The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1931, Page 1

“Labor” Department —eaming Dunne, Biedenkapp, Ballam WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail. Central wate es Section fics see —— fneratonl) Vol. VIII, No. 272 Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, a orker 2 soit Part U.S.A. aoe — Price 3 Ceuks : ational Hunger “March Important Link in Chain of Struggle By B. D. AMIS. EVER before in the history of Congress has it witnessed such a steeled and determined, fighting delegation as it will witness on December 7, the date the 1,200 hunger marchers present the demands of the millions of unemployed. This National Hunger March is a history making event tm the struggles of the toiling masses against their ruling class oppressors. It is more than a mere struggle for bread and unemployment insurance. To the exploited and oppressed toilers, it is a decisive turn in the hhistoric road c’ labor struggles to mark the beginning of compulsory recog- nitin by the bourgeoisie of the power of organized labor and the might of the organized unemployed, under militant and revolutionary leadership. The march will be a rude awakening to the entire capitalist class and their politicians. Before them will appear the representatives of the 12 million jobless and the 40 million persons without the slightest means of Mvlihood. The mighty army of the unemployed and employed have con- fidence in these delegates to deliver. But the struggle for life and exist- ence ig not left entirely to the 1,200 delegates. Every worker and working- class organization owes it to his class to give able assistance to make the march a tremendous success. It affords an opportunity to build a powerful unemployed movement—build block committees, unemployed branches and gotncils, relief stations and local hunger marches. Continue the Fight of Comrade Ronald Edwards Worker has learned with sorrow of the death of Comrade Edwards, member of the National Executive Committee of tho Young Communist League. Comrade Edwards, by his unrelenting fight in the interests of the unity of white and Negro workers, has earned a Py place for himself in the list of those who have given their all for vt ing class. tis death must be the occasion for a renewal of our pledge to struggle re sharply than before against the entire system of capitalist ion and Jim Crow discrimination to which Comrade Edwards fell a vietim. The Daily Worker knows that the work which Comrade Ed- wares carried on in the short time that he belonged to the Young Com- run'st League will be intensified a thousandfold by the working youth Who look uvon the death of Edwards as a call to action, as a spur to com- plete whet Comrade Edwards has left undone. Mooney Hails Soviet Union, Inspiration to World Workers SAN FRANCISCO, Calif—Tom Mooney has written a letter to ‘Trud,” central organ of the Soviet Trade Unions, greeting the Russian workers on the fourteenth anniver- sary of the Russian Revolution, Voy. 7, Mooney’s letter reads: \“From this tomb of the living dead, where I have been buried ~alive for the past fifteen years be- ‘cause of my militancy, devotion and fidelity to the working class, I greet the workers of the Soviet Unton with outstretched eager hands of genuine working-class _ fellowship ‘and solidarity. --“As world capi(alism sinks ever deeper and deeper into the quag- mire of its own despair, corruption and brutal exploitation of the toil- “ers, you, the conquerors of Czarist tyranny, the builders of a better civilization, by your unbelievable sacrifices and unrelenting struggles, have made possible the tremendous successes in socialist construction in the Soviet Union and are a sublime inspiration to the workers every- where. You raise the hopes of the world proletariat ever higher and higher, “We are miles apart, but space means nothing—the struggle is world-wide. I am with you in spirit and with all my heart. I am with you in all your struggles, I rejoice in the success of your social rev- olution, I am with you unreser- yedly, and without equivocation.” Mooney feels that he owes a debt of gratitude to the Russian workers because it was their demonstration in front of the American Embassy in Leningrad in 1917 which called the attention of the world to his case. The protest ot the Russian workers was responsible for the action of President Wilson in urging that Mooney’s death sentence be com- muted to life imprisonment. Demonstrations for the freedom of Mooney are now being held through- out the Soviet Union, as well as in all European and Asiatic countries, and will be intensified on the occa- sion of the anniversary of the com- mutation of Mooney’s death sen- tence to life imprisonment on Nov. 28, 1918. - Gov't Meets First Defeat in Trial ot Canada Communists "TORONTO, Canada, Nov. 11. oy. 11.