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Hoover Government Li Bo > ALL OUT TO NEW STAR CASINO, 8 Dail Cantral Org. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! p.m. TONITE; SUPPORT KY. STRIKE! U.N (Section of the Communist International le orker GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER’ SUBS. at New York, N. Eatered an second-clans matter at tho uuder the met of March 3, 1877 mt Office "NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932 ————S——S “CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Mass Mobilization Must Smash the Kentucky Terror (O extreme of terrorism is too great for the Kentucky coal operators and their officials in Bell and Harlan County in an attempt to crush the enthusiastic and fast-growing strike of the Kentucky-Tennessee miners against the horrible starvation conditions that no one now denies. Not only were the National Miners’ Union headquarters raided and every leader and worker there jailed and charged with “criminal syn- ‘dicalism,” but when International Labor Defense attorneys appeared just one day before the hearing, they too were thrown in jail or threatened | with imprisonment. Allen Taub, defense lawyer, was jailed two hours after his arrival to provide legal defense for the arrested workers. ‘The coal operators do not stop alone with the attacks of their gun thugs. They now seek to clamp down on even any legal defense. They do not want the arrested leaders to be heard in court. They want to railroad them to jail. They want to crush out any expression and expo- sure of the stark frame-up, of the terrorism of the coal operators, of the hhand-in-glove action of the sheriffs, the courts, and the coal operators. | This means that the working class must mobilize for a mighty, nation- | whte protest to smash this terror. Eyery worker, every working class organization should immediately ‘protest these vicious arrests, and this latest insolence of the coal oper- ators, which is a part of their machine-gun rule to enforce mass starva- tion. ‘This will not stop the strike. It is not stopping the strike. Hourly Messages which pour into the Daily Worker tell of new mines coming out, of the strengthening of the sirike organization, the building of the National Miners’ Union. Plans are rapidly going ahead for the spread of the strike! Five hundred strikers’ delegates met in Pineville, 2 few days ago, at the Call of the Central Strike Committee, and planned an extension of the strike to all Southern coal fields. Though the terror grows, the strike grows more speedily, and with greater power. ‘The great need now is relief and working class defense. Relief must be had without delay. The hungry miners are trooping out of the mines in 2 desperate struggle to smash hunger. They are hitching up mules te old wagons scouring the starvation infested country for a few crumbs. But they must get outside help to win the strike, There can he no delay In relief for the strike if the strike is to spread at this vital point. Every worker who reads this must become an active force in the re- Me? campaign for the Kentucky strike. Funds should be rushed imme- Giately. Food and clothing should be dispatched to the W. I. R. ware- house, 145 Pine St., Pineville, Ky. Every worker must enter this strike and put it over to victory! Father Cox and the Unemployed entire working class has an example in the fake “hunger march” Jed by Father Cox, the Pittsburgh priest, of the difference between leadership by such capitalist demagogues and leadership by revolutionary workers and their banner-bearer, the Communist Party. Father Cox and his “hunger march” to Washington can bear com- parison with the workers’ demonstration to petition the Czar in January, 1905, led by another priest, who also turned out to be a stool pigeon— Father Gapon. Father Gapon led thousands to death at the hands of the Czar's troops. And if Father Cox has failed to get quite so many workers killed, the difference between his exploit and that of Father Gapon is one merely of degree, but not of kind. Reports tell of the most outrageous treatment of the deluded thou- sands of workers who trusted this priestly scoundrel. This bears out what the Daily Worker had already warned the workers against. Several have been killed en route to Washington. Promised room for all to ride, unknown hundreds were forced to walk, freezing and starving ~—since no provision was made for them to sleep or eat. Scores collapsed and three have died from exposure. Naturally these workers have resented this treatment and taken des- perate masures to save their lives. More than a score have been