The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1932, Page 1

WO! KERS OF THE WOrLD, UNITE! Central ‘(Section of the Communist International) ER” GROUPS. SUBS. GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN... “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” a“ ENTER. SOCIALIST COMPETITION ‘IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” VOL. VIII. N 35. = at New York, N. Y.. Butered ae eccond-class matter at the Poat Office der the act of March 3, 1877 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932 _arry EDI‘ paen Pca What For sue toe select audience, of ,capitalist economists, statisticians atid public officials at ‘Washington,-D. C., an Dec..29, Otto T. Mallery, Yeading American economist,'in setting forth the supposed “solutions” oo wg capitalism might have for the crisis which daily deepens, indulged dn some plain speaking, according to thé following lines from the N. Y. Times of Dec. 30: “Mr. ‘Mallery asserted that no government had ever stopped a depression éxcept by war, and while it was dangerous to try to halt ‘@ depression, it was also dangérous not to attempt to do so.” , his, workers, is the bést “cute” that capitalism can suggest. ‘The “eure”: that ‘throws niillions of you onté the battlefield, so that in the destruction of thé billions jof dollars worth of goods, 2 means may be nde to usé up the “over-production” of these goods: and again start wheels of industry—again, inevitably, if the process works as the eat wish, to pile up another “over-production” and. new wars to Sona many, millions of workers will certainly lose their lives thus in ine seid “gure” of the: capitalist crisis, is a matter of little impor- tance .t6 the: Tees Indeed, if. we: accept Mr. Mallery’s own words ‘ is’ it “dangerous” to ‘capitalism not to have war?. Why if not ‘did the masses. bearing the burden of the capitalist. crisis refuse to bear starvation any lénger atid threaten to énd capitalism by revolution. tt. is up to the- ‘working class to make the capitalists understand that watnlaking © ‘is ‘loaded with ever. more certain and speedier dangers to ‘hpi tule. It is the duty of the working class now, before war comes, to prepare dtself to turn ‘tne coming imperialist war into a war of the tollittg masses *to’ overthrow capitalism. in-spite*of*Mr.-Maliery,is thus no “cure” for capitalist crisis. But itis clear to workers that-the révolutionary overthrowal of capitalisn 1 -thé.cure’ for.the ‘miseries.and starvation the workers bear in, a capi- bed crisis. pe prided. itis, ONLY, in the’ country where capitalism has been oyer- thrown, that the world crisis of capitalism has, had no effect on the lives of! thé workere. In. the'Soviet: Union,‘there is no unemployment, no wage ho unbearable misery and insecurity for the workers, no starvation ajintihg the door! of ‘every worker's home as today it haunts the homes of Américan workers. | But-the-American workers should be forewarned of what their bosses héve, in store for them in addition to the starvation they now suffer. “profiting by the living éxample of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republids, and armed with the lessons of revolution taught by the Rus- sian workers led:by Lenin, the American workers should look confidently into thé fature when, either with war or without it, they will overthrow capitalism with all its starvation and war, and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. sEST WEEK IN DAILY WORKER DRIVE LIKELY A 4 neue MONTHS OF SUBS COME (N WEDNES . W NESDAY'S mail, brought:.in: 493 months of subscriptions fur the Daily Worker, Which shows that the campaign: for 5,000 12-month substriptions tothe Daily, Worker has not slackened this week but has gone Steadily upward. “Now is the time for a great united effort in all districts to-keep up the progress‘and bring us up to and over the 20 per cent mark-on the way ot ect von , Chicago, with 123 months of subs. Wednesday, gained on New York, hich sent in only 28 motiths. Philadelphia, with 82 months, did better than it. has been doing for a long-time. ‘Minneapolis shows it is getting into the race, sending 58 months for the day. Connecticut, Detroit, and Ciéveland also did preity. Well. Other districts fell