The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1932, Page 1

| | =A WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! PREESTHE | gcoTTsBaro YU Bors or id Orga “Vol. 1X, No. 66 4 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932 —EBRruniet Party U.S.A. (Section of the Cammunist International) RETURN All Tag Day Boxes Today to Daily Worker Office, 5th Floor, or 13th Street, New York ity. te CITY ED wal Price 3 Cents. 40 Governors--40 Thieves ‘TY governors have declared that there is no starvation in respective states. These 40 governors lie. italism! ‘They lie at the expense of hungry millions! of workers and in order to justify the hunger program of the coalition government of republicans and democrats which supports the Wall Street-Hoover program. Never in the history of the United Staets has there been such mass misery. Never in the history of the United States has there been such mass unemployment—a minimum of twelve million unemployed—and such mass hunger, exposure, and actual starvation. The entire resources of Wall Street government have been mobilized to prevent this mass unemployment and mass misery being translated into an organized mass demand for unemployment insurance. Everything except genuine relief at the expense of the capitalists responsible for the crisis is being handed out to the starving millions of the American work- ing class, ‘The entire froces of American capitalism have been mobilized in an effort to save capitalism at the expense of the toiling masses in industry and agriculture. With a callous cynicism for which one must go to Czarist Russia to find a parallel, hundreds of millions of dollars have been alloted to banks, industrial corporations and railway companies by Congress. Forty governors, flying in the face of facts known to everyone who has paid even the most casual attention to the unemployment situation in the United States, have declared that there is no starvation in their states. Among them is the governor of New York. William Hodson, executive director of the Welfare Council of New York City, recently declared: “The total amount of money which is in sight at the present time is not sufficient to care for the families and individuals who are going to be in need of help and assistance this winter.” Hodson declared further that. more than250,000 families in New York are in need, but of this number only 100,000 families are receiving as- sistance. Among the forty governors was the governor of Illinois. In Illinois more than forty per cent of the eligible workers are unemployed and only $100,000 a day is available to take care of families who are loosing $2,000,- 000 daily in wages. y According to one Goldsmith, charity director of Illinois, the situation is desperate: “We insist that people who come to our private and public agencies shall use up, absolutely use up and come to us empty handed, their available resources. We ask them to borrow on their,insurance policies and to reduce their equities in their policies. I think if this committee can get the information from the various large insurance companies as to the amount of money that have been loaned on policies in the last two years, policies of $5,000 or under particularly, 1 think you will be amazed at the huge sums that people have actually borrowed on their estates. We would ask people—and it is not possible any longer to do so in Chicago and Cook County—if it were possible we would ask people to-take out second and third mortgages on their homes. Indeed, one of our most serious problems in Cook County is to help tie home owner, because Cook County's Department of Welfare does not, under the law, help home owners—and these people cannot eat their homes; they must. have food, which the department is not furnishing.” Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania is one of the governors who de- clared that there is starvation in his state. We now ask Governor Pinchot what he is doing to remedy this con- dition. When the coal miners in Western Pennsylvania struck last sum- mer against wage cuts and for higher wages and better conditions in the mines, led by the National Miners Union, to raise the standard of living of the miners and their families as a whole, governor Pinchot sent in his state troopers to help break the strike. His admissions as to starvation conditions are valuable, but his policy is the same as that of the coali- tion government of republicans and democrats headed by Hoover, which has as its object the rapid and continuing reduction of the standard of _ living of the American working class to the starvation and slave level. When statements denying the existence of mass hunger and starva- tion “are made by forty governors in this, the third winter of the crisis, it is clear that the American capitalist class and their local state and na- tional government intend, as they have been doing, to utilize the crisis and mass unemployment and hunger to further lower the standard of living of the entire American working class—Negro and white, native and foreign born. _The recent sharpening of murderous terror against strikers and work- ers demonstrating for jobs and uneimployment relief, as in Detroit and Dearborn and Kentucky and Tennessee, furnish the concrete proof to show the objectiye of the capitalist program. ‘The one way out for the workers is the building of militant organi- zations of struggle in the factories and in the ranks of the unemployed, the Coifibatting of such fascist organizations as the “Block-Aid” system engineered by the Hoover-Gilford Emergency Unemployment Committee, and the organized and disciplined conduct of strikes agianst all wage cuts in whatever industries and factories they cocur. . The Daily Worker, beginning tomorrow, will carry Articles exposing the hunger conditions in the United States, giving the lie to the forty governors and in the clearest form pointing out to the American working class the measures it must take to combat and defeat the hunger pro- gram of Wall Street’s coalition government and its allies, the socialist party and the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor. their They are the 40 thieves of American cap- 18 Meetings Tonight to Honor Memory of the Paris Commune NEW YORK.—A mighty protest will ‘be heard from thousands of workers throughout the New York ing-class activities than ever before in the history of the United States. The terror against the Negro messes as brought forth in the District tonight, when 18 mass meet- ings will be held in all parts»of the district to commemorate the Paris Commune, The International Labor Defense brings to the attention of the whole working class the fact that today there are more workers facing prison and the electric chair for their work- Scottsboro case, the terror agoin= the workers in Florida, where a score of tobacco workers are serving long terms in prison, the Kentucky inin- ers’ cases, California, Mooney and Billings, the Imperial aViley cases, etc., will.all b ebrought to the at- tention of New York workers in the following meetings tonight, when police fired into the crowd. Japanese Consulate in the Tribune Chicago Police in Murderous Attack on Workers During Huge Anti- War Demonstration on March 12. Over 7,000 workers took part in the demonstra’ CHICAGO POLICE SMASH WORKERS’ HEADS TO DEFEND JAPANESE IMPERIALISM | ae LE ALATA SAS TE TE TA A SD One worker is expected to dic. Tower, rkers were seriously wounded , which was held before the (Article by Bill Gebert tomorrow) “No O Hoover and 39 governors of the United. States, looking around at their fell-fed families and at the groannig banquet 28, which they frequent declare:| “there is no one starving in the | United States!” | Senator Bingham,. one of} Hoover’s chief spokesmen, in| order to defeat at $125,000,000} bill providing road work for the} unemployed, in order to j ustify | the “dole” of $2,000,000,000 for| the big bankers and railroads} 4to pay prof and dividends, | wired all the governors and got} them to reply with the most brazen capitalist lie yet handed | out from Washington: “There} is no starvation in the United! States.” One Governor, Pinchot of} Pennsylvania, trying to ride into the presidency on the backs of the hungry unemploy- ed, admitted that there v grave destitution and starva- tion in every state in the coun- try. Pinchot ought to know. He has had his state troopers slug many a hungry miner fighting for a piece of bread. While most of the 39 tele- grams deliberately lie about starvation among the 12,000,- 000 unemployed and their fam- ilies, as well as among the part time workers, Senator Bing-| ham, and the capitalist press with him, hide the fact that some of the telegrams are worded in a fake manner, For example, the telegram from the Governor of Okla- homa merely says they haven't aken the trouble to count those dying of stervation, “Number of people starving in Oklahoma unknown!” Not worth bothering to cunt. They anyway. Gov- bornor La Pollette of Wisconsin, sup- die off ne Starves in U. S.” --- 39 Governors Say, While Workers Die of WASHINGTON, Match 17.— | Governor Ritchie of Maryand, a But the Baltimore Post, a capital-| demagogue who tries to use mass} ist sheet, not particularly concerned) misery for his presidential ambitions | with uncovering starvation, in its| Workers Jury in Detroit \222 to Hold Mass Trial of Ford-Murphy Murderers HAVANA, Cuba, March 17.—A mass demonstration of workers | | carrying red flags and banners denouncing the murder of four un- employed workers by the Ford-Murphy regime in Dearborn, Michi- gan, marched past the ord Motor Co. agency here. ‘The workers broke a number of windows, Bloody Machado’s police broke up the demon- stration. DETROIT, Mich., March 17.—To expose to! the widest number of workers throughout Michigan and the United States the brutal, vi- cious murder policy of the Ford-Murphy re- gime, against the unemployed resulting in the | cold-blooded shooting of four unemployed workers at the Ford River Rouge plant on March 7th, & mass workers investigation and trial with a workers’ jury will take place Friday, March 25 at 7:30 p. m., at Cass Tech High School, Second and Vernor Highway. The seating capacity of this hall is 4,000. | Workers who were wounded bye | bullets fired by Ford’s private gun- | gunmen shoot down hungry workers, men will testify. ‘They will tell of| Clyde Ford, mayor of Dearborn the Hunger March in which §,000| Michigan, where the shooting took 4 | place, son and Bennett, two of unemployed went to the Ford piant to demand j or relief, and how| i they were answered by a volley of | Govern eucileng shots, bs workers’ jury. Henry Ford. Mayor Murphy of BB} All mass organizations are urged trolt, Edsel Ford, son of Ford wi] 1o send two representatives to take stood on @ bridge and watched MM] part in this trial. s pies and killers and er of Michigan, have ypear befere toe the | demons Hunger Daily 2 gissue of ch 11, 1932, carried a - 3 i < 3 headline reading: “40,000 face star- Senator Bingham to Kill Road Construction | vation : tei Nowaich wena : bY Be ‘yon 71 ‘ tion as th Ritchie. Bill for $125,000,000; Gets Wires from 39 tion as is Ritchie 1 qT Tata J a3 1 c Governors that Everybody Is Fed for t But the Bal- Cis asl diebnatt more Post > Family Wel- posed to be fighting Hoover, actually became actually indignant that any Assn. tical purposes, aids Bingham by merely saying:|one should ask such a question of| 's broke! Be Itimore worker “Two hundred thousand entirely out | him. “I do not know where you get | k20WS the Family Welfare As- | of work.” But then not a word about| the idea that anybody is starving in| Sociation t beg Se ee, feed those dying of starvation, | this state..No such condition as that | : : ed ie en exists here.” | dead o' vation wil Marryland Ritchie get o' his in- Governor imit that Baltimore and their chil- The Daily Worker has collected vast amount of material of the Amer- ican working-class—material that comes exclusively from capitalist sources, of the wave of suicides and deaths from hanger in the richest italist country in the world. tomorrow, the Daily state to prove the |; of these governors ing statements ‘Meet Mareh 20 To Prepare for May | NEW YORK.—In preparation. for y 1, the day of International work- ing class solidarity and struggle, the | Co: y, New York District, |has issued a call for a mass united ference to be held on March t 1 p.m, at Stuyvesant Casino, 9th and Second Ave. The purpose of | the conference is to unite the great- est masses of the workers from shops, unemployed cour , block commit- | tees, trade unions, fraternal and ben- efit societies for a giant May Day ation to embrace tens of ands of workers. thot The call issued by the Communist Party states that‘this May Day es- be a day of mighty demonstrations and struggle capitalism and im- pecially must ma ager perialist war revolutionary competition to save Daily Worker, 4 2 POLISH GOV'T BUYS HUGE WAR SUPPLIES IN U. S. Imperialists Push Preparations Japanese Continue War Moyes | On Soviet Frontiers | World as | BULLET! | SHANGHAI, March 17.— Kuomintang sources report that 100,000 | Chinese volunteers are marching on Mukden, chief Japanese bace in Matte churia, The volunteer troops are said to be destroying the flag of the new puppet government set up by Japanese bayonets. The Japanese forces at Mukden are reported to have mounted guns in the outskirts of the city, eee ee TOKIO, March 17~A group of insurgents have defeated the Japanese garrison at Chwangho, an important coast city southwest of Antung, Southern Manchuria, Fighting between insurgents and the Japanese in- vaders also occurred yesterday at Ninguta. In Korea, 300 Korean peasants clashed with Japanese police at Ryo- zan, in the southeastern tip of the territory. The Japanese had arrested a leader of the peasants in their struggles against starvation and impe- rialist suppression. | * Hand in hand with the Japanese war moves on the Sis berian frontiers of the Soviet Union, Poland is buying $20,000,« 000 worth of armaments in this country to supplement the huge production of the Polish war industries, financed by French imperialism. The New York Times reports admission | to this effect by Lieut. Col. Charles G. Mettler, U. S. Army. It says: i “While the disarmament conference is in session at Ge- neva, agents of the Polish Government are in this country to buy in the next few weeks $20,000,000 worth of arma- ments, according to Lt. Col. Charles @ G. Mettler, United States Army, involved ‘in the present revolts in the Manchurian border of the Soviet erial state by | who spoke last night at a meeting of the Brooklyn Chapter, Reserve Officers’ Association, at the 245th Coast Artillery Regiment Armory, Sumner and Jefferson Avenues, Brooklyn.” A Mukden dispatch reports that the Soviet Union has called upon all Soviet citizens to evacuate the affec- ted districts in order to avoid the creation of incidents by the Japanese which would affect the relations of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has emphatically denied a report thet it was con- sidering recognition of the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria. The re- port.emanated from Tokyo. Gen. Ma Chen-Shan is apparently Union. The revolts are reported to be directed against him. The char- acter o fthe revolts are not yet clear, Certain it is that the situation created by the Japanese invasion | and seizure of Manchuria establishes the base for mass revolts. The Man- churian people, including the rank and file soldiers are bitterly opposed. to the Japanese and their puppet regime. On the other hand, the Jape anese will use every pretext to fore ward their mobilization of troops on the Soviet border. A full Japanese army division is now on its way ta the town of Manchouli, across the Amur River from the Soviet city of Blagovestchensk. ‘Save Your A Half W City, everywhere, is your fight. the fight against bosses’ terror and City. Paper with Dollar ORKERS, the fight against the boss tex ror in Detroit, in Kentucky, in New York is YOUR fight. The fight to | defend the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union, The Daily Worker, that leads the workers in terror, hunger, starvation and | war, is YOUR paper. Will you let your paper | drop now, because of lack of funds, when the hunger are bringing new mass- es of workers into the struggle. We know you want to save your paper. 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