The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central ma Section oh. the Communist Heat ) ad Rfounict Party U.S.A. ER” GROU READ, DIS SUBS. oe GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” ene VOL. VIII, No. 303 <>» Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office — at New York, N. Y¥., under the act of March 3%, 1879 _ Price 3 Cents _ Slogans for the Fight Against the War Danger Withdraw ail American troops and gunboats from Chinese waters and soil! Hands off the Chinese masses! ” Down with the Japanese imperialist invasion of Manchuria! : Smash the intervention moves of, imperialism against the Soviet Union! Deferid the Soviet Union! Down with war on the Chinese masses! Down with the imperialist invasions of Mancheria! Long live the unity of the toiling masses against the imperialist bandits! Down with world imperialism, the oppressor of the Chinese masses! The Japanese hourgeois landlord government—the enemy of the toil- ing masses of Japan and China. Down with American imperialism—the murderous exploiter of the Chinese masses. Down with the Japanese robber government. Defeat the American and Japanese plots for a mew world war. Smash the imperialist plans for a new world slaughter. American workers—support your Chinese brothers against their common enemy—Wall Street and the imperialist government in Tokio! Down with the Kuomintang, the agent of imperialism! ‘Long live the full independence of China! Long live the Chinese Red Army! ‘Long live the Chinese Soviets! \ Long live the international solidarity of all exploited and oppressed peoples! Hail the Red Army of the Soviet Union! Pacifism—A sereen to conceal war preparations. 'The League of Nations is an instrument of war! ‘The Kellogg Peace Pact—Wall Street’s weapon for war. ‘The Second Socialist International—as much an enemy of the Chinese people as the imperialists. Down with the Japanese labor bureaucrats—the supporters of Jap- anese imperialism. Hail the heroic Japanese Communists! Down vith the American Socialist Party—the social fascist sup- porters of American imperialism. ‘The leadership of the American Federation of Labor fights Unem- ployment Insurance while it supports the war program of the Hoover Hunger. government. The sirike breaking leadership of the A. F. of L.—the wer partner of American imperialism. Organize and strike against wage cuts, The billion dollar war funds for Unemployment incurance. Fight for Unemployment Insurance at the complete expense of the bosses and their government. While the bosses cut our wages they spend billions on armaments. Build the Trade Union Unity League, Industrial Unions! Down with the social fascist international! Fight the growing fascist terror! Hail the Communist International—the leader of the oppressed throughout the world. Build the Communist Party! ° e Fraud and Force in Pinchot- “Melion’s Pennsylvania ORE evidence comes to hand every day proving that the Hoover-Gifford M emergency unemployment relief committee” operates with the bludgeon of-economic and political, pressure—by threats of discharge, blacklisting, and other forms of intimidation in its collection of “relief” funds from workers still employed by corporations which have openly cut wages and introduced the stagger system of wage. production. The poor are kind to the poor. Taking advantage of this fact the “emergency relief fund” committees, composed always of the bankers and bosses, cajole and coerce the great bulk of the contributions from workers. The slogan is: “Put the whole burden of unemployment on the working class”! ‘A few more interesting items along this line come from the Pittsburgh sector—which we will not allow the Hoover-Gifford committee to forget is the principality of Andrew Mellon, secretary of the U. S. treasury. Gover- nor Pinchot sent his state troopers to break up the Hunger March and demonstration before the penitentiary at Blawnox where 27 miners and steel workers are serving long sentences for strike and unemployment ac- tivity.