The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1932, Page 1

— , i / / cy 7 / STRENGTHEN MASS SUPPORT FOR HUNGER MARCH; PROTEST POLICE INTERFERENCE! RUSH FUNDS HE tasks NOW in support of the National Hunger March are: FIRST, A GREAT IN ‘REASE IN MASS PROTEST to make the formal permission won for the Hunger March to enter Washington in a body an actual fact—TO STOP THE CAMPAIGN OF POLICE INTIMIDATION. SECOND, quick and generous donations OF MONEY for the housing and feeding of the 2500-3000 Hunger March delegates. THIRD, mass protest to force the withdrawal of the ruling by Vice-President Curtis and Speaker (Vice President- elect) Garner against the hunger marchers parading to and demonstratin, on the Capitel grounds in support of their demands, . WIRE YOUR PROTESTS, DEMANDS, ‘CONTRIBU- TI S TODAY! MNHE verbal agreement of the District Commissioners to al- low the Hunger March to enter Washington is another example of the duplicity and viciousness with which the government treats the needs and demands of the hungry millions of workers. IT IS AS YET MERELY A FORMAL CONCESSION TO MASS PROTEST- The permission is contingent upon the ability of the Hunger marchers to feed and house themselves, MITTEE OF THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS HOUSING AND MEETING THE COM- SEEKING HALLS IS FOLLOWED EVERYWHERE BY THE WASHINGTON POLICE. Prop- erty owners are “persuaded” not to rent accommodations. They are threatened by the police with “outbreaks or vio- 9946, lence”, “rioting”, etc. HE DAILY WORKER is the only ‘paper which exposes the contemptible character of the government campaign against the representatives of the unemployed workers of | Anterica—a campaign directly led by the spokesmen of both the Democrat and Republican Parties. Demand the abolition of all police interference and per« secution! Wire your protests TODAY! Send money to the Hunger March arrangements committee, 1311 G. Street, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. Demand the right of the elected delegates of the Unemployed Council to march to and demon- strate on the Capitol grounds! ORGANIZE MASS MEETINGS AND PROTEST DEM- ONSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ON DEC: 6 IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER MARCH AND ITS RE- LIEF AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM! Wire your protests and demands to congressmen and sen- ators, to Curtis and Garner, TODAY! NATIONAL MARCHERS HUNGER DEMAND! 1.—$50 Winter Relief from the federal government in addition to local relief. 2.—Federal Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the employers and the government, and not of the workers. Read the Daily Worker for news and directions! Dail Central Org ‘(Section of the Communist International ) DECISIVE WEEK FOR SUP- PORT OF HUNGER MARCH 1. Collect Foodstuffs in Bulk and Bring to Nearest Food Station. 2. Spur Efforts for Funds for National Hunger March. Vol. IX, No. 289 Entered ae second-cines matter at the Post Office at EG Kew York, N.Y, under the Act of March 8, 1878, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NINE HUNGER MARCH COLUMNS TO ENTER WASHINGTON EUROPEAN-U.S. WAR DEBT STRUGGLE ENTERS STAGE OF TRADE REPRISALS British Note Admits Increasin Increasing Industrial nal Financial Bankruptcy of Big and Small Powers \ Roosevelt Threatens ‘More Aggressive Foreign Policy’—Imperialists Ignore Big Arms Outlay The struggle of the big powers over the war debts has entered a new and sharper stage, tremendously increasing the threat of imperialist war to the toiling masses of the United States and the whole world. This development is clearly shown in: 1 ‘The threatening character of the debt notes delivered yesterday to the * Washington government by the British and French governments, within a few hours of each other, demanding the postponement of war debts in- RED GAINS IN GERMAN POLLS Huge Increase Since Reichstag Vote By PETER HENRY ‘Three weeks have passed since the German Reichstag elections in which the Communist Party received 6,000,- 000 yotes, 100 deputies and already further incrases in mass support of the Communist Party of Germany, rising even higher than the No- vember 6th figures, are reported. Municipal elections were held on Sunday, November 13th, in Saxony, the Saar region and in Luebeck, only a week after the Reichstag elections. Communists everywhere recorded gains over th suprisingly high totals on November 6th. Second Party in Saar In Saarbruecken, capital of the Saar, the Communists are now the second largest party, only the Cath- olic Center exceeding their vote. Compared to the last municipal elec- tions in November, 1929, the Com- munist Party gained over 40 per cent, ‘getting a total of 10,367, while the Socialists dropped 25 per cent to a total of 6,571. The Nazis are far \CONTINUED ON PAGE _ FIVE) Schleicher Heads German Cabinet NewMove Toward i"as- cist Military Regime BERLIN, Dec. 2.