The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1932, Page 1

a WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ( Section of the Communist Oat a ) Norker Vfaunict Party U.S.A. l 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. of March 3, 1879 _NEW YORK, WED? ESDAY, JANUARY 1 13, 1932 _ CITY EDITION — Vol. [X, No. 11 Price 3 Cents 60,000 NEED RELIEF TO SPREAD KENTUCKY MINE STRIKE Chicago ago Unemployed Fight ight Olf Attack of Cop Cops; 40 ) Jailed Chicago Unemployed Go to Work for Feb. 4 The Committee of the Chicago Unemployed Councils | writes: “We had a conference on Sunday, January 3... worked out a complete program of action. ... We have | set ourselves the goal of securing 500,000 signatures, (in- cluding among them 500 collective endorsements), for | the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. We will also try to establish unemployment insurance commit- tees in 50 neighborhoods, 10 flop houses, 200 workers fraternal and benefit organizations, 50 trade unions and | in 20 shops. We have mobilized workers’ organizations | for local struggles, collection of signatures and in sup- | port of our preparations for February 4th. A committee was elected to take charge of the campaign and give lead- ership to this united front movement.” In a recent report from Chicago there was mention of a-plan to organize, systematically, block committees | for the collection of signatures. The Daily Worker wants to find out what has been done to carry out this pro- posed plan and how it works so that these experiences can be given to the other districts. Chicago: Please muation, STATEMENT BY ARRESTED MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL MINERS UNION, WORK- ERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF, AND IN- TERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, AND THE LABOR PRESS (Sent from the Pineville, Ky. Jail) We, the nine arrested and charged with criminal syn- dicalism in a raid by Bell County, Kentucky, deputies on the National Miners Union District Office in Pineville, Ky., January 4, or arrested shortly after and in connection with this raid, we ourselves charge that this raid and these ar- rests are an uotrageous illegal attempt to injure the strike of Kentucky and Tennessee miners. On December 18 the miners of this region, ticough their own elected delegates assembled in Pineville, declared a strike to start January 1, against starvation and terror. They elected a Southern District Board of the National Miners Union, which thousands of Kentucky miners have jeined, and this board openly and legally made strike prep- arations, and called in representatives of the Workers In- ternational Relief and International Labor Defense to assist in supplying food to the strikers and to handle all necessary legal business matters in connection with the fight for the right to organize and strike. In the roe dev manner possible the National Miners Union, Work- brs Internati Relief and International Labor Defense established of- fices at 105 Virginia Ave., Pineville, on January Ist, the first day of the atrike, Over 50 mines struck that day, and the strike has continued to spread Yrom day to day since then. Thousands of men are involved. They are ig against what the companies pay as wages as low as 32 cents a éon, but in which cheating on weights by the companies reduces the actual wage to 20 cents or lower. They are striking against such poverty that has already starved to death dozens of children in these fields, reduced men and women to living in rags, afflicted by diseases brought on by hunger, living in shacks unfit for stables. ‘They are striking for 50 cents a ton, $4.80 day wages, payment tor dead work, no discrimination, payment in U. S. ewrrency instead of scrip, ete. They are striking in the face of a terror instituted by deputized company gunmen who break up their meetings with ma- chine guns as at Harlan, January 1; at Black Star, January 3. In the course of this strike, miners came into the 105 Virginia Ave., Pineville office in large numbers to join the union and to receive relief, W charge that the coal operators, using the Bell County deputies and Judge Vain Beber’s court as weapons, actually conducted the raid and arrests January 4 to cripple the strike and relief activities, and that they did this In the hope that by starving to death additional nambers of men, women and children, they can force the miners to work in a state of virtual slavery for the actual wage of 20 cents