—The | Crown suffered its first defeat when Mike Gilmore took the stand and stated he was not a member of the Communist Party, but a Young Com- munist League organizer. The Crown mits it has no case against Gil- more, and the berich discharged him. @Barlier in the day, A. T. Hill was je stand. Prosecutor Somerville ted that the Communist Party determines the policies of the activ- ities of the Finnish: organization of Céiiada, also its daily paper, Vaupus. He repeated his former charges that the Party conducts illegal work. { Tim Buck was recalled to the stand by MacDonald, lawyer for the de- \ fense. Buck testified that he was \ compelled to keep documents at home owing to the fact that the Party of- fice was continually bulglarized. Judge ‘Wright refused Buck's explanation of the term “revolutionary struggle.” os Buck Speaks 3 Hours | Malcolm Bruce was the next called | on the stand and testified that the i spy Leopold, alias Esselwein, of the | Royal Mounted Police, suggested that he join the Communist Party. He | testified that the demonstrations were | always peaceful until the police be- | gan interference in the last few years. All the witnesses uave not been heard. Buck in his own defense ad- dressed the jury for three hours. He outlined the activity of the Commu- nist Party during the ten years of its existence. The judge made several objections. Buck stated the need of a world program of the Communist International was a historical devel- opment of the Communist Manifesto and based on the class struggle. He also steted that the program of the Communist International was essen- tial to workers, showing the historic ending of capitalism. Communism Only Way Out He declared that the Communist Party of Canada was not an outside force, but part of the working class, that Communism is the only alterna- tive to fascism. He dealt with the growing of fascism in Canada and the Fsteven massacré of miners, He stated this is the first time .in any English speaking country that Communism is on trial. The attack on the Communist Party now is a result of the intensification of the class struggle, and that the evidence of the Crown in regard to their mem- bership in the Party and their ad- herence to the Communist Interna- tional makes no case against them. ATTEMPTS TO PROVOKE THE USSR. GO ON |Resistance of Chinese Masses Grows Japan Rushes Troops Washington 1 Expects a New World War Latest Developments. Japan yesterday began removal of Japanese civilians from Siberian towns in preparation for attack on Soviet Union. Spread Keren- sky and White Guards’ slanders. White Guard paper in U. S. predicts war on U.S.S.R. Major-General John F. O’Ryan and Senator Waish predicts another world war. Washington experts “See Russia in Manchurian war.” Stimson in further secret moves with Japanese imperialists. Washing- ton official circles reported “feel- ing it may be most difficult to prevent a general war in the Far East.” Cheered by Stimson’s secret note, Japan rushes more troops to Manchuria, launches widespread attack on Chinese peasants and Communists. ° Korean and Chinese Communists te- ported active near Tsitsihar. Japanese Communists rousing Japanese workers and peasants to resist Japanese imperialism. Kuomintang offers Manchuria to Japan; calls for international army to crush Chinese revolution. Japanese shell Tientsin, damaging U.S. school and mission, ee Ne A tremendous mass movement is growing in China against the Japa- nese military occupation of Manchu- ria, Three thousand students dem- onstrated in Hankow against Japa- nese imperialism. Martial law was immediately clamped down by the Kuomintang officials and demon- strations forbidden. Martial law has also been ordered in Shanghai, where there have bee ndemonstrations of Chinese workers denouncing the Kuomintang betrayal of the masses. Japan ordered four cruisers and an additional brigade to Manchuria as news of teh resistance of the Chinese masses reached Tokyo. British and French troops are re- ported in a dispatch from Tientsin to have gone “into-trenches here to celebrate Armistice Day, as renewed firing between the Chinese city and the Japanese concession threatened a battle in