The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1932, Page 1

: if { / / WORKERS OF TMH WORLD, UNITE! J ‘(Section of the Communist International Is unist Party U.S.A. ae GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAIL 4 ORRER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,090 “DAILY WORKER’ SUBS. “Vol. 1X, No.6 ahs. cae Gatered as occond-class matter at tho Post Office at Wew York, N. ¥.. under the act of Marck 8, 1979 NEW YORK THURSDAY, JANU ARY 7, , 1932 cry EDITIO KENTUCKY STRIKE RANKS SOLID AS MORE COME OU Frame Up Tampa Worker On Murder Mass Defense for Kentucky Miners and Organizers! EGAL and extra-legal suppression have been combined in Kentucky in an ~ffort to smash the strike of the Negre and white miners who sre ‘fighting against living and working conditions that are probably the worst in the United States, and which are little better than those pre- vailing in colonial countries. Finding that the army of gunmen, the systematic raiding and intimi- dation of miners in homes and halls,.the outright murder of miners and their leaders, have been unable to prevent the heroic revolt now going on, the Criminal Syndicalism Jaw has been invoked to jail leading strikers and organizers, and writers like Vern Smith and others who send forth from the ‘Kentucky battle fields the facts of the struggle, and thereby cut off the head of the strike. “By a thousand and one tricks,” said Lenin, “the capitalists, in a bourgeois democracy, and these tricks are the more skillful and more effective, the further ‘pure’ democracy is developed, keep the masses out of the administration and frustrate the freedom of the press, the right of meeting, etc.” The rigin lesson to be drawn et the present moment from the Ken- tucky strike is that here in the United States wherever the conditions of the working class are at the lowest level, there the open armed terror and legal suppression reaches the highest pitch, as in Kentucky and throughout the entire South—directed especially against the Negro masses. Armed terror bands and jails are here the “sacred institutions” of capitalist America and its “pure” democracy. It is necessary first of all to give such assistance to the Kentucky wainers es will enable them to consolidate” the strike movement and to spresd-the cirlke and build the National Miners’ Union. Second, it is necessary to extend the elass battle front into every important. industrial ‘ety and section in the United States, especially into the other mine fields, at once. In the southern cities the issue must be clearly put to the workers— thet is. the necessity for the utmost support of the Kenucky miners who are uow in the forefront of the struggle ugeinst starvation in the South. ‘It is necessary precisely because Negro and white miners in Kentucky are fighting sHoulder to shoulder to bring forward throughout the South the Durning need for fighting unity of the white and Negro workers. It is necessary \ especially to bring forward such issues as the fight against lynching and sll Jim-Crow laws and customs, to organize joint struggles of waite and Negro workers, against the special forms which the starva- tion ed suppression drive takes on in the South. Mass defense corps need to be ‘organized. ‘With sll possible speed the organization of relief committees led by the Workers International Relief, and the mass defense organizations of the International Labor Defense must be set up in the principal cities in th North and the South. ‘The demand for the repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism law and the organization of mass struggle against the terror in Kentucky and through- out the South has been brought into the very center of the struggle by the actions of the coal operators and their government. Around this issue great masses of American workers can be organ- ized now for the support of the 75.000 men, women and children of the working class in the Kentucky and Tennessee coal fields for the sup- port of the whole stroggle against southern terror, and the general ex- tension of suppression of working class organizations, now led by the Communist. Party and the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Kentucky Strikers Look to Workers’ Mass Support; Build It With Daily Workers Subs LY? 318 months of subscriptions to the Daily Worker came in Tuesday. This is much below Monday’s figure. What does this decline