The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1931, Page 1

DEMONSTRATE CITY HALL TODAY 2 P. M. DEMAND $150 WINTER RELIEF FOR EACH JOBLESS WORKER! ea er a eae orker TAMMANY IS SPEN MAKE THEM GIV DING $631,000,000. E $200,000,000 OF IT FOR WINTER RELIEF TO THE \ y WORKERS JOBLESS! be OF THE WORLD, TAG DAYS TO SUPPORT THE NA- UNITE! ’ Pp U Ss A TIONAL HUNGER MARCH ARE NO- R ; unist arty jo Dok Re VEMBER 28 AND 29, HELP COL- LECT FUNDS! ‘(Section af the Communist International) —=— == <== = SS = Ween = SSS = ey —_ Entered a at New ¥ second-class matter at the Post Office , under the act of March 3, 1879 _NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1931 "CITY EDITION Vol. VII, No. 281 1,900 HUNGER MARCHERS SPEAK FOR 12,000,000 JOBLESS 104 AMERICAN WRITERS P Tell of Writers Kidnapped, 10t, Beheaded DD: WASHINGTON four American writers nC bell, t writers in China’ ously kidnapped, ded and the sur- pinions do not please . must scurry os th ds of the Chinese Ministry ed by a committee which M. R. Werner, Ed- Wilson and Maicolm Crowley who interested thimselves in saving the lives of the remaining Chinese writers who are threatened daily with exec: for their political committee, in dis- ering of Chinese ng to participate of their country independent, opin- in political affa and expressing stated: “It is impossible to know how many Chinese writers and students have been executed during the past four years by the Nanking government and by the war lords of the various provinces. In most cases the names of the victims have not been printed in their own country, Let alone in the American press. Neverthless, snough facts have leaked out from first-hand sources to give a general picture of the situation. “The Chinese have an extremely able and vigorous younger generation of novelists, essayists and poets. They are engaged in the exciting task of creating a new literature in tht vern- acular. At the same time, most of them are radicals, for the simple reason that the whole trend of the intellectual world in China has re- cently been toward Communism, The result is that the government is kil- ling them off wholesale. Poets of twenty-four, novelists of twenty-nine, Teminist pamphleteers of twenty- seven, they are first tortured—we bave seen distgusting photographs of this—and then led out to face a firing squad. Schoolboys of twelve are shot for having radical magazines in their possession. Even the Chinese Humanists, the disciples there of Ir- ving Babbitt, are being threatened. with imprisonment. To write a novel about the working classes is a crime punishable by a heavy sentence.” including Sinclair John Dewey, a Ferber, Theodore Dreiser, Louis Bromfield: eth Maddox Roberts and Osward Garrison @ C.—One hundred and protested today to the ay- Lewis, Thornton Wilder: Edna St. Vincent Mil'ay, — writers receive may be found in the case of Li Wei-sen, talented assayist and editor of the “Shanghai Red Flag.” He was arrested on January 17th by the British police in the in- ternational settelement, and turned over to the Chinese authorities for trial. ‘After being tortured for three weeks he was buried alive along with four of his comrades, while nineteen others were shot over his grave. These facts are a matter of record. Dr. Kuo Mo-Jo, today the best known writer in China, disapeared some months ago. Nobody knows whether he is in hiding from the police or whether he has been secretly executed, And the teror is extending from the Chinese writers themselves to Europeans suspected of being in sympathy with them. Mr: Ruegg, a Swiss citizen, secretary of the Pan- Pacific Trade Union, was arrested with his wife and the two of them are now being tried under the charge of Communism. If convicted they Chinese ministry in Washington against “the| torture and execution of writers in China for} their geno opinions.” The protest, signed) the outstanding novelists, poets and es MASSESRALLY. FOR START OF NATL MARCH Send Off In Seattle; 3,000 Block Streets In Grays Harbor With the National Hunger March already under way, the delega- Houston having start- ed, preparations in cities closer at hand are being speeded up, and connected up with demon- strations for the demands for winter relief, no evictions, ete. on local governments. The departure of the Seattle hun- ger marchers was the occasion of a big demonstration in that city. Three days before, 3,000 workers and unemployed workers demonstrated in Grays Harbor, Washington, for relief and against forced labor. Today the Pittsburgh united front Match will be held and there will be an Allegheny County Hunger March through Pittsburgh on Wednesday. Friday there will a mass city hung- er march of youth, women and child- dren in Cleveland. Relief and the National Hunger open hearings on starvation will go on in St. Louis. Yesterday a huge united front City are subject to immediate execution.” All Out Today! City Hall Demonstration! Demand Winter Relief for Unemployed from Board of Aldermen Which Has Millions to Give Away! Go to Concentration Points! NEW YORK.