—President Von Hindenburg today appointed Lieut. Gen. Kurt Von Schleicher chancellor to form a new presidential cabinet-— that is to say a cabinet responsible only to Hnidenburg and not to the Reichstag. Schleicher retains his old post as minister of defense that he held in the Von Papen government and is also commissioner of Prussia. ‘Thus Schleicher is in direct control of the Reichswehr (regular army) and the Prussian Police, besides be- ing head of the government of Ger- many as chancellor. This represents a further step of the capitalist class toward an open fascist military dictatorship. The ap- pointment of Schleicher indicates no relief from the vicious policy pursued by Von Papen, but means an attempt to obtain the aims that were pursued by the Von Papen government with other and more effective means. Schleicher is attempting to secure the direct support of all bourgeois parties with mass following and is trying to cloak the Von Papen policy with social ”parliamentary” gestures, simultaneously withdrawing a number of minor provisions of the emergency decrees. Thus he combines diplo- matic maneuvering with the policy of the iron military fist against the ‘masses. He also seeks to secure the aid of the Christian and reformist unions to carry through further wage cuts and inroads on social services, without the friction engendered by Von Papen. Schleicher is prepared to make full {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —stalments due to the United States on December 15 and for cancellation of the debts. * . The resort by the British govern- ‘ement to the war measures of President Wilson during the World War of appealing over the heads of the enemy governments to the po- pulations of the Central Powers. Both the U. S. and British bour- geois press admit that the British note is an appeal “to the American people over the head of Congress.” - ee 3. The French note attempts to en- ‘list the sympathies of U. S. im- perialism with a plea of the role of French imperialism as the policeman, banker and “savior” in Europe of bankrupt capitalism, and as “almost the last bulwark in Europe against complete financial and economic dis- aster.” The question of default has been openly raised in the French Chamber of Commerce. ea ae: 4 Growing resistance in the U. S. Congress to any delay or remis- sion on the war debts without sub- stantial concession by the debtor powers in colonies and markets to Wall Street imperialism. In an art- icle in the current Hearst Cosmopo- litan, Roosevelt gives notice that the incoming Democratic administration will pursue an even more aggressive foreign policy than that of the Hoo- yer Adminstration. STUBBORN POSITION FORCAST The stubborn British position on the war debts was already forcast on Noy. 24, in the following declaration in the House of Commons by L. S. Amery, former Colonial and Domi- nions Secretary: “We also give notice of the ter- mination of our commercial treaty, so that at the end of twelve months we will be free to impose a special tariff on United States goods, to be paid.in gold. or dollars.” The British and French notes and the reaction they have raised in U.S. government circles clearly show the war-like nature of the imperialist rivalries in the sharpening struggle over the war debts. In addition, the notes reveal the spreading bankrupt- cy and decline of world capitalism. The British note admits: “A profound disorder in the course of international trade” throughout the capitalist world . . . “this disorder has culminated in a crisis of unpa- ralleled severity. It has resulted 2 @ general collapse of trade throug. out the world, with prea hh me employment and a disastrous fall in all national incomes, including those of the United States of America and of the United Kingdom. “In directions there are signs of paralysis of trade and the threat of bankcruptey and of financial col- lapse. ... “The value of international trade had already six months ago decreas- ed in three years by 50 per cent, or by the equivalent of $5,000,000 for every hour, night and day that it passes, and the situation has since deteriorated even further.” EXPRESSES FEAR OF IMPERIALISTS The note expresses the nighmare fear of imperialist ruicis that the working class is moving toward the revolutionary way out. The debt conflict shows a sharper contrast