The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1932, Page 1

Trdg Don’t Miss the Da .atColiseum —— ily WorkerJubilee-Sunday, 2p.m — WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central (Section of the Communist International) / —— orker unist Party U.S.A. 4 NC GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SGCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRYVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” De Entered as eccond-class matter a at New York, N. ¥., under the act of the Post Office March 3, 1879 NEW YORK SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, Vol. IX, No. 2 A Brand New Plot for New Year wus a frenzy that is typical of the desperate police officials, urged on by the whole pack of jackals of the capitalist press, every effort ig being made through what has every appearance of a manufactured “bomb ‘plot” involving fascist officials in the United States, to stir up unparalleled “red raids.” The New York News reports that “the com- bined police resources of the nation were in arms” as the result of the explosion of a bomb in the Easton, Pa. post office which killed one postal clerk and a “bomb expert” working for the police authorities. The police departments of all the large cities have many of these “bomb experts” whose jobs would disappear if they did not regularly find bombs —sometimes in the exact spot in which they had previously placed them. Under the cover of this “bomb plot” the capitalist press is deliberately stirring up @ general provocation for attacks against the entire working class movement and especially the Communist Party, leader of the mass struggles of the workers against hunger and starvation, against wage cuts, and the growing misery of the workers. No yarn is too fanciful for these capitalist liars whose object is to stir up a fascist drive against the militant workers, to answer the demand for unemployment insurance by ‘wholesale jailnigs, and frame-ups. The New York Mirror, speaking the language of the police provocateurs, yelps: ’ “The greatest anti-fascist, Communistic, and anarchistic assassin- ation plot in the history of the world is now under way.” They invent @ “king of terrorizers” who “is said to have come directly from Moscow and to have carried orders from Josef Stalin, the ‘Red Czar of Russia’ to annihilate certain personalities.” Every lying editor of the capitalist. press, every police head, every running dog in the Department of Justive is well aware of the fa@t that the Communist Party, and the Communist International repudiates meth- ods of individual violence and terror. The Communist Party rallies the great masses of workers for a militant mass struggle against capitalist misery.and terrorism. The fascist henchmen of Mussolini in the United States are past masters of the Czarist art of manufacturing “piots.” Mussolini periodically conjured up some plots against himself whenever the wage of anti-fascist resentment, in Italy reached a high pitch. The economic crisis in Italy, tnyolving the economic and financial structure of fascism, has driven the fascists to desperate measures. The trip of Grandi to the United States showed the mass resentment amiong the workers in this country against Mussolini-and his satelites. The desperation of thé American of- ficials. in’ the light of the miserable. flop of Grandi’s visit to the United States expressed itself in the savage senterice of two years against a young work*r in Philadelphia whose crime consisted in crying: “Dewn with fascism!” The fascists, trained by Mussolini, are the most famed ex- ponents of the program of individual violence, terror and assassination. The murder of Mateotti is a sample of the fascist savagry. The capitalist press has been playing up a series of such “bomb plots” on @ world scale. The most famous was the Austrian train-wrecking plot. which for‘days was blazoned across the capitalist newspapers as 4 “Communist plot” of world wide importance. Many trains were bombed, and Communists were arrested. The solution of this “plot,” which was used as a lever against the Communist’ Parties, received obscure notice in the capitalist press. The plotter was a respectable businesman. He ronfessed all the gory details. “" “The Italian fascists inspired the “bomb plot” against the King of Belgium in connection with the recent royal marriage in order to lay aibasis for wholesale attacks against the anti-fascist movement in Belgium. The American police haye been itching for some dramatic event to set off a series of new Palmer raids. ‘he alertness of the working class, the exposure of the capitalist methods, thus far has frustrated any such - attempt. ‘Now the police are growing desperate and wii! go to any lengths in an attcmpt to frer- up militant workers. Only the further organization arf@ mobilization of the workers behind the Communist Party, in the struggle for unemployment insurance. in the struggle against wage cuts, and the whole rotten capitalist system will be built up.the security of the workers against the constant stream of police- made “bomb-plots” and provocations. FEAR RED MOVEMENT IN CHINA Im perialists Admit Communists Only Unifying Force Japanese Openly Claim Manchuria The imperialist press admit- ted yesterday that the Kuo-} mintang is in rapid process of disintigration after hav ing brought misery and chaos as) the result of its rule and that the Chinese Communist Party is today the only organized political force in China. A dispatch to the New York Times from its Far Eastern correspondent, Hallet Abend, states: “All China faces the New Year floundering in uncertainty. The Kuomintang admittedly has lost the large measurs of popular confidence and support it once enjoyed, and the great danger now is that no other political party cxists ~except the secret Communist organization.” After yeaxs of the bloodiest terror against the Chinese masses, the im- perialists are now forced to admit the bankruptcy and failure of their Kou- mintang tools. They are forced to acknowledge the Communist move- ment as the only progressive and uni- fying force in China. They stand aghast at the sweeping growth of the influence of the Communist Party, and the anti-imperialist, anti-Kou- mintang mass movement. They realize |that the only stable government in China today is the Central Chinese Soviet Government which controls an increasing territory with a present population of over 80,000,000: They see the robber treaties and the sell- outs negotiated through their Kuo- mintang tools increasingly menaced by the tremendous mass upsurge in inner China and Manchuria. Abend further admits the failurs (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) One Task of the Daily Worker ee Price 3 Cents — = —= 000 MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED STRIKE RELIEF AS KENTUCKY STRIKE SPREADS TO TENNESSEE COAL FIELDS EXPECT 18,000 MINERS OUT By BILL DUNNE. Its eight years of existence and struggle as the cen- tral organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. has established the Daily Worker firmly at the head of the revolutionary movement in the United States. There has been no single major struggle of the American working class, (and it has played a decisive part in thousands of the day to day struggles of the workers), in which the Daily Worker has not appeared as the only paper blazening the facts of the work- ers’ battle from day to day and giving leadership to the fight. The rising tide of the class struggle in the United States and throughout the world, which accompanies the deepening crisis of American and world capitalism, while the Soviet Union forges ahead on its socialist path, places before the Daily Worker a whole series of new and decisive tasks. It is impossible in the scope of this article to take up all these tasks, but it is becoming clearer as our Party advances and brings within its ranks ever larger numbers of workers hitherto unacquainted with Marxism-Leninism, that a major task of the Daily Worker is the clear and simple ex»lanation of all On Its 8th Anniversary | struggle in terms of the events of the sharpening class the proletarian revolution and its world party, Communist International. We must take for our guide in carrying out this task the advice of Lenin in regard to, raising the poli- tical level of all the daily struggles of the working class and connecting them with the broad aims of the organization and struggle of the working class for the overthrow of its capitalist oppressors and the estab- lishment of the proletarian dictatorship. In the hundreds of daily tasks upon which the Daily Worker has to comment and to which it has to give direction, and in addition to the increasing number of major struggles which must be reflected and given guidaneé in the Daily Worker, there is the great nec essity for it functioning more systematically and cor- rectly as the principal means of training the working class in the theory of Communism, training both the | Party members and the advanced section of the work- | ers around the Party in the application of Marxism- Leninism to the daily struggles. | Lenin, speaking in “What Is To Be Done?” of the AGE SEVEN) ON STRIKE BY MONDAY Mass Picket Lines Form At Scores of Mines; Build Strike Committees Hold Mass Meetings Everywhere; Enthusiasti Spirit Shown As Miners Walk Out " PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 31.