The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1932, Page 1

} ——ar WORKERS OF THE WORLD,’ ‘(Section of the Communist International) GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF TH ER” GROUPS E DAILY WORK. READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION 8 DRVE FOR 5,000 ‘DAILY WORKER: << Entered as second-class at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, beat matter at the Post Office _-NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932 cry “EDITION | _Price 3 Cents _ MASS MARCHES, PICKETING T0 SPREAD KY. STRIKE - Alabama Cops : ips Suppress | ‘Letter Admitting I Innocence. of Nine ‘Scottsboro I Boys J. U.ULL. Calls for Mighty ee and California Prepare for February 4th The Cleveland District, responding to the call of the Daily Worker for the details of their work in organizing for mass demonstrations for the National Day of Strug- > gle against unemployment on February 4th, sends in the following: “In giving detailed directives to all our sections in preparation for February 4th, we said that the in- auguration of the new city ist should be a means of exposing the city officials and bringing in our program.” “In Akron at the opening of the City Council, a mass delegation of 100 was sent to that meeting with This has been followed with } demonstrations in front of the employment offices where . hundreds had been promised jobs. the immediate demands. - sent in about this yet.” We organized a mass delegation of the Unemployed Council participated in by about 500 workers, which was led by Comrade Fort, our candidate for mayor, to the City Council. Due to the development of the election campaign, this being a day the City Council to give us was presented demanding the immediate calling of a special meeting of the City Council in the form of an open hearing. At this meeting we will present detailed conditions of unemployed in Cleveland and emergency measures for relief. “The proposal was of course filed without nay re- _ marke. This: will be followed by sending a mass delega- tion-to the president of the City Council demanding that action be taken on this matter simultaneously. With this, demonstrations will be organized before the offices of. the City Council. members demanding that they take a stand on this matter. masses. We again ask the other formation as to their plans and the actions carried thru. * Especially do we again call attention to the fact that in California the struggle of the unemployed is at a high peak because it was organized to coinside with the ar- rival and reports of the National Hunger March delega- tion. There was no sag in the struggle. i Read Editorial, “Tn Cleveland alone approximately 50 meetings have been held, a large number of these being on the basis of blocks and neighborhoods and used for building up block committees. Our best Council, Council-8 in the Negro section has now 15 block committees.” From all reports the Chicago District has gone into action, has met with the fiercest opposition from the city government, resulting in mass arrests and armed attacks, street and house searches of workers, especially on the South Side with its heavy Negro population. Chicago is calling on the workers to come into the streets in thousands next Friday, to fight for the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill ,and immediate cash relief, the ousting of the officials chiefly responsible for the terror and the cessation of the drive against the Negro This is real preparation for February 4th. The New York districts has carried through a num- ber of mass demonstrations. “All Aid to the Revolutionary Masses of China!” page 3. administration on January No reports have been before elections, we forced the floor and our program districts to furnish us in- City Wide Protest Meetings Today Against Lynch Verdict NE‘ WYORK.—White and Negro workers of New York will take the streets today in a series of city-wide demonstrations to protest against the q83 ge rete ne g ey Hy = i 3 Harlem workers, colored and white ther at 129th Street and. Le- ie at 2 o'clock this after~ $8.3 73 Lenox Ave. The parade will wind up at the southeast corner of Lenox Avenue and 131st Street with a tre- mendous demonstration. Several demonstrations will be held this afternoon in Brooklyn. At o o'clock at Dumont and Rockaway Avenues there will be an open air meeting. At 2 o'clock, a mass par- ade will tsart from Wallabout Street and Nostrand Ave., Williamsburg, proceeding through Myrtle Ave. to Duffy St. and then to Court and Fulton streets, winding up with a de- monstration in front of the Borough Hall. Another meeting will begin at 2 o'clock at Nevins and Warren Sts. Saturday's demonstrations are all International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. On Monday evening, there will be an indoor protest meeting at the Whittaker Hall, ‘West 145th St. ‘This is being arranged by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. At the Lenin Memoria! Meeting, Jan. 21, at the Bronx Coliseum, the fight for the release of the 9 Scotts- boro boys will be one of the main Montgomery, mother Two More A. F, L. Locals for Jobless Insurance Struggle | NEW YORK.