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International Notes ‘By PETER HENRY. WHAT IS BEHIND “DIS- ARMAMENT” ‘The “Disarmament’ Conference in Geneva is still struggling along en- deayoring to find a formula which will successfully conceal its complete failure tol disarm the imperialist powers. Some facts have recently come to light which do much to ex- plain why no capitalist plan for dis- armament can be anything but a move to deceive the masses of the people, ‘The Yearbook of the Trade in ‘Arms for 1930 published by the Sec- retariat of the League of Nations (the great powers have not yet re- Jeased their 1931 and 1932 figures) shows total exports in 1930 of $55,000,000 while the imports total only $49,000,000 leaving $6,000,000 unaccounted for. ‘This means that’ governments, which are the only ones! normally authorized to import arms, are concealing the true extent of their armaments; for reasons of mi- litary secrecy they refuse to divulge their arms purchases. In the three great imperialist countries, France, Britain, and the United States, 75 cents of each dol- Jar of taxes goes to meet the cost of past wars and to prepare for fu- ture ones. How is the world to dis- arm when the biggest armament trusts make enormous profits out of the arms trade? The United States delegates to the Disarmament Con- ference refuse to allow private profits in arms to be touched by any inter- Mational treaty, saying that “that would be unconstitutional.” The prof- its made in arms are shown by the fact that Vickers, Ltd., the biggest private arms manufacturers in the world, had a capital of $27,000,000 in 1924, while now, in 1932 its capital has risen to the measly figure o! $89,000,000. 5 Another example:—the huge Skoda works in Czechoslovakia, which made the big Berthas that battered down the Belgian forts in the World War, and which are now affiliated with the French Schneider trust, have paid the following dividends since the end | of the War: 1920, 5 per cent; 1921, 85 per cent; 1922, 10 per cent; 1923, 10 per cent; 1924, 12 per cent; 1925, 14 per cent; 1926, 15 per cent 1927, 17.5; per cent 1928,, 22 per cent; 1929 (after the signing of the Kellogg Pact outlawing war!) 28.5 per cent; and 1930, 28.5 per cent. Armaments seem to be the one business that is never affected by a deprssion—arma- ments always sell well. VON PAPEN LEADS GERMANY TO BANKRUPTCY The One Year Plan of the Von Papen Cabinet for restoring pros- perity to German industry involved a Subsidy to all industries. This is re- flected in the German budget for 1932-33, which promises to show a net deficit of 1,000,0000,0000 marks, or $250,000,000. What is more, the big- gest cities in Germany are facing bankruptcy—Cologne and Frankfurt- on-Main are negotiating with their creditors because they are unable to meet 70,000,000 marks of treasury bills now due. The city of Duisburg- Hamborn has already announced that it will be unable to pay either city salaries or welfare relief unless it receives financial aid at once. The only way out of the financial crisis the bourgeois parties (including the Nazis and the Socialists) know is to levy fantastic taxes on the masses, some cities raising the poll tax, for instance, to 20 times the normal rate. This summarizés the success (?) of Papen’s plan for recovery. The growing economic bankruptcy of German capitalism will most cer- tainly result in ever-growing mass struggles against wage-cuts, in rent strikes, and demonstrations of pro- letarian revolt this winter in Ger- many. MORE PRESS TERROR IN GERMANY After the 9-day suppression of the “Rote Fahne” during the Berlin traffic strike, the Prussian police has | the now suppressed the “Internationale,” theoretical organ of the Communist Party for six months, until May, 1933. The suppression was occasioned by an article discussing the results of the XII. Plenum ‘of the Executive af WILLIAM GREEN KEEPS HIS. EARS CLOSE TO GROUND By BILL DUNNE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League—it is clear that the employers have anticipated him. He is talking about “forcing” a measure that is already in force on a nation wide scale—with devastat- ing consequences for the working class. Here is the situation: The Facts of Part Time Work According to an article by William J. Barrett, a member of Hoover's committee on unemployment relief, sent out through the Department of Labor in September, the percentage of part time work—five days or less (mostly less) per week—ranged at that time from 20.4 in mercantile establishments to 85 in metal, ma- chinery and rubber industries. 