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Ring of Stee Against Soviet Union Completed; U. 8. Workers Demonstrate (CONTINUED FROM PAG ONE) vole. Carroll reports: “Japan, if permanently extended into Manchuria, it was pointed out by an eminent authority prior to the meeting of the Council, estab- lishes a new safe and sane frontier against Bolsheyism upon the con- tinent of Asia’.” Armistice An Empty Gesture ‘The hypocrisy of the League of Na- | tions and the United States is fully exposed in the above quotations from Carroll's dispatch. The emptiness of the gesture of an armistice is further exposed in the following final para- graph of Carroll's dispatch: “Armistice is an empty word now for the Chinese, who have no army capable of driving the Japanese from Manchuria. Besides, it is im- possible to fight there in winter. How can an armistice mean any- thing officially when by the same token there has never been a war, instead only a taking over and sub- stitution of sets of local Chinese of- ficials Joyal to Tokio for other sets of Chinese officials loyal to Nan- king.” Kuomintang Sells Out Chinese People The Japanese seizure of Manchu- | ria was carried out with the secret cooperation of the traitorous Kuom- intang officials who admittedly raised not a finger in resistance against the Japanese invaders. A Shanghai dis- patch to the New York Times makes clear the cooperation of the Kuom- intang with the League of Nations in turning Manchuria over to Japan; ig states: “It is eight weeks since Japan oc- eupied Mukden and Kirin, but China has nto fired a single shot in her defense, choosing to depend upon the League of Nations.” Responsibility of the Kuomintang for the Japanese seizure of Man- churia and the partition of China which is now being pushed by the imperialist bandits is further made cléar in an article by George E. Sok- in Sunday’s Nek York Times. states: “China cannot fight Japan in Manchuria or anywhere else. In China 3,000,000 men are under arms, many of them excellent fighters. Bat they have been exploited by thelr Own commanders, who have enriched themselves while the sold- iers have been left without arms, munifions and other equipment. There are a few crack divisions, like the Mukden Fourth Army and the ‘Whampoa Cadet divisions of Nan- king, but these do not constitute a national army.” . Olifang’s Talk of “Leading Army” Is Bunk further comments on the fact that “a small force of Japanese troops took nearly 250,000 square miles of territory in Manchuria, dis: armed an army of several hundred thousand men and seized one af the largest arsenals in the world with hardly any fighting.” That Chiang Kai-shek’s recent talk of leading an army of 2,000,000 against the Japanese is but a hypocritical gesture is admitted by Sokolsky, who comments: —~ “When General Chiang Kai-shek goes to Manchuria to fight Japan, he, therefore, is only making a fiery and dramatic gesture which has no realistic meaning. In the first place, as many Generals in Man- churia have gone over to Japan as have remained loyal to China, The evidence for that will appear when the present situation ‘freezes in’ and the names of the Chinese of- ficials who have taken control in Manchurian cities and districts with Japanese approval are made pub- lic.” Fear Growing Anger of Chinese Masses Sokolsky recognizes, however, that while the imperialists have secured the aid of the corrupt Kuomintang, they yet have to reckon with the ris- ing anger of the Chinese masses. He says: “But that does not mean that the Chinese people will take their defeat lying down. The Chinese people—not the government, which is a different thing—will now settle down to a systematic boycott of Japan and Japanese goods... “This is the stage of the conflict between China and Japan upon which both countries are now en- tering. It is a hard, bitter, cold phase, one which Jeads to mass movements and demonstrations and often to changes in government in China and sometimes even in Japan.” Yen Admits Distruct By Masses ‘That the masses are in motion against the Japanese and the Kuom- Antang traitors is further borne out by the admission of the Nanking Charge d’Affaires in Washington, | Hawkin Yen al feeling of disappotnt- ust and donbt now per- vades the masses of the Chinese people as tothe sanctity of treaties end therepeated protestations of friendship which the powers of the ‘world have professed for China and her pepole.” / That this distrust, which extends to the Kuomintang government is the real reason for the new demagogic gestures of Nanking, is