The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 1

I Get New Subscribers Active in Drive for 5,000 12-Month ¥ WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR FHE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” SUBS. @utered “Vol. IX, No. 13 ‘aa aceomd-ciames matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Marck 3, 1979 Preparing the Working Class for February 4th | "I preparations for the National Day of Struggle against unemploy- | ment on February 4 have taken on greater meaning for the working ciass since the sharpening of the drive of Hoover-Wall Street govern- ment, the municipalities and the state governments, against the un- employed workers that has marked the last week. Congress has done nothing for the unemployed millions. While the Hoover Hunger Program with its hundreds of millions of dollars for the bankers, railway magnates and big industrial corporations slides smoothly through Congress. the bankers are carrying through in every city and state » new “economy” drive. | the cwiting down of assistance to unemployed families the cutting | x of all charity funds by the city administrations, the scaling down of all public works programs to the minimum and the slashing of city | anc state budgets has been the basis by the bankers for loaning sufficient | money to enable the cities to carry on routine activities. | ‘The cruel domination of the lives of the American working class by | finance capital through Its local, state and national government, has | never been made clearer In the whole epoch of imperialism than today. in connection with this fact that our Party must undertake in serious and wide-spread manner the task of showing to the | iil ior f{ the American working class, employed and unemployed, and what is respencible for wage cuts and part time unemployment, or com- plete unemployment, sickness and starvation—for the whole category of ilis which press down the entire American woraing class to low living standard levels unheard of before in the United States. Capitalist party politicians like LaFollette and Pinchot, like Mayor Mur of Detroit, like the so-calle “progressive” bloc in Congress and the Senate, with their investigations of unemployment and their proposals for government appropriations for unemployment relief which do now fight for and have no intention of fighting for, together ) th2 leaders of the American Federation of Labor, are the screen behind which the Hoover-Wall Street Hunger Program is being given tae endorsement of Congress and put in force throughout the country. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children of the working class have been cut off in the last week from even that miserable relief chat was afforded by the charity and municipal organizations. The socialist party carries on no struggle against the Hoover program, but instead uses all its resources to give favorable publicity to the La Foliettes and Pinchots and the Mayor Murphys, to cover up the treachery of the A. F. of L, leaders. It uses every opportunity to attack the Com- unis program for the relief of unemployment, workers’ unemployment insurance at full wages and the Communist Program of revolutionary sugsie against capitalism as the only way out of the crisis. ‘Thes* additional facts must likewise be made clear to the masses of the struggling workers, using numberless known acts of betrayal, by our comrades in the Unemployed Councils and in the A. F. of L. unions in preparation for February 4th. This National Day of Struggle against unemployment has a much more serious purpose than even the all im- portant one of strengthening the struggle for workers’ unemployment insurance, the struggle against evictions, etc. re must in reparation for February 4 make clear to the working class the meaning of the wholesale attacks on the unemployed demon- strations, the arrest of scores of militant unemployed workers, the grow- ing attacks upon the Negro masses, the assaults on workers fighting against starvation as in the case of the Kentucky strikers, and the Com- munist leaders and organizers in the strike. We must sharpen the attack upon the capitalist system as a whole, especially making clear that the capitalist offensive against the living standards of the Ametican working class is a central part of the prep- aration for imperialist war and attack on the Soviet Union. The real meaning of the capitalist offensive and the revolutionary significance of the struggle for workers’ unemployment insurance, if made clear to the American working class on a wide scale in preparation for February 4, will bring these nation-wide demonstrations to a new high level and at the same time make easier and more effective the organ- ization of the working class for the struggle against the Hoover-Wall Street program of starvation and war. 406 Months of Subs In on Wednesday; New Fields Wait for DailyWorker Campaigners NOUR hundred and six months of subscriptions came in Wednesday in the campaign for 5,000 12-month sub- scriptions to the Daily Worker, which is about the same as Tuesday’s results. If the drive holds up in this way the rest of the week, and if we try a bit harder, this week will be the best week of the drive so far and we will have covered one-fourth of the goal. The New York district was in the lead Wednesday with | where over 40 workers are jailed | for leading a demonstration for ASK OUSTING Protest End of Relief by OF BARKER AND STEGE Thousands Stopped,| Searched By Cops On Streets Medical Aid Denied! CHICAGO, Jan. 14—More than | 100 white workers were arrested on the South Side Monday morning | | to prevent a demonstration of more than 4,000 at| the {police court at 48th St. and Wabash Ave., | immediate relief at one of Goy- ernor Emmerson’s “relief station.” The majority of those arrested were released, The police arrested primarily white | workers who were brought to the| Police station and beaten severely} under the personal| supervision |of ! Captain Stege and Barker who joined in the kicking and beating of ar- rested, unemployed workers. After being held all day, groups of five were released under police escort, taken to street cars with a warning .that if they were caught again on th eSouth Side their necks would be broken. The total released so far amounts to 90. Threaten Deportation. ‘Twenty-five foreign-born {workers have been turned over to immigra- tion authorities for questioning in an attempt to deport them. One hundred thousand leaflets have been distributed throughout the city for five protest mass meetings to be held Friday. An overflow mass meeting is expected at the main mass meeting at Pythian Hall, 3737 S. State St. An attempt is being made to obtain other halls to accommodate the masses expected, A special leaflet has been issued to the stockyard workers on the South Side by the Packing House Union. Preparations are being made for a further broaded mobilization of the workers, employed and unemployed, in struggles for unemployment re- lief, unemployment insurance and against the police terror, as well as behind the demand to oust Stege and Barker and to abolish the Red Squad, The response of the workers is good. The criminal syndicalist confer- ence on Sunday will be utilized also for these struggles. The ten Negro workers arrested on Wednesday were all released. Lenin Memorial Edition Saturday’s Daily Worker will be a four-page papre instead of the regular six-page edition. The Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker (which will appear January 19th for the far-West and the mid-West, and January 2ist for the eastern states), will Tammany and Wall St. Will Demand Immediate Proper Relief For Million New York Jobless; Protest Fare Raise at Bankers’ Orders NEW YORK.—Faced with starvation be- cause 79 so-called home relief stations have been closed down through the co-operation of Tammany Hall, Morgan & Co. and several other large and powerful banking concerns, thousands of workers will rally at City Hall today at 2 p. m., under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils of Gr: New York to demand immediate re-opening of these relief sta- tions, and the provision of adequate relief for all unemployed * workers. Yesterday, a telegram was sent to Mayor Walker, by Carl Winter, sec- retary of the Unemployed Council, SUPPORT METAL WORKERS STRIKES The Metal Trades League is car- © rying on a number of militant strikes | in some of their shops. The League is | arranging a dance on Saturday eve- ning, January 16, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pi. Party members and revolutionary workers are urged to attend this dance in order to help the League to raise funds to carry on the struggles of these workers. KENTUCKY SCHOOLS FACE CLOSING Due to the seriousness of the fi- nancial crisis of the Kentucky State Government, Governor Lafoon said that all schools and colleges will be closed in the near future. speaking in the name of 1,000,000! unemployed New York workers and | their families stating the unemployed would present their program for im- | mediate relief at City Hall. A similar message was sent to Po-- lice Commissioner Mulrooney telling | him of the proposed gathering of thousands of workers and their fam- | ilies at City Hall today at 2 p. m. “to |protest the closing of home relie? |bureaus and the cutting down of the already insufficient relief.” ‘The telegram pointed out that the demonstration which would mass at city hall at 2 p. m. would later march CONTINUKD ON PAGE TWOd Japanese Stir Up Puppet Governor to Attack the Chinese Eastern Railway. A Tokyo dispatch to the New York Graphic admits that the Japanese are backing their puppet governor of Kirin Pro- vince, the Chinese militarist Hischia, in a campaign of provo- cation against the Soviet Union. Gov. Hischia has announced his intentions to attack the Chinese Eastern Railway, which is jointly operated by China and the®- have six pages. Soviet Union. He has delivered an ul- timatum to the Chinese guards of the railway to surrender their arms. The Tokio dispatch states: “Moscow's official concern over reports that Hischia intended to at- tack guards of the Chinese Eastern Railyway, which is Soviet con- trolled, were expressed to premier Inukai by Russian Ahmassador Trojianovsky. “{nukai replied that the Japan- ese army would not act unless Ja- pan’s interests were threatened. It was believed that Japan tacitly supported Hischia’s ambition to gain control of the Harbin district.” ‘The Soviet ambassador did not ask | for any action by the Japanese army, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Demand Release of Scottsboro Boys at Demonstrations in City Tonight and Saturday NEW YORK.