The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1931, Page 1

¥ National Hunger March Leaders Will Report at Central Opera House at 8 P. M. Tonight. Everybody Welcome! NEW YORK.—Come to Central Opera House at 8 p. m. | March. Among those reporting on the dramatic presentation| Herbert Benjamin, head of the Washington Arrangements] today to hear the reports of the leaders of the National Hunger | of demands for unemployment insurance in Washington will be! Committee; William Z. Foster and William F. Dunne. | Internationale on the Capitol grounds, will play it at the m The Workers’ International Club Band, which played the eting, WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central = VOL. VIII, No. 301 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March %, 1879 the-Comm OnsenS of the Communist eset) Norker fumist Party U.S.A. a GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” SUBS. -<>»NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931 CITY “EDI ae —- ORCED LABOR BILL IS HOOVER ANSWER TO UNEMPLOYED Outbursts ot Masses i in China Force Chiang 1 Kai- “Shek, Wall Street Butcher, To Quit “Prisons as “Protection” for Foreign Born Workers NEW campaign of suppression of militant workers, organizers of the A working class, and working class organizations, is getting under way. Not government relief of mass hunger but suppression of the hungry masses—this is the conclusion to be drawn from Hoover's message, the proposals of Secretary of Labor Doak and the bill introduced in Congress by Hamilton Fish to extend the powers of the department of justice in spying upon the interfering with working class organizations. ‘They propose first of all to proceed against the foreign born workers. Immigration has been cut to nothing. Hoover and Doak, aided by the leadership of the American Federation of Labor, the fascist and semi- fascist organizations like the National Civic Federation and the buzzard- jike collection of groups of capitalist patriots, are trying now to split the ranks of the working class by a drive against foreign born workers, na~ turalized and unnaturalized. Doak is worried about “American civilization.” Twelve million job- Jess workers for whom the American government makes no provision whatsoever serye only to convince him that jailings and deportations are the proper measures to protect American institutions. This is one of the old standbys of capitalist demagogues—that all revolutionists are for- eigners and thaf the social revolution can be quarantined. England and Germany, with the class relationship sharper than in the United Stetes and their huge armies of unemployed, has no immigration problem but one cannot expect Doak to spoil his case for American capitalism by admitting such obvious facts. With typical hypocrisy Doak puts forward the proposals for Ses printing and registration of foreign born) workers as a method of “‘pro- tecting” them. He says: “{ think also that the status should more completely protect the newly made citizen by proper safeguards. Outstanding among these is the use of finger prints upon naturalization papers.” (our emphasis.). ‘This kind of “protection” is designed to facilitate the terrorization of foreign-born workers in the basic industries; it is a strike breaking beas- ure of the most vicious kind. This becomse clearer when we read Doak's next proposal for the “protection” of the foreign born: . «+» The right, to concel certificates of citizenship should reserved to the government ... for five years of naturalization of the alien, in case he violates the law in such a manner as to show a lack of proper intention on his part at the time of his admission to citizenship.” The whole scheme is for the creation of a separate slave grouping within the circle of general oppression of the working class by American capitalism, a group of workers in the most important industries under the constant surveillance of the spies of the big corporations and their government, “We make every factory a prison,” is the Doak slogan. This is a brazen method of shackling workers, of holding the threat of deportation over their heads for five years even after naturalization, of putting in the hands of the wage cutting capitalists powerful weapons for disrupting struggles against lowered living standards, speed up and* miass unemployment. ‘The foreign born workers are the immediate targets for this.extension of the Hoover Hunger program, But the barrage is directed