The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ’ Dai Central >, Ong Gatered an aecond. at New York, N. Yo. eo matter mt ibe Post Office ader the act of March 3, 1870 — Vol. TX, No. 16 <=> MINERS SCOUR HILLS FOR KIDNAPPED STRIKE LEADERS Workers! Flood Alabama [MASS PICKETING Lynch Court with Your Protests! - 'EARING on the appeal against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts sentencing eight innocent Negro boys to burn in the electric chair will take place this Thursday before the Alabama Supreme Court. The Alabama Supreme Court is an instrument of the same ruling Uy . Class which railroaded these innocent working class boys to death sen- ON AT ARTISTIC | WIRE STRIKE Workers Out Solid Behind M.W.L.L. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JA orker —SdRfiunist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International} |\Washington Reports Japan Plans Attack Union by Coming Spring on the Soviet Chinese Red Army Surrounds Nanchang; Japanese Puppets Start Drive to Seize ori: meeting in »bilizatio: u) trike igthening of ad the inst well the munist their he Co worker: the CITY GATHER WITH YOUR SHO “FRIENDS OF THE ER” GROUPS. MATES [N DAILY WORK- READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORE ®NTER SCCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER SUBS. EDITION re a Price 3 Cent ae 500 MEET DESPITE TERROR: ‘SPREAD STRIKE: RALLY FOR MILES FOR MASS PICKETING Chinese Eastern Railway i } i | ) 1 | \ i N tenoes im veh Jowée court sk Soottsboro. Th is an instrument of the Wall | wew voRK—Wworkers of the i eed ek starvation program and wage cui-, March to Middelsboro Tuesday to Demand Re- street jalists who have sentenced it ,t unemploy' ‘workers i i . solidl 14 ) cg 2 z es tas TA et y | tin, pign. aq > ‘© a ~ } and their families to starvation and are now demanding the cutting oft | Arie apsint the many cuvecssies| Open admission that an imperialist attack it Ages lease of Leaders and to Extend Strike of even the meager relief that has been doled out to a small section | wage cuts they have received during) on the Soviet Union is planned for this coming '|selectea th Lease of the unemployed, with gross discrimination against the unemployed Negro workers. It is an instruinent to carry out the imperialist policy of white supremacy and brutal suppression of the rights of the opressed Negro nation. The sole aim of the Alabama Supreme Court will be to justify and carry through this legal mass murder—if possible! Whether it will be possible for the Alabama Supreme Court to achieve its sinister purpose depends upon the masses of white and Negro toilers. The purpose of the Alabama Sureme Court (as of the white nad Negro reformist agents of the ruling class) is to seek to quiet down and pacify the anger of the masses who have been aroused to thunderous protests by the Communist Party, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense. The court will consider whether it will pay the Jand- lords and capitalists of the South to carry through this brutal murder of innocent working class children in defiance of the aroused ‘anger of the masses, or whether it would be better policy to hold off this cold- blooded butchery so as to avoid arousing the masses to further fury. Whether these innocent children are to burn in the electric chair is not a question to be answered by the Court of Lynchers, but by the toiling masses of black and white men and women and youth who have the power to save them. More than ever renewed and determined mass protest and organiza- tion are necessary to save the boys. The thunderous protests of Negro and white workers and poor farmers, rallying to the mass revolutionary struggle against starvation and lynch -terror, must penetrate into the “sacra” precincts of the Lynch Court, meeting in Montgomery, Ala. Every working class organization, every sympathetic group, every meeting of woricers must thunder their protests against these fiendish lynch ver-~ dicts and raise militantly the demand for the IMMEDIATE AND UN- CONDITIONAL RELEASE of these innocent vietims of class justice and national oppression! Workers! Flood the Alabama Supreme Court with protest telegrams! Smash the lynch terror against the Negro masses! Smash the Scottsboro lynch verdicts! Build the fighting alliance of Ne- gro and white workers! 6,000 Get Eviction Notices in N.Y.; Hunger Widespread the past year. Unable to force the| workers to break their ranks, the boss hhas begun to hire scabs, hoping to breka the strike. in this manner. . sy: ‘The New York local of the Metal|!iam Philip Workers’ Industrial League, which is | editor, 1 spring at the workers, whether they are metal workers or not, to come to the picket demonstration this morning at 7 a. m. at 32-34 Hubbert St. between ‘Washington and West Sts. To reach | the shop get off at Canal Si. and walk west. This strike is of great importance to the whole militant trade union movement in New York | City. Help the workers of the Artistic | Wire win their strike by turning out in masses to the picket line. arms,” eral staff, as Simms out, who desires war viet Union, It is the who declares that “the Far East is on Jeading the strike, calls upon, all) explosion which may rock the world.” | It is not merely the Japanese gen- imperialist robbers who are plotting latest is again made in a dispatch from Washington. The dispatch is from Wil- Simms, Seripps-Howard foreign | the verge of an He continues: | | “This dovetails with information reaching