The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 1

il ‘ WORKERS OF THE UNITE! WORLD, Central -Organgef EM ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker Communist Party U.S.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. ae VOL. VII, No. 310<q» Eetered as secon: et New York, N. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 MOONEY DECLARES ONLY MASS PROT Hoover-Wall Street Govern- ment’s Part in the Latest Imperialist Murder Plot “President Hoover I know very well. One day at the Department of Commerce, I had an intimate talk with him. The subject of Russia came up. “FJoover said: “To tell the truth, Marsh, the ambition of my life is to crush out the Soviet Russia.’ “T said: ‘Even if you starve the women and children? “Hoover said: ‘Yes””—From a statement by Ben- jamin C. Marsh, secretary of the Peoples Lobby in Wash- ington. Published in San Francisco Daily News, Aug. 13, 1931. * ° ye stark reality of the war drive against the Soviet Union has been exposed with the vividness of a lightning flash by the imperialist plot to procure the killing of the Japanese ambassador in Moscow. Who is guilty of this attempt to create an excuse for the declaration of war upon the Soviet Union? This question cannot be answered by giving the name of the par- ticular country and the particular diplomat through which the scheme, which, if successful, sentenced millions of toilers to death and threat- ened the invasion and devastation of the Soviet Union, the wrecking of the Five-Year Plan, and had as its objective the conquest of the Soviet Union with the enslavement once more of the workers and peasants to imperialism, was to be cartied through by this typi¢al piece of imperialist provocation. The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Daily Worker; have time and time again warned the American working class of the war plots that are being woven in the state departments and foreign offices of every imperialist nation—and especially in the state department of American imperialist government, headed by Hoover, whose record, before and since his rise to the presidency, shows him to be one of the most crude and cruel types of imperialist bandit and pro- vocateur. The statement of Hoover which heads this editorial, and which he thas riever even denied, is of the greatest value for American workers in estimating the part played by Hoover-Wall Street government in this latest attempt to organize war against the Soviet Union. Hoover-Wall Street government was waiting. This helps to explain many of the seeming inconsistencies of the sia‘o department in its recent dealings with Japanese imperialism. Hoover-Wa!l Street, government was waiting “for something to turn up”—and the House of Morgan’s or- @anizers of mass murder knew pretty well what to expect. . It has had, much valuable’ experience in little affairs involving mur- der, especially below thé Rio Grande, as in the case of Francisco Madero, where the American ambassador saw to it personally that the victim was conveniently at hand. Hoover-Wall Street, government was waiting. This helps to explain a gréat deal of the “caution” with which American imperialist govern- ment’ watched Japan, its traditional enemy in the Pacific, invade and seize Manchuria—even though “American interests are involved.” Japan was driving toward the eastern Soviet Union frontiers. Polish and Rumanian troops were massing on the western borders. The prop- aganda drive’ was speeded up about the “terrible conditions of the Russian workers, about the “crisis” in the Soviet Union, about the “danger of the default of the Soviet Union on its credits owed to American manu- facturers.” A new series of articles picturing Stalin as “an Oriental dictator,” as’ “the cruel'and crafty power behind the walls of the Krem- lin,” so forth, so forth, appeared in a number of magazines with huge circulations. , Hoover-Wall Street government was waiting—waiting for the flash of a gun directed by an imperialist assassin to ignite the mountains of war munitions, in the Far East and in the West, directed against the Soviet Union, waiting for the signal that would set in motion the im- peridlist armies against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Matthew Woll and his Wall Street kindred in the leadership of the American Fed- eration of Labor, the leadership of the American Legion and the whole crew of war mongers ahd’ class enemies of the workers, were discovering “Soviet pl ” and calling for suppression of the Communist Party and all militant working class organizations. The usual terror against the Negro masses was increased # hundred fold. The propaganda and charity machine, the Hoover-Giford Emergency Unemployment Relief Commit- tee, the special war apparatus of Wall Street government had been set up. Hoover—Wall Stréet ‘government was waiting—but it: was, and it is, getting ready In the meantime the socialist party for war. and “liberals” were doing their bit in the United States by pooh-poohing the danger of war. In Europe the social democratic leaders were doing their share for imperialism by their provocateur stateménts to the effect that the Soviet Union was itself responsible for the thickening atmosphere of war in Europe and the mass slaughter of Chinese workers and peasants by Japanese imperi- i It is not our task at this moment to estimate the