—New York jobless and employed workers will mobilize in three different parts of the city today, and marcn to arrive at the city hall at 2 p.m. where the board of aldermen is meeting. The board is handing out $631,000,000 for all sorts of purposes, including nearly $200,- 000,000 to the bankers and millions to police, contractors, for war pur- poses, and everything else but relief for the million unemployed of New York. Mayor Walker is to get $40,000, the president of the board of aldermen is to get $25,000 and the presidents ‘An example of the treatment these of five boroughs of the city are to \ Follow Up the Results of the United Front Conferences By A. W. MILLS. Is nearly all the cities the United Front Conference for Unemployment Insurence end preparations for the National Hunger March are over. While we have not received the exact reports, we can safely state that many new organizations were represented at these conferences. The whole work of the conferences would be dstroyed if we do not take immediate vtens to follow up the decisions and resolutions. What to do: 1, If a committee elected at the conference, do not wait to call + <s committee together after the Hunger March, but do it RIGHT NOW. ‘The program adopted shall be printed or mimeographed and widely ted, to the unemployed and employed workers. Do not delay in sending the minutes to all delegates with a little for a report to the next meeting of the organization which hey she steps to visit other organizations which were not represented asking them to indorse the WORKERS UNEMPLOY- BILL and affiliate to the Unemployed Councils, e © civen to A.F.L, locals, marchers shall be called to a meeting and steps taken the body of marebers according to the directives sent ont to ved Councils. ‘ect wp en the neighborhood ratification meetings. 7. Make the final arrangements for the mass meeting to gre: marchers. AN elected the get $20,000 each, for their year's of- fice holding. But the starving jobless are to get nothing unless they do something about it. This demonstration will demand $200,000,000 be appropriated in the budget now under discussion, to be used for immediate winter relief of the jobless at the rate of $150 for each, with $50 more for each depart- ment. Other demands are as follows: Free food, milk and clothing for the children of the unemployed. No eviction of unemployed workers for non-payment of rent. Opening of all armories and unused buildtngs for homeless workers. Free gas and light for unemployed workers, Lower rates for employed workers, The relief fund to be raised thru the following means: 1. Stopping of payments to city bond holders. 2. Withdrawal of appropriation for the national guard and naval militia. 3. Cutting of officials salaries to no more than $5,000 @ year. 4, Taxation on all income above $5,000, All unemployed relief funds to be administered by unemployed and em- ployed workers, We want no grafters “taking care” of the Relief Fund. Not a cent off workers wages for charity relief. We can't afford to “share” from our low wages! Let the rich share their profits! Abolition of forced labor on the wood pile. ‘The march led by the Down Town branch of the Councils of Unemploy- ed will start at Seventh St. and Ave. A at 11:30 a.m., and go to Rutgers Square, where it will be joined by the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | tion from Seattle and} conference on the National Hunger | OTEST CHINESE TERRO The delegation of the 1,500 totally and part-time unemployed workers, representing over 40:000,000 men, women and children of the working class, are beginning the National Hunger March to Washington! The capitalists, with their class in power of government, are resorting to the most Yesterday the St. Louis, Mo., City | Labor Conference on Unemployment | | March was held, and all this week | shameless lies and demagogy to cover up the starvation of these 40,000,000 people— cne-third of the population of this country. Workers, you must expose everywhere to your shopmates the LIE, so carefully and systematically being spread in every capital- ist papery about “PROSPERITY RETURN- ING!” For it is nothing but a LIE! Everywhere the capitalist economic crisis is DEEPENING! In spite of the lies to the contrary which you read in papers published by the bosses to deceive you, the “Annalist,” a journal of finance, commerce and econ- omics, published only for the eyes of capi- talists, admits in its last issue—of Nov. 20, that things are getting still worse. It says: “The preliminary figure for the Annalist Index of Business Activity for October, shows a drop to 67.2 per cent.” That was for October, then it continues with the current week by saying: “Other records for the week confirm a present DOWNWARD TREND. Building contracts for the first half of the month are notably LOW. PRICES DECLINE SLIGHTLY. Activity in steel and automobile is DELAYED.” Workers: the propaganda of lies about “better times coming” is a lie intended to KEEP YOU QUIET WHILE YOU CON- TINUE TO STARVE! Let your answer be that you will RE- FUSE TO STARVE! Employed workers, you have no certainty of YOUR JOB tomor- row! Part-time