The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1931, Page 1

LL.D. Denounces Murder of WORKERS OF THE WC LD, UNITE! Central - Org ail SSR rymiet a Section of the Communist International ) Norker unist Porty U.S.A. “FRIENDS OF TH ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GE “DAILY WORKER. ENTER SOCIALIST DRVE FOR 5,000 “ SUBS. GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN E DAILY WORK- ‘ T SUBS FOR THE COMPETITION IN DAILY WORKER” “EP Entered as second-clasy matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 EW YORK, THURSDAY, _DECEMBER 24, 1931 “WETL 0 Forward to February 4th IEBRUARY 4 can and must be a day of gigantic mass protest against tha whole Hoover Hunger program. Every day it is clearer that government, relief is for the billionaire bankers and industrial lords—not for workers. Congress has turned down every single proposal for government re- lief of the unemployed—for the relief of this army of 12,000,000 whose ranks are growing daily. The Hoover administration has defeated even proposals like those of Hearst for an appropriation of $5,000,000,000 to be used to set up forced jabor throughout the country and establish a number of profit-making enterprises which would immensely benefit the millionaires like Hearst with huge sums invested in real estate. “With a synicism which exceeds anything yet witnessed in the United States; the Hooyer publicity stresses the increase in the amount of “fed- eral appropriations” for public works. The exact sum by which these exceed the normal three. year amounts set aside for this purpose since 1928 is a mere $128,000,000—sufficient to pay each of the unemployed, to say nothing of their dependents, about $11 per year! The New York Evening Post, stanch Wall Street sheet that it is, is compelled nevertheless to admit that the total sum raised by the Hoover Emergency Relief Committee, and by city, county and state appropria~ tions, in 33 of the most important American cities, amounts to less than £100,000,000. ‘This meaus that, so far as anything amounting to real relief is con- cerned, nothing is be’ng done for the unemployed and their dependents. ‘The whole Hoover scheme is a gruesome jok at the expense of the unem- ployed, their dopendents and the workers still on jobs with their wage cuts and part time work. Ordex and circulate the splendid literature now being published by yuneils. Stimulate the local struggles against evictions mediate re! row for the February The Unity. of City and Country Against the Hoover Hunger | Program | pas . mass erce and demonstrations! sure on the working farming population is becoming unbearable. ¢ iceed vith the same problem as millions of workers—that is, | the-wey to conduct the fight for a livelihood. We have such statements coming in to the Daily Worker as th efol- lowing from a farmer in Northern Minnesota: “We have bed conditions here. Milk from four cows brings us 25 cents daily. My neighbor has 18 cows. He says they make him $425 dally.” | “We are up against starvation in the way all the farmers here are, Ii is hard to get along. I handed out all the Dailies you sent m:. It would net be hard to organize the farmers in this section.” Ti is necessary that our comrades, especially in connection with the fighs of the unemployed against the Hoover hunger program, should pay mere cttention to the rural sections, establishnig united front move- ats-ef werkers end farmers against the mill, elevator, dairy companies, the commission merchants and city, county and state governments, on the basis of low prices to the farmers, high prices to the workers, against high taxes and so on. S ‘The farming sections can become, as they have in a number of strikes, and as they will in the coming Kentucky coal strike, a great reserve against the wage cut drive. ‘The crisis has made possible the unity of the toilers of the city and country. It remains for us to organize this unity. Only 232 Months of Subs in Tuesday’s Mail; Do Not Lag Behind Rising Tide of Struggle } NLY 232 months of subscriptions to the Daily Worker came in on Tuesday. This represents $116 as com- pared with $377.50 for last Saturday and Monday. The level at the beginning of this week in the cam- paign for 5,000 12-month subscriptions to the Daily Worker was therefore not maintained. This cannot be tolerated if the campaign is to be finished on schedule. The New York District is the only one to raise its level, sending in 117 months of subs, but Chicago has al- lowed New York to creep up by sending in only two months subs. Cleveland