The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1931, Page 1

Lf NEEDLE WORKERS MASS MEET FOR HUNGER MARCH PREPARATIONS, TODAY, RIGHT AFTER WORK WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central U. avo orker Party U.S.A. i sceaisare oF - Communist peernatenat): = =. = -- _Vol. Vill, N 282 at New York, N.Y. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office nder the act of March 3, 1879 _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, _ NOVEMBER. 24, 1931 THE TAMMANY A “CONSIDERING” LDERMEN ARE® WHETHER TO FEED THE UNEMPLOYED. BUILD UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS AND MAKE THE ALDERMEN DECIDE TO GIVE RELIEF! BRONX COLISEUM DECEMBER 2 TO NATIONAL CITY EDITION MASS MEETING SEND OFF TRE HUNGER MARCHERS. “Price 3 3 Cents _ WOLL OF A.F.L. URGES JAIL FOR HUNGER MARCH LEADERS The Civic Federation Boosts the Hunger March 4 te National Civic Federation, in an open letter to members of Con- gress, brands the National Hunger March to Washington, Dec. 6-7, as a “Communist attack upon the government and upon the president's nation-wide emergency unemployment relief organization.” If anything more were needed to show the mass support the Hunger March and its attendant demonstrations had received in all sections of the country, to show that the demand for the passage of a Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill, and $150 cash winter relief for each unem- ployed worker, to be placed before Congress by the 1,500 electd delegates, represent the burning minimum needs of millions of workers, it is this statement from the leading body of capitalist reaction in the United States. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, is acting president of this agency for the promotion of fascism; Elihu Root is honorary president. In the Washington dispatch from which we quote the name of Woll is carefully omitted. The headquraters of the A. F. of L. is in Washington and its officials, knowing the mass re- sentment and protest against the decision of their Vancouver convention denouncing unemployment inswrance, do not want any more attention directed to their sabotage of te wants of the 12,000,000 hungry unem- ployed workers. But the New York Herald-Tribune, telephoning the Daily Worker of- fice to ask when the Hunger March was to start, obligingly informed us that Matthew Woll was responsible for the open letter to members of Congress. The statement of the Civic Federation calls for more suppressive legis- lation. Prison and deportation for unemployed workers who refuse to starve in silence, suppression of the Communist Party which leads the fight against the Hoover-Wall Street program of starvation and war—this is the gist of the Civic Federation proposals to Congress. A New Contribution to the Imperialist War Plots 'HE news from the Far East, Paris, London, Geneva and Washington« becomes more ominous daily. War in Manchuria continues. Thewar offices plot to extend it. The Japanese seizure of Manchuria has been ratified in all the for- eign offices, by the League of Nations and by the American State depart- ment. Nothing is lacking in this respect except the formal notification of approval. This, of course, is unnecessary. The Japanese bayonets and the various secret notes reposing in her foreign office are better than “legal agreement. A new base for war against the Soviet Union has been established. "The access of the Soviet Union to the Pacific is greatly hampered and the plan it to cut it off entirely. To cut off the Soviet Union from Central Asia Japan will try to invade and seize the Peoples Republic of Outer Mongolia. The plan to re-divide China is being worked out. Even the right of China to membership in the League of Nations is questioned. A London dispatch of Nov. 22 says: “The London Times, which often reflects the opinion of the Foreign Office, will make the pointed inference tomorrow that China is hardly qualified to belong to the League of Nations and certainly not entitled to a seat in the Council.” The Times states that China does not fulfill the five conditions neces- sary for membership. All of these conditions have to do with govern- ment “stability” but the second and third are the most important ie. “it must be eapable of maintaining its territorial integrity and be able to maintain public peace throughout its territor:.” If one ig: called upon to pass an opinion upon the comparative ability of inyperialist plotters it is certainly necessary to hand it to the British in this instance. In accord with the best traditions of the English diplomacy which long ago established an all-time record and set the fash- ion for establishing a legaleand Christian basis for robbery of weaker peoples, the !British proposal is to simplify the whole matter by outlawing China and 4vclaring, in hunters’ parlance, an open season for the Chinese masses—to establish by war upon the workers and peasants that “public peace throughout its territory” so dear to the heart of every imperialist— the peace of death. “Public peace” in China means nothing less than the crushing