behind. Buffalo, Pee ges Beattie, especially thust eae up ‘and join the march. % ~~ @PREAD sodiallst competition ‘in « Daily Worker drive among in- dividuals, units, sections, districts and mass organizations. Social- ist. Compétition is spreading in the membership recruiting drive of the Party. et iinto’thé ‘lead in both drivés. Canvassing makes new con- tacts. Daily Worker sabectibtons draw new contacts into the Party. eo.e + Unite the workers of Aeeties behind the impending Kentuci sivike. Unite the Workers of America behind the widening struggles against wage ‘cuts and terror. Help build’a mass Communist Party with — to the. Daily Worker. gta OF NEEDLE ——s fig sents Re oe te Mobilize for Diceswakers Struggle Against Worsening Shop Conditions wea iheeting ‘ot the wrikae § Execue ie of the Needle . Trades | pret ieee enh “ "The mééting decided on the forma- tion of a mass organization commit- ;| tee. All active members, especially from the trade boards, are to give up & week's time to the organization | drive. The meeting. endorsed the call.of thé United Front Committee for 4 Cooper Union meéting and a ihe | SREP. conférerice to discuss the de- the | mands and prepare for s strike under in} rank and file leadership. tt also Went on record. in favor of calling various labor and sympathetic or- BAnizations to 4 conference in sup- port of the needle trades workers. ‘The report of Gold was discussed at~great length and all present ex- pressed their readiness and déter- mination the | initiating an oreanization drive Preparation for this strike. to assist the dressmakers coming struggle. ‘All workers employed in open shops até called upon to bring in "| their complaints so that the union can help them organize their shops. PF em SAGER A ey Pioneers Should Set Example NEW YORK. — The Pioneers in our troops, the Seventh City Pioneer Treop, are not showing the best of Giécipline. Their conduct is awful. They do not cooperate with one an- other, nor do they listen to our lead- et. The Pioneers should not only try to be good and cooperate with their fellow comr-des, but should set en example for all other worker's childrea, 0. M oMteb is tegponsibdie for the break- Wate Be diceeen akers this atiaie: for cote plane for mob- rship of the Indus- ie anien ee ! “MOVEMENTIN MANCHURIA Mass Fighting Grows Against Japanese | Looters Sell Out - |Chang Savs Foreien | Country “Advised” It A strong Soviet movement is developing in Manchuria on the background of the Jap-| anege banditry and the tremen- dous mass upsurge against the | imperialists and their Kuomintang | lackeys. Red workers and peasant | troops. have given battle to’ the Jap- | anese invaders in several section.” of | Manchuria. The town of Nji-Dscang, | in South Manchuria was under the control of a Soviet for two days. The Japanese newspaper ‘‘Nichi.. Nichi Shinbun” in Shanghai reported in its evening edition of Nov. 5: “The nounted bandits in the two spheres Liao-zung and Tai-An (in South Manchuria) were organized early this year under the ledaership of the Manchurian Committee of the Chinese Communists at the Red De- fense Corps. The Red Defense Corps took about $100,000 from the rich peasants. Soon after it united with the Anti-Japarcs> Fighters League and changed its name to ‘Fighting People’s Army of the North East.’ In the valley’ of the. Liao River it carried on tremendous’ activity. In the last two days it has tried” to reach into the Sottth-east so that the zone of the South Manchurian Railway is in danger.” | Chinchow: ° Indicates Strong Soviet Movement The Nichi-Nichi-Shinbun also re- ports on the same day: “The independent zone of Liao-zung } Was surrounded by the soldiers of the scattered Chinese troops. The loca} government, the Chamber of Com- merece and the populace were. un- usually disturbed. The soldiers were | carrying the flags of the Red Army. | They plundered the villages, confis- cated the arms and drafted the young (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Rush Foed, Clothing to Kentucky Miners The strike of 18,000 Kentucky coalaminers.begin today. The suc- cess.of the strike depends on the relief.the workers send them. If you want to help the Kentucky miners win, rush food and cloth- | jing to the Workers International Relief, Warehouse, 145 Pine: St., Pineville, Ky. Send all funds to the Workers International Relief, 16 W. 2ist St., New York City. ) the -lead PINEVILLE, Ky., Dee. 81.