6,551 companies, all with a rated capitalization of $100,000 or more (the big concerns in all branches of in- dustry formerly employing 3,475,000 workers, in reports to the Depart- ment of Labor showed that 56 per cent were on part time and 58 per cent had reduced the numbar of work days per employee per week— with corresponding—or proportéon- ately greater—reduction in wages. 3,857 companies reported that they had reduced the number of days work per week. 2,336 concerns reported they had reduced the number of work hours per day, 380 companies reported continuous operation with shorter shifts. 1,338 companies had alternating shifts for workers. 1,170 firms reported rotation of lay- offs. (The totals of companies in this list exceeds the number of com- panies reporting since many of them are using two, three or all of the methods of “staggering” workers and reducing wages.) These 6,551 companies in 1929 em- ployed 3,475,000 (round figures) workers, with a weekly payroll of $104,460,000, In the payroll week of March 15, 1932, those same companies employed —mostly on time—2,548,000 workers with a payroll of $60,626,000. Part Time Work and Wages The figures show approximately 27 percent total unemployment but 2 reduction in wages of 42 per cent. Here are the irrefutable facts of the result to the workingclass of the A. F. of L. approach to the question of the shorter work day and work week and its advocacy of share-the-work schemes as “a step towards the shorter work day” and work week. Without mass organization and strug- gle against wage cuts, for shorter hours without any reduction in pay, this slogan becomes an instrument in the hands of the capitalists for reducing the living standard of the entire working class. The Standard Oil work” plan is now in force in many concerns. When this scheme was daunshest Green endorsed it as fol- lows: ‘ “If the employers throughout the nation will give the share the work plan their full and complete support, increasing employment will be no- ticeable in a very short time in the industrial and economic Situation.” We have seen already how wide- spread were the various schemes for a work” long before the Standard Oil plan was launched. The 6551 companies referred to above were questioned as to the prospect of an increase in their working forces. Only 10 per éent reported that they expected to hire additional workers in the next few months. What A. F. of L. Program Means “Share-the-work” does not enlarge the market for goods and thereby increase the amount of work avail- able. It does not increase the pur- chasing power of the working class. It adds to its suffering. It puts mote of the burden of the crisis on working class. This is what the shorter work day and shorter work week program of the A. F. of L. amounts to. The speech of President Green in Cin- cinnati on this subject, with all its tears and quavers, was simply the Committee of the Communist Inter- national and the ensuing tasks fac- ing the German Communist Party. ‘The German dictatorship is afraid of even theoretical discussion in Communist monthly publications. Such terror is only the expression of fear. This new suppression will not event the German Communist Party from planning successful pro- letarian defense against the capitalist offensive. RECORD STEEL MILL IN STALINSK The first blooming mill of the Stalinsk Metallurgical Combinat, with an annual capacity of 1,200,000 tons of steel, started operations on No- yember Sth. This mill is the largest in the world. com- pletes the first section of the Com- binat In January, 1932, the power and heating units started operations; in February, the coke ovens; in April, the first blast furnace; in July the second blast furnace; in October, the second open hearth , on the eve of the part! il the completion of the blooming On November 2nd, the Stalinsk blast furnaces achieved a world’s record with a total production of 2,204 tons of pig iron during the day, as against their projected capacity of 1,500 tons. Workers Asked to Give Twice for Relief STAMFORD, Conn.—Geronimo, a selectman in delivery of the new official benedic- tion of the A. F. of L, leadership to the stagger system and the share- the-work plan of the bankers and big industrialists. Some Danger of Demagogy It is to be noted as additional evidence of the demagogic treachery characteristic of the trade union bureaucracy, that Green said not one word about the organization of the millions of uno. workers in the basic industries. To have stress- ed this would have been to bring readiness to enter into militant struggle with the members of the T. U. U. L. unions for organization Ley oa behray ital cuts. lead,” for the still more complicated maneuvers required to hold their radicalized masses of American work- ers in check. It must be said that Gren’s tactics show a fairly good un- derstanding of the rank