The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1931, Page 1

SPEED Ure"ACTIVITIES FOR 5,000 DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIPTIONS WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central z the- Cows (Section of the ac saan ioletea) Norker Fumie Party U.S.A. Rush Tag Day Funds and All Other Funds Collected for the ational Hunger March te Workers International Relief Office at Once F _vol. VIII. No. 288 Kntered es second-class matter at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Marck 3, 1879 at the Post Office Price 3 Cents JAM COLISEUM TOMORROW 10 SUPPORT HUNGER MARCH Workers, Meet Senator James J. Davis GOAT would gag in the fetid atmosphere of graft and corruption in Washington which thickens as mass unemployment grows and the million-toothed wolf of hunger chews at the vitals of 12,000,000 unem- ployed workers and their dependents. Senator Davis is against the Senator James J. Davis, “Pedd! junior solon from Penn:ylvania, Mellon family, James J. Davis who oppose unemployment insurance at ican Federation of Labor, Davis wi' “dole” for unemployed workers. lier Jim,” former secretary of labor, the mandated territory held by the made a special trip to Vancouver to the recent convention of the Amer- th the sixty suits of clothes, Davis, the deporier of foreign-born workers, Dav's, the supreme Dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose, elscter for life and who receives one dollar for every new momber joining the order, James J. Davis, the multi-million- aire “fitend of labor,” has been cau of swgar company stock. ‘The 250 shares were peid to Da vote for an increas every workers’ fa hes been published But the Do of the d tariff onsugar The record n the Daily W" ight accepting a bribe of 250 shares wis in return for his lobby work and which raised the price of sugar for of this contemptible bit of thievery ‘orker and other. papers. vily Worker clone cal's this blow at the living standard working cless by its right name. Such are the opnonents of Workers Unemployment, Insurance. Supvort the National Hunger March and the Unemployed Councils Unemployment Insurance Bill. Four District Piogress in Drive: Where Are the Others? The Dally Worker ce-npsim for 5,000 subscr‘pt’ons ‘3 now in its third day. In a few more days the Daily Worker wil] publish results of the first lap of this drive. Meanwhile the Daily. Woutar czain stessos the im- portance of every reader entering at oneo into the work of getting subd- scriptions. Expansion Vital ‘The increasing police terror. the call for fascist terror against Hunger Marchers issued by Matthew Woll, the deporiaiion menace threatening every militant foreign-born worker, the Fish Committee measures to de- clare the Communist Party illegal, which threaten to be introduced in Congress in December, and whose passage is called for by Woll, the war menace in Manchuria, these events the Daily Worker must cope with now. These events call for a hun- dredfold expansion now in the ac-|f tivity of the Daily Worker. Free the Daily for the Fight And yet it is just in this c periel that the Deily Work eentrl organ of the Communist Par- ty, finds itself hampered by lack of Sadh finds itself unable to meet the mass demand for a workers’ paper, becaiise the number of present sub- scriptions is not enough to pay for the great call for bundle orders. Turn in Money at Once ‘Tht is the reason for the present drive for 5,000 new subscribers. And s Announce Daily Worker that is the reason why we siress the iriportence of getting new eubscribers at once, and turning in the money tor the subscriptions immediately. Friends of the Deity Worker Groups (Daily Worker Clubs) are you now in the full swing of your work for subscriptions? Have you taken up the task of initiating Daily Worker subscription drive in your neighbor- hood. Have you gotten members to bring more frieds down to meetings and drawn them into the subscrip- tion campaign? Have you chosen a comrade to senl to the conference in your district to work out a subscrip- t campaign progr What About the Districts? And the district Daily Worker Com- mittees. Have you already taken steps to lay a firm foundation for the drive? Has the district buro checked up to make sure that there is a ‘unctioning Daily Worker Committce? Has the district buro taken steps to bolster up weak Daily Worker Coim- mittess? Cleveland Hurls Challenge at Detroit Four districts have alrescy rey good progress along these lines. Dis- trict Seven, Detroit, has already taken all the necessary steps to lay a firm basis for the drive. And from Cleve- land, District Six, comes a ringing challenge to Detroit to a race to see which district will atatin its quota. What about the other districts? We are waiting. Walker, Bankers Move to Get Mooney to Break withWorkers BULLETIN. A mass protest demonstration de- entag the fumediete and uncen- ‘dittonal reterse of Moeney and BMines, the Imperial Valley pris- ences, ard al loss war prisoners, be held today at the State © where the Mocney heurinz is scheduled. The demonstration eptied by the Interpetional Labor Defence snd the Trade Union Unity Leagne. o 8 es NEW YORK.