—With 1: 31. out on strike tomorrow, January 1st, | against hunger and terrorism, f: | walkouts evén before the general which is under the leadership N. Y. WORKERS PLEDGE SUPPORT TO KY. STRIKE 20,000 Union Men Be- hind Fight on Hunger NEW YORK.—Pledging the active support of tens of thousands of New York workers to“the Kentucky coal strike which ‘starts Friday, Jan. 1st, | the.Executive Committee of. the New York Trade Union Unity Council has issued “the ‘folowing * statemént. to NewYork workers: “The strike of the Kentucky coal diggers called for January “1st: under up of the National Min- ers Union-should’ bé téceived with sympathy , support on the part |+ of the: -motktne Heople of the whole country, , ag The ‘berate, working conditions of. the, “yniners are an jl- lustration: ot, what, the big money backs, eller, Morgan, Mellon, etc., wha contto Ithese mines and the government will drive the working people: to, if they--will:not organize and stick together to fight back. “A miner today does not make enough to cover «even the: barest necessities of life. A Teh man's dog is an aristocrat’ in. comparison tc the conditions under which a Kentucky miner’s family is. forced to live. “The Kentutky Miners ‘Strike ‘is a living testimony to the fact that the American workers, as represented by the Kentucky miners,:thése sons of the hills,: native born and foreign, white and Negro’ will organize them- selves and unite to fight for a decent ‘standard of ‘living. “The Kentucky strike will find a hearty response among the workers more than any other striké because it takes: place) at atime of the most brazen wage cutting campaign in American history, at a time when a degenerated capitalist class if “prof- iteering on the misery of the work- ing people, cutting wages to maintain payments of fat dividends in total disregard of the welfare of the masses of plain people, “The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York in the name of 20,000 organized workers not only wholeheartedly endorsed the Ken-+ tucky strike but calls upon all the workers to folio. the brave the ex- ample of the Kentucky minérs and held their fighting ‘class bréthers to their very Jast penny.” Every shop, mme and tattory = fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31.—Hugh Adams, 4 young Negro worker, wos brutally murdered Monday by prison guards in San Quentin Prison, As young Adams was leaving the mess hall, he paused an instant to light a cigarette. For this hé was pounced upon by two guards who be-~ gan to club-him. As he tried to gét away from the clubs of the guards, the armed guards in the gun-towers began to shoot at him from all di- rections. Adams feli dead, riddled with bullets. The ticochetting shells hit at other prisoner. from every di- rection, Eight were wounded, some critically. According to information obtained by the International Labor Defense, this makes thirteen prisoners shot and one killed in SanQuentin witin the past two weeks. The prison regime is growing worse, with brutality daily inereasing. The prison is terribly overcrowded, and for évery minor in- fraction of rules prisénets are sent to the dark hole fur days, of shot down as in the case of young Adams. Althuogh young Adams was not en- gaged in an attempt to escape from ths prison, but merely ing to get away from the two guards who’ were brutally beating him, the prison au- thorities have endorsed his murder by firing three guards who failed to join in the shooting. The guards who did the actual killing were vewarded \ ‘Guards Murder Negro Young in| '¥ orker in San Quentin Prison by a-week’s vacation wtih pay. ‘Tom Mooney and' J. B. McNamara hav: | already spent fifteen and twenty years respéctively undet such’ terror- ism. . The Imperial Valley prisoners are being éspécially watehéd by spe- cially watched by specially detailed guards. They are dented * literature and their, mail and visitors are being closely srcutinized. Brilliant Program at Daily Worker Jubilee at the Coliseum on the 3rd One of the most outstanding working class affairs held in recent months will be the celebration of the Worker, this Sunday Eighth Anniversery of the at three o’cléck in the afternocn, Coliseum. 