The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1931, Page 1

ad 2 : } WEW YORK WORKERS AND UNEMPLOYED WORKERS! SEE THAT YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS DELEGATES AT THE CITY LABOR CONFERENCE AT STUYVESANT CASINO, NOV EMBER 22, TO PREPARE THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! HELP COLLECT FUNDS TO FINANCE THIS MARCH ON THE TAG DAYS, NOV. 28 AND 8! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail - Central « ¥ ’, 4 (Section of the Communist International) orker unist Porty U.S.A. ner oars, SE | WHILE THE JOBLESS STARVE THE TAMMANY BOARD OF ALDERMEN HANDS THE BANKERS $4,000,000. DEMONSTRATE IN MASSES BEFORE THE ALDERMEN, MONDAY! BUILD THE CITY LABOR CONFER- ENCE SUNDAY AT STUYVESANT CASINO TO PREPARE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! =... — = emabeenepees = > ~~ ——— ——— — ————— —= <= = = + Vol. VIII, No. 279 a Naa ees wy oan tha cance mec i a NEN YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents —————- — = Seed —————— = a —— RALLY AGAINST WALL STREET'S NEW WAR Workers! Rally Nov. 21 to Defeat New Imperialist War! NEW imperialist war has begun. ‘The robber rulers of Japan, backed by the Hoover-Wall Street government and the imperialist war lords of other countries, have in- ‘waded Chinese territory, have massacred thousands of Chinese workers ‘and peasants. Japanese troops with the agreement of Hoover and Stim- son are driving toward Soviet territory. A new war be<e against the Soviet Union has been established. Hoover-Wall Street government is taking the lead in organizing and financing the war for the division of China and the attempt by armed force to invade the Soviet Union, prevent the fulfillment of the Five- Year Plan, and destfoy the working class government and its socialist eonstruction by a wave of steel, fire and the blood of millions of toilers. A financial blockade has already begun—led by the United States. A new campaign of lies and slander has been launched in the capitalist press. Japan wars against the Chifese revolution which is led by the Com- munist Party and is the sole hope of the hungry millions of workers and peasants. Chiang Kai-shek, Wall Street’s bloody tyranny, aids the frrverialist dr've by mass slaughters of workers, peasants, and students. ‘Ho does not fight the Japanese robbers but attacks the Chinese masses in accord with the policy of his Wall Street masters. In Europe the Hoover-Laval secret pacts are directed straight against the Soviet Union and Frence, with her fascist puppet governments in Poland, Rumania, Jugo-slavia, etc. has been given the leadership of the imperialist war driven in the west. Now Grandi is here to secure for ‘Nalian fascism its share of the expected loot. The League of Nations, contrary to the treacherous assertions of t ic socialist leaders and other enemies of the working class, is not impotent,” neither is it trying to end the butchery of the Chinese masses and the rape of Chines territory. It is the rallying cénter of the imperialist powers, ‘nd with Hoover-Wall Street government, is concerned solely with soften- tng the imperialist antagonisms so that the dfeeat of the Chinese revolu- , the re-division of China and the attack on the Soviet Union can carried through more speedily and effectively. Imperialist war is here. All the jockeying and maneuvering by the imperialist diplomats," all @he secret conferences, all the confidential notes and exchanges of state- ‘ments have but one purpose—to conceal from the masses the fact that ‘war is under way while extending the war front and securing the mobil- tration ofthe largest possible forces for the destruction of the Soviet ‘Wnion, the robbery of China and the defeat of the Chinese workers and peasant revolution against the militarists, the feudal lords and the im- perialist exploiters. Workers! The successful building of socialism in the Soviet Union the abolition of unemployment, the constantly rising living standard of the whole working population, the huge and unprecedented political and cultural gains made since the revolution of November, 1917, by the masses led by the Communist Party, the unexampled rapid rise of socialist con- struction through the Five-Year Plan, together with the rising tide of revolution in China coupled with the devastating effects upon capitalism of the world crisis bringing untold misery for the masses, increasing their hatred and disgust of capitalism, prompts world imperialism to a new and bloodier adventure