against the whole working class, native and foreign born, Negro and white. It is part of the general offensive of the Wall Street government. It is part of the preparation for American imperialism’s war of conquest. It is a new step on the part of capitalism to solve the crisis at the expense of the working class. The united front of all workers and working class organizations, the organization of mass support for the demand of “Hands Off Militant Workers and All Working Class Organizations,” can and will smash this ~ new army of reaction. FIRST LAP OF DRIVE SHOWS ONLY 2140 MONTHS IN SUBS SO FAR: F DISTRICTS LAG IN DRIVE A detailed analysis of the 5,000 12-month sub Drive, ) to date shows that up till the present time 589 subscrip- 4 tions have come in from all districts. However, when * divided by twelve months to get the yearly average by which this figure must be computed we get only 2,140 total ‘nonths in subscriptions or 180.42 yearly subs. Only 3 per cent of the National Quota of 5,000 12-month subs is indi- cated. This figure is far below the percentage which should have been reached in the eleven drive days already “gone by. It shows a very uneven and incomplete mob- ‘ilization for the drive throughout the districts. ~- Out of the total eighteen districts five have not even “taken the trouble to acknowledge the receipt. of the direc- tives for the drive, eleven have not as yet sent in district plans for the drive and some of the others are only slowly - getting started under way. So far plans of action have only been received from the following districts, all of which have set dates for district conferences of action: 1, 2, 6, 7, ‘| 8,9 and 10. The leadérship of the drive ge to now rests with District 8 show- “ing a total of 386 months, 4 per cent of its total quota. Next in line €omes District 2 with 260 months in subs, thereby smashing any pos- ble theory of the impracticability of securing subs.in and around New ‘ork. This is closely followed by Detroit with 209 months in subs, © on up, Detroit, we know you can do better. « The 2,140 months in subscriptions so far obtained are not due to effective mobilization on the part of the District Daily Worker “Oommittees. ‘The subs so far received are the result of individual int- . tiative of workers reached directly through the columns of the Daily | Worker. Immediate and complete mobilization by the districts is needed to assure life and success to the drive for 5,000 12-month subs ‘to the Daily Worker. .. The Complete Subscription Drive tables with a further analysis can ‘be found on page two. Obviously the figures already quoted indicate a crying need for immediate action, especially from those districts sleeping on the. job. We won't point it out here. ‘Turn to page three, study your district 8. Then go out and get those subs! ALL DISTRICT CONFERENCES! U SUB ACTION - “at, 90 DAY SENTENCES FOR STRIKERS, UNEMPLOYED IS WASHINGTON PROGRAM All Columns Reacki-The Their Objective: Bringing C. @ N.W. Rail Workers| Vote for Strike onPayCuts Railroad Workers! Organize and Strike Against t the Wage Cut! Statement of f the T TUUL Nation National Committee | The railroad worker now face a national wage cut of at least ten per cent. The only way this can be averted is to National Hunger March to Successful End Rally. Nation Wide Struggle for Relief and Prepare National Convention, Feb. 4 WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.—The new vagrancy law bill proposed Saturday by the Hoover administration’s Corporation Counsel Willian W. Bride to the District of Columbia Commissioners is the most far reaching forced labor, strike breaking and terroristic measure- against unem- organize a militant strike movement against it whenever and TUUL and all its union and Corio railroad corporations, with the Heads for Wagecuts Trade Union Unity Councils to assistance of the Brotherhood and the CHINESE STUDENTS WRECK NANKING FOREIGN OFFICE; SCORES ARE MASSACRED Workers! Demand Hands Off China! Withdrawal of American Troops Gunbeats from n China! Demand and Swept out of office by ‘the angry mass move- | ment surging over China, Chiang Kai-shek; head of the Nanking murder regime, was forced to resign yesterday. Nanking officials ordered a ferocious attack on an anti- imperial- ployed workers-ever tried in any state north of the far South. Peary The District of Columbia is directly administered by the Fede 1 government and this law is a measure of the Hoover administration