The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1932, Page 1

NATIONAL HUNGER ARCHERS DEMAND! $50 Winter Relief from the federal government in addition to local relief. 2.—Federal Unemployment Insurance at the expense of the employer: government, and not of the workers. -Read the Daily Worker for news and 2 directions! \ Vol. IX, No. 290 nd the a Dail Central Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of Mareh 2, 1879, Orga (Section of the Co Worker the-Co munist bh mmunist International ) 2W YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2932 1.—The National DEMONSTRATE TUESDAY, FOR MARCH DEMANDS! Hunger Marchers pre- sent their demands tomorrow to Con- gress, in Washington. U.S.A. 2,—Mobilize! Party Mass Demonstrations In Every City In the Country In Support of These Demands! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WASHINGTON POLICE INTERN 3,000 HUNGER MARCHERS WIRE PROTEST NOW! DEMAND RIGHTS FOR MARCHERS! DEMONSTRATE DEC. 6 Deliberate provocative and lying “news” stories, inspired by the Was capitalist newspapers Sunday, evidently calculated to lay a basis for pelic: Marchers en route to and in Washington itself. One such story News, pretending to quote a leader of the unemployed del unemployed delegation against the armed forces at Washington. Another outrageously false provocative story, sent out by the Associated Press, and a special dispatch in the New York Times, are among the sinister indica- | tions that Hoover's hunger government will resort to any lengths of 1 | and will go to any lengths of criminal violence against unarmed men and women, the elected delegates of the wu: employed, if the mass support of the Hunger Ma Organize mass protests against the police violence which is being used to deny the right of the representa- tives of the millions of unemployed to present the Organize mass meetings and protest demonstr: in support of the hunger march and its demands for unemployment relief! V sare View of Hun- ger March in Washington on Dec. 7, 1931. ; This year the 3,000 elected representatives of the unem- ployed are again massing on the capital | to demand win- ter relief and unemployment surance. This ts with the need of the 16,000,000 u n- employed in the U. S. h is in any w demands for ns entirely false, y slackened! the relief of a starving people! throughout the country tomorrow, TUESDAY, DEC. 6, your protests to Congressmen and Senators and to Curtis and Garner TODAY! Send money to the Hunger March Arrangements Committee, 1311 G St., W., Washington, D, C., TODAY! ington authorities, appeared in nearly all s of violence against the Hunger ppeared in the New York Sunday ation in voicing idiotic “threats” of the empty-handed g and provocation to deceive the masses, | | a AUTHORITIES VIOLATE ALL PUBLIC PLEDGES; ARMED FORCES SURROUND MARCHERS, BAR ENTRY guard. ‘The entire National Hunger March, all columns, w: held under armed guard on vacant ground near the Pennsylvai The marchers have no shelter, railroad yards, outside the The marchers are not being allowed-to enter the city No one is allowed to communicate with the marchers. Truckloads of food sent them from stores accumulated by the workers of Washington and other workers, were turned back by the police, This means the use of starvation as a police weapon. All the marchers have refused. The marchers maintain their right, once promised them by the Washington authorities, to go into the capital city in a body to hold the national conference of the unemployed. They maintain the right to go from that in a body to congress and present their demands for winter relief and unemployment insurance. All workers are called upon to support this demand, resolutions to be telegraphed at once to the District of Columbia Commissioners, to Vice-President Curtis and The police urge them to quit and go home. stopped at the District of Columbia limits and the marchers are city proper, They are under police through mass meetings and demonstrations, and adoption of jpeaker Garner. In the Day’s News. ADAMS DEMANDS BIGGER NAVY WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Secretary of the Navy Adams stressed the “ne- cessity” for an enlargeq naval build- gress yesterday. This demand of the imperialist war monger will be coun- } tered by the Unemployed Hunger (Marchers, who will demand that all Imilitary expenditures be diverted for the use of the 16,000,000 unemployed. sia) RIDICULES 100% “LADIES” BERLIN, Dec. 4.