The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1931, Page 1

f _ Young Communist League many fold | gro workers, although the revolution- Y Workers ! On to Washington on Dec. 7 -~-- wemand Unemployment Insurance Equal to Full Pay! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, _UNITE! , Dail Central . Ay — Section of the Communist Ronee Yorker faunict Porty U.S.A. IN TWO SECTIONS SEC LION ONE Vol. VIII, No. 271 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 <> NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents. HOOVER TRY TO SMASH STRIKE WITH COPS, COURT Lawrence ‘Strike Lead- ers Getting Vicious Sentences Try to Frame Dunne Court Denies theRight to Picket BULLETIN WOONSOCKET, R. I., Nov. 10.— ‘The Woonsocket strike is won. Workers in one department of the Bermon Worsted Company mill here walked out two weeks ago against a ten per cent wage cut, and have forced the compele with- drawal of the cut. LAWRENCE, Mass.,} Nov. 10.—Thousands eame to the picket lines this morning at all the mills, but the police: broke up every forma- tion and mounted police, rid- ing on the sidewalks, drove all away from the mills. The po- lice blocked the. bridge over the Merrimac River and the bridge over the canal south of the Wood ‘Mill and continually drove the pick- ets. back, : This is an open violation by the police department of Massachusetts Jaw, which permits peaceful picket- ing. No pickets were allowed within blocks of the Arlington Mill by a hundred police, who filled the street in front of it. This police terror was accompanied by five arrests at the Ayer and Wood mills’this morning and twenty-two arrests of pickets marching on the Arlington Mill last night. Railroad Pickets. All these and dozens of others previously arrested were railroaded through Judge Chandler’s court this (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WORKERS WILL HONOR DEAD NEGRO COMRADE Mass Funeral for Ed- wards Thursday NEW YORK. + The funeral of Comrade Ronald Edwards, Negro worker and member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League, November 12 at 12:30 p. m. The body of Comrade Edwards will arrive today from Cleveland, where he died, and will lie im state at the Finnish Workers Home from Wednesday ‘noon’ on. This young revolutionary Negro Jeader died in the flush of youth. Al- though not a strong comrade physic- ally, Comrade Edwards ,was one of the most devoted comrades in the League. He was a comrade who was developing into a real political leader of the young workers, with a keen insight into the problems of the youth. : ‘For the Negro workers, the death of, Comrade Edwards:is’a special loss. ‘There are not. many) young revolu- tionary leaders yet among the Ne- forces among the Negro prole- tt are developing. For,the Party the YCL, the loss of Comrade wards is particularly severe, at a when the struggles are getting bitter, when the Negro workers are ising in resentment against the’ mis- erable conditions that the crisis is Agaposing on them. ‘The answer of the young workers must be to fill up the ranks of the Hundreds of young workers—Negro ‘and white—must join the Young Communist League, to take the place of Comrade Edwards! All-reyolutionary workers, white | and Negro, should be at the Finnish | Workers Hall on Thursday at 12.30 Workers ! r. r. Stimson, Show Your Hand! Force the Secret War + Maleers Into the Light! ve Stimson, demand to SE- IHE workers of this country, Mr. know why you find it necessary to “make peace” CRETLY! On November 6, the N. Y. Post reported from Tokio as follows: “United States Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes, de- livered the new American note to Baron Shidehara, Jap- anese Foreign Minister, today. The document was closely guarded, owing to WASHINGTON’S DESIRE FOR SE- CRECY.” That was on Friday, Nov. 6. And on Sunday, Nov. 8, the Fifteenth Regiment of U. S. Infantry, “stood by,” while Japan engineered a “revolt” in Tientsin, China, and rained shells on defenseless Chinese workers. There can be no doubt of Japanese aggression. The N. Y. Times of Nov. 10, reports from Washington that; “Official advices of. the American Government indi- cated that the outbreak was fomented by Japanese.” American workers, who will be asked—no, FORCED— to die in battle in the WORLD WAR YOU ARE INCITING, MR. STIMSON, DEMAND TO KNOW—DID YOUR SECRET NOTE OF NOVEMBER 6 GIVE APPROVAL TO THE JAPANESE BOMBARDMENT OF TIENTSIN ON NOVEM- BER 8? What DID your secret note say, if not THAT? What other authority than your SECRET AGREEMENT with Japan, empowered you to APPROVE of the Japanese occu- pation of Manchuria? And what is your authority for your SECRET ACTIONS in China that may INVOLVE