The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1932, Page 3

DALLY wo vest, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1988 rage veweé ———_— ~—inienee TO DEMAND NEGRO JURORS AT i JONES TRIAL OPENING TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) which will try Jones. The rich land- owners and capitalists of this sec- tion has never been recognized this constitutional right of the Negro masses. Stiff resistance by the State is anticipated. ‘This evening 2 luge parade and protest meeting of white and Negro workers was held in this city to pro- test against the vicious frame-up of Orphan Jones and demand his un- conditional and SAFE release. The meeting also demanded the release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. Most of the colored churches here have closed their doors to meetings of protest against the Orphan Jones frme-up. They give as their reason that the police are opposed to meet~ ings of workers and sympathizers protesting the atiempt to legally lynch Jones, Lynch Terror Continues The lynch terror against Negro workers and farm laborers continues on the Eastern Shore. ‘The Inter- national Labor Di is taking the initative in organizing mass defense committees of white and Negro workers to prevent the lynch gangs breaking into Negro. homes. All workers and their organizations and all sympathetic elements in- terested in the fight for Negro Tights and against lyr terror, are urged to rush telegrams to the court at Townsend, Maryland, protesting against the frame-up of Orphan Jones and demanding his release, MARTIAL LAW IN SWATOM, CHINA, AS MASS-UPRISING LOOMS (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) militia have inflicted crushing de- feats upon Japanese military units within the past week. The troop movements were backed by an open declaration by the Japanese to avenge their defeats on the worker- peasant masses who, repudiating the Kuomintang party, have rallied to resist the Japanese invaders. In North Manchuria, the Japanese are using corrupt Chinese militarists to gain full control of that territory. Backed by Japanese bayonets, money and munitions, several puppet gov- ernments have been set up in that area. The Japanese are now plan- ning to consolidate these puppet gov- ernments into one central govern- ment. This means that the whole of Manchuria is being converted into a military base against the Soviet Union, in preparation for an indi- cated attack on the Soviet Union this spring. The Japanese penetra- tlon into Jehol Province is for the purpose of broadening this military base, by bringing all of Inner Man- churia under Japanese military con- trol. The Chinese militarist, General Mah Chan-Shan, who was used last December by the Japanese in a fake resistance to the Japanese in order to afford the pretext for an advance toward the Soviet frontier, is to head 2 new army which “will work with the Japanese-supported regime in the Province of Heilungkiang,” North Manchuria. Japanese airplanes yesterday bombed several Chinese villages in the mountains near Lungluo, killing 300 persons. . ‘That the Japanese seizure of Man- churia is approved by the rest of the imperialist powers on the basis that Japan is to convert Manchria into a base against the Soviet Union and to act as the spearhead in the at- tack on workers’ Russia, is openly stated by Karl H. Von Wiegand in yesterday’s New York American. Von Wiegand says: “A big war is looming in the Far East. The Chinese-Japanese con- fiet growing out of Japan’s seizure of Manchuria is the prelude, the first roll of drums.” Referring to the preserive of 75,000 Russian White Guards in Manchuria, Von Wiegand further declares: “Japan's plans in Northern China are for long sight, not for quick realization, There is 2 ‘spear-head’ in them against Rus- sia” The “long-sight”’ characterization of the Japanese plans is made to de- ceive the international working-class into relaxing its vigilance against the imperialist war plans, which are part and parcel of the capitalist hunger program and wage-slashing against the “home” masses. In a further attempt to deceive the masses and mobilize chauvinist pa~ triotism in support of the murder plans of the imperialists, Arthur Brisbane in yesterday's New York American attempts to present the coming world slaughter as a war be- tween races and “civilizations,” thus attempting to conceal the fact that the coming war, like the last im- perialist war, will be a war for loot, a war against the colonial massés, against the starving unemployed masses in the “home” countries, and for armed intervéntion against the proletarian revolution in Germany and against the new society rising in the Soviet Union. Brisbane admits that the Soviet Union has won the sympathy and support of the colonial masses by its consistent recognition and support of their right to self-determination and national independence. He says: “Russia’s motto, ‘Asia for the Asiatics, pleases the Asiatics.” He follows this up with an open call to the imperialists for war against the Soviet