—Today as the “pleas” tbe made before Governor Rolph of {California for the “freedom” of Tont Mooney, it became clear that Walker never intended to work for the re- lease of Mooney but is bringing pres- sure to bear, along with other capital- ist interests, to have Mooney issue a statement repudiating his mili-ant working class activities or 2 promis? to keep his mouth shut and to accept paroie, The New Yok Hera‘d-Tiibune | special correspondent in San Fran- cisco in Monday's edition writes: | Walter S.G fford| of Mayor Walker and Attorneys} “Since Mayor Walker has entered Walsh and Shapiro are scheduled to Huge Mass Mecting Fer Marchers Wed. Jlight i in, Cleveland ho, 2.0%. 30.—AlL 4 ead ulcimployed, 3 meeting of awsy ac Seatt's, Wos'., rived in town on their way to W: ington. They will be joined h2re by 150 delegates reprosenting the job- less of Cleveland, This mecting will be the largest of workers’ gatherings for yor in Clevc'and, ard a michiy ens-or to the provocations and attacks on the ‘unger march. the case, it was learned today, repre- sentatives of California financial in- terests, working through emissaries of Governor Rolph, have sought quiet- ly but in vain to persuade Mooney to accept the restricted freedom of @ parole—a proposal that he turned down seven years ago—. . .” Walker who shows less and less en- thusiasm to plead for Mooney after a visit to San Quentin prison where Mooney hes ben buried aliy2 for 15 oars, is now raporiet to be ill, Tn ordey to iselee the best use of for Tammany ond ag-inst king clecs, Walker hes been ferences with publicity ex- Among were Jcs2ph Johnson, form2r commissioner of pub- lic works in Manhattan and now a Hollywood film executive. He also discussed the matter of wsing the Mooncy case against the workers with the war propararda expert George Creal, the Federal director of public information during the World War. President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. with its 22 subs‘diaries, cut the wages of its workers in the Bell Telephone Laboratory 13 per cent; presented gold tele- phones to the Pope and the ‘ing of Siam; director of the First National Bank of New York; director of the U. S. Steel Corp. which cut wages of its workers ten per cent on Octeber 1, and re- cently made a member of its finance committee. Gifford was named by Gerard as one of the 59 rulers of America. HUNGER MARCH DRIVES ON GROWS ON WAY Fourth Column Starts) Today from Boston BULLETIN. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30. — The i marchers: of Column 3 of the Na- tional Hunger March, broken up yesterday by police at Hammond, have now all been re-assembled cr accounted for. City officials of South Bend refused to provide for the marchers, but a big mass meet- ing greeted them, and in spite of the prohibition of the police and city officials, the local Federation of Labor fed the marchers and the Carpenters Union (A.F.L.) provided a hall. There are three meetings tenight in Detroit for the march- ers, with meetings tomorrow in Monroe and Toledo. Pee SRC ‘The National Hunger March, made up of delegates elected at united front conferences of all workers’ or- ganizations and ratified by great mass meetings of unemployed work- ers in all cities, is progressing ec- | cording to schedule in spite of all| provocations and arm7d attacks in/ some cities. The marchers will con- | verge on Washington, arriving Des. / 6th and presenting demands for un- employment insurance to guarentee full wages to unemployed and part time workers, and immediate winter relief for unemployed workers, both to be entirely at the expense of the (CONTINUED ON Militia Stands by As Italian Town Hall Is Burned by Peasants PAGE THREE) (Inprecorr Pres; Service) PARI, Nov. 30—The persentc in Roecacasale, Italy dcmovs‘va- ted egainss the feseiss runt orities and against th inte) ‘ie burden of txrtion, The town hall wes siormed by th poasarts