—Anchor Block and Kentucky Jellice miners in the Brush Creek section walked out yesterday to attend ¢ meeting of the National Miners’ Union at Warren, About 700 greetee the union speakers at their arrival. The section is solid for the strike The local Pineville Sun carries an editorial that “the reds shoule be run out of town.” Another advises the men not to Jeaye work. Enthusiasm is high on the eve of the strike. Wallins Creek taxi drivers pledged at the local union meeting not to haul scabs but to take women and children back and forth to the picket line. The District Board is meeting tonight. Mass meetings are bein; held throughout the field tomorrow as well as demonstrations. Davisburgh, a former U. M. W. A. stronghold, is solid for the Na tional Miners’ Union. At a mass meeting all those who were no‘ (CONTINUED 03 DEPORTATION OF L. BEACH'WORKERS NEW YORK. — Six Roumanian. workers were arrested and held for deportation on. Tuesday, December 29, at Long Beach, Long Island. The Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born was informed that a certain Rumanian stool-pigeon, by the name of John, was the one that has given the names and addresses of the six workers to the police and Immi- gration Commissioner. According to the information of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born this same “stool pigeon” has a large list of names of Ruma- nian workers whom he approaches individually and threatens with de- portation unless these workers pay him at least $10 each. The New York District Commit~- tee vgrns the foreign born not to let themselves be terrorized by stcol pigeons and to put up a collective re- sistance so that they don’t dare to approach any more for money. BOSSES ATTEMPT |Bosses’ Liars Active with New Year’s “Predictions” NEW YORK.—New Year’s Day w: crude promises of the capitalist spokesmen about a “revival” in industry and about the “approaching end of the crisis.” In , 1980 and 1931 the same bunk was spread copiously. For ex- ;ample the New York-Eyening Post on January 2, 1930, sum- | marized the reams of “promises” of the end of the crisis as follows: “Na-| ¢¢] 99 T tion’s leaders forecast business w»-| RED FRO T ¢ turn in the New Year.” In the “New! Year”, millions felt the “upturn” by being thrown out on the streets “IN 0 HINDENBURG RADIO BROADCAST starve. Not content with this attempt at lying, the Post in 1931, declared: Call for United Front of Workers s again filled with the “Depression prepares. way for busi- Ness recovery in 1931.” Now we have Robert P. Lamont, the chief spokesman for the Hoover regime, state that the “crisis has spent its force”, and “recovery will soon be here.” This job is usually left to President Hoover and Secre- tary Mellon. Both have lied so often Red Front of Germany cut into the that their statements about an “end fascist radio speech of President von of the crisis” is always taken as @) Hindenberg of Germany on New signal for the onset of a deeper drop; Hindenburg of Germany on New in the stock market. This year they| Hindenbure’s radio talk, which had shut up. They put forward their) peen broadcasted to many countries including the United States, above Hindenberg’s phrases about “greater NEW YORK.—Tue voice of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Turn Out for 8th Anniversary of, I. L. D. Attorneys to Speak DailyWorker at Coliseum, Sun. 2 P.M. sacrifices”, there came the call: “At- tention! The shadow of the ‘Red Front’ is over Germany. Let all work- ers unite in opposition to the emer- gency decrees and the dictatorship!” A secret radio broadcasting station was cutting in. Hindenburg had just finished call- ing for sterner fascist measures, say- already members of the N. M. U. signed up. | A big meeting was held today at Gatliff. Virgil Hutton, who was held on the charge of murder in connection with the death of the coa’ operators’ thug, Owen Sizemore, is out on bond. A warehouse has been established at 145 Pine Street, Pineville, Kentucky. In order to strengthen the picket line of the miners, send food and clothing at once. These first few days are of strategic importance. _ PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 1—Thousands of miners came out.on strike today at the call of the National Miners Union.~-The*strike has~ already spread to Tennessee? “Enthusiasm for struggle gripped the entire Kentucky coal _ field. For the first time in the history of this coal territory, mass picketing was conducted. No complete figures have yet ; been tabulated. At Kentucky Kings 500 took part in the mass | picket lines. A figure of 18,000 out by Monday is stated by the union leaders to be assured. Relief must be rushed here (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) BOSSES ARM TO {ANTI-WAR YOUTH SMASH RELIEF) CONFERENCE JAN.3 Elizabeth Organizes Organizations Asked New Riot Squad to Send Funds, (By a Worker Correspondent) Delegates ELIZABETH, N. J.—-The other dav} sany youth organizations will be a woman went to the Welfare Bu- present at the anti-war youth con- reau to try to get the city to Pay her | ference which will be held at the rent, She was sick and her husband) y ying Plaza, cornér E. 15th St, and had no work in over. a year. Irving Pl, on Sunday, Jan. 3, 1932. When the wonran spoke to Miss} Organizations are asked to send Wilson of the Welfare Bureau, she | funds for the anti-war youth com- was given some books. The implica- | mittee to the above address. Dele- tfon being that she was to read them and forget that she was hungry and gates who have been elected to the conference should send names ahd _at Scottsboro Meet Jan. 10 ’ NEW YORK.—wWhile the Interna- tional’ Labor Defense investigators are combing the South for every last sbred of evidence to expdse the per- jury and frame-up against hte inno- Gent Scottsboro boys, mass meeting of working will be held in every large section of the country to support the Tight against the lynch verdicts in the hearing on Jan. 21 before the Alabama Supreme Court. " New York workers will get a first- hand réport on the case on Jan. 10 when Gen. George W. Chamlee, Irv- ing Schwab and Joseph Brodsky, three of the International Labor De- fense attorneys, address a mass meeting at Star Casino, 107th Street and’ Park Avenue. Gen. Chamlee will travel to New rk to outline the Scottsboro de- fense at this meeting. He will also expose the sabotage of the defense by the N. A. A. ©. P., whose lawyers i 5 one of whom, according to the Civil Liberties Union investigator, was afraid to go on record as attorney in the case. On January 17, another huge pro- test meeting will be held in this city under the auspices of the National Committee for the Defense of Poli- tical Prisoners, which is headed by Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Ander- son and John Dos Passos. January 8, 9 and 10 are officially set as “Scottsboro days” and meet- ings are being arranged as far west as San Francisco. The mother of one of the Scotts- boro victims will be, together with a number of celebrated southern writers, among the speakers at the January 17 meeting. Writers of the National Committee are now eim- barking on a publicity campaign to lay bare the frame-up nature and absurdities of the evidence on which Tomorrow at two o'clock in the afternoon, the eighth anniversary of the Daily Worker will be cele- brated at the Bronx Coliseum. For more than two weeks the mass organizations of the working class of New York hay> been having conferences and section meetings, ralying tens of thousands of workers to atgend this outstanding event. The jamming of the Bronx Coliseum will be a test of the stauchness with which the New York workers are in the battle to spread the Daily Worker and help it reach ever wider masses of workers. It will also be a half way mark in the Daily Work- er Drive that is now well under way. The program that has been arranged is of ex- ceptional brilliance. A dramatic and gripping pageant entitled “The Trial of The Yellow Press” will be one of the highlights of the afternoon. Bringing the greetings of the Daily Worker, Bili Dunne, editor of the Daily Worker, will address the workers present and summarize the achievements of the paper of the fighting working class for the past year. Isaac Gladstone, popular and well known Brooklyn radio singer, will present a select group of revolu- tionary songs. The Labor Sports Union has also volunteered its services ‘for this occasion and will stage one of its famous gymnastic spectacles. Admission is 35 cents at the door and 25 cents with the coupon that is now being distributed. Mass cho~zi ‘inging, one of the highesi accom~- plishments of i. 2 cultural activities of the. various proletarian groups will be one of the highlights of the program with the International Chorus: offering 3 Southern Railways Cut Wages 10 P.C,; MoreComing ing: “I am calling again today, upon the German people to stand together in unity, no matter what destiny may have in store.” Early in his sh peech he ha declared: “I am conscious of the s rifices being asked from all of us in order that we may overcome our present trials through our own strength.” Hindenb: w Year's apps ; was basica nilar to that of Adoli Uer's who declared that the fa cists wore building a bulwark again bolshevism, and that the “German people should stand united” behind about to be evicted. Due to this typ eof “generosity” on the part of the city, the woman's child was given a doll and some toys. ‘The son of this woman has been sitting in jail for over a year be- cause he took some money to get some food. Another son is also being hounded by the police, The Elizabeth Journal recently stated that the bosses were preparing themselves by getting a riot squad of fifty with up to date methods for gassing and all the latest equipment such as riot guns, riot wagons, eic. All this in an attempt to stop the ‘workers from getting real relief. addresses or completed cerdentials to the above address also. Strike In Bronx Uremnvloved Conncil a Factor In Victory Winning thelr rent strike, tenants of an apartment house at 592 Beck St., the Bronx, had) their: rent cut $2 per, month and foreéd Técognition of Alleged Bomb Plot Aitack on Workers the house committee. , The landlord at first tried to bribe the house committee ‘by promising _ them $5 reduction oh their rent and {/ two months concessidn, but the work= | ers realizing that Ohly by united ef-.