The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 1

Tomorrow---2 Full Pages of Hunger March Pictures --Wire Cash for Bundles | WORKERS OF THE- WORLD, UNITE! ‘(Section of the Communist International) WORKER” GROUP “DAILY WORKER. BOOST THE DRIVE SUBS! START A “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY Now! READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE ” FOR 5,000 12-M0O. Vol. VIII. No. 297 Metered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, MN. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 au NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, "1931 CITY EDITION Fight for Every Starving and/ Freezing Worker! The Next Step of the Hunger March Is Local Organization and Local Struggles “No one in the country will be compelled to go cold and hungry.’”—N. Y. Times editorial, Nov. 29. “Exposure kills two on streets of city; victims are man and woman believed to have been jobless and without shelter.”—N. Y. Times news item, December 9. Pa aes Sam | Es. on the heels of deliberate lies about’ the supposed “adequacy” of the Hoover-Gifford-Gibson-Roosevelt “unemployment relief”—there follows the grim admission of cold and starvation and death of the workers! This case in New York City can be duplicated in every city and on every street of every city throughout the country! Yet in the face of this mass starvation the voice of capitalism, speaking through the mouth of Hoover, declares: ‘ “I AM OPPOSED TO ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT GOVERN- MENT DOLE.” The National Hunger. March and this cynical kick in the face de~ livered by Hoover to the starving masses, draws the lines clear in CLASS AGAINST CLASS! Let each delegate sent to Washington be an organizer at every stop on the return trip, and every waking hour in his or her home town, or- sanizing the masses around each concrete case of hunger and cold of the jobless workers, fighting for each life of the starving and freezing victims of the Hooyer Hunger Program! 4 a ‘the Unemployed Councils, where they are organized, must prepare to make the most intensive use of the delegates returning from Washing- ton. Where there exist no councils, they must be organized around the cases of evictions, of starvation and cold to be found on every street of every working class district in the country! The formation of Block Committees, the freeing of the initiative of the masses in the attraction into the leadership of these committees of militant working men and women, however raw and new to the class estruggle, the rapid involving of ever greater masses in the fight for im~ mediate relief and their mass mobilization for Unemployment Insurance, are the basic guarantees of continued and expanding struggle. Around each concrete case of local and neighborhood struggle the Unemployed Councils can and must swell into huge mass organizations, wielding such an authority and influence among the whole working mass that local Hoovers cannot ignore. dust as the authorities at Washington were, in spite of their lies about the Tlunger Merch, forced to an admission by their furnishing food to archers, that they were really unemployed and penniless and hungry so will each local authority be compelled, willing or unwilling, ve way before the persistent. pressure of the militant masses organ- ized arovnd the Unemployed Councils. And these must show their earnestness and ability in the fight for every life of the starving and freezing vrorkers! fr Av every sicp in the return of the Hunger Marchers, and in every ting end at every local struggle, the next mass mobilization must be zed for February 4th, the next nation-wide fighting day for Un- Av F. of L. locals should be appealed to for ipport of February 4th and the demand for Unemployment ageinst the class treachery of the leadership of the A. F..of L. Kmployed workers, especially part-time workers to whom Unemploy- ment Insurance is a vital demand, can and must be mobilized to march \\nevever possible from their shops to the demdnstrations on February 4th! Fight the Hoover Hunger Program at every step! Fight for the lives of the starving and freezing workers! Carry forward the victory at Wachington to every city, town and village! Organize the mass demon- strations for February 4th! Force the capitalists to yield Unemployment. erect Add Thousands of New Recruits in 5,000 Sub Drive - OOVER has flung down his challenge to the workers of America. Hundreds of millions of dollars for war, hun- dreds of millions for banks, corporations and railways and- huge taxation for the masses. Not one cent for the unem- ployed, but indorsement for the wage-cut campaign and a call for more deportations of workers who dare to fight wage cuts. : Only one daily paper in the language of the country gives the working class reply to Hoover—The DAILY WORKER. . ~The Hoover Hunger Program has created a mass de- mand for a workers’ paper that guides our struggles. The Daily Worker Drive for 5,000 twelve month~ subscriptions must meet this demand. WORKERS WANT THE DAILY. “Enclosed you will find fifty cents for my renewal sub for the Daily Worker. I would send more more but I am not. working.” —New Bedford Textile Worker. Speed the workers’ answer to the Hoover Hunger Pro- gram. Speed the campaign for five thousand twelve-month subscriptions for the Daily Worker. Masses of workers are rallying behind the program of the Unemployed Councils. The National Hunger March increases a mass demand for a workers’ paper. Meet this mass demand at once. Build a broad and solid foundation for a permanent