The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1932, Page 1

AY I.L.D. Issues PREPARE MASS-SEND OFF IN YOUR CITY New York Hunger Marchers Greet New ; Appeal for Support in Next Steps of Fight for Scottsboro Nin England Marchers, Bronx Coliseum, November 29th. at Once. Vol. IX, No. 285 Buy Your Tickets (Section of the Conexeunist International) Entered as second-clars matter at the “EB? New York, N.Y., under the Act of Mareh 8 1879. e (See Page 4) DECISIVE W iY Collect Foodstu 2. Hunger March, Post Office at EW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932 CITY EDITION EEK FOR PORT OF HUNGER MARCH ffs in Bulk and Bring to Nearest Food Station. Spur Efforts for Funds for National Price 3 Cents GREET HUNGER MARCHERS TONIGHT AT BRONX COLISEUM In the Day’s News 2 HOMELESS FREEZE TO DEATH | NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—One woman | and one man died from hunger and cold during the cold spell that hit | the city Monday. The woman, Eliza- beth McNally, 36, was found frozen in an empty Iot, The man, Patrick Hallacy, 28, collapsed at 33rd Street and llth Avenue, Before he died at the St. Vincent’s Hospital, he stated that he had not eaten for three — ° ° e SOFIA POLICE FIRE ON CROWD LONDON, Nov. 27—A number of persons were shot and bayonetted, according to a Reuters dispatch, when police attacked 4,000 demonstrators Bulgaria folowing its country’s de- teat in the World War. e e e PLACE BLAME ON PRISONERS \Negro Organizer Faces Death Sentence ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 28—Trial of Herndon, young Negro orga- starving white and Ne- ‘ture which is openly distributed and imailed throughout the United States. ''The reason for his indictment is that successfully he united and led starv- ing Negro and white workers in their struggles to obtain relief. ‘The charges against him are sim- Mar to those placed against the fa~ “Atlanta Six”, who were in- ted becatse they circulated a leaf- let bearing a picture of a Negro and ‘a white worker shaking hands, and calling upon Negro and white work~ .ers to unite against their common oppressors, the capitalists. ‘The I. L. D. is carrying the de- fense into the court with two Georgia Negro attorneys, Benjamin J. Daves, 'Jr., and John H. Geer. ~ PICKET IN GAS ‘Attacked by Deputies! Refuse’to Disperse SPRINGFIELD, ‘Tenseness their properties tomorrow as a test against their striking w ors. eee FARMINGTON, Il, Nov. 28.—Hun- dreds of pickets, according to local , “every striking miner and his family around here” massed on the road to the Peabody Coal Co. ‘Woodside mine here and barred the way for an hour to a squad ‘f scabs trying to work under the wage-cut agreement made by the United Mine Workers of America. A big force of deputies assailed them with tear gas bombs, and the miners retreated slightly as the gas reached them, then, as the fumes «ved, marched back into the road- way. The strikers are rank and file members of the Progressive Miners of America, whose leaders object to militant action. Rush in Funds for the National March! The Nations! Huager | Committee calls for all funds for Mareh | DRIVE WITH SHAM, “PEACE” MOVES) France Is “Willing” to| Sign Non-Aggression Pact With USSR U.S. ARMS BOLIVIA Japan Doubles Its War Budget | “ Syeccncarn | GENEVA, Noy. 28. — The} discussions on the war debts «nd the Manchurian situation, in which is involyed the strug- | gle between U- S. and Japa-) nese imperialism for supre- macy in the Pacific, show a} frantic increase in pacifist | demagogy. These sham “peace” moves are occurring on the back- ground of several undeclared wars | (South America, China, etc.), in-| creasing bloody imperialist attacks on the starving unemployed workers and destitute world war veterans, fiercely raging trade wars and the bitter sharpening of the struggle over the war debts. ‘These moves are aimed at con- cealing from the toiling masses the destructive character of capi-. talism and the real significance of these events as a prelude to a new world slaughter for a re-division of the world among the imperialist bandits and for the attempted wip- ing out of the achievements of So- cialist construction in the U. S. S. R. arid for more starvation at home, ya French Make Maneuver. Significant of this attempt is the present willingness of the French imperialists to sign the non-aggres- sion pact offered over a year ago by | the Soviet