The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central - Ong Rpaumit (Section of the Communist International ip Norker Porty U.S.A. at New York, N. Y. Vol. TX, No. 8 Ss Entered as eccond-class matter at the Post Office nder the act of March 3, 1979 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 1932 “carry EDITION . 1 GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF TH ER” GROU E DAILY WORK- READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” PROTEST SCOTTSBORO LYNCH VERDICTS TOMORROW! Morgan & Co. Co. Orders s All | Jobless Relief Stopped PENN.-OHIO MINERS AID Organize for February 4th! | We unemployment grows by leaps and bounds, the sole “remedy” advanced by thé capitalists and their government to care for the ¢ starving—a dole of charity, is openly shown to be a failure. ‘Throughout the nation even the hypocrites who have organized the miserable “charity” organizations that are supposed to administer “‘un- employment relief,” are throwing up their hands in despair. In New York City, after a great beating of drums about the “‘wonder- ful” way the unemployed would be cared for ,the whole machinery has collapsed like a house of cards, and more than a million unemployed, to | whom must be added their families, face actual starvation. ‘The situation is the same approximately everywhere. And the fake “hunger march” of Father Cox to Washington, which we exposed yes- | terday in these columns, is typical of the shameless demagogy and deceit | of the starving masses looking for a way out of their miseries. It is clear that the scheme of Father Cox was framed up with the Hoover government, and Hoover is fully as responsible for this crime against the working class as is Father Cox and his friends among the A. F. of L. leaders and such as Governor Pinchot. It was framed up to act as an antidote to the REAL Hunger March of December. They themselves have said it. And, outside the workers who starved enroute and who perished by | the way, the sole result is summed up in the cur-like whine of Father | Cox upon departing from Washington: “We go with trust in God and our Government.” If “trust in God” would do any good, something in the line of food might well have been expected to appear before this, the third winter of starvation. And as for “trust in our Government”; well, Hoover's an- swer to Father Cox is enough to convince even the most trusting of Father Cox's trusters, that Hoover is a demagogue and a liar. All that Hoover could say was that: “I have laid a program before Congress.” That program has been exposed sufficiently, even in the bourgeois press. It is a program of helping—not the unemployed—but the banks and the railroads! Indeed, it is positively against ALL work- ers, both employed and unemployed. ‘The inflation of the currency it provides for, will rob the workers of a big percentage of their already reduced’ purchasing power—will take the bread from their very tables and the milk from their babes! Thre simply is no other way out than STRUGGLE! The appalling situation can be seen when it is known that, in Hoover's “advice” to Father Cox's followers, he told them: “You must go back home and get relief through the regular channels,” while, for example, in New York City, the city authorities who are supposed io exist as these “regular channels” of charity, are told by the BANKERS: “No more money until you cut down expenses.” ‘Thus the old game of passing the buck fs gaily being played by ALL authorities of . capitalist government, municipal, state and national, WHILE LITERALLY MILLIONS FACE STARVATION, REAL STARVA- TION! If the capitalist’ masters of this country think that they can ex- ‘terminate what they term the “surplus of workers” in this fashion and without danger to their social system, they are very much deluding themselves. Bué from the standpoint of the revolutionary workers, the neckssity for wasting not an hour in the organization of the starving masses in the tight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance, has grown clear as day and of OVERWHELMING IMPORTANCE! ‘Yet what is the situation in the unemployed movement? Since the National Hunger March, which was a real accomplishment only if it was téllowed by a thorough-going organization of the workers, employed and unémployed, there has been a noticeable “lesdown.” Too much self satis- faction over the demonstrative character of the National Hunger March has led to a slackening of effort tn concrete organization of the wide masses—especially in preparation for February 4th demonstrations. The burning need of ‘the hour, is the realization of the situation of millions of workers looking for a way out of the trap into which capi- talism has snared them. The major duty of every revolutionary worker is, today, to ORGANIZE these masses around the program of the Un- employed Movement! Organize for Unemployment Insurance! Organize for February 4th! ALL WORKERS FOR ‘DAILY’ SUB CAMPAIGN REPORT 10 A. M. SUNDAY; SPUR 5,000 SUB DRIVE All Party members and sympathizers are called upon to report Sunday, at 10 in the morning for participation in the Red Sunday of the Daily Worker campaign for 5,000 12- month subscriptions. This is the first big mass effort in the subscription campaign. It has been set aside for a GENERAL MOBILIZATION of all Party members and sym- pathizers to canvass workers homes to spread the Daily Worker, to tell the workers about the aims and activities of the revolu- tionary press, and to get ‘subscriptions for the Daily Worker. The following are the stations for Red Sunday. Come with your friends to help one of these stations this Sunday at 10 a. m. BROOKLYN: 61 Graham Ave. Williamsburg; 136 15th St. So. Brooklyn; 48 Bay 28th St., Bath Beach; 1373 43rd St., Boro Park; 2921 West 32nd St., Coney Island; 148 Neptune Ave., Brighton Beach; Pitkin Ave. and Christopher Sts., Brownsville; 450 Hicks St. BRONX: 569 Prospect Ave.; 1400 Boston Road; 1325 Southern Blvd. DOWNTOWN: 301 West 29th St.; 132 East 26th St.; 142 East 3rd St.; Downtown Workers’ Club, 11 Clinton St.; East Side Workers’ Club, 196 East Broadway; Red Sparks Club, 380 Grand St. NEWARK: 121 Springfield Ave. PATERSON: 205 Paterson St.; 60 Paterson St. PERTH AMBOY: 308 Elm St. JAMAICA: 109 26 Union Hall st. JERSEY CITY: 302 Henderson St. “Bring the Daily Worker into every workers’ home.” Demonstrate Monday Against Electric Rate and Closing of Home Relief Buro A parade and demonstration to protest the closing of the Emer- gency Home Relief Bureau will start Monday, January 11, 9:30 a. m., at Union Square and march to the meeting of the Public Service Commis- sion, 80 Center St., by way of Avenue B, through Rutgers Square. A. delegation will be elected to demand the abolition of the $1 min!- mum rate for electricity for small users and also demand the reopening of the Emergency Home Relief Bureau offices. ‘ANSWER NEW STARVATION C¥-4@@<* ITN RELIEF TO SPREAD KY. — ORDER ON FEBRUARY 4TH! | | Nation- Wide Thinlouitritionn t to Push Fight for) All Funds for Meagre Aid NEW YORK.—New York Bankers, meet-| ing at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. yester- day, following the policy of the American! Bankers’ Association, ordered the James J.| Walker, Tammany Hall city government, to} | clamp down on even the miserable “unemployment - relief” | | which it was giving out heretofore. | | President Hoover is following the same policy of refusing } | any unemployment relief nationally as shown by his statement| of Father Cox, the fat, strikebreaking priest who led the recent | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BIGMEETING AT STAR CASINO IN MASS FIGHT FOR 9 BOYS Gen. Chamlee, Amis, Minor, Brodsky and Others to Speak; Workers to Hear Plans for Appeal This Month NEW YORK.—General George W. Chamlee will be one of the main speakers at-tite*huge Scottsboro protest demonstra- tion tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue. Jobless Relief As Bosses Cut Down On | Aldrich, a member Winthrop W. | of the Gibson committee which pro- | mised jobs to over a hundred thou- | sand New York workers, but petered out when the time for coming across arrived. Aldrich is president of the largest bank in the U. S., the Chase National, director of the Bankers Trust Co. and of several railroads. If there isn’t enough to pay the grocer, Winthrop can always appeal to his brother-in-law, John D., jr. Liberator in Need of Volunteers Today Comrades who can spare one-half hour today should drop up at the of- fice of The Liberator, Room 201, 50 E. 13th St., to help fold, insert and General Chamlee arrived in the city yesterday afternoon. He has come all the way from Chat-@ —————_ — tanooga, Tenn., for important con- ferences with other International Labor Defense attorneys. He will re- port on Sunday on the preparations for the appeal against the lynch ver- dicts. The Alabama Supreme Court on Jan. 21 will go through the form of hearing this appeal. The most vigorous and determined mass pro- test is now necessary to save the lives and FREE the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys, Every worker and sympathizer should turn out for tomorrow's meet- ing at Star Casino. This meeting must be a tremendous demonstration of the solidarity of white and Negro workers with the Scottsboro boys. It must serve further to build and strengthen the fighting alliance of Negro and white workers against the lynch error, against starvation, against imperialist war and for the unconditional equality of the Negro masses, including the right of the Soviet seal envelopes. All help welcome. United States Warns Japan in Quarrel | Over Control of China Armed Intervention Against Masses In Inner ; China Is Immediate Danger; Menace Union The tension between Japan and the United States developed yesterday into an extreme acute situation. In an identic note to the Jap- anese and Nanking governments, the United | coal mines in eastern Kentucky. The Negro majorities in the South to de- termine and control their own form of government. Other speakers at tomorrow’s mass meeting include Lowell Wakefield, | southern representative of the I. L. D.; B. D. Amis and Robert Minor of national Negro department of the Communist Party; J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the I. L. D.; Joseph Brodsky, one of the attorneys in the Scottsboro defense, Harold Williams, head of the district office ofthe League of Struggle for Negro Rights. (Carl Winter Will | Speak at Yonkers } Form™ January 10 YONKERS, N. Y.