The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1931, Page 1

Dy, government under its orders. So, hideous did this murderous drive become | Workers and Students Storm Kuo- | WASHINGTON, west were housed over night at th / i e GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN WORKERS “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS. OF THE WORLD, READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE . “DAILY WORKER.” UNITE! ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN a ( central arty U. DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” SUBS. a Section of the Communist Cg eae ) " Gntered as secom "Office ‘ i” AMT vy neocon oo Rr RE... OER _ VOL. VIII, No. 304 ~epe2 at New York, N. ¥. er th? act of March 3, 1879 EW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931 Price 3 Con | Tell the Hoover Hunger Government - fe Says K: bis, tect a i T.U.U.L. Says Ky. Mine Take Its Bloody Hands from the : y arc Throat of the Chinese Masses HALT MASS UPSURGE Strike Will Spread to the “JAPAN Starts War on Chinese Bandits,” says a headline in the N. Y. | Evening Post over an Associated Press dispatch from Tokio, IN h b S mM a S e § ru ‘This statement, in varying forms, has been repeated constantly by | ef l g oO i fs i nm 2 le a t € S| | the imperialist press ever since the invasion of Manchuria, SESE RE LOGE EI | It is under the cover of this pretext that the Japanese government, NEW YORK. chalice all members of the Trade U nion | e the Leagu of Nations, America, England and France, aided by Wall Street's ee Unity League behind the strike of the Kentucky miners set for} Canna eadbans Wane: cri Pel neat ct ene axan | “Undetermined Number” of Workers and | January 1st which is expected to bring 18,000 out in the Ken-| a S = 0 u ] § imperialism, have been making war on the workers and peasants fighting | Students Murdered; Hundreds Wounded tucky coal fields, a statement has just been issued under the; for liberation from imperialist domination, robbery and butchery. by Military signature of William Z. Foster, secretary of the T.U.U.L. point- Ce i ‘The “bandits” are partisan worker and peasant troops, who are fight- ing out that this strike against Hun-@———— —~| Parade All Over To va | tg and dying in herole resistance to the imperialist invasion. ‘They are | SEES ger and terrorism is the battle of] Worse Than Slavery sei pasa rel To wn Where be scisv ual Meet. | badly armed; they have perhaps one rifle for every ten fighters, they Japntend peipacatione to's jeweled alae Lekinchow combed the entire working class in the United | ings Are Forbi len; Demand Release of 16 i have a few captured machine guns and cannon and a little ammunition | from Secretary of State Stimson yesterday a stiff warning, which. sees States. The statement in full fol-| | secured by raids on arsenals. |. Sapan burohteaitie-anieblaeuciasntna deat ovee Mugabe Chinn sips |e | \City Officials Tied up W ith Shelt G: ae ‘Their strength consists mainly in the fact that they have the support | aay iiek tke she pthrow of Obiang Kai-shek, “On January Ist, the masses of | Pp p 8 . eiton ang; | | of the overwhelming majority of the population in the invaded regions. | Se eee ta welre se, Heeestioge treme Stkueca cans (BADGES tm Harlan aud Bell counties, | oison Mixed With Tear Gas Used in Raid 1 If one wishes an American analogy the nearest is found in the ragged | veyed 40) the ‘Tiana geverarnant a, new expression of Rotineaa Gata Kentucky, will go on strike in re-| | companies of the colonists in the war for independence. The difference | the wall Street government “in friendly but positive terms.” sponse to a call by the National Min- ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 18.—The National Hunger Marchers i is that the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese workers is also directed | dtineon iudivatedSeaterday that ti nid -perniit the’ Senate 6 ~ | 22 Union. The strike was decided | | of Col 4, j ; y y that he would pe e Senat Rolie. senent ner | umn 4, consisting, by the time they got here of only the | against the landlords, capitalists and feudal tyrants and militarists who | see some of the secret notes exchanged between Stimson and Japan. upon convefition in 1 are the agents of imperialism, robbing and massacreing thousands of the | ye stated that some of the notés would be withheld from the gerade Pineville, made up of 263 delegates, | |St. Louis