The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 1

Back the Hunger March! Fill the Coliseum Wedn Dail Central WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! L (Section of the Communist International) Rpunist Porty U.S.A. your organiza donation? See Vol. VIII. EDntered as second-cl: at New York, N. . 287 matter at the Post Office ler the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEM BER 30, 1931 CITY EDITION unds are still needed for the National Hunger March! Has tion made a that it does! Price 3 Cents HUNGER MARCH BEGINS IN CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS; GOV'T ISSUES LIES TO STEM GROWING MOVEMENT That Plot of 12,000,000 Unemployed ‘H the most extraordinary shrewdness, the U. 8. Secret Service has ‘ “ynearthed” the National Hunger March, representing the deter- mined refusal of 12,000,000 jobless workers and their wives and children #0 starve on the Hoover-Gifford charity “dole” and determined as well to compel the capitalists and their government to return, in the form of Unemployment insurance and winter Relief, a part of the profits these workers have created for America’s multi-millionaires. ‘The National Hunger March on Washington to place the demands of the ‘starving unemployed before the national government might, of course, have been foreseen by anyone familiar with the U, S. Constitu- tional provision supposedly defining the “right to petition Congress for redress of gric vances.” But it remained for the Secret Service and the cavitalist press to “unearth” it. And it remained for the Washington government to organize a campaign of lies and violence to deny this right of petition. ‘The extremely clever work of the Secret Service in “unearthing” the supposed “plot” which has been publicly proclaimed for six long weeks in thousands of street corner meetings, in millions of leaflets and still more millions of copies of the Communist papers led by the Daily Worker, is nothing less than amazing. But the habit of lying is so ingrained in both the Secret Service and the capitalist press, that in “revealing the plot” they have to falsify by stating that the Communists are “behind” the National Hunger March, when, as a matter of fact, the Communists are AT THE HEAD of the fight for unemployment insurance, giving the fullest support to the Hunger March, and “behind” it are 12,000,000 unemployed workers and their dependents, an army of 40,000,000 of the working class who reject. the so-called “relief” program of Hoover as inadequate, as a program of starvation and death, and who demand Unemployment Insurance and ‘Winter Relief. The 1,500 delegates of the country’s unemployed are marching to Washington to demand unemployment insurance, and in this they have the full support of the Communist. Party. Does Mr. Hooyer, with “two Thanksgiving dinners” in his belly, think that by such ‘absurd “exposures,” which are deliberately aimed to give the signal for concerted and violent attacks on the unemployed every- where, the National Hunger March and the demands it has formulated will be berred from reaching the national capital? Then he reckons more foolishly than usual. The misery, hunger and desperation of tens of millions ‘of America’s workers are not to be stopped by police clubs and tear gas, though the Hoover administration seems entirely bent upon trying that method. True, for some weeks the old way of trying to mesmerize the workers with tales of “returning prosperity” were tried, and tried industriously. But the cold facts of the economic crisis getting worse instead of better arise to confront the Washington snake charmers. Steel produc- tion keeps on dropping; auto production is “delayed”; stocks and com- modity prices fall farther toward zero; and the price of wheat, which “marked the turn for recovery,” is now back about where it started from. And the workers continue to starve and shiver in the breadlines, newly regimented and “purged” by Hoover’s command. The rich are supposed to donate “for their own protection” to the “coordinated” funds of Messrs. Gifford and Co. But in cold fact the “charity” funds are sand-bagged out of the employed workers by private employers and even by Hoover's orders in the federal service. The Hoover program, the program of the capitalist class, is a pro- gram of hunger, disease and death—and millions are recognizing it and protesting against it. Even the Washington “revelations” of the “plot” of millions to demand bread, admit that—“for weeks the White House has been receiving communications from all parts of the country” indorsing the Unemployed Councils and their demands AS AGAINST HOOVER'S STARVATION PROGRAM. It is precisely because the demands of the Unemployed Councils and the National Hunger March are being supported by great and growing masses of workers, by unions of the American Federation of Labor that reject the treachery of the Green-Woll leadership, that the capitalist government has sounded this infamous blast about “secret service dis- coveries” as a signal for every stupid police agent and venomous fascist Legion leader to attack. But the insistent will of the masses cannot be bent aside so easily. ‘The masses recognize that the demands for Unemployment Insurance at full wages, entirely at the cost of the rich and administered by the work- ers for totally or part-time unemployed, and $150 Winter Relief with $50 for each dependent, by devoting all war funds to the jobless and taxing of which Matthew Woll is a insurance, This newspaper attack on lies. every industrial community. entsin, Central China, and soldiers. N the capitalist press of November 29th there is contained a vicious attack upon ° the National Hunger March. This manifestly emanates from the Department of Justice Its purpose is to provoke the disruption of the march and to prevent its reaching Wash- ington to present to Congress the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill containing the demands of the workers for unemployment Hunger March is full of the most deliberate It seeks to make our march appear as a sort of secret conspiracy; whereas the March has been organized openly for many weeks past, in hundreds of conferences and mass meetings with tens of thousands of workers in attendance and with the widest publicity in the workers’ press. We repudiate these lying stories of the Department of Justice which undertake to create the impression that the National Hun- ‘ ger March is some kind of an armed attack upon Washington. No.one.but.a Department of Justice agent could invent such a stupid story or expect anyone else to believe it. The National Hunger March is a mass protest of the workers against the present intolerable starvation conditions existing in unemployed workers, men and women, Negro and white, elected by great mass demonstra- Government Spies shining light. for until they and St. Louis the National at stake. Made up of Japan Rushing Troops and Ships Against Central China Masses Fierce fighting continues in the city of Tsi- between the forces of the imperiailst powers and Chinese workers Pushing their war moves for a tions of workers, it is going to Washington to demand of the government that measure of relief, unemployment insurance, on the | basis of full wages at the expense of the gov- ernment, that the workers intend to fight Today the great Hunger March is get- | ting under way. four routes from Boston, Buffalo, Chicago greeted by vast armies of workers in the hundreds of cities along the way. workers support the demands that the Na- | tional Hunger March will place before the Federal Government. , We must not permit our march to be dis- rupted by such vicious lies, aimed to cause fascist attacks on our demonstration. welfare of our hungry, half-clad children is The March will go through to Washington as scheduled. Follow strictly all the directives previously sent you. Good discipline must be preserved. On with the National Hunger March! ‘ Workers,-employed and unemployed, don’t let your families starve! Hoover charity—hunger program! for the right to live! ment insurance and immediate winter relief! Demonstrate in great masses in support of the National Hunger March! National Hunger March Committee of the Unemployed Councils. On With the National Hunger March National Hunger March Committee Repudiates Lies of get it. It is starting along the It will to Washington. be These The Down with the Fight Demand unemploy- Lancashire Textile Workers Prepare to Strike at Pay-Cuts) LONDON.—The workers in the Lancashire cotton mills are rallying their forces and are preparing to take strike action against a new wage cut and the lengthening of the work) week from 48 to 554% hours, accord- ing to cable reports to the New York press, The textile bosses not only propose to lengthen the hours of the weavers, but have threatened to scrap the pre- jumn 3 on their way towards Provocation by Se cret Service Is Attempt To Stop Insurance Huge Demonstration In | _ Chicaga Sends Colunn Three On Its Way ANSWER MAYOR MACKEY | Cleveland Jobless Get Big-) gest Hall In City BULLETIN. | HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 29. The mayor's promise to permit mass greeting of the National Hunger Marchers and to permit the march to go through Ham- mond was broken today when po- lice bombed the trucks with tear gas, smashed the signs, slugged the marchers, and began to make arrests. The attack took place at the city limits as the march was entering town. CHICAGO, IIl., Nov. 29. — A mass send off by 3,500 workers and unemployed workers! | cheered the 100 hunger| Three hundred Hunger Marchers will be the representatives of over a | marchers who now form Col-| milion unemployed workers of New | | York state when 1,500 unemployed |delegates from all points of the| United States assemble on Dec. 7 in| Washington to demand immediate | Pees Unemployment Insurance at full} gent of 35 joined the march | wages trom Congress, which spends | here. y | billions for war purposes but not a| The mass meeting demanded the | cent for the unemployed. | release of Mooney and denounced} At the huge mass rally and dem- | the Walker schemes to use Mooney | 0MStration at the Bronx Coliseum on for his own purposes. The meeting | Dec. 2 masses of New York workers, demanded that Hoover release the | employed and unemployed, will rally HRunger March delegation arrested | iM support of the National Hunger at the White House Friday. 