The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1932, Page 1

See | wt PREPARE MASS-SEND OFF IN YOUR CITY New York Hunger Marchers Greet New England Marchers, Bronx Coliseum, November 29th. Buy Your Tickets at Once. (Section of the Communist International) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879, “Vol. IX, No. 282 <e NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932 FORCE PITTSBURGH TO FEED AND LODGE HUNGER MARCHERS TURN IN ALL FUNDS FOR HUNGER MARCHERS! 1. Turn the funds in to 146 Fifth Ave., to Hunger March Committee, 2. Continue Tag Days for the March; Tag Daya pv. 26-27, CITY EDITION es Ey Price 3 Cents Geneva Hears MANY VETS U. S.-Japan! ALREADY IN War Plots| WASHINGTON | Ta. | Saved from Death | | enema os : GENEVA, Nov. 24.—All the war if elements present in the bitter t struggle between United States and | Japanese imperialists for supremacy } in the Pacific and control over China ’ were further sharpened in the de- bate on the Manchurian question today, while behind the screens the | efforts were intensified to divert the increasing war danger against the Soviet Union. Yosuke Matsouka, Japanese spokes- man, again quoted liberally from the bloody pages of U. S. imperialism to justify Japans robber war against the Chinese people. In addition to cit- ing the murderous record of Wall St. | imperialism against the peoples of Nicaragua, Cuba, etc., Matsouka cited At Least 3,000 Now in} ¢ Capitol to Demand | Bonus Payment | psi | |N. Y. VETS MARCH TODAY | Roosevelt Continues) Figat on Bonus WASHINGTON, Noy. 24. | While new contingents of vet- Joseph Orloff, charged with mur- the attempt by the U. S. government | erans throughout the country | dering a mine guard, whose life has to drown in blocd the mass risistance. . vias just been saved by the action of of the Chinese people to American | re Starting on the National) iy. mp. His union, the UMWA, dollar penetration and control during Bonus March to Washington.) bas refused to take up the case. es boycott against American | Jorge numbers of unattached say a fi ee henciae’ Giaac veterans are drifting into PARTIAL VICTORY IN ORLOFF TRIAL In his impudent attempt to deny | W@8hington daily to take part | the Chinese people a voice in the|in the mass demand at the opening | control of their country, Matsouka; of Congress Dec. 5 for immediate quoted the characterization by U. S.| payment of their back wages, known | | imperialism of the 1905 boycott as|as the bonus ,and for no “designed to blackmail concessions” | compensation uts in the abled vets. to di ‘and as “an unwarranted attempt of | Though exact figures are impossible | ignorant people (the Chinese work- ling-class) to assume the functions of government and meddle with in- ternational relations.” He placed on the same piane the boycott of Jap- anese goods with the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of Chinese people by Japanese bombing ‘planes and troops in Shanghai and Manchuria, declaring the boycott which has affected the pockets of the Japanese capitalists ‘as bad as mili- tary war, if not worse.” Matsouka devoted much of his time to a futile attempt to refute the authenticity of theinfamors Tanaka Document drawn up by he Japanese imperialists in 1927 and whose pro- gram of a robber war against China and war provocation against the So- viet Union is being faithfully carried out in the present period. Matsouka declared the document a forgery, de- spite the fact that several colleagues of Premier Tanaka have admitted its} Wets’ Relief and Bonus authenticity. He made no effort to explain the present Japanese ad- herence to the lines of action laid down by the Tanaka Document, “which states: “In the interests of self-defense and the defense of others (!) Jap- an cannot remove the difficulties in Eastern Asia, without pursuing a policy of ‘blood and iron’... . If we wish, in future, to gain con- trol over China, we must crush the United States, i. e., behave towards the States as we did during the Russo-Japanese War. In order to conquer Chinay we must first con- quer Manchuria and Mongoli (Page 735). For War on USSR. “If the Chinese-Eastern Railway | belonging to Soviet Russia develops in this district, then our new con- tinental policy will receive a blow which will inevitably bring about conflict with Soviet Russia in the near future. In this case we shall again be obliged to play the role we played in the Russo-Japanese War. | ‘The Chinese-Eastern Railway will become ours just as the Southern Manchurian railway became ours and we shall seize Girin, as we seized Darien.” In the light of recent events in Manchuria, comemnt would be su- ‘perfluous. SCOTTSBORO BOYS ARE IN DANGER Bosses Mobilizing Lynch Gangs NEW YORK.