish Workers Hall, 15 West 127th St., where it can be viewed by the workers who will pay their last respects to one who was most active in the revolutionary fight against the capitalist hunger program, against lynching and na- tional oppression, for unemploy- ment relief and social insurance, and for unconditional equal rights for the Negro masses. 20,000 ON LAWRENCE PICKET LINE U.'T.W. and A. F. of L. Officials in Open Strikebreaking Mounted Cops Attack Single Out | the Strike Leaders for Arrest The United Textile Workers of- ficials and A. F. of L. leaders are now openly co-operating with the mill owners in order to end the strike. The big chiefs are still dis- guising their policy a little, but the lesser leaders are outspoken in all the meetings, LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 9.—Twenty thous- and picketed this morn- ing. Scores of mounted police drove into the crowd repeatedly, riding along the sidewalks sweeping the pickets back from the selected gates of all the mills, where by evident pre-arrangement, scabs were to enter, All picket for- mations were broken by mounted police. Picket captains who were rec- ognized by the police, were arrested. Workers Not Fooled. Through the gates cleared by the police at the Washington and Wood Mills, a couple of hundred scabs on foot and a hundred cars with one or two in each, entered in demonstrative fashion. Many of these scabs are not mill workers but bootleggers and small businessmen, members of Peter Carr’s political machine.. Bosses who have hitherto entered four or five in each automobile, are now put one in each car. This is an evident intention to try to stampede the strikers back to work. This failed in the Wood, Ayer and Washington Mills. A combined scab demonstration and United Textile Workers and A. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “Did not Come to Help Strikers” Two “Socialists” Admit LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 9— William Penn Montgomery, a stu- dent from the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, and Donald McQueen Smith, a student from Bates College, were both sent here directly from the socialist party national executive committee meeting held in Boston yesterday. They were arrested. this morning near the Monomac Mill picket line. They repeatedly stated in court this morning that they were “observers and did not come here to help the strikers in any way.” One charge against them was dismissed and ‘the other charge filed. This is the only case in this strike where the charges are being Med. Both were released without bail. While in jail they held aloof from and refused to talk to the ar- rested strikers. e ORKERS, shells are falling, machine guns rattling death, battle is raging and WORLD WAR! Workers, the war will spread to YOUR home! lives and those dear to you—are in danger! Did the shot fired at Sarajevo, in Serbia, one summer day in 1914, seem “far away” from YOU? But before the guns of imperialist war ceased belching death, 100,000 Amer- ican men had died in battle! More had been torn and shat- tered by wounds! THAT WAS THE LAST WORLD WAR! Today, a NEW WORLD WAR IS ON! LOOK! Japanese troops are invading China! Battles are spreading, not only NORTHWARD toward Soviet frontiers, but also SOUTHWARD—shells are falling at Tinetsin! Japanese imperialism aims not only at PROVOKING WAR ON THE SOVIETS, but at war on CHINA, the seizure of yast territory and the suppression of SOVIET CHINA! Workers, why are American troops in China? Why are they now actually supporting the Japanese invaders of China? Is THIS the SECRET AGREEMENT between Washington, Tokio, and Paris? LOOK! The Japanese Army in Manchuria is enlisting Rus- sian Czarists, murderous enemies of SOVIET RUSSIA! What for? To fight the SOVIET UNION and _ it is openly admitted—“ON SOVIET SOIL”! The N. Y. Times correspondent, Hallett Abend, reports from Harbin, Manchuria, that Czarist Russians expect to join the Japanese to “capture Vladivostock and all Siberia west to Lake Baikal”—from the Soviet Union! These Czarist Russians in Manchuria “believe that. if Japan and Russia clash, Poland and Rumania, with France backing, might attack the Russian western frontier.” This is the same plan of war on the Soviet Union, told last week by Congressman Sirovich of New York, who says he learned it “confidentially.” Is the League of Nations stopping this new world war? ITIS NOT! Only YOU, the workers, can stop it! Is the Kellogg-Briand Pact stopping this new world war? IT IS NOT! AND ONLY THE WORKERS CAN STOP IT! Workers of America! What is the Government at Washington doing? It is moving, it is PUSHING YOU into war! YOUR spreading in the NEW | Hoover and Stimson? Have they not SECRETLY AGREED WITH JAPAN—that Japan provoke war on the Workers! War Is On! of Japan’s seizure of Manchuria? Japan now SPREADS its seizure! It is sending shells into the heart of China! AMERICAN TROOPS are there! WHY? Are they there to prevent Japanese imperialism, American imperialism’s