The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WC” LD, UNITE! Dal Central Org «. U ‘(Section of the Communist International ) Tee START A “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORKER” GROUP NOW! READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” BOOST THE DRIVE FOR 5,000 12-M0. SUBS! Emtered as second-class matter at at New York, N. Y., under the act vol. VIII. No. 298 the Post Office of Marck 3, 1879 >= <=» NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931 CITY EDITION Capitalist Experts Foresee Breakdown of Capitalism Answer the Hunger Program of Hoover by Organizing Millions of Workers! RKERS, more than ever you must beware of new deceit and fake *solutions” of the increasing misery of the masses. You must under- {| stand the lie that ran across the front page of every capitalist newspaper when Hooyer sent his message to Congress: “Hoover Moves to Bring Back Prosperity.” Workers, that was a lie, and every capitalist editor knew it was a lie! What ‘is the truth? The truth appeared accidentally in some of the first editions of some papers, hidden in back pages—and cut out even from these, in. later editions. For example, in one edition of the N. Y. American of, Tuesday, Dec. 8, appeared the statement of Col. Arthur Woods, former head of Hoover's “Relief Commission,” in which Woods admitted: “We cannot stand many more periods of depression like the one through which we are now going. Too many persons are suffering too much.” : But, workers, in a back page of one of the editions of the N. Y. Post of Dec. 9, one of the capitalist world’s greatest economic experts, Sir George Paish of England, openly admits the “‘breakdown” of capitalism, saying in part: , “If my information is correct, and I think it is, nothing can prevent a complete world breakdown within the next two months.” Workers, these admissions of capitalist experts stand in glaring con- trast to the bunk and -lies peddled by Hoover and by every capitalist news- | paper, trying to “keep you quiet”—while you and your loved ones endure starvation, death, misery and diséase in increased degree due to the in- tensified crisis of capitalism. The capitalists want to keep the masses “hoping”—but starving! Unemployment “relief” now given is criminally insufficient. No lie of Hoover and his kind can cover it up. Contrast the lie in Hoover's message:—“Our people have been protected from hunger and cold”—with the confession of Col. Woods, Hoover’s own appointee on the fake “Relief Commission,” who said:—“Too many persons are suffering too much.” Contrast all these capitalist lies, workers, about “prosperity coming back” and Hoover's rejection of the Hunger Marchers’ demand for Unem- ployment Insurance on the ground that present relief is “adequate”—with the FACTS of misery, starvation and death all around you! But do not only observe these things! No! You must ACT! Every- where the return of the Hunger Marchers must be the signal for the widest: and most intense ORGANIZATION! Every public office holder, every official of the A. F. of.L., every politician and every political party and organization of the workers MUST. BE PUT ON RECORD—WHERE DO THEY STAND, FOR THE HOOVER HUNGER PROGRAM OR FOR, THE WORKERS’ UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL? The’ Hunger Marchers elected at Washington a National Committee to give direction to this fight. Every local struggle for Immediate Relief must be a school for mass mobilization for Unemployment Insurance. For organization of the Block Committees and Unemployed Councils. For distribution of the Statement to Congress of the Hunger Marchers. For the. gathering of millions of signatures demanding Unemployment In- surance. And all actions and organization must rally the greatest Masses for National Unemployment Day—February 4th! Workers! The worsening of the crisis—as foreseen by the capitalist experts—means new miseries for you and your loved ones—unless you fight! You must struggle or die! And the only way to struggle is by organized masses! The Hunger.March ploc:i your demand for Unem- ployment Insurance in the center of attention! Organize to keep it there until victory is yours! Organize to carry the fight forward to—and be- yond—February 4th! Defeat the Hoover-Doak Plan to Enslave Foreign-Born wut immigration at its lowest point in 100 years, with the number of foreign born workers admitted during the last four years reaching only & negligible figure, there ate 12,000,000 unemployed workers in the United States. 5 This is an irrefutable answer to the theories of Hoover, Secretary of Labor Doak, the leaders of the American Federation of Labor, such as | Woll, who put forward restriction of immigration, deportation of foreign born workers and more suppression and police spying upon foreign born workers as a method of relieving unemployment. 