six-page Daily Worker. All Out For Every Day Sub Activity! New York Hunger Marchers: Attention All New York City Hunger Marchers are called to an important meeting where arrangements will be made for the presentation of reports on the Hunger March to workers’ orgenizations throughout the city, Outlines and assignments will be given at this meeting. * ‘Time: 1:30 p.m. sharp. Place: 5 E. 19th St, Friday, Dec, 11. ° Signed: Carl Winter, Sec’y. Unemployed Council of N. Y. Shanghai Workers and ~ Students Storm Kuomintang Offices, Disarm Officers Nanking Official Flees to Foreign Concessions; Soldiers Fraternize With Demonstrators League Council “Legalizes’ Japanese Seizure of Manchuria; General Ma Openly Admits He Is Tool of the Japanese Angry Chinese workers and students on Wednesday smashed the Shanghai headquar- ters of the traitorous Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), captured the Shanghai city hall, dis- armed the police, forced the dismissal of the Shanghai chief of police and disarmed Nanking military ‘of- ficers. Nanking troops ordered to fire on the demonstrators, openly defied their officers and fraternized with the workers and students. The’ demonstration was carried out in defiance of the mar- RAIL BOSSES ASK UNION HEADS TO HELP SLASH PAY 1,500 Officials Meet in Secret on 10 P.C. Slash NEW YORK.—With the question of a 10 per cent wage cut before them, to effect 1,200,000 railroad workers, 1,500 officials of the twenty- one railroad unions now meeting in Chicago are wracking their brains to work up a problem acceptable to the bosses and yet able to fool the work- ers. The railroads have asked the union officals to get the men to ac- cept a “voluntary” wage cut. The workers are everywhere bitterly op- posed to wage cuts. It is for this reason that the 1,500 officials meet in secret, trying every means to help the bosses put over their wage cut. The railroads, just as soon as the union officials’ conference adjourns, will take steps to put into effect a 10 per cent cut. But there is not a word of talk about a strike coming out of the meetng in Chicago. In answer to this setret conference of the railroad misleaders, the Na- tional Railroad Industrial League, with offices at Room 6, 717 E, 63rd St., Chicago, has issued a call to all railroad workers to call local and district conferences to prepare for strike. The first of such conferences will be held in the Chicago Switching District, Sunday, Dec. 13 at the Peo- ples Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago Ave. : On the Northwestern Railway, where the bosses have ordered a five- cent an hour cut for 5,000 railway maintenance-of-way men, the union officials refused to call a strike, but instead are putting through a fake strike vote. When this is put through, they will maneuvre with the bosses, but not unless the railroad workers force action and themselves will there be any resistance to the wage cut. Urging that the wage cut be put over on the railroads in order to give the parasite railroad stock and bond- holders a greater profit, Alfred H. Swayne, vice president of the Gen- eral Motors Corporation, speaking be- fore a bosses’ organization in At- lantic City, stated: ‘ “If the railroads are able accomplish the 10 per cent reduc- tion in wages being sought, it will immediately effect a savings of $300,000,000. That figure alone rep- resents 5 per cent interest of $6,000,000,000. “The savings would assure the payment of interest on outstanding bonds for the amount of the latter on which payment is now In difficulty, will not approximate $6,000,000,000. Swayne and the railroad bosses want the workers whose pay has been steadily cut for three years to turn over $300,000,000 to pay rich stock- holders, The 1,500 railroad union of- ficials are also working to this end. Only the rank and file, preparing for action, can stop this attempt to in- crease the profits of the rich by slashing the wages of the railroad workers. } —-% tia! law proclamation by the Nan- king government in Shanghai and many other Chinese cities, where the anti-imperialists’ mass move- ment is constituting a growing men- ace to the imperialist war moves for the partition of China and war on the Soviet Union. The vast extent of this rapidly growing mass revolutionary move- ment is admitted in a Shanghai dis- paach to the New Cork Times, also showing the extent to which the Nan- king government power is disin- tegrating. The masses are comman- deering trains to carry out the mob- ilization for the demonstrations, The dispatch reports: “About 30,000 students here today tied up the municipal administra- tion, caused the dismissal of Chen (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DEMONSTRATE AT STRUCK LAUNDRY The Laundry Workers Union, 260 E. 138th St. held a successful dem- onstration Thursday, 1 p. m, near the Active Laundry, Wales Ave. and 151st St. The bosses’ gangsters were all lined up, but after the licking of last week did not dare to attack the meeting. A car parade with signs will go through the Bronx streets today ad- vertising the strike in the Active Laundry. A hearing in court on the injunction the bosses are asking, will be held today. The bosses ask for an injunction prohibiting picketing, canvassing and advertising the strike and barring giving the strikers re- Nef, “The Laundry Workers Union will carry on the strike in spite of gang- sters, Injunctions and everything the bosses’ association .can do”, the union declared yesterday. The President of the Association, Steinhorn, the boss of the Sterling Laundry, hired