The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1932, Page 1

ae WHAT’S TO BE DONE: Organize public hearings on Unem- ON TO WASHINGTON, DEC. 5! j re ( 1. New England and New York delega- ployment. tions get big send-off at Mass Meet- 2. Mobilize for Tag Days, Nov. 19 and ing in Bronx Coliseum, Nov. 29. 20, to collect funds for the National 2. Fight for $50 Federal Winter Relief 4 Hunger March. and Unemployment Insurance. ° P. U S A 3. Rush food, clothing to the Joint Com- 8. See that every group of unemployed Ce al a —~Co unist arty ewe e mittees in each town and rush funds hears of the National Hunger March, —— ~~ >) to the Joint Commitee, 146 Fifth Ave., starts local struggle, elects delegates. (Sec hoe gs f the Communist Inte onal ) New York, CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Vol. IX, No. 274 2. New York. N.¥., ander the Act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1932 In the Day’s News , SCOTTSBORO DECISION HELPS MOONEY WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Accord- ing to the opinions expressed by At- torney Frank P. Walsh and Rodger Baldwin of the A. C. L. U., the de- cision made on the appeal of the I. L. D. in the Scottsboro case by the | U. S. Supreme Court lays a basis for | jlegal steps towards a new trial for | ‘Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings. PT amie | HUNDREDS KILLED IN HONDURAS ‘TKGUGIGALPA, Honduras, Nov. | 15.—Hundreds are reported to have | been killed in the fighting between ithe federal troops and the revolu- itionists in the revolt which has broken out here following the Presi- dential elections. ‘ * ROCKEFELLER GIVES—BUT NOT! TO WORKERS NEW YORK OITY, Nov. 15.— (Rockefeller made a “gift” of $25,000 | Ito the Y. W. C. A. of New York City, ‘which no doubt will return to him lin many different ways through the | Joyal se-vices of this organization. IBut a large building of the Y.W.C.A. still remains closed and empty in \Harlem, while large numbers of | lyoung women are homeless. Bega ss, © STORM HITS POOR IN JAPAN TOKIO, Noy. 15—The poor were ithe principal victims of a twelve-hour typhoon which swept the Tokio dis- itrict yesterday. One hundred fish- fermen, tt is feared, have been ‘ ! jdrowned. Thousands of houses have been destroyed or flooded, the big- ¢ damage and suffering falling on ithe poor. PARILADELPHIA EMPLOYEES FACE cUuT PHILIADELPHIA, Pa., Noy. 15.— ity employees were threatened with | y cuts ranging up to 40 per cent | n the City Council announced its | \determination to clear ® $20,000,000 | ldeficit at the expense of the em- es, The fortunes of the rich are dered sacred, so the Council t tried to levy a one-half per eent x on all workers’ wages. But when tions were threatened the pian to cut city pay was ‘proposed. * = es MILITANT STUDENT DEPORTED GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 15— Because: he took part in the recent jdemonstrations of workers, many of whom were shot down by the Swiss itary, Carl Herreshoff, 2 student California, was deported today pa charges of “insulting the Swiss “Army.” Rie She QUICK TRIAL FOR LIBBY IN-SALEM, N. C—The ‘WINSTO! Is of capitalist justice moved yesterday to free Libby Hol- Reynolds, widow of the young Smith Reynolds. Libby man. was indicted for murder fol- wing her husband’s death. The prosecutor asked Judgé A. M. (Stack in Forsyth County Superior ‘Court to drop the case. The judge at lonce agreed. He said he was not familiar with the evidence éxcept as he had read it in the newspapers, ‘but he doubted if it wauld have been ‘possible to secure a conviction. The judge added that if the case been brought to trial before him would have asked to be excused use of his friendship with W. N. ids; uncle of the dead youth. Bic ke GENEVA DEAD TOLL 13 __ GENEVA, Nov. 15.—Anothér worker idied today, bringing the total to 13 of \those who were murdered in cold ‘blood when capitalist troops without warning directed a machine gun fire "into workers demonstrating against Newsnet] provocation meeting béing ‘hel PROMISE MARCH CAN ENTER D. C. Storm of Protest Over Threatening Telegram rs now say they will admit the tional Hunger Marchers into the ity of Washington. A statement is- yesterday by Luther H. Reich- elder, chairman of the Board of joners says: “So long as the shers adhere to their announced and become no charge on District government, they will be to come and go.” ‘This statement follows a storm of protest against the telegram sent lout two days ago by the Commission- ;, to all state governors and mayors cities, asking them to “discour- age” the hunger marchers, and giv- ‘ing a basis for statements in the a press that martial law q be declared, etc, At the time this telegram was is- ers, of by