government in its vigor- ous struggle for peace. The French government has announced its inten- tion of signing the pact tomorrow (Tuesday). It is reported the text of the agreement has been approved by Premier Herriot and the Council of Ministers. The hypocritical at- titude of the “left” government to-/ wards the pact is clearly expressed | in the comment of the French semi- | official newspaper “Le Temps” that “of course all depends upon the way in which such a compact is executed” and its accompanying attempt to guestion the sincerity of the Soviet government which has, and _ still, pursues a consistent peace policy despite the monstrous war provoca~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BRITISH POUND DROPS 10 $3.17 War Moves. Increase In Debts Struggle BULLETIN The British pound sterling con- tinued its collapse today, dropping to a new all-time record low of $3.1749, losing over three points in a single day. . While the American imperialists are formulating demands in the press on the British and French im- perialists for cessions of colonies and trade in exchange for the un- collectable war debts, the British are reported considering the question of defaulting on the December pay- ment. The British Cabinet held a secret session last night to draft a new note to the Wall Street Government. The new note will use the new drop in the value of the pound sterling and the increasing collanse of cavitalist economy throuvhout the world as ‘an unsnswerable’ areument whv the December insto'ments should not be It will point ont that such navments world conrtitete pn rm. heerehle strein on capitalist economy in Evrone end will not help the shat- ‘ered nosition of U. S. canitalism, Lobor Party in Imper'a'ist Line Up. A hint of the possible content of the new note is conteined in an edi- torial in the Liberal News-Chronicle. The editorial openiv declares default to be “the lesser of two evils.” ‘War Moves of Norman Davis. Under the heading of “The Strange Activity of Mr. Norman Davis,” the French “La Liber- te” bitterly attacks the activities of the U. S. representative on the war debt and “arms” questions. { There is no indication that the U. S. has succeeded in its attempts to break the united front of England, France, Belgium, Poland and A section of the march of 400 rank and file New York ex-servicemen last Friday in a relief and bonus parade to City Hall, where they forced Acting Mayor McKee to listen to their demands and exposed graft in the distribution of veterans’ relief. Unite to Stop Attack on Hunger Marchers in Washington, D. C. ORKERS and workers’ organizations! The right of workers to petition Congress is in danger. The official threats against the National Hunger March multiply daily. “Washington Unites to Resi: line in the New York Times. Wire protests against the preparations to suppress the Hunger March, by refusal to furnish shelter and food—and by armed force. The: Wall Street government of Democrat and Republican Parties whose police attacked and arrested a delegation representing thousands of hungry children on Thanksgiving Day, is organizing a vicious attack on the National Hunger March whenit reaches Washington on Dec. 4. Washington organizations of capitalists and their camp followers, in @ secret meeting with the Department of Justice and the District of Columbia police heads last Wednesday pledged support to the government in the planned attack on the 3000 Hunger March delegates. ‘The Washington Board of Trade, the Federation of Citizens Asso- ciations, the Manufacturers Association, the Washington Real Estate Board, the District Medical Society and the Chamber of Commerce are the organizations co-operating with the government police authorities to suppress the ‘Hunger March, ‘Troops are held in readiness. The New York Times Washington correspondent says: “WASHINGTON, Noy. 26.