The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1932, Page 3

Greet Eighth Daily Worker A Ba VORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932 Z nniversary With Thousands of | WAGECUT THREATENS MINERS IN CLINTON; LEWIS AGREES TO IT Operators Call It a Relief Measure for the Unemployed — Miner Calls Indiana Miners to Unite with Ken- tucky Miners and Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) CLINTON, Ind.—The miners of Clinton are being be- ayed and mislead by the most deceptive system ever em- ployed. The mines around Clinton still have the but check-off for dues and commissary bring the wages down to a starvation level. For the miners that are not, working a small dole of 75 cents a week is given by the Red Cross and some occasional east off clothes from the upper crust. U. L. calls 2 mass meeting the U. M. W. A tells the jobless miners that they wil: give them $1¢ if they will attend a meeting held by the U. M. W..A. which they always manage to call at the same time. Propose Wage-Cut. For a year and a half the boss flunkies have been trying to put over & wage-cut in Clinton but have been unsucsessful. Several organizations have come and gone, each serving its respective need and attempting to keep the miners away from the TUUL Now the miners haye been led into ® wage-cut |drive, with the fakers talking wildly about prosperity and work. The reduction will amount to $3.60 for day work and 60 cents a ton for piece work. ‘The operators say they are attempt- ing by this cut to capture the markets from the southern coal fields. They are not doing this, as they say, to give the miners jobs, but to break the Kentucky strike Must Support Kentucky Miners. It would be more union like for the miners here to strike in unison with the Kentucky miners, to spread the strike to all coal areas. We must yemember that the miners in Indiana and Illinois worked in 1927 while the Ohio and Pennsylvania struck, and after a bitter struggle of privation and sacrifices lost tneir fight, and the Tilin and Indiana miners also had to take the reduction. This was one of John L. Lewis’ major betreyals. He sold out district afier district end state after state. Can miners of Clinton experience Black Hundreds Chief Vomits Venom in N. Y. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEV. YORK.—New York has now one new “originel” daily; the Rus- 2 Gevetta. ‘The chief leader of this paper is the infamous Russian anti-semiic, long bearded Nicolas Is- mailofi, former lawyer from Moscow, who calls himself with great pride a Jeader of the Black Hundred, He is the most extreme leader of the ex- treme flank of the Czarists. 10 scale, Every time the T. U. such actions and not learn that the unity of all miners in a strike is the only way to win. The only militant unions are the ones that advocate the unity of all miners in their ac- tion and not their separation, ‘The program of the National Min- ers Union is the program for the coal miners—a program to unite all the miners into one union, to organize the unorganized, to fight the battles of the miners regardless of jails and the thugs of the mine owners to ob- tain higher wages and better condi- tions for the miners, The miners must not be fooled into thinking that there will be more work here if they accept the cut. Those who go to work at the re~ duced wage are not assured of work for any definite time. They might work one month and then be forced into another reduction. Wage reduc- tions lead only to serfdom. Demand Unemployment Insurance. ‘The unemployed miners instead of agreeing to a wage-cut should de- | mand unemployment insurance that | they might live as they should live. Support the Unemployed Councils and the Local Trade Union Unity League. They tell us miners that we have pro- duted too much. Well, then, let us demand some of the goods that we produced. Support the Kentucky miners in their great struggle by uniting with them in a solid united front. Strike against the wage cuts in the Clin- ton mines. ‘The Czarist printed in Moscow and Sevastopol the anti-semitic sheets “Veche” and Kolokol.” Like other anti-semitic leaders, this Black Hundred chief -has deal- ings with Jews in the daytime and in the evening publishes his anti-se- mitie articles. Working on the paper are the Russian Anarchists, Karpenia, Gor~- bashievich and others, 400 Join New Unemployed Council Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Comrades T am telling