arrested by railroad police for riding freight trains, since Father Cox’s promise of “ears for all” was found attached to a demand by his auto drivers for pay to ride! The list of these crimes against the starving workers has, of course, been suppressed by the same capitalist press which incited every violence against the National Hunger March of the Unemployed Council. The thousands who finally arrived in Washington were left to shift Yor themselves for the most part, and resentment grew to such pitch that Father Cox became alarmed, lest the demonstration he had planned to be prayerful and peaceful turn ont to be a genuine, if ‘unorganized, Protest against starvation. For this reason he hurriedly gathered only a small part of the most lamb-like ones at the Capitol Building—“for prayer”—not for unemploy- ment insurance. And just what he was praying for was made clearer when he moved his prayer-meeting over to Arlington Cemetery, where at the tomb of the “Unknown Soldier” he virtually prayed for war! It is typical of this kind of capitalist demagogy, that this holy scoun- Grel received glorifying praise and support in this outrageous delusion of aad mistreatment of the workers, frorn that smooth hypocrite, Governor Pinehot, and from the officers of the American Federation of Labor. But it is also typical of the rising wave. of revolutionary resentment. of the working class at being starved and lied to, that among these work- ers there was organized a Rank and File Committee, which brought for- ward sharply the |demand for unemployment insurance that Father Cox had purposely opposed, and which rallied the victims of this scoun- drel to action around this basic demand of the unemployed millions. The “hunger march” of Father Cox was openly proclaimed as an “anti-Communist” affair. So let the workers judge the “anti-commu- nists” by the outrages and crimes that these enemies of the Communist Party have committed. And let every worker, employed and unem) loyed, rot only draw a lesson from this example, but-intensify the organization for the nation-wide demonstration for unemployment insurance on ebzuary 4th! ‘ A . the Socialist premier, Ramsay Mac- General Strike in Donald, and Lord Willingdon, Vice- i roy of India, India Proves Most ‘The authorities have warned the Effective Yet Called | ewspapers that publication of the es Program of the preparations for civil disobedience was liable to punishment under the criminal amendment act and the emergency ordinances, Fearing further outbreaks, the Governor of Bombay deferred an official visit to Sind. Arrests are LONDON, Jan. 7.—The Bombay hartal (general strike including closing of all shops, stores, etc.) was the most complete ever held here and has now lasted for four days. All business is stopped. The hhartel was called against the sup- Measures ordered by Brit- Ee icy i Son ger at fe ee REHM A ‘| their support of the fascist measures "enh, his sping with the sharpening j by the Senate, ‘LOSE’ FRAME UP REPORT Only Mass Struggles! Will Free Mooney | and Billings Socialists Scored | Mooney Conferences in| New York, and Frisco | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—| The case of Mooney and Bill-| ings is now drawn into the toils | of the Hoover hunger govern-| ment, which through trickery | {and outright lying is trying to! screen the frame-up perpet- rated by the California bosses. Refused to Publish Report. | Yesterday Attorney General. Mit-| chell declared he would not furnish | the Wickersham report on the| Mooney case which was requested The Senate had given him plenty of loopholes, but it was difficult for the Attorney Gen- eral to hide the fact that the Wick- ersham report showed up many fea- tures of the Mooney-Billings frame- up. Late yesterday Attorey General Mitchell resorted to a usual slimy trick of the Department of Justice when driven into a corner, He said the Mooney report, a 600- Page, printed document, published in hundreds of copies, “could not be found.” Rolph Defers Decision, On the same day that the Hoover hunger regime “lost” the Mooney re~ | port, Governor Rolph of California jannounced that he would not give @ decision on the Mooney case until late in February. The Mooney-Billings case, as the Daily Worker has repeatedly pointed out, is not an isolated instance of “California injustice,” but a delib- erate attack of the whole capitalist class against militant workers. This is definitely shown by the action of the Department of Justice. The same U. S. Department of Justice which frames up and imprisons hun- dreds of militant workers, which dur- ing 1919 led the Palmer raids in which thousands