The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1931, Page 3

4 ‘ By VERN SMITH. LAWRENCE, Mass., Noy. 7.—The task if off the United Textile Work- ors’ misleaders now! Gorman, Ri- viere, Sylvia, and the little fakers , like Green and “Red Mike” Shulman »are openly driving the Lawrence _ strikers, as far as they are able to do 80, to that slaughter house of strikers, the “secret ballot” of the employers. Last Friday night the UTW offi- » €ials, aided by Watt, the president of the local AFI, central body, rail- + roaded through o joint meeting of the two UTW locals by the foulest : kind of trickery and the most brazen - +demagogy the motion that gives the Lawrence morning paper a chance . to come out with a big black streamer . headline: “UTW Approves Poll of Help.” This is a lie, The UTW amembership voted against the ballot. ‘Then the misleaders took a vote on » another question, to “consider,” and s+,dleclared this carried ,and announced « it as an approval of the ballot. ‘The UTW chiefs have been hand~ ing out cards in their union to all they suspect are the most conserva~ tive. They got them all out of their . Joint meeting last night, something like a thousand assembling in a closed meeting in Moose Hall on Common St. Watt, Riviere, and Syl- via took the lead in a furious cam- ~. Daign there for the members to agree to vote in the Citien’s Committee bal- > dot. They trimmed this ballot with vo all sorts of apparently “fair” provi- e sions. They stated that there should be only one question on the ballot: “Do you favor @ return to work with ten per cent reduction and no dis- erimination!”—a “Yes” or “No” vote on that. They assured the members that the big chiefs of the U.T.W ‘would be on the ballot counting com- mittee to “assure a fair count,” Some of the UTW leaders as the re- sentment to balloting made itself evident in many parts of the hall, took the floor and assured the mem~- . bers they should vote “No,” at the polls and that if they did not accept the Citizen’s Committee ballot, the mills would all hold their own, as the Monomac did. The translation in French and Polish of these re- marks (Reviere translated his own in French) went much further, they were plain strike breaking speeches, declaring that other nationalities were going back to work and the Prench and Poles should not be left in the lurch. ‘The cold facts are that if any con- \Siderable number of strikers enter the polls of the Citien’s Committee, it won't make an iota of difference what question they vote on or which ‘way they vote. The votes will be ‘counted by the enemies of the work~ ers, by the representatives of the companies, of the strike breaking cit- ften’s committee, and perhaps by the officials of the UTW—those same offi- cials who last month put through a og per cent wage cut in the hosiery - industry, those same UTW officials ‘who have tried to split the picket lines, tried to divide the workers on relief and defense and whose every move has been towards strike break- ing. ‘The mill owners have assigned the jUTW the job of leading enough thousands to the polls so that they can announce ten or fifteen thous- and votes for a return to work with- Out looking ridiculous because only ‘& few dozen even went into the polls. How they vote when they get into the polls won’t hav eanything to do with the results that are announced. ‘The strikers in general are uneasy, ‘they suspect these leaders, but be-~ cause the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee and the Na- tional Textile Workers Union have been practically deprived of a chance to speak to the large masses of the btrikers, while police clubs guard the speakers of the UTW as they pour - Anto the ears of thousands on Law- rence Common daily, many of the strikers do not see the full infamy of the Gormans and Rivieres and Watts, Indeed, such young social- ‘ fascist types as “Red Mike” Shulman have a certain, though limited, popu- Aarity. ~ * Even with all these disadvantages, the healthy instinct of the rank and file members of the UTW was impos- sible to entirely thwart. When the *{ motion to endorse the Citien’s Com- mittee ballot was put before the meeting in Moose Hall Friday night, ffter all that tricky propaganda, “there was an overwhelming majority hgainst it. Many members hissed and booed. ‘Then the fraud came in. Another barrage of speeches, this time of a militant tone, by Shulman and Green {who is another “here” of the kid- happing eposide, and has been sen- lenced to a, year for trying to “res- “tile” Mike) and then Riviere came out with a proposal: “That we con- | } ‘ider the ballot.” Enough