workers, and you who have had your WAGES “staggered” by the treach- erous leaders of the American Federation of Labor agreement with Hoover for “shar- ing’ work—and WAGES, you will be com- pelled to accept this PERMANENTLY—un- less you fight! Let all workers understand the capitalist plot to cut the standard of living to coolie level! To force the entire burden of the Fight for Unemployment Insurance! isa erusts. By lying about “good times com- ing” and by police clubs against the Commu- nists who expose these lies and lead the fight of millions for bread. The capitalists are seeking “markets in China.” But, workers, if they get them, the bosses can only hold them ultimately by forcing you to work for LOWER WAGES THAN THE CHINESE COOLIE! Anly they can get them ONLY BY WAR, in which you will be asked to shed your blood to bring about this coolie standard of slaves! The Hoover government refuses to give ONE CENT to the starving millions, while it spends $1,000,000,000 ARMING FOR WAR! The capitalist politicians are busy as beavers, with the Tammany boss, Curry, dickering at Washington with the full au- thority of Governor Roosevelt, for “patron- age” graft, as are also the so-called “progres- sives!” All are engaged in LOOT, and not one of them gives a damn about the starv- ing millions of workers! ONLY THE WORKING CLASS, by mass organization and mass struggle, can FORCE THESE SCOUNDRELS TO FEED THE STARVING! The NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH will knock at the doors of Congress Dec. 7 and DEMAND: among the principal means to meet the need of the workers: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR ALL JOBLESS AND PART-TIME WORK- ERS, the cost to be paid entirely by the capitalists and the capitalist government, AT FULL WAGES, AND ADMINISTERED BY THE WORKERS, not by the “charity” grafters! WINTER RELIEF of $150 cash to each jobless worker, and $50 additional for each dependent! ALL WAR FUNDS TO THE UNEM- PLOYED! ALL FARM BOARD FOOD SUPPLIES AND CHARITY! FUNDS TO BE GIVEN TO THE UNEMPLOYED AND AD- MINISTERED BY THE WORKERS! Workers, you CAN WIN THESE DE- MANDS! Join the Unemployed Councils in your city! Unite your organization, trade union, workers’ fraternal society: to support the NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH! Smash 15,000 Demonstrate In| Union Square, New York, Against War | Attack Seattle Meet) Demand 2 Billions of} |War Funds for Jobless (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 21. — The | anti-war demonstration here was} | ruthlessly smashed by the police. Sev- eral workers were badly beaten up, | |and two knocked unconscious by the | police who brutally used clubs and} - black-jacks, Three policemen were | | knocked down when lumberjacks re- | | tailated with swift blows. Seven workers were arrested and | bail refused for their release. Three thousand workers demon- strated in protest against police bru- | tality and the war danger the same | night. et ace NEW YORK: — Fifteen thousand | workers assembled on Union Square, | Saturday, pledged defense of the Soviet Union at an an- Communist Party. Adopting a resolution declaring that the masses want no imperialist war, the meeting demanded the conver- ston of the two billion dollars war funds for the immediate use of the 12 lies in the land. Bringing out the sharp contrast be- tween the rapid rise of the living standards of the Soviet masses and jthe great success of the Five-Year- Plan of socialist construction with the unparalleled mass misery, hun- ger, unemployment in all capitalist countries including the United States, speaker after speaker showed the im- minence of ‘a military attack on the Soviet Union. The resolution adopted at the meet- ing said: “We workers in mighty mass dem- onstration assembled in Union Square November 21, 1931, declare that we want no war. We want immediate cash winter relief for the unemployed and unemployment insurance from the government and the bosses. We demand not one cent for imperialist armaments and war; turn over the two billion dollars war fund to the unemployed.” The National Hunger March De- cember 7 was endorsed by the mass meeting. | G. Carroll. revolutionary | struggle against imperialist war and | ti-war demonstration called by He million unemployed and their fami- | RING OF STEEL AGAINST SOVIET UNION TIGHTENING; U. 5. WORKERS PROTEST [w all Street Experts Admit Japan Aims to Seize Mongolia Rape of China Goes On Plan War On Chinese Soviets; Open admission that the Japanese occupa- |tion of Manchuria is di- rectly aimed at theSov- jiet Union and has the support of the United States and the League of Nations is made in a dispatch to the New York Evening Post from its Paris correspondent, Raymond The Post's correspondent frankly gives the position of the im- | Perialists as follows: “Why not state the truth, that Japan emerges victorious not only in Far Eastern battles but here as well, because the great western na- tions, behind their League masks | and under thelr diplomatic camau- flage secretly want Japan installed upon the Asiatic mainland, a