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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
GERMAN JOBIESS
INCREASE 100000
Huge Demonstrations
Force More Relief
Gable By Innrecorrl

BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 21.-The
number OF unemployed in Germany
increased further quarter of mil
lion in the first two weeks of De-
cember, according to newspaper press
reports.
A wave of raids on. food stores
by groups of the jobless is spread
ing over the whole country, in spite
of threats of stern police action and
in spite of the offer of substantial
rewards for information leading to
the arrest of those who raid stores.
Today there we're series of such
seizures of food in Berlin. Groups
of unemployed descended suddenly
ION provision stores, poultry shops
and groceries, seized food packed it
into sacks and fled with it before
the police arrived.
Once the police came in time to
fire on departing groups of the job
less. but they escaped.
Yesterday there were huge dem
onstrations of the unemployed in
Berlin, throughout Silesia, Thlrin-
gia and Mecklenb,rrg, and in the city
of Hamburg and other places.
In many cases the demonstrations
forced the granting of extra winter
relief.
The increased activity of the
masses has caused more intense po-
lice persecution of the Communists.
Scherer, a Communist member of
the Reichstag, has just been ar
res ed in violation of his parliament
tary immunity, and charged with
'betraying military secrets
The Communist Party Conference
in Gotha. in Thuringia, was raided
and another Reichstag deputy, Rosel,
was arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

tions and the miserable novels of the
share troopers we're all the same,
hungry families huddled around a
fire, slowly sNarving on their ration
of salt pork and hominy grits.
Always the spectre of the day when
the deputies would arrive, take their
furniture and live stock and throw
them out.
Rather Be Shot Than Starve''
But these plantation workers and
share troopers no longer waited
meekly. Some Of them still said
they had "ruther be shot dead than
starye dead" but the majority waited
grimly with the family smooth bore
or shot gun near at hand. Many
of the families had pamphlets and
in many of the novels, around many
of the fires both white and Negro
workers huddled together in groups,
as they termed it: "Gittin' together
and talkin' it over"
1t is right in this section Of Ala
bama that the struggle RACES; these
are the people involved, and this is
the spirit OF solidarity on Negro and
white share croppus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Boss Press Is
Playing Down the
Drive on Negroes

Although capitalist press dis
patches tell of the presence of
newspaper photographers at the
scene of the landlord police terror
in Tallapoosa County, Ala, not
single photograph of the murder
Gus terror has been published,
north or south.
While in the South, the lynch
bosses press is melting to mass
lynchings against Negroes, in the
North their allies, the northern
capitalist press is already playing
down the story of the tremendous
struggle Of the troopers against
the landlord police terror.
The Daily Worker is printing
the facts of this struggle. The
Daily Worker supports the strug-
giles of the oppressed Negro ma
tionality, and calls on the entire
working class and all sympathetic
elements to rally to the defense of
the troopers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

w " .. imperialism. Inc lOlQln8
up of the move for an arms en-
barge is, therefore, a threat against
Paraguay for the further arming of
Bolivia unless Paraguay accepts the
terms the U. S. is trying to impose
through its so-called Neutral Com
mission.
Bolivia U. S. Pawn.
The present Bolivian government
is pawn of the U. S. IN its bitter
struggle with its British irnperialist
rivals for control of the markets and
natural resources of South America.
The arbitration proposals of the Neu-
trail Commission is aimed to fore
stall the entry of Argentine on the
side Of Paraguay, puppet state of
British imperialism.
Support Anti-W War Congress.
NEW YORK.-The Anti Imperial
list League of the U. S. A. yesterday
endorsed the call of South American
workers and intellectuals for an anti
War Congress to meet at Montevideo,
Uruguay, beginning February 20,
1888. The Lithuanian Workers Ii
terary Organization, Branch No. "a,
unanimously adopted the following
resolutions protesting against the
imperialist war drives in South Amer
lea:
Resolution on the Wars in South
America.
yTi,nraae -
has been going on between Bolivia
and Paraguay, bringing misery and
death to the workers and peasants
of both countries, and other South
American countries, and Columbia
and Peru have now also plunged in
to war, threatening to draw in the
whole South American continent,
and
Whereas, these wars between Bo-
livia and Paraguay, and between
Columbia and Peru are directly in
stigated by American and British
imperialisms through their native
puppet governments in the rivalry
of these imperialist powers for don1i-
nation and exploitation of South
America as an attempt to find way
out of the crisis at the expense of
the toiling masses.
Be 1t resolved, that we protest
most vehemently against hese bloody
imperialist wars, that we declare our
solidarity with the mass demonstra-
ton against war in Bolivia, that we
declare our solidarity with the re-
fusal Of Paraguay soldiers to shoot
down Bolivian soldiers and with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Sheriff Called Off AS Firm Solidarity of the
Taapoosa Toiers Breaks First Wave Organized Terror
Party Southern Workers in Militant Defense of
Negro Masses; LID. to Defend rrested Choppers
Protest Tres
Pour In to Ala.
AIT horitieS

