The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central .- Vol. VIII. No. 292. Rush Tag Day Funds and All Other Funds Collected for the National Hunger March to Workers. International Relief ‘Office at Once city EDITION HUNGER MARCHERS REJECT uM CRO Ky. Coal Co. hugs Kidnap NI NMU Member WHO Is Guilty ? (ORKERS, over fifteen years have passed since Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings went to prison. And it is well thai our memory i be refreshed as te WHO PUT THEM THERE! a 4 4 We introduce CHARLES M. FICKERT, a scoundrel. The same FICKERT who, on Nov. 30, wrote a letter to the Tammany crook, James J. Walker, every line of which inferred if it did not specifically state, that Fickert believed Mooney innocent. For what other reason did Fickert quote ex-Governor Young to the effect that Oxman, the perjurer, was “discredited” and a “romancer?” But yesterday the N. Y. Times (Dec. 4) states that “Fickert asserted he still believed Mooney guilty.” Now, who is this FICKERT? Fickert. was the prosecuting attorney put into office in San Fran- sisco by the United Railways streetcar company, which had a “gentle- man’s agreement” with the local labor fakers of the American Federation of Labor headed by P. H. McCarthy not to organize that company’s street var men. There were some indictments against the company officials soncerning stealing their franchise—and Fickert’s FIRST ACT was to lismiss those indictments. Going over the head of the local labor traitors, Tom Mooney had gotten permission from the national officials of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employes, to organize the United Railways—and a strike was fought. The strike was broken, and a United Railways detective named MARTIN SWANSON was the leading strike breaker. The street car strike was broken only a few days before the famous “Preparedness Day” parade, at which an explosion took place. But within a couple of hours after the explosion, MARTIN SWANSON who had no official authority, got from FICKERT the authority to take charge of the ‘case.’ From that on, SWANSON AND FICKERT worked together to frame: up Tom Mooney and Warren Billings! Eye witnesses were sent out of town, and FICKERT AND SWANSON searched the gutters to get perjurers to swear away tHe lives of Tom Moohey: and’ Warren Billings! All this was proven by the fedefal in- vestigators sent by Woodrow Wilson who became alarmed because the whole world working class—recognizing the case as a LABOR-FRAME-UP andi led by the Russian workers who stormed the U. S. embassy at Petrograd demanding the release of “Muni,” had taken up the fight! Of course, Fickert and Swanson had able assistants in the form of the traitors who headed and still head the American Federation of Labor, locally \and nationally! ._The P. H. McCarthy ring of San Francisco's “Labor Council” were no less the lackeys ofthe United Railways and the California. “open shoppers” than were and aré the Gompers, Wolls, Greens and Paul Scharrenburgs, the agents of capitaliim as a whole. The frame-up of Moohey and Billings is (*c work of all of these Scoundrels and labor traitors! ‘The frame-up of Mooney and Billings has been fought AGAINST THE OPPOSITION of cach and every one of these scoundrels for fifteen years. And those who have done the fighting have ALWAYS been ‘the revolutionary workers and their leaders, since its birth—the Communist Party. Now, workers, the Tammany crook, Mayor Walker, has figured out @ way to make capital of Tom Mooney to perfume the rotten record of ‘Tammany. So the marvelous “discovery” is made that Tom Mooney is innocent. But in the same breath Billings is held, by these ghouls gath- ered about the case; to be guilty! The whole working class hurls back this LIE! MOONEY AND BILLINGS ARE BOTH INNOCENT AND BOTH MUST BE FREED! Now,’ workers, evéry effort by the jailers of Mooney and Billings is made to get some guilt attached to their victims! If Ex-Governor Young did not believe Oxman, why did he keep Mooney and Billings in prison? Everyone knows they are’ framed up! Yet the framers have a field day ground Governor Rolph’s desk! There is even talk that “if” Mooney is released, he must be banished from California! He, the victim of capitalist frame-up, must “retire to private life,’ he must “promise not to