The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1932, Page 1

— 3 " | BUILD THE DAILY WORKER FIGHT ING FUND! ES winter will mean starvation for thousands of workers in the United Sates. The bosses and their govern- ment refuse to set up adequate relief, Even the food which they promised for welief is now cut off. Wages of work- ers who have employment are being cut in every industry. In adition to this on all sides we see the capitalist govern- ments preparing for another war and attack against the Soviet Union. Masses of workers in the United States are fighting against attacks against their standard of living, as in Kentucky. ers for battle In all these The National Hunger March demon- gle against the bosses. going on in Kentucky, In th e Kentucky mine fields the ghting eache day the United Stat OMRADE! Cc" Workers in sh ues and ' Ww orker must again come to you to keep WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Ae. IX, No. 15 <= Eutered as aecomd-clans matter at the P at New York, N. ¥. under the act of Marck 2, 1877 KIDNAP KENTUCKY N.W. U. LEADER AND PRIEST COX ASKS VOTES, NOT RELIEF Support of Goy. | Pinchot In leading Jobless Expose This Demagog! f Veduoway to Sunday's press reports, Father Cox, the fascist dema- gog who took 15,000 from Pittsburgh to Washington to pray on the steps of the Capitol, and thus to make a counter-demonstration against the Mational Hunger March, announced to a crowd of 55,000, “some in furs, others in tattered clothing,” that a “national convention” might be held in St. Louis on “Labor Day,” that there might be # “new political party of the jobless,” and that—"I might be a candidate.” No doubt the vagueness of these ‘‘might be” predictions indicate ‘hat they are a “trial balloon” sent up to test the response, not merely ot the masses, but of the capitalists, who—alarmed by the National ‘Hunger March of the Unemployed Councils and the obvious failure of their previous demagogy to quiet the protest of the starving millions—are thus invited to try a new line of demagogy and deceit. ‘The report, even though allowing for the possible exaggeration of figures by the capitalist press, that 55,000—probably a majority of them workers—‘“cheered” the pronouncements of this fascist demagog in Pitts- burgh, even after the tragic suffering he exposed his followers to on the march to Washington, shows the danger of revolutionary workers under- estimating the influence of such capitalist deceivers. But it will likewise encourage the capitalists to intensify their sup- port to his movement, as an effort to sidetrack the discontented masses from effective struggle for immediate relief and unemployment insurance. Indeed, the pleasure with which this fascist faker was welcomed at Wash- ington as a “counter-demonstration against the Communists,” and the active and material support given him by Governor Pinchot and the mis- leaders of the American Federation of Labor, already indicate that the capitalist class will ll support such & movement. Phe fact that all the noisy demagogy of Father Cox and his kind results and will result in nothing for the workers but their tragic decep- tion is, therefore. no reason for revolutionary workers to Jook upon the whole affair as a matter of no importance, but the contrary. And a warning must be sounded against the opportunist tendency to look upon this and other such fastist maneuvers as an “inevitable” development. There is nothing “inevitable” about them, and their influence can be de- cisively defeated by the action of the revolutionary workers led by the Communist Party. The appalling hypocrisy of Father Cox must be exposed to every worker, employed and unemployed. The starving masses who demand immediate relief and unemployment insurance must be shown—in fact— that only through struggle, their own struggle with the mass power of organization in Block Committees and Unemployed Councils, can their demand be won. ‘ The photographs appearing in the press of ather Cox's “demonstra- tion” at Washington, show the cynical indifference of this fascist faker to the desperate need of the masses. Where the National Hunger March of the Unemployed Councils bristled with banners of struggle demand- ing Winter Relief and Unemployment Insurance, in Father Cox's “dem- onstration” there is but one placard displayed, and this bears only the absurd wording: “Long Live Father Cox.” ‘Thus, workers, you who are suffering the miseries of Hoover's hunger program, should see that, instead of leading to an end beneficial to you, to immediate relief for the destitute and to unemployment insurance at full wages paid by the capitalists and their government and administered by you; Father Cox is silencing these basic demands of yours, and trying to replace them by a: ‘‘Long Live Father Cox.” The answer to all such fascist maneuvers is, of course, not a mer denunciation, and exposure, necessary as that is, but persistent, concrete organization of the unemployed and their mobilization in daily struggle tor immediate relief and unemployment insurance. Only by struggle, mass struggle, led by the Unemployed Councils and supported by the Communist Party, will the capitalist starvation program of the masses be defeated! Eight Canadian Communists Wind UpAppeal on Conviction TORONTO, Ont.