how we are getting alc ig with our block meetings here. We ere holding two and three block meetings four nights a week and we are organizing the workers in the West Section of Indianapolis. We started two months ago and we have 400 Unemployed Council members. All these have joined in two months time. We also had a hall donated to us by some of the workers who still have jobs. Our hall will seat about 200 people. In fighting it out with constables and the welfare we have not lost an eviction case yet. Neither have we lost a case with the welfare and the trustees, Every time we take a worker to the welfare we force them to give relief. ‘We have showed the bosses here that th workers will not starve quietly, that we will fight against the boss ruling class for the right to live. M. McC, Expose Lies, Betrayal by the N.A.A.C.P. of Scottsboro Boys (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED 27, declaring that they want an ILD defense and do not want the coward- ly defense policy of the NAACP. Boys Repudiate NAACP “The boys do not want the NAACP because they declare that this or- ganization betrayed them, “The boys do not want the NAACP hecause ‘they declare that this or- Genization betrayed them. “The Scottsboro boys are so con- vineed that the tactics of the NAACP in this case have injured them and obstructed the defense policy of the International Labor Defense that on December 28 they sent this telegram to Mr. Darrow and Arthur Garfield ORGS ADVERTISE Your meetings Your halls Your “affairs” demonstrations “We have been getting a lot of letters from the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Col- ored People telling us that you are going to defend us for the NAACP and we saw the same thing in the newspapers this mornine. We have already got the International Labor Defense and jointly emoloyed Mr. George W. Chamlee of Chattanooga and some other lawyers who are helping Mr. Chamiee and the ILD. We do not want you to come and fight the ILD, and make trouble for Mr. Charslee just to help the NAACP. If you want to save us and help us ret a new trial, please held the ILD and Mr. Chamlee. Our parents and kinfolk signed Papers yesterday for Mr. Chamlee to file in the Suvreme Court that Mr. Chamlee and the ILD are re- tained by all of us to ficht our cases. These paners were filed in the Supreme Court of Alabama to- day.’ “On the basis of this request from the boys the International Labor De- fense asked Mr. Darrow and Mr. Hays to cooperate in the defense with the TLD. Afier an all night session | with our lawyers they refused to do so. Mr. Darrow refused to represent the boys for the TLD when asked last spring to do so. Also in the spring and again in July the NAACP. recorder themselves as unwilling to cooperate. Their entire policy has been not to help save the boys from the electric chair, but to fight the International Labor Defense no mat- ter at what cost to the innocent pris- overs in Kilby prison.” “In one word, you reproach ns with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is dust what we intend.”—Marx. Important Coal Firms Report Huge Profits! in 9 Months of 1931 Important coal companies re- | Porting a profit for the first nine | months of 1931 include: Island Creek Coal Co., $1,1410,69. M, A. Hanna Co. (coal iron and shipping): $1,171, 32. United States Distributing Corp. | (coal and trucking); $289,314, Lehigh Valley Coal Corp: $756,- 860 compared with a “net loss” of $105,010 in 1930, Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. (coal and railroads) is expected to cover dividents of $2,316,000. Truax-Traer Coal Co. (6 months to October 31): $52,349 Westmoreland, Inc., a holding | company owning Westmoreland Coal Co., has declared an extra dividend payable on Jan. 1, 1932. Glen Alden Coal Co. has cut its dividend rate but is paying $4 a | share in 1931. ‘These “profits” are all net prof- its after setting aside reserves to | protect the capitalists’ property (depreciation and depletion), and | usually after payment of large sums as interest to owners of com- pany bonds. Hence they under- state considerably the amounts taken from the mine workers for the capitalist class, HUGE SOVIET MOVEMENT ON IN MANCHURIA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) men into the army with force.” This report of the Japanese bour- geols paper, although slandering the rebellious workers and peasants and placing them in the light of plun- derers and bandits, indicates that in this zone there exists a strong Soviet movement. Red Division Defeats Counter- Revolutionary Troops It aiso indicates that in the zones of Hai-Zen and Liao-Yang, as well as in the valley of the Liao River, South Manchuria, there are strong armed detachments of anti-imperialist mass- es. In the Hai-Zen zone a Red di- vision, 600 strong, defeated the troops of the counter-revolutionary Chinese ladolords and bankers who are co- operating with the Japanese in the armed seizure of Manchuria and mur- derous attacks on the masses. Under the pretext of the struggle against “bandits” the Japanese sent three divisions to fight against the anti- imperialist forces, Armed Struggle Spreading In Tscush-ten and An-Sen and other places armed troops of the rey- olutionary masses are fighting against the plunder expedition of Japanese imperialism. In spite of the fact that the im- perialist and Chinese bourgeois press ignores the revolutionary, anti-imper- ialist movement in Manchuria or brands it as banditry, the heroic deeds of the progressing anti-imperialist and anti-Kuomintang struggle can no longer be hidden from the inter- national proletariat. ‘The Japanese seizure of Manchuria, the betrayal of the Chinese masses by the Kuomintang, and the revo- lutionary action of the Chinese, Korean and Japanese proletariat in Manchuria plainly show that only the working class can pillory the pa- triotic and nationalist maneuvers of the bourgeoisie and fight against the imperialist plans to partition China and make war on the Chinese Revo- lution and the Soviet Union. And so the Nichi-Nichi-Shinbun has to re- port: Japanese Communists Fight Own Imperialists “Over 50 Communists, under the leadership of the Japanese martyrs, who haye utilized the Manchurian situation in order to organize the Communists and the bolshevization of Manchuria and plans the carrying out of the Soviet Revolution, have been jdiscovered. In the period of Oct. 28 to Nov. 4 all were arrested These Communists had direct connec- tions with the Communist Party in Japan, They came Manchuria earlier in the year and there published the ‘Manchurian Red Flag.’ They or- ganized Communist nuclei in the fac- tories in Sa-Cho-Kan on the South Manchurian R.R., in the Fu-shan Coal Mine in the tron works in An- San and in other places. They were discovered when it was noticed that for Nov. 7, the anniversary of the Russian revolutionary disturbances were planned.” This report from the Japanese cap- italist press shows clearly that the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Com- munists in Manchuria stand together at the head of the anti-imperialist struggle and lead the movement un- der the banner of Communism. Admit Japan Tries To Provoke the Soviet Union Further admission that the Jap- anese hired the Chinese militarist Gen. Ma Shen-Chan to stir up trouble against the Soviet Union is contained in a Washington dispatch. The dis- patch is written by Henry F. Missel- witz, who for more than 5 years was United Press correspondent in China and Japan. Misselwitz tes} thet “A Chinese bandit, the now nctori- ous General Ma Shen-Chan. was hired to stir up trouble in the North- ern Provinces “to afford the Japan- ,ese the pretext to occupy the Tsit- sihar section of the Ch’=es7 Devo Railvay, which is joinily owned by WALKOUT TO SPREAD TO TENNESSEE COAT, FIELDS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? tion, which are as follows: 1, 50c for machine coai four feet and over, Additional 2¢ per inch on tons, below four feet, 2. 65¢ ton pick coal four feet and up—additional 2c per inch on tons below four feet. 3. 25c a yard for wet places, 4, Top day-men, $4.80. Helpers, $4.40 per day, Unclassified labor, $3.60 per day. 5. Machine men 15¢ per ton, 6, Payment for all dead work, to be based on top daymen’s rate, 7. 3 at cannot make 1. *>y mt his day work because of the com- pany’s fault’ be paic full s... 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. 10, Cars to be placed and pulled by the company. 1. Abolition of the system of bucking the coal. 12. Equal turn mine. 13, Yardage to be paid for in the necks, and all narrow places, 14, Re-employment of all black- listed miners. 15. No discrimination against any of the strikers, especially not against colored miners, 16. Withdrawal of all armed forces from the coal fields and re- lease of all miners in jails for union activity. 17. Enforcement hour day. 18. Recognition of the union check-weighmen in all mines, 19, Recognition of the National Miners Union and Mine Commit- tees, 20, Installment of Man-trip in mines when necessary, 21, All miners to be paid in U. 8. currency. Regular pay days to be on 15th and 30th of each month. Every miner to haye the right to trade wherever he chooses. “The enthusiastic response of the masses proves that they have ac- cepted thes edemands, “The coal operators have been aware of these demands since they were first announced by the conven- tion on Dec. 13, Their reply to these demands to end mass starva~ in the entire of the eight | per cent strike January Ist.” {ation of the institutions of hunger. tion and terror has been increased victimization, an increase in violence that has resulted in blacklist, evic- tions, increase of gun-thug activity “Instead of holding back the move- ment toard a strike, these increasing ————_——————— China and the Soviet Union, Missel- witz admits further thet Japan is at present using the pretext of fight- ing bandits to justify her attacks on the Chinese masses and her planned seizure of Chinchow. Misselwitz pre- dicts: “Formation of a puppet govern- ment in Mukden, possibly in Dai- ren, at the southern end of the Japanese Government owned South Manchuria Railway, will come next. “These details precede the com- pletion of the econoime conquest of the three Eastern Provinces of Manchuria —a conquest begun in earnest when Japan won a war against Czarist Russia in 1905 and took over the railway in South Manchuria as far north as Chang- chung, in the center of the disputed area.” Japan Expected to Seize Chinchow Today The imperialist press predicts that the Japanese army will be in Chin- chow by Jan. 1. The Japanese sweep towards Chinchow continued yester- day, with the Japanese meeting a stiff resistance from the Chinese par- tisan troops. The troops of the Nan- king ally, Chang Hsueh-Liang, are being withdrawn from Chinchow without offering any resistance to the Japanese invaders. A Rengo news dispatch from Tientsin said that in ordering the withdrawal, Chang had acted “under the advice of a cer- attacks against us have only exposed clearly before all mine workers the attempt to further enslave and starve us. Instead of intimidating the min- ers or in any way weakening our preparations for definitely challeng- ing the operators ,it has increased our determination to strike on Jan- uary Ist and deliver a smashing blow against starvation and terrror. “At thi sstage we sound a note of warning to the miners to beware of the operators and their agents, to beware of rumors of all kinds spread by the operators and their agents, intended to prevent strike action. We particularly warn against the UMWA and IWW agents, seeking to prevent strike action or to weaken the united ranks of the miners. The miners must complete the setting up of rank and file strike committees in all mines, and be prepared to strike, “Our just demands are and have been before the operators. Failure to accept these demands by January Ist and to negotiate with the authorized committees of the miners on the basis of these demands means 100 Urge Textile Bosses Move to Towns Where There Are No Reds By Labor Research Assn. The small back country town is the ideal location for the textile mill, sa an editorial in Fibre and Fabric. Contentment, peaceful occupation and a full measure of normal prosperity are the back- ground of the small towns, ‘The labor agitators and the red flag wayers have no chance in these small towns.” "The small mills are operated by hand-picked help and are generally free from labor trou- ble, because the alien industrial distributor meets a cool reception when he or she gets into the small town and villages.” Some 50 or more small plants in these communities are now idle in New England alone, says this em- ployers’ journal, and it urges tex- tile manufacturers t omove into them in order to avold strikes, The editors believe that starvation wages will be endured without pro- test by the workers in such towns. Unemployed Delegation Exposes Fake “Relief” Ta'k of (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED American Federation of Labor, in- dicates that the A. F. of L, officials have been forced by mass pressure at least to modify their phrases. “Unlike the A. F. of L. officials we are not concerned about the presery- Our concern is for the millions of toilers of the U.S.A, We’do not pray as the A. F. of L. officials do; we do not cry as do the social welfare who appeared before this commit- tee did; we do not beg as does Mr. La Follette and Mr. Costigan and their “liberal” supporters. We or- ganize and fight! And it is precisely for this reason that you are now shivering in your pants and trying to introduce measures that will not relieve the unemployed, but rather will relieve the government of the pressure of the unemployed.” Senators Disturbed Fifty people crowded the small room end listened in silence to Ben- jamin’s scathing indictment of the government and the demands of the millions of jobless. Both La Fol- Street government. A Washington dispatch to the New York Times indicates that the Uni- ted States has full knowledge of the Japanese plans and is continuing its support of the Japanese aggressions in Manchurla. The dispatch says no move is planned by the United States “at present in the Manchurian situ- ation.” Secretary* of State Stimson has left the capital for a two-day hunting trip. U. 8. Naval Manouvers Aimed At Chinese Revolution and Soviet Union A Geneva dispatch attaches great significance to the plans of the Uni- ted States for joint navy and army manouvers in the Pacific this Febru- ary. European imperialists see the manouvers as a move to offset the blows which United States imperial- ism has “suffered both in Japan and China.” For the working-class, it is of the greatest significance, that the man- ouvers are timed for this Spring when, according to admission in the imperialist press, an attack on the Soviet Union is on the order of the day. The workers of the whole world must rally to the defense of the Sov- jet Union and the Chinese Reyolu- tion! Workers! Smash the prepara- tions of the imperialists for a new and bloodier world war! Defend the Central Chinese Soviet. Government! Defend the Soviet Union! Demand all war funds for the destitute and starv- tain country.” It is highly probable that this “advice,” tantamount to an instruction, was given by the Wall ing unemployed workers and the bankrupt poor farmers, Negro and white! AFL. and Senators Jette were obviously disturbed, but they said not a word in defense of their fake plans, The newspapermen, despite their earlier hostility, were forced to ad- mit that the statement of the Na- tional Committee of the Unemployed Councils was the sharpest and clear- est statement ever presented on un- employment and was the only state- ment offering a clear cut positive program. A correspondent from one of the leading capitalist. papers said: “The representatives of the Un- employed Councils are thoroughly acquainted with all the facts of the situation, and alone, among all those who appeared, are the only ones who dealt with the problems of the Negroes.” War Vets Congratulate Committee Several world war veterans, who were in the audience and heard Ben- jamin’s speech, congratulated the de- Jegation for presenting the demands of the veterans for immediate cash payment of the tombstone bonus. One veteran informed the delega- tion that the Army and Navy Union, a vets’ organization, had planned to mareh~on Washington on Feb.'5 to demand the bonus, A committee of veterans who visited Hoover to dis- cuse preparations for the march were warned by Hoover not to march. As an excuse to have the vets call of the march, Hoover lied that on Feb- ruary 4 40,000 Communists were scheduled to march on Washington. The committee of veterans called off their march, despite the fact that rank and file were even more eager to march after being told that the Communists were coming. Fascists Vote Against Fight on Emergency Decree (Cable by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Dec. 18.—In an attempt to mislead workers the fascists in the Brunswick diet brought in a motion calling on the Brunswick government to request the Reich's government to withdraw the emergency decree.. The Communists naturally supported the motion and brought in-an addition to the effect that the Brunswick gov- ernment be instructed by the Diet not to carry out the emergency decree in Brunswick. The fascists voted in a body against j the Communist addition to their mo- tion, thus proving that their own mo- tion was really nothing but empty demagogy. Red Builders, help get subscriptions. HONOR ROLL GREETINGS We, the undersigned workers of the United States, greet the DAILY WORKER on its 8th Anniver- rite pledge to continue to use the DAILY WORKER to organ ize the workers to fight against the Hoover hunger program; against wage cuts and boss terror; for Unemployment Insurance and relief and in the defense of the Soviet Union against Imperialist War. a AM NAME | ADDRESS Dollars Cents TE conn ieee oon a This organization has ...... see, members. No. We are building the workers’ offensive againat the boss government by strengthening the DAILY WORKER. Our donations are an added push on the road to mass circulation for the DAILY W ORKER. Letter From Polan Gruesome ' (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) Individually, every prisoner was taken to the prison “sivietlicy,’ where the chief-of-prison warden and his assistant beat up every one of us with rubber clubs, until we were all unconscious. Among us was 8 52-year-old prisoner, Gliniewies, who has been in prison for the last, seyen years. On the third of May, Comrade J. Kot and Ismul Kaplan were beaten up by Warden Buchwald and Deren- gowski, When Comrade Kot, lying feyerigh apd,"éxhausted on a cement flgor, asked fgr .medical attention, they told him: “You won't die.” For three sucgesgiye days, Prisoner Ko- nopnicki was terribly beaten up, They hit him with rubber until they frac- tured his eardrums. Five days later they let him have “felcher,” (in Polish prisons we have doctor-bar- bers, called “felchers” who know how to pull teeth, shave, cure cows, horses and other animals—including sick prisoners), who noticed that the prisoner was in a very critical con- dition and ordered him to be’ trans- ferred to the hospital. But the head- warden refused to carry out the order, explaining that this was a case of a contagious disease; he placed the prisoner in a separate cell. Agata Niewiadoniska was severely beaten for refusing to wear prison clothing. Put Women with Prostitutes | On the twelfth of September, 39 prisoners—new arrivals had their heads shaved against their will and were forced to wear prison clothes, Six women put in with prostitutes. They all protested, declaring a hun- ger strike. The next day the war- den forced them to eat. All were beaten up, dragged on the floor by the hair and locked in the lavatories for hours, Stefan Szostakiewies was tied, naked to a bench and beaten with wet towels. A few days later the same thing was done to others. We are stating just a few facts of tortures, which we, prisoners of Pinsk, must endure. You can see plainly that the Fascist Government and its administration is using al! efforts to physically and morally kil) all class war prisoners. We, Comrades of Pinsk prison, are asking all comrades and sympathi- zers for help and aid in our struggle and fight. Polish Writers and Artists Protest Lately we have been getting ter- rifying news end facts of tortures and bestial attacks upon political prisoners. Tortures previously car- ried out at Luck prison were widely discussed and deplored by the Sen- ate. It might have seemed that a discussion of such a matter would result in a decision prohibiting brutal attacks and tortures upon political prisoners, An indirect acknowledge- ment of such news is impossible; but as a matter of fact, one direct result has been achieved: new political prisoners’ regulations have been an- a Te ity We. who de stand t the cold- in regard are once more i uttering a cry of pre horrible and furious m: tack upon human hono. of human beings strugg!, political .ights. FE. Boy’e, Tytus Ozyie licki, J. N, Miller, ; A. Rafatiewski, A, Stesewski, L. Szene J. Tuwim, J. Wib St. Tahorska. Hunger Strike ¥ The Warsaw Gazet of September, 1931, gi, lowing communication> day, political prisoners. of » Myplowiec prisons refused to accept food, ‘They repeated the same thin; at moon. Prisoners!*of Myplewiec threw their plates» containing the food out of the wiridows. Prisoners are demanding different regulations if these are granted, they will stop their hunger strike, Political pris- oners of Myplowiec and Katowiec announced their hunger strike as a protest against the newly proclaimed prison regulations, Demonstrate at Consulate! Saturday at noon the Interna- tional Labor Defense is holding a demonstration in front of the Polish Consulate, 151 East 67th Street in order to protest against this brutal terror against the revolutionary workers of Poland, ‘There are 10,000 workers iri the dungeons of Polish capitalism. A series of anti-semitic pogroms have just swept Poland ‘The I. 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