shown in a dispatch from Shanghai which states: “The Japanese occupation of ‘Tsitsihar has aggravated the situ- ation to such anextent that the Party Congress (Kuomintang) in secret session has resolved that in view of recent events the General- Ussimo should proceed north to watch events, ‘The attitude of the BRERA <eind eR | Chinese Government is unchanged, and jit is not lest faith in the League, but the resolution is the eutceme of a fecling of uneasi- ness,” Kuomintang Trying To Deceive Masses 6Kap'dceiv T ETAOIN NU NU NN}| Uneasiness over the growing anger of the Chinese masses against the imperialist plunderers and their Kuo- mintang tools. In its effort to stem this anger, the Kuomintang Congress indulged in another empty gesture, adopting a four-year plan “for mil- itary defense.” The rapid growth of this mass de- fense movement is seen in a report from Shanghai of a 3-day strike by 15,000 Chinese students in that city. The dispatch reports: “An increase of the belligerent spirit among local Chinese is un- mistakable. Students and patriotic associations are using the seizure of Tsitcsihar to arouse greater in- dignation.” Another dispatch reports that school children at Tientsin contrib- uted a sum of $900 for national de- fense.. In a statement sent to the Nanking Governaeg:, he school children state: “Chinese citizens should render | material assistance, not merely talk of patriotic movements.” Fear Growth of Revolutionary Movement The real -bogy of the imperialists and their Chinese lackeys is the tre- mendous growth of the revolutionary movement in China. The Saka Main- ichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi, make an editorial appeal to the British im- perialists to help in crushing the re- volutionary movement, the growth of which they try to explain as an out- growth of the flood disaster and hav- ing no connection with the Japanese aggressions in China. The editorial states: “It is now a foregone conclusion that sooner or later serious upris- ings are bound to break out in the Yangtse region as a consequence of the vast inundation, in all prob- ability under the influénce of Bol- shevism. The trouble is already in process of fermentation. Brit- ain’s interests are concentrated precisely in the territories to be di- rectly affected by such uprisings. We are not certain that she is cap- able of coping with the flood of turbulent mobs single-handed, In needlessly provoking Japan, her statesmen are precluding the pos- sibility of Japanese collaboration in facing the peril. Lord Reading lacks not only self-confidence, but also foresight. The future of the British position in the Far East is regretably sombre indeed.” ‘The following protests was sent to the Japanese government by the Me- ~ | tropolitan Anti-Japanese Society: ‘The Japanese Government has demanded that the Nanking Gov- ernment suppress the anti-Japanese movement, but this movement of the people arose as a spontaneous growth attendant upon Japan’s im- perialism and has not and can not be investigated by any individual or a group of individuals. It can- not be suppressed by the Govern- ment. The stronger the gesture, the more violent the outburst will be. ee “Our patriotic ardor is entirely incompatible with the imperialistic policy of the Japanese nation. If dire consequences follow, so much the worse for Jaan.” Japanese Authors Protest Manchu- rian Adventure The Japanese section of the In- ternational Association of Revolu- tionary Authors has sent a telegram to the secretariat here, reading as follows: “We protest energetically against the military provocations of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria, against the insolent adventure of the Jap- anese General Staff, against the oc- cupation of Manchuria by Japanese troops and against the reparations to divide up China. We are organizing a mass protest campaign throughout Japan,” Compare this attitude with the blatant jingoism and treachery of the Japanese “socialists.” Japanese Communist leader impri- soned During the proceedings against a series of Communists in Tokio, the accused Toho Katayama (not to be confused with Sen Katayama, the veteran Japanese Communist) de- clared: “Today is the fourteenth anni- versary of the November Revolu- tion in Russia, After the Russian workers had carried out their vic- tortous revolution the imperialist Powers, including Japan, attempt- ed to crush the revolution by tervention. However, the Russian eevieeess sas victorloys Wonaiee troops to China. Jt aims at crushing the Chinese revolution and preparing