- Miles Resetar, a Communist worker sentenced under the criminal syndicalism law, recently died there from tuberculosis. Pinchot speaks in softly sympathetic tones about the sufferings of the unemployed, he makes @ grandstand play asking Mellon for a “million dollar loan for unemployed relief,” but the clubs of his state cossacks are not soft. He let Miles Rese- tar cought his lungs out in prison. ‘The American Tinplate Company at McKeesport took $20 from each worker for “emergency unemployment relief.” If that was all a worker hhad coming that week the company took it all and he got no wages. The Westinghouse Company assesses each worker one per cent of their wages for “relief.” The Blawnox Steel took three’ days’ pay from each worker. Working part time and under wage cuts, with other cuts coming, the Pennsylvania workers are still’called upon to pay the bills of their bosses. From the Wall Street Journal we glean the following interesting item: “Chicago—Contributions totaling $112,700 were added to the joint emergency -relief fund of Cook County Friday.....; Colgate-Palmolive- Peet Co. employees pledged $25,000, Hart Schnafner and Marx employes $15,000 and Lord, Thomas and Logan employes $11,395.” (Emphasis ours). Fight for and win workers’ unemployment insurance. Put an end to the “fraud, fakery and coercion now exercised by the Hoover Hunger government snd its relief committees whose function is to relieve workers of their wages for 4 fund over which workers have no control and which is spent to suit the wage cut, war and starvation policy of the big bankers and bosses. Join the Communist Party! 347 more months of subs to Daily Worker still not fast enough for drive One hundred and ten subscriptions to the Daily Work- _ er were received in yesterday’s mail, as compared with 65 _ subscriptions the day before, a gain of almost 100 per cent. Very good, but still not enough to get rapidly near the goal of 5,000 12-month subscriptions. With bills pending in Congress for more attacks on .. the workers, with the conference scheduled for today be- tween the railroad bosses and the A. F. of L. misleaders to sneak a wage cut over the protest of thousands of rail- road workers, with Doak’s open attempt to outlaw the Trade Union Unity League, the $173.50, representing 347 menihs of subscriptions, that came in yesterday’s mail is not enough. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. have rallied to defend the returning Hunger Marchers against the police terror as in Detroit and other cities. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. will defend the Unemployed Councils against Green and Doak. Get to these workers with your subscription books. Speed subs to the Daily Worker New Rodkine Gov't in Massacre of Students Japan Rushing More Troops to Manchuria as Mass Resistance Grows; United States Recruiting Ex-marines Troops Fire Into Demonstrators In Capital as Cantonese Arrive Under Guns of Armored Train BULLETIN. In a fake demand for publication of the secret notes between the United States and Japan over the Manchurian seizure, the U. S. Senate yesterday called upon Stimson to give it all governmental notes on the question. Senator Johnson, who originally sponsored the demand, declared that Stimson had the power to withhold papers he felt it not compatible with the public interest to disclose. Publication of the secret notes would expose the leading role being played by the United States in the armed intervention against the Chinse masses and the ee for = attack on the Soviet Union. Troops of the new “ett” government of the Canton clique which succeeded the dis- credited Chiang Kai-shek regime, yesterday (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) More Improvements for USSR Workers Planned During 1932 According to’ figures published in heavy industry has proven itself so the official organ of the Soviet gov- ernment, Izvestia, the standard of living of the Russian workers will be raised tremendously in the coming year. Now that the Five Year Plan for JACK SCHNEIDER IS ACQUITTED NEW YORK.—The frame-up insti- gated by the bosses and by President Kaufman and his clique in the In- ternational Fur Workers, against Jack Schneider, organizer for the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, collapsed yesterday afternoon when the jury, deliberating only 12 minutes, brought in a verdict of “not guilty.” Schneider was charged with stab- bing a Kaufman gorilla named Nu- delman, last year. The frame-up was so brazen that prosecution witnesses admitted on the stand that they were offered large sums by the Kaufman gang to com- mit perjury against Schneider. Nudelman himself first said some one else did it, they told his friends that he was paid $50 a week for a long time to say that Schneider was the man. successful, the Soviet Union is turn- ing more of its attention to food, clothing and other lighter branches of industry. The amount of money to be set aside for supplies will be 187.2 per cent over 1931. 