The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1931, Page 1

J 2 Pages of Historic Hunger March Pictures Saturday; Order Bundles at Once! START A “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORKERS Norker WORKER” GROUP NOW! OF THE WORLD READ,, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE h UNITE! “DAILY WORKER.” . y > BOOST THE DRIVE FOR 5.090 12-MO. e-Conm prumict Party U. S.A. “i ie 1E DRIVE FOF 12-MO ¥ ees * é ( Section of the Communist eect Ly Seis UO oe hada Wntered as second-class matter at the Post Offi at New York, N. ' _ vol. VIII. No. 296 CITY EDITION = under the act of-March 3, age MASS FIGHT _NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBE ER 10, 1931. _ Price 3 Cents _ HUGE MASS MEETINGS The Hoover Hunger Message “The steck market. . Michigan Law to Register Foreign-Born Declared Invalid DETROIT, M'ch., Dec. 9.—Ma2ss pressure has forced the courts to . became more acutely weak after 1 the publication of President Hoover’s message. Leading issues declined from 1 to 8 points and a new low price for the bear market was made by United States Steel common at 504%4...” —New York Evening Post, Dec. 8. Hoover, the Hunger President of American imperialism who barricaded himself behind hundreds of police, soldiers and secret service men on Dec. 7, and refused to receive a delegation of Hunger Marchers, strikes in his message at every worker in the United States—employed and unem- ployed, Negro and white, native and foreign born and at the world war veterans who are workers. But stotk prices cannot stand in the face of decreasing production and rising class struggle, He is unable to satisfy his masters. the number of fighting workers’ b: His message is the most open made to save the fortunes of the capitalist clas Stovks go down, attalions go up! and detailed proposal ever at the cost of unspeakable misery for the workers and working farmers and their families. At every point Hoover proposes to aid the capitalists and denies any aid to the masses. “We must face a temporary increase in taxation.” But taxes which will not cut into the profits and the accumu- lated profits of th ebillionaire rulers. “We must avoid burdens upon the government which will create more unemployment in private industry than can be gained by further expansion of employment by the federal government. ment dole.” The masses are to starve or I am opposed to any direct er indirect govern- to exist at the miserable hunger level set by the Hoover-Gifford charity scheme that is the real dole in every sense of the word. No demand in the form of taxation must be made upon the huge fortunes of the capitalist class that is responsible for the crisis. Bet- ter that a million children die than that the millions of the Mellon family should be taken for unemployment insurance. “I am opposed to any extension of these expenditures (veterans aid) until the country has recovered from the pre- sent situation.” But billions are tion for the coming imperialist money for war but nothing for veterans, being spent by the Hoover administra- war. There is plenty of jobless and hungry war “The well maintained and successful operation and the stability of railway finances are economic recovery. of primary importance to They should have more effective op- portunity to reduce operating costs... The railroad magnates are reducing wages by at least 10 per cent. They have been granted a rate increase of more than $100,000,000. They will be given millions of dollars from the proposed Finance Corporation. * There are more than, 400,000 unemployed railwaymen. There is no money to relieve the ir distress, “IT recommend that an emergency reconstruction corp- oration of the nature of the former War Finance Corpora- tion be established.” The Emergency Finance Corp oration will have an initial capital of $500,000,000—to be supplied by the U.S. Treasury. The New York Times said Dec. 9: “The proposed organiza- tion...will help ‘almost any line of business,’ including agri- culture, industry, banks and railways.” For “agriculture” read usurers who prey on farmers, The rest is ONLOOTERS OF CHINA IS MOUNTING Armed Fights Increase Threaten Kuomintang While continuing to direct and support the secret maneuvers of the League Council in Paris toward “legaliz- ing” the Japanese seizure of Manchuria, the United States imperialists on Tuesday en- gaged in a sharp attack on the Japanese. This attack is by no means a contradiction of the United States policy of passive and active supoprt for the Japanese ag- gressions in Manchuria. It is