The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1932, Page 1

oo NATIONAL MARCHERS 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. HUNGER DEMAND! Read the Daily Worker for news and directions! Dail Central Orga / (Section of the Communist International) orker | uniet / Porty U.S.A. Vol. IX, No. 292 Entered as second-class ma‘ Se New York, .¥., ander the Act of March &, 1878. ter at the Post Office at In the Day’s News ROUMANIA BALKS PEACE PACT VIENNA, Dec. 6.—Negotiations be- tween the Soviet Union and Rouma- nia for a non-aggression pact, have broken down, according to announce- ment made by Foreign Minister Ti- tulesco in the Roumanian Parliament. The failure, said the minister, was due to the insistence by Roumania that the Soviet Union should declare in the treaty Roumania’s right to its grabbing of Bessarabia. Bi ep STATE DEPARTMENT RETREATS BERLIN, Dec. 6.—Ptof. Einstein and his wife have been granted en- try to the United States by the State Department, and will sail on Dec. 10 as scheduled. Prompt action by the State Department followed Einstein's refusal yesterday to answer questions by the American Consul General as to his attitude towards Communism. The State Department retreated be- fore a storm of protest and ridicule resulting from the action of its Con- sul General. * 104 SAILORS FEARED DEAD TOKIO, Dec. 6.—One hundred four of the Sawarabi, Japanese warship, are feared to be dead inside the ship} which was located drifting upside down in the East China Sea yester- day. Only 16 of the crew were saved. Corea FIRE WIPES OUT FAMILY NEWARK, Ohio, Dec. 6.—A family of four was burned to death at a farmhouse fifteen miles from here. Although the blaze is reported to have followed an explosion of kerosene used to kindle a fire, the circum- starites surrounding the death of this family remain unclear. GREEK POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS Communist Deputies Are Arrested ATHENS, Dec. 6. — Police fired pointblank into the ranks of strik- ers yesterday, killing a bakery worker and wounding many persons. Fierce clashes between workers and the po- lice occurred in several parts of the city. The government has confiscated all Communist newspapers and arrested their staffs in an effort to break the strike. It has also arrested six of the ten Communist deputies elected by the Greek working-class to the Greek Chamber. Police are hunting for the other four deputies. A protest demonstration has been called for today. Spreading Strike. ‘The bakery workers who went out on strike in solidarity with the small proprietors and drivers of their trade are ready to declare a general strike in all large cities of Greece. The strike here is spreading daily A general strike of all railroad work- ers is expected to be declared at any moment. Phone Workers Vote to Join. Upon the declaration of the Fed- eration of Telegraph and Telephone solidarity with the strikers, all the members of the Executive Committee of the Federation were thrown into jail. those on strike are the workers of the large dentral gas plant of Athens, as well as the street car men, at Mogae NEW YORK.—The Greek Bureau of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. yesterday issued a call to the Greek workers in the United States to hold protest meetings and ‘send protest telegrams to the Greek Em- bassy, Greek Consulates ‘and the Greek government demanding the release of the Communist deputies, and all imprisoned strikers and the Ufting of the ban on the Communist newspapers. William L. Patterson, General Sec- retary of the International Labor De- fense, called upon all workers to support and participate in the pro- tests. Mass Pressure Forces Release of Four in Cincinnati CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 6.—Mass pressure forced the police court of this city to dismiss the four workers arrested Noy. 28 for attempting to place before the city manager a de- mand that the Hunger Marchers be housed and fed by the city while in Cincinnati. By this decision the court admitted that the workers ar- rested were framed, and that the action of the police was entirely un- © dustified even by capitalist law. 11000 VETERANS "IN BIG PARADE IN WASHINGTON |Raise Demand for the] | Bonus. Now,’ Support Hunger Marchers | EXPOSE P. D. GLASSFORD 2 Trucks Leave from Newark, N. « WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — One thousand bonus marchers, come from all parts of the country, joined here today with 3,000 hunger marchers in a} mighty parade through the streets of Washington that stretched for a mile long. Raising their demands for immedi- ate payment of the bonus without a cent off the compensation to dis- abled veterans, the bonus marchers joined in an impressive demonstra- tion of solidarity with the delegates | of the 16,000,000 starving unemployed and with their demands for federal unemployment insurance and $50 winter relief, Dave Morris, of the Philadelphia contingent, was beaten up by cops and arrested. Two other bonus marchers were arrested for distrib- uting leaflets and selling the “Fight- ing Vet,” organ of the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League. " e9. . Expose Vets’ Enemies ‘WASHINGTON, Dee, 6.