The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1931, Page 1

Se en MAKE YOUR PREPARATIONS NOW FOR THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH TAG DAYS, NOV. 28 AND 29 f 4 J WORKERS THE WORLD, UNITE! —Edamu i Section of the Communist paternanena) Norker unist Party U.S.A. HUNGER MARCH! VOLUNTEER AS A THE TAG DAYS. MANY CITIES HOLD TAG DAYS SATURDAY COLLECT FUNDS FOR THE NATIONAL COLLECTOR IN THIS AND SUNDAY. Inntered as second~ at New York, N. Y., Vol. VII, matter at under the act of March 3, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, _NOVEMER 2%, “1931 _Price 3 Cents HOOVER “RELIEF” SCANDAL SHOCKS WASHINGTON 1500 HUNGER MARCHERS START FOR CAPITAL Hands Off Hunger Marchers! Hands Off Workers Fighting ¥or Unemployment Insurance Hands Off All Working Class Organizations! calling munisi Pe riy. end indictment in Illinois for criminal syndicalism of Bill ct organizer of the Communist Party. Joe Tash, national for the National Miners’ Union, and six other active comrades, once the publication of the open letter of Matthew Woll to ad congressmen, denouncing the National Hunger March and for the jailing of Commnists and the suppression of the Com- Woll cites the recent example of the railroading of Tim Buck and her consnii s is not all. oll for the executive council of inows in ony way to enccurage them.” of police and state troops in Detroit and the vicinity of Pit: leading Canadian Communists to five years in prison for cy” against the government of the Dominion, as the : methed to be followed in combatting Communism in the United ©>urred on by the incitements of the agents of of reaction like hte Civic Federation, for which Woll speaks the Afnerican Federation of Lab i! points to the Cleveland chamber of commerce as.a body which ow to deal with hungry workers and hunger marchers. . the chamber warned tradesmen and others along the pro- ed route not to contribute food or shelter to the marchers, nor He says: Woll deliberately refrains from mentioning the additional fact that the chamber of comme: murdered two unempl Jackson, during a demonstration. ‘ce so encouraged the Cleveland police that they yed Negro workers, Jack Rayford and Edward In the belly-crawling to the Hunger President now in the White House in which Woll indulges in the second paragraph of his fascist docu- ment. he not only places his fat rear end in such a convenient position | that no hungry worker will resist the temptation to deliver a healthy | kick, but he exposes himself as a supporter of all the humiliation, de- F gradation, of the w starvation and oppression now being inflicted upon millions ing class by the Hoover-Wall Street starvation program masked by the titl of “Emergency Unemployment Relief.” Woll seys: “The Communists are determined that, if they can pre- vent it, not even th president of the United States shall be allowed to initiate anything that might tend to make less menacing to our present order a situation so much to their liking.” The Co and capite aid. pittles like and over The Ce: the United 5! un’st Party did not create the present situation. Capitalism It is no wonder that with 12,000,000 hungry and ployed workers clamoring for food and shelter capitalism's Woll hate to hear such elementary truths repeated over ugain so workers can read and hear them, munist Party is determined that “not even the president of tates shall be allowed to initiate anything” that adds to the misery of the hungry masses, that takes hard-earned dollars by threats and coercion from the pockets of workers still employed to save the billionaire bankers and bosses the expnse of maintaining the workers they have thrown out to beg, steal or starve. ‘The Communist Party is determined to do its utmost, not only to such a <¢ the rottenness and decline of capitalism and convince workers of ripeness of the time for struggle for its ovrthrow, but to organize powerful movement for unemployment insurance that at least a@ minimum of decent living for the unemployed and their dependents will be wrested from the capitalist class. The Jommunist Party will do and is doing its utmost to rally the American working class for a victorious struggle to secure Unemployment Insurance, working class upon the class which which Woll speaks. place the burden of mass unemployment now borne by the rules and robs them—the class for Woll wants to solye the unemployment question by suppressive laws. 1s svvld feed the hungry millions by jailing and deporting Communists cad all militent workers, by outlawing the Communist Party; he wants off the Hunger March! izations! capitalism by driving the workers’ standard of living still lower, the militant mass struggles of employed and unemployed. Hands off all working class organ- Maryland Lynch Mobs Threat Another Negro Farm Hand SNOWHILL, Md:, Noy. 26.