clearly a warning to Japan that if that sup- port is to be continued, the Japanese must confine fheir military activities in Manchuria within the agreement which assigns to’ Japan the role of the spearhead in he attack on the Soviet Union. It is-a warning that Wall Street will tollerate no chal- lenge to the present hegemony of the United States over Kuomintang China, with the United States dir- ecting, through its Nanking tools, the attack on the Chinese revolution whose tumultous growth is threaten- ing to thwart the plans of the im- perialists fora partition of China, ‘Mass Anger Flames All Over China. A“Mukden dispatch reports wide- spread anti-imperialist activities (CONTINUED ON PAGE TBREE) New York Hunger - Marchers Return From Washington Will Give Reports To- morrow Night In Three Places NEW YORK,—Column 1 of the National Hunger March came into New York last night in the midst of a rain storm. Delegates reported that while they were repairing a truck to leave Philadelphia yesterday morning, the workers there staged an im- promptu mass greeting. Speakers from the Communist Party, Young Com- munist League, and International La- bor Defense invited the National Hunger Marchers to join these organ- izations. Hundreds of them have clear, The capitalists and their corporations, “business,” get generous treatment. The workers, from whose labor is wrung the fortunes of the capitalist class, are told to live on “their sturdy American individualism,” ] that “we must avoid burdens upon the government,” that is, they are told that capitalism must live even though millions of workers starve to death. , “The deportation laws should be strengthened. Aliens lawfully in the eountry should be protected by the insurance of a certificate of residence.” | This means more deportations of foreign born workers who fight | ggainst the Hoover Hunger Program with the rest of the working class. | means registration of all foreign born workers and more systematic in- | ition of them. c “The agreement between the leading naval powers...also implies for ourselves the gradual expansion of the deficient categories in our navy ‘ to the parities provided in those treaties.” Plenty of money for more battleships—no money for unemployment dmsurance or cash winter relief. Hoover places his official stamp of approval upon the nationwide wage cuts in two sentences which for sheer hypocricy are equaled only by ‘Wilson’s “war to make the world safe for democracy.” “A large majority (of employers) have maintained wages at as high He says: levels as their business would permit. This course has saved us from in- dustrial eonflict and disorder which have characterized previous deep 2 ” It is “disorder” which worries Hoover, not the disease, poverty, death from starvation now embracing the working class. There is fine lesson here for the working class! In the whole Hoover message there is not one word about the Negro masses! there is no word of condemnation ef the wave of capitalist terror which has taken the lives of more than 75 Negrots since last August. Hoover speaks for the ruling class. He thinks of Negro and white workers only when they revolt. It is the fortunes Let them kill by starvation cand lynching ways right. of his masters that interést him. if ae want to, They are al- Byt the crowning achievement of Hoover in ce cynicism pulwarked by brazen lying which is the tone of the message delivered in the period of the worst crisis in the history of American capitalism with its 12,000,000 unemployed, is contained in the following utterance on unemployment relief: “Similar organization (the President’s Organization for Unemploy-. »ment Relief) gives assurance against suffering during the coming winter. Committees of leading citizens are now active... In the large majority they have been assured the funds necessary, which, together with local government aid, will meet the situation.” This is the third winter of the crisis.” Hoover refuses even to admit the existence of mass misery. But he is alert to the demands of the cap- class. He insists that still more of the burden of the crisis shall added to the already intolerable weight of mass unemployment and | ‘hunger nogne weighs peat the whole working class, men, women and sigs rie , ‘The magnificent struggle with the Hunger March as its present high gas must be continued and Workers Unemployment Insurance at full fac from the hunger rule of American imperialism which re~ ition to and organizes war drives against the Soviet Union— Biri in the world where unemployment has been, abolished