The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1932, Page 1

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STRIKE ORGANIZERS FOR “CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM” TO CHECK STRIKE GROWTH; ARREST DAILY WORKER REPORTER “Minimum Rations” ‘We publish herewith an editorial entitled “Minimum Rations” which appeared in the New York Times on Saturday, January 2. ‘We believe that this editorial which, by reason of those contradictions within capitalism itself which are multiplie¢ a thousandfold by the present crisis, is one of the frankest expressions yet seen of the considered inten- tions of the American ruling class to carry through what Comrade Man- uilsky described at the 11th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the “Europeanising” of the living standards of the Ameriqpaf"working class. The editorial follows, the emphasis is ours. = t “MINIMUM RATIONS. fs help mothers who are getting money from relief agencies, and also {6 guide those whose husbands are earning very little, the United States Children’s Bureau and the Bureau of Home Economics have issued a joint tolder telling how to divide @ dollar among various kinds of food. These booklets will be distributed by welfare workers, who will also take pains to see that the mothers understand the instructions. An unpleasant fact must be faced when one considers that the folders describe what are called “irreducible minimums” for children’s diet, and not standards which should be maintained for normal health and growth. “When the money for food is extremely limited, the mother should spend one-fourth of every dollar for milk, elther fresh or evaporated, buf she should waste no pennies on sweetened condensed milk. Twenty cents of each dollar should go for vegetables, twenty for cereals, bread und beans, twenty for fats and sugars, and the remaining fifteen cents for all other foods. A supply of cod-liver oil should be bought out of gome other fund, and each child under two must have two teaspoonfuls a day. This is the “irreducible minimum.” He should have twice that uidunt for good helath. A pint of milk and a vegetable a day are the lowest amounts for every child, though 3 quart of milk is desirable and threé or four vegetables are standard requirements. “Ji is necessary to explain the printed rules to many mothers. They way not understand that apples and oranges come under the head of ‘ségetables, coc “tat butter, margavine, vegeiabie oil, lard and bacon are all fats. Some of the relief budgets are distressingly low, but every effort is be’ny made wo provide enough for an emergency diet. From $7.50 te $40 a week must be allowed a family of five, with additional sums if nore ly Wmc.c, an expectant mother or a child under two in the family. ‘Unsupervised families often buy unwisely when the food allowance Is very ‘ew. Salt pork, meal, molasses, rice and beans make a poor diet, yet many famiides, not instructed by welfare workers, concentrate on such a supply. ‘They have to be taught how to buy and often how to prepare nafarsilias foods, and the imporiance of the “protective foods,” such as milk and fresh fruits and vegetables, must be emphasized. It is helpful tu put the food folders into the hands of mothers in such circumstances, and still better to follow them up with personal advice.” Tue first thing to be remarked about the proposals in the above saitorial is thet the subsistence requirements set forth, both for adults idven, are entirely beyond the purchasing power of the income ‘oned, which Is far higher than the present charity payments. is entirely clear that the New York Times, one of the most au- ative spokesmen of American imperialism, in this editorial has Se fied the whole hunger program of Hoover-Wall Street government and has stated it boldly as one which forces the living standard of the working class down to, and even below, the subsistence level. The struggles led by the Trade Union Unity League and its af- filiated unions, by the Unemployed Councils for workers unemployment insurance at full wages and for immediate cash winter relief at the expense of the capitalists and their government, therefore is clearly a tight of the working class against starvation and for the right to live. fore than ever must be now make clear to the entire working class that tne National Day of struggle against unemployment and for workers’ unemployment insurance on February 4 is the next great step, follow- gud ¢ ing the National Hunger March, in the organization af the American | workiig class against the Hoover hunger program to which the New York Times has given such clear expression. Organize against the starvation rations for the American working class! On to February 4th! Demand the Safe Release of the Scottsboro Boys hearing before the Alabama Supreme Court against the lynch ver- dicts handed out to 8 of the 9 innocent Scottsboro boys in the framed up “rape” trials of last April, has been definitely set for an. 21. The working class must be under no illusion as to the character and role of the Alabama Supreme Court. Like the lower court at Scottsboro, the Supreme Court is controlled by the rich landlords and bankers who live on the enslavement