voted for {his, apparently innocent, motion to five the counting tellers and chair- fman a chance to declare a majority tor it. And from that moment on, the about is certain formalities of com~- mittees to investigate the living con- ditions, and other semblances of ac- tivity. One reason the UTW chiefs were so anxious to get ‘the voting over with Friday was that while the dirty work was going on, there waited outside, with their presence kept secret. from the honest but puzzled membership inside, a delegation from the United Front Rank and File Strike Com- mittee with full facts about the fake ballot, and with an offer of solidarity with the rank and file and for a fight under elected leaders chosen by the workers without regard to union membership. A letter had been sent. by the united front strike committee by special messenger to the UTW, the committee wanted to come in and speak on the matter contained in the letter. Both letter and the presence of the committee were concealed from the members of the UTW in the hall by their officials. The letter was sent and similar committees were sent, to two smal- Jer union Friday. ‘The Loomfixers’ Union received both, and Fred Bied- enkapp, spokesman for the commit- tee addressed the meeting of 150 loomfixers and secured a nearly unanimous response in favor of “No voting in the boss’ balloting.” The cittee to the American Textile Work- ers Union, also a small concern with membership chiefly in the Pacific mills, was barred from the meeting by officials of the union. The letter, and an explanation of yesterday's treachery and trickery by officials of the UTW and American Union, are being printed in leaflet form and will be widely distributed among Law- rence strikers Saturday, Sunday and Monday. ‘The Unite Front Rank afid Pile Committee letter, is addressed to all Lawrence locals of all unions, and says: “Complete unity of action by all strikers is the need of the hour now. We are in a decisive period of our strike after five weeks of struggle and unbroken solidarity. “We must stop this ‘ballot’ strike- breaking.” The letter then explains how the fake ballot is meant to divide the strikers and start a back-to-work movement, and declares: “All propos- als to take votes now on the question of @ return to work, are strike-break- ing moves, no matter where they come from. There is no such thing as @ fair wage cut ballot.” The letter points out that: “There have been no desertions from our ranks of any importance. The big mills cannot open; we have «them closed. But we are divided into va- rious unions and many of the strik- ers do not as yet belong to any union. ‘The leadership of the strike is there- fore divided. This plays into the hands of the mill owners and their tools like the Citizens Committee. If we were united around one central leadership the bosses would riot dare to try such methods as the wage cut ballot.” ‘The letter of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee then proposes that in all _unions of every organization, the following Propositions be discussed and yoted upon: “I, Unity of Action by ALL the strikers against the wage-cut—unity of action of ALL strikers against all strike breaking proposals such as the mill owners’ ‘abblot’. “This united action can be brought about by mass elections of delegates from all mills and all departments of mills to the Central Rank and Fie Strike Committee. We propose that these elections be held at once, the most able, militant workers being chosen on the basis of their records, “We propose that the Elected Rank and File Strike Committee shall be the central leadership of our strike. “2, Joint action on the picket lines to be brought about by the election of picket captains for the various mills bythe strikers at these mills, and the direction of mass picketing by the elected Rank and File Strike Committee. “3. Joint action against al! arbitra- tion proposals. All meetings with mill owners or their representatives are to be only through teh elected Rank and File Strike Committee. All meet- ings about settlements must be open. All proposed settlements must be vot~ ed on by all the strikers. “4, Jolrtt action through the elected Rank and File Strike Conumittee for the spread of the strike. We should and we can spread the strike to all American Woolen ‘Company mills, and worsted mills in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. “5. Joint action in the collection and distribution of strike relief. (a) Relief to be given to all needy strik- ers whether they belong to a union or not, and no matter to what union they belong. (b) To carry out