The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 1

Unite Our Growing Ranks with Daily Work. y ™~ \ WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central =—¢ OL. Vill, No. 300 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office <n at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Marck 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931 ae ei unist Party (Section of the Communist Inieruational) DELEGATES OF 17,000 KY. NINERS Sit Fight the New Plunder Program of Hoover ! Strengthen the Militant United Front tor Unemployment Insurance! APPEAL OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. S. A. To All Workers and Oppressed Farmers! To the Employed and Unemployed Workers! The Great National Hunger March to Washington on December 7th gave a mighty expression to the insistent demands of millions of workers for unemployment insurance. Before the broadest masses of toilers the National Hunger March unmasked the hunger President Hoover, Congress and its capitalist parties and the reactionary Greens and Wolls as conscious and vicious class enemies of the unemployed, their wives and children. The boss class that rules the country resorted to every weapon against the unem- ployed and the Hunger Marchers—open violence and provocation, conspiracy of silence und shameless slander, and the bootlicking A.F.L. leaders. It barricaded itself.from the marchers by an army of police, machine guns, secret service men and marines, thus re- vealing to the, masses the true face of capitalist democracy. The government of Wall Street applied the combined weapons of terror and demagogy, not because they were ir- norant of the purposes and demands of the national hunger march, but because they realized that the forces behind the demand for unemployment insurance are rapidly grow- ing throughout the country. i ' Workers! A storm of protest should be the answer to the insolent and brutal ac- tion of the exploiters and their government in rejecting the demands of the Hunger March! A hundred-fold increase in the organizational efforts to achieve the demands of the unem- ployed must be. our reply. From March 6, 1930, when masses of workers spontaneously demonstrated for un- employment insurance, and from February 10th, 1931 when the delegation of workers backed by one and a half million signatures presented the bill for unemployment insur- ance to Congress, up to December 7th, the movement for unemployment insurance in the form of thge National Hunger March reached the stage of organized national mass action. The masses of workers are lining up in ever greater numbers behind the demand for unemployment insurance. They are also learning how to fight for their most imper- ative demands. The National Hunger March demonstrated not only the self-sacrifice and determined struggle of the masses, but showed the creative organizational ability of the workers and the great capacity to carry out their plans for the furtherance of their de- ma . A great action, planned on a national scale, was carried out not only in accordance with its set aims but it adhered firmly to the schedule laid down, to the precise hour and destination. Organizational weakness due to the lack of experience in carrying through a national action and to the difficulties of the 1mmense task were overcome by the great initiative of the workers in the march. The Hunger March should mark a turning point in overcoming the organizational weakness of the unemployed movement. THE DEMANDS OF THE HUNGER MARCHERS—THE ANSWER OF THE HOOVER GOVERNMENT To all the demands of the National Hunger March, the answer given by the capital- ist government was a brutal—NO! On December 7th the working class of America, through the National Hunger March, put- forward its program of immediate demands in order to stave off the growing hunger, misery, disease and starvation. On December 8th the leading robber clique of bankers through their spokesman Hoover, announced the program of the ruling class to utilize the misery of the masses created by the capitalist crisis, to increase the profits of the financial overlords. The marchers demanded—*7-hour day without wage reductions and the 6-hour day for miners, railroad men and young workers,” called for full wages to all part-time workers and workers being fleeced by the “stagger plan.” The answer of the government of hun- ger and war, speaking through Hooyer’s message, was “more effective opportunity to re- duce operating costs,” which means new sweeping wage-cuts for the entire working class, beginning with a drastic cut for railroad workers. The Hunger Marchers demanded: “taxation upon capital and profits of the corpora- tions and trusts, also taxation sharply graded upward upon all incomes above $5,000 a year.” The Hoover hunger government: answered by proposing crushing taxes upon the basic necessities of life for the masses of workers, taxes upon the miserably low incomes of the workers, impoverished farmers and ruined petty bourgeoisie. The Hunger Marchers demanded “all war funds to the unemployment insurance fund,” demanded that the supplies held by the Federal Farm Board, the wheat and cot- ton stocks held as a reserve for war against the Soviet Union, be turned