—In a state- ment issued today from its read- quarters at 905 I Street N.W., the Veterans National Rank and File Committee declared that the mass- ing of veterans from all parts of the country in Washington “is a smash- ing answer to the National Economy League, the Association Against Pre- payment of the Bonus, the heads of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and all other enemies of the ex-servicemen.” The statement exposes the role of General Pelham D. Glassford, former superintendent of the Washington police, who spoke in Newark, N. J., last night. It points out that “Glass- ford, who led the murderous attack on the first bonus march on Bloody ‘Thursday, July 28, which resulted in the killing of our comrades, Husk Hushka and Carlson, is now going about the country, posing as a friend of the ex-servicemen and doing everything in his power to disrupt the bonus march.” a ae Two Trucks Leave Newark. NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 6—Bwo trucks, packed with rank and file veterans, left, here yesterday on the bonus march to. Washington. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DELEGATION TO THE LEGISLATURE ‘Mass Meet Thursday as Marchers Return NEW YORK.—A delegation was elected at the mass demonstration before the City Hall here yesterday and in Union Square, to go to Albany at the opening of the special session of the State Legislature, December 9. ‘They will demand unemployment relief and insurance in the name of the jobless workers of New York, but. they will also demand that this be financed without the cutting of city workers’ wages. The city wants the legislature to re~ move the “mandatory-wage rates” and turn fixing of wages for teachers, street cleaners, firemen and_ other city workers over to the of Estimate, which will cut them. The unemployed call for cutting the payments to bankers, on the city debt, for cutting the high salaries of McKee and other officials, for a tax on the rich, to provide relief funds. Meet the Delegates New York unemployed and em- ployed workers are preparing a big demonstration of solidarity and greetings to the delegation of 450 from New York in the National Hunger March. ‘The workers here will meet them on their arrival back in the city, at Union Square, tomorrow at 6 p.m. The delegates will report briefly, and then all will march to Cooper Union, for a more complete report. A couple of other halls will be hired to accom- modate any overflow crowd. _A banquet is also being arranged for the returned marchers. W YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 7, 1932 NATIONAL MARCHER: government in the expense of Read the Daily directions! HUNGER > DEMAND! $50 Winter Relief from the federal addition to loeal relief. 2.—Federal Unemployment Insurance at the employers and the government, and not of the workers. y Worker for news and CITY EDITION JOBLESS MARCH “What We Demand!” (Above)—Herbert Benjamin, national leader of the unemployed councils addressing the 3000 Hunger Marchers while the demands of the march blazon in the background. (Below)—Part of the New England delegation showing their determination te fight until the demands are won. Congress Opens in Tense Atmosphere Under the Shadow of Hunger March Hoover Message Demands Sales Tax, New Wage Slashes for Federal Employees | War Debt Issue To Be Raised; Bflls for New Aid to Rich Pending WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The 72nd Bankers’ Congress reconvened yes- terday under the grim shadow of the Hunger Marchers. Not even the in- ternment of the marchers by armed police could dispel .the tense atmos- phere in Congress which fully realized it was under a state of siege by the hungry masses and their representatives from all corners of the land. The prohibition repeal measure with the vote of 48 Democrats and 100 Republicans. Hoover for Sales Tax. The Congress received Hoover's message today. It is expected that loover will demand the passage of & sales tax bill in the government's efforts to balance the budget at the expense of the toiling masses. He will call for a further slash in the wages of the lower paid federal em- ployees, recommending wage cuts, amounting to “at least $550,000,000” and a general re-organization of