—An- other Negro worker is threatened by lynch mobs under the leadership of the rich farmers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A few days ago, rich farmers of Kent, Cecil and Queen Annes counties surrounded the Chesterton jeil and, rope in hand, searched it for George Davis, a Ne- gro farm hand. Davis was arrested on a charge of attempted rape. The Jeaders of the mob are well known, but no action has been taken against them by ...2 vuss authorities of the state or county. The growing terror in Maryland against Negro workers has been openly encouraged by Gov. Ritchie of ‘Maryland and the Worcester County authorities, who brazenly denied all constitu.ional rights to Orphan (Lee) Jones in their murderous attempt to railroad him to a death sentence on a frame-up charge of murdering a white farmer and his family. The only basis for the charge against Jones is that he worked several days for this farmer and was robbed of oneday’s wages at ten cents an hour. Jones was savagely tortured into a “confession,” threatened by lynch mobs several times, refused the right to see his counsel before he was in- and then saw his counsel, Ber- Ades (furnished by the Inter- Labor Defense) barred by Jones be tried in Baltimore, away from the lynch mobs organized by (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Walker Admits Bosses Fear Mass Fight to FreeMooney SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 26.—Mayor Walker today ex- plained his sudden interest in the Mooney case in a published state- ment. “The case is continually cited by radical leaders as an ex- ample of American injustice. It is a live case here, in the east and internationally, and business men see in it today a constant menace which is being used by undesirable elements to stir up near riots.” San Francisco papers in editor- ials make the main issue whether or not to yield to the reds. Under the leadership of the In- ternational Labor Defense and the Trade Union Unity League in San Francisco a mass demonstration has been called for on Dec, 1 in front of the state building, where the hearing will be held. In Los Angeles there will be a mass meet- ing on Noy. 29 at the Fine Arts JAPANESE IN PLAN TO GRAB HARBIN Organizing White Guards Against Soviet Union BULLETIN. The only physical resistance to the Japanese attack on China con- tinues to come from the Chinese Red Army and the workers and peasants who are responding by tens of thousands to the call of the Chinese Communist Party for armed resistance against the im- perialist bandits. Sixty Chinese workers and peasants were killed yesterday and many wounded in a clash with Japanese troops within 20 miles of Mukden. The Japanese military reported 4 Japanese killed and 8 wounded in the engagement. Numerous bands of Chinese workers and peasants are conduct- ing guerrila warfare against the Japanese throughout Manchuria. a was The Japanese continue their provocative actions against the PAGE THREE) (CONTINUED ON ll Year Old Negro Boy MurderedIn Jim Crow Theatre PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 26. — Eleven-year-old Bobby Gore, a Negro boy, was murdered in the Jim Crow ‘Triangle Theatre in East Pittsburgh. Negroes are forced to sit in one part of the house and white people the other side. Bobby bought his ticket and went in with a number of children, black and white. The chil- dren ran in and out, without Ralph Perella, the ticket taker, interfering. All of a sudden Perella swung around, grabbed the Negro child, and told him he would have to pay again to get in. Bobby ducked and ran through. Perella grabbed a heavy broomstick and slammed it across the Negro child’s head. The boy fell, with blood streaming from his head. A passerby picked up the child and brought him to 118 Darlan Street and left him at the foot of the steep flight of steps leading up to the ram- shackle house. The child crawled up by himself. Soon after the child died. “Tumor of the brain” was the ver- dict of the doctor. The coroner's ver- dict was “an accident.” Perella wasn’t even arrested. Golden Gore, young Robert's father, hasn't worked regularly for the past three years, although he was em- ployed by a Homestead. steel mill. He is making one day's work a week now—$4.30, On these “wages,” a wife and three children ha dto be supported. Da- vid, six years old, and Harry, nine, are left. Together they live in the dilapidated house, raised thirty feet above the street, that looks as though it will collapse any minute: In the living room of the three- tenement apartment the plaster Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill 'Proposed by the Unemployed Councils, To Be Placed Before Congress by the 1,500 CHALLENGE ‘Nat'l J Hunger March|/ Sweeps On; Police! Terror Can’ t Stop It} The National Hunger March is | on the way and is going through! The struggle for city housing and | feeding of the delegates continues | everywhere, with success in many | = TO WOLLIS s tion against any race, color, less than union rates of pay. Hunger March Delegates on December 7 IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT FULL WAGES That a system of federal unemployment insurance be| immediately established by an Act of Congress and made immediately effective, guaranteeing full wages to.all workers wholly or partly unemployed, through any cause whatsoever, for the entire period of