this UTW leaders braenly defied their tnembership and declared the ballot \ tpproved. ‘They make public an- \ jouncements that the "UTW has yo- ted to vote in the Citizen’s Commit- {tee Poll, and they cleared the hall ‘pith gangsters and detectives a few utes after the vote was taken to consider” the ballot, and before the workers, of many languages, could ‘igure out just what they had done, ind take stpes to remedy the matter. It is safe to say they are not going to get another chance in any regular heeting of the UTW to rescind that tote, and it is known that the UTW trea are already busy quietly pessimism, and in their taking it for granted that the workers will go back in the mills m a@ few days with a ten per cent fut, and that all that is teft to talk Sadwabavecameane measure a Joint Strike Relief Com- mittee is to be elected representative of all strikers to work under the di- rection of the Central Rank and Pile Strike Committee. “6, Joint action for the defense and release of all arrested strikers and or- ganizers. We propose the ¢lection of a Joint Defense Committee, repre- snting all mill and lankuage groups among the strikers to direct and car- ry on the struggle for the release of all strike prisoners, against all kinds of police persecution, against the de- portation of foreign born strikers and organizers.” 4 Build a workers’ correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters Indiana Workers In .Many Towns to Hear. Nels Kiar This Week INDIANAPOLIS.—Nels Kjar, the well known working-class fighter of Chicago will speak in a number of cities in Indiana in the next ten days. On Noy. 3, he spoke at a meeting of the L. S. N. R. on the East Side of Indianapolis and was well received. On Nov. 4, he spoke at a noon meeting at Kingans and in Indianapolis and in the evening at a meeting of the Unemployed Council in Anderson, Ind. On Nov 6 he spoke in Kokomo at the court house at 2 p. m. and at the Unemployed Council meeting at Buckeye and Taylor Street hall at 7:30 p. m. The week of Nov. 8, he will speak in different parts of Indiana~ polis and in Terre Haute as well as other coal mining towns in Indiana, Comrade Kjar will particularly mobt- ize the fighting workers of Indiana for the coming local unemployed strugles and the preparations for the National Hunger March to Congress Dec, 7. DEFEAT FAKE BALLOT MOVE IN LAWRENCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) with a ten per cent cut. At the Wwe ae “ Page Three a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDA NOVEMBER 9, 1931 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ORF) | Tollers of the World,” “Down with the | Breeders of War—Long Live the Soviet Policy of Peace.” Large posters and floats contrasted the five year plan of socialist con- struction with the chaos and oppres- sion of capitalism, Workers showed their ingenuity in caricatures of the capitalist League of Nations, the social-democrats, bank crashes in the United States. Many Posters carried figures and facts re- garding the production fulfilling pro- gram in their plants proving thw to be a demonstration of deeds. This marks the nearing of the successful completion of the third decisive year of the Five Year Plan. Huge displays in all parts of the city pleture the victorious march of Socialism in the factories and on the land. Many Foreign-born Workers Present Among the marchers were American and other foreign-born workers car- rying slogans in English, Chinese and German and many other languages. As men, women, youth and children CALL FOR FIGHT ON'WAR MAKERS ON | [Lawrence Terror 14th ANNIVERSARY OF SOVIETS’ | Moletov and other members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government re viewed them, shout after shout burst from the marchers. The demonstration started ten o'clock when Voroshiloy, former metal worker and now Peoples’ Commissar for Army and Navy rode into the Red Square to greet the soldiers, sailors, Soviet toilers and the world proleta- riat, He was greeted with cheers from one end of the square to the other. His message emphasized tre- mendous economic power of Soviet Union, the world crisis of capitalism the danger of war and the trouble brewing in the Fast. The Soviet Union is pursuing a firm policy | of peace and does not want war but if attacked the Soviet Union was pre- pared to defend her achievements from any enemy, Voroshiloly declared. A three hour military service par- ade showed the strength of the Red Army and Navy in a march that in- | cluded armored cars, tanks, machine gun corps, anti-war craft, light and heavy artillery, radio, infantry and } cavalry troops and armed factory came inte the square with bands Playing and workers singing and cheering mass enthusiasm reached its height. In the reviewing stand were over 300 delegates, many visitors from all parts of the world. Foreign diplomats same time this announcement was made both the Citizens Committee and the police department declared open war on picket lines. Now All Must Be on the picket Lines! ‘The one morning paper, The Eagle, came out with a big headline, “U. 