into bread and clothing for the unemployed. Wall Street under cover of hypocrisy ,answered with a war budget of $644,650,000 for the Army and Navy, with the appropriation of billions for the reconstruction of the former War Finance Corporation. This Finance Corporation was used to coin untold profits for the bankers out of the slaughter and blood of the last world war. And this corporation is to be used as a base for hostile acts and war against the Socialist Fatherland. The Hunger Marchers demanded an end to the whole system of brutal discrimina- tion and lynching of Negro masses, demanded that the government shall stop encourag- ing and protecting the lynch and murder bands of the capitalist and landowners, The \ Hunger Marchers emphasized the proletarian solidarity of whites and Negroes by advanc- ing Negro workers as leaders of the delega tion and spokesmen of the Hunger Marchers. The capitalists answered by new savage lynchings in Maryland and West Virginia, in the very shadow of the Capitol and under protection of Governor Ritchie, the democratic con- tender for president. The Hunger Marchers demanded full payment of the bonus to ex-servicemen and adequate payment to disabled war veterans, The unemployed throughout the country fully backed this demand by electing hundreds of ex-servicemen as their representatives in the march. The capitalist government answered this demand with a callous refusal, by declaring through the mouth of Hoover, “I am opposed to any extension of expenditures for veterans’ aid.” ; The Hunger Marchers demanded the stopping of the persecution of the foreign-born as a weapon to crush the entire working class. Hoover's government answered with a plan for branding and enslaving the foreign-born workers through the adoption of a sys- tem of federal finger-printing and registration, and of widening the system of discrim- i" ou oN zage BBBEE) ‘ © FRENCH IN. INVASION OF SOUTH CHINA Nanking Military Fires Into Masses In Shanghai Japanese Push War in Manchuria | LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Nanking military shoots down anti-Japanese demonstrators in Shanghai. Prepares attack against 30,000 schoolboys. Capitalist news agencies report, then later deny, that Chiang-Kai shek has resigned. Nanking and Canton cliques in new maneuvers to deceive masses, as mass anger sweeps China, Financial crisis in Japan. grows worse. Stock market and ex- changes closed throughout country. Japanese imperialists seek way out of crisis by new murderous attacks on Chinese masses and Japanese working class. Twelve hundred Korean peasants reported murdered in Manchuria by Japanese, (STORY ON PAGE THREE.) HAMBURG POLICE SHOOT INTO ANTI- FASCIST PROTEST Hitler Group Clash Shows Fear of Workers BERLIN, Dec. 15.—Prohibition of “Rote Fahne”, valid until December 17, has been withdrawn today, and the “Rote Fahne” will appear to- morrow. Last night workers demonstrated in Hamburg against the emergency de- cree. Police attacked the demonstrat- ors with clubs without success and then drew revolvers firing point blank killing a 22-year-old worker, Wittrock, and wounding four other workers and a school boy seriously. Five were arrested. “Weltabend” reports a violent dis- agreement at the last session of the fascist leadership between the Hitler and Strasser groups. ,Hitler declared that the fascist accession to power is only possible with a coalition with the Catholics. He demanded that the fascists accept all Catholic conditions in order to make possible a coalition in Hessen. Hitler warned his confed- erates against missing this oppor- tunity and declared that heavy in- dustry is no longer wholely behind the fascists because many industrial- ists are satisfied with Bruening. Hitler warned that any attempt of the fascists to take over power alone would meet with the solid resistance of the workers and would strengthen the Communist leadership. He de- Foster, Dunne, NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, | William F, Dunne and Eerbert Ben- | jamin will report for the National Hunger March Committee of the Un- employed Councils at Central Opera House at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 16. The motion picture record of the march will be shown. These pictures were made by the Workers’ Film and Foto League of the Workers’ Inter- national Relief. ‘The Workers’ International Club Band, which played the Internation- ael on the capitol grounds in Wesh- ington on Dec. 7, the first time such a thing ever happened, will play again at this affair. Admission will be 25 cents, unem- ployed workers free. Nassau County Meetings. A series of mass meetings will be held in Nassau County and other parts of Long Island organized by the Central Queens, where reports on the National Hunger March ‘will be given by the three delegates elected by workers and their organizations in Masses Will Give Answer to Unemployed Council of Nassau and| Nassau County to represent them in him, and he has probably bean murdered. Leaflet Distributed Throughout Coal Fields of Kentucky Against Terror ANSWER THE TERROR IN HARLAN COUNTY WITH A Mass National Miners Union Convention & Mo- bilization for a General Strike against Starvation and Gun Rule DEMAND