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

MARCH 0 GET MASS WELCOME, g PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURGH, P&, Dec, 2.—Mass @reetings to the National Hunger Marchers of Columns 3 and 4, which meet and join here Dec, 4 on their way to Washington, are all prepared. ‘They will take place in three halls each at 7.30 p. m.: Polish Falcon Hall, 161 South 18th St., in the South Side steel workers’ section at Workers Center, 2157 Center St. and at Croa- flan Hall, 822 North Canal St. Because of the determined pressure of the committee representing the Unemployed Councils and the Alleg- heney County Hunger March, the city government has agreed to feed and house the marchers and provide them with gas and oil for fifty trucks. The “Helping Hand” a city institution, will be used for this. ‘There will be children’s mass meet- ings to elect children delegates to the National Hunger March at Verona, |, teday and at McKeesport, Thursday at 5 p; m. in Workers Center at 1300 Railroad St. Already six children have been elected at Pittsburgh and others have been elected in various coal and steel towns throughout the district. Realizing that the hunger march- ers are mainly undernourished, since they have been unemployed a long time, the local Workers First Aid Group is ready here. > % ech e Defy Mayor’s Threat PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 2.— Mayor Mackey in his reply to the request of the United Front Hunger March Committee and the Unem- Ployed Councils of Philadelphia to lodge and feed the 475 delegates who eame from the Northeast section of the country, has taken a threatening position against the delegation and the millions of workers, unemployed and partly employed, whom these delegates represent. Mayor Mackey carries out the wish of his bosses of the millionaires and exploiters and threatens the Hunger Marchers with violence when he states: “I suggest that you by-pass Philadelphia.” Down with the Hypocrisy of Mackey! “We are now busily engaged in feeding and maintaining our own unemployed and unfortunate people,” says Mayor Mackey in his letter. ‘What a sham demagogy! What a lie! Will the nine million dollars united drive of the city take care of the 400,000 unemployed? Not in the least. The major part of the nine million dollars is forced out of the pockets of the workers in the shops and fac- tories under threat of losing their jobs. Only @ small percentage of the unemployed get relief. Last year the Lloyd committee also collected money im the same way for relief, and a terrific scandal resulted oyer graft in the committee. Mackey has done nothing to punish the grafters. In spite of Mayor Mackey’s threat, Golumn One and Column Two of the National Hunger March, are coming through, here Friday, Dec. 4. They will be met at the city limits by a Mass demonstration of workers and unemployed workers, called together by the Councils of the Unemployed and this escort will parade with them te a mass reception in the evening at. Broadway Arena, Broadway and Christian streets. = Saas Stage | Passing the Buck BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 2.— ernor Ritchie of Maryland is playing the “Army Game” with the unem- ployed. On Nov. 24 he was sent a letter by ‘Carl Bradley, for the Bal- timore Councils of the Unemployed, demgnéjing the use of the State Arm- ory at {/umberland for the more than 400 Naliional Hunger Marchers stop- ping ever in Baltimore the night of Dec. 5, on their way to Washington. ~ Rite) fe’s answer is as follows: Carl Bradley, Esq. 133 8, Broadway Baltimore, Md. Dewr Sir: I received your favor of Novernber 24th, requesting that the hunger marchers be housed and fed in the State Armory at Cumberland while they are in that city. There are no cots, no bed linen or blankets at the Cumberland Armory and no faci- Ntles for the furnishing meals, “The only thing I can suggest is that you in touch with the Mayor of Cum- , Dr. Thomas W. Koon, and fee if he is able to work the matter out along some such lines as I under- stand Mayor. Jackson and General Gaither have arranged to do in Bal- (more City. Very ‘Truly yours, ALBERT C, RITCHIE Governor. ‘What Mayor Jackson and General Gaither are doing for the starving unemployed is shown by thetr letters, 88 follows: Mr. Carl Bradley, Secretary, The Unemployed Council, 133 8. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Nov. 23, 1931 My dear Mr. Bradley: Your letter of November 19th to his Excellency, , Governor Albert C. Ritchie, has been } referred to me for reply, as I am \ charged with the control of the 104th ledical Regiment Armory. Because of the needs of the Regi- ment! and the fact that we have no bed, it is impossible to grant your request and equip this Armory with beds and blankets for the overnite stay of the unemployed delegates on December 5th. To assist in this mat- ter, however, I have called his Honor, the Mayor and General Gaither, Police Commissioner of Baltimore City and I feel sure if you will con- | feet capa te awnpatany Aad es ay Madvarsiacraste Uy in some place other than the Armory. Very truly yours, MILTON A. RECKORD, Brigadier General, Maryland National Guard, Mr. Carl Bradley, Secretary, City Council of Unemployed, 133 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Noy. 23, 1931 Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of your letters of November 18th and 19th relative to the passage through Baltimore of 659 unemployed del- egates of the National Hunger March- ers, on December 5th and 6th. I am referring your letter to the Community Fund, which has assumed charge of feeding the hungry and destitute, through cooperation with the Jewish Charities, the Catholic Charities, and the Salvation Army. With reference tothe visit of the delegation of fifteen representatives at 1 p.m, on November 25th, I would advise that I will be glad to see them when they call. Yours very truly, HOWARD W. JACKSON, Mayor. Walker Alms to Clear Bosses Not to Free-Mooney (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lying witnesses, Oxman and MacDon- ald, Oxman and MacDonald. Boiled down to its most essential points, Walker's speech contained the following: “There can be no controversy about the resume, almost, of the testimony of Oxman and MacDon- ald that Thomas J. Mooney was convicted. Can there be any doubt about th eresume, almost, of the life of Oxman that his testimony was unworthy? Can there be a scintilla of confidence left in the man’s testimony that would justify any one to deprive a man of his inalienable right?” Walker then quoted a letter from William V, MacNevin, foreman of the jury who conyicted Mooney on perjured testimony. MacNevin says: “Oxman and MacDonald were willful and deliberate perjurers and that their testimony given before the court and jury in the Mooney case was wholly false.” “Who Was Back of Them? All of these facts were known to the capitalist cpurt authorities, to Charles M. Fickert, district attorney, who prosecuted Mooney in 1916, to the judge who sentenced Mooney, to the capitalists behind the Mooney Persecution. These facts, and more, have been pointed out by the revolu- tionary working-class press a thou- sand tims. | | But what is Walker hiding? Walker in his speech deliberately covers up the fact—a fact that the class-conscious workers in their dem- onstrations backed by millions of workers during the past 15 years have shdtted from the housetops— that this perjured testimony was manufactured at the order of Charles M. Fickert, acting for the California ‘bosses, whose object was to deal a blow to the militant workers by jail- ing Mooney and Billings. The Real Forces Tm the Case, Walker, Walsh and Shapiro shouted lustily, at the top of their lungs about the perjury ef Oxman and MacDon- ald, the better to hide the class forces behind these two insignificant Hars; to hide the real forces that put '~| Mooney in jail and still keep him there. Walker in his speech, in » four- ther attempt to whitewash the can~ italist jailers and mannfacturers of perjured testimony, in order to hide the class roots of the Mooney frame-up, did his best to clear Charles M. Fickert, district attor- ney of California, who headed the Mooney persecution on behalf of the boss class of California, Walker quoted a letter written by Fickert, in which Fickert justi- fies Mooney’s conviction by say- ing: “I had confidence in the truthfulness of all evidence ad- duced at the trial.” Yet at that very time the revolutionary work- ers were tearing the lies of Oxman and MacDonald to shreds, Fick- ert, and the whole capitalist class of California, knew (because they had bought and paid for it) that the testimony of these witnesses were deliberate lies brought out for the purpose of legally murdering two radical labor Jeaders, Fickert, finally, in order to help ‘Walker, Walsh, Shapiro and the capl- talist foreés behind them, leading from the A. F. of L. officialdom up to President Hoover and the House of Morgan, play their game of trying to clear the skirts of bourgeois dem- ocracy and demagogy, ends up in his letter by asking for Mooney’s par- don, saying “it would be to the best interests of the state that executive clemency should be granted to Mooney.” Now that the whole frame-up is exposed, now that millions of work- ers are rallying behind Mooney and other class-war prisoners, .battling against the rotten