— forts could they Hope ‘to; win their American workers. for uneniployment Tenants Win Rent - nine Scottsboro victims of and the boys were railroaded to death sentences. N. Y. Workers, Demonstrate Today to Smash Polish Terror! To throw the protest of the Amer-, ror of the fascist hangmen is directed jean working class into the face of|in crushing and exterminating the the Polish fascist government that flower of the revolutionary working 1 in @ savage campaign of class and small nationalities of Po- imprisonment, torture and murder of land is part of the imperialist war revolut workers and minorj front against the Soviet Union, the nationalities, the International La-|I. l, D. points out that literally ber Defense yesterday called on the | thousands of workers and peasants workers of New York to demonstrate, are now imprisoned, seven railroad at the Polish Consulate, 151 E. 67th| workers hung and that the most 8t., at noon today. atrocious horrors are visited on Pointing out that the ‘bloody ter-| women prisoners, Cs NEW YORK. — Three Southern railways, preparing to cut wages of all their workers, have ordered a wage cut of 10 per cent for all their office staffs, The railroads effected are the Atlantic Coast Line Pailroad, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. A wage cut of 10 per cent was re- cently declared for 15,000 Southern Pacific railway shop workers. The leading railway union offi- cials in the meanwhile ar negotiat- ing for a 10 per cent wage cut for all of the 1,500,000 railroad workers. These union misleaders deliberately requested Daniel Willard, president of the B. & O., and spokesman for all the railroad bosses, to post a general wage cut notice of 15 per cent, so that a “voluntary” cut of 10 per cent could be put over. an entirely new repertoire of . revolutionary group , ‘he fascists. congs. 1 oS sea ae Every worker and every working | ~ class organization that realizes the \€ ops Use j imperative necessity of supporting the revolutionary press. and of | y spreading the Daily Werk:r to va- t Fp h touched sections of the working , U us class should be preseni at the Bronx } PRS Meow ee Coliseum tomorr: at two o'clock | NEW YORK.—In a frantic attempt ! in the afternoon. to discredit the mass struggles of the Relief to the Main Task Striking Ky. Miners -- A of U. S. Working Class By WM. Z. FOSTER. The Kentucky coal miners under the leadership of the National Miners Union, affil- iated with the Trade Union Unity League, have gone out on strike against the bitter starvation and terror imposed | on them by the most powerful! lords of American capitalism. | ut these lovds of capitalism Every weapon at the dis-| can invoke against the miners posal of the bill‘onaire coal op-| is—starvation. Starvation erators—Morgan, Rockefeller,|crushes not only the miners, Ford, Insuil and Co.—wwill be|}crushes the miners’ families, used to beat down this strike| their already half-starved of the starving Kentucky min-|wives and children. Miners’ insurahce and against wage-cuts and starvation and to. open a new cam- paign of suppression against the Com- renpist Party the cry of “Oommunist terror” was once more bjazened forth in the columns of the capitalist press yesterday. The new anti-Communist plot was cooked up by the city and federal police following the discovery of vight dynamite bombs posted and expressed to well known members of the italian of which exploded in the post. office in Easton, Pa., killing two postal clerks. The New York cops and the federal sleuths, who have been racking their brains for the past months for a ers, children died of starvation every day The most powerful weapon ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) se NR ARE scheme to serve as a basis for a nation (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) - » | fascisti in five American cities, one | Ree ee ee ee demands, refused-theroftér and fin= ally forced through thé $2 rent re- ductio: : Recognizing the fact that {he Bronx Unemployed: Council was an important factor in winning the rent strike by picketing the house, the tenants are now tyrning their atten- (fon to. organizing. other: apartment houses in the block. | CORRECTION i | The Delly Worker Eighth An- | nivervary Celebration will be held } als SUNDAY AFTERNOON: at | the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th) | St, at 2.P.M. Be clear about the | , time and place. Comeand bring your fetlow-workers and celebrate | the eighth birthday of your paper. With coupons the admission is 25. cents, Be sure te get your coupons,