The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1933, Page 3

{ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1 933 apanese Bom nk Jehol City As Nanking MO. JOBLESS BARE BOSS PRESS LIES Funds Collected for Destitute Family Turned Over WON'T PRINT REPLY Support ‘Daily Worker’ March 4 Actions KIRKSVILLE, Me. Mar. 2. —-Unemployed wor! ¢'s in this city are facing slanderous newspaper attacks by the Chamber of Commerce sheet, the Kirksville Daily Express, as a means of covering up the protests of the workers against the starvation policies of the Board of Charities. A committee of the Kirksville Un- employed Council, located at 1012 N. Luther, collected funds for a de- stitute family that had been turned sown by the Charity Board. Refused to Print Reply The Daily Express came out with an article stating that those who col- lected the money probably intended using it for their own purposes. Al- though a committee of workers went to the paper offices with a written reply, proving that every cent col- lected went to the family, and offer- ing a list of all those who had con- tributed. The Daily Express refused to print the reply and continued its attacks on the workers. Win Retief Despite these attacks, the Unem- ployed Council, which has been or- anized but a few weeks, has won elief for several families. In expos- ing the slanders directed against them, the Publicity Committee of the Unemployed Council appeals to the workers to read’ the Daily Worker, “ag the oniy Daily in the U. 8. that dares to publish the truth about the class struggle.” The Daily Worker will not disap- point the jobless and other workers in Kirksville, and will give all pos- sible space to accounts of conditions ot the workers and their struggles for relief, culminating in the nation- wide demonstrations this Saturday. OVER 18,000 AT G. B. LOST JOBS Wages Cut; Company’s Surplus $172,198,374 (By a Worker Correspondent) SCHENHOTADY, N. Y.—Condi- tions of the workers in the General Electric Works sre steadily getting worse. Already there are more than 18,000 G. E. workers unemployed. The few who are getting relief are being cut down from time to time by larger service requirements, transfers to the employment office, which is “unable to place them,” etc. No one knows who is going to be laid off next. At the same time the speed-up and pace setting, particularly for the wo- men workers, is driving them to phy- sical breakdown. Wages are being cut by piece rates and hourly rate cuts. In many cases it is as bad to be working as it is to be unemployed. ‘The robbery of the company for pen- sion and insurance schemes contin- ues. White slips are a common thing. The G. E. Company reported a surplus of $172,193,374 in 1931 and a net profit of $11,657,669 in the first nine months of 1932. With all this they are not satisfied but continue to plot means of robbing the work- ers. Workers of G. E. fight against wage cuts, for a minimum wage scale, by organizing department commit- tees. It can be done. Some G. E. [ orkers are already organizing them- selves for the fight against hunger. Immediate enactment of a sys- tem of federal unemployment and social insurance by the government through taxes upon wealth and income and the diversion of all present appropriations for war pur- poses to relief and insurance. International Notes SOFIA MUNICIPAL MAJORITY ANNULLED Upon the motion of the District Attorney, the Sofia Court has an- nulled the prloetarian revolutionary majority in the Sofia City Council by vacating the seats of all the Work- ers Party representatives except four, so that the bourgeois parties now have a rump majority. The vote of the people of Sofla has thus been arbitrarily nullified. An object lesson in parliamentary dem- ocracy as practised by the capitalist class! And yet the Socialists tell the workers to work for a “legal, parlia- mentary majority”! HITLER APPOINTS HOHENZOL- LERN GOVERNOR Gustav Noske, the sole remaining Socialist provincial governor, notor- ious for his bloody suppression of the 1918-1919 proletarian uprisings in Germany, has been forced to take a “leave of absence” until he retires for age next October Ist. The reactionary “Deutsche Alige- meine Zeitung” of Berlin reports that Prince August Wilhelm, son of the ex-Kaiser and member of the had POA At the grace where 63 membc:s of worker’ families in Neunkir- cher Germany, where bure . They were killed in the recent gas tank explosion, Nazi party, is slated for appointment as Governor of the Province of Han- over in Noske's place. ‘This appointment of a Hohenzol- lern prince to high office is the first step in the planned restoration of the monarchy.