with the successful focialist building in the Soviet Union, where unemployment has been ®olished end the material and cultural con- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Demand Right of Marchers to Go to Congress | William Reynolds, chairman of the National Committee of the Un- employed Councils, with Herbert Benjamin, secretary, went to Garner and Curtis and demanded the right of the marchers to parade to the Capitel building. Garner and Curtis refused, and workers everywhere must break down this barrier by wiring resolutions to these officials. Photo shows an earlier delegation, left to right: L. H. Ferguson, Amclia Shelton, William Reynolds and Harold Spencer. First Fruits of Victory for the Hunger March! = Hunger March is advancing. The columns from the Pacific and Atlantic coast, from the east and west, from the north and south will soon meet. As one solid determined body representing the starving millions, they will converge on Washington to present to Congress their demands for unemployment insurance and $50 winter relief.. Wall Street, through its leading representatives, Hoover, Roosevelt and Garner, were determined to break the Hunger March in the locali- ties. Who does not remember the famous Washington, D. C., telegram to all the local police authorities urging them to “discourage” the Hunger | March? Special conferences were held between the Washington police head, the Department of Justice Agents and the, police authorities of the leading cities—all for the purpose of preventing the very organiza- tion of the Hunger March. But these gentlemen reckoned without their host. The starving unemployed were determined to have their elected’ representatives go to Washington. Struggles of the unemployed for bread has surrounded the Hunger March with a wall of mass defense! Wherever the local authori- ties attempted to break the march, the workers, unemployed and em- ployed, have put up such a stiff battle, that the police thought it wiser | to retreat. In many places local authorities, from a policy of “discourage- ment” were Compelled to become “tolerant” and “bcnevolent” and grant food and lodging to the Hunger March delegates. It is only mass organi- zation, mass struggles which make the masters become “tolerant” and “benevolent!” . . 'HE unemployed decided ‘to march to Washington right after the elec- tion. They decided to march on Washington to demand from the congressmen, from the Senate and House of Representatives, controlled by the Democrats, to demand from the present speaker of the House,— Vice-President-elect Garner, to make good the promises made during the election campaign for relief to the unemployed. Many of the elected representatives to. Congress, with Roosevelt as their standard bearer, have promised unemployment insurance. The platform of the Democratic Party also made vague references in favor of Unempioyment Insurance. The Hunger Marchers will demand that these election promises be made good. The complete unanimity between Hoover, Garner and Curtis, to break the march is precisely because of the fear of the growing determi- nation of the unemployed to get relief. The Chattanooga News of No- vember 29th let the cat out of the bag when it said, “The marching of these hungry people in Washington will embarrass the incoming ad- ministration”. Roosevelt will be “embarrassed” because he, with Hoover, is determined to resist real relief and unemployment insurance. To save the incoming Roosevelt administration from “embarrassment” the Wash- ington authorities, under the personal direction of Garner, adopted the policy of the mailed fist. Up to a few days ago the Washington authorities declared that un- der no circumstances would they allow the Hunger Marchers to enter Washington. With the murderous driving out of the veterans, the ruling class hoped to have established the precedent that the representatives of the toilers shall never be allowed to enter Washington to, present and fight for their demands. But the echo of local struggles, which gave birth to the Hunger March, the struggles of the unemployed which were everywhere stimulated by the National Hunger March, the nation-wide support to the demands of the marchers, have caused a “change of heart” on the part of the government. Thus we read a Washington dispatch, published in the New York Times of December 2: “reversing their previous stand against the Hun- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) GARNER, CURTIS SHOW HATRED FOR JOBLESS Mitac. Leader. Leader Scores Repuliticnn: Democratic die: Off geile for Barring wend Capitol MORE BONUS FIGHTERS TO. LEAVE N. Y. 150 Ready ‘1 to. Start; Board of Estimate Ignores Demands PHILA. VETS OFF SUNDAY Herd Jobles Vets Torte Drives ARRIVE IN CAPITAL SUNDAY Second Tam | Worker Insane | ‘TAMPA. COUNTY JAIL, Fila., Dec. 2.