mean? It cannot mean that the bosses’ attacks are declining, because the bosses are in- creasing their attacks against the workers, in the form of increasing wage cuts and increasing fascist terror. It can- not mean that the workers’ struggles are declining, be- cause the spread of the Kentucky strike, the growth of the California Hunger March, and the revolt within the ranks of the American Federation of Labor locals and the social- ‘ist party show that new forces are every day turning to “the Communist Party as the leader in the workers’ struggles. UESDAY’S decline in the campaign for 5,000 12-month subscriptions can mean only one thing—that the ma- chinery set up for getting new subscribers is not broad ehough and is not working steadily day after day in all districts. That is why the campaign shows sudden in- creases, and then sudden drops, instead of showing a sharp | steady rise. HAT is the solution? More readers’ conferences, more Friends of the Daily Worker groups, more ‘neighborhood squads, greater use of the Unemployed Coun- cil activity, more active committees in mass organizations, more careful follow-up work to get new subscribers active. ; ere re HE Kentucky strike, the imminent war danger, the in- creasing fascist terror, demand the immediate forma- tion of a broad mass base for the workers’ struggles. The Party recruiting drive to begin next week is the answer to this demand. Prepare this week for the recruiting drive by spreading Daily Worker ‘subscriptions in every mine and factory and in every working class neighborhood. AL McBRIDE FACES DEATH Arrest 26 Workers In Raid On Ruskin Meet Hope to Deport One Police Planted Spies Among Workers TAMPA, Fla.—Al McBride, member of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union and ac- tive among the Tampa work- ers, has been framed up on a murder charge following a raid made upon a group of Tampa workers at Ruskin, near here. Twenty-six workers were ar- rested in the raid, which is a continuation of the reign of terror against the thousands of cigarmakers who recently went. out on strike in Tampa. Bail for McBride has been set ‘ SCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Read Amter’s Radio Debate Speech, Sat. The speech of I. Amter, or- ganizer of District 2, New York, in the radio debate with Eve | Garrette Grady, notorious anti- Communist and anti-Soviet writer and lecturer whose slanders have appeared in “Liberty,” will be published in the feature page of the Saturday, Jan, 9, issue of the Daily Worker, Every reader of the Daily Worker will want to read Amter’s reply to this enemy of the Amer- | ican working class and of the Soviet Union. Order additional bundles of the Saturday edition of the Daily Worker. Stimson in New Pressure on Japan; Aims Looting of Chin Chinese Red Army in Smashing Advances in Central Provinces; Kuomintang Forces Menaced A serious diplomatic clash perailist bandits engaged in looting China. over Kuomnitang China threatened by the Japanese invasion of Inner Ohina, the United States has seized upon the beating by Japanese sentries of a United States consular official as @ pretext for sharp diplomatic re-@ presentations to Japan. Stimson has even threatened to invoke against | Japan the Nine-Power Pact which “guarantees” the territorial and ad- ministrative integrity of China. Stimson yesterday held secret con- ferences with the British and French Ambassadors in an effort to mobil- ize France and England for joint | diplomatic pressure against the Jap- | anese. } ‘The Japanese have exressed “re- gret” over the assault on the con- sular official, Culver B. Chamberlain. Stimson has refused to consider this as closing the matter and is holding the affair as a club over the Jaanese to force them back to the limits of the original understanding whereby Japan was to act as the spearhead of the attack on the Soviet Union, with Manchuria as a Japanese mil- itary base for that attack. It was under this understanding that the Japanese seizure of Manchuria was permitted and supported by the Uni- ted States and the League of Na- tions. No Change In “Agreement” The present tension indicated seri- ous strain in the relations between the imperialists, but the plans for the partition of China and an armed attack on the Chinese Revolution and Sueiee Union Sole Or-tlet for U.S.Goods Congressman Admits Only Soviet Shows Says Rainey’ Pro- gress; Fears Mass Movement of