The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1932, Page 1

—— SMSO ee » Sawardi, went down off the coast of NATIONAL HUNGER MARCHERS 1.—$50 Winter Relief from the federal government in addition to local relief. 2.—Federal Unemployment Insurance at DEMAND! the expense of the employers and the government, and not of the workers. Read the Daily W: directions! Vol. IX, No. 291 orker for news and Entered as second-clars mat New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Orga iar > (Section of the Communist International) orker U.S.A Party DEMONSTRATE TODAY FOR MARCH DEMANDS! 1.—The National Hunger Marchers pre- their demands to Congress in sent Washington. 2.—Mobilize! Mass Demonstrations In Every City In the Country In Support of These Demands! 1 ak the Post Office at NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932 cit Y EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMONSTRATE TODAY AT NOON AT CITY HALL TO SUPPORT HUNGER MARCH, FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF! In the Day’s News | REPEAL RESOLUTION BEATEN IN HOUSE WASHINGTON, D. C.—A_probi- bition repeal resolution was voted down today by the House of Repre- sentatives by a vote of 271 to 144. A two-thirds vote was necessary to pass the resolution to amend the constitution. ee IMPROVE SUPPLY SYSTEM. MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—A decree is- sued by the Council of Peoples Com- missars, and effective January Ist, 1933, will place the control over dis- tribution of food and all other sup- plies into the hands of individual factories, industries and enterprises. | This measure will prevent shifters and deserters from taking advantage of supplies, and will at the same time vastly improve the distribution of food and goods for workers on the fob, e She RAIL WORKERS VOTE STRIKE DUBLIN, Dec. 5.—Delegates repre- senting 20,000 railroad workers, voted | ast night, to strike, if necessary, ‘against a 10 percent wage cut recom- mended by the Irish National Wages Board. i eee ‘TEACHERS VOTE STRIKE IN | CUBA | HAVVANA Cuba, Dec. 5.—Dele- gates representing several thousand teachers of Cuba voted in secret ses- sion to strike Thursday unless they | receive part of their salaries which are in arrears up to 8 months. Se ver 30 JAPANESE SAILORS DROWN TOKIO, Dec. 5.—The imperialist war machine devoured 50 more lives when the 900-ton Japanese destroyer, tH Foochow, pulling fifty sailors into the watery poet . BONUS ARMY VETS LIVE IN BOX CARS SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 5.—One} hundred twenty veterans, members of the B.EF., whe were betrayed by . Waters in Washington last summer are now living in box cars near San | Antonio, ss { SUSPEND MILITANT VET SAULTE STE. MARIE, Mich. (By Mail).—In an effort, to keep its mem~ bership from learning the program of the only political party that fights ‘for immediate payment of the bonus and no cuts in disability allowances, the local post of the Veterans of For- eign Wars has suspended Albert E. Jones for distributing leaflets calling on the members to attend a Commu- nist election rally during the recent eampaign. The V.F.W. is supposed to be 2 non-political organization, | which means that its leaders support | Political parties and their anti-vet Programs and try to force the rank and file to do likewise. Socialists Back the Wall St Proposals for City Government Swiping most of its proposals from the Wall Street program for reor- | ars the city government, which Al Smith announced a few days ago, (the state executive committee of the ‘Socialist Party is planning to pre- 'sent an “efficiency” program to Gov- ‘ernor Roosevelt, before the convening of the special session of the legisla~ ture Friday. The special session has ‘been called to put through, at the ‘demand of Wall Street bankers, ‘sweeping wage-cuts for New York City employes and possibly for those of other cities, too. * A statement issued for the execu- tive committee by Louis Waldman, who was socialist candidate for gov- lernor, devotes its chief attention to “the proper consolidation of over- Yapping bureaus, by the elimination lof the five borough offices, etc.”—all repeating almost parrot-fashion the fs Al Smith made in his ‘Speech. Jail 3 for Protesting Agency Robbery of $40 - NEW YORK.—Three workers were Z when Sixth Ave. Job. Agency Grievance Committee of 58 W. 38th St. in <tront of the Muller Agency, 1173 Sixth Ave. The demonstration was Called to protest against the robbery y the agency of $40 from a worker, who paid that sum for which he was ‘omised « $50 a month job that did Not exist. The agency refused to return the money, and the workers turned to the Sixth Ave. Committee. 