an extra force of gangsters. There was an army of about 50 gangsters, but they did not dare to attack the meeting of the Laundry workers. Many bosses of The Background of the Attack on the Communist Party in Illinois By BILL GEBERT. N November 14, the head- quarters of the Commu- nist Party in Chicago was raid- ed by the notorious “Red Squad” of the Chicago police and the District Organizer, B K. Gebert, together with 18 other comrades were seized by the police, which also confis- cated files of the Party. The night before, police raided the house of the Section Organizer of Section 4, and Comrade Gummar Paulson and Clara Saffren were arrested. KY. MAYOR HOSTILE 10 MINE MEET Says National Miners Union Convention Should Move On Sumner Still Missing Expect 100 Mines to Be Represented Dec. 13 PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 10.—The Enokville (Tenn.) Journal states that the Pineville city officials conferred yesterday relative to the district con- vention of the National Miners Union which is scheduled to be held here at the K. of P. Hall on Dec. 13, and that “Mayor J. M. Brooks said he ex- pected to notify the men in charge of the gathering that their preesncé was not wanted in Pneville and they will be advised to hold the gathering some other place. Legal authority for re- fusing the assemblage is all that was lacking to prevent issuing an order forbidding the gathering.” ‘The same newspaper states that the Convention Call leaflets have been distributed throughout Bell and Har- Jan County coal fields asking the miners to strike against starvation wages. Ten carloads of coal company armed thugs with high powered rifles and machine guns surrounded the National Miners Union hall in Wal- Ins Creek for severa] hours yesterday. They raided the hall and several homes, having search warrants for Uterature and guns. Several copies of the Daily Worker were taken. Delegates from 30 mines have al- ready been elected for the Convention which opens in Pineville on Sunday. Delegates from at least 100 mines are expected, Three new locals of the National Miners Union were or- ganzed yesterday. Hundreds of min- ers are joining up daily. The wo- men’s branches are electing delegates. Two new branches were established yesterday. The convention call was issued by the National. Miners Union calling upon all the miners in Harlan and Bell County to elect delegates and to set the date for a strike against mass starvation and against the growing terror. No trace has yet been found of MacSumner, active member of the NMU who was kidnapped soon after the convention call was issued. The Harlan County Coal Operators Asso- ciation know whether MacSumner was murdered. MacSumner was taken out of his home by two carloads of coal company deputized gunmen on Dec. 3. Not a word has been heard from him or as to his whereabouts since, other laundries have threatened their drivers with firing if they participate in the activities of the union, but in spite of that many members of the union working in different laundries came to the meeting, and helped the union actively carry on the strike. Alfred E. Smith Ex-Governor of New: York State and member of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committe; president of the Empire State, Inc ; director, County Trust Co. of N. Y., Knott Hotels Cort tional Surety Co. and Consolidated Indemnity Insuran Helped Morgan put over a subway Co. ay deal in New Yor'! sl Light and Power Co. for Hoover’s hunger program. and other underpaid workers f funds. involving millions of dollars; sold power ss in New York State to the Morgan-controlled Niagara Now conducting demagogic campaign . Personally soliciting clerks or contributions to the hunger ‘The House Was In An Uproar’ By BILL DUNNE. Congress proved yesterday by the demagogic disorderly character of its proceedings | that the Hunger Marchers had | presented their demands to i¢ so effectively. that they could not be ignored. The mass impact of the Hun- ger March and the hute dem- onstrations which accompanied it, both in Washington and in hundreds of cities throughout the country, the roaring de- mand for government Workers Unemployment Insurance and immediate cash winter relief which all the military mobili- zation could not prevent hitting the capitol like an avalanche, shoved all the other points in the Hoover message into the back- ground—just as the Hunger March demonstration in Washington showed the formal opening of Congress into the background. Under a Washington date line a . (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) MANY MEETINGS AROUND N. Y. FOR MARCHERS Delegates to Report to Masses Who Sent Them With Demands NEW YORK.—A whole set of mass receptions for the National Hunger March delegates is being organized in different parts of New York and in the immediately surrounding towns. Workers and unemployed workers will flock to these meetings to receive the reports of the dele- gates they sent to demand unem- ployment insurance of congress, and to plan the next steps in the fight to win insurance and relief. Tonight at Ambassador Hall, Third Ave. and 175th St. at 8 pm., seven National Hunger Marchers from the two Bronx branches of the Unem- ployed Councils will report. At 8 o'clock tonight at Vienna Mansion, 105 Montrose Ave., Brook- lyn, all workers in or near Williams- burgh are invited to come to a meet- ing to greet the National Hunger CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Dec. 10.