-~* : Sree. 5 WILD POLICE CHASE IN FRANKFURT FRANKFURT-ON-MAIN, Feb. 10. —The Frankfurt police report that they received a tip regarding trans- port of illegal Communist leaflets and set a trap outside Hanau to in- tercept @ large motorcar, Instead of stopping, the car sped up and dashed off at 60 miles an hour, The police chased the car, but lost it, although they opened fire. Other policemen picked up the chase in Frankfurt, again opening fire and puncturing the tires and radiator. The car was forced to siop, but its occupants) made their escape, the police seiz-| ing illegal Communist leaflets against the Hitler Cabinet and cal- ling for a general strike. oo eee oe GROWING PEASANT REVOLT IN SPAIN The movement of the peasants and farm laborers in Spain for the seizure of the estates of rich landowners is developing with elemental force in spite of all efforts of the authorities and tue Socialists to prevent it. The movement is particularly strong in the province of Caceres, where many estates have slready been seized. During the past few weeks other estates were seized and distributed in Torrequemada, Aldea del Cano, Madrileyo, Brozas, Puzu- ealo de Zarzon, and other districts. The peasants are forming revolu- tionary committees to organize the distribution of seized lands and to set up defenses against’ possible armed interference or punitive expe- ditions by the Civil Guard. “El Socialista,” chief daily organ of the Socialist Party, is alarmed at the rapid spread of the land seizure HITLER JAILS =, rovers uascron | 1,800 TOILERS IN GERMANY But Mass Resistance Grows in Shops and Unions MURDER YOUTH Order Arrest of All Red Deputies {Cable By Inprecor) BERLIN, March 2, — Over 1,850 workers were arrested yesterday as the fascist regime and its police continued their terroristic action against the German Communist Party. 150 were arrested in Berlin alone, of whom 80 were detained, in- cluding Karl Baron, chairman of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Raids and mass arrests are continuing. The arrested persons are refused permission to communicate with any one. But these arrests are not stop- ping the development of the mass united front against fascism in the factories and unions. 1,200 persons were arrested in the Rhineland, 86 in Westphalia, 140 in Gleiwitz, 400 in Thuringia, with sim- ilar mass arrests throughout the whole country. Order Jailing of Red Deputies. In another blow at the elected representatives of the working class, the government yesterday ordered the pay of the Communist Deputies in the Reichstag stopped. Orders were issued several days ago for the arrest of all Communist Deputies. A number have been arrested so far. ‘The state government of Thuringia issued a decree prohibiting the dis- play of red flags, and the wearing of socialist and Communist badges. ‘The democrats and catholics are the only non-governmental parties still able to conduct election propaganda. Murder Youth. The bourgeois press reports that “political opponents” raided the home of Bernard Wirshing, a young worker, shooting him dead. As the political affiliation of Wirshing is not men- tioned he is probably a Communist. ‘The bourgeois press also reports that “unknown. persons” raided the Com- munist local in Liebenwalder Strasse firing on the workers present. Sege- brecht a 59-year old worker was kil- Jed, and the landlady wounded. Fur- ther collisions between workers and fascists occurred in the streets, with an exchange of revolver shots where- by a number of persons were wound- ed, including a fascist. | ‘The cabinet in its session today discussed its attitude toward foreign press correspondents and decided to proceed against foreign reports guilty of “incitement” against the govern- ment. Stampfer, editor-in-chief of the Socialist “Vorwserts” was arrested {n connection with a charge that the socialist press had spread @ report that the fascists were responsible for the Reichstag arson outrage. $$$ HOW N. Y, STATE LABOR DEPT. BUILDS PROSPERITY NEW YORK.—A woman worker, my wife, who registered over a year ago for a job, received a letter from the State Labor Department, 124 E. 28th St, New York, and there, after much ado, was sent to a job at Von Der Esch Blouse Mfg. Co., 26 E. 22nd St, New York. ‘At this place the women workers are making blouses at the rate of 3% cents per blouse, or 45 cents a dozen. Only needle trades’ workers are able to conceive what sort of slavery this means. We must not forget by the way that this is the state over which Leh- man, the “saviour of the Hebrews” is playing at governing, and the state from which Mr. Roosevelt ts going to play presidenting. The State La- bor Department is building the cor- ner around which prosperity at 3% cents per blouse cometh! Amen! —L. N. Member Unemployed Council. Communists, and publishes a pa- thetic appel against violence and for movement, for which it blames the the “maintenance of law and order.” ‘DAILY’ ANSWERS DOCUMENT ISSUED BY A POLICE AGENT An anonymous letter, printed out by hand in pencil as though to avoid betrayal through handwriting, and couched in “mysterious” terms, is be- ing circulated apparently by some of the “under-cover” agents of the U. S. Government. ‘he letter is signed: “A German,” but shows unmistak- able origin as the work of an agent- provocateur. ‘This document reads as follows: “Japan wll take Eastern Siberia and cfipple Sovict Russia unless something is done to stop it. “f? some Jap business, shops and consulates ate destroyed it will HELP Soviet Russia. “If the U. S. fights Japan it will SAVE Soviet Russia, Get busy, and notify the com- rades in the big cities to get busy. “Help Soviet Russia before it is too late. “Down with the Japs. “S& German. “Sf you help Soviet Russia you will get oe money.” The Daily Worker warns its read- ors against this clumsy provocation, whieh can only haye the purpose of dqpeiving and confusing honest work- ' 2 ers who may not understand the pol- icies of the Communist Party, The Communist Party does not instigate imperialist wars in the naive belief that such is the way to “help” the Soviet Union. Nor do we rely upon the imperialist U. S. Government to “save” the Soviet Union by “fighting Japan” or by any other method, The United States imperialist government is the bitterest enemy and not a friend of the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics. In fact the United States Government’s policy in the Far East is one of endeavoring to in- cite an imperialist attack by Japan against the Soviet Union, in the hops of weakening Japan (its own imper- jalist rival) and at the same time weakening the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics which is recognized by all as the stronghold of the world proletarian revolution. Fight Imperialist Drive ‘The Communist Party, which rallies the workers and farmers to defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics—the only real fatherland of the exploited classes of all countries—does not incite hatred against “Japan,” but against the imperialist attacks upon the Chinese peopls and the Soviet Union. The Communist Party rallies the American workers, and iiraeeanet te ao government 8. gov= erument of Wall Street dictators. Only in doing th's is it possible at the same time effectively to fight against all imperialists, including the Japanese imperialists who are now leading the murderous sssault upon the Chinese people. All of the Communist Parties in the world are directing their activities first of all against thelr own im- perlalist governments. As the first necessity they are, of course, strain-| , ing to prevent shipments of arms and munitions to the Japanese im- perialist War makers and in every|tAde way to defend the Chinese people against the present imperialist inva- sion of Manchuria and Jehol. Be . Upon mass support of the workers | 5. in all countries, the defense of the Chinese people depends. The reference, in the above an- nonymous letter to getting “some money,” “if you hélp Soviet Russia,” is the best evidence that the docu- ment was written by a police spy for the purpose of injury to the workers’ revolutionary oy | ACTIVITY OF MINERS REV YOUNG MINERS HURT ON JOBS TOO HEAVY FOR ’EM BENTLEYVILLE, Pa.—Here in the Gibson mine of the Hillman Coal Oo. there are quite a number of young miners. Some run motors, others snapp, but majority dre load- ing coal. The coal loading is hard work. We are cheated on the scales; we do not receive payment for the dead work to amount to a damn. The motormen and snapper ade speed-up, ‘nd many get hurt. And here is what happened to a young fellow loading coal. He was working in a place that goes up grade. He had to push the empty cars into the place, as the motorman has too many men and is instructed not to push the empties. The cars are not greased, axels and brake rods are bent and it surely is hard to push the cars.; This young lad over- done himslf and as result is ruptured. Many more will be ruptured and worse if we don’t organize. We have @ group of the National Miners Un- fon here and we are preparing to send a large delegation to the March 19, United Front Conference called by the NMU. Also we are talking to the miners about April 1. We expect that by the time April 1 rolls around we will have all the miners convinced to strike. Those that we may not be able to convince with arguments the Coal company will convince with an- other wage cut. Organize and strike Gibson miners April Ist! —P. D. EMPLOYED MINERS STARVE ON JOB; RELIEF WITHHELD CASTLE SHARON, Pa.—Recently the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette carried a series of articles on the conditions in the mines. Their feature writer went all over the mining fields, and found WORKER CORRESPONDENCE the conditions out in Indiana County EALED IN THEIR LETTERS bad. burgh. On the other hand, here, 5 miles out of Pittsburgh, he claims that everything is alright, because the United Mine Workers of America has an agreement with the Pittsburgh Terminal. It is a lie that everything is O. K. and here is the proof of their lie. Joe Lucas was working here in Mine No. 2. He had a buddy, a young fel- low of about 22 years of age. While he worked practically every day, Joe could not make enough to keep his family. He was 3 grown up boy and every time he asked the boss when his boy was getting a job the boss answered, “When your buddy dies.” Joe decided that since his buddy was very healthy, he would have to help him to die. He had some arsenic that he stole some years ago in a still mill. He put the arsenic into his buddy's dinner bucket. However, his buddy noted that something was wrong, and, after watching several days, Joe was caught. He admitted putting the arsenic in, and stated that he did it to get his boy to work with him. Joe is now in Allegheny county jail waiting trial. While we miners do not approve Joe’s method, nevertheless the blame for this is not with Joe, but with the bosses’ system and the U.M.W.A. fakers who forced our wages down to where we work and at the same time starve, Here is something else. There is @ large number of miners here who are forced to ask the Welfare for support while working every day. The Welfare investigator comes here, but visits the company office first, and those who get an O. K. from the Super get Welfare checks and gov- ernment flour. The company suckers get relief, although they do not need it, while those who need it starve. Last month, when the Fagan gang was here forcing us to take a wage- cut, they threatened that we will lose relief if we strike. However, we will strike April 1, regardless of relief and Fagan. 8s. B. This is 100 miles from Pitts- Buffalo Pushes Activity to Broaden Daily Worker Drive Philadelphia, California, Chicago Districts Must Raise More Funds The small districts continue to show activities and results that should shame the bigger districts into action in the Daily Worker drive. A com- munication from Robert Smith, Daily Worker representative in Buffalo (District 4), informs us that units E of the Communist Party “are still holding or arranging house parties, etc. A large card-party and dance has been arranged for March 12; all collection lists are being checked, and preparations are being carried on for the National Daily Worker Tag Days to be held March 11 and 12.” “I spoke at Rochester,” Smith con- tinues, “on the Daily Worker outlin- ing a plan for increased activitios. A banquet was arranged for Roch- ester, to be held March ll... . Syra- cuse and Binghamton are to be visited by the District Organizer of the Par- ty in the very near future. He will be sure to speak on the critical sit- uation of the Daily Worker and to promote greater activity in these two |» cities. Wednesday's total in contributions was $652.72, of which New York raised | ; only $260.97, a distinct drop of about $150 from its Tuesday total. Several other districts made good showings notably Boston ($72.93), Philadelphia ($64.88), Pittsburgh ($70.38), Detroit ($55.32) and the Cal- olinas ($10.00). The last-mentioned district is poverty-stricken in all ways. Good Work By Pittsburgh Pittsburgh's $70.38, which put it in first place in per centage, consists of $30 received Wednesday and $20.38 previously received, but not recorded until Wednesday. Of the $50 contrib- uted Wednesday, $28 was raised by the South Slavic fraction of the Com- munist Party. Kansas City and the Dakotas failed to contribute at all. But the big districts, outside of New York, it must be repeated, on whom the success of our drive de- pends, are still behind. Philadelphia, although it did well Wednesday, is not sending funds with the regularity of other, smaller districts. Chicago, which sent only $20.15, makes a spurt how and then, but falls into inac- tivity so many times that something must be seriously wrong with its ap- paratus. In a big city like Chicago there should be hundreds of oppor- tunities for small house parties and for bigger affairs to keep the flow of funds to the Daily Worker steady | ¥' and uninterrupted. Minnesota's $14.68 | . Olara Gartinen Bob facomo Emanuel 5.00 Piter { Emil Free Unit 6, See. 1 Housten Ladies Teor Aus. | Unit 6, Sec. 1 Staten Is. Unem- neil 3. 05 | Grand Club: P. Littman 16 aerate a4 I. Reissman elie Per r+] N. Kateman “10 | ot" atver rr} | Sekinow “35 | 5, Meles 30 T. Belkins 10 | i. Sperman oH Anonymous 10 | Weckots ab A. Warshawsky = -10| May Sapier 25 A. Lieberson 10 | p. Peeneker 1100 | Anonymous 10) 5, Lents 10 4. Siegel 23) W. Jennings 150 | Anonymous Slr RR 25 | Larry Arnold “10 a " Sympathirer 05 | Sympathizer 10 Sympathirer Ben Lewin. I, Benny Eleanor Binney . Bet 5. Show . Wi “10 | TH to dat T. Mamaguchi —.05 | spo as ‘Tom Nomma +10 | ee (8) DISTRICT 8 0 (Philadetphia) : TOTAL 364.88 Tt to date $508.70 J. Giscumakis DISTRICT 4 3. Montis (Buffalo) Mike De Stefano TOTAL $12.50 Anonym —— G. Dak & Das TH to date $226.70 Gust DISTRICT 5 H. Litich (Pittsburgh) #, Baronofsky $70.88 |M- Kanter —— . Wineman J. Mellon ee ae 5, Grubis ¥, 2iliuskas "Ulerelane). Anonymous H. Harowits pen — Tel to date $475.46 R. Matus Anonyme Piipetreld) \ (Detroit) M. Gostinnars 4 | TOTAL $55.32 big Ab) TH to date sags. ip overt | DISTRICT 8 §. Dabvdsk 30) sora oe 6 Wallare Dol 6 | Navas AG) Tei to date $1 | Mt. Shapiro 10 Collected by Unit vineaeay, %, Seotion 1: toe bce | Chung Wing 1 if Me Chai Choy Te to date $163.41 i DISTRICT 12 is only @ fraction of its $760 quota. te bomen with $3, is way behind. Cal- rrr de DretRic? 13 Disrarcr 1 Wrrs. Clad 90.17 | A. Kutsucos 05, peerntes totat 22! soune | Bcisrtee 1.00/8, Satorardos 08 SOrAL x ‘Collected by Total to date $552.73 6.85 | “10, Section 1: te, ba ante UO DISTRICT % Otass in Diatec- 3, Baker 5s tical Material- M. Burke 10 DISTRICT 14 ism, Workers? 3. Bidner 110 (New Jersey) School 8.75 | 3. Glicksman 0 ‘OTAL ‘$10. Claas Polit & So- $. Wingdale aw Forces in &. Somemrs 00 rt. Hist, 9.803. Lerner 25 3.55 | Bath Beach M, 28 ie ‘Workers’ Olub 1.00 26) DISTRICT 15 A Thomas 2.00 | Coney In, Wi 25 (Connecticut) Yorkville Whkre Ath. | ers’ Cl (25) TOTAL $18.29 cia’ 10.00 38 8 eo) G@ Cohen 150 ci 35 35 38 Anonymous ‘30 | DISTRICT 16 125 Tiion 0} (N.C. & 8.0.) See. 17.00 | Stelman 1.00] TOTAL $10.00 7.00 4, See, 2 10.24 | Siskind 1.00 — Unit 1-D, Bee. 15.00 | Kerrizan 1,00| Tt to date $17. 3.00 | W.LR. Band 115 | DW. Affair 10.36 Pr‘stioy ‘Collect. at Unit 1.00 Collected by Workers’ School: (G Kroger DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) TOTAL $5.66 J, Pete 8 Attale Tt to date $225.96 | P. Dispenger Shalle 1 M. Genova DISTRICT 19 Amalga: Anonymous 05, (Colorado) Rank & Fite 4.55) W. 8. 