The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1932, Page 1

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Entered as sesond- “EB New York, ¥.Y., under matter at the Post Office at the Ast of Marsh &, 1879, EW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ALL WESTERN COLUMNS OF RETURNING HUNGER MARCHERS ATTACKED BY POLICE OF THREE STATES In the Day’s News FIGHT TO RELEASE MINER SAN FRANCISCO. — Another at- tempt is being made to secure a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the release of Vili Eccher, for 30 years a Cali- fornia miner, who has been held for deportation since last May, while authorities argue over his birthplace. Eccher was born in the Austrian Ty- rol, which now belongs to Italy. acre « ARREST PARENTS DEMANDING WARM LUNCHES FOR HIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN. CHICAGO.—Harry Greenwood and Molly Olavsky, parents of Jefferson high school students, were arrested at the door of the principal's office when they came with a delegation to re- quest warm lunches for the pupils. Police, awaiting the delegation, pounced on the leaders. Booked for disorderly conduct, the two parents were bailed out and their case con- tinued, is a, SWALLOW MENTS BAYONNE, N. J.—Bayone bankers issued statements urging widespread wage cuts for city employes. Next day firemen, teachers, policemen and city clerks lined up at the banks for their deposits. The bankers swallowed their statements. . BANKERS STATE- HUNGER MARCH ECHOES IN SENATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Among other Washington politicians trying to capitalize on the tmemployment situation forcibly put forward by the Hunger Marchers, is Senator R. F. Wagner who is preparing another ‘one of his numerous but ineffective “relief” bills for presentation before the present Congress in an effort to side track the struggle for real relief. ROB JEWELRY WORTH $16,000 CAMDEN, N. J.—Three armed men forced a jewelry salesmen to pull his car up against the curb a half a blook from the Deleware River Bridge, entered his car with drawn guns and escaped with $15,000 worth of jewelry. U. S. Note on Debts Tries to Break Up Anglo-French Stand WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — The Washington Government yesterday made a new attempt to break up the united front of Britain and France against the U. S. on the war debt struggle. In a note handed to the British Ambassador, Secretary of State Stimson held forth the promise of favorable action on ,the British demand for debt revision if the Brit- ‘ish will agree not to default on the ‘instalments due December 15. “Re- ports. have been insistent that the French and other European govern- ments are planning to default, and that Britain was inspiring the move. \fsenate Takes Up Fake |Filipino Freedom Bill A * ‘. Aimed to Stifle Fight WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Faced with the steady growth of revolu- tionary sentiment among the starv- ing Philippine masses, the Senate ‘today “began consideration of the Hawes-Cutting bill, granting so- called freedom to the Philippines in 18 years. The bill is designed to stifle the struggle for full immedi- ate freedom from Yankee domina- tion, which is being led by the Com~- munist Party of the Philippines. The Hawes-Cutting bill, as well as similar proposals, while promising nominal freedom sometime in the distant future, actually aims to keep the islands permanently yoked to Wall Street rule in the same way as ‘other supposedly “free” Latin- American countries are today. Mean- while the most savage terror is dir- ected against the illegal Philippine ‘Communist Party, many of whose Jeaders were recently given long jail ‘sentences. New $5 Cut for Borden Milkmen, Anticipated Borden’s milkmen are expecting another cut of $5, and therefore may soon be climbing stairs all night, as “many as 16 hours, for $30 a week. The company already has imposed a 10 per cent cut and stopped all com- missions on sales. The rank and file is growing militant and is talking of swinging back into the union that Landowners Call for “Whipping Post” in Jersey ATLANTIC CITY, .N. J., Dec. 8. —The New Jersey Grange, dom- inated by wealthy landowners and real estate interests, held its an- nual convention here today, re- elected former State Senator David H. Agans as head of the organiza- tion, concealed a number of. re- actionary proposals behind the de- mand for immediate payment of the bonus, and then recommended the return of the old time “whip- ping post’ to save jail expenses. Advocating a state income tax to free real estate from the burden of taxation, a measure which would benefit wealthy landown- ers, the convention took no action on the questions of mortgages and | foreclosures which are crushing the poor farmers. FARM MEET HITS _ CICHON EVICTION [Demands _$500,000,000 in Federal Relief WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 8. The Farmers National Relief Con- ference wired a unanimous protest to the Sheriff and Governor in Wis- | consin protesting the brutal eviction of farmer Cichon, his wife and two children and ‘the use of machine guns and tear gas to oust them from their farm. Oliver, a Negro farmer from Florida was elected on the Resolu- tions Committee which has already made the draft of a preamble. The preamble states the determination of the farmers to stop Tuthless pres- sure from ereditors who threaten to sweep the poor farmers from land and home. It sights the destruction of food and the rotting of crops in a “marketless country”, because hungry millions have lost their pur- chasing power. i Scores Acreage Reduction. “In face of this sociai calamity,” declares the conference, “farm ‘lead- ers’ and politicians dare to talk ‘sur- plus’, dare to base legislation on a delegates from 26 states met yesterday morning in Typograph- ical Union Hall at 423 G. St., N. W., and opened amidst much | enthusiasm the National Farm Relief Conference. Tony Rosenberg, a farmer from Nebraska, was elected: 250 FARMER DELEGATES MEET T0 DRAW UP DEMANDS ON CONGRESS Delegates Immediately Moratorium on Farm Debts and Taxes | | Ovation for Florida Negro Share Croppers | Who Surmounted Great Obstacles to Come WASHINGTON, D. C., D FOR RELIEF Raise Question of | ec. 8.—Two hundred and fifty °temporary chairman, and later, was unanimously chosen the permanent chairman |of |the conference. ho) Many of the delegates are from the great western wheat plains and an- | other large section was from the! eastern dairy farmers’ district. | Cheer Negro Farmers After most of the delegates were | seated, the first. contingent of South- ern farmers marched in, five Negro and three white share croppers from} | Florida. They got a great ovation, and the conference immediately wired money ‘to the Alabama delegation, stalled in Roanoke, Va., through lack Negro and white farm delegates are expected in this morning some time. Delegations from more states are still on the way here. The conference heard a report on the situation of the farmers by Lem Harris, secretary of the united front committee which sent the call for the | National Farm Conference. Harris showed how within the last few years farm prices have fallen so far that the farmers’ real income has been more than halved, while city workers | pay nearly as,much for farm prod- | uce when they can buy it at all, as| they ever did. Harris pointed out that the con- | ference represents all parts of the| | farm area in the U. S. and reflects} the mind of the average farmer. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | ‘BRITISH IN WAR THREAT TOPERSIA Ultimatum Sets Time Limit of One Week LONDON, Dec. 8. — The British | government today sent a war ulti- matum to Persia, demanding that Persia rescind within one week its cancellation of the British oil grab concessions in Persia, Government spokesmen in the British House of Commons refused to answer questions as to whether |the ultimatum meant that Great | Britain intends to take armed meas- ures to protect the oil grab of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Capt. Anthony Eden, Foreign-Un- der-Secretary, spoke vaguely of re- ferring the dispute to the imperial- ist Court of International Justice at the Hague. of gas for_the trucks. The-Alabamz|~ | bankers who hold the «government theory of reduction of acreage that will fit the present starvation mar- ket. This bankrupt leadership also dares to advocate the abandonment of our scientific and technical ad- vances in farming and recommends that we return to a primitive, self- sufficing form of peasant farming.” Demand Congress Hearing “We ask Congress to suspend its rules to permit the delegation from the Farmers National Relief Confer- ence to read our demands on the floor of the Congress. “We demand: Federal relief of $500,000,000; federal relief in kind; this relief to be administered by farmers; price regulating mechan- ism shall be established to be con- trolled by actual consumers and pro- ducers.” “While millions of our population are undernourished through loss of purchasing power,” concludes the statement, “the acceptance of the surplus theory is a crime against so- ciety.” WORKERS IN BEAVER FALLS NEW BRIGHTON, Pa.— Workers here contributed $50.99 for the Na- tional Hunger March. The Hunger ; led by the strategy of the|Marchers were met by the workers hoop ek. ergo and fight”| in Beaver Falls at the Falcon’s Hall, STOP EVICTIONS INBRONX TODAY Rally at 1408 Franklin Avenue at 10 a. m. Workers, employed and unem- ployed, women and men, are urged to rally at 10 o'clock this morning in front of 1408 Franklin Ave. near 170th St. the Bronx, to stop the marshall from evicting tenants who are on a@ rent strike at this address. The landlord is continuing his use of police terror to collect high rents. Last Tuesday he threw two other families into the street. He was backed up by three riot squads and 150 policemen,’ who arrested 11 workers. c ‘The strikers at 1408 Franklin are fighting hard. They are sticking to- gether. They need mass support, es- pecially this morning. They demand cheaper rent, recognition of their house committee and no evictions, as well as the reinstatement of those already evicted. The Unemployed Council is fight- Rubs Hands in Glee Herbert Hoover delighted at his farewell message to Congress which proposes new aid for his pals the bankers and R. R. magnates and drastic ctiacks on veterans, gov- ernment employees and other toil- ers. BUDGET MESSAGE ATTACKS TOILERS Sales Tax to Gouge! $355,000,000. from Masses WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Hoover's budget. message recommended to congress the most drastic govern- mental attack yet made against the impoverished workers, small business people, farmers and ex-servicemen yet carried out. A sales tax of 2.25 per cent on) manufactured goods is to be passed directly to the consumers, which will gouge approximately $355,000,000° out, of them. Wages of governmental ci- | vilian employees are to be directly cut 11 per cent. At the same time the eight and one thirrd per cent cut imposed last winter through the furlough plan will remain in effect. Slash Veterans’ Relief. The cut proposed in the budget amounts to a total of $830,000,000, but it is announced that this is somewhat offset by “unavoidable in- creases” including interest on the public debt, and other items, which amount to $250,000,000. Thus, the bonds are to get a quarter billion increase while the masses are bur- dened still heavier. The largest single group falling under the axe are the veterans whose relief is cut down $127,000,000. This is cut from direct relief, from tuber- culor hospitals and other institutions hitherto maintained to aid veterans crippled in the World War. Public Work? Cut Down. In the fourth winter of the crisis, when unemployment .and suffering has tremendously increased the Hoo- ver proposals urge a cut in appropri- ations for federal aid to build for highways and waterways thus throw- ing still more out of work. To Aid Railroads. Railroad lobbyists are jubilant at the cut im road construction end maintenance. The New York Jour- nal of Commerce openly hails this as a victory for the railroad mag- nates and points out that “steam Toads have long been fighting the as- sistance that the government has been giving barge lines and motor the tax on gas is also favorable to the railroads who are striving to eli- minate competition in transportation. While denying all demands of un- employed workers, impoverished farmers and veterans for relief, the armed forces are to be strengthened. This budget of “national defense,” which excludes all items of a non- military nature, amounts to $586,- 477,000. Thus, in every item the budget is a typical Wall Street Hoover, Roose- velt hunger and war budget—a cap- italist class budget to help the rich and soak the poor. Parents and Teachers at Bronx Meet Tonite to Protest School Cut ~A mass meeting has been called for tonight at P. S. 61 at Charlotte St. and Boston Rd., the Bronx, to protest against the overcrowded con- ditions in the schools of New York | City. The meeting will be held under the joint auspices of the Bronx Par- ent-Teachers Committee against Re- trenchment in Education and the Unemployed ‘Teachers Association. At the , doctors, parents, educators and students will describe VETS TO HOLD HEARING IN WASINGTON| Marchers to Present Petition Tuesday to Congress MORE VETS |POURING |IN Memorial Zor Hushka, Carlson Wednesday WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. With the new bonus marchers | from all parts of the country pouring into Washington all the time, the Veterans’ Na- tional Rank and File Commit- tee is launching a program of immediate activity in the mass struggle for, payment of the bonus now without cuts in disability allow- ances. On Monday public hearing will be held. here at which ex-servicemen, including disabled vets, will offer concrete testimony to prove that tens of thousands of men who risked their lives to pile up profits for Wall | Battle Evictions When Br'tish cops went to evict a jobless family at Essex, the Da- genham Tenants League put up so | strong a battle that the cops seen | | lying on the ground was knocked | out, | | 5,009 WELCOME MARCHERS HERE Sweep Cops Aside and Take Over the Street | (NEW YORK.—A thunderous greet- jing by 5,000. workers was given the Street are starving, and. must-get/ we; mngiand and New York Column Seg of the National Hunger Marchers On Tuesday a committee of rank| upon their arrival in Union Square and file vets will present a petition| from Washington at 6 o'clock last to both houses of Congress demand- | night. ing immediate payment of the bonus} pe workers and that Congress refuse to make| rourth Ave., filling the street from | any cuts in the disability allowances | curb to curb. With three red flags demanded by President Hoover in| anq the Red Front Band: in the lead, his speech Monday. | they surged out to Cooper Union Hall On Wednesday a mass memorial; and Manhattan Lyceum, where the will be held in Arlington Cemetery | delegates spoke. in honor of Hushka and Carlson, the| As the trucks with the marchers two rank and file vets who were killed | swung into view, coming to Union| in the murderous attack by Hoover's | Square, a tremendous shout went up. | police and troops on the first army | A sign carried by the Needle Trades of bonus marchers last July 28. Unemployed Council echoed the sen- | __.. | timent of the workers. “We Will Con- ‘The spirit of the veterans is high. | tinue the Struggle You CarriedgOn In Hundreds came here only after the | washington,” it read. toughest kind of trip which in-| Speaking from three platforms, cluded riding in box-cars, battling| gelegates told of the answer of the police and company dicks, sleeping | poss government to their demand for out in the open and starving. | winter relief and unemployment in- Ph ees surance. Louise: Morrison. a dele- NEW YORK.—President Hoover's | gate from Schenectady, said: “We are attack on the veterans in his speech|on our way back to build greater | to Congress in which he urged slash- | unemployed councils and to carry on ing more than $127,000,000 from the} a greater struggle for immediate re- | compensation to disabled ex-service- | lief.” | men was echoed yesterday by one of} “The workers of Washington | then swept down 1,800 Marchers Driven Afoot; Trucks Scatter POLICE: NO FO Federal Government Behind Rev Dec. PITTSBURGH, Pa the National Hunger state pelice on their way back are broken up, and trucks are Washington and Pittsburgh. to enter Pittsburgh and other large cities. The 1,800 march- ers are without food and many are sick from exposure to the weather The marche the io enter Pittsbu focd be assembled for ad lodging provided Punds are badly needed for the care of the sick, and to provide food and lodging for the marchers. Need Support, Quickly! Worke: demonstrations ould be held everywhere, sending by wire strong resolutions of protest to Gov- ernor Pinchot Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh against this attempt to smash the National Hunger March. The return journey of the marchers, for the delegates to report to those who elected them, and to provide leadership in local struggles for relief, is just as much rt of the National Hunger March as was the trip to Washington and presentation of demands to Con- gress for $50 winter relief and un- employment insurance. The city governments, unable to stop the victorious movement toward Washington, are seeking now, in the hope that the workers throughout upport tional Hunger Marchers Attacked by Police | pastel | Mass protest, support, | | and money are needed to de- fend the Western Column of | After of Pennsylvania and | the faithful flunkeys of Wall Street, Charles M, Kinsolving, commander of the New York Chapter of an outfit known as the American Veterans. Kinsolving sent out letters to mili- tary and veterans’ organizations re- ferring to the bonus marchers as “an undisciplined rabble.” FIRE KILLS WORKER NEW YORK. — An unemployed Latin-American worker used an emp- ty apartment at 263 W. 115th St., having no other place to sleep. The Jandiord threatened him several times, and finally locked him up one nigt. The place caught on fire and the worker was burned to death be- cause he could not get out. cheered us, and, in spite of the police provocation, not a man. broke dis- cipline -in Washington,” Wiljus Wil- man, Jr., of New Hampshire told the workers. Workers had been standing in the square since 5 p.m. and for three- quarters of a hour before arrivel of the march they were singing revolu- tionary songs, spontaneously. Unemployed Councils marched into the square in a body. In the march down to Cooper Union the singing and cheering crowd sim- ply swept the 20 or so police aside and stopped all traffic, blocking the whole street. All the way they were | shouting: “We want unemployment insurance!” and “We support the National Hunger Marchers!” ‘the National Hunger March | | !\from the concentrated at-| tack of city and state gov-, |/ernments. Wire your pro-| | ||tests to Governor Pinchot, | | | Governor Ritchie of Mary-| | |\land, and Mayor Kline of | | || Pittsburgh! Send funds at, | | once to Fred Kearns, Work- | | | lers International Relief, | ||1927 Webster Ave.. Pitts- | burgh, Pa. \ The attack anc dispersal ~ of the Western Column of | || the National Hunger March | by armed forces of the), BARRED FROM PITTSBURGH: *= PROTEST AT ONCE TO GOV. | PINCHOT OF PENNSYLVANIA! Into Mountains, Some ‘ed Thru Pennsylvania ATE OD; MANY SICK Forced Retreat Is e Attack eng. fhe Western Columns of: ch have been attacked by city and from Washington. The columns strewn along’ the road between The marchers are not allowed Two Munition Plants Busy in Ohio Town - KIN SMILLS, Ohio—In this town, 25 miles from Cincinnati, there are the Peters Cartridge Co. | and the Kingsmills Ammunition Plant., They are working full time, | day and night. There are guards } on the outside. No one is permit- ted to stand around. It is denied that they are manufacturing am- munition. g Ammunition has been manufactured for months, it is shipped East, then to Japan to ate tack the Chinese masses and Sov- iet Russia —By a former S. P. member. CARLOAD OF POISON GAS. CINCINNATI, Ohio. — I saw 8 carload of poisonous gas at Win- ton Place Station, and on the car was the sign: “Poisonous gas. Be- ware of Fumes from Broken Packages.” —B. A., Worker Correspondent, BRITAIN, FRANCE "SUPPORT JAPAN |Extend United Front | Against U’ S. | BULLETIN Tokio newspapers yesterday pub- lished special editions hailing with big headlines the speeches of the British and French delegates at Geneva as a victory for Japan’s robber policy in “Manchuria. “Asahi”, Japanese newspaper, de- clared “Britain and France have broken silence in support of Ja- pan.” GENEVA, Dec, 8.