capitalist system, Fickert, the jailer of Mooney for the capitalist class, repeats, the phrases of Walker and says “it would be to the best interests of the state”—to thebest interests of capitalism—to try to clear up the dastardly jailing of an innocent working-class leader. Despite all this admission of frame-up, there is no guatantee, ex- cept the determined action of the workers, that Mooney and Billings will be freed. Governor Rolph has ee the decision over for a month, leanwhile, every kind of pressure will be brought against Mooney to have him attack the case 1050 ee Maryland Bosses Hope to Send Orphan Jones to the Gallows (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) boys plead guilty although he knew they were innocent. And in the Jones case the N. A. A. C. P. lawyer went to the jail and looked at Jones through the bars. He did not ask him a single question, but he then went out and announced that Jones was guilty, Only the protest of the workers can save Jones from the bosses’ gal- lows. The boss class court on the Eastern Shore will surely hang Jones unless the Negro and white workers protest. The International Labor De- fense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights have hired a lawyer to defend Jones, but the Eastern Shore rich farmers and the boss courts are set on lynching Jones. Workers! We must back the legal defense of Jones with a powerful mass protest move- ment of the workers! Jones must be saved and only a strong working- class protest can do it! We must send telegrams of protest to Governor Rit- ehie at Annapolis, Md., and the judges demanding that the trial be trans- ferred to Baltimore. Your organization should send del- egates to the United Front Confer- ence for the Defense of Jones and the Scotsboro boys. We must set up defense committees in the blocks we live and collect funds for the de- -fense committees in the blocks where the United States must stop he lynch terror and the terror against all workers! The protest must be strong enough so that it will be heard by the ruling class and force them, to free our comrades who are rotting away in the capitalist bastilles. Workers! demand: ‘The Jury to try Jones be composed of both Negro and white workers and not rich farmers! The transfer of Jones’ trial from the Eastern Shore to Baltimore! Equal rights for the Negro masses! to make some compromising state- ment. Speaking after Walker, Aaron Shapiro, well known spokesman for capitalist interests in California, but claiming to speak for Mooney, tried to declare that the final word lay with Governor Rolph. “Mooney will be destroyed forever,” said Shapiro, “if the pardon were denied, because no one would ever appeal for his re- lease again.” ° Outside 20,000 workers were giving Shapiro the lie, Throughout the United States 12,000,000 unemployed, and millions facing starvation, feeling the bloody hand of capitalism at their throats, Shapiro knew, were ready to take up the fight and force the re- lease of Mooney. Demanding the immediate and un- conditional release of Mooney and Billings, and branding the Walker role in the Mooney case, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, through its general secretary, J. Louis Engdahi, issued the following statement: “The sheer hypocrisy and gross de- ception of the so-called appeal by James J, Walker, mayor of New York, for a ‘pardon’ for Tom Mooney should make clearer than ever before the whole working class the absolute ne- cessity of growing, intensified mass mobilization and protest not only for the immediate and unconditional re~ lease of Tom Mooney, but of all po- litical prisoners, “Mr. Walker, treading carefully in the footsteps of all supporters of boss class, anti-labor, persecution, directed. his whole effort to creating a smoke- sereen to rob the savage imprison~ ment of Tom Mooney of its class character, Mr. Walker sought valiant~ ly to develop the fratidulent approsch to this vicious act of tyranny, try- ing to characterize it as a miscar- riage of justice growing out of the perjury of the two witnesses, Frank C. Oxman and John McDonald. It should be clearer than ever that the Mooney persecution is not a ‘miscarriage of justice’ but a typi- cal case of capitalist class justice, of persecution by death and imprisen- ment of workers as in the Hay- market, the Moyer-Haywood-Petti- bone, the Sacco-Vanzetti and numer- ous other cases. “Oxman and McDonald were mere- ly the pawns of the great business interests of California in their efforts to put the labor organizers, Mooney and Billings, out of the way. The sudden journey of Walker to Califor- nia, Walker’s statements in Califor- nia that the Mooney issue must be hushed up*to stop labor's growing protest, clearly indicates that the great capitalists of the nation feel the threat of this phase of labor's dis- content. It is certain that the Mooney case was discussed at the recent ‘reunion’ at the White House in Washington of nford Univer- sity’s football team of 1894, which in- cluded President Hoover on the one hand, and on the other Charles M. Fickert, the district attorney who sought the life of Mooney. Fickert returned to California and now says 4t would probably be in the best in- terests of justice to pardon him (Mooney)’. “It is clear, however, that the maneuvers of boss class justice in California, in order to cover up its own hideous features, seek still fur- ther to victimize Mooney. It is clear that Mooney has been hounded in these recent days even in prison by his so-called saviours, necessitating the issuing of the statement by Mooney that he is opposed to any parole from prison that would still brand him with guilt, deprive him of all rights, especially his activities in the working class movement. Mooney’s sentence was once com- muted from death to live imprison- ment. It can be commuted again, paving the way for his release, but with class justice still mainte‘ning its brand of guilt and tyranny over o on. Official Washington|' In Furor As Gifford and Liberals Fail (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) roar by asking whether it supported the National Hunger March and the demands for Unemployment Insur- ance. Threatening Preparations, Police Inspector Edwards has an- nounced that all leave of absence for policemen has been canceled during Dec. 6 and 7, the days the National Marchers are in the city. Just be- fore this he had stated to Herbert Benjamin, national field organizer of the Washington Arrangements Com- mittee of the National Hunger March, that “the Hunger Marchers will get the same treatment as other citi- zens.” Inspector Edwards seems to mean such treatment as was given the Wildwood citizens shot down in the miners’ strike, and the Washington unemployed attacked on the capitol steps several times previously, ,be- cause the Washington papers report the police department has mobilized its whole available force and sent in- structions to all stations to have wagons and hospital stretchers ready. Thepatrol wagons are to carry tear gas bombs. The Washington Post declares the hunger marchers are “racketeers,” but says “We ought to give them the right to come.” The Washington News and all other Scripps-Howard papers take the line that “it is no crime to be a Communist,” and that the so-called “investigation” report of the Secret Service last Sunday is “a long propa- ganda story,” which has already “provoked much legal lawlessness in connection with the unemployed demonstrations” (evidently referring to Hammond, etc.). The News ad- mits, “The purpose of this story was to frighten local authorities into breaking up this demonstration be- fore it reaches Washington and em- barrarres the administration.” This story admits there are. at least “7,000,000 unemployed.” Gifford Lies. Hoover's latest feat was to pull out, like a vaudeville magician from a hat, the following statement of Gifford “that there is every indication that each state will take care of its own this winter and that no need ap- peared for financial assistance from the federal treasury.” According to the Washington bu- reau of. the Baltimore Sun the Gif- ford letter was “interpreted gener- ally here as another step in the ad- ministration’s program on the eveof Congress convening to head off de- mands"for federal relief funds.” Gifford’s statement is given the He even in the boss press, which ad- mits that in most cities the collec- tions for “relief” are woefully below the mark set, low as those marks were. Unemployed Voice Heard. ‘The “conference,” Noy. 30 and Dec, 1, of the “Joint Committee on Un- employment,” the Liberal-Socialist- Musteite outfit referred to above, was 2 bitter disappointment to the offi- cial forces here. ‘Washington newspapers welcomed with open arms and liberal space the representatives of the church, social fascism and liberals of every stripe treading the heavy, soft rugs of H@ tel Hamilton in their services to Hoover in formulation of faks relief Measures, But now the National - Hunger March has crowded the reports of the sessions onto the inside pages. One reason is that yesterday, Carl Brad- ley ress on the floor at the “eon- ference” and in ‘spite of the opposi- tion of John Dewey, acting as chair- man, demanded to know whether the conference was endorsing the Work-~ ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill of the Unemployed Councils and the National