The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1931, Page 1

Negro Worker Is Lynched in Salisbury, Maryland on the Eve of the Trial of Orphan Jones WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Central _Vol. VIII. No. 293 cmtered as accond-ciass matter at the Post Offi at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 15; Daily, Wo f Section oe the sca Ee eo acetals orker Party U.S.A. "CITY EDITION Rush Tag Day Funds and All Other Funds Collected for the National Hunger March to Workers International Relief Office at Once NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH PARADES THRU WASHINGTON JAPAN PLANS NEW DRIVE ON CHINCHOW Nanking Attacks Anti- Japanese Demon- strations Arrest 300 Students Washington In New Attack on USSR ‘The Japanese imperialists are pre- paring for a new attack on Chin- chow. Coming after the protests by the United States and the British, and Japan’s temporary withdrawal from the Chinchow area, this latest move is either an open defiance of the other imperialist powers or is teking place on the basis of some new bargain with the other imper- ialists es pert of her price in the war moves against the Soviet Union. It is probably this latier ility that explains the new move. A Paris dispatch reports a Japan- ese demand on the. League Council that Japan be empowered “to police an indefinite area of Manchuria, not to say China, against bandits.” Any attack on the Soviet Union from Manchuria would have to reckon with the powerful revolutionary movement in China, The Nanking hangmen of Wall Street have previously been en- trusted with the task of crushing the Chinese Revolution. But capitalist press dispatches during the past week have carried admissions of a threat 40 the Nanking government by the rising anger and resistance of the Chinese masses to the imperialist plans for. partitioning China. The Japanese are apparently demanding that their army be permitted to carry out the attack on the Chinese Soviets and Red Army, in which the Nanking puppet government has so miserably fatled. New York Evening Saturday’s Graphic carried the front page scream: “Japs Set For New Battle.” A dispatch from Tokyo to the same paper was headed: “Jap War Outbreak Seen as Army Head Demands ‘Positive Action” in China.” The dispatch reported that “Gen, Shigeru Honjo, commanding Japan- ese troops in Manchuria, telegraphed the War Office today that it was necessary for Japan to take ‘positive action’ in the Chinchow area.” A Tokyo dispatch to the New York Times on Sunday reported that the Japanese government is simply wait- ing “for the effect of steps which the League of Nations is taking to induce the Chinese to withdraw (from Chin- chow). If the League fails, the army will feel that it has been tricked by the Chinese.” The dispatch quotes the Japanese as opposing the views of American observers that there is No military activity on the part of the Nanking forces in the Chinchow area. A Paris dispatch to hte New York {CONTINUED ON PAGE THRED) Jail Two Organizers In Chattanooga,Tenn hite Terorr Raids CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 5. —Dan Brocks, Cistrict organizer of the Trade Unien Unity League, end Jene Dillon, district organizer’ of the International Labor De- fense, were jailed here today as part of the bosses’ white terror campaign in the South against militant labor organizations and the growing union of the white and Negro workers in the struggle against lynching, race discrimin- ation and starvation. Brooks and Dillon were booked under the usual charge of vag~ rancy. Bond was posted by the International Labor Defense and the organizers will appear in court Dec. 8 The LL. D. will defend the prisoners in court and call on all workers to mobilize a mass pro- test at the court house Tuesday morning. Fight forUnemployment Insurance! Support the Demands of the Hunger March! (Statement of the Central Committee, CPUSA) The Communist Party calls upon all workers, employed and unemployed, to support the National Hunger March to Washington, the bearer of the demands of the broadest masses. It calls on the workers to strengthen the organiza- tion of the unemployed and further develop the struggle throughout the country for unemployment insurance. Never before has it been so clear to the broadest masses that it is impossible to better their condition of misery, star- vation and despair without forcing the bosses to provide unemployment insurance at full wages, administered by the workers themselves and at the expense of the government and the employers. i The cri is has sharpened to such a degree and its conse- quences have become so terrible that the bourgeoisie no longer tries to deny the facts. But admitting that the crisis is the result of the post-war ‘crazy economy’ and that it is “catasrophe second only to the great war” the bourgeoisie is trying to make it a basis and a lever for its economic and political offensive against the working masses. This means that the ravages of hunger, the suffering of millions, the physical annihilation of tens of thousands of workers, disease, suicide, insanity, and the death and life- long crippling of children will not pass oyer but