'T. W. Approves Roll of Help.” That was the climax of the propaganda drive to send the workers to the polls, and to 2 ten per cent wage cut. It marked the latest deep infamy of Gorman, Riviere and Watt, mis- leaders of the U. T. W. and the A. F.L. These traitors swindled out of @ membership meeting of the United Textile Workers Friday night a (miscounted) vote to “consider” the ballot, and promptly declared it a vote to go to the polls. The mis- leaders had been carefully approach- ing an open support of the ballot for days, and Friday night they threw off the mask and openly campaigned for it. They were voted down when they put a direct motion to approve the ballot, and then resorted to trickery. Now they stand exposed and shamed before the striking thousands, and their masters, the mill owners, have decided that in spite of their treason to the strikers, the vote can not go through now. The decision of the Citizens Com~ mittee is recorded in the big head- lines of the two Lawrence evening papers. The Telegram says: “CITI- ZENS COMMITTEE FORCED TO POSTPONE PLANS FOR POLL” and the Tirbune (which is the evening edition of the Eagle) says: “Strike Vote Abandoned By Citizens Com- mittee.” The official resolution of the Citi- zens Committee Saturday is as fol- lows: , “VOTED:—That due to the in- ability of the Committee to secure the cooperation of representation of certain of the large textile mills, and due to the assertions made by cer- tain of the spokesman for the or- ganized striking employes in some of those plants that the result of a bal- lot would be ignored, the Committee deems it inadvisable that any attempt be made at this time to carry on a general ballot of the employes on 4 question of whether or not they desire to return to work under the new wage scale, and that for these Teasons the carrying on of a general vote should at this time be indef- initely postponed.” (Our emphasis— Editor). The United Front Rank and File Strike Committee policy of “No Bal- loting—Defeat the Wage Cut on the Picket Lines,” has found such @ re- sponse from the workers of Lawrence that even the Citizens Committee sees the writing on the wall. At Fri- day’s mass meeting on the Common, where U. T. W. and American Union speakers, protected by police clubs, were throwing out the feelers and working their way to open support of the ballot, the 3,000 assembled were showered with hand bills that made the speaker stop and choke but which he could find no answer to, These were the leaflets of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee, headed, “Lawrence Strik- ers! Vote on the Picket Lines!” thoroughly exposing the fake ballot, and calling for united struggle under the strikers’ own elected Rank and File Strike Committee. These leaflets were sowed broad- cast over the working-class sections of Lawrence. Then followed the open letter and the committees from the United Front Rank and File Strike Com- mittee to the meetings Friday night of the American Union, the U. T. W. and military attaches were also present, As workers passed Lenin’s Tomb where Stalin, Kalinin, Voroshilov, troops composed of men and women and of Young Communists. Workers’ delegations from capital- ist countries said that the demon- stration inspired them to return to their native land and struggle for & workers government. Following the parade which lasted all day into the evening workers con- tinued their two days celebration in their clubs, theatres throughout the country. 