The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1931, Page 1

‘: SEATTLE AND CALIFORNIA WORKERS BEGIN NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH TO ic TO DEMAND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE vet rk r OF THE WORLD, UNITE! U. Ss. Central - Org. Rfunict Party A. (Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class at New York, N, _ Vii, a i vontter at the Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879 <@5>26 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1931 CITY EDITION eT Price 3 Cente: ALL OUT TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST GRANDI Al 1:30 P.M. The Cruel Fraud of Hoover’s pA 000 SPOKANE WORKERS - CHEER DELEGATION IN ITS START FOR DEC. 7 FIGHT March Is biking of f Nation-Wide Mobilization to De-| mand Immediate Relief and Unemployment Insurance Unemployment Relief HE cruel atid criminal results of the Hoover method of “relieving” the wants of ine millions of unemployed become clearer as the campaign of the various divisions and sub-divisions of the Emergency Unemploy- ment Committee headed by Gifford continues. In New York City, after a week or two of the campaign, Gibson, head- ing the drive, announces that the $12,000,000 called for originally will be far too little and the quota is set at $18,000,000. In other words, the philanthropists of big business who have been placed in charge, according to their own admissions, underestimated the immediate needs by 50 per cent. Furthermore, the campa’ n has been organized so as to put the maxi- mum burden on the workers still employed—and not on the bankers and billionzires of the mammoth corporations, trusts and mergers. For in- stence, it is reported that the American Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany of New Yerk City contributed $386,000. But the same report shows that the comp2zny contributed $86,000; $309,000 came from the employes. House-to-house co! 2ctions are being conducted in working-class neigh- borheods. Al Smith calls on workers to “make sacrifices equal to those of war time.” Police, churches and bosses are using coercive methcds to force contributions. Those workers still employed at cut wages and part’ time are being forcibly assessed in order to take the burden froin ‘hose rescnzible for mass unemployment—the capitalists. <Low are the sums extracted from the workers distributed? ‘ow raiivze lead i to the the unemployed and their families relieved by the rich com- ? How much dribbles through the hundreds of grasping homeless and hungry? Philedelphia is typical. ted Lioyd Committee has been in charge of the Bu- nent Relief; $3,000,000 were secured to take care of from Jast June until Jan. 1, 1932. Relief has been given ms of $1.50 per week for single persons and $5 for a family of five. igons, have been given as low as $1 per week. There the so-c. out it Some vish Welfare Society, which takes care of a limited number of atter reducing its payments to the limit, announces that k for a single person and $12.82 for a family of five is a ich it cannot go and pretend to be relieving distress. spoeit $5.22 per level below W Co. sre mia ont ed vith these facts which show that the Hoover plan Is a per- pian, are the statements of Standard Statistics Company, which idends of 550 big corporations, from 1929 to 1931, have been xe from $1,900,000,000 to $1,400,000,000. Dividends haye been pa'd out of reserves acquired by the sweating speed-up of workers now thrown inio the streets, . ‘Tac whole Hoover “emergency unemployment relief” drive is a shame- Jess fraud. It is a cruel and criminal attempt to drive the living standard of American workers farther down to the coolie level, to place the whole burden of the crisis upon the toilin® and hungry millions, Fight for Workers’ Unemployment Insurance equal to full wages. Fight for $150 cash winter relief. Support the National Hunger March to Washington to place these demands before Congress on Dec. 7. Wipe Out Shortcomings of the National Hunger March By A. W. MILLS. cr is still time to correct the shortcomings in the preparations for the National Hunger March to Washington. What are these shortcomings? 1. A FORMAL approach to the Hunger March. In many Districts the National Hunger March is considered in terms of trucks, marchers, housing and feeding, etc. While these arrangements are important, they do not make up the contents of the March. The National Hunger March must be viewed as a mass, mobilization of the unemployed and employed workers in the struggle for Unemployed Insurance and winter relief. Every city must seethe with struggles of masses of unemployed workers. 