The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1931, Page 1

RSI SEIN: — Vol. VIII, No. 283 WORKERS tHE “7 UD, UNITE! OF Dail Central : « ail Re atl Was of the Communist ss al ) Norker Rfauniet Party U.S.A. ANSWER WOLL AND FRIES! JAM BRONX COLISEUM DEC. 2 TO SEND OFF NAT’L HUNGER MARC pak _MARCHERS } TODAY! THESE ARE THE POINTS AT WHICH WE FIGHT FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND RELIEF: 1—DEMONSTRATION AT BROOKLYN BOR- OUGH HALL AT 1 P. M. 2.—DEMONSTRATION BEFORE THE NEW YORK EDISON CO., 555 TREMONT AVE. BRONX, TO DEMAND FREE GAS AND LIGHT FOR THE JOBLESS. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 “ees “CITY He ee a aS NE EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931 FOLLOWS WOLL IN URGING ATTACK ON THE HUNGER MARCH 1,500 Delegates to National Hunger March Not Terrified; Ex-Servicemen, Rank and File Legionnaires In Front Ranks BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.—A hasty mobilization of Wash- ington police and U. S. secret service men was made at the White House today to prevent the presentation to President Hoover of the demands that the 1,500 National Hunger March delegates be fed and housed at govrnment expense while in this city, Dec. 6 and 7. A committee of 5 was elected several days ago by the Washington Arrangements United Front Committee for the National Hunger March. The committee of five had not prepared to go to the White House today, but the police were so suspicious they seriously agitated the usual flock of curious visitors, donors of turkeys to Hoover, honeymooners, and several hundred newspaper correspondents arriving for the usual Tues- day conference with the ghostly “White House Spokesman.” The committee of five will go to see PEG: Friday. so. By HERBERT BENJAMIN (Field Organizer for National Committee for the National Hunger March) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24:—Accord- ing to reports circulating in Washington, Gen- eral Amos Fries of the Chemical Warfare Di- vision has issued a call for a mobilization of ican Legionnaires against the Hunger rs when they arrive in Washington. The swivel chair gene who is a rival of Matthew Woll for the honor and privilege of heading a fascist movement in the United States, finds the work of preparing poison gases and chemicals for a new and imperialist war rather dull. Make no mistake! The brave gen-: eral does not intend to personally against the workers as officers of the enter into hand to hand combat with the representatives of the masses who are starving in the midst of untold wealth. Oh no! The plucky general wil be content to sit behind well- guarded walls cnd watch through plate siass windows. ‘Vill Not Be Intimidated ‘al Fries and those whom he serves, think that the Hunger Marchers will be terrified by his threats, it is only because they are so far removed from the position of the masses who suffer hunger and privation, that they have no concep- tion of the temper of these masses: A considerable proportion of the 1,500 Hunger Marchers are veterans of the last World War, All of them are seasoned veterans of the bitter war against hunger which the most ad- vanced sections of the army of unem- | ployed has been conducting since the American bosses instituted their pre- sent policy of mass starvation. ‘They have been through the many elass battles beginning with the grea tstreet demonstrations of March 6th, 1930. They have returned in greater numbers and with more de- termination after their fellow workers were Brutally murdered by the cow- ardly police assassins of Chicago and Cleveland. They have marched through city streets and state roads and broken throughthe cordons of armed thugs, guarding the political tools of the bosses in the city halls, county court houses and state cap- itols throughout the country. These militant workers cannot be terrorized by the threats of swivel chair gen- erals, They have been entrusted with a mission of supreme importance to themselves and millions of their fel- low-workers. They are, prepared to ‘brave all hardships and attacks in the fulfillment of their mission. ‘When General Fries makes his ap- peal to the American Legionnaires to attack the hungry and unarmed workingmen and women who will constitute the National Hunger March, he fails to consult the sen- timent of the rank and file members of the Legion and all other veterans’ organizations. He conveniently for- gets that the vast majority of those who actually endangered their lives, who gave their blood, their limbs and their health to “save the democracy” and “end all wars” have long ago realized that they were the victims of the same kind of lying propaganda and promises