such threats, At that mo- even, the marchers of the Pa- coast were assembling to start columns, and these columns fare under way. ‘ "The march will go through, and struggles are taking ot or ready to take place, for lo- | relief and for the support of the CHILDBIRTH DEATHS RISE IN CRISIS Capitalist Figures Ig-, nore Relative Rise | In Siekness MANY MORE SUICIDES Show Up Statistic Manipulations By GRACE BURNHAM. (Labor Research Association.) Capitalist politicians and their press are doing their best | to prove that unemployment) and starvation really prolong life. They say for example that “the nation’s death rate}. continues to fall . . . despite} unemployment and economic distress.” e But a careful examination of the figures show just the reverse. They show that industrial deaths have on- ly decreased by 39 percent (from 28,- 000 in 1928 to 17,000 in 1931) although half the working force is totally un- employed and those left on the job av@ teduced, for the most pari, to a few days a week. They show that suicides have the highest rate for the past 25 years, and that deaths | of mothers during childbirth (the di- rect result of unemployment, starva- tion and worry) show the highest rate ever recorded in September. "These figures are published at the | very time that millions of workers throughout the country are electing delegates to represent them in the National Hunger March to Washing- ton, which will demand of congress Unemployment Insurance land $50 cash winter relief to supplement local relief in order to save the working class from desperation and slaughter. Bigger Percentage of Children Die. Infant deaths have an ‘!mportant effect on the country’s deathrate, as a whole. The more babies born; the tore die. The fewer babies born; the fewer die. And working class mothers gave birth to fewer babies in 1931, because of the depression. They could not afford babies. There were 148,706 fewer births in 1931 than’ in 1928 (not {counting Utah, which has not reported sta- tistics). The year 1931 was a crisis year, whereas 1928 may be taken as a fairly “prosperious” year. And dur- ing 1931, with fewer births, there were 128,645 infant deaths, whereas in 1928, with a larger !number of births, there were 153,492 infant deaths. There were 148,706 fewer ba- bies in 1931 and only 25,847 fewer infant deaths in 1931. The number of abortions and still births are not included and would of course be very much higher in a crisis year. (Again note the fact that deaths of mothers during child- birth were the highest ever recorded for September.) Moreover, in spite of the lower Disease Increases in Crowded Areas. birth rate and the fewer number of workers exposed to industrial acci- dents and diseases because of unem- playment in 1931, in the crowded industrial areas, such as Manhattan, New York City, tere was aciuetly a higher death rate in 1931 than in| 1930; 16.4 as against 16. To sum up: deaths from automo- bile accidents were fewer; (there were 2,000.000 fewer automobiles in use); deaths from industrial |acci- dents were fewer; there were less than half the working force employ- ed; infant deaths were fewer; (al- most 150,000 fewer infant births in 1931 than in 1928); but the percent- age of deaths in these cases is rela- tively higher. Suicides and deaths of mothers at childbirth are on ise inerease; and in the crowded indus- trial centers an actual increase in the death rate in spite of a tre- mendous {decrease in exposure to death with the exception of unem- ployment, wage cuts and starvation. Statistics are known to talk on the side of those interested in manipulat- ing them. It is so easy to leave out important factors which completely change the conclusions. This seems clearly to be the case with the use of death rates to justify the starva- tion program of capitalism in the present crisis, DIES FROM BOSS CONTEST | Still Hunting Job Shaving in a New York shack town,-before trying once more for a job that couldn't be found in the last three years. They called this place “Hooverville”, but before the winter is over, it will be “Roose- veltburg.” (F. P. Pictures.) PA. S.P. MEMBERS | FIGHT LEADERS Miller, Socialist for -25 Years, Joins Fight EASTON, Pa., Noy. 15—The So- cialist Party here is rapidly disin- tegrating as the national leadership exposes its hand n the case of Com- rade Noah Walter who, on the eve of the election came out with a state- ment repudiating the Socialist Party leadership and urging support of the candidates of the Communist Party. | Try “Star Chamber” Stunt The national headquarters of the Socialist Party sent a letter to the Easton unit about Walter but urged that it be kept away from the rank and file and be handled by the local executive. Walter