—William Paterson, General Secretary of the International Labor Defense, announced yestreday that the I. L. D. attorneys were vig- ‘orously pushing the fight to have Roy Wright and Eugene Williams released ‘on bail. At the same time, proceed- ings were started to force the removal of the other seven Scottsboro boys the death cells in Kilby Prison, ntgomery, Ala. ‘The lynch bosses, blocked in their attempts to rush the boys forwith to the electric chair, are whipping up lynch sentiment through their press and mobilizing lynch gangs to carry through their plans by © other means.” It is u’gently neces- sory that the I. L. D. receive funds at once to carry on the Scottsboro | | {ceiving fhe bonus marchers, for the |\On to City Hall Today | mands for cash winter relief, for | trucks for the bonus marchers to | | with the campaign being carried on /announced Tuesday of Frank T. | leaders on his visit to the capitol. te obtain, it is believed that at least 3,000 veterans are now in this city. The movement of individual ex- | servicemen towards Washington be- | out and attacked and chased out Thursday, July 28. It has however, taken on a new impetus since the begining of the preparations for al second national bonus march, The Veterans’ National Rank and headquarters in Washington next | week to make preparations for re- holding of the bonus march confer- ence, and for orga’ to Demonstrate for Veterans of Greater New York, all out for the Relief and Bonus | March to City Hall today! | The veterans, supported by the unemployed, wiil present their de- Washington and other demands. The vets will asSemble in Union Square at 10 a.m., and arrive at City Hall by 1 pm. Mayor McKee has promised to be present to re- ceive the delegation of 50 who will present the veterans’ demands. | . * @ (For further details See page 2) ington vets. The headquarters will | be located at 905 “I” St., N. W., and | all veterans in Washington are called on to report there where they will receive a real rank and file welcome. While the Natichal Bonus Merch is rallying new sections of veterans | daily, the Congressional Committee on Veterans Affairs is calling a meet- ing on Dec, 1 to discuss ways and means of depriving the ex-service- men of most of their bonus and of stopping disability payments to more than 30,000 veterans. This is in line by the bitterly anti-veteran National Economy League and the proposals Hines, administrator of veterans’ af- fairs. Roosevelt Continues to Fight Vets. ‘That Governor Roosevelt is con- tinuing to support Hoover's policies | by opposing immediate payment of the bonus is clear from reports con- cerning his four-point program for the coming session of Congress which he worked out with democratic party This program entirely ignores the question of the bonus. } Nevertheless, the demands for the bonus has assumed such mass pro- | portions that it is certain to he} brought up at the next session of Congress. Only a big National Bonus March and a fighting demonstration of veterans in Washington on Dec, | giving immediate payment without cutting a cent from disability allow- ances. Emergency! Need Trucks for National Hunger Marchers! NEW YORK.—The New Yor i'M. with guns and tear gas on Bloody | day Give Miner Six Months Jail MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Noy. 24. | —The jury verdict in the Orloff trial | gan shortly after they were forced | is ntary manslaughter.” The 2 to be handed down on Fri will Miners immediately secured bail of one thousand dollars for Orloff. sente! While satisfied that this is a par- | tial. victory the International Labor Defense will protest the verdich and File Commitee announces it will open’| file an appeal demanding a new trial. The defense is protesting especially the, slanderous-remarks: of thesprese~ | cutor who attacked the foreign born. | The case of Opeck held on the same charges wil come up Friday. This partial victory, saving a miner to the immediate mobilization of the | I. L, D. The continuation of the fight | is necessary in order to free Opeck. | The Pitsburgh office of the I. L. D. urges that funds be sent immediately | to 606 Lyceum Building in that city to pay for further legal expenses. READY TO JOIN IN WASHINGTON Officials Try Force But Fear Masses WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24— A conference of Community Chest agents here last night was informed | by their officials’ that: “unless the quota for relief is raised in the | District of Columbia ,the unemployed | here will join the National Hunger | Marchers when they get here.” Yesterday morning, L. H. Fergu- son, a war veteran, and Amelia Shel- ton were