20,000 NEW YORK WORKERS ty PLEDGE DEFENSE OF US SR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) der, Dick Sullivan for the Unemploy~ ed Councils and Lena Davis for Dis- trict two of the Communist Party, ‘were among the other speakers, When Al Steel, speaker for the Young Communist League, told ¢f the life and work of Ronald Edwards, young Negro worker, and member of the National Bureau of the Young Communist League, whose death had just been reported from Cleveland, the entire audience arose in respect to Edward's memory. ‘The singing by combined workers’ choruses was well received. A page- ant presented by the Drama Bureau of the Workers Cultura) Federation in co-operation with other bodies. ‘The collection was reported at $153. ‘A resolution unanimously adopted by the assembled workers contrasted the rising might of socialism in the Soviet Union and 2 higher standard of life and security for the masses vast unemployment in all capitalist countries. The resolution then points out the concrete evidence of war against the Soviet Union by the im- Derialist powers, the meanings of the secret pacts concluded by Hoover and Laval and the need to rally the mas- ses for struggle against this. Because of the thousands who could not get in to the packed hall, open air meetings were held outside on’ the corners and $40.00 was reported as the collection at these meetings. * » 6 LOS ANGELES, Osl., Nov, 7.-The Par ASR: Teenie een le ae Committee, unity of defense, and unity of relief, unity organizationally as strong as the unity of the feeling against the wage cut which already exists. as And the Citizens Committee fore« shadows in its statement accompany- ing its resolution some new trick, and certainly an increase in terror. ‘The statement declares that the mills will never recede from the wage cut. It cites the closing of the Pacific Mills as an argument for accepting the cut. It ealls on the Police Com- missioner, Peter Carr, to issue a statement pledging full protection to “those who desire to return under the new wage scale.” And it ends with @ sickeningly hypocritical in- junction to the strikers as follows: “Tt {s urged upon every striking employe to reach his decision after a careful consideration of his own notorious police Red Squad forcibly kept out the workers from the hall where the November 7 celebration meeting was to be held. The workers staged an outdoor demonstration on the plaza where a crowd of two thousand participated. to the ald of the speakers and de- fended them. ‘Tear bombs were ex- Ploded at several points. At Pasadena five hundred workers gathered in the Danish Hall for the meeting. Many more were turned away as the hall was crowded. At Longbeache four hundred work- ers were present and a meeting held despite the threats of the American Legion and the Red Squad. . f Mcaly, paeeT (Telegram to the Daily Worker.) Big Meetings in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Noy, 8. Over one thousand workers attended the biggest Novembe r7th celebration ever held here. Dania Hall and Humboldt Hall were both completely filled. Anti-War resolutions pledging de- fense of the Soviet Union were unan- imously adopted. Fifty-two mass meetings in all were held throughout this district. pen la 2 (Telegram to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 8. — Five thousand workers jammed the Arena Gardens to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of the Russian revolu- tion, Beside the main speakers there were several Negro and white women who were recently evicted from their homes who exposed Murphy's fake relief. Farm workers told of suffering and starvation amidst the toiling farm- ers. Many of the farmers in this section are unable to sell their pro- ducts, a farmer speaker said. the | Police attacked and dragged speak- | ers from the platform. Workers came | Raging As Bosses | INCE, Noy. 8.—'The boss- | e now increasing the | ainst the militant strike hip at a terrific rate. A few ago they issued a call for the | of the leaderishp. _ Seventy-one | were arrested within the | weeks. Many heavy fine h n inflicted by the bosses’ | |courts in their active co-operation | |in the attempt to break the strike. vage jail sentences have been | ed out; in some cases strik- | ers have been sentenced to 70 days | in jail. The National Textile Workers Union, aided by the In- | | ternational Labor Defense, is | | | fighting these jail sentences and heavy fines. Bail imposed to date amounts to $50,000. The United; States government has sent in immigration officials to help break the strike. | ‘The workers arrested from Oc- | | tober 5 to November 5 are: | Sebastian Tortore, Michael Ba- ternosta, Salvatore Salafia, Do- minico Franko, Salvatore Tortera, | | Fred Pelegrino, Joseph Maschetti, Angelo Sergi, Charles Bonaccorsi, Louis Somme, Raymond De Mar-~- tino, William Sarti, Edith Berk~- LAWRE! | | day | lynehing strike striker: | | past fe man, James Tomacchio, Samuel Bramhall, Ruben Pizer, Frank | Motulis, Jacob Robsco, Mines | Pappas, Anthony Fenelli, Vincen- zo Di Tommaso, Bedros Donegian, H. J. Canter, Thomas Keester, Al- bert Di Gola, Ed Walsh, Vincenzo Tripoli, Giovanni Dj Franco, An- thony Romano, Antonio Contirel- lo, Peter Borizuk, Raphael Cen~ sullo, Philip Concome, Joseph