delegation and those coming from the Southwest, } toiling population, and murdering the Communist leadership of the revo- | as these could: not beidnatle public, but’ Wat individual seusters could coming from 100 mines employing | | smashed the terror in East St. Louis and entered St. Louis, lutionary struggle of the masses for liberation. ues thigin i slelot conndenen! E 17,000 miners, The strike will in all) “ \} Monday night. The Labor Lyceum was jammed full of workers Manchuria is not a safe base for an imperialist attack on the Soviet whe nee te probability spread into Tennessee, 1 | ®and they cheered the reports Union as long as the resistance of the masses to the Japanese invasion The C. 22 2:9 Alabama and Western Kentucky, a : | re ef de is not crushed. Neither is it a profitable field for imperialist: exploitation The Canton officials of the new “more democratic” ZOV-| number of delegates being present sl ‘SEN A lk “RELIEF” made by the delegates. The while the masses of the cities and country-side refuse to submit to im- | ermment of the Kuomintang celebrated their, arrival in Nan-| trom these very important: fields. al 3 | drive for signatures demanding perialist conquest. \king yesterday with a blood bath against Chinese workers and | strike in southern West Virginia is | | passage of the Workers’ Unem- With the Soviet districts in China proper rallying 80,000,000 workers | students demonstrating against the Japanese seizure of Man- | also @ definite possibility. | 4 BILL P R 0 V | D E § ployment Insurance Bill was and peasants in struggle against imperialism and robbery by the mili- Reser and betrayal of the Chinese masses by the Kuomintang. “This is a strike against starvation | ai | started right at this meeting. tarist landlord and usurer allies of America, Japan, England and France, Hostile demonstrations against the | #nd terror. ™™ thotr efforts to force | | Fourteen St. Louis workers joined imperialist exploitation of this vast rich area is likewise impossible. nea ovement escuned’ both in | ‘he standards of living of the miners | : _| UNGROUND WHE AT, és Chan ee oe ‘The recent mass upsurge of students and workers in Shanghai, Nank- MEET SUND AY T0 Shanghai and Nanking. The Can- | down to i t as, che mine | | | their experiences "Haw sthe : hueee ing ran Sr rae ee that the liberation movement, under the {ton officials left Shanghai behind a | operators have instituted a regime of | march. Among them was the driver ge nape A a eg tera screen of tfoops, with fixed bayonets |™urder and gunman control unpre | "Jobless Worker Would |of one of the trucks, He was only role of the “national oat itipene (OV eens, ene. tee various (iinper~ ‘FIGHT TERROR ON and police with drawn Mauser pis-|cedented in American labor history.| | Evem the southern chattle slave a sympathizer until he got a taste of jalist factions, has rapidly assumed still greater proportions. | tols. On their arrival in Nanking | The shooting down of many workers | OWNeF save his Negroes a white- Have to Boil It the <i é ge American imperialism is the f the Chin : . hed hut, relatively el a S60 wen ne ee Sens ae enemy of the ese masses. Mass | they were again guarded against the | and the arrests of hundreds of others,| Washed hut, relatively clean and | for H march on the ,way. back through . . butcheries, secret tortures, sadistic assassinations of workers, organizers ‘ | dry. Capitalism gives this Negro | or ours a é 3 gh Ps | angry masses by a tremendous num- | many of whom are now facing the : Martin's Ferry and-intellectuals have been carried out directly by the Chiang Kai-shek *** | her of troops and police. electric chair, in Harlan County,| U2employed family a leaky shack | ae 6 | 5 ; built of fragments from the junk D. C., Dec. 18—A]_ The delegates from points further Bi Haas fgainst Communists, and the masses of fighting workers and peasants they lead, that protest from workers and intellectuals came from all over the world, including one from 104 of the best known American writers. Our task in the United States is to organize such a powerful move~ ment of support for the Chinese workers and peasants and their libera~ tion struggle that we can force the withdrawal of all armed forces of _American (ncluding the six flat-bottomed gunboats specially ea es 1937 for “service” in the inland waterways of China) from Chinese ‘Tt.ig our-task to.make it impossible for the Hoover-Wall Street