The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1932, Page 3

—— DA LLY WORKER, NEW YORK TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 1932 vage Three ~ BELFAST.—20,000 unemployed demonstrated against the cutting off of relief and demanded more food. They fought the police of Northern Ireland and were only subdued by bringing in regii International Notes By GEORGE BELL PRISON FOR ANTI-MILITARIST WORK PARIS.—The Military Court sen- tenced Comrade Raymond Guyot, Secretary of the Young Communist League, to one year in military prison for not answering the call to the colors. Guyot had duly served his term in the army as a conscript, doing underground military work, and was summoned to duty as a reservist, He refused because an army order had been issued for his detention as an anti-militarist if he should ever get into the army’s clutches again. A striking commentary on his con- vietion is the effort of the Socialists’ daly, “Populaire,” to demonstrate that his conviction was “justified”! Social- ists never fail as dependable hench- men of militarism and reaction. PIOUS SOCIALISTS In a small French town the Social- ist. Mayor has turned over the keys for a new church to the Catholic Bishop of Arras for consecration. The Henin- Lietard Town Council, which has a Socialist majority, voted unanimously to participate with the church in this ecclesastical ceremony. Hoan of Mil- \. waukee is no unique phenomenon—all over the world “Socialists” are found arm in arm with alk the forces of darkness. OPEN HUNTING SEASON NAIROBI, East Africa—An English farmer wes acquitted here of a charge of manslaughter, after evidence had an Tfrican who had taken some meat. been given that he pursued and shot ‘The Supreme Court of Bast Africa has ruled that “homicide was justi- fiable (!) in such cases if the man could not otherwise be captured. Or, in plainer language, a white landowner is entitled to kill any Negro at sight if he can’t turn him over to they police for legal execution. Pa ees HIGH SPEED IN THE SOVIET UNION Between 135 and 200 miles per hour is the speed expected to be reached by the new types of trains being tested by the Soviet railway authorities. Ex- periments are proceeding along three lines, one a Zeppelin on rails, another a train running on spheres instead of | wheels, and a third which is sus- pended from an overhead monorail. s * WHO IS FURNISHING THE GUNS TO KILL LMANCHURIAN REBELS? | LONDON.—"Reynolds’ Newspaper,” | London weekly, reports that a fleet of 30 ships left England loaded with bombs manufactured by the Vickers- Maxim Corporation for Japan. PARIS.—The great Schneider-Creu- | sot munitions works are working day and night turning out vast supplies of arms, ammunition and high explosive war munitions for Japanese orders. ‘They have an ifonclad guarantee from | the French Government that all mili- tary purchases made by the Japanese Government will be paid for, ie rel SYDNEY, Australia—The Japanese Government has recently made enor- mous purchases in Australia for the army, including wool for military uni- forms and horses for cavalry mounts. In the face of these reports who can believe that the Great Powers behind the Lytton Report will lift a finger to stop Japan in Manchuria. Nothing is ee sacred to them than capitalist profit. os 8 URGERY IN THE SOVIET UNION LENINGRAD.—Dr. Elizabeth Foley ‘aylor of Leicester, England. British bstetrician, expressed surprise at the plienomenally low abortion mortality raite in cities of the Soviet Union. Only one out of 20,000 women submit- ting to abortions dies, representing a mortality rate of five-thousandths of one per cent. Compare conditions in the United States (or other capitalist countries), where abortions are per- formed illegally, resulting in an ex- tremely high mortality rate, as in any physician will admit. - Press - signed protests against the conditions vealed by Spivak in the form of| hotographs . and documents. The | ‘ory of the lecture and the ‘as given to the capitalist press. Not # Hine appeared. » Britain Hits at U, S. 9. It is significant that the Europ- | ean press have given the mater! contained in “Georgia Nigger” con- siderable publicity, This is especially true.of the gress of British imperial- ism. The International News Service interview with Spivak was played up in the Canadian press with eight-col- umn streamer headlines; the London Daily Herald correspondent here tele- iments of the British army. WINNIPEG.