A. Grasso, Harry Simon, Margaret Buiko, "Rose Nitto, Raymond Mc- | | Lean, Joseph Covoleski, Jennie Fi- chera, Ignezio Capuani, Sam Reed, Noe Maggetti, Philip La peunneszo, Michael Narcusewicz, | Salvatore Tortera, Ivan Krace- vich, Rosario Cavallero, Rubin Pi- zer, Walter J. Chuslada, Emilio Di Filippo, Martha Stone, Vincenzi Tomaselli, John Pezycek, Arthur Hetman, Ernest Wole, Arthur Re- millard, Alfred Predette, Andreww Masinkevitch, John Kuryla, Den- nis Carrol, Frank Pikor, Stanley Salien, Loretta Starwertz, Sarta Di Petrilla, Margaret D'Angos- tino, Samuel Bakely. EXPOSE NEW MOVE TO PUSH USSR TO WAR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | urday Evening Graphic carried a Screaming headline: “Russian Soldiers Killed in Jap-Chinese Battle.” The Graphic's story tried to give the im~- pression that Soviet Red Army offi- cers were with the Chinese forces, The New York Times spreads the lie in a more dignified manner, but ad- mits that the presence of white Rus- sians with the Chinese forces “is without significance, as many des- titute Russians enlist in the Chinese armies,” French Hope to Force Soviet into War A New York Times dispatch from Paris shows that the imperialists are hoping that Soviet Russia will be compelled to take action in the face of the rapid advance of the Japanese Army towards the Soviet border. The dispatch states: “TThe attitude which Russia will eventually be compelled to take is what is causing the most concern here. For it is felt that the Soviet Government cannot remain long indifferent to the events on the During the last week in Novem- ber and the first part of December the national mass demonstration against unemployment and starva- tion will ro’ up in a mighty flood i : Hy f : H i é i a z 5 4 ate E i } k a 5 i | i 5 Fi Hy g is i E i i SESzEREE gs filly g23 s§ i 2 i = iedells Fi & Fi ! i Hi ag | i from all over the country and show its concentrated foree at Washing- ton on December 7th. This National Hunger March will cover the entire United States. ‘The time of the march is the time for activities to be intensified in every dity in the United States. Every city fa little Washington in which the bosses rule, and in every city, as the marchers pass through, mass demon- strations of the workers will be held te fight unemployment and to awaken workers to thé conscioisness that the capitalists are their enemies and the Communist Party is their leader in their fight for living conditions.. But after the demonstrations are held, and the marehers pass on to the next city, what is there to hold fore the workers the banner of the revolutionary struggle? What is there to counteract the everyday poison of the capitalist press? ‘This is where the Daily Worker Clubs come in. During the mass demonstrations being held in connection with the | hunger marches, and eyen during the present preparatory period, Daily Worker Clubs should use the enthu- slasm of the masses to build up new and to enlarge old Daily Worker Clubs. Make the Clubs Grow.. Cd) DAILY WORKER CLUBS, BE READY TO BUILD FIRM FOUNDATION IN THE WORK OF NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH crease your social affairs. Get up more meetings and more discussions. Get the monthly magazine issued by the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre, which will give you ideas for enter- tainments. And, above all, increase street and house to house sales and intensify your drive for subscriptions. Especially do we want to em- phasize the work of getting sub- scriptions during the Hunger March period, There is nothing that will solidify the revolutionary founda- tions laid in each town by the Hunger Marches as s month's or @ year’s subscription to the Daily ‘Worker, We can’t have mass demonstrations every day. But the arrival of copies of the Daily Worker at thousands of homes in your town is a daily mass demonstration that will keep the workers alive to the need for wiping out the bosses who are cause of their misery. Long after the footsteps of the hunger marchers have died away, | the steady arrival of the Daily Work~ er to subscribers keeps the workers firm in the revolutionary ranks. Therefore we say to you, comrades, members of the Daily Worker Clubs and agents and readers of the Daily, Jet this National Hunger March leave lasting benefits behind it. Let the Try Break Strike | | rank and file| | | | They have the key Tories Dominate ‘Socialist’ MacDonald’s New Cabinet | Neville Chamberlain in | cellor of Exchequer The ist character of the new | British Government war further in- dicated today with the announcemer of the new cabinet. The conserva