—The debate on the appeal of the eight leaders of the Canadian Communist Party against conviction and for imme- diate liberation has been closed in the Ontario Appeal Court and judgment reserved. It is expected that the decision will be handed down within one week. ‘The eight arrested leaders are ‘Tin Buck, Tom Ewan, Malcom Bruce, John Boychuk, Mathew Popovitch, am Carr, ‘Tom Cacic and Tom Hill. ‘They were convicted of “unlawful or- ganization and seditious conspiracy” following @ series of raids on Com- munist headquarters all over Can- ada in the effort to drive the Com- fight against starvation and exploi- tation, Correct Error in Daily. Worker The story carried in the Jan, 15 issue of the Daily Worker was incorrectly headed to read that the arrested Communists are-demand- ing a new trial. They are not demanding 2 new trial but ap- Dealing against conviction and de- manding their immediate freedom. Starving Man Offers to Sell Himself to the Highest Bidder munist Party into illegality. Seven of the arrested leaders face five year terms in jail, One of them has been sentenced to two years. Use Terror against Workers | Since the arrest and outlawing of the Canadian Communist Party, the little free speech, and freedom of assemblage that did exist has been completely done away with. An iron rule of terror has been clamped down on all working-class organiza- tion. American workers and working- class organizations have been ap- pealed to by the Canadian Labor De- fense League to rally to the support of the arrested Communist leaders whose only “crime” consisted in or- genising the workers af Canads, to a ta MARION, Ohio.— Hungry and lesperate after months of unem- oloyment William Schlassberg, 40, of this city has now offered him- self for sale “to the highest bidder.” Schlasscbrg, who has been a bookkeeper, store manager and sales driector, made his offer in advertisements to newspapers. “I have exhausted every means of obtaining employment,” he said, “And now I am ready to literally sell myself for any rea- sonable purpose. I am at the end of my resources and must get funds In some way.” He has a wife and three children living in Adrian, Mich, _emenmmemmmnnmrenen.| Matthew Williams was lynched a few -|Mass meeting will be held. Pauline SCOTTSBORO MOTHERS HIT NAACP LIES Witness Spikes N e w| Attack On I. L. D. Attorney (By Telegraph to Daily Worker.) CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 17 — A sworn statement by Tom Landers, a | Chattanooga Negro worker, spiked a | new trumped-up charge filed against Gen. George W. Chamlee by the | forces working to disrupt the defense of the nine innocent Scottsboro Ni gro boys. T Landers swore months ago to seeing Victoria Price, one of the two girls used_by the State_ip rail-_ roading the boys to death sentences, in the Negro section bootlegging brothel houses, exposing her body, and indulging in lewd talk. In an effort to defeat this dam- aging testimony againsi one of the State’s chief witnesses against the boys, P. W. Campbell, editor of the Jackson County Sentinel recently made a sworn statement claiming that Landers denied to him and J. K. Thompson, assistant prosecutor of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 4 PROTEST MEETS TODAY AGAINST FAKE PEACE CONF: Four meetings of working women will be held today in New York and Brooklyn in protest against the Con- ference for the Cause and Cure of War which starts today in Washing- ton. This conference is an instru- ment of the bourgeoisie in hiding from working women the real cause for war, the capitalist system; and it also seeks to hide the fact that only the proletarian revolution will put an end to imperialist war. Three of the protest meetings are open air meetings and will be held at 12 o'clock noon at the following Points: 36th St. and 8th Ave. New | York City (Pauline Rogers, speaker); 38th St. and 6th Ave, New York City (Rose Nelson, speaker); Fulton and Court Sts., Brooklyn (Sadie Van Veen, speaker). Tonight at 8 p. m., in the Board- walk Hotel, Coney Island, an indoor Rogers will be the speaker. Readers of the Daily Worker are referred to page 4 of today’s issue, on which is printed an article giving forth more fully the organizations represented at this conference in Washington and the anti-working class character of the whole affair, ;made yesterday that the 79 relief | Frank J. Taylor, Welfare Commis- To Demand Negro Jurors at strated the splendid militancy and dis- | miners wait for the Daily Worker at osses’ attack against the standards of | factories—the Daily Wo gair : cipline of the workers. Negro and white | the post office. No amount of intimi- | living of the oHiie: Workers will not | faces a serious financial cease Mai best answer to the attacks of workers are uniting in common strug- | dation can stop them from reading and | be able to prepare themselves or win | times during the last six ths nust be the pulling of a Every attack | circulating the Daily Worker. In Mis- ; over new workers for the everyday | were at the point of suspension. O1 and te ne io ae against the workers, such as is now | sissippi and throughout the South | struggles without their fighting daily | through great efforts Pe ve able to ree thik fahting tundi: itieae Chicag: é | : te ty fly ee keep the paper going. yur the ae siete P : Chicago, and | groups of workers look to the Daily paper Bungee March Sita otis ain The Central Executive Committea other cities are being answered by the | for guidance in their struggles. The | For eight years workers have been | able to buy paper on which t« t » | of the Communist Party urges all masses with determination and in or- Daily Worker reaches over 1,900 cities supporting the Daily Worker... They | Daily Worker, but we fattened workers to assist in building this fight» a i ill of ‘ : ing fund and secur‘ lew rea 2 ganized form, showing the will of work every day. In the larger centers, the | have given their very last pennies for | through all of these difficult We a re aie ee tonee see al | mass demand, which resulted in OVEE | it. Six months ago the Daily Worker | are now at the end of our rope. For the slogan: “Our answer to imperialist struggles the Daily | 100 per cent ast circulation, was in serious danger; the workers an- | over one month we were never sure one war—Build a $50,000 fighting fund and Worker has been more than eyer the | proves the need of the Daily Worker. swered the call by contributing over day ahead of time of the vegular ap- secure 5,000 yearly subscribers.” collective organizer of the mass | It is the only daily paper in the | $42,000. pearance of the Daily. The Daily CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U. 8. A, — = coed = =~ a — Se a Sr =a g GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK- ER” GROUPS. READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN e Party U Ss DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” fi} e ee ea LJ SRS -~Cod we ny SUB (Section of the Communist International ) fice ==: = === SS ==> ‘Militant Mass Demonstrations ‘Force Announcement That Relief Stations Workers Must Continue Struggle for quate Relief; Prepare Feb. 4 Demonstrations! NEW YORK.—Announcement was stations closed down by the city are to be re-opened today. The stations were shut down following an ulti- matum sto the city by the House of Morgan to stop any relief whatever to the starving, unemployed workers and their families. The announce- ment of a re-opening of the stations comes as @ result of the tremendous mass reports organized and led by the Communist Party, especially the demonstration at City Hall on Fri- day. In making the announcement, sioner, admitted that only a million dollars would be available for relief, and even this is dependent upon negotiations still going on for a loan to the city by the banking interests. The unemployed workers should Will Re-Open Ade- should be on hand at the today to demand adequate relief from the city government and the bankers, | At first attempting to cut off all | relief, the bosses now | | Gets stations and that only because they are forced | to, It does not take a mathema- tician to figure out how far one mil- Only & mass fight of unem- pleyed.colored and white. workers to- gether, supported by the employed workers, can force the bosses to give adequate relief. Only organization | and a militant fight can force the} Cox's | bosses to give adequate delief. Join | meeting attended, stimat the Unemployed Councils. Build #1 not be deceived by the mere promise to re-open the relief stations, but Feb. 4 demonstrations against star- vation and for relief, | of those Martial Lawin Swatow,China As Mass Up Japanese Send “Avenging” Force Against Red Partisan Troops In Jehol Province Admitting their fear of an uprising by the South China in support of the military campaign of the Chin- ese Red Army around Hanko Swatow have declared martial law in that important coast cit of South China. The extent to are attempting to crush the resist-¢ ance of the masses to the dismem- berment of China by the imperial- ists is shown by the folowing Swatow dispatch to the New York Times: “So fearful are the Swatow au- | thorites of Communist uprisings that after nightfall no group of more than htree persons may walk together on the streets, and all groups must be separated by at | least sixty feet or they will he At | this him lf John Pennsylvai Labor, in M rising Looms, the channels of working for Father|were mobilizing the miners for the \| | Cox as “president “Spread the Strike” Conference on | |Kidnappi ng of Strike | Father Cox said that a national | January 24th, as well as for a di Leaders In Kentucky jconvention of jobless was planned |ive advance of the strike on Monday workers Of | for st. Louis on ot Day “unless| were “arrested” at seven o'clock! | NEW YORK.