The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1931, Page 1

a Seemann? WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central ly.<Worker (Section of the Communist International) GATHER WITH YOU “FRIENDS OF ER” READ, DISCUSS, GE ENTER SOCIALIST DRVE FOR SUBS U.S.A. Entered az accond-clai “VOL. VIIL, No. 307 <> matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931 — % R SHOPMATES IN THE DAILY WORK- GROUPS. T SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” COMPETITION IN 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” See es Price 3 Cents “Diplomatic Pressure on Japan” 'HE Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Times, in a dispatch pub- lished Tuesday, reflected the attitude of the Washington government under a headline saying that ‘(Washington Studies New Chinchow issue.” The capacity for “study” on the part of Stimson, as the dismemberment of China proceeds apace, is something to marvel at. But, thus far the result of Stimson’s “study” is over-balanced in one definite direction. That is, Stimson is continually “alarmed,” or “anxious,” or “fearful” that “Russia will be involved.” ‘Therefore, although it is clear ‘that American imperialism is con- cerned lest the Japanese drive southward not only may take Chinchow but pass the Great Well and enter the American orbit with the aid of Japanese lackeys now maneuyering for power in Nanking, the Washing- ton dispatch declares that the U. S. State Department .. . “,,.,. made no move in the situation today and evidently in- tends to give no concrete consideration to it until it develops further.” In itself, this possible “further development” may bring the spark that may set off a new world war among the imperialist robbers, as correctly pointed out by Wellington Koo, who on Monday reminded us that: “While the Manchurian situation appears on the surface to be a Chinese issue, it is essentially an international problem of the first magnitude, If this section is torn from China and put under coutrol of another nation, the change will so upset the balance of power and relative positions of the principal nations bordering the Pacific that world peace will be jeopardized.” The dispatch adds that, however, if Japanese “occupy not only Chin- chow but all of Western Manchuria to the Great Wall, it is possible that the State Department may . . . make some effort to limit the sweep of the Japanese forces.” And then it is stated:—“There was no evidence of a relaxa- tion of diplomatic pressure on Japan.” It follows logically that if there is no move to stop the advance toward Chinchow, but there is “diplomatic pressure on Japan,” the direc- “tion of this pressure ought to be visible—and it is. Thus, after saying that “diplomatic pressure on Japan” is not re- laxed, the Stimson-inspired dispatch declares that it would be a “normal development” if General Honjo ‘should attempt to penetrate inner Mongolia next Spring.” », And to this is added the statement that Washington officials read with “deep interest” the cock-and-bull fairy tale published in a French paper that the “Moscow political bureau” had decided to “propose that the Mongolian government” take steps to oppose Japan ‘in event of a new conflict in Northern Manchuria.” ~* This is obviously another one of those anonymous provocations en- gineered by American imperialism, against the Soviet Union, a provoca- tion as false as it is deliberate in turning all attention to the Soviet Ghion as the aim of all military action. Furthermore, it is fully as useful to Japan as an American ap- proval of Japanese troop moyements—so long as they are against the Soviet Union—as any official note handed by Stimson to the Japanese atbassador could possibly be. For every interview the American offi- dials give out has the principal meaning of saying, in effect: “Go as far as you like, so long as you go against the Soviet Union.” ‘This is the meaning of ‘no relaxation of diplomatic pressure on Japan.” It is the final “solution” for all the intensifying quarrels among the imperialists over the re-division of China. As these rivalries sharp- en—and they sharpen over the actual, material loot to be won—the im- ‘the expense of the Soviet Union: We have here, therefore, in the “watchful waiting” attitude of Wash- “ington about the present Japanese advance, combined with Washington's incitation of Japan to attack the Soviet Union, a clear proof of the fact that the rivalries between the imperialist powers do NOT lessen, but vather INCREASE the danger of imperialist war on the Soviet Union. -c- American workers should not be beguiled into thinking differently, nor should they conclude from such error, that they haye no duty to perform