THE RETURN-OF MAC SUMNER KIDNAPPED BY THE OPERATORS AND SHERIPF At midnight, Thursday, December 3, two carloads of hroke into the home of Mac Sumner, active member of th Ky., and carried him away. At the time of the kid nappin ner was in bed Nothing has been heard of Mae Sumner, since this deliberate and well-planned acheme to do 8 lived and had worked, before he was blacklisted, is ian County Coal Operators Assoriat/on. cll-know a Cretch has been benrd to say that h JUST HOW MUCH DOES MR. CREECI himind tow day CH, A OPERA’ SOCIATION KNOW ABOUT THE KAT BAPPIN. MAS SUYY IRF? The er lors’ er ar \ boy 7 urrsle wt wah Son ee Terre H Report on March, Wednesday, Benjamin to | New Attack | | | the Hunger March. The first’ meeting will be held in} Jamaica during next week. The pre- | chedule for Nassau will be | as follow | Hempsted, Saturday, Dec. 19, at the | Ukrainian Fro; ve Home, at 6 p.m. Hicksville, § lay, Dec. 20, at the Ukrainian Hall, 57 Broadway, at 3 p.m. Elmont, Sunday, Dec. 27, at the Finnish Hall, 83 Meecham Ave., at 3 pm. Meetings will be held shortly after this at Babylon, Huntingdon, Fres- port and other . In all of these meetings local starvation and fake re- lief measures will be exposed; the meetings will be turned into public hearings, which will throw a glaring searchlight on concealed mass mis- ery and the callous indifference of county and town officials and relief agencies in their treatment of the jobless. Wherever possible, delegations will be appointed to present demands for immediate cash and food relief to local governments on behalf of star- ving and destitute families. DLAIR’S GUNMEN | and Harlan County gin-thugs iners Union, at Creches, owned by R. W. Leads Fight fields. DEMAND MOONEYS RELEASE AT BIG clared that French imperialism would make insuperable difficulties for a fascist government. “The speech was followed by a furt+ ous discussion, and the session ended without an agreement, HUNGER HEARING IN HARLEM FRI. Expose Starvation and Mass Misery NEW YORK. — The Lower Harlem Unemployed Council which covers the Latin American territory in lower Harlem was organized on December 10, 1931. ‘The Council immediately decided to concentrate in a selected territory, to canvas the hundreds of thousands of starving families, organizing them in- to the Council, The Council also decided to orga- nize a public hearing which will be held Friday, December 18th, at 7:30 p. m. at the Spanish Center, 4 East 116th 8t., first floor. ILL. CONFERENCE Pledge Fight for the Release of Seven On Syndicalist Charges CHICAGO, Ill.—With representa- tives of the nine local unions of the United Mine Workers of America of the Benld and Staunton, IIL, region and delegates from many worker or- ganizations, the United Front Moo- ney Conference held at Staunton, Ill, November 29, demanded the imme- diate release of Mooney and pledged a struggle against the Illinois crimi- nal syndicalist law under which Ge- bert and six other workers are now held, A second conference, also to be held at Staunton, Ill, has been called (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ganizations are urged to send 2 or 3 National Miners BULLETIN. PINEVILLE, Ky—J. E. Payne, member of the National Miners’ Union, in jail on criminal syndicalist charges, has miner in the Pineville jeil into the National Miners’ Union. * PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 14.—Enthusiastic cheering greeted the adoption of the proposal of dhe scale committee of the Na-| tional Miners Union District Convention here that a strike be called January first throughout the Eastern K Seventy-nine mines sent 263 delegates, representing ©17,000 miners. delegates to serve in the Presidium at the trial, and elect a workers’ jury of 12, who will after the hearing of these starving cases return its ver- dict and recommend further steps to be taken by the workers in this Sieh RCI Union in Kentucky aed up every Counting visit- ors, over 500 miners, their wives and children attended the first District Convention of the N.M.U. in Kentucky. There was no interference, except a visit of the mayor and the chief of police. This is a victory for the min- ers who prepared the convention in the face of the bitterest terror on the part of the coal operators. Demands. The main demand of the strike which is set for January 1, are: Day- men, $4.80 per day; helpers, $4.40 per day; unclassified labor, $3.60; re-em~- ployment of all blacklisted miners; withdrawal of all armed forces from the coal fields; release of the miners jailed for union activity; enforce- er (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) {ndian Women Shoot Bengal Imperialist Magistrate to Death Cable by Inprecorr.) LONDON, Dec. 14.—Stevens, mag- istrate of Comilla, Bengal, was shot dead today following raids and ar- rests over the week end. His assail- ents were two Indian ‘women, both of whom were arrested. The women en- tered his office and presented him with a petition and shot him whilst reading. Stevens is the fifth British assassinated this year, or iALIST FOR 5,600 “ STRIKE FOR JAN. COMPETi1 iTH YOUR SHOPMATES IN THE DAILY Y¥, JAILY WORSER’ Price 3 Cen u i aute and eveland Masses Greet Marchers | Workers Gathered to Hear the Hunger March Delegates Score Priests Fake March Monessen Steel Workers Take Metal League Organizer Away TERRE HAUTE, from the Police Ind., Dec. 14.