The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1931, Page 1

~~ aarti i] | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central VOL. VIll, No, 306g» Entered am second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879 — unist Party U.S.A. “— Section of the Communist aint ) DECEMBER 22, 1981 Hail a Victory! Learn a Lesson! 'HE Workers’ Delegation, sent to the Soviet Union in October by the Friends of the Soviet Union, is soon to return to America and is preparing to report to the American working class on what they “have seen and learned from a trip of thousands of miles that covered every big industrial region and went right into not only the factories but also into, the workers’ homes. ‘The American capitalist crisis pushes the American workers deeper and deeper into mass starvation and misery, and the literal hunger of the million masses for simple information about the victory of socialist construction in the Soviet is thus far altogether inadequately met. Indeed, we might say that this genuine demand of the masses is shamefully neglected, as though the heart of every worker does not thrill with inspiration to follow the example of the Russian workers, once their victory in the overthrow of capitalism and the construction of a socialist society is made plain. ‘The American capitalists and their apologists are increasing their efforts to hide the advance of socialism in the Soviet Union from Amer- ican workers, to deceive them with all manner of outrageous lies or dis- torted “facts.” For well the American capitalists know that the in- spiration of successful working class rule in the Soviet Union to the American working class, how seeking a way out of misery, starvation and repression is the one kind and the only kind of “dumping” that threatens their rule. From the American Workers’ Delegation, elected by American work- ers t6 view and report back upon what the Soviet workers are doing, there is surely to be obtained the most valuable guidance for American workers in their own struggle. f Daily issues of the capitalist press dish out oceans of ink in lying about the Soviet Union. The Five Year Plan is “a failure”; or “factories are built, but can’t be run”; or any other variation of falsehood cooked up by capitalist journalists or the fascist misleaders at the head of the American Federation of Labor and the miscalled “socialist” party. Yet the cold truth refutes all these lies. The German Economic Re- search Institute, a statistical organization of highest authority, has ad- mitted that, with the reports in for the early part of this year, the share of the Soviet Union in world production was 11.4 per cent, as compared | with 5.5 per cent in 1928, when it was the fifth in position among indus- trial nations. By the end of June, this year, the Soviet Union passed both England and France, taking THIRD PLACE, after United States and Germany. * By the end of August the volume of production in the Soviet Union had so grown, and that of Germany so declined, that the production of the Soviet Union passed Germany and stood in the SECOND PLACE IN THE WORLD, being next to the United States! This is absolutely irrefutable proof that socialist production is catch- ing up with capitalist production, that it is advancing by leaps and bounds while-capitalist production declines, that the Five Year Plan is victorious, that capitalist crisis now eating into the vitals of production in every capitalist land, has no effect in the land where the working class rule. These world-shaking facts must not only be reported to American workers, but interpreted to them in their relation to the lives and con~ ditions of the workers of the Soviet Union. ‘They must bring home to the mind of every worker that the reasons for capitalist les about the Soviet Union are, firstly, to prepare the mind of the American masses for imperialist war upon the Soviet Union; and seeondly to prevent the American working class from learning the lesson taught by Soviet success and taking the revolutionary way out of the crisis‘of misery and starvation which capitalism inflicts upon them. The Friends of the Soviet Union is arranging for members of the Workers’ Delegation to make personal reports for two months to Amer- jean workers. It is particularly necessary that these delegates bring their tmeséage to rank and file workers in A. F. of L. locals, and to reach as decply as possible the workers in mining, metal and marine transport. Tt is, therefore, the duty of all revolutionary workers in the above organizations and industries, to get in touch with the Friends of the Soviet Union (address: 799 