The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1932, Page 1

= WORKERS - OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central punist Porty an Section of the Communist biioes oh hay Norker U.S.A. SUBS. ( GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMA'Trss & “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” NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JA} UARY_ 12, 1932 _crry EDITION CALL ‘SPREAD THE STRIKE’ CONFERENCE-RELIEF DECISIVE Demand $200,000,000 Winter Relief for the Unemployed of New York City gram of the ~ Councils to careuet, we said: Get the Demands and Pro- Yesterday, in a summary of the shortcomings in dur struggle for workers’ unemployment insurance at ~- full. wages and the program of demands for immediate “Agitational and propaganda literature of the Unemployed the Masses finest kind remains in the print shop. Districts do . ‘Rot place their orders for this literature—so that “the inertia of the center and districts results in cumulative checking of the struggles for which hun- -dteds of thousands of employed and unemployed American workers are waiting.” _.- The miserable adventure organized by “Father” = ©ox is a danger signal. It shows that these enemies = ofthe employed and unemployed workers, these dema- “Sgogues who are connected closely with the biggest banks and industrial corporations, are taking advantage of the terrible misery that prevails now, and that has been charity relief, to follow up unemployment. insurance Street, New York City. intensified by the shutting off even of the miserable ~ tion having a definite fascist trend. “~*~ The demands and the program of action adopted . by the National Hunger March Conference, the pam- phiet on Workers Unemployment Insurance, the splendid Hunger March Pictorial, are ready for distribution. The -agitational base of the whole. campaign must bi ~-mensely broadened now in preparation for Febru: _ All Districts, Unemployed Councils: Send in your .orders for the Hunger March Pictorial, for the workers’ “ néeds of the National Committee of Unemployed Coun- . cils are very great. -Send.the money with your orders ~~ to the Unemployed Councils Committee, 16 West 21st their fakery with organiza- 4. pamphlet! The financial 800 Demonstrate Against Shutting Off of Light, Gas in Jobless Homes; F ightHigh Rate Demand Reopening of Relief Bureaus Shut By Tammany Hall and Wall St. Bankers NEW YORK.—Eight hundred workers from the Unem- ployed Councils, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Councils of Workingclass Women, and neighborhood committees of unem- ployed served as representatives of the New York worke.s in a demonstration Monday morning to protest the increase of electric light rates and the closing of + the Home Relief Bureaus by the City government. At 10 o'clock in the morning the paradé started from Union Square | and wound down Ave. B to Rutgers Square then to the Public Service| Commission at 80 Center St. Al-) though the police, under Deputy In- spectro McAuliffe, tried to limit the | meeting before the State Building, the militancy of the workers forced the granting of hte front steps for al speakers’ platform, and the meeting on for two hours. Many work- | vicinity joined the demon- ind stood throughout the ‘meeting in the biting. cold. A-delegaiton of 20 was elected and sent into the open hearing to demand the, reduction of electric light rates atid the abolition of the $1 minimum | rate charge. A committee of 10°-was' sent to see Commissioner (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘PATERSON SHIRT WORKERS STRIKE Needle Union Leads; Gold to to Speak PATERSON. NJ, J., Jan. 11.—Thir- ty ironers in the Liondale Shirt Co. went on strike against a cut in piece j rates. | ‘The Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union is calling a meeting of all needle workers in Paterson. Ben Gold, secretary of the union, will of- | ficially install the Paterson local of the N. T. W. I. U. Thursday at 8 Pp. m., at Lithuanian Hall, Lafayette and Summers St. 1 DEMAND TO BE HEARD BY SENATE Jobless Council To Put Forward Workers Bill Report Rushed Thru To Send Delegates To Washington NEW YORK. — Charging that the Senate Committee on Unemployment Insurance is at- tempting to sidetrack hearing the representatives of the or- ganized unemployed movement in the United States, Herbert Benjamin, secretary of the Na- tional Committee of the Unem- ployed Councils of the U. S., today wired Senator Herbert, chair- man of this Senate Committee, de- manding a right to present the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bil “Your committee having failed to hear the proposals of the only direct representatives for unem- ployment insurance, the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who were represented in the National Call Conference To Kentucky Mine Strike NEW YORK—A broad united front conference for the mobilization of forces in support of the Kentucky miners’ strike is called for Sunday, Jan. 17, at 11 am. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Every work- | ing-class organization is called upon | to send delegates. Members of A. F. of L. locals are particularly requested to make sure that their organization is well represented. 20,000 WORKERS IN CHILE OPEN 'Gov’t Points Machine Guns at Strikers NEW YORK.—Answering the call for a general strike against the im- perialist lackey government of Chile, 20,000 Santiago state railway work- ers, street car workers and bus driv- ers walked out on Monday. Reports of the Associated Press declared that the strike was spreading to many cities. In Santiago the government | mounted machine guns on 1100 taxi- in an attempt to cow the strik- e The general strike was. called to demand unemployment insurance Hunger. March,” the ‘telegram )ind the release of arrested militant rands, we therefore demand such @ hearing be granted before you report your findings.” “Only the Workers’ Unempioy- ment Insurarice Bill, adopted by 1,670 delegates in the National Hunger Marche provides for a sys- tem of unemployment insurance that meets the needs of the 12,- 000,000 totally jobless and the over 10,000,000 workers on part time work. Our delegation will appear before your committee at such time as you set to explain our bill and to demand its enactment.” This senate committee has been holding hearings for some time, the jJast one having been held on Dec. 10th. A report was prepared which was to be rushed through quietly. A letter written by Senator Hebert to Herbert Benjamin tries to justify the exclusion of the representatives of the unemployed. “If it be held that we would be justified in delaying further the fil- ing of our report,” says the Senator's letter, “and the submission of such tentative measures as we may re- commend for enactment by Congress, we will then arrange a time when you may be heard.” Demonstration of Fur Workers at 29th and 7th Ave. Today at 10 NEW YORK—There will be a de- monstration of fur workers at 29th Street and 7th Avenue on Tuesday. They will proceed to the bosses asso- ciation to put forward the demands of the unemployed furriers to them. At 10 in the morning, there will be a meeting of unemployed furriers at {31 West 28th St., and from there will proceed to the demonstration at 29th Street. workers. The Associated Press wires the demands as follows: “Freedom for those arrested in re- cent uprisings at Copiapo, Vallenar 'and in the September naval revolt at Coquimbo; unemployment insur- ance of 5 pesos a day, dissolution of the Cosach nitrate combinein which Wall St. has controll; dissolution of Congress, socialization of the large landed estates, annulment of the fascist laws, solution of unemploy- ment.” A Communist demonstration was scheduled to be held in Santiago on the Boulevard Alemada and the gov- jernment mobilized its troops to stop the demonstration. Last, Tuesday a parade was held under the leadership of the Com- munist Party calling for the general strike. The banners read: “Down with the government that assassi- nates workers!” . Put Over Binkley Case For More Time To Frame Up Charges DANVILLE, Va., Jan. 11—W. G. Binkley, Communist organizer, who was arrested nearly a month ago and framed up first’on charges of “carry- ing Communist literature” and later on charges of “attempting to over- case put over until the first Monday in March, The state asked for the continu- ance on the ground that it was not ready for trial. It needs more time to frame up the case against Binkley. Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions. Mobilize Relief For | GENERAL STRIKE, | called throw the government,” has had his! | ministration BANKS ORDER Kentuck RELIEF CUT IN ALL CITIES Morgan-Hoover Group 500 Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. Miners Strike Against Cuts Lay Down Hunger y Strikers Must Have Food, Clothing Striker Refused Bail In Any Amount By Prosecutor BULLETIN Policy Rally on February 4th) Workers Must Take-up | Sharper Struggles NEW YORK.—With 79 so- “home relief stations”) closed and the Tammany ad-| admitting that PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 11.