and of Congress itself. Every person without a job and not a capitalist is automatically made guilty of “vagrancy” and slated for a ninety day sentence with no pos- sibility of being acquitted. when he comes up in..court—unless mass struggle outside of the courts should cause the authorities to let him go. The already badly strained “Bill of Rights” in the U..S. Constitution is given another wrench. The ordinary rule of law, centuries. old in. England and America, that a man is “inno- cent until proved guilty,” is speci- fically denied in this vegrancy law. The bill submitted by Bride states categorically, that -when a “prima facie’ case is made by the prosecu- tion, that is, whenever a single police- man says the man is guilty, then, “the burden of proof shifts to the defendant,” and it is up to the un- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Hunger Marchers to Report Today at Mass Meeting, Union City UNION CITY, N. J., Dec. 15.—The National Hunger March delegates from this part of New Jersey will re- port Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the United tIalian Co-operative Hall at Summit Ave, and 24th St. Union City. All workers and unemployed work- ers are invited, admission free, to come hear the reports of their dele- gates sent to Washington to demand unemployment insurance and relief from the federal government. Plans will be outlined for the next steps in the struggle. * NEW JERSEY TO HEAR MARCHERS Meetings ‘In Industrial Towns Are Scheduled ‘The National Hunger Marchers will report to mass meetings in New Jersey cities as follows: LONG BRANCH, N. J.—Thursday, Dec. 17, 8 p.m., at Hicks Hall, 179 Broadway. LINDEN-ROSELLE—Today, at 7:30 p.m., in the Labor Lyceum, Frank and Grand Sts., Roselle, N.J. UNION CITY—Today, at 7:30 p.m, in the Italian United Co-operative Hall, Sumit Ave. and 24th St. ELIZABETH—Thursday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m., in the Workers’ Center, 106 E. Jersey St. HILLSIDE=Friday, Dec. 18, at 2 m., in the Barcay Hall, 34 Bloy St. NEWARK—Friday, Dec. 18, at 8 pm. in the Russian Home, 53 Broome St. a While reporting on the great Na- tional Hunger March to the capital, the delegates will outline a concrete program for the organization of per- manent organizations in the cities and. neighborhoods to intensify the fights for immediate unemployment insurance and relief. Plans will be made also for the preparation for the great unemployed demonstration on Feb. 4. 3,000 Join National Miners Union in Scotts Run Region OSAGE, W. Va., Dec, 15,—Over 3,000 Scotts Run miners have joined the National Miners Union in the last seven weeks. There is a general campaign of meetings throughout the region, building the union and the Unemployed Councils. The latest development is a battle royal right in the hall here Dec. 13, when the United Mine Workers of America thugs tried to break up a meeting of unemployed miners and got very muche the worst of it. One of the thugs is in the hospital, Delegates recently returned from the National Hunger March spoke at Osage Hall, Four workers, one after the other, were greeted enthusiastic ally in the first meeting of this kind ever held in this town. When Mike Stone, dist. secretary of the National Miners Union exposed the anti-work- ing class character of Green's attack on the Hunger March, the thugs started their attacks, ‘They tried their old trick of push- ing the Negroes forward, to lead the attack because they knew that the N.M.U. members would not fight the Negroes. But the Negroes they brought in with them refused to at~ tack the meeting! The Negroes of Scotts Run are learning who their friends and enemies are! In the lusty struggle that enauedjof the National Civic Federa- “three tthugs were hurt to every min- er at the meeting. The National Miners Union and the Unemployed Council are arrang- ing a seriesof meeting in the Scotts Run, Clarksburg, Fairmont, and Graf- ton sections. The miners are deter- mined to continue their fight for im- mediate relief and unemployment in- surance, The Bill Presented to Congress by the National Hunger March By HERBERT BENJAMIN. National Secretary Unempleyed Councils of U. 8. A. N the attempt to discredit and minimize the National Hunger March, the various supporters of the Hoover hin- ger program resorted to the zoncealment of fact as well as to the use of the method of direct and deliberate lies and misrepresentation. The letter ae. Ue adi gale wherever it is put into