Broadway, New York City) and arrange for deiegates to report to trade unions and bodies of workers in heavy industry. Workers, make the delegates you sent to the land of the Soviets an inspiring weapon in your own struggles for Unemployment Insurance, against wage cuts, against national oppression of the Negroes, against fescism and for the establishmient of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern- ment in the United States! NEW YORK THROWS CHALLENGE TO CHICAGO IN DAILY WORKER DRIVE FOR 5,000 12-MONTH SUBS. To the District Committee, to the Rank and File Member- ship of the Communist Party in District 8, Chicago; to the Revolutionary and T. U. U. L. Groups and Shops; to the Mass Organizations in District 8. Greetings: The District Committee of District 2, New York, of the Communist Party, in the name of the revolutionary workers in this District, greet you and hail your splendid work during the present Daily Worker Drive for |5,000 yearly subscriptions and in building Friends of the Daily Worker Groups. You are doing important, revolutionary work in building the Daily Worker into a mass paper lead- ing the American workers’ fight against the boss class and its government, in bringing the Daily Worker among the oppressed Negro masses whose brave fight you are leading against discrimination, jim-crowism, evictions and for unemployment relief and insurance. Determined to do our share in this work, we, the revo- lutionary workers in District 2, challenge you in the spirit of revolutionary competition to catch up with you of Dis- _ trict 8 in the work. We match our quota of 675 yearly subs, (not counting our 8300 daily bundle circulation) against your quota of 775 yearly subs determined to reach our quota first and to pass this number. Our present five ' Friends of the Daily Workers groups as against your nine will grow into at least 15 groups actively engaged in build- ing the Daily Worker. This is our task, imposed upon us by. the consciousness of our duty to the American workers, and this we challenge you to fulfill. On to make the Daily Worker the mass revolutionary organ of the American working class. I. AMTER, District Organizer, Dist, 2. .» Workers, everywhere, make this YOUR challenge. “Enter the socialist competition in the Daily Worker sub- scription drive. Units, sections, mass organizations, enter ‘the race with each other for leadership in getting subs. Form Friends of the Daily Worker groups, organize neigh- borhood squads, canvas the workers in their homes, in the factories, make YOUR district the leader in this revolu- tionary work and help to join every worker in the United States to the revolutionary struggle against the bosses’ Wage cut and starvation attacks. ‘ _NEW Pe ORK, TUESDAY, JAPAN LAUNCHES SAVAGE DRIVE TO CRUSH FIGHT OF MASSES IN MANCHURIA Attacks Launched from On Chinchow A Five Points; New Drive Threat Against Chinese Revolution The Japanese yesterday [morning launched a sweeping campaign of ruthless suppression’ and bloody terror against the heroic workers and peasants of Manchuria and their par- tisan troops. Under the pretense of “suppressing banditry,” the imperialist bandits began extensive troop movements and STATE “RELIEF” HEAD TO LAYOFF 1000 STOREGIRIS Christmas Present In Form of Speedup and Cut In Wages In a leaflet issued by the Depart- ment Store Section of the Office Workers’ Union, the planned lay-off of 1,000 workers at R. C. Macy’s is exposed as being the policy of Jesse Straus, one of the big bosses of the store and head of the state Unem- ployment Relief Committee. Telling the meaning of this mass discharge the Office Workers’ Union says: “This means more and more work will be put upon the shoulders of those retained. Macy’s objective In its wage cutting policy is four sales clerks for the price of two! “In addition to this special gift the following will decorate our Xmas tree: Overtime without pay, lunch hour reduced to three-quar- ters. of an hours, higher quotas which mean less commission, in- creased stock work after working hours.” The union calls on the store em- ployees not to take hte discharge pas- sively and those remaining to organ- ize and fight for the following de- mands: time and a half for over- time, elimination of speed-up by tak- ing on more full time employees, fight against wholesale dismissals, a mini- mum wage of $21 a week. Anti-Religious Night at Workers Center on Friday, December 25 NEW YORK.