even than the last world war. This new war means more misery for the toilers of all countries, it Means more wage cuts, more hunger, more unemployment, more sup- Pression, Workers: The war of the workers is the war against capitalism, its permanent mass unemployment and pauperism. ‘The workers’ war is war in defense of the Soviet Union, the land of working class rule, our war is war for defense of the Chinese revolution which already involves 60,000,000 workers and peasants in the Soviei districts and the heroic and victorious struggles of their Red Army against the forces of the mur- ferer, Chiang Kai-shek. The war of our class is war against imperialist war, war for the fefeat of the whole imperialist program of mass slaughter for profit. The Hoover government refuses to appropriate one cent for unem- yloyment insurance or immediate winter relief. But it spends more than $1,000,000,000 per year for war purpeses.. The armed forces of the gov. ernment are used against workers striking against wage cuts, against hungry workers demanding food, clothing and shelter. Hoover-Wall Street government, through its “emergency relief committee’ headed by the big- gest exploiters, is degrading millions of workrs with their contemptible ‘They are starving men, women and children of the working class by the thousands here in America— “the richest country in the world.” Workers are jailed by the score in strikes and demonstrations. They are shot down in the streets as in Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Pitts- burgh and Harlan, Ky. Even newspapermen and authors who protest, as the Dreiser Committee did against the horrors in Harlan, are charged with criminal syndicalism and threatened with long prison sentences. Foreign born workers are deported by the thousands. The masses of Negroes in the United States live always under spe- cial forms of discrimination, robbery and terror. They are : ot, hung, buned, legally lynched and jailed for their slightest protests against capitalist brutality. Workers of America: The Communist Party of the United States calls upon you to support the Anti-War campaign, to support the program of joint action of all sections of the toilng population against imperialist war. It calls upon you to unite and defeat the Hoover-Wall Street war on the Soviet Union, to unite in defense of the revolutionary struggles of the Chinese workers and. peasants. It calls on you to strike strong blows NOW against imperialist war and its leader and organizer—Hoover- ‘Wall Street government. The Communist Party calls on you to refuse to be tricked by the specious pacifist phrases of the socialist leaders, to not be fooled by their pretended friendship for the Soviet Union, or by talk about “the im- pocsibility of America going to war now.” War is here. Show by deeds your determination to defeat by resolute mass action the imperialist war program NOW. Workers: Organize Joint Anti-War Committees in the shops and factories. Take up the fight against imperialist war in every local union, every cooperative society, every club, in every fraternal society. Establish Joint Anti-War Committees in your organizations and neighborhoods. Workers: Fight for tl.e right to organize and strike, to meet and speak against war and wage slavery. Hands off all working class organizations. _ Hands off the Communist Party! ’ Make the fight against unemployment, wage cuts and mass hunger, make the fight for unemployment insurance and the 7-hour day a fight against imperialist war. Organize and fight the Hoover-Wall Street war and starvation pro- gram‘’ Build the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Support the National Hunger March to Washington Dec. 7! All war funds for unemployment. relief! " Hands off the Soviet Union! Hands off the workers’ and peasants’ revolution in China! “+ Defend our living standards against the capitalist attack. , Come to the mass anti-war demonstrations throughout the country Nov. 21! Unite and defeat the imperialist war program—fight for the tlictatorship of the working class against the dictatorship of the capi- talist class! i doin the party of the working class—the Communist Party! y CENTRAL COMMITTEE, se COMMUNIST PARTY U. 8. A. TOM MOONEY FOR OWNENDS Mayor to Meet Graft Collector, Sherwood NEW YORK. — Mayor “Jimmie” Walker, head of the Tammany graft- ing machine, clubber of unemployed | workers, and leader in the city’s re- fusal to provide relief for the jobless, has concocted a scheme along with James P. Walsh and his close friend, Governor Rolph of California, where- by they drag Tom Mooney into the mire of their political trickery. After a series of secret understand- ings between James P. Walsh and Mayor Walker, Walker suddenly “agrees” to act as “attorney” for Tom Mooney, who was framed up and has now served 14 years of a life term in San Quentin. On instructions from Walsh, who used Mooneys despera- tion and anguish, telegrams were sent to Walker asking him to intercede with his friend, Governor Rolph, on behalf, of Mooney. After a few such equests, all arranged in perfect stage- play fashion, Walker finally consents and says he will be on his way to California after he-greets the fascist murder Dino Grandi on Friday. Mooney’s telegrams to Walker are clearly part of the Walsh-Rolph- ‘Walker scheme to attempt to alienate the struggle for Mooney’s.. freedom from the struggle of the revolution- ary working-class. Mooney himself just recently issued an appeal stat- ing that his freedom could be ob- tained only by the mass pressure of the working-class. Now, Mayor Walker, with the help of Walsh and others, along with the’ connivance of Governor Rolph him-* self finds he can make a’ lot of po- litical capital at the expense of the anguish and agony of Mooney. Walker, clubber of unemployed work- ers, finds that through this case he can hope to ingratiate himself with many unsuspecting workers. He is attempting to give grafting Tammany Hall a halo of liberality and sympathy with the imprisoned Mooney. He also looks upon the California trip as a chance for another vacation, after his nine of ten during the past year. In fact, he has already ar- ranged to stop’ off at South Bend, Ind., and leisurely view a game of football at the Notre Dame stadium, in his rush to ‘free Mooney’. Walker's personal graft collector, Sherwood, will probably be in California at the same time as Walker who wants to get to him before Seabury does, More than ever the working class must increase its struggle to free Moo- ney and to expose the latest political trickery of such capitalist politician as Walker and Walsh who are at- tempting to use Mooney’s imprison- ment for their own political ends. Communist Vote in Springfield. Ohio Shows a Big Gain tering a gain of over three hundred votes over the spring elections Com- munist Party candidztes for the school board polled a high vote ot 511 for James Lee, Negro worker, 422 votes for Irene Mansfield and 480 votes for John A, Rehm at the recent elections here. WALKER USES| Metal Workers Support Hunger March Meeting Hold Mass Meeting Tonight With Prominent Speakers to Nominate Delegation NEW YORK.—A call to a mass meeting to- day at 8 p.m. in Manhattan Lyceum has been issued by the Metal Workers Industrial League of the T.U.U.L. All metal workers of whatever craft, and whether employed or unemployed, organized or unorganized, are invited to attend, and hear Bill Dunne, George Powers, Hugh Pynn and other prominent speakers on the general subject of what to do in the fight against wage cuts and unemployment. COAL BARONS RAILROADING BILL BURNETT Kentucky Mine Case Is Handed Over to Rich Landlords Faces _ Electrocution Judge Works Hand-In-| Glove With Operators NEW YORK.—Bill Burnett, Ev- UNION SQUARE SATURDAY NOON a @ Japanese Note Threatens the - Soviet Union | pei, Takes Possession of Tsitsihar Section of Chinese Eastern Railway | Imperialists Hope That the Soviet Union Is at Last Pushed The special purpose of the meeting is to work out plans for the struggle for unemployment®- relief and insurance, and to elect delegates to the City Labor Confer- ence and nominate a delegation to go with the National Hunger March to Washington. Conference Sunday. Sunday, at 11 a. m. in Stuyvesant Casino, will be the City Labor Con- ference on the National Hunger March, in which New York district will have 300 delegates. The New York City delegates will be elected at the confezence, and can make nom- inations for the delegation to go on the National Hunger March. Painters Score Green. Local 499 (German local- of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America (A. F. L.- at their last meeting, adopted a resolution condemning in definite terms the action of the Vancouver Convention of the A. F. L. which op- Posed unemployment insurance at the expense of the government. The resolution scores the “charity” of the employers as inadequate and degrad- ing. -It states that the “state and country” are “obligated to guarantee the decent living of workingmen and their dependents.” It goes on record demanding a system of government (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) State Drops Main Case Against 123 in Chicago Mass Pressure of Workers Forces Action; Gebert and Saffren Still Held Benton, Ili. CHICAGO, IL, Noy. 19. — On Mon- day 123 workers who had been arrest- ed and frame-up on various charges, came to trial. Due to mass pressure and resolutions passed by many work- ers organizations, plus a crowding of the court-room and the entire court house by workers, as well as because of the militant conduct of the ar- rested comrades, all state charges were dismissed. On the misdemea- Frameup Collapses; Biedenkapp Is Set Free in Lawrence Kracevitch, a Native, Is Still Held BOSTON, Mass. Noy. 19.—The frame-up to hold Fred Biedenkapp, one of the leaders of the National Textile Workers’ Union, on non-citi- SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. — Regis- *2enship charges made by Inspector Chase of the U. S. Immigration De- partment collapsed today. Bieden- Kapp was discharged. Comrade Kracevitch, who was born in this country 48 years ago, is still being held. The Lawrence police are working hand in hand with the im- migration department. Rank and File WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 19.— The rank and file opposition move- ment initiated in Olyphant, Pa., by the Grasse Shaft and Miles Slope locals of the United Mine Workers of America is gaining momentum. A rank and file committee meeting on Wednesday wes attended by 300 workers from numerous mines in addition to the committee. The com- mittee reported that the Eddy Creek mine, employine 1,400 miners, at a Iecal rrecting held Tuesday nicht, joined the movement by electing a broad committee to work’ jointly with the committee of Grasse and Miles Slore, and also the D. and H. Co, miners. local denied the floor to the com- mittee for the appeal to join the op- position, An indignant membership Opposition in U.M.W. Grows in Oliphant insisted that the committee be granted th efloor and a broad com- mittee be elected, whereupon the chairman adjourned the meeting. ‘The membership then conducted a meeting and after heating the appeal ot Zayder, a member @f the com- mittee, a committee of fifteen was elected to represent the local. ‘The committee of thi-ty represent- ing the three locals is calling a meet- ing to be held Friday night at the Olyphant High School. sand miners are expected to mobilize for struggle. elected to visit all the locals in the Carbondale section to elect rank and file committees and call mass meet- The president of the Eddy Creek | ings. cited and the bosses are running around town fearing the spread of the movement. ‘ Three thou- Committees have been The Olyphant territory is ex- nor charges, the workers were fined one dollar and costs, making a two- day sentence in Bridewell. smmedi- ately after the sentence, all were taken to jail. Arriving at the jail they continued to sing revolutionary songs and shout militant slogans that could be heard throughout the entire police building and in the court room. Those arrested at the party head- quarters last Saturday charged with “disorderly conduct” came up for trial yesterday. All were dismissed except. three who were held for deportation. The state's attorney charged them with “revolution”, The “red squad” offered a lot of testimony but the judge overruled everything and dis- missed the case, the reason being the calling of mass meetings and a flood of resolutions pouring into city hall. Bill Gebert and Comrade Saffron are still being held in Benton, Ill. on charges of criminal syndicalism. Lawyers and others have been sent to Southern Illinois to raise bail. The bulk of the material taken from the party headquarters is being sent to Southern Illinois to serve as evidence in the criminal syndicalist trial of Gebert and others. The mass meetings at Ashland Au- ditorium and the Turner meeting will proteed tonight. Speakers at Ash- land Auditorium in¢elude Newton, jar, Kling, Browder and Paulsen. The speakers at the Turner meeting include Andrulus, Amis,Lawson, New- hoff, Mates and Davis. Anti-war meetings are being pushed throughout the district. Resolutions should pour in to Gov- ernor Emmerson and the city author- ities in Chicago from workers organi- zations throughout the country de- manding the immediate release of Comrades Gebert and Saffren. Students of Carnegie Tech Ask Borich to Speak on 1 Coal Crisis PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov, 19. — While coal mine operators and their experts show utter bank~- ruptey in their efforts to stabilize the coal industry at the third in- ternational conference of bitumi- nous coal of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the students of the open forum there have asked Frank Borich, National Secretary of the National Miners Union, to speak on the international crisis in the coal industry, its cause jand cure. This meeting is to take place on Friday evening at Carnegie In- stitute. |coal operators can put Burnett out | | artts, Ky., miner, has been the first | chosen by the coal barons to be put | on trial for his life at Mt. Sterling, | Ky., on a framed-up murder charge. | With lightning speed, « Jury was| chosen on Wednesday to try Burnett before Judge H. R: Prewitt, Thirty- four other miners have been framed- | up on the same charge, and eleven will be put on trial in Mt. Sterling | just as fast as Judge Prewitt and the | of the way. ‘The charge against Burnett and the other 33 miners grows out of the terror campaign of the Black Moun- | | tain Coal Co. which had its gunmen | | deputized. When these gunmen began shooting at miners, one of the thugs, dJesse“Pace was killed: Sheriff Blair of Harlan then began to arrest every miner he could lay hands on and charge them with “murder.” Mt. Sterling is 200 miles north of Harlan County. The case was sent to this reactionary county because the coal operators thought they could get convictions more quickly from a jury of rich landowners: The judge and theprosecution, from the very opening of the trial, worked hand-in-glove. The judge attempted | to terrorize the group of miners that | came up from Harlan to witness the | trial. He said all would be searched for pistols. He said he would fine any- body who left the courtroom while a witness was testifying. The judge's son is working for the prosecution. In order to speed-up the conviction, the judge has ordered night sessions. The jury consists of eight landown- ers of the most reactionary type in the South; two merchants, a gas sta- tion proprietor, and a hotel owner. The coal operators could get no bet- ter choice, even if they chose from (CONTINUED ON PSGE THREE) inde I Worker Organizations Call All To Protest War, Saturday Noon! NEW YORK.—New York workers. will mobilze in thousands on Union Square at noon tomorrow, Satufday, to protest the imperialist war now going on in Manchuria and the plan of the capitalist nations for invasion of the Soviet Union. The New York District of the Communist Party stated yesterday: “The U. S. government leads the imperialist powers in the war against the Soviet Union: Murmansk and Archangel again, but on a larger seale! Imperialist war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets while unemployment increases here and hunger and death from starvation sweeps the country along with murderous wage slashes! Let us give our answer by the tens of thousands by demonstrating Saturday at noon on Union Square!” The Trade Union Unity Council of New York states: “The bosses who drive millions of unemployed and part time workers to starvation, who slash wages in all industries and use-police terror against strikers, have prepared another world slaughter to kill off the unemployed and plunder new colonies. Protest on Union Square, Saturday!” The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League calls all veterans to assemble at 79 East 10th St., Saturday morning at 11 and march to Union Square in a body. It says: “We worker ex-servicemen are to be called again to | be maimed, crippled and gassed by, the same government that robbed us of our bonus, that forces tens of thousands of us to starve on breadiines, to fill flophouses and jails and hospitals.” U. S. Ambassador Dawes in gloating statement over news of seizure by Japanese of Tsitsihar section of the Chinese Eastern Railway. As- soclated Press reports him as saying, “Things are moving fast.” Japanese press sees United States “very favorably inclined toward Japan” and “American policy as one of partiality for the Japanese.” Japan sends threatening note to the Soviet Union as Japanese guns growl at Soviet. Washington reported to be awaiting “with keen interest” reaction of the Soviet Union. League and U. S. openly gloating over prospects that Soviet Union will be at last drawn into war. Gen. O’Ryan and Major Gen. E. Zly admit “international conflict under way.” Japan, blocked by France, United States and other imperialist govern- ments, openly “defies” League. League Council |continues secret maneuvers against Chinese masses and Soviet Union. Japan further consolidates hold on Manchuria, setting up puppet gow- ernments, while Kuomintang traitors engage in new betrayal. of Chinese masses. Entire population of Tsitsihar in flight to join peasant forces in western section of Manchuria, Chinese boycott hits Japanese trade. STORY ON PAGE 3 Workers Relief Outlines Plan Washington to demand Unemploy- ment Insurance and Immediate Win- ter Relief. 