The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central -Orga (Section of the Communist ig ectliel) gos rumict Porty U.S.A. spur-Poperersbenar 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” SURS wo Oe ‘VOL. ‘VI, No. 313 <e» sans _NEW YORK, _ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931_ Price 3 Cents —a Hail Soviet China! this page we print, today, 2 manifesto of historic importance to the | whole world—the Manifesto of the Provisional Government of the Soviet Republic of China, addressed to the Toflers and the Governments of the Whole World. Ttcis fitting that this Manifesto, which has only now reached us from the Far East, should have been issued by a Soviet Government set up on the anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Power on the ruins of Pyssian czardom and capitalism—November 7th. It_is also significant that this historic document reaches us at the Thomént when the treachery, the bankruptcy and the collapse of the countér-revolutionary tool of imperialism known as the “Nanking Goy- | ernment” has become an undeniable fact before the eyes of the toiling | tdasséS of all the world. | ‘Let every American worker realize that it was and is American im- | perialism which created the Nanking regime of blood and terror against the Chinese masses! Wall Street and the Washington State Department are directly guilty of the massacres carried out by Chiang Kai-shek, the mimrderer of over 300,000 workers and peasants! | 2%.-et American workers grasp the fact that here, in the form of a Soviet China, raging the teeming millions of that great land to revolt 4gainst the pitiless rule of the same Wall Street which exploits them in | American shops, mines and factories, is an ally in their own fight for | bread and freedom! | _ {Let the governments to which this Manifesto is addressed disregard if at their peril! Here is the only force, the one and only force in that great part of # known as China that unites the toiling and oppressed masses on the basis of the full interests of these masses! It is the one ‘antconly force that, in contrast to all the conflicting and clashing cur- | Yents ana cross-currents of Kuomintang and imperialist intrigue and Vorruption, knows precisely where its goal lies, and hews straight onward With the mighty arm of vevolution! th servile tarisis of the Kuomintang-landlord-capitalist regime | ‘ieywell be distracted; and the Wall Street bankers and Washington of- ficials may weil try to hide their alarm at the firm tread of the iron battalions of the ape masses of Ohing, whose banner flies above a Red lave no duubdi that the wail Street and Washington imperialists aint ignore in silence this Manifesto addressed to them from the Soviet Uvertimens of China. “ir only answer to its appeal for peaceful rela- ticas’ nd treaties on the basis of, complete equality, will be more gun- b ts; iaore poison gas and airplanes, an attempt to directly destroy with thei: Swn atmed forces, the power of Soviet China which their Nanking tOdls failed to aesiroy! Let th> impovlalists beware! Nanking has collapsed because the Cuinese masses are rising!’ For the same reason, the power of Soviet Chine will gro! All_aviempts to secure the “loans” made to the bloody rogime of Chiang Kai-shek, by invasion of China and armed suppression Gf tie Ciinese ,eopie, will be met with the fierce opposition of the toil- Tha ses of China united under their own Soviet Government and sup- Ned. by the ‘revolutionary workers of the whole world! have no idea that the imperialists of Washington and Wall Street heed to the offer of the Provisional Government of the Soviet Republic of China of peaceful relations of diplomatic and commercial nature. @erér‘and thief until the end. But let American imperialism be warned that for every step it takes against the toiling masses of China, the workers of the United States | ‘Will take one step forward toward the end of imperialism more imme- diate! Workers, demand Hands Off Soviet China! Demand the with- drawal of all American armed forces and imperialist agents! Hail Soviet China! Stand by to aid its heroic fight against imperialist invasion! Daily Worker Jubilee at _ Coliseum is Step in Drive Only four days are left before the celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Daily Worker at the Bronx Coliseum on January 3rd. This affair will be one of the high points in the whole drive to broaden the mass base of the Daily Worker. It will mark