respective respon- z at is BSe #85 a i tare ny : that our task to their Progress in the unceasing vigilance of the other. imperialist nations in the Moscow end of the war make our class here in the United States realize rulers are mainly responsible for the imperialist war the Far East against the Chinese Revolution and the task to clear away what remains of the mist with which as the Street government tries to obscure the fact tha tits policy Union is a war policy—that it has been waiting revolutionary loyalty of a Soviet worker of the Political Section of the Red Army just exposed and thwarted, to declare openly the organizing and lead- conceal so far in a joint imperialist war doubt that the American state depart- the progress toward carrying through the that was to have been the signal for war more open war on the wroking class in America » and'the other imperialist countries? politics. in his senses can believe otherwise when this monstrous is taken in connection with the whole course of recent devel- No provocat f Yesterday it was the murder of Soviet ambassadors—as in Poland, | Switzerland, China. \ Today it is attempts by imperialists agents to procure the murder of Japanese ambassador—as an answer to the unceasing demands of the Soviet Union for peace and the carrying through of a policy of peace in the face of obstacles for which history holds no precedent. _ Tomorrow it will be some new method of provocation. The moral in- fluence of imperialism among the masses of the world, as against that of a it needs the toiling Q country of socialism and working class power, is so weak that for the most elaborate conspiracies with which to fool sections ‘The attempt to unite the imperialist powers and their puppet gov- | ‘world for war on the Soviet Union will not stop because of the ex- the latest crime against the lives of millions of workers; for this ; an ambassador more or less is nothing in comparison with the hatred of the Soviet Union and the lust for the power to conquer the Russian masses and chain them once more to the chariot wheels of wid imperialism. » We call upon the working class to watch more closely than ever the maneuvers of the Hoover-Wall Strect government, to be on its guard as waver bates ta pbow by its vroletarian solidarity with the Soviet Union CITY EDITIO? Price 3 Cents > KY. BOSSES ‘TRY 10 STIR UP SHOOTING ‘Hold Mass Meeting of | Miners to Aid | Strike Move |Stool Pigeons Active | Relief Is Immediate | Need for Jan. 1 Strike PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24. — Gun | play was narrowly averted at Carey | where Superintendent Perry previous- | | ly in an attempt to break up a sched- | juled meeting, offered the miners | whiskey to heckle the meeting and bought the kids fire crackers. | | Last night the mass meeting was | held. Perry and other bosses and | their ladies were present. Claude | Wilson known to be a company stool ; Pigeon, drunk to the gills, with a re- | volver in his pocket, menaced Joe} Weber while speaking. Amid mani- fest disapproval, a miner’s wife drag- ged him away, Perry patting his arm in approval. He came back and talked with Perry who was a former West Virginia gun thug and then shouted: “You're reds, there will be no strike January Ist.” One old miner made after him. Weber continued speaking, exposing the attempts to intimidate the min- ers and frighten the National Miners Union from the field and said that the NM. U. is here to stay just-so long as the conditions which brought it here continue and the miners are flocking into it and want it here, and let the operators, the superintendents {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER |Binkley in Va. Jail Says Fight Against Hunger Spreading NEW YORK.—“We will fight against this new offensive of the Southern bosses against the work- ers by increasing our activities,’ said W. G. Binkley, organizer for the Communist. Party in Danville, Va., now in jail on a framed charge of vagrancy and possession of Communist literature. Binkley said that his arrest is part of the campaign of the Southern bosses along with the Hoover government, to push through their hunger program, ‘There is no criminal syndicalist law in Virginia, but the state authorities are turning over the literature to the Federal authorities whom they rely on to work out some new frame-up. Binkley said that the Commun- ist Party in Virginia would run a full ticket in the forthcoming elec- tions, rallying thousands of work- ers behind a revolutionary strug- gle against capitalism, GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 25.— On Christmas Eve, the International Labor Office of the League of Na- tions announced that throughout the world there were more than 100,000,- 000 unemployed workers and mem- bers of their families facing or en- dur'ng starvation and misery, ‘The same body annouced at the same time that of all nations, the United States has the greatest num- ber of these starving unemployed starving workers, and that there were none in the Soviet Union. ‘The figures were based on ‘the re- ports to the International Labor Of- fice by the reactionary labor bureau- cracy fn each capitalist country or by capitalist governments which show 25,000,000 jobless throughout the world. It is then considered there are an average of four persons in each unemployed family, and the grand totel of 100,000,000 is arrived at. How far below the actual mark these firvres arc, is shown by the Ietatamant that in the United States, Jobless to EST WILL FREE HIM March on DELEGATES Says Bankers Hope to Sacramento, Jan. 13 REPORT ON Quiet Mass Demand Reject Governor Rolph’s “Cancellation” of His Promise to See Them In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 25.