The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1932, Page 1

Striking Kentucky Miners Come toNew York to Speak at Giant Mass Meet ing Fri. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central . 9 Norker Rnumict Porty U.S.A. (Section of the Communist ey ) GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY ER” GROUPS. WORK- READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” SUBS. VolIX, No. 5 Entered as eccomd-class matter at the Pont Office jer the act of March 3, 1879 at New York, N. ¥. _ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 9,000 KENTUCKY MINERS MARCH TO COURT HOUSE Rand School Unity of Fascism|(HINESE RED and Social Fascism 3 Rand School of the socialist party, in the third winter of the crisis with twelve million unemployed workers, has opened its winter courses with s lecture by Vice-President Matthew Woll of the American Federa- tion of Labor—the outstanding opponent of workers’ unemployment in- surance in the ranks of those in the leadership of the so-called “labor movement” who support the Hoovyer-Wall Street hunger program. fe; This open eadorsemeni of Woll, vie Federztion and champion of the anti-working class report of the Acting President of the National Fish Committee, will enable thousands of workers to see the contrast between the socialist party and its Rand School, and the Communist Party and its Workers School whose Spring courses open with a list of subjects selected for the sole purpose of enabling workers to take part in and lead more effectively the struggles of their class against the Hoover Wall Street Hunger Program and American imperialism. Woll voiced in his Rand School speech the usual reactionary expres- sions of the propogendists of American imperialism. He dealt with not a single burning problem before the American working class except to oppose ALL measures designed to better the working and living conditions of American workers as dangerous to “individual freedom, etc.”—measures such as workers’ unemployment insurance at full wages which would re- etrict the ability of the capitalist class to drive the ving standard of s“merican workers still lower toward the slave level. There is not seg slightest difference between the voice of John D. \wokefeller, Jy., and that of Matthew Woll. In an interview with Rocke- in “Liberty” for January 9, written by George Sylvester Viereck, a virulent Kaiserite during the World War who has rehabilitated himself with the Ameri¢an patriots by his slobbering eulogies of various billion- aires sinve the wa‘, Rockefeller is quoted, in reply to a proposal for short- ening working hours and raising the compulscry school age for children ao @ Means of Commattiing unemployment, as follows: ‘Does not such an idea impose an nwarranted restriction upon individual freedom?” Woll speaking at the Rand School is the voice of the class enemies of vle V.orkers, He is given the forum of the Rand School by the socialist party after his demand for the suppression of the National Hunger Mar. ad the siruggles of the unempioyed, after his opposition to un- employment insurance ab the Vancouver Convention of the American Federation ct Levor, efter his attacks upon the Soviet Union and his contniued attempts to orgenize 2 boycott, and war against the Soviet Union, utter is letter te Congress calling for new suppressive laws against the working class and ihe Communist Party. “hes? ave facts which all the demagogy of the socialist party, af- Milatel to the second international, cannot refute. ‘Woll, opening. the winter courses-at the Rand School, detinitely nidkes the connection between the imperialist policy of the American Federation of * leadership, which is the policy and program of Hoover-Wall Street government, and the socialist party. These are facts all workers . Cen understand end use in the open struggles that must be greatly ex- tended for the exposure and defeat of the socialist party in all working cla orgsnizations Mass Revolt Looms in Honduras Over Layoff Martial Law Declared As 800 Are Fired On United Fruit Co. Plantation NEW YORK.—A mass revolutionary uprising loomed throughout the banana-growing zone in Honduras Monday fol- lowing the firing of 800 workers from the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company. Following the appearance of armed groups of workers and BRITISH RIVER MEN STRIKE IN LEADING PORTS (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, Jan. 5.—A strike of sev- eral thousand lightermen is now pro- ceeding on the docks of London, Bot- Ue, Birkenhead, Glasgow and Avon- mouth. A demonstration of the min- ority movement workers was held on the docks yesterday. Reformists are urging the return. A Communist member of the leadership of the Dockers’ Union, Bert Aylward, was ezpelled by the reformists. Further expulsions are expected. ep ta Arrests In the Ruhr. BERLIN.