The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1931, Page 1

i | nal Hunger Support the Natio WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! March! Order “Daily Worker” Bundles to Distribute ‘(Section of the Communist International) Vol. VII, No. 274 Se eae NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1931 TY EDITION. Biles § Canta: JAPAN ADMITS THAT U.S. BACKS ITS WAR IN MANCHURIA Liars and War Makers Y ler day after the Soviet Union delivered $6,000,000 to American manu- facturers in payment for machinery purchased, paying exactly as con- tracts specified, there appeared a White House inspired dispatch from Washington in all the American press to the effect that “Russia was in financial difficulties” and advising American manufacturers to sell noth- ing to the Soviet “except for cash.” Coming from a capitalist government which has run upwards of a $1,000,000,000 in the hole in one year, a government which admits that it is unable to collect anything of the billions owing to it from any other of the capitalist governments, and directed against the ONLY govern- ment which pays the debts it contracts, the anti-Soviet LIE OF HOOVER is an insult to the most ordinary intelligence. But it is more than that! Coupled with the “advice” to U. S. manu- facturers NOT TO SELL EXCEPT FOR CASH to the Soviet Union, Hoo- ver's lie is a declaration of FINANCIAL BLOCKADE AND BOYCOTT of the Soviet Union! It is clearly another step TOWARDS WAR ON ‘THE SOVIET UNION! ‘ This lie about “Soviet difficulties” is also an attempt to keep the toiling masses of “America from sceing the wonderful growth of socialism in the Soviet Union, on their own dark and hopeless back-ground of crisis and starvation. Hoover does not want to admit the fact that, on Oct. 18, American business was 31.7 per cent below normal, while Soviet pro- duction in August was 33 per cent above August last year! By lying, Hoover indirectly recognizes that the American masses look to the Soviet with hope and faith as showing the way, the revolutionary way, out of mass misery and capitalist crisis. Workers will not forget that while Japan is, and long has been, actually making war in China, and there have been reports (seeming to come from British sources) that the other imperialisms “might” use the boycott weapon against Japan, the N. Y. Times of Noy. 13 states that the Washington Government has “no intention” of taking part in such “sanctions” against Japan—but it proceeds actively to build a CREDIT BLOCKADE around the ONLY PEACEFUL COUNTRY—THE SOVIET UNION! Neither will the workers forget that this same Hoover-Stimson gang of liars and war-makers, engaged in a welter of SECRET DIPLOMACY, encourage and spread the LIE THAT SOVIET FORCES ARE INTER- VENING IN MANCHURIA! While America sends 6,000 tons of nitro-glycerine to Japan, and other shiploads of American munitions and war supplies almost daily leave American ports for the trusted lackey militarists of China subject to American “advisers” that gather about Nanking and Shanghai—not a word of ali this gets into the American capitalist press except by acci- dent, while this poison press plays up as its most sensational stories, any old lie invented by Japanese and Czarist Russians in Manchuria about “Soviet forces aiding General Mah.” This hypocrisy which stinks to heaven is clearly connected with Hoo- ver's war aims against the Soviet Union and his declaration of CREDIT BLOCKADE! While American factories stand idle that might work on Soviet orders, orders for industrial machinery and not explosives, Amer- ican workers can point out that this Hoover war-policy against the Soviet is helping to starve them in unemployment, As to comparisons of the Soviet finances and American finances: The Soviet has no deficit, the U. S. has over $1,000,000,000. The Soviet spends only 5.1 per cent of its budget on defense, while the 1929-30 budget of the U. S. went 67 per cent to WARFARE EXPENSES. The Soviet spends huge sums for social insurance to take care of the workers, while the American capitalist government spends nothing because it lets sick and aged workers die by thousands. But the Soviet has the income of all the national industry and does not have to sup- port a parasite capitalist class, while American government expenses are more and more aimed to tax the toiling masses who in addition must slave and die to support a huge burden of luxury-mad rich! ‘Yorkers, the liars and war-makers of Washington not only refuse to tax the rich or turn over war funds to aid the unemployed, but they are definitely planning and preparing war on the Soviet Union! It is this that you must raise protest against everywhere, and express in mass dem- onstrations in all cities November 2ist! Support the National Hunger March demands to Washington war- makers! Defend yourselves from starvation! Defend your lives from the “vemakers! Hoover Denies Unemployment In- surance But Spends Billions for War! By JOHN WILLIAMSON. re National Munger March, which will demand unemployment