indulge in radical. activities”! FIRST, THE SENTENCE: TO THE GALLOWS! THEN, FIFTEEN ‘YEARS IN PRISON! THEN BANISHMENT WITH A SEAL UPON HIS LIPS AND SHACKLES UPON HIS MIND! THIS IS MAYOR WALKER’S IDEA .OF “JUSTICE” TO TOM MOONEY! WHAT AN OUTRAGE! THIS CAPITALIST JUSTICE! WHO IS GUILTY? MOONEY? NO! BILLINGS? NO! THE GUILTY ONES ARE THE FICKERTS, THE MARTIN SWANSONS, THE GOVERNORS YOUNG AND ROLPH AND THE CAPITALIST DIC- TATORSHIP. WHICH IMPRISONED THEM AND STILL CYNICALLY HOLDS THE KEYS TO THEIR CELLS! AND FOR. THAT REASON THE WORLD WORKING CLASS DE- MANDS OF THESE JAILERS OF MOONEY AND BILLINGS THAT MOONEY AND BILLINGS BE RELEASED—IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT CONDITIONS, TO RESUME THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT! Neighborhood Squads! Tie Up ' with Unemployed Councils in Drive for 6,000 Subs ‘The Daily Worker, campaign for | 5,000 12-month subscriptions is not », only a drive for money, important as that is. It is a campaign to build a SOLID FOUNDATION for the future of the Daily Worker and the red movement lead by the Communist Party. It is a campaign to consolidate our mass circulation, the extra cir- culation brought by the National Hunger March, and the enthusiasm of the masses of workers caused by the Hunger March into solid organi- zational gains. Friends of the Daily Worker Groups. Therefore the Daily Worker makes ‘its appeal that, in line with the drive “for subscriptions, should go the drive, \in every town, to establish Friends ‘of the Daily Worker Groups and to ‘make PERMANENT the gains of the March and the Subscription ft » ff paign, These groups should be 80 informal that workers who s:c developing class consciousness cen be drawn into the work of getting sub- seriptions and into cther revolution- the members of which can bring their friends and the friends can bring their griends, and so on. The moye- ment will spread if these meetings are made informal and interesting through discussions and entertain- ments. Readers’ Conferences. A fine way to get Friends of the Daily Worker Groups started is thru the Daily Worker readers’ confer- ences now being called in all districts. Don’t let these readers’ conferences dissipate into thin air. Make per- manent Friends of the Daily Worker Groups out of them. Friends of the Daily Worker Groups can then form NEIGHBOR- HOOD SQUADS to get subscriptions in this present campaign and to be prepared for activity in the future. Neighborhood squads can also be formed as a preparatory step to forming a Friends of the Daily Work- er Group. Out of their activity in this subscription campaign can then arise & permanent Friends of the Daily Worker Group. FICKERT IN | NEW ATTACK ON MOONEY Boss Line ° Up Against Mooney-Billings Is Strengthened, Put On More Presse@re Workers Must Increase Fight for Freedom NEW YORK, N. Y.— A new attack on: Moo- ney by the very forces lined up with Mayor Walker and attorneys Walsh and Sapiro is shown in its full fury by the latest move of former District Attorney Charles M. Fickert, who en- gineered the frame-up against Mooney in 1916 on behalf of the California capitalists and who now reiterate his claim that Mooney is guilty and Oxman told the truth. That Walker merely opened the way for the California bosses at- tempt to justify their jailing of Moo- ney and Billings, and to clear them- selves of the whole frame-up is fur- ther shown by Gov. Rolph’s latest step. Gov. Rolph said Thursday, that in view of Fickert’s latest action in de- claring Mooney guilty, (when he had at first approved a pardon) that he would consider re-opening the hear- ing and permit Fickert and others to say why Mooney should stay in jail. This latest move, which Walker, Walsh and Sapiro greet with silence, shows the whole line of policy of the capitalists and their supporters in’ bringing pressure against Mooney. (CONTINUED ON .PAGE FIV®) TAMPA STRIKERS IN MASS PICKET DEMONSTRATIONS Police Raid Office of the Union in Effort to Break Strike (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) TAMPA, Fila., Dec. 4. — Two mass picket demonstrations were held to- day at the Regensburg cigar factories, two of the largest cigar shops involv- ing one thousand workers in each demonstration. Police brutally attack- nine ® ed the workers and arrested