—Three hundred workers paraded the streets here in support of the returning National Hunger Marchers of Column 4, yesterday. Fully 1,800 flocked to the indoor meeting where the re- ports of the Washington demonstration for unemployment in- surance and the plans for greater struggles in the near future for insurance and relief were cheered heartily. Many of the workers and unemployed workers at this meeting joined the Communist Party. ~# Unemployed Council. DOAK SNARLING NEW LIES ABOUT HUNGER MARCH Savs-Now That TUUL Ts “Outlawed By Federal Courts” WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14.— Today Secretary of Labor Doak, placed in the Hoover cabinet to put over the rail wage cut and persecute foreign born workers, evidently dis- mayed at the enthusiastic mass wel- come given the National Hunger Marchers in every single city thru which they pass on their return from Washington, issued another rehash of the Secret Service “findings” that were put out first to keep the Hun- ger Marchers from reaching Wash- ington, Doak declares, in a statement which appears in all capitalist news- papers, thet the ‘National Hunger March was . Virtually wholly of Communist participation.” This lie was copied from the Secret Service declaration. But Doak then adds to it an ad- ditional lie of his own. He finds he can not divorce the Trade Union Unity League from the struggle, be- cause the Trade Union Unity League, which is made up of workers of all shades of political opinion, supported the march to the fullest extent of its ability. So Doak states: “Preparations for the march began as early as Oct. 14 and they included general member- ship meetings of the Trade Union Unity League, which has been ont- lawed by United States courts, the District Court and Court of Appeals.” The Trade Union Unity League has never been outlawed by federal courts, There has never so far been a case in the U. S. district court or Court of Appeals in any way involving the le- gality of the Trade Union’ Unity League. Undoubtedly, Doak would like to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘ployed and un Still more joined the hie foe CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec, 14——As Column 3 of the National Hun; March approached Cleveland, Friday on its returm from Washington where it participated in the demand by 1670 National Hunger Marchers for unem- Ployment relief and unemployment insurance, the column was met by Cleveland workers and escourted to a eight big meetings, total of 3,000. attended by The reports given by the delegate from Washington brewsht an ent astic response. Unaffected rain and chilly weather met road, the delegation arrived he: a splendid enthusiasm. 1 at the meetings indic workers the nece: the strugele for w a ance if we are to w from the boss’ govern: Prepare for Februa In order to acquaint t of Cleveland with the even ington and utilize that f ing of the Unempl meetings throughout the ci repars ocks neighborho ubs and all gath FP e dele- gates from the Hunger March will re- port. Through these meetings, the Un- employed Councils will be built as well as being utilized in preparation for the National Day of Struggle for Un- employment Insurance, February 4. Rescue Speaker From Cope, MONESSEN, Pa., Dec. 14—For the first time im Monessen the steel workers blocked the attempt Satur day of the police to break up a mass meeting. The meeting was called by the Metal Workers Industrial League Close to a hundred steel workers listened to the report of their Na- tional Hunger March delegate on the answer of the U. S. government to the unemployed and part time work- ers, The steel workers gave an en- thusiastic greeting to their delegate, M. Bale. While the Federal govern- ment was being exposed it did not concern the local police present at the meeting. It did concern them the minute the speaker began to expose their local masters, Mayor Woodward (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Use Criminal Syndicalist Laws to Prevent Strikes CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 24.—That the criminal syndicalist laws are being used to keep the workers from strik- ing, and to drive them deeper into hunger and misery, is fully proven by the text of the indictment against Bill Gebert, district organizer of the Communist Party in Chicago, and six other workers, Accused of “fomenting a, strike among coal miners,” the in- dictment demands these workers be jailed for 20 years for daring to lead the workers in a fight against hun- ger. Charges made by the Daily Worker that the coal bosses, and the authori< along with the United Mine Worker: of America to jail militant workers and leaders of the National Minert Union for long terms because of or- ganization of the workers againsi starvation conditions is now fully borne out by this criminal syndical- ism indictment. - THE MAIN CHARGE, One of the charges in the indict. ment is that Joe Tash, Ivan J. Hll« ovich, Phil Frankfeld, Zipp Kochins ski, Anthony Aiman, Bill Gebert, and Clara Saffern attempted to “foment a strike among coal miners ——