and Detroit, which began so well, are also slackening. The far western districts still are far, far be- hind, ° * . HE subscription drive is too important to be allowed 3 .to lag hebind other revolutionary activities. n a little “more than a week 18,000 Kentucky miners, under the lead- ership of the National Miners’ Union, will go out on strike against intolerable conditions, With the return of the Na- _tional Hunger Marchers, preparations have gone actively - forward for the national demonstration February 4th, for Unemployment Insurance, Are you preparing a mass celebration of the Eighth Anniversary of the workers’ paper? Strain every effort NOW in the subscription cam- paign; so that at the mass celebration you will be able to talk not only about the past achievements of your peper, but of the glorious future 4 mee you will have helped to build. Ross; Calls for Mass Fight To Free Scottsboro Boys ey YORK! Benounciig the legal , lowing telegram to the lynch governor murder by tue State of Texas last|Ross D. Sterling of Texas: Friday of the innocent Negro youth, “Millions of Negro and white Eainey Lee Ross, the International) yorers and ala Valls an this Labor Defense yesterday issued a call and other countries denounce you for renewed vigilance and militant) ang your government for the re- ‘mass demonstrative actions in the) gent murder of the innocent young fight’ to smash the lynch verdict) worker, Barney Lee Ross, We against the 8 Scottsboro Negro boys. ; MOLOTOV TELLS OF VICTORY OF 5-YEAR PLAN; WARNS OF IMPERIALIST WAR PLANS) viet Union Stands Finn tor: for Peace, But Will Not Yield An Inch of Soviet Soil to Imperialists Molotov Contrasts Soviet Progress With Pov erty and Decline in Capitalist Countries (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dec. 23.—In the midst of the sharpening crisis in the capitalist world and the decline of its industries, with the success- ful closing of the third and decisive year of the Five-Year Plan of socialist construction, all forces of the Soviet masses and government are being mustered for the triumphant completion of the plan in four years by the end of 1932 and for the continuance of the Soviet film policy of peace, declared Molotov, chairman of the Council of Peoples! Commissars, in his report to the second session of the Central CHEERFUL OVER GREAT ADVANCES, Bosses Admit U. S| Faces Gloomy Future NEW YORK, N. ¥—“Cheerful- ness,” “good humor and high spirits,” are the expressions used by capitalist newspaper correspondents in Moscow describing the opening of the Cen- tral Committee of the All-Union Con- gress of Soviets, which convened evoked by the opening of the Con- gress of the American capitalists. “Cheerfulness ‘was the keynote at the opening of the All-Union Parlia- ment this evening,” cabled Walter Duranty, New York Times corres- pondent in. the U.S.S.R., “as the as- sembly listened to the speech of Pre- mier Molotoff.” The Associated Press added: “Rus- sian officials prepared, with high spirits and go6d humor, today to at- tack the problem of completing the Five-Year Plan in 1932, backed by the enthusiasm of a rally last night in the former throne room of the Czars at the Kremlin.” Molotoff in his report to the So- viet Congress told of the advances of the Five-Year-Plan. “We are trying to erect next year more blast furnaces than the United States closed down,” he said. He told of the expectation of complete col- lectivization of agriculture next year when the Five-Year Plan called for only 40 per cent coliectivization. On the other hand in. the capital- ist countries, and particularly in the United States Congress, there was the gloomy picture of growing decay and crisis. “The crisis in the United States is now worse than it was last June,” said F. H. Ecker, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the largest in the world, before a@ Senate Committee. “This country is like a patient approaching the crisis when the patient either gets well or dies.” While this testimony was being given to the Senate Committee, the Soviet representatives were gathering ni Moscow from the mines, mills, fac- tories, collective farms where Social- ism is being built and where the con- ditions of the workers are improving at a rapid pace, and where unem- ployment has been eliminated. The gloom and the desperation of the United States was stressed also by Sir Arthur Duckham, president of the Federation of British Indus- tries, who returned to London on the day the Soviet Congress opened in Moscow. “I have never seen the United States