Hunger March. Bradley eplained the Hunger March and its demands and denounced the fake re- lief and insurance proposals of the “Joint Committee on Unemploy- ment.” B. M. Marsh, of the People’s Lobby, secretary of the committee, almost passed out while Bradley was speak- ing, and continually tried to urge Dewey on to interrupt him. There ‘were other interruptions, but Brad- ley, wearing a khaki shirt (he is a war veteran) and coughing continu- ally frem lung trouble earned in the war and on the job, forming a sharp contrast to the sleek liberals and so- cialists, continued to the end. When Bradley demanded the con- ference take a stand, for or against the Hunger March and the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, motions were made to shelve the whole thing and hand it over to the resolutions committee. Sofne others moved to consider it immediately, and the place was thrown into a furore. Finally they voted to kill it in resolutions committee. One insulting member of the com- mittee offered to “take up a collec- tion of pennies to cure Bradley's cough.” After Bradley’s speech, the Cath- oli¢ priest, John A. Ryan, a member of Dewey's committee, spoke, and said that everything he hed pre- viously spoken for the unemployed was accomplishing nothing, and he feels hopeless sometimes. The jailed White House pickets are still in their cells, held for $500 bail each. Four of them areNegro un- employed workers. The jailed work- ers are: Charles Edwards, Herbert Carroll, John Bolden, Edward Harris, Esther Siegel, Jacob Page, A. Linnides, H. Jey, J. Purash, Samuel Morton, Bill War Department 1 in Declaration That U. S. Lags in Planes ¥. Trubee Davison, Assistant Sec- retary of War for Aviation presented @ report to the War Department in which he states that the United States is far behind other powers in the building of fighting planes. Davison is a liar! About four months ago, Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics stated that the navy was a year ahead of its five year building program. ‘The army also had such @ program of which four-fifths was completed in June. In six months of this year Davison ordered 426 planes. The United States spends more money for arms than any nation in the world and the present declaration ig the forerunner for requests for still more arms, The increased ef- ficiency of the army planes is evident in the fact that deaths fell from 52 to 26 last year despite the increase of 11,737 flying Re All Columns On Their Schedule, Greeted By Cheering Crowds (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Square. All these columns, with a total of 1,500 marchers when they get to Washington, are coming as elected delegates of hundreds of thousands of unemployed, to present the de- mands of 12,000,000 jobless to Con- gress on Dec. 7, They will demand unemployment insurance to make full wages for unemployed and part time ‘workers and winter relief of $150 for each jobless worker and $50 for each dependent. COLUMN 1 PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 2. — The New England delegates of the National Hunger March to Washing- ton forming Column One, left Provi- dence this morning on their way to New Haven, where they will stop over tonight. A crowd of 2,000 met them with enthusiastic greetings and pledg- es of support last night in Provi~ dence. Previously, during the day, they were met by 250 workers of Norwood, and at Pawfucket were escorted out of town. The city administration of Provi- dence broke its promise to feed and lodge the workers, but they were pro- vided for by the local workers through the energetic, last minute prepara- tions of the Unemployed Councils and workers’ organizations, The first stop for mass greetings and a demonstration for unemploy- ment insurance by the marchers to- day is at Eneam., COLUMN 2 BINGHAMPTON, N, Y., Dec. 2.— Yesterday morning, while the Syra- cuse. police and New |York State troopers who guarded the highways to prevent the hunger marchers of Column 2 from reaching that city, were resting up after 24 hours duty in the rain, the column left Syracuse and last night reached Binghampton without mishap, This Column, with the aid of the Syracuse workers, evaded the police, and entered Syracuse right under their noses and on time, receiving a rousing welcome and staying over Monday night, according to schedule. Last night Lithuanian Hall here was jammed full with over 500 work- ers'and unemployed workers of Bing- hampton. Over a hundred could not get in and had to be turned away. The National Hunger Marchers were given a hot meal. Their speakers were received with great enthusiasm and the crowd pledged full support to the demands for