—An Anti-Religious Night will be held on Friday evening December 25, at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., to expose the religious fakery of the Christmas holidays. The affair is being arranged by the Work~- ers Cultural Federation and the Anti- Religious League, *attacks on the masses through- out Manchuria. anti-imperialist struggles .of the Manchurian masses is ad- mitted to lbe a prelude to the proposed seizure of Chin- chow by the Japanese. Large numbers of military airplanes are being used to bomb the partisan forces of workers and peasants re- sisting the Japanese seizure of Man- churia. "This is part of the imperial- ists’ attempt to partition China and to crush the revolutionary movement of the Chinese masses, A Tokyo dispatch reports the at- tacks, launched “from Mukden and four other centers of Japanese con- centration in Manchuria, A Japan- ese army is moving southward toward Chinchow, Japan has issued an ulti- matum to Nanking to withdraw all Chinese troops from the Chinchow area. This ultimatum is probably at (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PICKET AT SHIRT FACTORY STRIKE Issue Call All Workers to Come Out PATERSON, .N. J.—Though | the police threatened to stop mass pick- eting yesterday morning at the Man- hattan Shirt Co., here, an effective picket line was formed. The strikers carried placards and slogans. Some | unemployed workers who were look- ine for jobs were turned away by the pickets. A strike call issued today calls upon all workers, cutters, operators, ship- ping clerks and packers to refuse to work for starvation wages. The strikers are fighting for the follow- ing demands: Withdrawal of the wage-cut, a pension of $12 a week for all workers over 55 years of age unable to work, fight against wage- cuts, speed-up and discharges, Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions, Start Relief Drive To Help Win Kentucky Mine Strike NEW YORK. Age 17,000 ¥ 000 Renta miners prepare’ for| to This attempt to crush the’ GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET SU “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKE SUBS. FOR THE i _ Price 3 Cents Spread Demand for Unemployment Insurance Nationally February 4th! Scene in the Washington Auditorium showing Bud Reynolds speak- ing about the demands of the National Hunger March for unemploy- ment insurance and cash winter relief. On the platform are shown A. W. Mills, Herbert Benjamin, and William Z. Foster, Kidnapped Ky. Miner Found; Mass Meetings Make Ready for Strike Mae Sumner Il; Was Dumy Dumped Over State Line; Operators Fail to Terorrize Men and to Defeat Strike Call 4 BULLETIN. 1 BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 21—The 17,000 Kentucky, miners who | are expected to come out.on strike January Ist agains starvation were pledged full support in their struggles by the Conference of the Amer- joan Lithuanian. Workers. Lit crary: Society meeting in Waterbury, Conn., yesterdays. , a | gency “= ——— “Sp Paul Worker: Protest Against Forced Labor Unemployed Council at Bakersfield, California. Forces City Manager to Promise Housing for Hunger Marchers ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 21.—A thousand jobless workers demonstrated in front of the city hall on December 19 to de- mand immediate cash relief and against the system of forced labor of the local charity institutions. Although the meeting was called in a short time the work- ~ers responded well and after the Mr A Belviont | demonstration they marched to the Unemployed Council headquarters Forty workers joined the Council. A committee of five workers was elected to present the demands of the St. Paul 30,0000 unemployed. This delegation went to see the Mayor and the Council when they asked for the Council, it was said that they were “not in session” and when the del- egation asked for the Mayor from the stenographer said he “had a meeting going on.” Just at this time the Mayor's secretary came out and when the delegation asked to see the Mayor from him he replied that “the Mayor | Was out of town"! BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Dec. 21— At a meeting of unemployed workers | of Bakersfield consisting of Negro, | Mexican and American workers a council was organized with A. Lac= chiusa_ elected organizer. A, Lachiusa is an unemployed painter, | member of the A. F. of L. and | face losing his small home because {the Bank of America refuses to Te« new any mortgages. At this meeting of the Bakersfield unemployed a committee of five were elected to go to the City Manager to \ A member of the Hoover Emer- Relief—relief collected from workers, is living off the loot collected by her husband. He was the American representative of the House of Rothschild and closely uve: ceuéRy i Unemployment The organization aesldvea it would use all its forees to raise relief for the Kentucky miners in their stike. It wiil participate in the activities of the International Workers. Relief which is now conducting a nation-wide campaign for strike relief—funds, food and clothing. Where there is no erganization of the W. I. R,, the Lithuanian Workers Literary Society will organize such conferen A motion to support the Nati February 4th, was passed unanimou Ilys against boss terror, for the release of pc nal Uncmployment Insurance Day, Resoiutions for struggle ical prisoners, and for the support of the Communist Party in the 1932 elections were passed. * PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 21 .