and can slacken their vigilance in guard of the socialist father- land. The danger of war on the Soviet Union has increased and con- tinues to increase. Every American worker, fighting against starvation ‘and wage cuts and repression, must also stand ready to defend the Soviet Union, the homeland of the workers of the world! Into Action for Strike Relief for the Kentucky Miners sama days from today 18,000 Kentucky miners will be called on strike | under the leadership of the National Miners Union. They will strike against the terror and ‘starvation decreed by the mightiest powers of “American capitalism—the Rockefeller, Insull and Ford interests who ownthe Kentucky coal fields lock, stock and barrel. Never in the history of American strike struggles has the blood- soaked, profit-mad system of boss rule been so directly challenged. The bosses are well aware of this. The campaign ‘of beating, kidnapping, blacklisting and murder of militant miners is a deliberate and system- atic attempt to annihilate their grim and determined battle against starvation. In the.Kentucky mine fields we have a picture of what the working class may expect to endure should the workers fail to fight back. It is a fore-taste of the wholesale hunger, terror and misery that the bosses are planning and unleashing in order to “solve” the economic crisis. The miners are challenging this hunger-terror program of the bandits of Wall Street. ‘The Kentucky mmiers are fighting for the entire working class, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 755 MORE MONTHS OF SUBS FOR SATURDAY, MONDAY; KEEP UP LEVEL FOR REST OF WEEK NE hundred and ninety-two, have made a first big step to- subscriptions, represent-| ward the ultimate goal. ing 755 months of subs, or} Chicago and Detroit are $877.50, came in the mails Sat- urday and Monday for the Daily Worker. This is a good way to start off the new week in the Daily Worker drive for 5,000 12-month subscriptions. What is important now is to keep up and raise this level for the rest of the week, and we'll again the leaders as the week begins, Chicago sending in 172 months of subs and Detroit going one better. Of course, it’s to be expected that Chica- go and Detroit, which are so active in building up unem- ployed councils, and where the ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KY. MINERS BUILD UNION FOR STRIKE 100 Join On 'One Day In Largest Gatliff Mine | Sheriff Threats Meets PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 22— As the day for the strike of the 18,000 Kentucky mniers on Jan. 1st draws nearer, reports from all over the state come in telling of the rapid growth of the National Miners Union. N.M.U, locals have now been established in every mine in Brush Creek. and the Gat- liff sections, all except three mines where locals will be set up this week. At Gatliff, the largest mine in the section 100 application cards were taken in at the first meeting last week. The women in this mine field are demanding to be organized. Bill Meeks, district secretary of the Na- tional Miners Union, was given an| eviction notice by Bill Messers, a} company stool pigeon who maneuvred | to become president of the local. Norman Link, acfive union organizer, his wife. and children have been | evicted from Carey and have moved | to a friend’s house which does not belong to the company. Nevertheless, the company handed the friend a notice when they learned Link was there. Miners Strike At Gatliff. An N.M.U. local has been estab- lished at Cumberland Bend Mine, Gatliff, Ky., where the men have been on strike three weeks against an attempted resduction from $2.50 a day for labor to $1.50. The men came out without leadership but have requested organization into the NMU. At Kay Jay, Ky., where attempts low dog contracts, they have ‘been Sudy Gates, miner’s wife from Col- man, and Mrs. Shakleford from El- combs who were sent out of Ken- tucky, will work with the Workers International Relief in Cincinnati, Ohio, to raise relief for the strikers. ‘The weigh boss at Glendon admits that the men do not make enough to buy a cup of coffee. Sheriff Blair of Harlan County told a visiting woman journalist, Mrs. Haldemann Juluis that he would permit no meetings of any kind in Harlan. An open mass meeting {s planned there soon by the National Miners Union. Young Workers Start Organizing Jobless In Atlantic City (By a Worker Corespondent) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 21— We eight workers have formed our- selves into an organizing committee to organize an Unemployed Council in Atlantic City. We ‘are starting to circulate the Daily Worker in the town and plan to open headquarters as soon as we have money for