ten. Police raided the office of the Tam- pa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union and confiscated everything. ‘The workers are determined to con- tinue the fight until they break the lockout of ‘the bosses, and also stop strike breakers from working. Immigration authorities are intimi- dating strikers. : ‘The workers are full of enthusiasm... Protest demonstra- tions are tp, be called. Latest: News On the -Hunger I ‘March When the: “Datiyg: Sq: Worker went. to press last night. the latest news was that Columns 3 and 4 of the National Hunger March had joined in Pitts- burgh and were receiving a great re- ception. Column 1 reached Trenton at 6:45 p. m., and expected to reach Philadelphia about 9 p, m. ‘It con- ducted a big mass meeting on Mil- itary Park, Newark and was supported by, mass meetings in Linden, New Brunswick and Elizabeth. Workers in old cars came to the line of march from all over the state and formed an Seoguirs a ie & quarter of a mile long. «GREET NEW MONTHLY, ‘LABOR UNITY’ AT BANQUET TONIGHT AT THE MANHATTAN L! LYCEUM 7P.M. Wire Kentucky, Pianand New Terror Reign Stop! (Telegram to the PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. Daily Worker) 4.—Mae Summer, active member of the National Miners Union here, who was helping-in the preparations for a district convention to take place December 13, was kidnapped from his home by two ear- loads of coal operators’ gunmen and has since “disappeared.” The following wire has been sent by the National Miners Union of Kentucky to Governor Sampson: NOT IN JAIL “Mac Sumner, active member of the National Miners’ Union was kidnapped from his home ¢- by two carloads of Harlan County deputized thugs at Creech, Harlan County, Kentucky, last night ,after midnight. He was handcuffed and has ‘not been seen since, He has not been taken to the Harlan jail. “We urge you immediately to wire Sheriff Blair and Judge D. C. Jones demanding his immediate retrun. “Nine carloads of thugs with sub- machine guns at Wallins Creek, Harlan County, Wednesday, break- ing through the locked doors of Odd Fellows Hall where the. Na- tional Miners Union meets, at- tempted to intimidate the miners. Try To Prevent Convention “This renewed activity on the part of Harlan County thugs is an attempt to revent the National Miners Union District Convention, to be held December 13, at the K. of P. Hall, Pineville, from meeting. “We demand the removal of the gunmen and the elementary right ‘of holding-our union meétings.” The’ National Miners Union sent, an investigation committee to the Harlan jail but could not find Mac- Summer there. They are trying to locate him elsewhere, but they fear that-he has met either with severe injury or with death at the hands of the coal operators’ thugs. Another investigating committee of the NMU is visiting R..W. Creech, coal’ operator, demanding the-return of MacSummer, All workers organizations should immediately. wire to Sheriff Blair, Harlan. County, Governor Sampson, Kentucky, and Judge Jones, Harlan, Ky. demanding that MacSummer be found and let loose. ~ American Red Cross, bitter opponent of unemployment insurance, or any form of help for job- less from the government. With Hoover, fought last year against grant of $25,000,000 Chairman of for relief of farmers. Con- siders “dole as demoraliz- ing.” He is a wealthy law- yer; chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board and Secre- tary. of the Interior during the war. He admitted in the Senate that Red Cross relief amounted to 10 cents a day. GOVT PLANS $1,000, 000,000 for RAILWAYS; NOTHING FOR JOBLESS NEW YORK.—That the American capitalism, undermin whole financial structure of ed by the growing economic crisis, is now plunging into deeper difficulties is shown by the sudden announcement in Wall Street and in the capitalist press that President Hoover will propose the establishing of an emergency firiance' body with $1,000- 000-000 from the United States treas- ury in an attempt to stall off the im- pending crash in:leading banks, rail- Toads, insurance companies: and other capitalist institutions. * "The. capitalist newspapers refer to the proposed finance’ organization as similar to the War Finance Corpo- slaughter and reaped huge fortunes for themselves. Will Give Money for Profits. The