The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1931, Page 1

Ay the reason given for the announce- ment yesterday that all 45 of the city’s “Emergency Work Bureau” reg- NEW YORK—The Councils of the Unemployed will lead mass hunger marchers from here and from New England on their way to Wash- ington to demand unemployment in- tens of thousan¢. of New York work- |; registering this army for jobs when|ed out months ago, again and again} washes its hands of the fate ers who really thought the city was| there are no jobs to give.” He added, taking care 6f them. | what every one of New York's million | since then. ment offi | York’s million hungry jobless Now it is certain! These so-called employ- s were fake employment demonstrations before all the Emer- | istration offices will be closed down | surance and relief, and right in the William H. Matthews,. director of | unemployed workers already knows, | offices, They did not give work to|of workers and job! to do som gency Work Bureau offices Monday | within a week. face of Hoover's man Gifford’s dec-|the Emergency Work Relief Bureau | that the “need is desperate.” |the vast majority who applied for it.| thing. Make this bun morning. On the very day when the work-|laration that all the unemployed are|made the statement. He declared} The Emergency ‘Work Bureau ad-| Now they have given up the pre-|grafters who run the city a . . . ers of New York are making most| being taken care of, this announce- | the offices were closing down within | mits now what the Communist Party | tense. In the coldest and cruelest | out $631,000,000 budgets come across NEW YORK.—“No more jobs!” is|intense preparations to send 400|ment comes, dashing the hopes of|a week, “because there is no sense|and the Unemployed Councils point-! manner, the Emergency Work Bureau! with cash relief for the jobless! All few of ss = SS —=— === = —— WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central "30 Section of the Comeneunist oleae Norker gaumiet Party U.S.A. : Workers In Entered as secon at New York, N. Y., under the act as matter at the Post Office of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, _ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 1931 EMERGENCY WORK BUREAU SHUTS OFFICES! NO MORE JOBS! suppe re National Hungq March and it nds for icin “In one word, vou reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that ig just what we intend.”—Marx. Rush Tag Day Funds and All Other Funds Collected for the National Hunger March to ternational Relief Office at Once Vol. VII. No. 291 Do Not Be Fooled by Agents|\WAR THREAT Mooney’s Freedom Is Provocateurs! HE Central Committee of the Communist Party brands as provocation of the most brazen kind the leaflets and posters distributed on De- cember 2 in Washington, D. C. claiming to be statements of the Com- munist Party of the U.S.A. ‘There leaflets calling upon workers to arm themselves and Size the industries and railroads and set up a government of their own, are the usual provocation which the agents of the capitalists indulge in previous “to, and as an excuse for attacks upon and suppression of struggles of the- working class. Agents of the Hoover-Wall Street Department of Justice and spies employed by the big corporations and the various fascist and semi-fascist organizations, like the American Legion, the ‘National Civic Federation, etc. have many times pyt out such contempt- ible’ statements. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, and acting president of the National Civic Federation and his .connec- tion in Hoover’s anti-working class secret service, have before sponsored provocative material of this kind and placed their stamp of approval upon the crudest forgeries which they believed would facilitate the suppres- ston of the Communist Party and militant mass struggles of American workers, such as the National Hunger March. T0 SOVIET UNION GROWS League Official Says Soviet, Not Japan, Js the Main Danger The anti-Soviet lies were yesterday resum- ed in full blast by the Japanese and the other While directed against the Communist Party, this agent provocateur literature issued in Washington is upquestionably part of a deliberate attempt to lay the basis for official and fascist attacks on the Hunger March, prevent its demands upon Congress and the Hoover admin- istration being made and thereby hamper the struggle for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill which the Hunger March delegates, repre- senting the Unemployed Councils, come to Washington to place before Congress for immediate enactment into law. We call upon all workers to refuse to be fooled by such provocative forgeries and conspiracies cong the Communist Party and the working class. . CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, Not Walker, But WorkersWill Free Mooney---and Billings! R fifteen years the struggle for freedom for Tom Mooney and Warren Billings has been fought on the vast arena of the world class struggle. Since 1917, when Leningrad was still Petrograd, and thousands of revolutionary workers and soldiers shook the United States embassy with the roaring demand heard round the world for the freedom of “Muni,” Billings and Mooney have been international figures whose persecution and imprisonment have symbolized the oppression of the working class by the capitalist class, and especially the merciless frame-up system of American capitalism. - In fifteen years innumerable sinister conspiracies against the liberty of Mooney and Billihgs have been