tives complete: jominate the cabinet formed by the “socialist” MacDonald. position through | the appointment of Neville Chamber- [lain as Chancellor of the Exchequer. | In addition, they have ten more places on the cabinet, making 11 in all, as j against. four for the national labor- ites and five split. up between two factions of the disrupted liberal party. Ramsay MacDonald, maintains his position as Prime Minister, under the national laborite label. He also has the portfolio for the first lord of the treasury. Stanley Baldwin, conserv- | ative leader, 1s lord president of the | council. The others are: Lord High Chan- cellor, Lord Sankey, ite; Lord Privey Seal, Philip Snow- den, national laborite; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, conservative; Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of one group of the liberals; Secretary of State for Foreign Af- fairs, Sir John Simon, leader of an- of State for the Dominions, J. H. ‘Thomas, national laborite; Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, conservative; Secre- tary of State for War, Viscount Holi- sham, conservative; Secretary of State for India,Sir Samuel Hoare, conservative; Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir Archibald Sinclair, na~- tional liberal; Secretary of State for Air, Marquess of Londonberry, con- servative; First Lord of the Admiral- ty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, con- servative; President of the Board of Trade, Walter Runciman, national liberal; Minister of Health, Sir Hilton Young, conservative; President Board of Education, Sir Donald MacLean, ture and Fisheries, Sir John Gilmour, conservative; Minister of Labor, Sir “onal labor- | other group of the liberals; Secretry | national liberal; Minister of Agricul- | ee Key Position As Chan+ ; Baldwin President of Council; Capitalist Press Gleeful , Henr. Betterton. conservative; Firs! | Com: ner of Works, William Orm: yore, conservative. | ‘The position of the Chancellor of |the Duchy of Lancaster remains t4 be filled. Forty or fifty junior ap- |pointments to the Ministry will be announced when MacDonald returnd |from his vacation in Scotland. Tt |is expected that most of these wil] also be conservatives : | Two of the five MUberais on the cabinet can be counted for all prac- | tical purposes as conservatives. ‘Thes | support the high-tariff programr of the conservative party. This brings up the conservative strength on the cabinet to 13. The other three belong to the fr:2 trade wing of the liberal party. They hare | posts where they will have no effect on the tariff policy of the conserva~ | tive majority The British capitalist press hailg | with joy the domination of the cab- inet by the conservatives. Lord Bea- | verbrook's Daily Express, hajls the | appointment of Chamberlain as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This paper already sees the “socialist” | MacDonald scrapped after he has served the purpose of the conserva- tives. It says: “At last we have at the treasury a man who has the imperial tradi- tion in his blood. Just as MéKinley became President of the United States on the McKinley tariff, so will Cham~ berlain become eventually Prime Min- ister on the Chamberlain tariff.” This means that the exploitation of the colonial masses under British imperailism will be savagely presse® in the effort to save British tmper- jalism at the expense of the home and, especially, of the colonial mass- es. Capitalist press dispatches quote the Beaverbrook press as saying that the whole subject of British imper- jal development will play a prominent part in the work of the new govern- ‘ment. eastern frontier,” At the same time, the Kuomintang generals are playing an important role in the imperialists’ game of in- volving the Soviet Union in the war in Manchuria. After a three day battle with vastly inferior Japanese forces. the Chinese General Ma abandoned strong strategic positions in order to retreat towards the Soviet- Chinese owned Chinese Eastern Rail- way, Generall Ma has intrenched himself directlly parallel with the railway. The three-day battle which preceded this action is practically the ony instance of the Kuomintang gen- erals offering the slightest resistance to the Japanese advance. Emperor Leaves For War Front The Japanese Emperor is leaving today (Monday) for the war in Man- churia. He will be accompanied by War Minister Minami, Baron Abo, Minister of the Navy, and Home Min- ister Adachi, The French press, together with the American press, is actively sup- porting the Japanese action against the Manchurian masses and the So- viet