a new intervention against the Soviet Union. We de- mand the immediate withdrawal of all Japanese troops trom China, and express the confident hope that the Chinese revolution will be victorious.” The judge interrupted Katayama and prevented him from. continuing his remarks. The court is being heavi- ly guarded by armed police. Japan Planning New Attack. Japan is still rushing fresh troops to Manchuria and is planning a fur- ther extension of its control, with an attack on Central roti 3 A Edom saa ered and re- | \Bankers Saueeze Wool, Industry of Britain of Dividends and Interest (By Labor Research Assn.) NEW YORK. he problem of the |w olen tanusts one of gross pitalization, s Labour Re- search Depart of England in a report which shows the tremendous |profits made by certain British woolen nies, their generous distribution | of stock div pilates to stockholders, jand the large amounts paid cut in bond interest. and for depreciation— the later reserves. It proves that the claims of “pov- erty” made by the British wool man- ufacturers are unfounded. It con- cludes that the dead weight of deben- ture loans, bank overdrafts and bank interest is placing control of wool, as it has placed control of cotton, coal and steel, in the hands of the bankers, and it is certain that the banks will demand drastic financial reorganiza- tion along wich wage cuts. The same trend is observable in the wool manufacturing industry here, where wage cutting has been in prog- ress for several years, often representing secret dispatch to the New York ‘Times ad- mits: “The stream of reports from Mukden, which sound suspiciously like an overture to new military action, grows stronger, One sent by the Rengo News Agency to- night suggests that the new bri- gade from Japan, which arrived at Mukden yesterday, is to be used | ‘with two other regiments of ar- tillery as the Chinese soldiers at Chinchow now number 50,444.” The same dispatch reports that the Japanese have consolidated their hold on northern Manchuria, which is outside of the zon of influence they formerly claimed. Harbin is on the Chinest Eastern Railway, which is jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. Through their pup- pets, the Japanese are securing con- trol of the Chinese share in the rail- road. U.S. Sees Further Japanest Advance. The United States government, which heads the anti-Soviet front, is generally well informed of Japanese intentions, A dispatch from Wash- ington gives as official opinion in | that city that: “Further important military de- velopments in Manchuria shortly would come as no surprise, and eyes are now turnéd toward Har-. -bin, Should Japan decide to press westward into inner Mongolia, as was forecast here early this week, she would, in informed opinion here, first remove any menace to her rear from Harbin, which lies suotheast of Tsitsihar, \ “It has long been evident that Japan, in pressing her occupation, would find the least resistance by swinging west from Tsitsihar, with her ultimate objective Inner Mon- golia, a region potentially impor- tant economically, Reports from Mukden of ‘profuse indications’ that the Japanese forces are preparing to head from the Great Wall of China and announcements from Japanese army headquarters in Mukden and from Tokyo today that Chinese forces are concentrating west of Chengchiatun and Chin- chow in Southwest Manchuria, aer accepted as tending to con- firm these forecasts. Whether the Chinese concentration is real or imaginary, it would give a pretext for a Japanese advance to the Great Wall.” Soviet Union Sends Japan Protest. Walter Duranty, New York Times Moscow correspondent, reports that Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff, has sent a note -, Japan, declaring, in part: “I must, yet take note, not- withstanding the first deciaration made by you regarding the in- structions given for utmost limita- tions of Japanese military opera- tions, that these operations since then have widened to a great ex- tent beyond the borders of the first intended zones, “This situation makes it possible that the interests of the Soviet Re- Public would be affected, which cannot but call for serious alarm on te side of the Soviet Union,” The Soviet Foreign Commissar re- jected the parallel which the im- perialists have tried to draw beteween the defensive action of the Soviet Union, in 1929 against the White Gual oH in Manchuria and the pres- ent seizure of Manchuria by Japan. Comrade Litvinoff pointed out: that the Soviet Union has “never abused the weakness of China” or occupied any