Jobless Here WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Ti on in E .” said Rainey, “than with the Soviet Union must be full opened, even to the point of rec nition, was the maia feature of an important interview given by Repre- sentative Rainey, democratic leader in Congress, to William Hard well known newspaper correspondent. This interview which was broadcast by the National Broadcusiing sys- tem on Monday contained- some startling admissions about the de- cline of capitalism and the growth of construction in the Soviet Union under the Five-Year Plan. “There is more ‘building going UXBRIDGE MILL WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST PAYCUT Nat'l Textile ee Tries Spread Fight Against a Cut PAWTUCKET, R, I, Jan..6—One thousand workers at the Uxbridge Worsted Mill at Uxbridge, Mass., near Woonsocket, R. I. struck today against a ten per cent wage cut. They marchced to the’ Rivulet Spinning Mill of the same company where all the workers, 200, joined the strike. The National Textile Workers Union organizers are work- ing to spread the strike tonight and tomorrow at Glenark and Pascoag mills of the same company at Woon- socket and Pascogg, R. I. There will be a strikers’ mass meeting tomorrow morning to elect a rank and file strike committee. Woonsocket is an important mill center where the National Textile Workers Union stopped a ten per cent cut in three mills in October, at Common) a,WaronUSSR is occurring between the im- It’s domination the Soviet Union continue in iull force. The withdrawal by the Uni- | there Js In all the rest of the world. | they are building 5,000 miles of | + mainline reilrosd tracks while we are tearing up ours. The rebuild- ing of Russa will continue for at least twenty-five years.” Rainey, who is a rich farmer, con- | «CONTINUED “ON PAGR eee | Hoover Hunger Gov’t | Refuses to Publish| Report On Mooney | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—The | | | Hoover. government is now openly | | jinsisting that Tom Mooney and | | Warren Billings stay in jail on the colossal frame-up perpelwated| i} by the California bosses in 1916. | Tne latest action of the Hoover | hunger regime was the announce- ment of Attorney General Mit- cheli that he would not make pub- lic the report of the legal éxperts |cf the Wickersham Cormmitiee on the frarae-up in. the Mooney- Billings e220. | The cemand for this report, which coniains many admissions .| of frame-up, of sdeliberate:ratl- roading of Mooney and Billings, was first made on « large scale by the National Hunger Merchers on Dec... 7, when they demon- sitaced for uhemployimenc insur- ance in ironi of the capitol. Later the Senate passed a reso- | lution asking for this report, if it was not. “sgainst Public in- terest.” Now Attorney Generel Mitchell polit blank refuses to publish the report, thereby de- Uberately ajding the Ci pis, capitalists in perpetuating the capitalists’ jailing of Mooney, and | | Billig This lntest-aciion of ihe bosses united in their state and federsl governments against class-wer| | prisoners shows that only the | mass Gemoustrations and activ- ity of the workers can force the release of Mooney, Billings and, other class-war prisoners. Sharp Police Terror and Socialists May Crush Ruhr Strikes (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 6.—The strike sit- uation in Germany {s in a precarious situation as a result of the over- powering police terror plus the de- termined resistance of the reformisis to the strike movement. Work was resumed today in a number of Ruhr pits, although fur- ther strikes began today including a series of Berlin furniture movers. An example of the police terror} is the order of the Cologne suthor- | ities prohibiting indeiinitely all in- door and outdoor meetings of the ted States of its protest over Chin- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Communist Party and other reyolu |Heard It Cc ents T Price 3 3 Charge Look to Working Class for Relief to Carry on Strike Report for Daily} Worker Tells of Demonstration From Miners Watch to See! That Leaders Aren’t Kidnapped (Telephoned to the Daily from the Pineviile, Ky, Covniy Juii By VERN SMITH. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. In jail yesterday we could see 5,000 mirers, their wives and children, march by in the pro- test demonstration demanding the release of the nine of us who were, arrested at the Na- tional Miners Union office. The 6. miners were cheering and sing- | ing. | All day today and yecterday squads of miners“ have been coming up &round the jail to ces if we were still here or. kidnapped. Reynolds “made & speech in front of the cour. house in yesterday’s demonstration. “I served in the war,” he suid. “I raced hine guns, but aever have I seen place here by the gun thags.” “Muchine°Guns “ence Miners Reynolds locked acress the square and there was a machine gun point- fag ct the 5,000 women nd chil- dren demonstra ot house. the i the Continental the street irom @ and fail. Agenda: 1, Oran Se 2. Feb. 4, Demonsivs employed Insurance. jon f fe urge all deleget sent at this meeting withor feil, IMPORTANT! NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS! General Fraction Meeting of Needle Trades today at 7:30 p. m. at Workers Cente:, Jail) Worker | brutality as was taking | | be ‘ ylidarity Message From Chicago Stirs | Iyer Kentucky Miners |. the recding from the Chicago Workers’ In-| ternatt Relief. Conierence at the demonsti 000 miners | jand ¢i at the court | |house here yesterday demanding | |the release oi tne nine arrested | | Strike leaders, | When tne Kentuc miners | | heard the expressioa of volidartt; j |and unity in the struggle e:- 1 by hundreds of represeii- worker 2 ves of polief for the strike, with && |rest of the counir | the egiz. | the te egra matic mement of | | demonstrztion. E. THIRTEENTH ST. JOBLESS TO \fe March on Alderman Fassler’s Home A demonstration of workers of E. 1th St. 1 n Aves. A and D, before the hoiae of Alderman Fass- familles in the Le held Friday, after & meeting at tuie DEMAND REUIEF d immediate relief for | k e Cominittee ae Meet In Pineville Terror "To Send Eten to Governor Demanding Relense of Leaders PINEVILLE, . Jan, 5.—Coal operators bet ell the gun thugs of Bell, Knox and Herlan Counties here to ihe comt honse, fe.ring that the riking miners would frez 1? ed leeders of tho Notional Miners’ Union. En- thadzem cmong the 5,000 who at the court house ran hich, Jude Van Beber, be- @ the demonsiration, put s over until Ynursday, A ni was unenimonsly adopted to Le sex, to Governor Laffoon de- manding immediate release of tieze arrested, One hundred marched to Pineville from Straight Creek and Kettle Island and G Creek, four miles away, demoustreted canse | Many came in cars and trucks, | }next Saturday Despite vee temmor, six additional mines sho', down yesterday, Three shat down in Tennessee, At Mountain, 105 came out, shutting the mine: 4 tAnters the miners came out 160 per cent, 200 strik- ing; at Valley Creek a few were polled out. At Capitoe, 43, or 50 per cent, came out; half at the Pioneer Coal Co. struck; at Ketile Island 385 came out. Picketing is Ikerescing. The spirit of the strik- ets is good. . PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 6—A © tral Strike Committee meeting held here todey at 1:00 p. m. following decisions were made. the section conferences will be | nd Sunday. a The A committees will meet regularly on the eldczmsn of 1 jevery Wednesday Free mils stat! | A resolution sent to the | drea in -shoolz 61 and 64. Free | County authorities demandin | hot Innches in the ebove schools |immediate release of all | for children of unemployed and | | part-time workers. Free gas, rent, | electricity for the unemployed, im- | meedicte ecch winter relief of $150 | tor every nnemployed worker and %30 for each dependent. No dis- criminctions against Negroes, for- | elgn-vorn or young workers, no | evictions for unemployed or part- | time workers; endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill presented by the National Un- | employed Council 22d the Munger Marchers to Congress. Four Kentucky Miners Arrive for Giant Strike Rally Friday) To. Speak at Star Casino Meeting Called by I. R. to Aid Mine Struggle NEW YORK.— en the National Hunger M: n was ed the right to put their demands to Congress, v tionary organizations, many men down in Kentucky who Red Aid Calls on World’s Workers to Intensify Fight for Scottsboro Boys (Cable by MOSCOW, Jan. 6.