arrested while canvassing for housing and funds in preparation for the Hunger March delegation. They were arrested by a member of the Community Chest on the grounds of soliciting alms. This is an attempt to prevent collecting food anid funds for the Hunger Marckers and is in line with the District of Columbia’s orders to “discourage” the m°~~>ers. os Tuesday night at a city-wide - zet- ing held in preparation of the Hun- ger March four dicks came in and used every provocative measures to break it up. They did not succeed and were kicked out. A false fire alarm was also turned in; the fire- men came into the’ meeting, but the meeting went on and arrangements were made to carry on the work of the Hunger March. Berlin Toiiers Score Hitler As He Asks for Full Power BERLIN, Nov. 24—Thousands of 5 can force Congress to pass a bill| Berlin workers demonstrated in front of Hitler's hotel and the president's palace, shouting “Down with the fas- cists,” “Von Hindenberg, Perish.” ‘The workers engaged in a number of fierce struggles wth the police, who savagely attacked the demonstra- tions which were under the leader- | probably be six months. | ship of the German Communist Party, the leader of the iron prole~ tarlan Red Front against fascism. The split in the German bourgeois camp became more pronounced to- fight. Workers and their organiza- tions, and all elements interested in the fight for the Scottsboro boys, rush funds at once to the International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St. New York City. The National Hunger March de- mands $50 Federal winter relief and ‘ten dollars additional for each de- pendant. 4 contingent for the National Hun- ger March needs trucks to carry it to Washington. All friends and sympathizers are urged to report at once all trucks in good condi- tion that can be loaned or obtained reasonably. The marchers will ‘provide dtivers if necessary. Re- | pert to New ‘ork Arrangements Committee, 10 Lr | ith St. Phone cy in . ecadnss 4—5280. day with the admission of Adolf Hit- ler, fascist leader, of his failure to form a national concentration cab- inet. In his reply to Hindenberg, Hitler leaves the way.open for further par- lJeys, and makes the proposal that he be given full dictatorial powers in defiance of the will of the people as expressed in the recent Reichstag elections AR.L MEET BARS RANK AND FILE |Gveen Orders Cops to | Gust 25 Delegates of Jobless Aid Meet | PREVENT MOONEY PLEA Workers Witn Banners Juin With Delegates | CINCINNATI, 0., Nov. 24. |—Large squads of police and | detectives were mobilized here ‘today at the request of Presi-| jdent Green to prevent the) |Committee of 25 delegates | | elected by the Rank and File | Conference’ for Immediate Re- |lief and Unemployment Insurance, | holding its first national conference, ‘from entering the convention hall where A. F. of L. officials have spent two days listening to governors, may- ors, senators, archbishops, and Amer- | ican legion commanders. | Mooney Representative Barred. | ‘Tom Mooney’s personal represen- | i | | | | tative was also refused permission to address the convention, Groups of local workers with ban- | ners carrying the unemployment de- |mands accompanied the Rank and | | File delegation to the Netherland- | Plaza Hotel where the A. F. of L. convention is taking place. In spite of all police precautions, Secretary Weinstock of the Rank and File Conference spoke to the workers. who had crowded their way into the fashionable hotel lobby. ‘The final session of the Rank and File Conference was held at Labor Temple Hall following this demon- stration. The Conference denounced | the action of the A. F. of L. bureau- crats and t ook steps to make their action known to the membership. ‘The Conference in a previous ses- sion had endorsed the National Hunger Merch and thoroughly dis- cussed and passed resolutions on fed- | eral unemployment insurance, and against wage cuts, for free dues for unemployed members, for reduction of high official salaries, for recogni- | tion of the Soviet Union, against im- | | perialist war, for immediate payment | of the bonus. Support Hunger March, A delegation was elected to take part in the Hunger March. Scott, personal representative of Tom Mooney, was greeted enthusias- | tically by the Rank and File Con- ference and support was voted for the struggle for the unconditional | release of Mooney, the Scotsboro | Boys and all class war prisoners led by the International Labor Defense. | ‘The Conference elected a National | Committee of 25 representing various | industries and industrial centers. Weinstock of New York was elected | secretary, Frank, of Minneapolis, | chairman, Masso, of New