etrritory belonging to China or any other nation, He reiterated that the Soviet Union continues to pur- sue a policy of peace. In his dispatch in the Sunday New York Times, Duranty expresses his personal opinion that “Soviet Russia j es not want w nd will not have war if she can a it—with Japan who have been help’ of trying to provoke the Soviet ion to war, bee forced to make t: ame admis- A Paris dispatch declares “Paris is convinced that the gov- ernment of Soviet Russia will | firmly resist being led by almost any provocation into war with JUST OUT SOVIET PICTORIAL CENTER WHEN Expose Walker’s Hypoe Murder and Jailing SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov: 22. The International Labor Defense and the Trade Union Unity League an- nounces that a demonstration will be held on Dec. 1 in front of the Civic Center where Governor Rolph will hold the Mooney hearing with Mayor Walker and others. The International Labor Defense has issued leaflets pointing out to the workers that the Mooney-Harlan mass movement led by the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense is forcing the bosses to act although it covers itself with the smoke screen of the Walker confer- ence. The International Labor De- fense and the Trade Union Unity League exposes Walker as the mur- derer of Katovis, Gonzales and Levy and the jailor of Foster, Minor, Ray- mond and Amter and hundreds of New York Workers in strikes and the struggle of the unemployed. The I, L. D. and T. U. U L. call upon continued and increased mass pressure to force the release of Moo- ney, Billings, the Harlan defendants, the Scottsboro boys and Imperial Val- ley prisoners and to compel the re- peal of ‘the California criminal syn- dicalism law. The International Labor Defense calls for the Mooney-Harlan state convention on January 10th and the state hunger march on Sacramento to be linked up with the Mooney-Im- perial Valley march. A delegation is being elected for December 1st to de- mand admission to the Mooney hear- ing to present its demands and force the-release of Mooney and the Imper- ial Valley prisoners. Ch aS Leaves Irritated. NEW YORK: — Mayor Walker left New York Friday night in a special 110 DEMONSTRATE BEFORE CIVIC WALKER MEETS GOVERNOR IN FAKE “HEARING” International Labor Defense and Trade Union Unity League Call Mooney-Harlan Convention risy With Record of His Policy In New York car which started from Grand Cen- tral station. He registered much in- dignation when his attention was cal- led to the Daily Worker exposures of his motives, the desire to curry fa- vor with the American workers by a gesture towards Mooney, while his own graft ridden and club wielding administration is being shown up in New York. The mayor also exhibited much ir- ritation over the suggestion that he might meet up with Sherwood, his accountant who is dodging subpoe- naes in order to hide some of the fi- nancial deals Jimmy Walker doesn’t want to let the world know about. The International Ladies Garment Workers chiefs and a group of social- ist and other A. F, L. experts on fram- ing strikers in New York and on gen- eral strike breaking of which they have done a lot, sent Walker a tele- gram highly approving his move to- wards California. ee All the Jailers. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov: 22— Those who meet with Walker and Rolph while the workers of San Fran- cisco demonstrate for the actual re- lease of Mooney will be, according to @ list announced Friday by the gov- ernor: Attorney-General U. S. Webb, J. O. Brien, director of the state depart- ment of Penology and former chief of the San Francisco police depart- ment, former Judge Matt I. Sullivan, ‘Theodore J. Roche, president of the local police commission, and John L, McNab, The latter three will act as the Governor's atorneys: BULLETIN The following wire was received’ yesterday by the Daily Worker: “The National Board of the Na- Pittsburgh, Pa., greets the victory of the Kentucky miners freeing Bur- nett from coal operators clutches, We urge all miners of the country and hind the rest of the Harlan prison- ers in order to free them for future struggles of the miners. National Miners Union pledges fullest support to the Harlan prisoners and all min- ers of Kentucky to smash terror of © perators and government. Signed Frank Borich, National Secretary.” 8 NEW YORK.—“Protest from every section of the country, linked up with jimmediate and fearless exposure of each indication of sellout by the coal-operator-General Defense Com- mittee-I. W. W.