the. capital | over the week-end that Japan and Russia may clash in the | spring—not because Russia wanis it, but because the Jap- anese general staff, now in the sad- «- dle, is said to believe that the world situation favors the Mikado’s @ new world slaughter as a ¥ out of the terrific economic cris oO capitalism ,anc who seek to converi both China and the Soviet Union into colonies to provide new mar- kets in the effort to revive the dying capitalist system at the expense of tries to make against the So- whole camp of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Immediate Donations Vital for Life of Daily Worker ‘HE immediate tasks of the Daily Worker in the | fight to unite the workers all over the country | to fight wage cuts, starvation and imperialist war plots are beyond its present financial resources. ° R months in the past the very existence of the Daily Worker has been threatenec because of lack of money to pay for paper. The splendid assistance of workers in the past, and new sub- scriptions coming in during the present campaign s 6 ‘The workers all over the country must be rallied on @ wider scale than ever before through the | Daily Worker, | a ae Scottsboro it 5 ee time is terribly short to fight for the free- ing of the Scottsboro boys. The Daily Worker must spread the message of protest and organiza- tion to workers all over the country! The Daily Worker must not be hampered by money dif- ficulties at a time like this. NEW YORK.--Six thousand un- employed here during the pasi-two wecks were told they would be thrown out of their homes out on the streets, according to reports inade te ths “home relief bureaus.” This large number - who received notices also found that gre relief proniised by the waaay regi has been cut to practically nothin. “Bach w less and less Is being distributed cf,” said Carl Win- jer, secretary of the Unemployed ‘Councils of Greater New York. “Last week food tickets were distributed for 20,000; this week for only 17,000. Over 80,000 have applied, and when the home bureaus for 5,000 12-month subscriptions 5,000 applied. “Relief has been cut from a boast- ed $19,000,000 to $1,000,000. The workers of New York, employed and unemployed, will not let this starva- tion decree go by without struggle. “A conference is being held in New York on January 23rd, at Manhat-| | tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., at 1:30 ‘p. m4. This conference, to which all re-opened another The struggle is widening on all of workers on such a wide for the present activity of the Daily Worker. Must Prepare for February 4. National Hunger March rallied the masses Daily Worker, fettered by tight finances, was un- able to get to more than a fraction of these masses, and could not do all it should to solidify mass support created by the march. The Na-~ are not enough Father Cox EMAGOGUES like Father Cox must be ex- posed at once on a mass scale before they mislead starving workers into more pitfalls. ete 8 fronts. scale that the War menace of war against the Soviet Union, | the preSent war to partition China and crush the Soviet China can only be overcome by the pressure of yast masses of workers, united by labor organizations are urged to send New ‘York to protest against this demand for unemployment insur- ance, and to rally a huge demonstra- tion for February 4th, National Un- employment Day.” Conference Sunday Takes Up _ Kentucky and Needle Strike A joms conference will be held for e Kentucky striking ‘miners’ relief ind for the Needle Trades dress Strike this coming Sunday, January 24, at Manhettan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. at 11 a.m. This conference will imobilize the workers of New York for support of the Kentucky striking iners who are heroically fighting ainst starvation, against terror and for a living wage. Ten thousand Kentucky-Tennessee iminers involved in a struggle to bet- PLAN FOUR FEB. 4 MEETINGS IN L. 1 Tssue 10,000 Leaflets for Demonstrations JAMAICA, L. I—February 4th will ye a day of wide mobilization here ‘or unemployment insurance strug- tles. At jeast half a dozen towns in tong Island will have demonstra- fons. Applications for permits have been sked for the following places; Jam- \ica, at the court house; Hampstead, in the steps of Town Hall; Hicksville, ‘nm the steps of the Court House; El- jont, at the Hampstead turnpike. The demonstrations will be held on he morning of February 4th at each { these places. ter their conditions. In the coal fields it is seldom that @ miner sees money. They are paid in company scrip, At the end of the week, in most instances the miner owes money to the company. When he is lucky to,get company scrip, he cannot exchange that in any place but in company stores. When he does that he gets 80 cents on the dollar, The Needle Trades workers of New York are at present mobilizing for the coming dress strike that will fight for conditions to enable the workers to live more decently. The conditions in the Needle Trades, due to the betrayals of the International regime together with their Meuten- ants, the Lovestonites, are such that the workers are making 8, 10 and 12 dollars a week working 60 and 70 hours per week. The present cam- paign for # united front among the dress makers {s rallying around more and more needle trades workers as has been shown at the lest Cooper Union meeting. Workers of New York, elect your delegates will rally the workers of employment insurance will put | Starvation program and to voice their * Kentucky T tional Demonstration on February 4 for the un- burden on the Daily Worker. This time we must be prepared. WE MUST RAISE FUNDS IM- MEDIATELY TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE. JE Kentucky strikers must be helped to hold their ranks solid through the wide distribu- tion in the coal strike area of the Daily Worker. even a greater 0 not wait to er donation at once—NOW. their workers’ paper, the Daily Worker. A ran $50,000 FIGHTING FUND IS THE MINIMUM FOR THE PRESENT, IMMEDIATE TASKS OF YOUR PAPER. Gu thE re Do Not Walt be approached with Daily Work- blanks, Send in your donation TERROR IN POLAND WARSAW.