—Washington massed its forces today to discourage and resist expected hunger marchers during the coming win- ter... The announcement led to the belief that troops would again be called out if the situation became serious. Persons close to officials said it might also include a special course of training for capitol police in the handling of tear gas bombs. A picked squad of metropolitan police have been undergoing this special training in secret for the past few weeks.” The District of Columbia recently passed a vagrancy law for the special purpose of persecuting Hunger Marchers. The organizations of business and professional men-—none of whose members are hungry or homeless—have passed a resolution pledging support to “the civil author- ities in their attitude of warning such persons not to come to Washing- ton unless they are financially able to maintain themselves.” Only the wealthy are welcome in Wall Street’s capital. For hungry worker delegates of the unemployed the police have plenty of tear gas bombs. These cost $15 each but there is no clamor for Suen in this respect from the Washington plutocrats and their lackeys, Marchers’, says a head- * . . RGANIZE NOW to protect the right of the Hunger March delegates to enter Washington, to petition Congress, to meet and speak free from all police interference, to be housed and fed! Wire the congressmen and senators from your states to this effect. Mobilize mass protest throughout the country against this vicious conspiracy in Wasbington to smash the Hunger March by @ combination of businessmen, police and the military and federal government. Warn official Washington in the clearest language that in the fourth winter of the crisis with its 15-16,000,000 unemployed of the American working class is in no mood to tolerate a repetition of the cruel.and cowardly attack by military and police on the veterans with the Hunger March delegates as its target this time. Workers, workers’ organizations and all supporters of the militant struggles of the masses against starvation ,al! supporters of the Un- empioyed Councils demand for $50 cash winter relief and compulsory federal unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and the employers call mass meetings, pass resolutions, send protests against the organized campaign for the suppression of the Hunger March in Washington. Make official Washington feel the heavy hand of a working class determined to surrender no single right it has won by years of struggle. Make official Washington feel the mass determination to support the leading detachments of the fighters against the Wall Street hungér program-—the National Hunger Marchers, the elected delegates of tens of thousands of workers—and against all attempts to deny elementary political rights and suppress by force those who lead the struggles for food, clothing and housing at the expense of the class and its govern- ment responsible for the crisis its ever growing mass misery. . . . all forces of the working class for support of the National Hun- ger March! Organize supporting mass meetings and demonstrations for Dec. 6—when the demands will be presented to Congress. ‘ Demand from Congress and the District of Columbia aythoritie: the richt of the National Hunver Marchers to enter Washington, to be housed and fed, to meet, march and demonstrate, to present their de- mands to Congress—without interference. Smash, by mass organization, pressure and protest; the campaign to suppress the National Hunger March in Washington! Do not delay! Act NOW! Take your place in the ranks of the heroic struggle of the American working class against the hunger of- fensive of Wall Street and its government! i ogainet_ the Wall St. Tammany for “Income | Tax” AsWay to Reduce | NYC Workers’ Salaries | | NEW YORK. feasible, legal! and brilliant idea,” was the descrip- | tion given by the corporavion counsel | yesterday to a proposal made before | the Board of Aldermen to force New | York City workers to pay an “income tax,” in place of flatly cutting their many, if adopted, would wrest about $30,000,000 in wages from the work- ers and make the amount available to bankers, . Comptroller Charles W. Berry, Democratic tool, praised the swindle, when it was suggested during an executive session of the Finance Com- miitee “in a discussion on the 1933 budget. } Circulate. the pamphlet; “Why _ We Are Marching” among - year NEW JERSEY JOIN FIGHT FOR BONUS War Veterans Accept United Front; Back Bonus March KANSAS CITY VETS START Legion Chiefs Declare “Bonus Can Wait” BULLETIN NEW YORK.