—Protesting against | nationwide unemployment relief is! night at Cumberland Gap, | the kidnapping probable w, Kuomintang authorities ‘in| Provided in the meanwhile,” and |" ee, right near the Kentucky i ching of Jo and Bill | that a “third party of the unem-|state line. The authorities were | jDuncan, two Kentucky strike hich th K ieee ployed” may be formed under the impression that Bill Dun-| | leaders, William Z. Foster, secre which the OEE eacers | In his speech, Father Cox mouthed }can was Frank Borich, national sec-|| tary of the Trade Union Unity ~ | many ph cleerly show |@v they do not intend to give any but Covers the most meager relief to a small! | section of the unemployed workers,| Pinchot, lJeading business men o! i§ extending his organizing keep the unemployed for real relicf, workers and unemplo: meeting forward Pitt S Mis- Fight Cox’s B Class acer, lion dollars will go in giving “reliet” | | NEW YORK.—Father Cox, Pitts- to over a million unemployed workers | DUrgh priest, financed and supported (and their families besides) in this | PY the millionaire Governor Pinchot city. of Penns: ania, as as by th efforts to} ¢¢ from fighting move was a huge mass um, Pittsbrugh, Father Cox put presidential | ort of | as a president Phillips, of the nia State Federation ot| the theis effort to direct the| mass discontent of the wor s into Hable ry ween Ses about Wall Street and | retary of the National Miners Union. is issued a statement id | the izing against | The arrest took place on a bus. calling on all workers to rally for Supported by Kuomintang at- | «wy the “politicians. Organizers Wherezbouts Unknown the demand of all the arrested tacks on the revolutionary struggles | But he al avoided the class issue. | Saturday morning inquiry by the||strike leaders, ‘The statement of the Chinese worker-peasant | telegram was sent to the meeting | International Laber Defense failed | reads: masses, the Japanese yesterday be- | by Governor Pinchot. to reveal the location of the priso: i The kicnapping and probable See rake fogvemeny. of W006 | iis Cox waa holding” his idk |r" The Sheritrs Of. pell and Harlan | | lynching of Weber end Duncan is | westward from Chinchow to the bor- | ing with the full suct of County, Kentucky, and of Claiborne | | the latest outrage in the despere der of the Province of Jehol, where ner Pinchot, Pinchot was be ite tlie eon they Se ate campaign of the Kentucky si ay Fee aes ee ai ¢, nothing of the strike leaders’ where- md Tennessee coal operators to Red partisan troops and volunteer | m Ing with ernor Roovevelt o} labouts: ‘They were never: Gash to! anen workers” toe freee oa) ; the jail in Cumberland, Gap. The! | s y (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | pi ovine jailer was told the prisoners | wate sececiits eteder Ce ata were being taken to the Pineville ail! iners in these two states i e jon Saturday nicht but they never | gio jcng iat actual eeneoaeen Lenin Memorial, a Day of Struggle "ene eee a ese arrects took place just a8 8/ | elon of terror, is being led by Against Hunger and Imperialist War, teoing through with Professors are asking the ques- the cennot work out a plan for Lenin Memorial, January 21st, an Bronx Coliseum, falls this year dur- ing @ period of the most intense struvle of the workers. In Ken- tue..., the miners are fighting against starvation, fascist terror and the de- nial of their most elementary rights, BALTIMORE, Jan. 11—0r (Lee) Jones, 60-year ol farm hand who is facing frame-up in the courts trial Monday, Jan. 17, fending Jones, Eastern Shore of Marya Jones Trial Opening Today Maryland ruling class, will go on Bernard Ades, attorney of the In- ternational Labor Defense, is de- The I, L. D. has already won two preliminary victories in forcing the courts to recognize the right of Jones to choose his own defense and for a change of venue away from the lynch-gang infested Orphan weeks "ago. and Negro workers ter- id Negro | rorized, Both victories involved ter- a death | rific legal and mass battles. The of the | trial is now to take place at Town- send, a town about 10 miles from Baltimore, Demand Negro Workers on Jury The I, L. D. will open the defense with an attack on the denial of the capitalist courts of the constitutional right of Negro workers to bs tried by | @ jury of their peers, scicraey Ades will demand that Negro work- ers be permitted to serve on the jury SCONTINUED OM PAGH THREE) nd, where new cess. | tion All Out to Bronx Coli-| seum This Thurs- | day Evening why | ganization __. | why supposedly guaranteed by the con- | stitution of the United States. Twelve | million workers are unemployed, and of "wonderful suc- | Con American the or- ny — incustry. Yes, capitalists | thousands raids The renewec _ Price 3 Cents __ RELIEF HEAD Bosses Try to Block “Spread the Strike” Meet Mass Picketing Continues In Face of Terrors Miners Start Offensive to Spread Strike Unites With Roosevelt) Workers of Whole Country Must Support Heroic Struggle of Miners With Relief PINEVILLE, Ky., January 17.