The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Orga 39 CIT 931 oe (Section of the Communist International) : >= — = == = : ———— —— Vol. VILL, No. 273 st new'vortss.'¥a mer the act of March 2.1870 <BR NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, JAPAN SPURS EFFORTS TO PROVOKE a ba vi rs 2 For the Right to Live! By BILL GEBERT. i ba National Hunger March to Washington, December 7, 1931, is to unite the struggles of the unemployed and part time employed work- ers from all the parts of the United States who are carrying on the fight on the evictions, for immediate relief, against discrimination of Negroes, in one powerful force for unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and the bosses. Twelve million unemployed, with the majority of the employed on part time, means mass misery, starvation of the masses of workers. The capitalist class can be forced under our pressure to give not only immediate winter cash relief, but un- employment insurance. To achieve these tasks the preparations for the National Hunger March must reach workers in shops, bread lines, and particularly in the local unions of the American Federation of Labor and other organiza- tions controlled by the reactionary leadership. In these organizations, workers shall be approached to unite in one struggle for unemployment insurance. The task of winning the workers in support of the National Hunger March must be utilized to build the Unemployed Councils into a real mass movement. Our experiences in Chicago showed that we are able te build the movement to some extent, embracing already over 10,000 workers in the Unemployed Council, but this is just a mere beginning to the movement we are to develop_to embrace masses of workers. “Not one penny for war, military purposes, police. All the war and military funds for immediate unemployed relief!” must be the answer of the masses in view of the war situation. On to Washington! March against starvation! Fight for the right to live! Organize and fight for unemployment insurance! The NTW Organizes and Fights---the UTW Betrays JN Lawrence, Mass., the “United Textile Workers” leaders have added another chapter to the history of their long list of betrayals of the textile workers. They stand exposed before the Lawrence workers as agents of the wage cutting mill owners. In Manchester, New Hampshire, Riviere, one of the buzzard crew of national “organizers” of the UTW, accepted a 10 per cent cut for the mill workers. In the hosiery industry the entire UTW leadership ac- cepted cuts ranging from 35 to 50 per cent on behalf of the mill bosses, ‘These leaders came to Lawrence to put over the 10 per cent eut for the American Woolen Company. They have succeeded. But the National Textile Workers’ Union, and the Communist Party, through the activity of its members and through the Daily Worker, ex- posed and fought-the-UTW strikebreaking campaign from the very be~ ginning. The Lawrence workers fought with the greatest determination for six weeks. Three times they defeated the strikebreaking plots of Governor Ely, the mill owners, the American Federation of Labor of- ficials, the UTW leaders and the so-called Citizens Committee. ‘The use of the Common, the historic gathering place of Lawrence workers, was denied to the National Textile Workers Union—and Com- munists. Bramhall, a textile worker who is the Communist candidate for mayor, is refused permission to hold meetings. More than a hundred ar- rests of strikers belonging to the NT'WU, of NI'WU organizers, of Trade Union Unity League organizers, of workers supporting the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee, have been made. Heavy fines and Jong jail sentences have been handed out by Judge Chandler, the mill owners’ Jeffreys. ‘William Murdoch and Edith Berkman, the leaders of the strike in its first stage, have been held for deportation without bail by the de- partment of labor and immigration at the request of the mill barons. ‘The UTW leaders conspired with Governor Ely to break the strike ‘They conspired with the Citizens Committee to break the strike by means of a back to work ballot. When these plots were exposed and they mob- ilized the minor bosses and “second hands,” with some of the more highly paid workers, and took back to work votes. The UTW and the officials of the “American Textile Workers” organized the return to work. "While mounted police rode down the pickets, the UTW leaders put the emphasis on “peaceful” methods. Finally, they, and notably Riviere, the “leader” they had popularized, refused to even speak at the usual daily mass meeting on the Common. On the heels of the defeat of the Lawrence workers, a defeat brought sbout by the most contemptible treachery, it is announced that 20,000 cotton textile workers in New Bedford will get a 10 per cent cut Dec. 7. ‘The UTW leaders sold out the textile workers throughout New England— not only in Lawrence. Our Party and the National Textile Workers Union were not strong enough to prevent the UT'W betrayal of the Lawrence workers. But thousands of Lawrence workers, because of the open demonstration of the treacherous policy of the UTW leaders, now recognize the need ef the