and robbery of the Negro masses. These land- lords, bankers and their hangers-on are today waging a murderous terror against the struggles of both the white and Negro masses against starva~- tion. In Kentucky that terror is directed against Negro and white miners on_strike against starvation wages and the murderous attacks of the auine operators’ gunmen and deputy sheriffs. As a result of mass pressure and the firm attitude of the boys and their parents and other kin, the efforts of the imperialist lackeys in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to betray the mass fight to free the boys have met with a decided set-back within the past few days. The pretense of the N. A. A. C. P. to be “represent- ing” the boys has been exposed before the entire world.. The ruling class of Alabama has been forced to recognize as the official attorneys in the ease the attorneys engaged by the boys, their parents and the Interna- tonal Labor Defense. “<n the basis of the categorical repudiation of the N. A. A. ©. P. by all of the boys and their families, the Scottsboro Defense Committee ‘s demanding that the N. A. A. C. P. now turn over to the defense the funds tt Has Leen collecting in the names of the boys. The honest rank and ‘tilé members of the N. A. A. C. P. are faced with the duty of supporting nis demand. ‘The Negro masses must support this demand. The names the boys were used by Walter White and Pickens in brazen defiance the protests of the boys and their parents. Mothers of the boys who appeared at N. A. A. C. P. mass meetings on Scottsboro were denied the Noor by the misleaders who thus retarded their exposure before the masses. . Before the furious protests of the boys and their families against ' N..A, A, C. P. meddling in the case, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Gar- field Hays were faced with the alternatives of cooperating with the I. L. D. attorneys or of getting out of the case. The two “liberal” attorneys declined to cooperate in a united effort to save and free the boys. They romained loyal to the perspective of the N. A. A. C. P., the Fellowship of Teconciliation, and the Inter-racial Commission for 15 to 20 years in prison for these innccont working class children, Whe “defense” policy of these white and Negro reformists revolves around their desire to save the capitalist system of robbery, national op- pression and class terrorism. They are not fighting to free the boys. ‘Their activities are aimed at convincing the Alabama boss lynchers that it’ would be better policy to bury the boys alive in prison for 15 to 20 years rather than further arouse the fury of the white and Negro masses by carrying through the hideous lynch verdicts. At the same time, they attempt to convince the Negro and white wotkers not to take up @ militant fight against this frame-up on the hypocritical grounds that such a fight would revive the terror organiza- tions of the bosses—as if the most brutal terror was not now being (OONTINVED OX PAGE THRE PRESS USES ‘BOMB PLOT IN WAR MOVE Ney; Cops U: Use Under- world In Attempt to Incite War Fever Pa. Frame-Up Fails Communist Party Hits | Provocation NEW YORK.— Continuing with increased viciousness its anti-working class and anti- Soviet provocation, the New York capitalist press came for- ward yesterday with a brazen lie that the Soviet government had in- stigated through agents a series of bombings and other disturbances throughout the United States for the coming year. The alleged “anti- iascist” plot thus turns out to be a definite attack against the working class and the Soviet Union. Under the head “Dynamite Bomb ‘Ys Found In New York Office Build- ing; U. S. Hunts Soviet Leader,” New York's leading gutter sheet, the “Evening +Graphic,” spews forth the following slime: “Fear that 1932 might prove a year of terror because of bombings « « » instigated by the Soviet gov~ ernment was expressed today by @ member of the bomb squad in the New York Police Department.” But a little further in the story the “Graphic” unwittingly exposes the crude underworld-police origin LOS ANGELES, Cal. Jan. 4.—After Chief of Police Steckle had granted & permit for a send-off demonstra- tion for the statae hunger marchers, detective Hynes and his Red Squad sailed into a demonstration of 5,000 workers and began a murderous at- tack. Men and women were beaten unconscious, knocked down and trampled on in the streets. Max Olsen, member of the Youth Section of the Unemployed Council was bru- tally beaten. He was carried away in an unconscious condition by a group of unemployed workers. Olsen was also slugged by the cowardly Fiefer of the Red Squad on Saturday afternoon, when the young workers were attempting to enter a hail which they had rented for an unem- | ployed open hearing. | The California State Hunger March is scheduled to reach the State Building at San Francisco on January 1ith, when the marchers | will insist on presenting their de- mands for immediate unemploy- ment relief to Governor Rolph, | ‘When the speakers here called on | the delegates to fall into line, Hynes | and his Red Squad began an attack | on the workers. | ‘The unemployed workers of Las Angeles have learned another lesson which shows the necessity of mobi- lizing greater masses to meet the as- | Red Squad in Los Angeles | Attacks State Hungermarch| Saults of the police, led by Hynes end his Red Squad gangsters. | Despite the attack, the unemployed | in the hunger march formed two columns with several hundred work- | ers marching and joining them. They off safely to San Francisco, Appoint Shatoff of Transport (Cable by Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, Jar, 4.—Bill Shatoff, former ‘American Yailroad day la- borer and revolutionary worker, has been appointed to the high post of assistant to the Peoples Commis- sariat of Transport by the Soviet government, Shato® was in charge of the defense of Lenin- grad against the whites during the civil war for which he was deco- rated with the Order of Lenin. Under his direction the famous Turksib railroad was built. He has just completed the construction of five trunk lines around Magnitor- | | | gorsk. Shatoff was a close friend of Bill Haywood. They fought to- gether in the class struggle in America and after the Russian re- volution came to help the Soviet workers build socialism, | \Congress Re-Opens; Refuse to Consider Jobless Reliey National Committee of Unemployed Councils Appeals for Funds to Push Work of National Hunger March of the whole provocation. ‘The “Graphic” says: From underworld sources they (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BEGIN PRODUCING AUTO FACTORY Niini Novgorod Plant | Is Second Larzest in the World (By Wireless to Daily Worker) NIJNI-NOVGOROD, USSR, Jan. 2 —The Nijni Novgorod automobile factory, one of the greatest triumphs ‘of Socialist construction yet achieved in the Soviet Union, celebrated the New Year by beginning production. ‘Thousands of worker delegates from all parts of the Soviet Union attend- ied the opening ceremony in the ma- jchine repair shop. ‘The Nijni Novgorod plant finished jon Nov. 1 is the largest in Europe and only one in the United States, \Ford’s River Rouge plant, surpases lit in the U. S. The Soviet Union spent ,$154 million for the plant and the new workers’ town built up around {is A large part of the $18,000,000 dol- llars spent for foreign machinery and jtools was spent in America. ‘The annual production program of the plant is set at 120,000 machines yearly, (70,000 Ford trucks, model “AA” and 50,000 Ford passenger cars, jmodel “A”) The plant is able to in- lereuse iis output to 150,000 a year. It took only 18 months to complete this vast industrial undertakine. Tm order to house the workers of the plant sixty four-story apartment houses are being built. NEW YORK.—Latest from India tell of the fatal shooting of one man and the trampling to death of another in a mass demon- stration at Allahabad against British imperialism. This is the first clash following the publication of the new suppressive measures by the British Viceroy, Lord Willingdon. Sear aa NEW YORK.--That Gandhi is not what is worrying British imperialism is shown by the new suppressive laws ordegd after Gandhi's “arrest” by Lord Willingdon, British Viceroy of India, against the workers and peas- ants of India, Gandhi's last act be- Nore he was “arrested” was to call IN HUGE RUSSIAN! British Imperialists Kill 2 in India; Order More ‘laughter ture lists; we must issue the pamph- e- let which contains the official state- ment of the Hunger March as pre- | sented to congress and to the senate committee. We must issue the pic- torial story of the Hunger March and other campaign and propaganda ma- terial. “We need $1,000 immediately in order to get all this started and to develop the campaign for National Unemployment Insurance Day. Our work is seriously delayed for lack of these funds. “Tt you can spare $1.00; $5.00, $10.00 or any amount whatever, Rush it to us! “Organizations are urged to make contributions. Take this up in the next meeting of your union, club, lodge, etc. “Send your contribution immediate- ly to: “Unemployed Councils, National Committee, “16 West 2ist St., New Yorl: City. “Make checks payable to Herbert Benjamin, National Secretary.” x a8 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —- Congress reconvenes today, with unemployed relief and unemployment insurance not on the order of business. On the contrary, the main issue which the capitalist senators and congressmen are considering is the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the plan for which was drawn up by Morgan and Co. and approved by Hoover and Mellon. This corporation will get from $1,000,000,000 to 2,000,- 000,000 of federal money. A “dole” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) U. 8. A, dispatches , on the Ind Indian masses not to revolt | manding that Berkman be admitted jbut to melt the heart of their op- pressors by acts of love and sub- mission, Soon after the arrest of Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, another leader of the Indian National Congres: was given a two year jail sentence at hard labor, Nehru is known for his ability to sling apparentiy radical Phrses. He has cousisteutl acted as a wall againsi any real revolu- tionary struggle. The severity of the sentence against him is In line 2.2.) the new British policy of more