rival in the loot of China, from seiz- ing MORE THAN AGREED UPON? This, too, is AN- OTHER DANGER OF WAR, war between Japan and Amer- ica over the loot of China, the possession of the PHILIP- PINES! Workers! ONLY YOUR ACTION CAN PREVENT | WAR! The prices of ALL WAR MATERIALS have sud- denly risen! This foretells DANGER TO YOUR LIVES! War speculators profit from YOUR BLOODSHED! | Why has America shipped SIX THOUSAND TONS OF NITRO-GLYCERINE TO JAPAN? Why if not for WAR? Workers, is it not significant that Tientsin, China, where HOOVER got hi art in life” by robbing China of the vast KAIPING MINES; where General BUTLER, of the Marines, who is America’s most boastful Fascist, got HIS START—is now the scene of battle—with AMERICAN TROOPS “standing by”? “STOCKS GO UP 1 TO 5 ON WAR RUMORS,” say the headlines in New York! The capitalists gamble with YOUR LIVES, WORKERS! The League of Nations will NOT stop it! The Kellogg Pact will NOT stop it! The fake “socialists” shout about “peace” but back the capitalist war-makers! Only YOU, the WORKERS, can stop it! Workers of America! Everywhere, spread the alarm! kinds, ADOPT. RESOLUTIONS AGAINST WAR! Adopt resolutions CALLING FOR» JOINT COMMITTEES OF ALL WORKERS AGAINST WAR! Resolve to defend your lives! To demand an end to secret agreements! Resolve to protest at the war-makers of Washington who starve you by unemployment and wage cuts! Protest the imperialist loot of China and war on the Chinese Soviets! Resolve to defend the Soviet Union! Sweep the country with mass demonstra- tions on Noy. 21 STRIKE A BLOW NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AGAINST THE NEW WORLD WAR! AGAINST THE In your shops and in your workers’ organizations of all - PROTEST AGAINST BRLYN ARREST Seven Arrested At An Election Meeting ‘The workers of Brooklyn will voice their protest against Tammany’s el- ection terror when they gather at a mass meeting Wednesday night at Finnish Hall, 764 40th Street, and demand the release of seven workers who were arrested when a Commun- ist election campaign meeting was broken up by police on October 30. ‘The arrested workers, who were par- oled in the custody of their attorney, will come up for trial this Friday, November 13, at 10 a.m. in the court at 23rd St. and Fifth Ave. Brook- lyn. They will be defended by Jos. Tauber, representing the New York District of the International Labor Defense. The protest meeting will be under the joint auspices of the LL.D, and the Communist Party. Six of the workers are charged with disorderly conduct, while the seventh has four charges against him, including inciting to riot. He is L. A. De Santes, a member of the executive board of the John Reed Club. Soviet Union? How else can they explain Stimson’s approval CAPITALIST BUTCHERS OF MANKIND! Coal Barons Hire Thugs to Terrorize the Miners Expose les and Editors As Instruments of Coal Barons BULLETIN. In an attempt to counteract and discredit the exposure of the Harlan coal operators’ bloody terror by the Dreiser investigating com- mittee, the operators have had recourse to the well known capitalist method of frame-up. Circuit Judge D. C. Jones, the vicious: enemy of the Harlan miners, and a coal operator himself, has asked the Bell County grand jury to indict Dreiser on the framed up charge of “mis- conduct with a ‘mystery woman’” at a hotel in Pineville, Kentucky. Jones also asked indictment of the members of the Dreiser com- mittee on charges of criminal syndicalism. The most vicious les were peddled out by Jones. HARLAN, Ky., Nov. 9.—Every deputy sheriff in Harlan County is hired and paid for by the coal companies, and the more arrests made the greater the fees, admitted Sheriff! Blair when interviewed in his office today by the Dreiser Committee. Sheriff Blair refused to tell how many company gunmen he deputized, though the number is known to be well over 400. These gunmen, the sheriff’s testimony showed, work and are paid for by the coal barons and they are made deputies as a “sideline,” as the sheriff put it, to pick up ‘TAXIMEN TO FIGHT (MONOPOLIST GRIP, iCall Meeting Thursday | November 12 NEW YORK.—Rallying the taxi men for struggle against the pro- posed Tammany franchise for a taxi | monopoly by the General Motors and | the consequent lay-off of thousands of drivers and increased strangle- hold upon the workers, the Taxi Sec- tion of the Transportation Workers’ | Industrial Union has called a meet~ ing for Thursday, November 12 at the Hunts Point Palace in the Bronx. A committee of hackmen will be elected at this meeting to present the signed petitions of thousands of drivers against the monopoly to the Board of Aldermen when that body considers the report of the Taxi Com- mission. One way to help the Soviet Union ts to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. a little change. When asked by Theodore Dreiser, Bramhall Gets Cheers At Lawrence Election Meeting LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 8—The name of Sam Bramhall for mayor leads the list