-United Mine Work- ers’ legal defense, has resulted in the acquittal of Bill Burnett,” said (George M@urer today in a statement issued by the International Labor Defense. Bill Burneaa, Harlan County coal miner, was framed on a murder charge as a@ result of a fight near Evarts last April that started when deputies tried to beat to death an old Negro striker, Johnson Murphy. “The acquittal of Burnett, even in such a court and. before such a jury of rich farmers and business men, is @ real victory for the workers,” Maurer stated, “Demonstrations, or- ganized under the auspices of the conferences of workers’ organiza~ tions, connecting this case with the figh$ to free Mooney and the Scotts- boro boys, wide publicity, all played @ part in the struggle against this attempt to railroad Burnett. The visit of the committee of famous writers and journalists, headed by Theodore Dreiser, to the Harlan coal fialds, which the International La- bor Defense helped organize and di- rect, aided the smashing of the wall of silence around the terrorization of Harlan miners by deputized coal thugs and around the Burnett frame-up. “The court was further made to feel the pressure of mass defense by exposure in the revolutionary press coal operators, Judge Prewitt, Attor~ | ney White of Mount Sterling, “d fense” lawyer retained by the Ge! eral Defense Committee of bai LW. JUST OUT! Sixty Latest Soviet Photos Rundles of 50 or over at.. Te Red Star Press 1B. 67, Station D, N.Y. tional Miners Union in session at- the entire working class to get be-' of the link-up between the Harlan | Mass Pressure, Exposure of WW. UMWA “Defense” Free Bill Burnett | with thousands demonstrating along W., and Robsion, attorney hired by the U.M.W.A. The ILD. has: re- vealed within the past few days: Lawyers Company Tools “1, That Jndge Prewitt proved himself a coal operators’ man in an election contest case six years ago and was for that reason hand-picked by Judge D. C. Jones of Harlan to j Harlan miners; “2. That Attorney White, retained by the treacherous I.W.W. defense committee, is attorney for the Ken- tucky Utilities Company, an Insull subsidiary, and also for Rockefeller and Morgan concerns, all of whom are heavy owners in Harlan County coal mines; “3. Robsion, retained by the U. M. W. A. known, with Governor Samp- son, as the ‘Gold Dust Twins,” is a leading reactionary, linked up with the K.K.K. and has a ‘questionable’ Political charactér. “Eleven more of the Harlan min- ers charged with murder go on trial at Mount Sterling today. The other murder charge defendants, including the four Negro miners, will be tried at Winchester next month. Espe- cially because these miners are being “defended” by attorneys of the stripe of White and Robsion the mass fight that forced the freeing of Bill Bur- nett must be doubled. The ILD. calls on all workers to fight any deals between the coal operators and these ‘defenders’ that will result in the special victimiizations of certain de- fendants, such as the four militant Negro miners, in order to get off such men as Hightower and Jones (who have gone ever to the U.M.W.A.).” Rochester Holds Conference For The Nat'l Hunger March ROCHESTER, N. N. ¥.—The United Front Hunger March Conference was held here on November 15th. Sev- eral workers’ fraternal organizations as well as Laborers’ local No. 135 were represented. This A: F. of L. Labor- ers’ Local was among the organiza- tion which took coupons to raise funds to finance the National Hunger March, A resolution was adopted protesting the stand taken by the A, F. of L j convention in Vancouver against Un- employment Insurance. }sent to ail A, F. of L. Locals: JUST OUT! THE ROAD ,A ROMANCE OF THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION By GEORGE MARLEN (Spiro) Author of PARIS ON THE BARRICADES 623 pp. —$2.00 Workers Book Shop +50 Bast 13th Street “For the First Time in the History of Literature a Communist Novel” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, _MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 23, 1931 __Yage Taree Unemployed to Sell “The Liberator” Unemployed workers who have been selling the Daily Worker, La- |bor Unity, and other revolution- ary papers, can now add to their bundle The Liberator, official or- gan of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. During the drive for 10,000 new readers, these may be obtained for one cent a copy in bundles of ten or more, and sold for three cents, unsold copies to be returned. The Liberator, fighting for Negro rights, must at- tain mass circulation during the campaign. Unemployed workers! Sell The Liberator in working class neighborhoods, before factory gates and at workers’ meetings. Write in to The Liberator, room 201, 50 E. 13th St. and order your bundle now! MEET IN MASS FOR START OF NATL MARCH ONE) (CONTINUED FROM PAGE Labor Conference was held in New York, and today there will be a demonstration to support demands made on the board of aldermen. A Children’s March on the Board of Education in Elizabeth, N. J., took place Thursday, wit hpolice barring | all entrances ta the building but forced to let the committee interview the secretary of the board. In addition to this, local struggles everywhere against evictions, for re- lief demands, etc., are increasing, and in many cases overcoming attempts of police to interfere. Further detailson some of the Na- tional Hunger March demonstrations and preparations are given below. The National Hunger March is made up of 1,500 delegates elected largely at united front City Labor Confertnces called by the Councils of the Unemployed. It will reach Wash- ington, D. C., on Dec. 6, and the next day will present demands on Con- gress for unemployment insurance and immediate relief. Hundreds of Open Hearings on starvation in | which the jobless themselves testify |as to conditions, are being held in | ployed Councils, try the murder frame-ups against the | « It is being | ™ all cities at the call of the Unem- “Washington to Washington.” SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. hundred workers and jobless work- ers paraded through Seattle streets, the way, when the National Hunger March delegation started from here, at 11 a. m., Nov. 15. The marchers followed a truck which carried a big sign: “From Washtington to Wash- ington.” They carried placards with demands for insurance and for no imperialist war, no attack on the So- yiet Union. The march was lead by a 17 year old boy, Ray Thomas. He is one of a family of 10, of whom four have been taken from home apd placed in institutions because they were starving. Norman’s father has been blacklisted and can get neither a job nor any relief because he was active in a saw mill strike, The Seattle delegation is made up of four from Seattle itself, two from Portland, one from Aberdten, one from Bellingham, and one from Spokane. One member is a Negro, one is an American Indian, one is @ youth and one is an ex-serviceman. Youth to March, CLEVELAND,, Ohio, Nov. 22.—A mass city hunger march of young workers, women and children will take place in Cleveland on Friday, November 27 at 2:00 p. m. The young workers and-other marchers will gather from all parts of the city and march to the city hall where they will present their demands to may- or Burton, The march will take place on the day after Thanksgiving when the bosses of America eat all the turkey they can and talk about how much they give to the poor. To fool the workers into believing that they pro- yide for the needy they give out a few Thanksgiving baskets. This march will be a direct answer to such bunk, The demands which the young workers will present to the city gov- ernment are based on conditions ex- posed at open hearings and they are as follows. 1—Five dollars weekly cash relief for all young unemployed with free lodging for the homeless unem- ployed youth. 2.—Free food and clothing for the children of the unemployed. 3. Opening of public buildings such as schools, YMCA’S, etc., for | free use of gymns by young unem- | other pub! oe +t nat do no’ have to sleep out of doors in the cold winter month 5,—Unemployn insurance at the bosses’ expense without discrimi- nation against young workers, Effigies and cartoons of young workers being refused relief by the charities, exposing the Community Fund and other fake bosses relief agencies, will be made by the John Reed Club of Cleveland. The Workers’ International Relief has secured donations of 500 bottles of milk and about 1,000 sandwiches for those participating in the march. ‘The march will start from three sections of the city at 12:30 p. m. in order to be at the city hall by 2:00 p.m, The starting places are: i 22,—Four | see the city council. MEETING OF 3000 Hl ARD COAL MINERS OPENS NEW FIGHT ON STARVATION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ted Committee el unions were endorsed. Rank and Committee Yesterday's | hear the reports of th 1e Ra |Committee on the prog Reports a f grievances against the general lower living standard of the anthra ers by the operators and th Boylan-Kennedy machine by means of the five-year contract signed last | year. ~Y—South Slav Hall, 5607 St. Clair Avenue 2—Ukrainian Hall, 1051 Auburn Avenue. 