—With the hearing on the appeal against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts coming up next week before the Alabama Supreme Court, the workers of New York will hold a series of protest demonstrations to- day (Friday) and tomorrow to pro- test against the class justice of the Mine, Marine, 149 months ob subs. Detroit came next with 65 months. Then came Cleveland with 45 months and Pittsburgh with 44 months. Connecticut, with 26 months, is doing very well. Chicago sent in only 13 months of subs. This is surprising because Chicago held a very successful Daily Worker cele- bration last Sunday at which more than 1,000 workers had to be turned away. Break ground for the Party mass recruiting drive with Daily Worker subscription blanks. Letters come in to us trom Missouri, Indiana, Denver and all over the country from workers who are ready to give their last dollar for subscrip- tions to the Daily Worker. The Kentucky relief drive, the ‘Scottsboro case, the increasing wage cuts are opening new ii-lds every day for the Daily Worker campaign. Do not Jag behind. Get new subscribers active and cover the new possibilities that open up on all sides, Study the Daily Worker for new up-to-date approaches and for new fields. Spread the campaign for 5,000 12-month subscriptions. Conference NEW YORK:—William Z. Foster and Ben Gold will address the United Front Conference, which will be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., on Jan. 24 at 11 a.m. The conference is called to inten- sify the mobilization for greater sup- port to the Kentucky miners’ strike, the strike of the German seamen and the New York dressmakers’ strike. The recent developments in the labor movement have required the postponement of the conference for a week, ‘The Trade Union Unity League, in stressing the importance of the conference, points out that the work- ers of New York have not been giv- ing serious encugh attention to the Dress Strike Sun. Jan. 24th Kentucky strike. Not only that, but the German seamen are striking in New York harbor against a 10 per cent wage-cut under the leadership of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. More support must be given to both of these strikes and greater masses must be drawn into support of the dressmakers’ strike which is now spreading throughout New York, having already settled many shops. All workers’ organizations are urged to elect delegates to the con- ference at once, thus making it the greatest united front conference ever held in New York. bosses’ courts and to demand the un- conditional and SAFE release of the 9 innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. In Harlem a huge demonstration and parade will begin at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at 129th St. and Lenox Avenue. Negro and white workers forging the fighting alliance of white and Negro workers against starvation, lynch térror and lynch justice will march up Lenox Avenue from 129th St., proceeding to 136th St., turning east to Fifth Ave.; up Fifth Ave. to 159vh St., west to Sev- enth Ave. down Seventh Ave. to 131st St., an dthrough to Lenox Ave., to win dup the parade with a tre- mendous demonstration at the south~ east corner of Lenox Avenue and 131st St. Brooklyn workers will join their protests against these hideous lynch verdicts and the savage persecution of the Negro masses by attending a protest meeting this evening (Fri- day) at 1813 Watkins St., and an out- door meeting Saturday afternoon, 4 o'clock, at Dumont and Rockaway Aves. There will also be & mass parade at 2 p. m. Saturday from Wallabout Street and Nostrand Ave., Williamsburg, through Myrtle Ave. to Duffy St. and Fulton, then to CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO MASS AT CITY HALL TODAY, AT 2P.M.! DEMAND RELIEF Bronx Workers Elect Delegates to Jobless Conference Sunday | The lower and middle Bronx Un- | employed Council is actively engaged | in preparing a real unemployed con- ference on Sunday. The Unemployed Council so far has visited many mass | organizations in the Bronx to elect delegates. One of these mass or- ganizations, a Negro church located at Eagle Ave. and 163rd St., after listening to the appeal of the unem- ployed delegation, selected two Ne- gro workers to act as delegates. On Thursday, the Unemployed Council will have a demonstration at Public School No. 9, 480 139th St., to fight against the closing of the Home Re- | lief Bureau, | We want to announce to all the mass organizations located in lower middle Bronx up to Wilkins Ave. and Claremont Parkway that their dele- | gates are to report on Sunday, Jan. |17, to the Hungarian Workers’ Cen- ter, 569 Prospect Ave. RALLY TO LENIN MEMORIAL MEET IN BRONX THURS, ;Commemorate Life and Work of Lenin at Bronx Coliseum NEW YORK.—The revolutionary workers of New York will demon- strate this Thursday night, January 21, at the Bronx Coliseum, to com- memorate the life and work of the greatest revolutionary leader, Vladi- mir I. Lenin. The eighth anniversary of Lenin's death finds the proletariat and peasants of the Soviet Union en- gaged in the successful building up of Socialism in their country and com- |pleting the first five year pian in four years, Production in the Soviet Union is increasing rapidly and the standard of living is being improved daily, The Second Five Year Plan is now being prepared, which will still further prove the superiority of a Socialist raethod of production over the capi- talist. In all capitalist countries there ts vast unemployment, untold misery, starvation and hunger. The stand- ards of the workers are being reduced and a reign of terror againsi the militan. workers prevails. In their aiterapt to overcome the crisis and the inherent contradic- tion of capitalism, the capitalists threw the entire burden of the cri- sis upon the workers and are fever- ishly preparing for another world war, They are particularly directing their war preparation ava’nst the Soviet Union in order to destroy the proletarian fatherland that serves as an inspiration and lesscn to all oppressed and exploited peoples. This Lenin memorial meeting will therefore be a rally against the war mongers and all counter-revolution- ists. It will serve «© further unify the militant workers and all friends of the Soviet Union to the DE- F All Gut to Bron: Coliseam on Jan, 21! Demonstrate Against Mass Hunger, Wage Cuts, War and Capitalism! All section organizers shall report at the Coliseum on Thursday at 5 o'clock and all committees assigned by the units and sections to report to their section organizers at 5 p.m. Literature agents are to report at the literature ‘able ut € o’clock sharp. SE OF THM SOVIET UNION. | MINERS’ PRESSURE FORCES RELEASE OF TAUB, DEFENSE LAWYER: HAILIT AS VICTORY Arrested Organizers Turned Over to Grand Jury; Miners Determined to Spread Strike Struggle BULLETIN, <cLVELULE, Ky. Jan. 14—The case of Allen the International Lrbor Deve room crowded with miners. as he arrived in Pineville to t: leaders of hte National Miners’ Union leeding the ctrike of the Ken- Taub, of e@ here in 2 court attorney 2 ‘ism: Taub was arrested several days ago just ¢ up the de‘ense of the nine arrested tucky-Tennessee minerr, ‘The miners regard Tanb's discharge as a great victory achieved by 1oass protest. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. move to behead the growing strike of the Ken- tucky-Tennessee miners, Judge Van Beber, coal operators’ agent, yesterday ordered eight of the nine strike leaders in jail held over to the grand jury which meets the last Monday in February. ; Miners’ Wives Tell of Hunger The feature of Wednesday’s court session was the. testimony of a number of miners’ wives, They appeared in the court room haggard from starva- tion, telling of their children starving to death until the Work- ers International Relief began to feed them. One woman, Tishie Bundy, testified that the coat she had on, given her by the Workers International Relief, was the first coat she had in for them, 14.—In a further (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Young Workers Rally at Huge Liebknecht Meet : NEW YORK.—Karl Liebknecht’s assassination, and the brutal murder of Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary lead- ers during and after the last world war, will be commemorated this year in the scene of war preparationson a scale far above the period leading to the last world slaughter. To take up 20) STRIKE TODAY |"tstinsts wn were AT SHOE FACTORY slaughtered for their struggle against imperialist war, thou- sands of young workers and students of New York will fill New NEW YORK .—Over 200 shoe work- beg Rene at 107th St. and Park ers will be called out on strike at the | °° “Omgnt at 7 p. m. Pincus Tabias Shoe Co. this morning| This is scheduled to be the largest by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ | indoor anti-war rally ever held. Karl Industrial Union Lets : : wiebknechi, leader of the German On Monday morning, January 11,/ working class youth, carried on an 60 workers comprising the entire | anti-war camp: rin @ most lasting department stopped working | qangerous periods of the ts wie because of one of their fellow work-| war gor which he was brutally as ers was discharged. After being out | cascincted with the help of the Ger= for several days the workers finally decided to strike the shop under the leadership of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, A call was issued last night io all the workers of the uther departments of this shop to join the lasters and | sé make this a common fight in th: interest of the entive crew. ‘The chief demands are the rein- statement of the discharged worker, the recognition of the comimittees of the departments elected by the work- ers, the right to be organized and belong to the union. & ce rout man socialist leaders. A close friend of Karl Liebknecht, chaimmei of the strike committee of the German steamer now tied up in New York herbor, will speak. This ebknecht up to the sted and foully also one of those n the first German neval mutiny of 1916, and is a char- f the German Young The whole crew ni in their uniforms, *° Wiliizin F. Dunne, editor of the A. F. L. Typo Local Joins in Daily Worker, and Gilbert Green of the Young Communist League will Speak about the role of the youth in the struggle against war and will pation in the Scotts- on Saturday, Support of Jobless Insurance NEW YORK.—Joining the growing incomes, the funds to be administered number of A, F, of L. locals who are | by committees cf the workers.” rejecting the ‘hunger program of The resolution in full follows Green, Woll and McGrady who work with the Hoover government, the Journal-American-Mirror chapel of the Typographical Union at a recent meeting passed a resolution going on “record for a system of government unemployment insurance, to be paid “Whereas millions of waze earn e>s are unemployed in the United States and face hunger and star- vation, while many millions more are engaged in part-time, have their wages cut and are not earning ED OF PAGE THREE, by the government by taxes on large| yeaa nd in the Lenin the Bronx Coll- n. 21, Webber Union will also "Che Pioneers will put on thetr kit- chen bond and chorus. The Labor Sports Union wil! present a mass drill and march. The Workers’ In- ternational Relief Brass Band will play a new parody on war songs be- sides the revolutionary songs, - Subscriptions ¢ DEMONSTRATE AGAINST WAR TONICHT AT NEW STAR CASINO ‘