The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1932, Page 1

CHILDREN’S DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON WILL REPORT AT BRONX COLISEUM MEETING NOV. PREPARE MASS-SEND OFF IN YOUR CITY New York Hunger Marchers Greet New England Marchers, Bronx Coliseum, November 29th. at Once. Buy Your Tickets Vol. IX, No. 283 (Section of the Communist International), Entered 25 second-clges matter at the Post Office a8 ax Rew York, under the Act of Merch &, 1378, 29 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932 TAG DAYS TODAY AND SUNDAY FOR MARCHERS 1,—Collect Funds for National Hunger March Expenses. 2.—Collect Non-Perishable Food and Clothing for the Marchers. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents President Drove Starved Children from White House In the Day’s News SERVANTS FOR HUNGER RATION NEW YORK.—The December issue of the magazine “Fortune” says the “depression has solved the servant | problem,” because now plenty of work- | ers can be had for any kind of shelter | and garbage for food. “Hundreds of | thousands of maids,” says the maga- | zine “can be hired for $4 a month. Pea aaa HOLIDAY FEED REDUCED NEWARK.—The charity mongers, the Volunteers of America, the Salva- tion Army, the Community Center, | and the Goodwill Rescue Mission, all | handed out reduced portions this year | for Thanksgiving Day “dinners.” Thousands stood in line in the cold for hours and then didn’t get enough food to enable them to get warm. (San Tae CHILD HUNGER DOUBLES NEW YORK. — The East Harlem} Nursing and Health Center reports | that malnutrition among children be- tween the ages of one and six has in-| creased 100 per cent during the first | ten months of this year. | K | A.FOFL.RANK AND FILE BRING: | CHARGE ON GREEN Held Center of Stage) in Cincinnati Meet CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 25. — ‘The Rank and File Conference for Un- employment Insurance and Immedi- ate Relief, composed of delegates representing more than 1000 local unions, and 250,000 members forced the regular American Federation of Labor Convention in session here off | the center’ of the stage when its | delegation of 25 was refused admis- sion to the convention hall. Picked Police Mobilized. ‘The delegation found itself stopned by the pick of Cincinnati’s police and @etectives. Detectives with gun hol- sters protruding through their clothes were re-inforced by uniformed po- lice with nightsticks on the third floor of the Netherland-Plaza hotel. Gallery doors were guarded by de-| tectives. Police reserves were parked | in hotel rooms. | No one was permitted to enter the convention hall proper, without showing his delegates’ badge. Report- ers crowded around Louis Weinstock | and Walter Frank, members of the Painters and Lathers Union, who headed the Rank and File Confer- ence, As the rank and file delegation tried to enter the hall they were told | by the sergeant-at-arms, backed up | by detectives, that President Green | had given orders not to admit them. Weinstock then spoke on the de- mands of the conference for com- pulsory federal unemployment in- surance and the opposition of A. F. of L. officialdom to it until the police broke up the crowd which had gathered. There was a flash and a report. Nervous police and detec- tives jumped. A cop told reporters he thought it was a gunshot but it was a news photographer's flashlight. Tense Atmosphere, There was a tense atmosphere in the convention hall while the demon- stration was taking place and the official delegates heaved a sigh of re- lief when the rank and file delega- tion with some one shouting, “Come on, let’s get out of this scab hotel”, started a parade throughout the ‘business section with placards bear- ing their demands. Fat Boys Fear for Salaries. While here and there was critic- ism among the official delegates of Green’s method of handling the yank and Wile wepresentatives, the general tone of the delegates was one of utmost hostility. The demand of the conference for drastic reduc- tions of official salaries and exemp- tion from dues payments of unem- played members is especially obnoxi- ious to the $10,000 per year delegates and of course is a direct threat to the bureaucratic system of high sal- aries and no production. Charges Against Green. In its open letter to President Green the rank and file conference invited him to appear before its del- egates, all elected by A. F. of L. lo- cal unions, and answer the follow- ing charges: 1, That President Green is an ene- my of federal unemployment insur- ance to be paid by the government and the employers. 