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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
CALL FEB. 4 DEMONSTRATION IN
BOSTON TO HIT HUNGER PROGRAM

October, 1880. In the past year he
proved his first point-"a lack Of in
terest" in the solving Of the prob
lem Of the unemployed. BUT THE
CRISIS HAS NOT ONLY FAILED
TO NEAR IT'S END" TT HAS
GROWN WORSE.
Now the socialist party (Which
says 1t stands for labor, but in re-
atty represents the small capital
ists) invites Mayor Curley to speak
on their platform. How come that
CURLEY, THE OPPONENT OF
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, IS
invited to speak on the socialist
party platform WHICH MAKES a
PRETENsE OF being for & part
pay" system Of unemployment insur-
ance. II is because they are birds
Of the same capitalist class feather.
They naturally stick together! .
What Curley ard the City Do
for the Unemployed.
"For the past two years Curley
llcl9 i4@GOC O+lC -O4lOWl4!S CS+lII 4D1bAOI1O
on the unemployed problem: % Talk.
talk and more talk with college pro-
fessors, bankers and socialist leaders.
ca Telling the unemployed and part
time workers getting wage-cuts) to
spend $40 now. 90 Promising the
City Welfare Department $1,250,0O0
from his private insurance lbs
YEARS FROM NOW! "a Organ
izing the penny-robbing United Re-
lief Campaign with the banker, g. r.
Weed, at its head to rob the dimes
and quarters Of the workers IN
STEAD OF TAXING THE RICH.
90 Forced labor for the small frac-
ton Of the 100000 jobless in Boston
who get relief, instead OF paying them
union wages for this city work
go Proposals to extend the nilitar-
ist municipal air field, Suffolk
County court house, instead of clean
ing UP the slums with union labor
conditions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26


police have already begun the slaugh.
ter by shooting down Negro unenl-
ployed workers. Governor Enlnaer-
son Of Illinois is the responsible head
of the National Guard, and the
Hoover government has already in
dictated its reliance an the army
against the unemployed. The Ma
tional Hunger March was met by a
huge armed force, and marine re-
serves.
Only the mass mobilization OF the
workers to continue the fight for
unemployment insurance, building UP
their defense corps, will drive back
these threats OF wholesale murder for
the workers who struggle for reliet
and against starvation.
This winter, ut its many confer
ences," reveals the National Guard
handbook" the staff has been con-
sidering and studying Plans for the
suppression OF radical disorders
Befre telling OF the details Of the
organization OF all the capitalist
forces against the workers, the militia
instructions so into details about
wholesale slaughter OF Jobless and
striking workers.
"Ncver fire over the heads Of
rioters" is the order. IF IL be not
practicable to send part Of the
cor -uand to attack In the rear,
PRE- ,ttcally the same results may be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
Workers of Tampa
Rally to Defense
of Framed-Up Is
Confined FROM pAes owEl


Committee OF so workers was
elected, representing 70 mass or
ganlzations. House to house col
lections for defense funds were
conducted. Last week (week OF
the 17tn) $s2 was collected; this
week the rising spirit of the work
ers has shown itself through the
Increased collection Of SITE.
A play for the defense was given
at the Labor Temple and 700 work
ers crowded the hall where two
months back the police made their
outrageous attack. Readers, for
whose retention in the factories the
cigar makers struck, gave reports
Of the trial every night, attendance
increased for this all the time,
reaching q nightly audience Of 300
A labor jury attended the trial
every day and brought back their
reports and opinions Mass protest
meetings are in preparation.
The workers are incensed at the
brazen conviction Of the innocent
workers, they saw their fifteen feI-
low-workers railroaded through to
jail on no other ground than being
militant and fighting for their rights,
and for supporting the Communist
Party, the party Of their class.
Although Skinner, the states at
torney, attacked each worker on his
beliefs, questioned them on COMMIT
nism, on their belief in God, ETC.,
and brought in as evidence their
solidarity with the Negro workers, he
hypocritically blathered at the close
Of the case Regardless Of what the
bolshevist thinks about it, I am not
trying to persecuate these people"
The attorney defending the work
ers demanded that the workers be
tried ON the charges and not for
their beliefs. But the hand picked
labor-hating jurymen, stirred up by
Skinner, brought in the now in
famous verdict Of guilty, carrying
sentences of 81 years.
T. Crawford, one of the workers
with the fifteen others for
the Anniversary of the
Russian Revolution on November
It'll, was released because the case
against him was so flimsy that the
district attorney was forced to free
him. But he has been arrested again,
charged this time with having liquor
and home brew in his home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
SERIES OF FEB. 4 MEETS AROUND
ST. LOUIS FOR FIGHT ON HUNGER

ployed and unemployed workers and
struggle for the immediate demands
and unemployment insurance.
Prior to the demonstrations and the
City Hunger March in st. Louis,
parades will be held in st. Louis.
Special meetings in the county will
be organized to get the farmers into
the Unemployed Council. Leaflets,
stickers posters and other advertis-
ing material is being prepared. The
march in st. Louis will begin in two
different place sand march to the
City Hall.
We are making all preparations to
have successful demonstrations. We
expect to organize few councils as
a result of these activities. The I'm
employed Council branches here are
determined to break through the
terror in E. st. Louis and also build
a movement there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26

which are tests Of the officers ability.
An ambitious officer may, by recisive
action and proper Distribution OF
troops, acquire fame" ~. SD
"32. The fact that there are in
society so many professional agita-
tors, so many Communists, thieves,
cut Threats, vagabonds and ruffians
who, with the instinct OF the vultuYe,
will seek the field OF prey, on the one
hand, and on the other with the in
stinct Of the rat, desert the sinking
ship. renders 1t the extent even OF
permitting them to seec to be VIC
torious for a single day." (p. SO
SO. Mobs, as a rule, are made UP
OF towards, no Unnecessarily physical
towards, but moral cowards--morel
towards because OF their conscious
ness OF being in the wrong, of being
the rear, which, is therefore, the
weakest, tn emost vulnerable moment
a break Is started, the rest will fol-
low like 20 many sheep. The logical
point Is TO ATTACK mobs is, there
fore, the REAR AND FLANK, II it
be not practicable 10 send q part of
the command TO attack in rear, prac-
tically the same result can be OBJ
tanned by dispatching, II practicable,
sharpshooters to the roots or upper
stories Of houses, from which they
can pick off rioters in the rear Of the
mob. The picking off Of few
rioters there will generally cause
others to flee. and they turn will be
Joined by the rest Of the mob" ~. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
GENERAL STRIKE SPREADS IN N
SPAIN; WORKERS FIGHT GOVT

fiscatlon Of thslr property. Notlcs
Of this decree was given for weeks in
advance enabling the Jesrhts to re-
move the most valuable part Of It's
property before the decree was en-
acted
The decree itself came as q result
Of the action Of the nasseg them
selves. The failure Of the Coalition
government to disband the Jesuits
Immediately after the overthrow Of
the Alphonso dictatorship led TO &c
ton on the part of the workers and
peasants. Churches, monasteries and
religious schools were attacked md
fired by the enraged workers and
peasants. Nov the Coalition govern
ment is using the decree as q pretext
for strengthening the military die
tatorsllip which is being steadily
clamped onlnany SPANS h provinces,
its excuse to resist any monarchist
outbreaks in the Basque province
The trans Atlantic liner Euenoe
Aires, originally reported to have had
100 political prisoners on board Is
nov waiting at the port Of Bslcslons
with 200 additional prisoners and
more expected IS q result Of the
raids conducted on Communist Pzrty
and trade union headquarters In
A1anresa. Over 10000 textile workers
are OH strike in that city.
The chief terror Is being directed
at the Communist Party which is
working to give organLzational expres-
sion to the often spontaneous out
bursts of the Spanish workers and
peasants. The Communist Party OF
Spain working undersevere eondi-
tons of fascist repression Is rapidly
the Spanish workers away
from the adventurist policies of the
Anarchists, Syndicalists and Trotsky-
ties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. ga series
Of demonstrations in many cities are
being prepared for February 4th on
National Unemployment Insurance
Day.
Demonstrations will be held in
Collinsyille, Atlantic City, East st.
Louis, Belleville and a City Hunger
March i'll st. Louis, Mo.
In st. Louis almost daily in the
press there are notices OF one worker
or anetehr starved to death. Only
today there was a notice that a
three nionth-old baby was found
half starved. The parents not being
able to find employment, the various
charity institutions not giving them
any relief. Thousands of farmers
around here are beginning to Or
ganize because they realize that they
can better their conditions only by
organizing together With che en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
} 10y ~ s$ :: 81 E(.,5 e
ON BUILDING NEGRO AND WHITE
UNITY IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY
STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL RURO FOR BUILDING
THE STEEL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION

The first meeting OF our National
Committee, which took place on
Jan. 10 in Pittsburgh, considered
seriously and in a practical manner
the problems OF rallying the Negro
workers to the Steel Workers ~
dustriaI Union and Of laying con-
crete plans for drawing in thousands
Of Negroes into our ranks on She
basis Of throwing the full might Of
our organization into the struggle for
the demands and against the OPP
pressive conditions under which the
Negro steel workers and their
families suffer. This is one OF the
most serious tasks facing the S. w.
1, U. at this time. Unless the pas
sivlty and underestimation Of the i'm
portsnee Of work among Negroes Is
overcome in our ranks, we will SUI
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=
ing amid the tremendous misery OF
the workers and farmers Of the re-
gton caused large group Of workers
TO attack the festival The police
Immediately charged into the work
ers with drawn guns and began to
shoot wildly. Five people we're
wounded.
Bringing their treacherous policy
TO head yesterday, the syndieal-
ist leaders Of Barcelona Joined
hands with the Socialists In de
claring that they would not sup
port the general strike called fer
today. Under pressure of the
masses Of workers and farmers
they had previously come out in
favor Of the strike, The fighting
mood Of the workers, however, has
frightened the leaders of the Syn
dicalist unions and caused them 10
take steps for heading off the
mighty upsurge of the revolution
airy movement
AL the chief provinces Of Spain
have been put under virtual martial
law. Civil Guards, troops and police
are heavily concentrated in the large
cities Of Andalusia, Galcia, and Va
lencia. Extraordinary measures have
been taken in the Andalusian region
because Of the mass response Of the
peasants to the revolutionary devel-
opments there. This ferment among
the peasants has been intensified i'm
measurably by the failure Of the
Coalition government even to con-
slider the mild land reform acts prom
ised by the socialists.
In vain effort to curb the mill
fancy of the workers mad peasants
the Coalition government has issued
a decree disbanding the Jesuit Cath
Ole Order and commanding the con
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26

fer . severe defeat in our work Of
building q powerful union and
struggle in the industry.
Negro and white Unity
The Importance Of the Negro
workers in the steel industry cannot
be oVerestimated, neither in an eco
nornic nor political sense. Over 100, 1000
Negroes are working or unemployed
IN the industry. They constitute the
backbone Of heavy manual labor in
the mills, both pnsEilIed and semi
skilled and therefore are the most
oppressed, lowest paid, most discon-
tented and consequently, the source
OF unlimited revolutionary strength
for building our union, once this
source is seriously approached and
utilized. This great army Of Negro
workers, along with the unskiIIed
and seni-skiIIed white workers in
the industry, must become the foun-
dalton of the Steel Workers Indus
trial Union.
The mistaken theory among our
membership that the Negro workers
are to be won in a general manner
without giving heed to their special
conditions, demands and grievances
is wrong and dangerous. This theory
which denies the special position
Of the Negroes in the industry and
therefore, special demands for
struggle in the interest Of Negro steel
workers leads to q fertile breeding
ground for chauvinistic tendencies
that choke the growth of the union.
Only by taking a firm uacompromis-
ing stand for full social, economic
and political equality for the Negroes,
and applying this slogan by putting
forth and drawing the white and
Negro workers into the struggle for
the winning of these demands in the
mills and everyday life for the Negro
workers, will we lay the basis for
drawing in thousands Of Negroes into
the S. w. !. U. Our union must
enter into the fight on all fronts in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
SOVIET PAPER
EXPOSES WAR
AIMS OF JAPAN