—The E ternational Red Aid has issued an appeal to the workers of the world to rally to the defense of the nine innocent Scotts- boro Negro boys facing legal ly The appeal points out that boys will be. decided on January 21 when the Alabama Supreme Court goes through the form of hearing the appeal filed by the attorneys of the boys and the International Labor Defense, ‘The International Red Aid further points out that it was the vigorous protest of the international prole- tariat and an aroused world public opinion which prevented the execu- tion of these boys on July 10th last, PE EEE ROLES RI RANT the date originally set by the Scotts- Inprecorr) xecutive Committee of the In- nching in Alabama. the fate of the eight convicted boro lynch courts for the legal mur- ders, The I. R. A. warns the workers against any relaxing of their efforts as @ result of protracted legal pro- ceediiugs and reminds workers of the mur@er of Sacco ‘and Vanzetti by American capitalism after years of legal hagglings. It appeals to the world's workers to use the time re- maining to organize powerful inter- ——— National protest action to save the innocent Scottsboro children and to deal a blow aguinst the capitalist- fanned race hatred. earns Australian Workers Cuble Protest | The following cable was received from Australia yesterday by the na- tional office of the International La- bor Defense, at 80 E, 11th Street, New York: Sidney, Australia, To the I. L. D., New York, N. ¥. Thousands of Australian workers Protest against death sentence of Scottsboro boys and Harlan miners and demand the immediate un- conditional release of all class war prisoners. Please forward to all concerned. —Icwra Australia. {had been holding out trom joining the National Miners’ Union, . fust came right in and said, ‘Boys, we are with youl’” That was the effect on many miners, said Elzy Smith, one of four Kentucky miners who came |up to New |tor the miners now out on strike. Elzy Smith, William Powell and Mircele Bailey visited the Daily Worker ofiice and: told about the struggles of the miners. All of these |miners will speak at @ mass meet- ing called by the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief on Friday, Jan. 8, at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., at 8 p.m. They told of the enthusiastic ereeting given them by workers in Richmond and Norfole, Va., where besides taking up a collection, branches of the W.LR. were estab- Ushed. Asked what effect the coal oper- ators had on the miners by calling them “reds,” one of the miners said: “The men say if we can win this strike we don’t give a god damn what they call us.” “You know I have & little boy three years old,” said Elzy Smith. “His momie and I were atalkin’ one | day and he pulls at my trousers, say- ing, ‘Daddy, do do you kno know who I out’ Help Build Solidarity for Kentucky Strikers. With Daily Wo York to help raise relief | jright to picket, free spe | the strike deman egainst the terrorism and demanding the immediate release of all prison- ers in Kentucky; demanding the withdrawal o” the gur the semblage. Another resolution was sent to the Mt. Sterling, Ky. court house de- taanding the immediate release of the miners being tried on framed- up murder charges. Greetings were cent to the Blawnox, Pa. arresied miners, and @ wire to Governor P*~ chot, of Pa., demanding their lease. The Strike Committee wi Gov. Rolphe of California demand ing the release of Tom Moonev Warren Billings. A resolution edopted pledging support | struggle for the nine Scottsboro boys A letter was sent to the coal op- tors proposing a conference on On Thursday the hearing of the nine arrested here will come up. A greater demonstration is expected A éelegation of 50 is being prepared to go to Frankfort the capitol of Kentucky, to see the governor and to demand the release of all the ar= rested strike leaders. People who were born cinity say that yesterd: demonstration at the court house was the largest they ever saw around here in thetr whole life. ‘The strike is spreading. The spirit of the miners is excellent. More relief ts needed immedi- aiely. The terror is not stopping the spread of the strike, but lack of relief will seriously handicap the struggle. Relief should be rushed here without delay. Send food and clothing to the Workers Interna- tional Relief, 145 Pine St., Pineville, Kentucky. I said, ‘Well, son, I reckon I do’ ‘No, you don't,’ he says, ‘I'm a Roosian Red.’” Hear these militant Kentucky miners speak this Friday night at the giant rally at Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Support the strike of the mine workers against starva- tion, boss terror and wage-cuts. Help rush relief to the strikers and their families! _ ake rkers Subs