The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1931, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU DETROIT. J OBLESS YOUTH CONFERENCE PREPARES FOR NATIONAL MARCH Cincinnati Conference Prepares Tag Days and Hunger March on November 20 Children’s Hearing in Cleveland Reveals Starv- ation in the Tremont School CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Passing through nearly every im- portant city of Ohio, two main columns of the National Hunger March of unemployed to Washington, D. C., will trek through the state early in December, the state committee of Unemployed Councils announces. mittee, which is responsible Ohio's share in this national unem- ployment demonstration, reports that 100 delegates representing unem~- Ployment groups throughout Ohio, will join the hunger march columns as they pass through. ‘The national march will bring 1,200 unemployed representatives from all over the United States, in four main columns, to Washington in time for the opening of Congress on Dec. 7. There the jobless delegates will present demands to President Hoover and to Congress for unem- ployment insurance and immediate cash relief. . Unlike the march of “Coxey’s army” of unemployed on Washing- ton, the coming demonstration is the outcome of organized jobless activ- ity for several years. It will be clearly defined, both organizationally and in the relief demands it is put- ting forward. The number of hunger marchers will be strictly limited, and all of them will be elected delegates representing the widest possible sec tions of the unemployed. Besides the northwestern column, which will enter Ohio at Toledo on Dec. 1, and the southwestern column, which will enter the state at Cincin- nati on the same date, there will be two other main columns of hunger marchers, one from New England and New York and the other from Buf- falo, Rochester and Central Penn- sylvania. Unemployed Councils as far west ‘as Seattle and Portland, Ore., will be represented in the column entering Ohio at Toledo. It will also include dobless representatives from Minne- apolis, Chicago, Detroit and other cities. The line of march: will be trom Toledo to Sandusky, Lorain and Cleveland, where the marchers will stop over for the night. : Start at Cleveland Dec. 2. When the march resumes from Cleveland on Dec. 2 it will include jobless delegates from all the Ohio cities it has passed through, as well as a delegation of 50 from Cleveland and the surrounding territory. ‘The next stops will be Akron, Bar- berton, Massillon, Canton, Alliance, Sslem and Youngstown. More W. C. Sandberg, secretary of this com- for }-— $$ —___-_-—_————_ where it will converge with the southwestern column of hunger marchers. All of the southwestern states will be represented in the column which enters Cincinnati on Dec. 1. The route of this line of march will be Hamilton, Middletown, Dayton and Columbus, where the marchers will stop over for the night. On Dec. 2 the march will proceed by way of Zanesville, Cambridge and Martin's Ferry; and so on, through Wheeling, W. Va., to Pittsburgh. ‘The hunger marchers will travel by truck through country districts, but march on foot through the cities, in all of which mass demonstrations of welcome will be organized by local unemployed. Unemployed Youth Conference. (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 10.—Sixty delegates, representing youth clugs, churches, sport clubs and Boy Scouts units, responded to a call for the Unemployed Youth Conference. Struggle and need for organization for youth relief was the crying de- mand of all delegates, who promised the support of their organizations. A mass committee of one delegate from each club was formed to con- tinue the work of the conference in preparing for the National Hunger March and the local struggles for immediate relief for the youth and children. ‘The committee will meet next Mon- day, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. at 317 Fred- erick St. AMERICAN IMPERIALISM OB- TAINING INTERESTS IN GERMAN INDUSTRY. BERLIN.