—Following the annuancement of a ten-cent-per-ton wage, cut, 500 miners struck over the heads of the United Mine Workers of America officials who passively accepted the cut. The strike movement was stimulated by members inside, after Siders, District N }, president met with them. This closed the Pittsburgh Lerminal Mnie No. 4 at Horning completely. Other Terminal miners say they will follow at other mines, There are strong possibilities that a strike will take place soon at Terminal Mine No, 3. The Kentucky strike has a strong effect here. Unemployed miners, members of the Nationai Miners Union marched to the struck mine to show their solidarity with the strikers. National Miners Union PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 11—An example of the extreme suppression to which the Kentucky coal oper- ators are resorting in a desverate effort to break the strike which is now sprea is shown in the ar- rest of vey Collette, Brush Creek section strike organizer. When friends offered to. put up the $2,000 bail set for the release of Collette, the court refused to ac~ cept it, Friends then asked: “Sup- pose we bring $10,000?” The prose- hundreds of thousands of un-! employed face “unprecedented des- titution,” Mayor Walker met yester- day with Morgan & Co. and other bankers, planning ways of cutting down on all relief in order to leave more profits for the bankers and graft for Tammany Hall. The difficulty started when the city administration asked ‘for 4 $90,000,000 loan, part of which was to go supposedly for unemployment | relief. Tammany Hall, in order to} keep its political machine intact, re- quires a certain amount for graft, for its henchmen and dribbles bs reliet for a selected few. = et With city finances tn difficult shape, the bankers saw an opportu- nity to demand concessions, the first being to eliminate all relief, and the second being to increase street car fare so that the bankers can rake in about $19,000,000 more yearly from both employed and unemployed who are forced to use the subways to look for jobs. | ‘The bankers who determine the city relief policy, with the aid of Walker, are the same ones who back the Hoover hunger regime and | are the decisive orces in the United | States government. ‘These banks are: J. P. Morgan & Co, Guaranty, ‘Trust Company, Bank of Manhattan Trust Company, National City Bank of New York, Bankers Trusts Com- pany, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the; Chase National Bank. 1 Senator Copeland, to whom Walk- er wired asking to have the matter taken up by th eSenate, admitted : that thousands are starving and that the sham of city relie? was put up to stop a federal “dole.” Copeland in’ a special statement said: “The President and all others in authority have said that there can’t be a government dole and that the localities must take care of them-/ selves. There are 800,000 out of work in New York City. The Board ot Estimate there has apprporiated $20,000,000 to relieve the distress caused by this. unemployment. If the city can’t get the money to carry out its relief program, the only al- ternative is the dole. “There is the same situation in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. I believe that similar conditions exist in virtually every city in the United States.” Most of the $20,000,000 in so-called relief was to go for graft. The situation in New York faces ing. tion, the States. toe norma. NEW YORK ters of millions of. profits; are eating and enjovnig themselves workers and their families in the City of New York are starvy- Daily worse. During the month of Decem- ber, 12,000 more factory workers in the state of Now York were into the streets to starve. Roosevelt in his message to the State Lezislature admitted that there are | 2,000,000 unemployed in the He did not propose a single penny | of relief for the 2,000,000 anemotoyed —but only taiked about reduction of | taxes for the rich, increased taxes for \[emorial “To Be Held at Bronx Coliseum William W. Weinstone, of the Cen- the workers and poor farmers. “In the midst of this tragic situa- nome relief bureaus have | closed down—INDEFINITELY. The} tens of thousands of workers who| ‘Ta! Committee Communist Party U. were getting the crumbs of relief are | 5-4. will be the principal speaker of No attempt was | the Lenin Memorial meeting arranged by the New York District of the Com- 79 police precincts to provide for ali | munist Party at the Bronx Coliseum | E. 171th Street on Thursday even- now left to starve. made through these bureaus in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOD as in the federal government. tions on National Communist Party ot N.Y. | Calls for Fight on Hoover- Walker Hunger Program Accuses Tammany and Bankers of Playing With Workers’ Lives, Calls All to \ Demunstrate. Feb. '4 more than the _—Answering the shutting down of 79 so-called home relief stations by Tam- many Hall along-with the Wall St. bankers, the) New York District Committee of the Commu-| nist Party issued the following statement cal-! ling on all workers to fight for the demands of the unemployed: “While the Wall Street billionaires are raking in their while the bosses and their wives | eutor replicd: > “No matter how much you bring we are going to keep him.” Two hundred and fifty strikers picketed Kettle Is!and this morn- ing, and pulled out ten more men. Twenty armed deputies plerced the picket line and es- corted 6@ striebreakers into the mine. A.J. Patrick is in jail here. The Victor Mining Co. swore out a war- rant for his arrest to be held on peace bond. He was arrested Fri- day but no hearing was held and no amount ef, bond stated, PINEVILLE, Ky., \Jan. 11.—The strike executive committee met Friday and plan- ned nine section strike jconferences for Saturday and Sunday on over 25 miles of strike front to consolidate the strike of the Kentucky-Tenn- essee miners and to elect sec- tion strike committee and form de- 1,000,000 | situation becomes, turned Governor state. jing, January 2ist. ee This memorial meeting to honor the workers throughout the United | the life and work of the greatest re- ‘The big bankers dictate the | volutionary leader of all times, will financial policy in every city as well| pe the occasion of the New York | workers to demonstrate by the thou- It is against this hunger dictator- | sands against the sharpening capit- ship that the Feb. 4th demonstra~| alist mass hunger and war offensive, Unemployment | and for defense of the Soviet Union Insurance Day wil Irally hundreds of | ahout to enter the second 5 Year thousands of workers in struggle for | offensive against capitalism, under immediate unemployment relief and | unemployment insurance, ‘Huge Lenin Meet Jan. 21 to Protest Hunger and War. CONTINURD ON PAGE TWO) | partments. Marches are planned to Kettle Island, Bell County, and Pruden, Tenn., sections. Six mobilization mass ; Meetingswere held today. Harvey Collette, member of the strike execu- | tive was arrested on an old framed- up lquor charge on Saturday. The | local press states the reason for his arrest in his strike activity and lead- ership in the demonstration at the court house on Thursday. In an attempt to prevent a dem- | onstration, the county officials held s surprise arraignment of the ar- rested ten secretly on Friday. Mob- illzation is now on for a huge dem- onstration at Pineville Tuesday when the trial is set. Lie About Strike The Scripps-Howard press column- \ ist Tracy who was invited to survey the ‘strike zone by the Middlesboro (Ky.) Chamber of Commerce declares the strike is a failure despite the fact that the strixe is spreading daily. At the Balkin mine of the Southern Min- jing Co., 300 men walked out Friday, closing the mine 100 per cent. Mass pieketing is strengthening the strike throuhout the field. ‘The terror is increasing. The Amer- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) bi Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. has opened a determined cam- } © bring additional thousands of workers infositg ranks. We are appesling directly to fighting American proletarians to join the revo~ beget id party of {.2 American working c'xss ition. menaces millions and imperialist vor threatens the whole toiling populatino. i The, Communist Party is the highest form of © working’class political organization. Tt organizes and leads the fight for the daily needs and de- mands of the working class, but atthe same time and fights for the general broad in- the working class as a whole. “The ” says a Communist Manifesto, “dis- ti ‘Communist Party organizes the working class for. the revolutionary struggle for the over- of capitalism—the struggle for power, for ‘ dictatorship as hte prerequsite for the building of socialism, the transition to the classless Communist society. ‘Thé resent world economic crisis, which in numer of important countries develops ra- Tuptey of the capitalist system of wage slavery— @ system based on the robbery of the toiling sections of the population, who are the majority, by @ small minority of capitalists whore execu- tive committee is capitalist government. Only a couvle of years ago the spokesmen of the three capitlaist parties in the United Sta‘es —tepublican, democrat and socialist—were prat~ ing of “permanent prosperity.” They boasted that American caitalism, the strongest and the most stable of the capitalist nations, had evolved @ system of production, distribution and social relationships which had liquidated the class