—The str:xe situation in the Berlin and Ruhr district remains unchanged. Five hundred workers were arrested in the Ruhr yesterday. Attempts to hold meetings imme- diately broken by violence. ‘Miners, chemical and metal workers are par- ticipating. Yesterday evening patrolling police in the north of Berlin heard shots. ‘When they entered premises used by the fascists fo: headquarters they discovered large quantities of arms and ammunition. Eight fascists were arrested. How the shots were fired is still unknown, * 6) 8 Lay-offs in Poland. WARSAW. — Announcement was made that over two thousand rail- way workers here are to be dis- missed as a consequence of the crisis. Mass dismissals of Polish railway workers seems to be the immediate future for these workers. Unemployment demonstrations are increasingly frequent with collisions with police and arrests. Strikes of miners, textile and metal workers of Lodz district may follow upon the emplovers wage chit ate tacks, peasants in various parts of the country, President Mejia Colindres, agent of the United Fruit Co., issued @ decree declaring martial law over the whole of Honduras. Sharp clashes between the govern- ment and revolutionary forces took Place in the Choloma Cortes zone and in Santa Cruz Yajoa. Several casualties are reported. At San Pe- dro large forces of revolutionary and government forces are reported to be fighting. Insurrection is seething in and around the seaport Tela, where the United Fruit has some of its largest banana piantations. To help crush the struggle of the terribly exploited banana workers against the rich American capitalists, U. S. gunboats loaded with marines have always been kept in a close proximity of the seaports Tela, Trux- illa and Castilla. Aeroplanes, which are owned by the United Fruit Co. and are supposed to be used solely for commercial purposes, but which aer constructed for military use, are kept constantly in commission at the company’s modern airport in Tela. A “Daily Worker” correspondent who visited the Tela airport two years ago was advised by one of the me- chanics that planes were constantly kept in readiness by the United Fruit Co. to be used against any labor uprisings on the plantations, Wages at Starvation Level While American investments in Honduras have increased 332.23 per cent from 1913 to 1929 and have con- tinued to gain throughout the year of 1930, the wages of the workers have shown a sharp decline, the wages on the banana plantations having al- ways been at a starvation level. Longshoremen who load the fruit on the Tela docks and who are lucky to get @ full day’s work in a week receive 25 cents an hour and less. Masses of homeless and starving workers can be seen any day roaming the streets of every city in Honduras. ‘The American workers must de- mand hands off Honduras. Protest against Yankee terror in the Carl- bean region. Support the struggles of the Latin American workers ee ee starvation, ARMY IN BIG VICTORY Wipe Out Nanking Brigade, Capture Hwangan the Buck The Chinese Red Army is re- ported in a smashing advance in the Central Provinces of China, A Peiping dispatch admits that in Hupeh Provinces an entire brigade of Nanking troops was wiped out by the Red Army. The city of Hwangan, north of Hankow, was stormed and captured by the Red Army. 1,000 rifles and much am- munition fell into the hands of the revolutionary forces. Two Nan- king battalions were disarmed after severe fighting. The Red Army is steadily completing its ring around Hankow in preparation for attack against the counter-revolutionary Nanking government troops in that city. The Nanking government, which offered no resistance to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria and is now.co- operating in the Japanese invasion of Inner China, is rushing troops to counter-attack the Red forces at Hwangan. In Shanghai, Nanking troops and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 8,000 GET 10 P. C. CUT ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY Jnion Heads Plan Cut for All Workers NEW YORK~-The Southern Pa- cific railroad announced that an- other section of its workers in Texas and Louisiana were forced to accept @ 10 per cent wage cut. The latest cut effects 8,000 workers. Previously 15,000 California workers of the Southern Pacific were given a similar cut. Another meeting is planned in Chicago between the leaders of the 21 railroad unions and the railroad presidents to make the 10 per cent wage cut general, Daniel Williard, who is the chief spokesman for the railroad