2. That President Green, ha Ge dorsing the share-the-work plan by Walter C. Teagle, head of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, is deliberately aiding the em- ployers to reduce the standard of liv- ing of workers. 3. That the A. F. of L. is suspend- ing and expelling unemployed mem- bers for non-payment of dues. | 4 j creasing bitterness of the trade IMPERTALISTS SEEK NEW ALIGNMENTS AS WAR RAGES IN CHINA, SOUTH AMERICA Japan Votes Huge War Fund as Delegate Plays for Times at Geneva; Massacre 2,700 Chinese Peasants Powers Try Cover Up War Moves; Make New Attempts to Divert Conflict into Anti- Soviet Channels SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS 1, Japanese imperialists massacre 2,700 peasanis, including women and children, in punitive action against three North Manchurian villages accused of helping insurgents. 2. Bolivia calls 30,000 additional men to colors as two huge armies face each other for new battle in undeclared war between Bolivia and Paraguay. Governments of Brazil and Chile pushing preparations to enter undeclared war between Colombia and Peru. 4. Generals’ war in China continues unabated. 5 war to ma of imperialist war situation. Imperialist powers use war debts, Manchurian question, trade ver for position and new war alignments in development 6. General Pershing, chief of U. S. in last imperialist war, returns from Europe with pacifist demagogy that “war is unlikely.” . . . GENEVA, Nov. 25.—The undeclared , mperialist war. wars reging over wide areas of the | U.S. vs. Japan, etc.). capitalist world find their reflection in the League of Nations discussing on the Manchurian question, in the struggle over the war debts and the wars between the imperialist powers. Three War Aims (Britain vs. U. S., The Japanese, in addition, are using the conference fo gain more time to perfect their present tremendous war preparations. Biggest War Budget While the imperialists are engag- in m “peace” moves, the Jap- mese et yesterday further voted acceptance of the biggest military Clubs and Arrests; U. S. Government’s Answer Children Ask Relief ie When Hungry UPPER PICTURE: Five husky | demands to Hoover. spokesman of the children. police, government police knock down and carry out Gertrude Baessler, one of the adult spokesmen elected by 150 delegates of hungry children of the Atlantic coast states to present their LOWER PICTURE: Arrest of Dr. Emil Connasson, also an elected | Both these arrests were at the White House, The children were also | loaded into a patrol wagon and others were punched and pushed by The delegates at Geneva of the im-| budget in the history of Japan, de- perialist powers all realize that im-| spite the fact that it involves a huge perialst war has already begun, The| “deficit and terrific strain on Jap- anese economy, already shattered by discussions in the present League | che world crisis of capitalism. ‘The Council conference clearly show that! budget calls for an outlay for 1933- their chief concern is to (1) conceal ten oe barat pha erg ‘i wo hundred an -nine ion ae ide ae ie Se Solera ae |yen ($447,800,000 at current low yen vonpes, ele and an i-) exchange). It involves a deficit for tensification of their present misery | the year beginning April 1, 1933, of for the new imperialist war adven- | 897,000,000 yen ($179,400,000). tures; (2) divert the war danger into Massacre 2,700 Peasants. channels, against the Soviet Union Within the past few days, the and Chinese Revolution; and (3) at {@ntire populations of three North the same time to maneuver for posi- Manchurian villages, numbering tion, for new war alignments to face 2,700 peasants, have been ruthlessly each other ih the developing inter- massacred by the Japanese imperial- ists in an attempt to crush the rising anti-Japanese natioal revolutionary struggles which have recently wrested one-third of Manchuria from the Japanese invaders. These imperial- | Hoover Debt Note; | N.Y. Vets, in Relief and Bonus March, Force the Mayor to Hear Demands Demand Cash Relief, Provision for the Bonus Marchers; Thousands Cheer on the Way |Vets Walk Out When McKee Refuses to Hear | Welfare Worker Fired for Exposing Graft NEW YORK.