1t|/March. This huge rally will be the Hoover Hunger ‘SUPPORT HUNGER | MARCH; GO TO BRONX COLISEUM 9 “a |Mass Meeting Dee. Demands Insurance Washington. The column will gain in numbers in each city it passes. The Chicago contin- | March of 1,500 delegates, Demands Milions. of Leaflote. a Worker Press Had Facts Spies “Find” NEW FORGERIES APPEAR Hint Use of Troops In Wash- ington, December 7 Yesterday, when Col- umns 1, 3 and 4 of the National Hunger March -were starting from Buffalo, Chicago and St. Louis, an almost panicky and deliberately provo- cative declaration from the U. S. Secret Service appeared on the front pages of all leading capitalist papers. The Secret Service claims to have just “discovered” that a well planned National Hunger travelling j over four main routes is coming to Washington and on Dec. 7 will pre- sent demands for unemployment in- surance guaranteeing full wages to all unemployed and part-time work- ers, and for immediate winter relief. The Secret Service statement was accompanied by crude provocation for an attack against the hunger march, It stated that “some troops will have to be used” in Washington, Dec. 6 and 7. In all cases the Secret Service statement was prominently displayed in the papers yesterday, and in many cases was accompanied by whole columns of quotations from the plans (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) {{ 4 esday Night re-division of China anl the destruction of the powerful Chinese revolutionary movement, at the same time that the Wall Street government launched a savage offensive against the struggle for unemployment insurance of the hun- gry unemployed millions in the United States, American, French, British and Italian forces joined ‘the Japanese in the attack on the Chinese masses. hn Chinese soldiers engaging in the re- | Stration was taking place. sent wage scale which is already at | a starvation level due to previous | cuts. The weavers are also threat- ened with greater speed-up, each weaver getting more looms to operate, thus driving more workers into the ever swelling ranks of the unem- ployed. This new attack of the bosses | denounced police terror in Chicago and Detroit, and demanded that | Mayor Cermak release Gebert and all arrested’in raids here. | Main speakers were Steve Rubicki, Mates and Herbert Newton. When {the Red Squad dicks were discovered | the workers rose and hooted and jeer- | send-off for the Hunger March dele- 72 Hour Sirtke In Tampa for Release of Framed Workers gates, not only from New York, but also froni tne New England states. | These eniatives of millions of | unemployed workers must march out of New York with the knowledge that they are going to Washington backed by the determination of the millions of employed and unemployed work- the rich, are perfectly consistent and reasonable aims. And the National Hunger March is taking those demands to the capital of the nation, and place them before Congress, whether the little servant of J. P. Morgan who sits in the White House likes it or not! Mass Protest for Mooney at State House Hearing Dec. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 29.—The International Labor Defense and the ‘Trade Union Unity League are forg- ing ahead with preparations for the December 1st demonstration at the Mayor Walker, according to the press reports, plans to present a “new picture,” “Th-:c are,” he said, “east- ern capitalists urging Mooney’s re- lease. Will the Communists through~- out the country make capital of the fact that an innocent man is in prison in California?” He thus admits that it is mass pressure which is fore- ing the consideration of Mooney’s freedom. A German workers’ delegation of 15, Frank Spector, District Organizer ‘of the International Labor Defense, E. Hanoff, organizer for the Trade Union Unity League addressed a letter to Governor Rolph, in the name of the working-class organizations, demanding the opportunity to be pre- sent at the Mooney hearings, and demanding the immediate and un- conditional release of Mooney, Bil- flings and the Imrorial Valley pris- Dners, as well as the repeal of the triminal syndicalist law. NEW YORK.—Mayor Walker vis- ited Tom Mooney in San Quentin prison on Saturday, but the results of the conversation were not reported by the group of lawyers, who went along with Walker. The prison authorities, acting on orders of Governor Rolph, permitted the Walker gang privileges not granted to Mooney’s friends. Pic- tures were taken and Mooney was allowed to converse “freely.” Walker's visit to Mooney was an effort to get Mooney to issue an at- tack on the revolutionary working- class movement, to make their task ensier and to line up greater capitalist support in California. The portions of the conversation with Mooney that were reported in the capitalist press show that Walker, despite all his promises of “freedom,” and despite all his pressure, was not able to get the statement he wanted from Mooney. The capitalist newspapers in Cali- fornia who were carrying sharp criticisms of Walker's visit are toning down and are lining up in the gen- cral