—The second of the Tampa class pee prisoners has gone out of his | mina as a result of the fiendish tor- ‘ture s ystem of this jail. He is Carlos Lezama, sentenced to ten years oe participation in the strike of the| i Tobaeco Workers Industr Taio | last year. ial Cesario Alvarez, sentenced to three! years on the same charge, went in-| sane last summer. He is now in the | State Hospital for the Insane as a jn result of weeks of torture in the| rs A sweat-box only atfer insistent pro- Fascist Units test of the workers was he removed | ,; from the sweat-box and sent to the | BULLETIN, insane asylum, where the treatment PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2. — A | for working-class prisoners is scarcely | mass On to Washington rally and | Petter than in the jail. and sendoff for the Philade’ynia The Tampa authorities, agents of} contingent of the National Bonus , the tobacco manufacturers are de- March to Washington will be held | termined to murder ev one of the} tomorrow (Saturday) at 11 a. m. ' Tampa prisoners. Those left in this| at Reyburn Plaza at City Hall. The Philadelphia contingent will leave for Baltimore Sunday morn- ing, the bonus marchers assembling. at Rank and File headquarters, 1026 Locust St., at 9 a, m. In Bal- timore the Philadelphia marchers will join forces with contingents from other parts of the country for the march to Washington, where they expect to arrive Sun- day evening. NEW YORK.—Two new groups of New York bonus marchers are ex- pected to leave for Washington this fevening or early tomorrow morning. _ Lack of funds to rent trucks has been , responsible for holding up about 150| ex-servicemen who are ready to leave. The bonus marchers are today concentrating all efforts on collecting the necessary funds and they have been divided into two groups, which have entered into friendly socialist competition in the fund-collecting drive. Go to Estimate Board Yesterday a committee of three rank and file veterans appeared be- fore the Board of Estimaie to de- mand free trucks for disabled vets who are bonus certificate holders and are going to Washington. Though a letter had been sent to the Board of Estimate with the ex-servicemen’s demands, the committee found that the Board had not taken the trouble to read the letter and the vets were not even on the calendar. When a letter by Lawson Purdy, chairman of the Emergency Work and Relief Ad- ministration, in which he said that $1,000,000 that the city had received from the state would be exhausted by Dec. 10, came up the veterans’ com- mittee insisted on being heard, and Sol Harper, leading Negro vet, spoke. Harper pointed out that while a special session of the legislature was being called Dec. 9 to cut the wages of city workers, the demand of thc veterans that the fat salaries of the city officials be reduced to $3,500 had been ignored. He demanded that in addition to the $1,000,000 that the city had gotten from the state $100,- 000,000 be appropriated for cash win- ter relief for the unemployed, in- eluding the veterans. The Beard of Congress Dec. 5 immediate payment of the bonus and no cuts in dis- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) jail, besides Lezama, are Jim Nine, Carlos Lopez, Henry Boncilla and J. , E. McDonald, all except Lopez serv- linge terms~ of 10 -years. They are torttired and sweated and depend en- tirely on workers from the outside to give them decent food. Ismael Cruz and Angel Cabrero, | sentenced to the chain gang at In- diantown Road camp, have been | transferred to Raiford State Prison nce. they participated in a one-day strike of the workers of the road jcamp, protesting against the torture of prisoners in the sweat box. These two have now been put into the “flat-top,” a fiendish torture in- st'rument which is worse than a] sweat box, This is a small room in- side the jail, just big enougin for one man to be pushed into, with a pow- erful, hot light burninong over his head. All the prisoners who took) )part in the strike were put into the | sweat box for five days, out in the} sun, at Indiantown Road camp. The International Labor Defense urges all workers to protest the fiendish terror of tl in Tampa County Jai ford State Prison, Wire: tions of protest should be mediately to the wardens of prisoners and to Governor Doyle z.