The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1931, Page 1

City Labor Conference Takes Place Sunday to Mobilize Masses in F ight for Unemployment Insurance WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central - Le wa Section Jes the Comane eset ) orker founict Party U.S.A. at New York, N. Y., under the act Vol. Vill, Ne 280 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office of March 3, 1879 Four Things to Do NOW for the National Hunger March By BILL DUNNE. ESS than three weeks remain to complete the preparations for the National Hunger March to Washington for the opening of Congress December. 7th. ‘The popular base of the Hunger March, already rallying thousands of workers, must be greatly extended. The National Hunger March leaf- Jet. containing the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.and the specific demands for immediate winter relief, has to be distributed in additional hundreds of thousands. Far more agitational and propaganda literature must be sold and distributed. Each local union of the American Federation of Labor organization in each important city should have the resolution condemning the anti- unemployment insurance action of the Vancouver convention brought before it and action for support of the National Hunger March secured. ‘This is a matter of more work since in practically every instance these local unions have gone on record against the action of the Vancouver convention and supported the Hunger March when resolutions from the Unemployed Councils have been presented. The local struggles for immediate relief from city and county gov- ernments can now be more quickly and effectively organized since the Hoover hunger program is being rapidly exposed by the anti-working class activities of the local “emergency relief committees,” dominated as they are the biggest bankers and bosses. Finances must be collected for the expenses of the marchers, for the literature, for the general support of this historic struggle for workers unemployment insurance equal to full wages—for this central point of the struggle of the American working class against mass starvation. This sup- port is to be had if the importance of it is realized and the necessary efforts. made. Rally to the support of the fight against the Hoover-Wall Street Starvation program. Demand Endorsement of the Workers Unem- )1<: ; | olic liberality, does not like the Roose- ployment Insurance Bill by the State, County and Municipal Legislative Bodies! ‘HE National Hunger March takes place after a whole series of con- sistent efforts by the unemployed to secure adequate relief from local, county and state authorities. Nearly a score of state-wide Hunger Marches have been carried out | during the present year. Thousands of City and County Hunger March- ers have carried the demands of the workers to these legislative and administrative bodies. The political tools of the bosses in these bodies, at first demonstrated their loyalty to the wealthy masters by ordering their police thugs and |. deputy sheriffs to make murderous attacks upon the hungry masses who | ' |fairly competent engineer in such participated in these marches. More recently, especially in the pre- election period, they have changed their tactics. ‘They have adopted an attitude of “sympathetic” helplessness. They coridescend to receive the delegations of the unemployed. They listen to the reports showing the desperate plight of large sections of the popu- lation of their communities. They shed crocodile tears for the poor “people.” Every Betrayer of Mooney Calls Walker “Liberator” By BILL DUNNE. YEW YORK, Nov. |20.—Mayor Walker’s trip to California to interview Governor Rolph in regard to Mooney case not only coincides with the advent of unpleasantly chilly weather hard on a constitution suited mostly for the exotic atmosphere of night clubs and the Golden State, but coincides likewise with additional difficulties at home and na- City and county officials pass the buck to the state. Governors and | state assembly leaders, assure the unemployed that they really would like to help them, but “the problem is too big to be tackled by the state.” With tears in their eyes, these hypocritic demagogues, whose every action is dictated by the bankers and manufacturers, tell the unemployed that “it’s up to the federal government.” It is time that these fakers, who are an integral and influential part of the capitalist political machine which operates all branches of the government, are unmasked. The demonstrations that will take place in all cities from which for sharply placing before all local legislative bodies the demand for endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, Large dele- gations should be selected at all demonstrations that will go before these bodies and insist upon such endorsement. The demand fof éhdorsement should be combined with the further demand upon Hoover and congress that the Hunger Marchers shall be provided with a