WORLD WAR AND THE DEATH OF MILLIONS? The N. Y. Times of Nov. 10, reports from Washington that: “American naval forces in Chinese waters have wide discretionary powers to act in emergencies.” Workers! AT ANY MOMENT some U. S. military or naval snob, MAY INVOLVE YOUR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF YOUR WIVES AND BABIES IN A NEW WORLD SLAUGHTER! And YOU ARE BEING KEPT IN THE DARK UNTIL IT IS DONE! Demand to know, workers, what are these SECRET NOTES! In answer to Stimson’s SECRET NOTE, the Jap- anese have sent a reply, which the N. Y. Times of Nov. 10 Says was received in Washington, but—‘THE NATURE OF THE INSTRUCTIONS WAS NOT DISCLOSED.” More. It States: “Secretary Stimson declined to discuss developments in Manchuria in any way.” Workers, the case is clear! Stimson is NOT “making die, forced to die, for SECRET: AGREEMENTS MADE BY STIMSON AND HOOVER WITH FRANCE AND JAPAN! Then, AFTER IT IS ALL SETTLED, the capitalist papers will MANUFACTURE what is called “Public Opin- ion’—IN FAVOR OF WAR! After some U.'S. Naval of- ficer “with wide discretionary powers’—has brought Amer- ica into the war in.China! Workers, is it not clear as day! WHY does the United States permit the shipping of SLX THOUSAND TONS OF NITRO-GLYCERINE, enough to, blow up a. nation, TO JAPAN, and not to the NICARAGUAN ARMY OF INDE- PENDENCE that is fighting for freedom from Wall. Street rule? Clearly, because there is.a SECRET AGREEMENT with Japan to loot China! To crush the Chinese Soviets! To USE MANCHURIA AS A’ BASE FOR WAR: ON THE SOVIET UNION! Workers! Who are these war-makers threatening YOUR LIVES? : They are the SAME servants of J.'P. Mor- gan and the other Wall Street crowd of bankers and bandits who have been STARVING -YOU WHO ARE UNEM- PLOYED FOR TWO YEARS—tefusing to give you;a cent from the fortunes of the RICH, to prevent the starvation, suicide and disease that is-sweeping thousands into the grave! They, these WAR MAKERS AT WASHINGTON, are the SAME who have been LYING month in and month out, about “prosperity returning”—while, also IN-SECRET they have put-over WAGE CUTS that have stolen the bread from your table and crippled millions of children for LIFE. . Just to save the rich from paying taxes! They talk of “economy”——but spend $2,800,000,000 for WAR! They talk of “peace” but'they make WAR! They gabble about the League of Nations, they chatter about the Kellogg Pact—but-in SECRET AGREEMENTS they: gamble with YOUR LIVES IN WAR! : Workers, the Wall Street speculators are already cash- ing in on YOUR bloodshed!. Only YOUR action will count in staying the hand of the war-makers! Only your action will defend the Soviet Union from early attack! Everywhere, workers of whatever political belief must UNITE AGAINST WAR! In every workers’ organization let resolutions be adopted exposing the war-makers, calling for local. WORKERS’ COMMITTEES AGAINST WAR! MAKE NOVEMBER 21:A TREMENDOUS DAY OF DEM- ONSTRATION AGAINST WAR! Support the National Hunger March on Washington to demand all war funds go to the unemployed! Demand an end to starvation and secret diplomacy! Defend your lives peace’ SECRETLY! He is MAKING WAR SECRETLY! And only when it will be TOO LATE, will you be asked to from capitalism! Council Gets Action on Needy Case Mass Pressure Forces Charity to Act (By A Worker Correspondent.) Frame-Up Against Dreiser to Cover Up His Expose of Misery! Dreiser Declares That Misery in Kentucky Equals That of Worst In the World Frame-Up Case of Hearing Thursday at General Sessions ‘The hearing in the case of James Four Workers Is Up Mrs. Rosdeick, 350 East 3rd Street came to the Downtown Unemployed Council last Friday asking them to help her get relief. Her husband has been unemployed ,for a long time they were completely destitute and starving. She told of going to the Jewish. Social Service, 318 East 3rd Street two weeks ago for help and they. informed her that they would investigate. Days passed, but no in- vestigation followed and meanwhile her family was hungry. She went to this same charity organization again, and the same business fol- lowed, as in all cases, promise of in- vestigation and nothing done. Finally. she came to the council. The worker of the council immediate- ly mobilized and sent a committee with Mfs. Rosdeick to the charity or- ganization and demanded they give Desperately seeking to cover up and sidetrack the unearthing of appalling mass misery and company terror in the Kentucky coalfields by the com- mittee of writers headed by Theodore Dreiser, the local Harlan authorities have resorted to a deliberate, and crudely eecuted frame-up of the noted novelist by ordering him ar- rested on a formal charge of adul- tery. a@ result, an Investigator was sent out at once, the committee went with the investigator. When the investi- gator saw all the workers in front of Mrs. Rosedeick’s house she immedi- ately gave her $5.00 and promised more saying “I don’t want no trouble, I don’t want no trouble.” Mrs. Ros- deick’s husband was alsq promised a immediate relief and not promises. As (Special to the Daily Worker) TORONTO, Ont. Nov. 10—On Friday the fifth day of the trial of the Canadian Communist Party lead- ers, Tim Buck, was \in the witness stand. The Crown presented many exhibits including the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and theses of the Communist International in order to prove that the Canadian Communist Party takes orders from Moscow and advocates violence to overthrow the government, blaming the Party for riots. Comrade Buck par, the eet anos to Come Pd outlined the origin of the Workers’ Party-of Canada referring -to the Job. Canadian Communist Leaders Answer Charges of Sedition theses of the Second Congress of the Communist International (as re- printed by the Department of Com- merce of the United States govern- ment). Buck dealt with the split in the post-war labor movement and the desire for militant action by the workers. Comrade Buck then defined revolutionary Marxism and the class struggle. During his explanation he was interrupted several times by the bench, On Monday, the sixth day of the trial, MacDonald the Defense attor- |, (CONTINUER, ON PAGE THREE) That it was a deliberate effort to get Dreiser was admitted by County Prosecutor Walter B. Smith, who told of sending one of his men to knock at Dreiser's door at his hotel and then concoct a story of Dreiser go- ing into a “mystery woman’s” room and failing to come out. The “mys- tery woman” is Marie Pergain, Drei- ser’s secretary who accompanied him on the investigation. But their chagrin and fear of the report of the Dreiser committee caused, another of the coal officials, Circuit Judge D. C. Jones to admit the real reasor in trying to frame Dreiser. “He is a wild speaker who came here to inflame the public.” That committee’came here with a pretense of conducting a ‘fair and impartial inquiry. But it turned out‘to be! a one-sided affair, likely to revive the disorders which have cost several lives in this district in récent months.” “There is no, terrorism here. We can iron. out our own troubles.” | Dreiser not only denied the frame- up charge against him but issued a statement saying that the actual physical misery and conditions in the Kentucky coal fields equalled the worst anywhere inthe world. ple dca Oa MEN RED PUTILOV TRACTOR WORKS INCREASES PRODUCTION MOSCOW.—The ' tractor. depatt- ment of the Red) Putilov Works in Leningrad turned: out 469 tractors in the fourth Five-Day Week in October. Garfield, Louis Campbell, Arthur Williams and George Brown, four Negro workers framed up on robbery charges, will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 10 a. m. in General Sessions Court, Criminal Court Building, Center and Franklin Sts. ‘The four workers, who have been active in the Harlem branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, were arrested last spring as a result of a struggle with the treacherous Garvey organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The notorious faker, “General” Grant, head of the U. N. I: A. in Harlem, accused the four workers of breaking HIDE SECRET NOTES FROM Soviet Union In War Continue Set Up Puppet Goy’ts Makes Gains Yesterday saw further ominous developments in the war by Japanese imperialists on the Chinese masses and in the war plot of Japanese, French and United States imperialists to push the Soviet Union and the whole world proletariat into a new world slaughter. * Dispatches from Mukden and Tokio report that Japan is rushing more troops to Manchuria. A dispatch to the New York Mirror from Chang- chiatun, Manchuria, reports Japanese troops already in Manchuria are moving northward along the Taonan-Anganchi Railway. The Tao- nan-Anganchi Railway connects with the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly owned by China and the Soviet Union. Japanese troops along the Taonan- Anganchi Railway already totalled 2,000. Communists Leading Fight on Imperialists ‘The only réal oppdsition to the im- ese workers and peasants. A dispatch from Chenchiatun, on the Monogolia border, north of Mukden, reports that Chinese peasants yesterday attacked @ Japanese military train. A special telegram from Shanghai | to the Kung Shong Daily, a reac- tionary Chinese paper in Chicago states: “The foreign delegations in Pei- ping receives reports from their consulate in various parts of China, stating that