4. brilliant program has béén arranged for this mo- thentous ‘occasion. The main speaker will be Bill Dunite, editor of th: Daily Worker, who will greet the militant’ workers of New York in the name of the Daily Worker, whese existence and influerj¢e' and. leadétship ‘dver the embattled working ‘BIG SOVIET Walkout to Spread to ith 18,000 miners expected in a determined batt 3 have already repor rike date. The strike, of the National Miners’ Union, shows every sign of a .rapid | spread to the Tennessee coal! fields. | The Kentucky miners who at a District Convention here on Dec. 13th, representing thousands of miners, set the date for strike, adopted the following ive min | PINEVILLE, Ky.—The National | Miners Union, Southern District, has issued the following statement to the coal operators’ associations and to the press: “The District Board of the Na- tional Miners’ Union which was authorized by. the District Conven- tion of the Southern District to has reviewed ‘the situation on. the eve of. the launching of this struggle. In surveying. the. tremen- > dons. mass determination . te chal- ,.Jenge the starvation and terror of the. operators, in estimating the , Series of mass meetings that have been held in the field, in estimat- ing the organizational prepara- tions, we realize that the over- whelming. masses of the miners throughout the Kentucky. and Tennessee fields are for the de- mands put forth by the conven- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Baltimore to Have a Liebknecht Memorial Affair on January. 15. BALTIMORE. Ainited {front committee led by the Young Com- munist.. League is..preparing. a. mass commemoration for Karl Liebknecht. In the preparations an attempt is being made to acquaint the young workers of the Sparrows Point plant (from where rumors of another 15 per cent wage cut aré coming) and the B. &.O. Mt. Clare Shops (now closed for 4 months: already) with the war preparations of the bosses. A special appeal is being made to the Negro youth for whom struggle is of utmost significance in view of the terror that the bosses of Mary- Jand have instituted against them. carry_on preparations for the strike, _ ‘UNEMPLOYED DELEGATION EXPOSES F Tennessee Coal Fields “RELIEF” TALK OF A.F.L. AND SENA ens Man her ib Mass At ’Frisco State Bldg. January I1 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif Dec Herbert Benjamin | Thousands of workers ,emplc a and unempioyed are being f et here and throughout the state for} the State Hunger March to the State | Building in San Francisco, Jan, 11th Governor Rolph of Ca‘ifornia, who | | at first agreed to listen io the de- mands of the unemployed, later wired | thie Unemployed Councils of Califor- nia, declaring he would refuse to listen to the representatives of the | starving thousands | The Unemployed Council in 2 tele- graphic reply stated that the Cali-| | fornia State Hunger March would convene in San Francisco on Jan. 11 at the State Building, and that the | wor rkers .would insist on the right to | put forwerd the demands of the | enemy eves In Chicago Sunday | Qn Unemployed CHCAGO, Dec. 30.—In order to mobilize the workers of Chicago. for continued struggle for immediate re- lief and unemployment insurance, a conference has been called of all workers: organizations for Sunday, Janvary=8rd,at-11 a. m. to be held appeared before a senate commit~ tee Dec. 30 to present the demands of the 12,000,000 unemployed Amer- ican workers. Benjamin spoke for an hour and a half exposing the fake relief plans of the government and the A. F.,of L. and putting ferward concrete demands for im- mediate relief of $150 for each job- less worker and unemployment in- surance at the expense of the capiv talists. (CELEBRATE THIRD = YEAR OF NEEDLE UNION TO-NIGHT, ‘Today the workers of New York will celebrate ,the third anniversary of the Needle Trades: Workers’ ‘In- dustrial Union at Central Opera House, 67th St. and. Third Ave. The Needle Union was born in the heat of the struggle against the fak- ers of the “socialist” unions. For a time the combined efforts of the po- at, Peoples Auditori:m, 2457 