of revolutionary workers were imprisoned, now takes the lead in covering up the Mooney- Billings frame-up. Socialists Support Walker Trick. The action of the socialists, who supported Mayor Walker’s stunt in trying to separate the Mooney case from its working-class background, has played into the hands of the (CONTINCED ON PAGE THREE) es to Keep Tom Mooney in Jail a Brutal Terror Fails to Stop Cal. Hunger March . | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 7—In line with the policy | of Governor Rolph, city and town officials are attempting to smash up the state hunger march which is on its fourth day’s travel to San Francisco. The hunger march is scheduled to} take place in San Francisco at the State Building, January 11. In Los Angeles & demonstrs.ica ®-— ~ of 5,000 workers was attacked by | the the Monterey County and City the Red Squad. In Madera the fire | officals, as well as the American | hose was turned on the marchers. | Legion are preparing to attack the| ‘The whole town was aroused and | marchers. followed the line of march through | Protest to Governor | the city. Workers everywhere are s: eet feeding the here, ‘The following telegram was sent to | Information reaching here says (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Young Kentucky Miners to Speak at New Star Casino Meet Tonight at 8 P.M. A mass outpouring of New York workers to demonstrate their solidarity with the heroic Kentucky miners’ strike and to pledge material support, at a mass meeting tonight, 8 p. m.,| at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., is the plea of the Workers International Relief, under whose auspices the meeting has been arranged. Three of the young miners who have recently arrived from Kentucky will be among the speakers to tell of the fierce struggle of the Kentucky miners to ward off the starvation conditions forced on them by the coal barons. Imperialists Rush Plans to Loot China As Jabanese Push Beyond Great Wall DENY RIGHT OF DEFENSE TO JAILED KENTUCKY STRIKERS WORKERSARE COX ‘MARCH Three Workers Die of Exposure on the Way |Jobless Get Prayers! Priest Shown to Be a Faker BULLEVIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. —Presi- dent Hoover, who refused to see the National Hunger Marchers from all over the country, consented to speak te the fat priest, Father Cox, who led 2 hunger march from Pittsburgh. Hoover said no relief would be given the unemployed. Telling of his interview with Hoo- Father Cox said: “I told the President that unless immediate re- lief is given, god help the country.” ee ver, WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.— Helter-skelter, without any provision for food, hungry, about 5,000 unemployed work- ers, misled by the strike-break- ing priest, Father Cox, strag- gled into Washington toda |No provision was made for} feeding and the marchers who COCONTINUED OR VAGE THREE) 10 PUT RELIEF Indo-China Paper Prints ‘Plans for Partition | DEMANDS BEFORE. of China Between U.S., France, England | There was a further sharpening’ yesterday | of the clash between Japan and the other im-| perialist bandits over the division of the loot) in China. ‘The same imperialist powers who| supported and legalized the Japanese seizure| of Manchuria are now aroused over the Japanese attempis to | carry through an independent plunder policy in China. These powers are reported to be “asserting their treaty rights in a warning to Japan.” In other words, they have no intention of being cheated by Japan of their share of the loot. Yesterday, for the second time in ¢—-- two days, Stimson held secret con- , are planning concerted action to pre- FASSLER TODAY 13th St. Bloek Commit- jcee Sends Letter to the 6th St. Alderman Preparing to demonstrate before Alderman Saul Fessler's house Fri- day, Jan. 8, at 2 p.m., the East Thir- teenth St. Block Committee sent the following letter to Fassler: “Alderman Fassle=, “Sixth Aldermanic District, “Sir:—On East icth St., between ferences with the French and British ambassadors, For the first time in the secret conferences over the par- tition of China, the Italian Ambas- sador was called in. A Washington dispatch intimates that these powers NEW YORK.