3 arrested workers included Eat in Armory; Smash Jim Crow Rule Picture of section of the Boston delegation of National Hunger Marchers eating in the 104th Regiment Armory in Baltimore, won for the use of the delegates of the jobless by the vigor of the local struggles. Baltimore is in a Southern state, but the Jim Crow regula- tions go overboard when workers—men and women, Negro and white t together. 500 Bonus Marchers Are Interned in Washington More Arriving Constantly to Demand Bonus Now, No Cuts in Disability Allowances Advance Guard of Phila. Contingent Leaves; Misleader “Loses” Chicago B.E.F. Vets WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—] of the country are here. The veterans arrived yesterday about the same time the hunger marchers did and were driven with them to a windy hillside about two miles from the capitol buildings, where they have been interned. Many of these vets beat their way across country on freight trains, fought po- lice and railroad dicks, starved, but they are here with spirits high, sing- ing vet songs, shouting their fighting slogans, determined to force the gov- ernment to pay them their back pay (bonus) immediately without cutting a cent from disability allowances. Ranks Swelling The ranks of the bonus marchers are swelling constantly and news has been received that hundreds more are on their way, coming in groups and individually, in trucks and on freights, despite police attacks, The bonus marchers interned here have elected a temporary rank and file committee. They sent a telegram to the governor of Ohio protesting against the police attack on the Chi- cago contingent near Lima, O. The veterans are also stipporting the de- mands of the hunger marchers for federal unemployment insurance and $50 winter relief. The bonus marchers are eager to join the 3,000 veterans who preceded them individually into Washington, drifting in since the last bonus march anq who are being rallied for the mass united front struggle for pay- ment of the bonus now. Phila. Advance Guard Leaves PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.—An ad- vance guard of 50 rank and file Philadelphia Ex-Servicemen, plus the third group of New York bonus marchers, left for Washington at 10 a, m. yesterday from rank and file headquarters here, 1026 Locust St. The New York group had arrived two hours before after riding through the night. Frank Tracy is commander of the Philadelphia contingent. Arrange- ments are being made to send addi- tional contingents from this city. ere Misleader “Loses” Vets CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—About 200 members of the local Bonus Expedi- tionary Forces, who left here Satur- | day under the command of Cupt. | George Anthony, the notorious police agent who organized a private bonus march of his own in order to disrupt the mass movement, have dispersed and no news of them has been re- ceived anywhere. The men were sup- posed to board freights and make their way to Washington, but it is believed that Anthony has shunted them off in an effort to keep them from getting to the capitol and joining the rank and file vets from all over the country who are now there to’ demand immediate payment of the bonus. The Veterans’ National Rank and File Committee, from its Washington headquarters, 905 “I” St., N. W., has issued an appeal to the membreship of the B.EF. to ignore their mislead- ers, elect. rank and file committees jand proceed to Washington at once. ive hundred bonus marchers are here, cor- raled like cattle under heavy police guard, together with 3,000 hi marchers, at Pennsylvania and Florida Aves., near the Pennsylvania road yards, just inside the city limits. Contingents from Philadelphia, Bal- timore, California, Michigan, Chicago, Virginia and many other sections ® | | | } | Your hunger march delegates ‘NO EVICTIONS OF JOBLESS WORKERS Go Right to City Hall) Or to Rallying Point NEW YORK. — Workers! that you sent to Washington | to demand winter relief and unemployment insurance were surrounded by the police and are virtually prisoners, men-| aced with guns and gas. They have drawn up a statement to congress which has in it demands for $50 winter relief and insurance | for all unemployed. ‘Today they present these demands to congress. Today all workers ate called to demonstrate at the City Hall at noon to back up the demands on con-j gress. i Starving Here. The city administration and all the charities together in New York pro- vide relief funds for only 97,000 un-! employed heads of families, less than one-third of those totally unem- ployed, which amounts to an average of $1 a week for those that get