West Chicago Ave. Following this con- ference, all workers’ organizations. will be involved in the-campaign for the’ collection of hundreds of thou- sands. of signatures for the Unem- ployment ‘Insurance Bill and for the mass demonstration in support of this bill on National Unemployment: Insurance Day—Feb. 4th Especially now that the charities} have openly declared that they will not continue to pz of the unemployed and when e¢ workers are again faced with mass evictions, must the workers rally to the call of | the Unernployed Council for struggle. NEW YORK, Dec. 31—The Scotts- boro’ Defense Committee today de- manded of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that it turn over to the de- fenders of the nine S¢ottsboro boys the money which the NAACP mis- leadérs have fraudulently collected undér pretense of assisting in the case, Hopé, secretary of the Scottsboro Défénse Committee of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights,. which has bene conducting the defense of thé boys. The telegram’ further de- jens, that the NAACP misleaders gease their disruptive tactics in the Sedttsboro case, and that they make a public accounting of all funds col- lected in the name of Scottsboro. Whilé doing everything in the’: power to hold back the masses fron struggle for the freedom of the boys, and while cooperating with the lynch courts and cificials~-of Alabama in trying to disrupt the defense con- bourgeois and “S , et’ the Bronx press. nurabes ever broadening class is’ in a large measure due, to the unflinching support ofthe workérs “ot New York. correct. - A highly colorful and moving. pageant entitled “The | “8 p. m.” Trial ‘Of. The Yellow Press” ‘will “be group of well known prolétarian” yerformers. . | | presented by a This Demand NAACP Tum in Funds Collected fo: Scottsboro The telegram is signed by Cécil 8.| pageant is a smashing expose of the betrayals of the up to the light of day the treachery of the “socialist” newspapers and the poisonous lies in The Labor Sports Union, famous for its gymna: teams, will also contribute a spectacular gymna: well worthy of this leading organization of | worker sportsmen. The Jubilee will start promptly at three o'clock in the afternoon. The notice carried in yesterday's Daily Worker’ concerning the time of the Jubilee was in- It should have read “3 p. m.” instead of All section executives of the Party are asked to re- \ port at the Bronx Coliseum at 11 o'clock lice, gangsters, the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom and the socialist party suc- ceeded in terrorizing the needle workers into remaining with them. But during the past year the. dam broke. The union comes to the cele- bration as a real power in the in- dustry. The needle workers are building a strong, industrial unjon which has won. great successes dur- ing the past year. At the celebration tonight Com- rade Foster, Ben Gold, secretary of the union; Maude White and Lena Chernenko will review the various stages in the development -of the N,. Ts Wye o,-* ducted by the ILD and other work- ing class organizations, the mislead- ers of the NAACP have seized upon the case as an opportunity to re- plenish their treasury. From thou- sands of Negro and white workers in every part of the country, they have collected money under the pretense (AGYHL DDVd NO GAANELENOD) Arrested Textile Strikers Give! Money for Ky. Strike Aid: BOSTON, Mass—Arrested textile | International Relief. workers at East Boston Immigration | Among those who contributed to Station who were on strike in Law-j| the fund and econstittued themselves |sence and ere now threatened with|a Kentucky Relief. Squad are Bill { deportation for their strike activities,| Murdock ,a national organizer of. the responded to the appeal of the Ken-| National Textile Workers Union, tucky miners and raised $5 among! Bedros Donegian, S. Paul,L. Kar- themselves which they sent to the} sevich, A. Reed, C; Bohn, A- Borisen, District International Labor Defense | Ishmael Ahmet and J. Bove. office to be forward to the Workers; Appealing to other workers and their respective organizations to fol- low their example the, committee writes: yee: “The cause of the Kentucky miners is our cause. Their victory will be ours. The enclosed list of seamen and textile workers appeal to the marine workers and textile workers to organize suppor! for the Kentucky mine strike now. We asx all workers to follow our example.” “We have no money and very little comfort here. Conditions are so bad that alreafiy nine have gone to hospital im the past ten weeks. Yesterday Comrade Berkman was taken to the hespital, and for this reason her name dees not anpear. We appeal to <li workers to break down the walls of nationalism that the capitalist use te weaken our struggle. Fight for decent gy '!