The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1931, Page 1

@ i WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central -- Ong = ol. VIII. No. 290 Entered as second-class matter at (he Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1870 —— «Worker (Section of the Communist International) Party U.S.A. Rush Tag D: y Funds and All Other Funds Collected for the Workers ational Hunger March to International Relief Office at Once DECEMBER 3, 1931. vy YORK, THURSDAY, Price 3 Cents VETERAN FIGHTERS FOR MOONEY WARN AGAINST WALKER HUNGER MARCH SWEEPS 0 10,000 Workers Give Mass to 300 N.Y. Hunger March Delegates MASS ANGER SWEEPING OVER CHINA {mperialists See Threat to Nanking Tools In Mass Hovement As the Jepanese, with the sanction of the United States, the League of Nations ,and the traitorous Nanking government, moved yesterday to tighten their hold on all Manchuria, reinforcing their forces in Heilun- kiang province, the Scripps-Howard newspapers reported that the Nan- king government was tottering under the rising tide of mass anger and resistance againsb the imperialist bandis and their Kuomintang tools. ‘The report was made in a sign ar- ticle hv William Phillin Simms, For- eign Editor of the Scripps-Howard chain. “varme'l in the Far East is onty beg’n-xirg, insteed of ending, ac- cording to private advices in the hands of tke writcr, declares Simms in a worning to the im- perialists that tieir whole system of murder and loot in the Far East was threatened by the mass anger evoked by the Japanese seizure of Manchuria and™ the betrayal of Chi by the League of Nations and the Nanking and Canton wings c! (he Kuomintang, Simms points \ ready the Chinese masses— ® Schedule, Greeted By | Cheering Crowds ONE JAILED IN. INDIANA Capitalist Press All Tangled On Column Two The National Hung- ler March continues ac- cording to schedule, with all four columns moving from point to yoint like a military maneuver. Evorything has failed to stop them, police attacks, citv prom- ises to feed broken arbitrarily, ;and the provavanda of Hoov- er’s secret service, General Fries, and Matthew Woll. Every where they are greeted with enthusiasm. A great crowd waited for hours in freezing cold in Cincinnati for Column 4, which had had a rousing reception in Indianapolis the night before. This column. stopped in Columbus over night. A parade took place through Toledo streets, a fine mass meeting was held when the marchers of Column 3 reached there Tuesday night and the purierienliy one quarter of the pop- 4 Column was to stop last night in vlation cf the globe—are being or- ganized for self-defense if the League and Washington |fail to check the Japanese and torelgn abuse of power. “Students by the tens of thous- ands are parading the streets com- mandering trains to take them to (CONTINUED ON P4GE THREE SILK STRIKERS T6 DEMONSTRATE Strike 8 Weeks Old and Going Strong Already eight weeks on strike against the third successive wage cut, the workers of the Merhige Silk Co., 39th St. and 4th Ave., Brooklyn, will hold a mass demonstration on ‘Thursday morning at 7 a. m. before the mill. The strikers under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, are still solid in their struggle against the wage cuts, and despite police terror and arrest of thirteen pickets last week, are deter- mined to carry on mass picketing. ‘The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York yesterday cal- led on members of the revolutionary unions to aid the silk strikers and take an active part in the demonstra- ticn Thursday mozning. All Workers Groups to Be Represented at Labor Unity Banquet NW YORK.—All workers’ organ- izations as well as unions should be represented at the Labor Unity ban- quet to celebrate the birth of the new central organ of the Trade Union Unity League, at Manhattan Lyceum on Saturday, December 5th. For be- sides the the question of the revolu- tionary trade union press that will be discussed by the speakers present, with Bill Foster as the main speaker, tie whole trade union work will come .iu for a good share of discussion. All organizations will benefit by a report of iaese discussions which should be Cleveland. In spite of all capitalist press re- ports, Column 2 reached Binghamp- ton Tuesday night according to sche- dule, after having outwitted the Syr- acuse police the night before. This column was to stopover in Scranton last night. Column 1 was fed and housed in Providence Tuesday night in spite of the city government’s breaking the promise to feed it, and was to stop last night