NEW YORK.-The international
Labor Defense sent the following
protest telegram on Tuesday to Gov.
Miller of Alabama and the sheriffs
leading the murderous landlord-po-
lice terror against Negro troopers in
TallapooSa County:
1.-THE International Labor De-
Tense demands end to white land
lord and sheriffs murderOus ter
rOr against Negro share troopers.
Immediate, unconditional release
of imprisoned Negro sharecr0ppers.
Withdrawal of white armed forces.
Right of share crcppers to self
defense. No disarming of share
troopers. We demand immediate
punishment of murderouS sheriffs
and deputies. This massacre is
aimed to halt mass protest of Ne
gro and white sharecroppers
against starvation and in behalf
of ScottsbOro boys. 1t is part of
your preparation for new lynch
trial in Alabama. We demand i'm
mediate freedom of the ScottsborO
boys!
Signed WILLIAM L. PATTERSON
National Secretary, 1. L. ID.
Similar protest wires are reported
to be pouring in to the Alabama
authorities from all over the country.
In the South a vigorous protest
movement is under way with both
white and Negro workers rallying 10
the defense Of the troopers and their
union. The LID. is urging all
workers and workers organizations,
all sympathi2ers, to send immediate
protest kilograms to Governor Miller,
Montgomey, Alabama, and to Sheriff
Young, at Dadeville, Ala.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

ings of children and parents,
and of open hearings on chill
dren's starvation. They come
from Paterson, Camden, Bayonne,
Atlantic City, Toms River and Dover.
The column leaving Paterson to-
morrow morning at 10 a. m. will ar
rive in Military Park, Newark, at
noon, lead a demonstration of city
workers there, and pick up the New
ark delegation.
Demand Moore Meet Them
A letter has been sent to Governor
Moore notifying him of the Chill
dren'S Hunger March to the state
capitol and demanding that he re-
ceive the delegates and provide food
and shelter for them during their
overnight stay in Trenton.
This March is one outcome of the
National Hunger March to Washing
ton for winter relief and unemploy-
ment insurance and will be a prelude
to a mass statewide Hunger March
to Trenton at the opening of the
state legislature. The children will
present the following demands to the
state government:
L. An immediate appropriation by
the state of $1,000,0o0 from the 500
100000 relief appropriation to set up
feeding stations in every school in
the state; to provide free milk food,
shoes. clothes and medical attention
to all needy children! feeding sta
tons to be supervised by committees
of parents in the neighborhoods of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
RAILWAY OWNERS
WITHDRAW OFFER
Employees Should Make
Ready for Struggle

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 21.-The rail-
way managers spokesman, w. H.
Thiehoff, served notice on the $500
railway union and brotherhood
chairmen, that the companies refuse
to continue the present agreement,
for ten per cent wage cut, for six
months, even if the employees give up
all hope of the cut being rescinded at
the end of the period.
The answer of the chairmen, whose
spokesman is Whitney, head of the
Brotherhood of Railway Engineers,
was that the unions had granted "the
substance of everything the COM
panies ask" and that negotiations
should not be broken off.
Thsreupon an agreement was made
for more negotiations by small COM
mitteeS from each side.
Form Committees Below!
Meanwhile the union leaders, eager
to grant "the substance" Of whatever
wage cuts the bosses want, have
made absolutely no preparations for
resistance TO the cut.
The Railroad Brotherhoods Unity
movement has warned from the be-
ginning of these demands by the
companies, a month ago, that the
union leaders were not putting up q
fight for the men. 1t calls for for
nation of committees in each lodge
of the brotherhoods to rally the
rank and file for a real struggle
against the wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
NEWS FLASH
FROM ALABAMA

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec I'll
The sheriff's posse has been forced
by the flood of protest kilograms and
rising resentment of workers, both
North and South, to temporarily halt
their latest murder plans.
The number killed is unknown.
The number wounded is at least IS.
The number of arrested share
choppers is unknown, but is probably
70. They are held in Macon, Elmore
and Tallapoosa County jails. Some
have been beaten and threatened
with lynching by the officers. All
are held incommunicado. Sheriff
Young of Tallapoosa County declares
he is already being worried by tele-
grams from Birmingham Commu-
nists.'' He refuses to allow report
ers to gee the prisoners, or even TO
give their names.
Anti Communist Law.
State representative LoYelance OF
Dadeville has issued a statement
that the legislature will pass drastic
anti Communist laws at its special
StSo4OIl, oOetI blll6 JAN. O1.
Late last night the International
Labor Defense office in Birmingham
was raided. Police gagged the Ne
gro janitor and took his keys. Then
they stole papers, records and litera-
ture.
Birmingham workers a.e preparing
a protest against the sneaking raid
and demanding the return Of the
material stolen by the police.
Prosecutor Knight, who railroaded
the Scottsboro Negro boys to death
sentences, declares himself ready to
prosecute the International Labor
Defense, Share Choppers Union or
Communist Party district leaders in
this part of the country. In spite
Of all this terror, the mass campaign
to free the Scottsboro boys is grow
ing in Alabama.
The Southern capitalist press fea-
lures on the front page all latest new
developments in the attack on the
workers and farmers in Alabama.
This is an exactly contrary policy
to that of the Northern papers,
which try to conceal it.
The Southern papers, although
they screamed Race War" and in
cited to violence against the CROP
pers, also print in full the telegram
of General Secretary Patterson Of
the International Labor Defense in
New York. Patterson sharply con-
dennis the murder campaign in Ala
bama and declares the I. L. D. will
rouse the workers of the world
against the murderers Of Negro and
white share troopers. He demands
release of the prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
VETS in CHICAGO
PUSH ACTIVITIES
To Build United Front
for Relief, Bonus

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-With the
Chicago contingent of the bonus
march to Washington now on its
way back, the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League here is planning to put
new life into its activities in accord
ance with the decisions of the Rank
and File Conference in Washington
last Thursday.
The W.E.SL. has grown tremen-
dously within the past year and has
recruited a large number of new
members. In all the recent Chicago
demonstrations, hunger marches,
strikes and other struggles it has
played an outstanding role.
The Washington Conference, held
after the bonus marchers had ac-
complished their aim of presenting
their demands to Congress, decided
that immediate payment Of the
bonus could be won by building the
united front Of the veterans in local
communities throughout the country
on the basis of tying up the fight for
winter relief for unemployed vets
with the struggle for the bonus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Seamen Demonstrate
T o d a Y for Relief
from Finn Consulate

NEW YORK.-The Finnish Sailors
of New York are preparing a second
demonstration before the Finnish
Consulate today at pm. de-
handing unemployed aid from the
Consulate.
The demand Of the Finnish Sailors
is for S. cents day for each Fin
pixh sailor to be paid by the Fin
nish Consulate which has collected
money for that pwpcss syum vsri-
!, ~ y \. z . Y. - ; ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
HARLEM YOUTH SEND ALABAMA
PROTEST

NEW YORK.-The Young Com
munist League of Harlem has sent
telegram to Governor B. M. Miller
of Alabama, demanding halt TO the
terror against Negro e-croppcrs.
The telegram states:
Eve Negro and white Harlem
workers demand end of terror
against Alabama share choppers, We
demand sheriffs posse be disbanded.
We demand immediate release OF
choppers arrested. We protest muir
der of choppers and demand punish
ment of murders. We pledge support
to choppers struggle and right to or
ganize."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
BnildW Planes
for Brazil
BY a Worker Correspondent eilit''

BY a Worker Correspondent
CINCINNATI. Ohio.-The Waco
Aircraft of Troy, Ohio, has been
busy the past three months filling
a contract with the Brazilian Cow
eminent for So fighting planes to
be used against the struggling
workers in Brazil.
The bosses have funds with
which to make attacks on the
working class this contract
amounts to S500,O0O), but claims to
have no funds when the question
of winter relief comes up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
sCAB MINER KILLED

KINCAID, Ill.--Arthur Garner,
scab, was killed while working in
Mine No. z of the Peabody Coal Co.
when he was caught under a fall
of rock. Garner had been imported
by the Peabody Co. from Benton,
Ill. He had deputy sheriff's COM
mission,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
A Starvation Program.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.-The Ma
tional Economy League an organiza-
ton uniting both republican and
democrats in Wall Streets drive
against the ex-servicemen, yesterday
pushed its program to starve about
100000 disabled vets at a hearing
before the joint Congressional Com
mittee that is paving the way for
drastic cuts in veterans benefits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
OPEN COMPLAINT OFFICES

NEW YORK. complaint Of
fices of the Needle Trades Workers
Unemployed Council are open all day
at 13l w. 28th st. and 14o W. 36th
st. Workers who face eviction OF
are suffering in other ways as a re-
suit Of unemployment are invited TO
SONS With their problens ar& gSt
-.-Jsesssar-s*psss~gs NJ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
5000 DOCK WORKERS GET PAY
CIT

SAN PEDRO, Cal.-Approximately
5000 dock workers will receive 65
cents an hour instead of rs cents in
the future, and car-stovers will re-
ceive So cents instead of IS cents.
The wage cut affects Los Angeles
waterfront workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
SO DELEGATES OF HUNGRY
new JERSEY CHILDREN ON.
MARCH TO STATE CAPITAL.
Norfolk Tenants Organization Spreads, Unites
With Struggle for Relief and Insurance
Dallas Unemployed, Forced to Work for Food
Only, Demonstrate, Demand Wages

TRENTON, n. j. Dec. 21.-AbOut so Negro and white
children boys and girls leaving New Jersey cities tomor
for the state capital at Trenton present demands for
food clothing, medical children obess can
through the winter They the elected DELEGATES of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Hoover Delays Arms Ban to
Force Terms on Pdragua,
Use Threat Of Continued Munition Shipments
in Undeclared War Instigated by U.s. Britain
Antl-lmperialist League and Lithuanian Lit
erary Society Endorse Anti-War Congress

attempt to of
commission of Neus composed of
ayed his promised special
an embargo shipments Bolivia an Paraguay
The embargo would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
In the Days
NeovS

QUAKE SHAKES WESTERN U. S.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21-A
strong earthquake last night rocked
the entire western United States,
which is about one-fifth of the coun-
try. 1t was said to have been the
most severe in this region since 1925.
No serious damage was reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
"RUTHER BE SHOT THAN STARVE" SAY CHOPPERS
Hungry Huddled Negro White Organize

The National Hunger Marchers
Of Column 6, starting from New
Orleans, came through the section
of Alabama where the murder cam
paign agaiIsst Negro share troopers
is now raging, and saw the devel-
oping tension at that time, in the
last week of November. The fol-
lowing article tells of this.
BY w. C. McCUISTION.
m the 9th of November a small
v group Of Southern Louisiana and
Eastern Texas Hunger Marchers to-
gether with the New Orleans Sea-
mems Section of the March, left New
Orleans on their way to Washington.
Despite all forms OF intimidation and
threats, the delegates, Negro and
white, men and women. travelled to-
gether ignoring the "Jim Crow laws,
uniting to show the workers OF the
South that the dictates of the white
ruling class could not stand in the
face of united working class deter
mination.
The route OF Column led north
eastward over zig-zag route through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