gov- ernment and the capitalists in whose name it fules, to take part in crushing the Chinese liberation struggle. The demand of “Hands Off the Chinese Masses,” “Hands Off the Chinese Revolution” can be enforced by united action of the American working class, ‘The Chinese revolution is part of the world-wide struggle of the toil- ing population against imperialist oppression. Its enemies are our ene- mies. Unite and fight against the Hoover Hunger program. Defeat the imperialist program of the Hoover Hunger government which refuses aid to 12,000,000 hungry unemployed workers at home but which has plenty of money for troops, gunboats and war upon the workers and peasants of China, Defend the liberation struggle of the Chinese masses as a central part of the defense of the Soviet Union against. the imperialist attacks likewise organized and led by Hoover-Wall Street government . DROP TO 67 SUBS YESTERDAY; MUST REDOUBLE EFFORTS TO REACH 5,000 12-MONTH GOAL O* Wednesday 347 months of subscriptions came in for the Daily Worker. Yesterday we received only 216 months of subscriptions. Did the first push in the subscrip- tion campaign exhaust our efforts? The goal of 5,000 12-month subs demands faster pro- gress. The revolutionary struggle against wage cuts and starvation draws in more and more workers every day. Thou- sands of new forces are rallying to the National Miners’ Union in Kentucky. Preparations are spreading swiftly for the national demonstration February 4 for unemployment insurance. This is no time to lag behind. New York and Chicago are keeping up the work. What happened to Detroit and Cleveland yesterday? Where are some other districts? California and Connecticut have hardly been heard from since the very beginning of the drive. Swing into action! Tomorrow is Sunday. Make it a big RED SUNDAY. Start the next week off with a bang and KEEP UP and INCREASE the progress for the rest of the week. Speed up the formation of Friends of the Daily Worker groups. Speed. up the readers’ conferences . Form Neighborhood Squads. Mobilize all readers in the campaign. Keep the workers’ ranks firm with 5,000 12-month subscriptions to the Daily Worker. DEMONSTRATIONS T0 HIT AT POLISH sky, are to be shot by court martial verdict for participating in demon- | strations for the defense of the Sov- iet Union in Tamarshow. Demon- strations are being prepared at once | in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Buf- falo, Cleveland and Philadelphia, the I. L. D. states. Workers of Polish, Jewish, Ukrain- Be Largest Called to Fight Repressions ‘The New York District Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born | will officially open Sunday, Decem- ceum, 66 East 4th St. in one of the largest. mobilizations of workingclass organizations in the struggle against the capitalist government program for increase repression and persecu- tion of foreign born workers. Credentials received-at the office of the New York Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born points to one of the largest representatives conferences called in the city and re- numbers of workers to fight the new terror methods. ‘The New York Committee in a last minute call to the delegates elected to the coference urged punctual at- temdance at the meeting and full pre- paration to report on the work and decisions of the conference. |Boss Facts Show Crisis Is Worse NEW YORK.—The economic crisis, according to the latest statistics from all capitalist sources, has hit the low- lest point ever known in the history | of capitalism. The latest Annalist In- dex, just published by the Annalist, |a Wall Street business weekly owned |by the New York Times, in Novem- |ber, showed a drop to 64.6 as com- {pared to 66.1 in September, and 76.1 jin November 1930, and 969 in the | first crisis year of 1929. | It is important to note that those | industries such as the boot and shoe | and textile which the capitalists said |a few months ago were “starting up” | | | | District Confe rence To} ber 20, 10 a.m. at the Manhattan Ly- | flect the determination of increasing | mintang Buildings In “spité “ofthis attempt to in- timidate the’ masses, a tremendous anti-imperialist, anti - Kuomintang | demonstration occurred in Nanking. The offices of Central Daily News, official organ of the Kuomintang, was. wrecked by a storming Party of indignant workers and students. Another crowd stormed the Central Kuomintang headquarters, wrecking everything in sight. Several govern- ment buildings were also wrecked. Unable to stem with lies and de- magogic promises the tremendous mass upsurge against imperialism, the new government ordered its troops to fire on the demonstrators. | A Nanking dispatch to the New York American reports: “Scores of Chinese students are | dead, many wounded by troops and | thirty-six others arrested as the climax of the worst rioting Nan- king has experienced since the es- tablishment of the Nationalist Government. “Former President and Com- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MINERS ROBBED IN PIONEER MINE (By a Worker Correspondent) ELY, Minn.