effect. It is the great task of the Na- tional Railroad Workers Indus- organize the resistance to this further gigantic reduction in the} A. F. of L. union leaders, are mov- ing actively to put the cut into ef- trial League, supported by the Works With basal standards of living of the rialroad! fect. The action of the Chicago meeting. of 1,500 general chairmen of the railroad unions in proposing to negotiate with the railroad officials regarding the 10 per cent cut and the 6-hour day, is in fact an ac- “|¢eptance of the proposed slash in wages. Their whole policy. now is to undertake to go through the neces- ‘Sary maneuvers to put the cut. into effect and to save the face of the Brotherhood tunion leaders. T.U.U.L Foretold the Wage Cut. All this is in line with the repeated forecasts made by the T.U.U.L. and the National Railroad Workers’ In- dustrial League. Months ago, we pointed out that the wage-cut was coming on the railroads, that the de- mand for an increase in railroad rates by the companies was simply a preliminary maneuver in the prep- arations for the wage-cut, that the trade union leaders would accept the cut behind a smokescreen of a de- mand for the 6-hour day, that if necessary to create an appearance of resistance, they will take fake strike votes and then allow the whole thing to go to arbitration under the Wat- son-Parker Law. This they are al- ready doing on the Chicago & North- western. The Hoover government can be depended upon by the companies to give them, under the Watson- Parker aw, the wage-cut they are seeking. The Rank and File Op»ose the Cut. ‘These 1,500 so-called leaders of the railroad workers in reality have no interssts in common with the rank and file. They are high-paid offi- dlals, drawing salaries ranging from (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Nine Big Boston Banks Crash: Over $58,700,000 Involved ' BOSTON, Dec. 15. — Following the crash of over 2,000 banks this year, a new wave of bank failures was marked Tuesday by the crash of nine of the leading banks in Boston with $58,700,000 involved. The most important of these banks going to the wall was the Federal National Bank of Boston with de- posits of over $28,000,000. Tens of thousands of workers, employed and unemployed, cannot draw out a cent to keep them from starva- tion. Runs are on at many of the smaller banks: throughout Boston and South Boston. tion which was broadcast by Matthew Woll, provided as it was intended to do, the line to the capitalist press and the rep- resentatives of the ruling class on Congress. The treatment of the demands raised by the Hunger March for the millions of unemployed, like the treat- ment accorded the marchers, followed as nearly as the re-| raistd sistance of the masses would at ‘the ling Jeid down by <CoNTpUER ON PAGH THRED), Keen acts Secret from Railroad Workers BULLETIN. CHICAGO, Tl, Dec. 15.—William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will be in Chicago December 19 and 20 to meet with the National Board of the National Railway Workers’ Industrial League. This meeting will take up ways and means of organizing the struggle of the rail- road workers against the proposed wage cut of 10 per cent. . NEW YORK. — While the officials of the 21 railroad unions negotiate with the railroad bosses through Da- niel Willard, president of the B. & O., on the best way of putting over a 10 per cent wage cut, the workers, at the first opportunity given them, on the Northwestern R. R. have an< swered the wage cut program by an whelming vote for strike. Over 80 per cent of the members of the Brotherhood of Railway Main- ist anti- Kuomintang demonstration in Nanking. Capitalist press dispatche ‘s report that ral scores of stidents were killed and many wounded. Students wrecked the Foreign Office and stormed the Nanking Kuomintang headquarters where Nanking officials were g an “emer- list. that several sco: killed and many wrecked the Foreign stormed the N headquarters where were holding an “ ing.” The students sung “Comn’ flags, and slogans.” The imperi tang tools a. | tack on the Chinese Prehch tro | China, in a j and South j ning a new | which is South of the Gr CHARLES M. SCHWAB | officiels meet- des tenance of Way men employed on the Chicago & Northwestern R. R. who were told they were to get a 10 per cent cut voted for strike. A strike vote was started last week, just at the moment when 1,500 railroad union of- ficials were agreeing to accept a vol- untary wage