open suppression and impressing on the | Kracevich, have been confined to the | | | | | | to Commissariat | MINOR, AMIS TO. JAPANESE IN 1,500 Miners Protest at INVASION OF Court House; Mass INNER CHINA Demonstration Today Aimed at Revolution and China Red Army |U. Ss. ald Aids isin! | Push Plans for War! On Soviet Union | Both the Japanese and the | United States governments united | yesterday In minimizing the at- | tack by Japanese voldters on Cul- ver B. Chamberlain, 2 United States consular official. The Amer- ican Consulate at Mukden pre- sented protest to the Japanese, demanding that a “severe penalty” be meted out to ihe Japanese sol- dlers involved. The Japanese made an apolosy to the United States. | A Washington dispatch farther smoothed things out for the Jap- | anese government by referring to | the soldiers involved in the attack | | as “three men who apparently were Japanese soldiers,” Thus the wey was cleared for maintaining the secret unders‘and- ing between Jaan and the Wail Street government for armed in- tervention against the Chinese Reyolntion and the Soviet Union. (STORY ON PAGE THREE) SPEAK AT JAN. 10 NEW YORK.—The National Committee of the Unem- ployed Council needs immediate help in order to start the work | Q .] which was outInied in the Washington Conference of the Na- |) SCOT TSBORO MEET | tional Hunger March. The National Committee declare: | | “We must print and mail hundreds of thousands of signa: SEND E. BERKMAN TO IMMIGRATION | STATION AGAIN Protest Tramiddiotely to| Free Sick Leader Por two weeqs Edith Berqman, Lawrence strike leader, has been lying ill in the Garney hospital in Boston, where she was taken from the immigration station. At the hos- pital she was given superficial treat- | ment for troat inflamation, which re- sulted from a generally weakened physical condition, brougit on by the poor food dished out a® the immigra- tion station. Berkman, together with Murdoch (who was deported last Sunday), Bedros Donegian, and Iven immigration ctetion for the p months, because of their part: in the recent Lawrence textile strike. tion has not basically improved, she will be returned to the immigration station within a few days, again to be subjected to the same unhealthful diet, and consequent illness. If Edith is to regain her strength for the class struggle she must be gotten on bail. A mass campaign is the only wieans of making our demand for bail heard by the Dept. of Labor. In a few weeks Berkman’s case is scheduled to come up before the Cir- cult Court of Appeals in Boston. In the meantime, the ILD calls upon all organizations to hold mass meet~ ings, flood the authorities with protest telegrams and resolutions from all over the country. Under the leader- ship of the ILD the workers are de- to bail at once, and that Donegiin and Kracevich be released. Funds are needed to carry on the campaign, Get your organizations, your frieds, your shopmates to rush funds to the ILD, 113 Dudley St., Bos- ton, Mass. Get your organizatious to rush telegrams and resolutions to the Dept. of Labor demanding the im- mediate relense of Berlsta:2, Donegian | and cevich, “in one word, you reprosch us with intending to do away with Altho Lerkinan’s physical condi- fe | wage cui were jailed yesterday (OONTANDED ON PAGE THRRE | your property, Precisely so: that ts dest what we intend.”—Marz, {11D to Demand That A Funds for Bovs Handled by [.D Among the speekers scheduled to| | apes! before a huge mass meeting at Ster Casino January 10th at 2 p.| m. are Robert Minor and B. D. Amis. | Tn its announcement for ihe meet- | | ing the Interneiional Labor Defense New York district, states that the made to the NA“CP iead- s and that Waiter White or any other representative of the | NAACP is invited to come to the meeting to explain why the I. L. D./ in its policy of mass defense should | not defend the Scottshoro boys. | ‘The International Labo: Defense | ~,;.,,| Criminal Syndicalism Charge Carries 25 Year Cures’ Jail Term for S trike Leaders | Strike Spreads as Relief Becomes Great Need; Warrants Out for Miners Leaders of Nat'l Unicon f | Build the mass defense miners! Smash the Criminal the Internat of the striking miners: and working class organizations: the state! lief for the fig! ilies against starvation! | \ | | || | | Syndicalist breaking weapon of the coal barons ond their! government. Release all the arrested strikers and organizers! ize to spread the strike front into other coal fields! nal Labor Defense into a resistless weapon lease of all Kentucky strike prisoners to the Governor of Organize a nation- of the Kentucky miners and their fam- Support the Kentucky miners! They are ir the front of the fight against the Hoover- Wall Street Hunger Program. for the striking Kentucky Law—the strike Organ- Build Workers and for the re- all workers! send demands ‘wide defense and strike re- PINEVILLE, Ky., J: an. 4—Enraged at the | rapid spread of the strike of the Kentucky and | Tennessee miners against starvation, several carloads of deputized coal company gun thugs made a surprise raid on the headquarters of the National Miners Union at 10 o’clock this morning and ar- rested everybody present. Vern Smith, Daily Worke r strike