2 Organizations have already un- for Support of Hunger March «er taten'a number ot activities to NEW YORK.—Hunger marchers have already started out from the Pacific Coast, on their way to Wash- order to arrive at their destination. |raise funds to finance the Hunger | March. All of these activities must | concentrate and wind up with the It is estimated that at least be-| Tag Days which will take place on tween forty to fifty thousand dollars | November 28 and 29. ington, D. C., to demand Unemploy- ment Insurance and Immediate Win- ter Relief. The workers of this district must at once “line up” behind those who have already started on the Hunger March to Washington: This ig a tremendous task. The demand for Unemployment Insurance and Immediate Winter Re- lief is no longer a “by-word of the Communists”, as the capitalists would say. This is a demand of millions of unemployed workers of this country, and it will only be won when the workers everywhere participate in this struggle. Vast sum of money are needed to safeguard the marchers in will be needed in order to feed and 3, The Solidarity Canvassing Week house the marchers, as well as to take | which was held last week and is ¢on- care of any emergencies which may | tinuing this week, is not the Tag | arise before the marchers arrive at | Day, but was a house to house can- | Washington on December 7. | vass to counteract the Al Smith fake Preparations. | relief campaign. All funds collected In this district the Workers Inter- | in this Solidarity Week Cancass must national Relief and the Unemployed | be turned in to the office of the Councils have arranged for a num- | W.LR. at once. The new address is ber of events to take place as follows: | 16 W- 2ist St., N. ¥. C. 1. On November 22 there will be a/ Game to Raise Funds. conference at Stuyvesant Casino in| 4. On November 20th, the Metro- order to elect delegates for the Hun- | politan Workers Soccer League leas ger March, Fraternal organizations, arranged a Sport Festival at Dyek- workers’ clubs and labor unions will| man Oval, at 207th St. and Brosd- participate ad will give instructions way, to raise funds for the humger \to their delegates who will go to| marchers 5. On December 2, thousands of Masses Demand Relief from Board of Aldermen, Monday Assemble on Union Square, Start for City | workers will greet and send-off the |hunger marchers from the Bronx Coliseum, at 177th St. and West Farms Rd., Bronx. ‘The workers. will endorse the demands for Unemploy- |ment Insurance and Immediate Win- | ter Relief, | Workers! Do not fat] to-participate in these activities, Come to our of- Hall at 2 P. M.; Protest Millions for Cops. tice * once to get afl necessary ma- | employed workers, fighting for tm- mediate winter relief of $150 for each jobless worker and $50 for each de- pendent, will place their again on Union Sq., Monday, Novem- ber 23, at.2 p.m., and go on down to the budget hearing in the city hall. to give relief to the million jobless here, the board of estimates pro) NEW YORK.—Unemployed and a m demands fo It While Tammany stubbornly refuses by $10,000,000 over that of the year | before. more bluecoats, clubs and guns to| smash the starving workers: It gives|at the Court House 8q., Saturday, dempti-> terial in order to help raise funds for the hunger marchers W.LR., .6 W. 2ist St. budget which Increases expenditure Peoria Jobless Organise, PEORIA, Ill.—An open air meeting The budget gives $386,000 jore to the police department, for r police use a total of $8,232,789.89. | October 31, laid the basis for an un= gives $4,09°99 to bankers for re-| employed council here when, despite ol city bonds. police attempts and cold weather, 125 ‘Tiere is money for everything—but | jobless workers heard of the Na- only a crumb for the jobless. The job- | tional Hunger March and the nee@ Jess must make their needs felt! to gt for mit le ag | ‘ ’ .