a step forward in the steady march of the Daily Worker for the past eight years to a position where it can rally the millions upon millions of starving workers for struggle against alk forms of oppression, terror and exploitation. “In order to make it a success there must be a mass turn- out.. The Bronx Coliseum rhust be jammed to capacity with tens of thousands of workers. They must come in an or- ganized fashion from the shops and factories . The mass or- ganizations must be there in a 100 per cent turnout. = ‘e members of the mass organizations such as the In- ternational Workers Order, the Friends of the Soviet Union, and. the others have supported the Daily Worker and have ead it far and wide. They must continue their good work by responding to the call for the celebration of the eighth An- miversary of the Daily Worker. - Ee ee een WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS IN NEWARK, ATTENTION. =~-The Eighth Anniversary Jubilee of the Daily Worker will be held in Newark, N. J., on Saturday evening, January 30, at Tp. m., at the Russian Hall, 53 Broome Street. The pro- is a big one, full of splendid revolutionary numbers. The t Buehne, the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, and the Red Dancers will be among the big features. All workers should, make sure to be there to celebrate the birthday of their paper. ‘MONTHS OF SUBS FOR. AY ots BE. STARTING a bit with 18 months. § =. With the preparations going on swiftly for the California Hunger March, that: district should do much better. Detroit did pretty well with 80 months. But as for Buffalo, Minnesota and Seattle, the less suidthe better. Tyo hundred and fifty-six subs for Monday is a fair start for the week: Keep pushing up the total for each day now. Keep pushing — sectibn and district ’ conferences. Keep pushing the formation | of Friends of the Daily Worker groups. Keep pushing individual and organization challenges. Keep up with the widening workers’ struggles, ithe. Kentucky strike, the preparations for the national unemployment ‘dhsarance demonstration on February 4, the preparations for the Daily Worker eighth sankversary jubilee next month. Negro Miners etisi to Give Up Cards in National Miners Union PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 2 and Harlan. 29.—Succes Miners’ Union members have been taking place in Chevyolet | Only hearing for bond took place today before Judge Howard in connection with the frame-up of Vergil Hutton, N. M. U. member, for the death of Owen Sizemore, a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ive raids on National, Diplomat’ in Anti- Soviet War Plot Vanyek a Smuggler Despite Expose (By Inprecorr) PRAGUE, | oppositional ‘press is exploiting the | cure the assassination of the Japa- for attacking the Soviet Union, Foreign Ministry. Several \Was Sent to Moscow: Dec. 29—The Czech fa ¢ | exposure of the Czech deplomatic hief and murderer that imperialism is, it will continue mur- | provocateur who attempted to pro-) nese Ambassador to Moscow in or- | the der to afford Japan with a pretext| rally to the support of the Chinese ‘Chinese Red Army Advances Nine Regiments Desert Nanking and Join Reds |Czech Papers Admit 'First Chinese Soviet Congress Issues A Manifesto Strikes in Shanghai BULLETIN HANKOW, Dec, 29.—Thirty thousand workers in the cotton mills went on strike today, further spreading” the strike ~ movement» which begun in Shanghai and sév- eral other Chinese coast cities. + ese ‘ ‘The Provisional.Government of thé Soviet Republic of China has issued the following manifesto, calling upon workers of the world to Chinese Soviet Revolution. The The opposition press has seized the| Government gives notice to the im- expose as an opportunity to launch| perialist powers that the Kuomin- heavy attacks against the Czech! tang puppets of imperialism have news- | been kicked out of the districts in- F ight Haover Hunger Program! Attack Jobless in _Tonawanda All Secions Report ‘Oveeiatiia Sentiment. White Workers ee for Strike; Must Have Relief on First Day to Defense of Negro Unemployed Mayor Slinks Try to Pass Fascist Law to Muzzle Workers BUFFALO, N: Y., Dec. 29.