—As the Daily Worker goes to press, the meeting of veterans, called by the rank and file Committee of Fifty, at | its headquarters, 154 West 20th Street, is.in session. At this meet- ing the Committee of Fifty is recommending that the first group of bonus marchers start tomorrow (Wednesday) morn- ing. This is being acted on by the veterans at the meeting. ‘The New Jersey state leaders of the Khaki Shirts, as well as the New York State commander of | the organization, have been in- yited to this meeting to discuss the establishment of a united front with the rank and file of the Khaki Shirts for the bonus march, NEW YORK, Nov. 28—The New Jersey organization of the Khaki | Shirts have accepted the program of the Veterans Rank and File Com- limmediate payment of the bonus and have pledged themselves to rally their members. as well as other New Jersey ex-servicemen for the second ‘national bonus march~to Washing- ton. At @ conference with Emanuel | Leyin, national chairman of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and Samuel J. Stember, chairman of the Greater New York Veterans’ Rank and File Committee, three of the state leaders of the Khaki Shirts declared their complete acceptance of the rank and file program, which calls for a march on Washington to |demand of Congress immediate pay- ment of the veterans back wages (bonus) and no cuts in disability ‘allowances.. They also stated that they had broken completely with the national leaders of the Khaki Shirts, such as Waters, whom they charac- | terized as grafters and betrayers. |. The step taken by the New Jersey |teaders of the Khaki Shirts is a Teflection of the tremendous senti- ment for a real struggle for immedi- ate payment of the bonus that is | sweeping through the rank and file of the Khaki Shirts, Bonus Expedi- tionary Forces, etc. In many cases, as in the Kansas City B. E. F., the rank and file are deserting those leaders who are refusing to join in the march to Washington; in a few cases the leaders themselves are being forced into action. The deci- sion of the New Jersey leaders shows the powerful movement in the ranks for the united front against the Hoover-Roosevelt-National Economy League+Wall S‘reet program of starv- ing the vets ‘by withholding the money due them and by cutting off more than 300,000 ex-servicemen from disability ¢ompensation. At the conference the members of the Khaki Shirts said that on the first bonus march they had been mis- led by the reactionary Waters gang, but that they now realized that the program proposed at that time by the Veterans’ National Rank and File Committee ‘was correct. They declared they would fight against any efforts to split the veterans because of political opinions. from New Jersey was promised by the K. 8. leaders. Already 41 of the Newark Khaki Shirts unit have vol- unteered to go and more are being recruited daily, ee Legion Heads Say, “Bonus Can Wait” WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—While thousands of the rank and file mem- bers of the American Legion are de~ manding a real fight for immediate payment of the bonus and large numbegs of them are joining the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Funeral Today for Comrade Benny Roshel This morning, Tuesday, at 10 a.m., comrades will gather at 1400 Boston Road the Bronx to pay their revolu- tionary respects at the funeral of Comrade Benny Roshel, who was Killed by an automobile. | Workers of the Bronx, especially | the memkers of Section 5 of the C.P., the Bronx Workers Club, and of Branch 116 of the International Workers Order, are requested to attend the: funeral of their loyal comrade, BIG MASS MEETING TO WELCOME NEW ENGLAND, UPPER N. Y. DELEGATIONS; mittee for a united front fight for | A big rank and file contingent | DEMAND RIGHT TO ENTER CAPITAL! tion Wide Demonstration Called for $50 Winter Relief and Jobless Insurance on Dec. 6 When 3,000 Jobless Delegates See Congress | All Marchers from West and Middle West Now Crossing Ohio, Ind.; Southern Columns in Tenn. and Georgia; Leave New York Tommorow surance. Thousands of workers will be in the Coliseum to greet and cheer marched here all the way from New England. tion, forced labor, cutting of relief and staggered wages, is phase. | capitalists, not at the expense of the workers’ wages either! through Teagle Plan, “share work| ALF. OF L. AGAIN | | that concern the whole working | Deny Representation | ciass, employed and unemployed. | to Women }It is now the duty of the working} and unemployed masses of every city | to begin preparations for gigantic) | CINCINNATI, Nov. 28.