gov- ernment departments. These pro- posals will be: under the pretext of effecting economies and furthering the Hoover “reconstruction program” which aims at further depressing the standards of the workers, denial of unemployment relief and abolition of various plans for public construc- tion work heretofore put, forward to eceive the unemployed millions with promises of future work. He is also expeeted to present sham proposals for “arms reduction”, aimed at the imperialist rivals of the U. S. bosses but will offer no concrete plans for reduction of the huge war expendi- tures by the U. S. “Collect Pound of Flesh.” Hoover is reported to have changed his plans of delaying until December 15 any official comment on the latest notes of Britain and France demand- ing revision of the war debts and postponement of the instalments due on December 15 and will deal with the demands in his message today. He is expected to insist on payment of the December instalments and to call on Congress to create a comt- mission to study the war debt ques- tidn separately with each debtor state. Hoover's decision to deal with the question in his message reflects the increasingly tense nature of the im- perialist struggle over the war debts, and coincides with reports that the governments of Belgium and Poland have virtuglly decided on defaulting if the U. S. rejects the demands of the European bloc led by England and France for virtual cancellation of the war debts. In a note to-the Washington government, Czechoslo- vakia yesterday declared its inabil- ity to pay. Hoover's message to Congress called for the cutting of expenditures in behalf of the disabled war veter- ans, and for a new 11 per cent wage cut for Federal employees in addi- tion to the recent 8 1-3 cut under the forced “furlough” system. He proposed a sales tax levy. He called for government subsidies and loans to the bankers and the railroads, WHILE WORKERS STARVE BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 6.—The annual “social” event of this city which costs tens of thousands of dol- lars was held last pight when the bosses “introduced” their daughters at the “bachelor's cotillion, | was defeated in the opening session! Ooh SS Aa Sa FASCIST OPENS NEW REICHSTA \Reds to Make Non- Confidence Motion (Cable by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Dec. 6.—The new Reichs- tag opened its first session today at 3 P. M. with a speech by its senior member, fascist General Litzmann, The speech consisted chiefly of tear- ful reproaches of Hindenburg for his failure to entrust Hitler with the formation of the new cabinet. The general's address was fre- quently interrupted with bursts of uncontrollable laughter from all benches except the fascists, Nazi Support Schleicher Move. Early afternoon meetings of the leaders of various Reichstag frac- tions indicated probable adjournment of the Reichstag on Friday. Ad- journment has been requested by Schleicher, head of the new cabinet. The Nazj are expected to support the adjournment request, as they are anxious to avoid new: elections which would expose further their waning influence. Communist representatives declared that the Communist Party intends to present a non-confidence motion at the very first opportunity with- out waiting for the presentation of the government declaration. The cabinet declared .that it could not present its declaration owing to the 'itgiads of time in which to draft Following on the speech of, Gen. Litzmann, the Communist deputy, Torgler, presented a motion calling for the release of the two Commu- nist deputies, Maddalena and Buch- mann. The fascist, Frick presented a similar motion in behalf of cer- tain fascist deputies, but opposed the release of Communist deputies. The House then decided to postpone dis- cussion of both motions to the fu- ture session. Catholics Vote With Fascists. Communists moved the withdrawal of the so-called Civil Peace Decree which prohibits public meetings and imposes various other restrictions. The fascist, Litzmann, defying the order of procedure, ignored the mo- tion and despite laud protests of the house led by the Communists, proceeded with the election of the presidium. ‘The fascist, Goering was re-elected president of the presidi- um by a combined fascist and catho- lic vote, Build # workers correspondence group in your. factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular Istters to the Daily Worker, BATTLES AGAINST MACHINE GUNS TO SAVE HIS FARM Farm Conference On Today, Washington; Delegates Arriving DEMAND MORATORIUM 3,000 lowa’ Farmers Stop. Tax Sale ELKHORN, Wis., Dec. 6. — At the very moment farmers’ {delegates from 35 states were assembling in Washington in | National Farm Relief Confer- ence to demand no tax sales or evictions for debt, a farmer here and his wife fought with rifle and shot gun for 20 minutes against machine guns, gas, dyna- mite bombs and rifles of a whole possee of deputy sheriffs led by Sher- iff Mason to retain their land. Max Cichon and his wife are farm- ers here. They know the city workers are paying as much as ever for farm produce, but the prices the food trust gives the farmers has fallen more than half, to the point of ab- Solute ruin for the farmers. Cichon |couldn’t pay off his mortgage, and the loan sharks had him foreclosed. The came to evict him. Cichon \and his sick wife and two children, {one ten years old the other five, re- ‘used tobe thrown. out to starve or freeze. The Cichon family defended itself | heroically, with a storm of machine | gun bullets riddling their home. Four hundred rounds were shot into the }farm house by the sheriff and his men before Cichon surrendered, to Save the lives of his family. Cichon is in jail, his wife and children, very ill, are in the hospital. | The United Farmers League and | the International Labor Defense are |sending a lawyer to defend Cichon and his wife. . re Ready for Conference. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6— |The National Farm Relief Confer- |ence opens here tomorrow. Already | Several elected at mass meetings in neigh- |borhoods, others elected from the lower units of farmers’ organizations whose leaders oppose the conference, others sent by the United Farmers League, farmers’ mass organization that officially and whole heartedly supports the call to conference, are in Washington. A good many of them came in with the National Hunger Marchers, from points all over the country, and have been, since Sunday night, interned with them and held prisoners in the jcamp on the outskirts of the city. | Sixty others, who came together, wearing thelr ‘blue cotton overalls, put up at tourist camps around the city. Others are still on the way. The conference will be four days long, Dec. 7 to Dec. 10. Indications are that it will draw up demands on congress for a mora- torium on farm debts and taxes, no seizure of farm lands through fore- closures or tax sales, and for real relief to the poor farmers. Practically all the delegates now here and on the way are instructed to stand for this, as a minimum pro- gram, in the conference opening to- morrow. * 8 @ Big Welcome. ROSELAND, Ill, Dec. 6.—A thous- and steel workers of Roseland ‘and vicinity held a meeting Saturday night which overflowed the hall at 207 East 115th St. The meeting | greeted and expressed the solidarity of the employed and unemployed workers, with 200 farmer delegates on the way to Washington. ee te Mass Resistance. SIOUX CITY, Ia. Dec. 6—Three thousand farmers and workers packed the court house of Woodbury county Monday and stopped tax sales of farm lands. The crowd came partly organized by two meeting held Sat- urday and Sunday at Anthon and Menil, at which resolutions cailing on farmers to resist seizure of their Jand for taxes or debts were passed. The resolutions also endorsed the National Hunger March and the Na- tional Farm Relief Conference. Com- mittees were elected and went to the tax sale and saw to it that the land was not taken from the farmers. “ONLY AN ALDERMAN” NEW YORK.--Though he votes on workers and stravation for the un- employed and receives $7,500 a year for doing it, Frank A. Cunningham claimed yesterday that he knew noth- ing about city finance and was “only an alderman.” He hasn't offered to cut his pay despite the “confession.” ® hundred farmer delegates, | budgets and wage-slashes for city) PLACE DEMANDS 0 Price 3 Cents IN CAPITAL N CONGRESS: PARADE THRU STREETS WITH BAND PLAYING AND BANNERS CALLING FOR RELIEF Curtis and Garner Evasive; Curtis Threatening; Marchers in Nat'l Conference Call on All Unemploy ed to Organize and Carry On DEMONSTRATE AT N. Y. CITY HALL 18000 Form Solid Ranks | Back Nat'l March | NEW YORK. — Eight thou- |sand workers paraded for an hour around the city hall yes ‘terday in support of the j tional Hunger March demands | then going before Congress in ; Washington, and for cash re-| ‘lief, no evictions, no red tape delays at the Home Relief Bureau, for three tons of free coal for each| | Jobless worker's family, and other| j demands. The demonstrators marched | up to Union Square and held another | | Meeting. They sent in a Committee of 15, by Gil of the Unemployed Coun- ¢il, which found»Mayor McKee sur- | rounded by squads of police and| trying to say he had, “just heard of the matter.” McKee's answer, after long argu- ment can be boiled down %o this: \“Nothing will be done; the city is |doing all it legallay can,” and “I |refuse to debate about it.” McKee