The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1931, Page 1

orker Party U.S.A. GATHER WITH YOU “FRIENDS OF THE ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET t SHOPMATES IN DAILY WORK- SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” SUBS, / WORKERS OF THE WORLD, ‘ UNITE! : | Central Ong. unist > &) ‘(Section of the Communist International) ~ ———— mq En: red as second-class matter at the Post “Office eT Ts = = = = ae =m ac es Se a ‘aie mt a 4OL. VIII, No. 302 ww at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March %, 1879 rg NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER Ty 1931 Aid the Mass Fight for Chin- ese Independence! Defend Soviet China Against Imperialism ! ‘HE collapse—or, more exactly, the overthrow—of Chiang Kai-shek as head of the Nanking Government and the Kuomintang, represents an important maturing of the anti-imperialist revolutionary struggle now headed by the Central Soviet Government of China under the leader- ership of the Communist Party. The action of the students, spectacular and heroic as they are, could never have attained even the objective of arriving at Nanking, had not they been supported by the rising ground-swell of revolutionary anger of the broad masses. The immediate anger which these students—and all friends of Chin- ese independence from imperialism—must beware of, is the acceptanc of Chiang Kai-shk’s “resignation” as the end of their desires, and the fail- ure to follow up this apparent victory by action to attain a real victory. Where now, these students and the masses behind them, must ask themselves, are the hopes of national unity and independence promised not only by Chiang Kai-shek, but by ALL the Kuomintang, under the leadership of the Chinese bourgeoisie, landlords and the “help” of foreign oppressors? Under these promises, and disguising themselves as “revolutionists,” the Kuomititang militarists butchered literally hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants, vilely assassinated Communists as ‘‘counter-revo-~ lutionary”—and to what result? The result is that the road has been opened to the complete dis- memberment of China by, the imperialist wolves, and every semblance of “Independent” government has been at the price of boot-licking servility to one or the other of the imperialist powers. Japan seizes Manchuria with impunity. And in justifying the seizure says that China as a whole, South as well as North, is “in chaos.” And now the French use the same excuse of “bandits” to invade from the South as Japan did in the North. The deep resentment of the masses has lent its force to the student movement that occupies the foreground of the last days’ events. But. deeper and wider than that, is the sweeping advance of the Chinese So- viets, now organized in a Central Government, with a powerful Red Army that has overwhelmingly defeated the greater and imperialist-equipped and officered mercenary armies of Nanking. It is this revolutionary force of the masses now rallying rapidly to the banner of the Chinese Soviet Government, that-is the ONLY obstacle to the immediate dismemberment of all China by the imperialist plun- derers, not the least of which is the American imperialists. American imperialism is directly responsible for Chiang Kai-shek and. every poor worker and peasant he and the Kuomintang has murdered! American imperialism has armed, and its “advisers” have guided, Chiang Kai-shek in all his massacres and treachery! American imperialism has openly consented to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria! And the comment of the Washington “Star” that the French invasion of Yunnan in the South “does not surprise” Washington officials, is ad- ditional proof that American imperialism has reached an accord with France and Japan for the redistribution of China, as one objective of this new grouping of imperialist forces. ss That this implies a squeezing out of British interests is clear from added confessions: of Washington officials, whom the “Star” cites as ‘Say + se "is suggested that the internal difficulties of Great Britain make feasible such a program” (A Franco-Japanese pact, in which Washington pretends not to be—but is, in reality, involved), ‘This new imperialist bloc, subject to emergency shiftings inherent in its inner rivalries, is united however upon three main aims: 1) The re-division of China among themselves; 2) The suppression of the grow- ing revolutionary movement led by the Chinese Soviets against all im- perialism; 3) The preparation, especially by using Manchuria as a basis, for war against the Soviet Union. ‘The overthrow of Chiang Kai-shek by no means weakens the danger to Chinese revolution from imperialist