The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! : Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist ce ) Norker Rnunict Party U.S.A. | CITY. THE HUNGER MARCHERS ARE OFF, THE SEATTLE DIVISION IS AP- PROACHING BISMARK, N. D. THE CALIFORNIA DIVISION IS MARCHING TOWARDS SALT LAKE ’ WITH THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH. — Entered as second-~ Vol. VIII, No. 276 s matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 eo NEW ‘YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1931 erry EDITION oe. : Price 3 C Cents _ IMPERIALIST POWERS AT PARIS 0. K. RAPE OF CHINA JAPANESE PUSHING WAR TOWARDS SOVIET BORDER; GIVE ANSWER ON NOV. 21 Chinese Masses Hail Soviet Peace Stand In Note to Japan| U.S. Bankers Say Seizure of Manchuria Is A Good Thing, While the League of Nations was gather- ing in Paris on Sunday to push their plans for the partition.of China and war on the Soviet Union, the Japanese army was engaged in a smashing advance in Manchuria. Yesterday, the day set by the League of the Nations hypocrites for the | “withdrawal” of the Japanese forces from Manchuria witnessed a further advance of the Japanese forces into Northern Man- churia and towards the Soviet frontier. to the New York Graphic reports: “The Japanese army fought its way to within striking éistance of Anganchi today after a combined artillery, infantry and bombing plone attack smashed through Chi- nese forces on the Nonni River fren‘.” Sc2 “Important Developments.” ni is an important city on the Chinese Eastern Railway, which is joinuly owned by China and the Soviet Union. A Mukden dispatch to the New York Times clearly indicates that the Japanese plan a large-scale movement toward the Soviet -fron- ter. The dispatch states: “Behind the skirmish _ lines, sereened by a veiled silence, the Japanese are rushing repairs to the Nonni River bridge trestles, and IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS ARE EXPECTED AS SOON AS TRAINS CAN CROSS THE RI NORTHBOUND.” Emphasis curs— Daily Worker.) ‘That the Wall Street government, in its role as leader of the anti- Soviet front, fully understands what Japan expects to get out of war on the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union is shown in the following statement in a dispatch from Wash- ington by William Philip Simms, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Grandi Flees Demonstration Against Fascism, War Plots NEW YORK.—Over 1,500 workers responded to the call of the Commu- nist Party and the Anti-Fascist Al- liance in a cemonstration yesterday afternoon at the pier upoa the ar- rival of the Conte Grande, the ship that brought the fascist emissary Grandi. In spite of the stream of confusing reports in the newspapers, in spite of the sabotage of the “so- cialists,” A. F. L. union bureaucrats and enarchist leaders to prevent the cemonstratioa »t the pier, the work- ers responded militartly. The workers xnew that it was the call cf the Communist Party and other mass organizations for a mass demonstration that forced the Hoover ‘Wall Street government to cancel the official city reception to the fascist butcher who came to plot with Her- bert Hoover war against the Soviet Union and increased fascist te-ror against ‘!he American and Italian workers. To escape the wrath and militant protest rirepared by the workers upon the occzsion of the arrival of the right-haiid man of Mussolini, the Hoover government was compelled to spirit Grandi away ‘by train to Wash- ington. None of the Mustes, Tres- cas, or Norman Thomases who used violence against the revolutionary workers who attempted merely to call upon the workers present at the mass meeting on Sunday at Irving Plaza, were present at the demonstration. However, a large number of the workers who attended the Sunday meeting turned out to the demon- stration called by the C. P. and Anti- Fascist Alliance. Speakers from the Communist Party, Anti-Fascist Al- liance, International Labor Defense and Friends of the Soviet Union ad- dressed the enthusiastic workers. Fascists Are Routed. Several fascists who attempted’ to start trouble got a good lesson. One who got on top of a taxi in an at- tempt to speak was greeted by the workers with a shower of stones, The fascists were forced to take to their heels after the workers showed their wrath. A large squad of mounted and foot police were powerless to break up the meeting in face of the determination of the workers, They had their hands full in trying to save the few fascists present. The workers enthusiastically undertook to watch the press for further details on the arrival of Grandi for the of- ficial Tammany reception by Walker, and to turn out in masses to give their answer to the Hoover-Grandi (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) German Communists Win 10 Seats in Hessen Elections ‘(Cable by Inprecorr) * BERLIN, Nov. 16.—Yesterday Hes-) sen diet elections repeated the gen- eral tendencies in all the recent Ger- man elections. The fascists more than doubled their poll, chiefly at the cost of the bourgeois parties. The Communists gained considerably, while the “socialists” and bourgeois partics lost heavily. The most important results were: : aR g q a ae ee Seg Fascists .....291,189 27 127,981 Socialists 168,299 15 215,747 24 Catholics ....112,440 10 104,246 13 Communists .106,755 10 84513 6 Populists .... 