—The sham of wordy tussle between Hitler, the German fascist leader, and Bruening, Ger- man chancellor, which the socialists tried to play up as an excuse for of the Bruening government, aré again torn away by the latest events. SOCIALISTS and FASCISTS Herr Hitler has been called in to an Important conference by Bruening to discuss a united front in the spring elections. The pres- ent Bruening government, which 1s carrying out fascist measures, owes its existance solely to socialist sup- ,Port. At every stage during the past six months, Hitler has co- operated with the Bruening gov- ernment, forming a united front with the leaders of the German social democratic party (socialists) through common action with Bruening. Now Bruening is tight- ening his bonds with Hitler and the fascists. Bruening, along with William Groener, Minister of War, invited Hitler to discuss measures of con- tinuing the presidency of von Hin- denburg. Capitalist mews reports show thet Hitler is agreeable to this, as well as to other proposals of the Bruening regime. Hitler, Bruening to Confer; “Socialists” Ready to Help the crisis, the further measures of Prance, Britain and the United States to tighten the yoke of repsrations and foreign debt payments on the German masses, the German capitai- ists expect serious struggles under the leadership of the Communist Party. They are preparing their fascist front against the growing revolutionary struggles of the workers. | vent Japan monopolizing the loot in| China. The dispatch states, in part: “All the western Powers are openly worrie¢ by reports that the Japanese Army, having conquered Manchuria, now plans to invade China proper.” ~| Publishes Imperialist Plans for Di- vision of Chins Lost The <ndo-China journal “Tsenin” publishes sn article giving the main (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NEGRO WORKERS AID MINERS. At its last meeting Unit 2 of the Night Workers Section heard one of the striking miners picturing the tense situation in the Southern min- ing region. The unit pledged itself to do everything in its power to raise funds for relief; $6.35 was collected right away and many pledged to give $1.00 per week during the length of the strike. Aves, A and C, there are scores of Attorney Sent to Defend BETRAYED BY Miners Is Arrested; Strike Relief Needed Spreads; | 4000 Miners Demonstrate at Preliminary Hear- | ing or 9 Arresied Strike Leaders | 500 Representatives of 8000 Miners Hold Gen- eral Strike Committee Meet; Lay Plans | to Spread Strike lr NERA SE VTE e SET ee SE: || * . . | |Arrest I. L.D. Attorney in Pineville | in Effort to Cripple Keniucky Strike | | | PINEVILLE, Ky. Jan. Bent on stiempting to cripple the growing strike of the Kentucky-Tennessee miners by whatever means, the coal operators’ Bell County officials went to the extent of jailing the attorney for the nine arresizd leaders, Allen Taub, of the Inter- nationai Labor Defense. | Laub had just arrived two hours before to errange te defend the nine in court and to arrange bail. In order to crush even any legal defense of the arrested leaders of the National Miners’ Union, Taub was nabbed and shoved in jail jon the trumped up charge of “obstructing justice.” Taub had gone to a garage to take over the car of Joe Weber, strike leader for whom a warrant has hee issued. He was arrested immediately. Later warrants were issued for Stone, another attorney for the International Labor Defense, »s well as for Chorles Peters, | district Workers International Relief secretary. Taub and Stone were to expose the illegal arrest and frame-up of the strike leaders, and te mmzzle them and crush even the most ele- mentary righis of the workers, these defense attorneys were jailed or threatened with arrest, on the eve of the preliminary court hearing. BULLETIN. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 7.—The trial of the nine arrested, and Allen Taub, attorney for the International Labor Defense, jailed yesterday, | Was again postponed, this time to Satardsy morning at 10 o'clock. | Every effort is being made to exclude the miners from the court-room | when “evidence” is heard. This is the second postponement. If the hearing is hell beyond Saturday writs of habeus corpus will be gotten out. The Unemployed Council of Deiroit sent a letter to the imprisoned workers, pledging support to the Strike: Committee. Thugs were sent in to Gatlify, but the Gatliff strikers forced their withdrawal. The head of the Red Cross here, Mrs. Hutchins, said to a crowd of people that “the prisoners should be lynched. If I had people enough to follow me I would lend them right to the Jal! to do it.” The miners say they will return to be present whenever the hearing is called. ° . PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 7.