—Police Chief Grzesinski today ordered the sup- pression of Rote Fahne (Red Flag) Official organ of the Communist Party of Germany until December 17. The reason for the suppression was that Rote Fahne wrote: “From today on we are forbid- den, under the pain of instant sup- These raids and arrests on the Communist Party is a con- tinuation of the attacks on the Party and the working class in the State of Illinois and it is part of the attack against the National Miners Union in Southern Illinois coal fields. On August 1, 1931, anti-war meetings in the coal fields were brutally attacked by the forces of Sheriff Browning Robinson of Franklin County and the or- ganizers were arrested, among them being Ivanllijevich (R. of the miners in Carlinville, which was addressed by the District Pres- ident of the UMWA, Jchn Walker, Comrades Joe Tash, Zip Kochinski and Joe Lednicky were arrested. All the arrested comrades with the ex- ception of Joe Lednicky, against whom all the charges have been dropped, are charged, according to the indictment voted the grand jury of Franklin Count; hich reads “unlawfully and feloniously and se- cretly organized and aided in organ- ization of a certain society and asso- ciation to wit: Communist Party of the United States of America.” What Is Behind the Arrests The Communist Party in the State German Capitalists Order “Rote Fakne” Shut Down; Fear Strikes pression, from appealing to the workers to strike against wage cuts decreed by Bruening or to appeal for mass meetings against fascism and the Bruening government fas- cist decrees.” Further on, Rote Fahne stated: “We appeal to the masses to re- sist attempts to lower wages and to fight to maintain their political rights.” The, police declared these state- ments represent an indirect, incite- ment to the workers to defy the emergency decrees. Police Chief Grzesinski also sup- pressed the fascist newspaper Angriff for the same period on account of insulting the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Severing. He also suppressed the reactionary bourgeois daily, the Boersen Zeitung, on account of an article accusing Severing of partiality against the reactionary police offi- cer, Levit. This is the first time a bourgeois newspaper has suffered under the emergency decrees. Yesterday evening a group of Com- munist workers returning home after a meeting were attacked by a score of fascists with revolvers. One work- er was killed and three were wound- ed. When reinforcements arrived, the murderers fled. The police ar- rested nine workers but 4hey were compelled subsequently to release them. A collision between workers’ and fascists took place in another Shaw), Anthony Aiman, and Clara Saffren. Later, at a mass meeting (CONTINUED ‘ON PAGE THREE) part ‘of town. Three fascists were injured. The police arrested five. 8 CLEVELAND MEETINGS GREET MARCHERS > Bos ae AE INTENSIFY UNEMPLOYED STRUGGLES | Masses Hail Marchers in Every City and Carry On Fight Parade Thru Detroit Great mass meetings igreet the Nat’l Hun- }ger Marchers as they come back home from Washington where they smashed race discrimina tion, forced the government to permit parades, carried ba ners and shouted the demands for Workers Unemployment In- surance and for immediate relief at the Capitol while congress assembled, at the White House, and at A. F. L. headquarters. The mass meetings greet the marchers’ return, hear their reports, and start the bg campaign for & national day of demonstrati or unemployment insurance Feb. 4. They build the unemployed councils and | Speed up the local struggle for relief from the city governments, against evictions, against forced labor, etc. So far mass demonstrations have been announced at Cleveland, today; Detroit, Sunday; Dec. 18; Indiana, Dec. 14. Cities through which the marchers have already gone have held their Terre Haute, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRE) 2. NEGRO WORKERS LYNCHED IN WEST VIRGINIA Boss Mob - Permitted Free Entry to Jail LEWISBURG, W. Va., Dec. 10— Two Negro workers were taken out of the Greenbrier County jail here today and lynched by a gang of sixty travelling in automobiles. The lynch gang had no difficulty in entering the jail and locating the cells of the two workers. The two Negro workers were seized in their night clothes and dragged to the cars, being pummeled and kicked on the way. They were taken by the boss lynchers to the edge of the town and hanged from a cross-arm of a telephone pole. Before they died, they were riddled with bullets. A capitalist press dispatch reports that: “The mob stopped their cars with lights dimmed and license plates removed, at the jail about 2 o'clock. Almost with military precision. they marched to the jail door, seized Jailer Wallace Flint and took his Keys.” The dispatch does not bother to ex~ plain how the lynchers could “seize” the jailer without being first ad mitted to the jail. The dispatch does say, however, that “Flint, the jailer, refused to say whether he had recoge nized any of the m ‘The two workers were in jail on @ charge of killing Constable Joseph when the two white men attempted to shoot up a Negro dance at Leslie. These two latest brutal lynchings of Nogro workers makes a total of Iynehings for this year of 106, Of this number 75 occurred in the state of Alabama alone, according to the admissions of the Fellowship of Ree conciliation, an organization of white bosses and Negro handkerchief heads, The Negro workers must organize together with white workers against the lynch terror. workers! Defend the Negro masses! Orzaniz* self-defense corps! Smash the bosses’ lynch terror! 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