most significant feature of the emergency finance body, when, established, will be that it will hand over mainly to the railroad stock- holders for dividends and profits from $250,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. DISARM USSR IS CHURCH CRY ON RADIO Church Joins Attack as Imperialists Push War Moves Row Over | Chinchow Nanking Warns of Growth of Communism A demand for the forcible disarming of the Soviet Union was broadcast by radio and press throughout the capitalist world yesterday. The demand was included in an at- tack on the workers and pea- sants republic by Dean Inge, of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Lon- don. Inge’s attack on the proletarian state was broadcasted in this coun- try over a network of the National Broadcasting Company. Visualizing himself as a holy fascist dictator to defend capitalism from the rising re- volutionary struggles of the toiling workers and colonial masses, Dean Inge declared: “I should, in the guise of a dic- tator, take drastic steps to disarm Russia. Otherwise the civilization of Europe and Asia may be de- stroyed by a new series of Tartar invasions. I am quite serious in thinking that the Russian Army is going to be a terrible force.” League Throws Aside Pretense of Arms Reduction On the same day, the League of Nations hypocrites meeting in Paris, indicated a scrapping of the pre- tense of seeking © reduction in arm- aments at the February Geneva Dis- armament Conference. They all but Scrapped this fake conference in their move to soft-peddle all talk of disarmament, no matter how hypo- critical, and prepare the next stage of building up a war psychology in the carrying out of their lars for armed intervention against the Chi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) American Delegation to Soviet Union Sees Giant Cement Works STALINGRAD, Dec. 3.—The American workers’ delegation to the Soviet Union on the 14th An- niversary of the Revolution visited the giant cement works in Novo- rossik, the scene of Gladkov’s novel “Cement,” and noted the Increased production under the Five Year Plan from zero in 1924 to 4 million barrels in 1931, They also visited the port where the tonnage has doubled in the last two years to nearly 4 million tons. The workers are enthusiastically following the line of the Commu- mn LODGINGS | Hunger iccchina Demand ‘|| To See Hoover, Dec. 7th The National Hunger March Committee of the Unem- ployed Councils has notified President Hoover that on Mon- day, Dec. 7, a. committee of the 1,200 National. Hunger Marchers will call on him to present demands. . The letter was sent on Thursday, and reads: “Mr. Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, White House, Washington, D. C: “Mr. President:—On December 7th, there will Washington 1,200 delegates of the National Hunger March, elected by and representing many hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers. from all important industrial, centers of the United States. “The delegation of the National Hunger Marchers will present to Congress demands for the enactment of a federal unemployment insurance law, immediate winter relief, and other measures necessary for the relief of the unemployed. * “The National Hunger Marchers will send a to you on Monday, December 7th to protest against tolerable starvation conditions which twelce miilion and their families are now subjected to and for whic! failure of the government to take the necessary unemployment relief is primarily responsible. steps quate hearing and an opportunity to present its protest demands, “National Hunger March Committee of the dtl Councils, A. W. MILLS, Organizer.” be in elegation | HUNGER MARCH |COLUMN 1 GOES ASSAILS PLAN | TRIUMPHANTLY TO SEGREGATE Police Offer of* Food, | Lodging Result of Mass Pressure All. Lines of March: 4 Columns Progress WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4. — ; : The proposition which the Washing- Fete EY LLETIN. ton authorities now make to feed and WHEELING, W. Va., Dec. house the 1,200 National Hunger! 4.