which the General Frieses and the Hoovers are spreading so Widely today. He pretends not to realize that hundreds of thousands of thes2 veterans are starving at the present moment. He appears not to know that fierce resentment is burn- ing in the hearts of these workers who have even been robbed of the miserly bonus which was promised them. His contact is only with the officers of the Legion, who like him- seif “fought” the war from swivel If ,amog the thousands who will greet | Rally in support of the National Legion and tools of the bankers and employers: ‘When the Hunger Marchers arrive in Washington, scores of ex-service- men, many of them still members of the American Legion will be in the forefront of their ranks. Worker ex- servicemen of Washington will be the mand rally tothem. Workers! Worker Ex-Servicemen! Hunger March! Organize Worker De- fense Corps to defend the Hunger Marchers against the fascist attacks of the bosses! Served in Marines 16 Years; Can’t Get Night’s LodgingNow CINCINNATI, Ohio, Noy. 24.— Here’s capitalist gratutude! Wil- liam Grener, born in Seattle and for some time a resident of Cin- cinnati, at 251 Pike St., has spent 16 years and nine months serving American Imperialism in U. S. Marine Corps. Out of work and dispossessed, he went to the “City Hotel” at Ninth and Plum streets. .They let London Daily Worker Partner Is Sentenced to Two Years at Labor (Cablegram to the Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 23.—Paterson, London Daily Worker printer, was sentenced to two years at hard labor by the criminal court today on a charge of incitement to mu- tiny in connection with the dem- onstrations of the British sailors against wage cuts. This is the longest political sen- tence passed in England since the war. Seven Welsh Communists were sentenced to various terms of im- prisonment today in connection with the demonstration demand- ing higher relief rates in the Rhondda Valley. TWO MORE TAMPA SHOPS ON STRIKE AGAINST FRAMEUP Movement to Hit Mass Frameup of Workers Gains Momentum (Telegram to the Daily Worker) ‘TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 24—Three hun- dred and fifty workers of Arango and Arango cigar factory struck to- day and stand a good chance of win- ning every demand in solidarity with the sixteen workers still held on charges ranging from “inciting t riot” to “intent to kill” as an after- math of a brutal police and Ameri- can Legion attack upon the four- teenth anniversary celebration here Noy. 7. Four hundred workers of the Schwab & Dayis cigar factory struck yesterday, protesting the police raid in the factory against workers agi- tating for the release and defense of workers arrested Noy. 7. ‘This is the third and fourth fac- tory to demonstrate the demands of the workers fer the immediate re- lease of the arrested workers and their conviction that the charges are a frame-up to screen the responsi- bility of the attack on the part of the police and fascist elements. The two previous strikes in the Corral- Wodiska and the Regensburgh & Sons shops on issues of solidarity with the framed workers were won. Not only have the cigar workers demanded the freedom of their com- rades, but have fought against the growing oppression in the shops and the attempts of the employers to stifle militancy and organization. L.S.N.R. ANTI-WAR MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK—The Gilbert Lewis Group of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights will hold a mass pro- test meeting to expose the role of him sleep one night and then told him to get out, as “We only keep citizens here!” PITTSBURGH, Pa.—After deciding to call a national convention of the National Miners Union in February, and redraft the constitution for pre-4| sentation there, after a detailed dis- cussion and decision to take vigorous steps to uproot white chauvinism from the union, and adopting strong reso- lutions hailing the aequital of Bur- nett, another sharply attacking the American Federation of Labor for the Lawrence betrayal of the textile work- ers, and others on the war danger and the situation in the mining in- dustry and the task confronting the union, the National Board mecting of the union adjourned last night. The work of the union and per- spectives for immediate struggle were discussed, White chauvinism was the point most widely discussed by the board members. A strong Negro depart- ment was set up which will immedi- ately have the program of the union on Negro work printed, and wide- spread propaganda on the subject ini- tiated. Recent happenings at a dance in Charleroi brought the question be- fore the union very sharply. The other outstanding