united front policy of the National Textile Workers Union, of the need to set up in such struggles an elected rank and file strike committee responsible to the mass of the strikers, and the need for a militant union with a class struggle policy, for support of the National Textile Workers Union and the Trade Union Unity League with which it ts affiliated. There will be a new strike in Lawrence. There will be a strike in New Bedford against the wage cut. These strikes will be led by an elected rank and file strike committee in which the members of the NTWU will take a decisive part. ‘The betrayals of the workers by the UTW leadership, the continuing assaults on the living standards of the textile workers, and the splendid determination of the textile workers to struggle, shown in the six weeks strike of 23,000 Lawrence workers, have created the conditions for making the National Textile Workers the fighting organization of the thousands of New England textile workers. What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March? Are you in line? Fall in. Every District, every city should seeth with struggles of the unemployed workers for unemployment insur- ance and immediate relief. On to Washington, must be the common slogan of the employed nad unemployed workers. What are you doing to prepare the National Hunger March? Public Hearings, good, but how do you follow them up? Did you publish the results of the Public Hearings, which exposed the misery and starvation of the workers. Did you arouse the workers in the block against the inhuman starvation of their fellow neighbors? * " Hunger Marches—splendid. How well are they prepared? Every worker must be reached with our message of struggle for Unemploy- ment Insurance. United Front Conferences—a step ahead. How many A. F. L. ‘locals did we reach, how will the fraternal organizations be repre- sented? Every effort must be made to reach the A. F. L, locals against the decisions of the Vancouver, B. C., Convention. What are you doing to contract the mass collections of the bosses’ charity institutin? "> can do it through a real mass collection for the fighting fund for Unemployment Insurance, ALL FORCES BEHIND THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! ' MAKE THE HUNGER MARCH AN UNBREAKABLE CLASS COVERDALE UNEMPLOYED FORCE TOWN COUNCIL TO CALL SPECIAL MEETING Many Cities Prepare for National Hunger March to Washington, D. C., On December 7th ‘Communist Councilman In Yorkville, Ohio, Fights for Un- employment Insurance ond Immediate Relief | COVERDALE, Pa., Nov. 12.—The Unem- |ployed Council here won a victory when, sup- ported by the National Miners Union, they forced Squire Longpencil to call a meeting of the Town Council in spite of his protests that he could do nothing “officially” but would try to do something “personally.” They then forced the council to agree to re- place the tents here with substantially built wooden barracks, |the four Pacific Mills in Lawrence | Neip Wage Cu PC. 3s Announce Lawrence Mill Thousands Locked Out; Ne Courts Continue Savag On W orkers Ss LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 12.—| There are still 6,000 strikers out fr yo20e@ Attacks AULACKS and 1,200 of the Assabet Mill of the | American Woolen Co. in Maynard. | ONGT These workers are also locked out, l STRAT these mills having officially closed Ei M0! LN BUY. and are not re-opening with the ) A C A] are others, Lawrance should now see a MC ONI AY | ‘ tremendous upsurge of the ployed movement, The superintendent of the Pacific Mills has told various individuals that | the Pacific Mill will announce its re- opening in a couple of weeks with a 25 per cent cut. This means that there will be a strike situation in| Impel these mills. Active organization of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the United Front Rank and File | unem~ QCIRT OD ANT FA Workers t rialist YORK 16, NEW vembi { FRONT AGAINST MEAGER UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. DEMONSTRATE AT JAILING OF SEVEN WORKERS TODAY Postpone Trial of Four Negroes All workers are urged to demon~. strate against the efforts to railroad to jail seven workers by packing the courtroom at 23rd St. and Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, when their trial opens at 10 a. m. today (Friday). The work- ers were arrested when police at- tacked a Communist election cam- paign meeting on Oct. 30. Six are |being charged with disorderly con- |duct, while the seventh, L. A. De |Santes, a member of the executive | committee of the Workers Cultural Federation and the executive board of the John Reed Club, is being tried on four charges, including inciting to riot. If convicted, this carries a pen- alty of from six months to three years. The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense is defend- ing the arrested workers. The Work- ers Cultural Federation and the John Reed Club have appealed to their members to support the fight of the I. L. D, and to attend today’s hearing. er Postpone Trial of 4 Negro Workers. ‘The hearing of the four Harlem Negro workers who have been framed | up on robbery charges, scheduled to take place yesterday, has been post- poned till next Thursday, Nov. 19, it is announced by the New York LL.D. Carpenters Condemn Vancouver Stand Against Insurance BROOKLYN. — The Carpenters’ Local No. 2717 at a membership meeting yesterday voted solidly in support of a resolution condemning the recent stand of the A. F. of L. Vancouver Convention in ppposing unemplyment insurance. ‘The local will elect delegates to the Washing- ton Hunger March Conference which will be held November 22. NEW YORK.