Union, declaring: “It may be necessary some day for capitalism to suspend its fa- vorite sports of bleeding, gouging, borrowing and not paying, hating, fighting and swindling, and con- centrate on the new power that is in the East.” It is precisely the toiling masses, bled, gouged and swindled by the capitalists, according to the admis- sion of this high priest of imperial- ism, who will be called upon to mur- der other workers, bled gouged and swindled by capitalism, for the “sacred cause” of protecting the in- vestments of the capitalists and their “right” to bleed, rob and swindle the Negro and colonial masses. The American working-class must organize now to resist the plans of the imperialists for another world slaughter. Workers! Raise the question of the fight against im- perialist war in all your organiza- tions! Organize factory gate, stress and indoor protest meetings! De mand all war funds for the unem- Ployed! Support the Feb. 4 demonstra~ tions against unemployment and for unemployment relief and social insurance. Demand hands off the Chinese masses and their Soviet Republic. Defend the Soviet Union! Defend the revolutionary struggles of the colonial masses, BOSSES TRY TO BLOCK “SPREAD THE STRIKE” MEET NTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Ragan mine 150 came. out on Friday. This was followed by renewed terror in Harlan county with the arrest of Bige Gross, striking miner. He was eharged with “criminal syndicalism.” A meeting of the Swimming Pool local No. 5 of the National Miners Union was called in the cellar of ‘Gross’s house. Sixty striking miners were present. ‘Twelve deputy sher- iffe in two cars broke in the cellar door and ordered Gross to put up his hands, “or we'll shoot your eyes out.” Gross asked why, the Deputy Lee Fleener, who has already killed two miners at the Swimming Pool, W.LR. soup kitchen, declared: ‘‘This meet- ing of the National Miners Union is illegal.” Insult Negro Miner. Deputy gun thugs searched the house for leaflets and guns. ‘They then ransacked and adjoining house. The deputies insulted a Negro mem- ber of the Union who was present and said: “What are you doing here? You have no business meeting with these miners.” The Negro miner an- Miners Union to better my condi- starving. I joined the National swered: “You see I'm barefooted and tions.” As deputies took Gross to the court house one asked him: “Why don’t you resist. I've wanted to get you for a long time.” Gross was put under a $2,000 bond and is in the Harlan County jail. Harlan miners report that Walter Hall, striking miner, is in jail for “criminal syndicalism” be- cause he walked out of the post of- fice carrying a bundle of the “Daily Worker.” He is out on $1,000 bond. Deputy gun thugs warned the miners that all caught with copies of the “criminal syndicalism.” J, E. Smith, striking miner and preacher, was framed-up on a liquor charge. Everybody knows Smith does not drink. A deputy told Smith “If we get a few more like you we will smash the strike and the National Miners Union in Harlan.” Mass Picketing Continues. Despite the terror, increased picketing is going on. There is a renewed militancy throughout the strike area, and every effort is be- ing made to get a huge delegation to the “Spread the Strike” Confer- ence on January 24th. On Mon~- day there will be larger picket lines, with new mines coming out on strike. The coal operators ‘knowing this, are at this moment letting loose an unparalled reign of teror. “Miners walked 10 miles trom Ken- tucky to picket a mine in Tennessee. They were accompanied by women and chcildren. Women alone pick- eted the King Mountain Mine in ‘Tennessee while their husbands pick- ted the Anthers Mine. Women are refusing to cook for their husbands who won't join the National Miners Union, One miner brought in 60 applications for the National Miners Union. women’s Auxiliary from Chain Fork is very active. Another miner brought in 15 from Gatliff, ‘Tenn. Miners -to Protest Today, To combat the growing terorism, and to rally the miners to demand the release of all their arrested strike leaders, as well as to demand to know wherebanots of Joe Web- er and Bill Duncan, the Interna- tional Labor Defense prepared a huge mass meeting for Pineyitic, today. ‘The miners of Pittsburgh are be- “A revolutionary union in the steel | and metal industry with a minimum of 3000 active dues paying members and 200 functioning department | groups welded into mill branches throughout the country by April” was’ the perspective and goal set by the first meeting of the National Com- mittee for building the Steel Work~ Industrial Union in its recent} meeting In Pittsburgh. | The National Committee, composed of 20 members from the steel centers of Pittsburgh, Chicago-Gary, Young- workers, held on the eve of the Oct, 1st wage-cut on September 27. Aside from the members of the Na~ tional Committee, 40 leading rank- and-file steel workers from the steel towns of Monesson, McKeesport, Blawnox, Steubenville, Weirton, Toronto, Gary, Indiana Harbor, War- ten, Ohio and