—Ralds on workers’ or- ganizations and mass _ arrests throughout Poland marked the Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg week. The police raided the house of Grodvski, @ worker suspected of being a mem- ber of the Communist Party, and was shot dead while on his way to the police station. Every shop, mine and factory 3 fertile field for Daily Worker snb- scriptions, Lynchers in Vicious Attacks As Scottsboro Hearing Nears NEW YORK.—On Thursday eom- ing, Alabama Supreme Court will go through the forms of hearing the appeals of the attorneys of the Scottsboro boys and the Interna- tional Labor Defense against the hideous verdicts sentencing eight World-TelegramPrintersV ote for Jobless Insurance Fight NEW YORK. — Another A. F. of sidies and back taxes to the bosses, | of the nine innocent Negro chil- dren to burn in the electric chair. As the day of the hearing nears, the battle is more sharply joined be- tween the white and Negro masses defending the boys and the sinister ofrces of the southern landowners and capitalists and their white and Negro reformist tools who seek to disrupt the legal defense and the powerful mass movement behind it. ‘Tremendous mass protest meet- ings and demonstrations are being held throughout the country, mili- tantly raising the demand for the demand for the immediate and un- conditional release of these child LL. chapel has joined its voice to the demand for unemployment insur- ance, The latest to join the fight for jobless insurance, to be paid by the bosses through their government, is Chapel No, 304 of the Typographical delegates to this conference, check} Union in the World-Telegram. At a up on your delegates and see that recent meeting of this chapel a reso- they attend! Make this a real mob- | jytion poihting out that “millions of ilization for the Kentucky miners’ relief and for the coming dress strike in the needle’ trades! Comrades Foster and Ben Gold will address the conference, Workers’ Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press, Ten thousand leaflets are being fisiributed for these meetings, Workers! Rush Funds Now! . Build Your D Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle, ‘wage earners are unemployed in the United States”, and that “a system of government unemployment insur- ance” should be passed, was adopted. ‘The resolution says: “The workers are subject to degrading and inade- quate system of charity or ‘doles’, bankers and railroads, but will not give any adequate relief to the un- employed.” ‘To combat this, the World-Tele- gram workers declare that they “go on record for a system of govern- ment unemploymeni insurance to be administered by committees of the workers ~ without discrimination to race, sex, color or to anybody of wage earners, as presented by the National Unemployment Council and Hunger Marchers. “Be it further resolved that we elect a delegation of three members of our chapel to present and speak for the resolution at the next regu- while the government is spending bil- lar meeting of Typographical Local lions for war preparations, and is | granting millions of dollars in sub- No. 6 ct Stuyvesant High School, Sunday, Jan, 17.” victims of class justice and national oppression. Last Saturday, there were series of demonstrations in New York City, with the principal demonstration oc- curring in Harlem where thousands of workers showed their solidarity with @ protest parade of several hundred white and Negro workers through the streets of Harlem. On Sunday, workers and sym- pathizers packed the auditorium of the New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th Stree, in support of a Scottsboro protest meeting called by the National Committee for the De- fense of Political prisoners, which is co-operating with the LL.D. The speakers included Mrs. Viola Mont- (CONTINUED ON VAGE THREE) Communist Par the Lenin Memorial, hele on Jan. |m. A good program, including the N. T. W. U Band, Freiheit Singing} Society, speakers, etc. is being ar- ranged. All workers and their or-| ganizations are invited to attend. Workers Wire Protests Against Ky. Mine Terror NEW YORK.