The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1933, Page 1

1 WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GERMANY? You won’t know if you read the lies dished out by the capitalist press. Only the Daily Worker gives a true picture of the stirring events in Germany and ral- ttes the American workers to support the German workers’ fight against the fascist dictatorship. Support the Daily’s drive for funds! Central Dail Orga oP “OD (Section of the Communist International } Norker far to the Daily Party U.S.A. capitalism!” EVERY DOLLAR A BULLET? J. M. of Jersey City contributes a dol- Worker almost every week, and urges every worker to do the same, “so we can have a proletarian press that will lead us in doing away with the rotten capitalist system, Every dollar, every nickel is a bullet against Vol. X, No. 31 London Jobless March) LONDON, England, Feb. 5— | One hundred and fifty thousand workers, marching at the call of the British Trade Union Cong- re&s, Labor Party, and Unem-~- ployed Committee (which led the last national hunger march) met in Hyde Park this afternoon. Promptly, whatever banners they had followed to the park ‘he entire multitude kindled at the ‘speech of Wal Hannington, Communist, just out of jail for leading the national hunger march and took up the shout: “Revolutionary Action” and “Down with the government of | the Capitalist Class.” Hannington spoke twice from different platforms, and declared: “Repression, imprisonment and persecution will not prevent us from forming the workers into battle lines and going forward to overthrow the national Gov- ernment.” Police made a few arrests but did not break up the crowd. Re- | solutions denouncing the Mac~ Donald government for dole cuts and the Means test were un- animously adopted. 1,000 IN ZERO WEATHER END SALE OF FARM Gun Battle Halts Rich | Farmer’s Attempt to | Smash Picket Line | MORATORIUM SPREADING | 3 More Governors Ask | Foreclosure Delays | ‘WILLMAR, Minn., Feb. 5.—| A thousand farmers gathered | in front of the court house yes- terday though the temper@ture was 22 degrees below zerc, and blocked a sheriff's sale of the fore-| closed farm of Soren Hanson. Hanson had lived on that farm for the last 57 years. The sheriff read the notice of sale, but no one dared to bid, and the sale was postponed. tor two weeks. Shoots Up Pickets. | SIOUX CTTY, Iowa, Feb. 5. — R.! D. Markell of Elk Point and his two | sons, Harry and Keath are picking | shot out of their skins today after | trying by force of arms to run the| blockade of farni strike pickets near | Sioux City. Authorities admit that they took three guns off the Markels and found another revolver in the seat of their truck. Moreover, ‘Nile Cochran of Moville, Ia, and another farmer whose name is unknown were shot and seriously injured by the Mar- kels. Nevertheless the sheriff is | spending all inis time trying to locate the men w!> peppered the Markels with bird si... ‘The Markel iamily, rich farmers, itled to break through the picket Une with 1,000 gallons of scab milk. ‘They opened a barrage on the pickets and somebody shot back at them. ‘The farmers had already obtained a price agreement from the dealers, but. the Markel family was trying to break it and sell below the stipulated | orice. Rte eee § Banker Gets Only $7.80. CAMP AVERY. Ohio, Feb. 5. — Hun@reds of farmers assembled here ye day at the sheriff’s sale of the i ents and personal property of Lemuel Sands, a ruined farmer. They % up everything for the total of $7.80 and returned all the property to Sands. | . . Moratoriam Spreads. ‘The two largest mortgage-holding banks of Wood County, Ohio, de- clayed a year’s moratorium on fore- closures of farms yesterday. At the same time the governor of Tennes- see called a meeting of farm land mortgage ho'ders for Feb. 19, to take up the question of moratoriums. Gov- Sntered as second-class matter st the Post Office = “Er. Mew York, N.Y., under the Act ef March & 187%, Four thousand New York jobless marched around President-Elect Roosevelt's town house to demand that he begin to keep some of his campaign promises to give the jobless relief. The picture shows his answer. He had the police club them. (An Editoral) W ; give today some more reasons why we do not hesi- tate to call upon the working class for material support for the Daily Worker, and why we are absolutely sure that the workers will respond: The Daily Worker is at the head of the advance guard in the fight for Unemployment Insurance and. the struggle tor Unemployment Relief and Compulsory Federal Unem- ployment Insurance at the expense of the government and the employers. There Is no other daily paper in the United States, in