York vice- | | chairman. ‘ | John Reed Memorial Tonight; Mike Gold, Browder Will Speak ‘The 12th anniversary of the death of John Reed, the heroic American revolutionist and write who died in Moscow in the serivce of the first Workers’ Republic, will be observed at @ memorial meeting and concert to- night at 8:15, at the New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th St. Earl Browder, secretary of the Com- munist Party; Granville Hicks, noted left-wing critic, will speak. Prof. Oakley Johnson will be chairman. In the musical program Marie Rad- |amsky will sing for the first time in this country selection from the new |Soviet John Reed Opera. Tickets at |50 cents are on sale at the Workers Bookshop. Yrotzky Hides from Hostile Thousands | of Danish Workers ESBJERG, Denmark, Noy. 24.—/ Carrying baners which read: “Long live the Soviet Union—Down With Trotzky the Traitor,!” hundreds of workers paraded through the streets | of Esbjerg and demonstrated against Leon Trotzky when he disembarked from the steamer which brought him from Dunkirk, France. The entire folice force was mob- ilized and Trotzky was surrounded by a strong guard which took him to the train from Copenhagen. At Copenhagen several thousand | workers assembled to demonstrate against Trotzky but he avoided the demonstration by leaving the train at # suburb ten miles outside of the city, Jobless Spokesmen Smoke Out Roosevelt ee ee LEFT TO RIGHT: Sam Weissman, Milton Stones, and Rich: rd Sullivan, representatives of the New York state unem yed councils and National Hunger March committees, who called on Governor Roose velt Friday and told him the millions of jobless demanded immediate winter relief. Roosevelt turned down the demands and thereby exposed his own election lies. Class Contrasts and the Hunger March (Editorial) IGH salaries and well-fed labor officials at the A. F. of L in the best hotel in Cincinnati—jobless and destitute all over the United States in the National Hunger March to Wa ton! Here is the sharp class contrast. The Cincinnati Enquirer for Nov. 22, in the welcomed the A. F. of L. convention effusively “Nothing but hunger and misery and un mpathet’c reception can await ‘hunger marchers’ now assembling. in y of the country for an advance on Washington . The % pathy will arise not out of the condition of the unfortunate, but because of their leadership.” Around the issue of compulsory federal unemployment insurance the expense of the government and the employers place a crystallization of class forces which now, bt creasing pressure of the crisis upon th: italists ment, and the growing mass resentment and stru and destitution, is becoming more marked. It is from this standpoint that the unemployment insurance program of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, propos- state | an ame at & A. F. of L. officialdom has been more government by the recent elections than at an of America into the world war under the Wilson of this, but mainly because the increasing rad‘calize class compels the capital’sts to use it to a greater extent i interests of the masses, the American Federation of 1 the field of its activities to include a formal advocac 1 insurance. It will become much more active in protecting t! of the capitalist class as the crisis grows more acute. It is becom and more definitely a semi-official dep: mt of Amer government. This is true not only in the field of unempi surance but especially in the preparation of th perialist war and intervention against the So This is the fourth winter of the crisis. O} vention of the A. F. of L he spearhead of the ruling the very bowels of the rising tide of working class le—atien under the direct guidance of the Wall Street governn by its dem- agogic unemployment insurance prog: to stop and strangle the central struggle of the working class against On the other side, leading this central and basic s for unem- ployment insurance and immediate cash relief to g' at least a minimum of security for the 16,000,000 unemployed, stand the Commu- nist Party, the Unemployed Councils, the Trade Union Unity League, and hundreds of thousands of workers endorsing the demands and taking part in the militant struggle. The National Hunger March and the conference of rank and file delegates from the A. F. of L. unions supporting the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and the Hunger March furnish the sharp class contrast to the treachery by lip service of the A. F. of L. officialdom. . * . yment in- holy” im- class nt H eit can be no question that millions of workers are deluded by the belief that if they can only menage somehow to keep alive uni il Roosevelt is inaugurated something will be