point brought owt in reports and discussion, was the growth of the union and chairs and who now continue the war organizational tightening. Within the Japanese imperialism in China. The meeting will take place tonight at 8 p.m. at 417 W. 53rd St., New York National Miners Union Board in Meet Maps Action Program past three months, over three thou- sand memebrs have been admitted into the union in the Scotts Run sec- tion of West Virginie. Tremendous gains were also registered for the Kentuckey-Tennessee area. Discuss Kentuckey Situation The Kentuckey situation was care- fully discussed. Widespread strug- ges may be expected here in the im- mediate future. It was clearly indi- cated that the places where the union (GONTINCED ON PAGE THREE) Jobless Youth Trying to Get Clothes Shet Dead in Chicago, Ill. CHICAGO, Tll.—The following art- icle appeared in the Chicago Herald- Examiner: “Father Indentifies Slain Boy Ban- dit.” ‘Two persons yesterday viewed the body of a youth shot Tuesday after ‘he broke into a clothing store at 3312 So. Halsted St. “It’s my son, Adam,” said Mathew Levintis of 3657 Wallace St. “We lived alone. He made just enough as a printer to pay for our rent and food. He probably wanted to get us some winter clothing.” | «Charity and Cheap Advertising-- the gife of $100,000 in foods to the needy and deserv- ing unemployed and its distribu- tion through Grand Union stores under the supervision of Author- ietd Relief Agencies. For needy and deserving unem- ployed this winter, in communities served by our stores, we have cre- ated the Grand Union $100,000.00 Relief Plan, under which a total. of $100,000.00 in Foods will be dis- tributed from our stores with the ation and supervision of. relief organizations. This Plan is evidence that Geand Union is to help solve the serious problem {mang communities will have to face in this time of stress. We ate not soliciting the public for contributions’ In brief, 100,000 cards worth $1.00 each in’ Food at our regular retail prices will be issued through local relief agencies, to deserving persons. is Plan is in effect, November 20, 1931 to March 1, 1932. < foe Each Grand Union company employee in Hudson, N.-Y., is assessed 2 per cent of his pay so the company can make this gesture of generosity. The Grand Union wages are among the lowest in the United States. We challenge the Grand Union to refute these statements. The Matchless Charity of the Mellons---Hoover’s Multi-Millionaire Master By BILL DUNNE. 4ERE does the money for the various independ- ent charity schemes come from? It comes mainly from low paid workers—em- ployed by companies which take the credit for it and coin thousands of dollars in advertising returns from it—as we show above. Where does the bulk of the funds collected by the Hoover-Gifford Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee come from? They come from the starvation wages of those workers still employed. The billionaires ‘and multi-millionaires give practically nothing. They utilize the threat of discharge and starvation to make the workers they employ shoulder the burden of aiding the growing army of jobless workers. Take the case of Pittsburgh—the home of Andrew Mel- lon, secretary of the treasury in the Hoover cabinet, one of the richest robbers in the United States: ‘Six million dollars is the sum set for relief of the more than 100,000 unemployed in the city of Pittsburgh, and 150,000 in Allegheny County. A. W. Mellon, and his brother, R. B. Mellon, gave $300,000 to the $6,000,000 fund—one- twentieth of the total. But $300,000 has a large, generous sound! Many workers in Pittsburgh have been forced to give three days pay out of wages which now average less than $20 per week. Less than half the total set has been raised and the time limit for the drive has had to be extended another week. The only group that is raising and exceeding its quota is the employes division—which will subscribe $100,- 000 more than its $500,000.quota—$200,000 more than the billionaire Mellons gave. It is blackjacked from the workers. The Mellons control 83 per cent of the Gulf Oil Company. This company had “earnings” of $44,500,000 in 1929. The | Mellons control the Aluminum Company of America which averaged receipts of $19,500,000 from 1924 to 1928. Gylf Oil has assets of $762,000,000. The Mellon interests in banks, aluminum, public utilities, coal, steel and oi! amount to $1,000,000,000. President Hoover's masters of the Mellon family clearly do not believe in the slogan of “give until it hurts.” Other Pittsburgh plutocrats are just as generous. Helen Frick, of the notorious open shop coal and coke family, gave $26,000, Alexander Laughlin, of the big Jones and Laughlin steel company, gave $25,000. But, of course, in gveat democracy, with its great- heerted millionaires, aR France said, “poor as well as the rich have the right to sleep under bridges,,—and SCONMAY EP on Ace so) ee [Mass Trial Finds | Detective Guilty | of Killing Negro) DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 24.