—American banking inter- ests have bought $1,190,000 worth of shares in the Berliner Handesgell- schaft, one of the five leading banks here, obtaining thereby 20 per cent representation in the bank’s capital ‘The bank is closely connected with metal, electric and paper industries. ‘This again demonstrates how Amer- ican imperialism is rooting itself deep into the economic life of other indus- ‘marchers will join in at all these cit- d hoiagian’ developed countries through jes and the night's stopover will be made at Youngstown. On Dec. 3 the march will continue to Pittsburgh, finance capital and explains Wall Street anxiety of the fate of Ger- many, $29.30 MORE SENT TO DAILY BY WORKERS GOING TO SOVIET UNION; MORE REPORTS FROM HOBOKEN CLUB We're always glad to get donations, of course, but we're especially glad to get donations from workers who re on their way to the Soviet Union. ‘We're glad because here are workers who are going to a country where the fight against the bosses is already ‘won. These workers won't have to worry any more about the vicious wage-cuts and starvation campaign launched against us here by the cap- italists. It would be easy for them to forget about their less fortunate American comrades. But the donations they collect for the Daily show that they don’t forget. The donations show that they realize that the proletariat of the entire world must keep united if the capitalists are to be swept out not only of Russia but of the entire world. So we are happy to print this let- ter from a group of workers on board the steamship Frederick VIII who are on their way to the Soviet Union. “Enclosed herewith,” the letter goes, “you will find a money order for $29.30, which we collected for the Daily Worker on board the steam- ship Frederick VIII. We are a group of about 85 workers that are going to the Soviet Union. We called a mass meeting on board the ship, at which more than 200 people were Present. Our purpose was to tell them why we are going to the Soviet Union: The meeting was very suc- and ended with questions and , and, of course, we didn't our Daily, so here are the few ars.” _ OAKLAND AFFAIR. Donations here and there help us ever some pretty rough spots. Some- times an affair by a Daily Worker Club gets something for the Daily that is very welcome. Comrades in Oakland, California, or the vicinity, should therefore bear in mind that the Press Club of Oakland is giving an entertainment at Myers Hall, 94th Ave. and E. 14th St. ‘This entertainment is for the bene- fit of the Daily Worker and the ‘Western Worker, so that the Daily hog dite doge Rea ‘are % cente, ANT HOBOKEN CLUB. The Daily Worker Readers’ Club of Hoboken keeps on its way. It has already held two meetings since the last time it was mentioned in these columns. At the first meeting a committee was chosen to hire the place for the club’s center. A com- mittee was also elected to arrange for a dance. Members were chosen to leave tickets with the Jersey City and Union City Party units and with ILD. branches. It was also decided to hold two meetings a month, one meeting to be devoted to business and the other to educational matters. At the next meeting of the Ho- boken Club it was reported that the committee for the center was out col- lecting $2.75, which was all that was needed to make up the $22 for the first month’s rent. One comrade loaned $1 Ofor the gas and electric service, which was to be repaid Dec. 1. Progress was reported in the ar- rangements and the sale of tickets for the forthcoming. dance. Prepara~ tions are to be made this week for forums. Blackboards and other sup- plies are expected to be obtained soon. We give the Hoboken reports in some detail, because we want other Daily Worker Clubs or comrades who are planning to start Daily Worker Clubs to get concrete ideas on how to keep such clubs going and how to activize the members. JACKSONVILLE ON THE JUMP. From Jacksonville, Fla., we get a cheerful little letter. “Greetings from our group to you all and the Daily Worker,” writes Comrade C. B. “It is necessary for us to get 35 copies of the Daily, because teh boys are raving for it. Please, if you possibly can, send them as soon as possible.” We might say in this connection that it would be a good idea for groups, in ordering their bundles, to try to collect cash among them- selves so that their extra orders can be accompanied by money paid in advance. Comrades have no idea how important it is for the Daily to have cash on hand from day to -~ si =_ _Page_ Theres ree ATTEMPTS TO PROVOKE THE U.S.S.R, GO ON Japan yesterday be- gan the removal of Japanese civilians from Manchali and Hailar. The two towns are on the Siberian border. This step was admit- tedly taken because of the growth of anti-Ja- panese feeling among the Chinese masses. Such a move, however, is a definitely preliminary for expected mili- tary action aimed at the Soviet Union. At the same time, the imperialist bandits redoubled their efforts to push the Soviet Union into war. A dispatch from Tsitsihar, Manchuria, to the New York Times attempts to give circumstantial evidence to the lie of Soviet aid to the Chinese militar- ists. It is signed by Hallet Abend, New York Times spondent who has been rushed to Tsitsihar in the expectation of developments along the