2. Unemployed Insurance shoved to the background, The leaflets which reach the National Committee, as well as the calls issued for the conference, show a definite tendency of underestimating th2 importance of the central slogan of the March—-UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT FULL ¥’..GES. The local struggles are not linked up with the central slogan. This is especially evident in Minneapolis, Boston and other Dis- tricts, 3, INSUFFICIENT ORGANIZATIONAL RESULTS. With the ex- ception of a few cities, little organizational results are apparent. There , are Districts where the preparations for the Hunger March are going on without a single Unemployed Branch in existence (New Haven). If, as a result of the preparations and the march itself, wo do not strengthen our organization, if we do not build block committees, committees on ithe bread lines and Unemployed Councils, the whole Hunger March will be of no value. / 4. Very little work in the A. F. of L. locals. This is evident every- where. So far, only the locals where we have groups, adopted resolutions endorsing Unemployment Insurance. There ig no real drive in the’ A. F. of L. The Unemployed Branches did not make sufficient effort to pene- trate in the A. F. of L. locals and other working-class organizations. The ‘United Front Conferences will be of no value if we do not reach new or- ganizations in the struggle for Unemployment Insurance, 5. NO FOLLOW UP OF THE RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC HEAR- INGS. In nearly all the cities where Public Hearings were organized, hey were successful as far as the exposure of the misery is concerned. VWe did not sufficiently utilize the hearings for organizational results. Nieither did we popularize the results of the hearings and utilize them fo reaching into new territories to build Unemployed Block Committees and strengthen the existing ones. Let us remember that no matter how great the numerical strength of the March may be, if we do not utilize the National Hunger March to develop a MASS MOVEMENT among the unemployed, to build the Un- employed Councils and involve hundreds of thousands of employed and unemployed workers in the struggle for Unemployed Insurance and im- mediate relief, the March will not bring the desired results. robless Paper Workers |:alied « meeting ot unemployed paper ass workers for Tuesday, November 17, 0 Hold M Meeting 8 p. m. at 73 Ludlow St. dace apd Meira aes ai The meeting will take up practical ‘itly led a successful strike against | Proposals for a struggle for imme- vage cuts in the Eis shop, hayo diate relief for the ; perce y ed ache Many Cities Active In Preparing Hunger March; To De- U. S. Gov’t Pushes Drive for « Financial Blockade of Soviet Lies of “Insolvency” Exposed As Soviet Union Deposits Millions Here to Meet Obligations The Wall Street government has moved further to put into effect the economic boycott against~the Soviet Union announced some days ago in the capitalist press. Saturday's New York American carried on its finan- cial page, the following report from Case millions.” Saturday’s New York Daily News| peddled this lie in more vicious form by way of a cable from the lie-factory tions in the United States amount- Organize Mass Protest Against War on Nov. 21 In the face of the fact that | oviet Union has just met obliga- | Robber Imperialists Meet in Paris Today to Push War on Chinese Masses and Soviet Union mand Rich Pay to Feed Jobless SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 15.—The first group of hunger marchers to proceed to Wash- ington, D. C., for the national drive on Decem- ber 7th to demand relief for the millions of American unemployed are already en route. They have passed Spokane, Washington, and are on their way to Minneapolis. They will reach Minneapolis Nov. 26, and from there will proceed to Milwaukee and then to Chicago. They will join the Chicago hunger march column on the way to Wash- Wall Street: “There was a persistent rumor, which really was a revival of an old story, that Russia is financially bankrupt. Although lacking con- firmation, the rumor was sufficient to send Case Threshing down sharply. “It was argued that suspension of payments by Russia would cost ing to $6,000,000 this cable spreads the lie of insolvency: | “The Latvian press today published | a sensational report from Moscow stating that the insolvency of the| Soviet Government was officially ad- mitted by V. M. Molotov, president of | the Communist Council and right-/ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THE ington, D. C. a ' Two thousand Portland work- ers assembled at the protest demonstration of the Unem- ployed Council against war and unemployment. The delegates to the national hunger march were ‘given a send-off and the demands of the National Committee of Unem- ployed were ratified. Resolutions demanding the free- dom of the Ballard strikers, Ben Bo- lJoff and against the terrorization of the Lawrence strikers were adopted after an appeal by Paul Munter, de- fendané in the next criminal syn-|! dicaliss case, speaking for the In- ternational Labor Defense. Fred Walker spoke for the Unem- ployed Council. The council, which has procured the secret reports of a stool-pigeon of the Civic Emergency Committee (the committee that supervises so-called unemployment relief), made the name and activi- ties of this stool known. His name was Cairn and he is at present presi- dent of the National Veterans’ Asso- ciation in Portland. He broke up the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ES NEW YORK. — On Saturday, No- vember 2ist, at noon, tens of thou- ; Sands of New York workers will dem- onstrate against the feverish prepa- ration of the imperialist bandits for armed invasion of the Soviet Union. Today, it is clear from the atti- tude of the United States imperi- alist government, the Japanese and French imperialist governments, that as far as the Soviet Union is con- cerned, there is unity. The United States and Japan are openly work- ing together; the French government supports Japan and her demands on China; the British government is licking the boots of Japan in order once again to rectify the mistake in which it was maneuvered by the U. S. into appearing as opposing Ja- in, The League of Nations at its session today will not demand the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Manchuria, but on the contrary, will declare that Japan is justified in “protecting her interests.” This proves clearly that tke split- ting up of China has been decided upon and that all of the forces of reaction in China with Chiang Kai Shek at their head will be used to batter down the revolutionary work- ers and peasants led by the Soviets of China. France has been given the lead- ership in Europe to mobilize her vassal states, The Soviet Union has no troops in Manchuria, despite the lies of the capitalist press, but is prepared to defend every inch"of her territory. The imperialists are deter- mined to smash the Five Year Plan and by means of war, to get out of the crisis. The danger of war is growing more acute every day. On Saturday at Union Square the workers of New York must answer program of Hoover, who with the rid of Green, Woll, Thomas and Muste, is trying to push the American work- ers into another world slaughter, aimed at the Soviét Union and the colonial masses. All out on Union Square Saturday at noon. Organize and stand ready to defend the Soviet Onion against jarmed invasion! Support the ee -srtillihatiicnatne Sipe oS late Saturday to Protest Armed Attack on USSR Protest War Plans and Secret Pacts of Imper- ialist Robbers Against Soviet Union nese Revolution! Fight for Unem- ployment Insurance and demand re- Hef! All war funds to the unem- ployed! (Sngned) Communist Party, New York District; Young Communist League; Friends of the Soviet Un- jon; Trade Union Unity League; Unemployed Councils; Anti-Imperia- list League; Workers Ex-Servicemens League; League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights. Workers’ Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it. about your day-to-day struggle. Chicago Red Squad Raids Soviet Union. Offices of Communist Party 16 Arrested, Including Bill Gebert, District Or- ganizer; Attempt to CHICAGO, IIl., Noy. 15.—The police department red squad raided the Communist Party district office Sat- urday afternoon arresting {sixteen workers including Bill Gebert, district organizer, Herbert Newton, member of the district committee, Lawson and Kling. Following this the south side head- quarters. of the Party was also raid- ed. On the previous night Paulsen and Saffron were arrested in their homes and taken to |the detective bureau. All are held incommunicado with no charges yet placed against them. Terror On South Side. On the South Side in the Negro workers district where Captain Stege reigns, there is complete terror with workers being stopped on the street and searched. Some homes are be- ing raided. The police also have in- structed hall keepers not to rent halls to militant workers’ organiza- tions. During the past month a total of 294 arrests were made in Chicago, and 23 face trial Monday, November 16th. Word has just been received that Bill Gebert and Saffron were taken by Sheriff Robinson of Franklin County to Benton, Ill, and are at present at the Benton jail where they Stop Hunger March are held on $5,000 bail. The probable charges are |crienal syndicalism, although there is no verification ct this yet. The basis of this latest attack is an attempt to stop the anti-war ac- tivities and the preparations for the national hunger march, as well as renewed activities in Southern Illi- nois, “The Party in Chicago is organiz- ing a protest campaign with a large mass meeting on Wednesday, Novem- ber 18th, Attempts are being made to secure Ashland Auditorium. Leaflets are being issued and reso- lutions are to be offered to all work- ers’ organizations protesting against this latest reign of terror and calling on them to send wircs to states and city officials demanding the immedi- ate release of all the arrested wi ers. A delegation is being formed |to visit the Chicago city hall on Mon- day. Despite the terror, all work for the anti-war demonstrations and in prep- aration for the national hunger march on December 7th are being in- tensified. A Nat Turner meeting, has already been called for Novem- ber 17. This meeting, as well as the anti-war demonstrations will be uti- lized to protest this latest reign of terror of the Chicago bi AGAINST BULLETIN. Charles Lindbergh is to fly the fascist foreign minister, Vino Grandi, from New York to Wash- ington today, it was announced by the State Department last night. $a Xe NEW YORK.—Masses of workers will meet today at Pier 95, at the foot of West 5th St. and 12th Ave., Hud- son River, at 1:30 to demonstrate against the agent of Mussolini who has come to the United States for the purpose of cementing the plans and preparations for war against the Soviet Union. The U. S. Government is well aware tha Grandi will meet with a reception worthy of the bloody regime that is oppressing the work- "s in Italy and therefore declares that Grandi will be taken off in a boat in the harbor and whisked to New Jersey, where a train will take him to Washington. A united front of the Communist Party, Anti-Fascist Alliance, Trade Union Unity League, Anti-Imperialist League, Council for Protection of Foreign Born, Workers Ex-Service- Workers, Beware of IRKERS, the entire capitalist press on Sunday played up the fairy tales from Washington, Paris, Geneva, London and Tokio about the Lies About “Peace!” “will fight to the death!” Deliberate lics to, confuse you, workers! And behind all this is the heavenly “peace” that is about to descend upon Manchuria. What does that mean? It means that they are all lies! It means that the gang of world bandits which calls itself the “League of Nations” is due to meet today. And because it has allowed Japan to invade and make war upon China for two solid months, the toiling masses of the world are beginning to see the fraud of the League of Nations posing as “peace maker.” So something must be rigged up to give the APPEAR~ ANCE of peace. Thus, workers, there is this sudden clatter about “peace” and “compromise”—FOR MONDAY! BUT AS SOON AS THE LEAGUE MEETING IS OVER—MORE WAR! China is being torn to pieces! The “peace,” such as there can be that is “established for Monday,” is possible only by American imper- jalism forcing its Nanking lackey, Chiang Kai-shek, to practicglly sur- render Manchuria to Japan by “consenting to Japanese oceupation.” It was for, this reason that U. 8S. Minister Johnson “spoke in Chinese with Chiang Kai-shek for two hours” on Friday. The Associated Press says it was SECRET, but understood “that Mr. Johnson was conveying United States wishes that a compromise be reached with Japan.” This was foreshadowed on Friday, when a dispatch from Washing- ton (!) declared the’ “England Favors Japan NOW,” and proceeded with the following shameless statement as to what the League of Nations (!!) would do: “Japan has defied the League and there seems nothing that ‘the League can do about it. Pressure upon Japan having failed, pressure will probably now be directed upon China.”