The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1931, Page 1

tity DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FASCIST MURDERER GRANDI ON FRIDAY SALT LABE CLTY 1 MEKT IN HE @ Fi MARCH. WORKERS , DENVER WIEL FORROW, OF THE WORLD, : y] SPEED UP THE PREPARATIONS FOR UNITE! Ce ‘ at a A PD, ‘ U Ss A NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! 'e e ie a COLLECT FUNDS! f Section of the Communist International) pee = — ae ee = SS Vol. VIII, No. 277 Ge Many Teens WF wise thn cel oe awe Ste, _ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931 i crry Cave! JAPANESE BOMB SOVIET-CHINESE RAILWAY BUILDINGS ALL OUT IN UNION SQUARE SATURDAY, DEMONSTRATE AGAINST NEW WORLD WAR Correspondent Tells Of Of Mangled Bodies; Huge Number Of Wounded ; LATEST DEVELOPMENTS @ehind veil of secrecy, League Coun- cil is plotting war against Chi- nese masses,the Soviet Union « and revolutionary struggles of hungry masses in the imperialist countries and Paris dispatch re- « ports that the United States is backing Japan. Briand gives notice of attack on Chi- tions of Japan and the Sove' Union, boasting that Soviet Union cannot block Japanese invasion. A sharp Soviet note silences anti- Soviet lies from Tokio, General Honjo spreads more lies from the field. , Fierce fighting reported near Tsitsi- har between Japanese invaders and Chinese forces. General Ma nese masses to enforce unfair treaties imposed at point of bay- onet. seen weakening in resistance to Japanese, as Chinese mas resis- tance grows. Washington experts see vast Japa- nese invasion of Manchuria “like- Vandervelde joins Japanese social- ists in justifying murderous rape & ly”, and analyze strategic posi- of Chna. pa ae a BULLETIN. An International News Service dispatch from Shanghai reports that * Japanese bombing planes yesterday dropped bombs on Fularki, dam- : aging buildings of ‘the Soviet-Chinese owned Eastern Railway. ‘The same dispatch reports that the French Communist paper, Humanite, has published charges exposing the war plans of the French fmperialists. These charges declare that French financiers seek to widen the Manchurian conflict into a new world war to revive activities vem the Bourse, the French stock exchange. Commenting on the war activities of the Pravda, Moscow newspaper, declares: “It is clear that the Manchurian conflict is only a preliminary. French industry, especially the metallurgical industry, craves new mar- kets, profits, gold and blood.” BULLETIN. French imperialists, rah 8 NEW YORK.—In a leaflet distributed to tens of thousands of work- ers, the New York District of the Communist Party, along with the Young Communist League, the Friends of the Soviet Union, the Trade Union Unity League, the Unemployed Council and the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League, warns of the rapid approach of a new world war - and calls on all workers to rally in a mass demonstration in Union Square on Saturday, November 21, at noon, to mobilize against the new bmperialist slaughter. Pointing out the war now going on in Manchuria which is being @lrected against the Soviet Union and the Chinese masses, the leaflet Alls on all workers to go into action to stop the war-mad imperialist jbbers. The Union Square demonstration on Saturday is part of a jole series of similar mobilizations throughout the country against @be war preparations and for the defense of the Soviet Union. STORY ON PAGE 3 en Brazen Police Provocation b alieged in New York in 1931, or in San Francisco in 1916, the capi- . talist police are always able to “discover” dynamite plots at any time such “discoveries” serve as a convenient excuse to make a brutal attack on the working class, and its outstanding leaders. ‘The “discovery” of dynamite plots by the New York police on Monday, ‘and their silly but persistent attempt to tie up this “plot’—which they have, from every evidence at hand, plotted themselves—with the Com- munist Party, is another brazen example of police provocation, though it 4s such a stupid and hoary trick that no worker will believe it. Every worker who knows anything about the Communist Party (and also every capitalist who for years knows this to be an old game), knows very well that the Communist Party opposes in principle and practice the tactic of individual violence and sabotage . Only Saturday the Daily ‘Worker published a statement by the Communist Party of Germany that {Individual terror is absolutely opposed to the principles of the Communist Party. The facts so far known are simple. The “Tidewater Boatmen’s Union” is not led by members of the Communist Party, whose Itadership of unions generally guarantees