correspondent in the f Kentucky coal fields, was among those jailed. Others arrested are’ John Harvey, Vincent Kamenovich and Clarina Michaelson of the N. M. U., Dorothy Ross, International Labor Defense also demands of the NAACP that it turn over all funds collected by the | organization for the defense of the | Scottsboro boys to the I. L. D. The rani and file members of NAACP are called upon and wu to the mass meeting on Sunday hea ed directly from General G. and the other I. L. D. at- | as to why they shoul ternational Labor De nse of the Scottsboro bo y Tass om of | | the l¢ | contractors. | the offic | Avenne (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Call to Aid Drivers Picket on 35th St. Avpeal to e. eedl e| Workers for Help The Trade Union Unity Council calls upon the needle trades workers to demonstrate and suppor: the fight! ega'nst the lock-out of the Chaut- | feurs and Helpers of Manufacturers Express, 266 West 35th St. These workers cre members of the Transportation Workers Industrial League and were locked out to pre- vent the spreading of the organiza- tion among the rest of the workers in the trade. The winning of this fight is of es- recial importance to the dressmak- lers, in view cf the strike preparations las these workers do the carrying of the bundles of the manufacturers and | The demonstration is called for this morning at 10 a. m. in front of West 28th St., near 8th and fectory 4 for Dally Worker sab- | tevery fertile fielt scriptions. U.S . Jails German Seamen in Attempt to Break Strike = BULLETIN. Pressure exerted by the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union was responsible for the release last night of the striking German sea- men who were arrested yesterday by American naval off’eers. We NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 5.—The crews of the thrce German ships that struck here against a 1h per cent by | U. &. Navy officers from the U. 8. | Cutter Lightning and were taken to Silis Island where they are being held as prisoners for the German governinent, ‘he seamen on the S, S. Buken- hein, Surbeck and Jersbeck struck Ja. 2 in answer to the call of the International of Seamen and Harbor ‘Yorkers to smash the Bruning de- | cree which orders @ general wage cut in all German industries. A joint strike meeting of the sea. men of all three ships was held Mon- ight and it day voted that « Fe |commitice carry the c¢mands to the | Germen Consul. Tne committee, ac- companied by a lawyer from the In- ternational Labor Defense and a rep- resentative of the American section of the International of Seamen and Harbor Workers, appeared before the consul yesterday morning and pre- | sented the demands of the str-‘ting | emen. The Consul, however, stated | that be would come to no agreement whatsoever. The cailors decided to| corry on the struggle. | 40 this point the Wall Street gov- criment stepped in and showed its solidarity with the Bruning fascist government, offering the German ship owners assistance to slash the wages of the Gernian seamen, The crews of uil three ships were jailed and threatened with deportation to Germany and jail when they arrived there. ‘The jailing of these militant sea- CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOP sien at 2p. m. |chine gunner THUGS SET UP MACHINE GUNS TO KILL. WEBER Vern Smith Barely Escapes Death HARLAN, Ky., Jan. 1. (By Mail) — On the very first day of the strike, @ well organized attempt by the gun thugs of the coal operators’ sheriff, John Henry Blair, to kill Joe Weber, national organizer of the National Miners Union, was spoiled by the courage and alertness of the Harlan miners. ‘The locals of the National Miners Union around Harlan had called 8 mass meeting of miners at “Swim- ming Pool” on the edge of the city When 600 miners and members of their families had gathered there, about thirty depu- ized gangsters of the coal operators, heavily crmed with pistols, high | Powel rifles and light machine guns cane up in four big cars from their headquarters right in Harlan nd surounded the meeting. A ma- was hiden behind & bavicade in a fortified position, They planted some of their number with tachine guns covering the speakers’ |stand, at a distance of thirty yards troa ‘They boasted that they wou 1 Webe> the minute he ap- he scene i would rid- s the firs; man te x stand, ad your correspondent were riding in a car with three other persons frcm Pineville to Harlan to attenc the meeting, Weber being ad- vertized to speak. They were dee layed py tire trouble und did not are Tive until the gun men had shown themse!' Tae ors a: the meeting smug gied cut word to thom, when they |had orrived within e quarter of a mile 07 the moeting that Weber was to get out of Harlan at once. Im- mediately sfier that the meeting broke up, and the gunmen began to hunt around the country for Weber, Just as his car wes leaving Harlan, @ suspicious looking person ran out from the sidewalk and asked him if he was going to Pineville. Receiving & non-committal answer, the (prob- able) stool pigeon dashed away and Weber continued. He drove across a railroad crossing fifty yards ahead of a very long, slow moving train of {CONTINUED OF PAGE TERE, Tenants tee