so depressed and gloomy as I observed it this time,” said Sir Arthur, Wage Cuts Announced. CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Notice of a 15 per cent wage cut was issued to railroad workers in the West by the Association of Western Railways. Engineers, firemen, conductors, train- men, yardmen and hostlers will be The I. L. D. yesterday sent the fol-' ;conriNUED ON PAGE THREE) affected, evening of December 22nd. Molotov's speech was enthusiastic- | ally received by more than 400 work- ers, peasants, Red Army and navy delegates sent by the seven republics | constituting the Soviet Union, while foreign diplomatic corps and press | correspondents from many countries turned out in full for this. session. On the rostrum were such leading political figures as Kalinin, Litvinov, —Se (CONTINUED ON P5GE THREE) ORGANIZE FIGHT TO FREE BERKMAN Biedenkarp Tours New} Englasd on Case The International Labor Defense, Eastern New England / District, is | calling upon all workers and working class organizations to rally to the defense of Edith Berkman, twenty- eight year old militant organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, and leader of the Lawrence textile strike. The attempted deportation of Berkman is part of a scheme worked out by the U. S. Department of Labor to lay the basis for outlawing all militant fighting unions, and to make membership in such organizations cause for deportation. Biedenkapp who is touring New England as part of the fight to free Berkman, covering the larger indus- trial towns. Biedenkapp addressed an enthu- siastic meeting at Lithuanian Hall, Worcester, on Sunday, Dec. 20, under the auspices of the Mooney-Harlan- Scottsboro Conference. 350 were pre- sent. His next dates are: Lawrence, Dec. 27; (Aft.); Haverhill, Dec. 27 (eve); Brockton, Dec. 28; Providence, Dec. 29; Boston, Dec. 30; West Con- cord, N. H., Jan. 1; Fitchburg, Jan. 2; New Bedford, Jan. 3, On Thurs- day, Dec. 24, Biedenkapp speaks at the Party Bazaar at New Interna- tional Hall, Boston, Mass. PEN 1 SOVIET FURNACE FOR EACH SHUT IN U. % Spur Drive for Unemployed Insurance; Rally February 4 Chicago Charity Kills | Jobless Worker by Refusing Aid Masses Are Indignant Arouse Workers for A Determined Struggle CHICAGO, Ill.~Dec. 23.—Living in the vicinty of the stockyards, which is overloaded with food, Marion Whittenberg, an unemployes worker, died of slow starvation, The Unemployed Council had on numerous occasions demanded relief for him from the United Charities, but was refused on the ground that he was single. When Whittenberg was unable to move any longer, slow- ly dying of hunger, the Unemployed Council forced the United Charities to send a doctor, but it was too late. The next day Whittenberg died. A few hours before he died, Mrs. Rom of the United Charities gave an order for two dollars worth of gro- ceries and a hafl ton of coal. It was not needed any more by Whittenberg. He did not touch any food as he could no longer eat. Fear Mass Exposure. An attempt is being made by the | United Charities to prevent a public inquest, fearing exposure of starva- tion as the result of the refusal of relief for the unemployed, especially the single workers. The death’ of this unemployed worker has aroused the indignation of the masses. The Unemployed Council and other workers’ organi- zations are preparing a mass funeral Saturday, December 26. The body of the unemployed worker was placed in the Workers Hall, 4848 South Ash- land Ave. Seven hundred thousand unem- ployed workers in Chicago are slowly starving in the face of plenty. Unemployed Council is rousing all workers to mobilize for a struggle for unemployment insurance, the first big objective being a huge rally for February 4th, National Unemploy- ment Insurance Day. ; 390 Building Workers Rush for Job; Hire 25 (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The other day a report was circulated around New York among the building mechanics that more men were to be hired on} — the new Metropolitan Life Insurance building. This building and several more are being put up on the two billion dollars “accrued” from lapsed Policies in the last few years. When the head foreman came to work a day after the report circu- lated 300 men surrounded him, In order to calm them he gave out slips of paper to all that he could reach. ‘Then a big box was filled with these papers. Each man had written his name on one. A boy picked out the slip blindly. Just 25 “lucky” men went to work out of the 300. American Delegation Returns from U.S.S.R.