Chinese Eastern Railway which is jointly owned by China and the So- viet Union. The dispatch peddles the following lie: “Almost every hour witnesses an ulation of Soviet monetary or othet support of Chinese resistance. General Ma Chen-shan’s recent re- inforcements from the westward, re- ported identified as Mongolians, were armed and equipped by the Mongol- ian Soviet Republic, which is a vir- tual Russian protectorate.” Denounced By Soviets As Lies Soviet officials several days ago pointed to the facility with which the Japanese imperialists were dig- ging up “witnesses” to swear to any- thing from seeing “Soviet fold” cross- ing the border to seeing Soviet Red Army officers and men with the army of General Ma, who is a notorious Japanese tool whose fake resistance to the Japanese is designed to give the Japanese the necessary pretext for their advance northward—toward the Soviet border. Soviet Mongolia is an independent state, connected with the Soviet Union only by the natural bond of sympathy between the workers and peasants of two countries where capitalist exploitation has been overthrown. Abend’s dispatch attempts to bol- ster up the lie started by white guard elements in Harbin of “widespread misery” in Siberia. White Guard Paper Predicts War On U.S.S.R. ‘The New York Times also published @ dispatch from London quoting ex- tensively a vicious attack on the So- viet Union by the discredited Men- shevik scoundrel, Alexander Kerensky. Kerensky attacks the workers and peasants rule, and launches into a tirade against the Five-Year Plan. ‘The Novoye Russkye Slovo, a white guard paper published in the United States, declared on Nov. 6 on the authority of the Harbin correspond- ent of the Lojndon Mail that Japan will be at war with the Soviet Union within two weeks. Major General John F. O’Ryan of New York, Commander of the 27th Division in France, speaking Nov. 10 in Chicago, predicted another world war “bigger and more evil than the last.” With a typical demagogic ges- ture, he added: “I warn my hearers now that what is going on in the world today is leading straight and rapidly to war.” A dispatch to the New York Times declared that speaking at the same meeting, U. S. Senator Walsh issued “a warning” “that the United States may be drawn into war unless Japan and Chnia peaceably settle their dif- ferences over Manchuria.” U.S. Experts “See” Russia in War ‘Tuesday's New York Times car- ried @ dispatch from Washington with SIBERIA the significant head: “Experts See Russia in Manchurian War.” The experts are quoted as admit- ting that “Russia has shown few signs 6f military moves toward the Far East.” This admitted fact does not prevent the Washington experts from predicting war on the Soviet Tnion, howeve-. Winter would not prevent military operations, the experts declare, “be- cause there is not a heavy srowfall in that region and the ccld would make marshes andrivers easily pass- able.” ' ‘Walter Duranty, New York Times correspondent in Moscow, reports: “That Japan is now trying to make Russia ‘the goat’ for her Man- churian adventure is the opinion held here in view of the develop- ments along the Chinese Eastern Railway.” Soviet Sees Japan Stirring Up “Red Scare” Duranty reports that opinion in Moscow is that the Japanese “who hitherto have been unable to give a credible explanation of why they did what they did--and still less why they go on doing it— are determined to find one at all costs.” Duranty then goes on to say: “It sounds almost too simple, but the Japanese military mind has shown little subtlety hitherto in the Manchurian affair. The Russians say bluntly they have shown tricki- ness so clumsy as to be really sim- ple. That is where the difficulty comes in for the Russians, who are not lacking in subtlety. They know they do not want war and think they know what Japan does want, namely, control over Manchuria and why and how Japan is trying to secure it, But they do not know what the Japanese military mind may do to attain its ends should circumstances keep the Japanese militaryin an awkward moral posi- tion.” ‘The Washington imperialist gov- ernment continues its secret. discus- sions on the war moves in Manchuria and its exchange of secret notes with Japan. A Washington dispatch, pub- Ushed in yesterday’s New York Eve~ ning Graphic, states: “Secretary of State Stimson worked on a new secret move to aid in averting war between Japan and China over Manchuria.” ‘The Journal of Commerce yester- day carried a dispatch from Wash- ington, in which it was stated: “In official circles there appears to be a feeling that it may be most difficult to prevent a general war in the Far East, and much