18,325 1 49,929 7 The Brandlerists polled 14,954 votes with 1 seat and the socialist opposi- tion 8,117 votes with 1 seat, ‘The bourgeois parties had 27 seats in the old diet and now have only 5. ‘The Communist poll, plus the Brand- lerists, plus the socialist opposition- als, roughly equals the socialist losses. The fascists gained 100,000 votes from the bourgeois parties and 50,000 votes from the non-voting masses as the poll was extremely high. The Catholics gained slightly. , ‘The majority of the Weimar coali- | tion of Catholics, socialists and dem- ocrats was destroyed. However, the fascists’ block also has no majority, needing Catholic toleration to form @ government. * The socialist leader, Breitscheid, spoke radically and demagogically before a socialist meeting yesterday at Darmstadt. He declared that the Bruening government must stop the fascist terror, otherwise the socialists would withdraw their support. He declared that their support was granted in order to maintain the republic and not to permit the gov- ernment a free hand to tolerate and encourage the fascists. The decision of the Communist Party against individual terrorism, Breitsched continued, removed im- portant obstacles between the social- ist and Communist parties. The so- cialists would oppose the attempts to illegalize the Communist Party. Breitscheid’s speech was delivered under the pressure of the growing demand of socialist workers to form a united front with the Communists against the fascist terror. This rep- resents a maneuver on the part of the socialist leaders to maintain its Positions amidst the growing radi- calization of the masses, iy if and A Mukden dispatch | POLICE TEAR GAS CHILDREN lige Gun Thugs Smash Hunger March of Macomb County MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Nov. 16.— Hurling tear gas bombs into the ranks of thinly clad starving children tak- ing part in the Macomb county hun- ger march, 118 police and armed thugs and gunmen called in from all over the county, smashed the parade on its final lap to the county building here. Police blocked the highways and intended to attack the cold hun- gry children before they got into Mt. Clemens. The marching children, re- inforced by poor farmers and adult unemployed, came in by three roads that they were expected to be on, got into the city, and were joined by members of the Mt. Clemens Council of the Unemployed. The combined procession started to the county building, and the police attack followed. However, a mass meeting was held at the park. Speakers exposed the Brucker Starvation Road. Program, a fake relief measure. Farmers told of selling cows for $7. each, hardly enough to pay for transportation. The solidarity of workers and poor farm- ers is growing. Several poor farmer delegates will be in the group sent to the National Hunger March, ee a $ DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 16.—Even the capitalist press here has to admit that the police took no action or made any investigation into the kid- napping and flogging of four leaders of the Council of the Unemployed on Friday until 12 hours after the event, and then perfunctorily. The press is also forced to print the direct ac- cusations of the flogged workers that the masked gang which flogged them and forced them to drink castor oil in approved fascist fashion, was led by police. Clarence Sherman, jobless father of six children, one of those flogged, walked: into police headquarters, ac- cording to the Detroit Times, and boldly’ accused the police, saving: “I know you did it! We all know you did it.” The Times says: “Robert Alspaugh, police chief, issued a denial of the ac- cusation his men engineered the fes- tival of brutality. Neither he, nor his men, took any action on the kidnap- pings and beatings, however, until after complaints of the crimes had after complains of the crimes had reached the police headquarters. No detectives were assigned to investi- gate. Nothing was done except to make entries on a blotter.” Announce Open Hear- ing onStarvation to be Held in Williamsburg NEW YORK, — The Unemployed Council of Williamsburg calls all workers and jobless workers to an open hearing on starvation conditions, at Public School 196, Fishwick Ave., and Masserole St., Nov. 18 at 8 p. m. At this meeting delegates will be elected to the Labor Conference of November 22, and nominations will be made for delegates to go to Wash~- ington on the National Hunger March. All public officials are in- vited to attend and defend them- selves if they can against charges of the jobless that the city is deliber- ately starving them to death. Last week a new council of the unemployed was organized with headquarters at 493 East 135th St., near Brook Ave., Bronx. It will meet Ow regularly every Thursday at 8 p. m. MEETING OF FINISHERS The finishers of Local 9, ILGWU are having a membership meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Bryant Hall, 2nd St. and 6th Ave. where nomina~- tions for officers of that local will take place. They will also elect an Election and Objection Committee. The Left Wing group of that Local calls upon the members to come to this meeting to elect an Election and Objection Committee that will stand for the platform of the Left Wing Wy yeytor * Oregon Syndicalist Cases PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16.