The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1931, Page 4

Page Four ° 0. Open Hearings on! Hunger Reveal Mass Misery, Starvation Follow of the t a stenograp five witn Or of the Open hearing on Starvatior under auspices of the Unemplo; Councils of .St in the Workers Center, 303 Jackson St Paul Comrade Anderson opened the meeting and told the people that this hearing was called for the purpose of finding out how much starvation ! Are you m What is Your age Nationality? : How long have you been ‘unem- in your family? did you receive at your any charity? Native born? : Did you serve in the Army? How long did you serve? After you returned from the war, did you get your job back? . What is your trade? Do you belong to Has your gas, shut off? .:. On account of non-payment? Do you need immediate relief? Who pays for your fuel? . y trade union? . light or water been Are you in need of medical aid? Children? . aan Ssene Are you in need of any school books? Did you pay for these books? Do the children that go to school need clothes? Do you consider that your children are undernourished? Do your children receive milk or shot lunches at school? oens The witnes ‘then stated:* Personally I thi ou have covered quite a bit of territory there. Some people might take acceptance that the children! should be supplied at least. I don't | mind so much for myself but I renege | when it comes to the children. I will | fight to the last ditch for them. I} have never been here before. I took | the stand, freely-and willingly. I am | with this party im:-these-things if I can do anything. I was not shoved up| here and am doing this of my own | free will.” Another witness made the foilwing | Second Witness on stand: Mrs. PaulHyler. Address? Your age? Nationality? : Are you unemployed? How long unemployed? How many in your family? .......... What wages did your husband receive at his last job? . Was it enough for your famiy to live on Do you own your ow relief from any born? as, light or water been off b fuel? sickness~~ in your in need of any medi How many chilren going to school?... Are they in need of books? Do your children need clothing? Do you consider that your children are undernourished? De your children receive milk or hot lunches at school? . Do you think the school should fur- nish milk and’ hot lunches? .o you need»immediate relief? . Mrs. Bartlett then testified that she had been to visit Mrs. Hyler and that | that they | they are living in 2 rooms; goa little relief from some Catholic Charity but for the past 2 or 3 weeks they have received nothing. Another man took the floor on this case and made the following state- ments: “How many in this hall tonight | that can live on $5 a month with six | Third Witness on stand, Mrs. Lloyd Address? .. * Married? Nationality? Is your husband unemployed? eaotnee How many in your family? . you own your own home? » ww much rent do you pay? Is your rent paid up to date? Are you threatened with eviction? ... How many rooms have you? ..sse0+ jit | work but am getting a small pension. | we have in St. Pau | nd are unemployed c | time in St. Paw | not organized s that the workers get anything out This is one reason why this publi hearing has been called. | The first witness, Frank Ethen, we: | placed on the stand snd question: | and an were 25 follows: i Married | 771 ‘Buffalo 43 years | American | year or better { be supported The home I have is on my baek $16 a month. No. 5 rooms—not using 2 | No, with the exception of getting coal | threugh the pressure brought by | some friends on some charitable | organizatior. Born in St. Paul. with honorable discharge. Three times enlisted No. Printer No. Lights and gas shut off, yes. Yes. Certainly do. I explained where I go some coal and | have to pick it up whereyer I could | get it | Yes, and I have a bum heart 1 I have three children going to school. | Not at present but they need more | right along. Some were donated | | | } | | | Yes, winter clothing especially. | If a man is out of work a year, how can they be anything but under- nourished? No. Haven't heard of it. I have heard they give it away but haven't sen it. statement on the above case: known this man for the} rs: worked in the same | factory with him and I want to say | in his ‘behalf he is honest and a good | | worker. He was sick and they said he was drunk. | Anthony L. Ethen stated: “In be- half of my brother I wish to say he should have two operations. I think I ‘can say it here. He has a-rupture and piles, and that is the reason he is sick. I came from Chicago, out of I came here to help him out.” 605 E. 4th St. 28 years. Polish Yes. Since they teok my husband to jail two months. Six. $35 a week but he was unemployed 2 or 3 weeks before he went to jail. | ng no rent; 's a home my brother-in-law! rents. ‘ I received $5 a month from the Rot of Contrel for one summer. Bern’ in St. Pau The electric is shut off. Have.no gas. Yes Just have an oil stove. Have no heat. No. No. Three children going to school. They have some but they are not paid for. They got them from the sister. Just