—With thousands of workers watching and cheering on | | the sidewalks, 400 unemployed New York ex-servicemen yesterday matched | from Union Square to City Hall and forced Acting Mayor McKee, who had | tried to dodge them, to listen to their demands presented by a rank and | CHILDREN '200 POLICE BAR DELEGATES OF 15,000 PRESENTING DEMANDS; PUNCH THEM AWAY; ARREST LEADERS Gertrude Haessler, and Dr. Connasson, Children’s Spokesman, On Trial Today; Others Out; Children Undaunted Delegation of 150 Chil National Hunger BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25. Of the adults arrested in the Chi! ren’s Delegation, Theodore Richar: Was released in the hearing today; Pauline Gifnick was convicted of disorderiy conduct and received a suspended sentence, Gertrude Haes- sler refused an offer of suspended sentence on condition that she plead guilty and will be tried tomorrow before Judge Givens. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— One hundred and fifty elected delegates of the chil- dren of unemployed workers in Eastern states are on their way back home from Washington They are determined as ever to win their demands for food and r for themselves and their parents. They are satisfied they have proved by massing at the gates of the White House that the statements on “ dren’s Day” and Thanksciving of Hoover and other federal government | officials abont their concern for the children of America are hyvocrisy. When thése himrry children sent their children delerates and some adit renrecentatives to present te Poaventprtiall casen\of wtarvationiand brazen | ack him tn tranclate into action the nigne neeminns, Peqver cont hindred= nf the Weachincton nolice to nimeh and sheve them away, Fe arrested and held in detention the ehiidran nf the eommittae and three nf the aduite ) sHTl foee conrt cherces for daring-to | thet the election nromises of | these of rials be made to result in| | actual food. H Represent 15.900 The 150 children deleeates repre- | sented 15990 other children of the | ‘Pound Drop to $3.22) | the well known practices of U. S. SharpenWar Danger PARIS, Noy. 25. — The collapse} of the British pound sterling con-)| tinues, reaching a new low of $3.22) with the receipt in Europe of the Hoover note refusing to extend the moratorium on the intergovern- mental war debts. The French Government made | the note public tonight. The note speaking in the interests of the U. S. Bankers rejects the linking of the debts with reparations and insists on treating the debtor coun- | tries separately. While demanding its “pound of flesh” due in Dec- ember it leaves the question of fur- ther payment of the debts open to bargaining demanding compensa- tion by other means, that is, trade concessions, colonies, etc. CHILDREN REPORT AT THE COLISEUM You Come, Too, Show Solidarity to March NEW YORK.—Little children, part of the 150 the U. S. Government met with police clubs and arrests when they went to Washington to present demands for relief’ on Thanksgiving Day, will tell New York Workers and National Hunger March- ers of their historic experiences. They will speak at the great Bronx Coliseum Meeting Tuesday night at 7:30. All roads lead to the Bronx Coli- seum, 177 St. and White Plains Rd., that night. All New York workers are urged to come, Mass organiza~- tions will march in with their ban- ners. The National Hunger Marchers from New England, from Hudson River Valley, from all over Long Island, will be there. So will the National Hunger March delegates from New York City. All out to the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and White ~ “ins Road— Bronx, N. Y. Make this demonstra- tion ,heard in Washington — Show your solidarity in bringing cash dona- tions to the Coliseum. Green’s answer to these charges was to call the police to prevent the ~ yvepresentatives of the dues-paying membership from putting their pro- gram before the convention Bring food and clothing immedi- ately to the Joint Committee for the Yunger March at 146 Fifth Avenue for the marchers, See the Hunger Marchers through to Washington, ist butchers are thus copying from imperialism in the Phillipines, Haiti, Nicaragua, ede, Inhabitants of the three villages were assembled in a ditch and de- liberately shot down by machine gun fire. Infants, children and others |not killed by bullets were bayoneted. Try Provoking USSR. The request of the Soviet authori- | ties that the Japanese mission shall leave Siberia is being used by the Japanese imperialists as a pretext for new provocations agianst the USSR. The antagonisms between U. S. and Japanese imperialisms have been greatly intensified by the efforts of Japanese imperialism to strengthen its position on the Asiatic continent. The Washington Government has deliberately tried to pit Japan against the Soviet Union, in an at- tempt to weaken Japanese imperial- ism and at the same time prepare the way for a joint attack by the im- perialist powers on the Soviet Union. The entire battle fleet of the U. S. was ordered last Spring to the Pa- cific and is still there. The imper- ialist struggle for supremacy in the Pacific and control over China is also reflected in the Generals’ war now going on in Central and South China. British-U. S. Rivalry. In South America also the war sit- uation has intensified. The unde- clared war between Bolivia and Para- guay is now in its seventh moith. 