'The big basic industries of this country have been built by immigrants. American capitalism, because of the great shortage of native labor, and the existence of free land up to 30 years ago, could not get along without them. Now Hoover and Doak propose to make of them a Separate category _ af wage slaves—registered and fingerprinted, subject to arbitrary arrest and deportation by fist. Hoover said in his message that he favors making the whole series of illegal practices carried through by the department of labor, resulting in the deportation of more than 18,000 workers in the last year, the basis of a'new statute, < There is already discrimination against, foreign born workers in appor- tioning jobs on public works, in the giving of charity relief and in the unions of the AmericanF ederation of Labor on all three of these points. ‘The Hoover administration, backed by the American Federation of Labor leaders, is trying to create a new slave class—to push the foreign born workers still lower in thé social scale in the typical fascist manner. The Hoover and Doak proposals mean the forging of “a new and Pow- erful weapon in the hands of the employees in such basic industries as |Nanking and other Chinese | Nanking, alone, over 50,000 workers mining, steel, oil production, etc., wheré 60 per cent of the workers are foreign born. It means anew form of blacklist and strikebreaking ter- rorism. Most important of all, and most sinister in its meaning for the entire working class, is the fact that registration and fingerprinting of the for- #ign born is a war measure, another step in the herding of the working class to the shambles of a new imperialist war. First the foreign born, then the native born will be required to line up and be fingerprinted, classified and regimented, in order to make espionage and suppression easier for the capitalists and their government | in this period when the increasin, | The Michigan, registration law | who own the courts. i crisis and growing mass misery bring | out class alignments in ever sharper form. was declared invalid on technical grounds. The Hoover proposals have the backing of the big capitalists Not the states, but the federal government is to be | brought into play to put in force this slavery scheme. It is necessary that our Party, in all its units and committees, pre- | pare the most stubborn united frontstruggle against the Hoover-Doak proposals. The working class of America will rally for the most resolute fight and can defeat these despicable attempts to manacle the foreign born working class population. of the American Federation of abor, gether with the Council for the Protection of the All fraternal societies, all local unions can be mobilied to- Foreign Born to drive all cooperatives, back this new war and wage cutting drive—because this is what it is— of Wall Street’s government. No deportations, no registrations, ation of the working class to defeat will be the answer of our Partyand no fingerprinting—and the organi- these slave schemes—this must, and of the working class. ae Boss Court Frees ‘Murderer of Negro \\ Within Ten Minutes CARROLLTON, Miss., Dec. 11.—The. Southern lynch bosses, nofsatisfied “ith lynching and railroading young “Negro workers to the chair on “tdmed-up charges of rape as in the “ase of the nine innocent Scottsboro ‘oys, added another to the list of heir outrages against the working- iass when Géorge Medows, a white boss was acquitted in ten minutes by the boss court here although he had brutally murdered Victor Rogers, a Negro worker. Medows shot down Rogers when class by the boss court here ‘when the’ Negro worker demanded his wages. This is one of many cases, Negro workers robbed of their already star- vation wages are deliberately shot down, lynched and denied fair trials for the “crime” of demanding the! pay. . ‘|while the delegation made its pro- MASS ACTION) THREATENING NANKINGRULE} Workers and Students Sweep Shanghai; Jail Mayor Crisis Sharpens In Japan: Cabinet Falls The mass anti-imper- ialist movement swept forward in China yes- terday with the seizure by workers and stud- ents of the Chinese city of Shanghai, tremendous anti- Kuomintang demonstrations in cities and an increasing re- sistance to the Japanese in Man- churia by armed irregulars (workers, peasants and disbanded soldiers). In and students paraded in a hostile demonstration against the Kuomin- tang betrayers of the Chinese masses, The Nanking murder regime is re- ported tottering under the blows of the angry masses. All government activities at Nanking have ceased as the- Kuomintang traitors went into hiding. Japanese Crisis Deepens Cabinet Falls In Japan the financial crisis reach- ed new depths yesterday, forcing the fall of the Japanese Cabinet and threatening |the gold standard in Japan. | a telegraphist detachment which was about to leave for Manchuria, The arrested Japanese soldiers are charged with conducting Communist propaganda in their unit and with