of the workers’ and peasants’ revolution and the extermination of the Commu- nist Party and red trade unions by whatever amount of slaughter is necessary. ‘The London Times says that “the immediate won... is the ap- pointing of a commission of inquiry, which should begin investigations without awaiting the withdrawal of Japanese troops in Manchuria.” (Our emphasis.) Great Britain thus places herself squarely behind the Japanese con- quest of Manchuria, The plan is to have Japar hold the base against the Soviet Union while plans are completed for the imperial‘st onslaught of the Chinese masses and the partition of China. The difference Great Britain will have with American imperialism on this question will result from the quarrel over the division of the spoils, This may hamper and deldy the carrying through of a united imperialist war on the Soviet Union and the crushing of the Chinese revolution, but it is clear that on the main line of procedure all imper- lalist powers are agreed. There may yet be differences as to whether the war on the Soviet Union should precede the crushing of the Chinese anti-imperialist revolution, or should proceed.simultaneously, but the gen- eral program is for war, American imperialism is for war on the Soviet Union. ‘The working class of the world can defeat this conspiracy against its Nves and liberties, can smash this drive against the Soviet. Union and the heroic workers and peasants of China. The American working class has ® special duty in this fight against imperialist war. Chiang Kai-shek, the murderer of the Chinese masses, and avowed enemy of the Soviet Union, is the bought and paid for agent of Wall Street government which robs and starv-*. jails, clubs and shoots strikers and organizers, employed and unemployed, which burns and hangs scores of militant Negroes, under whose rule hunger camps on every worker's doorstep. Workers: Support the Anti-War Campaign led by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League. Defend the Soviet Union. Write or wire congressmen ‘nd senators that you want all war funds for relief of ‘re unemployed. Have your union and fraternal society send such letters and wires. Support the National Hunger March! Food, clothing and shelter— unemployment insurance and immediate cash relief—no imperialist war! o ——— ‘Food! Not War!” WASHINGTON president of the conviction for sedition, “following the Canadian example” of rives here Dec. 6. Woll’s letter contains the brazen lie that th not even the President of the United States shall be allowed to our social order a situation so much to their liking” (meani of workers). Woll also says about the hunger march, “This D. C., Nov. 23.—Matthew Woll, vice order to prevent the development of a nation-wide movement - . - C7 BULLETIN. DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 23.—Five thousand unemployed workers of the Briggs and Ford auto plants demonstrated in front of the Briggs employment office and the Ford company store today. They demanded unemployment insurance. A march of 300 men, women and children smashed through three successive police car barricades and triumphantly reached the Briggs plant. There the marchers were joined by thousands who supported their demands and ratified the National Hunger March delegation. The Briggs bosses barricaded themselves in and locked in the em- ployed workers, keeping them from going out in the lunch hour to keep them away from the demonstration. The demonstration lasted two hours, the masses demanding that the Briggs employment office and Ford store be opened. Then the dem- onstrators marched back to the Unemployed Council headquarters and held a huge protest meeting against Mayor Murphy's police brutality and demanded release of two previously arrested. The women were especially militant in the struggle, and will be out tomorrow to collect funds for the National Hunger March. . * WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 23.—A representative com- mittee of 85 is actively preparing for the arrival of the Na- Committee of 85 in Washington Prepares for Arrival of National Hunger Marchers; Dec. \Cops, | Despite rainy weather three | workers attended the north side anti- | Anti-War Meets De-| mand War Funds for Jobless Relief A.F.L. Officials Break Fond Dulac Meet (Telegram to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 22. hundred war demonstration and two hundred workers the south side meeting. Forty applications for membership in the Communist Party were turned in at these meetings. Two hundred indoor anti-war demonstrations. membership in the Party. A resolution for support of the Na- tional Hunger March was adopted. The fight for local relief, mittees to go to the city council with | demands at hearings of the budget | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ACW BETRAYS Freedman Bros. Shop Out On Strike president of the American Federation of Labor and acting rike-breaking National Civie Federation, today sent a letter to each congressman urging the arrest and all those arranging the National Hunger March which ar- e “Communists are’ determined, that if they can prevent it, to initiate anything that might tend to make less menacing ing the unemployment crisis and the starvation of millions seemingly impossible. Red Crusade may well develop into a serious movyemnet.” Woll then calis for more laws for the jailing of Communists and other class conscious workers, in | for immediate relief and unemployment insurance! tional Hunger Marchers in Washington, Dec. 6. The mem- bers of this committee have been formed into four sub-com- mittees for the collection of funds, gathering of food, prepar- ing of lodgings and for organizing the local unemployed and employed for support of the Hunger March. A full meeting of the committee was held Nov. 20. Her- bert Benjamin, National Field Representative, reported on the aims of the Hunger March, on the progress thus far made and plans for further work. Demands for Care of Marchers On learning that no reply has yet been received to the letter which was sent to Hoover, demanding that he see that arrangements are made to provide food, lodgings, place of assembly and the opportunity for the spokesmen of the Hun- ger Marchers to address Congress, the Committee decided to send a delegation of five to see Hoover and demand prompt and favorable action. This delegation will be backed up by large masses of unemployed and employed workers who will (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mass Meeting In Minneapolis When Marchers Go Thru MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 23. —On Thursday night, Nov, 26, a mass meeting and send-off affair will be held at the Humboldt Hall +for the National Hunger March delegation before it leaves for Washington, Delegates from the Pacific Coast, Montana and Da- kota will arrive here by then, as well as delegates from all over Minnesota and Upper Michigan. The delegation leaves Minneap- olis Noy. 27 for Milwaukee, then to Chicago, Mass meetings will be ararnged throughout the district for the re~ turn of the delegation, during the Build National BULLETIN NEW YORK. — Two mass dem- onstrations for immediate relief will be held Wednesday. The Bath- gate Unemployed Branch will lead a demonstration before the New York Edison Company, 555 Tre- mont Ave., the Bronx, for free gas and light for unemployed workers. The Williamsburgh Unemployed Branch will demonst-ate before the Crowded Days of Preparations Needle Trades Unemployed Meet Today; Tag Days Are Saturday. and Sunday; Soccer Game Sunday; Coliseum Meeting Dec. 2 Chicago Teachers Face the Bread Lines! No Pay for Last Six Months CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 23-—The teachers of Chicago who haven't been paid for six months, face the necessity of becoming dependent on charity. The Teachers’ unions have sent out questionaires and the answers received show that 40 per cent of the teachers cannot obtain any more loans. It will come to a pretty pass when classes will have to be dismissed so the teacher can go down and get her daily soup in some bread line! Hunger March from this district, and fro mall points west and north who go through New York, will be given a big send-off. Today at 6 pm., in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 4tst St, there will be a conference of all unemployed and employed needle workers. Main speakers are Ben Gold, leader of the biggest fur strikes in this city; Carl Winter, secretary of the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York, and HAVE NO SHOES. TROLE RED VOTE IN BUFFALO, N. Y. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Showing an iIn- crease of nearly two-hundred percent {n the highest Communist vote here over that of 1930, the folowing poll for Communist candidates in the re- cent elections were reported: Mannig R. Johnson, Communist candidate for president of the city council, 928 votes. Only 340 votes in 1930 were reported for the Communist candidate for a similar high office in 1930, J. J. Kissel, Communist candidate for councilman at large received 992 votes and C. L. Thornton, Communist, candidate for councilman in the Elli- , week of Dec. 20. cott district received 133 votes. Both Johnson and Thornton are Negro workers. Communist watchers were molested at the polling stations, several be- ing thrown out as soon as the voting began. Brooklyn Borough Fall at 1 P. M. and will bring casos of destitute families found through the Wil- liamsburgh Open Hearing. CE et NEW YORK—Now comes a crowded week of preparations for the Na- tional Hungar March, between the huge City Labor Conference Sunday and the great mass meeting Dec. 2 at the Bronx Coliseum, where the ‘whole 300 delegates to Washington Seymour Burns, secretary of the Workers’ Internatoinal Relief. The needle workers, as much as those of any industry, have felt the horrors of unemployment, and should be out in full force tonight to push along the struggle for unemployment insurance, the main demand of the National Hunger Marchers. Financing the March. The W. I. R., which has the special (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 3 CHILDREN CHICAGO, Il.