cut. This strike vote, the first taken on the railroads for many years, is proof that the rank and file is over- whelmingly against wage cuts and is prepared to struggle. Secret Meet Prepares Sell-Out. Yet the union misleaders are now) Directors of the Bethichem Steel preparing the most drastic sell-out ever undertaken jon |the railroads. Through Danie! Willard, president of of the B. & O. Railroad, the officials of the 21 railroad unions met the railroad bosses Tuesday “to negotiate} yearly salary of $150,000, which is for wage reductions.” Daniel Willard| because of was in Chicago when the 1,500 rail- road union officials were meeting and kept in close touch with all the secret proceedings. ‘The railroad workers} Made “only” $23,843,406 profit. Be- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Movement in | the plans o: | Partition of C! | Chinese for arm Cen f | } Soviet Union. | answering this : j murderous attack on the C | masses. The workers of the, Ur | States must rally to the suppor | the Chinese masses, aga: the tervention plans of the against the frenzied pre another and bloodier world sla mo CHARLES M. SCHWAB.—Mem- ber of the Hoover-Gifford Emer- gency Unemployment Relief Com- mittee, Chairman of the Board of Corporation, Director of Chase | Workers! Demand Hands Off Cr National Bank, Empire Trust Co., | Demand withdrawal of all imper' Lowes, Metropolitan Life Insurance | troops from China! | withdrawal of Americ | gunboats! Fight ag war! Demand al! war funds Co. and five other large corpora- tions. In 1929 Schwab had a “poor business” the | unemployed! wages of 135,000 of his workers were eee eut and his salary was raised to | Chiang Kai-shek, W: $250,000. Last year Bethlehem pet and chief sides his salary Schwab makes mil- | swept out of cffice b; lions in bonuses and dividends. movement sweeping Ch in pro’ vost Fish in Congress Demands More Repression of Masses 32": WASHINGTON, D. C.—Hamilton | Fish, made still more uneasy by the recent hunger march and the grow- ing demands of workers all over the country for unemployment insurance thsi arch-reactionary labor be- trayer, Silence and Lies ‘When they were referred to at all, the demands of the. Hunger March were described by the capitalist press and spokesmen as “unreasonable and unrealizable.” In the main, however, their policy was, to remain altogether silent and to make no reference what- ever to the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and other demands by the representative of the masses of American workers. against the Japanese of Man- churia and the Nanking sell-out to the imperialists. Chiang resigned yesteraay as head the Nanking murder regime. esignations of | Nanking officials are e:xvected, as the ; Nanking and Canton wings of the a nd relief, took up the ery again in | ciomintang got together. 3 sterday Congress today for more repression | in a desperate atiem; mh sper iempt to head off eet the American working mas- | 1. anti-imperialist, anti-Kuomiin- In asking Congress to give the| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Department of Justice more power to snoop and smell around working | class organizations and jail workers for fighting against starvation. Fish asked for an increased appropriation | for the Bureau of Investigation of $25,000, He proposes that the Federal se- cret service should be authorized to give more cooperation to the state and municipal police in an attempt to crush the Communist Party, the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League and the strug- gles of the workers against wage- cuts, war, jim-crowism and hunger. Workers everywhere are urged to | answer this latest atlack of fascist | Fish against the working class by rallying in greater mass struggle for unemployment insurance. Rally in a mighty united front against starve- tion. Build the Communist Party nd yevolutionary, URINE ery Article Saturday on Anti-War Work Among NegroMasses ‘The Negro masses, groaning un- der the frightful oppression of the imperialist plunderers, can be mo- bilized to play a tremendous role in the fight against the war dan- ger, in the defense of the Chinese and colonial revolutions, In defense of the Soviet Union, The tasks of the revolutionary white and Neero workers in mobil tring the Negro masses against their opprersors are pointed out in an article by Harry Haywood, which will appear in Saturday's Dally Worker. Every colored and white worker shouid read this ar- ticle, |