attended the exec- utive meeting and demanded that the question be brought before the mem- bership. In this stand he was sup- ported by A. H. J, Miller, who. for. 25 years has been“a leading member of the S. P. in Easton and vicinity. All Fighters Leaving After defending Walter's stand Mil- ler issued a statement in which he blasted the Socialist Party leadership for having completely abandoned everything that Eugene V. Debs stood for. He said “the joke is on us for trying to run a Socialist Party with- out either Socialists or Socialism.” Concluding Miller said: “The Social- ists say just wait four yedrs more. The questions of today will not wait four years for an answer and as the Socialist Party has no program to deal with today we must look else- where for the solution and Comrade Walters has shown the way out and I feel that many more will follow his example. If the hungry are to be fed and housed and clothed against the hardships of this winter, immed- jate action is in order, but the So- cialists do nothing. It will only be a short time until all real revolution- ary socialists will be leaving the So- cialist Party and join with a move- 500 HUNGRY PHILA. VETS JOIN MARCH Recruiting Continues In United Front Bonus Fight CHICAGO MEET FRIDAY Portland Contingent Started Today PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 15.—More than 500 veterans living in miserable shacks in the Hooverville along the Schuylkill River here are pre- paring to march to Washing- ton in the second national bonus march, which will con- verge from all sections of the coun- try at the capitol for the opening of Congress December 5. These fight- ing vets, condemned to starve by the same capitalists for whose profits they risked their lives in 1917-18, will join thousands of their comrades in a determined effort to force the bosses’ government to pay them their back wages, known as the bonus, and to halt the plans now on foot to cut disability allowances. ‘The news that these 500 vets are joining in the march to Washington has given a big push forward to the efforts of the local Veterans’ Rank and File Committee to organize as big a Philadelphia contingent as pos- sible. The committee is rallying members of the Workers Ex-Service- | men’s League, rank and file members of the American Legion and the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, as well as unorganized ex-servicemen, and is preparing to hold a mass united front conference soon. * . Portland Contingent Starts .sPORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 15.— The Portland contingent of the National Bonus March left today for Spokane, ‘Wash., the first leg of the long: trek to Washington. Originally scheduled to leave Sunday, the start was de- layed two days to allow more time for preparations. é Recruiting Stations in Many Cities (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ment that means what it advocates and has the program for gaining it.” Lehigh Valley Aroused Since the appearance of Comrade Walters’ letter in the Daily Worker repudiating the Socialist Party lead- ership, he has been flooded with letters from all over the Lehigh Val- ley, where he is known as one of the best speakers and fighters, asking more details. The rank and file are behind Walters and the handful of petty officials, especially the petty bourgeois elements of Allentown are desperately trying to hold a skeleton of an organization while the working class members are going over to the Communist. Party. County. Another Negro Murdered aeeneey GBs, To The Prison Commission of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga, BAYONNE, N, J., Nov. 15.—Charles Gonder, 26, deid in the St. Elizabeth Hospital following his collapse after 47 days of continuous dancing in a contest Watch for News of Hunger March in the Pages of the “Daily” The Daily Worker is the onl~ American newspaper which |sup- ports the Hunger March, as well as other struggles of the workers, ‘Watch for all news of the Hun- ger March in these pages! Read the Daily Worker every day, to make sure that you will not miss any news about this ttemendous event. Keep informed on the lat- yt developmenis doy by day in the pages of the Daily Worker! THEY DO THE JOB—Georgia law states that all death certificates must describe how the death came laws don’t count for chain gang prisoners, especially if they happen to be Negroes, as shown by the document reproduced above, A Negro is murdered, the warden writes out his report without bothering to explain, and the higher-ups accept it. In the same way, Aid the Ala- bama courts distort their own laws frame-up. L. Spivak’s book, “Georgia Nigger”, Worker, Read today’s instalment on page 4. . t In