bosses, declared recently that he had the promise of the railroad union leaders that they would do all they could to help put over the 10 per cent wage slash, New Nanking Sell-Out | Trade Union Unity League Wires Kentucky Governor Protesting Arrest of 9 Strike Leaders affiliated, protests agains up charges of criminal The Kentucky miners are January 5, 1931. The Trade Union Unity League, to which the National Miners’ Union is of the National Miners’ Union organ- izers and members and representatives of other workers’ organizations in the Kentucky miners’ strike for trumped oically against ferocious starvation and conditional release of these prisoners and all those arrested in earlier stages of the struggle. The miners of Ken- tucky in their heroic struggles have shown that the vicious attacks by the operators and police henchmen, that in- timidation and terror will not force them to submit to misery, starvation and murderous rule of gunmen. The | workers throughout the country look | | | t the arrest 1] syndicalism. striking her- with pride upon the growing solidarity ‘NEGRO AND WHITE STRIKERS DEMAND RELEASE OF NINE JAILED BY COAL BOSSES | Protect Men and Women Speakers from Armed Gunmen; Come from Picket Lines Chen and. Chang Pass | terror conditions that have astounded the whole world. The arrest of these workers and organizers is an attempt by the government, tool of the coal operators, to lend further aid in crush- | ing the workers back into the slavery they are fighting against. We demand the immediate and un- and militancy of the Kentucky miners | and are sure that the reply to these | outragecus attacks will be to make the | strike one hundred per cent spreading the strike to Tennessee and | pledge their undivided support in foc and clothing for the strikers, | wives and children, | Trade Union Unity League. | effective, their | | FORCE RETREAT (Rally at Stay ON DEATH VERDICT FOR SHOE THEFT LL.D. Continues Fight for Release of Moore ‘WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Jan. 4— Governor Gardner of Norta Carolina is expected to commute the death sentence of John Moore, an unem- ployed Negro worker, sent to death A delegation of striking Ke Kentuck: miners arrived ai the Workers Inte | national Relief headquarters Icst nite direct from the heart of hunger-ter- ror stricken Kentucky. They will tell of their great strike against’ hunger and. for wage increases under the leadership of the National Miners Union at the giant rally at Star Ca- sino, Jenuary 8th at 8 p. m. The New York District Workers In- for Subbort ot Ky. Mine Strike} Casino Jan. 8 Ky. Funds must be rushed immedi- | ately in support of the strike to the Workers International Relief, 16 West | 21st St. N.Y. C. It is vital to the success of the strike that every cent available be raised for strike relief. Ali W. I. R. organizers in Kentucky are in jail and funds are held up by the tele- | graph authorities. A great program has been arranged by the Workers International Relief. Harian County Sheriff Blair and Machinegun- ners Fail to Terrorize Demonstrators PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 5.—Five thousand | striking Negro and. white miners and their wives and children took part in a militant pa- || rade in front of the court house here demand- ing the immediate release of the nine strike organizers and workers of the National Miners’ Union and Workers International Relief who are held in jail on $5,000 bond on “criminal syndicalist charges.” Marching two-by-two singing “Solidarity Forever” and mountain strike songs, shouting protests and demands for the immediate release of their arrested@— leaders, the strikers ‘lle the court F ‘ASCISTS H AIL cots i” HOOVER, FISH IN _ BOMBING TERROT meeting was held in the court house Wire to Hoover Mak« square, men and women speaking. Miners Come from All Over Strike Area. ‘The miners, men, women and chil- dren organized by the rank and file strike committees marched in off the for stealing a pair of shoes. This action followed the call of upon worker organizations to protest Moore’s sentence and to demand his release. A flood of telegrams and pro- jtests thereupon descended upon the governor, according to press dis- patches from the capitol. The case was laid for examination before Tyre C. Taylor, the governor’s executive counsel. The International Labor Defense, however, announced today that it will continue its campaign to secure Moor’s freedom. “Commutation of sentence,” tthe organization declares, will probably mean life-long impris- onment—simply because Moore was starving and naked and was forced ‘to steal a pair of worn shoes, The International Labor Defense stated that a law, which automatically sent- lences @ man to death for such an offence, is aimed only at terrorizing workers into starving in silence. Fruit Growers Ruined FORT PIERCE, Fla.