—Over 150 finaneters, industrialists, executives and business men of a war organization are pre- paring plans to speed up the war industries for the coming war in order to mass profits for the bosses. These facts were revealed in a speech made Wednesday at the Ho~ | Savoy Plaza by Bernard M. Ba- ruch, former chairman of the War Industries Board. The 150 exploiters who form the nucleus of the new War Industries Board made millions out of the last world slaughter and are now talking about “prosperity” to come out of driving millions of work- ers into a war against the Soviet Union. and provide food and clothing for the unemployed in the entire Tet oe a a LO 2*> election a commit- tee ivom the Unemployed Council called upon the Squire to demand that the township furnish immediate shelter and relief. The squire pro- tested that he could do nothing. But not until he sat down and sent out letters to every councilman calling a |Special meeting Tuesday night, was the committee appeased. ‘The councilmen took the same tone. “What can we do? We have no money,” they said. But when, fifteen minutes later, men, women and chil- and demonstrated before the council meeting shouting, “We haven't. had any bread indays!” “Our children are dying of hunger!” “We must have immediate relief!” the tone of the councilmen changed radically. “This looks bad! We'll have to do something,” they said. Meanwhile Squire Longpencil went out’ to speak t othe demonstrators. “You are hurt- ing yourself by this. Go home!” The unemployed refused to move until the council agreed to build barracks, and provide shoes and clothing fc: all those who needed them in Bethel Township. Red Councilman Fights for Relief YORKVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 12.—John Buksa, Jr., first Communist to be elected to office in this country, was visited by a committee of workers, informally organized at a public re- ception for all the incoming officials, and urged to come there to speak. Large masses of workers came to the public reception—a usual post-elec- tion affair arranged by local politi- clans—looking forward to hear the Communist candidate. When he was not there, they organized an informal (CONTINUED UN PAGE THRE) Committees among these workers is | repre progressing. | ern: Thousands who registered for work | AV! in the American Woolen Mills are | *'Y not being put to work now. Great |" throngs stand around the mill gates | Ea until they are dispersed by the po- |} lice. N. T. W. Pushes Organization. ‘The National Textile Union is call- | ;¢; ing many meetings by mills and de- partments this week and a general membership meeting of the union for | ¢, Friday night to further organization | and organize the fight against dis- crimination. | “All the arrested strikers are now out on bail. Over fifty cases, which | Ma: have been continued or are on ap- | Work Hoov peal, are coming up within the next three months. This morning Martha | Stone was sentenced to ten days for | Ma: vagrancy. Her case was appealed |} and she is now out on $200 bail. Lo- | 15 @ Pp € | Baldwin, tk p retta Starr was fined $125 for intimi- dation and loitering. Her case has | and N also been appealed and. she is now | a under $600 bail. | fined $30 for vagrancy and loitering | in ing Cigar Makers Fight Be for Jobless Insurance) io: E |B CHICAGO, Ill—The rank and file | off (By a Worker Correspondent) of the Cigar Makers’ International | will be he Union of Chicago at a recent meet- | the ing voted for a resolution for unem- | Unity Le meeting | afid sey ployment insurance. The also went on record condemning the ing action of the Vancouver Conyention | for going on record against unem- | ployment insurance. ers accept a reduction of $2 and $3 a | whe thousand on cigars made. {a bat thei the other unions Sam Reed was | Muss } On Mo’ will ¢ Notice: — / Communi We also voted | med down a proposal that the cigar mak- | headau: m) wor I ly © st be or re to yor ai Ita to S. impe nt fron Cor cl ere they are tor day. 18,000 Kentucky Miners Prepare Strike Against Hunger, Terror HARLAN, Ky., ; Nov. 12.