dealing with Negroes the southern white ruling class recognizes only one law: the Jaw that the entire Negro people must be persecuted, robbed, tortured and subjected to every form of bar- barous oppression, Murders such as the one shown above and all the horrors of life on southern chain gangs and slave farms, which are part and parcel of this system of national oppression, are exposed in John about, But even the bosses‘ own in order to concoct the Scottsboro N. Y. “Roos | RN | eveltburg” Unemployed and homeless, these men are building a shack for the fourth winter of cold and hunger. There are 70 more shacks like this at East 10th St, along the East River. Many were built by men who put up, just before the crisis, some of the big skyscrapers they can see from their present hovels. | CHILD POISONED — ~ BY SCHOOL FOOD Protest Death Tonight| at Meeting Ralph Gonzales, 9, of 70 East 114th | Street, was seized with convulsions | and died shortly after he ate half of the cold lunch which was distributed by Public School 57, consisting of ham and peanut butter sandwichc, a glass {of milk and ice cream. A mass turn-out is urged to @ pro- | test meeting to be held at 7:30 p. m. tonight at Laurel Gardens, 75 East 116th St., under the auspices of the City Councils of Unemployed and the Young Pioneers of America An open | trial will be héld at the same place on Friday night Dr. Priditera, of Harlem Hospital, | who. was called by the police said thah, the food was “suspicious” and the po- lice immediately took the rest of the lunch with them for “analysis.” This is just one instancé of the sort of supervision that the city gives to the food which is being given to the workers’ children. ‘The funeral of Ralph Gonzales will take place Thursday. Hundreds of workérs and workers’ children will attend. The death of this working class child should spur the workers of New York to even greater efforts for the | sending of a delegation of children | from Néw York with the National | Children’s Hunger Delegation to Washington on November 24th, ‘Thanksgiving Da; i Women to Celebrate Council’s 9th Year | NEW YORK.—Nine years of the growth of the working-class women’s movement in the city will be cele-| brated Friday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. at| Irving Plaza, when the United Coun- | {cil of Working Class Women will) present a colorful concert for the| occasion. “The ninth year of the United Council of Working Class Women) represents a high point in the revo- lutionary women’s movement in it participation in the struggles of the workers,” Clara Bodian, secretary of the Council, declared in stressing the importance of the anniversary cele- bration. Meeting Tonight for South River Victims A South River Mass Meeting, pro- testing against thé terror in South | River where 27 workers were arrested and two children were shot in con- nection with a strike against star- vation wages, will be héld tonight at 109 East 26th St under the auspices of the Midtown Section of the Inter- national Labor Defense. The I. L. D. calls upon all workers particularly needlé trades workers to attend, Jobless Council Puts Back Furniture of Negro; Wins Relief NEW YORKK.—Joe Brown, an un- employed Negro worker living with his wife and two children at 1512 Brook Ave., Bronx, was evicted from his basement rooms just before noon yesterday. Members of the Middle Bronx Un- employed Council, 459 E. 171st 8t., | found Brown and his family lying, sick, on the bare basement floor, and with their furniture on the side- walk. The Unemployed Council, with the help. of Negro‘ and white workers from the block, put the furniture right back in the house and then went to the Clairmont Parkway and Washington Ave, Home Relief Bu- reau and extracted a promise to pay rent for the same apai/ment, to fur- nish relief and medical aid. will be held to form a Block Commit- now running serially in the Daily - tee and prepare for the National Hunger March as well as fighting for |, relief and no evictions. less for the last three years, and often +~ spokesman of delegations placing de- mands before the Council and board of estimates. ger March go thru this state. Column falo, N. Y., Nov. 26 and thru Rochester, Syracuse, Utica and Binghamton, after which it en- ters Pennsylvania on Noy. 30, on its way toward Wash- ROOSEVELT ington. Column 8 comes down from | Cheering Spokane Crowds Greet Nat’l Hunger March Column 1 from Washington and Oregon Swings Over High Mountains On Way to Washington to Demand Winter Relief, Insurance, | Milwaukee Jobless Extract Promise from City Council to Give Na- tional Marchers Two Meals, Gas for Cars; Local March Monday SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 15.