relief at all. Most get none. Over a quarter of the cases inves- tigated by the Home Relief Bureau get no relief, and those that do get some have to wait weeks while the red tape is unwound. It is impossible for more than a million jobless in this city to live this way. Only a few days ago Estelle Smith was starved to death in Harlem; only a few days ago Mrs. Best had her legs crushed when in desperation she attempted suicide, In Harlem 50 per cent of the chit- dren are sick from hunger. Condi- tions are no better in other work-' ing-class neighborhoods. So far this year, 200,000 evictions have taken place, Negroes, unemployed workers and foreign-born workers are discrimin- ated against; fewer get relief and less relief is given those. ' This can not go on. not go on, Demonsttate today for more reliet | from the city, for free coal, against evictions, against red tape in the Home Relief Bureau, against dis- | crimination, as wel! as for the de- mands of the National Marchers. This must Come to the City Hall at noon if Sty you don’t belong to an organization. | If you belong to one of the organiza: ' tions listed below, go before noon to its headquarters and march with your fellow workers to the city ‘hall. ; The following are the addresses of | the Unemployed Councils: Down Town—196 E, Broadway and 96 Ave. C; Lower Manhattan—418 W. 53rd St., 456 W. 37th St., 419 Second Ave.; Lower Bronx—1400 Boston Rd., 593 Liggett Ave. 525 E. 139th St.; Upper Workers and Farmers! Employed and unemployed: Workers’ and Farmers’ Organizations—Unions and Work- ers’ Fraternal Societies: Wire your demands for the rights of the National Hunger Marchers TODAY! Barbaric police and military measures are being used to smash the National Hunger March and its 3000 elected delegates. The entire Wall Street press is carrying on the vilest campaign of murderous lies, slander and provocation on record in America against these representatives of the Un- employed Councils. _ The entire capitalist press, directed from Wash- ington, is trying to create an atmosphere of an armed in- vasion of Washington to justify any and all attacks on the Hunger Marchers. The campaign to break up the National Hunger March before it got to Washington, by attacks from state and city police forces, failed because of the great mass support and the solidarity and militancy of the marchers. The extensive and costly military measures now used are intended to smash the Hunger March in Washington itself! ‘The struggle is now in a decisive stage- _ 8000 Hunger March delegates — unemployed workers, men and women, war veterans, farmers’ delegrtes—are denied “the right to petition Congress”. They are held out- doors as prisoners in winter weather, without shelter, with. out food, without drinking water, without toilet facilities. Many are ill and exhausted. They are herded like cattle on a bleak hillside. They are surrounded by hundreds of police and other armed forces. Flood Washington with your protests! Make the mass meetings and demonstrations throughout the country TO- Day mighty mobilizations of workers °> defense of the Hun- ger March and its demands of $50 casi. winter relief and federal unemployment insurance. Congress is in session: In the halls of’ Congress sit the representatives of Wall Street’s political parties. They are well fed, well dressed, well housed. Their salaries and in- comes are large. They meet to devise new assaults upon the workers for whom the National Hunger March speaks. There is no mercy in the hearts of Wall Street’s spokesmen: Behind barred doors they meet to defend the system that has cre- ated an army of 15-16,000,000 jobless and hungry workers in the richest country in the world. This is the “new deal” promised by President-elect Roosevelt and Garner, his run- ning mate. Two miles from the Capitol, housing the representatives of bankers, billionaires and bosses, 3000 Hunger Marchers are held prisoners. The doors of the Capitol are barricaded against them. Only the wealthy and their lawyers and lob- byists with big bankrolls and generous bribes are welcome there. For the 3,000 men and women of the working class who come to speak in the name of the unemployed, 4000 troops are kept under arms in Fort Myer. Military airplanes, loaded with bombs, soar over their heads: Machine guns are trained upon them. Batteries carrying poison gas, pro- ducing violent vomiting, are aimed at them. Hundreds of armed police, businessmen and their hang- ers-on, department of justice agents, armed city firemen, surround them—waiting for a word or gesture that will furnish an excuse for a massacre. This is‘“the right to pe- tition Congress” in Wall