having maintained connections with Communist and anti-imperialist or- ganizations, In Shanghai, the workers and stu- « {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEMAND RELEASE OF WHITE HOUSE DEMONSTRATORS Committee of Marchers Protests to Judge Who Gave Sentence WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 11— One of the final tasks of the “Hun- ger March” in Washington was send- ing a delegation of five to demand the immediate and unconditional re- lease of the fourteen workers ar- rested and sentenced to six months imprisonment as the result of a dem- onstration before the White House in support of a demand for food and shelter for the Hunger Marchers. The delegation consisted of J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary, Inter- national Labor Defense; Rebecca Grecht, Pittsburgh; Eugenie Rivera, West Virginia; Sophie Mazeika, Cleveland; Etta Brown, Cleveland, and J, M. Lee, Detroit. The delegation made its demand upon Judge Isaac R. Hitt who im- posed the sevage six months’ jail sen- tences on the charge of unlawfully parading without a permit. Numerous court attendants were mobilized in the judge’s chambers test and demand. “We raise this demand not only on behalf of the 1,670 delegates in the Hunger March itself, but also on behalf of the masses of jobless workers they represent,” declared Engdahl, in demanding the right of the workers to the use of the streets. Rebecca Grecht and Etta Brown, the latter a Negro woman. delegate Tokio police arrested 10 soldiers of | The Hunger March Hits the Capitol! | | | | | furtherance of the struggle national demonstration for || employment insurance and perative demands, || ment insurance, and immediate relief to || the“unemployed,-we designate a day of working class organizations to endorse this day.and join-in the demonstrations so that | it shall bé a day of full mobilization of the strength of the working class for these im- | ‘This day shall be February 4th. National Committee is empowered to take | all steps to ensure the success of National | Unemployment Insurance Day. DECISIONS OF NAT'L HUNGER MARCH ‘CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DEC. 7. National Day for Struggle for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill BE IT RESOLVED by this Conference of the National Hunger Marchers that in | a wide campai; for unemploy- | ment of the W ance Bill, that workers’ Un- call upon all lines, employm ment shall be 4 the collection endorsements parture and tt The turn march, Mass Signature Campaign for Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill | Be it Resolved by this Conference that * tain millions of signatures for the endorse- tained from workers in the shops, bread unions, ete., and that collective endorse fraternal organizations, ex-servicemen’s or- | ganizations, and other organized bodies. | Phat the National Committee shall take | all steps to develop this campaign, that the | National Hunger Marchers shall commence portant feature of the meetings on the re- ign shall be launched to ob- | orkers Unemployment Insur- | | these signatures shall be ob- | ent offi rates, in | | , factory | secured from trade unions, | | of the signatures and mass | immediately upon their de- | hat it shall be made an im- || | Field Organizers Report the Growth a of Kentucky Nat’l Miners Union PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 11.—At a that one hundred and seventy del- egates have already been elected from counties, liciud. five Negro del- egates. Hundreds of miners and their wives will visit the convention which will be held here’ at the K. of C. Hall on Dec. 13. Miners from five mines in the Left Fork of Straight Creek are planning snapped soon after the call for the | meeting in which twenty field or-| to march to the convention, together | convention was issyed and who is ganizers parti¢ipated, it was reportea | With the men, woinen and children. | still missing | | This is in enswer to Mayor Brooks | of Pineville that the conyention is not welcome. The miners are deter- thirty-nine mines tn Harlan and Bell| mined to hold their convention at succeeded The International Labor Defense | attorney is fighting thirty eviction | notices in the Glendon mine and have in postponing the cases | 2,000 Mass In Wheeli HUNGER MARCH jattempt to make this historic | Price 3 Cents SMASH MARTINS FERRY TERROR; — HAIL MARCHERS Gas Bombs Sthash Windshields of Trucks: Guns Menace, But Workers Demonstrate ng and: Police Retreat; Enthusiasm in All Mine and Steel Towns MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Dec. 11.