—Word ha that Mac Sumner, miner kidnapped Dec operators, is ill with influenza at the home of friends at La} Follette, Tennessee, which he reached after the pouring rain across the Virginia border being let out into line with threats (CONTINUED ON PAGH THRED) To Protest Spateare Frame-Up, Jan. 8, 9, 10) On Jan. 8 9 and 10 ‘workers throughout the country will thunder their indignant protests against the attempts of the Alabaina bosses and the white and Negro reformists to carry through the legal’ lynching of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. Fight of these boys were sentenced the electric chair in the original strike under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union|} ¢arcical trial at Scottsboro last April. which last Sunday at its convention voted to call all the miners | July 10 was set for their “execution.” out on January Ist for a struggle against starvation, the Na-|The mass fight of Negro and* white tional Office-of the Workers International Relief swung into PENCE OR Rc action for a nation-wide drive to col- Ject strike relief to help the miners win their fight. U The working-class and its official relief organization, the W. I. R., are faced with a task unparalleled in the history of American strike srtuggles. In two weeks time 18,000 miners will strike in a body. The strike will not rely upon spreading from mine to mine as in the previous mine strikes in Kentucky, West Virginia, Eastern Pennsylvania and Ohio. The terror is too great. The strike will be a sudden, swift blow of the miners against the starvation and terror of the feudal coal barons. This inten- sifies greatly the problem of relief. The miners can collect little or no relief in and around the mine fields. Eastern Kentucky has been eaten here of food. Ir the dead of winter, penniless and with barren cupboards, the héroic Kentucky miners will launch the counter-attack of the working-class ag>inst the hunger-terror campaign of the bosses, Upon their success depends a great victory of the work- ing-class. ‘The Workers International Relief has issued a call to all workers to help the miners win this victory. workers, mobilized by the Commu- nist Party, the League of Struggle “A huge strike chest must be raised,” |for Negro Rights and the Interna- says the W. I. R. “Punds, food and | tional Labor Defense held back the clothing—especially funds—must pour bloody hands of the fascist bosses in, Don’t wait for official directives! Get on the job immediately. Donate, solicit, collect! Hunger is the strong- and forced a stay of execution. Mil- lions of workers demonstrated in the United States and throughout the est strike-breaking weapon of the| world against this hideous crime bosses; tear that weapon out of their | against the Negro masses and the hands! working class. On Jan. 18 the hearing on the ap- peal against. the lynch verdicts will come up before the Alabama Su- preme Court, The same murderous bosses who ccntrol the Scottshoro court which rushed through the rail roading of these working-class I~ dren to the electric chair, these same murderous bosses control the Ala- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREED EK. Berkman Taken to Hospital from Immigration Station BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 21—Edith Berkman was removed today to the Carney Hospital in South Boston Protest Against the Bloody Execution of Militant Workers in Fascist Poland FELLOW WORKERS: A bloody terror is raging in Poland. The landowners, bankers and cap- italists with the ruling Pilsudsky clique are trying to behead the re- volutionary movement of the work- ers and poor peasants by spilling the blood of the thousands of the best figyters against oppressive and de- casing fascist capitalism. ‘Three hundred prisons are terribly over-crowded with 10,000 political prisoners. They are tortured daily by the cruel, inhuman jailers and police spies, henchmen of the fascist militarists. After the massacre in