0 | Ida Koslofe 05} TOTAL $8.81 An as 5,00 | Wells Workers’ A. Kleiman 05, — Mt Sohoot 1,00, Harold | TH to Mate 988.66 i $8.25) nounced his willingness 16 STATES IN ACUTE BANK CRISIS Millions of Deposits Are Being Wiped Out by Bosses TOILERS ARE HIT Demonstrate Mar. 4 Against Robber Band Sixteen states have been plunged into the whirlpool of financial disaster as the bank “holiday” that began with the closing of the banks of the state of Michigan extends to all parts of the country. The economic crisis has reached a new stage in its downward plunge and tens of millions, possibly billions of dollars, of depositors are being wiped out, Many of these are small depositors whose money has been used for speculation by the piratical crew that operates the banking sys- tem of the country. This fact has caused depositors to try to salvage their money from the wreckage that is becoming general—with the result that the robber gang is declaring “holidays” on payments to depositors. Ford’s Michigan Bandit Raid. Michigan depositors have already lost 70 per cent of their deposits, with Henry Ford taking over the two principal Detroit banks and paring down deposits to 70 cents on a dol- lar. Thus, if some family had a thousand dollars before the Michigan crash, they now have but $300, and can only draw part of that. The next downward plunge may easily wipe out that. Fourteen States Stop Payment. From Michigan the financial crisis has expanded to Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, where banks have lim- ited demands on their deposits to five per cent. California hes a three day “holiday” that will in all prob- ability be extended just as was the Maryland “holiday.” Other states involved in suspension of payments are. Tennessee, Kentucky, Idaho, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Mississippi, | Alabama, Louisiana, Arizona and Oregon. Currency System Breaking Down. When the financial crisis hit Mich- igan, because of the crisis in the au- tomobile industry caused by the narrowing market, the banks were not able to meet demands, hence the “holiday” was declared. The result was that Michigan corporations and individuals with deposits in neigh- boring states began to draw heavily on their deposits there. This caused the closing of the banks in Cleveland, Akron and Dayton, Ohio, and led to the Ohio state moratorium. This spread rapidly tovother states and is still progressing like creeping paral- ysis. The banks of the country can, of course, never pay out to their de~ positors on demand because of the enormous amounts oustanding in in- vestments. Today, with the crisis plunging downward at an accelerated pace, the banking system breaks, a reflex of the disintegration of the capitalist economic system at the end of capi- talist. stabilization—when production in all basic industry has sunk back to the levels of thirty to fifty years ago. The bank “holidays” are merely devices for trying to conceal the bankruptey of the banks of sixteen stofes. ‘omortow more will be in- volved and this process will go on until all are involved. Thousands of banks have closed since 1929 because they could not meet demands of de- positors for withdrawals. All the banks of these sixteen states would be closed had the same procedure been followed. Fight for Immediate Relief. ‘This financial crisis does not mean there is no food, of clothing or means of life in the country. On the con- trary the warehouses are full to bursting and food is held away from the masses because capitalists cannot | make a profit on it. In this situation more than ever workers and farm- ers must fight for immediate relief and for unemployment and social in- surance. Fight for food, clothing and den. nd shelter. The acute fin- ancial crisis and the pillaging of de- positors show that the capitalists are | trying to place greater burdens upon |the masses. Make March 4th a day | never to be forgotten by the capitalist bandits of Americal Mike Gold, Chairman of “Daily” Banquet NEW YORK.—Michael Gold, revo~ lutionary writer and author of many proletarian books and plays, has an- to act as Chairman of the Banquet to culmi- nate the drive to raise $35,000 for the Daily Worker which will be held on March 19 at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 EB. 4th St., at 7:30 p.m. ‘There is no question but what the Banquet, under Comrade Gold's chairmanship, will turn out to be one of the most interesting held for a long time. Organizations are invited to send thelr delegates to this Banquet. MARIONETTE SHOW TO AID “DAILY” ‘The Modicot Marionette players will give a performance tomorrow (Friday) ab 8:30 p.m, at the Lebor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave. Part of the proceeds will go for the benefit of the Daily Worker. Full and immediate payment of the war veterans’ adjusted compen- sation certificates; no cut in the disability allowances; no discrimi- nation in hospitalization | | } Part of the demonstration of miners’ wives and daughters hefore the state -house demanding free speech for mine strikers, On In- ternational Women’s Day, March 8th, working women throughout the world will demonstrate against hunger and war. 4000 MARCHERS HERDED BY COPS N. J. Conference on Sunday for Jobless OLYN_IA, Wash, March 2~— Hundreds of armed police, deputized thugs, calling themselves vigilantes, under Sheriff Haven, are trying to repeat the performances of Hoover's police thugs during the National Hunger March to Washington, D. C. last December by coralling the 4,000 hunger marchers, men, women and children in a park here. The place is virtually under martial law. Work~- ers are denied communication with attorneys; all civil rights are swept away and only the policemen’s clubs, revolvers, black-jacks, machine guns, and other means of terror rule. ‘The marchers were surrounded and herded into the park where they are denied leave. Rain is pouring down in torrents; sanitary provisions are denied. There is no shelter except the cars and trucks the marchers were able to get. Workers’ Ranks Firm The thugs taunt the work ing they will be held until March 4th they cannot participate in the nation-wide demonstrations when Wall Street puts its new hun- ger president into the white house. say- In spite of the police brutality the workers’ ranks are firm, their moral is high and there is continuous sing- ing of revolutionary songs The jobless delegations from each county have told the members of the legislature from their counties that they will hold them personally re- sponsible before the workers and farmers for the contemptible attacks upon them and for refusal to con- sider and act upon the demands for immediate relief. House Insults Starving Masses. The house of representatives tabled @ motion to lodge the state hunger marchers and instead passed a vote of confidence in the governor and the local officials who are carrying out gun-thug attacks against the march- ers. They finally assigned the legis- lative unemployment committee to meet with the jobless: The governor is in hiding. A petition to the superior court for @ writ of prohibition against the sheriff and police chief was refused, and the chief justice of the supreme court refuses to consider application for a writ tonight. However, there has been a permit granted for a par- ade tomorrow to the capitol, which will be under heavy police guard like the Washington, D. C., parade of last December. The demands for repeal of the MacDonald bill and for imme- diate relief and unemployment insur- ance will be put forward . Workers throughout the state are indignant at the treatment of their delegates and Saturday will sce mighty demonstrations throughout the width and breadth of the state of Washington. Permit for Penn, Parade. HARRISBURG, Feb. 2.—Police au- thorities here were compelled to re- yoke their refusal for a parade of to the ed a parade in session the state hunger capital building and permit. Both housés while 1,200 delegates stt the streets. Delegate Woods of the Philadeiphia Unemployed Council addressed them and defied them to stop him from speaking when they tried to do so. Speaking from the rostrum of the speaker of the house, ‘Woods told of the horrible conditions of workers and farmers in the state and exposed the whole fraud of char- ity relief and Pinchot’s commissary plan, Every mention of Pinchot brought lusty boos from the 1,200 del- egates. mat Mrs. Roosevelt Stunt, Wood exposed the fake publicity regarding the banquet attended by Mrs. Roosevelt when 75 jewel-be~ decked wives of capitalists and fat politicians ate what they called e five cent meal in the capitol mansion, and showed that workers do not even get a 2-cent meal. The delegates held up the session for two hours, refusing to leave until demands were acted upon. Finally referred to Ways and Means committee for hearing at the Capitol building. New Jersey State Conierence NEWARK, March 2.