— Governor Horton of Tennessee, an- swering the protest of the Trade Union Unity Council, against the “barbarous kid- napping” of Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, Kentucky strike leaders who were arrested and later dis- appeared in ‘Tennessee, just 20 miles from the Fentucky border, | stated “that a representative of the | state government has been dis- patched to Cumberland Gap to ob- tain first hand information of the situation.” ‘The protest, signed by J. Zach, sec- “} etary, reads: “The Trade Union Unity of Greater New York, in the of 20,000 organized workers, protest terr n used against the’ striking miners. napping of organizers Duncan and | Webber will not be tolerated by the | workers. We urge your interference j |for the restoration of civil rights and | punishment of the murder gang that kidnapped the organizers.” | A strongly worded protest against | the kidnapping and probable murder | wired their protests to v: Ken- tucky officials, demanding the re- lease of the arrested strike leaders. Addressing Governor Laffoon at Frankfort, Ky., the Finnish Women’s section of the Minnesota and Wis- col District wired their protest. Over 100 members of Lodge 711 of the Slovenian workers’ organization in Michigan sent their protests and pledged their support of the striking miners. Drunken Cop Hits Weman with Police Billy; Not Arrested NEW YORK. Ara Daniels, 35 Fleet Place, was hit over the face and back by a drunken cop who swung his billy unmercifully. She called po- lice headquarters, and had him ar- St. Station the police captain asked her to stop pressing the charge be- cause the cop has children. The sec- tion is holding a protest meeting to- night. Council | name | Such barbaricm as the kid- | Miners Violate Injunction; Prepare Greater Mass Picketing; Boys Used As Strikebreakers LATEST DEVELOPMENTS No trace of Joe Weber and Bill Dun- | Governor sends military representa- |. can found, Fear they have been, tives to coal fields. See this as step killed. Searching parties formed. | to mobilization of National Guard. Mass picketing against Federal in- junction Tuesday at Straight Cree. | 30 to 60 gunmen with machine guns evict miners. Evictions increasing. | Knox County miners violate injunc- | tion, Boys 12 to 13 used as strime- Hold mass strike meetings despite | Sheriff Blairs mobilization of his | gunmen with threat to kill Ma- | chine gun erews mobilized by op- | erators to patrol highways. Section strike meets on wide front! preskers. - Plan greater mass picketing. Elect | yait Charles Peters, C S » chairman of delegates to “Spread Strike Con-| Central Relief Committee, ference”, for January 24. Miners demonstrate Tuesday at Mid- Mobilize all miners in South to join) dlesboro to demand release of | struggle against hunger. Strike leaders, . e . PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 18.—Following the kidnapping and disappearance of Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, strike leaders, Sheriff Henry | Blair of Harlan County, vicious chief gunman |for the coal operators ordered all highways in | Harlan County patrolled yesterday by deputy gun thugs armed with sub-machine guns in an effort to smash section strike meetings. The section strike meetings wer2 called to protest | the new jailings of strike leaders and to prepare plans for a mighty mobilization on Monday for mass picketing as weil | SCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 'WorkersOrganizations toJam Lenin Memorial Meet Thurs. |clared the District Com day of demonstration and siruggle against the mass hunger and imper- ialist war program of Wall Street. | Thousands of New York workers are expected to jam the Coliseum on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the greatest revolutionary leader of |demonstrate against the cutting off |of relief by the Tammany grafting |machine in collusion with the bank- |ers who are engaged in a vile gon- |spiracy to starve the million unem- | ployed and t@ns of thousands of part | time employed workers, | At this Lenin Memorial meeiinc. | with the growing achievements of the | | Soviet Union in socialist construc- | tion, with the workers government | preparing for the second five year plan to raise tremendously the living standards, comforts and cultural life | rested. This morning at the Poplar|0f the masses, the New York work-| ers will rally by the thousands to the | defense of the Soviet Union, and the mighty Chinese Revolution, whose | victorious Red Army is advancing on | the stronghold of World Imperialist | power in China. all times, Comrade V. I. Lenin, to} subs in the fight against wage cuts. | also be the occasion for the mobillza~ Plan New Attacks on Workers at “Anti-Communist” Meet NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—| type of fascist legislation possible. Sounding the note for an even) Arranged by the notorious white- greater terror drive against |suard, Djamgaroff, the convention the militant working class and | Presented cross section of the ad- P + | vance guard of fascism in this coun- its leader, the Communist Par-| try covering their speeches with s ty, the Second Annual Anti-|tnin sugar coating of demagogy con- Communist Convention held in cerning the necessity of seeing that the Grand Ballroom of the)‘n0 one starves amid plenty,” the Roll up thousands of Daily Worker | ‘The Lenin Memorial meeting will | swanky Waldorf-Astoria went speakers without exception advocated on record as favoring the worst | | | (CONTINTED ON PAGE THREE) { ittee of the | minets are holding the front lin Communist Party, will be a mighty the fight for the right to live, against | lof Weber and Duncan was unani-| NEW YORK.—All workers’ organ-|iion of the New Work workers in | mously passed 1,500 workers who|izations have been requested to|support of <ne heroic stvike the attended the School Forum | bring x banners to the Lenin| 10,000 Kentucky and Te coal |here Sunday night to hear a lecture | Memorial meeting st the Bronx|miners under the leadership of the |by William Z. Foster, secretary of | Coliseum this “hursday night by the | revolutionary N Union. |the Trade Union Unity League New York District of the Communist | This strike riant A mass meeting of unemployed | Party. | