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The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Chicago Heights. iii.
Workers Hit Police
Terror in the City

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, m By
MaiD One hundred and twenty
five workers protested November 13
at the Workers Center, 1444 Went
worth Ave. against police terror and
against the action of the police and
city officials in closing the Masonic
Temple on Nov. 7th after the Gus
todian had received deposit OF s5
for rent for the hall for a lecture
and showing of THE Old and the
New"
The meeting was the most militant
held in Chicago Heights. A protest
was drawn up which will be presen-
ted to the Mayor, Daniel Bergin pro-
testing against police terror and de-
manding relief for all unemployed
workers, More and bigger meetings
will follow.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Must Raise Funds
Now To Finance
The Hunger March
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tied for contributions? How many A.
F. of L. local unions have been ap-
preached? Have all TUUL unions
and leagues been given certain
quota Of funds to collectP Are COL
lections being made at every street
meeting, every demonstrations Have
the doctors, dentists and other pro-
fessionals and the middle class SYM
pathizers been visiteds
Get the Collection Busy!
when 1t comes TO mass collections,
namely, house to house collections,
shop gate collections, tag days, ETC.,
how bread have those been made2
How many workers have been mo-
bilized to participate?
I'VE strongly advise that in every
city conference be called at once,
consisting Of leading representatives
from every workers organization,
language, fraternal, women's, etc,
from A. F. Of L. and TUUL local
unions; from the Pioneers, youth, etc,
at this meeting every representative
should be given the task of mobilizing
the members in his organization for
the house to house collections, the tag
days, the sale Of hunger march cou-
pons. Every workers hall and head
quarters should be made Finance
the National Hunger March" center
posters and special slogans should be
hung. Every worker that can b.
reached should be pressed into ser1ic-
in the finance campaign in the f.
days that still remain"
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

Soviet front, is also rushing its war
preparations. A Washington dis
patch reports:
'DThe Navy today ordered from
the Chance yought Airplane Cor
poration Of East Hartford, Conn.,,
ninety three new observation
planes, to cost S1,T44,s11, as a part
of the five-year replacement pro-
gram"
Evidence Of support by the Wall
Street government for Japan's ag-
gression in Manchuria continues to
accumulate, with further exposure OF
United States domination Of the
secret meetings in Paris Of the
League of Nations Council A Wash
ington dispatch, to the New York
Times reports the official Washing
ton attitude as follows:
"What step Is to be taken was
not ar - 1t was authoritative
IL asserted that definite decision
had hccn rsGched. Several courses
of action are undcr consideration,
- - but the i-'- ,cation was
given that the world powers, for
the prcsca' at least, would not 60
beyord moral pressure throu-h DIP
lomatic measures. That the time
mad come for applying economic
pressure npon japan or adopting
soIne other drastic measure was
scontcd by administrative officials"
&c. "ar''rrcn"-~ Continue.
The dispatch reports another Sc
cret conference between Secretary
Stimson and the Japanese Ambas-
sador Dobuchi. Senator Borah also
had g secret conference with Yukio
Osaki, former Japenese Minister of
Justice. The dispatch reports E7n-
ator Boran as saying after the con-
ference:
II have no doubt that japan Is
rcirg to dominate Manchuria, and
II Is my opinion that the Japanese
people nre practically unit In this
program"
The New York World Telegram
yesterday carried a dispatch from
Paris. with the captio-:
"I1. :. TO SzsArE O,YN COURSE
IN MANCHURIAN CONFLICT;
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
BRITISH PASS 100
PC. TARIFF LAW
ECONOMIC WAR