—Over 4,000 miners }are demonstrating here now as the prelimi- |nary hearing of the nine arrested strike leaa- ers and Attorney Allen. Taub of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense, is going on. Fenley Donaldson, G..G. Green, Negro miner, Lloyd Low, from Cole- | man mine, and Jim Garland spoke from the court house expos- ing the terrorism of the coal operators, demanding the im- | | mediate release of the arrested strike leaders, and urging the | miners to spread the strike and push it through to victory ‘ | against hunger and terrérism. e on these biocks you ean find fam- | TY of the Bell County officials. | ilies who have not even a portion | More Mines Strike. of the bare necessities of iife.” Six more inines struck Thursday | | “he rellef provided by the char- | morning at Stony Fork, Bell County. | | ity organizations and the city gov- | Additional mines struck at Stirling, | ‘They exposed the starvation condi- | DO AK 10 DEPORT 20,000 IN YEAR | ermment docs not even begin to suftice for the exisilag conditions. | It is continually inadequate. | “Xou are our represcutative on* | the Board of Aldermen, and, as | such, we, workers on these blocks, 2 pm. we expect that you will mect our committee at the shove stated time.” ‘The letter is signed by James F. Drown, secretary of the East 13th St. Block Committee. Scottsboro Boys Write from Death Cells Praising Fight Led by L.L.D. BULLETIN. OMAHA, Jan. %—Building the fighting alliance of Negro and white workers against the bosses’ lynch ter- ror and starvation program, Omaha workers at an open forum unani- mously adopted the following protest resolution to Gov. Miller, Mortgor- ery, Ala., protesting against the ‘ild2- ous lynch verdicts against the inno- cent Scottsboro boys: “Resolved: 7 “That we, the colored and white workers assembled in a mass meet- “FOR a THE IMMEDIATE, UNCONDI- TIONAL AND SAFE RELEASE of the nine Negro boys framed up in Scottsboro, Alabama. “We will continue to demand their release and to do all in our power to expose this frightial frame-np and to fight against lynch terror anti! the bess poivon of pre- jadice and hatred is entirely Meeied Buc WE BS LL bguli- fued into 2 solid’ anion of all white and Negro workers. $s A WORKERS ‘AND FARM- NEW YORK.—‘“The Invernational Labor Defense meaus everything to Me and I praise it to the highest,” Says Eugene Williams, one of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys in a letter to the ILD, from his death-house cell y Prison, Montgomery, Ala. ‘Two of the other boys, the fourteen- yeas-old Roy Wrigit and his 17-year- old brother Andy echo this feeling in jevvers just received. Other letters from the boys expressing their faith in the defense policy of the ILD to ' QOQIIEFURD- On. vAGw. SERA: are sending a delgation to see you | at your home on Friday, Jan. 8, at — “Our grievances are such as need | immediate attention and therefore D UN PAGE-THEEE) N. J. Fires Foreign Born Workers The campaign of Secretary of Labor Doak against the for- jeign born is continuing with (CONTIN Workers Groups Wire Protest at Terrer In Ky. von eb sap the next twelve months NEW YORK. — Telegrams|#* least 20.000 foreiem born workers are flooding Kentucky and Haale! ect ee 8 » | ine 358 over year’s | Bell and Harlan County offi- ghlaloeae de cials protesting the vicious) ree west anes ic shee de- peas | al not criminals as = tule of the coal operators jail-| crs) government would pave pi ing nine strike leaders, trying to! veliev ‘orkers believe, but starving workers clamp down even on their legal de-! no apply for rellef at the charities, fense by jailing their attorney, Allen Doak now thet 511 of thi Taub. Workers snd workers’ oF-| goooctcd last vear rca etcalnaterre | ganizations everywhere are sendingin| “y+ 1. o¢ course a well enw a ee vale roi Others should follow | thot tne leading gangsters and racke | Without delay. \eteere of fore’ birth are not af- | Telegrams of protest should be| rected by ¢ orders because of |sent to Governor Laffoom, Frank-| their dlose connections with big bust« |tort, Ky.; Judge Van Beber, Bell/ness. include as “criminals” are County; County Attorney Smith, Bell Communists, anti-fascists and other jCounty; Sheriff Henry Blair, Har-| mijitant workers, who are sent back lan County. to fascist countries, | The New York Trade Union Unity {Council has sent the following tele-| Besides those who have been fired j@ram: because of the crisis, considerable ef- | “The Trade Union Unity Couneil | fort is being put into the movement | of Greater New York, representing |t0 discharge foreign born workers | 20,000 organized workers, protest | and so make them eligible for deport- } against the dastardly attack of ation. "The latest case of this is the your government against the brave | Order to drop all “alien” workers on pemaeatnnc lin oa ~ mee ct aD ¥ |greater force than before. Doak, proceedi 20d z with definite ar,