36 per cent more will be expended on the large scale restaurants and 14 per cent for manufactured goods. As a further step towards the solv- ing of the housing shortage, nearly ninety per cent more than in 1931 is cent more on .parks and other public to be spent for homes and 181 per projects. ‘The output of electricity is to be doubled and the road system will be greatly improved in order to facilitate the use of the trucks and autos that are rolling off the belts in the new industrial giants. Next year special attention is to be paid to the development of the state farms for butter, eggs and the other staples, which American work- ers are seeing less and less of. Because of the tremendous:Increase in travel, and transportation of goods, the Soviet railroad has been subject to very severe strain. Railroads have been the weakest link in the Five- Year Plan. Next year the investment. in this branch of the economic life of the U. S. S. R. will be increased by 343 per cent over this year. The Russian workers and peasants are reaping the fruits of socialist construction, ‘Ford Slashes Pay of Negro Workers to 1214 Cts. An Hr. NEW YORK.—Hendy Ford, under the guise of “paying off the debts” of a village of 500 starving Negro fam- ilies who formerly slaved for the Ford Motor Co., is now enforcing prac- tically slave labor, with a heavy slash- ing of wages. Inkster, a village of 1,000 Negroes, owned lock, stock and barre! by the Ford Motor Co. has been plunged into debt, starvation and misery. Into this situation Henry Ford finds a way of coining more money. Instead of the much vaunted $6-a-day standard, Ford has driven these Negro workers beset by hunger, to work for ‘12% cents an hour, “The men are taken out of the $6-a-day group,” says a telegram to the New York Times, “and work was given them at 12% cents an hour, $1 a day being about what was needed actually to feed these families. But even this money is not given to the workers. Their wives are forced to wor kwithout pay in a kit- chen established by Ford. The Ford “experts” have complete control of the village. “Nothing is being given to anyone free” the the New York ‘Times. Ford is able to coin money out-of the misery of the Negro work- ers and at the same time hypocriti- cally pose the a charitable philan- thropist. So deeply in debt are these workers that even whey the work, their pay is taken by the storekeepers to whom they are indebted. “Hundreds of dollars of debts had been incurred,” says the Times, “by many of the men and as fast as the men went back to their pay was garnisheed, until not a sufficient amount was left to feed and clothe their fam- ilies. The women and children suf- fered as much as ever.” Then Ford devised the bright scheme of making the workers work without pay and turning the money over to the bosses to whom the Negro workers were indebted. MR. By MAX BEDACHT. HE newspapers are giving prominence to a recent of- ficial statement by Mr. Doak. In this statement Mr. Doak an- nounces that his sleuths have uncovered the’ terrible secret that the recent Hunger March was led by Reds, by Commu- nists. Unquestionably Mr. Doak feels that the government needs some justification for having received the Hunger Marchers with an army of armed police and for having refused any form of govern- ment relief. Mr. Doak is the head,of the Department of Labor ia the Cabinet of President Hoover. This department was establish- ed under the pretense that la- bor needs a representation of its interests in the Presidental Cabinet. The office of the ‘President and his Cabinet, how- ever, is one of the branches of “GT ANTE STRIKE LAW IN ILLINOIS Legislature. Refuses to Read Attack On Syndicalist Law Frame-up By UMWA Aim to Keep Workers Under Hunger Rule SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 17.—-The United Front Committee headed by | the International Labor Defense, formed to fight against the criminal syndicalist law, went to the ‘state legislature to make its demands but was denied the floor. The United Front Committee is demanding the release of Bill Gebert, organizer of the Gommunist Party in Chicago, and six other workers who were indicted on criminal syndicalist charges in Southern Ilinois. The Daily Worker. exposed the fact several days ago that the indictment against Gebert and the others was made at the request and by the co- operation of the United Mine Work- ers. officals and the coal operators. The indictment itself said that to call for a strike against hunger and star- vation was criminal syndicalism. When the United Front Committee was, refused the floor in the, Illinois Legislature it presented a statement, but the statement was not read by Speaker Shanahan. He called it “anarchistic” because it exposed the eriimnal syndicalist law and how it is used to enforce hunger and to prevent the workers from organizing for struggle. |Hunger Neigh Leaders Urge Preparations for Feb. 4 Demonstrations Unemployed Negro “Worke or ker F Faces Death for Taking Pair of Shoes; Capitalist Relief Pro- gram Nothing But Murder of Jobless BULLETIN. WINSTON-SALEM, N. ©., Dec. 17.