— Away | Five workers, including two! ; Women, two. with cracked | skulls, are held by the North | Tonawanda police as a result of |the most militant demonstra-! lice station Monday | tion of five hundred workers | who, supporting their local Un- employed Council delegation in ‘the Common Council Chamber demanded immediate cash elie feeding and’ clothing of children. The delegation condemned a proposed | city ordinance which alms to prevent! dencies of overthrowing the govern- iment or disturbing the xe Peace.” ee WHITE WORKERS | PROTECT NEGRO JOBLESS For the first time in the history of this Jim-Crow, twenty-four hour town, Negroes were in the city hall chamber in last night’s demonstra- tion. ite workers showed splen- , did " groeg and defying the insulting re- marks of the white chauvinist city officials. For. two hours the angry ma: of hungry unemployed prevented the railroading of the terroristic city or- any distribution of leafleis or niass | meetings, parades, lectures with “ten- | fice of the International Lebor Of-| lidarity, protecting- the Ne- | BAYONNE, POLICE BEAT, TORTURE JOBLESS WORKERS Fail to Stop Parade! for Demands of | Unemployed BAYONNE, N. J. Dec. 29.— Bayonne police brutally beat up and | torturéd two leaders of the Unem-| ployed Council, who visited the po- | afternoon to} ask for a permit for a parade of) unemployed workers to present de- mands to the Bayonne city govern: | ment for immediate relief for the} starving and destitute unemployed | vorkers of Bayonne. John Kasper, one of the workers, | was interviewed by a representative | of the Daily Worker yesterday after- | noon in the New York District Of- | fice, where he sat with his face and| body bearing bloody proof of the| | Savage treatment to which he was/ ‘subjected by the Bayonne police. | Kasper’s eyes were blackened, his ' cheeks cut, his nose cut and swollen | and his back injured. He has suf- | fered such severe internal injuries | | that food is not able to stay on his stomach. He is constantly vomit- ing. ; Paul Brown, the other unem-| ployed leader, is held in jail with the police trying to cook up a case | against him. They have charged him with being a John Brown of In-) ADMIT CHARITY =) Call for United Front of All Workers for Fight On Hunger “Must Build Ranks Solid Only Wide Action Will Stop Great Starvation YORK.—With the uneme army growing to still mightier and with the capital- r fakers admitting millions comed to starvation this winter, mal Committee of the Un- Councils, formed by the marchers who took part in the 1 Pipi ge March, has bee ment insur: February 4th has. been desi d by the Unemployed Councils National Unemployment Insurance Day. The call for mobili- zation for greater struggles on this day follows: The National Conference of the 1,670 Hunger Marchers who were elected by scores of thousands of workers in all parts of the United William Green—The president | of the American Federation of La- bor who was put on the Hoover- Gifford Unemployment Relief | Committee because of the “splen- did” fight he has carried on against Unemployment Insurance. At the 1929 White House Confer- States, decided to designate Feb, ence, Green pledged not to call | 4th as National Unemployment In- strikes -during. the crisis, He has | surance Day. On this day, great kept his word, helping to put over | street demonstrations must take wage cuts of 15 to 50 per cent on place in every city and town in millions of workers. Green’s sal- the United States. Employed as ary is $20,000 a year and he him- | well as part-time and totally un- self takes no wage cuts. employed workers will rally in ——_—_— | mighty mass demonstrations | against the hunger policy of the | ruling class and its government in Washington, Jes and tities, The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils of the Uni- ted States calls upon all workers’ in the states, coun- “RELIEF” IS NOW papers declare that the provocator| cluded in the Soviet Republic. It Vanyek was maintained in office in| declares the immediate abrogation Moscow by the Foreign Ministry de-| of all unequal treaties, the repudia- spite open charges of corruption | tion of all foreign loans made to the against him about a year ago. They j Kuomintang landlords for the sup- accuse Vanyek of utilizing diplo- matic privileges in order to smuggle antiques, silver, carpets, into Czechoslovakia without paying | duties. The smuggled goods were dispatched in diplomatic packs. ‘Vanyek was formerly employed in the Czech Consulate at Harkov, where he made himself impossible. He was then transferred to Moscow. The Czech government naturally de- nies Vanyek’s act of provocation against the Soviet Union. NEW YORK.