—Unanimously en- dorsing a resolution passed by Car- penters Local 2717, Local 499 of the Painters of New York City and Carpenters Local 2090 went on record against the official program of starvation of the A. F. of L, mis- leaders, and demanded common ac- tion of all workers for unemploy- ment insurance to be paid by the federal government through heavy taxation of the rich exploiters. The resolution called by Local 2717 of the carpenters went further than merely endorse the demand for unemployment insurance. It called for the holding of a confer- ence of other A. F. of L. locals on January 27th. Carpenters Local 499 elected delegates to this con- ference. | Carpenters Local 2090 decided to | postpone their quarterly meeting on Jan. 27, in order to attend this conference. The chairman of the local is one of the 5 delegates to the conference. The carpenters then voted to postpone their meet- ing, since if could not be held with- out the chairman, CONFERENCE TO SPREAD RELIEF FIGHT IN BRONX Meet Sunday at 3882 Third Avenue NEW YORK.—Hundreds of dele- gates will gather on Sunday, Jan. 17th, at 3882 Third Ave. at 2 p. m. representing thousands of workers organized in trade unions, workers’ clubs, house and block committees to map out a mass campaign to carry on the fight for immediate unem- ployment relief, for lower rent, against evictions and for Unemploy- ment Insurance. Detailed program will be- adopted to mobilize the employed and unem- ployed workers of the Bronx for the Jan. 30th Bronx Boro demonstration and the February 4th International Unemployed Day. ‘The conference will protest against the police terror that was used against the unemployed workers of the Bronx on Tuesday, Jan. 12th, in front of P. S. 54. President Buckner of the Borough of the Bronx will be challenged to debate the question of Unemployment Insurance with the representative of the Unemployed Council, MIDTOWN UNEMPLOYED CONFERENCE. The Midtown Unemployment Coun- cil is calling upon all unions, workers fraternal societies and unemployed organizations to send delegations to @ conference to be held Saturday, Jan. 16, 2p. m., at the Needle Trades Union Hall, 131 West 28th St. The savage wage cutting and the speeding up of employed workers, the brutal denial of relief to the unem- ployed by the Tammany politicians the ever-growing number of evictions (2300 in N. ¥. C. during one week), makes it imperative that the workers back the Unemployed Insurance Bill and the program of the Unemployed Council, Rally to the | | METAL WORKERS STRIKE 2 SHOPS IN NEW YORK | Spreading Strikes to Other Shops Against Wagecuts, Speedup The Metal Workers Industrial Lea- gue is now conducting two strikes in metal shops in New York City. Other strikes are now in preparation. On Thursday morning, 80 workers of the Artistic Wire Shop, 3444 Hubert St., N. ¥. C., went on strike in protest against the firing of two fellow work- ers who were trying to organize the shop against the wage cut that rec- ently took place. A strong picket line is being carried on daily, and the workers are very militant. The workers of the Durable Tool and Die, who recently won their strike under the leadership of the Metal Workers Industrial League are daily sending workers from their shop on the picket line. At the Kay. Manufacturing Co. in Brooklyn, two departments are now on strike. On Wednesday, 11 young workers went out on strike protesting against speed up and wage cuts. Fri- day morning 34 more workers came out in sympathy. The Metal Workers Industrial League is now spreading the strike throughout the entire shop. Harlem War Veterans Continue Open Forums ‘The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s Lea- gue, Branch No. 2, now engaged in educational activity every Sunday, re- ports successful open forums. On Sunday, Jan. 17, at 2p. m., Com~ rade Emanuel Levin, national chair- man of the W. E. S. L., will be the speaker. The subject for discussion will be: Congress and Veterans’ Re- lief. The forum will be held at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St. All workers, Negro and white, are invited to attend. ‘UnemploymentInsurance Calling for a far greater intensification of the struggle! , | against unemployment, the Trade Union Unity League issued | | the following statement yesterday: | “The collapse of even the miserable relief agencies which| 7 have been set up in the cities and towns of the United States | Try to Frame Chamlee © at the beginning of the pres- | | NAACP Lawyer Again| Struggle for | ent third winter of crisis, | spells death by starvation for additional millions of work- ers. There is no way out for the masses but struggle. Only through united, militant mass struggle can the Hoover program | of the bosses and the Hoover gov- ernment be defeated. “The misery and destitution of the | 12,000,000 totally unemployed is being exploited by the bosses for further drives against the wages and living | standards of the workers who still! have jobs. Millions of workers in the basic industries (coal, steel, met- al mining, textile, etc.) are forced to exist on starvation rations even while working long hours under un- bearable conditions. In New York City, the big coal yard owners force through a wage cut with the help of the reactionary leaders of the A. F. of L. after publishing full page advertizements offering jobs -te thi hungry unemployed. But the unem- ployed will not scab if we organize them. “There is no limit to the arrogance and the cold blooded brutality of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Downtown Jobless Form United Front Conference for Feb. 4 NEW YORK crry.