will increase tremendously. Without winning unemployment insurance, millions of unemployed workers will remain at the mercy of miserable~charities. The more the working masses realize the necessity for unemployment insurance, the more it becomes evident that the capitalist government will not grant it without a persist- ent and determined struggle. For almost two years, the working class, in varied forms, with increasing determina- tion, has fought for unemployment insurance. From March 6th, 1930 when a million and a quarter demonstrated almost spontaneously for unemployment insurance, the movement has grown in class-consciousness, organizational strength and mass scope. On February 10th, 1931, the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Delegation in the name of a million and a half workers announced before Congress the demands of the workers; and the development of the struggle after the in- solent refusal on these demands by the Washington admin- istration showed what mass forces stand behind these demands. In thousands of demonstation, in Chicago, in Cleveland, in San Francisco, in New York, throughout the country, mil- lions of workers unfolded the banner of struggle for unem- ployment insurance. In not a single strike did the strikers fail to come out with this militant demand for unemployment insurance. And the glorious strike of the Pennsylvania- Ohio-West Virginia miners expressed in the most brilliant form the solidarity of the employed and unemployed work- ers in the fight for their common demand of unemployment insurance. All the fights led by the Unemployed Councils against evictions, for immediate relief, against the corruption of the charities, were carried out under the main slogan of unem- ployment insurance. It was in these struggles that the newly involved masses, especially the Negroes, have shown the greatest militancy, firmness and readiness to sacrifice, Eternal honor to the workers who fell in the struggle for unemployment insurance on the streets of Chicago, Cleyeland and New York! ' The Hoover hunger government, with a Aina and insolence characteristic of a decaying ruling class, refused every demand of the workers for unemployment insurance, not because they could pretend that unemployment is de- creasing or will decrease, but because the suffering and star- vation of millions of unemployed is an essential part of their general plan of still sharper exploitation of the entire work- ing class. All the plans of the bourgeoisie to find a way out of the crisis are based on the continued existence and growth of unemployment, and all their demagogic projects to “fight” unemployment (stagger plan, fake unemployment insurance of the socialists and Musteites) have the aim only of making it less visible, and therefore more difficult for the masses to fight it. The sweeping wage-cuts, the furiously increasing exploitation—all this the capitalists count on putting through by weakening the resistance of the workers through unem- ployment. All the war preparations of the American im- perialists for new markets, for new colonies, against the So- viet. Union are calculated on the possibilty of using the un- employed as cannon-fodder for the war. American imperialism is stepping forward as the inter- national leader of the struggle against unemployment in- surance, The driving force in the creation of the imperial- ist front against the Soviet Union, American imperialism, in order to guarantee the debt payments to Morgan & Co., is encouraging the lowering of the living standards of the working class throughout the world. With the blessing of Morgan, MacDonald, the ex-leader of the Second International, is crippling unemployment insur- ance and cutting the wages on an unprecedented scale in England. Under the direct dictation of Hoover, the French and German bourgeoisie are coming together on the basis of a bloody fight against the German revolution and the sup- pression of the workers’ movement in France. The dirty diplomacy and open violence of Washington in China, the Carribean and South America, and throughout the whole colonial world is directed against the revolutionary movement of the oppressed masses, for their further en- slavement, for the increase of their exploitation in the inter- est of the imperialist bankers.’ In every case, Wall Street is trying to use the warm blood of the workers and peasants to thaw their frozen credits. In its fight against the mass movement for unemploy- ment insurance, the American bourgeoisie uses on the one hand, ever more vicious terror ,and on the other hand ever more odious demagogy. Not satisfied with the “usual” club- bing, shooting, and gassing of the workers’ demonstrations, the United States Secret Service fabricates a forged leaflet purporting to be a call by the Communist Party for the or- ganization of armed uprising by the Hunger March. The Communist Party has proved that the very text of the document showed it to be an obvious and clumsy for- gery. The Communist Party declared that the charge of its using this Hunger March for armed insurrection was a de- liberate and studied attempt at provocation in order to fur- nish an excuse for terroristic