—These admissions in a section of the Czech press are a sufficient answer to the American imperialist press which have at- tempted to belittle and even ques- tion the existence of this vicious anti-Soviet plot, in their efforts to cover up the role of the Wall Street government in organizing the anti- Soviet front for armed intervention against the proletarian state. (FURTHER NEWS ON PAGE 3) porcelain | and barrels of caviar from Russia pression of the mass movement, and jays down the basis upon which the imperialists can continue to do busi- ness in Soviet China. In the manifesto, the Provisional Government of the Soviet Republic of China expresses its complete soli- darity with the Soviet Union and the toiling masses of the world and declares as its ultimate objective the liberation of the working class and the colonial masses. (SEE MANIFESTO ON PAGE 3) dinance demanding that a spokesman be allowed to speak. Mayor Pullen | and Police Chief Hoefert made sev- eral atempts to divide the ranks of the workers appealing to the tax- payers, but the crowd with vehement unanimity supported the delegation and spokesmen. Councilmen Slink Away In the uproar the councilmen quickly passed the ordinance and gave a signal to more than fility armed policemen and hired thugs to | attack the workers. The workers do- fended heroically their leaders. Inj | demonstration in the town Christ- the meantime the mayor and the; | mas morning. councilmen ran out of the chamber | A Communist worker at Sotaqui | was killed by police. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘Arrest and Torture ‘Chilean Communists, | |Murder One Worker The arrest of six Cocnittcist | | leaders at Coquimbo, Chile, has been reported by the Associated | Press. The government charge is | that the Communists planned a “Hands Off,’’ Scottsboro Boys Tell N.A.A.C.P. Misleaders (By Telegraph to the Dally Worker) MONTGOMERY. Dec. 29. — All eight of the Scottsboro boys in the death cells at Kilbyprison today sent @ telegram to Clarence Darrow and Call On W orkers to Help The N.A.A.C.P. claim that Roddy was representing them. Fourtee-year old Eugene Williams, the youngest of the eight boys, today signed a petition for a writ of habeas | corpus. The I. L. D. attorneys are that the N.A.A.C.P. keep out of the BANKRUPT, | ] WASHINGTON, 1 Dec. 29.—“Relief in New, York City is on what might be called a disaster basis. More money will sight.” Such outlined by William Hodson, execu- tive director of the Welfare Council of New York City before a sub- |committee of the Senate Committee |on Manufacturers which is hearing testimony on the unemployed’ that the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils is sending a small dele- gation to Washington, headed by Herbert Benjamin, secretary, to | speak before this Senate committee. Hodson’s story of the “disaster” | which faces the unemployed followed a whole series of similar recitals from Chicago Detroit and many other important industrial centers in head fakers could not hide the fact winter. Hodson said there were at least 800,000 unemployed in New York City, and that more than 700- 000 are not receiving any relief. He be needed than is in| were the prospects | | facing the million unemployed as/ “unemployment relief.” | | It is to put the real demands of | the United States. These charity | that millions face starvation this! and working class organizations, all poor farmers and their organi- zations, all ex-servicemen who be- long to the working class, regard- nationality, age or sex; regardless of political affilia- tion, to unite for common. strug- gle in militant mass demonstra- tions on National Unemployment Insurance Day. The 72nd Congress, which was opened amidst the thunderous de- mands of 1,670 worker delegates who came to demand relief from °% the unbearable poverty and desti- tution which 12 millions of totally unemployed and 10 million. part- time workers suffer, after two weeks during which they occupied themselves with further plans for war upon the workers at home and abroad, adjourned for a rest from their “hard labor.” The refusal of Congress to ad~ mit the spokesmen of the toiling and oppressed masses, the message of the Hunger President who open- less of race, | {CONTINUED ON CAGE THREE) TAX] MEN CALLED case Darrow and Hays are at present | in Birmingham, claiming in the name demanding his immediate release or @ new trial on the grounds that as a} TO CITY HALL said 100,000 need relief immediately | to save them from death by starva-| Mellon Hands Himself a Big of the N. A.A.C.P. to be representing the boys. | tion and that “50,000 more are badly | ‘Hearing Today on . WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.