insur- ance from Congress, will only be of decisive importance to the extent that the working class as a whole knows of it and more important, to the extent that hundreds of thousands of workers have participated in electing and endorsing the Marchers and the demands to be presented to the National Congress. To really mobilize the workers behind the ‘Hunger March, more attention must be given to developing real local mass struggles, against evictions, for immediate relief and particularly for unemployment insurance from city and county governments. We must also show the workers that the same Hoover Government which refuses unemployment insurance and relief and sentences the workers to die of starvation, spent 382 million dollars last year on main- taining the U. S. Navy, not including the Army and Aviation Corps in preparation for war against the Boviet Union. Hoover says quite openly: “To tell you the truth, the ambition of my life is to crush out Soviet Russia.” _ * ‘The unemployed must understand that in their struggle for Unem- ployment Insurance they must also fight against the Hoover war prep- arations and defend the Soviet Union. Forward to Washington! Develop local struggles in preparation for National Hunger March! Unite the employed workers in the struggle for Unemployed In- ‘surance! All war funds to the unemployed! TAMPA GENERAL STRIKE LOOMS was given a brutal third degree, the Police wanting Rim to sign a confes- sion that he fired the shot that in- jured a policeman. Sentiment among the workers in Tampa against the brutal assault of zama, Is Tortured As Police Try to Get Foreod Confession NOW YORK.—The Daily Worker received word from Tampa, 1*orida, that Lezama, an active leader who was arrested together with twenty- three other workers after police and ‘Legionnaires fired upon a+ November " meeting, is being tortured to con- fess he shot a policeman, Lezama the police and Legionnaires and then, their attempt to frame up twenty- four workers who defended them- relves is at a high pitch, Talk of a ‘overal strike to force the release of the twenty-four arrested workers is now spreading rapidly through all establishments, especially the cigar factories, The International Labor Defense had already engaged two local attor- vies to defend the twenty-four work- ets. Council here which is ployed Council here. kidnapped and brutally beaten detectives. DEMONSTRATE MONDAY AGAINST FASCIST GRANDI Fight Against War Plot of Bosses NEW YORK.—Thousands ef Amer- ican and Italian workers are prepar- ing a huge demonstration to greet the emissary of the bloody fascist government, Dino Grandi, upon his arrival in the United States on Mon- day, Nov. 16, at 1:30 p. m., at Pier 95, West 55th St., on the liner Comte Grande. The arrival of this right- hand man of the fascist beast Mus- solini, whose hands are red with the blood of the Italian workers, for a secret conference with Hoover will be the occasion for thousands of work- ers demnstrating their bitter indigna- tion and undying hatred of the re- gime that turned the whole of Italy into @ vast prison, that has murdered thousands, and has exiled tens of thousands of workers who are op- posed to the brutal fascist regime of murder and violence, and against the Hoover hunger government that is preparing lavish entertainments and banquets for the fascist assassins. The mission of Grandi in this country is to plot with the Wall St. Hoover government for war on the Soviet Union, the bringing of the two imperialist rivals, France and Italy, together into the anti-Soviet war for completing the financial blockade begun by the United States against the Soviet Union in order to cripple the 5 year plan, and to solicit loans from Wall St. to bolster up the fas- cist regime. The N. Y. workers will remind Mr. Grandi and the Hoover hunger and war government that they will smash the secret war plots against the So- viet Union, will drive the fascist emis- saries of Mussolini out of the country, and will intensify the fight against the plot of the Wall St. bandits to starve the American workers and to plunge us into another imperialist world butchery, Amter to Speak at Boro Park USSR 14th) . Anniversary Meet NEW YORK.—Boro Park Workers Club will celebrate the 14th Anni- versary of the Russian Revolution to- night with a concert by the Novy Mir Symphony Orchestra of Newark and a one-act play. Comrade I. Amter, district organizer of the Communist Party will be the main speaker of the evening. LEVINE TO SPEAK TO WAR VETS SUNDAY NEW YORK.—The Harlem Branch of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League.will hold an open forum Sun- day Nov. 15 at 27 W. 126th St. at 2 pm. Emanuel Levine, national chairman of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League, will speak on the bonus question. Discussion will fol- low. All ex-servicemen are requested to be present. BOSS THUGS KIDNAP AND “FLOG PONTIAC JOBLESS FOR HUNGER MARCH WORK Seven Taken for Ride and Viciously Beaten with Whips for Preparing for December 7th Macomb County Hunger March Is Attacked by Cops and Brutally Broken Up PONTIAC, Mich., Nov. 18.