—Pushing their way undaunted through all kinds of bad weather, the Puget Sound and Oregon delegation of 36 Nati ional Hunger Marchers went “over the hump”, the range of mountains bet ween Seattle and Spokane, Washington, yester- day and were greeted by cheering masses of. workers in Spok: ane, This is Column 1 of the National Hunger March. Those delegates traveling by auto Roosevelt’s Promises Do Not Feed Jobless Struggle Has Won Whatever Relief They Get; Support the Hunger March On Washington HAT will the tens of millions of unemployed workers, their dependents and part-time workers do this winter in order to live? Can the destitute masses, now slowly starv- ing depend upon the promises of local capitalist governments and upon Roosevelt’s growing but vague promises about re- | lef for the jobless? No! The policy of the capitalists ts to cut down all relief expenditures for the whole sections of the unemployed and to cut ‘drastically on municipal appropriations. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other large cities, through the local authorities and under the leadership of the bankers have cut on “relief”. The cry of the capitalists is “share” meaning that the employed workers are again to be levied on for the expense of whatever “charity” is given the jobless. Can we believe in the promises of Roosevelt? To believe in Roosevelt's promises mans another winter without re- lief, a winter of mounting misery and {indescribable suffering. It means sheer starvation to untold hundreds of thousands. The capitalists count on Roosevelt’s promises to lull the masses into a feeling of false security in regards to winter relief and federal unem- ployment aid by the slei of hand trick of insisting that Roosevelt does not take office until March 4 and until he does nothing can be done. Wait and starve during the winter and wait for the spring for Roose- velt's promises! This is the capitalist policy of winter hunger for the masses, . . . 'ORKERS! Do not allow this political trickery to lull you into pas- sive acceptance of hunger during the winter! Roosevelt represents the same government of the capitalists and even today the democratic and republican wings are moving toward a more firm coalition on im- portant questions of policy. How can the masses of unemployed and part-time workers win win- ter relief and unemployment aid and insurance? Through mass struggle. Through such struggle: against local re- trenchments in relief as was carried out by the jobless of Chicago, St. Louis, Akron and New Orleans, who won their fight for more relief. Through the supreme mass demonstration and organization of the un. employed throughout the country for winter relief and federal unemploy- ment insurance expressed in the National Hunger March that will con- verge on Washington December 5. * ‘HE National Hunger March is therefore the next big step in the work- ers’ life and death struggle for food, clothing and shelter this coming winter! You and every other worker can support the National Hunger March by the follewing actions! 1. See that your mass organization, fraternal society or labor union supports the National Hunger M*rch, mobilizes its members for it and sends funds immediately for its support. 2. As an individual to aid the local committees in collecting food, clothing and funds fer the } pal Hunver March, and by taking active part in the tag days for November 19-20. ‘Jobless See Roosevelt Friday to Demand Food for Hunger Marchers Mass March Cn Boston Mayor Monday, to De- mand Relief and Prepare Nat'l March National Miners’ Union Edorses The March and Launches Campaign for Relief NEW YORK —A delegation of workers from the Unemployed Councils ‘ef the cities in New York State will walk in on Governor and President- elect Roosevelt Friday and demand that New York State government care for the National Hunger Marchers as they go through the state. The delegation will be led by Milton Stone, a leader of New York job- with gasoline and oil. 2, That Roosovelt endorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. | 3 That Roosevelt assume re- | sponsibility for preventing any po- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) New York City Two columns of the National Hun- 7 starts at Buf- Demands Governors Facilitate March Of Unemployed WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15. —The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils, now estab- lished at its new office in 1211 G proceeds A meeting of workers on the block | New England, crosses into New York State Nov. 29 and reaches New York City that same night to stop over and attend the huge mass meeting arranged in support of its demands, in Bronx Coliseum. The next day it crosses into New