NEW YORK.-The passage OF wal
ter Runciman's bill on second read
ing in the British Hause Of Com
mons authorizing the British Board
Of Trade to impose a 100 per cent
tariff on manufactured goods from
all foreign countries marks the be-
ginning of more intense economic
war between British and American
imperialism and is part Of the new
drive of British capitalism against
the living conditions Of the British
working class.
One of the purposes of the bill, said
the New York Times, "is to prevent
an exporter from the United States,
for instance, from shipping paris to
Canada, assembling them there and
then transporting the finished prod
uct to Great Britain under the EN-
pire preference" The passage of the
bill, which, according to the MacDon-
aid government, will keep out foreign
commodities and aid home industry,
will In reality increase the cost of
living Of the British masses. Sixty
per cent fthe food stuffs consumed
by the British workers is imported
from other countries, and tarif tax
of 100 per cent placed on these COM
modities will increase the cost Of
living almost an equa lper cent. The
wage-cuts, which go hand in hand
with the tariff, will drag the living
level of the masses down still fur
ther.
Such commodities as sheet glass,
knives, surgical instruments, vacuum
cleaners, sewing machines, type
writer's, colored cottons, carpets, box
calf leather and tanned leather are
especially singled out in Britain's new
tariff war.
The American capitalists, in order
to counter this latest move Of the
British, are rushing branch factory
construction in Canada. Canadian
interests, it is reported, are circular
izing American manufacturers, point
ing out the advantages" which would
accrue to them If they moved their
factories across the border. The US.
Department of Commerce is consider
ably worried over this and is calling
special investigation into the mat
ter.
In the meantime the economic
struggle, which contains the seeds OF
armed struggle, goes on between Brit
ish and American imperialism and
grows sharped daily.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
RACINE, MILWAUKEE, BUFFALO
CONFERENCES PREPARE MARCH

at the same time the appropriation
for more and better armed police to
persecute the jobless Is raised by a
third Of a million dollars. Another
1888, 900 IS appropriated for golf cour-
Ses and increases in salaries Of city
offlcials.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 2O.-Thir-
teen workers organizations, repre-
sented by 29 delegates in the Hunger
March Conference here on Nov. 16,
are backing the National Hunger
March. Small donations for the
march were made by Russian-Uk
ratnisn Anstuer Circle, Finnish Wo-
mems Council, and the International
Workers Order. All delegates present
pledged to get as many with them as
possible and personally go on house
TO house canvass, Saturday and Sun
day for funds to finance the march.
A provisional Hunger March Exec
utive Committee for Buffalo was
elected.
Resolutions adopted tell Of families
thrown on the street for inability to
pay rent, Of savage police attacks on
unemployed workers who meet TO
protest the inadequate relief and dis
elimination against Negroes and for
eign born workers, Of children going
cold and hungry to school and unable
TO study because Of their suffering
Of whole families trying to live on
rotten food picked from the garbage
dumps.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Railroad and Auto
Mergers Expected
Within the Year

NEW YORK.-Two new mergers
and groupings of American capital
loom and are expected to take place
during the coming year, according to
statements Of railroad and automo-
bile executives issued Nov. 18.
The bigger railroads, according to
Ralph Budd, who will leave the pres
idency of the Great Northern Rail
road January l to become president
OF the Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy
Railroad, will gobble up the smaller
ones within the next year. The
strong lines prefer TO own rather
than support tthe weaker lines, said
Budd.
A new auto company, 1t is reported,
that will rank with Ford, General
Motors and Chrysler in size will be
formed soon through merger that
will take place shortly. Auto ex-
ecutives state that it is possible that
the merger vii ltake place within the
next twelve months.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
EVERY BETRAYER OF MOONEY
CALLS WALKER 'LIBERATOR"

church whose head has called for .
world war TO etxerrninate the workers
government, the Soviet Union, to bol-
ster up Tsnmany and the church
which supports italian and Polish
fascism. Mooney supports the Soviet
Union and hates Yascism.
walker win make q pleasant break
In his Sat.g,hng Srip by stopping off
st South Bend TO watch Natre Dame
play Southern California. Notre Dame
win beat Southern California and
this viii, no doubt, be assumed a
welcome omen by Walker and his
rettnus. But It win mean nothing so
far as Mooney Is concerned-even
though the Californis rulers have de-
ctded this is the time TO let him out
Mooney is caught in the tolls Of
the most contemplate naneuver his
enemies, and the enemies of the mill
tant vorking-class Of which he "a
part. have ever devised.
II he is freed, they intend TO see
that his brave voice viii mouth only
their doctrine, that by the very nature
Of his latest Champions, he will be
divorced from the comrades he loved,
for the cause for which he fought and
for which he went to prison from the
shadow of the gallows'
The revolutionary workers Of Am
erica must and will defeat the plot 70
blacken the revolutionary record OF
Tom Mooney, they alone will free him
and from their prison.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Denounces Soft Peddling of
Lynching by South Liberals
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
Challenges Liars to Defend Their
Statements Before Masses