—River Rouge police surrounded the hall | previously hired for the mass trial | of the detective who murdered a! Negro jobless worker for taking a | few pieces of coal from the rail- | road track to keep himself and | family from freezing to death. The police prohibited the use of this way, in Ecorse, and the detective | found guilty by the mags jury. This | trial was jointly aranfed by the | Unemployed Council and League of Struggle for Rights. Police stool watched the trial. The mass funeral for this Negro worker was prohibited by the po- lice, but @ huge mass protest de- | monstration was held anyway. | PLAN TACTICS TO PUT OVER RAIL TOILERS WAGE CUT Rail Union Heads Aid Bosses in 10 Per Cent Cut Move NEW YORK. — Representatives of all the leading railroads, under the chairmanship of Daniel Williard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. are holding daily meetings at the Bankers Club to work out their wage-cutting strategy: After a meet- ing with the heads of the 21 railroad union brotherhood, the railroad bosses said a 10 per cent wage cut had been proposed and that it was rejected by the unions. However, the letter of the unions “rejecting” the wage cut, showed that the union leaders offered the, railroad bosses several ways to proceed to obtain the wage cut. The first proposition offered by the union heads was for the railroads to make the cut and then go through the pretense of using the 10 per cent to “employ” other railroad workers. The most dangerous suggestion was Nere ‘| that each railroad union hezd would take the matter up with his union in an effort to “reach an agreement.” ‘The Journal of Commerce of New York states that notice has already been served by the rail bosses that wages will be cut on the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. ‘The latest figures of railroad em- ployment shows there is a rapid in- crease in the number of jobless rail- road workers. ‘The bosses are using the Watson Parker law to put over the wage cut and to prevent strikes. The Herald- Tribune in a dispatch from Washing- ton, D. C. says: “The consensus in labor circles is that the failure of the New York conference of railway ex- ecutives and union heads to agree upon the wage reduction which the roads insist that they must have will not result in a strike.” They point out that instead the government will step in helping the wage cut to go over. % pigeons | | Price 3 Cents SOVIET PRESS CHARGES U.S. LEADS ANTI-SOVIET FRONT GENERAL FRIES Japanese i in New Battle to Extend ~ Manchurian Gri hall, but the trial was held any- | | Soviet Press Exiobes Japanese Aid to Chinese General || Ma, Scores | Provocative Acts of Japan ‘Guerilla Warfare Rapidly Spreading Over South __ Manchuria BULLETIN. The Soviet press sees Japan installed in Manchuria as another link in the anti-Soviet military front organized by United States and French imperialisms. A United Press dispatch from Moscow yester- | day reported: | “The Soviet press today charged western powers, headed by the United States, with attempting to place an ‘imperialistic polleeman’ | on Russia’s eastern frontiers by taking advantage of the Man- churian situation. “The press said that Washington’s ambiguous policy was almed to create a Russo-Japanese conflict and to ‘undermine the five-year en Japan, America’s most important rival in the | The Japanese yesterday launched a new attack on the Chinese masses. Confident. of the support of the United States and France, the Japanese demanded the withdrawal of China behind_the Great Wall, and threatened military action in Central China unless the growing mass he- sistance to the seizure of Manchuria is suppressed. This threat is tantamount to an order to the Kuomintang tools of Yankee Chinese masses. The new Japanese offensive in Man- churia is in line with the secret moves of the League of Nations Council and U. §. Ambassador Dawes in Paris for a re-division of China and war on the Soviet Union. The Japanese de- clared their immediate objective to be the clearing of Manchuria of the troops of Chang Hsueh-Liang, work- ing together with Chang Kai-Shek. The new drive is plainly aimed, how- ever, not at the Kuomintang lackeys of imperialism but at the only force in China resisting the Japanese ag- gressions: the Chinese masses lead by the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Red Army: Capitalist press dispatches from Tokioand Shanghai yesterday ad- mitted Japanese military activities in Southern Manchuria. The New York Evening Graphic carried the front page headline: “Japs Battle Chinese in New War Drive.” A London cable reports: “A Peiping dispatch to The Lon- don Daily Mail today said Japanese troops were moving northward in Manchuria toward Chinchow with the intention of crushing all poli- tical and military forces hostile to Japan.” A Tokio dispatch to the New York Evening World-Telegram is headed: “Tokio Troops in New Clash with (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEW YORK.