joined as a result of their experiences on the march, At Trenton, N. J., where no stop was contemplated, the workers had @ meal prepared and insisted on the National Marchers stopping to eat at 1 p.m. yesterday. The rank and file of the Workingmen’s Circle forced their officials to give the Working- men’s Circle hall free to the marchers to eat in. sees One Negro and two white marchers were left behind on the way in hos- pitals, made sick from the rotten food provided by the Washington author- ities. Others are sick also, but the marchers are in good spirits over the success of the march. ss City Hunger March Delegates Report at Three Meets Friday National Hunger March delegates) from New York, who returned to the city yesterday, will speak at the fol- lowing places, Friday, December 11, 8 p. m., 301 W. 29th St., 103 Lexing- ton Ave, (27th St.) and 417 W. 53rd Street. The marchers will tell of their ex- periences on the road to and from Washington and of the plans for fur- ther struggles for unemployment in- surance 50 CENTS A DAY FOR FATHER OF FIVE ‘TOLEDO, Ohio.—There is a son in my neighborhood, a fatner of five, who is forced to work in a greenhouse fr 50 cents a day. | declare the “Alien Registration Law” on comes simultaneously with President Hoover's message calling for ation of the foreign born and laws to make deportation easier. of Michigan unconstitutional, This The Michigan law had national interest centered on it, was very drastic, and intended as a model for legislation in other states. Fear Sumner Murdered By Ky. Coal Co. Thugs District Convention’in Pineville Gaining Mass Support; Expect 1,000 Delegates to Be Present December 13th PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 9.—No trace has been found of Mac Sumner after the most diligent search by thousands of members of the NMU. Sumner, kidnapped member of the National Miners Union, who was active in preparing for the District Convention here December 13, is believed to have been murdered. The NMU and the Inter- national Labor Defense are issuing thousands of leaflets calling for a greater mobilization of the miners for the convention of the NMU on Sun- day to be held at K. of P. Hall, Pine- ville, One rank and file organizer had signed up ‘the entire United Mine Workers of America local of about 125 members in Davisburg into the NMU. They elected a delegate to the convention. The same organizer signed up 120 working miners in one day. Another organizer brought in 300 new members in less than three days. About a hundred other organizers are on the job, and ac- tivities go zhead effectively with lightning speed. Rank and file organizers are cover- ing hundreds of mines in Bell and Harlan Counties, as well as in Tenn- essee, and excellent reports are com- ing in about the response of the work- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Press Ignores Hunger Tragedies; Whoops Up John Wanamaker Suit (By a Worker Correspoudent.) PHILADELPHIA. — Workers are committing suicide here so often that it not news any more for the capital- ist press. They simply ignore the fact that hundreds of workers are col- lapsing from hunger and killing themselves. A mother killed herself and chil- dren recently on account of starva- tion at the same time a veteran was evicted from his home. This vet fought in the last war for “home and democracy.” ‘The “big tragedy” in Philadelphia, however, occured, according to the capitalist press, when the wife of John Wanamaker’s son used for an incrase in support. She was only getting $20,000 a year. 2 Miners Killed, 11 Children Orphaned in Mine Roof Crash UNIONTOWN, Pa., Dec. 9.—Two men were killed and 11 children made fatherless when a two-ton slate boulder crushed the roof of a mine tunnel under which they were working near here today. The victims were Jacob Bly, 55, father of two, and Kind Parnell, 45, father of nine. Both miners lived in Lambert and were em- ployed in the Footdale mine of the H. C. Frick Coal Co. Other miners nearby heard the fatal crash at 7:20 a. m. Tuesday morning, and quickly extricated the bodies from the debris, They were both dead. One of the demands of the Na- tional Miners Union is for ade- quate force to erect posts, etc, and full payment for dead work so that. time can be taken to insure safety. Frisco Longshoremen Get Wage-Cut; Marine Union Urges Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.