—The issue; gemonstrations in support of the | of unemployment insurance is tem-| demands of the National ‘Munger | porarily in abeyance before _the| | American Federation of Labor Con- March. " i] These demands wil sented | |vention here while the resolution! sans <velll: Be: Cresent | committee mulls over it with Vice- | to Congress on Dec. 6, and on that | | day there should be .a nation-wide | | President Matthew Woll of the Photo| Gay there should be 2 nn rae, | Engravers’ Union and acting chair-| . ‘ nae jman o f the National Civic Federa-| Welcome the marchers to your | j tion, leading the opposition to any} city with 2 mass demonstration, and | | form of compulsory jobless insurance. | hold another on Dec. 6 to show you} | Against Negroes and Women. ube flo = to get winter relief | | But lack of opportunity for ex-|°"¢ insurance! | pressing themselves in debate on this} ‘The delegations from each local- | question has not prevented the dele-| ity will report back to the workers | who sent them tha results of their | gates from showing a blackly rea 4 payers | tionary attitude on two other basic| "arch on Washington, These Te-| °fter rank and i lissues—the attitude toward Negroes| Ports should be made also to large} ). og trom the n | mass meetings arranged for that pur- | and women. ‘The convention reaffirmed the Jim| Pose. "These mass meetings should | | Crow policy in regard to the organ-| be announced at the Dec. 6 demon- } | zation of Negro workers | strations, and should be made the| It refused to take any action] Tallying centers of a great campaign | | against those national and interna- tional unions which exclude Negro and to form united front commit-| | workers either by constitutional pro-| tees of action in every neighborhood | | visions or “gentlemen's agreements.”| and on every bread line, to continue | It reaffirmed the policy of setting up| the struggle for relief locally and | Jim Crow federal labor unions for| continue the pressure for federal re- | | Negro workers excluded by the big| lief and insurance | unions and other Negro workers who! Demand Right 0 Enter Washington authorities and the | want to organize. | Ramdvinh Praises Potlcy. | businessmen’s organizations are lay- |ing a basis for an attempt to deny | A. Philip Randolph of the Pullmar | Porters’ Union joined in the prais2 of | the marchers the right to enter: Wash- ington, though even the capitalist | the official declaration of the A. F. ,of L, on the question of Negro of-) -onstitution of the Unitzd States pro- vides citizens have a right to “as- ganization, made a weak and hesitat- | ing criticism of the application Ob enbla and petition. the government for redress of grievances.” (Amend- the official policy and proposed that |ment.I of the U. S. Constitution). to organize the rest of the jobless, The marchers demand $50 federal winter relief and U..employment Insurance -®expense of the government and» NEW YORK.—Ali workers should go to the Bronx Coliseum tonight at 8 p.m. te show solidarity to the National Hunger Marchers and demand the right of 3,000 delegates of the millions of enter Washington and place demands before Congress for $50 Federal Winter Relief and unemployie jobless to on their way the hundreds of dele- gates assembled there from New York City, from Up-State New York and Long Island, and those who have With all nine columns of the National Hunger March rapidly converging on Washing- ton, which they will reach Sunday evening, this great movement of protest against starva- entering its most dramatic at the MANY MARCH T0 COLISEUM TONITE Demand Release of Boston Leader NEW YORK.—The ima: ered in Bronx Colisewn t hear a first hand report T of the mil itant demonstration which followed the arrest on Sunday of Anna Block, captain of the New England delega- tion by Federal immigration author- ities, and will demand her rele: In adition, there will also be the first publie repor the national A. F. of L. Rank and File conference on Unemployment Ins’ Cincinnati last ; week. Weinstock, of the New L. Rank and Fi por hall.of the A F. of President The Needle employed Cov on of its member *he main lobby of the 7p. m. so that this group the hall in a body Williar Trades Workers “Un esterday. called ort. +o acil all tions present, Israel Amter, Winter, A. W. Mills, Ben Gold and others. Musie for mass sinving will be provided by the the Workers International Relief | Band. | Bronx Coliseum is at East 177th St. and White Plains Road. Take any Lexington Ave train to 177th | St. and any Bronx Park train on the \Seventh Ave. subway line. Walk |east