organized. One by one they have been exposed by the unceasing work and struggle of the revolutionary workers, the pre-war left wing of the labor movement, since 1919 by the Commu- U.S.A. imperialist bandits meeting in the secret confer- ences in Paris of the League of Nations Council. The brazen efforts of the imnerialists to provoke the Soviet Union into war have been met by the firm peace policy of the proletarian state. The Soviet Union having refused to fall into the trap of the imperialists, the League offi- cials now turn around with the ac- eusation that the Soviet Union is a menace in the Far Eastern crisis, ap- parently because, as they say, “Soviet Russia has shown no official interest in the Manchurian questidn.” The statement is contained in a Paris dispatch to the New York Eve- ning Post. This dispatch was printed yesterday afternoon with the signifi- cant head. “League Concerned by Soviet Menace in Far East Crisis.” Accuse Soviet Union of Lack of Inierest. The dispatch acc the’ Soviet Union of not participating in the secret conferences cf imperialist ban- dits in Paris. Yet these same bandits (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) nists and the militant unionists of the Trade Union Unity League and International Labor Defense. Spies, traitors and smooth-tongued agents of the capitalist class have appeared innumerable times in the ranks of the workers fighting for the unconditional release of Mooney and Billings. One by one, by twos and threes, the revolutionary section of the working class has exposed them and driven them out of the movement they tried to disrupt and divert from is pati of militant mass protest and sruggle. The tide of class battle once more rises high in the United States and throughout the world. Once more the capitalist jailors of Mooney and Billings, and scores of other worker organizers, are alarmed. «Once more they try to do the impossible—to keep Mooney and Billings in prison and at the same time set them free. ‘They will free their bodies if Mooney and the working class will consent to have their tongues tide and their minds manacled. This is pat of the role of Walker and the whole crew of jackals now gathered around the “legal” side of the Mooney-Billings case. But this” is not all. They try to show the working class that all arrangements have been made to free Mooney in the hope that the nation-wide mass protest will die down. If it does, Mooney and Billings will remain in jail. Third, they try, to drive a wedge between Mooney and Billings and thereby weaken the whole struggle. Four, they try to convince Moony and Billings, and th working class, that only capitalist officials like the contemptible Walker can free them and that this latest fakers of theirs is the final effort that will be made for Mooney. Sapiro said this in so many words in San Francisco: “Mooney will be destroyed forever if the pardon is denied because no one will ever ap- peal for his release again.” No‘foulr lie was ever uttered. It could be uttered only by enemies of Mooney, and of the working class, who trying to destroy hint by en- circling him with a ring of treachery*so black that no comparison can be found except that of the 15 long years of betrayal by Gompers, Woll, Green, Lewis and the whole official leadership of the American Federa- tion—a betrayal whose last act is now being played. ‘The working class will free Mooney—and Billings! Saturday, Sunday! Collect Funds for : Hunger Marckhers! =,NEW YORK —Provocation of pons, etc. violence against the National Hun-| Come out each and every work- ger Marchers everywhere is ac-| er, Saturdey and Sunday, to col- companied with threats against | lect funds! The stations are: ‘the workers who are collecting] Downtown: 134 East 7th St. funds for the Hunger March. Midtown: 301 West 29th St. “The answer must be given by enue! dtd rapa ss i the workers themselves by collect- eo an 196 East Broadway. ing funds in such amount as will wer Bronx: 493 East 138th St., | insure not only the Hunger Upper Bronx, 1622 Bathgate Ave. Marchers reaching Washington but | _, Brownsville: 653 Stone Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. m fi is their return from Washington. SrAMR EGBA Celt GHatihta “Ave 1.—Hand in all collection boxes| Brooklyn, N. Y. immediately to the Workers In-| Get your boxes and other ma- ‘ternational Relief, 16 W. 2ist St. | terial there and make this a real 4—Turm in all money for cou-|'Tag Day for the Hunger March, uy4o= aetrer On the Hoover - Gifford Emergency Unemployment. Relief Committee. Woll is Vice-President of the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor; President of the Labor Life Insurance Co.; Acting Presi- dent of the National Civic Federation; member of the War Labor Board in the World War. Was assistant to Gompers as Chairman of Committee on Labor, of Council of National Defense. Woll is the leading opponent of government unemployment insurance; author of letier to all Senators and Congress- men calling for suppression of the National Hunger | Mar in Hands of Workers Walker, Walsh, Hastings Bring Pressure to Get Mooney to Abandon Working Class Struggle NEW YORK.—As the Daily Worker warn- ed yesterday, the capitalists of California and the United States, headed by Walker as spokes- man, and backed by democrats, socialists and republicans are bringing pressure to bear on Mooney to make his freedom conditional upon his withdrawal from the class struggle. All the warnings of the Daily Worker have been fully borne out by the latest facts and the most recent developments. The telegram sent by William F. Dunne, William Z. ~® Foster and Robert Minor, veteran Shoe Tariff Raised; Jobless Expected to tGo Barefoot In Snow WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.