—The Na- tional Hunger March on its return from Wash- |ington smashed through a 12-year’s terror | here and was the center of a huge demonstra- tion. This town has been closed to all workers’ mobilizations since the great steel strike and only by a ter- rific struggle was it opened this time. Steel w orkers and miners massed on the streets and waited in cold and rain for Column 4 of the National ‘Hunger March to come through. .The police had issued a false report @that the marchers were detouring around Martins Ferry, but this failed | to prevent the crowd gathering, |. When the National Hunger March- » | €rs swept into town, the pelice and 9 | Steel trust thugs, armed with riot and machine guts and tear gas bombs, ON WITH FIGHT! launched a brutal attack on the crowd and on the marchers. The | machine guns were aimed at.the thick | San % , | of the crowd but not actually fired, By HERBERT BENJAMIN | ana thugs ana police prodded the The National Hunger March | workers with the muzzles of their riot broke through! It broke}guns. A swarm of tear gas bombs through the campaign of si]- | Smashed through the windshields of . , | the trucks and broke the glass side ence, the campaign of threats, | eindove the campaign of villification, | the scene. the campaign of intimidation,! But in spite of tear gas and the the campaign of terror which | guns held teady to kill them, the succe vely followed one an-| Masses of workers, men, women and aac. . . | children, packed around the tracks, other and were combined in the} oa ‘chewed ‘then for blocks an they moved slowly through town, marchers and crowd uniting their Tear gas clouds settled over action of the workers impos- | sible! | votes in “Solidarity” and shouting > T ys E | denunciations of the police and de~ Deane ate sci | Seca The determination of the! "84 relief ety (ween 5 ee Sreiaee and sore eyes from the gas, but no masses of unemployed and em-/| other casualties. ployed to force the government | In Wheeling a cous: of thousand and employers to provide in-| workers sep tg to axe hes bins 7 | ger marchers. ere 1e ic ad surance at full wages for those | ease: dain, as thay al whee who through no fault of their] i. march cAtie trode On lls way own are jobless, defeated all}, Washington, Dec. 3. efforts to stifle effective ex-| Five hundred greeted the marchers pression of this basic need. at Steubenville court house. This town The courage and tenacity of Dee i erg pial i Mec the masses of dispossessed | just. before the National Hunger toilers under revolutionary | Waren’ went through to Washiegtoe. leadership, overcame all obsta- Force Cops to. Open tual cles, surmounted all difficul-| At Bellaire, Ohio, police guns bar- ties, endured the test of many |red ee ee te. eae Pa barn pcre d omaer Law. | sRsing, cheering, and shouting of d slogans, which forced a reversal of BLOW. the edict closing the hall, anda short A mighty blow has~ been indoors demonstration was held by struck, a great advance has | the marchers and all the crowd which been made Unemployment | °w4 get in, which emphasized the Insurance at full wages, at the| point that a victory had been won. After this, the marchers proceeded which a date will be set for calling | until March. E. B. Payne has been | | of the strike. | released on bond and all I. L. D. cases The National Miners Union have | are now out. wired to the new governor, Laffoon,| International Labor Defense and | demanding that Sheriff Blair return} Workers International Relief com- MacSumner, active member of the | National Miners Union, who was kid- | mittees are being elected in every mine NEW YORK.—New York Workers will demonstrate today, at noon, against the Maryland lynch Governor Ritchie, who is to spout his usual demagog yat a meeting of bosses at the National Republican Club, 54 also spoke. Although it was shown that the case was still in his hands, the judge sought refuge in his claim that the sentences had been appealed and that therefore the case was now out of his jurisdiction. A. F. L. Painters Officials Slash Union Wage Scale ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 11.— Officials of the local here of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America (A. F. L.) jammed through the local meet- ing yesterday a motion to cut the union wage scale from $11.60 per day to $8. This merely legalizes the un- official wage cuts which have been voing on for a long time and which were not fought by. the officials, - West 40th St. The workers will demonstrate be- fore the club in protest against the brutal lynching af Matthew Williams, young Negro worker, by a gang of Eastern Shore, Maryland, business men and hoodlums last Friday night. They will demand the immediate re- lease of Orphan (Lee) Jones and George Davis, two other Negro work- ers who are facing a death frame- up in the boss courts of the Eastern Shore. The lynching of Matthew ‘Williams grew directly out of the en- couragement given the Eastern Shore lynch gangs by the boss courts, coun- ty officials and Gov. Albert F. Ritchie who time and again refused to take action to stop the murderous activi- ties of the lynch gangs who for weeks have been terrorizing Negro workers and searching jails on the