rent. In the mean- time we plan to give ourselves some education in the class struggle and to draw in as many white and Negro workers both young and old as we can. Watch us grow! The American workers’ delegation, after an extensive tour of the Soviet Union, comes back to report to the American workers the truth of the unparalleled advances of the Soviet Union. ‘To sum up the whole tour and the conditions found, we quote from the cable of Lillian Lynch, delegate from Western Pennsylvania: “Everywhere I go I see plenty of work and food. CORRECTION. In the statement by the Central Committee of the Communist y on the Hunger March which was published on Dec. 15 an im- it paragraph was omitted by reason of an error in the compos- “s room. The statement was headed “Fight the New Hunger Pro- gram of Hoover.” The omitted paragraph reads: “The marchers demanded immediate ‘unemployment insurance at foll wages.’ Wall Street through President Hoover answered, ‘no direct or indirect government dole.’ And echoing Hoover, the watchdogs of the capitalists, Matthew Woll, even after the march declared that ‘the workers are against unemployment insurance.’” Don’t you believe the capitalist papers for they are damn liars. Everything is for the workers. I know the work- ers’ government is the-best. I will tell you more when I get back to New York City.” Lillian Lynch, the wife of a Negro miner, was active in the bitter strug- gles of the miners, She visited the mining section in Donbass and is enthused with the benefits and stand- ard of living of all of the miners \U. S. Uses “Diplomatic Pressure” to Speed Japan’ to Attack Soviet Union New World War In Tent Between Imperialist Robbers Over Loot Washington, threatened to invoke the Nine-Power Pact) against the Japanese in the effort to block the Japanese threat against Wall Street domina- The dispatch reports that diplomatic pressure is being ap- plied to the Japanese to force them to abandon their drive to chow area. The United States par- @ ticularly fears that the Japanese) the United States is not protesting drive will take them beyond the | against the seizure of Manchuria by Great Wall and constitute a further | the Japanese, but is merely seeking tion over Kuomintang China and to force Japan to fulfill its | role as the spearhead in the attack against the Soviet Union. | seize Chinchow, or to at least limit their objective to the Chin- | | In a government inspired dispatch from| the United States yesterday) were made to have the men.sign-yel- | organized one hundred per cent. | the Miners’ Women’s Auxiliary of | challenge to the paramount position already badly shaken by the tre- mendous anti-imperialist, anti-Kuo- mintang upsurge of the Chinese | masses, Tense Situation Develops in Imperialist Camps. The dispatch makes it clear that of the United States which has been | forces,” “to limit the sweep of the Japanese This is further proof of a secret agreement between the Wall Street government and Japan. In accordance with this agreement the United States continued to give ac- | | | tive and passive support to the Japa- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Barney “Lee Ross, Negro young worker, was legally lynched last Fri- day morning by the boss government of the state of Texas. Repeatedly. declaring that he “had already made up his mind,” the gov- ernor of Texas, Ross Sterling, re- fused every plea of the defense law- — DEPORTATION OF 491 FOREIGN BORN IS BEING RUSHED Indicates Speed of Gov- ernment Terror On Foreign-Born Indicating the speed of the new terror drive against the foreign-born workers, a special train of the Federal Immigration Buro arrived at Jersey City, Monday, December 21 with 491 foreign-born scheduled for deporta~ tion to Italy, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia and other European countries. Included among the 491 persons were 52 women and 48 one dren. The entire 491 are now detained at Ellis Island awaiting deportation. Third class passage hass been booked for most of them on the President Harding. ‘The group of foreign-born, most of whom are workers, were arrested and held in all big cities of the country, from Seattle on the West Coast to inland cities. American Delegation Which Toured Soviet Union Returns ‘The delegates report: Philadelphia, Saturday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m, at Girard Manor; New Yeor, Sunday, Dec. 27, at the New Star Sasino, at 2 pm. ‘The workers’ delegation will tour th ecountry under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. These workers from the basic indus- tries will answer the lies of Matthew Woll and the other betrayers of the labor movement. Hundreds of meet- ings to reach hundreds