Jersey. The delegation to Roosevelt will demand that he do something now, after making all kinds of vague prom- ises during his election campaign The delegation will demand: 1, That New York State feed all the marchers, and provide trucks | Street, N. W., this city, has wired Governors Pollard of Virginia, [Conley of West Virginia, Pinchot | of Pennsylvania, and Leslie of In- |diana, demanding that the prog- ress of the National Hunger March through these states be al- lowed all facilities, Newspaper accounts, says the Unemployed Council, indicate that these governors are trying to carry out the request of the District of Columbia Commissioners to “dis- courage” the hunger marchers. i A o participated in the mass meet- | ing, and spent the night in | Spokane, ready to start out over more high mountains to Mis- soula, Mont., to gather in new forces, delegations from the copper mining regions of the Rocky Mountains. Del- egates beating their way on freights are maintaining contact as best they can with the marchers going by auto and truck. Know How {fo Fight. This whole region {gs historic ground, Terrific struggles in the eastern ‘Washington “short log coun- try” and in the mining regions of | Montana have been waged time after time. Now the mines and logging camps are mostly shut down, and the jobless workers whose record for fighting wage cuts has made them a terror to the employers, are starting on the biggest fight of their career, |the struggle through the National Hunger March to win the right to | live through the winter. They de- mand $50 federal winter relief in ade | dition to local relief, and they de- mand unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and gove ernment. 1 . Three Columns On Their Way. Column 1, growing as it goes, will march through the northern part of | the country to Pittsburgh, where it joins Column 4, starting Nov. 19 from | Sioux City. These combined-columns meet the merged Columns 2 and 3 in Cumberland, Md., and go into Washington from the east. In Wash- ington they. join Column 5, startin Nov. 27 from New Orleans, and Co! umn 6, starting from Tampa, Fla, Columns 5 and 6 meet and merge at Richmond, Va., and enter Washing- ton, together from the South. Likewise Column 7, starting from | Buffalo on Nov. 26 and Column 8, | starting from Boston, Nov. 27, me |in Baltimore and come into Wash- | ington from the North. All columns reach Washington Dec. |4, hold a national conference, and | Present demands to congress on Dec. 5th. | Column started Tuesday from San Francisco and Column 3 started Monday from Los Angeles, but noth- jing has been heard directly from them so far. 2 Force Promise to Feed. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. Under pressure of the ma: workers here, led by the Mi) | County Unemployed Council, | city council has promised to gi supper and breakfast and 200 lons of gasoline for trucks and car to the National Hunger Marchers of | Column 1 when they come through this city Nov. 22. | This concession was made when a strong delegation of the unemployed council presented demands for it to | the city council, erday. The delegation also demanded lodgings | at city expense for jthe hunger ee This demand was not granted outright, but the negotiations are continuing. City Hunger March. Monday at 3 p. m. the city-wide hunger march for local relief. will come down on the board of super- visors. | 'Phree columns of the city hunger | march will converge from the south side, the north side, and from West Allis. The city marchers demand $12 a week cash relief for each unemployed worker, abolition of forced labor, and a minimum wage of $20 on all coun- ty and city jobs. They demand the )rent allowances now given some un- lemployed families shall not be cut, | They demand no evictions of unem- | Ployed workers. United Front. ‘These demands were adopted by a city-wide united front conference on unemployment, Sunday. There were present 57 delegates, represent ing 24 workers’ organizations, includ- ing A.F.L. locals, posts of the Vete erans of Foreign Wars, fraternal ore ders, Trade Union Unity League unions and groups, etc. This conference elected a commit- tee to visit Governor La Follette and demand freedom for Hawkins, Bur- bach, and nine other unemployed workers serving sentences of from three months to three years for lead~ ing struggles of the jobless. These local struggles are rousing great enthusiasm for the National Hunger March. JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE IN SPAIN SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain—The po- lice recently attacked and dispersed 300 workers who had gathered before the city hall in an unemployment demonstration. Four leaders were ar~