Eastern Shore for George Davis and Orp! Jones, ToT TS, p N. Y. Workers Demonstrate NEWARK HEARS | at Noon Against Gov. Ritchie | | Protest Lynching of Negro Worker, Boss Ter-, ror in Maryland, Demand Release Orphan Jones and George Davis | i | CG | All workers are urged to demon- strate their hatred of the bos: lynch terror against the Negro masse: All out today! Demonstrate t noon before 54 West 40th St. . A mass meeting to protest the double lynching of two Negro workers in West. Virginia Thursday morning, the lynching of Matthew Williams in Maryland, and the growing boss ter- Tor against the Negro masses was held Thursday night at the Finnish Workers Hall, 27 West 126th St. The meeting was called by the Workers Ex-Service Men's League and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Sol Harper, one of the speakers, pointed out that there have been 106 lynchings already this year, includ- ing the double lynching in West Vir- ginia and the lynching of Matthew Williams in Maryland, and 75 lynch- ings in Alabama alone, which were reported in a secret report to the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Another protest meeting was. held last night at 115 West 130th St., in connection with the report on the National Hunger March, The Work- MARCHERS TODAY Will Tell How Smashed Jim Crow Rule NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 11.—Em- ployed and unemployed workers of Newark will hear the report of their delegates on the Washington Hunger March Satirday at 2 p. m. at 53 Broome St. Adult and young, Negro and white, men and women delegates who were the Newark delegation on the historical march to demand Un- employment Insurance will give first- hand accounts of how the police chief of Baltimore apologized publicly for insulting a Negro worker, how the Salvation Army tried to put one over on the unemployed workers with their stinking beans and how the workers answered, etc. Songs made up in the heat of the march by the workers will be sung. The marchers will explain the next steps in the fight for Unemployment Insurance and how it can be done, FIVE THOUSAND DAILY WORKER 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTIONS BY JANUARY 8tb! ers Ex-Servicemen’s League also held a protest meeting the same evening at 66 E. 4th il nent expense of the government and employers, for all jobless and part time workers, has been placed upon the order of the day as the principal issue for the masses of American work- ers. This demand has_ been posted upon the walls of the capitol. It has been slapped on the desks of every sena- tor and congressman. It has penetrated through the thick walls of the Capitol and White House and the thick ears of the agents of the ruling-class who occupy these seats of Wall Street's government. The capitalist press which was used in advance of the March in the effort to disor- ganize and. discourage the workers who rallied in support of this vital action and ‘to in- cite fascist attacks against the Marchers, has been compelled like those who own this press, to retreat in the face of the wave of mass support evoked by the Hunger March as it started towards Washington... Even such an organ of the Hoover Hunger government as the Washing- ton Star is forced to admit that “no one could fail to feel sympathy for the men and women who engaged in this action.” But in order to cover their retreat and to discourage mass struggle against hunger, this and other capitalist sheets now try to con- vince the masses, that the Hunger (CONTINUED .ON PAGE. FIVE) to Lansing, Ohio, where they stopped overnight last night. | (Additional news on page 5) ‘200 PATERSON, N.J. WORKERS STRIKE Call for Mass Picket- ing to Win Demands |. PATERSON, N. J., Dev. 11.—Two hundred ironers and gtarchers, em- ployees of the Manhattan Shirt Co. lof Paterson, New Jersey, -Weht on strike four weeks ago. This strike was organized by |th “Manhattan | Shirt Mills Benevolent Association, an | organization that was formed by ‘the | workers for mutual aid sin time of sickness. pe Se” Comrade H. Sazer, assiblant secre- tary of the Needle. Trades ‘Workers | Industrial Union appeared atea meet- ing of the committee and the strik- ers and presented a program of mil- jitant struggle. A committee of five inctuding the | president of the benevolent, associ- | ation, appeared: before the -exccutive | council on Monday, Dee.“th, and ex- |plained the conditions. that. prevail |in the factory, requesting the execu- tive council to assist them dn their | strike. Fy At a motion the strike was en- dorsed and all possible assistance was |Pledged to the committee of strik- ere. & | A leaflet was alroady issued, mass | picketing is being prepared:for Mon- | day at 7:30 p. m. in frontof the fac- tory on River Street. © i All workers employed and unem- Ployed should come to the picket lines and assist these workers to win their battle against: wage cuts. sat