—A mass Uni- ted Front Conference of jobless has been called by the Downtown Un- employed Council, in the process of its reorganization, which will be held on Sunday, January 17, at 2 p.m. at 134 East 7th St. At this meeting unemployed work- ers will draw up plans for the Na- tional Day of Struggle for Unem~- ployment Insurance — February 4th, and discussion held on how all work- ers, employed as well as unemployed, can be drawn into the struggle. Invitations have been sent out to all workingclass organizations and delegates from breadlines, flop- houses such as the Gold Dust Salva- tion Army Lodging house. B. Saul, Secretary of the Downtown Unem- ployed Council will give a special re- port on making this conference lead- er of the unemployed movement, Demonstrations Feb, 4! RUBY BATES ADMITS SHE LIED ON BOYS | Jail White “Worker for Aiding Scottsboro Investigation Attacks Defense (By Telegram to “to Daily Worker) CHATTANOOGA,| Tenn., Jan. 15.—Hunts-| | |are desperately trying | to suppress a letter written by Ruby Bates in which | she admits that she lied against | the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. Ruby Bates was the chief witness of the State in the lynch trials at Scottsboro, Ala~ bama, in which 8 of the boys were railroaded to death sentences. A mistrial occurred in the case of 14- year old Roy Wright, the nin boy. The letter of Ruby Bates was written to her lover, who had “abandoned “her, In her letter she declared the boys had never touched her. The letter corroborates the re- peated statements by the boys that Ruby had denied having any trouble whatever with the boys when she was first taken from the freight train at Paint Rock. Ruby was forced to lie against the boys by State officials who threatened to prosecute her for prostitution unless she played game of framing up the nine innocent Ne- gro children. The existence of the letter has caused quite a furore in this city. Even the Chattanooga News, which all along has been yelling for the blood of the boys and which gleefully hailed the attack of Mr. Pickens, of the N.A.A.C.P. on the defense, has been forced to question the Scotts- boro lynch verdicts. The letter of aed Bates was ob- (CONTINUED ON P. PAGE THREE) Metal Workers Win: Celebrate Victory To celebrate the victory of the workers of the Durable Tool and Die Shop, the Metal Workers In- dustrial League is giving a Victory Ball at the Irving PPlaza (Irving Place and E, 15th St.) on Saturday, Jan. 16th at 8 p. m. The Chinese Red Army is successfully carrying out an enveloping movement around the highly strategic industrial city of Hankow, known as “the Pittsburgh of China.” The Red Army yesterday occupied the town of Shekow, ten miles to the east of Hankow. Red 16 Tampa Workers on Trial After Police Thug Attack TAMPA, Fia., Jan. 15.~With the courtroom jammed to the doors by local tobacco workers the trial of 16 workers held on charges of “as- sault to murder,” “inciting to riot,” and “unlawful assembly” got under way yesterday. The workers, fourteen of whom have been in jail for two months pending trial, were arrested on No- vember 7 when city police aided by American Legionnaires county police, and the sheriff's deputized thugs at- tacked 2 workers mass meeting last November 7 at the Labor Temple in ‘Ybor City. followed as the cigar workers heroic- ally resisted the attacks of the po~ lice and fascist thugs, Officer Byrd was shot. Following the attack a reign of terror was clamped on Tampa and Ybor City and the 16 workers now on trial arrested. Pick Jury To Railroad Workers The first day's court were devoted to the farcica lattempts of the prosecuting attorney and Judge Petteway of the Criminal Court to choose an “impartial jury.” ‘The nature of the incoming jury can Chinese Red Army Within 10 Miles of Hankow; Captures Three Towns troops are also in control of thes work on the basis of promises that town of Hwangpei, 35 miles to! the north, and of Siaokan, 30 miles toth e northwest. The Nanking garrisons in all three places are reported to have gone over wholesale to the Chi- nese Red Army. Imperialist press dispatches a few days ago reported extraordinary strong Nanking forces at Shekow. Imperialist Agents Flee A Hankow dispatch to the New York Sun reports a wild exodus into Hankow of all mis- sionaries and other imperialist agents in the territory around Hankow. With the rise of the Chinese Soviet Republic and advance of the Red Army the struggle of the Chi- nese masses against the imperialists and their Kuomintang lackeys has taken on the character of a great revolutionary army. Shanghal Workers Strike. 