CONTINUED FROM FACE cNED
forces as e threat against the So
Wet frostier and against the Chinese
Eastern Railway, jointly operated by
China and the Soviet Union, have
created 2, situation full OF menace.
In these circumstances, Izvestie
points out, the Soviet Union pro-
posed q non-aggression pact which,
Judging by japanese newspapers, the
Japanese Government is not eager
TO conclude.
Japanese Push Brutal Attack on
Chinese Masses
Pushing their savage war against
the Chinese masses and their reVo-
lutionary organizations, the Japanese
prepared yesterday to lombard the
native quarter of the city Of Shanghai
in Central China.
Nine japanese warships in the har-
Dor had their guns stripped for &C.
ton. An additional Japanese force
Of I 400 marines have been landed in
the city, with orders TO disband the
revolutionary organization Of the
Chinese workers, seize their head
quarters and smash the mass boy
colt OF Jaanese goods. Twenty-Five
additional warships are held in read
mess at Sasebo, Japan, to be dis
patched to Shanghai or ther Chi
nese cities where the workers are re-
pudiating the Kuonintang traitors
and are rallying for the mass revo-
lutionary struggle against the for
eign in1perialists and their native
lackeys.
The Napki ng government has not
severed diplomatic relations with
Japan, IN spite Of the japanese seiz-
ure OF Manchuria and their present
armed intervention in Central China
a resolution calling for the armed
resistance against the japanese YVES
rejected yesterday by the Marking
government officials, including Chi
sng Eai sheE and Wank Ching Wei,
cleft" leader, now in alliance with
Chang. Both Of these traitors re-
turned 10 Marking two days ago to
help complete the final selling out OF
the Chinese masses and the parti-
ton Of China among the iraperiansts-
Following the rejection Of the reso-
luton, Eugene Chen, q notorious
agent Of the Japanese, made a fake
nlaneuver OF resigning FROM the Of
flee OF Marking Foreign Minister.
y. S. Rushing Warships TO China
British, American and other I'M
perialist agents / n Shanghai con-
tidently predict that the Marking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
BRENTWOOD L. S. U. NOT
SLEEP

BRENTWOOD, Wis.--'rhe Brant-
wood section Of the Labor Sports
Union has been carrying on wide
spread activity for the past few
months
Its basketball team has been shoot
ing its baskets with a record OF five
games VOL and one lost The chal-
lenge issued by 1t TO other teams have
not been answered with the exception
OF the Atlas A, g. and the Ironwood
A. @. Games have been arranged with
them for January 20.
The basketball activity OF the
Brentwood l., $. U. follows after a
very successful baseball season. The
Pep A. c. played 10 games Of which
II we're won. Although all these
teams were amateur teams only two
were affiliated with the Labor Sports
Unior-Owen and Ironwood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
ORDER MILITIA TO BE READY TO
SHOOT DOWN STARVING MASSES

obtained by dispatehing sharp
shooters to the roofs Of upper
stories of houses, from which they
can pick off rioters in the rear of
the mob"
Stirring up the fascist ambitions Of
the officers. the pamphlet says;
"An ambitious officer may by
decisive action acquire fame"
"Officers and men should not fear
reprisal In case one or more people
are killed Troops should have
be mrached through crowded
streets in times or places OF riot.
Crowds should not be allowed
to form"
Then to rally the whole scum OF
the fascist ranks, the NATIONAL Guard
instructions go on TO point out who
are the allies of the bosses against
the hungry unemployed and against
striking workers. The murder ins
structions state;
"The American Legion. In times
Of disorder or diaster the various
posts OF the American Legion can
render valuable assistance TO COM
nlandera OF troops" (p %,
Chambers of Commerce are OF
great value to local commanders.
Practically every town has one"
Up. 28)
'I7. The proper performance OF
riot duty requires the adoption Of
crriot... o) (which ,.?..? ffi?me fH..
md adherence to general plans,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
CHICAGO MAYOR ADMITS HUNGER
RAMPANT; TO GET WORSE FEB. LIST