which international com- plications might occur.” ‘The same dispatch reports that the Kuomintang has issued orders “that their troops are to remain strictly on the defensive and to avoid pre- cipitation of further clashes” with the Japanese invaders, Charges that Japan is trying to provoke the Soviet Union into armed conflict in Manchuria by supporting the activities of White Guard gen- erals were printed yesterday in the Moscow paper, Trud (labor), organ of the trade unions, (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) Continue Tag Day for Hunger March NEW YORK. — The W._I. R. Hunger March Tag Day will con- tinue up to the 14th of November. On the 13, 14 and 15, the Freiheit Tag Day will take place. All Par- ty comrades in the various’ mass organizations are urged to get their boxes and help in raising the funds for the Freiheit, NATIVES OF FORMOSA BATTLE JAPANESE POLICE TOKYO.—Serious battles between’ natives of the Japanese-owned For- mosa Island is continuing despite the brutal repressive measures of Japan. The Japanese police post at Pistan was raided, according to capitalist news dispatches, by Formosans and in a wild battle that followed two policemen. ‘ae their dependents were killed. T0Stop tl the Secret Gamble With Your Lives! Workers, while battle and death are spreading in China, the League of Nations is discussing whether or not to call it war! Can you expect peace out of THAT?’ Of course not! ‘ The N. Y. Times of Nov. 10 admitted that, since the Japanese shelling of Tientsin— “there has been a great flow of diplomatic exchanges among the world capitals.”’ But— IT IS ALL SECRET! Hoover and Stimson are “preparing an- other note to Japan”—AGAIN, IT [S SE- CRET! The United Press reports from Washington Wednesday, that:— Secretary Stimson worked on a new, SECRET move to aid in AVERTING WAR between Japan and China.” Workers, this is HYPOCRISY! Even the N. Y. World-Telegram of Noy. 10 admits that Stimson’s secrecy—‘encourages the Japan- ese in the belief that America is giving Japan a free hand to make war.” Why this nonsense about “averting” a war that is already going on? It is clear that Washington, like the League of Nations, is not merely. “doing nothing”! No, it is EN- COURAGING WAR! Stimson—and ‘all the rest—are GAMBL- ING WITH YOUR LIVES! Even the so- called “Liberal” World-Telegram is. “‘protest- ing” at the secrecy—but ONLY THE COM- MUNIST PARTY IS ORGANIZING THE MASSES AGAINST WAR! AGAINST THE SECRETI AGREEMENTS! And the Communist Party will continue to do this, when these “liberal” hypocrites will support the’ war-makers they now pretend to “oppose’’! The jingo N. Y. Post of Noy. 10, tries to make you welcome war! “Prosperity... Stocks went up. So did bonds” at the mere rumor of war! Make no mistake, workers, YOU WILL PAY IN DEATH AND MISERY FOR EVERY CENT WON BY WALL STREET! The capitalists see war as THEIR way out of the economic crisis! The redivision of China and other colonies, the invasion and seizure of as much as possible of SOVIET SOIL! This is already admitted by the bold- est imperialist bandits! But the SECRET notes of Stimson, who openly encourages Japan against the Soviet Union, may also threaten Japan if its seizure of Chinese territory extends to what Wall Street wants! American armed forces in China “with wide powers to act” may at any moment with ONE SHOT endanger every American worker in a NEW WORLD WAR! That the imperialists are tearing China to pieces is clear! And the daily lies and pro- vocations against the Soviet Union show that, whatever their inner jealousies, the im- perialists are MOVING RAPIDLY TO WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION! World war is an IMMEDIATE DANGER! And only the workers can stop it! Only the workers can tear up the SECRET AGREE- MENTS being made by the hypocrites at Washington and Geneva! Workers! Write to the DAILY WORKER, telling us of any WAR ORDERS RECEIVED BY AMERICAN FACTORIES! EXPOSE THE FAKE “PEACE” MAKERS OF WASHINGTON! Where: factories get. WAR ORDERS, or- genize-ANTLWAR DEMONSTRATIONS be- fore the factory gates! Explain to the work- ers inside, the FACT THAT THEIR LIVES, TOO, ARE AT STAKE! THAT THE COST OFCAPITALIST WAR IS PAID BY WORK- ERS’ BLOOD, BY THE STARVATION OF THEIR FAMILIES, BY WOUNDS, DEATH AND MISERY! These war-makers, remember, are the same who refuse to’ give UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE! Who CUT WAGES! Who TURN MACHINE GUNS ON STRIKERS! Force them to hold their hands! Organize ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN EV- ERY CITY AND TOWN ON NOVEMBER 21! Support the National Hunger March de- mand for all war funds to the jobless! STOP THE WAR MAKERS! Demands Put for 10,000, Passaic Jobless and Kids Mayor and Board of acini Talk Demagogy and Shelve Demands of Delegation PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 11—‘“As far as I am concerned we can take the vote now. My vote is No.” With these words Councilman McGuire opposed the demands of the 10,000 jobless fam- ilies for free food and supplies for the children in the schools, at a meeting of the Board of Commissioners who voted to take up the demands in closed sessions. The delegation of unemployed workers who presented the demand was met with a show of demagogic concern since the Board of Commissioners he!d an open session. —_—_—_ ® _ As the workers crowded into the Utica Hunger March [chamber the city clerk read aloud Committee Pre: eS the statement and demands of the unemployed workers. The demands for National Event included free food and clothing in the UTICA, N. Y. (By Mail)—A Hun- schools for children of the unemploy- ed and part time workers. Other ger March Committee has been bs sgl ancoeivand sera elected here to prepare the Utica unemployed for participation in the against Negro children. National Hunger March, Dec. 7. Produce Cases of Need When the mayor voiced a doubt as The committee, consisting of four members, with Armand Adrea as to the true representation of the facts! cited by the delegation, two cases, chairman, has arranged for a con- esc «pd a Be ference to be held Nov. 23 to elect delegates to the National Hunger March. The conference will be held at 131 Washington St. When War Comes for over two years told how he had gone up to the poor master for relief and because he resided in Passaic for “only two years” was told to go to Wallington, across the river where he had lived previously. “According to law. you must live in Passaic before you are entitled to relief,” were the Every worker should read the ar- ticles, beginning today on the last page of the Daily Worker, on “When War Comes.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Newark Veterans Score War Plots NEWARK, N. J.—While the bosses were celebrating their so-called arm- istice day yesterday with patriotic speeches and hypocritical peace slo- | gans, 900 ex-servicemen gathered at Military Park in a mass demonstra- tion called by the Workers’ Exservice- men’s ruthlessly exposing the secret war plots of the United States gov- ernment against the Soviet Union, at the same time pledging to fight the next war for the workingclass and to defend the Soviet Union. The meeting was opened by a bugle call. Bright colored placards and banners, which screamed forth the demands of the ex-servicemen for immediate cash payment of the bonus and denounced the preparations be- ing made by the bosses for a new world war, hung on the trees and the fence around the park. A disabled veteran Fofrich, who came to the meeting in a wheel chair, was the main speaker. Forfrich pointed out how ‘the ex-servicemen marched off in Mr. Wilson's crusade to make the world safe for Wall St., how many of them were murdered or crippled for life. “Now,” said Forf- rich, “we must organize and force | Wall Street to make America safe for the ex-servicemen.” ‘The following telegram of protest handing out of relief were produced.}| Was sent to President Hoover and One unemployed worker out of work | Congress: “We, as ex-servicemen denounce the war preparations and we de- mand and we will fight for the full payment of our bonus and for un- employment insurance for all un- employed workers. No discrimina- tion against Negro war veterans and we will fight against another imperialist war. Signed: Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League of Newark.” ———— JAPAN UIW BETRAYS LAWRENCE STRIKERS; NTW CALLS THEM TO RESIST DISCRIMINATION 20,000 New Bedford Cotton Mill Workers to Get 10 rer | {competing centers are founded on fact.” (MASS FUNERAL |Body Lies in State Un- Cent Wage Cut | Cut On December 7 ational Textile Workers Union Will Call On Workers ta Strike Against Cut LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 11.