loaned. They do need clothing and shoes. Two go to school, one had to stay home because he has no shoes to wear. ‘They don't get the proper food they should get. No. Yes, but they don’t. | I need help and I need it bad. bal children have gone to school hungry | half of the time because we didn’t have anything to eat. children? They until they don't have to wait find them laying on the sidewalks dead before they call it starvation. I have been out of work 2 years myself. They tell me I am too | old If I am too old, why don't they | put me out of existence? When I go | to the factory to ask for work, they | tell mé I am too old. There are five | of us and only one little girl working for $5 a week. Five dollars a month! They can keep it, I won't take it.” | T. La Fleur 118 State St. Yes. Trish. He works from 6.30 a. m. to 9 p. m. for $1 a day. I have 4 grown sons, 2 married One | Married? | Age? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1931 WITH THE FIGHT FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE! | orized cavalry, of course,” Gallant Allies of Wall St. for War on the Soviet Union By VERN SMITH Wilson was cautious enough to give “We must go ahead with our mot- | Graves an “Aide Memoire” which says the |New York Herald-Tribune, Hoove: administration paper, “but we mus* { wanted to leave Siberia and join the jin Manchuria . . not neglect the mounted branch. Only fourteen years ago we were requirec to send an expeditionary force over- seas. . | solely on motor vehicles if we were required to exert our military effort .” (Herald-Tribune editorial, Nov. 23, 1931). Yes, we remember that oversea: expedition across the Pacific ocean 14 years ago. Conditions had a cer- tain resemblance to what they were now. The Bolshevik influence was spreading. Japan was then, as now, ar vigorously invading the mainiand She was building a buffer state under her control, lot of competition from England and others. And the armies of Japan, England, France, Czecho-Slovakia and leek asta Gh God stale Bea v , tl JTOsS Was the United States, were using rail- roads and the need of protection of railroads as a pretext for an attempt to smash Red Russia, In other columns of this paper it has been abundantly proved for weeks that Japan is again the spear head of an attack on the workers and farmers government of Russia, and that the other imperialist coun- tries are at least consenting to this, supporting in devious ways he attack on the U. S. S. R., and already be- ginning to talk openly of taking part in the crusade without eoncealment. Not Biased in Our Favor Tf‘ some workers take @ light view of this, and do not yet realize their class necessity of defending the Soviet Union, perhaps a look back over the other “expeditionary force 14 years ago” will at least, stir some of their human feelings. We know a good deal about it from sources which can ~.ot be impeached as biased pro-Bolshevik. None other than Major General William 5. Graves, now retired, has written a; book on those events. Graves was commander. in chief of the American Army in Siberia. Then as now, the invasion took place with the most humane excuses, only to “preserve order.” President Are you native born? ... Has your gas, light or w shut off? ..... Do you need immediate relief? ...... How do you get your fuel? ... Have you any sickness in your How many chilren going to school?.. Is he in need of school books? ...... Do your children need clothing? ....- |Do you consider that your child is undernourished? Is your child receiving milk or hot lunches at school? Do you think they should receive food in the schools? That is th children of the unemployed? . 4 Fourth Witness on stand: H. 0. Address? Nationality? Unemployed? . How long have you been unem- Ployed? .... How many in your family? < What wages did you receive at y last job? ...... Was it enough to get along « on? Do you own your own home? How much rent do you pay? . Were you ever evicted? .. How many rooms have you? Are you receiving any relief from any charities? Did you serye in the army? What is your trade? | Do you belong to any trade union?... Has your gas, light or water been turned off? | Have they threatened to turn it off?.. | Do you need any immediate relief?. | How do you pay for your fuel? . Is there any sickness in family? ......ccce0e |How many children? How many chilren going to school?.. Is this child in need of any school books? your boy going to school, @ month, ‘es. We pay $3 a week. We have been but not by this land- lord. Five, {Are you paying for the books? Does your child going to echool ne: | clothing or shoes? « ‘Is your child going to! schoo! ‘steady 2. | Would you consider any of | dren undernourished? _ Ate you receiving relief? s..ssese066 J did get 2 or 3 sets of orders but not Do you think children of the unem- Be aii edly Miia Ml x for the last month. I asked for fuel toga. 7m ployed should {receive free food clothing, etc.? .. re een |to feed them is bean soup but you , can't find a bean. They sleep with {a newspaper to cover them and on because my daughter and