| Carleton, at Tallahassee, Fla. | These horrible conditions are ex- pesed in John L. Spivaks “ Nigger, which the Daily Worker is publishing serially. Read today’s in-| stallment on page 4 and spread this smashing exposure. -Y. Bonus Marchers | Report at 10 Today Veterans, bonus marchers and workers are asked to come fl 10 am. today to the headquarters | |of the Veterans’ Rank and File | Committee, 154 W. 20th St., to] prepare to send off the second} group of New York bonus march- | ers to Washington. Following a | short parade to the Hudson River, the ‘bonus marchers’ truck will leave in time to reach Philadel- | phia before 9 a.m. tomorrow, at which time the Philadelphia truck leaves for Baltimore. i FROM NORTH, SOUTH, WEST; MASSES RALLY IN SUPPORT _Right to Enter in lan Attack Marchers Call for Country- -W ide Mass Support for Right to Go to Congre ress w ess with Demands CONCENTRATING ‘COPS §. SAY HALLS IN THREE CITiEs MUST BE HIRED i All Delegates One Day | At Same Time Terror- from Washington ize All Hall Owners WASHINGTON, D. C., Police Forced to Promis All nine columns of the National Hunger March concentrate tonight Dec. at three points, ready to enter Wash-| 2. —- Police. Superintendent ington tomorrow from the north,} Brown h ted publicly that south, and west. Nearly 2,000 march- | Hy ers of Column 7, which started from | iNasmuch as the National Hun- ) Buffalo Nov. 26, and of Column 8/ ger Marchers have arranged which started from Boston Nov. 27,! will merge into a single column to- | for food and lodging in Wai night in Baltimore. | ington, they will be permitted These marchers are from the great} to enter in marching columns. cities of the northwest and repre: ranger & unemployed textile workers of New, titude of the W England, needle trades workers, metal | ich showed itself in workers and all the varied trades of | break up the march into New York City, electrical workers and and still earlier was nall groups, boot and shoe workers from upstate, {trict of Columbia and Anthracite miners from Pennsyi-| telegrams to governors and mayors vania and silk, wool and doll workers, | io “discourage” the marchers. Polic chemical workers, and the war in-| forces, however, are canvassing the dust of New Jersey and Delaware. 7 ire city to intimidat mpathizers nd to prevent the securing of meet- ing places and lodging. ‘he onward sweep the demonstrations in eve tens of thousands of work. port of its demands, has contingents of marine in Column 8. There are | 70 from New York City alone. Demands of Filipinos g the unemployed’ seamen’s| { Ss are ten Filipinos, who will in sup- forced this e in Washington to present ement from the police, as it-has special demands on the. Philippine | cracked through all police opposition Commissione They will insist that|on the way so far. Filipino seamen in American ports ‘ " | get free transportation home as pas- Pte: usar atten “eh Piles Pret sengers, and that Filipino seamen on| ‘fice to cane F permite aii) Bor the ships get the same. pay as other im z marchers to proceed to congress to lay before it their demands for $50 federal winter relief and for federal unemployment seamen The marine workers’ delegation it- self includes those who went a month ago to President Hoover with de- mands for relief to 80,000 unemployed seamen. The president's secretary tolq them they would get an answer n Delegates Must See Coharem: Still more mass demonstrations, hundreds of resolutions adopted at soon. They want it now and they | ass ings and meetings of work- are back in considerable force to get |€rs organizations, must be wired to- te day to Curtis and Garner and to th Massing in Cumberland congressman of the district where the meetings are held. ‘These’ tele- In Cumberland, Maryland, tonight » aac there will be another thousand del- | frams svowd point out that the Na egates, approximately, representing | or them the elected delegates of the millions of jobless all the way to| thousands of workers, beesiew ther the Pacific Coast. They will consist! particular demands to congress, and of men and women, some of whom 2 reign om | each delegate must have the right to have surmounted all obstacles of na- | Cah. Grlenaie muss have the rie ture and all the ingenuity of hostile | &° aah Ss mayors and police power in a trip beat haaitinalhatin ciate 3,000 miles long. Smash This Swind!e! The delegations gathered in Cum-| ang that is not all. The 3,000 berland tonight include Column 1, which left Seattle Nov. 15, and fought its way through Minneapolis and hers are at the gateways of the apital city. They are not in yet. At the same time Police Superintend- ent Brown says they can march in, he makes this entry depeng on their {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) By HERBERT BENJAMIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—The re- sults of our interviews with Vice some three thousand men and women who have been delegated to present the demands and program of the President Curtis and Speaker Garner are a matter of grave concern to all those who face a fourth winter of destituiion and want. These svokesman of the outgoing and incoming administration were confronted by a delegation represent- ing the articulate organized victims of mass unemployment. Their atti- tude toward this delegation is not unrelated to their attitude toward the unemployed. Curtis and Garner were asked to place the issue of bread before the question of beer or any other issue. They were asked to use their in- fluence and authority to provide food and shelter at public expense for unemployed to Congress. Finally they were asked to make the necessary provisions to asure these delegates the opportunity to exercise the right to proceed to the seat of government on the Capitol Hill so that they might make presentation of their demands. Hate the Jobless All these demands, all these prob- lems were curtly dismissed. The fact that this action might leave three thousand men and women without food and shelter; the fact that it would encourage and even instigate a violent attack by the armed forces of the district and federal government upon these men and women, leit these gentlemen unmoved. This we must interpret as an expression of | their attitude towards all who suffer from unemployment. It is just such experience as these that have served to steel the deter- mination of those who have been elected and those who are participat- ing as delegates in the National Hun~- ger March. The conviction that only mass pressure can force Congress to give consideration to the needs of the unemployed accounts for the fact that the delegates in the National Hunger March have not been dis- couraged by the many obstacles that have been put in their way, nor weakened by the many hardships. The proof of this is to be seen in the fact that the march proceeds and gains momentum as per plan, The delegates in the march are with prac- tically no exceptions, veterans of the many bitter strug: waged during the hur against to which the ied snmender Rights nden their rights without the most determined effort to win and preserve them. The real- ization that this is a struggle for bread, for the very right to live, will make the delegates exe™’ ©1] efforts and consent to every sacrifice nec- essary to advance their aims, We feel certain that in this, the National Hunger March will have the support of the broad masses of employed and unemployed and all those in sym- pathy with program for absolute un- employment relief and insurance, nstnal: actually having food and lodging, Meanwhile he is trying a trick. His police have visited every hall owner in Washington, including the manag- ers of the Auditorium where last year the National Marchers slept and held their meetings, and he has terrorized these hall owners so that they refuse to rent halls for the marchers. Anna Block Out on Bail; Hurries to Rejoin Marchers BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 2.—Anna Block, leader of the jobless here, and clecteq captan of the New England | delegation, which made her the firs: | leader of Column 8 when it started The police mobilization continues. Nov. 27 from Boston, has been re-|One hundred Park Police leased on bail and is rushing to over- | Massed at the White House, directly take the National Hunger Marchers Police Mobilization, under Hoover's eye, and waiting his before they enter Washington Anna Block was jerked out of her | position at the head of the column just as it left Boston Common. She was seized by detectives, rushed to the federal detention pen, and heid | for deportation. | The federal authorities were very evidently acting on orders to “dis- courage” the National Hunger March | and thought that this high handed | action of seizing the leader of the col umn might accomplish their purpos It didn’t. The column. went on| lengthening rapidly with new recruits | from ali the ‘industrial centers it passed through. ' > | word of command. Additional city police are assigned to the Capitol building, and they. will with quipied hine guns everything from ne Army y is held ready. Police follow and haneas the me: bers of the National Hunger March Arrangements Committee; — police drive off the street the workerscol- lecti ends, for the march, Pelies, any ‘avaded a meeting shingt jobless held ina. private house two days ago, and not only inierfered with the election of (CONTINUED ON PAGE va Ae sey