— ccording to capitalist pre by 55,000, among whoin é were many rich business men, Most | Strike wa present were | Pitteburen,, Strike gees forward to shar nessee, Alabama and West Virg: ve, As the coal er battles, with the Spread the Strike” Conference rallyi ing min- ers from every section of the Kentucky Ten- inia coal fields, , | the coal operators, in a desperate attempt to stop the growing have kidrapped Joe Webber, Central Strike Committee and Bill leader in the drive for strike relief. secretary of the Duncan, active miner, a Net a word has been heard as to the whereabouts of Daily Keren, which, will) rally: NeW) | -crorsHons ‘of Ulin ohn wee in the struggle, wholesal2 | tueky > miners are and arrests Worker, Tt both were taken for a ride. Joe Weber and Bill Duncan who| \lWm. Z. Foster Hits trike offensive was planned by | thte miners on a vast scale through | | section strike meetings on Sunday. Moke Wholesale Raids and Arrests, | As the miners were meeting pre- | eratory to the “Spread the Strike | were meted oui. | these two strike leaders at the time of filing this telegram to is feared » the National Miners’ Union and is ravidly spreading. “The dominant coal interests In Co., and the Insull Public Utility at such low standards of relief—meagre as it is—is being sys- tematically cut off by the govern- ment and relief organizations, which are determined to starve the | ployed. Wage cut after wage cut is | taking place—railroad workers, metal | workers, teachers, office workers, | steel workers, marine workers—there | is no section of the working class | which is not suffering from the wage | slashing campaign of the bosses. The workers are not takin this situation with their hands down. On the contrary, the miners are tignt- | ing. The unemployed are fighting. Under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and the Unem- ployed Councils, they are putting for- bidet their demands and carrying on ceunty incite the are driving back the Japanese imper- falist troops, The Five Year Plan ig — TAMPA, Fia., of the 16 workers arrested bere as a@ result of the at police, naires and deputized sheriff's thugs on a Noy. 7th Anniversary celebra- tion is rapidly being turned into | & read baiting attempt to railroad each of the 16 workers to a maxi- | mum ‘of 20 years in jail, | Special efforts are being made to jury farmers against the arrested workers In China, the workers and peasants |by introducing and playing up the Negro question. ‘Yesterday the Solicitor melodrama- 11.—The trial, tical ins wr to whi Jan. by city and Americar tegion- | the of Hillsboro county | {),, ly ribed th Unite tir up the issue of race hatred ich will one of the trump cards of the pro- secution, State Witness Proves Flop Under a fiery cross-examination by one of the policemen, who have been coached by prosecution to act as witnesses, was forced to admit that he was unable to say which one of the ar- defense don’t they do it? Because they | jc already having response. olailarhsnd btinesaine ec. | s 1} dren sre dying daily of starvae : * | | tion tu the coal camps and these . PAGH TWO (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE: | {CONTINDED ON PAGE TWO) | Irieh ‘corporations. axe dyin Bi | |arive them still deeper into | i ‘Throw Race Hatred Issue into. Trial of 16 Tampa Workers waved a banner on which was “Negro and ne «slogan and Pight’ undoubtedly counsel, ACONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | starvation in the coal camps and these rich corporations are trying | | to drive them still deeper into | Starvation. The miners of Ken- tucky and Tennessee, 95 per cent of whom were born in the United States rae fighting with desperate jcourage under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union against this intolerable regime of rvation and hunger, e are demanding of the gove ernors of Kentucky and Tennessee that they protect the lives of these kidnapped organizers, Weber and Duncan. From our past ex- perience we have learned that there is no limit to the outrageous terrorism to which these dominant corporations will go to prevent and break working class organe ‘and began be used as “ eee