30,000 troops are facing each other in a new battle in the Gran Chaco region. Argentina is already mobil- izing troops on the border. In the northern section of the contingent, Columbia and peru are engaged in another undeclared war. The govern- ments of Brazil and Chile, also seek- in ga capitalist “way out” of the cri- sis, are preparing to actively par- ticipate in that war. These armed conflicts between the South Ameri- can puppet states of U. S. and Brit- ish imperialism further emphasize the sharpening of the danger of the world war. Fight Pacifism. The present flood of pacifist dema- gogy emanating from Geneva, Wash- ington and other capitals is designed to cover up these war developments, to trap the toiling masses into a new and more frightful world slaughter. General Pershing on his return yes- terday from Europe declared that a jew war is unlikely. In 1914 the workers of the world heard similar pacifist lies before they were plunged into the world slaughter. The Amsterdam Anti-War Con- gress warned the peoples of the world of the war schemes of the imperial- ists and called on all workers and Danaher, to speak, the entire com- mittee walked cut os a demonstration of protest. | ‘The veterasn carried placards voic- ‘ing demands for immediate relief and calling on all ex-servicemen to join the National Bonus March to Wash- |ington, which will demand at the opening of Congress, December 5, the immediate payment of their back wages, known as the bonus. When the cheering and singing ex-servicemen arrived at City Hall at 1 p.m. they found the streets packed with workers and City Hall sur- rounded by police. The cops tried to keep them marching around the streets, but at the demand of the veterans, a committee of 30 was allowed to ented the Municipal Build- ing. Force McKee To Appear Acting Mayor McKee, who had promised to be present, was not there. The committee, after waiting three- quarters of an hour, voted to give the mayor 20 minutes to appear. Just as the 20 minutes were about to elapse, the mayor arrived. McKee, after first threatening to throwh out the vets, agreed to hear the commit- tee. Stember spoke and exposed the mishandling of funds by the Public Welfare Department and the mis- treatment of veterans by the Home Relief Bureau, which later took charge of veterans’ relief. He called on Hortense Danaher to speak, but McKee, fearing that this former wel- fare worker would reveal too many damaging facts about wholesale graft and mismanagement, refused to give her the floor. Harper then spoke. He and Stem- ber presented the veterans’ demands for adequate cash relief for all un- employed vets; the opening of all armories and other tax-exempt insti- tutions for jobless vets to sleep in; the appropriation of $100,000,000 for Funds for ‘The National Hunger March Com- mittee declared yesterday that the arrangements for the National Hun- ger March depend now on rushing in the funds outstanding from the last tag days and collection lists. Without this it will not be pos- intellectuals for a vigorous mass/ sible to hire the hall needed in Wash- struggle against the war-makers, + ington, cars and trucks can not be Emergency ! Rush in file committee. When McKee refused to allow a mmber of the committee, | the former welfare worker, Hortense ¢— TRY FRAME 3 _ VA. NEGROES NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 25.