a ton or lower. ‘We have repeatedly demanded a public hearing and this hearing has been repeatedly postponed by the court in order to prevent our answering the slanders and lies circulated against the union by the coal operators and their newspapers. Since Jenuary 5 and January 7, dates set by the court for the hear- ing, thousands of strikers came into Pineville, to demand our release and hear what we had to say. The court has not dared to permit these miners to hear our defense. We still demand a public trial, and we do not accept as a substitute any such surprise hearing before a hand-picked audience of coal operators and their agents as was offered us January 8. A further attempt of the operators to deny us defense is shown by the fact that as scon as Attorney Allen Taub of the International Labor Defense appeared in Pineville, he was also arresed and thrown in jail on the ridiculous charge, first of criminal syndicalism which was later changed to the equally ridiculous charge of conspiracy to overthrow the government. ‘We assure the striking miners that we are whole-heartedly for them in this struggle, that we will stay in jail forever before we change our loyalty to them or abandon our support of their strike demands. We urge the Kentucky-Tennessee miners to continue to spread their heroic strike, and to picket in masses, to build their strike committees, both local and central, to march on the mines not yet struck and bring them out on strike, and to build up their defense and relief apparatus rnore firmly than ever. Join the N.M.U.! We call on the working class to rally to the assistance of the striking miners! \ i—Vern Smith, John Warvey, Vincent Kemenovich, Clarina Michaelson, Norms Martin, Jatin Parker, Maryerct Wasteton, Pavey, Saw Woe, tem Breen, 4 ig: % Ila de nd a 4 200, 000 Greet Arrival of of California Hunger March Protest Cutting Down) of Small Amount of Relief Terror On n South Side. Mobilize ‘Huge Mass | Demonstrations CHICAGO, . Jan. 12.— | Wholesale arrests and! ™en, women and children to die—from hunger and exposure. | Calif., Jan. beating up of unem- ployed workers are sweeping the South) Side following a demonstration | of over 1,000 Negro and white! workers at Governor Emmer-| son’s relief station at 700 Oak-| wood Blvd. when the cops and} unemployed clashed. One cop fired at a Negro worker. » Forty at least have been jailed thus far. The South Side Unemployed Council headquar- | ters were wrecked. | ‘The demonstration was held to de- | mand that the small amount of re- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MARTIAL LAW IN CHILE AGAINST GENERAL STRIKE Peruvian Communists Call for General Strike In Peru In order to break the general strike called by the Communist Party and revolutionary unions of Chile, the government hes instituted martial law with taxicabs bearing machine guns patrolling the streets of Santi- ago. The Communist Party of Peru is calling upon the Peruvian workers to go out in a general strike in soli- darity with their Chilean comrades. Although the capitalist press re- ported that the strike in Chile has been broken by the machine-gunned taxis, later dispatches stated that the revolutionary workers are intensify- ing their efforts for the continuation and spread of the strike. The Chilean workers are demand- ing that the government release workers who were arrested in recent demonstrations, dissolve congress, and the Cosach nitrate trust which is owned by the capitalists of the United States and which is the chief op- pressor of the Chilean masses. The workers are also demanding immedi- ate relief for the unemployed, unem- ployed insurance and other immedi- ate demands for the unemployed. ‘The smashing of the revolt of the Chilean navy did not end the fight of the Chilean workers, but like the famous Potemkin revolt in Russia in 1905, has served as an impetus in the Flood of Hokum Rises tn Capitol As Attacks on son Hungry Sharben “By BILL DUNNE. Hoover, Congress, the huge finance-capital group that is Wall Street, and the governments of the largest cities in Amer- ict, now have jointly and more openly than ever before, chal- | | lenged the right of the unemployed millions in the United | States to live. They have condemned thousands of working | No other conclusion can be drawn from the events of the! | last four or five days. What is necessary now is that waves of working class anger more powerful than anything ever seen in this country before begin to lash the fortresses wherein | these enemies of the whole toiling section of the population) are entrenched. The Unemployed Councils face their biggest task. Here is a list of outstanding developments, all occurring within | three days, which together constitute the sharpest point yet reached by the present drive against the living standards—the very lives—of workers, their dependents, and the working farmers of the United States: 5 AERP ET Te ing the credit of ‘the United States 1. The $500,000,000 appropria- tion for Hoover's “reconstruction bill,” designed solely to aid the biggest banks, and which is a ‘Treasury for this purpose. 