purpose of the scheme worked jout by Rolph and Walker sistance ta the imperialists have de- fied the non-resistance orders of their officers and the Kuomintang betray- ers of China. The fighting began on ‘Thursday night, when Japanese and Italian troops opened a murderous fire on the Chinese workers’ quarters whene an anti-imperialist demon- Japan was reported on Saturday to be rushing huge forces by land, sea and air to Tientsin and other points in Central China. While Ja- panese warships were landing troops at Tientsin, a huge Japanese army was rolling southward from Mukden, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) against the English workers is sche- duled to take place early in Decem- ber and if successful will reduce the living standards of over 250,000 work- ers and their families. The workers, however, have pledged to fight the longer hours, wage-cuts, and speed-up to a bitter end. (chee ai a Naas lh ces ers to fight ceaselessly for cash win- City Gives Biggest Hall. | ter relief and for Unemployment | surance and against. the starvation | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 29. — An | program of the bosses and their gov- bi cbeatiatasd bas mai Ste on the | ernment. Every _class-conscious bsuietaridbe Arie aches el tant ad every member of the revolu- : ;._ | Worker, will be given the American Federation tionary trade unions and leagues in New York and vicinity should come (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Worker. Vets Brand Prevecation of Nat'l Hung er J Marchers NEW YORK. — The National Executive Committee of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen ‘calls upon all war veterans to support the Na~ tional Hunger March, It points out that the “reports” of the Sec- ret Service regarding the hunger march are provocations not only to interfere with the demands for unemployment insurance on con- gress, but are also directed against the demands for the cash payment of the bonus by the hundreds of war veterans who are delegates in the line of the hunger march. The war veterans from all sec- tions of the country who are streaming into Washington to de- mand the cash payment of the bonus are port of the National Hunger March, supporting it and the demands for unemployment. insurance. In Washington these delegates will hold a special Na~ | tional Conference and a National |Committee will be set up, SPEAR AEE Build Six-Page Daily; Act at Once to the Bronx Coliseum on Wednes- day night to show the Hunger March- ers that they will support the fight for relief and’ insurance, to show that the answer of the workers to the attacks and hunger program | will be a redoubled fight for Unem- | (Telegram to the Daily Worker) TAMPA, Fla.—Five thousand workers assembled under the auspices of the International.Labor Defense Thursday, Nov. 26 in the biggest meeting ever held here in the Labor Temple and demanded of the Gover- nor that the sixteen workers arrested Nov. 7, be taken out of the death cells and that the International La- bor Defense be permitted to send physicians to examine the prisoners and cells. 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If they tell you that they buy the paper on the ployment Insurance and relief. | workers sent a protest telegram to Fight the bosses’ attempts to re-| the Governor demanding the imme duce the workers’ standards to be-| diate release of the framed workers, Jow the starvation level! Fight the starvation relief of the | bosses’ charity fakerst Fight for Unemployment insurance and cash relief! Demonstrate your support of the National Hunger March to Washing~- ton! Attend the big rally at Bronx Coli- seum on Dec, 2! TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE, Wm, Z. Foster, General Sec’y. cheaper in the long run for them to give you a year’s sub- scription and that they will help the Daily Worker if they subscribe now. Point out to them that it’s the subscriptions that keep the Daily Worker going. Tell them about the premiums that are being of- Form Yorkville Branch) Unemployed Council NEW YORK.—A branch of the Un- employed Council has been organized fered for subscriptions. But|in Yorkville. Twenty-two joined the ‘ +4 | Yorkville R~ a Noy, 23 and the get them to subscribe z Get branch uleet, twice a week at the aaa van Workers’ Home, 350 BE. street every day tell them it’s (OUNTINUED ON PAGH LURER) | 1st St j The workers pledge to use the weap- on of general strike should the Gov- ernor refuse to accede to their da mands, ‘The cigar manufacturers decided to do away with the reading in the factories and the workers struck Fri- day night into a general defense and protest strike also demanding that reading be continued. The strike is to last 72 hours, (Hitherto the work- ers had the right to have things read to them by readers while they worked.—Ed.) Workers of the Roberts Cigar fac- tory struck Nov. 26 and won every demand. The manufacturers, how- ever did not keep their agreement and closed the readers’ tribune, one of the demands of the strike. The cigarmakers there upon struck again on Thursday together with other fac- tories under the leadership of the General Defense Strike Committesy ee