the native language of the country, tha at carries on this fight for the mobilization of the American workers to secure these fundamental demands. For this reason, upon the Daily Worker falls the leadership of the struggle against the whole hanger program of the Wall Street.goy- ernment. the central organ of the Communist’ Party it has consistently carried on this task. For instance, long before the crash in October 1029 which marked the advent of the crisis, the worst in the history of American capitalism, the Daily Worker wes pointing out*continually that there was being created, even at the height of the boom period, a permanent army of unemployed workers running into millions. ; Pe ea T was the central organ of the Communist Party that sent cut the call for the mass demonstrations for im- mediate relief and unemployment insurance on March 6th, 1950, to which more than. a million workers responded. It was the tremendous mass demonstrations on this day that exposed the lies of the employers and bankers, who up until that time, had been denying that there was any unemployment in the United States, It will be remembered that Comrdes Foster, Minor (who was then editor of the Daily Worker), Amter and Raymond went to jail for their leadership of the mighty struggle. A memorable fight marked the beginning of the time when the workers’ demands had to be taken seriously. But it was only a beginning. The struggle now has to be raised to a much higher plane. For the crisis has deep- ened and now the struggle for relief, for more relief, for lower rents, against evictions and for compulsory Fed- eral Unemployment Insurance for ALL workers has be- come: in a more real sense than ever before, a struggle for the right of workers to live. The number of unemployed has risen until there are today in the United States more than 16 million. In the railway industry alone the number of workers has been reduced from 2,100,000 in 1929 to 996,000 in 1933. In this industry alone more than 1,100,000 workers have been thrown out into ihe streets. Part time work is universal throughout the United States; the official figures on unemployment do not ex- plain this fact. In the Building Trades the percentage of unemployment is about 85 per cent. But the 15 per cent employed are working only from one to three days per NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1933 “NA TIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents week, Such facts are concealed from the workers by the cap- italist press. Statistics are juggled throrghout the United States and in all industries. In the Steel industry, for ex- ample, the basic industry of American capitalism, a work- er who receives one day’s work per month is rated as “employed.” * * * IHE Daily Worker is the only paper which tells these facts to American workers. It is the only daily paper which gives to the American working class the correct conclusions te be drawn from these facts; that is, that the standard of living of the toiling masses cf the U. S. has been reduced by 70 per cent since 1929. It is the only paper for American workers which shows on the basis of such concrete facts that Wall St. Government and the cap- iitalist class wh:se Executive Committee it is, is driving the living and soeial standards of the entire American working class to new low levels, so that never before in history have the living conditions of so many millions of workers been reduced so drastically in a similzy length of time. * ° * UT the Daily Worker, and the Communist Party of which it is the spokesman do not stop with mere “ex- posure”. No, the Daily Worker is not merely a bearer of words it is an or <u. of action. Through its insistence on organization and mass struggle, through its exposure of the treacheries of the Socialist Party leaders and the bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor and thru its leadership in action in connection with such exposures: it has made possible for the working class to win decisive victories in the struggle against the capitalist offensive. It is only necessary to cite here one or two outstand- iug examples: The Federated Press Washington Corres- pondent sometime ago stated in his dispatches that, in con- nection with social unrest; “Chicago was considered the danger spot” bythe federal authorities. The reason for this is quite dlear: In Chicago and throughout the State of Illine* there has L-en organized a powerful mass move- ment for unemployment relief, egainst evictions, for lower rents, and for compulsory Federal Unemployment Insur- ‘This movement, for which the Daily Worker speaks and..ip, whose organization the Daily Worker -played the decisive part, has