of thousands of American workers will be held to report the truth and to build stronger ties of solidarity for the support and defense of the Soviet Union. Against the war plans of Hoover, the delegations brings the message of the Soviet workers for struggles against the wars of the imperialists now in preparation against the Sov- fiet Union. All workers are called to receive the returning delegates with a demon- there, stration at Pier 55, W. 14th St., at 9 a.m. today. Texas Bosses Burn Innocent Negro Youth in Electric Chair: Legal Lynching of Barney Lee Ross Openly Admitted An Act of Terrorism Against Negro Masses yer for a stay of execution to permit | the presentation of new evidenc?! which absolutely clears the young! worker of the framed-up charge of | raping a woman drug addict. It was’ on the unsupported word of vonage addict that young Ross was rail roaded to the electric chair in a fae] cical “trial” in which the jury | brought in the death verdict in less than an hour. Ross had been de- nied any opportunity to prepare his | defense. | The International Labor Defense, | learning of this outrage, started a) fight to smash the frame-up. Eigh- | teen investigators collected a mazs of | evidence completely refuting the. | charges of the drug addict. In the | face of this evidence, the State Par- | don Board was forced to urge a re- | prieve for young Ross. Upon learn- | ing that the, -I.L.D. attorney, Al: Hemphill, would visit the Pardon Board to place | before it the case of Ross, Governor | Sterling informed the Pardon Board | ‘THAT HE DID NOT WANT A RE- | PORT ON THIS CASE FROM THE) PARDON BOARD. That the legal lynching of young| Ross was deliberately intended as an| act of terrorism against the Negro masses is clearly exposed in Goy- ernor Sterlin?’s statement that: “14 may be that this Necro is in- | nocent, but sometimes it is neces- | sary to burn a house to save a yil- lage.” What Governor Sterling and the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Miners in Thirty Hocking Valley Mines for Strike HOCKING VALLFY, Ohio.—There is strong sentiment for strike in thirty or more mines of the Hocking Valley. The United Mine Worker of America officials are on the job, meeting with state and county offi- clals, and doing everything in their power to keep the men from walking off the job. The grievances here are | not unlike those throughout the coal flelds—hard work for practically nothing, high charge for everything by the company subtracted from pay checks and starvation for the family. ‘The National Miners Union is 1s- suing a leaflet exposing the role of the U.M.W.A. and pointing to strug- gle as the only solution, ete e. ‘There are widespread reports that wage cuts will take placé in all the mines of the Hanna Coal Co. and those owned by the United States Coal Company, on January Ist. The National Miners Union ison the job, preparing to combat the cuts, with Comrade Moore, | . i ———> CALL UPON NATIONAL | HUNGER MARCHERS TO USH FIGHT FOR RELIEF The Watchdogs of President Hunger Armed with machinc guns and tecr gas guns, these gunmen of the Hoover admi ration were symbolic of the capitalists’ answer to the 12,009,000 unempl: yed workers’ demand for ‘1,670 delegates ct the g*>st Hunger March 1,287,778 Starving Families Get Cut in Charity Handout As Winter Suffering Begins Census Bureau Admits 400 Percent Growth In U. S. Families of Unemployed Facing Starvation; Destitute Increase Dec. 7,778 families were ced with starvation each month in 1931 according to figures WASHINGTON, as sued by the United States Government, through the census bureau acting in cooperation with the Rhssell Sage Foundation. The startling figures just issued, however, cover only the first = *three months of 1931, and show 'UNFONTOWIN MAY that there was an increase of i over 400 per cent over 1930 in q OT the number of families asking CI LOS E SPHOO 1S for charity. At the same time, | th bureau declares the we an ied out in eharity in- UNIONTOWN, Pa-—The Board rei aye 1 DEN pa Education here at its mecting of De- tha wens ae thal cemiber 18 was forced to a‘imit tha‘ funds avaijable for the maintenanc: of local schoo!s will be depleted aficr | has been cut s of :memployed facing starvation in- Januery 1 and that the schools wi"! | crea probebly have to be closcd Wiih 12,000,000 unemployed the Proposals were mece at th: ©) oumber of families who are applying for forcing a wage cuo on the t ers uuder the guise of volin ary reductions and en ene was tO meke an appeal to delingu2nt | 4 taxpayers. No cefinite proposal for the taxation of the big companies for the maintenesce of the schools was | made and the whole question still | hangs fire. | for so-called