The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1931, Page 1

l Kentucky Miners to Hold District Convention to Prepare Strike Against Starvation and Terror cWorker ‘ae Rmunict Party U.S.A. ‘(Section of the Communist International) QF Rush Tag Day Funds and All Other Funds Collected for the National Hunger March to | Workers International Relief Office at Once a == ~ ‘MASS ORGANIZATIONS! GET BEHIND THE DAILY WORKER of afl plans and all mass demonstrations in connection with the National Hunger Vol. VIII. No. 289 ntered as sccond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥.. under the act of Marck 3, 1879 YORK, WEDNES DAY, DECEMBER 2, 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SUPPORT HUNGER MARCH! BRONX COLISEUM TONIGHT! WORKERS! DON'T BELIEVE THE “PEACE” TALK! REERS, it is always your first duty to look beyond APPEARANCES. And we remind you of this today, because all manner of fools and liars are trying to coax you to believe that the war danger against the Soviet Union is “settled.” THE DANGER OF IMPERIALIST WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION IS GREATER THAN EVER! 8 Why? There are several good reasons why. Firstly, you should realize that the danger of attack on the Soviet Union was NOT REDUCED by the Japanese troop movement last week toward Ohinchow and China proper. THAT DANGER REMAINED so long as the Japanese occupied Manchuria and continued to consolidate their positions. And they re- mained and they continued to do just that. ‘The move southward toward Chinchow only threatened to bring cer- tein disputes between Japan and other imperialist bandits to a head. And after a diplomatic row it was called off—tfor a while. ‘The imperialist war-makers recalled Japan to its MAIN BUSINESS, the making of Manchuria into a fortress against the Soviet Union! Look, workers, at the DIFFERENCE in Stimson’s actions between his LACK OF ACTION when the Japanese were advancing with fire and sword on ‘Tsitsihar and approaching the Soviet border, and his SWIFT AND RES- OLUTE ACTION when the Japanese troops started toward Chinchow! In effect Stimson said by his actions: “GO AS FAR AS YOU LIKE AGAINST THE SOVIET BUT LAY OFF ADVANCING TOWARD CHIN- CHOW AND THE SOUTH!” There was a great row about what Stimson said. In fact, he gave ONE interview for American readers, and AN~- OTHER, to be read in Japan! Look at the N. Y. Times of Saturday and Sunday for proof. The Associated Press, always an organ of imperialism, admitted on Sunday to sending a DIFFERENT version of Stimson’s remarks to Tokio then was printed in the N. Y. Times of Saturday! Thus the SECRET dealings of your Washington rulers MIGHT have plunged America into wor! But the Japamese withdrew—and saved their “face” by bawling out Stimson. And Stimson apologized abjectly. He “didn't say it”—and “what he did say he didn’t mean.” Seldom has such a cringing apology becn recorded, And ii is mentioned here only because it SHOWS A SECRET AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN BY STIMSON. Senator BORAH, whose demagogic shirt-front has before, as in Nica~- Tagua, served as a disguise for Wall Street violence against oppressed colonial peopies—ovligingly HELPS STIMSON by trying to WHITEWASH him of SECRET AGREEMENTS. BORAH IS LYING—AND HE KNOWS IT! ‘The League of Nations, not only “unable’—but UNWILLING to force Japan out of Manchuria, has IN FACT put its stamp of approval om Japanese occupation. And why is that, unless it, also, AIMS TO USE JAPANESE TROOPS AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION. Whether tomor- row or next Spring makes no ESSENTIAL difference! The supposed agreement on a “neutral zone’”—though that, also, is not yet certain, amounts to AN AGREEMENT TO APPROVE INDEFI- NITE OCCUPATION, PERMANENT OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA BY JAPAN. Why is China—Kuomintang China, Chiang Kai-shek China—agreeing to THAT? 