place of assembly, warm lodgings, food and the oppor- tunity for their spokesmen to address Congress without molestation. The government which spends public funds for the entertainment PIERRE OT | i Hy of the fascist murderer Grandi who is here to plan a new war against the | workers, must be compelled to spare the comparatively insignificant funds | required for the purpose of providing the representatives of the pro- ‘ducers of this country with all essentials during their stay in Washington. -{. EVERY SHOP, EVERY UNION, EVERY GROUP OF UNEMPLOYED, EVERY WORKERS’ ORGANIZATION, EVERY INDIVIDUAL WORKER. MUST RALLY IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER MARCHERS! JOIN THE DEMONSTRATIONS IN YOUR CITIES AND TOWNS! -. SEND YOUR RESOLUTIONS BY TELEGRAPH TO THE WASH- INGTON ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE WHICH WILL PRESENT ‘THEM TO PRESIDENT HOOVER! Unemployed Workers! Here Is What Na- tional Hunger Marchers Demand of Congress Fifteen hundred elected delegates eign born workers. of unemployed workers is every city| 4 Special demands for farmers of the United States will be in Wash- | 2nd ex-servicemen. ington Dec. 6 and 7 after a National} Your support is needed! See that Hunger March in which the first de- | Your organizations sends delegates to / tachments. have already started. united front conferences picking Hun- ‘They will place before congress and | 8¢r March delegates. Raise funds for ¢fore President Hoover the follow-| financing the National Hunger { ¥ demands: March! If unemployed, join the Councils of the Unemployed! Meets Sat. To Push Liberator Drive NEW YORK.— The Gilbe: Group of the League of preted ie Negro Rights has called a meeting of the Liberator Campaign Committee called for Saturday afternoon, 3 p.m. at 417 W. 53rd St. to help push the Liberator forward during the Liber- ator Drive and after. All workers and working class organizations in that vicinity are urged to have re- presentatives present ent, through special taxes if ve Sesctiry. They will demand that Congress pass the Unemployment In- surance Bill brought there by the last Hunger March. 2. Special Winter Relief of $150 _ cash in a lump sum and $50 addition- , al for eeclhwdependent, 3 Soven hour day without reduc- _ tion in wages; federal program of fur- _ nishing work to the jobless at full wages; abolition of t:rror and dis- crimination against Negroes and for- f BF Hunger Marchers start out for Washington, must be made the occasion | tionally for Tammany Not only will there be e recent New York City elections -|were outnumbered and out-slugged. by the Tammany thugs urged on by their magistrates, judges, sheriffs, borough presidents and district lead- ers who had been outraged by in- vestigation of their private fortunes, growing with mushroom-like rapidity in this period of general depression, but the graft probes are not over, there is lots of friction between Al Smith and the aspiring Roosevelt, whose presidential boom does not sit well with the Tammany chiefs. ‘Tammany Angles For Labor Support ‘Tammany, about ninety per cent Roman Catholic, with a few Jewish leaders thrown in to show true Cath- cvelt alliance with the protestant south. Tammany needs more “labor” support for the democratic national convention as against Roosevert who is the white-haired boy of the labor leaders of the American Federation of Labor+ The interests of the catholic church must also be served as far as possible. Mother church does not like to see an influential son or former son, |even though he has erred sadly, slip away to the Reds. Frank P. Walsh, a situations, being a much better poli- tician than a student of jurisprudence and being also “close enough” to Governor Rooseevit as his attorney in the St. Lawrence waterway matter to give the desired appearance of unity among all forces of the New York “democracy,” probably has set the {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ABERDEEN PARTY | VOTE PUT AT 312 Workers “Rallying to Communist Party ABERDEEN, Washington.—Joseph | Schroyer, Communist candidate for mayor in the primary elections on November 14th, received 312 votes, nearly 10 per cent of the total votes cast. Many supporters of the Communist Party could not vote because they did not register it was reported. The capitalist politicians -were worried by thé entrance of the Com- munist Party in the election field. With a strike in two of the sawmills and a large hunger demonstration on the eve of the election they redoubled their effort to keep the stranglehold they now have on the workers of this harbor. The Party will follow up this good vote by recruiting workers for the Party, mbarrassing inquiries into the in which the republican gorillas READY TO MARCH ON CITY HALL TO B’klyn Demonstration Prepares For Monday NEW YORK.