and file con- ference program. The Question of Strikes ‘We will probably yet see Green and some of his fellow bureaucrats for- mally even endorsing strike action, “share-the- | DAILY WOKKHR, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932 Page ‘Thre —s Lynched Worker’s Son Now Fighting The Lynch System Turns Red and Fights for Relief ST. LOUIS, Mo—Since I am in the Party I have learned more in two years than I learned in 31 years of my life. One day I helped to put the furniture back in a Chicago home for a Negro. That’s where I learned to be a Red. Never will I forget the time a Greek comrade came from the West Side and I saw about 300 Negroes on the streets and the com- rades spoke to them about the work- ers, I got 42 days in the workhouse, and when I came out I was a real Red. Now I know how to fight and when to fight. That time I did not know anything about the boss class, but now I have helped put the Party on the ballot in Chicago and in St. Louis. The work was hard, but I would not stop Party work till I am dead. This is my Party. Mr. Hoover did not say a word about unemployment. We say this to Hoover—we want bread and milk for the babies. We want social insurance. I want Mr. Hoover to pay for my father, who they killed in Alabama 33 years ago. He was lyncheg in 1898, the same year I was born in Birmingham. I will still fight the lynch agents, not as one, but with all the workers. WORKER FINDS ONLY WAY OUT Starving and Wants to Fight CHICAGO, Il. I have been reading the Daily Worker for about two months and am joining the Communist Party. There's been a rumor through the plant of a big layoff Saturday. What will I do, and where shall I go if they lay me off. The money I've been earning hasn’t been enough for me to lay aside one penny. Anna and the baby must eat and have a place to stay Some people told me to go to the charitable organizations, they will help you. I’ve been there before. I know what they give you. After you have degraded and shamed your- self, they throw you a bone as to a dog. To smash a window and steal the bread I need doesn’t pay. The bosses’ cop catches you, whacks you over the head, and throws you in jail. Then I am of no use to my family or to myself. Now I have heard of two parties that may show me a way out of my problem. The Communist and Socialist parties. The Socialist Party tells me to “wait and be patient, and everything will come out alright” But I can’t wait, my family must eat and have a place to stay. There- fore I must join the Communist Party, which says, “Fight; a united front against the boss class. The revolutionary way out.” Join the Communist Party—the only way out. H.C. WESL Women Smoke Out Anti-Bonus Store | Keeperin Mich. ST. PAUL, Minn—Being a new member of the WESL, I would like to tell of my first experience in try- | ing to help the National Rank and File Veterans in their fight for the bonus. I was on the committee with two other comrades who went out to solicit business houses for small ar- ticles for use as door prizes at a benefit; dance. Most of these places were willing to donate except the Kresge 5 and 10. Upon stating our mission to the manager he became angry and told us that we should be puoud of having a chance to fight for our country and and not be asking for the bonus. He denounced the veterans for parading behind the Hoover parade when that fellow came to town. He said we should have shown him some respect and courtesy. From the way he spoke I could not help but think that he must have been a high officer in the army and receiving his retirement pay. —C. A. S. P. 3. Remember Kresge’s when shopping, comrades. —SSSSSSSS=—====——— nati convention dominated by Wall Street's labor agents. Viewed from this standpoint the convention is striking proof of the rising conscious- ness and militancy of large sections of the American working Class and of the influence of the Communist Party and the fighting mass organ- izations like the Unemployed Coun- cils, the International Labor Defense and its mass movement for the Scotts- boro boys—and last but not least the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Organize This Influence The proceedings of the A. F. of L. convention to date should be a signal for this tremendous influ- ence in the most concrete terms of acti ip and mass struggle on @ united front basis against all | Chats with Our Worcorrs | | In the course of the agitation and actual participation in the organiza- tion of the Hunger March, Daily Worker readers, undoubtedly, make new contacts with workers or farm- ers. These contacts should be retained by bringing to them copies of Daily Workers and other literature. If necessary, some time should be spent with them to explain