wrested from the State of Illinois and from the Federal Government $88,000,000 for the relief of the unemployed workers and their dependents. Jn the face of almost unexampled persecution, in the face of police attacks which have taken the lives of four workers: Negro and white, in the face of mass clubbings, gassing and wholesale arrests, the struggle for Unemploy- ment Relief and Insurance, with the Daily Worker in the forefront, has gone forward in the State of ulinois, and the struggle against starvation there has ieached the highest level of any of the movements of the unemployed in a united front with employed workers in any section of the United States. In this State of heavy industry. coal mining, steel, railway and water transport, the Daily Worker has taken a leading part in organizing the masses for the battle against starvation. In St. Louis last fall the hunger drive of the em- ployers and bankers and the city and state government was to have cut off over 13,000 families from the un- employed relief list. The Unemployed Councils and the Communist Party went into action. In a whole series of struggles in which the armed forces of the city and state were called into play in the effort to terror'ze and sup- press the mass demonstrations of the unemployed work- ers and tueir dependents; in the effort to terrorize these masses they were defeated. The city government was forced to continue the. relief for the 13,000 workers and their dependents whom they had planned to condemn to death by slow starvation. In New York City and in the State as a whole, there have been the struggles of the Unemployed Councils to which the Daily Worker has given expression and guidance that have forced the authorities to continue unemployment relief for hundreds of thousands of workers they had 81 GROUPS FORM | Congressmen Ignore Jobless But Retain Own High Salaries WASHINGTON, D. ©. Feb, 5— UNITED FRONT Seattle UCL Branches pemocratic and Republican congreses All Tek e Part | men united Saturday in repudiating | all the “economy” provisions of their SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 5. — Five | Party campaign pledges of “economy” The Fight for Food for 16 Million Unemployed _ | = Depends Upon Mass Support for Daily Worker! Peer planned to drive down to the status of beggars. During the National Hunger March, it was the Daily Worker which reported the struggles of the mai ching dele- gates of the Unemployed Councils. Only the Daily Worker exposed the campaign of p: vocation against the marchers and called upon the masses: to defeat the conspiracy for a massacre of the 3,000 delegates in the shadow of the Capitol Déms NDISPEN E in the winning of these and more ma- terial game .: the workers today, is the continual, sys- tematic and clear exposure of the enemies of the working class in the ranks ¢f the working class and its organiza- tions. Of all the daily pa 1 the English language, in the United States. only the Daily Worker tells the work- ing class of the contemptible treachery of the le. the Socialist Pa and the A. F. of L. and its af: 2 unions. The Socialist Party leadership endorsed full the demagogic program of the leadership of the A. F. of L. adopted a‘ the Cincinnati Convention, on the question of the shorter work day and Unemployment Insurance. Today the bu acrats of the A. F. of L. headed by President William Green, say not one word about Unem- ployment Insurance. They have shoved into the back- ground even that section of their program in which they pretended to be foi Unemployment Insurance legislation enacted by various states; today they faver only the vi- cious “share the work” bill of Senator Black, masquerad- ing under the guise of a shorter work week, for reduc- tion of unemployment—and wages. Today the Socialist Party | ez the treacherous program of the A. also brings forward the Black 80-hour bill as « the indescribable 1isery of more than 16,000,000 worke: and their dependents in the U. 8. The American working cl ty of organizing and ca ng through the most rmined mass struggle in the whole history ofAmerica or finding itself reduced to the status of slaves, for which the master class makes no provisions for feeding, clothing and sheltering. is faced with the ne- * . . These are-onjy four examples of the service of the Daily Worker tothe American working class throughout thé United Stat f the Daily Worker had fought only in these three instances it could claim the right to call upon the American masses for the greatest possible sup- port for its $35,000 fighting fund. Yor in fact, the Da’ Worker, with all its immense services to the working class in winning for the work material gains, is today in grave danger of sing publication for lack of material means, the work- We are not going to go under. Because yo ers, and your mass organizations, will help. Yo let the Daily Worke But be quick—the danger And we do make th . die. great Received Saturday .