—A call to all to mobilize for the march on City Hall Monday at 2 p: m. to demand that the budget now under consideration by the Board of Aldermen contain an appropriation of $200,000,000 for immediate winter relief, was cheered to the echo by a crowd of 2,000 as- sembled at Brooklyn Borough Hall, yesterday. The Borough Hall demonstration took place as a result of hunger hearings in which many cases of starving families were brought to no- tice. A committee of white and Ne- gro workers of the Brooklyn coun- cils of the unemployed led by Van Veen and Flaiani and with the re- presentatives of the starving fam- ilies in attendance went up the stepS of the borough hall, which a great throng watched. Police barred the committee from the building, and informed them that Borough Presi- dent Hesterberg had left and nobody would see them. Speakers told the police and the crowd that the same delegation and same crowd would be back Wednesday. This flouting of the starvation of the workers made a great sensation when the committee reported back. A resolution demanding relief and unemployed insurance was adopted with thunderows approval. Many of these \:!f! be in the demon- stration which marches on the city hall, Monday. Brooklyn workers will @ directly t the ciy hallo raffl?fii go diecly to the city hall. A main body of marchers will as- semble on Union Square at noon and then proceed to city hall, Monday. ‘Trade unions and other workers’ or- ganizations are to be in this line of march. The Down Town branch of the Unemployed Councils will gather all jobless workers and others they can mobilize at Seventh St-'and Ave A at 11.30 a. m. They will meet there until noon, and march then to Rut- crowd led by the East Side branch. They will march then in combined demonstration to the city hall. Harlem jobless and workers will meet first at 134th St. and Lenox Ave., at noon, and from there go to the City Hall, Racine, Milwaukee, Buffalo Conferences Prepare March City Labor Conferences, on a uni- ted front basis with all workers’ or- ganizations invited to send delegates, continue to be held. These confer- efices form, or strengthen if already formed, the city committees in charge of preparations for the National Hunger March, co-ordinate the work of all organizations in building up support for the march, outline plans for mass meetings, for local dem- onstrations for immediate relief, and for collecting funds for the National March, The threet latest City Labor Conferences to report were in Ra- cine, Wisc.; Buffalo, N. Y.; and Mil- waukee, Wisc. six delegates representing among other workers’ organizations two lo- cals of American Federation of Labor Unions met here, at Winters Hall, on Nov. 16, in the united front confer-~ ence on unemployment insurance (a city labor conference). Strong arm methods were used by the A. F. of L. officials to keep the question of endorsing the conference and send- ing delegates off the floor in one of these locals, but the rank and file got together and sent their delegate anyway. Three delegates were elected to fill Racine’s quota of marchers, a united front committee was elected and pre- RACINE,. Wisc., Nov. 20.—Thirty- | {CONTINUKN ON PAGE FIVED DEMAND RELIEF gers Square where they will join the | | | was so JUDGE PICKED, TO CONVICT BILL BURNETT Facts Show Harlan | Coal Operators Chose Mt. Sterling Court | Miner. Shot In Defense | Thugs Were Attempt-! ing To Kill Negro Miner | NEW YORK.—Bill Burnett, framed- up coal miner whose case in the Mt. Sterling court is just about to go to} the jury of rich landowners of t Blue Grass country of Kentucky, w: deliberately turned over to Judge Pre- | witt by the Harlan County coal op- erators to face electrocution, evidence | in the hands of the International } Labor Defense shows. Burnett is the first of 34 miners who were framed-up on murder charges growing out of an attack of deputy s , paid by the coal operators, against striking| miners, The Burnett case’ waby rushed | " through.a quick vial here with coal | company deputies comprising the pro- | secution “witnessés.” Burnett when he went on the stand, according to cap- | italist press dispatches, said that he! did not kill Jesse Pace. He said the | company gunmen came to a group of | miners. who were minding their own business and started to attack them. Burnett declared that they partic- | ularly attacked Negro miners and | that the others came to their defen: “The officergagot out of their cars | with guns in ir hands,” said Bur- | nett: Jim Daniels comes ,over to an | old colored man and Jerked him | around and kicked him or kicked at him. I got mad and walked around | the end of, the gondola car. named White stopped me and Said: ‘Where you goin’?’ I told him I was going home. (His house was near by He says, ‘You're not goin’ no—place.’ He pulled his gun at me, and when I threw up my hands he shot and hit me in the hand.” The company gimmen had delib- erately been sent down to the mining | camp “to get the miners.” | The International Igbor Defense in exposing the connection of Judge Pre- | witt. who is presiding in the Burnett | A fellow | j | winte case, with the coal operators, points | __ out that Judge Prewitt six years ago performed some important political favors for the coal operators: At that time there was a sharp elect test on in Harlan county for sh The coal operators candidate Green and the miners support: Floyd Ball. The election was con- | tested and Judge Prewitt, now trying | | the framed-up miners, was called in to “settle” the election. He decided | in favor of the coal operators’ sherif: The scandal stirred up by this a rotten that the Kentw State Court ot Appeals called a n: election and the anti-coal operator man was electe He was shot dead a short while thereafter. All the min- ers were convinced that he mur dered by the coal operators When the framed-up murder | charges were sent to Mt. Sterling, the fact was brought up that Judge Pre- witt was a coal-operator’s man: Jud: Jones of Harlan is reported to have said that Judge Prewitt was no longer sitting on the bench. The open actions of Judge Prewitt in threatening witnesses and miners, and his atta on the National Min ers Union, shows that he is again performing his rotten duties for the for the coal barons, Marine Fraction to Meet Sunday, 10 AM. | NEW YORK.—On Sunday, Novem- ber 22d at 10 a-m., at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., a mecting of the marine workers fraction will take place. Every Party comrade ecnnected with the marine industry, whether he is a member of the Marine Union or not, must be present at this meeting where @ District representative to- gether with our comrades will discuss the problems and tasks before us at the present time SEE THAT YOUR HAS DELEGATES L, STUYVES PREPARE NOW F ANT CASINO! ORGANIZATION AT THE CITY BOR CONFERENCE SUNDAY AT \ ‘OR ORGANIZED COLLECTION OF FUNDS FOR NA- TIONAL HUNGER DAYS ARE NOV. 2 MARCH. 8 AND 29! TAG ANDS OFF SOVIET UNION: CITY “EDITION —— Price 3 Cents NOON TODAY at UNION SQ. U.S. and League Approve of Japanese Seizure of Manchuria cS ‘Mass Support for Labor \Meets At 11 a.m. In Stuyvesant Casino To Plan | | arations for Ta Conference, Tomorrow Hunger March, Tag Days, Demands On Aldermen, » Building 0; Of Councils NEW YORK. —The New York City Labor | Conference will assemble with delegates from| | scores of local unions, Unemployed Councils, | workers’ benefit, fraternal, defense, sports, | veterans, and other organizations, at 11-a..m.| Sunday in Stuyvesant Casino. This; e—————— united front conference will organize | Washington, and to endorse the de- | for the terrific struggle to force the | ™@nds for unemployment insurance | bloated Tammany officia’ m of New and winter relief they will present to York City and its enormously wealthy | Congress, William Z. ‘oster, general} capitalist masters to feed the million | Secretary of the Trade Union Unity | starving unemployed here. It wilt| League, will be the main speaker at | form organization for the next steps | this demonstration. The Workers In- | in prepa the National Hunger | national Relief Band will play and March on Washington. | the audience will sing the new song: First of all, the conference will con- “The Hunger March.” | ider the many nominations for those The W. I. R. in @ special announce- | to go on the M the | ment yesterday stated that it has | workers’ organizations sending dele-| hired nine trucks for the New York | gates to it, and will make a final | delegation, and that $2,000 is required | selection. |for this alone. The Tag Days, says | The conference will take reports: the W. I. R., must. bring in.at least | on the campaign in the various or- | $6,000 to make this march a success. , ganizations to finance the National| The W. I. R, urges’ delegates to the | Hunger March, and will le: prep- conference Sunday to come with | pledges and donations from their or- | | ganizations. | | Many worker organizations. have | 28 and tions, etc for house to house collec- It will endorse the Sport Festival arranged to raise funds for the march, by the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League, at Dyckman’s Oval, Nov. 29. It will mobilize for the demonstra- | tion before the Board of Aldermen mday, to demand $: aes priated in the c relief. 200,000,000 be budget for It art preparations for the | great Bronx\ Coliseum meeting on | Dec, 2, to send off the New York delegation start day es Thousands Mass in | Minneapolis Streets | For Hunger March) | MINNEAPOL Minn. At 1p today, thouss | employed and unemploy were gathering at Bridge Square for a hunger mareh on the city hall to demand unemployment re- and to protest the imperialist rh | were blocked witt with the | ‘This mass took ein the midst of a downpour | of rain, mobil i already endorsed the conference and | ‘Occupation By Japanese Troops To Continue US, Poljsh, French, Enclish To Inspect Anti-Soviet Base New York workers will demon- strate today against the imperialist war mongers and for the Defense of the Soviet Union. All out to Union Square at 12 o'clock noon! Seis ee BULLETIN. The latest afternoon papers yes- terday