—Nearly all the oranges and grape fruit are rot- ting under the trees here. The few that are being shipped bring the growers only $1 per box. Out of this get their part. The railroad rob- bers and fertilizer robbers must get theirs too. This leaves nothing for the fruit grower. —W. G. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Lumping animals and unemployed workers to- gether, the Senate yesterday passed @ measure providing that 40,000,000 bushels of wheat be used for feed and fodder. The bill was sponsored by Senator Capper, representative of the rich farmers. He was interested in getting rid of some of the Fed- eral Farm Board wheat, so that the rich farmers and wheat speculators could get the $16,000,000 that would be turned over to the Federal Farm Board. No provision is made for trans- porting or grinding the wheat. It is likely that the unemployed will never see the wheat at all in any edible form. And, even if they were actu- ally given the wheat, it would make less than 4 bushels per unemployed worker as the total “relief” for more than two years of unemployment. What the workers will do with the wheat and how this will give them the shoes, clothing, shelter and other foods necessary to keep alive, only President Hoover knows. When asked what organization would handle the wheat distribution, Senator Capper said he didn’t know. He thought maybe the Red Cross 4 would handle at, Lump Animals and Jobless.in Senate Wheat “Aid” Scheme Every worker knows that Hoover said the Red Cross, which had around $350,000,000 in its treasury, refuses to feed the unemployed. In Kentucky in fact, the Red Cross is used as a scab organization in an effort to make the miners submit to the hunger conditions of the coal operators, the packing house robbers have to| ternational Relief calls upon workers and their organizations to send pro- test telegrams to the governor of the state of Kentucky deinanding the im- mediate release of all those arrested at the National Miners Unicon head- quarters on January 4th. Food and clothes, but not should be sent direct to the W. I. R. warehouse, 14£ Pine Street, Fineville, |400 Walk Out at Gen. Bill Dunne will greet the miners in | the name of the workers of New York | and the miners’ own fighting news- paper, “The Daily Worker’. News reels of the Red Square celebration of thé idth Anniversary of the Rus- tuads |S!an Revolution, workers newsreels, a _ | drarastic presentation by the Cultural Department of the W. I. R., Edith Segal. UNION CALLS INDUSTRIAL ON ALL WORKERS TO RALLY |Motors for More Pay ce In this call the Industrial Union points out the significance of the present Kentucky miners strike and the eifect that it will have on the coming struggles of the needle trades, workers. It asks all shops, rmion, non-union, and A. F. of L. shops, to send delegates, OSHAWA, Ont., Jan. 5—Over 400 workers at the General Mo- tors Co. plant here went on strike yesterday in support of the de- mands of the workers in the body shop and the paint room for higher wages. California State Hunger | Marchers Demonstrate on | Way to San Francisco! Giiarae wo Daily Work Worker) OAKLAND, Cal.—¥orced by growing militancy and the mass pres- | vare of Oakland worke:s, the city officials and the police department granted 2 permit to the State Hunger Marchers to stop here. The whole East Bay and North California delegation will assembie January 11, 10:30 a. m. at Franklin und Ninth Sts. here and march down along Broadway to the Ferry boat. A huge receptiun of the dele- gation will take place at the same day in front oi the Ferry Building in San Francisco at about 12:30 p. m. The whole California delegation with thuusands of workers will march slong Market St. (o the State Building to present their demands. en eee FRESNO, Caili., Jaa. 5.—Hunger marchers on their way to San Francisco for the state hunger march held a good demonstiation in Bakersfield today. Over a thousand were present on the streets. At Vresno a parade wes held without bomners. The hunger marchers demonstrated in the County Court Park. Four hundred were present. | Delegates from both places joined the hunger merch which is scheduled to reach San Francisco for the state Hunger March on Jan. li. Police present tried to interfere, but the marchers resisted and won the right to parace. Tomorrow the marchers are goin; te Modes. By CARL PRICE. The thousands of Kentucky miners, under the banner the National Miners Union, have downed their tools on Jan. ist and: gone on strike against the starvation imposed on them government. Demands Call on Workers of Pennsylvania, Ohio, W. Virginia to Support Ky. Miners’ Strike jday for day men; $4.40 per di {for helpe of |unclassified lebor; by the coal bosses and their! \ | The maiu demands of the | réign of terror by the coal bosses and i Kentucky miners are: $4.80 pea) timir government, the peal miners of | y | Eastern Kentucky hi “s! $2. 