attack. On the contrary, impe- rialism and particularly American imperialism, whose domination is pos- sibly endangered, will at once move actively and energetically BY FORCE OF ARMS, to stifle the growing Soviet movement, choke off mass risings against imperialism and try to insure imperialist oppression. ‘The so-called “left wing” of the Kuomintang, that now takes power at Nanking, will be even more savagely—if that is possible—against the masses, than Chiang Kai-shek was. Its pro-Japanese tendency is clear in the person of Eugene Chen. Wang Chin-wei, its political leader, and Chang Fak-wei, its “left” militarist, have repeatedly massacred the work- ers, peasants and students, the last bloodbath at Canton on October 10 being carried out by Wang Chin-wei against students who organized a boycott against Japan over the Manchurian seizure. The “new” government will be, therefore, even more openly than the “old” one, the ‘running dogs” of imperialism, imperialism more ruthless and ready for armed invasion than ever! An imperialist war upon the Chineso masses more than ever openly led by Wall Street and its Wash- ~ Ingtorr servants! Workers of America, the growing power of the Chinese Soviets must be aided by you who are likewise exploited by Wall Street! Those who rob you in the shops and starve you on the breadlines should hear. your voice of protest at theri attempt to drown the students of China in-blood! workers, peasants and Hands off China! Down with imperialist intervention in China! Withdraw every U. S. soldier and marine from the soil of China! Stop munitions shipments to the Chinese militarists! Defend Soviet China, the leader of national independence! Protest the seizure of Manchuria and the war preparations against the Soviet Union! , Only One Day - Ross from Electric’ Chair! Left to Tear NEW. YORK.—The stay of execu- tion granted by the governor of Texas to Bonnie Lee Ross, young Negro farmhand sentenced to die in the electric chair Dec. 18 on a framed charge of Tape was revoked two hours after it had been granted evidently under strong pressure from the rich landowners in that section. A last minute appeal was also refused. ' Only the widest mass protest meetings all over the country save Bonnie Lee Ross from burning in the electric chair Friday. Two such meetings were held yesterday in Tansas City, Mo. They were viciously tlacked by the polite who arranged wolve workers “including Herbert arch District Organier of the Young ‘communist League. A series of mighty protest meetings /% series of mighty protest meetings shave been scheduled in Omaha City, ‘Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Okla- jhoma City and Houston, Texas These * mectings will be followed by many others in different parts of the coun- try as the united white and Negro working class pour forth in thousands to protest agairist the legal lynching of Bonnie Lee Ross, Ross was charged with having at- tacked a white woman in Denver- field, Texas. Investigation' by 18 In- ternational Labor Defense workers uncovered complete proof of Ross’ innocence. The woman who accused Ross was found to have been a drug addict and subject to fits under the influence of which she made her ac- cusation, Nine children testified to the investigators that Ross was seen to have left his house and to have gone in a direction opposite to the woinan’s house at the idéntical time the attack was supposed to have taken place. From beginning to end the case was proven to have been a frame-up and the hour trial at which Ross was not given a chance to defend himself, was shown to have been a farce, Kentucky Mine Convention Breaks Through Terror; Build Union to Prepare for Strike DISTRICT CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL MINERS UNION IN KENTUCKY WHICH VOTED TO STRIKE ON JAN. 1 BULLETIN. PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 16.—Six of the leading participants in the National Miners Union convention here which set Jan. Ist as the date of a general strike in the Kentucky coal fields, were fired by the Caroline Mine at Arjay, Ky. t oday. One was vice-chairman of the convention. The others were active on important committees. B. G. Green, a Negro miner, was arrested in Middlesboro, Ky. for dis- tributing N. M. U. leaflets. The charge against him is yet unknown. Polly Boyden, writer, was arrested in Straight Creek, taken out of the county. Later, when she convinced the thugs she was not an organizer, she returned. The operator of the Arpay mine attending the convention publicly told Meeks, chairman, that he was not blacklisted. But today he proved he lied by firing an additional six. New Crashes Show Weaken- ing of U.S. Banking System NEW YORK.