things on which they are not quite clear. Very often a visit into their homes will involve the wife and even the children in the discussion. If the new contacts ask questions that the reader him- self is not yet clear on, the Daily Worker will only be glad to advise what literature to read on the par- ticular subject ang where to get it. The agitation for the Hunger March should be used to interest more workers and farmers in buy- ing and subscribing to the Daily Worker. This phase of work will give the reader actual experience and material to report on how workers and farmers react to the Hunger March, what is their opinion about it and also how the Daily Worker is accepted by them. NOTE: Yesterday’s "chat” called atten- tion to an excellent letter from a farmer near Omaha, Unfortun- ately this particular letter was omitted from yesterday’s section, Due to the influx of the hunger march news from the various col- umes, our space was cut, and by oversight the wrong letter was held out. This letter will be published in the next Worker Correspond- ence section devoted to letters from farmers, probably within a week. | Socialist Leaders Hamper Hunger March Preparations PRINCETON, N. J.—The Socialist Club of Princeton University held a meeting in the town here in the Ne- gro Y. M. C. A., which was attended by all the Socialist Party leaders from Trenton branch or section one. ‘The purpose was to turn the Social- ist Club into a Socialist Party section unit, to be known as section two of the S. P. The student who is president of the club allowed me to speak at this meeting on the Hunger March. When I began to make the appeal for sup- port of the march, the S. P. leaders did not know who I was. When I finished speaking, one of the Tren- ton leaders, McDevitt, was so mad he gave the student president hell for letting me speak for the Hunger Marchers and for letting me into the meeting.“ Another leader jumped up and stopped the comrade who had started to take up a collection. McDevitt asked the young student why he had allowed these Commu- nists to come in and break up their meeting, etc. I had simply explained that the capitalist class had sen- tenced 16,000,000 workers and their families to death by starvation and exposure, and that if they (the stu- dents and professors) did not ap- prove of this sentence, they should support the Hunger March, After the meeting was over Mc- Devitt and a few more of the leaders from Trenton came over to me and started to attack the C P. I told them they were a bunch of mis- leaders. I told them the rank and file. of their party were in sympathy | with the revolutionary movement, so then they saw some of the students listening and they beat it. McDevitt, | S. P. leader, pretends he is in sym- pathy with the March, M. Kent, Ohio, Ready for Hunger March KENT, Ohio—Just a few lines to let you know we are going forward here and collecting food and funds for the Hunger March. We have two delegates from Kent, and three from Ravenna; we will join the main column when it arrives in Akron. I was to Washintgon in the last bonus army and walked in the heat for about 15 miles to the capitol, and sang patriotic songs to soothe the minds of those weary Congressmen. But this time its different; we will not have Mr. Waters to tell us to bite tight and take it on the chin, Come on comrades, let’s get our bonus, because I need mine and if we dont get it the bankers will. What @ nice frame-up that was—the bank- ers get half, and the veterans get half, and”have to fight like hell for Who did the dirty work in ‘17? Not the bankers! Let's show them what a real “patriot’ looks like, and march to Washington with the spirit of the workers who fought in '76. Yours for’ the bonus and unem- ployment insurance. —M.RB.C. P.S—Will see you in Washington, Chester Workers Wait for Hunger Marchers CHESTER, Pa.—Preparations for the National Hunger March, which goes through Chester on Dec. 2nd, are going on rapidly. Fourteen delegates will join the column (Column 8) here, This column will stop at Sunvillage on the outskirts of the city, and will march through to the principal parts of the city to Third and Market Sts., where the workers will hold a one- hour demonstration, and proceed to Ninth St. and Morton Ave., where they will meet the trucks and con- fashington. tinue to Wi —Chester Unemployed Council. News Youngstown Will Feed and Lodge COLUMN 1 NORTHWEST YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 30,— Column 1 of the National Hunger March, over 500 delegates, is ap- proaching this city to spend the night here. The struggle of the un- employed here has forced the city to grant food and lodging both on the way to Washington and on the return march. This is