in New Haven, and arrive in New York today at 4 p. m., with @ mass reception at 5 p. m. at Union (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Meetings to Greet Marchers Demand Release of Mooney In every city the National Hunger Marchers go through, and in every city where mass meetings or conferences are held to endorse or prepare for the march, resolu- tions are adopted ¢>manding that Governor Rolph of California free ‘Tom Mooney, and condemning Mayor Walker of New York for his attempt to tie Mooney to his political kite. Important cities where these re- solutions were adopted at mass re- ceptions and send off mobilizations for the hunger marchers are: Bos- ton, Providence, Buffalo, Roch- ester, Syracuse, Binghampton, Chi- cago, Gary, South Bend, Kala- mazoo, Detroit, Toledo, St. Louis, Kansas City, Terre Haute, India~ napolis, and Cincinnati. \** The Kodak King, member of the Hoover-Gifford Emer- gency Relief Committee. He is the richest man in Roches- ter, N.Y. He has used spies to crush even conservative unions and is a bitter oppon- ent of social insurance. COLISEUM MEET PLEDGE SUPPORT TO HUNGER MARCH BULLETIN The huge crowd at the Coliseum Jast night voted unanimously to en- dorse and send the following tele- gram to Tom Mooney in San Quen- tin prison and Warren K. Billings in Folsom prison, California, “Big Coliseum meeting of thous- ands of workers sending off National Hunger Marchers to Washington greets you as old fighters, framed by the bosses, and calls for your im- mediate unconditional release. This meeting condemns the shameless at- tempt of Mayor Walker to whitewash the California boss class of its das- tardly crime against you and against the working class and to infer in his plea that Billings is guilty. We un- employed workers, whose delegation was arrested by Walker’s police on March 6, 1930, and two of whose members were murdered.by the same police, and whose members are being arrested daily for struggling for un- employment insurance and immediate relief, expect of you not to be trap- ped in the aims of this cunning cap- italist scheme. Forward to the fight for the full freedom of our veteran martyrs of capitalist class justice! We demand freedom for Mooney and for Billings so they may rejoin the ranks of militant labor! Freedom for the Harlan miners, the Scottsboro boys and the California Imperial Valley boys and other class war pris- oners! (Story on Page 2.) Mass Pressure of Workers Wins Freedom of Ballard 6 SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 2.—Another| them up for twenty years. mass victory was won in the North- west with the acquital of the six de- fendants in the Ballard case. The | Jury returned a verdict of not guilty after six hours deliberation. All the workers were freed, but an- other indictment still stands against veperted back by a delegate to the | Art ‘Thompson. Two of the workers, banquet. However, speeches will not be the only interesting part of the program as a Soviet News Reel as well as some recent reels made by the Workers Film and Photo League of the demonstrations and strikes of the last six months led by the TUUL will be shown. Coles and Akers, are held on city charges for spite work. The six workers were arrested last summer while on the picket line dur- ing the lumber strike. The police attacked the strikers and in order to cover up their brutality arrested six of the pickets and hoped to send Since the opening of the case thousands of protests were sent* from workers and workers’ organizations all over the country against the at- tempt of the bosses to railroad the six workers. The workers were de- fended in court by the International Labor Defense, Upon being freed the Ballard de- fendants sent greetings to all class~ war prisoners all over the United States and called for greater mass support for the case of the seven workers arrested in the Seattle Anti- War Demonstration whose case due to come up in court soon, ALI Columns On Their [George Eastman | qpial Washington In Furor As Gifford and Lib- erals Fail CANCEL POLICE LEAVE Worker Hurls Challenge In- to Dewey Meeting WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2—The Na- tional Hunger March has centered the atten- tion of the whole na- tion on the demand of the unemploved, and has thrown official Washington into a ver- itable merry-go-round of prep- arations by which the anthori- ties hope to counteract this effect While newsboys on every street corner of the city are shouting “Hunger Marchers Approach Capi- tol,” Hoover has mobilized not only