— With winter approaching, and millions ‘of unemployed workers and their families wearing out their tattered shoes, the Hoover government, to help the shoe manufacturers in the United States raise the duty on shoes from 20 to 30 per cent. The main purpose of the tariff rise is to keep out cheap Czecho- slovakian shoes, and give the American shoe manufacturers more profits at the expense of the American workers, fighters in rallying the working masses for MooneWs freedom, wherein they warn Mooney about Walker's object and the necessity for remaining firmly in the ranks of the militant workers, is now given greater significance by the action of former prosecuting attor- ney Charles M. Fickert, who helped frame up Mooney and Billings; by the. action. of Walsh and Scnator Hastings, and by the preparation of a new campaign to unload the guilt on Warren J. Billings, while trying to force Mooney to accept a restricted pardon and to gag him forever. Mass Pressure Growing. Meanwhile, the mass pressure of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Prepare for Coal Miners Convention PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 3——Nine car loads of coal operators’ deputy thugs, armed with sub-machine guns led by Lee Fleenor, killer of at least two miners, searched Walline Creek in Harlan County for several hours Wednesday looking for Frank Borich, National Secretary of the National Miners Union. Knowing that the National Mines Union has issued a call fer a district convention to be held in Pineville, Ky., December 13, at the K. of P. hall, Kentucky Ave., the coal opera- tors have ordered wholesale raids. Miners’ homes and halls were search- ed by armed coal company gunmen. Special Convention Preparations Despite all this terror tremendous response has greeted the call for the convention of the NMU which is to set a strike date for a determined fight against hunger and _ terror. While the nine car loads of thugs armed with machine guns were searching for Borich, 150 miners’ delegations met making preparations for the forthcoming convention. Borich was in the Harlan and Bell Kentucky County coal fields last week meeting with hundreds of miners representing all the sections of Bel County plan- ning the convention. Outside of the all there were three carloads of thugs with high powered rifles. Later they lined up at a bridge, the only road out. United Mine Workers Panic Stricken The United Mine Workers of Am- erica, panic-stricken at the growth of the militant National Miners Union, and fearing they may not be able to sell out the coming statewide strike, which will be led by the NMU, are making frantic efforts to try to horn in by hook or crook, and win over (CONTINUED ON P4SGE THREE) so. ‘BKLYN DEMONSTRATION Section 7, South Brooklyn, Com- munist Party, will hold a demonstra~ tion in front of Boro Hall on Mon- day, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m., sharp, to back the demands of the Hunger March- ers in Washington. We call on all class-conscious workers and the fra- ternal organizations in our territory to come to this demonstration. Foster Speech Rips Into Walker’s he Role in Mooney Case NEW YORK.—Speaking to 10, workers gathered at the Bronx Coli- seum Wednesday night to send off the New York delegation of the Na- tional Hunger March, William 2. Foster exposed the role of the graft- ing Tammany Mayor Walker in the Mooney case. Foster said: For 15 long years the capitalists of this country have kept Tom Mooney and Warren Billings in jail. But now, in the face of a rising wave of struggle of the American workers, the Mooney and Billings case is get- ting too hot for the capitalists to hang on to any more. The workers of this country, by mass pressure, are going to force open the doors of the penitentiary. For all these long years they have kept these comrades of ours in Jail.) That we have not succeeded in ry to Make Billings Goat; Workers Must Force Release before this is simply because the great masses have not realized the true significance of this world-famous Mooney and Billings case. But now the masses are beginning to wake up. They are beginning to get into mo- tion, and the bosses of this country are wondering how they can get rid of the Mooney and Billings case. They are trying, somehow or other, to maneuver themselves into a bet- ter position. So they send Mr. Jimmie Walker to ‘California! Is there anybody in this hall who thinks that Mr, Walker has On Schedule; Need 450 MARCHERS OF COLUMN 1 LEAVE NEW YORK TODAY Hunger Marchers Continue Funds at Once for Food and Lodgings Another Open Letter to Matthew Woll) On November 26 we wrote you challenging you to defend your stand on unemployment insurance before any large| body of workers in New York City or in any big city in| | the country. You did not reply directly to our challenge | but were compelled nevertheless to answer. According to] | the New York papers, you have made a further attack upon| | the National Hunger March and have issued slanderous | statements egainst the Five-Year Plan, once again repeating | | the vicious lie that the Five-Year Plan is in a crisis and that the Soviet Union is unable to meet its financial obliga- apes which is the propaganda of the capitalist elass, aimed to cover the crisis and to minimize the