refused to say anything) | when offered: proof that there is dis- | crimination in relief in Harlem, or | to demands that the disease infested | tenements be torn down and work | | provided building new workers’ homes. The Board of Estirhates adjourned early so as not to be visited It is plain that the jobless are less than the dust underfoot to Tammany | ¢; officials, and: that more organiza- tion and more intense struggle is | needed to get relief enough for more than a million jobless to live on this | | winter. The ,Needle Trades Workers Un- employed Councils and Downtown Unemployed Council marched to the | City Hall without permits, and the marching around City Hall front of the entrance to City Hall) without a permit. | A solid column of fours, stretching jentirely around the city hall plaza, | 30 yards from the head of it, hun- dreds of placards, thousands of marching unemployed men and wo- | |men, chanting in a great roar: “We) demand unemployment insurance!” “We want cash relief!” “We support jthe National Hunger Marchi” No | work no rent!”—that was the way the N.Y, workers turned out to back up the demands of the National Hunger March yesterday. The demonstration was called by |the Unemployed Councils for noon. Before noon, several hundred with the banner of the Lower Harlem Un- employed Council, were marching: north on - Broadway, and. right on around the .square. The Needle | Trades Unemployed Councils swung in line; placards demanding “Full Union Wages from the Gibson Com- | mittee,’ placards declaring “The Fur | Workers Are Fighting in One Soild Union,” placards blazing forth: “We | support the National Hunger March.” With a score of brilliant scarlet Placard lettered in black with ‘de- |mdnds for “Free Coal for the Job- | less;” “Resist Evictions!”, the West | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Injunction lssued | ' Against Striking Tennessee Miners | WILDER, Tenn., Dec. 6.—A tem- porary injunction has been issued against 104 people in order to break the strike of miners in Fentress! County. National guardsmen sent to aid the bosses tell of being ordered to ambush workers and shoot them | down, acs | Miners here work only four months | @ year with an average pay of $2.10) a day. They have to pay for baths at the company house, for a doctor whether they use him or not, buy their own blasting powder and pay double for supplies at the company | stores. Triumphant March of the Unemployed Minor Tells of Parade in Wall St. Capital By ROBERT MINOR. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 The Hunger March—marched! Through miles of riot guns and tear gas bombs of the Hoover hunger government police’the big parade of three thous- | and representatives of the interests of 16,000,000 uhemployed American workers this morning marched on the capitol and there thrust their de- mands irtto the face of the reaction- ary congress. Only twelve hours earlier the Hoover government, thru} the Washington police had with om- inous threats of armed violence de- creed that it could not be done. Done Nevertheless. It was done nevertheless, through the unflinching courage, resistance and above all, the iron discipline of the 3,000 representatives of the work- ing class who have ¢ome from every corner of the U. S. on a mission of life and death of the millions left at home. In the middle of the forenoon, headed by the Red Front Band and two committees of twenty-five each, elected last night as spokesmen to the Senate and House of Represen- = parade moved out of y step and with the ipline of a regiment of crack troops. . Carry Banners. Banners were forbidden by the po- lice, but were carried nevertheless, and the ploice decided not to make any issue of it. These banners gave the slogans and demands of the ployed worker in the U. S. In addition were banners for spe- cific demands groups. The seamen’s banner de- nine Scottsboro boys, workers. Many Negro Workers. A heavy proportion of the march- ery were Negroes, a fact which at- tracted much notice. |Mass Support Thruout U.S. Compels Government to Retreat After Displaying Huge Armed Force and Threat to Never Permit March ‘GREAT MASSES ON STREET CHEERING |Join Singing, Applaud*® | Menaced by Police WASHINGTON, D. C, Dee. |6. — The National Hunger | Marchers paraded in triumph through Washington today, placed their demands in the | hands of the two houses of | Congress, returned to their camp, continued thei. National | Conference of the Unemployed, and will all be on their way back tomor- row to report to the masses who elect- } ed them. They will report that the presiding | officers of Congress gave only eya- | sive answers to the demands, and yt renewed organization and ever | greater struggles in