struggle. In this the thira winter of the worst crisis in the history of American capitalism, these lies are thrown back in the teeth of the capitalist spokesmen, There are twelve million unemployed and hungry workers in the United States and the number is increasing daily. There is no provision made by capitalist gov- ernment for the relief of the minesry of these millions of workers and their dependents. Part time work is practically universal. Eighty-five is totally uneniployed or working short time at greatly reduced wages. The standard of liv- ing of the American working class has been re? duced from forty to seventy per cent in the last two and one-half years. Only the Communist Party, supported by the revolutionary trade unions of the Trede Union Unity League and the militant workers, fights for workers’ unemployment insurance at full pay and mobilizes the American working class for the abolition of capitalism, the only way by which unemployment, poverty and starvation can be abolished. The contrast between the conditions of the working clacs and the toiling farmers in the Soviet Union where socialism is being realized, where the Five-Year Plan of socialist construc- tion speeds to victory in four years, where un- employment has been abolished and wher the living standard of the working class rises steadily | —has become clear to great masses of American workers. There is tremendous sympathy and support for the Soviet Union and everywhere there is the greatest response from the working Soviet Union and relentless struggle against imperialist war. ‘Through their own sharp class battles, as in the Kentucky coal fields at present, and because of the growing difficulty of the ruling class in concealing such capitalist contradictions as the constantly shrinking markets, the huge mass of stored commodities withheld from the use of the hungry and homeless millions, the great wealth of the few and the growing poverty and misery of the many, the working class of the United States sees more and more clearly the capitalist class and its government as their ene. ales. The Central Commitete of our Party calls upon workers, and exploited intellectuals, to of the | Join its ranks for the struggle for the overthrow of the system which brings slaughter end i:nper- jalicst war, hunger, disee:> and starvation to millions of the working class and oppressed colonial peoples. Especially in America where the traditions of individualism have been kept alive in the ranks of the workers by the publicists of capitalism, per cent of the entire American working class | class to the call of our Party for the defense , sur task ‘s the creation of s mass Communist bY Party based in the decisive industries including in its ranks the best of the American proletariat. Lenin said: “. . . The proletarian who has passed through the school of the factory can and must give a lesson to anarchistic individual- ism. The class conscious worker has long ago abandoned his swaddling clothes... . But to the extent that a real party is growing up among us, the closs conscious worker must learn to dis- tinguish between the mentality of the soldier of the proletarian army and that of the bour- geois intellectual flaunting anarchistic phrases. . . .” To organize and lead ‘ye sharpening struggles of the working class :° ‘nst American capital- ism successfully our }.ariy must double and triple its membership in the shortest possible space of time. Our Party has no interest sepa- rate and apart from those of the working class as a whole. It invites into its ranks every work- er willing to fight militantly against the capital- ist offensive, Espectally does it call upon the militant Negro workers, the most exploited and oppressed sec- tion of the American working class, to enter our orkers! Join the Revolutionary Party of the Working Class Party and take their place in the leadership of Our Party alone exposes and combats the so- cial-fascist and fascist agents of the ruling class in the ranks of the working class such as the socialist party and the o*ficials of the American Federation of Labor—the betrayers of every struggle of the American workers, big or little. Fight against imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union! Fight against wage cuts and for the 7-hour day! Fight the Hoover-Wall Street starvation and war program. Fight and destroy the lynch and murder terror against the Negro masses! Build the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League! Build the union directly in the decisive industries! Fight for Workers Unemployment Insurance! Build the Unemployed Councils! Join the Communist Party—the revolutionary