—All the Oregon criminal syndicalism cases were dismissed y upon motion of the prosecution. The discrediting of the stool pigeon, Bacon, and the mass protest and flood of telegrams demanding release of these workers got results. ‘The arrests took place in Septem- ber, 1930, in the course of general raids by police. Thirteen of those ar- rested were charged with criminal syndicalism and others were held for deportation. The stool pigeon, M. R. Bacon, testified to a fanciful story about the Communists plotting vio- lence and about a mythical “expro- priation committee,” which, he said, was headed by Paul Munter, aged 22, and Communist Party member. The first trial was that of Ben Boloff, who was convicted, sentenced to 10 years, his conviction affirmed by the state supreme court and now on appeal by the International La- bor Defense to the U. S. supreme court. Boloff is not released by the dropping of the other cases, but this action must have some effect on his All Dismissed; Campaign Must Go On to Free Boloff, Previously Convicted appeal. The campaign of mass meet4 ings and resolutions demanding his release must continue. Fred Walker and John Moore were tried after Boloff and freed. By this time the mass protest movement had grown to effective proportions. Then the spy, Bacon, engineered a bank robbery, intending to blame it on the “expropriation committee” and Munter. He was exposed, and the whole thing reacted against the prosecution. When Munter came in court for trial today, the state was simply afraid to go ahead-with Bacon on the stand. In fact, Bacon was no longer in town. He left on the same train with the last two deportees, Carl Struve and Englebert Nilson, on Oct. 30, and is supposed to have a gov- ernment job—spying somewhere else. This is a first victory, coming in the midst of a new terror drive by the capitalist government all over the country. Communist and union headquarters hav ebeen raided within the last few days in a dozen cities and arrests made, Straight Creek, Ky. Miners On Strike Against Hunger STRAIGHT CREEK, Ky., Nov. 16. —The Straight Creek Glendon min- ers at Arjay, Ky., who came out on strike Sept. 28 and returned to work on Oct. 29 when an agreement that amounted to 10 and 20 per cent in- crease in wages, are now out on Strike again because the boss didn’t stand up to his agreement—he re- Comrade Zach Speaks to Taxi Drivers Tues. NEW. YORK.—All members of the Taxi Section of the Transportation League are called to a membership meeting tonight, Tuesday, to 5 East 19th St. at 8:30. Joseph Zack, Sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity League, will take up how best to build up a Taxicab Drivers organization with rank and file organizers, All hackmen are invited. Hackmen committees have been elected. at mass-meetings in the Bronx and. Brooklyn to go before the Board of Aldermen. Petitions pro- testing the turning over of the Taxi industry to General Motors and de- manding living conditions and wages are being distributed by the thou- sands. A General Mass Meeting of Taxicab drivers will be held this ‘Thursday at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. at 8:30 p.m. Leaflets are ready and all militants should come up the office for their distribution, fused te cut for union checkweigh- man, The boss had been stealing 500 pounds off every ton. Now this com- pany refuses to abide by the agree- ment and we were forced to come out on strike again for our rights. ‘Through the Dreiser committee the workers everywhere will learn of the terrible starvation conditions under which Kentucky miners live and work. Our only hope is through or- ganization into the National Miners’ Union. The Glendon mine is organ- ized practically 100 per cent into the N. M. U. and we are determined to stick it out until we have gained something better than starvation wages for our labor and so that we can have something to eat for our wives and children, Miners all over Kentucky have their eyes on our strike. So have all the coal operators. ™ We appeal to all workers and to all miners to help us in our struggle. We receive so little pay that a single man can hardly support himself with food and overalls and we have no means of carrying on our strike with- out outside help, help from workers all over. Help us feed our children so that we can win our strike, be- cause starving, crying, ragged chil- dren often drive men back to work against their will, Show us your working-class solidarity and we'll show you that we'll win. Send relief! Glendon Local, N.M.U., Straight Creek, Ky. MORE CITIES JOIN MARCH. ON WASH’N Preparations Include Active Local Fight for Relief From Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Paul,| Paterson, Indianapolis, Provid- ence and Philadelphia news ar- | rived yesterday of active prep-| aration of the National Hunger March on December 6-7 on Washing- ton, to demand of Congress that the | jobless millions shall not starve to) death this winter. This is in addition to the scores of cities which have al- ready announced preparations under way. The hunger march is one of dele- gates, elecfed by the mas: and rep- | resenting tens and hundreds of thou- | sands of jobless in each city. Prepa- rations include not only mass meet- ings and united front conferences at which delegates were elected, ratified, and instructed, but also a whole se- ries of local struggles, demonstrations before city and county capital build- ings, building of unemployed councils, and placing of local demands, fights against evicitions, against forced and seab labor disguised as relief, etc. It includes also a large number of open hearings on hunger conditions, which have brought forcibly to the attention of large numbers of workers the na- ture of the starvation they have en- dured. ciuere Dees Milwaukee Conference. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Noy. 16.— Fifty-five delegates from 28 workers’ organizations met here in a united front conference on unemployment. yesterday. [They elected five dele- gates to represent them in the march on Washington, and made up a mass delegation to go to the city council and county board where socialists and so-called progressives are cutting relief appropriations. The conference sent a wire of protest against the raids on the Communist Party head- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 'THREE) SOVIET HOLDS WORLD RECORD FOR LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING The Soviet Union now holds the world’s record for locomotive build- ing, the workers of the locomotive works “October Revolution” in Mos- cow having turned out a new type of locomotive for express traffic, the last word in modern locomotive build- ing, in 70 days. The American time for turning out such a locomotive is five months. Catch up and overhaul the progressive countries of modern capitalism!” The slogan is coming nearer and nearer realization every day. Workers, More Secret Agreements Against You RKERS, Mussolini, the murderer of thousands of militant workers, has sent “his fair-haired boy,” as the N. Y. Sun describes Premier “Dino Grandi, to “put his feet under the table with Brother Hoover.” And so we see this agent of Italian fascism, dripping with the blood of Italy's working class, embraced by Hoover, slobbered over by Stimson, but—for all that—so fearful of American workers that he hides from them like the rat he is! Yes, we said RAT! ‘The capitalist press prefers to call Grandi a “diplomat.” And in polished words the N. Y. Sun of Nov, 14 even praises Grandi for the quality which makes him a diplomat to them and a rat to us—hypocrisy! Listen to the Sun: “He knows his stuff, the diplomatists say. . . . He gives the impres- Indict Dreiser Committee for. Exposing Hunger MT. CLEMENS| Workers’ Protest Smashes Face 29 Year Jail Terms for Scoring Kentucky Terror Member of Daily Worker Staff Indicted Along With Two | I. L. D. Representatives Operators Fear Strike of 18,000 Miners Against Starva- tion and Terror .W YORK.—The infuriated coal oper- ators of bloody Harlan and Bell Counties, who resented the exposure of the mass starvation of 18,000 coal miners. of the coal operators h in the Kentucky coal fields. and the reign of terror ave framed-up criminal syndicalist indictments against the Dreiser Committee which recently returned from an investigation of the reign of terror Six members of the committee were indicted, two repre- sentatives of the International Labor Defense and a repre- E. MACHADO GIVEN VOLUNTARYLEAVE Faced Death In Exile to Venezuela NEW YORK —After a fight of over a half year, the New York Dis- trict of the International Labor De- fense has forced the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor to reverse its decision to deport Eduardo Machado, militant Latin-American worker, to Venezuela, and to grant him a voluntary de- parture to Soviet Russia. Machado, editor of “Vida Obrera,” Communist weekly in the Spanish language, was arrested early this year and ordered deported to the fascist terror regime of Venezuela where death or long imprisonment awaited him. The New York I. L. D. organ- ized a struggle to save him, as it did in the cases of T. H. Li and Guido Serio. An appeal from the original Department of Labor decision in the Machado case was taken to the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, but the Labor Department, under pressure of the organized mass protest, has now it- self reversed the decision. Isaac Shorr was the I. L. D. attorney in the case. Machado will leave for the U. S. S. R. together with Guido Serio, the Italian worker whom the I. L. D. has saved from Mussolini's hangmen. A big mass farewell banquet for both workers will be given Sunday, Nov. 29, at 6 p. m. in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. a4 been working the trans-Atlantic telephone overtime for nothing! But Stimson, who must act as France, has not only the pleasure of mediator now between Italy and using Italy’s purchased “friendship” against France, with which differences remain despite an agreement, but also Stimson has the difficulty of It; aly's “friendship” because Italy will demand that America help Mussolini take some African colonies from France. And Hoover “will be careful” as the N. Y. Times of Noy. 16 says, not to “appear desirous of being on closer terms of intimacy” with Italy than with France. Why? And here comes the key to this riddle of SECRET DIPLOMACY. Because, without France, Hoover's—‘ambition of my. life, to crush the Soviet Union”—Hoover's own words, cannot be carried out! sion of frankness, when all hands know that frankness is out of the ques- tion. He