son- in-law had it in their name and when they moved away it was turned off. I use a cook stove and oil lamps. We are not as bad off as some of these people. We happen to know ¢ of the fruit men who dump things at’ the city dump and get things before it hits the dump. Friends has given us potatoes and other things. Husband hauls it from the dump. fami, I have a tumor that weighs 50 Ibs. and am or the verge of a nervous breakdown The visituug teacher came today and gave the child a pair of shoes and stockings. A Nezro unemployed worker testi- fles concerning Gospell Mission as follows: “I had the opportunity to go down to the Gospel Mission with a boy friend and the food they are supposed the bare cement floor.” La Tour 1222 Hand Ave. Yes. 39 years. French American. Yes, very much. 13 months and 8 months before that? Five. 45 cents an hour. Yes as long as I worked No. None. Am taking cate of a place for the rent. Yes, once when I owed two and offe- half months rent, ‘Where I live now. Three in place ‘ No. No. T got stund on that last year. Can't pay for it. Have been picking it up. No, net at present. ‘Three, One, The witness then stated: “The reason I am not in immediate need, is because last year I wasn’t on to this hook. I went down to the Board of Welfare and waited and went to the charities (and I had never been on the list before). I went to the Board of Welfare and told them 1 was in need of immediate relief. I waited two weeks and on one came, so went down to the court house and asked them what they were going to do about it. The day before New Year's came with nothing in the "house to eat and I said I had to have help. Nothing they could do for me. So I went to the Mayor. Could not see the Mayor but saw and talked to a substitute. He se:d I could go to of groceries. I said I need something work right away and earn $5 worth | right away. Went to Wilder and they said I shouldn’t wait until I get so low but gave me $2 in cash so we had something for New Year's dinner. To come back to the Welfare Board got three orders that month by working for it. Sent back and forth from charities to'!Welfare Board. Got some relief from Welfare Board with the question, “When are you going back to work?” When spring came pushed car around picking up junk. Later traded some of my furniture for an old Ford truck, which I put in work- ing order by picking up junked parts. Got by through the summer hauling ashes, etc. Have been down to the Welfare Board but can't get any re- lief because I have the old truck in the back yard. ‘Thousands of copies of “Solidarity” official organ of the Workers Inter- national Relief, came streaming off the press today to go marching with the Hunger Marchers. “On To Wash- ington”! ‘That's the rally call of every page of this Special Hunger March Edition, the largest’ edition of “Solid- arity” so far published, The central article voices the uni- ted demands of the militant thou- sands bearing down upon Washing- ton, “Demand Unemployment Insur- ance At The Expense of The Capit- alists.”” Every page of this issue of “Solid- is crammed with burning facts ing the hunger and misery ct the masses, the bestiality of the cap- italist rulers who send out their po- lice to club and shoot down starving workers who ask for bread for their famished families, the sickening hy- pocrisy of the bosses’ charity crumbs, the chaos of the rotting system of, capitalism that, condemns millions of workers to starve while food rots in | field and storehouse and is dumped in the sewers to keep the prices up for the profit of the boss class. And every page portrays the growing re- volt against the compact between the leaders of the American Federation of Labor, the officials of the boss charity institutions, the ruling class and the government to drive the | workingclass still farther into the | maw of starvation. “The National Hunger Marchers Are On Their Way,” “Farmers, Too, Are Starving,” “Workers’ Solidarity Must Aid the Jobless,” “Starvation and the Negro Workers,” ‘6,000,000 Children Are Starving In These Cap- italist’ United States,” these and many other articles put forward the demands of the workers to the bos- ges’ government and explain the pro- gram of the militant workers to those other millions who must be raliiea under the banner of working class solidarity. ‘This issue of “Solidarity” will reach sections of the working class never before touched with the message of tI, i ERNIE A NAN OD oliderity. The delegates to the “National Hunger March from the THE HUNGER MARCH EDITION OF “SOLIDARITY” | Unemployed Councils, the T.U.U.L. Unions, and the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor, as well as the other mass organizations, and the mills, farms, breadlines and flop-houses thruout the country are taking bundles of “Solidarity” with them on the march. The masses who gather to express their unity with the marchers will have an opportunity: to read this splendid issue of “Solidar- ity.” But how about those who are unable to be on the line of march? ‘They; too, must be given theop- portunity of reading