| Contrasts Soviet ‘Social Insurance With Hoover Hunger Program; Calls for Fight for Un- employment Insurance in U. S. A. BULLETIN. A mass meeting to hear the report of the returned American Workers Delegation to the Soviet Union will be held Sun » Decem- ber 27, 2 p. m. at the New Star Casino, under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. * NEW YORK.—“Nothing I have seen in all my life com- |pares with what I saw in the Soviet Union,” said John Robinson, a Negro coal miner from Pennsylvania and a member of the the U.S.S.R. With eyes still aglow from the wonders they had seen in versary of the came down the third class gang plank of the SS. Acquitania yester- American workers’ delegation which returned yesterday from | < Russian revolution, | |Soviet Achievement Is Spur to Drive for Jobless Insurance Need ~ | Organization Is |Hunger Grows In U.S Where Rich Rule NEW YORK, -The sharp contrast of the |growing mass hunger |in the’ United States as |compared to the disap- pearance of unemployment in the Soviet Union, was the out- standing feature of the report the American Workers Del- egation in their interview with Herbert Benjamin, national secretary of the Unemployed Council who met | them on their arrival in this country, “ The} the Workers’ Fatherland, the main body of two delegations of American working men and women, who went to the Soviet, se jon to attend the fourteenth anni- day morning at pier 55 where they gave an enthusiastic report on the | Vhat the Workers Delegation tells tremendous strides forward of the| US.” said Benjamin, “should spur Five Year Plan and the rapid ad-|€Very worker, employed and unem- | ployed to re-double the mobilization |for unemployment insurance in the | United States where the richest capi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) The Japanese yesterday speeded up their ruthless war of extermination, aimed at crushing the heroic resistance of the Five strong columns of Japanese troops | ged in a sweeping movement throughout Manchuria. | The Japanese navy has been ordered into action to help in crush- Manchurian masses. are enga ing the tremendous upsurge of the® mass anti-imperialist movement in China. Japanese war ships have been or- dered to the ports of China proper which are near the Manchurian bor- ‘der. The movement to seize Chin- chow and extend Japanese control to the Great Wall of China is in full swing. The Manchurian masses and their (CONTIN [Party Members In | Unemployed Werk to | | Report to District | | All ceacky. cosmben sinscuacke ot) unemployed work in the sections 2nd who participated in the Un- empleyed Branches are instructed | to report tonight at 7 p.m. at the District Office for a very import- ent meeting, according to a deci- igion of the District Committee. Monster Mass Meet in Harlan, Ky. | To Protest Terror and Prepare Strike PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 23. —A decision was made to hold a monster mass meeting in} Harlan County on Sunday. The meeting will be held at Williams Theatre, Wallins Creek, Kentucky, at 9:30 in the morning. Thousands of leaflets have been is- sued. Telegrams are to be sent to the Governor of Kentucky and Sher- iff Blair holding them responsible for any disorder at the meeting. The meeting is being called in pre- paration for the strike and in pro- test against the terror. Miners from all over Harlan County will come in to the meeting to break the terror. At the meeting to be held tonight at Carey, J. E. Payne, Jim Garlan Bill Meeks and Joe Weber are to be the speakers. Another meeting will be held on Saturday at one o'clock at Bryson, Tennessee, Next Tuesday at six p.m. there will be a meeting at Davis- burgh, as well as at Tinsley, Ken- tucky, where a Negro is held of the local, on Sunday, at 1:30 p.m. At a meeting of the District Board last night with representatives from Tennessee, members reported the fol- lowing: Fox Ridge, Tennessee oper- ator will shut down the mine and re- open on January 1. The men say, “He'll shut down now, we'll shut down after January 1.” ‘The Glendon woman's branch pas- sed a resolution to organize the chil- dren of Camp Premier. The mine superintendent, Joe Hendring, says |_ he will run the mine after January Lif it takes the United States troops and won't trouble to use the “tin | bits.” state troopers. They took the | commissary off the property to starve | the miners until the strike in Brush | Creek section. | ‘The Whitfield local union has been established one hundred per cent. A local has also been established at/ Anchor