Anti-War Congress in South Amer
lea, that We denounce the sale of the
battleship IS. S. Bridgeport" to Co.
lumbia by American imperialism and
the supplying of United States mill
tsry instructors to the Bolivian army,
that we demand cessation of the
shipments Of munition from the
United States to the warning coun-
tries
Be 1t further resolved, that this
protest resolution be sent to Secre-
tary Of State Stimson. Washington,
D. c., and to the ministers of the
warning countries at Washington, D.
c., to the press and copy be sent
to the Anti-Imperialist League, 799
Broadway, Room $50, New York, N.
Y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
Police Attack Jobless
in Edmonton; One Cop
3 Demonstrators Hurt

EDMONTON. Alberta, Canada,
Dec. 21.-Police attacked a demon
stration of several hundred unem-
ployed here. The workers modified
to present demands and in prepara-
ton for the arrival here of thous-
and Of ruined farmers, marching on
the capital of the province to de-
mand government relief.
The unemployed had approached
the provincial parliament buildings
when the attack was launched. They
fought the police, and injured one
cop. Three demonstrators we're
wounded.
Provincial Premier Brownies or
dered the demonstration dispersed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
CHINESE DEFEAT JAPANESE

MUkDEN, Manchur1a, Dec. II
Chinese insurgent troops continue to
make it hot for the Japanese invad-
Tiers. Today they attacked Japanese
forces 80 miles east of Tashihkiao, a
Mukden-Dairen railway station some
100 miles southwest Of here, killing
II japanese and seriously wounding
four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22

CCoNTrNUED ON PAGE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
SENTENCE TURKISH
COMMUNISTS

ISTANBUL, Turkey Dec. 21-Sev-
enteen members of the members of
the Turkish Communist Party, in
Acluding two women, were sentenced
to from four to seven years in prison
today for revolutionary activities.
Eighteen others we're acquitted, but
IL were Immediately re-arTested for
protesting against their comrades
sentences. Though the Communist
Party is illegal in Turkey, it is stead
lily gaining in influence among the
masses.
COURT HOUSE WRECKED
LISBON, o., Dec. 21.-When off
eials came to the Colurnbiana Coun-
ty Court House today, they found
that the interior of the building had
been wrecked by dynamite set off by
safe robbers.
ANALYZE CANCER CAUSE
LONDON, Dec. 21.-After many
years of experiment, the exact chem
tcal nature Of the substance in coal
tar that produces cancer has been
discovered. The discovery has been
reported to the British scientific
magazine, Nature" by Drs. j. w.
Cook, I. Hieger and Hewitt of the
/ Cancer Hospital Research Institute
here. This type of cancer afflicts
chimney sweeps and workers in coal
.tar industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
ANALYzE CANCER CAUSE
JOBS AND PAY DECLINE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-T h e
crisis continues to grow. Industrial
employment declined one per cent in
November and payrolls 81 per cent,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics an
nounced today. All industries showed
declines except bituninous coal and
metal mining. The fact that wages
dropped even more than employment
shows that wage-cuts and part-time
work are on the increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-22
BLAST DESTROYS TENEMENT

CHICAGO, Dec. 21-Msny work
ers' families were left homeless when
an explosion, followed by fire, de-
stroyed a tenement here. At least
five occupants of the house and a
fire department lieutenant we're in
iured
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
TAXPAYERS LEAGUE
Is BOSSES AGENCY
FEAR MILITANT STRUGGLE
BY SMALL TAXPAYERS.

CAMDEN, N. IA taxpayers
march called for January 81 in
this city by the Citizens Protest
League against the 1882 budget
was called off. The business men
and bosses became frightened at
their own plan, fearing that the
thousands of unemployed workers
who were being brought into what
the bosses tried to make appear
as common" fight might ge:
cut of their control and carry the
demonstration forward with de
mands for immediate unemploy'
ment relief, instead of fighting
for the bosses who are only inter
ested in reducing their own taxes
and are not concerned about thu
workers of Camden.
The chairman of the Citizen
Protest League showed the rea
class character of the League b,
stating that he was afraid o
"riots and disorders"
Workers in other cities wher
there are such "Citizen's Leagues
or Citizens Committees" ca
: learn from this that any organ
: cation in which there are bose
is against the workers.