—N. Y. Post, Nov. 13. Being “unable” to punish the robber, the police will now punish the victim! Such are the “blessed peace makers” of Washington and Geneva! But, workers, there is MORE BEHIND ALL THIS! What dirty diplomatic lies are these? On Saturday “London Hears” that Stimson has “found a peace formula.” Yet on Sunday this is “denied on high administrative authority” at Washington! News that General Mah at Tsitsihar has “accepted Japanese ultimatum for peace’—that means he ee ee ee BIG FACTS—that China is being torn to pieces by imperialist wolves, that the imperialists and their Nanking and Canton tools are planning to war on the CHINESE SOVIETS that now rule 60,000,000 people, that Manchuria is agreed upon among the imperialists and their Chinese lackeys as THE BASE FOR WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION! And—to hide all this—a chatter about “peace” during the Paris meeting of the League of Nations! * s Workers! The war danger against the Soviet Union.GROWS HOURLY! What does the visit of GRANDI from fascist Italy to HOOVER mean? Principally to bring ITALY within the new anti-Soviet bloc formed by America with France and Japan, and also to use Italy (as Germany is being used) to America’s advantage in keeping France subordinate to America within this bloc! Grandi comes to pay homage to and get orders from Wall Street, which has more than $1,000,000,000 invested in Italian fascism! Workers! In a military way, the Soviet Union is being encircled by this band of imperialists, these secret diplomats who are GAMBLING WITH THE LIVES OF YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES! More evidence comes daily! The whole pack of wolves, ready to fall upon each other over the prey at any moment in a NEW WORLD WAR, are driving all the while NEARER TO WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION! From all capitols of imperialism there is appearing LIES ABOUT “SOVIET BANKRUPTCY.” It appears in the Berlin press! In Paris! In Washington, too! And Hoover's government openly tries to lay down a CREDIT BLOCKADE! One lie follows another about “Soviet? finan- cial difficulties." BUT THEY ARE LIES! Lies meant to blind you to Soviet SUCCESS IN BUILDING SOCIALISM! Lies meant to create a credit blockade as ONE MORE STEP TOWARD WAR! These capitalist war-makers who stervy> :ou in unemployment and cut your wages, would make you CANT:2ii FODDER IN THE COMING WAR! PROTEST! fafly to the Novcmber 2% Anti-War Demonstrations! Support the National Hunger March? and wy against wage cuts! WAR ON CAPIT Japanese Socialists Sabine Seizure of Manchuria, , Partitioning of China The Council of the League of Nations will |convene in Paris today with the stage com- | pletely set for the further speeding up of the war moves against the Chinese masses and the Dispatches from the main im- perialist centers indicate that the Wall Street government has succeeded in further consolidating the anti-Soviet front. Paris dispatch in Saturday's New York Evening Sun is headed “France Veering to Tokio Side.” Eriand has abandoned his pretense of protesting, as Chairman A This simply means that (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WORKERS! DEMONSTRATE TODAY FASCIST GRANDI men’s League, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, International Labor Defense and other militant working class organizations, has issued a call to all workers, American and Italian, to derionstrate Monday, 1:30 p. m, at Pier 95, West 55th St., against the bloody fascist regime in Italy, and the Hoover hunger and war conspir- acy against the workers. FASCIST TOOLS IN N.Y. MEET DENY WORKERS FLOOR NEW YORK—A so-called antte fascist meeting which was called yese terday by a group of labor fakere composed of Muste, Bert Miller, Carlo Tresca, the republican, Dr. Fama and. the ex-socialist Judge Pankin, pre- tending to make a protest against! Grandi, was broken up when the so~ cialist and anarchist thugs upon sige nal from Bert Miller attacked M. Ty Malkin, a member of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, who asked for the floor to urge the workers to rally on the streets today in the anti- fascist demonstration called by ths Communist Party. Hundreds of enraged workers arose, singing the Italian revolutionary “Banderosa”’ in protest when Malkiz was denied the floor. ‘The majority of the workers at the meeting demanded that Muste, who was chairman, give Malkin the floor. Muste tried to silence Malkin, but when he saw that Malkin had the united support of the workers, told him to come forward, whereupon: Muste’s lieutenant, Miller, gave the signal to his agents to attack Malkin and the workers who supported him, The Muste group began swinging chairs at the workers that were neare est them, the workers defending themselves well giving the sociale fascists who were posing as antle fascists a good dose of their owm medicine. The police, who were called by one of Muste’s agents, ar- rived shortly after the attack on the workers began. Many workers, it is reported, were arrested. ‘The police emergency squad was called out. The meeting was iJ tected by the gangsters of Cis dies’ Garment Workers’ Union 89 of which Ninfo is the head. was a second fight. The meeting finished with the protection gamated and the International *) bees