2. These same banks in the Tast three days have denied loans to city governments for unem- measure empowering these banks to | raise $1,500,000,000 additional, us- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Walker Orders All Relief Cut; Works with Wall St. NEW YORK.—Tammany Hall is in conference with the House of Morgan with the object of cutting down on relief and completely doing away with even the meagre relief work the Tammany grafters had undertaken, mainly for their own fol- struggle for a workers’ governmennt there, lowers and to keep their machi At a meeting of social workers a letter from City Controller Berry was read saying that “relief work would go on,” but at the same time Walker was meeting with the city department heads insisting that relief work would be cut. ADMIT RELIEF TO BE DROPPED The New York Times declared that Mayor Walker “following » conference with department heads at City Hall, at which steps were taken to devise a program of re- trenchment, declared that it might be necessary to cut or defer some of the appropriations voted for unem- ployment.” This is a direct admission of the facts exposed by the Daily Worker several days ago, namely, that Mayor Walker, agreeing with the Wall Street bankers, would cut relief in order to get the $90,000,000 loan half of which at least will go out in graft to Tam- many henchmen. At the same time the bankers are insisting that all fares on the buses, subways, street railways and elevated lines be raised. Tammany Hall is in favor of this moye, as many Tam- many leaders are heavily interested in subway bonds, but they find it dif- ficult to put it over in view of the fighting spirit of the workers. ‘Tam- many Hall while carrying on propa- ganda against the raise in fares, is (CONTINCED ON PAGE THREE) ine intact. Cut Protest In Paris PARIS, France.—Police arrested 1,000 workers as they atetmpted to storm the Chamber of Deputies on its opening day in protest against the cutting down of the unem- ployment dole. Only 1,537 of the workers arrested were actually detained. Police in armored cars and on horseback rode through the crowd of tens of thousands of workers who had poured into the city from nearby working-class suburbs, beating and clubbing the workers. Many of the workers were from the town of Rignaux, Arrest 3000 In Dole which has a Communist Mayor. “In one word. you reproach ws with intending to do away with your property. Precisely 90: that is Jast what we intend.”—Marx. Worker. et Tremendous Ov: a-| tion from Frisco Workers |March Grows Rapidly, | Splendid Discipline Is| |Maintained In Parade} SA'N FRANCISCO, 12._Five ‘thousand delegates and workers marched along |Market Street while about 200,000 workers marched on the sidewalks along the line of march, in a tremendous ova- tion to the East Bay and West- {ern California delegation on | thelr arrival here as part of the state-wide hunger march, demanding immediate relief and unemployment \ insurance. Never in the history of San Fran- cisco was such a gigantic march seen. | “About 10,000 workers of Oak- land, Berkeley and Richmond marched in the streetsand on the sidewalks down to the Ferry boat. ; The whole East Bay, Sacramento and Stockton delegation of about 2172, together with about 500 work- ers entered the boat on their way to the state hunger march in Frisco, Hold Mass Meets On Boat. i] dreds of signs and two mass meet- ings were organized, one on the low- er and another on the upper deck. Hundreds of copies of the Western ‘Worker and many copies of the Daily Worker were sold in the line of march. Thousands of leaflets for the February 4th National Unem- ployment Day demonstrations were distributed. ‘The marchers showed splendid proletarian discipline and firmness. ‘The National Hunger March song and the “Internationale” were sung many times. U.S. Gov’t Repays Oil Scandal Companies With Big Tax Refunds Not content with returning tax re- funds to the Capitalists for more recent years, the Internal Revenue Bureau has gone back as far as 1917 and 1918 to return to the notorious Sinclair Oil group $608,274. ‘This tax refund is a part of the Hoover-Melion plan to fatten rich corporations and to enforce starva- tion upon the working elass. 