done to lighten their mis M that “things will get better.” Especially is this true of the unemployed membership of the A. F. of L. unions and of the Railway Brohterhoods. The A. F. of L.’s Executive Council's proposal for unemployment in- surance on a state basis, which means perhaps (without now consider- ing the merits of its detailed proposals) in the dim and distant future, is the answer to their hopes. Wall Street’s new government will not differ from the old—except that instead of being fed on Hooverian optimism with its “prosperity just around the corner” theme, Roosevelt, with the aid of Williain Green, will try to feed workers, if they have faith, with hope and contemptible charity while they wait for the well-paid lobbyists of the A. F. of L to produce unemployment insurance from 48 state legislatures controlled by the bosses and bankers who throw them out on the streets. That “things will get better” is a fiction, It is a pk e dinned into the ears of workers to dull their resentment against things as they are, “Things” for the working class, in terms of food, clothi shelter, j get better only where mass struggle forces concessions from the capit There is not the faintest sign that, the o is being overcome. today, the heated discussion over war debts, the growing treasury deficit, the proposals for increased taxes on articles of mass consumptio ever more open preparations for a large scale war, the lengthening list of “small wars,” all show that America and the whole capitalist world are about to be plunged still deeper into the crisis. * * . HE starvation relief received by workers at present has been forced from the capitalists only by the most bitier mass struggle, at the cost. of the lives and liberty of many workers and their leaders, Only by still wider and more militant struggles will the shadow of the skeleton hand of starvation hanging over the millions of unemployed be lifted. It is this basic struggle that the bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. are trying to demoralize and defeat, They are throwing lives of men, women and children of the working class on the altar of capitalism. This is what the maneuver of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats on the issue of unemployment insurance means. The defeat of this maneuver is vital for the success of the mass struggle for adequate immediate relief and against the whoie capitalist. offensive. Expose the treacherous program of the Executive Council before the rank and file of the A. FP. of L. and the entire working class. Support the National Hunger March! Organize and fight for cash winter relief and Yedeval unemployment imsurance at the expense of the government and employers! Ee CLEVELAND AUTHORITIES — GRANT JOBLESS DEMAND FOR CARE OF MARCHERS | Crowd Marches from Funeral of Murdered Ne- gro Worker and Rescues 7 Arrested Leaders Decatur and Bloomington City Government to Feed Jobless; Great Mass Movement Grows { BULLY’ | 442 2SBURGH, Pa., Nov. 24- delegation of 150 representing | the unemployed workers of Pittsbu wrested from the city council | IN. here a promise to feed and lodge the National Hunger Marchers of Columns 1 and 4 when they join here on Dec. 1, and to provide oil and gas for their tr city council also agreed to permit a tag day Saturday to raise funds for other expenses of the marchers, This is the first time in history anything like this happened in Pittsburgh. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Noy. 24.—Militant demonstrations ‘at the two police stations here yesterday not only forced the re- lease of seven arrested in a previous demonstration, but acted as the final push to cause the city government to agree to de- mands that it feed and lodge the National Hunger Marchers | National Hunger March. of Column 1 when : it BUODS Oar ena "yea we areca HOOVER THUGS the City mstration Mor ATTACK CHILDREN y and ¢ a f of the Negro = section, of the Ch Negro won owd Forces Release. crowd at the Fullinley mass and protest against the mur- police, marched right from ‘21 to two police stations and secured the release of the seven job- less leaders held there. ullinley, a young Negro ing to collect his om a store keeper who would and the store keeper called inley of t , and the ‘policeman to death. derous the fv not pay a policeman, accus' ing to rob I | shot Fullin! | City Gives Money BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Noy. 24—| Under m: the ¢ gov- reed to furnish a nail for the march- n they come through here Nov The city has (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Tag Days Sat. | Sunday! See March Thru! By Joint Committee for the National Hunger March NEW YORK.