Street’s America! The organized power and the mass protest of the work- ing class and toiling farmers is the only weapon that can defend their rights- It is the only force that will make a breach in the ring of military force around them. Send the voice of an aroused and angry working class thundering into the halls of Wall Street’s Congress! Rally in mighty mass meetings and demonstrations TODAY! Demand the withdrawal of all armed forces mobilized against the 8000 Hunger Marchers! Back up their right to present their demands to Con- gress in a body. Demand food and the opening of halls and housing for these elected delegates of the unemployed! Rally in tens of thousands to the mass meetings and demonstrations of protest and solidarity throughout the en- tire country TODAY! Mass support and defense for the lives, liberty and political rights of the 3,000 elected delegates of the Unem- ployed Councils, representing the interests of the 15-16,000,- 000 unemployed. United Front organization and struggle against the united reaction of Wall Street capitalism and its government! Bronx—465 E. 171st St., 595 E. 184th places designated by your union. Williamsburgh—61 Graham Ave., | Come down to City Hall in a body; 73 Myrtle Ave., Bridge Plaza Workers | Prepare your placards and banners. Club, 275 Rodney St.; South Brook- | ‘ a lyn—Brighton Beach, 3159 Coney | 77 P.C. DROP IN STATE BUILDING Island Ave.; Coney, Island—27th St.) A drop of 77 per cent tn the and Mermaid Ave.; Bath Beach and | amount of money spent for building Bensonhurst—2006 70th St.; Borojconstruction for the first nine Park and Bay Ridge--1373 43rq St.;| months of this year, as compared Red Hook—31 Atlantic Ave.; Browns- | with any similar period for any pre-|the unemployed, the veterans and ville—646 Stone Ave.; East New York —313 Hinsdale Ave.; Long Island City —87 Borden Ave., Long Island City. vious year on record, is re in 29 leading cities of New York State, in a report by Frances Perkins, In- dustrial Comunissioner of the state. Union members, assemble in the 3,000 Imprisoned Marchers Hold National Conference Adopt Demands to Congress Call for $50 Winter Relief and Unemployment Insurance; Right to Go in a Body to Congress; Call Mass Demonstrations Today Demand Police Prevent Hiring of Halls; Conference Held in Camp With Guns and Tear Gas Menacing; Many Ill; Marchers Determined As Ever JOIN PROTEST Organizations Demand Police Make Way | — | Workers’ organizations, re-| yolted at the massing of armed police and military against the National Hunger Marchers and| |}gation in the outskirts of Washington, are adopting res-} jolutions of protest and tele- graphing them to the District of| Columbia Commissioners to Speaker | Garner and Vice President Curtis. | These protests are coming in a rising wave, from all parts of the! country, and are. accompanied by) protests of liberal groups, even church organizations. | All point out that fhe 3,000 Na- tional Hunger, Marchers are elected) delegates of the unemployed workers, | exercising their right to go in a body to congress and demand winter re- lief and unemployment insurance to save 16,000,000 jobless from starva- tion and cold this winter. | Many of them also pledge the or- ganizations adopting the resolutions to mobilize their membership and | other workers for demonstrations in | support of the demands of the} |marchers. There will be such dem- | onstrations in every city today. | Some of the protests are given be- | low: Lithuanian Women Act. CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 5.—The An- nual Conference of the Third Di | trict of Lithuanian Working | men’s Alliance, held yesterday in| |Chicago, in the name of its 800 | members wires greetings to the Na- tional Hunger March. The confer- | Jence of the Lithuanian Wecking | Women's Alliance expresses ts (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | | ‘CONGRESS PLANS - AID TO. RICH |Jobless, Farmers, Vets | to Present Demands WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — On'a background of country-wide misery the seventy-second Congress as- sembled in its final session at noon today prepared to intensify the capi- | | talist onslaught on the living stand- | ards of the working class. New Burdens On Toilers. Proposed bills before the Congress show that both the democratic and republican members of the House and Senate are determined to bal- ance the budget at the expense of the toiling masses. These bills call for new taxes, including a sales tax, in addition to the already heavy tax burdens on the working class. In} addition, bills are offered by the democrats for further inflation o* the currency under the