718 Months of Subs Yesterday New High in “Daily” Drive; New Forces Spread Campaign ESTERDAY was the biggest day so far in the cam- paign for 5,000 12-month subscriptions to the Daily A total of 718 months of subs came in, which EVERY MINER IN KY. AND TENN. WILL DOWN TOOLS _ IF ASSURED OF RELIEF Mass Pressure of Miners. Forces Coal Operators Court to Start rt Trial of 10 Organizers Alabama Miners to Send D Delegates to “Spread | the Strike”-Conference in Knoxville, Jan. 24 PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 12.—Hearing of the nine arrested strike lead- ers and workers of the National Miners’ Labor Defense, and the Workers International Relief, Union, the International came up this morning. The cases of Allen Taub, I. L. D. attorney, and Mason, Col- were the defense attorneys. | windows. was declared unconstitutional. ment in any way they sce fit. The first session ap to noon occupied argument of attorne motion to throw the case out because the The Kentucky constitution has a section headed revolution,” providing the people msy change or abolish the govern The prosecutor argues that this right is for Kentuckians only not for “foreigners” from New York and Pennsylvania. The prosecution will call seven _rritnesses, this afternoon. PINEVILLE Ky., Jan. 12—Mass pressure of the miners forced the coal operators to put the ten organizers and relief workers on trial here, Tuesday afternoon. The courtroom was lette and Patrick, local strike leaders, will come up later separately. Taub, Bental of Chicago, Stone, Taylor and Bingham of Pineville The miners had been told if they came in the case would be postponed. Fifteen hundred cam anyway. the benches were removed from the court room. packed with coal operators and their agents. the court house to listen to scraps of the testimony through the Part of The court was then The miners surrounded on a law “criminal syndic “The right of and filled to overflowing with miners as the trial started. Miners were searched as they entered the court house. The executive of the Central Strike Committee met under cover of of extreme terror last night many miles from Pine- ‘The boat was decorated with hun- | Try to Disbar Chamlee in New was a record for a single day. Now our job is to keep ville. both Kentucky and Tennessee, 4,000 FURRIERS DEMONSTRATEFOR JOBLESS RELIEF Present Demands to Head Off Bosses Charity Chest Four thousand fur workers dem- onstrated in the fur market yester- “day for unemployment relief and against the bosses’ charity chest. ‘The workers paraded through the fur district and held the demonstration at 29th St. and Seventh Ave. Here Hurling, secretary of the Needle Trades Unemployed Council; Gold, Kayser and others spoke. The workers then marched to the Manu- facturers’ Association building at 224 ‘W. 30th St., where a committee of four presented teh demands of the workers to Mr. Samuels, the ptesi- dent of the Charity Chest. ‘The demands included: All monies collected in the fur industry be turned over to a committee of unem- ployed. fur workers. 2. Regular weekly contributions of 5 per cent of the weekly profit to be paid by the bosses for unemployment relief. 3. No discharge of workers. 4. Aboli- tion of overtime during the period of unemployment. 5. Abolition of contracting, job contracting, piece- work and speed-up system, which in- crease unemployment, Samuels, the president of this charity affair, replied that he had nothing to do with the furriers, but that the funds would be utilized for churches, synagogues and for Kauf- man’s gang, which ts fighting the at- tempts of the workers to organize. A recent issu: of the “Fur Age The reports showed that-the strike was spreading in Thousands mor: ill strike ~-immediately if they get relief. At least, 60,000 miners and their families need relief. These 60,000 include 1,000 min- ers who are being held back from striking by local organize until re- lef is assured, and 600 or 800 who have gone back to work will ¢ again immediately once they a vided with relief. One local leader said “We don’t want enough to live we only want enough to breath.” Tt t is 01 that the strike shipped in jured unless more r immediately. At least 15,000 are being fed by-the Workers International Re- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREES Official Installation of NTWIU In Paterson at Meeting Thursday A mass meeting, Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, will be held in Paterson Thursday evening at 8 pm. at Lithuanian ‘Hall, Lafayette and Sum- mer Sts. Ben Gold, secretary of the N, T. W. I. U., will be the main speaker. This meeting will be the official in- stallation of the Paterson local of the N. T. W. 1. 