—A new series of big bank crashes Tuesday F orward Surge in China in Boston, where nine large banks failed with over $58,000,000 involved served to emphasize the fact that-the whole banking structure of the United States, despite the lies of the Hoover administration is severely hit. Never before in the his- tory of the United States, or any country in the world have so many banks crashed as this year. In his annual report, issued just two days ago, J. W. Pole, Controller of the Cur- rency, declared that up to Oct. 30, 2,342 banks failed this year, with deposits of over $2,000,000,000 in- volved. Last year it was after Oct 30 that the larger banks, such as the Bank of United States, crashed, depriving hundreds of thousands of depositors of their hard-earned savings, The failure of the Boston banks began with the closing down of the Federal National Bank of Boston. Tens of thousands of workers are clamoring in vain for’ thier deposits. Many who had served ell year for the so-called “Christmas fund” will not get a cent this year. ‘The Boston and Massachusetts au- thorities are issuing their usual lies about the “soundness” of the banking institutions, Whenever some large banks fail the capitalist authorities repeat this line. When the Lawrence Trust Co. of Lawrence, Mass., crashed, depositors in nearly all other banks demanded the payment of their deposits. Bank crashes took place in other parts of the country on the same day the Boston banks closed. In Marion, Ohio, the Marion National Bank with deposits of $1,143,094 failed to open, In Medina, N, Y. two banks closed. ‘The People Trust Co, at Annville, Pa., with $385,000 in deposits crashed, Important Article On German Crisis to Appear Friday Due to pressure of space an im- portant article jon the German situation and Hitler’s latest mani- festo \has been omitted from to- day’s Daily Worker. This article will appear on page four of tomor- row’s issue. About 50 rank and file organizers of the N. M. U. are in the field organizing locals in preparation for the January 1st strike. Three new locals were organized yesterday. A series of mass meetings are to be held between now and the strike as follows: Friday, 6 p. m. Arpay, Glendon Mine, where Turnblazer and Childers, strike-breakers for the United Mine Workers of America, made a futile effort to get the men to leave the National Miners Union. Saturday, 1 p, m. at the Right Fork, Straight Creek, including Liberty Kettle Island. 7 Sunday, 1 p. m. Clear Fork Section, Bell County, near Middlesboro. Seven kitchens of the Workers International Relief are already opened and more will be opened soon. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) Mass Anti-Imperialist Movement Continues Armed Peasants and Irregulars Spread Fight Against Japanese Troops in Manchuria The mass anti-imperialist movement which swept from office the Wall Street Butcher, Chiang Kai-shek, continues to surge forward in China. The students who. on Tuesday stormed and wrecked the Nanking Foreign Office and the Kuomintang headquarters have been reinforced by tens of thousands arriving from Shanghai, Peiping and other cities. 80,000 students are reported now in Nanking. Thousands of others are on their way to the capitol on requi- pe daccthinicionce 15,000 WELCOME MARCHERS BACK (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Demand Release of Edith Berkman, NEW YORK. — Demanding the immediate release of Edith Burkman, Lawrence, Mass., textile strike lead- er, the Trade Union Unity League in a statement issued today signed by William Z. Foster, exposes the attacks made by the United States govern- ment, through its Wall Street lackey, Secretary of Labor Doak, against the Trade Union Unity League. The Rail Union Heads Plan Sell- Out Friday, Meet Big Bosses NEW YORK.—Further steps will be taken on Friday to cut the wages of all the railroad workers in the coun- try. The railroad presidents of all the roads will meet then with rep- tesentatives of the 221 railroad unions and plans will be worked out, as the New York Times put it, for “wage adjustments.” All the financial papers in Wall Street state that the railroad bosses are sure the union leaders will help them put over a wage cut, and in this way turn over $350,000,000 out of the workers’ wages for profits and stock dividends. Presidents of the Western railways are suggesting that wage cuts be in- stituted immediately, and that nego- tiations go right on with the union misleaders so that no time will be wasted in attacking the workers, ‘The National Railroad Industrial League, which is organizing the rank and file of the railroad unions to re- sist the wage cuts, is arranging for a series of meetings and conferences among the railroad workers to or- ganize fo rstrike against wage cuts. Meanwhile, unemployment is grow- ing among the railroad workers. The Interstate Commerce Commission in its latest report states that 103,421 railroad workers lost their jobs in October. Those still left on the job -have had their wages cut through part-time work and speedup. INTO CHICAGO lackeys continue in Nanking and CHICAGO, Ml, Dec. 15.