—Graphically depicting the frightfulness of the boss terror against the unemployed workers and the Negro masses is the case of a Negro worker here, who is facing elec- trocution for the theft of a pair of shoes. The worker, John Moore, has been convicted of first-degree burglary, which is this state carries the death sentence. Jobless, starving, without shoes to protect his feet, denied relief by the bess charity racketeers, Moore entered the home of Mitchell Keyes and stole a pair of shoes. Defended by a bourgeois lawyer, the main argument of the defense was that the worker was insane when he stole the shoes. The working class must answer this murderous attack on the un- employed by tremendous mass protests against this fascist death sentence. Cet weer NEW YORK.—1,500 New York workers paid admission to Central Opera House to hear the leaders of the National Committee in charge of the National Hunger March report Wednes- day night. It was an enthusiastic meeting, which voted unanimously to carry on the fight, build Unem- ployed Councils, circulate the lists for signatures demanding (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KY. MINERS SPREAD CALL FOR STRIKE Rank and File Must Build Union to Prepare Strike State Their Demands Fight Against Hunger and Terrorism PINEVILLE, Ky. Clover Fork Coal Co. r Harlan, Ky., fired 18 men Monday for attend< ing the National Miners Union con- vention and for union activity in pre- paring for strike January 1. Families have received notice to vacate houses all over the Kentucky coal fields. The Harlan Gas & Coal Co., which worked steadily until now has worked only one day since the convention, The miners say the company is trying to starv em so they will work when the strike is called. The wife of Mac~ Sumner who was kidnapped ‘on the order of the coal operators, has re- ceived an eviction notice. Creech, the boss of the coal mine, says he will give her a few additional days to Dec. 17.—The (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Negro, White Reformists Spur Betrayal Against Scottsboro 9 By CYRIL BRIGGS. The appeal against the lynch verdict sentencing eight of the Seotisboro boys to burn in the electric chair is to be heard before the Alabama Supreme Court on Jan. 18. As the hearing nears, the Negro and white reformists are Socialist Heads in Germany Back Fascist (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Dec. 17.—As a resuli of the new Bruening emergency decr2e a terrible wave of wage cuts is sweep- ing Germany. The British metel eworkers were handed a 15 per cont wage cuts by the Socialist arbitrator Wissel. The Silesian miners got a 10 per cent cut. A 15 per cent cut was given the Rhineland and Westfalia metal workers. A 15 per cent cut was handed out to the building trades workers. The reformist trade unicns, headed by Socialists, have completely capitulated and. are offering no re- sistance. * 8 6 NEW YORK.—A new betrayal of the workers by the Socialist Party of Germany was executed Wednésday by the full acceptance of the latest Bruening fascist decrees which order @ ferocious attack against the stand- ard of living of the German workers. At a meeting of several hundred leaders of the Social Democratic (Socialist) Party, the General Fed- eration of Labor (controlled by the Socialist misleaders), and the Reichs- banner, a Republican organization, it Pay Cut Order was decided to give full suppert to the Bruening government and all its fascist measures. In order to cover the real meaning of this further step against the workers, the Si list leaders Wells and Breitscheid, said that this sup- port was given to the Brvening gov- ernment because Bruening was fight- ing Hitler. The action of the Bruen- ing government shows this to be a lie out of the whole cloth. Despite the mild speeches against Hitler mace by Dr. Bruening, the Bruening government has been mal- ing secret deals for inclusion of Hit- ler in the Pruening government, Hit- ler hiraself has said that the program of the Bruening government is taken wholesale from the fascist program. Minister of the Interior Groener in the Bruening government, has sup- ported the armed forces of the fascist p2rty. The Ame-ican capitalist press which suports both Hitler and Bruening, has time end time again, declared there were agreements between Hitler and Bruening, looking to a coalition fas- cist government between the two. redoubling their efforts ‘to be- tray the fight against the|- Scottsboro frame - up and against the whole murderous system of Negro rational op- pression of which ihe Scottsboro case is a classical example. The Negro press is being flooded with statements as to what is “being done” to free these boys by the N, A. A.C. P., by the Fellowship