of candidates for the Lawrence municipal elections Nov. 17, Bramhall is endorsed by the Communist Party and runs on its platform. Another Communist can- didate is Simoh Hazigian, running for the office of engineer, The Nov. 17 election is a “run off” balloting, only the two highest going on the final ballot for each office in De- cember. The Bramhall campaign is getting much response. The police depart- ment was finally forced, after much pressure, to make a limited ponces- sion to the right of free speech. Bramhall street meetings have been prohibited up to Saturday night, but. that evening was ‘desired by other candidates for speeches before the city hall, and the authorities finally grudingly allowed Bramhall a half hour permit to. speak. Commissioner Ryan Speaks, ‘The meeting was a revelation. Just before Bramhall arose, candidate for (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) famous novelist, whether the deputy sheriffs who dynamited the Workers International Relief soup kitchens and shot and killed miners at sev- eral relief stations were acting under his orders, Sheriff Blair said that all deputy sheriffs were under his direction. Sheriff Fears NMU. Sheriff Blair is a red-faced, pot bellied man who expressed « great hatred for National Miners Union members. He said the United Mine (CONTINUED ON PAGE TAREE) Give your answer to Hoover's program of hunger, wage cuts and persecution! Majority of Harlan Miners In Favor of General Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) HARLAN, Ky., Nov. 9—In the face of the bitterest terror, there is a rapid growth of the National Min- ers Union which already embraces the majority of the 14,000 miners in war-torn Harlan County. Over 75 per cent of all the miners favor a general ‘strike in the Harlan coal fields and look to the National Min- ers Union to lead. There are 20 to 30 local unions in the mines here deeply rooted, evading the terror, mobilizing the miners for struggle. Workers ! 1 On to Washington on Dec. 7 --- Demand Lanislovnent Insurance Equal. to F Full Pay? A general committee, organized by the NMU, with representatives from nearly every mine in this territory has been formed as a nucleus for the preparation for a genera! strike. The stronghold of the union are in the strategic centers of Cawood, Harlan, Evarts, Wallins Creek and Pansy. Organize Despite Terror No amount of machine-gun boss rule is able to stop the organization of the NMU: The locals meet secretly, JAPANESE ‘SPREAD WAR “THRU CHINA 'N T! 40 Sells 6 000 Tons cr itro- Glyceri ine to Japan Move in Central China Japanese Socialists OK | Robber War Within the past 24 |hours, the imperialist jbandits have developed |with feverish haste their war moves jagainst the Soviet Union. Their past attempts |to involve the Soviet /Union having been de- 'feated by the Soviet Union’s {strong policy of peace, the im- | perialist war mongers are now jresorting to the most open and brazen provoeation. That the Soviet Union is desirous | of peace is admitted by the imper- jalists themselves. Josef Washing- ton Hall, bourgeois writer on the Orient, who recently returned from the Far East, admitted before the | Foreign Policy Association that the Soviet Union is striving for peace. The N. Y. Times of Nov. 7 reported | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “ADMITS WHEAT RISE IS DUE TO WAR MOVES 90 Per Cent of Wheat in the Hands of Speculators Yesterday’s New York Evening Sun published a dispatch from Chi- cago further showing the connec- tion between the rise in wheat and the war moves of the imperialiste in Manchuria. The article bore the caption: “WAR RUMOR SENDS GRAIN PRICES UP.” The dispatch states that the prices on corn, rye and oats have also shown a rise. Another wave of heavy specnia= tive buying has set in, eee Further proof that the war plots of the imperialists against the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union are behind the rise in the prices of wheat and silver is revealed in a statement by B+ C. Forbes in the financial column of yesterday's New York Am= erican that “war threats have been a factor in the rise in prices, Forbes states: “While speculation has been rampant in silver, and WHILE WAR THREATS HAVE BEEN A FACTOR, (emphasis ours, editor, Daily Worker), the recent far- reaching abandonment of gold pay- ments warranted improvement in silver prices. As in the case of wheat, however, a switch by spe- culators from the bull to the bear side could doubtless precipitate a. sharp, if only temporary set-back.” Wide-spread speculation in wheat continues, based on the knowledge of with whom the principal speculators have admittedly been co-operating, that the war against the Soviet Union is now definitely prepared. In Sunday's New York Times, Sen- ator Shipstead is quoted as declar= ing that 90 per cent of the wheat is in the hands of the speculators, This means that the speculators ard (CONTINUTN ON PAGE THREE) confident of a sure thing. 4 the speculators and the Farm Board, | —