—The Cal- lifornia State Hunger Harch to demand im- | mediate relief for the jobless and unemploy- | | ment insurance and to prepare for the National | Unemployment Day demonstrations, Feb. 4, is ry, | going through. Governor Rolph who had previously granted To Tell of 5-Year Plan | the demands of the State Hunger March Arrangements Com- All | mittee that he receive the delegates in San Francisco on Jan. | 11, has just sent a telegram “cancelling everything” and claim-| ing that his previous promise was “only tentative,” | 3 BIGN. J. BANKS CRASH; JOBLESS LOSE LAST CENT Millions Hit By Wave of Bank Failures ASBURY, PARK, N. J., Dec. 25.— Three large banks crashed here yes- terday, bringing the total bank fail- ures up to seven within two days. ‘The banks to go to the wall yester- day were the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank, with deposits of $9,951,- 089; the Ocean Grove National Bank, with deposits of $1,975,649, and the First National Bank of Bradley Beach with deposits of $941,600. There has recently been @ new wave of bank failures all over the United States. Big Banks fri Boston, Chicago, and other important cities have been hit. The amount lost in bank failures is now over §2,000,000,- 000 and millions of workers and un- employed have seen their last hard earned pennies torn from their grasp by the collapse of over 2,000 banks. The possibility of “self-reliance,” which the hypocritcal propagandists of the bosses talk so much about as an argument against unemployment. insurance, is being wiped away with each new bank faliure. 'Daily Worker Readers Meet In Passaic Mon. PASSAIC, N. J.—A conference of all the Daily Worker readers of Pas- saic and vicinity will be held De~- cember 28, at 203 Monroe St., at 8 pm. Plans will be laid out to draw in the readers of the Daily Worker behind the present subscription drive All readers of the Daily Worker are invited to attend this important con- ference to help build the Daily Worker to reach the quota of 5,000 new subscribers. The State Hunger March Commit- tees and the Unemployed Councils | have answered Rolph, pointing out | that there was nothing tentative about the arrangement, that the! “cancellation” is rejected by the hun-| dreds of thousands of hungry un- | employed workers in California, and/ announcing that the California State | Hunger March will proceed to San Francisco Jan. 11, where they will demand that Rolph appear, and/ where they will hold a state con-! vention to make further plans for struggle. The State Hunger March will then go on to Sacramento, the state capital, and place its demands | on January 13. The telegram to Rolph reads as | follows: «Tur telegram dated December 23 received and given most careful con- sideration. In @ full meeting of our committee we have thus far met every objection you made to the ar- rangements for the conference. Our joint arrangements were not tenta-~ tive as you now say but clearly made. as final both in a personal meetnig between yourself and our representa- tives and in a letter over your own signature. Failing to defeat the con- ference by technical evasion, you now announce your proposal to conceal it. By unanimous vote of our com- mittee in consultation with local} committees throughout the state and in the name of hundreds of thou- sands of unemployed workers in Cal- ifornia definitely reject your can- cellation. The workers and farmers of California will understand that your decision is dictated by big busi- ness interests who fear our demand for unemployment relief and unem- ployment insurance at the expense of profits. “The Hunger Marchers will arrive January 11 in San Francisco for a hearing on the demands submitted by our committee as per arrangements agreed upon by yourself to relieve the immeasurable. sufferings now prevalent throughout the State. We demand that you meet the State Hunger Marchers’ delegation, for your refusal to do so, you will be held strictly to account by the people | of California.” Japanese Peasants Demand Withdrawal from Manchuria Secretary of State Stimson continued yesterday to exert “diplomatic pressure” on the Japanese to discourage the Jap- anese threat against Wall Street’s hegemony in Kuomintang China and to keep Japan within the agreement as the spear head ‘in the armed attack on the Soviet Union. League Admits 100,000,000 Starve, But None in Russia the American Federation of Labor reported only 6,000,000 unemployed, instead of the actual 12,000,000. The AFL. reported to far-off Geneva a million less than it admits in Amer- feel the effects of the crises now reports, through the right wing, ultra conservative Gen- eral Confederation of Labor, 1,500,000 industry, has 800,000 as reported by the fascists, who hardly know the meaning of the word “truth” and whose interest it is to conceal the ravages of the crisis in their domain. Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungarv report-e quarter-ef @ mil- ion -each, ~~. iWork for them, The plot to assassinate the Japanese Am- bassador in Moscow was no doubt a part of this “diplomatic pressure,” whether the United States was directly responsible or not, : ‘A “memorandum” presented to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Couple, Unemployed, Wouldn’t Beg; Near Death from Hunger MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Dec. 25.— On Christmas Eve. here a young couple, living in an abandoned sum- mer house were found starving. They had no food for three days. The 23 year old wife was so weak from hun- ger she could hardly walk. The two, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Wild of New York, has come here hunting work, after being unemployed for months, They found no work, were too proud to beg, and had become re- signed to merely starving to death. They were nearly there. This pair, ike others, had not re- alized that there was another alter- native to begging, namely to organize with their fellow jobless and demand | dressed “gentleman”, accompanied by ; his painted consort who, while the U.S..8. SUN. for His Freedom Pledges to Rally U Workers for Defense of Soviet Union Workers Hear Report Before leaving Moscow, extended tour, the American worke: delegation pledged to the Interna- tional Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union and the representa- tives of the Russian trade unions that | they would help build a mass organ- | ization of the F.S.U. upon their re- turn, of at least 10,000 members by the first of May, in order to have a} real basis for the election of the 50 after an} to have a fighting organization .ade- quate to expose the lics of the capi- talist press. | The capitalist press announced the | arrival of Prince Thecdore, nephew of the Czar, on the same steamer as the delegation. This is probably the well- delegates were posing for a picture on the pier, offered to pay the ex- | penses of the delegation if they want- ed to return to the Soviet Union. When the delegates expressed their unanimous desire to return after they had reported upon conditions in the | ‘Sovief Union and carried“ out their | part of theit pledge—he fled. | The delegates will report in full at a@ meeting arranged for them this Sunday, December 27, at 2 p.m. at the New Star Casino, 107th St., near Park Ave. The meeting is under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. They are also going on National | Tour which will include Kentucky} and the West Coast, and the South, | to hear the report of these American | worker delegates, Negro and white. | Various workers’ organizations | have sent their greetings to the re- turned delegates. The following greet- ings were received from the Interna- tional Workers Order: “The New York City Committee | of the International Workers Order | greets the returning American Workers Delegation. We call upon all of our members and workers of New York City to welcome, the delegates and hear the report of the coal miners, steel and marine |, workers who witnessed the No- vember 14 celebration on the Red Square of Moscow. Delegates come from all parts of the country, San Francisco, Youngstown, West Vir- ginia mines and New York, etc.” U. S. Senator Advises to Stop, Look, Starve Senator Royal S. Copeland from New York, speaking at the annual “Christmas Party” of the National Democratic Club at Times Square yesterday, warned his audience against “experimenting with radical legislation.” Instead of the workers struggling for unemployment insur- ance the Senator suggests “both the country and city man must join hands together.” Senator Copeland failed to add: ‘While the bosses plunder and murder them.” The Senator admitted “Distress is everywhere” but was annoyed be- cause “even tho It is Christmas, the most precious of our holy days, we hear little else than complaints on hard times.” What terrible heathens those in distress are! They have the least respect for the holiest of days. Instead of “complaints” and “slump cures” for the crisis, Senator Cope- land advises: “Clear thinking.” For relief he wants: “Sane and trust- worthy legislation.” Workers ask for bread. Serator Copeland flings them empty words. On the same platform with Sen- ator Copeland was the Police Dep- artment Band and Glee Club which rendered Christmas carols. CORRECTION CHICAGO BANK STORY A report on Chicago bank failures published in the Daily Worker a few days ago said that Oscar Nelson, state auditor connected with closing the banks, was an A, F, of L. leader. relief from a capitalism that has fat- ‘tered on their labor when it did have ~* | | tical prisoners and to procure me- This is incorrect, Red Builders, help get subscriptions. Mooney Gives Interview to Daily Worker Cor- respondent; Bankers Fear Anger of Masses (Special Interview to the Daily Worker) SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif., Dec. 25 ‘Agitation, mass protests, demonstrations by the workers the world over— Should. that is my only hope.” So declared Tom Mooney in an exclu- | sive statement to the correspondent of the Daily Worker. The latest action of Governor Rolph should destroy forever any || Denegian Being Held \for Deportation Is | Beaten in E. Boston | (Speciat to the Dally Worker) | BOSTON, Dec, 24.