pretext of banking “reforms”, thereby lowering the value of the dollar and increas- ing the cost of living to the masses. In these attacks on the working | class, the so-called progressive bloc in Congress is fully participating. No attempt will be made to reduce war expenditures. On the contrary, new war appropriations will be voted. Not A Cent to Bankers! Democrats and republicans alike are using the prohibition question to sidetrack the fundamental issues of relief for the starving unemployed | millions, for social insurance, for farmers relief and payment of the veterans’ bonus. But the elected representatives of farmers are all here determined to win their demands from Congress and stop the bankers raids on the public treasury. ‘MANY GROUPS | their imprisonment and segre-|" Miles from Congress DEMANDS G0 T0 _ CONGRESS TODAY \Delegates V ote to | March in a Body } WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 4|5.—Three thousand National ' Hunger Marchers met today at {4:30 p.m- in their National ‘Conference on Unemployment {in the face of all manner of | police threats and _ provoca- | tions. Three thousand Nationa! Hun- ger Marchers are held practical prisoners by the Washington po- lice, and 4,000 troops in reserve. The marchers are at’ the point in- | dicated above by the truck. They are at the corner of Florida and in the very out- whew: ans To Present Demands The marchers yoted to present | their demands to Congress tomorrow | in a body and repeated their decla- | ration that they have a right to go levrasbedyto Congress. They have | elected 25 spokesmen for the Senate | and 25 for the House of Representa- strate Tuesday in support of the demands for $50 Federal Winter Re- Ot et] A Q4134 | ‘The conference met in the eamp Strike 100 P.C, SSOLIG;| neve they. tie interoeds acme in Spite of Terror the expense of the government and tear gas. Police had terrorized \it , and unemployment insyrance at | by police armed with machine guns and ; al hall owners and prevented the VACAVIL! Cal., “ Dec hiring of any adequate hall in the Roars eno oeeten tert ~| city, and when one small one was breaking agents of the d | hired, the police cordon refused to boss, Frank H. Buck who kidnapped six of the strikers jailed here as a result, of Sunday's demonstration by Het m rehers go through their lines 0 it | The marchers adopted their state- the striker eee one cy eae | ment of demands to Congress after Ye orkers, S ed | discussion, conducted while provoe took leading part in the strike, were ; Wscussior sie cateurs. threw stones at them from the hillside, and the provocateurs ere shielded by the police when committees started up to stop them. forced ir.to s¢ of town ani thugs ully beate Claude npson, Bob Nelson, Tom Clark, | Committees Marte’ \ # tinez, Marvin Blackburn and | Protests to the police R. B. Matney cops taking a more atening at- = " . titude. Almost anything seems likely The strike is now more than &/ io happen week qld and has successfullly tied | 1 sie oe Mag up tree-pruning work around Vaca- | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5— Ht # The’ marchers are fiehting for their re fighting a wage reduction of! jet to march to the capitol build- from $1.50 to $1.25 a day and thej ine and present their demands in @ lengthening of the day from 8 to 9/404." wach delegates was commis- vigsenta {sioned to do so -by the masses who The kidnaping has been engin-‘ elected him eered by the employers and the Chief - Today Chairman Reynolds and See+ of Police, O. E. Alley who hinted retary Benjamin of the Na+ knowledge as to the identity of the/tiongl Committee of the Un- Kidnapers, and expressed the hope|employed Councils’ were told that this act. of terrorism would] that. Vice-President Curtis, who has weaken the strike which to date has} authority to issue a permit for the been 100 per cent solid Jparade to the capitol building, had jinformed Senator Walsh that he | would see them. They went to Cur- tis, who refused to talk to them. But ville. The 300 tree-pruners on strike | OFFERS CHILD AS DEBT PAYMENT BELLAIRE, Ohio, Dec. 5.—An un- | Curtis issued a statement to the press employed war veteran, John Borish,| that he would not give a permit. He offered to give his 10-year old child|@s said that he will see a/ small as payment for a doctor bill, The| SA doctor refused the payment, | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER 3,000 Miles to Demand Relief and Insurance One of the cars of the San Diego, California, delegation in Column 3 of the National Hunger March. Some bonus marchers travelled with this group, and the demands of both groups are placarded on the cam, _ hn