—Albert Einstein poured pointed ridicule over the “ladies” of the Women’s ‘Patriotic Organization, who opposed his entry into the U. S. on the grounds that he is a@ member of Communist con- trolled organization. “Give heed to the dear ladies,” he said in part, “and remember that cackling geese ‘once saved Rome.” FASCIST TERROR IN FINLAND HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec. 4— About 100 workers were arrested by the Finnish police, as part of the efforts of the Fascist government to suppress Communist and other work- ing class organizations. The arrested workers are charged with high treas- m, and a number have been con- victed under this charge. Several employees of the Soviet Oil Trust were also arrested. Reb) oie ERROR” FAVORS DEMOCRAT DENVER, Colo., Dec. 4—Because County Clerk of Hinsdale County lected to send official report of the vote to the State Canvassing ‘Board, Karl C, Schuyler, Republican, elected ‘for the Senate short term, will not be seated until the error is rectified. Walter Walker, Democratic appointee from this district, will claim the Senate seat until Schuyler’s | election is verified. ihe Ve | EXPOSE FASCIST PROVOCATION | LWOW, Dec. 4.-—-A Polish student * ‘named Zamorski is said to have con- fessed that he was not shot during a funeral procession last Tuesday, but ‘was wounded by a hand grenade he himself carried. The “shooting” of jamorski was used by the fascists ere to intensify attacks on the Jew- 4 ish population. Light sentences of two months were imposed by the Polish government on two partici- pants in the anti-semitic attacks. Metal Workers Affair To Be Held Saturday | a On Saturday night, December 10, | the Metal Workers Industrial Union, | Local, will hold its first big | fair, at the Russian Mutual Aid | ty Hall, 136 15th Street, Brook- Finrst-class entertainment, as well | as a good jazz band, has been se- | cured. Artists from the John Reed Club wifl participate in the program, The Russian Mutual Aid Society has donated its hall for this affair in and the right of the students to par- erder to help the local of the Union. The National Hunger March de- ing program in his report to Con- | 1 | the -million one Demonstrate A FIGHT FOR AID FROM CITY GOV'T, Back Up the National Hunger March NEW YORK.—Tomorrow through- out the country thousands of workers will join in mass megtings and dem- onstrations in ‘suppdrt of the de- mands of the National Hunger March, Over 3,000 delegates, elected by tens of thousands of jobless workers, have marched to Washing- ton, to call on congress for $50 fed- eral winter relief and federal unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the government and employers. These delegates represent the in- terests of the jobless of the nation, over 400 of them voice the needs of } hundred and sixty thousand jobless of New York, The unemployed and employed workers elected them, sent them to place their demands before congress, and will support those demands in a gigantic nation-wide demonstration tomorrow. We Demonstrate, Too. New York workers should play their part. The call is to rally in tre- mendous strength tomorrow and thunder at the doors of city hall, for the National Hunger Marchers, and for those same local demands that, we must have, whether we get fed- eral relief or not. ) : This is the richest city of the rich- est country in the world, and work- ers starve to death in the stre This must not go on, Come down to city hall with us tomorrow at noon and tell the Tammany govern- ment it must not go on. Come and demonstrate for: 1, Three tons of coal for each un- employed family. 2. Shelter for all homeless men and women, 3. Repeal of the eviction law. No evictions of the unemployed and part time workers, 4. Relief for all unemployed. 5, Endorsement of the demands for $50 federal relief, in addition to local relief and’ unemployment in- surance at the expense of the em- ployers and the government, the Na- tional Hunger March demand: VETERANS, NOTICE All veterans who have registered for the bonus march and all who want to register must report with thei discharge papers this morn- ing at Rank and File headquar- ters, 154 West 20th Street, and prepare to leave with the third unit of the New York contingent by 4 p.m. All recruiting stations must report the number of vyet- erans they have registered to headquarters this morning and are asked to get in touch with their registered veterans. Newark veterans must provide their own truck in erder to leave today, GREATER NEW YORK VETERANS’ RANK AND FILE COMMITTEE, FOREIGN BORN DEFENSE MEET. NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense has called a meeting of it's affiliate committee, the Council for the Protection of Foreign born for Monday, December 5, at 31 At- lJantic Avenue, Brooklyn, at 8 p.m, \t City Hall Tomorrow At Noon ° 2nd N.Y. Bonus Unit Off; / GENERAL STRIKE Third Is Ready to Leave All Contingents Join Forces in Baltimore, Arrive in Washington Today Kansas City Marchers Outmaneuver Police; B.E.F, Leaders Try to Disrupt March NEW YORK.About 1,000 workers and ex-servicemen gave an enthusi- | astic sendoff to the second truckload of veterans, who left New York from | Union Sq. Saturday night on the big bonus march to Washington. The truck headed for Philadelphia, while many veterans who could not get into the truck, hopped freight trains. Joining the Philadelphia contingent at Rank and File headquarters, 1026 @———— Locust St., Philadelphia, the bonus tmharchers left yesterday morning for the headquarters in Baltimore at 1720 Thames St. Here they joined forces with contingents from all over the country, including the first New York group, which ‘eft Wednesday morning. The vets are marching en masse from Blatimore to Washington and will arrive in time for the opening of Congress today when they will pre- sent their demands for immediate payment of their back wages, known as the bonus, and no cuts in disabi- lity allowances. To Send Off Third Group ‘Today all New York veterans are called to report at 11 a.m., at the Rank and File headquarters, 154 W. 20th St. to make preparations for sending off a third group of bonus marchers, At 4 p.m., the vets will rally for a meeting at, Union Square and University Place. Tonight a mass meeting on the bonus march has been called in the Central High School, Nework, by the Khaki Shirts. General Pelham D. Glassford, who Jed the murderous police attack on the first bonus march, will address the meeting, but representatives of the Veterans’ Rank and File Committee, who will also speak, are planning to make ‘it hot for him. Recruiting of Newark bonus marchers is now going on at Rank and File headquarters, 385 Spring- field St. Open air rallies will be held throughout Newark today. Demonstrate Tomorrow! ‘The Greater New York Veterans’ Rank and File Committee ts calling all veterans to join in the demon- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SCHAFER RETURNING, NEW YORK.—Jacob Schafer, di- DEMOCRATS PLAN A SALES TAX To Gouge $600,000,000, From the Workers WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4—} | The Dentocratic majority in Congress | is openly campaigning for a “rider” | (clauses aded, having nothing to S| | with the original matter in the bill) to the bill legalizing and taxing beer. | The beer bill will be submitted GRIPS ATHENS | According to Reports | of Greek Paper NEW YORK.—According to in- | | formation received here by the “Em- | pros,” a Greek Communist paper, a general strike of bus drivers, street car men, bakers and gas and elec- | tricity workers, having practically the unanimous support of the workers and small-businessmen of | Athens, has paralyzed all industrial activity in this city of 1,000,000 popu- | lation. strike. They demanded that a tax ievied on the drivers by the com- pany which owns the buses and which is controlled by English capi- tal, should be discontinued. The bus workers were immediately joined by the street car men, then by the bakers and by the gas and electric workers who came out in solidarity strike. The strike quickly developed into a struggle against British imperialism, and took on deep political signifi- cance with the demand of the strik- ers for the immediate release of all political prisoners, most of whom are Communists. Led by the Communist deputies, The bus workers were the first to| ~ [Read Demands and) TALK OF WAR I ‘Morcherson Puget DEBT STRUGGLE Marchers, on Page 4} U. S. in Drive for Big The draft statement of demands Army and vy and program of the Hunger Marchers to be presented to Con- | gress today appears on Page 4 of | this issue. It is an BULLETIN unemplo; || the increasingl: 7 SCORE DENIAL OF | MARCHERS’ RIGHT Liberals Make Protest to Government WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4.— | The National Committee of the | Unemployed Councils has received the | following telegram, signed by George A. Douglas and Francis A. Henson | of the National Religion and Labor | Foundation, New Haven | | the war debts 2 w demand: in the U. S. Army ar On Saturday, Secretary of War Hurley in his annual report to Hoover demanded increased appro- priatiens for the army and opposed the present sham discussion on Philippine independence, on the grounds of “existing conditions throughout the world” demanded large increases In land armament. At the same time Secretary of the | Navy Adams demanded the building | up of the U. S. Navy to the London Treaty, that is, equality with the British rivals of U. S. im: ialism and a 5-3 ratio of superiority over its Japanese rivals. He also de- when Congress opens tomorrow, and | strikers and sympathizers held mili- the “rider” will be for a sales tax.