unemployment. FOR ALL WORKERS—NO DISCRIMINATION That unemployment insurance be paid to every unem- ployed worker, adult and youth, whether industrial or agricultural, office employees and all other categories of | wage labor, native or foreign born, citizen or non-citizen, Negro and white, men and women, and without discrimina- worker shall be deprived of unemployment insurance be- cause of refusal to take the place of strikers or to work for INSURANCE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE EMPLOYERS AND THE GOVERNMENT That the full funds for unemployment insurance shall be raised by the government from funds now set aside for war preparations and by taxation upon the capital and profits of corporations and’ trusts and also by taxation sharply graduated upward upon all incomes over $5,000 per year. In no instance shall there be any contributions levied upon the workers in any form whatsoever for this insurance. ADMINISTRATION BY THE WORKERS That the unemployment insurance fund shall be ad- ministered and controlled by the workers, through com- mittee elected by the workers themselves. FOR OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL INSURANCE That social insurance be paid to workers to the amount of full wages to compensate for loss of wages through sickness, accident, old age, maternity, etc. age or political opinion. No Mass Strikes Protest Brutal Murder of 9 in Czech March (Special to Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czecnoslovakia, Nov. 26. —Two more workers died at Friewal- dau today, making the death total nine who were killed when police fired into an unemployment demon- stration yesterday. Eight women were among the score who were seri- ously wounded. Eyewitnesses report that the police suddenly stopped the hunger march ordering {it to disperse. The masses in the rear were unaware of what was happening and they pressed on push- ing the workers shoulder to shoulder. ‘The workers were unable to disperse in the narrow road even if they were willing to. Then the police chief gave the order to the reserve police de- tachment to fire point blank at the packed masses. The authorities announce the po- lice fired “in defense of their lives.” hangs down from the ceiling almost a yard in places. There are big gaps in the ceiling and floor. While seven Scottsboro Negro boys —not much older than Bobby Gore, are being held for the electric chair on fake charges of attacking a pros- titute, the moving picture house man is not even troubled with the for- mality of an arrest. Expose Fascist Plan to Estab- lish a German Dictatorship (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Nov. 26.—Former fascist leader, Offenbach, handed the po- lice a secret fascist document, being a drafe proclamation which was to be issued after the fascist seizure of power. The proclamation threatens with death by fascist murder gangs all persons resisting their orders. The document states that all persons fail- ing to deliver their weapons to the fascists within twenty-four hours on demand are to be shot without trial. Employes of public services, including railways and transport, are also threatened with death in case they | strike against the fascists. A list of “crimes” resulting in death should the fascists obtain power is included in the document. Yesterdvy the police of Darmstadt raided the home of fascist leaders. They officially report that material captured confirms the authenticity of the drafe proclamation. The ma- terial has been handed to the public prosecutor, who apparently is a fas- cist sympathizer, for he declares that the document is not treasonable be~ cause it allegedly assumes that the fascist seizure of power would be pre- ceded by a Communist revolution having overthrown the constitutional government. The statement shows that the fas- cists have powerful friends in high places prepared to save them at all costs from the results of the dis- covery of these insurrectionary plans. As yet no arersts have been made and no further action has been taken. The official fascist party de- nies everything. This is a lie. They print the list of the “seriously injured” police in- cluding officers Jirkoysky and Gry- gar. Eyewitnesses report that nei- ther was seriously hurt, suffered a cut lip and Gygar a slight bruise. None were given hospital at- tention. Protest demonstrations are being organized throughout Czechoslovakia. Numerous protest strikes are being (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Workers Force Charity To Aid Vet And Help Re-establish Family A delegation representing the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Downtown Unemployed Council yesterday succeeding in forcing the Society for Organizing Charity, 23rd St. and 3rd Ave., to grant immediate relief to the family of A. Regus, an unemployed worker and ex-service- “man, Regus’s family was broken up, with he and his wife homeless and their child in an institution and their fur- niture in storage. For nearly two months the two workers’ organiza- tions tried to get action on this case, but it was not until yesterday that the charity agency acceded to the demands. A room was immediately procured for Regus and his wife, $10 in cash given for food and arrangements made for his furniture to be taken out of storage and his children re- turned to him. Jail 2 For Leaflets At Utrecht High School NEW YORK.