de- pendable sector of a protective ring around Soviet Russia!” To Attack Chinese Soviets The dispatch leaves no doubt that Manchuria is to be used as a mili- tary base against the Soviet Union, as part of the ring of steel which the imperialists, led by the United States and Prance have been forging around the Soviet Union. It states: “What Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Roumania do for conservative Europe in their functions as buffer nations against Soviet Russia, it is argued—and settled for that matter—Japan, in- trenched in the Asiatic mainland, would perform at the gateway of the Reds’ ‘backyard’.” In addition to establishing a Man- churian base against the SéViet Un- ion, the imperialist powers have the aim of partitioning China and crush- ing the Chinese Soviets and the Chinese Red Army. This task was formerly assigned to the imperialist hangman Chiang Kai-shek who has repeatedly failed in his attacks on the Chinese Red Army. The imper- ialists now intend to tackle this job themselves, with the Japanese armed forces in China playing a leading (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Meet of 3,000 ‘By BILL DIXON CITY, Pa., Nov. 2: Hill struck. The operator said Hard Coal Miners Opens New Fight on Starvation, Wage Cuts DUNNE. 2.—In 1902 the men at Kelly that grass would grow over the shaft before he gave in to their demands. The men said they would eat that grass before they’d go back to work on his terms. It’s the old fighting spirit of those days when the an- thracite miners were building their union that we want now” said Joseph Dougher of the Rank and File Opposition Com- mittee to 3,000 miners seated on a hill above the ball park here yesterday. A new revolt against the UMWA officials and the opera- % RR EN SIO tors has begun. marched to the old Miners Temple ers! Report Your Trucks, Cars, Vans, to WIR! NEW YORK.—All who own trucks, moving vans or autos are requested to report to Burns, at Workers’ International Relief headquarters, 16 W. 21st St. as soon as possible, for the support of the hunger march. Ave., and proceed to city hall. The main section of the march will as- crowd assembled by the Bast Side} semble at Union Square, at noon, and branch, and thence on to City Hall.} after a meeting, go on to City Hall. The Harlem branch will assemble the | Brooklyn workers will go directly to 8. BEGIN NOW TO ISSUE AN UNEMPLOYED BULLETIN, crowd it leads at 1s8th St. and % | city hall eae Wireeet wea crisis and decay of capitalism onto the work- To try to keep the starving millions quiet by miserable and inadequate charity down the capitalist resistance to the de- mand of the starving millions for bread! Dreiser Committee to Make Report on Mine Situation November 29 ‘The Dreiser Investigating Commit- tee, which recently returned after making a detailed investigation of starvation and terror conditions in the Kentucky coal-fjelds, will give its first public report at a mass meet- ing on Sunday, Nov. 29, at 2:30 p.m. in Central Opera House, 205 E. 67th St. The meeting will be under the auspices of the New York District of the International Labor Defense. Members of the committee will describe the events which led up to) their own indictment on charges of criminal syndicalism and will expose the efforts to discredit the commit- tee by framing up its chairman, ‘Theodore Dreiser, on an “immoral- ity” charge. The speakers will in- clude the following members of the committee: Samuel Ornitz, Charles Rumford Walker, Adelaide Walker, Lester Cohen, Harry Gannes and George Maurer, assistant national secretary of the International La- bor Defense. Admission is 25 cents. Two young boys stood beside the hastily built speakers’ platform. They held up during the entire meet- ing a placard announcing the Na- tional Hunger March to Washington a section of which passes through Scranton, a few miles from Dixon City, Refused School and Ball Park ‘The meeting was to have been held in the ball park. At the last moment the owners, who lease the ground from the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co, closed the gates and told the miners’ committee that the coal com- pany has threatened to cancel the lease if the meeting was held. The nicht '-fore permission had been * <u to use the high school evcilorium but the city authorities locked the doors and stationed po- 80 cents for yesexved vents oe | Aides around the building, The miners Hers? but this seats only a thousand. The rest jammed the windows and the street and separate meetings had to be held outside. The demands worked out by the Rank and File Opposition (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “PROSPERITY” FIGURES PORTLAND, Ore.—Transportation and utilities have cut wages 21° per cent and laid off 12 per cent of the workers, according to the latest statistics, Service and government employment has declined 9 per cent, with 11 per cent wage reduction, Think over these figures. What do they mean to the workers? Can you still retain your belief in the return of prosperity, Doesn't it seem to you that Hooyer and a few more ar@ 4 is ru ,