unemployment insurance and winter relief which the National Hunger Marchers will present to congress Dec. 7. Five Binghampton delegates joined the march. Today Column 2 leaves for Scranton, Pa., where it is to stay over night. There will be a couple of stops in towns, between Binghamp- ton and Scranton, for demonstra- tions. NEW YORK, — The capitalist press here went all astray on the progress of Column Two of the National Hun- ger March. The Associated Press story shows its reporters took the easy way of accepting the Syracuse and stete police officers’ word for the reporters did not try to find out what the marchers did do. The “A. P.” story appears in the New York Times of Dec. 2 as follows: “Syracuse Shunts Buffalo Unit. “SYRACUSE, N¥., Dec. 1 (A. P.) Buffalo's contingent of thirty in the army of hunger marchers awsj“some- where” in Southern New Yors State today. Police escorted their truck and three passenger cars around this city.” Other city papers report “Hunger Marchers Missing” and tell of frantic lefforts to locate them on the high- way south of Syracuse, the reporters still being under the impression that the police would surely keep them out of Syracuse. While the reporters were hunting for the march along the road to Binghampton Monday night, the marchers were quietly sleeping in Syracuse, and the police were still drinking in the cold rain; outside of Syracuse waiting for them to, show up. Syracuse Papers Caught Too. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 2. — The adopted a hot statement of protest Hendricks, E. Rosenberg, John Beas- i a Council of Syracuse has ye Tn Ane Danie. ~? \d.aeainet the ajtemph coven thopel ,, schools an epljpes of Bocca oy what they were going to do, and that, (Railways ‘Start Wage Slash . Drive; Union Heads Helping NEW YORK.— Strong forces are working to put over a 10 per cent wage cut for 1,200,000 ratlroad work- ers. The latest move is the action of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- road which announced that it would cut wages 15 per cent. In order to terrorize the men, William Walliser, vice-president of the railroad, de- clared that if the wage cut was not accepted, pensions would be with- drawn. The call for a 15 per cent cut, made before. the meeting of 1,500 local chairmen of railroad unions, has the deliberate purpose of making it easier for the railroad union officials to at- tempt to put over the wage cut. The line will be that by accepting » 10 per cent cut, the men will have gained something. A statement published in the New York Sun on Wednesday says that the railroad bosses expect the union Officials to help put over the wage unsucessful) of Mayor Marcin and Chief of Police Cadin to bar the Na- tional Hunger Marchers from this city. The statement ridicules the brazen lie in the local Syracuse pap- ers which claim that the police “es- courted the marchers around Syra- cuse.” It calls attention to the big mass meeting in Polep's Hall, Monday night, at which five carloads of hun- ger marchers, the whole of Column 2 of the National Hunger March, ap- peared and were welcome by over 400 Syracuse workers, COLUMN 3 TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 2. — Column No, 3 of the National Hunger March on Washington came into Toledo last night with banner flying, and sing- ing. They were met at the court house by ten delegates from the un- employed of Toledo who here joined he march, and by @ great crowd dem~- onstrating its support for the march and the demands for unemployment: insurance. After the court house demonstra- tion, elght hundred workers paraded with the Hunger Marchers to the Coliseum, where a meeting of a thou- sand was held. The line of march was two blocks long. ‘The Coliseum mass meeting unani- mously pledged support to the march- ers, and adopted resolutions denounc- ing the police attack on this Column of hunger marchers at} Hammond, Ind. Another resolution demanded the release of Mooney. The workers themselves had pre- pared to feed and house the march- ers. At the last minute, the chair- man of the city welfare department, who had once refused food to march- ers, changed his mind and offered to provide it. The marchers and the local Unemployed Councils challenge him to feed and house the marchers as they go back through Toledo, if he wants to show any sincerity. Today the column leaves, to go through Sandusky, Lorraine, Elmyra and into Cleveland, where it will stop over night, tonight. COLUMN4 =. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 2. — 42 delegates of Column 4 of the National Hunger March reached here last night. A crowd numbering thousands waited for the march, in spite of the cold, and gave the delegates a rous- ing reception. ‘The marchers and local unemployed councils refused the offer of the city government to put up the marchers in the miserable city flop house, and the delegates twere put up and fed by the workers of Cincinnati. On the way from Indianapolis to Cincinnati the marchers stopped and held mass meetings with farmers in Greenfield and Ogden. “In Richmond, police attacked, and arrested Taylor, ja delegate from California. He is charged with dis- tributing leaflets calling for support to the marchers and their demands for unemployment insurance. The sheriff of Union County, Indiana, who is a leader of the Ku Klux Klan tried to provoke a fight with the marchers, but was not successful. ‘These 42 delegates are all native born Americans, except for three, so the K. K. K. anti-foreign born pro- paganda was rather pointless. ‘Today the delegation leaves Cincin- nati on the way to Columbus, where it will stop over night. WHEELING, W. Va., Dec. 2.—Head- lines in the capitalist press here tell of police threats to break up the Na~- tional Hunger Mareh Column 4 there is any demonstration by Wheel- ing workers in support of it. The police department has asked for state troopers to guard the highway into’ town. A committee of 15 from the Unem- ployed Councils and workers’ organt- zations is going to the city council today to protest the plans for attack on these delegates of the unemployed, and to demand the right to meet un- molested by police. Workers of the entire Ohio Valley are asked to come out and form a mass escourt for the Hunger March trucks to pass through the terror, and also to help the marchers get through the company town of Weirton. Korean Students in. Open Fight Against J apan Imperialism Many Korean students of the Im- perial University of Seoul, the capital of Korea, have been arrested by the police for organizing an anti-imper- ialist movement among the students. The organization was organized in secret and has branches in all high cut, The Sun says: “Railroad circles generally expect the meeting of 1,500 local chair- men to approve the 10 per cent general emergency cut for 1932, and in that case it Is belleved that the Chicago & Northwestern will be contented.” This shows up the threat of a 15 per cent cut made by the Chicago & Northwestern, who no doubt wi be “contented” with a 10 per cent cut Only the action of the rank and file of the railroad workers can fore- stall any sellout in Chicago on De~ cember 7 and 8 when the railroéd union officials meet to vote on the 10 per cent cut. A vote to approve the wage cut means that the union officials are handing out over $250,- 000,000, taken from the impoverished workers, to be paid out to rich para- sites in stock and bond dividends: ‘ Pierce Boss Press Lies With United Effort In 5, Ot 12 Mos. Sub Drive (CONTINUED workers to subscribe, subscriptions. Get FROM PAGE in the race for Daily one) Worker a Get Into the Race For Quotas. Some districts have already responded to Detroit District 7 is a tion campaign call, fine ple oi what should be done. From Chicago comes the report that district-wide action has begun to get machinery started for filling the district quota. Plans are also under way in Chi- cago for the Daily Worker anniversary uary, at which time the drive for subscri bration in Jan- ons wil] reach its climax. A city-wide Daily Worker agent meeting is set for Dec. 6 to map out the campaign. be started. Cleveland Daily Worker age™ts have alrea Red Sundays will soon « Cleye- land’s challenge to Detroit has already been reported. Other districts, get your the race. forces together and get into The Lebanon Friends of the Daily Worker Group (Daily Worker Club) of Lebanon, N. H , has issued a challenge all the way across the United States to the Pasadena Friends of the Daily Worker Group to enter the race for Daily Worker subscription, and to enter in a race it any other revolutioaary activity. This is another example of socialist competition. Detroit and Cleveland are already in a race for subscriptions We await the reports of other groups and other districts. ORGANIZE NABORHOOD SQUADS! SECURE SUBS! MASS ANGER SWEEPING OVER CHINA COONTINUED FROM PAGE ONK? Nanking for demonstrations snd demanding action.” Chinese Workers Fighting Japanese Troops Capitalist dispatches of the past two days show that anti-imperialist demonstrations of Chinese workers, peasants, soldiers and students are occurring with increasing frequency and sharpness throughout China in spite of the attacks on the demon- strators by the troops of the Nan- king government, Fighting between the Japanese troops and Chinese workers continue in Tientsin in spite of the efforts of the