—Another mass frame-up of Negro workers was begun here yesterday with the arrest by police of three Negro youths on “suspicion” of complicity in the un- solved, mysterious murder of George Paxton, an eccentric white recluse. The police say the lads are arrested for “questioning.” thus admitting they heve no evidence connecting them with the murder. Scottsboro and the numerous other cases of capitalist frame-up of Negro | at workers show, however, that the boss- | ‘he mother works; es and their courts do not need evi- | dence to carry out their lynch frame ups of Negroes. cash winter relief for the unemployed, | including the ex-servicemen; the dis- | ‘ribution of veterans’ relief by a | rank and file committee of Negro and | white ex-servicemen; the providing of food, sleeping quarters and trucks for the bonus marchers to Washing- ton; the endorsement by the city government of the immediate pay- ment of the bonus; the remoyal of Commissioner Taylor, of the Public | Welfare Department; ard the rein- | statement, of a] welfare workers fired | for exposing irrgularities and mis- management of relief. | Walk Out on Mayor The high point came when, after Harper finished speaking, the com- Mittee again insisted that Hortense Danaher speak. Again McKee re- tysed, whereupon the committee walked out in protest, declaring that the refusal of the floor to Danaher shows McKee’s determination to cover up the outrageous graft and other abuses in veterans’ relief. | Marchers! rented and the rent on the Bronx Coliseum can not be paid. ‘The Hunger March Committee also urges all workers to continue today and tomorrow the collections for the march, All the returns from the tag days today and tmorrow must be in the committee's office not Jater than Monday morning. |of a Filipino orche jobless. ‘They came to Washington | at the cell of the Unemoloyed Coun- ie and the Young Pioneers of Amer- | ica. They came in trucks and on| trains that ran chean excursion rates | over Thankscivi id break day morn- ne W ing they ers Center, 2040 G Avenue, in Vashinaton, and e their dele- gation to Hoover, which consisted of: | Children—Bernard Sales, aged 10 son of an unemployed bake: cf New York; Bernard Brooks, aged 11, son of a Negro unemployed laborer in Baltimore; Grace Chiaramida, aged 11, sick with rickets, a starvation dis- ease, and daughter of an unemployed Italian textile worker of Lawrence; | | | Alice Mack, aged 11, father unem- | ployed for a long time, family sup- | ported on bread doled out by a Phila~ | delphia slop house in whose kitchen Margaret Lee, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Rush Treons to Break Wilder, Tenn., Strike WILDER, Tenn.—Troops poured into this little mining town today to crush the strike of about 1.000 miners here against the latest attempt of the coal operators to force a 20 per cent wage cut on the already starving miners. Gov. Horton of Tennessee has already rushed two companies of soldiers here, and two more com- panies are on their way. Rich Farmers and Waters Fight Bonus ‘WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Nov. 25. ~The National Grange, an organiza~ tion of rich farmers, adopted at its convention here today a resolution opposing immediate payment of vets bonus. Pent en Waters Wants Vets Stopped. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 25.—W. W. Waters, the notorius betrayer of the last bonus march sent a letter to- day to Governor Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland, im to prevent vets from joi: monus march. SEAMEN DANCE TONIGHT. NEW YORK.—Dancing to the music va is one of the features of the inaugural affair of the International Seamen's Ciub to~ night at 140 Broad St. Lats will be served and proceeds go for the sailor delegates to’ the National Hunger March, Read the Daily Worker every day for National Hunger March news and directions. dren Hold Meeting and Declare Parents On March Will Place Their Demands for Relief ee | The Hunger March and | “Public Works” (Editorial) UPPORT the National Hunger March! | Here is one answer! | The ringing tones of inspired publicity about public works and the way in which these are being used to maintain standards of “decency”, “self-respect,” “workers’ morale”, | and he home,” are increasing in intensity. | What does a relief job en public works mean today to a worker in | concrete terms of hours and wages? What is the truth about public works as conducted, for example, under the auspices of the government of the state of New Yi whose gubernatorial chair is still warm from that “en< lightened liberal’, President-elect Roosevelt? We submit the following facts: Some 700 jobs on public works were handed out recently to unem- ployed veterans in Harlem. There was a great scurrying of relief officials in connection with the Bonus March and it was evident that orders had gone out to distribute some work as a counter move against the veterans’ march to Washington. % Those veterans who were given jobs are allowed to work 12 full days per month—and they are certaifily full days, as we shall see. For this they receive $54 or $4.50 per day. But out