—The shipowners announced here today that the wages of approximately 4,500 longshoremeh will be slashed fivecents an hour. The cut, which will bring the scale down to 85 cents an hour for straight time and $1.25 for overtime, goes into effect Dec. 10. ‘The longshoremen, who are now working on the stagger system, are lucky to get one full day a week on the docks, many earning as low as $5 and $6 a week. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union calls on the dockers to or- ganize committees of action on all docks effected by the cut and strike for the maintenance of the old scale. The Hunger March Voiced Demands of Millions— : 5000 Subs for the Daily Worker? EASY! Hunger Program. scription activity! “With the struggle here Hunger March makes it bigger! WORKER! Groups. Call readers’ conferences. "HE DAILY WORKER keads the fight against the Hoover The machinery of the Districts is moving, but still far too slowly for 5,000 12-month subseriptions. has gone by for preliminary planning. Results are already seen but not enough! “All activity must be bound up with getting readers for the DAILY WORKER! See how a real live organizer carries on sub- The time Action is needed! in Florida at its highest - pitch,” this comrade writes, “with 10,000 cigar makers out on strike in Tampa and the American farmers in Ruskin all clamoring to get in the fight with the Communist Party, and with the cops combing the country looking for the or- ganizer, I slipped into town with a farmer, spote at a strike meeting and slipped out to the farm again, stopping on the way and getting another sub for the Daily Worker. “I have only one sub blank left. Send my fifty, so I can carry the work on whether in ithe city or "among the farming proletariat in the subur! : GET HELP OF UNEMPLOYED. This is how the work of getting subscriptions goes along with all other work. Get busy at once. The National is a big thing. The DAILY WORKER The National Hunger March has brought new huge masses of workers into action. Organize Friends of the DAILY WORKER They want the DAILY Those districts that have not yet reported, get in your reports at once! 5,000 Subs by January 18! GREET HUNGER MARCH ON ITS RETURN TRIP 2,000 Demonstrate in Uniontown at Courthouse: Hear Reperts of pevanacatte 3 Meetings In Pittsburgh Waited Hours to Great Reception In Trenton Where Officials of Workmen’s Cirel> Are Forced to Give Hall Free; Boss Press Admits Mass Support Huge mass meetings all Marchers on th way century-old re; tions on relief. Their demonstre in Washington, and th The delegations drop ou become organizers for the act oyen areus into NATL MARCHERS, SMASH THRU BOSS PRESS SILENCE Editorials See Mass Support for March; “Hard to Meet” Arthur Brisbane, in his front column carried yesterday in all He papers admits that if the ional Hunger Marchers had been bahkers, they would have not been met with police force, but would have been in- vited into the Capitol and the White House. Admit Mass Support The New York World-Telegram (Scripps-Howard chain paper) say editorially Dec. & about the National Hunger March, “Fifteen hundred ragged citizens dragged themselves up Capitol Hill in Washington. Many had come accross the continent—walking, jolting along back from a magnificent workers’ ears of Congress their demands for unemployment insurance at full wages an r-march was g through in their gigantic, disciplined drive from coast to coast. this victorious march and organizing a nation wide fight for unemploym relief in each city and town they, go through. the national demons gle for relief from the cities, against evi was organized and led by the Unemployed Councils, and the marcher: along the return march will victory demonstrations in W. t of line in the cities from for food for a still greater, force. | Newton Baker li Member of Hoover-Gifford Emer- gency Relief Committee was Sec- | retary of War during the World War, is a rich Cleveland lawyer, a greet in which they d by millions of workers in the which ration February 4, and school « the ngton, and the cities th Now they they were el vn HEA ASSES F ha PORTS OF FOR REP THE DELEGATES Big Demonstrations In Mining Towns BULLETIN. UNIONTOWN, Pa., Dec. 9.