for Recon- ciliation, by the Inter-racial Commis- ON PAGE THRER) (CONTIN Laundry Strike to Go On Despite Boss Court Injunctions NEW YORK.Decision on the in- junction asked by the bosses in the Active Laundry strike, will be hand- ed down this weck. Many workers have thrown scab laundry solicitors cut of their houses. The strike is be- ing led by the Laundry Workers Union, All workers who wish to help in this strike are urged to come to the office of the Laundry Workers Union at 260 E. 138th St. All workers who vish to help in this strike are urged to come to the office of the Landry Workers Union at 260 Lt 138th St. DOAK the capitalist government of America. Its business is to represent capitalist interests. It was clear, therefore, from the very beginning that a De- partment of Labor in the Pres- ident Cabinet could only be a whee Ss “R E D” parody on the representation of yvurned out to be under the guerdian- the interests of labor. fender of the interests of labor could foresee that the Depart- ment of Labor would become such a ghastly parody as it The Miners Prepare jor Jan. 1 in Calloway, Kentucky By ANN ALLEN. ALLOWAY—or Mathel—as the miners call it (after the name of the coal company) is just a little hole in the moun, tains. Mountains shut it out from the world on all sides. The one dirt road is almost impassable. Forty or jifty families live in Cal- | Joway, Americans, miners for genera- tions, whose fathers have slaved their lives aawy to pile up greenbacks for the coal operators. But with the crisis has come the bankruptcy of | The res, | community, the Methel Coal Company and the cutting off of the one source of live- lihood of the Mathel miners. Today, in the whole community of Calloway, only two or three men are working. the other miners, their wives and ‘children, practically the entire have been forgotten by the bosses, there in the hole in the mountain® left without work, starving since last March, Even in working-days the houses of Calloway were bad beyond be- 1OOATINUED ON PAGE THANE? Yet not| even the most clear-sighted de-| j ers’ » of Mr. Davis and especially of Mz. Doak. The Devartment of "abor ts the in- stitution which led the New York shoe manufacturers in the breaking of their contract with the shoe wor union. The result was an ail- slate’: in the New Yor!: The Departm: the Am: vican voolen Co. struéx against a new wage cut and a new specd up system. These agents er- rested even native born citizens cf America and held them fer deporta- tion in an effort to break thet strike. The ge ment of Labor ts t gave lots of pu uncoment thet dozen of it its (CONTINUED ON PAGE THR OE) ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER Bail Release For Canada Communists Secured by Masses Canadian Toilers Are Rallving to Defend Their Party TORONTO, Canada — With more and more workers organizations rallying to the defense of the Com- munist Party of Canada, now under attack by the Bennett government, the eight Communist leaders sen- tenced to prison terms for mem ship in the Party under the an sedition act, haye been relea $20,000 bail each December 14 ‘The splendid solidarity and r of the workers who broug’ bonds from Hamilton, Is! land, and all parts of Toror instrumenial in forcing the ¢ lease of the leading members of the Communist Party. The Crown prosecutor opposed the granting of bail to the Communists, and although Chief Justice Mul sitting at the hearing for bail re} mad evicious comment on each de- fendant, he was forced to accept bail for an appeal. Campaign Against Section 98 The drive for 3,000 endorsements of organizations against Sectoon 98 of the Criminal Code sponsored by the Toronto Conference for the Repeal of Section 98 is ma: good progress. Werd hes been received by the Can- adian Labor. Defense League that Many organizations throughout the corntry have already acted on their own initiative in sending in such pro~ test resolutions. earache Mary Mooney Scores Blarney of Governor Rolph in Son’s Case SAN FRANCISCOA Dec. 17.— Charging Governor Rolph of Call- fornia with a lot of fakery in his action the Mooney case, Mrs. Mary mother of Tom ‘S ago addressed r to the Governor. The let- ead in pari: “it looks Nike yon're usin’ my boy for a focthall tike all the ass nid, him to Mr, Sullivan, ss he'l! Hick him back +h Governor +t to jail, and d vray. nin jail, “Vor say e three or fonr months to tock over the facts. Faith, coé it rakes me old Irich Seart sick to hear that old Plarney. “Ang you were Mayer when it heppened (the Preparedness Pa- rade bomb exolosion trame-up for which Mooney is serving a Iife'term), and sure should know all the facts.” of Daily Worker’ Group in Mississippi. -Build 300 By January 18! T ~