0. called by the Weekly” boasted that 30 unemployed workers had been given relief. Jean Hurling stated that only during the last week 30 workers reported dis- possesses. After the meeting the workers listeden to the report at th® headquarters of the Joint Council. ‘Those who were not able to get in were addressed through the window. ‘This demonstration showed clearly that the bosses’ charity chest in the fur industry is utilized only to break the struggle of the workers and not for unemployed relief. Attack on Scottsboro Defense (By Telegraph to Daily Worker) CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 12.—In a rew attempt to disrupt the defense of the Scottsboro boys, a movement hes been started here to disbar General George W. Chamlee, chief of counsel for the 9 boys and the International Labor Defense. Charges of unethical conduct have been filed with the Chattanooga Bar Association by an unnamed local lawyer, probably Stephen Roddy, Klan at.orney of the N. A. A.C. P. ‘There is talk of dropping Chamlee from the Bar Association and thus preventing argument against the Iynch verdicts before the Alabama Supreme Court on January 21. ‘Ths charges filed with the Ber \ going UPWARD from that Association accuse Chamlee of at- tempting to bribe witnesses in the Scottsboro case. Chamlee has issued a denial against these charges, which the Internationa] Labor Defense has branded as a brave i frarne-up aimed at disrupting the defense of the Scottsboro boys. NEW YORK.—The fake charges filed against Chamlee in Chattanocge coincide with renewed activities on the part of Walter White and other misleaders of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People to prejudice the Negro and liberal press against the Scottsvoro Defense. White has been sending out letters to the papers and visiting offices of many papers, in an attempt to Une them up next with 169 months. months. California did we mass recruiting drive is on. boys. gevotutionary activin, ‘nig os Gei new forces into the Daily Worker drive. new Friends of the Daily Worker groups. Organize new readers’ conferences. Spread the save with the widening point. Every week so far began with a bang amd then dropped back. Let’s see if we can’t break that habit this week. Detroit earned the greatest part of the glory yes- terday, sending in 268 months of subs. Then came Minneapolis with 71 Chicago came 1 with 39 months of subs, Seattle with 29 months and Denver with 32 months. This is a big week for WIDENING the revolutionary activity of the workers in the United States. The Party The Kentucky and Tennessee mine strike is spreading. The Unemployed Councils are preparing for the national demonstration on February 4 for Unemployment Unsurance. increasing all over the country on behalf of the Scottsboro Mass demonstrations are Form Tabanese Sbur on White Guards to Provoke the Soviet Union With the Japanese again on the march toward Harbin and the Soviet frontier, the United States is soft-peddling its threat to challenge the legality of the Japanese seizure of Manchuria. Secretary Stimson yesterday announced the Chamberlain case as closed, ‘The Japanese are now carrying out The atack by Japanese sentries at/the open suggestion made by the Harbin on U. S. Consul Culver B.| United States a week ago for an in- Chamberlain was exploited by the | yasion of Inner Mongolia. Well Street government for the pur- Imperialists Rush War Moves. pose of exerting diplomatic pressure | while the United States is rushing against the Japanese to block them | plans for a huge mobilization of its in thelr challenge of United States armed forces in the Pacific and is hegemony over Kuomintang China| now moving to set up @ naval gov- and force them back to the limits of | ernment in Hawaii to strengthen its the original understanding of using | mititary hold on this strategic out- Manchuria as ® military base f0r| poe of American imperialism, the armed intervention against workers’ * i. Busta (0ORMETUED ox PAGE THREE)