and set alight, The fac- a refvsed to obey the crcers of its oMcers and took no action ageinss the peasants. The military detachments hed to be e7Ned in from other districts. In order not to aggravei> the situ- ation the authorities have made no arrests. Where Do YOU Stand? Workers, while 1,500 delegates, elected by you carry your demands for Unemployment insurance and Winter Re- lief to the capital of the nation, a campaign of violence and lies is unloosed by the capitalists against these delegates who are making this National Hunger March, and against their demands. : To this attack—and to the proposals of the National Hunger March, every worker, every honest element of so- ciety, must give an answer. WHERE DO YOU STAND? ~ The Hoover administration, with its usual despicable hypocricy and anti-working class violence, has attempted to paint the action of the workers of this country in support of the elemental needs of 12,000,000 jobless and starving work- ers,,as a “plot,” and given the signal to every local police and fascist scoundrel to waylay and physically attack the march- ers to Washington. To back this up with an air cf pretended solicitude for the unemployed, the Gifford-Hoover Commission has issued a lying statement full of empty phrases, to the effect that unemployment relief is “adequately met.” But who is to believe this ridiculous lie? Not the work- ers who, in growing number, as the crisis rapidly worsens in spite of all the bunk spread by the Hoover “‘optimisis” headed by Secretary Lamont, suffer intolerable starvation, cold and hunger, as proven by innumerable cases of starva- tion, suicide, and insanity. The Gifford Commission itself can assemble no figure of the funds available to care for the millions of unemployed (reckoned by them eccording to ancient and false statistics as 6,000,000, but actually grown to the figure, including part- time unemployed to not less than 12,000,000) than the ab- surd sum of $150,000,000, This, even if the Cormmission’s own figure of 6,000,000 jobless is taken—means not over 325 rolief to carry each jobless Worker through the year! Where, then does the unspeakable liar who edits the N. Y. Times get the authority of facts, to state that: “No one in the country will be compelled to go cold and sungry.”? Even in New York City, the estimate of relief available to each destitute FAMILY is the miserable sum of $18—to give on for god knows how long—at least till another year year may bring another such starvation DOLE! WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO THIS APOLOGY FOR MASS STARVATION? The Americen Federation of Labor heads, William Green and Matthew Woll, the latter who serves quite openly as the spokesman for the capitalists of the National Civic Federe- tion, are supporting the capitalist program of hunger and violence, and Woll excells all other fascist scoundrels in urg- ing the government to attack the National Hunger March with club and gun. The Greens and Wolls, with their bellies full of bribery, openly attack the demands of the workers ,even those of the A. F. of L., for Unemployment Insurance. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO THIS FASCIST IN- CITATION AGAINST THE STARVING MILLIONS AND THE DEMANDS WHICH EXPRESS THEIR ELEMENTAL NEEDS? GREET MARCHERS FRIDAY NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA Great Mass Meeting at Broadway Arena PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Noy. 0. Th? Unemployed Councils are activ ly preparing a big reception to the hunger fnarchers at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Streets to take place Friday evening, Decein- ber 4, The Unemployed Councils call upon all worke:s and workers’ organi- Coliseum, tomorrow night, for the | mass send-off for the New York and |New England column of the hunger marchers. War Vets, Whose Checks Were| HOOVER PAPER Stolen, Will Be at Coliseum Huge Mass Meeting Tomorrow Night with Foster As Speaker Will Pledge Support to National Hunger March NEW YORK.