every city are | needed to force relief from the au- | thorities for 16,000,000 unemployed workers this winter. But They Marched But they will also be able to re- port that the determination of the marchers and the support of masses of workers throughout the city has | forced even the U. S. government, executive committee of the most bru- tal capitalist rule in’ the world, to back down on its expressed threat to prevent the entry into Washington of the delegates of the unemployed, as the capitalist governments of jevery city on the way were forced to | permit the march to.go on to Wash- ington, in the first place. Three thousand National Hunger | Marchers, elected delegates of tens of thousends of unemployed workers, endorsed by hundreds of thousands more in demonstrations in nearly every industrial city in the country, marched with militant songs and shouted slogans through Washington streets today. They waited in Penn- | meeting of some 35,000 of the workers | Hunger Marchers for unemployment | S¥lvania Ave., near the capitol build- and relief, for social insurance, for the | ing, while their two elected commit- thousands of others flocking from| immediate payment by the U. S.| tees presented the demands for $50 the sidewalks all around was held in| Government of $50 to each unem-|Federal Winter Relief and Federal | Unemployment Insurance, with other demands they had drawn up, to Viee of various special | President Curtis, representing the. | Senate, and to Speaker Garner, of |the end of the procession not over | manded the immediate release of the the House of Representatives. another de-| manded freedom of Tom Mooney. The high note was the insistent call for the unity of white and Negro| The total procession | Strong, for a thousand marched with them. Authorities Retreat The Washington authorities and the Federal Government which ap- | points the District of Columbia Com- | missioners, city government of Wash- was 4,000 veterans When the |{ngton, retreated late last night in Southern delegation composed of @ the face of the tremendous mass sup- majority of Negro workers and share croppers appeared cheers came from the crowd lining the street. The parade reached the capitol grounds at the corner of New Jersey and Constitution Ave., which was the point of greatest tension. Here the Hunger Marchers faced the U. S. Government in the form of the Capitol, the house of Senate in session—and long lines of Hoover police, Issue Is Decided. Haying reached the vicinity of the capitol, the issue of the right to march was settled in favor of the Marchers. Here tle police were ready to permit only the elected committees to go to the capitol grounds proper. After a conference of the marchers, Herbert ‘Benjamin, stepped forward and said, “I can see that you have a show of force here that it would be imnossible for us to overcome. We feel that we are not being given an oppotunity to exercise our rights.” Curtis Jumps and Shouts. Thereupon two elected committees, left the parade and went on to the capitol grounds. One of them to see Vice-President Curtis, the other into the Senate Chamber. Curtis was very gruff, and said, “You need not make any speeches, just send over the petition. 1 have only a few minutes.” William Reynolds, head of the committee told Curtis that he had not expected any better of him, whereupon Curtis jumped up. and shouted, “Don’t cast reflections on ee ee | hep iad ston neath yd Ba. | port of the marchers, and granted spontaneous | a permit for the march. The author- ities pulled back their thousand cit? ‘ers go through the elty. ‘The side= walks along Pennsylvania Avenue and police; their machine guns and gas bombs and clubs, rifles and tevolvers, | told the 4,000 troops to stay in bar- racks, and let the marchers parade in solid ranks, column by column. as they had crossed the continent and swept through the cities of the‘whole | country. | Hundreds of thousands of the pop- ulation of Washington was out on | the streets to see the Hunger Marche | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | Richmond Unemployed |Prepare Fight On 25 Per Cent Relief Cut RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 6—The Communist Party during the came paign and since has warned .the workers against impending relief re- ductions and called on the workers to rally behind the Unemployed Council to resist such & move on the | part of the administration. ~ | These warnings proved to be cor- rect. Last week a man came to the | Social Service and asked the workets getting relief there which they would rather have, a relief cut or @ soup kitchen. Two of the workers spoke up and said they did not want eithe The Unemployed Council is ingthe fight against the intended xe ®