—For organizing leaf- Jet distribution demanding free food for workers’ children in the New Utrecht High School, Jack Dubitsky and Louis Joell were sent to jail yes- terday. The two Communist League mem- bers defended their own case. They insisted workers had the right to or- ganize for unemployment relief and against the high food prices charged unemployed workers’ children in the schools. Joel was given five days and Dubitsky two day Jirkovsky | REPEATED Call’ On “Workers to! Support National Hunger March Woll Sells “Industrial” | Insurance to Bosses Pointing out that Matthew Woll, acting president of the| National Civic Federatio n and and vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, whose state- ment denouncing the National Hung- er March and calling for jailing of | the workers taking part in it, has | been given wide circulation in the | press after being sent to all Congress- | men and Senators, is also president | of the Union Labor Life Insurance | Company which sells “ndustrial” in- surance to employers, the National Hunger Marche Committee of Un- employed Councils, through A. W./} Mills, organizer, today issued the fol- | lowing. statement and at the same | time made public its proposals for a Federal Workers’ Unemployment ‘In- surance Bill to be presented to Con- gress by the 1,500 hunger marchers on December 7th. “We have received no reply from Mr. Woll to our challenge issued yester- day to debate with a spokesman of the Unemployed Councils and we now call the attention of Mr. Woll to the demands contained in our draft bill and again challenge him to reply in| debate, before mass meetings of the workers in any city or any number | of cities he may select and at any| time and place, to our proposals.” “Since our challenge was issued, it has become clearer that the oppon- | ents of unemployment insurance, for | whom Woll speaks, are by no means | satisfied with the propaganda such | as sent by Woll to Congressmen and Senators, but are actively mobilizing | police and gangsters for armed at- | tacks on hunger marchers and are inciting and ordering, where they | have the power, as many members as | for the jailing of the hunger march- | ers and unemployed demonstrators.” “The Washington scandal and the revelations in connection therewith show that the coercing of workers for the Hoover hunger fund were true and that in the capital of the nation itself the power of the Hoover ad-| ministration is. being used to force deductions from the lower paid gov- | ernment employees.’ ’ | “We renew our challege to Woll, the | acting president of the National Civic | Federation, vice-president of the/ American Federation of Labor and| cities. Most important events of the last two days are 1, Challenge to Matthew Woll} |to defend his attack on National | Hunger March and unemployment | jinsurance by debate with ‘repre- | sentatives of National Hunger March Committee of Unemployed Councils. 2, Challenge by National Field | Representative of Hunger March Committee to Voteless District of Columbia League of Women Vot- ers to allow jobless representative | to present views at debate between League and Governor Pinchot. _| 3. Ararngements of a demon- | stration at Jemestown City Hall today, when National Marchers leave on their way to New York. 4. Arrangement of a women’s jand children’s demonstration in Detroit, Saturday, in answer to po- lice attacks on yesterday's demon- stration. 5. Women's and children’s! | hunger march on the city hall to- | day in Cleveland: | | 6. Allegheny County Hunger | |March delegation to Pittsburgh city council secures promise to consider feeding and lodging Na- tional Hunger Marchers. Despite | police attack, ‘county _ hunger | marchers parade before Blawnox | penitentiary, 7. Hammond, Ind., mayor gives | qualified permit for mass greet- ing of National Hunger Marchers and parade through city. 8. Continued preparations for march through Wheeling. Police raid and seize literature. City council threatens attack on Na- tional Hunger Marchers, | 9. Jefferson County Hunger | March today on Steubenvills, with police terror temporarily smashed ss meeting at court house | MASS TRIAL OF HARLAN JUDGE, the National Civic Federation have,| Dreiser Gonna To | Report Sunday Two officials of coal company owned Harlan County, Ky., will be accused and tried before a working class jury called by the International Labor Defense at a mass meeting in the Central Opera House, 205 East 67th Si. Sunday, November 29, 2:30 p.m. The Is are Prosecutor William A. Brock and Judge D. C. Jones, of Harlan county courts This meetiny will open the ILD. fight against the indictment of Theo- dore Dreiser, his writers committee, the head of the Union Labor Life In- | and 60 miners on charges of criminal surance Company, and call upon the| syndicalism for fighting terror and workers throughout the country to| starvation imposed by coal operator support the National Hunger March and the draft proposals for a Federal Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill, giving it their endorsement at | the scores of mass meetings that are | being held on the route of the Hung- | er March to Washington and in) Washington itself.” thugs. Speak will be Lester Co- hen, author of “Sweepings”; Charles Walker, author of “Stee! Adelaide Walker, New York actress; George Maurer, secretary of the I. L. D.; Harry Gannes of the Daily Worker, and Jim Grace, beaten and kid- napped Harlan miner. Rally in Colise NEW YORK.