—Tivet thousand waited in the streets Uniontown to greet the N Hunger Marchers of Columns 4. The demonstration was c out at 1:30 p. m. at the court he Speakers were 5 munist Party 4d Wilson, Ike Hawk of Pittsburgh district and mem of the committee sent into the C- - ital building in Washin; and Philip Reynolds, leader of Pe troit auto workers. The crowd made up a collecton of $19 to help the hunger marchers spread their message. loud open shop advocate, spokes- man for the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Is director and coun- sel for Lake Carrier’s Association, a bitterly anti-union outfit, domi- nated by the U. 8, Steel Corp, Is | snow and sleet mountains high, but director of Cleveland Trust Co. and | they are in very good spirits. Ohio R. R. and the Morgan domi- * * * nated Mutual Life Insurance Co, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dee. 9. Sher aay ac, —The National Hunger Mar- chers of Columns 3 and 4, re- turning from Washington, are The police of Cumberland, where the marchers stopped over n last night, turned them out into toe sleet and rain this morning. The marchers are returning slowly, thru in trucks, any way to get there, “Old men, mothers leading tired children, girls with no silk stockings, lean youths from closed mine and factories; foreign-born, Negroes, white native sons from the hill towns, city fellows with coats that may have been warm and stylish once and many with no overcoats. All marching together. “In the faces of many was more of grimness than bitterness. Faces of suffering, beyond the reach of ridi- cule from curious crowds along the Hunger Marchers to streets. Faces of men and women, some of whom had been beaten up by the police, ready to be clubbed again if necessary, stolidly pushing up Capitol Hill. “But there was little Jeering here (CONTINUED ON PAG THRE) Reach Detroit Sunday DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 9.—The National Hunger Marchers arrive here at noon Sunday at Ferry Hail. ‘They will march from there to Danceland Auditorium at 1 P.m, along the following route: Ferry, Rivard, Garfield, Hoover-Mellon Budget Keeps Up Heavy War Expenditures WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—President Hoover and Secretary of the United States Treasury Mellon, in a report to Congress on government finances admit that the government is faced with a severe financial crisis, -with at least $1,000,000,000 deficit for 1931 and a total of $4,442,000,000 deficit for a three-year period ending 1931. In the face of this situation, the Hoover government declares that war preparations must go on and pro- vides $644,650,000 for the Army and Navy, while not one cent is set down in the $4,000,000,000 budget for the relief of the unemployed. In their message to Congress on government finances both Hoover and Meflon call for increased taxes. Hoover declares that a tax increase of at least $1,000,000,000 is necessary for the next two years. The tax in- creasé proposals made by the Hoover government are against the petty- bourgeois and the workers. ‘The capitalist press says the tex hits “rich and poor” alike, using the fake phrases that MacDonald, the British socialist, used when an at- tack was begun against the British workers, Besides an increase in the income tax, which hits mainly the petty-bourgeois and professionals, the Hoover government proposes a spe- cial tax which will hit all workers, It is proposed to tax all telephone calls, theatre tickets over 10 cents, cigarettes, radios, autos, phonographs and bank checks. Big capitalists like Mellon himself, who as treasurer of the United States handed out billions in tax refunds, are hardly touched in the tax in- creases, and the new income taxes will be pressed heavily against the petty-bourgeois, especially those in the $3,000 to $5,000 a year group, While the income of the United States government for 1931 is $3,000,~ 000,000 and the expenditures $4,000,- 000,000 no provision is made for unm employment relief. continuing the struggle against the Hoover Hunger Program with the same militancy which took them to the Capitol for the greatest demon- stration of workers ever seen in Wall Street's stronghold. At Pittsburgh tonight there are three mass meetings in halls, and the (CONTINUED ON [Aid Marchers to | Reach Home City and Make Reports The Hunger Marchers are on the road back. Slashing, blinding | icy rain is drenching them, The government of Baltimore with- drew its promise of food and shel- ter to the marchers. The Workers International Relief arranged ac- commodations. Emergencies, such as break- downs of trucks, withdrawal of relief promised and accidents, are quite likely to halt the returning marchers unless adequate funds are on hand, Not a marcher must miss food and shelter! Every last one must arrive safely and deliver his re- port to the workers and unem- ployed workers who elected him to present the demands of the 12,000,000 unemployed. Speed up thecollection of funds! Send all money collected to the Workers’ International Relief, 96 W: 2tst St, N.Y. PAGE THREE)