—Canadian farmers, hunger marchers, in Winnipeg demanding cancellation of farm debts. Farmers are not only adopting the strike weapon of the city workers, but are now forming united front with the city jobless for united picketing and demonstrations, TOWARDS 15th ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION! NO EMPTY HOUSES IN SOVIET UNION; EVICTIONS AND ‘TO-LET’ SIGNS IN U.S.A. ¢ tions of Thousands of Fami of New Forms ‘WORK 84 HOURS, DENIED FULL PAY Restaurant Workers in Phila. Cheated PHILADELPHIA.—In Villa Venice Rest, 1334 Spruce St., (a restaurant) there are 7 other workers working, 3 writers, 2 cooks, 1 dishwasher and kitchen man. We all put in 84 hrs. a week. The chef is supposed to re- ceive $15 a week, the second cook $10, the Dishwasher $5 and the kitchen man $5—but when the payday comes the boss has a scheme that nobody gets his full pay. of dollars, and tomorrow I'll give you the: rest. The next day comes and he finds different excuses—bills to be paid or something else and now he owes to every worker $100. The big bosses use the same scheme but more systematically with the help of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party leaders, cutting the wages, in- ‘easing the hours, speeding up the workers, clubbing the unemployed? workers when they demand bread, breaking their strikes ,etc. Fellow workers, write to the Daily Worker and expose such scheme that the bosses use. Let the thousands and millions of workers know that the Communist Party is their party. That the Communist Party is the on- ly political party of the workers and poor farmers. —P. H P.S.—I forgot to mention that the waiters of the above restaurant and other restaurants here in Philadel- phia do not receive any wages, only work for tips. Sam Jaffre Workers in Richmond, Ind., Forced Into Peonage RICHMOND, Ind.—A system almost exactly parallel to the company sys- tem used in the mines is used here by the Sam Jaffre Co., wholesale junk dealers. Jaffre starteq with little, and now is quite well off. This is how he did it. Jaffre hired 16 men, working them on the Hoover starvation system— two shifts of three days each per week. The men receive from 20c to 26c an hour for their hard work. To hold this measly job they are forced to live in one of the company houses, which rent $15 to $20 per month. The workers could get as good houses for $10 if they were allowed to live where they please. In addition to this they are forced to buy their coal from him also. For this he charges $6 per ton when all other places sell the same coal for $5 or_less. The result of this stagger system and the overcharging is that the men are working for very little more than rent and fuel, both of which go back into Sam Jaffre’s own pocket.—I. H. in Conspiracy of Silence __ on Facts in “Georgia Nigger” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | Suppress Revelations ‘of Chain GangTortures in Book by J. L. Spivak Chief rival, the U. S. A., while main- taining complete silence concerning the savage exploitation of thousands of Negroes in South Africa, the ruth- lass oppression of the Indian masses and similar conditions in other parts of the British empire. It is clear from the above that the capitalist press is doing all in its ie? foe ae e the eat nes ta ia leger”. e Di Worker is the only newspaper in pred country that has smashed through this conspiracy of silence and is giv- ing full publicity to the horrible con- ditions Spivak has revealed. Worker Correspondents Tell The boss tells you, here is a couple | * of Exploitation Chats with Our Worcorrs | Exposures of the many ways in| which workers are being cheated, ; such as are published in this section today, should be sent in wherever any correspondents unearths them. | Of particular interest, however, is what the workers do to resist this cheating. We particularly invite these three workers who contributed to to- day’s section, to write again, telling the outcome of their efforts to or- | ganize resistance to this cheating. Two of the correspondents did not | sign their names. We do not publish | signatures unless permitted to’ do so | by the correspondents, so there is no danger in sending name and address, | We like to keep in direct touch with | our correspondents, and we assure | them that names and addresses will | be safeguarded. Cicular Distributors Speeded Up, Robbed NEW YORK. — A new wrinkle in| speed-up has been discovered by the Peck Distributing Agency, 503 Atlan- tic Ave., Brooklyn, N. ¥Y. Each worker who hires out to this company is ex- | pected to distribute at least 1,500 cir- | culars, and to do this the distributor must run and not walk. Upon starting, each distributor has | to sigh a contract (which upon being | read, looks innocent enougn), stating | that if dismissed during the course | of the day for dishonesty or ineffict- | ency, he agrees not to demand any wages for the work that he has done for that day. When a worker slows down after seven hours or so of work, he is immediately dismissed without pay, —One of the Victims. Governor of Indiana | Pardons Gangster, But Holds Militant Worker | (By a Worker Correspondent) HAMMOND, Ind.