—The small! states having laid down a barrage of pacifism designed to conceal the role of the League of Nations as an or- ganizer of war, the British and French imperialisjs today came out in open support of Japan's robber war in Manchuria. At the same time they demanded of their Nanking puppets an intensification of the murderous attacks on the revolution- | Maryland and Pennsylvania; | @Y Chinese masses and on the Chi- More Printers Fight Award Three Additional Chapels Take Action NEW YORK.—Two more important newspaper chapels, or shop branches of the International Typographical Union, have joined in the united ef- fort of the newspaper printers to prevent operation of the stagger shift. These latest two are the chapels of the Morning Telegraph and of the Racing Form. The Daily News chapel has endorsed the action taken by the Times chapel by a vote of 2 to 1. The movement is gaining mo- mentum in every newspaper print- ing plant and the resentment and ery for action is growing. “Nullify the Award. ‘The resolution against the stagger shift was already passed by four big chapels. It declares the membership of the union was maneuvered into arbitration by the International and local officials, states that the stag~- gered shift plan set up by the arbiter makes more unemployment, and that, the printers “will do all in their power to render the said award null and void by whatever means pos~ sible.” ; nearby, of the “slip board,” thus mak- | ling it unnecessary for substitute | | printers to put in four hours of their | own time to get a day's work. | ‘The union officials, who have be- come aware of the danger that the rank and file will not submit to the | award, have begun to run around and | try to stop their action. Dahm, one of the organizers (who never orean- ized), came rushing to the Times chapel, but the men decisively voted down his proposition. A Side Issue. Another move of the reactionaries is to suggest court action as a sub- | stitute for the militant action of the | printers. According to the sponsers of this move, $5,000 will be needed to} begin court proceedings. The mem-| | bers have answered this proposal by | complete silerce. It is a fact beyond | ‘disoute that the publishers can con-| | trola court decision better tiian any | junion. The only weapon of union men which employers fear is the strike. ‘The Amalgamation Party in the printers’ union fully supports the | authorities is a continuation| lof the suppressive tactics, | inspired and directed from| Washington. | | Repel the new attacks on| |the Hunger March delegates | {by mass organization, mass} | protest and action! the country are not watching so closely, to carry out the federal gov- ernment’s instructions to “dis- courage” the marchers. The marchers must have immediate support. Funds should be collected and Tushed immediately to Workers In- ternational Relief, Fred Kearns, 1927 Webster Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., for the care of the 1,300 marchers. * . . Attacked East of Cumberiand. CUMBERLAND, Md., Dec. 8. Virginia and Maryland state police intercepted all westbound columns of the National Hunger March, return- ing from Washington, at a point 50 miles east of Cumberland and shunt~ ed them over the hills toward Union- town, Pa. Driven Over Roads, Afoot. The police confiscated one truck | nese Soviet Republic. France Supports Lytton Report. Joseph Paul-Boncour, French war minister, supported the line of the Lytton Report, calling for “concilia- tion” between Japan and the Nan- king government for the purpose of consolidating Japan’s position in Manchuria and preparing the war 6f intervention against the Soviet Union. Boncour stressed the fact that the Lytton Report bars the return of Manchuria to China. He maintained complete silence on the concession | made by the report to U. S. imperial« ism, in declaring Manchoukuo a pup- pet state set up by Japanese bays onets. Simon Attacks China Soviets. Together with Sir John Simon, the British delegate, any mention of the French position on the U. 8. demand for non-recog- nition of Manchoukuo, Sir John Simon led the attack on the Chinese Soviet Republic, se |ers in this truck were driven ten miles out of Romney and sent afoot down the road, in bitter cold weather, At 9 a. m. today no communica- tion had been established with this group on foot, instinctive reaction ches, hand-in-hand with these ten- | Conditions in the schools, and effec-}| The Times chapel resolution men- | militant action taken by the chapels| which was following some distance Ree ace iatielte ie an ictrec Gan eactileg emieney bas Annee this morning—to 1408 | tive means of protest against cuts in| tioned above calls for removal to|and calls on the members not to|behind the main body of the col- | talmess of the ‘bosses, s ing to $5534 a Franklin Ave.t ‘ education and in relief, union headquarters or space rented 'fall victims of any empty promises.! umn, The Netional Hunger March- | night Va i ¥