'The main reason is that KUOMINTANG CHINA IS A SERV- ANT OF IMPERIALISM. It will Ho, after some “tall talk,” AIMED TO SATISFY THE CHINESE ANTI-IMPERIALIST MASSES, exactly what imperialism orders it to do! Thus we see the N. Y. Times writer, Sokol- aky, saying (Dec. 1) fhat the Nanking officials will agree to let Japan keep Manchuria—“if not immediately, as soon as public opinion in China has become sufficiently appeased to tolerate active diplomatic relations between Nanking and Japan.” Thus, workers, you see TWO BIG FACTS! Japan is to stay in Manchuria and use it as 2 WAR BASE AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION! And the other imperialists are to TAKE THE JOB OF TRYING TO CRUSH THE GROWING REVOLUTION IN CHINA THAT IS MORE THAN EVER THREATENING TO OVERTHROW CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND THE WHOLF KUOMINTANG GANG OF IMPERIALIST BOOT- LICKERS! ‘The imperialist bandits have no easy task! The Chinese Soviets rule 60,000,000 people devoted to it! The Red Army of China has whipped mercenary armies four times its size! And besides all this—~THE IMPER- IALISTS HAVE TROUBLE AT HOME! ‘ Neither Hoover, nor Stimson, nor their “liberal” lap-dog BORAH, can charm away the specter of THE MILLION MASSES OF STARVING AMERICAN WORKERS! OF WORKERS WHO ARE BEGINNING TO FIGHT BACK! Every worker, employed and unemployed, will rally to ‘the slogans: HANDS OFF THE HUNGER MARCH! HANDS OFF REVO- LUTIONARY CHINA! HANDS OFF THE SOVIET UNION! ALL WAR FONDS TO THE UNEMPLOYED! THE HUNGER MARCHERS ARE COMING THRU! To National Hunger March is proceeding with great and growing en- thusiasm and support on the part of workers in the cities through which the four columns pass, There have been attacks on the Hunger March and its attendant demonstrations and meetings—notably in Detroit where the “liberal” Mayor Murphy's police have broken up two’ mass meetings in the last week, clubbing, gassing and jailing men, women and children, while he and Norman Thomas “discuss unemployment” in the Hotel Hamilton, Washington. ‘The secret service of Hoover-Wall Street government continues to make the startling discovery that Communists “have something to do” with the Hunger March and the demand for Workers Unemployment In- surance at full wages which every day gains wider popular support, and to breathe sinister threats. But the Hoover hopes that the Hunger March would be broken up and. dispersed before it got well started have been blasted by the fact that in many instances city mayors and councils, after seeing the wide base of working class support for the Marchers, have concluded that the giving of food and shelter for them was an urgent point on the order -Of business. Official Washington, however, will prove an inhospitable city. Congress has no welcome on ‘ts doormat for the 1,500 delegates of the Unemployed Councils. The Hunger March delegates must be fed and housed for two days in the capital—perhaps longer. They will return and report to the workers who elected them. Money is urgently needed for food, lodging, gas and oil, for the print- ing of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and huge quantities of leaflets and other literature necessary to carry on the mass campaign for unemployment insurance and immediate relief. Don't lag behind the mayors and city councils which have fed and sheltered the Hunger Marchers—at the expense of the city, of course. Do your bit! Send in your dollars, dimes, nickels and pennies! MANCHURIAN WAR BELIES ‘PEACE’ TALK Japanese Continue Role of Spearhead Against the U. 5. 8. R. The Japanese have resumed the concen- tration of troops in North Manchuria and the armed march to- wards the Soviet frontier. Strong Japanese forces already in Tsitsihar and other points in North Manchuria are being rapidly reinforced. The cam- paign of provocation against the Soviet Union continues. Seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly owned by China and the Soviet Union, is threatened. This is the immediate and IN- TENDED result of the sharp clash last week between Japanese and United States imperialism over the movement of a huge Japanese army southward, toward Chinchow and the Tientsin-Peiping area, The war (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) HARLAN COAL\ 4 asses MINERS CALL FOR ACTION To Meet in Pinesville December 13 to Plan Fight Hunger Is Increasing To Set Date for Strike; Draw Demands PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 1.—Addressed to 18,000 Kentucky min- ers who face mass star- vation and terror, acall has been issued by the National Miners Union for a district con- vention on December 13, at the K, of P. Hall, Kentucky Ave., Pineville, Ky., at 9 a. m. Rallying all miners in the bloody Harlan region to mobilize their forces for @ general strike against hunger, the call says: Our working conditions in Ken- tucky are growing from bad to worse. Our wages are the lowest in the coal industry, Most of us are working (CONTINUED ON PAGY: THREE) Big Coliseum Meeting Tonite to Send Off National March NEW YORK.