The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1931, Page 1

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CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents HUNGER MARCH PUT UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT HEAD OF FIGHT AGAINST HOOVER HUNGER PROGRAM Carry the Fight Forward OUBTLESS the bosses of the capitalist mewspapers can compliment- themselves on their “success” in concealing the news from Washington on Mord: hiding the fact that more than 200,000 people, a majority © of the population of the national capital, turned out—not without sym- pathy—to witness the National Hunger Marchers’ victorious arrival at the doors of Wall Street's government. The capitalist newspapers even attained the achievement of writing €olumns of lies about the Hunger Marchers without revealing what, pre- tisely, the Marchers’ demands were. But if the capitalists can get any satisfaction out of this achievement of their press prostitutes, they are welcome to it. For the fact remained that hte Hunger March, arising out of thou- sands of local struggles, hailed in its nation-wide march (that took on the Aspects of a baitle against repressive efforts ordered from the White House) by vest masses of workers and farmers, took the capital by storm and left the capitalist authority only the sorry gesture of such “triumph” as remains to those who hide themselves from the basses behind a wall of machine guns. ALove ali, the class difference has been made clear to all, between the “unger Prozram of the cap ist class led by Hoover and all his windy “commisriors,” with degrading dole of miserable charity serving asa fig-leef to hide mass starvation—and the working class program of Unemployment Insurance at full wages and immediate’ relief to the destitute And uvon the basis of this widened knowledge among the masses of the existence of a working class program opposed to the regime of hunger andLolice yiolence—the Unemployed Movement must work day and night to organize the struggle until victory is finally torn from the hands of the unwilling bosses and their despotic politicians at Washington! On t return trip of the National Hunger Marchers, even greater and mcre persistent effort must be made. to consolidate\the masses of workers avound the demands of the marchers—definitely multiplying the number of members of the local Unemployed Councils, widening their influence and establishing an unbreakable spirit of militancy that will carry forward the struggle to victory, ‘articularly is it necessary that the shameless role of the A. F. of L. leudershiv as defenders of capitalist profits and police stool pigeons, be (akeu inio every local of the American Federation of Labor so that the hones. workers of the rank and file may realize how vile is the treachery Gf the Green-Woll bureaucracy. necessary that the victorious march on Washington be followed y city, town and village by the establishment of new Unemployed Councils, Biock Committees, the attraction of still wider masses of work- crs tuto action to prevent evictions, to enforce immediate relief to the ceciitute from local authorities, to prevent discrimination and persecu- tion of the unemployed, to bring the movement into an offensive against the capitalist program of mass starvation throughout the land! Ti ory of Washington must be followed up by these actions, and he gathering of millions of signatures demanding Unemployment Insur- ance and immediate relief. And everywhere the masses of employed and unemployed must be rel’ around the concrete daily struggles for the mass mobilization in dor ‘rations everywhere to take place on Febru- ary 4th—a national Day o: Struggle for Unemployment Insurance against capitalist starvation! Forward with the struggle! ELECT WORKERS’ CANDIDATE IN WINDSOR, CANADA Elected on Program of Fight Against Terror for Jobless Insurance; Communist Leaders Are Out on Bail (Telegram to Daily Worker) TORONTO, Canada, Dec. 8.—Tom Rayeroft, workers’ candidate on ticket against Section 98 of the Cri- minal Code, for unemployment in- surance, representing the demands of the workers in a united front elec- tion campaign committee, was elect- ed Alderman in Windsor, Ontario. This victory is the first break in the solid Tory front in Eastern Can- ada and is a repudiation by the work- ers against the outlawing of the Communist Party. Raycroft is the only workers’ representative in the Canadian city government. Tom Ewan, Tim Buck, Malcolm Bruce, Sam Carr, Tom Hill, John Baychuk, Matthew Popovich and Tom Cacic, under sentence for sedi- tious conspiracy and membership in an unlawful association, the Com- munist Party, have been granted bail of $20,000 each, pending appeal against the Ontario Supreme Court conviction and sentence of five years each with two years for Cacic. The appeal is expected the beginning of the year, Hoover Message Calls for Greater. Attack on Workers “WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Filled witn wholesale attacks against: the workingclass, continuing the program of hunger for 12,000,000 unemployed, and providing for more stringent de- portation laws, Hoover's message to Songress was read today. Hoover's message to Congress, which was to suppose to contain ways of ending the crisis, was greeted in to admit that there was a “continued world wide economic