attack against the representa- tives in the Hunger March of the millions of employed and unemployed workers. The Hunger March will not be turned aside by such capi- talist conspiracies and terror. It persists in its present task, which has been repeatedly proclaimed by the National Hun- ger March Committee as expressing the two years of struggle for Unemployment Insurance throughout the country, by placing before Congress the demand of the employed and un- employed for Unemployment Insurance and immediate relief. The workers will refuse to be fooled by such provocative forgeries and conspiracies against the Communist Party and the working class. The Communist Party fights such pro- vocation of the bourgeoi ie by mobilizing the broadest mas- ses, by building their organizations, by preparing and leading mass revolutionary actions to resist the vicious attack of the capitalists and to transform the movement of the masses into a counter-offensive. But both the terror of the police and the provocation of the Secret Service, and the open attack of the leaders of the A. F. of L., headed by the capitalist bootlicker Matthew Woll against unemployment insurance can no longer halt, the grow- ing movement. Learning from their experience how to fight against the police terror, the A. F. of L. workers have an- swered Matthew Woll by sending, despite the vicious oppo- sition of the bureaucracy, their representatives along with the National Hunger March. In order to paralyze the activity of the workers in the fight for unemployment insurance, the bourgeoisie is forced more and more to make use of lies and false promises in order to decieve the masses. This task is given by the bourgeoisie to its agents in the workers’ movement, to the socialist party and its twin brothers the Musteites, who pretend to be the “left wing” in the A. F. of L. In every capitalist country where unemployment insur- ance exists, in England, Germany, etc., the socialist parties, the members of the Second International are busy cutting and crippling the existing unemployment insurance in the interests of the bosses and at the expense of the workers. In the U. S., they are carrying out their treacherous role by bringing before the workers schemes of fake unemployment insurance and by attempting to hold them back from fight- ing for the only real proposal for unemployment insurance —that contained in the Unemployment Insurance Bill— which can, only be won through struggle. The two years’ fight for unemployment insurance in the U. S. is a history of betrayals by these fakers no matter whether they come out openly against it like Norman Thomas, or try from time to time to attach themselves to the movement, like Muste. Workers! Employed and unemployed! In the fight for unemployment insurance you are learning who are your friends and who are your enemies. You are learning how to fight your class enemies, the capitalists and their agents in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KILL NEGRO |\Vietim Demanded) BeforeCongress | vestigation and will have a full re- | port in a day or two. PROTESTING HUNGER PAY Wages, Resented | Starvation Pay Shot By ‘Son of Boss Mobs Threaten Orphan | Jones, On Trial Today SALISBURY, Md., Dec. 6.— The lynch gang activities of rich farmers | and merchants on the Eastern Shore | of Maryanl came to a head Friday night with the brutal lynching of Matthew Williams, 35-year old Negro worker. The farmers and merchants were aided by local hoodlums and the police in dragging Williams out of a hospital bed where he lay seriously wounded after what the capitalist press claims to have been a gun fight | between Williams and his employer | and the latter’s son. | The employer, Daniel J. Elliott, a rich manufacturer and proprietor of | a local crate and baskte factory, was | Killed and Williams was shot in the | head by Elliott’s son. First claiming that Williams shot himself, the bos press admits in the latter part of its reports that he was shot by the} younger Elliott. The whole boss press | story is vaguely contradictory on this point, and it is not certain that Will- jams even bad a gun. The question naturally rises whether the worker was not fired on when he went’ to| demand his wages and the older El-| liott killed by his son during the firing on the Negro worker. The| Daily Worker is making its own in- | The lynching arose directly out of | the brutal economic robbery end na- | tional oppression of the Negro masses. | The murdered worker is reported to! have resented the starvation wages| of 15 cents paid in Elliott's crate and} basket factory. The boss press quotes | Williams as making the statement | from a cot in the Peninsula General (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | MESTS IN CITY 70. | day) the following statement to con- | of Congress and is signed by the Na- Ready Now to Place Demands Statement Issued by National Hunger March Committee of Unemployed Councils Demands Passage of Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill 3ill_ and Immediate Relief All Columns of Hunger March Arrive at Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6A columns of the National Hunger March have arrived