-;Five thousand workers assembled in seven mass meetings throughout Chicago yesterday to greet the National Hun- ger March delegates of Column Three and hear their: reports. A large number of the delegates were elected by the jobless of Chicago. This com- Strike Leader! statement says: In the attempt of the employers to prevent the growth of the revo- lutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, their evident determi- nation is to treat them as illegal or- ganizations. This is again manifest by the statement of the chief labor lackey of the American capitalist class, Doak, Secretary of Labor, who says in the New York Herald Tribune of December 13th, that the Trade Union Unity League is an outlaw or- ganization. This is an indication of further attempts to suppress the T. UV. U. L. by various violent measures. Mo union of the TUUL has suffered more from the imprisonment of its leaders than the National Textile Workers Union. Even as these lines are being written, comrades Devine and Murdoch, both former general secretaries of the N. T. W. U., are now at Ellis Island, awaiting depor- pletes their march, and it was the opinion loudly expressed by the thousnds who heard them report last night, that it was “some march.” De- mands for unemployment insurance (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Price 3 Cents el Entire Capitalist Relief f or 1932 Is $7.89 Per Man Total City and Private Funds for Whole Coun- try; for Work and Breadlines Organize! Fight for Insurance, Relief! Against This Murder of Joble: Fight The official “unemployment relief cam- paign” in the various cities of the United States which was declared completed over a week ago by Hoover’s Mr. Gifford, head of the federal “Emergency Unemployment Commit- tee” has brought in less than $8 for each unemployed worker. On this the governments, natio1 mal, state and city, propose he shall live and support his family for the entire course of 1982. This fact became known through the publication in J. P, Morgan’s ‘New York Evening P. ingly patronizing and hypocritcal® article starts out: ‘All America has ralied to the cause of the unem- ployed.” Then it lists and adds up every scrap of money collected in every city of the country. It includes city funds, collections through check-off of the wages of city and private employes, some contributions of bankers and others, proceeds of foot ball games, and absolutely everything, and arrives at a total for the entire country of $94,500,$$$. This means 7.89 approximately, for each of the 12,000,000 jobless in this country, with no special provi- sion of any sort for those who have families, and taking it for granted the jobless will get the money. But this last can not be done. Included in the Post summary are the funds for “mass work,” and public im- provements, and of this the jobless get precious little. Most goes for contractor's profit and building materials, and a Iot is grafted, as witness the Philadelphia scandals and those of other cities. Stark hunger, starvation and mass misery is the actual answer in the Post's summation of relief funds. Against this brutal and cruel mur- dering of the unemployed workers, more organization, more struggle, must be conducted. Build the Un- employed Councils; demand relief; prepare for nation wide demonstra- tions on February 4; demand un- employment insvrance! Philadelphia City Employees Get No Salaries Dec. 15th PHILADELPHIA, Pa, — Some twenty-six thousand city and county yyes did not receive their sal- aries December 15 when it was an- nounced that there was no money in the city treasury. The city treasurer said that all tax receipts are being used to meet pay- ments on the more than half billion dollar city bonds. Talk of floating a loan is now going on. East St. Louis Own Man in Raid on Jobless EAST ST. LOUIS, Il, Dec. 16.