60 per day for | Natioual Miners Union by the sanés 8. on Januery 1, cowned thelr | re-employ- ; “4 tools in the fight againsi starvation, | inent of all blacklisted iainers;} azaii.c rurcher wage cuts, against the withdrawal of all armed forecs| terror, and for the demands given | from the coal fields; release of the | ubovec. minors jailed for their union activity;| rt was the heroic strike of 40,000 enforcement of the 8-hour day; all coal maies of this district under miners to be paid in U. 8. currency | the banner of the National Miners ana vor ia eerp. Union which showed the Kentucky Tn the face of an unprecedented miners the way to win their demands. Betrayed and tricked by the United ACONTINUED ON PAGE THHES) | ville. |for National Miners Union leaders. |Monday when | Union. picket lines from all parts of the Kentucky-Tennessee strike area. The mayor of Pineville attempted to stop the demonstration. The min- ers disregarded him and continued their demonstration. Clarina Michaelson of the Workers | International Relief, one of those ar- rested yesterday, was jailed just a half hour after her arrival in Pine- Two more warrants are out Harlan County gun thugs came tn- to Bell County today on the pretext of “protecting” the prisoners. Sheriff Henry Blair of Harlan County and machine-gunners with full regular guns strapped on their shoulders stood on the steps of the Continen- tal Hotel, just across the street from the court house. The court postponed the hearing until Thursday. The gunmen could | not get near the speakers because the Massed miners refused through. At the time ti to let them telegram is sent to the Daily Worker the gunmen are surily looking on. The miners are still shouting their demands for the release of the arrested leaders. The | mass meeting the court house is still on. NINE JAILED. Nine leaders and workers for the National Miners Union, and other workers organizations were arrested coal operators’ gun thugs made a surprise raid on the headquarters of the National Miners All were charged with crim- inal syndicalicm. Those arrested are: Vern Smith, representative of the Daily Worker; John Harvy, Vincent Kamenovich and Clarine Michael- | son of the National Miners Union; Dorothy Ross, Internstional Labor Defense representative; Ann Bertch, Newspaper correspondent; Norman | Martin snd Marguerite Fontaine, Workers Internaticnal Reltef, and Julia Parker, secretary, The gun thugs raided the National Miners Unior as the strixe in the coal fields was repidly spreading, with around 10,000 miners out in a militant fight ageinst starvation and terrorism, ‘The coal op the strike vas ‘ators at Tiree declared not spreading, ae picket lines grow- ing, with more aud tore miners com- ing they touk the desperaie siep of a waoiesale raid and arrest. As the strike grows need for relief increases, especially as the gun thugs have tried to cripple all relief work. The Workers International Relief, which is conducting the relief activ- ities nation-wide calls on all work- ers to ruch relief funds to the W. I. R., 16 West 21st Street, New York City; to send food and clothing to the W. I. R. warehouse, 145 Pine St., Pineville, Ky, \ ‘ ut, but | Clear Provocative Nature of Plot NEW YORK —Clinchi firmly the contention of Worker that the widel; “bomb plot” was a combi and fascist provocation Communist Party an anti-f: ist organiza G. B. Caldoro, pres Fascist Alliance of fied the press Monday nig had sent a telegram to 4 Hoover. applauding the actis the Fish Committee The Fish Committee, whi organized for the specific pw strengthening fascism in Ag smashing with terror and violence the Communist threatened through Hamilton Fish, to incr tivity against the workf. @ result of the fascist bi cation. Caldora’s telegram helps solidify the anti4 front in America and 1 the fact thai the “bomi used for the purpose of the fascist atta munist Party. Aithough many angles affair have collapsed, tl jstill busy “pushing the sending telegrams of c for “tips” they have | Photographs of Comm ing exchanged by the ous cities in an atte and jail active Party | Daily Worker Ageni An attempt to terr Shaller, a Reading, F who haudies the Da ic agains made Mouday. A i the ews cealer will continued to sell & | was laid on his Ww noié had ell teh ed Communis! | Rubkr Gat ‘Ppey including 1,192 wom that oth their quotas,