against the use of such stupid tactics and the work of provocateurs sent into them by the police. The men arrested ‘are not members of the Communist Party, and their actions are unknown by it, with the exception of one of them, who was expelled from the Party as a suspicious character and who has been since very openly work- ing against the Party with the renegade Lovestone group, all the leaders of which were expelled from the Party over two years ago. The case is of importance to the workers only because the police, gust as in Chicago and other places, are engaged in all manner of frame- ‘ups and violence to pace out the interests of the capitalist class in at- tacking the Communist Party. “They do this because the Communist Party is the only defender of the workers. and the workers are turning to it for leadership in the strug- gle against starvation, for Unemployment Insurance at full wages, for Winter Relief of $150 cash to every jobless worker and $50 for each dependent. The police are busy at this provocation because the Communists are leading the National Hunger March to Washington to place these de- Mands before Congress; becaus? the Communists are organizing strikes ainst Wage cuits, and are arousing the workers to effective opposition to a new world war! ‘No worker, and certainly no member of the Communist Party, will this or any new lie of the police, or will fall for such brazen tion. But the workers will understand this attack, and with their hands and loyal hearts will stand ready to defend their party, the Party, from whatever attack from whatever enemy! KY. SHEET CALLS FOR KILLING REDS IWW, UMWA Unite to Make Deal With Coal Bosses Negro Miners Menaced IWW_ Lawyer Lined Up with Corporations PINEVILLE, Ky., Nov. 17.—When the first of the frame-up Harlan murder trials comes up in the Mt. Sterling Court today, the stage will be all set for an agreement between the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, the I. W. W. and the coal oper- ators, according to George Maurer, assistant secretary of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, who has been investigating Harlan terror with the Dreiser committee. Such’ an agreement, Maurer charges, would mean that a few po- litically selected defendants would be released—if they agree to do what Judge D. C. Jones and Sheriff J. H. Blair tell them to—and the rest be railroaded to a death sentence or to a staggering imprisonment. The I. L. D. warns against the danger of an agreement whereby the four Negro miners held on fake charges of murder arising from the battle of Evarts may be especiolly doomed. ‘The reactionary ex-Senator J. M. Robsion, attorney for the U.M.W.A., known with Governor Flem D. Samp- son as one of the:“Gold Dust Twins,” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) JOBLESS MARCH TODAY ON CITY WELFARE DEP’T Start at Noon from 7th Street, Ave. A, Led by Workers’ Band WEW YORK.—At noon today ths jobless and their families of down- town New York will march in masses through the streets to the office of Commissioner Taylor of the City Wel- fare Department. Led by the Red Front Bang, the marchers will start at 12 o'clock to- day from Seventh St. and Ave. A. They will swing through East Side Streets, and will be joined at Rutgers Square by another group assembled by the East Side Council of the Un- employed. They will then go on to the City Welfare Department at Leo- nard and Church St, Meetings will be held at the be- ginning and end of the march and along the route. Taylor will be presented with the demands of the unemployed through a ‘committee composed jof workers and families who have been at the public hearings already heid in New York, and who areabout to be evicted and who have no food in their houses. also unemployed workers from the municipal flop house and from the free employment bureaus, The demands will be: 1. Immediate lump sum for winter relief of $150 for each jobless worker and $50 more for each dependant. 2. City Welfare Department to pay rent, gas and electric lignt pill of all unemployed workers. 3. Free milk stations in the neigh- berhood of Tompkins Square. 4. St, Marks Hospital and Nurses Home and all public and jvacant buildings to be opened to the home- Jess. 5. Salaries of all officials of the City Welfare Department to be re- duced to $2,500 and money thus saved to be uygd for the unemployed. New Tétvor Reign Hits Harlan, Ky. Coal Fields MIDDLEBORO, Ky., Nov. 17.