charity or relief is un- above the 2,000,000 mark. » cortinue to crash, donbtedly kan ployed as well as employed of their last penny, and as wage cuts in- (OONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Hoover Promises R.R. Bosses. ely as the number | depriv- | ng hundreds of (aousands of unem-} a ‘Dole’ of Over WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Two methods of assisting the rich rail- toad stock and bondholders who own $24,000,000,000 in railroad pronerties is being worked out by Hoover along with ‘J. P. Morgan & Co., and the railroad bosses, represented now in Washington by Daniel Willard, pres- igent of the B. & O, Willard, after a conference with Hoover, declared that everything was “satisfactorily arranged” for a wage cut on the railroads. Besides, Wil- | lard said, the government is planning | to turn about $1,000,000,000 over to) the railroads. When the Netional Hunger Marchers came to Washin;ton de- manding the right to present their 51,090,900,000 deaanids: to the President, they were refused admittance, even though they represeated millions of employed and unemployed work- ers, Willard representing a simail group of bankers and railroad bos- not only ge!s immediate admis- sion but is assured by Hoover that the government will turn a §1,- 000,000,000 dole over to the rail- voads for profits and dividends, ‘The railroad presidents talk about tae wage cuts as a foregone conclu- sion, saving the assurance of the un- ion leaders, The definite date of the ses | wage slash has not been announced, | but it is expected any day now. Only | rank and file eciion can stop the | wage cuts, |Benjamin, Sec’y. Natl. Committee Outlines New Tasks Speed Preparations for Nationwide Mass Meet On February 4th NEW YORK.---All of ithe 1,670 Hunger ; Marchers who took part in the demonstra- tion in Washington, D. C. for unemployment insurance | were informed by letter today that the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils, elected as a result of the Na- tional Hunger March, was planning an intensive and widespread cam- | paign to pu further the drive for unemplcyment insurance and imme- diate cash relief. Copies of this let- ter were sent to the Unemployed Councils throughout the country. The letter warns against the dan- ger of a slackening of activity after one high point reached in the Na- tional Hunger March. “The mass movement represented and stirred up by the Hunger March can result in many immediate con- | cessions for the unemployed and in | a decisive advance towards the estab- lishment of a unemploy= | ment insurance demanded in our | bill, if properly followed up by an | intensification of our organizational activity and struggle,” the letter de- clares. Beyelop” Movement Th-ough Daily Struggles, “The success of the National Un- j employment Insurance Day, Febru- | ary 4, as well as of all our campaigns, | will depend upon our ability to con- tinue and intensify the local strug- not gles. around the immediate daily needs of the unemployed.” The issues around which such (CONTINUE! ON PAGE THREE) HOOVER ‘GIFFORD, > AGAINST ANY KIND | OF RELIEF BILIS for No Money + Gov’t | Bldg. Projects WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—All pro= posals for unemployment relief, no matter what their nature, were ve | toed by the Gifford Committee on unemployment selected by President Hoover. This veto means that Hoo- ver will reject any of thé four bills | if they ever happen to pass. | The main bill rejected is the one | Prop ed by Senator Wagner of ny Hall—not for the relief of th employed so much as for the creation of a huge graft fund for | contractors. Wagner proposed the creation of a $5,000,000,000 fuhd for unemployment reiief construction werk. The main idea of Wagner was to catch votes under the pretense of advocating some form of unemploy- | ment relief. The other measures the Gifford outfit decla-ed Hoover should stamp | out 3 follew: fon of funds for build- passed by Con= ing these ‘pro= Hoover declared ve would solve unemployment. Now |.the Hoover: government is against providing funds for this work. Aprrorrietion by congress of funda to the stetes and municipalities for public Hoover prefers this m ais, Additional eF ation for road ilding. Hoover is against this, This shows that even the much boasted capitalist proposals for “re Nieving” unemployment are not ace ceptable to the Hoover government, | Only org@hized action by the worke ers employed and unemployed will be able to force any measure of ree lief. Rally behind the struggle for unemployment insurance and prepare | for the huge demonstrations on Na= | tional Unemployment Insurance Dayy February 4th, It wes in that fects raceed