con- cern is exhibited lest the conflict resolve itself into another war world-wide in its scope.” N. ¥. Post Defends War. ‘The American capitalist press yes- terday came out more openly in sup- port of Japan. The New York Eve- ning Post carried the following open inflammatory editorial: HOW? Yesterday morning traders on the New York Stock Exchange heard @ rumor that Japan had declared war on China, At such news of disaster one would think that stocks would go down. Not at all. Stocks went up. So did bonds, So did silver, by leaps and bounds. So did other commodities that have sulked at a low level for many months. In other words, war in the Far East, if Mr, Stimson does not drag us into it, means business re- covery in America. It would be good news, not bad news, What, we wonder, are the abolitionists of war going to do about that? How are they going to convince man- kind that war is wholly bad, when the mere rumor of it brings to 120,- 000,000 the conviction of national Prosperity? With Japan rushing reinforcements to Manchuria, with Japanese troops already in Manchuria moving north- ward and setting up new puppet gov- ernments, seizing revenues, murder- ing Chinese peasants, the Washing- ton government 1s reported in a di- spatch. to the New York Times as indicating “that reports from Japan and China were brighter.” ‘The dis- patch adds “but there was nothing on the surface to show from what source optimism had been gained.” a Hold Native-Born | Organizers for | Alien Ouster Law (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tion authorities as aliens subject to deportation. This unprecedented ac- tion gives a new, sinister note to the Doak policy. Dunne and Ballam are native born. William Murdoch and Edith Berk- man, organizers of the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union and, leaders of the strike when it began six weeks ago, were arrested and removed from Lawrance early in the strike, at the request of the mill owners, and, with the consent of the federal depart- ment of labor and immigration, have been held in the alien detention sheds in Boston ever since. | #After arrests on nominal charges, | such as violations of city ordinances, | vagrancy, etc., the hearings are post- poned, at the request of Chase, and | in the meantime new sets of charges are preferred. In the case of Ballam, the charge of “inciting to riot and in- timidation” was added to the original | charge of “loitering.” The entry of the department of labor and immigration into strikes to remove not only foreign born, but native born organizers, marks a new departure in the strike-breaking ac- tivities of this appendage of the big corporations. Undoubtedly it is a prelude to the attempt at extension of the already dictatorial powers of this department of the governmént and indicates preparation for legisla- tion broadening its suppressive func- tions. The Fish Committee report is the Chase gospel. Judging/from his fre- quent references to it, and the fact that Judge Chandler accepts it as evidence, the department of labor and immigration is proceeding in Law- rence as if this report were part of the law of the land. The atmosphere of the Lawrence district court is a frame-up atmos- Phere. It goes far beyond the hos- tility which could be expected as a Tesult of a strike against a 10 per cent wage-cut which has closed the Lawrence mills. The same police de- partment witnesses appear day after day, not only as witnesses but as prosecutors with powers far exceed- ing that of any district attorney. They testify not only as to specific acts, but. as to the political beliefs and morals of the accused. The mill ‘owners of Lawrence and their lackeys are looking for another Sacco-Vanzetti case. As long as or- ganizers of the Trade Union Unity League, the National Textile Work- ers’ Union and members of the Com- munist Party, although prohibited from speaking on the Common, could work with some freedom among the workers, the strike ranks remained Solid, in spite of the treachery of the A. F. of L. and United Textile offi- clals, The wholesale arrests of T.U.U.L. and N.T.W. organizers and strikers— every organizer has been arrested at least once and some two or three times—heavy fines and jail sen- tences, the breaking up of the picket Unes by foot and mounted police, the systematic discouragement of the strikers by the U.T.W., working through groups of skilled workers and bosses, has weakened the strike. In all these strike-breaking moves the department of labor and immi- gration has taken an active part, not only in court when strike cases come up, but in carrying through a sys- tematic intimidation of foreign-born