—The Bostun Herald this morning in announcing the wage cut of 10 per cent for 20,000 New Bedford cot- ton mill workers on December 7th, states that the American Federation of Labor and the United Textile Workers Union and the New Bedford Executive Council announces, “Investigation by union leaders has dis- closed that the manufacturers’ claim of general reductions in This is still another treachery in the whole series of recent betrayals practically = = approving the cut. NTW Fights UTW Betrayals | The same dispatch says that jthe United Textile Union will |expected that the National Textile z | Workers Union might try wo stir up NEGRO WORKER js: «=| The National Textile “Workers Union certainly will carry on a cam- | paign for a strike aaginst the cut. Last night the United Front Rank and File Stiike Committee cent large committees to mectings of the United til_ Noon NEW YORK.—The body of Com- rade Ronald Edwards, young Negro worker and member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League, will lie in state | at the Finnish Workers Hall, 15 W. 126th St., until 12:30 today. Hundreds | of workers yesterday and last night viewed the body of this devoted revo- | lutionary young worker. A mass funeral has been arranged for today by the Young Communist | League in which the Communist Par- | ty, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s | League and other organizations will participate. After leaving the Finnish Workers | Hall, the funeral procession will pro- | jceed from 126th St. west to Seventh Ave., then north to 137th St. From there the line of march wlil pass east along 137th St. to Lenox Ave. and down Lenox Ave. to 134th St. All workers, Negro and white, youth and adult, are called upon by the Young Communist League, the Com- jmunist Party and the League of Str > for Negro Rights to attend the funeral and pay their revolu- tionary farewell to this young fighter for the working class who died in Cleveland last Tuesday. Workers are urged to maintain revolutionary disci- | pline at the funeral. | | TRIAL OF SEVEN COMES UP TODAY Tammany’s courts will aim an- other blow at the Communist Party when they try at a hearing tomorrow | (Friday) to railroad to jail terms seven workers who were arrested when police broke up a Communist election campaign meeting on Octo- ber 30. The hearing will take place at 10 am. in the court at 23d St. and Fifth Ave., Brooklyn. Six of the workers are charged with disorderly conduct, while the seventh, L. A. De Santes, has four charges against him, including inciting to riot, which carries a penalty of from six months to three years. De Santes is a member of the Executive committee ot the Workers Cultural Federation and the executive board of the John Reed Club. Last night a militant protest meet- ing was held in Finnish Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn, under the auspices of the Communist Party and the New York District. of the International La- bor Defense, which is defending the arrested workers. The I.L.D. calls on all workers to demonstrate for the re- Jease of the seven militants by pack- ing the courtroom tomorrow. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Hold Native-Born Organizers for Alien Ouster Law Sinister Extension of Seab Policy LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 11.—The federal government, through its department of la- |bor and immigration headed by Doak, represented by one Chase, an inspector stationed here since the beginning of the strike, together with the local mill owners’ government, is trying to frame up Fred Bied- enkapp, John Ballam and Bill Dunne—all of whom have been active in the strike as repre- sentatives of the Trade Union Unity League and the National |Textile Workers Union. Native Born “Aliens.” At the request of Inspector Chase, although all three are American citi- zens, they are held for the immigra~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Paterson Jobless in . Challenge to Mayor to Attend Hearing PATERSON, N. J.—Calling « mass hearing and trial on the growth of unemployment misery here on Friday, Noy. 13, at 50 El- lison St., the Unemployed Council of Paterson sent-a letter chal- lenging Mayor Hinchcliffe to be Present to answer charges of re- fusing to aid the unemployed. The letter says, in part; “The Unemployed Council of Paterson charges the city admin- istration with gross neglect of its unemployed and has arranged a» Public trial.” “We have on record many cases of destitute families who were re- fused relief or were discriminated against because of their activities during the last strike, Such a sit- uation gives the lie to your state- ments that the unemployed are taken care of.” a ores: Organize to Demand from Congress Unemployment Insurance Equivalent to Full Wages!