Block, one at Fayette, Jellico and Gatliff. Eight miners have been | fired at the Kay Jay mine for union | activity. | Since the meeting in Tennessee | Sterling mine has added two gun-! men. At Eagan, Tennessee, Turn- | blazer of the United Mine Workers offered the men a twenty-five per cent commission on all U.M.W.A. ap- | plications signed up. Sheriff Blair of Harlan County is | reported to have sworn in close to | seventy-five new thugs in the last | few days. | \U. S. PREPARES HUGE JPLEET FOR‘MANOUVERS’ IN FAR EAST WATERS White Guards Training Terrorist Force for) Coming Armed Intervention Against Soviet Union STAGGER PLAN IN, talists in the world condemn 12,000,- ed and their families to death by starvation. “The immediate objective in this (struggle is a nation-wide mobiliga- tion for February 4th, which has been designated National Unemployment Insurance Day. In every important industry center in the United States those who took part in the National Hunger March to Washington are taking the leading part in building up a stronger, better organized move- ment of the unemployed. “The conditions described by the Workers Delegation are in marked contrast to conditions in the United States—the richest capitalist country in the world. The fact that there is no unemployment, but on the con- trary, a shortage of labor in the U.S.S.R., is the best answer té those who regard mass unemployment and mass misery such as prevails in all capitalist countries, as natural and as | something that must be accepted with | patience and fortitude as inevitable.” “Of equal significance and import- ance are the reports about the com- prehensive system of socis ance which relieves the m | Soviet Union of the constant inse- curity which is the lot of the work- ers in all capitalist countries. That ALR Le i Leaders Help | Put Plan Through | the Soviet Government which can not | boast of the developed resources and NEW YORK Ts a meeting of the | ¥e@!th which abounds in this country Pressmen’s Union, Local No, 51, the | 8 @ble to provide adequate compen= Pervy-Conway strike-breaking clique sation equal to full wages, for workers succeeded in putting through a plan | WhO Must leave their jobs because of proposed by the bosses and agreed | #¢¢ident, sickness, old age and ma- to by the officials of the union. | ternity and provides for port of ‘The plan calls for a 18 per cent | ‘amilies left without other means of wage-cut for those pressmen who are support due to the death of the wage- CUT PRESSMEN’S WAGES 15 P. C. PUT employed three or more days a week, | a™mer certanily proves that the This was done under the guise of | ¥@ ee Ee CONUS, Sn aaa the ch demands are not ng for helping unemployed pressmen. | ~ In reality it is the first blow at the| Something that former highly paid pressmen who up} to now thought they were exempt| ‘The Unemployed Councils will do from the wage-cutting drive of the| everything possibile to popularize the bosses, | Tacts about conditions of the workers The plan provides for a deduction|in the Soviet Union ds gathered by of 15 per cent of the pressmen's pay|the Delegation. This is of and the formation of a “fund” with| utinest importance to the struggle which the bosses are supposed to give | which we now developing for employment to those pressmen who) similar conditions in this country.’ are out of jobs. The rate for those | who are employed through this “fund” | il receive $6 per day instead of the | former rate of $10.7. is unrealizeable and unreasonable.’ are NOTICE This plan accomplishes two main a re will be a aims for the besves. It cuis th f la of all students wages of those employed 15 per c ni AManane tees ee {It teduces the wazes of the unem-| 0” Monday, Dec. 28, at 8 pm. a& | ployed who are given jobs $2.75, par the So day, and puis the employe the vol Committee, wate n of being able to use the’ laor 1g a cent nen without p ee ef their cwn pocke To crown the'r treachery, the union officials agreed to waive the $1 raise due the pressmen at the be; j ning of the coming year. They ther consented to open negotiatio: 5 into effect of thig tom plan an le in the fore merly for “adj Unicn. It is the beginning of a 1 ruling | sve , on their woges, hours: were comzelled to end , the begin= F onal 50 cents for extra ning o: the aristocratic wor resitions fer y held by the Press= The extra presemen added to the men’s Union, as well as the wedge force of any plant are limited to|for an attack on the wages of all three days work at the most, thus|printing trades workers. d Pressmen's 9%