the comprehen- sive exposures of the capitalist char- ity rackets, of the vast starvation and unemployment existing in all sections of the American workingclass. They ‘formed of the militant pro- must be gram of the Wemployed Councils and the Worke:g International Re- lief. Workers, order bundle orders of “Solidarity” today! Distribute them among the workers in your shop and in the flop-houses and unemployment. agencies! Draw these workers into the fight for unemployment insur- ance and immediate relief, at the ex- pense of the capitalists! In the Soviet Union wage ‘in- creases and the universal introduc- tion of the seven-hour day. In cap- though she had a | old him not to take sides, just. to fave the Czecho-Slovak army which Allies, and to protect the railroad: Later on, Graves observed “with pained astonishment, real or feigned, . It would be folly to dependj that he was being ordered by the ; State department to fight the Bol- shevik and support the government of Adm. Kolehak and all his murd- | erers. He observed that-the Czech army, far from trying to leave"Si+ beria was trying to conquer it: He found that the Kolchak .moyement, and particularly its eastern generals end governors, were in Japanese pay. He found that the American Red Sross, long before the mask was off, | 2efore Wilson had begun openly to ship supplies to Kolchak, this Am- erican Red Cross which now -in Pennsylvania says it can not heal the harms done by man but only salve acting as the supply agent for ‘Kol- chak’s army, and for his most murd- erous generals, Semenoff, Kalmikoff, and Rosanoff. And they were murderous! Even Graves, a professionaP soldier, was shocked. He quotes an order issued by Ro- zanoff to his army: “1. In occupying the villages which have been occupied before by bandits (partisans) to insist on get- ting the leaders of the movement, and where you can get the leaders, but have sufficient evidence as to the Presence of such leaders, then shoot one out of every ten of the people.” “2. The village where the popula- tion met our troops with arms, should be burned down and all the full grown male population should be shot; property homes, carts, ete. should be taken for the use of the Army.” é And then Graves adds, reflectively: “Rozanoff proved to be the third worst character known to mein Si- beria, although he could néver quite reach the plane occupied by Kalmi- koff and Semenoff.” defy description: Seizing whole hun- dreds of peasant population, loading them on trains and taking them to his private “killing grounds” (Graves’ description) was ohe. Shoving pris- oners through holes chopped in the ice of lakes, was ancther. Long cen- tinued torture of women and child- ren of the peasantry was another little diversion of Semenoff. Kalmikoff was the same, killed by orders to their troops,. Kal- mikoff ‘enjoyed butchering péasants with his own lily-white aristocratic hands. Graves says: “I also met for the first time, the notorious mur- derer, robber, and cut-throat Kalmi- koff.° He was -the ‘worst scoundrel I ever‘ saw, or heard of and I seri- ously doubt, if one should go entirely through the Standard Dictionary, looking for words descriptive of crime, if a.crime could be found that Kal- mikoff had not committed. He was armed and financed by Japan, in their efforts ‘to help the Russian People.’” “Semenoff Can Be Used. Kalmikoff was killed. But Semen- off, the. “sedond worst niurdeter” is | and now already back in Manchutia leading some of these White Giiard bands who are trying to set up the ’|higher in the bod; Some of the things Semenoff did | except | | Graves thinks he was worse, because, {whereas Rozanoff and Semenoff still alive, long a resident of Japan, | i new buffer state. After being driven from Siberia Semenoff made a tri- umphal tour of United States, ban- |queted by all the first families. | Graves says flatly “The Anti- Bolsheviks killed 100 people in West- ern Siberia to every one killed by the Bolsheviks.” Furthermore, he gives long detailed accounts by Am- |erican army officers of rooms splash- }ed with blood from roof to floor |where peasants were tortured by | Russian white guards — the same white guards who are Japan's pets now in Manchuria, and who would be used again when the border is crossed—probably used to first of all crossthe Siberian border: An officer cross the Siberian border. An officer Says one of these White Guard Rus- stan torture chambers! “I found the floor of the room these men were beaten in was coy- ered with blood, and the walls in the room were all splashed with blood. The wire and loops of rope that were used around the men's necks were still hanging from the ceiling and covered with blood. I atso found that some of these men had been scalded with boiling water and burned with hot irons, heated in a little stove I found in the room. “T visited the spot where these men were shot. ‘These men were lined up | and shot, ana each body has at least three holes in it, and some as many }as six or more. They were appar- | ently shot in the feet first and then § Even Graves becomes a little