the Communists are extraordinary active along the Yangtse Valley and that they are preparing to attack Hankow and to establish a Soviet Government there.” Another dispatch to the same paper gives more detailed information. It states: “The Communist Party in China fs calling 2 National Soviet Con- gress in Kiangs! Province on Nov. 7, the 14th Anniversary of the Bol- shevik Revolution. The foreign legations in Peiping, after receiving information to this effect, were greatly concerned. They were afraid of the fact that the Communists are very active around Hankow which it in danger of being sur- rounded by the Reds. Japanese armed occupation of Man- churia, Chiang Kai-Shek had aban- doned his Communist Suppression Campaign. (Chiang was hopelessly defeated by the Chinese Red Army Editor, Daily Worker). The Com- munists since then have become exceedingly menacing. Five im- portant places along the Yangtse River have been captured by the Since the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ing the arrested workers and calls on all workers, Negro and white, to sup- into his room. and stealing his watch. ‘The New York District of the In- port its struggle to smash this brazen {rame-up. Speed Manufacture of War Material in North Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio.—War prep~- arations are proceeding at a rapid pace ‘in different industrial plants throughout northern Ohjo. Workers in the |Gdodyear rubber plant at Akron report that a big order for gas masks has recently been received. The department engaged in produc- tion of these masks is now working at full speed. » Other plants ostensibly intended for production of peacetime goods are being prepared to start, at: the short- This represents 113 per cent of the program, we valebuae tbh soealonaomes: uae Build your :preds by writing for: t+ about your day-to-day struggle, est notice, into producing at full blast, the instruments . of. . slaughter and destruction which the American the, | capitalist class expects; soon to use for'their; imperialist designs against other ‘imperialists jand against «the | soviet Union; in parti¢ular. Two plants in this district—the Paper & Textile Machinery Co. of Sandusky, and the Titusville Forge Co. of Titusville, Pa.—have been found adaptable for production of howitzer and anti-aircraft guns, ac- cording to Major William A. Borden, head of the army ordnance depart- ment, who spoke at the Cleveland Club recently. Outlining the plans already made to turn industrial plants to the manufacture of ammunition and other war production, Borden said that the Cleveland district can pro- duce 200,000 pounds of 75-mm. shells, 96,000 rounds of shrapnel and 56,000 rounds of No. 2 shells per month, as soon'as called upon to do so, U. S. MASSES Attempts to Involve} Chinese Red Army | that | perialist attack comes from the Chin- | ternational Labor Defense is defend- | HELPS JAPAN SPREAD WAR THROUGH CHINA | |Report of Mutiny In || Australian Navy | Reaches London (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, Nov. 10.—Smith’s Weekly, leading Sydney journal, | | dated Oct. 3, arrived here and re- ports that a mutiny in the Au-| stralian navy occurred simul- | taneously with the Invergordon | | revolt, The Australian revolt was | | | | | | | caused by wage-cuts, poor foods | and outrageous punishments. The revolt led to a complete refusal of duty on the vessels Albatross, | | Canberra and Garica. A Red flag | | was hoisted on the western port of the naval depot, The pack drilt | was abolished as a punishment, | thanks to the revolt. ‘BANKERS DEMAND RAILROADS CUT PAY 10 PER CENT! | | Workers Must Build! Militant Committees and Strike at Cut NEW YORK.—A 10 per cent slash | | in the wages of all railroad workers | | Was demanded by the Investment | | Bankers Assn. at its convention at | White Sulphur Springs on Nov. 9, to provide a national revolving fund to | meet the $6,000,000,000 of railroad | securities held by the bankers. Not one cent of the railroad brig- | ands profits shall be touched, not a } penny will be taken from the rich | capitalists to meet the securities; say the bankers, but the whole burden | of meeting the railroad securities will be placed on the backs of the rail- road workers. In demanding that the railroad bosses cut wages the committee of | | bankers said: | “Railroad managers are not jus- tified in continuing to pay wages | which will threaten to impair the / efficiency and solvency of the com- pany.” Which all means when translated | into plain working-class struggle that the bankers do not think it is right for the railroad bosses to impair their profits. Anything is right from a bankers point of view that helps