$ 201.60 Total to date aie : . $4,179.60 Send contributions at once by wire or air mail to the Daily Worker, 50 F. 13th St., New York City, N. Y. section of Chicago. stration won immediate revoking of the proposed cut in relief. Part of march of 50,000 jobless through the “Loop”, main business A fine example of united front tactics siarted by the Unemployed Council, rallying hage masses which by this demon- Javanese Navy Mutiny Dutch vincien” from the Poi North Coast Sumatra. An official dis Dutch Gove! nous crew se {| munition steame: put oul HUGE FRAUD ‘IN JOBLESS “UST BARED | 16,000,000 Figure of Labor Research | Ass’n Upheld Bi Pi Aaa DECEPTION | ts Communist Party Esti- mate Proven Correct By BILL DUNNE — | The estimate of 16,000,000 | unemployed work: in the | United States, made by the | Communist Party and the Un- } employed Coun | nation-wide sur | by the Labor R |ciation, has now tended confirmation by |“Business Week,” the sti cal organ of the Mc¢ Publications: in its latest i Basing its estimate on Novei | 1932 figures, “Business Week” | the conclusion that in tk nor | there were 15,252,000 workers totally | unemployed in the United States. Business Week says: “A re-check on the basis of No- vember 1932 data—latest available— now indicates that most previous estimates have been too low and that there are actually more than 15,000,000 of the nation’s normally employed workers out of jobs at the veginning of 1933. “Business Week's” estimate is bul- warked by detailed statistics and received ex- the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BRIGGS PICKETS THWART POLICE , Auto Strikers Break Thru Lines DETROIT, Feb. 5. — Aided by | thousands of unemployed workers or- Wall St. Intervention In Cuba Imminent Struggle Published in Boss Press Belated Reports of Terror and Revolutionary Italian Workers Storm JQBEESS MARCH Fascist Consulate In Paris; Demand Relief | PARIS, Feb. 5.—-Unemployed Ita- Man workers in this city stormed the Italian Consulate yesterday in a de- Richmond City Hall | food doles which the Consulate has | ganized by the Unemployed Councils the picket line of the Briggs plant auto strikers broke through police |lines and stopped street cars carry- ing ex-foremen and superintendents THRU BLIZZ ARD mobilized as strikebreakers with the aid of the Murphy city administra- tion, state troops and agents of the federal department of labor and the 500 Demonstrate At. depariment of justice. | Heavy police guards have been es- | corting scabs in groups of 100 from the Briggs plant th the picket | | mand for eash relief instead of the | | | | hundred and eighty-six delegates.| when it came to a question of cut- representing 81 unemployed and | ting their own salaries, other workers’ orzanizations mot here Saturday in the lorvest united front} Senators and representatives had conference on unemployment ever |"0 trouble “economizing” by refus- held in this city, lunes. These strike breakers are not former Briggs employees as the strike ranks remain solid in spite of the strenuous effort to disrupt them by A. F. of L. officials, Socialist Party efor Blackwood of South Carolina called a meeting for next Wednes- day of the mortgage holders of that state to discuss postponing of all losures. And Governor Horner Dispatches to the capitalist press report { the existence of a revolutionai crisis in Cuba, threatening the overthrow of Wall Street's puppet ramon ; ment headed by the butcher dictator Machado. The dispa‘ches are being | been handling out to 2 small number of the unemployed Italian workers. Many windows in the Consulate building were broken. French police RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 5.—Five hundred Negro and white workers marched, many of them in rags and with no soles to their shoes, through a blinding blizzard to the city hall f Bak Wlinois yesterday issued a formal a] “to large mortgage owners to “Horner's appeal is pretty tricky. It ed that it was made most unwil- gly, and the forced from him, like the moratorium decisions already made by big insurance companies and banks and some governors, by the militant action of farmers who are stopping the sales. Horner asks the big mortgage hold- ers. to “use the utmost forbearance after thorough investigation”, in car- rying through seizure of the farmers’ land, because “agriculture, one of the basi¢ industries of Illinois, has suf- fered more perhaps than any other industry in our