of this they must pay a minimum of 20 cents per day for car- fare which leaves them $51.60. On this they and their families must live @ whole month. These workers have to leave Harlem in time to catch the 5:45 A. M. ferry at Forty-Second Street so as to get to their work by 8 o'clock. This meegis that they must get. up about 4 A.M. The return journey takes about the same amount of time and most of these workers do not get home until 7 or 8 P. M The work is pick and shovel labor of the hardest kind. The workers eat a scanty supper and turn in if the landlord has not been around and evicted the family while they were at work For $4.50 then, these unemployed veterans must put in a day of 15 to 16 hours and pay their own carfare in order that the ringing impact of a pick against the country rock (which jars you to your heels) may prove that the great Roosevelt-Hoover gospel of public works is the road to salvation for 16,000,000 unemployed. A few veterans have simply been put back in the trenches. This is the way that “standards of decency” for unemployed workers are being preserved in the state of New York. The same--and worse— conditions prevail throughout the nation. t is not only the present suffering of workers, inhuman exhaustio: of home life (let us not here forget the wife or mother who get up in the middle of the night to prepare breakfast and a col: for husband or son) that is involved here authough this would be more than enough to condemn the system. It is far more than that: This system of starvation wages and anim: like existence’ is being used as a standard from which to drive still lower the wages and social status of the entire American working class. If there are people asking why the great masses of workers are sup porting the National Hunger March, here is one of the answers. The condition cited above ére those to which the Roosevelt-Hoover- Baker program of local “community” relief condemns even the most for- tunate of the unemployed. These conditions are 2 complete answer to the whole scheme of local reliei—designed to tie the worker to the local capitalists agencies and force upon them a starvation standard of living on relief and public works which is reflected in starvation wages whenever regular employ- ment is offered. Organization and strike struggle against these conditions is a vital | need. We must fight to-abolish all forms of forced labor and for union | conditions on public work jobs. The strii2 of relief workers in Belfast, | Ireland, and in Bellingham, Weshington, are fine examples. | The National Hunger March is in the forefront of the growing mass movement against a nation-wide starvation living standard for the work. | ing class. | Support the National Hunger March! Take the unemployed veterans out of the trenches of starvation! Take the whole working class out of the pit of poverty into which it has been driven by the capitalist offensive! Why | i March Sweeps Onward; Big ‘Mass Struggle for Demands ‘By Monday All Columns Will Be in Motion; Three More Start Today and Tomorrow The National F.unger Mareh js pouring onward toward Washington to present demands for $50 federal winter relief in addition to local relief, and unemployment insurance. Three main columns (two of them now merged into one) from the Pacific coast have conquered al! obstacles shoving their battered second-hand cars and trucks through the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains and over plains and des- erts that are blazing hot in the day CONEY STRIKE BENEFIT CONCERT. and icy cold at night. | CONEY ISLAND, Nov. 26.—An ex- Columns 2 and. from San Fran- | tensive program will be presented. in cisco and Los Angeles left Denver! pra ; . Thursday morning, 120 strong, and *. me fod eee ony | left Burlington Colorado yesterday ti 1 Metso nd the Co Island morning. They are now in the siub- cers Club at 2709 Mermaid At |ble fields of Kansas, \ Coney Island, Sunday, > © | Yesterday morning the hundred | varanasi at. delegates from the Northwest on Col- | CALL YCL, CP MEMBERS Imn 1 of the march left Chicago,) ij Party and YCL members ex- where thoy had been given a rous-| cept in Section 5 and 15, who have ing welcorhs by the militant workers no us'gnment for work today, are who showed. how to smash a relicf| instructed to report at 2800 Bronx cut only a few weeks ago. They are) Park Fast in front of the Coopera- baht tive Resturant for very important (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE), work. You must be there at 8 AM. &. <a nunmen emmemmenmam