—Fearing the growing mass support to the Unemployed tional Hunger March to Washington on Dec. ith, boss thugs calling themselves “vigilantes” kidnapped and viciously flogged seven members of the Unem- Seven of the members of the Unemployed Council were They were taken from their homes at the point —of guns and “taken for a ride” be- Red Candidate Gets Six Votes Less Than Winning Poll DETROIT, Mich.—During the recent recall election in’ the vil- lage of Melvindale for village pres- ident, Comrade Jolly James, who has been exceptionally active among unemployed workers of this village, despite the slander con- ducted against him by village boss-class politicians, almost suc- ceeded in being elected. The lackey of the bosses who succeeded in being elected ob- tained 166 votes, only 6 votes more than Comrade James. Another vil- lage politician only received 54 votes. This is the first time Comrade James has ever run for office, also there is no doubt that a number of votes were stolen, but in the coming spring he hopes to have even better cooperation of the workers of Melvindale and succeed in being elected to this office. Just before the elections the local authorities took out an in- junction against Comrade James as being responsible for kicking in the door of the village hall. Preparations are now being nade in Melvindale to organize a yranch of the Unemployed Coun- is and force immediate relief rom the politicians who run. the ‘illage. Child of Jobless Worker Dies’ of Charity Poison Food DETROIT.—George, the eight year old son of Jim Buchalis, an unemr Ployed worker died of cannéa™ food poisoning the rest of the six children are also suffering ' effects of the poison. The family is in distress, while the charities refuse to continue the measly welfare they had been giving. A mass funeral has been ar~ ranged for the dead child by local workers’ organization. and the Na- tional, Hunger March~local commit- tee will conduct open hearings to expose the conditions of the workers. Unemployed workers are being threatened with deportation and the situation generally is very tense. preparing for the Na- by masked men, including city yond the city limits. There, in the bitter cold, their clothes were stripped from them and they were lashed with Jong whips. The beaten workers in- cluded a Negro worker, Shelby: All are defendents in the Oakland County Hunger March and were active in preparing for the National Hunger March in Washington. Thus far five of those kidnapped are still missing. Re ce | A United Press report adds the fol- lowing details of the kidnapping and beating: “Clarence Sherman, 35, jobless, said he was. taken from his home by six men. His assailants pulled a sack over his head, he said. and he was given a ride to State Park, where he was beaten with the butt of a horsewhip. ‘I heard them beating other men in the park, he said, describing the experience. I could not see, and did not recognize voices of the other vic- on Fight Against Mass Protests 300 Newport Torpedo Workers ‘Cheer the Fight Against War NEWPORT, &. I., Nov. 13.—The; gave the most enthusiastic applause. | fight against the war preparations of | They pledged themselves to support | |the imperialists was enthusiastically|the nation-wide demonstrations on | taken up here by 300 torpedo boat | Nov. 21 against the war moves of the | and other workers, all Americans,| imperialists against the Chinese | who attended a mecting last night at | masses and the Soviet Union. which Marcel Scherer, National) y, : | New s Secretary of the Friends of Soviet} Hewyort bat stamens millienaire | 2 ma colony, where the parasites carry on Sepa fads aioe os tt Five ear | their revels while millions of hungry pe aes with pictures | workers are walking the streets, showing the tremendous achiev Hae Fi ~|starving and homeless. It is also a ments of socialist construction in the | center for the construction of torpedo Soviet Union. | boats. When Frank Morrison, secretary of | wi the A. F. of L, learned that Scherer |. gd ee eee had been invited to give his iilus-|SH0uld follow the inspiring example of the Newport torpedo boat workers | trated talk before the Newport Cen- 4 ‘ ; tral Labor Council, Morrison rushed and join the fight on the imperielist war mongers. Workers! Demon- two telegrams demanding that the} . ‘ invitation be cancelled. The dele- | tate Nov. 21! Spread the alarm in gates voted to stand by the invita-|YOUr Shops,’ factories, everywhere! tion, and the meeting was held. |Have your organizations adopt reso- | When the picture of Comrade |lutions against the imperialist war Stalin was shown, the 300 workers ' moves! Mass Struggle, Not Individual , attacked the funeral procession of a = | Communist, firing and killing the .. | Communist Kientopf. The police re- port alleges that five police were in- | jured by stones, Today's “Rote Fahne” publishes |a statement of the Central Commit- | tee of the Communist Party sternly | condemning individual terrorism, The (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Nov. 13.