here. After the demonstration the marchers paraded to the Salvation Army headquarters and the barracks of the 20th Marines where they were fed with sour beans and coffee. Yhe marchers imme- diately demanded fresh food and the Salvation Army heads brought in a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) enue WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—The 1,200 delegates of the National Hun- ger March, present tomorrow (Mon- Representatives and the, Senate 0; the 72nd Congres of the United States of America: One gress. It is addressed to both houses ers—of elected at and mass tional Hunger March Committee of Unemployed Councils, and is endorsed in the name of 12,000,000 unemployed workers, by the national conference | eountry, made up of these 1,200 delegates. The | dreds of t statement reads: . “To the Members of the House of | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.000 WORKERS confezences ployed THREE ‘Hunger Marchers GREET MARCHERS) Smash Jim Crow NEAR CAPITOL Moveln Baltimore DelegatesApproaching iW ilmington Ww orkers from North Carolina Cheer Marchers WASHINGTON( D. C., Dec. 6—| The necessity o& pr’ ‘The 1,200 National Hunger Marchers | Statement of the | March Committce of the Ceniral | Communist Pi | to give today m | entered Washington from the east and from the north this and marched with placards to the part of we afternoon, y where they held ba BACK NAT.MARCH cos sue inom noone workers and unemployed “workers Boro Hall right in the shadow of the Capitol Scene OL | Pua: Brooklyn Meet Backing up the National Hung Marchers who are presenting the From the North. | Columns 1 and 2 of the National Wunger March were met by Distr |of Columbia police 10 miles outside demands to Congress today, the var- | of Washington at 3 o'clock today, but fous branches of the Unemployed | marched on into the city. Thousands Council of New York are holding | of automob les were lined up for more demonstrations throughout the city. | © han a mile on both sides of the road In Brooklyn, there will be a demon- | as the 21 big trucks and 30 passenger stration at the Boro Hall at 2 p. m.| cars loaded with hunger marchers Included in the delegation which is| rolled into the capital to demand un- to seo the Brooklyn Boro president|employment insurance from the | opsis of the progress towar | ington of the National Hung | Saturday and Sunday. Di | be printed later. Columns 3 and 4 united Friday night at Pittsburgh, and found that |the city government had swindled | them in regard to food promised. The marchers left the filthy dining | (CONTINUE BANK FAILURES CONTINUE AREE) | The First National Bank and the Bay ‘ings Bank both of Bay City , With total de- posits of $9,000,000 closed their doors will be representatives of the Mehringe Silk Strikers who will demand that the evictions being carried out against them be stopped, and also some from the Coney Islend bread strike who are feeling the terror of the police in their fight for lower prices. Demonstration in Bronx. ‘The Bronx Branch of the Unem- ployed Council will hold an indoor | demonstration st the Ambassador | Hall, at 3rd Ave. between 172nd St. and Claremont Parkway. Another | demonstration will be held at | Prospect Ave. In the Brownsville section ot | Brooklyn there will be a demonstra~ tion at Bristol St. and Pitkin Ave. at 8p. m. All workers should attend these demonstrations in their sections in order to expand the fight for local relief and emphasize the fact that those who went to Washington rep- resent them. IDAHO BANK SUSPENDS BUSI- NESS The Twin Falls Natinal Bank of Twins Falls, Idaho, was closed No- vember 24 by order of the board of directors. December 3 because of the condition of their reserves. Tom Mooney’s Birthday December 8th! | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? Workers, you who have never ceased from st ruggle for the victims of capitalist justice, who saw the hangmen inurder P » Spies and | the other leaders of the great Hight-Hour Strike of 18 u who by millions filled the streets with anger at the mur of Soak Van- zetti—do. you know that December 8th is the Si: Mooney has spent in prison, the Forty-ninth birthed: f Let the capitalist class be reminded, while your represent: she National Hunger March are in Washington, while you are demon- strating throughout the country for unemployment insurance and nediate relief to the starving millions, that you recogni. and Warren K. Billings as imprisoned fighters for nediate and unconditional release is YOUR de: with by the scheming politicians of the capitalist c Let the capitalist government of the republican Hoover, who cooper- | ates with the democratic jackals of Tammany such as Waiker, in the starving and jailing of wo-kers, hear your demand that the section of the WICKERSHAM REPORT WHICH EXPOSES THE IMPRISON- MENT OF MOONEY AND BILLINGS AS A FRAME-UP, be published! ‘Tear off the mask of the hypocrite at Washington who as the Chief Executive of the nation protects the jailers of Mooney and Billings from exposure! Demand the release—immediately and unconditionally—of both Mooney and Billings! not to be tzifled SPREAD “FRIENDS OF DAILY WORKER” GROUPS IN SUB DRIVE / .