many other centers were present and participated in the sessions. John Meldon, Secretary of the Metal Workers Industrial League, gave the National report, calling a national convention in the industry qon April 15, 16, 17, to form the union. ‘The report for the Trade Union Unity League, was made by Wm. Z. Foster. The convention will be held in Pitts- Industrial Union of 200 Branc stown and Baltimore districts, was| those centers where the unemployed elected at the conference of steel| A Report of the Recent Meeting of the National Committee for Building the Steel Workers Industrial Union the semi-skilled and unskilled white workers must become the iron found ation for the founding of the union in April.” Special Demands For Negroes “In our approach to this problem we must bear in mind that mere recognition of these facts are not over our heads in 2 practical sense. We recognize the burning need of developing struggle among the une employed as a driving wedge into the mills for strike struggle, but we for- get these lessons in our daily activity. The mine strike arose directly in Resolution on Kentucky Mine Strike Adopted unanimously by the enlarged mecting of the Na- tional Conumittee for Building the Stee! Workers Industrial Union, | held in Pittsburgh, Sunday, January 10, 1932. ‘WHEREAS :—The strike of the southern coal miners against atarva- tion is a heroic struggle for the right to live and for the most elementary economic and political rights of the working class; AND WHREAS:—This strike is conducted in the face of the sharpest terror of the bosses’ thugs and the government and against the false leadership and strike-breaking roles of the UMWA and the IWW; AND WHEREAS:—The strike is being conducted in a period of widespread unemployment in the middle of winter and in the face of burgh, Must Build Union In 3 Months In his report to the National Com- mittee, Meldon stated that the M. W. I. L., during the past four months, had rooted itself in the steel industry sufficiently to start a campaign for a national convention to form the union within three months. He re- ported an active membership of 1500 members and 100 department groups and mill and shop branches, “The union must be built during the next three months period, based on strug- gle of the employed and unemployed steel workers,” Meldon said. In dealing with shortcomings and weaknesses of the M. W. I. L. in his report, he stated, “‘Although the M. W. I. L, has made significant progress in the face of tremendous difficulties, this progress does not in any way fit in with the possibilities afforded by the objective situation prevailing in the industry today. The almost com- plete absence of struggle in the indus- try under our leadership must be re- congnized by this committee as a danger signal—as an evidence that we are still isolated from the masses of unemployed and employed steel workers. The downward plunge of production in steel, hovering around 20 per’cent, nationally, and in some areas as low as 9 and 10 per cent, with the consequent mass lay-offs, increasing speed-up, the permanent stagger and double-crew system, the cutting to the bone of relief and the preparation for new sweeping wage- cuts, have brought in their wake a seething discontent and a tremend- ous increased radicalization in the ranks of the steel and metal workers of this country. With half of the 500,000 steel workers permanently unemployed and the remaining half working one or two days a week, the M. W. I. L. has not taken advantage of these conditions to build the union. Only in a few scattered in- stances have we seriously attempted fo reach the broad masses of em~ |. ‘oyed steel workers through organ- ising and leading struggles of the unemployed workers. Our recuitment and building of inside mill and shop organization is still based on narrow individual recruitment and almost absolute neglect of mass activity among the thousands of unemployed and part-time workers. Must Base Struggle on Local De- mands “The key to mass struggle and mass recruitment for building a revolu- tionary union in the industry must be based on organization and strug- gle for the local demands of the un- employed and part time workers in the steel towns” he said. “The sharp lessons of the West Pennsylvania mine strike have passed completely ing rallied for a mass demonstration in support of the Kentucky-Tennes~ see mine strike and against the coal operators’ terror. General George W. Chamlee, at- torney for thé nine Scottsboro boys, wired Governor Horton of Tennessee demanding that if the two strike leaders are in Tennessee they be not be extradites to Kentucky. Telegrams of protest are being sent from the strike regions and other parts of the country to Governor Laf- foon of Kentucky and to the Sher- iffs of Harlan and Bell Counties, Kentucky, and Clairborne County, Tennessee, demanding the safety and release of the two aresrted strike leaders. “| The monster section strike meet- ings being held throughout the strike zone also wil adopt resolutions and telegrams of protest as they go ahead with their plans to exterd the strike against hunger. 