— Chief of Police Leahy, aciing on his announced threat that all militant workers’ meetings would be broken up here, raided a workers’ meeting Friday. It was called to plan the (OONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) C4™MPaign against police terror and ‘Kentucky Miners Prepare to Strike Cheering and applauding, the miners, attending the first District Convention of the Na- tional Miners Union held in Pineville, Kentucky, on Decem- ber 13th, unanimously accepted the proposal of the scale com- mittee to strike throughout the state on January 1st, 1932. After delegates representing 17,000 miners from all over Kentucky took the floor, each demanding strike as the sclu- tion, graphically described their conditions in the mines,; 4. Top day-men; $4.80—helpers at home, and the terror of the operators, the miners went wild, cheering, stamping their feet, The demands of the miners on January 1st will be: 1. Fifty cents for machine coal four feet and over. Additional two cents per inch on ton below four feet. 2. Sixty-fivecents per ton for pick coal four feet and up—additional two cents per inch on tons below four feet. 3. Twenty-five cents a yard for wet places. peices cs eet neeceee rs $4.40 per day. Unclassified $3.60 per day. 5. Machine men 15 cents per ton. 6. Payment for all dead work, to be baced on top daymen’s rate. 7. Any miner that .cannot make his day work because of the com- pany’s fault to be paid full shift. 8. When any miner is taken off the face for other work, he shall be paid full shift, 9. Delivery of all supplies into the working place by the company. Cars to be placed and pulled labor 10. UED ON PAGE THREE) Police Kill for organization of the unemployed. The police used tear gas so liberally that they killed one of their own number, Detective Sergeant Floyd (“Buster”) Combs. ‘The chief of po- lice, Police Lieutenant O'Brien and Detective Ray Cashel were all made so sick from the gas they shot at the workers the’ th> lieutenant had to be taken to a hospital and the others are little better off. Arrest Negroes Whites ‘The sixteen workers at the meeting, which was held indoors, were all ar- rested, and are held on vagrancy charges, with bail set at $1,000 each. Those arrested include five Negro men, four Negro women and nine white men. Among them are: Abraham Mima, who said he was secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, his son, Sol Milman, a news- boy Pete Logue, Earl Molaer, Frank Rewden Harold Sisco and Alex Hor- rath, Mayor Doyle admits already re- ceiving telegrams of protest from tht International Labor Defense, the City Committee of the Unemployed Coun- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ost,” Dec. 15 issue of a sicken- A.F. L. WORKERS HELP MARCHERS FIGHT TERROR Kalamazoo Cons Break Meeting; Reynolds Speaks from Window KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dee. 16.—Police attacked t Na- tional Hunger March of Column Three when they came through here on Dec. 14th on thelr return from W: 2. The mass meeting at t nouse was smashed by the police. But the marchers are veterons now. They held thei rlines intact, and moved slowly in parade through the streets, wth hundreds of workers attaching themselves tothe parade, s ing and shouting for unemployznen and booing the police. The police continue: terrorization of those after many blocks marc stopped in front of Cz quarters of the Hu e®ates here. Carpent ranged for by a cc local A. F. L. unions. office and threw up a second floor, from which Phil Reyn- olds, auto workers’ leader from De- troit and one of the National Hunger Marchers, spoke for ten minutes to the crowd outside ‘Westgate held the door fice for ten minutes 2 police, until state troc rived and forced the door, and jerked Reynolds away from the window. Outside 600 workers were jeering the police and cheering the speaker, No one was arrested, but the police occupied the hall. The Carpenters Union is arranging @ mass meeting for the Hunger March delegation to report tomorrow at 7.30 p. m. The hall is at 326 Rose St. Kalmazoo. The meeting is also a protest against the police attack on the marchers. Reynolds spoke at the local Fed- eration of Labor headquarters, thanking the A. F. L. members for their assistance, and donation of food and ball. Events in Kalamazoo show more clearly hat has beenevident through- out the march, that the rank and file of the A. F. L. and in places whole locals and city central bodies, repu- diatethe war waged on the unem- ployed by President Green, Vice Pre- sident Woll and other high officials of the A. F. L. and denounce the stand taken by the A. F. L. Van- couver convention against unemploy- ment insurance. e See Cops Terrorize Storekeeners JACKSON, Mich.,. Dec. 16.—Local authorities and agents ©f the big cor- porations went around any storekeepe nd filling station keer aT enything to Hunger Marchers going through Some obeyed the orders of the authorities, One of the filling stations which re- fused oil and gas to the marchers’ for their trucks is Detering Shell, corner of Michigan Ave, and Brown St. (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) SPEED SUB DRIVE! START “FRIENDS OF DAILY WORK! ”? ROUPS!