—A fellow miner re- ports that a conrtol box burned from the electric tugs >r in the Pioneer. On the next pay the miner from that contract number received $14.00 less pay. The electric tugger was over- heated due directly to the speed-up and the miner had to pay for it. TRON are now dropping the fastest. The drop in production is general, cover- ing all basic industries, throwing new hundreds of thousands out of work. Each month now breaks a low record for capitalist crisis in the United States. All Party members and s' All Workers for ‘Daily’ Sub Campaign Report 10 A. M. Sunday; Spur 5000 Sub Drive ympathizers are called upon to report tomorrow, Sunday, at 10 in the morning for partici- pation in the Red Sunday of the Daily Worker campaign for 5,000 12-month subscriptions. This is the first big mass effort in the subscription campaign. It has been set aside for a GENERAL MOBILIZATION of all Party members and sympathizers to canvass workers homes to spread the Daily Worker, to tell the workers about the aims and activities of the revolu- | Start New National Campaign piles, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) With the appéal of the Scottsboro case to be heard before the Alabama State Supreme Court next month, the Interna- tional Labor Defense announcs that January 8, 9, and 10 will be “Scottsboro Protest Days,” to demand the immediate re- framed up charge of rape. , SRE <a In 30 large cities protest meetings W AGE CUT LOOMS will be held, d2monstrations staged, and a sweeping publicity campaign | Jaunched to focus a glare of attention upon the legal lynching of these in- nocent young Negro workers. Seven parents and relatives of the | boys visited the boys in Kilby Prison| Metal League Prepares last week. General George W. Cham- | h a 7 lee, celebrated Chattanooga attorney, | Ss op Gate Meeting retained by the I. L. D. to defend! FAST PITTSBURGH, Pa.,—Wa: t , Pa..—Wages the their 1, ‘ites of ene Se eee eee lof Westinghouse workers will be cut | January 1st and cut again April 1st, the visit: “The southern district of the I. L. according to notices posted in the The cuts will take place on D. provided expense money for a/ visit to the prison by Mrs. Ada | pjant. Wright, Mrs. Beatrice Maddox, Mrs.| the «groy5” system” also, This means | that after working in one department | for a time, workers are shifting to | other departments where wages are lower, etc. But notice wages of every worker in the plant will be cut twice by April Ist. A shop gaie meeting will be held here Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 12 o'clock noon under the auspices of the Me- tal Workers Industrial League. Ata meeting of the Laughlin Branch of the Metal Work- {CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) R.R. BOSSES GET UNION LEADERS TO ASSURE PAY CUTS | said that there was general talk of Organize Resistance | | a wage cut there on Jan. 1. NEW YORK.—Railroad presidents | All of these mills were cut 10 per who met here yesterday at the Hotel | ent on Oct. 1. Biltmore declared they took it for | LE RARE ETE leranted that the leaders of the 21/ railroad unions would work with | them to put over a 10 per cent wage | cut for 1,500,000 railroad workers and | fertile field for Daily Worker sub- | scriptions. to Free the Scottsboro Boys lease of the innocent Negro children parey, fein electrocution on a} AT WESTINGHOUSE according to this | Jones and | Rank and 1 File ‘Should | ers industrial League, steel workers | very shop, mine and tactory @) | Provision to feed two million bushels ; of wheat to the unemployed, without | any provision for grinding it into | flour or even for gas to boil the grain, t@ being pushed in congress. A bill.to turn over that much of the Farm Board's wheat, bought to | raise the price