—Despite difficulsies and terror, the columns of the Na- tonal Hunge ch forge ahead. | Workers’ delegates from the Far| West, traveling in trucks and cars in bitter cold, weary and hungry, are now approaching the Middle Western cities. The marchers are ng a heroic example of how in the e of all these difficulties they | nevertheless push forward, deter- | mined to reach Washington, together with the other delegates from every section of the country to present the demands of the unemployed workers of this country. Now Is Critical Moment. Now is the crucial moment for the The Wall | Street government refuses to lodge and feed the marchers in Washing- | ton. Delegates are approaching the | mining area where mass starvation exists. Due to the jong journey, trucks are breaking down. The marchers must reach Washington on schedule. They must be heard at the ing of Congress to-tellthe bosses’ sentatives at the time when they are beginning their deliberations to incre: the attack on the masses jof workers, that the workers’ repre- sentatives are determined to fight for more relief and unemployment in- surance. | Our delegates must not be stopped | because of lack of finances. So far, as a result of the New York tag days, only a little over $800 has been raised show Delegation Demanded Winter Relief | WASHINGTTN, D. C., Nov., 24—— Armed thugs that surrounded~ the White House forcibly ejected the children’s delegation that came to Washington today to protest against the starvation of workers’ children throughout the country and demand- ing winter relief for the children and unemployed. The thugs attacked the delegation and seized children and women and carried them off to the House of Detention. Conasson and Gertrude Haes- sler adults in charge of the delegation were placed under The chil- dren followed them, declaring that they refused io be left alone, and de- manding that they be taken along with their guardians. The deleg: included 150 chil- dren, who elected a committee of 11 to present their demands. The del- egation also adults, com- ' prising n and a doctor, as well Haessler and Gertrude Gertrude Morgan of the Young Pion- | eers. Five children, three white, one Ne= gro child, and one Chinese, wich ages ranging from 10 to 14, were put into the police Black Maria, but following a protest the children were released. BACK THE MARCH! JAM COLISEUM! Great Mass Meeting Tuesday, Nov. 29 NEW YORK —The Bronx coliseum meeting, Nov. 29, will be the last chance before Dec. 6 for all New York workers backing the relief and insurance demands cf the National Hunger March to see their elected delegates and give them assurance 6f whole-hearted backing. On that te, also, the marchers from New gland and the columns from, up |the Hudson River Valley and across Lang Island will be all together here, waiting to see what support the mili- tant fighters of New York City will show them. All out to Bronx Coli+ seum, E. 177th St. and West Farms Road at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday! Get your ticket ahead of time, if you can, trom Workers’ Bookstore, 50 E. 13th St.; W. I. R., 146-Fifth Ave., or Bronx | Co-operative, 2700 Bronx Park East. | The District Office of the Com- | munist Party announced yesterday | that there will be no meetings of | units on Nov. 29, and urged every | Party member to attend the Colic | seum rally. | Tonight those who have been a¢= tive in Hunger March preparations | will join with other workers in a send-off and reception for the New | York marchers’ delegation at Man- | hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Sam | Weissman, spokesman for the New | York State Hunger Marchers who which is only a small proportion of | were in Albany last week, repo | the money needed to transport, feed|on the aalecnte Sip ceird jand house over 3,000 marchers in| Governor Roosev 7 | Washington and on the way. elt, All workers ae | Workers of New York, will you per- | urged to attend this affair. Admit- | tance at the door is 35 cents. Ticke ets in advance, 25 cents. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) During the week of Nov, 28, “Red | and White,” new Soviet film, will be | REPORT BRITAIN WILL DEFAULT | exhibited in America for the first | LONDON, Noy. 24—Local news- | time for the benefit of the Hunger papers report that news has come | March, The showings, which are at through official government channels popular prices, will be held in the that Great Britain would reply to| Fifth Ave. Theatre, 28th St. ahd the United States that it was not in| Broadway, under the auspices of. the a position to meet: the December war | Joint Committee for Support of (ie debt payment. ‘ y [National Hunger March, | ‘ » if