—A new reign of terror has broken out in the Eastern Ken- tucky coal fields. Following the criminal syn- dicalist indictment of the Dreiser Committee, a member of the Daily Worker staff and two representatives of the International Labor Defense, for ex/pos- ing the starvation and terror, and for holding two meetings at which thousands of miners applauded the call for struggle against hunger, the coal operator’s county officials have now indicted a number of miners. ® ae The latest actic~ of the coal op- erators s of Judge D. Commonwealth Attorney Brock, who has brought no charges against C. “Baby” Jones who told the miners that when court re-opened this term “there would not be a member of the National Miners Union left,” that he the company gunmen killers, made a motign that a “peace bond” be put on the men, and the motion was sus- tained by Judge Jones so that the would “wipecthamn obit” men will not be able to be released Mass Arrests, Raids Wholesale arrests, house raids and evictions have taken place in the past few days in an effort to smash the NationalMinersUnion in Straight Creek, -E, B. Payne, Jesse Garland, Chas. Posey, B. Smith, A. Barnett, all tive members of the National Min- ers Union, have been charged with criminal syndicalism. Bill. Garland, Clark Clause, and Chester Ward are charged with “confederating and banding,” which is the usual frame- up charge that Judge Jones slaps against any miner caught with an- other miner suspected of being a Na- tional Miners Union member. Bonds in all cases were set at $5,000 each, the judges and coal operators know- ing that the starving miners can not raise this sum. on bond. ‘The same applies to Tom Coyne, who was framed up in an- other case. Charles Haley, another miner, was arrested on the charge of pointing a gun at Deputy Smith Cole- man, and is held on $500 bond. Dawes Smith and Harvel Collect, two other miners, on whom the op- erators-could slap no other charge, were framed on a liquor charge. They are both out on $500 bond. ‘The Glendon Coal Co. called in the United Mine Workers organizer Turn- blazer, Childers and Thompson from Pennsylvania yesterday. The men were tricked to return to work today. Many were blacklisted. Six cases against miners in Mid- dleboro, Ky., who were supposed to come up for trial yesterday in the Circuit Court, have been postponed until the March term of court. To Denounce Tammany Plan to Welcome Fascist Grandi NEW YORK.—To denounce the Hoover and the scheduled Tammany welcome to the fascist foreign-minister, Grandi, a mass protest dem- onstration will be held Thursday, November 19, 8 p. m. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street. Speakers will include I. Amter of the Communist Party, Mario Sarni, for the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, who will speak in Italian, Cecil Hope for the International Labor Defense, Gino Di Bartolo for the Trade Union Unity League and Robert Dunn for the Anti-Imperialist League. This demonstration will also serve ¢————___________ to prepare for another one Friday officials will extend an official wel- when Mayor Walker and Tammany |come to the notorious fascist. Pa.MinersOust UMW| Officials; Call for} United Front Strike WILKES BARRE, Pa., Nov. 17. —Yesterday miners of Olyphant, Pa., called upon the Anthracite | Unity Committee of Action for al representative to help them or-,) ganize a strike against local grievances, Miners of two United Mine) Workers of America locals of Oly- phant, at their meeting yesterday, | with more than 600 attending, | chased out the district union offi- | cials and enthusiastically greeted | the speeches of the rank and file. Against the wishes of the district | officials they elected a Rank and| File Strike Committee of 20 to| ‘meet Thursday and consider de- mands and work ont plans for strike. The Olyphant miners are employed by the Hudson Coal Co., whose president is openly demand- ing direct wage-cuts. TRY TO DEPORT KRACEVICH AND BIEDENKAPP LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 17.—Fred | 5 Biedenkapp, leader of the Lawrence strike of 25,000 textile workers, and Ivan Kracevich, Lithuanian organ- izer of the strike committee and of the National Textile Workers’ Union, were arrested on federal deportation warrants this morning when they came into court to answer charges of vagrancy placed against them when they were picked off the picket lines several days ago by Marshal O’Brien. The vagrancy charges, ab- solutely absurd in the first place, were filed as soon as the way was clear for a federal charge. The warrants were telegraphed in from Washington. They charge Bie- denkapp and Kracevich with mem- bership “in an organization prac- ticing force and violence.” This seems to be an attempt to make ille- gal the National Textile Workers’ Union and the Trade Union Unity League. Bail on Biedenkapp was set at $1,000, which the arresting officer, Immigration Inspector Frank Chase, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Workers’ Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it. about your day-to-day struggle. Lid Warns of of Harlan Murder Trial Sell-Out New York Police Cook Up “Red ' Dynamite Plot” ||Pelice Jail Four Alleged Plotters, Not One of Whom Is A Communist NEW YORK.