carried a dispatch from Paris, declaring: “The League of Nations with the Japanese and Chinese mem- bers of the Council agreeing in principle, today formulated an armistice in the Chino-Japanese dispute.” ~ This means that the Japanese oc- cupation of Manch~via is now open- ly endorsed by th> imperialist ban- dits and their Kuomintang lackeys, and that a good basis for the at- tack on the Soviet Union fas been established. That the Japanese troops will re- main in Manchuria is admitted in the dispatch which declares: “The proposal does not bind the Japanese to withdraw their troops in Manchuria during the period of the inquiry, but it was understood that the Japanese spokesman intimated that the troops might retire if conditions improved and made cvacuation Hunger March. The latest’ to sena| Nsafe for the lives and property of | . Japanese.” delegates and endorsements are the| A | The New York Evening Pos Off. niki epee ae eee | printed the dispatch ‘with the sig- | : | nificant deck-head: | Office Workers Endorse, ia * okies The Office Workers’ Union an-| | “ACTION HELD VICTORY FOR nounces that a mass meéting of em- ployed and unemployed clerks, held | Wednesday at Labor Temple has en- TOKIO AT PARLEY.” ‘The Japanese army continued yes- dorsed the conference and adopted a/|terday its ominous advance toward resolution which points out that a|the Soviet frontier. Although the quarter of a million of office workers | Japanese claim to have broken Chin- are unemployed in New. York, and| Se resistance with the smashing of ig under peculiarly depressing | circumstances, since their only hope to ever get jobs is to stay “neat, clean | and well dressed.” | Furthermore, employed office work- | are at the mercy of the bosses who exploit them in the name of| charity, deducting from their wages | the money supposed to go for “ree | lief” to the jobless. The Emergency | | Relief Committee sends its jobless to} do the work, ab scab wages, that of- fice workers have been doing, thi reducing standards of living for all Bar Makers Delegation, A meeting of the Paper Plate and| Bag Makers Local No. 107 in its regu- | Jar_ meeting this week adopted « if resolution bitterly condemning the | A. F. L. Vancouver Convention opposing Unemployment (CONTINUED ON PAGE for Insurance, | vwe Finance the NEW in which the success of the National Hunger March to Weshington is be- ing placed by the lack of progress in the financial gn for the} h, wes shar ‘ought out yes- lay by A. W. Mills, org’ of the Unemployed Councils Commit- tee for the National Hunger March, and Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of the Workers International Relief. They stated: “Not a single city is sufficiently engaged in the céllection of funds to finance the National Hunger March. Must Raise Quota “This is bound to have serious con- sequences if we do not make correc- Son immediately. The -quota of Must Raise Funds Now to Hunger March funds assigned to every district was a minimum quota. The total fo $30,- 000 to finance the entire march con- | | stituted the minimum amount neces- | sary to finance every district delega- | tion and to cover the expenses of the national center of the hunger march, namely, feeding and housing in | Washington, D. C., field organizers, propaganda, postage and circulariza- | tions from the center. “Every city and district must at |once review the activities 50 far en- gaged in regarding the campaign to| finance the march. A very careful check-up must be made. What work- ers’ organizations have not been vis- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) | ee oe oa | | | | | | | merely covers up the fact the army of the Chinese General Me Chen-shan, the Japanese troops con- tinue to advance northward from Tsitsihar-and the Tsitsihar sectiar | (seized by the Japanese on Wednes- day- of the Chinese Eastern’ Rail- way, which is jointly owned by China and the Soviet Union. Japan has 8 huge force in Menchuria and is rush« (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE? Workers Correspondence {fs the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. ‘oecist Murderer | Grandi Tips High | to Hide Low Wages WASHINGTON, Noy. 20—To! | show how “generous” fascist mur- | derers are, Dino Grandi, fascismo’s | | foreign minister, tipped become tae | who drove him around $40, sup-} posed to be a record for tipping. | Grandi’s “generosity,” however, | that the | Italian workers are driven at high | | Speed, under the fascist dictator- | | ship, for such miserable wages as | | the follow In the Province of Lucca, in the | spinning mills, wages for women |. | apprentices are 20 cents a day, for | spinners, 85 cents a day, for men | laborers, 65 cents a day. In Tus- | cany the most highly skilled male cotton worker gets $1.16 a day and skilled women workers get 68 cents a day. Grandi and the other fascist big shots, squeezing the life blood out of the Italian workers, can easily afford a $40 tip to show their gen- erosit, $0