—James Germano, a member of a gang in Gary sen- tenced to three to 10 years in the Indiana reformatory on the. charge of second degree burglary in No- vember, 1930, has now been pardoned by Gov. Harry G. Leslie and the Pardon Board. While ‘this gang’ member is re- leased, the working-class prisoner, Theodore Luesse, who was jailed in connection with resisting an eviction case, still rots in their rotten jail. Governor Leslie should be forced to pardon Theodore Luesse, candidate for Governor of the Communist Party ticket. Protests against the con- tinuance imprisonment of this class war prisoner should be sent to Goy- ernor Harry G, Leslie. Staté Capitol, Indianapolis, Indiana. if Ce nero RSC a ; Party, including its presidential no- minee, the Rev. Norman Thomas, are actively assisting the capitalist news- papers in their suppression campaign. This only confirms the charge that ; the Socialist Party is a party of jim- crowism, ‘fighting on the side of the capitalist class against the Negro masses. Only the Communist Party and its central organ, the Daily Worker, are waging, not merely in words, but in daily deeds, a determined struggle for equal rights for Negroes and the right of self-determination for them in the Black Belt—one of the chief demands in the Communist election platform. Only the Communist Par- ty and the Daily Worker are fighting to free the Scottsboro boys, who are victims of the same brutal lynch sys- tem that maintains the chain gang and peonage conditions’ exposed in “Georgia ir”, Negro and white vote Com- workers, on ber 8th, |manistr’ °°" |cher Workmai ies 108,000 Evictions InN. Y. inf 8 Months i Families Forced to Live in Alleys and on Lots The 15th anniversary of the great October Revolution marks the fur- ther widening of the abyss between the rising world of socialism and the decaying system of capitalism. The depth of this abyss is glar- ingly illustrated by the following contrast of the workers’ lot in the Soviet Union and in the United States—a contrast based on facts showing how thousands upon thou- sands of jobless workers are thrown out on the sidewalks in the United States while spacious buildings are empty, and how workers of the So- viet. Union don’t experience the dreadful ordeal of being evicted. (Editor). In the United Settes The New York Times, September 27, 1932, reports that “during the eight months endihg June 30, 1932, there were served 185,794 disposses notices” in New York City alone. Of this number there were at least 108,- 000 evictions. On August 2, the same paper re- ported that the shortage of funds in Jersey City, N. J., “will evict 100 fam- ilies. "The August, 1932, issue of the But- reports 350 people— 33 fam‘*es—tvicted from their homes in Spe®tanburg, S. C. During Feb- ruary, 1932, there were 300 evictions in Chicago, says Federated Press (February, 1932). ‘ Due to the activity of the Unem- ployed Councils, evictions there had been cut down from an average of almost 300 a day during June, 1931. During the coal miners’ strike of 1931, the Helvetia Coal Co. evicted 67 union miners’ families at one blow. On February 8, 1932, Federated Press reported “evictions rising to 400 a month” in San Francisco. Writing for the press early in 1931, Solon de Leon of Labor Research Association said: “In the first six manths of 1930, Baltimore with one- tenth the population of New York, had 11,735 evictions.” Similar instances of evictions thru- out the United States might be cited. These typical cases, however, serve as an example of a process which is daily becoming more widespread. In the Soviet Union Because of the phenomenal influx of workers into the factories, there is at present some “congestion, but no evictions” in the Soviet Union, ac- cording to the Moscow Daily News, September 15, 1932, “If one suffers at present from overcrowding in Moscow or elsewhere in the Soviet Union, one does not have to bear the bitter realization that in the same city there are hun- dreds of good and spacious rooms un- occupied,” continues the editorial. “One never sees a working class family standing woe-begone on the sidewalk, with its few poor furnish- ings and ebelongings piled besides it because of an eviction or non-pay~ ment of rent. “This, we know, is an increasingly frequent spectacle in cities abroad while, just around the corner spacious buildings stand empty, their win- dows plastered with ‘To Rent’ signs.” Unemployed Councils National Office Moved NEW YORK.—The National office of the Unemployed Councils has moved from 16 West 2ist St. to 799 Broadway, room 436, New York City. Mail all letters to the new address and make a note of it in all Unem- ployed Council headquarters, branch- es, block committees, sommittees of action, etc. NEW RED OCTOBER OVERTURE. SANTA MONICA, Cal.—A musical composition, entitled “Overture Oc- tober 1917 Internationale” and dedi- cated to the USSR. has been writ- ten by Peter Lewin here. The music celebrates the victory of the workers and peasants and the successes of the Five-Year Plan, ing cash relief, no discrimination, lunches and clothing for school children, etc, Program to Win Winter Relief from Local and Directives for Preparations of National Hunger March | (Continued From Yesterday.) Involving the Employed and Part-time Workers The employed workers whose wages are being repeatedly slashed, whose working condi- tions are systematically worsened, who are compelled on their mea- ger earnings to support their jobless relatives and stand in constant dread and actual danger of losing their jobs, are vitally concerned in the struggle against unemployment. Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the government and employers is a vital need of all worke: It is the only means of assuring the defense of living standards for In addition to these major de- mands, the Hunger March will support the demand for imme- diate payment of the veterans bonus; it will demand that the government shall abolish all taxes on articles of mass consumption; that a stop. be put to the billion dollar subsidies to the banks and trusts and to the billion dollar appropriations for war prepara- tions. We will demand: Not a Cent for War! All Funds For Unemployemnt Relief and Insurance! These demands will be elabor- ated and amended in accordance withthe decisions to be arrived at in the Workers Congress which shall be composed of the del- the whole working class. egates in the Hunger March The millions of part-time when they arrive in Washington workers who are reduced to the on Dec. 4. same desperate straits and star- vation level of existence as the totally jobless, are even more di- rectly and immediately effected by mass unemployment, United action and struggle of employed, part-time and totally jobless workers must be devyel- oped around the issues of special Aims of the National Hunger March The National Hunger March must serye to stimulate the local struggles for the immediate needs ang demands of the unemployed as outlined above. Our national demands will serve to unify these Some Main Points of Plan for Nat’l Hunger March The following are some of the main points in the plan of the Un- employed Councils for development of the struggle to win winter relief and unemployment insurance from the local and federal government. ‘The full text of these plans were published in yesterday's Daily and are completed today. 1—Unity of all workers and all victims of the crisis for local strug- gles around the most urgent immediate needs, 2—Development of Committees of Action elected by the workers themselves to lead these struggles. 3—National Hunger March composed of at least 3,000 delegates to proceed in eight columns covering. the entire country and to arrive in Washington on December 4th 5—Proposed demands to be presented to congress when it opens on | | December 5th are: a) federal winter relief of $50 cash for every unem- ployed worker plus $10 for every dependnt as a supplment to local relief; b) Immediate Unemployment Insurance at expense of government and employers. 