disturbance” of the capitalist system. ‘Then he proceeded to his usual slimy lies sbout “fundamental national gains,” --perhaps he referred to the huge in the army of the unemployed; Mi he falked about “the being richer in physical property.” Hoover’ said not a word about the hundreds of thousands of workers be- ing thrown out of their homes; the growing suicides and death by starv- ation or about the “fundamental na- tional gains” made by the workers whose wages have been slashed in the past year. The message declared against any form of unemployment insurance, He called for increase in taxes. But said nothing about, the rich pay- ing. * One point in the message declares: “The deportation laws should be strengthened.” ‘This is one of the points in the program of Ham Fish, and means increased terror against the foreign born workers, (Note:—The Council for tection of Foreign Born York is holding a conference the of JAPANESE IN NEW DRIVE NORTHWARD League Pushes Plan to Partition China Mass Fight Growing Soviet Press Scores League Hypocrisy Over the bargain counter of the imperialist vultures in secret confer- ences in Paris, the Chinese city of Chinchow was practically handed over to the Japanese yesterday. Chin- chow is clearly to be included in the Manchurian loot of the Japanese in the imperialist plans for the parti- tion of China, and war against the Chinese Revolution.and the Soviet Union. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times reports Japan in a de- mand to exclude Chinchow from the Proposed “neutral” zone, “leaving EX-SERVICEMEN DEMAND BONUS Washington Conf. Will Score Delay WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8— The ex-seryice men, mostly veterans of the world war, held a special con- ference last night and made plans for an intensified struggle not only for unemployment insurance and winter relief, but for the soldiers’ bonus and other demands of their own. ‘They also prepared to further ex- pose the fascist led Veterans of For- eign Wars and other militarist or- ganizations. The Veterans of For- eign Wars, aided by Admiral Robert H. Coontz and Representative Pat- man, plan to hold a rally Friday and Saturday night on the bonus question. The ex-servicemen themselves will also hold a rally Friday and Saturday night to announce real plans for the struggle and to expose. the trickery and treachery of the leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. A great many world war veterans have come into Washington to de- mand immediate payment of the bonus. (CONTL COAL BOSS. KNEW OF KY. KIDNAPPING Mae Sumner Still Is Missing; Gunmen Took Him NEW YORK.—R. W. Creech, owner of the Creech mine, where Me¢Sum- ner, kidnapped member of the Na- tional Miners Union lived and worked before he was blacklisted, said that MacSumner’s friends will hear of him in a few days. MacSumner was kid- napped nearly a week ago by coal operators gunmen because of his ac- tivities in connection with the forth- coming District Convention of the National Miners Union to be held here December 1%. Up to date not a trace of MacSumner’s whereabouts has been found by searching parties of miners. : * R. W. Creech, who said something would be heard, is president of the Harlan County Coal Operators As- sociation, the organization that di- rects the courts, prosecutor and judge ot Harlan County, as well as over 400 armed deputy gunmen, paid by the coal operators. The armed thugs never go into a mining camp with~- out the knowledge or without orders from the coal operators. Creech knows who kidnapped MacSumner and where the miner is. Good reports are coming in from Rank and File Committees covering the mines for the district conven- tion. One hundred and _ twenty workers joined the National Miners’ Union in one mine on one day. Fifty- five joined up at another mine. Fifteen Tennessee mines have been covered, ‘The convention call and leaflets of the National Miners’ Union have been distributed throughout Bell and Har- lan counties. The Glendon miners have almost completed buildng a Workers International and Relief soup kitchen. Every meeting and mass demonstration must show some solid gain. Among the most permanent successes that can be registered is the obtaining of Daily Worker subscriptions. Make special efforts in the present cam- paign for 5,000 12-month Daily Worker subscriptions to get new subscribers at every mass meeting and demonstration. Greet Hunger Marchers At 8p.m. Union Square NEW YORK.—Over 400 National Hunger Marchers of Column 1 (from southern and eastern New York and all of New England) will enter New York about 8 p. m. today, and will be met at Union Square by a de monstration of workers and unemployed workers. The delegates will immediately proceed on to Stuyvesant Casino, where they will be given a banquet arranged by the Unemployed Councils of New York. Only the delegates will eat, but at the meeting which takes place with them, all are invited to hear their reports and the plans for continued struggle for unemployment insurance and relief, Mass Demonstrations In Many Cities Dec. 7 Support Marchers 6,000 IN CHICAGO Demand Real Food For Marchers, Pittsburgh Demonstrations, were held in many large cities throughout the country Dec. 7, in support of the demands of the National Hunger March, for immediate winter; relief and Workers Unemployment Insurance. Masses of workers and unemployed workers showed their support of the delegates they had sent to Washington. The New York demonstration took place at Brooklyn Bororugh Hall, and in- cluded among its speukers strikers from the Mehrige Silk Co., and Coney Island bread strike. Some of the other demonstrations have previously been reported, notably the one in the city hall at Buffalo, which forced the city council to telegraph Congress and ask that the National Hunger Marchers be heard. Others are re- ported below. 