Nanking government to crush the resistance of the Chinese workers. United States, Italian, British and Prench troops are reported to be actively supporting the attack on ‘Tientsin workers. Guerrila warfare is spreading throughout South Man- churia as the Chinese workers and peasants repudiate the traitorous agreements of the Kuomintang with the imperialists. Armed Chinese workers and peasants have retaken the town of Paichicho, which was seized last Friday by the Javanese. Guerrila warfare is proceeding be- tween. Kowpanetze and Hsinmin. Indications are that a section of the Chinese troons n Chinchow have defied their officers. Nanking Sell-out Further FExnosed In the effort to divert the Chinese masses from the growing anti-im- pertalist movement, Chiang Kai-Shek yesterday issued a call for prayer meetings and a Christian conference to consider the Manchurian situa- tion.” The Kuomintang sell-out of the Chinese messes and th ehypocris? of the United States-Leazue résolution for an investigation of China and the establishment of a neutral zone around Chinchow is further exvosed by the following official statement by the Japanese government reported in a dispatch from Tokio. “It is not sufficient that the Chinese should merely withdraw their troops within the Great Wall. Chang Hsueh-liang’s Government at Chinchow must also be with- drawn.” ‘The dispatch further states that “Japan also proposes that the inde- pendent Chinese government set up at Mukden under Japanese auspices, with Yuan Chin-kai at its head, shall control the neutral zone after the withdrawal.” ‘The Nanking government reiterated its offer of troops to co-operate with the Japanese in fighting “bandits” in Manchuria. These “bandits” are the workers and peasants who are resisting the Japanese invasion in defiance of the Kuomintang betrayal. Japan in Lies Against Soviet Union With the Japanese rushing more troops into North Manchuria and utilizing the Japanese tool, Gen. Chen-shan, in a fake resistance to provide the pretext for Japanese ac- tivities around the Chinese Eastern Railway and toward the Soviet fron- tier, 2 Washington dispatch yester- day reported Secret ‘cheered by Leacue ‘aes Coincident with the sudden newal of the “threat” of Gen Ma's Shattered forces, the Japanese re- sumed their provocative lies against the Soviet Union. A ‘Tokio disvatcn peddies the following: “Japanese officials ba @ photograph of an ant re- strersft gun mounted on an armored train, used by the Chinese in recent fighting at Tsitsihar, The gon ts said to be Russian, and wes sup- plied to the Chinese since the pre- sent difficulties began.” This in the face of admissions by ® Darien newspaper and the capital- ist news agencies that Gen. Ma wes Supplied with arms by the Japenese! Yesterday the Japanese broad- casted the alarm that their troops in Tsitsihar were menaced by Gen. Ma. A Japanese inspired dispatch from Shanghai declared “a detachment of the cavalry of Gen Ma Chen-shan clashed today southwest of Hailun with Japanese forces and was driving them baek.” The dispatch reported that “Japanese military authorities in that area sent back a call for air- planes and artillery.” A Mukden dispatch reports thei troops are being rushed from that point to Tsitsihar. Tsitsihar is on the Chinese Eastern Railway, whieh is jointly owned by China and the Soviet Union, Capitalist press dis- patehés during the pest two weeks have been admitted Japanese activie ties in mobilizing white guard forces in Manchuria to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway. ‘This is part of the campaign of provocation against the Soviet Union. A Tokyo dispatch reports continued criticism by the Japanese parliamen- tary opposition ofthe government's action in calling off the attack on Chinchow and the,march southward. The Soviet press is reported by Walter Duranty, New York ‘Times Moscow correspondent, in sharp com- ment on the war developments in Manchuria. Duranty states: Pravda‘s leading editorial today en- titled “Master Stimson’s Tactics and ‘Their Consequence.” Its main thesis is that the United States took the lead of the capitalist powers in per- mitting and even urging Jaan to occupy Northern Manchuria. In hope that this action would war between Japan and Union. Figures are quoted to show enormous gains in the United a finance, business baci pecially metallurgy; also ture especially wheat, di World War years of $914, 1916, and Pravda mentions “highly significant” rise the United States less, because that city is the traditional stronghold of their British rival, but when they saw that the Japanese intended whole- sale operations, with Peiping as the Probable objective, ‘be dene about . - hal |