—Lack of shoes keep over 100 children away from Cole- man school at 4655 Dearborn St. These workers’ children not only can’t attend the sthool for classes but they also are unable to get the free lunches served at the school. HELP COLLECT FUNDS TO SEND TON, Workers of the Freedman Bros. shop at 73 Fifth Ave., leather coat manufacturers, yesterday walked out |on strike against a 20 per cent wage cut and the discharge of several workers. The strikers not only de- mand the rescinding of the wage cut, the reinstatement of the discharged workers but also union recognition. When the wage cut was first put into effect members of the Amaiga- mated Clothing Workers working in the shop asked business agent Kol- nick what they were to do about it. Kolnick advised them to accept the cut. The majority of the workers, however, would not hear of accepting | the cut and decided to strike to main- tain their wages. At a shop meeting committees for the conduct of the strike were or- ganized. The strike committee ap- | pealed to all clothing workers to help them in the strike and to refuse to accept jobs in the shop if the A.C.W. bureaucrats would try to break the strike for the employers. Black Hiilman Betrayal. One of the most brutal betrayals in the long list of betrayals of the Hillman bureaucracy occurred when one hundred workers, many with large families to support, were thrown out of the Fishkin shop after Hillman had concluded an agreement with the bosses. The workers of this shop came out on strike at Hillman’s call to force six cutters, formerly of the Orlofsky group, into the Amalga- mated. ‘Ironically enough the six cutters, by the terms reached by Hill- man will remain in the shop to cut the goods to be sent out of town to be worked up. The former Fishkin workers held a meeting and decided to organize @ committee to carry on a struggle for immediate aid and work. The com- mittee called on the workers to meet at the Amalgamated Labor Bureau Saturday morning to place their de- mands for jobs and relief before the officials. Communist Party In Johnstown Win Place On Cambria Ballot (By a Worker Correspondent) JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — For the first time in the history of Cam- | workers each were | present at the Racine and Kenosha | Many workers made application for | with com- | FISHKIN WORKERS: CHINESE RED ARMY — ADVANCES; PARIS TRIES TO COVER UP CHINA RAPE Mass Anger Rising Against Kuomintang and Imperialists CRISIS IN JAPAN DEEPENS \British Propose to Kick China Out of League BUBLETIN The Chinese Red Army has re- sumed its an#-imperialist -acttvt- ties The Chinese Workers‘ Corre- spondence reports: “Communist armies have Ye~ sumed their activities along the banks of Upper Yantze Valley. The Red Army is surrounding the city of Shasi, according to a telegram received in Shanghai by the lea? Japanese military authorities from | Shasi. “The report says that the troops | of the Nanking government af | Shasi are in revolt against their officers, refusing to take orders and | showing signs of fraternizing with . | the Red soldiers, The message aise states that anti-Japanese posters are pasted all over the city, white Japanese trade is already sus- pended. The situation has the im-. perialists and the Chinese met, chants and landlords greatly wor- ried. The Chinese banks are sen¢- ing ail cash money to the bir warships his! Look pie sel Supporting the Jap- anese seizure of Man- churia, the League of Nations Council has accepted the Japanese poposal for the appointment of a commission to investigate China. The Japanese proposal was offered as a means of saving the face of the League, while furthering the rape and par- tition of China. | The proposal for a commission struck a snag yesterday in the secret conferences of the League Couneil, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 13 MEHRIGE SILK PICKETS JAILED Big Gang of Cops Tries To Bring Scabs In NEW YORK.—Police Friday et- tacked the picket line formed before the M. Mehrige Silk Co. mill, on strike at the call of the National Textile Workers Union. First two police tried to order the pickets away, and when one striker argued with them and insisted on his right to picket, a ser- geant and two more cops came. Then when the pickets persisted, a more sergeants and a flock of arrived. arrive just before 8 a’ m. The owner of the shop pulled a revolver, but was afraid to shoot. The polied and pickets battled it out, and the picket ine performed its task in spite of the arrest of four woman and nine men, The judge offered to let them go workers had to ploket every day to protect their right . The court then fixed bell at each, and bail bria County, the Commanist Party has polled enough votes to place the Party permanently on the bal- lot. In spite of all the difficulties encountered — one of them beimg the fact that many workers could not pay the tax — we polled a big- ger vo" <a Inet year and these _os are more and more looking THE MARCHERS TO WASHING- | venison eee eet etnies eean to the Communist Party and fhe revolutionary anions for leader-