—All the New England delegates on the National Hunger March, 25'delegates from the Hudson River section as far north as Beacon, all the 300 New York delegates, elected representatives of hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers, will be at Bronx Coliseum tonight. Thousands of New York workers and unemployed workers, will be there too, to throw their weight behind the National March on Washington and its demands for unemployment insur- ance at full wage rates and unem- ployment relief at once of $150 for each jobless worker and $50 more for each of his dependents, Among the delegates, and sup- | ported by masses of members of their organizations, will be representatives of each Trade Union Unity League union, and of all the branches of the Councils of the Unemployed. There also will be representatives of a num- ber of A. F. L. locals which have adopted resolutions endorsing the Na- tional March and its demands and repudiating and condemning the A. F, L. Vancouver Convention's opposi- CONTINURD ON PAGE TWO) 10,000 Tampa Workers Protest Lockout, Preparing to Strike ‘TAMPA, Fla., Oec. 1—Ten thous- and workers assembled at the Labor ‘Temple protested against the lockout declared by the bosses and pledged to fight to the last against the frame- up of sixteen workers arrested Nov. 7. The seventy-two hour solidarity de- fense strike was ended Nov. 30, but the manufacturers refused to open the doors of the shops, The Com- munist Party and the Tampa Tobacco Workers Union charge that the bosses want to starve the cigar workers. A movement to connect the strike for the defense of the framed work- ers with that of improved conditions in the shops, against wage reductions of all kinds and against speed-up is now gaining momentum here under the leadership of the Tampa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union. The cigar workers see in the attempt to ter- rorize and frame-up workers a pre- lude to a concerted attack against their already bad conditions in the cigar factories. Unemployed cigarmakers, of whom there are many hundreds, will be drawn into the struggles and de- mands will be made for immediate unemployed relief and unemployment insurance made upon both the cigar manufacturers and the city adminis- tration. The Tampa Tobacco Workers In- dustrial Union and the Communist Party are stressing the need to admit Negro workers on the basis of full equality with other cigarmakers and the necessary to combat all forms of white chauvinism that they arise. Repudiate Hoover Attempt to Smash March WORKERS! PROTEST THE ARREST AND VICIOUS SENTENCES GIVEN TO WHITE HOUSE HUNGER PICKETS! On the Emergency Unemployment. Relief Committee. Chairman. of the General Electric Co., author of the Hoover - Gifford Young Plan which is now squeezing billions of dollars tribute out of 60 million Ger- man workers. 3,000 IN BOSTON MASS SEND OFF Column 1 of Hunger! March Under Way BULLETIN. BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 1. — Three thousand workers gathered on Bos- | ton Common today at neon cheered the National Hunger Marchers as they started off. The marchers sang Solidarity, and there was enthusias- tic support from the crowd. ' 8 BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 1. — Hung dreds of Boston workers crowded Am- bassador Palace last night for the mass greeting to the delegates from Northern New England towns and a send off for these and the Boston contingent which is siarting from Boston Common todey *+ 1 p. m. on its way to Washington. There will Mass picketing before the shops will be organized at a very early date for organization of the strike, 20,000 Mass for Mooney Release; Police Club and Whip Workers SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.