20,000 textile workers went out on strike in Shanghai yesterday, de- manding the immediate payment of overdue wages, The owners of the factories have threatened to close they will be paid sometime. Several collisions occurred between the strik- ers and the police who have been or- dered to break the strike. Several strikers were injured and a number arrested, . Admit Red Victims. Red partisan troops in Manchuria (CONTINUED ON PSGE THREE) Operators Resort to Injunction in Effort to Stop Ky. Strike | Strike Committee Votes s to otes to Pull More Mines in Heroic Battle Against Rockefeller-Insull Hunger Program | Workers Must Respond to Miners’ Struggle With Giant Relief Collections LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ing for relief in heroic step to ville, Alabama, police | iners Strike Committee decides to pull out additional mines without wait- smash starvation. This move should meet with increased relief activities everywhere. Overwhelming majority of miners for National Miners Union. Spread mass picketing. Prepare mass march on Wallins Creek, Harlan County. Machine guns used to attempt to cow miners at demonstration in front of Pineville court house. Coal operator's Bell County prosecutor r admits truth of starvation story told by miners’ wives and asks no more be allowed to testify Lawyer Bentall shows that arrests and terror weed in an effort to stop growing strike against starvation PINEVILLE, Ky., led by National Miners Union. . Jan. 14—The strike of the Kentucky-Tennessee miners was raised to a new high plane yesterday when: 250 miners at the Executive Rank and File-Strike Com- mittee voted to pull additional mines without waiting for relief and to re-pull the mines that went back because of starvation. heroic move, but must for relief nationally. This is a result in a heroic move About 10 000, including blacklisted miners, are involved in the strike. An overwhelming majority of the miners are for the National Miners Union. The strike leaders pointed to the benefits of picketing at the Strike Executive Ran voted to spread thepicketing Creek, Harlan, this Sunday f k and File meeting and they - A mass march on Wallins or a meeting with the miners was decided on, also a mass march on Middlesboro this Sun- day to accept invitation of the Middlesboro smal merchants to give relief if the miners came m & body. The action of the Mid- dlesboro smal merchants is an answer to the visctous leaflet of the Middlesboro big merchants attacking the National Miners Union. There was great enthusiasm at the executive meeting when letters of solidarity from two U. M. W. A. locals were read. One letter was accompanied by $75.00 for relief. Telegrams of solidarity from the striking German seamen and the New York Finnish: organization. Seeing the strike spread, the coal operators are now appealing to the Federal Court for an injunction against 94 of the leaders of the Na- tional Miners Union. Notice of the injunction which was served yesterday on the strike lead- ers, as well as relief workers and at- torneys, is signed by N. R. Patterson, for the Straight Creek Coal Co. Patterson, the leading attorney for the coal operators, acted as assistant Prosecuting attorney and mouthpiece for Judge Van Beber. Hearing on the injunction is set for 10 a. m. tomorrow at Lexington, Kentucky. A delegation of miners ts going to Frankfort, the capitol of Ken- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Kentucky Strikers to Be at Lenin Memorial Meeting NEW YORK—A Kentucky dele- gation of strikers will be present, among the thousands of New York workers, to commemorate the life and work of the greatest working- class revolutionary leader, V, I. Le- nin, this Thursday at the Bronx Co-~ Useum, The eight anniversary of Lenin’s death finds the entire capitalist world in a sharp crisis, Unemploy- ment, mass hunger and untold suf- fering prevails in all capitalist coun- tries. The U. S. Congress hands out & “dole” amounting to billions of dollars, to the hore gn railroad landlords, while at the same time refuses any relief to the poor farmers and millions of unemployed. Wear preparations are going on against the Soviet Union—the only country where there is no unemploy- ment, where the workers rule and improve their conditions daily. This Lenin Memorial meeting will be a demonstration against imperial- ist wars, and for the defense of the Soviet Union, All out to the Bronx Coliséum on Thursday. Organize against hunger, war and capitalism. Support the & Writers to Speak on Scottsboro Case Sunday To Send Protest to Ala. Supreme Court A group of well-known writers will speak on the Scottsboro case and send @ petition of protest to the Alabama State Supreme Court in a Scottsboro Protest meeting on Sunday, . after- noon, January 17, at the New Schoo! for Social Research, 66 West, 12th St., at 2:30 p.m, This meeting is. under the auspices of the National Committee for: the Defense of Political: Prisoners~ ‘of which Theodore Dreiser is chairman, Sherwood Anderson. vice chairman and John Dos Passos treasurer. p ‘The speakers are: Paul Sifton, au- thor of “1931”; Eric Walrond, author of “Tropic Death”; Charles Rumford Walker, author of “Steel”; Eugene Gordon, Boston colored newspaper man; Suzanne La ollette,. former editor of “New Freeman”; Forrest Bailey, Director of Anjerjegn’ Cjvi! Ufberties Union, and Schwab, reounsel for the defen ¢ in the Scottsboro case. The only moving ploture taken of scenes in Scottsboro during the trial will have its first showing at this meeting. Section 5, Opens Up ege : A Recruiting Drive NEW YORK. — Section 5, Dist. 2 of the Communist Party will begin the drive for new members with « Lenin-Recruiting Banquet this Satur- day, Jan, 16th at 8 p. m. at the new Hungarian Workers Home, 569 Pros- pect Ave., Bronx, N. Y. The musical program will be fur- nished by the various workers musica: groups of the Bronx, such as the Section of the Freiheit Sing- Wop Sey aa |