6—United Front Conferences in all cities to elect local committees that will direct city-wide struggles and prepare the National Hunger March, concern to each of these sections. The Committees of Action and the Unemployed Councils, must local struggles. tion of the Hunger March, new Through the work in prepara- give special attention to the con- masses must be reached and ditions and needs of the em- unified in the struggle. New ployed and part-time workers as territories must be penetrated well as of the totally jobless. Joint actions of the employed and unemployed must be devel- oped in and around the shops, mines and mills on the basis of Special demands such as; Pay- ment of full time-wages to part- time workers; against mass lay- offs; against overtime, speed-up, wage-cuts, compulsory contribu- tions to “charity” rackets, ete, Factory Hunger Marches can be an effective means for press- ing demands such as direct relief from the owners; re-hiring of laid-off workers etc. Wherever strikes occur, the unemployed must be mobilized for active sup- port of the strikes. In this man- ner, the struggle of both the un- employed and employed will be strengthened and the attacks of | new organizations built and ex- | isting organization consolidated. In this manner, greater power will be generated that can force concessions from the local, county state and Federal Governments. THE END. PARAGUAYANS | TAKE FORT ARCE | Peru, Columbia Speed | | War Moves : Paraguayan troops yesterday cap- | tured Fort Arce in the Gran Chaco, inflicting a major defeat on the Bo- jlivian forces. A Bolivian column of the bosses and government more 1,500 men moving to the support of effectively repelled. |the garrison in Fort Acre was re- National Hunger March a ported virtually annihilated by the * A %, + Paraguayans. The entire Bolivian Continuation and = Culmi- army is reported in retreat on a 65- nation of Mass Struggle mile front. Against Hunger | The Paraguayan victory gives a Our fight to assure decent | sharp set-back to the aims of Amer- ican i jalism in its armed housing, food and clothing for dicen es sented Rott ndiye Wegd every unemployed worker and gouth America against its British bee Fad ms aoe rely imperialist rival. It leaves in the i f the P: tis ernment to supplement local re- lee iil ciniendien the aeat lef. and provide greater security | deposits in the Gran Chaco, control ERC acc pi Rt Ae lof which is sought by both American NEW YORK.—One of scores of unemployed dem- onstrations at relief stations and city hall, demand- no evictions, surance at the expense of the | employers and government. The purpose of the National | Hunger March is to present to | and press before Congress when | it opens its sessions on Dec. 5th the following major demands: | 1—Federal Winter Relief of $50 in cash for every unem- | ployed worker plus $10 for every dependent of such worker, This Federal Winter Relief | is to supplement such relief as is provided in the various localities. { Stop the billion-dollar subsidies to the trusts and banks, Immediate unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and em- ployers. 2—Immediate Unemploy- ment Insurance for all work- ers who are unemployed through no fault of their own, at the expense of the jovern- ment and employers. | zon River. |without a formal declaration, and British imperialist interests. Be Se Columbia-Peru War Threatens, Hostilities between Peru and Co- lombia is now dominated by Ameri- can finance interests, while in Peru American and British investments are almost equal. Troops of the two semi-colonial countries are facing each other at the small town of Leti- cia in the upper reaches of the Ama- Fighting may begin at any minufe, in line with the new policy of imperialism of starting war while using deceptive pacifist lies to iull the masses with a false sense of se- curity. A woman locksmith shock BARNAOUL, U.S.S.R. — Typical of the happy, healthy employed workers of the Soviet Union where capitalism and unemployment are both abolished. brigade worker at a ship repair plant, doing her part to build socialism. CALL AF.L. MEMBERS TO FIGHT FOR INSURANCE IN SPITE OF THE OFFICIALS A.F.L. Trade Union Committee Urges Election Rank and File Session in Cincinnati, Nov. 22 To Force Demands on A.F.L. Convention The New York A. F. L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance has issued a National call to all A. F. L. local unions, city cen- tral bodies, and state federations of committee already has endorsement of 800 locals. membership of all A. F. L. bodies to MEET IN PROTEST Hit Relief Slas ; Big} 1 Hunger March, Oct. 31) CHICAGO, Ill, Oct vas numbering 300 to 500 ha be Posted for the last three days before the Irving Park relief station, dem- onsirating against the 50 per cent relief cut, and calling on all jobless} to take part in the Chicago city and Cook County hunger march against | the cut, Oct. 31 A hundred jobless gathered before the Humboldt relief station Saturday with 40 cases of jobless families get-| ting no help, and forced the authori-| ties to grant refief to 36 of