and falsely convicted Of rape at
Scottsboro, Ala. AS a part of the
general system of terrorization, you
seek to cover up the generally in
creasing open lynchings and legal
courthouse 1ynchings as well as the
present wave of well-known but un-
reported murders of Negroes which
are part of the policy Of throwing
the weight Of the present economic
crisis upon the shoulders of the ex-
plotted Negro masses.
We accuse your commission of
bringing In a report intended to de-
ceive and disarm the masses in their
vigilance against the intended legal
lynchings of the innocent Negro boys
falsely convicted at Scottsboro, the
intended legal lynching Of Willie Pet
terson at Birmingham, and that of
Orphan Jones at Snow Hill, Mary
land, as well as others.
Press reports do not show that you
even mention the Scottsboro case, al
though you are well aware that this
Is the outstanding case of the present
moment of legal lynching in a court
house surrounded by a mob enter
tained by q brass band.
We challenge your commission
publicly to present, through a repre-
sentative Of your commission, your
false findings and hypocritical prop
aganda before the Negro and white
masses in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago. Cleveland or any other large
city in the North where Negroes, al
though severely prosecuted, are not
entirely prevented from holding
meetings as they are in your kingdom
of lynch law. If you refuse to accept
this challenge for a northern city,
we are ready to undertake debate
in any of the cities of the South
such as Chattanooga, in spite of the
greater degree of intimidation.
We shall maintain through our
spokesmen, the charges we here make
aaginst you.
National Executive Committee,
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
ON
SOVIET SUNDAY
Foster, Frank. Smith
and Stewart Speak

A symposium Of varying views on
the Soviet Union win be held by the
Friends Of the Soviet Union at Web
ster Hall, l1s e. 11th ST., on Sunday
afternoon, November 22nd, at 2 p. m.
VIM. z. Foster, secretary Of the
Trade Union Unity League, will
speak on the Conditions Of the
Working Glass In the Soviet Union"
Waldo Frank, eminent novelist and
critic, who has just returned from the
Workers Republic, will speak on "As-
poets OF Proletarian Dictatorship"
Maxwell Stewart, formerly associate
editor Of the American Engineers
In Russia-"Ihe Moscow
News" together with F. Treadwell
Smith Of Columbia University. will
give their views of the New Russia.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
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parattonS are being rushed TO pre-
pare the March, and raise funds for
IT.
MILWAUKEE, Wise, Nov. 20.--Ihe
Milwaukee County Unemployment
Insurance Conference "a united front
conference) besides making prepara-
tons for the National Hunger
March, scored the fake unemploy-
ment relief schemes of the progress
siye" party government. It assails
Governor LaFollette's cynical break
in gof all the many promises he made
to the jobless during his campaign.
1t points out that nothing has been
done except to spend about $4,000, 900
on public works, with a very small
amount Of this going for wages. The
state legislature Is furnbling around
With a state unemployment insurance
bill Of little merit, and which can
not go into effect, according TO pre-
sent plans, until two years have pas
sed.
As for Mayor Hoan's socialist party
administration in Milwaukee, the
conference points out that these fax
ers are not giving relief, they are put
ting through Just the opposite pro-
gram. Under pleas Of economy"
men are being fired right and left,
and the relief appropriation for NIL
waukee county Is cut to S76,000 while
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

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ing more troops daily. A Washing
ton dispatch to the New York Times
says:
Japan has In Manchuria the
Eighth Division and part, or all, of
the Second Division. 1t would come
as no surprise II there soon were
four Japanese divisions, amounting
to . field army Of $4,000 to 10000
men,
That the attack on the Soviet
Union Is now the immediate objective
is shown by the huge Japanese pur-
chases Of munitions, copper and
other war supplies In the United
States. A dispatch to the New York
Times from Houston, Texas, reports
that Japan is buying huge ouanti-
ties Of cotton in america for the
manufacture OF high explosives. The
dispatch reports:
Japan In Huge Cotton Purchases.
Japanese cotton firms have been
conducting q spectacular buying
movement for the last three weeks,
paying premiums as high as s;.25 a
bale, to obtain eighty to ninety
bales Of every 100 bales sold In
Texas and oklahoma spo. markets.
LEADING HOUSTON COTTON
MEN, AMONG THEM TIVE HEAD
OF A LARGE EXPORT FIRM,
ESTIMATE TIE JAPANESE PUR-
CHASES THUS FAR THIS SEA-
SON AT 100000 TO 100000
BALES IN TEXAS AND OKLA
HOMA ALONr., AND AT r,aca,ooa
TO 4,oOo,OoO IN THE ENTIRE
SOUTH"
The dispatch reports that cotton
men advance the theory thai Japan,
preparing for war In the Far East,
is laying up stores of the staple. A
BASIC INGREDIENT OF MOST
HIGH EXPLOSIVES. A SIMILAR
BUYING MovEMENT IN GER
MANY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK
OF THE WORLD WAR IN 1914 is
RECALLED"
u. s. Orders A,rp'sn.s.
TT,a T7e':.d Gtst1s. v''e'9'7 Day
"a ine loading role in tie anit-
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

The masses -are ra1ying to sup-
port the National Hunger March.
The enthusiasm aroused along the
line Of march. blythe Spokane and
Seattle delegates and the active
support given the 1886 National
Hunger March delegates in Fay
cite County. :. in Pennsylvania by
$4,000 employed and unemployed
workers at the steps of the county
court house show the widespread
approval of the masses Of workers
all through. the country Of the
fight conducted under the aus
pices OF the Unemployed Councils
and the Communist Party of
America for unemployment insur-
ance. .e
The result Of the Hunger Marches
and hunger march demonstrations
even at this early stage, show that
the masses are ready to support a
real workers paper. The masses of
workers in America are being
taught by the bosses starvation cam
paign and by-Gthee bosses wa rplots
against the Soviet Union that the
workers have a-comnon interest in
fighting the -bosses, and that the
workers must have nothing to do
with the poss press, but must have a
paper Of thef own. Now is the time,
when the hunger march demonstra-
tons are exposing the relief hypo-
crisy Of the Bosses, to get the Daily
Worker into hands of the masses Of
workers and5,show them that there
is in existence a workers paper that
fights fer eal5,relief for the unem-
ployed and for'eall other demands Of
the workers against the bosses.
The existence of a real workers
paper, the Daily Worker, the central
organ cf the Communist Party, is
carefully kept- hidden by the cepi-
talist press from the ma jority of the
workers OF America. When Theodore
Dresser rs6eo public statement
concerning che gsnGster rule in
TTerlan, Kentucky, and told how the
miners were -terrorized against
reading the ogiy.. paper that the re-
cc@nize as their real friend, the Dali
ly worker, tte4eapitalist press, while
i: rgE,'5 .ssst of Dreiser's state
r,T1A. rHHa absolutely no report of
10 G-e;ser sad about the Daily
Y SC. t-
T.-Ns31"s OF the Daily Worker,
Is CT Tie Daily Worker, friends
c2 t,e Deily Worker, pierce through
tie screen set up by the capitalists
IL hide from the workers the exist
e1ce Of workers. paper. The Hun
ger March gives you your biggest
chance to do that, When thousands
Of workers rally to take part in hunger
march demenstr alton in other
lists cannot step them from learning
about the Daily Worker - IF
ENOUGH COPIES OF THE DAILY
WORKER ARE ON HAND TO
SELL TO THESE, WORKERS.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21

NEW YORK.!The white bosses
ind Handkerchief Head Negro re-
,Ibr1nists on the Southern Commits
llon on Lynching have been chal-
Gtnged to defend their recent lying
yeport on lyiiching. The challenge
was sent by the National Executive
Committee Of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights, and declares:
The summary Of the findings of
your Commission in the press declares
chat the number Of lynchings has
decreased. This Is deliberate dis
tortion which you accomplish by ig-
noring the enormous increase Of
lynchings in this year. Your further
declaration that only 81 lynchings
occurred last year is also distor-
ton Of fact. The figures of the IN
ternational Labor Defense are 43
1ynchings. This number has tremen-
dously increased in this year.
Howard A. Kester Of the Fellowship
OF Reconciliation, reports that in con-
nection with the.death Of two society
women in Birmingham last August,
a reign Of terror against Negroes has
been launched : by southern slave
drivers which. has resulted in the
death OF at least rs Negroes since
the middle of August. He further
states that !"six. Negroes were killed
on freight train near Ensley by
deputies. 1t was reported at police
headquarters : that they had been
killed In q wreck"
We have reason to know that
countless lynchings are committed
which are carefully hushed up by
the local press. Moreover, your
statement that two Of the lynch vic
Tins were innocent is clear infer
ence that the others were guilty of
crimes and is an attempt to Justify
the common institution of murder by
, lynching which is supported by the
yruling class and its newspapers. We
therefore charge your committee as
an instrument of the white ruling
class Of the South to whitewash the
institution of lynching, framed-up
trials and general persecution of the
Negro masses, rs an exploited and
enslaved race. a.!Your argument that
"ths courts will convict Negroes" and
that therefore Negroes need not be
lyncned, is a coldAblooded proposal to
regularize lynching under legal forms
after the manner In which the nine
Innocent NeGlp. Ia. s we're framed up
The daily worker., 1931-11-21
Public Hearings on
Suffering in Superior

SUPERIOR, Wisc.-The Unem-
ployde Council held Public
Hearing on Unemployment on Tues
day, Nov. 18th, at the Tower Hall,
18th and Tower, to expose unemploy-
ment conditions in Superior. The re-
Gently organized Unemployed Coun-
ell is holding regular meetings, and
Is organizing an Unemployment Mass
Meeting on Tuesday night, Nov. oath,
the same night the City Council
meets, to elect delegation to de-
mand unemployment relief from the
city.
The daily worker., 1931-11-21


Marchers, and the endorsement Of
the demands of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill.
STEUBENVnLE, Ohio, Nov 20
The Jefferson County Hunger March,
originally scheduled for Tuesday,
November oath, has been postponed
until November 27th, Friday to allow
better time for mobilization. Miners
and steel workers from Adena, Piney
Fork, Bradley, Dillonville, Yorkyille,
Tiltonville, Rayland, Brilliant, Mingo
Junction, Toronto. Empire and
Stratton will unite with the workers
OF Steubenville, ii a, M, Friday,
Nov. 2T, where a committee will be
elected to appear before the County
Commissioners with the demands Of
the unemployed and part-time work.
ers.
Mass meetings In every one Of the
above towns are endorsing the march
and mobilizing the unemployed for
participation.
Broke Terror Before.
1t was the march Of the striking
miners last summer which first broke
the sharp police terror in Steuben-
vile and established for the steel
workers and miners of Steubenville
at least temporary freedom Of speech
and assemblage.
These rights" have been recently
denied the Steubenville workers who
are organizing big protest meeting
and demonstration Tuesday night
Nov. oath on the courthouse steps.
An attempt to hold a meeting there
IL days ago was unsuccessful due to
strong police concentration and a
lack Of workers defense committees.
But the Steubenvlle workers have
learned from that experience and
next Tuesday they will be prepared to
protect their meeting.
Hearing and Mass Trial.
Attempts are being made to secure
a hall in Steubenulle for a Public
Hearing on unemployment Monday
night Nov. 23. The workers Of
Arena are arranging a Mass Trial Of
local authorities whom they charge
with the murder Of the war veteran
and unemployed coal miner who died
Of starvation the end Of last week,
This trial will be held Thursday,
Nov. 20.
A mass meeting in Yorkville, Tues
day night unanimously endorsed the
County Hunger March and also the
National March to Washington. A
member Of the Yorkville unemployed
committee reported how the Mayor
had superficially examined the In
formation presented to him and the
town council concerning 58 families
who needed relief. OF one man he
said, "Too old--let him go to the
poor house" Another, he dismissed
With: Lazy, he wouldn't work If he
had job" despite the fact that this
unemployed miner worked on the city
streets the last time he could. As for
the others he demanded q petition,
signed by the citizens OF Yorkville,
asking relief for them, and he said
he would send one copy Of this petit
ton to Washington and another copy
to Columbus.
The meeting appiauded one Of the
speakers, who, after exposing the war
preparations in the Far East, called
upon the workers to refuse to fight
against the Soviet Union but, on the
contrary, to defend it. Unemployed
mass meetings are arranged, in part,