his Secret Service men, but Walter S. Gifford, “chairman of the Presi- dent’s organization for unemployment, relief.” He has also gained the ser- vices of the so-called Joint Commit- tee on Unemployed, which includes such worthies as the Rev. Norman Thomas, Rabbi E. L. Israel, of the Social Service Commission of the Central Conference of Rabbis, Dr. I. Rabinow, secretary of the Independ- ent Order of B'nai B'rith, and the Rev. J. A. Ryan, of the Catholic Uni- versity, the Rev. Muste, ete. It held a “conference” here Monday and yes- terday. Not one unemployed worker was to be found at this Conference except Carl Bradley, unemployed Sparows Point steel worker and member of the Balimore Unemployed Councils, He came without being wanted, and threw the “convention” into an up- {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Pierce Boss Press Lies with United Effort in 5,000-12 Mo. Sub Drive SET DATES FOR READERS CONFERENCES ! HE DAILY WORKER is the leader in the fight to pierce through the wall of silence of the boss press. The Daily N; ALL ATTACKS FAIL Send Off | Text of Telegram Sent Mooney Exposes Action of Working Class Enemies NEW YORK.—In the name of the Communist Party and the re- volutionary workers who have been in the forefront in the mass struggles for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, William F. Dunne, William Z. Foster, and Robert Minor, who were among the first to in- itiate the fight for the freedom of Mooney and Billings, yesterday sent the following telegram to Tom Mooney in San Quentin prison calling for unconditional release of both Mooney and Billings and exposing the role of Walker & Co.: “We greet you as an old veteran of class war. The stormy mass protest which your imprisonment by the capitalist jailers has raised throughout the world has compelled them to reopen the case. The fear of the growing movement of the masses who see in your case a symbol of class oppression in the United States has compelled the cynical die- hard capitalists of California and the country generally to once again hear the voice of the masses. These capitalists are attempting to escape their responsibility for keeping you in jail, are attempting to conceal the fact that they have kept you there because you have been a fighter for the working class and are trying to represent the case only,as an ac- cidental miscarriage of justice. They are attempting to make it only a question of perjury by Oxman and thus whitewash Fickert and the boss | class that have hired these perjurers and the whole string of others and | have framed up the case from beginning to end. As, you yourself have stated time and again you have been framed deliberately in order to stop your militant efforts to organize the labor movement. But we can- not fail to be alarmed by the fact that the presentation of your case by your attorney Mayor Walker and that your letters to him are being used in an attempt as far as possible to whitewash California capitalist offi- cialdom and the labor traitors who helped to frame you and to exonerate the whole frame up system generally. We furthermore must express our grave concern because Mayor Walker in the following statement “The man who convicted Billings acquitted Mooney in the same testimony” and the published summary of Walsh in the New York Times page twen- ty-one column three, “Walsh drew a sharp distinction between the cases of Mooney and Billings convicted of criminal syndicalism in the bombing period. Different witnesses testified at each trial adding that the tes- timony that convicted Billings if used at the Mooney trial would have acquitted Mooney” leaves the conclusion that while they cannot escape the admission of your innocence they: are trying to hold Billings guilty. We know that you as an old fighter if aware of these facts will not permit such an allegation to go unchallenged and such an interpretation to form one of the major arguments of your counsel. As those who with the revolutionary labor movement heve fought for yuo unconditional release from the very beginning we take the liberty of warning you against the trickery and duplicity of your capitalist attorneys and: to address ourselves to you and request a very emphatic repudiation by you personally in the public press of any such allegation with regard to Bill- ings. We know that you cannot forget that your imprisonment has been due to the tyranny of the system which is coniinuing to persecute and imprison workers, of a system whose representatives are the Rolphs and Walkers, the Hoovers and