to increase profits for the capitalists and bring more misery to the working- class, This statement of the Bankers As- | sociation should leave no illusions in the minds of the workers about the maintenance of the scale of the rail- road workers. A general wage-cut is coming in the railroads just as it came in steel. The railroad workers must act. If the bosses are success- ful in the first big cut they will put over more cuts. Railroad workers must organize militant committees in all branches of the service. Force the bosses to take back the cut by striking against it. Prepare yourself now for a bitter struggle against the lowering of your living standard. Build the Railroad Workers Industrial League which is the only real leader in the fight against wage-cuts in the railroads. Williamsburgh to Hold Hearing On Hunger and Want Calling a public mass hearing for | Wednesday, Nov. 18, 8 p. m. at Public School 196, Bushwick & Meserole Sts. the Unemployed Council of Williamsburgh issued a leaflet telling of the spread of unemployment and unemployment misery in Brooklyn. “In only two buildings on Moore St. six eviction notices were given out in one week,” the leaflet says in part, showing the increase in evictions in the Williamsburgh section. Organizations are invited to have 5 delegates apiece present at this hearing, where the situation affect- ing the masses will be revealed. Preparations are going ahead for a hunger march for immediate winter relief, November 20. The march will proceed to Court and Fulton Sts., where an unemployed delegation will be elected to present the demands for relief to the Borough President of Brooklyn, Government officials, city and fed- Jeral, have been challenged to be pres- | PLAN HUNGER MARCHES IN ALL SECTIONS Public Hearings, Job- less Conferences Prep- aratory to Natl. March California March on 15 Raise Funds to Take Care of Marchers NEW YORK—Events will be crowded into the next few weeks, in the preparations throughout the country for the. National Hunger March to Washington December 7. On November 15, the State Unemployment Convention will |be held in Sacramento, Calif, at | which National Hunger Marchers will be elected and plans made for a State Hunger March In Denver, a United Front Con- ference is being held on Nov. 13, and | the local Hunger March follows on Noy. 16, An affair will be held Nov. 14 to raise money for the March Public hearings are being held in the New Haven district this week, in Bridgeport, Nov. 12; New Haven, | Nov. 19) MEW Britain, Nov. 16. In this district United Front Hunger March Conferences are taking place also. Ii Bridgeport, Nov. 20; Stamford, Nov. 20; Danbury, Nov. 19; New Haven, Noy. 21. Seattle, Wash., is holding a United Front Hunger March Conference Nov. In Minneapolis, neighborhood meetings are being held from to 19 in preparing the Na- mal Hunger March. Local Hunger Marches are being held in St. Paul on Nov. 23, and Duluth-Superior, Nov. 25. In Chicago City Conferences pre- paring for the National»March are being held on Nov. 15, Also in Spring- field, Illinois. The Milwatkee County Hunger March takes place Nov. 17. Local Hunger Marches are being held in Gary and South Bend, Ind. on Nov. 22 and in Hammond and In- diana Harbor on Noy. 15. The Spring- field, Ill, local hunger march takes place Nov. 23. These are but part of the nation- wide preparations for the National Hunger March being made in the next two weeks. Other preparations will be given tomorrow. GERMAN FASCISTS KILL. WORKER Store Arms forSlaugh- ter of Toilers (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Nov. 10.—Yesterday the fascists attacked the Reichsbanner procession at Eutin. During a furl- ous fight one fascist was killed and many were injured on both sides. The Reichsbanner were searched by the police, bu tno arms were found. The fascists fired revolvers, Fierce collisions between the fas- cists and Reichsbanner also occurred yesterday at Bremen. One fascist was killed and many were wounded on both sides. Fascists also attacked workers leay- ing a meeting of the newly-formed Socialist Workers’ Party. Reinforce- ments came, but the fascists fled. Owing to various denunciations, the police searched the house of a furni- ture manufacturer in Neumberg yes- terday, discovering an arms dump containing three heavy machine guns, ten infantry rifles, eight carbines, two machine pistols and ten thou- sand rounds of ammunition. This manufacturer is a fascist, On Saturday and Monday the po- lice of Wilhelmsburg, near Hamburg, searched the homes of mahy work- ers. Although nothing was found, nine workers were arrested, W ent at the hunger hearings and to answer on the amount of aid they ait Mae 4)