from the station the federal labor unions be made on the) | Six businessmen’s organizations | “more effective.” The vote | question was unanimous. | Deny Delegate for, Women. passed @ lution urging no feed- The convention denied representa-| ing and lodging of National Hunger |tion to the recently formed Federa- | Marchers in Washington, and confer- |tion of Women’s Auxiliaries, The|Ted with the U. S. Department of women had asked merely fraternal | Justice on tactics to be used. There- representation, but the vote was|wpon the police began arresting all ; against. The opposition to the pro-| Who collect funds for the marchers, | posal was led by A. O. Whartoon of | 8Md hall owners were tipped off by | the International Association of Ma-|the police not to rent any halls for chinists and Frank X. Martel of the | Use of the marchers, The police di- Detroit, Central Labor Council and | Tectly under the orders of the Federal the International Typographical | government, may use this denial of Union. | food and lodging as an excuse to turn | “Can't Control Women.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | ‘The argument of the opponents of | |the measure was that “you cannot | control women,” coupled with the un- | supported statement that “they are not grounded in trade union funda~ mentals.” Darkly veiled hints that | ‘women are more responsive to Com- munist propaganda than male trade | unionists were thrown out and the | feeling was quite general if this were true the seating of a woman fra- ternal delezate would be certain “to cause trouble.” The resolution for giving the women’s auxiliaries fraternal repre-} sentation came from the textile workers, In addition to the proposal of the Executive Council for compulsory un- employment insurance to be enacted HOUSED BY CITY Taylor Agrees to. Give Beds to Col. 8 NEW YORK.—Persistence by the militant unemployed workers of New | York has finally won, in spite of | Mayor McKee’s refusal of armories, |a promise from Commissioner of | Welfare Tay#r > house the Na- MORE FARMERS “JACK CONFERENCE ‘Isanti Countv Meeting | Raises Funds CAMBRIDGE, Minn., Noy. 28—A meeting of the Isanti County Farm Holiday Association was’ held heré | Friday. Although the national lead- |ers of the Associa‘ion are opposed to the National Farm Relief Conference in Washington, December 7-19, the |farmers in the county organization jendorsed the two Bush brothers as | delegates. The meeting wis too late to send delega‘es by trick, so a collection was | taken up of $16 to helo defray their expenses. The Bush brothers go as ‘ delegates of the state association. The local meeting had to struggle vith the candidate for postmas’er, who doesnt want to embarrass the authorities in Washington by sending any delegates at all. by state legislatures, there are a number of proposals from the iron and steel workers’ union, the miners, teachers. and textile workers on the same question, most of which call for federal unemployment insurance or federal supervision of insurance. The federal feature is sure to be brought out strongly in the debate | on the report of the resolutions com- mittee, According to figures given out here by the delegates from the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union, a majority of American seamen when working have @ 12-how day and a 7-day week, tional Hunger Marchers of Column 8. The same delegation representing the National Hunger March Commit~ tee and the Unemployed Councils which interviewed Mayor McKee, went to Taylor afterward. Mass demonstrations were being prepared to place the demands more forcibly. | The proposition of Taylor is to place the hundreds of New England d out of town New York delegates in the Municipal Lodging house. ‘The proposition is accepted, with the | express understanding that not one of the New York unemployed who may be now in the lodging house for Hunger Marchers, pea oy Supper in Yonkers. YONKERS, N. Y., Nov, 28.—Thr workers here are prepared to give the National Hunger Marchers of Column 8 supper when fhey come through tomorrow evenirig, on their way to the Bronx Coljseum meeting | The original plan for them to haye | Supper in Mt. Vernon was changer j because of a lack of suitable plac | to serve it in that town. There will be ‘a mass+meeting of welcome, for which the local jobless have obtained @ permit, in Larkin je. Shall he tugged opt to Rake rooms Plagh