strikers in their homes and clubs, . The activities of the department of Jabor and immigration in Lawrence, on behalf of the wage-cutting mill owners, headed by the American Woolen Co., shows that the Wicker- sham report, although revealing the extra-legal character of many of the acts of this bosses’ instrument, merely skimmed the surface. The extension of the espionage work of this department to include American citizens will make it easier to ex- pose strike-breaker Doak, Hoover, his chief, and the army of subordinate strikebreakers, such as Chase, who are now on the payroll and always assigned to strike areas, Order Hunger March Leaflets At Once! The National Hunger March leaflets are just off the press. The leaflets are ready for shipment at the rate of 1,000 leaflets for $1.10, postage collect. Because of the Mmited number of leaflets printed all orders must be sent immediate- Sy accompanied by money orders. ‘These money orders should be made payable to A. W. Mills, 2 W. 15th St., Room 414, New York City. If you want leaflets, act at once. Correct Dangerous wae Bladder 4 Catarrh X ig, Dassages, i =. ton, on gh rising Jin be the warn- se & serious sickness which may fect your entire health. Take steps at once. Get Santal Midy from your druggist. For half a century, it has been y doctors through- sur the wort tan Pood cole |The meetings were small, UTW Betrays Lawrence Strikers; NIW Calls Them to Resist Discrimination (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 nerean Union urging once more s y of rank and file workers and strong picket lines. in both cases the officials barred the committees, but the members got in and spoke, rousing much response. at the American Union there being not over 500 and at the United Textile not over 200 indicating a mass repidiation of United Textile leaders. Sam Blakely, United Textile picket captain at the Arlington Mill, walked into the American Union meeting last night and denounced the United Tex- tile leaders for selling out the strike and declared he was leaving Law- rence and regretted coming. Now that the damage is done, the United Textile Leaders announce they will hold a mass meeting on the Com-j mon. Considerable numbers applied to ‘Textile and return to work today. The mills most-|moment because of discrimination | ing workers; ly tell them to come back inker, pares will be much disarimination. Rank and File Strike Committee Program. The United Front Rank a Strike Committee in session tod draw up a statement which published in an early Daily Worker and which will em- body plans for an intensified organ- ization of the National Textile Work- ers Union, also of United Front Mill| Committees and a complete exposure issue of the| |Demands Put for Passaic Jobless And Children (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | words of Mayor Johnson. ‘Then the case of discrimination against a young Negro worker was | brought up. After much questioning by the mayor, a promise was made to look into the case.” Jim Gardner, organizer of the Un- employed Council of Passaic, immed- iately took the floor and pointed out that a promise at the moment was merely to evade the issue; that there ten thousand unemployed and | | were of the United Textile Workers Union| |many more part time workers in the treason. The statement will call upon | city , in need of immediate relief. the workers to fight against black- | Gardner insisted that the demands listing and discrimination, and pledge | presented should be acted on at once, that relief will be maintained for| locked out Pacific Mill workers It is admitted that the boss terror coupled with the United Textile Union leaders and A. F. of L. stril breaking has broken the ike tem Porarily, but it may revive at any and Tarte cuts. | as proof that the talk of “sympathy | those discriminated against and the | with the unemployed” was more than words. Misery Is Spreading Gardner told of the spread of in- antile paralysis in working class sec~ tions; how the measly relief being handed out is an insult to the stary- of the growing number of suicides, and of workers in the j market places picking garbage from empty LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 11—The United | ‘*,c2"= Textile Workers Union leaders reached their | crowning act of treachery late Tuesday after-| noon. Today, when the strikers came to hear| of leadership on the picket lines, the UTW simply abandoned } them—deserted them at the most critical period of the strike. Rank and filers rushed up to the Lincoln Court lot meeting | of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee, and told | how they had gone to Riviere, national