| tant demonstrations throughout the “We authorize you to use the fol-| manded huge airplane construc- lowing in approaching churches and! tion. Despite the sham talk of The amount of the tax suggested So far is one per cent. The reason for the sales tax is given as the need for balancing the | budget now about $1,800,000,000. The | proponents of the sales tax figure | that by it they can extort from the | workers who still have jobs and buy | food, something like $600,000,000 an- nually, Never for once did they suggest? balancing the budget by cutting down on the hundreds of millions slated for war preparations, Never once did- they suggest sur-taxes on the great corporations. They turn only to plans for making living costs higher for the workers, for reducing the standard of living of the work- ers and farmers. Some of the Senate democrats are reported afraid of the effect of a sales tax, coming in with the De- mocrati¢ adminstration, They sug- gest the beer tax alone, It is re- ported that Roosevit, President- lect and therefore head of the Dem- rector of the Freheit Singing Socletys ocratic Party, will be called in to will return to New York on the S.S. Europa, arriving here Dec. 5, He has been in the USSR where his oratorio had its first presentation. MUSICIANS, ATTENTION All musicians leaving for Wash- ington with the Workers Interna- tional Relief Band must be at 122 Second Avenue, this evening, Monday, at 7:30 p.m. sharp, with instruments and lyres. Dress warmly. Read the Daily Worker every day for National Hunger March news and directions, decide which form of taxation shall prevail. And it is also reported that Roosevelt depends largely on the advice of Speaker Garner of the House of Representatives, an advoc- ate of the sales tax as well as the beer tax. RUMANTAN CLUB PROTESTS NEW YORK.-The Rumanian Workers’ Clutural Club of this city adopted a resolution at its meeting recently demanding the right of petition and no interfererice with the National Hunger Marchers, Bonus hae ‘These demonstrations were at- | tacked by the military, with many casualties on both sides. Communist deputy Mephelondes has been jailed as one of the leaders of the strikers. The strike is effective 100 per cent. | No scabs are available. | tion of gas and electric service has | beentaken over by police and ma- tines, but with little success. The railroad workers have declared their willingness to declare a sympathy strike and are expected to join the strikers soon. The government has threatened to call the railroad men to the colors in case they strike. Over 100 Join Millinery ‘Jobless Committee NEW YORK.—A larger hall had to be obtained when over 500 work- ers, employed and unemployed, re- sponded to the call of the Millinery Unemployed Committee for a meet- ing at Bryant Hall, 6th Avenue and 41st Street, last Friday. The Committee, in open letter to Zaritsky and to Nathaniel Spector, of the Millinery Workers Union, Local 24, had called upon these leaders of the A. F. of L. union to appear before the workers, but none of these. mis- leaders were present. Hoffman, Gal- | stock and Trving Potash then spoke for the Needle Trades Workers In- | dustrial Union, and exposed the A. F. of L, leaders. Over 100 workers responded by joining the Millinery Unemployed Committee. The headquarters of the Pa] pokes brag ah May committee are at. 140 West. 36th|and dramatic The opera- | release this to the press: ‘The, Philippine independence, the U. S. | constitution provides for the right) imperialists intends to hold on to | of petition. Millions of unemployed | the Philippine as a war base aga‘nst in a land of plenty justifies hunger | Japan, marchers in the attempt to dramatize | the need for more adequate federal} Increasing opposition is evident in | | relief, It is quite evident, however, | Congressional circles to the British | that ‘he civil authorities are bent |and French demands, backed by} on resisting the marchers. |some of the smaller European states ‘The National Religion and Labor | for delay on the debt instalments due | Foundation calls on churches and|0n December 15 and for cancellation synagogues in Washington to help | of the war debts. provide housing for the unemployed} The British threat of trade repri- petitioners regardless of agreement sals against the United States were or disagreement with the political) answereq by counter threats by Position of the sponsers. {members of Congress thus greatly ‘ “Bishop Francis McConnell, John | sharpening the war danger. Haynes Holmes, Harry Ward, Reinn- hold Niebuhr, Jerome Davis, Jane | Adams, Edward Israel, Stephen Wise | are on the Foundation committee. We | urge you to see Jerome Davis at the Svenish S. P. Betrays Striking Miners Ambassador Hotel conference this efternoon for the support in mobi-/ OyiEDO, Spain—Once more the lizing churches. Socialist Party has proven that it Meeting Dec. 11th To __ is members to Commemorate f Canton pAeeotding to the Associated Press, | however, y forty i the Commune Anniversary ret or scoot mines aoe ‘on NEW YORK-—The Fifth Anniver-|strke here are Socialist workers, and sary of the Canton Commune will be | ™any of these have refused to go celebrateq at a mass meeting to be | back to work. The United Front of held by the International Labor De- | Syndicalist and rank and file work- !4s a tool of the capitalist by ordering its members to desert the great, strike fense and the Anti-Imperialist | S'S “ standing Mati the Rage a p.m. at Stuyvesant Ca- | Seciation reports, the result ng crane hy Asai that 20.000 men are still on strike at Dec. 11. American workers at this meeting will also protest 224 indications are that they will against the present imperialist terror |%€ @ble to obtain certain demands ? WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee |/4.