state”. He says that if the big corpc-ations take the lead, the National Hunger Marchers for ing even to consider the demands of | bringing Cuba still more firmly into «—--—-. played up in the capitalist press to prepa-e the basis for actual intervention viciously attacked the demonstrators. yesterday noon to demand relief for leaders and the use of scores of Highly significant was the attend- ance of rep:esentatives of nine A. F. L, union locals and 45 Unemployed Citizens’ League and U. P. W, branches—every branch of these two organizations in the county. ‘The cemplete participation of the Unem: ‘oyed Citizens League reflects the recent turn-oyer in the adminis- tro’ion of that organization, old officials were swept out by 2 m revolt snd ne rank ard file cl menis, favorable to united front ac- unemployment insurance for the 16,000,000 jobless. But when amendments to the ap- propristions bills now being dis- cussed were proposed, to reduce the pay of senators and representatives from the present $10,000 a year to $5,000 or $7,500 for the period of the ‘The | depression, there was uproar and s| tremendous anger, and the amend- ments were slaughtered by a united | front attack from congr men of tion with the Unemployed Councils | both boss parties, have been put into office. Endorse March On Olympia. The conference jammed the hall, with delegates even standing in the windows to take part. They elected Build & workers correspondence (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) to the Dafty Worker ~ , the steel web which Wall Street is weaving for the protection of its robber interests in Latin America. The dispatches are telegraphed from Miami by reporters who have just returned from Cuba from which they were not able to send their dis- patches because of the stringent mi- litary censorship against all news of the growing revolutionary upsurge. Murderous Terror, The C.patches report a state of | fierce underground warfare, marked , bY numerous political Ikillings and bombings, with the armed struggle rapidly breaking through the murd- erous terror carried on by the gov- ernment under the most drastic nar- armed | tation against the ployed workers and the police. The world crisis of capitalism has had devastating effect on Cuban economy, and with the collapse of the sugar market mass starvation and misery have been rampant throughout the island. Machado has been receiving Yarge shipments of arms from the U. 8. as part of Wall Street’s support of his efforts to crush the rising revolutionary struggles of the starv- ing workers and impoverished peas- | ants. | The Cuban prisons are crowded | with political prisoners. The Univers- | ity of Havana and the high schools | are closed and under military guard in an effort to crush student agi- murderous Wall (CONTINUED OX PAGE TERED. ; ; the unemployed. Italian Bosses Whoop ROME, Feb. 5.—The Italian Gov- ernment yesterday sentenced two French subjects to prison terms on charges of carrying on spying opera- | vions in Italy f the French Gov-} ernment and its Jugoslay allies. The} two persons are Charles Eydoux, aj French engineer, sentenced to two Sti years in prison, and Mlle. Georgette | Of Tompkin. Bonnefond, his secretary, to four} In retaliation months. | two of the delegation. The Italian government is using ders to smash their demonstration, ‘The police while he was speaking. Hunger March, planned for the near future, struggle between Italian imperialism | State and French imperialise” A OCCT mle - | They marched in defiance of the Up French Spy Scare | wnote ricnmond police foree, which ens was mobilized against them, with or- arrested Organizer | Tomkin of the Unemployed Council The delegation which went in to present the demands of the demon- tors also demanded the release | These arrests did not daunt the the trial and sentences to dramatize | marchers, who declare they will carry the developing war situation in the|on here and will also support the spies and stoolpigeons. At the meeting in Danceland Audte torium today, called by the Auto Workers Union, thousands of strikers and their families pledged allegiance to the Union after hearing speeches by members of the Rank and File Strike Committee, John Schmies, Philip Raymond, Woods Gerlach, local leaders, and Earl Browder, sec- retary of the Central Committee of the Communist P: The campaign for meeting with wide response, hundreds ¥. strike relief 1s the police arrested! of people voluntarily offering money, food and clothing. Police terror and spying by agents of the Department of Labor and Im- migration upon foreign born work- which 8) ers continue. Negro workers are sup- porting the trike solid, ° y . . mp Ree me re