—Preparations are going ahead rapidly for the New Jersey State Conference for Unem~- ployment Insurance and against forced labor which will be held Sun- day, March 5, beginning 10 a.m, at after | ing Betrays Defense GEN'L SHIH OPENS AREA TO INVADERS Goes Over to the Side of Imperialist Butchers KUOMINTANG TRICK Insurgents Only Ones Resisting Invasion Japanes planes bombed Jehol City yesterday, as six | Japanese armies converged on the capital following the col \lapse of the Chinese second \lines of defense as a result of , the betrayal by the Kuomin- tang Gen. Shih Wen-hua who opened iis sector to the Japanese troops. Gen. Shih was in charge o! the defense of the strongly fortified positions around Chihfeng. He went over to the Japanese, proclaiming his allegiance to the puppet state of Manchukuo and welcoming the in- vaders to the city of Chihfeng. Jap- anese and Manchukuo banners were flying on the public buildings wher the invaders entered. The desertion of Gen. Shih en- abled the Japanese to carry out a sweeping flanking movement against the Chinese lines which crumbled under this attack. The Chinese troops are now fighting a fierce rear guard action which is hampering the Jap- anese advance. The morale of the troops have suffered, as a result of Shih’s desertion and the increasing signs of further betrayal of the strug- gle by other Kuomintang militarists. CHINA RED ARMY IN BIG VICTORY Defeat Nanking;Stand for People’s War Shanghai dispatches report that the Chinese Red Army in Szechwan Province, western China, has inflict- jed a smashing defeat on the troops of the Kuomintang Nanking Govern- ment which is waging war against the toiling Chinese masses while sabot- aging the defense of Jehol Province against the Japanese invaders, The Kuomintang armies of General Tien Sung-yao are said to have been “com- pletely defeated.” ‘The Red Army is believed to be 60,000 strong, with several units of women fighters. Nanking Alarmed The Nanking Government and its imperialist masters are greatly alarm- ed, the Shanghai dispatches report, at this development and the crowing mass hostility throughout China to the traitor Nanking Government, While refusing to send troops to North China to stem the Japanese advance, the Nanking Government has over a million troops under arms on the frontiers of the Chinese So- viet Districts in South and Central China. Chiang Kat-shek, Nanking Dictator, is in personal command. Nanking troops are also concentrated in the big cities, where there is grow- ing mass unrest with the workers showing their sympathy for the call of the Communist Party of China for an armed people's war against the imperialist invaders and the Nanking Government. Unrest in Manchuria Dispatches from Jehol Province re~ port unrest in Changteh (Jehol City), Workers in the Manchurian town of Hankoa revolted yesterday against the Japanese imperialists. The latter claim the revolt was crushed by the local Japanese garrison. Manchurian insurgents who drove the Japanese out of six towns a few days ago are continuing their activities against the enemy. Chinese Red Army units in Manchuria are taking a leading part in the fight. ‘Beggars not Choosers’ Hungry Child Is Told | By © M.—Age Ten W YORK.—The teacher in our us to bring current events ext lesson. TI brought a 1 nt from the Daily Worker uit the rotten lunches kids get in school While we were talking about It, a kid got up and said, “Why don't we get cash and buy what we want?” The teacher said, “Beggers ate no choosers.” After that I got put in the ‘D' section and got a ‘D’ on my report card. The teacher said I was sick and sent me home fora day and a half. Comrades, we don’t beg for free lunches, We demand it, Sokol Hall, 358 Morris Ave., Newark. This conference promises to_be the broadest united front gathering ever held in New Jersey, American Federe ation of Labor locals in Newark, Passaic, Trenton, Atlantic City, an@ other cities have elected delegates, Unemployed leagues organized by the Muste Group for the purpose diss rupting any organized struggle for unemployment relief have been drawn into united front action over the heads of their Muste leaders, om the basis of the program of the un. employed council, and are electing delegates to the state conference, T.U.UL, Affair On the evening of Sunday, March 5, beginning at 8 p.m, in Sokol Hah, where the conference is being hel the Trade Union Unity League hold ite first affair in Newark concert and dace 2 ; 3 1 =, j Sia