—Voting for a sirike against starvation conditions unequalled in the United States, the Harlan’ miners in the National Min- ers Union are now preparing their ranks for a militant strike in the face of the extreme terror of the coal operators. For months the National Miners Baruch, War Financier, Tells Bosses of Profits in Slaughter Present at this meeting was Eu- gene Meyer, Jr., head of the Federal Reserve Bank and a close associate of Morgan & Co. who made billions in the last world war. Mr. Baruch in his speech referred to the Soviet Union and the necessity of “taking over responsibility” for 160,000,000 people. Baruch pointed to the Soviet Union as the prize in the next world war. He said: “They (the Soviet Union) will be- come a burden upon us—a burden from which we cannot shrink.” Baruch said that “unemployment was more serious than generally be- ‘Heved.” Build NMU U and Relief! to Push Strike to Victory (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Union has been recruiting in the | ranks of the 18,000 Harlan and Bell | County miners who welcomed the | NMU. Local unions have been estab- lished in 30 mines and secret meetings of the miners have outwitted the company gunmen. A relief organiza~ tion has been built up in spite of the fact that four soup kitchens were blown up with dynamite and several miners killed. Realizing the growing militancy of the miners, Judge D. C. “Baby” Jones perpetrator of the frame-up on Theo- the! ing the Mansfield and Dayton ‘ ‘ | rallied in great masses on the Banks in Big Crash jin ® mititant demonstration «i the “International CLEVELAND, O.—Two Ohio banks closed last week, the Farmers’ Sav- ings and Trust Co. at Mansfield, O. and the Union Trust Company at Dayton. The reason given for the dres closing of both banks was steady | stands by the Free State police withdrawals by depositors. The Day- | were brutally beaten. One of the ton bank was one of the largest in| speakers pointed out thet t! the city. Its reported resources on September 29 amounted to over $3,- 000,000. no wo! While the Prince of W: English capitalists istice day soldier's | hymn, | Past,” the workers in Dublin, Ire armistice day as an monstrati As the speakers attempte: | ance ‘day they were pulled But despite the police v Thousin ds Demonstrate i in Dublin; Sing ‘I a» few ‘owd oO} id a were celebrat- ir fellow socialist in London th by hy usual wreath tomb and “Oh, God, Our Help Of the Age n of the-bos 1 to ad signific- ‘om the ss,the masses on the tru: armistice for the workin. rkers continued thro! ‘TWO lize on Mon- ; °° 5 | the and! A sharp clash between = Price 3 Cents ON USSR. ING TIDE OF MASS RESISTANCE SPREADING THROUGHOUT CHINA Capitalist Disp RIS aa) by patches re + Huge Growth of / Communist bathiaies q and financial war credits and reports sent in nt ships carrying U. ng § , und ed by offi ers carr beams are bi good e nt that the ndits le the world were neir hy tical Armistice Day phre imperialist spouting ses about “maintaining peace” by means of he increases in armaments, their a new world slaughter were being ziedly pust Japar se troops ady in r and nearer to the § the Siberian bord Y yi | MILES | AE EAGAINST | CENT C un: ‘y Brook and), rs W a anchuria we ‘oviet frontier, r towns of When VU CTD pe NER strategic north of C R.I—On Novem. nese Eastern Ra » which night shift of the Jar : ey owned hina and the : Union dispatch struck at 9 o'clock in the | oe sae y at 10 o’cloc! roops to Manchuris A | f the Cherry Bra rom the Eighth Regi- ee y striking there a es will leave. Saturday | ely the following morning % she alsa einer : g morning | adding a the wor got in touch | | NTWU headquarters in “An air regiment from Tachikawa | And the same day. a| Was ordered to leave for Manchu- Ir the strikers was called in| Tia as soon as possible. The cruiser Yakumo left Yokosuka for Sasebar. Jt may continue to Taku-Bar, off Tientsin.” technical handicaps, | ended the meet-| ions for Se z the day shift workers in the| These mills supplying | 1 Woolen mills with yarn, ite many A Tokio dispatch to the New York Evening World-Telegram reported the dispatch of four Japanese de stroyers to Kure “because of in- creasing gravity of the Manchuria situation,” Celebrate Victory Over Tsarist Russia A Mukden dispatch reports and made pre} were | |strike | America “The Japanese military and civt- lian community of Mukden ob- served Armistice Day with an tm- pressive ceremony before the me- morial monument to SOLDIERS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT BATTLE OF MUKDEN IN 1905, ‘International’ day to asi in immense crowds bearing posters exposing the capital- ist government and singing revolu- tionary songs. The Free State au- thorities, who attempted to break up the march of the workers, were met The slogans “Down with and “Up with the Repub- y” were shouted by the ers as they publicly burned the Union Jack, | NEWTON, ‘The headquarters of the Cosgrove | party was stoned by the workers fol- lowing the police attack and several windows were broken. The British Boys’ Brigade Hall was also stoned. the workers and the civil guards took place on O'Connell St., fended the gu medicine (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 100 Workers Strike Against Wage Cut cale In Connecticut Conn.—One hundred workers on the new Fairfied! State Hospital went out on strike against wage discrimination, the contractors refusing to pay them the prevailing wage scale, legally due the workers on all public building jobs, according to the capitalists’ own state laws. where the workers de- |State police were rushed from Ridge- themselves heroically giving|field Barracks to intimidate the is a good dose of their own |strikers and protect the scabs being sent in to take their plaee, with Jee Workers! Onnanize to Demand from Congress Unemployment Insurance I TE to, Full Wages!