—The hand of provocation showed ° itself Sunday in the “discovery” of a “Communist dynamite plot” by the New York police. Unhappily for New York’s “finest,” however, the only “Communist” in the “plot” was one expelled member of the Communist Party. The other participants in the “plot” were three expelled mem- @ bers of the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union and a man who was never | affiliated with a revolutionary labor ‘Pennsylvania Plans to Drive the Jobless into Big Scab Army PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 17.— A tremendous scab army, organized on military lines and with military discipline, with pay at $1 a day for privates and up to $90 a month for officers, to be used in public work on streets, etc., but to be handy for any strike-breaking and easily turned into an armed forced when war breaks out, is the plan in a bill which will be introduced in the state legislature this week by Sen- ator Woodward, The bill provides that the unem- Ployed be forced by starvation to enlist for periods of six months. It provides that the commander of the army will be Major-General William G. Price, Jr, now com- manding the 28th Division of militia, and under the general or- _ ders of Adjutant-General Devid J. Davis. It is specifically provided that development of the new mili- tary reservation at Indiantown Gap is part of the task of this army, clearly war preparations. General Price is co-sponsor of the plan, and both Price and Wood- ward have discussed it with Pin- chot, whom they state they found on the point of introducing a sim- ilar measure of his own. Mr. Stimson, Why Are You “Irritated”? JERE, workers, you have an example of capitalist “democracy”: Mr. Stimson is SUPPOSED to be your SERVANT. But he js conducting himself, in his SECRET war-making, like AN ABSOLUTE MONARCH! He refuses to tell what he is doing with YOUR LIVES! The N. Y. Times of Nov. 17, carries a Washington dispatch saying: “He (Stimson) declined to diseuss the Manchurian situation in any way or to disclose the nature of several trans-Atlantic telephone conversations he had with Ambassador Dawes in Paris. When asked by newspaper corréspondents if he was still hopeful, Mr. Stim- son requested with some show of irritation, that they discuss some- thing else.” THAT, workers, is what capitalist “democracy” is worth! Your sup- posed “servants” in government positions do as they darned well please, and when even the capitalist press asks them about it, they tell the “public” to go to hell! But AFTER Stimson has pushed the “public” into war, will the gov- ernment that is supposedly “yours” ask you whether you want to die for Stimson’s SECRET AGREEMENTS—or not? YOU KNOW IT WON'T ASK YOU! IT WILL FORCE YOU TO WAR! IT WILL COMPEL YOU TO SPILL YOUR BLOOD AND HAVE YOUR BRAINS BLOWN OUT! TO BE TORN BY SHELLS IN BATTLE WHILE YOUR LOVED ONES ARE SLAVING AND STARVING AT HOME FOR THE CAPITALISTS! | Yet—and what a lie!—it will THEN tell you that “public opinion” approves! THAT, workers, is the cursed system of capitalist government that the Russian workers OVERTHREW fourteen years ago! They USED ‘THE WEAPONS OF CAPITALIST WAR AGAINST THE CAPITALISTS! And they went on, under their own government, to take and build in- dusiry WITHOUT CAPITALISTS! ‘THAT, workers, is why ALL capitalist governments fear, and hate, and want to DESTROY THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT! They make cam paigns of LIES, about “religious persecution,” about “forced labor”—and now about “Soviet And in THEIR OWN invasion and loot of China, they—at every step of Japanese armed forces—yell hypocritically that “the Soviet is in- \ Soviet is to blame”! of SECRECY! Meanwhile, Stimson BACKS JAPAN behind a cloud Meanwhile, the League of Nations hides its war-plot against fhe Soviet Union BEHIND CLOSED DOORS! The Kellogg* Pact? The League Covenant of “Peace”? They are nothing but a Pact of Robbers and a Covenant of silk-hatted bandits! And do you know WHO are their victims? Their victims are YOU! ALL WEO TOIL THAT THE RICH MAY EAT WELL, LIVE IN PALACES AND RIP7 ON YOUR BACKS! Today the artillery is crashing in far off Manchuria! The imperial- ists are slicing up China between them, and STIMSON’S ALLY-—JAPAN —IS PUSHING ITS GUNS