responsibilities of the capitalist system and its spokesmen, one of whose most cynical defenders you are. You charged that our demand for themmlbyiient in- surance at full wages is impossible of realization and im- plied that you are against it for that reason. You are op- posed to any form of government insurance, and instead are for the system of miserable charity and starvation doles; for the Hcover-Wall Street hunger tem of flop houses and degradation of the unemployed millions. You sit comfortably in the chambers of the National Civic Federation and issue slanderous statements, but you fear to come forward and state your position before the working class, organized and unorganized, before workers of the American Federation of Labor and workers of the mili- tant trade union movement. We once again challenge you’ to come forward and pre- sent your position openly. We of the Unemployed Councils, will put up a spokesman who will maintain the charges which we have made against you, namely, that you are carry- ing out the plans and purposes of the ruling class that is starving the unemployed workers, and organizing war on the Soviet Union. . A. W. MILLS, Organizer, National Hunger March Committee of the Unemployed Councils. Forged Circular New Hoover Provocation WASHINGTON, | , Dec. 3. —Secretary of War Pat Hurley has ordered oa Pi at Fort Myer, Va. (adjacent to Washington), to “be ready for action” when the National Hunger March comes into the capital, and it is reported that U.S. marines in and near Washington will be held in readiness, also, Notwithstanding all these war- like preparations, Secretary Hurley today stated that the war depart- ment was “not alarmed.” WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec, 3— The Washington Arrangements Com mittee for the National Hunger March issued a statement denounc- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREB) Patriotic Societies Call for Attack On Mooney, or for what Mooney stands for? No! Mr. Walker went to Cali- fornia t odestroy the Mooney case, if he can, as the class issue of the American workers. We are not going to allow Mr. Walker to destroy the class issues behind the Mooney case. What is Mr, Walker trying to do in California? Mr. Walker is trying to lay down conditions upon which he would appear in behalf of Mooney. Mr. Walker thereupon tries to com~ promise Mooney, and to take the Mooney case away from its class base, the working-class base that this case has rested on eyer since it be- gan. Mr. Walker, together with the other capitalist attorneys in the case, are trying to furnish the capitalist class with an ee they are trying Foreign Born Workers The eleventh annual meeting of the Allied Patriotic Societies at the Arm yand Navy Club, after pleading their support for armaments have also adopted resolutions to extend immigration laws, to work for the adoption of the recommendations of the Fish Committee and to strength- en the activities to combat revolu- tionary workers. The report on the activities of the organization was Si” wo eo ee forcing open these penitentiary bars | mone to-Califormia tp fight for contmNURD Ox FAGM THREE) |Kinnicuth | Workers In Factory Towns Cn Route 1 and 3 five _Suaport PARADE IN CLEVELAND Miner Deleeotes Pour Into Pittshurgh fred Wagenknect Workers International Relief, met with the heads of the food, housing and finance organization commit- tees last night to check up com- pletely on all collections to accom- modate the Nationa Hunger March delegates. The Washington workers so far have secured food sufficient only to feed two meals to the marchers. The workers and sym- pathetic organizations here are not broad enough for a big mass effort. This necessitates steady and con- tinuous collections of funds in all cities to feed the chers in Washington and immense mobiliza- tions in all cities for mass col tions on Saturday and Sunday Free housing is also a problem. The real.estate companies have been notified not to di em| lofts and not even to rent them, which means that sleeping quarters necessitates funds to get beés in the rooming houses. W.LR. secretaries in all cities are urged to accept the responsibility of adequate aid to house and feed the marchers in Washington. Work- ers cooperating with the W.LR. here are laboring diligently, but the immense task of feeding and hous- ing cannot be shouldered by a few Washington workers. This is the re- sponsibility of every city and work- ers are urged to collect funds to fi- nance the return home of the marchers. All funds are to be wired to the Washington Arrangements Com- mittee, 1410 G St., N.W., Washing- ton, D. C. te BUULLETIN BALTIMORE, Pa., Dec, 3.—Due to the insistence of the workers here, led by the Unemployed Coun- cils, the city authorities and the Welfare Department have granted the demand that they feed and lodge the National Hunger March- ers when the combined Columns } and 2 stop over here the night of Dec. 3. The police of Philadelphia have tried to intimidate the owner of the Broadway Arena, where the mass meeting of greetings will be held tomorrow night for the Na- tional Hunger Marchers, Plans are going through to hold the meet- img there just the same, etal, ees NEW YORK.—Col- umn 1 of the National Hunger March, which (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Put Back Furniture Of Evicted Worker NEW YORK.—Brownsvilie Unem- ployed Council, 610 Rockaway Ave., put back the furniture of an unem- ployed worker's family, evicted from. 502 Williams Ave., yesterday. Bet & tenants |