—On Sunday, January 10th, a t8 p. m., at the tem- porary headquarters of the West- chester Workers Center, 40 Hudson | St, Yonkers, Carl Winter, Sec'y. of the Greater New York Unemployed Councils, will speak on the Hoover Hunger Program and Unemployment Insurance, Over 20,000 ‘workers are unem- ployed in the city of Yonkers with additional hundreds being laid-off every day. Factories are working with less than one-third capacity and the next month will find many fac- tories shut down altogether. No re- lief is being given other than the measly crumbs of charity and this only when a worker has proven to the satisfaction of the “Commissions of Investigation” that he has lived in Yonkers more than 2 years. States calls Japan’s hand on her independent | plunder policy in Inner China and for the first time threatens , Mellon, haces, ee S. Steel! Rule Through( Gun sun Thugsi inKy.| |Largest Corporations In U. S. Own Mines In! Strike Area and Are Real Force Dictating men jail the leaders of the } tucky-Tennessee strike they do tucky. {lions of workers throughout the coun-® try. They are the same bosses who have condemned 12,000,000 unem- ployed to go hungry in the midst of | plenty. Insull, Mather interests—all have war against the miners which began in Harlan County and is spreading to other counties is not merely a local fight. Rockefeller Is Responsible! Rockefeller’s Consolidated Coal Co. with several mines in Letcher and Johnson counties, is the largest single operator in eastern Kentucky. It] operates also in West Virginia and| Pennsylvania. Next is U. 8. Coal and Coke Co., at Lynch, the closed company town that guards the northeastern gate- way to Harlan County. This is one of the several coal subsidiaries through which U. S. Steel Corpora- tion operates coal mines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tinois, Ten- | nessee, Alabama and Utah. Morgan Is Responsible! Morgan influence reaches into| eastern Kentucky not only through | U. S. Steel but through other com- panies also. Wisconsin Steel Co, with coal mines next door to Lynch is a subsidiary of the (McCormack- | Morgan) International Harvester Co. Utilities Coal Corporation with the| | Kentucky-King Mone on Wallins | Creek, is owned by Morgan‘s Com- | monwealth and Southern Corp. { King Harlan Company is tied to the Detroit Edison Company, con- | | | NEW YORK.—When the county offi Morgan, Rockefelled, Ford, Mellon, | Hunger Program als and their so on the orders of the largest | corporations in the United States which own coal mines in Ken-| These are the same magnates who cut wages oe mil-| | Gifford Instructs | |Red Cross to Try to} Break Ky. Strike | WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Hooy- er’s committee to enforce hunger, | headed by Walter S. Gifford, | millionaire president of the Amer- | |ican Telephone and Telegraph Co., has announced it will take part/ in trying to break the Kentucky- | Tennessee cola strike through the | | use of the Red Cross. Reversing its former policy ot | jnot even making a pretense at | j feeding straving workers, Walter | Gifford announced before a Sen- jate committee today that the| Red Cross would become “active” | }in the Kentucky strike territory. | Every miner should be warned about the Red Cross's attempt to bribe them to return on the prom- ise of “food.” The Red Cross has | been used repeatedly to break} strikes and to smash living con- ditions even lower than before the period of strike. Reach New High at Stalingrad Works (Inprecorr Press Service) MOSCOW, Dec. 27.—Yesterday the | record production of 119 tractors was achieved in the Stalingrad tractor |trolled by the same group as the/ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) works. Next year the workers hope | to reach the total capacity of the works—140 tractors daily, Protests Continue to Pour in gun-| National Miners Union in the Ken-| | | under the auspices of the Kentuc! to challenge the Japanese seizure of Manchuria. The note informs the Japanese and Nanking governments that the Wall Street government will not recognize any treaty or agreement between the Nanking and Japanese governments (CONTINUED ON PAGE BIVE) Answer Father Cox’s Fakery by Big Demonstration Feb. 4 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The thou- sands of hungry, tired, bedraggled unemployed workers who were lured here by promises of “‘jobs” by Father Cox, Pittsburgh priest, are returning as best they can to their homes, it they have any, or to “Shantytown,” to face greater hunger than ever. None of the jobless were allowed to present their demands to President Hoover, though Father Cox was given an interview. Father Cox was greeted enthusias- tically by Senator Reed, of Pennsyl- vania, a tolo of Andrew Mellon, and @ supporter of the Hoover hunger regime. “We call on a workers in this Washington by a rank and file committee, “to join in the mass street demonstrations on February 4th—National Unemployment In- surance Day. “Join and build the Unemployed {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—After At~ torney General Mitchell declared he had “lost” the report of the