—Thousands of New of New York unemployed and employed workers are expected to jam the huge Bronx Coliseum at 177th St., Bronx, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 8 p. m., to greet and send off the National Hunger Marchers on their way to Washington to lay before Congress the demands of 12 million unem- ployed for immediate cash winter re- lief and unemployment insurance. William Z. Foster, general secre- tary of the Trade Union Unity League ,will be the principal speaker. A special program has been arranged by the unemployed councils and the Workers International Relief. The hunger marchers from New York and New England will march into the hall in a body. ‘The mighty demonstration in sup- port of the hunger march and de- mands of the unemployed and starv- ing millions on Dec, 2 at the Bronx Coliseum will be the reply to the pro- vocative fascist statement of Matthew Woll, the first vice president of the American Federation of Labor and the acting president of the bankers’ strike-breaking National Civic Fed- Thousands to Support Hunger March at Coliseum Meeting Communist Party and the Unem- jPloyed Councils and for fascist and police terror against the hunger marchers. Woll ,who gave the signal for the establishment of the Fish Committee, who initiated for the im- perialist bankers the drive against the Soviet Union on the “forced labor” and “dumping” issues, agairi gives.the signal for the hunger gov- ernment of Wall Street bankers and wage cutters for fascist and police war against the demands of the un- employed. Woll is following out the line and policy of the Vancouver convention which went on record against unem- ployment. insurance. Woll, in the name of the bankers and fe«rist forces in this country, has declared war on the unemployed struggle Cor the right to Hive. Answer the vile fascist threats of Matthew Woll! Fill the Coliseum to overflow- ing on Dec. 2! Support with all your power with all your means the Na- tional Hunger March! Participate in the tag days March 28th and 29th for the Hunger March! Centribute liberally and collect from your shop eration, who called for outlawing the siasintacaitainsiidoinccantbisetfainnssiantlibhe and Japanese imperialism to intensify the terror against the e LATHERS SET UP 4 PICKET LINES Boss Injures Worker on the Picket Line The Committee of Action of the Lathers Local 244, that ousted its of- ficials for plotting underhand wage cuts together with the employers, yes- terday succeeded in throwing picket lines about four operations where the employers locked out union members. E. Nashler, a union picket at the operation at Ave. P, Brooklyn, was severely cut about the head and hands when the employer, Joseph Freedman, hurled stones at him while picketing the building. Quick s¢tion of other building trades workers end sympathizing neighbors forced a ré- luctant policeman to arrest Preed- man, who is now out without bail. The picketing aroused the interest, and sympathy of many of the rank and file building trades workers of other crafts and made an impres- sion upon them. Already several of the builders have sent committees to the union seeking a settlement. The Committee of Action, composed of fifteen workers, has set to work to enforce the day room system and tone up the fighting spirit of the union. List of Tag Day Stations for the Nat'l Hunger March Above all, the Hunger March must be financed. All workers and unem- ployed workers should report to the nearest tag day stationto help collect funds. The tag days are Saturday and Sunday. The stations are as follows F Bronx 785 Westchester Ave., 1622 Bath- gate Ave., 2109 Arthur Ave.,.1410 Boe- ton Rd., 2700 Bronx Park East. » Manhattan 15 W. 126th St., Spanish Workers’ Center, 4 FE. 116th St.; 143 E. 103rd St.. 330 KE. Bist St.. Czechoslovak Workers’ Home, 347 B. 72nd St.; 302 W. 20th St., 131 W. 28th St, 16 W. 2ist St., 142 F. Third St., 196 Broaw- way. Brooklyn 61 Graham Ave, 798 Flushing a 962 Sutter Ave. 106 1844 Pitkin Ave., T8738 mae 140 Neptune Ave, 48 Bay 28th St, wa W. 3and sth