1. L. BD, Sends Hrotest ‘retegrams, The Chattanooga district of the International Labor Defense has sent telegrams of protest to the Governors of Tennessee and Ken- tucky and to the Sheriffs of all the extreme hardships thereby smashing the false theory that the workers will not strike under such circumstances; AND WHEREAS :—The strike is led by our brother union, the Na- tional Miners Union; AND WHEREAS:—For the first time in this part of the South the Negro and white workers are united on an equal basis under the lead- ership of the National Miners Union which fights uncompromisingly for the full economic, social and political rights for the Negro workers; AND WHEREAS:—The boss-class terror and starvation are the greatest threats to the heroic strike of the Southern miners: ‘Therefore be it RESOLVED:—That this enlarged meeting of the National Com- mittee for Building the Steel Workers Industrial Union go on record as wholeheartedly supporting the strike, and that we will, through par- ticipation and leading in United Front Conferences and defense meas- ures and by the immedate organizing on the broadest scale collection of relief in the steel towns throughout the country in cooperation with the Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committees of the Workers In- ternational Relief do our best in helping to spread the strike and bring victory to the striking southern miners and victory to the entire Amer- ican working class. We will also utilize the relief committees thus es- tablished to build on a mass scale a permanent widespread W.LR. and for the building of a mass Steel Workers Industrial Union which will Kentucky-Tennessee miners. soon be able to enter the militant struggle now being conducted by the miners had been organized and had fought for their local demands. The part-time miners entered the fight for relief also, and when the wage- cuts took place in these mine areas, the employed and part-time miners struck and the strike spread like wildfire. These are the simple and fundamental lessons for the develop- ment of struggle today that we have not taken advantage of and have not practiced in our work, The immedi- ate organization of Unemployed Branches of the M. W. I. L. and Unemployed Councils in the steel is imperative. the immediate demands of the un- employed and part-time steel work- ers will Jead to mass activity that will bring hundreds and thousands of steel workers into our union and will lead to strikes in the mills under our leadership. There can be union formed in April, unless we come to this city at that time a history of three months with the delegates of the employed steel workers groups that have grown mittee and the delegates from the various steel centers laid down a per- and part-time workers in all centers out of this mass activity.” In the discussion of this point of Meldon's report, the National Com- where there is M. W. I. L. groups within the next four weeks period. ‘The remainder of his report was devoted to building organs of strug- gle inside the mills, the formation and action of united front grievance committees, committees of action against special conditions, the organ- izational forms and functioning of the department committees and mill branches. Weak In Unemployed Work Meldon also brought forth sharply the weakness of work among the un- employed and employed Negro steel workers, and characterized this shortcoming as the second most dan- gerous weakness in the activity of the M. WI. L. A series of practical measures for recruiting Negro work- ers into the M. W. I. L. were - posed and adopted by the National Committee. In speaking on the Negro in the industry, Meldon stated: “The im- portance of the Negro workers in the industry cannot be overestimated, neither in an economic or political sense. Over 100,000 Negroes are em- ployed or unemployed in steel. ‘They constitute the backbone of heavy alone sufficient. The mistaken among our membership that the Negro workers are to be won in a ‘general manner’ without giving heed to their special condi- tions, demands and grievances is wrong and dangerous. At the same time, this theory, which objectively denies the special position of the Negro steel workers and therefore the special demands for struggle in the interest of the Negro work- ers leads to a terrible breeding ground for chauvinistic tendencies that choke the growth of the union. Only our membership taking a firm uncompromising stand on full so- cial, economic and political equality for the Negroes and applying this slogan in life by putting forth the demands of the Negroes and by drawing in the white workers for common struggle around these de- mands in the mills and steel towns will we lay the bassis for drawing thousands of Negro workers into the M. W. I. L. Our union must enter into the fight on all fronts in the interests of the Negro steel workers; from the smallest depart- mental demands in the mill to the Forward to a Revolutionary Steel Workers hes by