—At Novave: near Berlin, yesterday the fascists attacked young workers. Herbert Rit- ter, aged eighteen, was shot through the lungs and killed. Others were wounded. Yesterday at Landsberg, the police statement declares that the chief tims. “The kidnapers reledsed me after taking my shoes. I walked the four miles home, “Leo Fortin, 23, another vittim, was found dazed on the Dixie High- way. He said three or four men came to his home and took him to the place on the highway where he was found. “I was blindfolded, he said. They beat me. I heard other men scream- ing in the darkness. I suppose they did it because I have been attending unemployment meetings. “Other men taken from their homes under similar cizcumstances were Mike Stykoff, 38; Walter Hard- ing, 33; Vensel Muha, 32; and Avid Holder, 35. “One of the bands of night-riders in Terror Dr confiscation of all Communist Party ants, Buck, Ewen, Boychuk, Bruce, on the third, the sentences to run to two years on the first two counts, visited the home of Clarence Brad- Jey, alleged Communist agitator. Bradley was attending an unemploy- ment meeting and escaped the beat- ing intended for him. He said he beleved the kidnapings were planned to prevent unemployed from attend- Ing the meeting.” tence also to run concurrently. Deportation was ordered in all the defendants, made a speech in | NEW YORK.—The Internationa Beat Up Michigan Hunger Marcher: DETIOIT, Mich. Noy. 13.—The (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE} A Thumb-Nail . By ALBERTO ARANEIBIA (Va'paraiso). ‘AGE cuts caused the uprising in the Chilean navy and in some army regiments. Previous to the rising, the Communist Party had no connection with the armed forces, with one exception—a sympathizer sergeant, in com- mand of the destroyer “Lynch” during the rebellion, 2 man named Caldero. At the first word of the outbreak, the Party acted immediately, sending delegates to the fleet and to the naval base in Talcuano. The “FOCH” (the revolutionary trade unions) declared a strike, even the most reactionary elements responding to its strike call. ‘The bakery workers of Concepcion influenced the regiment of sol- diers at Chacabuso, in favor of mutiny. Ten thousand miners in the Coronel coal region, begged of the sailors at the Talcuano naval base to give them arms and urged them to seize the naval printing plant for revolutionary use. The Communist Party delegates to Conquimbo, where the main fleet Jay, urged the rebels to proceed to Valpalraiso and Taleuano at once, as the workers and tw oregiments of soldiers were anxiously waiting the Picture Crown Sentences Communists (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) TORONTO, Canada, Noy. 12.—A verdict of guilty on three counts, ommended deportation wherever possible and brought in a motion for TORONTO, Canada, Nov. 13.—As part of its terror campaign against the militant workers of Canada, sentences were handed out to the work- ers whose trial has been going on here for the past week. tenced to five years’ imprisonment on the first two counts, and two years Communist Patty and the Workers Unity League was ordered con- fiseated. Notice of appeal was immediately served. Tim Buck, one of declaring this was an attempt by capitalist justice to stop the growing struggles of the workers against capitalism. { ment branding the vicious sentences against the Canadian revolutionary workers, and declaring a nation-wide mass campaign .would be started to demand the immediate release of task of the Party is the development of the revolutionary struggle and winning of the majority of workers for the overthrow of capitalism. It condemns the right wing danger and declare that a “left” wing danger exists underestimating the necessity of mass work and causing terrorist tendencies, application of individual terror against fascists, carrying out senseless individual actions and arm- ed attacks and adventurism with explosives. The statement declares that such ij tendencies have nothing in common |with Communism and violates the | fundamentals of Marx and Engels’ tactics and strategy of the working- | class movement and violates the pro- |gram of the Communist Interna- | tional which condemns expressly in- | dividual terror as detracting the pro- |letariat from methods of mass | struggle. | pes dais el | AMERICAN ICE MAKES ALMOST \3 MILLION PROFIT IN 9 MONTHS ive on Masses membership in and officers of an unlawful association and seditious con- spiracy, was handed down yesterday Sentence will be rendered Friday m¢ in the trial of the nine Communists. jorning. The Crown prosecutor rec- property. | * The defend- Popovich, Hill and Carr were sen- concurrently. Cacic was sentenced , and one year on the third, his sen- possible cases. All property of the court protesting the sentences and | The American Ice Company. and | subsidiaries reports a profit of $2,- | 982.276 for the nine months of 1931 jending September 