3.—Rayford Jackson Hall, 3804|° Scovill Avenue. The city hunger march will rat ten youth dele to the the tional hunger march. ‘The thousands of workers who are waiting outside in the rain and cold for the answer of the coun voted enthusiastically for the demands and for organization to force action on them, when the committee back and reported the cowardly re- treat of the council. Grays Harber is a Ml but im- portant saw mill, pulp wood, and lumber shipping center. The “Grays Harbor Worker” is a six-page mimeographed pa well gotten out, and selling for two cents. 3,000 In Lumber Town. GRAYS HARBOR, Wash., No’ —‘The Gray’s Harbor Worker, cial organ of the Communist Party of Grays Harbor, in its fi Nov. 13, carries as main account of the parade of 500 jobless through the streets and a demon- stration of 3,000 at the city hall for immediate relief and a forced labor in the pulp wood jobs. Among the speakers was Joe Schroyer, Communist Party can date for Mayor, who got 312 vot the capitalist agent who won election getting 819. The streets in front of the city hall were blocked by the crowd. Lydia Laukanen, Young Communist | League organizer, addressed the ‘crowd while a committee of 15 with Schroyer as spokesman, went On their up the stairs, the committee met part of the city council hastening doy The rest of the city council had ready sneaked out the back way way Amter Opens Meeting. The meeting opened a little after noon under a warm bright sun with Isreal Amter as chairman. Speakers included A. Markoff of the Communist Party, Sol Harper of the Ex-Servicemen’s League. A Johanen- sen of the Marine Workers Industria! Union, J. Zack of the Trade Union Unity Council of New York. Other speakers representing the women’s | department of the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Young Pioneers, the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights and the Int national Labor Defense: Soviet “Forced Labor” ”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! came | in the election held Nov. 14, with Magee, the | in to|) Workers | The meeting was of the miners from the three Dela- are and Hudson Coal Company nd from the three UMWA lo- whose members have taken jative in the present struggle. The Program and Demands composed largely Rank and File Opposition ittee now made up of 35 mem- bers from the three local unions placed the following draft demands re the meeting and they were un- nously endorsed: Opening of all collieries; 2) no closing down of any mines or section of mines—no layoffs—idle men to be put back to work; 3) company must antee at least four day work week at union scale; 5) no dis- SsuD for activities in Rank and pposition or for taking up ; 6) Abolition of individual ; 7) a day's pay for through no fault of ; 8) all supplies to be des ered to the working place by the or all dead work; y miner to choose wn labo er; 10) consideration rate on scale) to be paid where miner not make day wage owing to bad ig conditions; 11) recognition of Rank and File Committee. Delegations to Scale Unions The meeting also endorsed the pro- posal to elect delegations from the various local unions to be sent to all locals whose. members. are employed by the D. and H., place the demands before them for endorsement and have representatives elected to the Rank and File Opposition Committee. Unemployment—Low Wages The Delaware and Hudson Coal Compa has 22 mines in District No. One (Scranton-Wilkesbarre area) and employ} ,000 miners. Conditions are typical of the an< thr e generally—no full time work, one,, two and three d: per week, per nent unemploym for. thou- sands of mine (about 50,000 sinem= ant te district), more coal produced with less miners, the contract system eatiug like a cancer. into wages and working conditions, fired for isting on the union UMWA officials, local, ng with production “ —_ determinat.un vy as @ result of whole se- ay S. have seen their es sold out time and time again perators’ agents planted in their s and this time they ‘€ organ- their own committees--—These and the hangers-on of the ‘Boylan machine. But any leader tries to water demands or who-tries to put over some other program than that of organization and militant struggle will not last long | The main task of the miners now is to extend and strengthen” their rank and file opposition movement in all mines and local unions of the Delaware and Hudson in prepara- tion for strike action to enforce the demands. 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