In- dignant over the current phrase- ology of the capitalist press, which represented the Japanese—and the Americans and the English—and their white guard Russian allies as “defending civilization from Bolshe- vik barbarism.” Mikado's Officers | | An American commander under |Grayes reported to him as follows about the methods of the Japanese | Officers, the same officer caste that is now conquering Manchuria, at the orders of Japanese capitalism, and will try to conquer the Soviet Union if things can be arranged in time with the American and British gov- ernments. Because some Russian peasants were suspected of not giving ; all information the Japanese officers | desired: “Five Russians were marched to some graves that had been dug in the vicinity of the railroad station; they were blindfolded and. foreed to kneel at the edge of the graves, bending forward with their hands tied behind them. Two Japanese of- ficers, removing their coats and ,.drawing their sabers, then proceeded to slash the victims on the bac’: of the neck, while as each one fell for- ward into the grave, three to five Japanese soldiers bayonetted him several times with cries of plegsu Two were beheaded at onee by saber strokes; the others were a7- parently alive as the earth was thrown in upon them.” Nice people—these white guard Russians, these Japanese these allies of Wall Street on the workers’ fatherlai though sometimes rivals distribution of their loot. anese officers and. Russ! | Whites are right there, nearly to the Siberian border egain—and America is already talking = .ut going over too... Defend the Soviet Union! Mass , Protest against Imperialist War! o ah Due to the rapid growth of the culation of “The Communist” in the last two months and the incréasing advance orders for the December is- sue which will be ready for distribu- tion on December 3 it has become possible to announce a reduction in the selling price beginning with the January issue from 26¢ to 20c with the yearly subscription of $2 and the six month’s subscription of $1. The November issue was sold out over and a number of repeat bundle orders had to be turned down al- though @ larger edition than usual had been printed. tongs The contents of the December issue also guarantee a wide response from the Party membership and re- volutionary workers as it takes! ‘up and analyzcs problems of burningim- The leading article, “Wall Street and the Organization of the Anti- Soviet Front,” by Harry Gannes, an. alyzes the regrouping of the imperi- alist powers around the Manchurian situation with the United States em- erging in the hegemony of the anti- Soviet front, the atmosphere of pré- war speculation on fe stock and commodity markets, the ftnancial blockade against the Soviet Union, and how the imperialist powers are growing contradictions in the direc- tion of common action against the Soviet Union, Particularly the new members of the Party and those who have not followed the development of our Par- ty from its Inception in September, 1910, will be interested in the article by comrade Bittelman, “The Party Anniversary in the Light of Our Pre- sent Tasks,” which analyzis the past italist America wage ents and thé | history and‘stages of development of | P. O. Box 148, Sta., D, New York City before the month was hardly half, trying to find a solution of their THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE CIRCULA- TION OF “THE COMMUNIST” the Party up until the present time Four different articles take up the problems of building the revolution- ary trade union movement. Joseph Zack in his article, “The Meaning of the Wage Cutting Offensive,” analy- zes this new offensive of the em- ployers and the present tasks of the Party and revolutionary trade unions. An article by S. Willner takes up concretely the building of factory branches of the revolutionary trade unions and their relation to the shop nuclei of the Communist Party. Com- rade Foster writes on “Dilettantism in Strikes.” On the question of un- employment the resolution of the re- cent International Conference on Un- employment held in Prague is printed Of particular interest is the article “Relations of Science, Technology, and Economics under Capitalism and in the Soviet Union,” by Prof. M. Rubinstein. This excellent. report was submitted to the Second Interna- tional Congress of History of Science and Technology, held in London from June 29 to July 3, where the Soviet delegates were not allowed to elab- orate their views in the discussion. ‘The Thesis on the Agrarian Quest- jon passed by the Second of the Communist International is also printed. This basic document which contains the fundamental di- yectives for the agrarian work of the Party is very difficult to obtain from any other source and this along makes the December issue of The Communist an invaluable aid to our work in every district of the Party and all parts of the country, ‘There is still a very limited time to send in increased orders and sub- scriptions to begin with the Decem- ber issue. Orders should be sent through Workers Library Publisher,