them. At?these stations the relief agents asked the*police not to interfere, be- cause it roused so much resentment among the jobless. But when 300 massed before the} South Side relief station, police} Smashed their ranks. It will be necessary to rally larger masses in this section, which is where the Ne- gro workers and stockyards workers | live. Heaviest Brigades From South Side. | From this South Side section it is expected that tens.of thousands will Mobilize for the Oct. 31 hunger march. The line of march from the} South Side will start at 22nd St. and| Wentworth, and will go through the “Loop” (the main business district). | It will be joined by two other col- umns, the North Side ranks, which! form at Clark and Walton, and the| West Side column, which begins its| march from Union Park at Ogden} and Randolph. All columns start Oct. 31 at 10 am | 371 Organizations Support Ma‘ The Chicago Citv and Cook C (which includes all suburbs of C! cago) huriger march is called by. and| prepared by a gteat united front} conference of 712 delegates of 371 or-| ganizations. The demands are for: 1—Withdrawal of the 50 per cent cut in relief. | 2—Minimum scale of $7.50 cash relief for each jobless family of two. 3—Five dollars cash relief weekly for siagle workers. 4—No evictions. 5—Free food, school bocks and clothing for the children of the un- employed. 6—Free light, gas and medical at- tention for the unemployed. Communist Banners. It is specifically understood after 24. labor and international bodies, The This call invited the elect delegates to a conference to be 3 simultaneously with the A, ual convention. The purpose of this conference is to send an of- ficial delegation to the A, F. L. cone vention to bear pressure upon the A. F. L. convention to adopt the Wor ‘s’ Unemployment Insurance Bill as the measure it will sponsor and fight for its adoption by the fed- eral government. In a statement to the press accompanying! this call Louis Weinstock, Secretary of the A. L, Committee for Unemployment Insurance, said: The New York A. F. L. Trade J n Committee for Unemployment Insurance and its affiliates, the vari- ous committees for unemployment in- surance throughout the country, have for months led and organized the ris- ing sentiment among the millions of A. F. L. members employed and un- employed for unemployment insur- ance “This sentiment on the part of the F. L. membership has assumed th mass proportions that the Exec- utive Council of the A. F. L. was com- pelled by their own admission to “re- | verse” their hostile attitude to un- employment insurance adopted at Vancouver and to “favor” unemploy- ment insurance. Officials Show Insincerity. “But no sooner had the Executive A { | | Council declared itself for unemploy- ment insurance when by numerous “Yfs”, “buts” and reservations they showed that they were not sincere in their declaration for it. The clinching refutation of their sincerity came in Green's statement on Sept. 8 that because federal unemployment insurance may be contrary to “‘con- stitutional inhibitions” the A. F. L, will favor some form of unemploy- ment insurance in the states instead, |The A. F, L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance was in- strumental in leading and organizing the mass pressure. It will continue A. F. L. rank and file in le for unemployment in- surance and relief until the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is dopted as’ the A. F. L. policy and is cted into law by congress and will mobilize the rank and file member- ship to fight for it even over the heads of the officialdom. This is the purpose - ° the Cincinnati Conference, ‘The membership of the A. F. L., we are confident, will rally to it.” VOTE COMMUNIST the in Communist the hunger conferences, . that delegations Communist program of fight for un- jemployment insurance and relief, against wage-cuts, etc, and a call Jong discussion in the united front to vote for Communist candidates, SEND YOUR PROLETARIAN GREETINGS through the Daily Worker to the 15th SOVIET ANNIVERSARY Greet the Workers of the Soviet Union! TRENGTHEN *« BOND FOLIDARITY Your Greetings WILL REACH WORKERS IN SHOPS AND FACTORIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND IN THE SOVIET UNION Demonstrate Your Support of the Soviet Union Through the Daily Worker! ADDKESS AMOUNT Build a workers correspondence group tm your factory, shop or neighborhood, Send regular letters to the Daily Worker, ‘Your Greetings Must Reach ‘THE DAILY WORKER 40 © 1th Be New York, NY EBX" Before November 2nd, 1932