—A_ stool- | pigeon, posing as a deportee at | | East Boston immigration detention | | delegates, for May 1 delegation, and! | home, beat the political prisoner | | Donegian who was held to the floor by guards. Donegan had | |taken active part in the recent | Lawrence strike, | All the political prisoners who | are being held for deportation | | there rallied to the support of Do- | | megian and gave the stool-pigeon |@ terrible beating. A riot. call} | brought the police. | The political. prisoners were | | threatened with solitary confine- | | ment. No visitors are admitted to | | them. A sailor with a seriously | | injured kneecap is being refused | | medical aid. ‘The International | | Labor Defense has acted at once | |to protect the rights of the poli- dical aid. SOCCER TEAMS TO CLASH AT DYCKMAN SUN. Labor Sports Union Arranges Three Games NEW YORK—The Metropolitan | Workers Soccer League, affiliated to the Labor Sports Union, again proves its colors as a workers sports organ- ization by arranging a soccer carni- val for Sunday, December 27. The proceeds of the game will be turned over to the Young Worker, ‘which is sorely in need of funds. Ev- eryone should be at Dyckman Oval on Sunday where besides witnessing some first class soccer teams in ac- tion, they will contribute their share towards establishing the Young Worker as a regular weekly publica~ tion. There will be three games. The first game starts at 11 in the morning with the Prospect Workers Club engaging the Red Sparks A. C. This game should be exciting all the way because | both teams are well up in the “C” di- vision of the league. One o'clock will bring the Sparta~ cus and Italian American together. The Italian Americans have an ex- cellent opportunity of ousting the Spartacus from their second place berth in the “A” division. In the night Neckwear A. C. and ‘Tico A. C. will come to grips in an- other fast and exciting game. Both teams are evenly matched with Tico having had more experience in league competition. All three games are regular league games so that good soccer fare may be anticipated. Admission is 25 cents. Di- rections: Take the LR.T. Broadway Seventh Ave. subway to Dyckman St. Station, Walk two blocks north to the field, ‘ a illusions I can be freed by any other means than through the mass pressure of the working | class. Let it be well understood. | The bankers and industrialists are in & quandary. They fear the workers | will rise en m e and demand my | pardon. That is Governor Rolph states it will take four months ‘to | study the record” Plan to Fool Workers, | The plan is to fool the workers, | during the worst part of the winter months, into believing that I shall be freed. With millions unemployed and starving the next few months appear critical to the plutocrats who rule this country. They do not want any “disorders” that will result from mass demonstrations this winter. They want to wait until spring be- fore giving a decision; probably be- lieving that in a few months condi- tions will improve. They want to sep- arate my case from the struggles of the workers this winter. And, of course, in four months another ex- cuse will be found not to give a clear answer to the demands of the work- ers for my pardon.” Rolph’s Corporation “Adviser” Discussing some of the probable tactics of Rolph, Tom continued: | “The workers must understand that the ‘advisers’ appointed by the gov- {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEMAND CUT IN | PRICE OF BREAD Brooklyn Workers Are Organizing NEW YORK.—To force down the price of bread in Brooklyn where the boss bakers are reaping profits by gouging the workers, a conference has been arranged in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn for Sune day, Dec. 27, 1 pin. at 140 Neptune Avenue. Plans will be drawn up to fight for lower bread prices. »On Monday December 28 a mass meeting will be held at 3034 Ocean Parkway to ore ganize all the workers in the neigh- borhood against the robbery of the baking bosses. All workers are in- vited to attend. Seattle Police Burn Shacks of Unemployed SEATTLE, Wash., Dec, 25.—Police have burned two colonies of shacks on city property, part of the old Skin- ner & Eddy shipyards site, where @ total of about 100 unemployed men meant to spend the winter. In the first raid those turned out to freeze were given nothing what- ever in the way of recompense. Such a storm of criticism was raised over this, that when the second colony was burned out @ few days ago, tickets allowing a few nights in the city flop house and few cheap meals were dis- tributed. Roll up thousands of Daily Worker subs in the fight against wage cuts. U. S. Employ ment Service Admits No New Jobs in Nov. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 25.— The monthly survey of Employment Service of the U. S. Department of Labor issued yesterday, dares not claim any tmprovement in the situ- ation. It conceals the increase in un- employment during November, but admits, “there was no improvement over the low level of the preceding months,” and further admits, “A large percentage of the workers employed Gre on s part time besis” 4 what” Conditions in the Iron and Steel industry generally remain unsatisface tory” says the report mildly, in dese cription of a month of disaster, in which steel production dropped from 32 percent of capacity Nov. 1, to 25 per cent. at the end of the month. “Part time schedules are reported in many of the textile mills,” says the report, and “activities in the boot " '