— Cash returns to rich exploiters on tax payments during the period when 12,000,000 workers were starv- ing, amounted to over $361,000,000, a report just issued by the United States treasury department shows. The treasury department hands out “doles” to the rich corporations and wealthy individuals every year in the form of income tax returns. In 1931 the amount so given to the rich wag $69,476,930; in 1930, $126,- £36,337; in 1929, $165,363,000. Each year Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury gave himself the large cor- porations he is connected with as well as to his wealthy families, mil- lions of dollars in tax returns, Among the others who got these presents form the nical were, Chunk of $361,000,000 ‘Dole’ Robert P. Lamont, secretary of the Department of Commerce; John D. Rockefeller, and. the Rockefeller family; Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., head of | the General Motors Corp. the Uni- ted Verde Copper Co., Clarkdale, Ariz., a subsidiary of the copper trust magnate, Guggenheim, which re- ceived neatly a million dollars in “tax return doles;” and the Illinois Central R. R., which ‘got $1,158,675 with which to pay profits to the| rich stock and bondholders. It is significant to ncte that nearly every rich parasite and corpotation to which tax returns were made, cut the wages of their workers from 15 to 50 per cent. The Illinois Central Railroad which got over a million and a half from the government treasury is now ordering a 15 per| cent wage cut. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Off.” In spite of the lies of Walter White and other Negro and white assistant lynchers at the head of the N.A.A. C.P. that several of the boys had) signed retainers with the N.A.A.C. all eight of the boys categorically deny that they had signed retainers | With any one other than the Inter- _ national Labor Defense and its at- torneys. DANVILLE, Va., Binkley, Gommunist organizer here, was convicted of “trying to over- throw the Government of Virginia,” “We Want to Fight” “We want to fight and want folks | outside to fight for us. We ain't | done nothing and will die before | months n prison. we'll plead guilty and try to get a life sentonce Iilze iteddy wants us to do,” declared Heywood Patterson and the other Gofendants during a long private conference with Gen. George W. Chamlee and Irving Schwab, I. L, D. attorneys. Roddy is the lawyer who betrayed the boys in the original “trial” at Scottsboro. Hendreds of workers heard Bink- | the Hoover hunger system during the | the trial. The Danville “Bee,” ing.” ‘Virginia Bosses, A. F. of L. Back Jailing of W.G. Binkley Dec. 29.—W. G. wéré in court chatted with mill bos- | ses and the police during the trial. Binkley was arrested last week on) tion Workers’ Industrial League, § the ground of having Communist) gast 19th St., literature in his possession. and fined $150 and sentenced to two| he was charged with “vagrancy.” The case was| pis appealed and Comrade Binkley 18} ‘The mill bosses | | now out on bail. | pigeons trailing Binkley for months. | The Communist Party in Danville, | | ley explain Cemmunism and expose) Va., is going to run a full tickeg in a capi~| clared, and come out openly rallying talist sheet, said that “Binkley’s de-| the Negro and white workers :n a| portation workers are urged to com... fense was aggressive,” and that “the| struggle against hunger and starva-|on the picket line, between 9 a. court-room was filled to overflow-| tion, and against race discrimina- The A. F. of L. leaders who | tion and terrorism. | Latest Bill Walker is putting up a bluff of { fairness by calling for an Open Hear~ i ing today, Wednesday. at 3 o'clock .t City Hali on the bill for a Board of Taxi Control which was alrea ed by the Board of Aldermen The taxi-cab drivers are urged by OE the Taxi Section of the Transporta~ to come to the Open Later | Hearing and domand the right to | ng for low bookings, dropped. | to keep every man have had their stool | working ins"end of forcing 40,000 mi out of the indus? nd for a li | wage and no black ist, Chauffeurs end Helpers of” | Menufacturers Expre: 264 «West — 35th St., are on strike and all trans) { the charge was finally | he election, Comrade Binkley de- and 6 p. m. Show your solidarit with the strikers, es neil