April) | fight against social discrirnination | and lynching outside the mills.” Youth Report ‘The Youth report was given by E. Briscoe, national youth organizer. ‘The proposals to haye every district committee of the M. W. I. L. to take up the problem of the youth as a | direct problem in the life of the union was adopted. Immediate | establishment of youth committees | Fas also adopted. Meetings are to | be held with young steel workers in all centers to work out the special youth demands and to prepare for the district youth conferences to be held in Pittsburgh district, Feb, 21, Youngstown, Feb. 27; Chicago and Baltimore dates to be set. District youth committees are to be elected at these conferences and the draft youth problem to be discussed and | applied to local conditions. A Na- | tlonal ‘Youth program with local and national demands is to be ready for the National convention in April. A national resident youth committee composed of Edith Briscoe, Tom Watkins and Frank Hill was elected. This committee is to be responsible for the issuance of a national youth bulletin every two weeks, to direct the youth work and to establish a “Youth Corner” in the Daily Worker Steel Page that will start soon. The district organizers of the M. W. I. L. are responsible to check-up and see that the decisions are carried out. Following the discussion of the dis- trict organizers and committee mem- bers on the report of comrade Mel- don, the National Resident Buro, composed of Chapa, Crampo, Dallet, Briscoe, B. Carruthers, Lubresky, Beaumount and Meldon was elected. A resolution for support of the Kentucky strike was adopted, and @ resolution of protest against the threatened deportation of Edith Berkman was also adopted. The proposals and motions adopted by the National Committee following the discussion and election of the National Board was as follows: 1. Immediate preparations for district conferences, based on three months plans of work. 2. Development of active organs of struggle (grievance committces, committees of action) in all mills where there exists M.W.LL. groups at present within the next four weeks. 3. More mass work, especially concentration among the unem- ployed and part-time steel workers and development of mass struggle in the main centers within four weeks based on the demands of the unemployed and part-time workers. 4. Setting up of functioning dis- trict and mill branch committees within three weeks. 5. Double our present member- ship and groups by April 15 (mini- mum). 6. A National Convention to form the union by April 15, 16, 17, based on deep-rooted functioning organ- izations in the mills and Unem- ployed Branches of the M.W.LL. Other motions were: 1, All districts to hold conferen- ces within a month. 2. National Committee to meet April 14, in Pittsburgh. 3. The newly elected National Buro to prepare draft constitution for the new union to be submitted to the field three weeks before the convention for discussion. National office to issue # monthly Org. bulletin in prepara- tion for the convention, SCOTTSBORO MOTHERS HIT NAACP LIES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Jackson County, Ala., ever seeing Victoria and charged that Chamlee had bribed him. Campbell claimed that Landers said he was in the Fae State Penitentiary at the . The Sentinel, which is pub- lished in the town of Scottsboro, has been foremost in howling for the blood of these innocent boys. ‘Today, Landers signed a new affi- davit denying that he had been in prison and declaring that he still recognizes Victoria as the girl he saw in a drunken state soliciting men in the Negro section. He denies he was ever bribed by Chamlee. No action has been taken by the Chattanooga Bar Association on the fake charges raised against Chamlee by Jack Neil of the Red Squad. work- ing hand in hand with Stephen Roddy, N. A. A. C. P. attorney, to discredit the Scottsboro Defense. manual labor in the mills, both un- skilled and semi-skilled, and are therefore the most oppressed, lowest paid, most discontented, and conse- quently, the source of unlimited re- volutionary strength for building our union, once this source is seriously approached and utilized. This great army of Negro workers along with counties involved. un friday tere were general raids in Harlan County and a large number of arrests. The terror is directed particularly against the mass preparatory meetings for the “Spread the Strike” Conference, All preparations for the Confer- ence, however, are going ahead des- pitethe intensified terror. ‘The injunction hearing in the Fed- eral Court against 92 of the strike leaders has been postponed until Monday, Garlin in Portland, Ore Jan. 24; Plan Big Meet in Seattle, W. Jan. 31st PORTLAND, Ore.—Coming to this city after a number of successful meetings in Washington State, Sen- der Garlin, associate editor of the Labor Defender, speaks here at the Workers Center, 191 1-2 Third St.’ ° Sunday, Jan, 24, on “The Soviet Five- Year Plan aad the Hoover. Pian,” Build « workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send reguler letters to the Daily Worker. The talk will be illustrated. On the 27th he will speak in the Ranier Valley and on the 29th before the Citizens Unemployed League of Bal- lard, Wash., where a strike of lumber workers recently took place and where the I. L. D. successfully smashed a frame-up against six of the strikers, The largest hall in the downtown vection of the city has been hired for Garlin’s meeting in Seattle to be held in the Kagle’s Auditorium on Sun- day evening, Jan. 31. All the meetings are linked up Mrs, Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, and Mrs. Patter- son, mother of another of the Scottsboro boys, yesterday issied signed statements to the local press giving the Iie to the charges made by the N. A. A. C. P. and its Klan attorney, Stephen Roddy, that the Scottsboro mothers who made tours for the defense were imposters, @ secret meeting to take up a report on the activities of the International |Labor Defense in organizing the Scottsboro Defense. A resolution was adopted urging strong arm methods against the white and Negro workers and their organizations who are de- fending the boys. KNOXVILLE, Tervi., Jan. 17.—The article lauding Thomas F. Knight, attorney general of Alabama, for his declaration that he will oppose the appeal against the lynch verdicts and will demand the chair for the eight innocent Negro boys. Another article in tie same paper, Teporting the action of the boys in demanding that Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays co-operate with the I. L. D. or stay out of the case, carries the lying headline that “Eight Repudiate I. b. D.” The ar- ticle itself states: “The National Association for the advancement of Colored People also has withdrawn from the case, the action being taken after a tel~ egram signed by the eight Negroes repudiating the organization for the International Labor Defense was received by the N. A. A. C. P.” It is plain that the meaning of the paragraph is that the N. A. A. C. P. was repudiated by the boys in favor of the militant defense policy of the International Labor Defense. But the wish is father to the thought. The southern lynch bosses have all along tried to force the N. A. A. ©. P. upon the boys, because they know tha the N. A. A. C. P. has been help- ing to cover up the lyneh terror nat- ure of the death verdicts and to stem the anger of the masses, thus seek- ing to block the mass movement with the campaign for the repeal of|which alone sgn game amd. waticntins mm Phe criming) ee Local Legionnaires yesterday held) Knoxville News-Sentinel carries, an | (OONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) Miners Union met every Wednesday in Oddfellows Har lan County. Every 20 to Hall in Wallins, Wednesday rifles to sub-machine guns, surroun ded the hall, raided the hall raided nearby homes of miners. District comittee of the Workers In ternational Relief met anyway ers from Evarts scene Spring’s blody battle, miner Straight Creek mines ten an twenty miles away, came into Wal lins, pushed their way through the gunmen, and through with their meeting. Fail to Break De The strike has crippled the activi ties of the g ands of miners Pineville Court house arrests of the nine org: from went ration National Miners Union, Workers In ternational Relief and International Labor Defense, the thugs, who came in from Harlan to break not dare to do so. Or in cases do they Two carloads of gu |ded a Workers Intern kitchen at the Board " left when they saw termination to defend it jused at certain mines b: operators to try to terrorize the n ers back to work The miners know and the guniner know, that this mass strike is the answer to the terror. The miners will strike till the terror is sn And the miners are stri starvation. Probably in no other p: of the country is there is so much real destitution as there is among these American born, ex-mountaincer miners. Even when working, the us ual food was pinto beans, potatoes and coffee, generally wihtout sugar or milk, with only t wo meals a day. Milk, vegetables and bruit were un heard of, meat @ very rare luxury. A few families who had cows had to it up, did solated dare g Hoe es Thugs are fodder for them. Literally, of children died of the st sease, flux. Barefooted in December. The children, the whole family, are in rags. It is not unusual to see barefooted children in December. Many women could not attend union hundreds arvation di- Men in tattered overalls are lucky to have underwear and a coat The shacks the miners live in are unfit for cattle. Roofs leak, walls are plastered with newspapers in an attempt to keep the cold out. There are not even the barest necessities, not enough plates, not enoxgh spoons and forks, not enough chairs. There is no running water; in some camps one well supplies the whole camp, and by 8 a. m. the water is all gone 30 gunmen, armed with high-powered | give them up as they couldn't buy! meetings because they had no shoes. | Writes from Jail Telling Why Kentucky Miners Are Striking for the The miner: de