6,000 in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 8. — Despite bitter cold, over 6,000 workers partic- tpated yesterday in one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations ever seen (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) TONAL { HUNGER 4 MOONEY THEY DEMAND RELEASE | Will Carry On Fight Throughout the Country WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.— The 16,70 National Hunger Marchers in their Washington’ Auditorium meeting yesterday adopted and or- |} dered sent to Tom Mooney, whos 16th. birthday in prison on a frame- up charge is today. The telegram says: “Today, although faced by the most elaborate display of police and mili- tary force ever mobilized against workers in the history of the Capitol City, 1,670 Naticnal Hunger March- ers thundered demands for your freedom with the denond for Work- ers Unemployment Insu wages be: gress and the White Ho L. headquarters “Both Congress and Hoover refused permission to the delegates, who were instructed to demand the publication of the Wickersham report, to enter Congress of the White House. But the demonstrations were witnessed by the overwhelming majority of the Washington population and for two hours demands for your release and for insurance reverberated through the Capitol grounds and the Capitol itself as the joint opening session of congres was meeting. “Three thousand workers in mass unemployment conference in Wash- ington Auditorium here following the demonstrations greet you on the oc- casion of your 49th birthday anni- versary and pledge to carry on the struggle until your release.” The telegram was signed by Her- bert Benjamin, as National Secretary of the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils. MARCHERS WIRE MARCHERS CALL | FOR INCREASED JOBLESS FIGHT Feb. 4 To Be National ; Demonstration Date; Demand Insurance WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.—The | National Hunger Marchers, assembled |in-a national conference on unem- | ployment last night in Washington | Auditorium here, adopted the fol- lowing statement: Statement of the National Hun- ger March and the Washington | demonstrations for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, by the National Hunger Marchers Conference December 7, 1931. | ‘The National Hunger March and | the Washington demonstration wit- |nessed by the overwhelming majority |of the population of the capital city, the hundreds of conferences and mass | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRES) ‘Hunger March Took ‘Masses With It Throughout Capital By BILL DU WASHINGTON, D. | Hunger March has shown, even to of- ficial Washington egged on by Hoo- |Holding Mass Meets | All Cities To Report And Intensify Fight era REACH N. Y. TONITE ‘Elect National Comm. To Lead Struggle WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8—The | 1,670 National Hunger Marchers | started back this morning to retrace their route to the capital city, and |report back to mass meetings of | workers in each city the refusal of | the government of the capitalist class | to do anything to save the lives of | | Starving millions of the unemployed. The hunger marchers will carry with them the decision of their Washington national conference for intensification of the local struggles | for relief and against evictions, lead- jing to a great national day of dem- onstrations, Feb. 4. ‘They will start the campaign to collect millions of {Signatures to demands that Congress pass the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill, calling for full wages to each unemployed and pa |employed worker, funds to be raised |by a tax on incomes over $5,000 2 | year in addition to immediate appro- priations from the U. S. treasury. The National Conference on Un- employment, made up of 1,670 elected delegates of the National Hunger March meeting in Washington Audi- torium yesterday, elected a National Committee of the Unemployed Coun- cils, a committee of 30. The com- mittee went into session immediately after the conference, and chose a National Bureau, composed of dele- ver and his provocative administra-|gates on the National Committee tion press, that workers who are ex-| from New York. The bureau is made pressing the demands of millions, and|up of Herbert Benjamin, national whom masses of workers, consider | secretary; Carl Winter, A. W. Mills, their cannot be representatives, clubbed, ‘gassed and shot down before the myriads of eyes focussed upon Hoover and Congress—without most serious results accruing to those re- sponsible. The Hunger March met force and intimidation but not terror. It smashed through the steel web of armed attacks that have been visited (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) William Z. 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