the city where, —ilowing an appeal from the mayor to “dis- courage” the’ marchers, some agents of capitalism burglarized the office of the Unemployed Council Nov. 24, and stole material for tag days and the typewriter and other supplies. Pera PHIL DELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 30. — One hundred and fifty unemployed workers in Hamilton flop house held a meeting today and elected four delegates to go on the National Hunger March The workers in this flop house will participate in the big mass wel- come meeting in Reyburn Plaza, at 3 P. M,, Dec, 1, when Column 1 ar- rives to stop over that night. The struggle here has forced the Park Commission to issue a permit for the meeting, and the meeting itself will start more struggle for local relief. There will also be welcoming meet- ing in the evening at Broadway Arena, and at Kensington Labor Lyceum, Great Welcome in Mine Fields COLUMNS 2, 3, 5 WEST, SOUTHWEST BEDFORD, Ind., Nov. 30 —A huge crowd gathered to greet the National Hunger Marchers of Columns 2, 3, and 5 in Vincennes, Ind., last night, and greeted the marchers with a fireworks display. The mayor had made many threats, and had a big force assembled, but the marchers | addressed a mass meeting, and then | came on to Bicknell, in the heart of the Indiana mining fields. A long procession of miners and other workers of Bicknell came out of town in autos, to welcome the marchers, and escourted them back into town and all around the streets. ‘The marchers stopped at the po- lice parking lot, lined up in column of fours and marched on foot to the hall where Bicknell workers provided them with a good hot lunch. ‘They marched again in the eve- ning to Eagles Hall, the largest in the town and crowded to capacity. The mass meeting demanded that District of Colombia officials admit the marchers to Washington and that congress receive their demands. Columns 2, 3 and 5, merged into one column, are proceeding on sched- ule. They stop tonight in Louisville, Ky Columns Join in Pittsburgh Today ® COLUMN 4 MIDWEST PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 30.— Column 4 of the National Hunger | March is reported tonight near) Steubenville, in the mining and| steel section of Eastern Ohio. It will | stop tonight there, and tomorrow) enter Pittsburgh to join with Col-| umn 1 here. ‘The persistent struggle of the Job- less here, led by the unemployed council has forced the city author- ities to promise food for the march- ers of both columns, to appropriate | $60 for lodging meeting places, and | for gasoline for the trucks, and to) grant the School Auditorium for meetings to welcome the marchcers. Many cities in western Pennsylva- nia have been forced by similar ac- tion to give concessions. The offi- | cials of Uniontown in the steel trust | county of Fayette, still refuse, as/ does the city government of Steu-) pbenville. Both are night stop over) points for Column 4, and Uniontown, of course, for Column 1 also. When the columns march into| Pittsburgh, they will find a big mass | meeting of local workers to greet them at West Park at 6 p. m. The Fayette County Hunger March will come down on Union- town on Dec. 6, as a great demon- stration for local cash relief, no forced labor, and for the demands of the National Hunger Marchers which they will then ‘be presenting to congress in Washington. STRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION CARMON SIPALA of Schenectady, N. ¥., formerly a member of the Communist Party, is hereby exposed aS a completely demoralized in- j dividual and as a traitor to tho working class. In violent op- position to his wife’s participa- tion in the struggles of the workers, he has stooped to steal- ing Party records, and he has even betrayed militant workers and Party members to the authorities and ap- peared at stree; meetings in company with the police. He is of Italian nationality, about 35 years old, dark complected, with @ queer look in his eyes. He works at the General Electric Co, plant and is active in the Italian Odd Fellows, also a member of the National Guard. | planed march Prevent Arrest | Just Break City from Hunger March Columns FIGHT GROWS FOR in Binghampton Manager's Heart $50 WINTER AID COLUMN 7 N.Y. & ANTHRACITE BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., Nov 30.