Fickerts. The working class wants Mooney freed unconditionarry, wants the revuwn of Mooney to the labor move- ment the militant fighter he was when he entered jail and for that reason we believe that a very emphatic statement by you will defeat these special aims of the capitalist interests and strengthen the mass fight for your release. The working class will continue to fight for the freedom of Mooney and Billings and will continue the struggle notwithstanding the statement with which you cannot be in agreement attributed to one of your attoraeys Sapiro by the New York Times as follows: “Mooney was destroyed forever if the pardon were denied he contended because no one would ever appeal for his release again period.” ‘Yours for un- conditional release of Mooney and Billings! WM. F. DUNNE, WM. Z. FOSTER, ROBERT MINOR.” Negro Share Cropper Asks for ‘Liberator’ “Piease send me a Liberator. J am a Ne;to share cropper and I want to read your paper.” This reque:t comes from one of thousands of oppressed Negro workers who recegnize The Libera- tor as a lerder in the fight against the attempt of the white Sovthern landowners to Iynch the Camp .| | Hi, Ala, shere croppers who fought militantly against the boss plan to cut off their food supply. The Liberster is in the forefront Worker succeeded in reaching enough workers so that the masses in towns all over the United States are rallying to the National Hunger March. This the Daily Worker has done through mass circulation by means of extra bundle orders. But circulation through bundle orders is not a sure method of keeping the workers united in the day to day revo- lutionary stguggle. A more solid foundation must be laid to the Daily Worker to reach the workers EVERY DAY and break through the stone wall that is EVERY DAY being set up by the capitalist press to keep the individual worker iso- lated and ignorant of the mass struggles of his fellow workers, : ee e 5,000 NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE NEEDED AT ONCE! The small space given in the capitalist press to the story of the National Hunger March, as contrasted with the nation-wide significance of the movement is not due to negli- gence. It is due to extreme care. It is due to the care being taken that the workers should learn as little as possible about the mass demand for unemployment insurance. ee aoe , Blast the stone walls of capitalist press silence and capitalist press lies. Joi® in the Daily ‘Worker drive for 5,000 12-month subscriptions. Get in touch with the Daily Worker committee in your district. Get your unit or mass organization to set quotas in the drive. Get subscription blanks from your organization. Subscribe. Get your fellow (CONTINUED ON PAGY THREE) of all strug7Jes eg inst persecution, Jim Crowism, and for Negro rights. Spread The Liboca‘or threugh- out the Scuth! S) it among all Negro and white workers. Order a bundle today (price 1c for 10 or more) by writing into The Liberator, Room 201, 50 E. 13th St. | While Admitting Laber backers. The brunt of t on Warren Billings. tion of atempting to tear the ting, from the growing class fights throughout the United States, were building up their arguments and de- ceits before Governor Rolph, outside 20,000 workers, continuing the strug- gle for the release of Mooney and Billings, as well as other class-war prisoners, shouted their demands. They were mauled and beaten by the police at the orders of Governor Rolph and his capitalist supporters, the same forces who framed and jailed Mooney. Frank P. Walsh, high-paid lawyer, tried to put the whole issue on a legal technical basis, calling upon Governor Rolph to clear capitalist justice in the eyes of the workers. Walsh tried to make a sharp divi- sion between Tom Mooney and Wa {ren Billings, both of whom were | framed up for the same case. The purpose of Walker and Walsh was to hold Billings guilty and jus- tify the capitalists for their entire frame-up—intimating that the jaili of Mooney was a justificble “mi take.” “The testimony that convicted Bil- lings, if used at the Mooney trial,” said Walsh, “would have acquitted Mooney.” The same line was re- peated by Walker. Walker's Purpose. The strategy of Mayor Walker in his speech clearly showed up the ob- ject of the new line of the Morgan bankers, Califprnia capitalists, A. F. of L. leaders, socialists, republican role of “ple Mooney.” Walker began his speech by declar- | ling that the Preparedness parade | bombing in 1916, for which Mooney | and Billings were framed up, was a} terrible crime and that the authori-| ties were justified in acting as they | did. The whole blame, Walker then | sald, lay not with the capitalist class, not with the enemies of the militant workers of California, not with the judges and district attorneys who got and manufactured the evidence that | seat Mooney to jail, but with two (CONTINUED ON AG THREE) | Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht's series in pamphiet form at 10 cents | Maryland Bosses Hope to Send Orphan Jones By JAMES WATSON BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 2.