organizer of the UTW, | missioners, and urged him to come to the Com-® mon. And Riviere answered them: “Why should I go down and shout my throat out; they are all going back to the mills!” This frank strike breaking declara- tion spread through the crowd, and men and women and child textile workers, who have been deluded somewhat by the militant phrases of Riviere in the past, realized suddenly that they were sold out. On a day in which the capitalist press was screaming lies that the strikers had already gone back to work in thousands, and with the UTW lesser leaders cajoling, threatening, persuading the skilled crafts meetings of their union to vote to go back to work, thousands of workers gathered, as is the custom in Lawrence, on the Common, looking for facts, for a lead- ership for some cue as to their action. The speakers of the National Tex- tile Workers Union and of the United Front Rank and File Strike Com- mittee are barred by all the force of the police department from speaking there. The UTW leaders and the AFL leaders, Watt, Gorman, Riverie, Green, Sylvia, “Red Mike” Shulman, have in the past seized this oppor- tunity to speak to the Lawrence strikers. Now they see that the UTW policy, of peace on the picket lines, of no central united front leadership, of secret negotiations with the bosses, of arbitration, of division on relief | the most intense preparations to cov- er the mill workers sections of the city with a leaflet distribution calling | all to unity, to mass picketing and calling the United Textile Workers | members to throw their traitorous | officials over and get into the imme- | diate job of pulling out those who went back in the Arlington mill and of picketing the American Woolen Co. | mills full force. Wednesday is Armistice Day, on} which the mills normally close. The | Arlington mill has announced that i will not try to operate Wednesday but the American Woolen Co. claims | its mills will be open. | LAWRENCE, Mass., Noy. 11.— Attorney Connolly of the Inter- national Labor Defense threw down a challenge Tuesday to Judge Chandler who has been handing out fines and jail sen- tences and placing bail on all the Lawrence strikers arrested for | Picket duty or simply picked off the street. Connolly moved in open court that Judge Chandler | withdraw from the cases, since he is openly slated to be owner of mill stock and is known to rep- resent a group of capitalists try- | ing to buy one of the Lawrence mills. | Chandler denies owning mill stock, and “explained” the situa- and defense, of a quiet campaign of | ———————— retreat under the cover of militant phrases and “Red Mike” kidnapping stunts, was all leading to open strike breaking. The evening papers in Law- | rence state that the local executive board of the UTW has announced that it will hold no more meetings on the Common. The United Front Rank and File Strike Committee, meeting Tuesday night, as this is written, is making “i JUST OUT SOVIET PICTORIAL || Sixty Latest Soviet Photos Bundles bal 30 or over at. Single cop: SEND yOuR ORDER Friends of Soviet Union SOE, 11th St., New York, N.Y. Te <i “While this is going on the city” government cooly hands back to the bosses of the Botany mills one million dollars as a tax return We demand that the one million dollar be used in the unemployed relic, fund to be administered by a cont~ mittee of workers elected at con- ference and mass meetings,” Gard- ner declared. The mayor, visibly frightened and unnerved, was rescued by other com- after unsuccessful at tempts to use soft words and te: agogy. Finally he made a motim t refer the demands to a full cormmis- sioners meeting. On this the entire | board assented, thereby shelving im- mediate consideration of of the unemployed. When Gardner tried to fora! im- mediate action on the demand the board said it “was the “The unemployed and part time workers will give their answer in more and mighty demonstrations at the city hall. They are already preparing to give their answer by preparing for a mighty hunger march in —. workers all over the dercands the country, including Pacsale and vieinity, will be represented, on Washington, D. C., on Dec. 7th!” were the concluding words of Gar- dner. When the deleg immediate answe jan attempt was of dicks lined to oust the wor! jon demanded an to the demands In the Soviet Union wage in- creases and the universal introduc- tion of the seven-hour day. In cap- italist America wage cuis and the slave stagger plan. tion by say was with group of business men whos aim was to open up wo! he refused to quit. Then He fined Con- nolly $10 for contempt of court. 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