coal companies have the y are gen h company by the thro: eee rade at the tore the chain atores are cut for rent, for school, ind.and for ie prices from 20 percent to 50 pe higl ha | stor, not unusual for a miner to for at the end o to the com nonths and month be in debt | The Miners Answer hese unparalleled conditions Organize tional Mir men's Al national Labor Defe Build ths ional Relief and the backbone kers Interna Hundreds of rank file miners sre the organizers of the National Union in | Kent nd ‘Tennesee. They are | one o signed thousands of 1 ) inion. They ot n M. U. convention ch wa in Pineville, Decem r 13 here the District Board of the unio estavlished and the rike date Women on the Picket Line And now these same k and file miners, nd their wives, under the leadership of the National Miners | Union are conducting the strike. The nen try to intimidate the women told fifteen of them the other pointing their high-powered | rifles at them, to leave a demon- stration. The women stared back 2 |them and said, “We didn’t come | runnin’ and we don’t aim to leaye runnin’, Women are on the picket lines. women are active in relief work, women and men are in the strike “till we win or die. Although workers all over the coun- re being mobilized by the Work ers International Relief and National |Miners Union to support the strike, relief is not coming in fast enough | In many sections the striking miners and their families have had prac- tically no food since the strike One miner’s wife said “We have had no relief for six days. We're near starving but we are in this strike to win. We aim to stick, even if we only get one cracker a day,” Comrades and fellow workers, rush in relief! See to it that this fight of the Kentucky-Tennessee miners, 15 supported by the whoel working- class. The coal operators are doing their best to see that the miners get starved back to work. Help win the strike! Send money to the Workers International Relief, 16 West 2lst Street, New York. Send clothes and food to 145 Pine Street, Pineville, Ky. started. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) rested workers had shot Officer Byrd or whether any of them had done the shooting. The only charges he brought up were that two of the workers Felix Marrera and Lezama, had been seen fighting the police. Marrera, was brutally beatenup by the police and the American Legion when he helped defend the workers against the at- tack by police thugs and county of- ficers. Marrera is a war veteran, decorated by conspicuous bravery under action. He is also a member of the American Legion. The charge | brought against Lezama was that he had been “seen waving a pistol.” To Evict Workers’ Family ‘Together with the crude efforts at railroding the 16 workers to 20 years in jall, deportation to fascist Mexico and other Latin American countries, the bosses are intensifying their persecution against militant tobacco workers in Tampa and Ybor City, Hundreds of blacklisted tobacco workers are going hungry and facing PRIEST COX ASKS VOTES; NOT RELIEF (CONTIRNVED FRUS New York in a secret conference discussing the best measures of cut ting down unemployment relief Governor Pinchot visited Roosevelt in his suite at the hotel in Phila- delphia. After this visit, an inter~ view was given to the capitalist press reporters in which the main points follow: “We merely swapped views on anemployment relief legislation,” sald Governor Roosevelt when the conference ended. “That's right,” chimed the Gov- ernor Pinchot. “We have found a common prob- Jem in the two states,” Mr, Roose- velt said, “especially concerning unemployment relief, New York City is in much the samo position as Philadelphia. They are havtox difficulty im borrowing and are cutting their budgets.” ‘The “common problem” is how to discover methods of cutting down on unemployment relief without arous- ing mass struggles of the unem- Ployed. It is for this purpose that Governor Pinchot whole-heartedly supports Father Cox in his trickery. REMEW YOUR SUBSORIP- oup SE ONE THROW RACE HATRED ISSUE INTO "TRIAL OF 16 TAMPA WORKERS eviction. The wife of Ferras, an active fighter among the tobacco workers, recently sentenced to de- portation for being one of the leaders of the Tobacoo Workers Industria! Union, faces eviction from her home together with her child The boss character of the trie itself can be seen from the fact that not one Latin American citien is on the jury. Negroes are forbidden +0 enter the courtroom. Workers Must Protest Only mass pressure can help free the 16 workers, Immediate tele- grams and resoultions of protest should be sent to the Governor of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and Judge Petteway. Funds for defense should be sent te the International Labor Defense and the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union at once, Workers! Do the places _ where you spend your money “ ‘ advertise in the Worker? sep ASK THEM TO DO IT! SEND US THEIR NAMES! Daily, Worker 50 E. 13th St., N.Y. 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