—At 7:30 tonight the Na- _.| tional Hunger Marchers from | the North were camped on a | cold, windy hillside just out- | side the Washington city limits on the Baltimore road. They have been driven there by Washington police. The police are trying to terrorize the marchers into returning home, which they refuse to do. At a late hour ‘last night the marchers, all nine*columns of them, were together, surrounded by the thugs of the government armed with machine guns, who were keeping all persons away from them. Hundreds of Negro workers from Washington gathered in the outskirts of town, | waiting to greet the marchers, but | were not allowed to approach them, The marchers have no shelter, and trucks with food trying to go inte the camp were not allowed by the police to enter. The hillside on which the marchers are held adjoins the Pennsylvania | Railroad yards. It has the yards on | one side, and woods on the other. | Streets leading out to it are roped | off by the police, and heavy guards | posted: No one is allowed in The northern marchers, nearly 2,000 strong, were accompanied by Maryland police from Baltimore to j the District of Columbia. At that point the District police met them, led them by what was said to be a “short cut” to the city, and when they got them on the hillside by the railroad yards, surrounded them and | held them there. The 1,300 estern delegates reached | the limits of the District of Colum- | bia a little after 7 p.m., were stopped tia HaoversFecesevelt | by. police, and finally reached the f fe Tasci: gay = * | same camp. and a program of action for the Fascist Italy yesterday ordered | F . , workers in their fight for imme-| | construction’ of four new warships. | | The | six Srp of bathe! |diate relief and unemployment || The Sfelian action will be used by sabia = ee aes eee Bee insurance to be paig for by the| | French imperialists to justify fur- cin Nas lesa Sh : bosses and their government. || ther increases in the French navy. | 2D. Ae Read the statement yourself| | Cat atl The marchers demand on a and see that it gets the widest | enter the city of Washington, to ho possible | circulation. among the WASHINGTON, [vec. 4.—Threats| there their national conference of inakses of workers--employed, and | United States and other im-| the unemployed, and to go in a body Henge : cit aa st powers of trade repris: to the capitol building Tuesday to present demands for winter relief and unemployment ‘insurance. Every one of these thousands of marchers is an elected delegate from mass meetings and demonstrations of starving unemployed workers, or from some workers’ organization in one of the industrial citadels of profits and hunger strewn across the country from coast to coast. Some of them have marched 3,000 miles to tell Congress that they want, and the workers who sent hem want, $50 federal winter relief in addition to what they can get locally, and federal unemployment insurance at the expense of the gov- ernment and the employers, not ‘of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Protest Death of Hunger Striker J ugoslavia Masses Fight Police (Inprecorr Cable.) BERLIN, Dec. 4—The death of Tomshitch, a Jugoslavia student, is reported in connection with a hunger strike of political prisoners in the notorious Mitrovitza Prison in Jugo- Slavia, The politicals are striking against the inhuman conditions, ar~ bitrary maltreatment and bad food. Tomshitch died on the thirteenth day of the: strike. News of Tomshitch’s death caused angry demonstrations of workers and students in Liublina where a huge demonstration occured on Congress Square after police barred workers from a hall. There were many fierce collissions with the police, with many persons injured and are rested. The authorities have notified re- latives of the other strikers that the latter are in serious condition, World wide protest is urgently nee- essary as it is obvious the authort- ties intend to let the prisoners die, TRAITORS EXPOSED Morris Burnstine and Morris Kam- insky have been caught misappro= in China. for increased wages and better work- ( | ‘The speakers are Earl Browder, H.|!"& conditions. 8. Chang, Kang, and William Simons.; ‘The Civil Guard in the city of The program will include a card Sama, near here, attacked demon- &|strations of workers on several oc~ .easions recently, at priating funds of the Workers Ine ternational Relief, and all workers are cautioned against having any- thing to do. with such enemies the working ot $i ra