rot new IN our city. we had them
in times Of plenty. But now they
find men more ready to listen 10
them
Mayor Cermak'S words Will not
feed the Chicago unemployed. The
February 4th demonstrations in this
city, being prepared in the face OF
a vicious reign OF terror, will rally
tens Of thousands to join in the
nationwide demand for immediate
relief and for unemployment In
surance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26


debate on the very timely topic:
Can Federal Unemployment Tnsur-
ance at Full Wages be Realized?
Herbert Benjamin was chosen to op-
pose LaFollette's position.
LaFollette replied saying he was
"too busy"
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 25.-
Father James r. Cox ran out Of q
symposium which had been arranged
by the students Of Carnegie Tech,
Pitt and other universities when he
heard that Herbert Benjamin, one OF
the leaders of the National Hunger
March to Washington was to speak
on the same platform with him.
The Students's League Of Western
Pennsylvania had arranged this SYM
postum and Homer Bartclly, of the
Student League had accepted to
speak in the symposium. 1t was
already announced in the press that
Cox had accepted and would speak.
However, as soon announced in the
press that Cox had accepted and
would speak. However, as soon as
Cox found out that Herbert Ben
jamin had also been invited to speak
in the symposium he issued lying
statement that he had declined to
speak. He stated in the Pittsburgh
Press, II don't care to speak on the
same platform as Benjamin" and
when pressed for the reason he
answered. well, don't think they
are American"
Cox is more and more exposing
himself as a tool of the bosses. The
workers know that before Cox took
over his present parish Of st. Pat
rick's the previous rpriest was starv-
ing because it is a poor parish. How
ever Cox Immediately inaugurated
his methods of ballyhoo and adj
vertising, exploiting the unemployed
workers in order to draw curious
crowds and to fill his pocket-book.
He opened up "catacombs" in reg
ular circus side-show style charging
admission to see them. He set up in
his church a lot Of wax-work figures
with g. manger, etc., in order to
draw curiosity seekers. He installed
q radio and loud speaker. The big
gest stroke, however, was to set UP
"sl1anty-town" across the street from
from his church, little piano box
houses where a couple Of hundred
unemployed are crowded together
Ike dogs. He then had himself
elected mayor" Of Shantytown and
gave the place a lot Of cheap pub
LEFTY. The land on which Shanty7
twn Is built was donated to him by
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Crowds Of
people come to Shai1tytown TO look
it over and to go to Father Cox
church and see his cataconbse -
Father Cox looks with growing
apprehension on the February 4th
demonstration in Pittsburgh which
takes place both on the Hill and on
the South Side. At the February 4th
demonstration on the Hill Herbert
Benjamin Will speak and also John
Buksa, the only Communist council
man in the United States, will be
one Of the speakers. On this day the
thousands Of unemployed workers
will demand the immediate passage
of the workers unemployment in
surance bill by the Federal govern
ment which was presented to Con-
gress by the National Hunger March
to Washington and will present the
concrete demands for the unem-
r'oyed workers of the city of Pitts
,rgh and of Western Pennsylvania
which Father Cox opposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 25.--A series
Of special leaflets dealing with the
hunger program Of Mayor Curley OF
Boston and rallying the unemployed
for the Feb. National Unemploy-
ment Insurance Day demonstration,
scheduled in this city, has been IS
sued by the Unemployed Council.
One leaflet, exposing the role OF
Mayor Curley and the socialist
party, states:
II am not so much interested In a
solution of the present depression
because I realize it IS nearing its
rnd!" Thus spoke Mayor Curley in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-26
PRICES DECLINE BUT SO DO
WAGES.

According TO the department of Ia
Dor, the cost Of living has declined as
much as and 8 tenths percent dur
ing the month of December But
workers wages have been cut ten to
twenty-flv percent, as in the Ana
conda Copper Company, United States
Steel, Eagle Pencil and all other In
lustries and ablishments.