has the great gift of talking interestingly without revealing his mind.” Great stuff, eh? A super-hypocrite! No wonder he is so fondled over by Hoover, Mussolini and Stimson! “Birds of a feather flock together.” But there is MORE THAN SWEET COMPANIONSHIP in all this, work- ers! There are things that touch your lives! MORE SECRET TREATIES BEHIND YOUR BACK! Fascist Italy, which used to be rather dependent on England in its rivalry with France for what colonies might be stolen in the Mediter- ranean region, has been living, like Germany, on Wall Street loans for the last few years. Now old John Bull is not so fat-pursed as before—and the British navy is not so powerful as America’s. So Grandi comes from Rome to bow before the Caesar of the new world, the American bankers and their ‘Washington servants! When imperialist Washington made its SECRET AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE, Italy’s immediate imperialist rival, fascist Italy, facing bankruptcy and groaning in crisis, saw the handwriting on the wall. And after Grandi made a trip to Berlin to make common cause with Ger- many—which is in the same pickle—he hastened then to Washington. “Ttaly has much the same view as the United States on mast of the Problems of this crisis,”. says Grandi before he landed. Stimson has not Workers, do you see now how these very quarrels among the robber band of imperialists, push them forward to WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION! Stimson may not dare promise Mussolini the African colonies that are held by France. But Stimson MIGHT arrange it so that Italy will be promised a chunk of Soviet territory YET TO BE WON BY YOUR BLOOD AND WOUNDS IN THE ANTI-SOVIET WAR BLOCK THAT IS BEING BOSSED BY STIMSON AND HOOVER! This is the probable result of Grandi’s visit to Hoover! More SECRET GAMBLING WITH YOUR LIVES, WORKERS! This plot of WORLD WAR. is hidden behind the stupid lie sent out from Washington about the “psychological gain” of Grandi’s visit! Fascist Italy also brought into the Anti-Soviet war block! Only the toiling masses can CALL A HALT! The cowardly small capitalist “anti-Fascists” such as Doctor Fama, who Sunday spouted such nonsense as that “Grandi forced himself upon our government, because Stimson attempts at love-making with the Soviet’—only betray the strug- gle of the workers! Only the workers, led by the Communists, really struggle against fascism and war! Out on the streets, workers, on November 21, to protest against war! To tear up these SECRET AGREEMF?. 75S with your own strong hands! To show these war-makers who starve you with unemployment and wage cuts in “peace” and who send you te death in war, that‘you will make Wat ONLY. ON GAFITALISNG Romer ae sentative of the Daily Worker. oes Those indicted are: Theodore Drei- ser, John DosPassos, Charles Rum- ford Walker, Adelaide Walker, Marie Pergain, Samuel Ornitz, Celia Kuhn, George Maurer, M. P. Levy and Harry Cannes. The first six were members of the Nationa! Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners who for fivs# days visited the coal mines of Harlan and Beil County and -istened to the miners tell of hunger and terror en- forced by the coal operators. hey exposed the use by the boal onera- tors of the entire government ma- chinery in attempting to force the miners to work at wages averaging less than $1 a day. The coal oper= ators were especially resentful when the Dreiser Committe2 showed up the control and use of the courts, the sheriffs, the deputy gun thugs, and the prosecuting attorney by the coal operators. Prosecuting Attorney W. A. Brock, in announcing the indictments said that efforts would be made to ex- tradite all those named in the indict- ments and place them on trial in Harlan. This means extradicting them into the clutches of the coaf operators to face a sentence of 29 years imprisonment for the “crime” of exposing the coal operators’ reign of-terror in Harlan. The coal operators and their county officials know that the 18,000 Harlan miners are preparing for the most militant general strike ever seen in this territory and they therefore be- gin their new reign of terror against the Dreiser Committee hoping thereby tg intimidate the miners. ‘The International Labor Defense has issued a statement branding the frame-up and exposing its purpose, It calls on all workers to rally against this new show of terror in the bloody Kentucky coal fields. Washington Prof, Predicts Bread Riots, Bloodshed, in Winter WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 16.—~ Prof. John Gray of the graduate school of American University, Washington, addressing a lunch- eon meeting of the Council of Social Agencies, Nov. 13, shocked his hearers by predicting “many bread riots and a great deal of bloodshed, this winter” in con- sequence of the unwillingness of the government to provide for the starving unemployed, “The right of every human be- ing to a living is recognized by the British unemployment insur- ance laws, but that right is not yet recognized in this country.” Dr. Gray declared. “I question whether it is worth while to con- tinue the present organization of society, if we are to continue to allow conditions of suffering such as we now witness, to occur.’ “Large masses of honest people have never consented to sit down and starve to death quietly.”