—The V/orkers Ex-Servicemen’s League one of many worker organizations to realize how closely members’ interests are bound up with the sucess ef the Na- tional Hunger March on Washington, and the den employment insurance, and to show that fact by arrangi strong delegation to go to the Sronx ®— More cleverly disguised than these openly cynical de- | fenders of the rich, who might have to part with a tiny part of their sweated profits if the demands of the National Hun- ger March are met, are the motley elements assembled at the Hotel Hamilton in Washington, under the mame of the “Joint Committee on Unemployment.” This “Committee,” headed by a bevy of individual as- pirants for fame and office and elected by nobody, let alone workers, have a vaguely worded “program” that somehow, sometime, perhaps by “act of god,” is expected to become reality only by those who are innocent of common-sense. But the measure of how far this windy disguise for doing nothing is likely to get with its “program,” can be given by noting the fact that the demagogic Mayor Murphy cf Detroit is one of the stars in this “Joint Committee’— Mayor Murphy, whose police both on Noy. 25 and Nov. 28, attacked with clubs and tear gas the women and children of the unemployed of Detroit and who later declared he would prosecute these unemployed workers who survived the tear gas bombs thrown by the police and tossed them back among the blue-coats of Mayor Murphy. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO THIS COMMITTEE OF DECEIVERS AND SUES ok ae PRETEND TO SUPPORT THE UNEMPLOYED YET WHO SHAKE THE | HAND OF MAYOR MURPHY? Workers, the Unemployed National Hunger March is | the ONLY ACTION of the masses themselves against lun- | ger and starvation. The workers themselves, organizing | Block Committees to resist evictions of penniless families | into the cold by grasping landlords, in their Unemployed Councils which fight for immediate relief for the destitute from any and every local agency, have themselves built up the National Hunger March and the demands it is taking to Washingtor! These demands, in their principal outline, are simple, reasonable, and can be realized! They demand Unemploy- ment Insurance at full wages for all unemployed and part- time workers, at the expense of the capitalists and their government, to be administered by the workes. They de- mand as immediate measue, $150 Winte Relief to each job- less worker with $50 additi’al to each dependent. But above all, these demands, and the National Hunger March, are the ONLY CONCRETE DEMANDS AND THE ONLY DEFINITE ACTION to aid the unemployed. On one side are the hypocritical defenders of the swollen fortunes of the rich, the infamous Secret Service “plot dis- coverers” and the paid liars of Hoov with the clubs and tear gas of Mayor Murphy and the smooth pretensions of the “Joint Committee” of which he is the perfect example. On the other side is the million-masses of workers, the employed who have been forced to contribute out of their reduced wages to cave the fortunes of the Mel'ons, the G? fords and the rest, and the unemployed millions who h been forced to live in caves like wild beasis and hunger and | die throughout the land. These are represented in the Na- tional Hunger March! ON WHICH SIDE DO YOU STAND, FOR THE WORK- ERS OR AGAINST THEM? | SHOWS PLAN T0 ATTACK MARCH Washington Star Says| ,| Right to Assemble’ | «| Should Not Apply i its ?3 for un- 4 ences re ga, WASHING D. ©., Nev. 30 ate _ |The cries for b.ead of tie 12,000;000 | and American Lesion officials who jobless and the millions part-time | plan to attack the National Hunger March. The veterans denounced the Amer- | workers across America din in the| presidential ears. He reveals iis U.5. MUNITION MAKERS SEE BIG PROFITS IN CHINA WAR Moves to Divide China and War on Soviet Union - Co On BULLETIN. Steel manufacturers in the Calumet district, Indiana, are reported’ already | visualizing their bloody -profits asa result of the war plots of the imper- ialist powers against the Soviet Union, and the revolutionary meve- ments in China and. the colénies. In its issue of Nov. 27, the Lake County Times (Hammond, Thd.), states in a front. page article ‘ “Calumet district, steel mills and factories will benefit tremenhdousky in event wer is deéclated in, the Orient between China and Japah | or between Japan and ‘Russia,, ac- cording to close observers here of the Manchurian controversy. “They point out that this area is fully equipped to produce war sup- plies, as was attested by the ease and speed with which, it adapted itsemachinery for.that purpose dur- ing the World War.” The puppet powers of France on the western frontier of the Soviet Union are also rushing preparations for the attack on the workers and Peasants’ republic. A London dis- patch reports: “Work hos been started on two new fighting shins for the Finnish navy which are as remarkable in their way .as German pocket battleship according to the Daily Telesraph’s naval correspondent. They are, he says, miniature battle- ships of 4,000 tons, designed for