—Twenty thousand workers who had gathered since 9 a. m. in the square in front of the State Building and at the Civic Center where the Mooney hear- ings were held shouted demands for the release of Tom Mooney, In a mass meeting which thousands attended a delegation of 15 was elected, headed by Edward Harris and Frank Spector to present the workers demands. General admission to the ‘court room where the hearings were be 50 Negro and white delegates on Secret Service Admits Hoover Hoped to Stop Hunger March Before It Reaches Wash- ington; Mass Support Is Answer Reports from each city through which the four columns of the Na- tional Hunger March goes show that the masses of workers and unem- ployed workers give mass support to the march and the demands for unemployment insurance at full wages and immediate winter rellef. Six thousand greeting Column 4 at Indianapolis; the A. F. L. unions feeding and housing Column 3 at Kalamazoo; the assistance of Syra- cuse city unemployed and employed workers in helping Column 2 break through the police cordon there and the universal storm of protest | against the police attack on the National Hunger Marchers at Hammond | particularly give the lie to President Hoover's hopes that the National | March will collapse and statements of his secret service that it does not | represent the jobless. | The Secret Service has completely exposed itself and Hoover in an interview Nov. 30 published in the World Telegram of New York. The article states: “The unexpected action of the Secret Service in charging that the December 7 Hunger March on the capitol is of Communist inspiration was taken in the hope that the paraders will be dispersed long before they get a chance to present their demands to President Hoover and Congress.” The authority for this statement is given as W. H. Moran, head of the Secret Service. The article says he “departed from his usual secretive system to make public a mass of documentary evidence in the belief that it would prevent the demonstration from obtaining funds and food on their trek from North, South, East and West to Pennsylvania Ave.” “It is understood that this strategy was sanctioned by the White House, where the inquiry originated.” “Inquiry” means the attempt of the Secret Service by published in- terviews last Sunday to provoke an armed attack on the National PITTSBURGH TO COL.2PIERCES POLICE CORDON FEED AND LODGE Wor Jobless Win | Demands; | Col. 3 at Detroit SJ * tars Aid| Syracuse Woy ters Aid| in Outwittit.s Cops | SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 1.—The,| DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 1—The Na- National Hunger Marchers of Column | tional Hunger Marchers of Column 3, 2, including the delegates arrived here safely last night and from northern and western New |Teceived a fine reception from the nt | Workers of Detroit. After three crowd- Hoth come inte Grosses test SAGE | Sa sieetings at which meretacrs spoke, of police and state troopers who were trying to bar them from the town. Mayor Mervin and Chief of Police Cadin had annonced yesteray that the National Hunger Marchers could no tcome into town. These two had outlined « route right around Syra- cuse for the march to follow. mostly | way today for Toledo, and from there will go on stopping overnight in Cleveland and Youngstown, and | reaching Pittsburgh Dec. 4 where they | will joni up with ‘Column 4. The combined columns will then go on ; to Washington. Column 3 started Sunday from Chicago, was attacked | by ice and t - However, the marchers, with the | ¥ Dae ae ea eae | mond, help of the masses of unemployed | ,. PTE ey : and workers of Syracuse came| ‘ued ‘eeu is esis through the police cordon without being attacked. A mass meeting in| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 1—Upon which 300 pledged their support to] PA Saas the Hunger March and its demands| ‘CONTINCED ON Pat ruUREED was held last night in Plep Hall, | Syracuse. with the Hunger Marchers as speakers, and the Syracuse del- egation of five was ratified and | Hoover Judge Gives| Limit Sentences to the way in trucks and a car. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) added to the marchers of Column 2. White Heuse Pickets WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1. — (CONTINUED OX PSGE THREE) held was by invitation card only. Po- lice arrested the entire delegation as they approached the building. The mass of workers elected a second delegation to demand release of the first delégation and the right to pre- sent the demands for the release of Tom Mooney and all other class war prisoners. This delegation also was jailed. The whole mass of workers then marched cn the State Building. Po- lice on horse and motorcycle as ell | | Righ in line with ell Hoover ad- ministration terror policies against those