— A thousand workers cheered the Na- tional Hunger Marchers of Column 7 here last night, and this morning, after several brushes with the police and county authorities, the whole col- umn left, intact and in fine spirit. ‘They were last heard of in Carbon- dale, Pa. proceeding through the anthracite flelds to stop tonight in Scranton. The sheriff threatened to run the marchers out of town unless they left by 8 this morning, but they stuck together, took their time, had break- fast and left at 9. Fifteen joined the column at Bing- hampton, including delegates from Endicott and Jamestown. During the meeting last night in Courthouse Square, the sheriff and deputies continually hovered around, and the permit for the meeting was worded that the sheriff could stop the meeting at his own pleasure. Prevent Arrest ‘However, he resorted to guerilla tactics instead, and tried to arrest a young worker, Parr, one of the youth delegates, while Parr was de- nouncing the capitalist war plans. The sheriff tried to drag Parr from the platform, but the crowd gathered around with such determination to protect the speaker that the sheriff had to let him go. Parr is from Rochester Detectives also hovered all night around Lithuanian Hall, where the marchers slept, and tried to prevent the march through the town this morning. But the delegates marched. The chief of police sent deputies in a sudden raid to seize one of the banners in the parade. The banner was lettered “Defend the Soviet Union.” This the deputies carried solemnly to the courthouse and burned. | A hundred took part in the meet- ing at Endicott. Some rumor of dis- crimination against Negro delegates was heard, and the whole matter brought to light in the delegates’ meeting, with the class character of such discrimination explained and the question disposed of. The very best solidarity between Negro and white marchers has been established. New Dates in Pennsylvania A change has been made in the arrangements for the marchers through eastern Pennsylvania. In- | stead of stopping tomorrow night at Reading and Friday at Lancaster, the marchers will now stop Thursday | night at Allentown, important silk center, and Friday night at Reading. They will be in Baltimore to join with Column 8 on Saturday eee Much Support. ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 30—The Joint Committee for the National Hunger March is completing all ar- rangements for the selectionof del- egates and welcoming of Column 7, arriving at this city on December Ist. The arrangements committee got all available halls for lodging and a mass meeting in the evening. The marchers will be met by @ workers delegation on highway 22, near the city limits. They will then roceed in formation to the court- house square where a brief open air mass demonstration will be held. The delegates will be fed and housed in the St. Francis Hall and the Lied- erkranz Hall, The mass meeting in the evening will be held at the Trainmens Hall which has a seat- ing capacity of 2300, * os SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 30.—Dele- gates for the National Hunger March were selected from the Khaki Shirt organization after listening to a re-| port by rank and file members: of a| of the veterans to Washintgon. The Unemployed Coun: cil as well as other organizations have also selected delegates. The marchers are coming through this city on the forenoon of December the Ist. All workers are urged to turn out to welcome the Hunger Marchers, * LANCASTER, Pa., Nov. 30.—Col- umn 7 of the National Hunger March is expected to arrive in this city on December 3, at 11 a, m. Local vet- erans, members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and unemployed work- ers are making arrangements to wel- come the Hunger Marchers at the county court house square. The marchers will only remain long enough for an open air demonstra- tion. Coffee and sandwiches will be served by the local committee in the court house square. The Lancaster column, which will reach Baltimore the same night. ORLOFF, OPECK THANK WORKERS Declare Lives Saved Under ILD Leadership MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Nov. 30. —Orloff and Opeck in a joint state- ment issued today, greet the Inter- national Labor Defense, the Daily Worker and other organizations and individuals whose combined mass pressure saved them from legal lynch- ing at the hands of the West Vir- gird. courts. * These two militant miners were framed for their militant strike ac- tivities on a charge of murdering a company guard. ‘The prosecution, backed by the coal companies, de- termined to terrorize the striking miners by imposing a death sentence on Orloff and Opeck. “ ‘Under pressure of the workers led by the International Labor Defense, the court was compelled to release Opeck. Orloff, who was found guilty of “involuntary manslaughter,” will All workers and all workers’ organ- izations are warned against this trai- “ Commupist Party of the U.S.A. be sentenced in two weeks. The let- ter of the two working class fighters declares in part: }not have any until the following COLUMN 9 | SOUTHEAST | NORFOLK, Va., | thousand