- | tions in Americal. Fight ay omst discrimination of the foreign born! jocialist” press and mércilessly holds | the capitalist ic De mand “Real oy Call for Mags. Fig. for Jobless Insurance WASHIN LINGTON, vu C.—Seoring : the . “ lief” proposals of Sen- ators La Follette: and Costigan as ‘political gestures merely designed to create illusions:.:among the masses of workers -and keep them fro miaking 1 Up 3 a strug: | gle, Herbert Benjarain, Feige | tary of the National . Unemployed | Councils, pesaree | | an hour -and a half speech, before. & | subcommittee of the® Senate .Com- mittee on Manufactutes ‘Wednesday, the demands of 12,000,000 workers for . immediate .¢ash relief and unemployment ifsuraince. bs The representatives of the unet- ployed defeated all the: manou the tricky senators to deny th Along with James Watson and | hearing. Under. their insistent pres- | Sure, LaFollette was finally foreed ‘te |abandon his attempts. to: mittee of Unemployed Councils, | them from the hearing. LaFollette first tried to shunt the unemployed: ‘delegates off > by directing: then “ta | another, Senate committee which ed scheduled to meet néxt-month. When ‘the workers’ délegation “in- sisted on being heard, LaFollette tried to trick‘them by stating: that “Sf timtie . allows after other witnesses” the:,unemployed would” be Watson, the Negro delegate, ¢ ed’ to. know whether the-committ®e noe be hed¥d“or not, eplied that. maybe they would. be Hard. Benjamin .hen demanded-a yes or no ansy He accused Folletté of political trickery, exposing. the plan to silence the conimittée: an ‘evasive reply and: then a the hearing before the unemployed: could be heard. To this LaFotlettis brazenly replied that tHe committee. |¢an put any construction upon his tactics that they wish! Finally Benjamin was called to» tess tify at 3:45. With the senaters, squirming in their chairs obviousiy uriéasy spoke for an hour and ‘a Half réading the same document that was te be presented to Congréss by the Hunger Marchers on Dec.’ 7. 4 Comenting on’ thé-‘graphs which were presented to the-Senate Com= tmittee by Ralph G. Hurlin of the. Russell Sage Foundation during the morning session, which showed’ an increase in relief since November- 1931, Benjamin pointed. to the mass pressure organized by the Commun= ist Party and Unemployed hfe “This small amount of. relief ‘that, was given,” said Benjamin, “which is indeed criminally inadequate, .can be directly attributed-to-this mass pressure.” * Scores La, Follette jietncnae “La Folletie,” declared: Benjamin, “proposes. 250. million for relief, Ces- tigan says he wants 3§0.million, 150 ” an ~ {million which will be!used in. 1933 and 250 million in 1933: The tacts, point that this ia. demagogic polix_ tical move. 250 milliet: would nog: meet the needs of the 12 million uns employed and their families. “relief” given now, according to the: | Welfare organization, is 650 dollars short each wank of. sean amount needed. = “Fist, we accuse the “senators ot © making a political gesture; second,» you! are attempting te: create ile. sions among the mésses who by. their militancy ate forcing you: te take steps, and, third, we denounee _ your proposals as ait, to dis- rupt the mass mey the un- employed, which alone can en: the government to relief and insurance. thie bole we denounce you. “The statement chia F. Mc- Grady, legal representative, of ~ (CONTINUBD ON PAGE THREES 4 Output Per Manin Coal fi a been pushed. to on 198Q,\a%c* mres ata’ ‘abe ae workers in and about “i mines!. This increase. of 40 pet in avetege daily output per hes come partly fromy‘ineré machine cutting, mechsnicél Fight against deportations! Win | the Kentucky strike!”