and to provide a sup- ply for the contemplated imperialist war against the Soviet Union, is in- troduced into the Senate by Capper, of Kansas. It is said that it will probably pass the Senate, but pas- sage is doubtful in the House. Government dieticians do not ex- nect the wheat to be made into bread. They point out that it can be eaten boiled, with a little salt. That will be tiresome fare, but there is another angle. A member of the Daily Work- jer staff recently tried’ boiling some | of this wheat soft enough to eat, and found that it takes, unless soaked for | hours beforehand, about four hours. |McCann, the health expert who | writes for New York papers, advo- And who | cates boiling for six hours. is going to pay for the gas? | ‘Chicago Bank Busts; | ‘Many Workers Lose | Their Last_ Pennies) CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 18—The Ashland State Bank here crashed this morning, many workers, most- | ly Polish losing their last pennies. | Christmas saving funds were not paid. The Party lost its funds in| the crash. This is a serious blow to the anti-Criminal syndicalist | campaign and the struggle for un- | | for these campaigns are tied up in employment insurance, as all funds this bank crash. The notice for the closing of | the bank was signed by Oscar | Nelson, one. of the leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and | State Auditor. He was involved) IE a Waukegan bank crash scan- | dal. that “no labor trouble was expected.” The railroad bosses elected a cor mittee to negotiate with the union misleaders. The plan of the railroad — bosses is to give the railroad union | fakers a loophole by a fake “assur | ance” that part of the money the | bosses make by the wage cut will be) NEW YORK.—The International used for further railroad work. But | Labor Defense yesterday announced | it is a known fact that the purpose | that it will come to the aid of John | for which the wage cut is being put) Moore, Negro worker in Winston- stocks and bonds. | Dec. 16 for taking a pair of shoes. into effect is to pay dividends on | salem, N. C., sentenced to death on | To Mobilize Masses to Save Life of Moore, Negro Worker | Protests and cries for aid, landowners | and factory owners have replied with | lynchings, long-term imprisonment, | | groes everywhere are being terrorized. | Within ten days there have been four | and death penalty convictions. Ne- | 4 FASCIST TERROR . & , to Denounce Sentences Labor Defense and other worker or- jan and Lithuanian extraction will | turn out in great masses to protest | not only this verdict, but also the | hanging of seven railroad men in| Baranlovitchi on false accusations of espionage for the Soviet Union. “This terror exposes the anti- Soviet character of activities in Po- land,” states the LL.D, “and also the pacifist phraseology of Polish fascism, We shall immediately launch a program of sharp mass protest to ganizations to denounce death sen- | halt the execution of these death | sentences.” Passed on Toilers by Pilsudski Fascists NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Protest demonstrations are to be staged be- fore Polish cansuletes in leading | American cities by the International | tences passed on two Polish workers in Tamarshow, Poland. ‘The call for these demonstrations was issued by the national office of the ILL.D. today when it learned that A deluge of wires and cables is also | to be poured into the Polish embassy at Washington and directed at Presi- dent Moscicky in Warsaw, according tionary press, and to get subscriptions for the’ Daily Worker. The following are the stations for Red Sunday. Come with your friends to help one of these stations this Sunday at 10 a. m. BROOKLYN: 61 Graham Ave., Williamsburg; 136 15th St., So. Brooklyn; 48 Bay 28th St., Bath Beach; 1373 43rd St., Boro Park; 2921 West 32nd St., Coney Island; 148 Neptune Ave., Brighton Beach; Pitkin Ave. and Christopher Sts., Brownsville; 450 Hicks St. BRONX: 569 Prospect Ave.; 1400 Boston Road; 1310 Southern Blvd.; 1622 Bathgate Ave. HARLEM: 2072 5th Ave. DOWNTOWN: 301 West 29th St.; 132 Bast 26th st; ; 148 East 3rd St.; Downtown Workers’ Club, 11 Clinton St.; Hast Side Workers’ Club, 196 East Broadway; Red Sparks Club, 380 Grand St. NEWARK: 121 Springfield Ave. PATERSON: 205 Patterson St.; 60. Paterson St. PERTH AMBOY: 308 Elm St. JAMAICA: 109 26 Union Hall St. JERSEY CITY: 302 Henderson St. Another means by which the