—The National Hunger Marchers on a Jim-Crow basis of dis-! marchers have broken thru crimination and segregation of Negro and white workers has been emphati- cally denounced and rejected: by the National Hunger March Committee of the Unemployed Councils and by the Washington Arrangements Committee for the National Hunger March. Yesterday it became evident that a certain change in tactics by Wash- ington authorities had been forced by the terriffc mass pressure on the ad- ministration, shown in hundreds ‘of telegrams of hot protest against Hoo- ver's provocations, shown in the mass welcome for the National Hunger Marchers in every city they passed through, shown in scores of mass meetings off the line of march but in support of it, shown in the failure of city governments which followed Hoover's tip to break up the-march the terror prepared against them in Wheeling. Column 4 came in last night according to schedule, and was greeted by a demonstration of 2 Wheeling employed and un- employed workers, massed on the Playgrounds. Thou- sands filled the streets and cheered the marchers as they came along. The marchers, some of whom came from as far away as California, were fed and housed in the Bo- hemian Hall over night at Lansing. This is a tremendous vic- Washington Offer Scored; Smash the Terror in Wheeling “We expect that the delegation will be givej an ‘ade- and THRU JERSEY Mass Greetings Along 900 | ration through which the American capitalists financed the last world |” (CONTINUED ON nist Party in building up socialism. PAGE FIVE) Mt a SEARE SEM SPAR EL a Secret Report Tells of Turn of Negro Masses to Communism Poe By CYRIL BRIGGS. LARM that the Negro masses are turning to the revolutionary struggle as the only way out against the capitalist hunger program, lynch terror and race hatred poison is expressed in a secret report made to the Fellowship of Recon- ciliation by Howard Kester. The report was given at a conference held in New York City, Oct. 15 to 18. It was not intended for publica- tion. In spite, however, of all efforts to keep it secret, the Daily Worker secured a copy of it, The Kester report admits that in Alabama alone there have been at least 75 Negro victims of the boss lynch terror since August of this year. “Private citizens are Anewa! to have dis- guised themselves as officers and to have shot Negroes in cold blood. Six Negroes were killed in a freight train near Ensley by deputies,” “It was reported at police headquarters-that they had been killed in a wreck in the yards,” the report states. Bosses “Decide” To Get Rid of Militant Negroes. ,.The report shows that with the increase of the boss lynch terror there has also been a growth in the militancy of the persecuted Negro masses. It shows, too, the bosses sharpening the terror in the attempt to crush out this militancy; “The white element has become frightened {CONTINUED ON PAGE Saye | far out away from= Washington to | actually break it up that way. General Makes Offer. Brigadier General Pelham D. Glass- bord, commander of the Washington, police, which is directly under fed- eral government orders, called: Herb- ert Benjamin, field organizer of the Washington Arrangements’ Commit- tee, into his office and told him that the marchers would be fed and housed and permitted to parede with (CONTINUED ON. PAGE etye) Cold Kills Cincinnati Jobless Negro Toiler CINCINNATI, Ohio.~The sudden drop in temperature claimed the life of one jobless worker in Cincinnati. John Hudson, Negro, 30, no home, was found dead last Wednesday morning on the Ohio River Bank, 200 feet. west of Main Street. “The coroner said the man had died of exposure. tory, .considering..the whole series of raids in the last two weeks and murderous threats made by the Wheeling city council to smash this line of the National Hunger March right here. There was. free prediction that the column would be attacked by police. State troopers were called out to line the roads. The Unemployed Councils: coun- tered by calling an West Vir- ginia and Ohio miners and other workers to provide a convoy for the marchers. On the way from Colum- bus, where the, marchers stopped Wednesday night, to Wheeling, there were enthus- iastic greetings and ‘Pledges of support from mass meet- ings in all of the cities, One {CONTINUED PAGE Five: — BILL. DUNNE, TOASTMASTER. — SPEAKERS: FOSTER, MINOR, WEINSTONE, ZACK, GOLD, AMTER, ANNA DAMON, MINERICH, HAYWOOD, “BY JORGE”, SCHERER, ENG- DAHL. . JOHN REED CLUB « inky soci NEW SOVIET NEWS. REELS, AUNT MOLLIE JACKSON WILL SING “KENTUCKY MINERS BLUES”,