—The hhtige ride mass araDy and demonstration at the Bronx! Coliseum, East 177th St., Dec. 2, will voice the support of the one million unemployed New York workers for the National Hunger Marchers and the demands they will make on Con- gress and President Hoover for cash winter relief and unemployment in- surance for all unemployed. Together with the starving and destitute unemployed of the rest of the country, the 300 hunger march- ers from New York State will declare to the capitalist government of Herbert Hoover and the bankers and trust magnates the determination of ‘the millions of employed and unem- ployed workers to fight harder than ever against the whole program of the hunger government and their wage-cutting robbing charity schemes. All out to the Bronx Coliseum on December 2nd. Support the National Hunger March. Fight against th~ capitalist murder of your childrcn! ( um Will Voice Demand for J obless Insurance Fight against evictions, the shutting off of light or gas—fight against wage cuts for graft and hunger char- ity; not a cent off the workers’ wages, Support the Hunger March. On to Washington. Compel the bosses and their government to grant $150 cash winter relief and unem- ployment insurance. Support the Munger March tag days November 28th and 29th. All unemployed Communist Party members are instructed to report to members of the section bureau from 4p. m. sharp. Section organizers or the Coliseum Wednesday, Dec, 2, at each section must also be there on time. Ail other Party members come to the hall immediately after work. The hall will be divided into sections as on Noy. 7, and reports will be made to “_4 organizers. Av <u literature agents must re- ~« at the Coliseum at 6 p. m. ‘GOVERNMENT ‘EMPLOYEES FORCED 10 CONTRIBUTE Government Officials Warn That Failure to Pay Will Be Punished EXPOSED BY JOBLESS |Focuses Attention On Na- tional Hunger March | WASHINGTON, _D. C., Nov. 26.—A terrifie scandal, directly in- volving President Hoover, has broken out here over revealations that the federal employees are being forced by threats of loss of privileges such as vacations, etc., to contribute three day’s pay to the Gifford relief by direct |order sanctioned by Hoover himself. The facts were first set forth in a leaflet by the Unemployed Councils, | which, under the direction of the | Washington Arrangements Commit- tee for the National Hunger March, are preparing for the reception of 1,500 National Hunger March del- egates arriving here Dec: 6 to de- mand unemployment insurance and immediate winter relief from the fed- eral government. The Washington papers point out specifically that Lieut. Colonel U. 5. | Grant, 3rd, director of collections in |the department of public buildings and parks, and “directly responsible |to President Hoover who has sanc- tioned the three days’ donations among Federal employes,” has or- dered that employes of his depart- |ment who refuse to give the three days’ pay shall* have their reasons |for refusal noted opposite their | names.” Colonel Grant went so far.as to | raise the amount to be deducted from the wages by notifying his division chiefs that, “of course the employes | are not limited to giving three days’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) |Hugo Gellert to \Draw Hoover’s Fake Jobless Group Have you ever seen the mem- | bers of Hoover's emergency un- employmentrelief committee Do you know who they are? What do you know about the men who are organizing the struggle against the 12,000,000 unemployed and their families?. These are the men Matthew Woll, the socialist; | Mayor Walker and others defend Every worker should know these exploiters, among the most powers ful in the United States. Hugo Gellert, famous revolue tionary artist, with his powerful | style of caricature, is going to ple- ture these individuals for the Daily. Worker. Each day, beginning on | | Monday, the Daily Worker will |carry an original portrait of this hunger-enforcing committee drawn. by Hugo Gellert specially for this series. Along with Gellert's masterly portrayal of this important grou of capitalist, whose job is to keep, the workers starving within peace- ful and unresisting bounds, the] Daily Worker has made a detailed investigation of each of the mem- bers of Hoover's committee. Some startling facts will be revealed about all of them. Don't miss Monday morning’s Daily Worker. Watch for this Rogues’ Gallery of big bosses