rail- | road bosses expect to aid the union leaders put over the voluntary 10 per cent wage cut is by threatening a 15 per cent cut. In this way the union | officials can say they. gain something by accepting the 10 per cent cut. ‘The committee of bosses and un- | ion misleaders will take place around | Christmas so that the workers can get a Christmas present of a cut in wages which will turn $350,000,000 over to the railroad stock and bond- holders, The National Railroad Industrial League ts calling on the rank and file railroad workers to organize their own bodies to prepare for strike Cecil Hope, head of the Negro De- | lynchings: two in Maryland, and two | partment of the Labor Defense, says that investigations from the organi- zation have been put on the case. The | I. L. D. plans a series of mass dem- onstrations and legal steps to save Moore, he states. Moore was convicted of first degree burglary on a charge of entering the home of Mitchell Keyes in Winston- Salem and taking a pair of shoes. Defense counsel pleaded that he was insane. The fury recommended mercy, but the law automatically carries a death penalty in the state. “Negroes in America have been hit hardest by unemployment and wage cuts,” declared Hope. “Especially in in West Virginia. “Maryland is overrun with lynch mobs. Orphan Jones and George | Davis, two Negroes near Baltimore, face death sentences on trumped up charges. In Texas Barney Lee Ross, in a two-hour trial on flimsy evid- ence. The nine Scottsboro boys are | face to face with the electric chair on | a cooked-up rape charge. “Workers everywhere are called a Negro boy was sentenced to death | Labor Lyceum and the next day con- tinued on to their respective cities to build unemployed councils, and pre- pare for the National Unemployment. Demonstrations, Feb. 4 Defy Policé Ban In Eagt St? Louis, over the river from Ste Louis and in Illinois ter- ritory, the police have openly de- clared that no m-*tings or parades of militant wortccs will be allowed. Only three days before, the police used poison gas on an indoor meeting of the jobless, and killed one of their Ge PIYE? CLOSE WESTLAND MINE TO STARVE MEN INTO CUTS Trick of Bosses In At- tempt to Check Min- ers Striking {CONTINUED ON WESTLAND, Pa.—The Westland No, 2 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. was closed down completely on Dec. 16. Previously sections had been closed one by one, and the miners sent to the same company’s Mon- } tour No. 4 mine where they were put | to work in rooms where other miners | were already working. This means that now three or four loaders, work- ing in the same rooms, find it im- | possible to make even the little they |had been getting. Between 1,500 and 1,600 men had | been working in this mine at the time of the big strike. Picketing be- fore the Westland mines was ex- | tremely militant. Deplities shot into the line one morning, Killing one and | wounding many. | “Things are so bad here now, the company knows they'll probably be anther strike not far off,” one miner said. “That’s why they're doing what they did last year, only the other way round. Last year they closed the | Montour No. 4 mine down knowing the strike was coming, and when | Westland struck, reopened Montour 'No. 4. “As it is the boys were only getting two or three days a week. But now with lots more miners there—they won't make a nickel!" During the strike,..the miners rented a corner of a nearby farm on | which to hold their meetings. But by the next morning, the company |bought out the farmer and state troopers were on hand to chase all miners off the grounds, | “I went to a miner to try to get | dues. _He showed me that he and his buddy were working every day but— and what a but! Together, they were making one car a day! A two weeks | pay was five dollars—it is'nt easy | feeding a family on that! They can't upon by the I. L. D. to send wires of |even afford cigarettes. “You can start in Castle Shannon protest to Governor O. Max Gardner | at Raleigh, N. C., protesting against | and go right up the line and you'll the brutal sentence passed upon the | find the same thing—starvation. T worker and to demand his imme- [sure am glad Kentucky is going to the workers, Malezky and Sakrzew- | to the I. L. D. statement, “Bring the Daily Worker into every workers’ home. lagainst these forthcoming wage cuts. the south they are starving. To their ' diate release” Strike against all this!”