coest defense operations in the Baltic, with Diesel electric drive and a speed of 16 knots.” Following ‘the first with United Stetes imperialism sinee the Japanese cecupation of Man- churia begun, the Japanese were yes~ sharp clash (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DETROIT POLICE CLUB WOMEN AND CHILD MEETING DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30—An jarmy of 1,500 of Mayor Murphy's police broke up with great brutality the women’s end children’s unempley- ment relief demonstration at Great Cirevs Park Seturday. The crowd put up a hot fight when the police chargé came down on them, but were clubbed out of the park. Seven were arrested. Tire will be a continuance. ofthe fight for free Speech and the use of te public park by workers and Job- The women and children were maceting in pre.cs. against the téar gassing and cluab ng 0: unemployed workers Gemonstreting Nov. 28 at the Grand Circus Perk and ihe city hall, zations to come and greet the hun- ger marchers. The marchers are com- ing from the New England: states, Buffalo and the anthracite and will be met at the outskirts of the city at 6 o'clock. In reply to the mayor's refusal to feed, lodge and yermit the hunger marchers to pass through the city, the Unemployed Councils cail upon ail workers and workers’ organiza- tions to give the marchers a rousing welcome, medistely settle fo all coupon book; end bring in their donations to th> Workevs Internationa) Relief office a’ 929 Arch Street, Phila., Pa., and tha’ all organizations and individuals in- tensify the collection of food for tie twenty-four hundred meals that will be necessary to feed the marchers. Workers’ Correspondence is the backbone of ths revelution2ry prose, Build your press by writing for it about your day-te-dey struggle. iean Legion officials who were in- hand clearly in his instructions to the Workers are urged to im- ‘The world war veterans at their open forum Sunday exposed and as- sailed the attempts of army officers Scores U.S. vor Unemployment Reliet, through compulsory deductions from wagos of those siill working are all the Hoover administration expects to provide for the raillions of starving jobless this winter. But the fehess think: differenti, Yesterday, Herbert Benjamin, na- tional field representative of the Hunger March Committee WASHINGTON, ,D. C., Nov. 30. Wal falter S, wage cutier Lind unemploymeat maker in the American Tele-! ut ited | ‘phone and Telegraph ard chairman of Hoovr’s announces tod..y measures he is gcinr to tal-2 ar> now cor pleted. inadequate funes assembled largely®———— volved in the latest scandal of com-| Secret Service department to foment a Red Hysteria. The Washington Star, a Hoover miou bpiece, is already puffing away. Its editorial Saturday, November 28, the day preceding the “report of the CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) the administra~ Secret ‘Service |“already revealed ; tion's line.” “Demoeratic Gestures”. S. Gifford, chief It mace the usual gesture of Cemo~ Cem thet all t The totally peaccably to assemble and to peti- sides ens ton tie go..rnment for a redress of Weshington Arrangement | grievaace. Then it turns oracle, tee for ihe National Hunger March, |sc-ns thé stars and concludes, “The issued a stalement to the press, re- minding them that 1,560 representa- | tives of the masses of unemployed | able assembly.’—Therefore this right themselves vill be in Washington | of assemblage at the seat of govern- Des. 6, and want an answer from) ment, etc, etc, cannot be offered march and gathering of the jobless here December 6 will not be a peace- (OONTINUED ON PAGH THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) headquarters of the Secret Service | They were also demanding hot Junehe es and clothing et the schools for children of the unemployed, and relief for adults. Friday morning, Jvdge Gordon ww the Recorders Court denied jury trial to. 25 heid out of 30 arrested Nov. | 25. Their bail was fixed at $500 each, Among them are: John Schmies, Communist candidate for mayor; Nydia Barkin and Joe York. The po. lice and press are making’ a great | Poine of the fact that some police got tear gassed in the Nov, 25 demon- stration. Accordinz {o the kept prevs Muzpliy: states that all will be prosecuted, pare ticularly those who prepared the tear ges hombs and planned to storm my office.” The attacks on Detroit jobless men, women and children last week car- tainly succeeded in exposing Mayor Murphy, who poses as “liberal” a “friend of the jobless,” as ane of