work Negroes, demon: municipal building seven demands including immed | cash relief for the Norfolk vu ployed workers and food and she for the National Hunger Marc of Column 9 who will be here De 2, Column 9 is to stop tonight Columbia, S. C. The demonstrations here w @ permit for the meeting authorities had tried in ever stop it, City Manager Tr declaring he would “resign rat than have this demonstration ¢: out.” The Unemployed Council him a letter and told him they willing for him to resign. The permit was received by S Langdon, secretary of the U ployed Council just three hours before | the demonstration started. Exposes Graft | The crowd elected a de ten, with Joe Benson, field of the Unemployed Council as spokes- | man, to present the demands to| Mayor Mason and the city manager, | and the City Council. Benson spoke for 15 minutes in spite of constant interruptions by the mayor and city manager. He exposed the wholesale grafting anq assailed ‘Truxton’s $30 a day salary while thousands go hungry in Norfolk. The city council rejected all the! demands, and this Benson reported | immediately to the crowd waiting | outside. Many of the demonstrators fol- lowed to another meeting indoors | and voted to go ahead with all plans| for continued struggle here for rellef and to welcome the National March- ers. 650 MARCHERS ON WAY FROM N.Y. C. 12,000 Demand They, Enter Washington (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ee in | of mass hunger shattered the lie that all classes suffer equally by show- ing that while wages fell over half, profits were still 72 per cent of pre- crisis level: After outlining the whole fight for relief, Amter called | on the workers to remember that this is a starvation system, and urged them to join the Communist Party and work for the end of capi- talism itself. The marchers entered at the end of Amier’s speech. Other speakers were: Sam Weiss- man, chairman; Weinstock report- ing on the AFL. National Confer- ence for Unemployment Insurance; Ann Burlak, of the New England Delegations, answering the greet- ings and pledging to carry on; Ben Gold, who was enthusiastically cheered when it was announced he was elected a hunger march dele- gate; Handel, Negro worker and or- ganizer of Harlem jobless, Louis D. Scott, peronal representative of Tom Mooney, ‘whose release the demonstration demanded, and others. Telegrams from Anna Block, arrest- ed leader of the Boston delegation, and from others were read, and a resolution was passed demanding telease of Anna Block. Greetings from Foster. A telegram from William Z Fos- ter, hailing the march and urging full support was read amidst com- plete silence and prolonged cheer- ing afterward, and an answer was voted and sent Foster greeting him as the trusted leader of the Tk ers, and pledging to support the demands of the marchers. Refuse To Be Registered. The city had promised two meals and lodging Tuesday night. But when the delegates reached the Municipal Lodging House, they were roughly told to line up and register. Carl Winters refused in the name of the delegation to have their records taken for use by police trying to break up the march, and the dele- gation spent the night in Manhat- tan Lyceum. SinglemenMust Starve | Says Indiana Trustee! FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Mr. Fox, our trustee, says that there is no house | evictions in this city. Mr. A. Levy, a millionaire clothing dealer saw fit to evict one of our workers. But the Unemployed Council was there to stop the eviction. On in- vestigation the workers found that the worker had no food and would day. Two of the workers provided food and then Mr. Fox said that he or the charities would not provide for any single men. He said that they would have to go to the county infirmary. Come on, workers, let’s go to town and organize! LY. workers’ organizations for tearing us out of the capitalists’ hands and plac- ing us back into the ranks of the workers, “We are also warmly thanking the | workers’ papers—the Daily Worker, Novy Mir and others who took notice of our fate and are watching vigil- antly against the enemies of the workers. “Comrades, perhaps we even do not deserve your labors and your solidar- | ity as shown in your defense of us. It is our duty as honest workers to openly struggle against our enemies and to remember you all our lives. With comradely greetings, (Signed) SEMEN OPECK. JOSEJH ORLOFE” Read the Daily Worker every day “We are sending our ‘for National Hunger March news | District Buro. of District NosS2 —sineere thanks tothe TD end.obber’ and directions, | ance Bi j and Federal Jc sbless Insur- issue (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Tuesday to the Assistant Ate General Dodds, of the U. 3. nent of Just They had isi rejected a request from a dele ion of the National Committee of full statement of s printed in yester- ker), Officials Plotting t plans were made at the f Justice conference ioners is kept secret. to show that they r the marchers at on the ground they larges.” This is not Assemble Food Washingto nswering the mployed Councils have ies of food enough live on, scantily, two days they id some food is with them. All the great sac- of the half-paid this sacrifice was y the program of r imbia officials, who ‘old blooded starvation, lega} ities and force combined to y 500 delegates of the jobless the right to petition congress. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom through its ional office, has protested the plan ll out the army against the marchers. Many Mass Protests Wired Telegrams demanding the right of the marchers to enter Washington heir demands to con- Monday and Tues- y X tings of over 12,000 workers in New York; 3,000 in. Vin- cennes, thousands in an almost con- tinual demonstration in the New Jer- sey cities from New York to Trenton, thousands m in the cities of lower New York State; 3,000 in Toledo, and big crowds in Dayton, Lorain, Buf- a New Haven and 3,000 in Norfolk, Send telegrams to Speaker Gar- for the mar to be su being brougi employed w ed on them |ner of the House of Representatives, to Vice President Curtis, and to tha congressman from your district. Overcoming Opposition The National Hunger Marchers are smashing through the “discourage- ments” ordered for them in the cities along the way, by the Wahsington authorities, In Vincennes, Ind., where the city administration had made wild threats and police and deputized American Legionnaires were assembled to rush Columns 2, 3 and 5 of the march right through, the marchers stopped in front of the big crowd that was collected, and speakers mounted the tops of the trucks. Fireworks _ The crowd not only cheered heart- ily, but sent up skyrockets to cele- brate the arrival of the marchers. In cities in lower New York State where a terror situation has existed the National Marchers from New England paraded, held meetings, and generally mobilized the workers, per- mits for meetings being granted in several cases just as the Column ap- proached. Youngstown Must Feed In Youngstown, usually a tetror center, where the city administration is owned by the steel conmpanies and is bitterly hostile to all workers’ movements the struggles of the local jobless has compelled the city govern- ment to promise food and lodging for the marchers. Delegations had to be sent to every city councilman’s home, letters and telegrams bombarded them, ang the city hall was jammed with workers. In Youngstown the city administra- tion was forced to promise to feed and lodge the marchers on their way back from Washignton. These victories have been won dure ing the first two days. Other gains were made previously. They are dus to @ combination of the National Hunger March with intensified local struggles for relief. Fiercest Attack in Capital and South The attack on the march is hottest in Washington itself, and in he cities along the route of Column 6 from New Orleans. Monddy in Birmingham, when the several thousand gathered at the county court house to hear the marchers speak, the police at- tacked and clubbed Negro workers in the crowd and arrested one of. the marchres from New Orleans, Joan Davis, and three Negro workers: Le- roy Guyton, Frances Wilson and Rosalie Wilson. Demonstrations forced the release of Joan Davis. TRY TERRORIZE COLLECTORS TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—On our sec- ond Tag Day for the support of the National Hunger March, four women workers (Oma Sutherlin, Margaret Price. Blanche Wright, and Jayne Roberts) went on the streets with penny cans. Patrolman Miller, who has always maintained that he was sympathetic to working class organ- ization, accosted Comrade Price and announced his intention of arresting her for soliciting on the streets with- out a permit. He further lieq that we were collecting funds for a Hun- fer March that had already been called off by the head of our organ- ization. All four women were taken to the City Hall, where they were informed that they would have to see Chief rmstrong and get a permit. Thig the committee refused to do, because Armstrong is such a maniac that it is dangerous to enter his office un- less you are prepared for his insane outbursts. It is a hard fight, but re- gardless of police terror, and the scarcity of money, the workers of Terre Haute intend to organize and fight. —Worker Correspondent. Circulate the pamphlet: “Why We Are Marching” among your adatoors, , shopmates and