Wick- ersham commission o nthe Mooney- Billings frame-up, 2 copy of the re- port was handed to the Senate. Some capitalist papers characterize this report, written by lawyers faith- ful to capitalism, as a “terrific in- dictment” against the “justice” of the California courts. ‘The report admits that the Cali- fornia newspaper, acting with the police and all the state authorities, Wickersham Report Admits Mooney-Billings Framed Up | Union |telegram from NEW YORK. — Protests continue to pour in against the arrest of the leaders and work- ers of the National Miners’ in Kentucky who are now in jail on “criminal syn- dicalism” charges because they were leading the strike against hunger. Among these is a the Unem- ployed Councils of the United States. “The unemployed of the United backed oy the California bosses. “Immediately after the arrests of the defendants there commenced a deliberate attempt to arouse public prejudice against them by a series of almost daily interviews given to the press by prosecuting officials.” Some of the conclusions of the re- port are as follows: “There ever was any scientific attempt made by the police or the prosecutio nto discover the perpe- (CONTINUED ON PAGE Against Ky. Raids, Arrests States”, says this telegram signed by Herbert Benjamin, national sec retary, “who are fighting against | mass misery and starvation hail your valiant fight in the same cause. We will mobilize our utmost forces in support of your strike by aiding the relief campaign and pre- venting recruitment of unemployed as scabs. “We urge that you endorse the National Unemployment Insurance Day and join in the huge demon- strations on February 4th for unem- ployment insurance at full wages at the expense of the government and the bosses. “Nour victory will be a great ad- vance in the struggle against the bosses’ hunger program against which our Feb. 4th demonstrations are directed.” Daily large numbers of organiza- tions send their protests to the Ken- tucky county and state authorities against the arrests and continued im- prisonment of the strike leaders. Those who sent protests today, besides the Unemployed Councils, The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, includ- ing John Dos Passos, Lincoln Steph- ens, Waldo Frank, Transportation Workers League, Cleveland District of the International Labor Defense, Metal Workers Industrial League of New oYrk. included: | TENN. STRIKE OF 10,000 Coniareiese Held | Eastern Ohio, Pittsburgh Area \To Send Delegation to Kentucky |Similar Conferences to Be Held In Steel Towns PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. & —Coming from the scene of the bitter struggle in Ken __|tucky, Frank Borich, nationai | secretary of the National Min- jers Union, will speak at a mass | meeting here at the Workers Cen- | ter, 2157 Center Ave., Monday even- | ing, 7.30. This meeting will be held In Relief section of the Workers In | ternational Relief and the Nationa! | Miners Union. The Pittsburgh district has al- ready organized for Kentucky re- lief and unitde front conferences. Such conferences have already been held in Eastern Ohio where over | 250 delegates from a wide area i] and participate in one of the most enthusiastic conferences since last summer when several Kentucky miners came to Pittsburgh. Other conferences are being held throughout the Western Pennsylva- nis coal fields. Relief Conferences in Steel Towns Similar meetings will be held in steel mill towns. In Pittsourgh a pre- liminary conference was held last Sunday. This will be followed with a broad conference on January 24. A Series of mass meetings are being ar- ranged throughout the coal fields where enthusiasm for the Kentucky coal strike is tremendous The miners here are planning to send a delegatign to the Spread the Strike Conference. in Kentucky, | Jan. 17. | | To Spread Strike The rank and file miners here are urging the National Miners Union to send them in to Kentucky | saying they do not fear arrest “because we are not going for a joy ride but for real work. We must win this strike!” The headquar- ters of the District relief commit- tee here is 611 Penn Ave., Room 414, Pittsburgh, Pa. MELLA MEMORIAL ‘TO BE HELD AT HARLEM CASINO | Meeting Sponnored by Anti-Imperialist League ‘The Mella Memorial Meeting will | be held on Sunday, January 10, 3 p. m. at Harlem Casino, 116 St, and Lenox Ave. Among the speakers will be: Wil- liam Simons, of the Anti-Imperialist League, F. Ibanez, of the Association of New Revolutionary Emigrants | from. Cuba, A. Dieppa, of the Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist League, and Charles Alexander, from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. ‘The memorial meeting was ar- ranged at the Anti-Imperialist Con- ference on December 27. At the con- ference there were 41 delegates from | 25 organizations representiug 10,000 | workers. “The main purpose of the | conference was to prepare for the Mella Memorial Meeting. | Julio Antonio Mella was murdered in Mexico by one of Machado's henchmen because of his activity in the revolutionary movement. All workers are urged to attend the Mella Memorial Meeting and show their solidarity with revolutionary colonial workers and peasants.