30. A dividend of $3.37 a share was paid to the parasite ‘ shareholders. of the Chilean Revolt a fool named 1 Labor Defense here issued a state- these workers. ex-teachers and one who was an anarcho-syndicalist, Pacheco. These people were full of illusions and ignored the warning of the Communists that, once started in mutiny, they must go through with it or suffer. They thought not. But only the mass protest raised by the Party saved their lives later, and they were discharged from service and now are jobless and penniless. | These inexperienced and confused “leaders” lost six precious days in deciding what to do, All this time the government and the capitalists were demorslized and in terror. As time passed without the rebels tak- ing any offensive, the class enemy regdined morale and regrouped their forces. ’ Two regiments of soldiers were disarmed. Artillery and troops en- circled the naval base and airplanes were, mobilized against the rebel fleet. At Talcuano, two hundrd marines and fifty workers defended naval base heroically, killing six hundred of the government's attacking force before surrendering. In all, on the rebel side, 200 marines and about 25 workers were killed in the rebellion. ® Workers! Take U pthe War in Nov. 21 Boss ‘Press HRaakal. ail Lies About Soviet War Moves Latest Developments The United States moved further yesterday to strengthen its lead- ership in the Anti-Soviet Front. Will support Japan at League Council meeting on Monday. Jap- anese officials admit United States support for their aggres- sions against Chinese masses. Washington moves to strengthen U. S. Asiatic Fleet for war on Soviet Union. Efforts to push Soviet Union into war become more desperate in face of firm peace policy of the Soviet. Japan mobilizing White Guards to “co-operate with Jap- anese if the partly Soviet Chinese Eastern Railway is to be seized.” A force of Chinese and Korean Com- munists reported to have in- flicted the first severe defeat suffered by the Japanese inva- ders. -Mass resistance grows all over Manchuria. British openly state support of Japan in their efforts to seize leader- ship of anti-Soviet front from United States. Japanese continue rushing troops and equipment to Manchuria, and are reported in move to set up former Boy Emperor, Henry Pu-yi as puppet emperor of Man- churia. Kuomintang traitors to hold joint Congress in Nanking and Canton in new move to stifle protests of Chinese- masses. (STORY ON PAGE THREE) ALL OUT NOV. 21 IN UNION SQUARE ANTI-WAR MEET Bring Workers From Your Neighborhoods and Shops NEW YORK.—War is coming with giant steps. It may be upon us be- fore we know it. November 7th was @ mighty demonstration’ in defense of the Soviet Union. On November 21, Union Square must be resounded with the voices of 100,000 workers of New York, pledging their solidarity and unity with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, the Chinese workers and peasants and the workers everywhere, against the murderous bosses and their govern- ments, who are throwing us into war. Union Square on Saturday, Novem- ber 21st, at noon must be the answer to the bosses of this country, to Wall Street and its government, that their declaration of war against the Soviet Union will be answered by a declara- tion of war by the American work- ing class against the bosses and their government. This demonstration must be a mobilization of the work- ers from the shops, the unions, the rank and file of the American Fed-, eration of Labor and socialist party, the workers’ fraternal organizations —men and women, white and Negro, young and adult—in answer to the bosses’ provocations. Pass resolutions in your shops, unions, organizations against the coming war and for de- fense of the Soviet Union. Make November 2ist the working declaration of sharper fight against the Hoover boss program of starvation, wage. cuts, terror, lynch- ing and war, and for defense of the Soviet Union! All out to Union Square, Saturday, November 21, at noon! —Communist Party, class N. Y. Dist. coming of the fleet. Seven airplane crews in Porto Quinteros sided with the rebels. But all in vain. The “Revolutionary Committee” refused to heed the Com- munist advice, influericed by their officers, whom they had merely locked in their cabins but to whom they kept running for “consultation.” Also against decisive action were some members of the committee who were P / f f Contrary to all th lies circulated abroad, the rank and file of the fleet handled the battleships without their usual officers, with skill, surprising their frightened officers locked in the cabins. More, they shot down four government airplanes, which stopped such further attacks, ‘The fleet surrendered from demoralization caused by lack of proper leadership, and not from armed pressure by the government. Young Communist League, N. ¥. Dist, Trade Union Unity League of Great- er N. Y., Friends of the Soviet Union, Unemployed Councils of Greater N. Y., Anti-Imperialist League, Werkers Ex-Servicemen’s League. sien 5 t