representatives of the job- less who dare to asl: for unemploy- ment insurance, Judge Hitt today gave the hardest sentence poseible to fourteen of those who went with the committee to demand of Hoover that the government feed and lodge the Nat'onal Hunger Marchers. The fourteen were each sent- enced to $100 fine or six months in jail. Albert Daniels and Bill Phillips took the stand and testified to the mass starvation, and related how they were elected by the un- employed to come to Washington and demand unemployment insur- ance as on foot clubbed and whipped the workers brutally, arresting about a score. However. the police did not succeed in dispersing the crowd but only stopped the meetings. Governor Rolph and his assistants were greeted with boos and _ hisses when they left the building. The demonstration began at 11 a. m. and lasted until 1:30 p. m. At the time of going to press the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) they slept the night and are on the} |6,000 im Indianapolis, Ind | Demonstrate Support of Marchers ‘PARADE CIRCLES CAPITOL ||U. ML W. A. Miners Send || Delegates to Col. 4 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 1.—Six thousand workers of this city wel- | comed fifty National Hunger March- [ers of Column 4, arriving here last night from Terre Haute. Many of | them are from the far South West, California, Texas, Colorado, and all states this side. This column started Sunday from St. Louis, stayed over night here, and will reach Cincinnati today. The National Hunger Marchers and Indianapolis workers and unemployed marching with them formed a parade of hundreds through all the down- town district, and were seen and cheered by over 25,000. | They marched around the state \house, and the 6,000 held a great mass demonstration in front of it. ‘The demonstrators sent in a com- | mittee to see Governor Leslie and |demand the release of Theodore Luesse, jailed months ago because he was the leader of Indianapolis jobless and actively organizing Unemploy- | ment Councils. The governor refused to see the committee, and one mem- | ber. of it, Clark, was arrested at the | state house | The crowd massed in front of the | building gave a great ovation to Com- |munist Party speakers, and cheered | the declaration that all must defend | the Soviet Union against imperialist attacks. A telegram demanding the release of Tom Mooney was ordered sent to Governor Rolph of California, aos ek cee U. M. U. Miners Endorse BENLD, Ill. (By Mail) —At a spe- cial meeting of local union 2707 of the United Miners Workers of Am- erica called for the purpose of con- sidering action regarding the Ne- tional Hunger March, a resolution was adopted endorsing the election of |five hunger marchers from the Il- linois coal fiedls, and indorsing the National Hunger March to Washing- ton, D. C. as a whole. In addition to this action the local voted $25 for the hunger marchers of the U. M. W. A. towards defraying their expenses to Washington. The delegates left from Staunton | Saturday, Noy. 28, for St. Louis where they joined the hunger mar- chers from the South West. A deme onstration in Staunton sent the del- egates off. The delegates were elected by the unemployed councils, upon their re- turn, will report to mass meetings organized for that purose. A total of $50 has been colletced here for the exense of the delegates, CHI. PERM'T: CHICACO, I in Chiccgo LEGAL USURY censed loan firms allowed to charge 43 per cent a y This legal rate is t endous!y high cs it moans out of every delicr the worker borrows he can only use 58 cents for himself, Other firms in the city are charging as high as 240 per cent. The workers who must borrow in order to live, have to work two and one half weeks |{n order to pay back a loan of week's ! pay. IRE United States Secret Service pretends it has discovered a Na- | March. EVERY DAY, can see through all such silly childish stories as the Secret Ser- vice story, published so seriously and tions in all its activities throughout the country. During the Hunger March the Ex-servicemen’s League, on th ganizations do to meet htis challenge? Use Temporary Sub Blenks Subscription books to be used in this Don’t let e way to the campaign. SUB DRIVE blanks make up blanks for yourself. a little thing like that delay Immediate action is pompously in the boss press. 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