—Orphan Jones, a Negro farmhand on the Eastern shore of Maryland is facing the gallows on a framed-up charge. The only basis for the charge against Jones is that he worked several days for a rich farmer who robbed him of one day’s wages at ten cents an hour. ‘The farmer was murdered after Jones had left his employ. Police officials savagely tortured Orphan Joncs into a “confession.” For sixteen hours the police officials beat and tortured Orphan Jones, Lighted matches were used to burn his flesh, powerful flash lights put per copy. Rend it—Spread it! | to the Gallows into his eyes. Mobs of rich farmers and merchants were orgaun'zed against him. He was even denied the right to have a lawyer. Now Governor Ritchie is helping the judges and police of the Fasterr Shore to hold the trial down there with a mob outside the court house to see that Jones is found | guilty, The N. A. A. CO, P. in the Orphan Jones ¢: egain showing that it is on the side of the bosses against the workers. They betrayed the nine in- nocent Scottsboro boys by hiring a Klan lawyer who demanded that the (OONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) and democratic grafiers in their new | Walker Aims to | Clear Bosses Not to Free Mooney Walker, Walsh Try to Throw Guilt Onto Billings, Witnesses Lied SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—Not the freeing of Tom Mooney, militant union leader who has spent 15 years of his life in prison on perjured testimony, framed by the California capitalist officials, but the exoneration, as far as possible of those guilty of this monstrous crime against Mooney and Billings, proved to be the policy of Mayor. Walker, and attorneys Walsh and Sha- piro and their capitalist, socialist and American Federation of he speeches was to throw guilt While Walker, Walsh and Shapiro, who now have the fune- Mooney case from its class set- ‘MEET COLUMN ONE OF MARCH TODAY ‘ON UNION SQUARE Mass Greetings To Be Given by New York Jobless Workers NEW YORK. — Today at 4 p. m. ja delegation of the Unemployed Coun- cil of New York will meet Column 4, National Hunger Marchers from New | England, at Arlington Ave. and Bos- ton Road and come on into the city | with them, ‘The New England marchers will go | directly to Union Square, where at |5 p. m. there will be a mass greet- | ing of them by thousands of the em- | ployed and unemployed workers of |New York. This crowd, addr: 2 by Carl Winters, secretary of the New York Unemployed Councils, by Steu- ben of the Trade Union Unity League, by other leaders of the New York workers and by New England dele- | gates, will demonstrate support for |the National Hunger March and its | demands. Tomorrow morning at 7 p. m., there will be another mass demonstration at Union Square, to send off the combined New England and New York hunger marchers on their way to Over 400 delegates will lJeave Union Square in trucks and cars, and go down Broadway to Canal St., along Canal to West St., and thru | the Hollend tunnels. Their first stop will be at .I a. m. when marchers will address a mass demonstration of greetings in Jersey City. | aders for the release of | Washington. Two More Tag Days for National March; Anpeal for. F unds NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Councils of Greater New York and the Workers’ International Reltef appeal again for: 1. All tax day collection boxes | to be returned immediately to the | |W. LR. at 16 W. 2ist St. H 2. Immediately turn in all | funds ircm sale of coupons, az- | fairs, ete. 5. Funds from aay other col- | lections to be turned in at once. is needed desper- the Hunger me to ey finance ch Owing to the | it will be ne more tag days. horlage of funds, Thoy will be Sat- Trade Union Unity League, Young Communict Leagre and all work- ers’ organizotions are urged to re- port to the tag day stations and help mrke*a pocd colelction Sat- irday and Sunday, Only the fullest co-operation can take the Hunger March out of danger, START SOCIALIST COMPETITION! . SPUR a DRIVE FOR 5,00 0 SUBS!