Union. A Paris dispatch reports: ---“Here the stetisruetaionshrdlucm “Here the situaton s confused by the fact that for the most part the French press for some reason has espoused the Japanese cause and Japan s being represented to the public as a kind of gendarme of the Orent; seeking onlly to man- tain order.” The dispatch ends with the sig- nificant statement: “This does not seem to slalm the door on a rational! settlement.” ‘The New York Evening Post in an editoriall lon Saturday .admits that the Hoover administration 1s iswuing contradictory statements. It says: U. S. Government In Lying Statement. “Our people do net knew what | their government is doing in re- gard to the war which Japan and China are carrying on in Menche- ris, Everything that we sppar- ently do is followed by a elowd of explainations from the stete de- partment. It is impesstblle te get at the truth.” Brisbane in Sunday's New York American weleomes the attack against the Soviet Union. He states: “In Europe the 1914 war wag on its way before the word realized~ it. The new war in Asia, involring Chi- na, Japan and Russia, is on its way, and the world does not know it.” Brisbane makes the further sig- nificant statements: “This war, not in the future, but already under way, may mean an end of tre stagnation that grips the world,” and declares that it “will take Russia’s mind off ‘predatory cepital- ism’ for a while.” —_—____—_—_ FIVE DEAD MINERS TAKEN FROM MINE AFTER EXPLOSION LOGAN, W. Va.—Two more bodies have been taken out of the Whitmen No, 20 mine of the Island Creek Com- pany making a total of five miners dead as the result of a gas explesion in mines can be prevented byt the coal bosses refuse to spend the money for precautions and consciously send hundreds of miners to their deaths last year. ‘ 50 cents or one dollar a day to feed corn bread. National Miners Union who greeted we beat back starvation,” he said. long in this way,” she said. Next followed Jimmie Garland, though speaking for the first time ization. Every man,here will back is mined if they victimize me.” Harry Gannes, speaking in the starvation. Calling on the miners to rally Daily Worker Clubs and mass sub- scriptions spring up in its wake, Plan your activities now to be ready to help greet the marchers when they arrive in your town, and to make per- Members of Daily Worker Clubs, Nine tictd the contacts brought about the National Hunger March. fo Wyrapeh qui! Xn; / through 500 HARLAN MINERS DEFY TERROR TO TESTIFY BEFORE DREISER COMMITTEE A MASS MEETING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ach as a result of a mine accident, and he could not earn the his family a few meals of bene and Daily Worker to Tell of Hunger Death Later issues of the Daily Worker will carry the harrewing detefis of the actual starvation conditions of the vast majority of the Kentucky miners. Details will be printed of how in the smal) mining camps flew and six children die weekly of starvation. Miners Fight The chairman of the meeting was Billie Meeks, an officer of the the Dreiser Committee in the name of the NMU whieh comprised 80 per cent of the miners in the héllew. “We have just won a strike here and we intend to go on organizing yati! Suzie Gates, the next speaker, told of the solid organization of Womens Auxiliaries preparing for the mest struggle. She narrated the conditions the miners face. “We cannot Ure another member of the NMU, who in his life before a large audienee, made a brilliant appeal for backing the Nationa] Miners Union. “Though I may get blacklisted for this speech,” he said, “it won’t stop our organ- me up and see to it that no coat name of the workers press, peinted out that the meeting was held on the 14th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. He pointed out why the coal operators call the miners “Roosian Reds,” saying that the workers in the Seviet Union had set up & workers’ and farmers’ government, wiping out unemployment and to the International Leber Defense struggle against, terror, George Maurer of the TLD brought the greetings of hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country. “Miners Blues” Aunt Mollie Jackson then sang a song especially written fer the occasion, entitled “Kentucky Miners Hungry Blues,” graphieally telting of the starvation conditions and urging the miners to strike for hetter conditis on the of Earlier in the day the Committee interviewed Prosecuting Attorney Brock in Harlan. He said he favored the UMWA but that all he could to crush the National Miners Union. He has ever been indicted for shooting down miners but that 90 eT, admitted ne gunmen