TOWARD THE SOVIET FRONTIER! Stimson is “optimistic” about that! And in Paris, Briand, the old fox, puts a “new method” in the League of Nations, and allows “NO MENTION IN THE OPEN SESSION OF THE VIOLENT HAPPENINGS IN MANCHURIA”! And Briand, remember, has General Dawes at his elbow, while Gen- eral Dawes is gctting told v.hat to do by transatlantic telephone by Colonel Stimson! Workers, did yov ever see so many “colonels” and “generals” make “peace”? Today, workers, the rifles are cracking in Manchuria! But tomor- row! Who knows? These imperialist robbers may fall out with one another over the loot of China! Then a NEW WORLD WAR IS CER- TAIN! Tomorrow, they may open fire on the Soviet frontier—not only in Manchuria—tut IN POLAND AND RUMANIA! And again the robbers will fall out over the expected loot of Soviet soil! On all sides, workers, is the immediate danger of WORLD WAR! And any gun fired anywhere by the imperialists is AIMED AT YOU! You who are starving by millions because the HOOVERS AND THE STIMSONS refuse to feed your babies with funds they keep for WAR! You to whom the MELLON AND HOOVERS® give wage cuts! THEY ARE SHOOTING AT YOU when they invade China, trying to crush the Chinese Soviets ruling 60,000,000 people! When they back Japanese guns against the Soviet Union frontier! When they arm Poland and Rumania! And cover it all with talk of “peace”! Workers! Support the National Hunger March demands of all war funds to the jobless! Organize strikes against wage cuts! FILL THE _ SERRE WXEE YOR PROTEST AGAINST WAR ON NOVEMBER 9!" pemmemtion’ organization. The whole incident is being played up in the capitalist press with huge headlines as a “Red terror plot” which the bosses are at- tempting to saddle upon the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary unicr 3, According. to capitalist press re- ports, John Soderburg, Thomas Bunker, William Trieger, Joseph Reily and Wm. Hoyle, four members of the Independent Tidewater Boat- men’s Union, a union not affiliated with the revolutionary trade union movement, were arrested on the charge of having placed explosives on vessels in New York harbor. The men are alleged to have confessed, and in order to link the affair up to Communist and real mass working~- class activity, the capitalist press Plays up the point that the alleged explosives were checked in the Union Square subway station, whieh is close to the scene of many workingclass demonstrations. Soderburg, secretary of the Tide- water Boatmen’s Union, whom the capitalist press calls a “Red,” was expelled from the Communist Party 8 or 9 months ago for being a suspicle ous element and also from the Mars ine Workers Industrial Union for dis- ruptive and anti-workingclass activie ties. Trieger, Reily and Bunker were expelled from the Marine Workers Industrial Union as bad elements. Reily, according to his own state- ment, served in the Pennsylvania State Police. Hoyle never was a member of the revolutionary moye- ment. The capitalist press is trying te throw a fog of “red mystery” around the so-called plot by reporting that a search is being made for a “mys- terious doctor,” an alleged master mind, and two unidentified women. The four men are alleged to have confessed to having placed explosives on a coal lighter tied up to a South Street dock. Treiger in his confes- sion stated that he was a member of the LW.W. and was not a Come munist, nor did he believe in Come munist political action, but in direct individual anarchistic action. All of the men stated that they were not Communists, although the capitalist press insists on calling them “Com- munist séamen.” It is plain that the police and the capitalist press’ have seized upon this alleged incident of individual terror- ism and dynamiting in the hope of discrediting the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade union movement in the eyes of the masses who are more and more realizing that the Communist Party alone is showing them how to fight against unemployment, wage cuts and war, The way the press is handling the story is a clear case of open provoca- tion on the part of the bosses against workingclass organizations. It should be clear to all workers that these in- dividual anarchistic tactics that the boss press lackeys are trying to as- cribe to the Communist movement are not the tactics of the Communist Party. The Communist Party calls for mass organization and mass struggle on the economic and poli- tical field. The tactics of individual violence and terrorism are the tae- tics of anti-workingclass fools, proy- ocateurs and undeveloped elements. Give your answer to Hoover's program of hunger, wage cuts ane,