the prison of Lucz, the political prisoners in all prisons declared a general hunger strike. With revenge has the fascist government, supported by the social- fascist PPS thrown itself upon the helpless victims of the class struggle. Girls were raped and driven to in- sanity. Men were mutilated and thrown in cold, flooded dungeons to die there. As this degenerated brutality would not stop the heroic fight of the pris- oners and of the whole working masses outside the prisons, the fascist government inaugurated a new, ter- roistic policy against the toiling masses; new extraordinary laws were enacted with death penalty for re- yolutionary activity. Nine working-class fighters were already executed under these extra- ordinary laws—five in the city of Baranovitch, White Russia, and two (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) been r ceived here | by order of the coal] connected- with the Morgan bankers. Belmont also made millions in the building of New York's subways. NEEDLE UNION TO CELEBRATE THIRD YEAR JANUARY-1 Special Mass Meeting Is Arranged mark the third year of the founding of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. On January 1 the needle trades workers will celebrate the jevent by a mass meeting and concert at the Central Opera House. Tho speakers will be William Z. Foster, Ben Gold, and M. J. Olgin, who is ex- pected back from the Soviet Union at that time. The program will include many special features. The Union, marking its third year of strugzle, hes issued a statement in which it declares “In the course of the three years, the Industrial Union, supported by | the needle trades workers, has always been on guard, fighting tirelessly in | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) from the East Boston Immigration Station suffering from sore throat and a fever, probably due to close confinement for three months with- out bail. Berkman’s sickness must spur workers to demand the immediate ad- mittance of bail for the National Textile Workers Union organizer, de- mand the release of Murdock now ordered deported by the Circuit Court, Bedros, Donegian, Ivan Kravevich, Sam Paul and eight others held for deportation in this district. SLASH PAY IN BEMIDJI BEMDJI, Minn.—As part of the so- called relief plan of the bosses here, the city fathers of Bemdji cut the pay of the city workers. The Salvation Army has opened up a soup kitchen and is charging the|' workers 5 cents for a bowl of slop. ‘They also charge the unemployed 15 cents for a filthy bed.—F. L. Red Builders, help get subscriptions. NEW YORK-—January.1, 1932, will |’ demand food and a place to sleep forthe State Hunger Marchers who are coming through here on Jan. $, and will stay overnight. The man- ager at first tried to pass the buck but was finally forces by the com- mittees who represented the unem- ployed of Bakersfield to grant the demand to house the marchers. The manager promised to house all the marchers after he realized that the unemployed were organized. The field organizer for the State Hunger March M. Baylin who has been here. for three days, was the the committee. pokesman for reception and meeting is Bekersfield the night of the third of January to greet the marchers > MEN ENTER JAIL; ‘TAKE OUT, LYNCH NEGRO WORKER Boss Press Agency Tries to Cover ' Up Crime The organized lynch terror of the bosses, operating more and more in this period through small gangs of leading citizens without any pretense of “popular” support, took another Negro victim Sunday night A gang of five men entered the Montgomery County Jail near Cone roe, Texas, and removed Isaiah Ed« wards, a young Nesro worker who already had been railroaded to thé electric chair by the boss courts bee cause he had dared to defend hime self when brutally attacked by a poe liceman. In the struggle the polices man was killed. The little gang of five lynchers met with no resistance whatever from Sheriff Ben Hicks and the prison guards. Capitalist news agencies are try- ing to cover up the crime committed by this little gang of boss lynchers, The Associated Press at first admit ting that the Negro worker had been taken out of the jail by the lynch gang of five, later attempted to make it appear that he was killed while trying to evade pursuit after haying “escaped” from the jail. The first story sent out by this lying capitals ist agency stated: “Five men posing as officers en- tered the Montgomery County Jail last night and removed Isaiah Ede wards, a 19-year old Negro under death sentence for the murder of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) District 2 Challenges Chicago! Spread Socialist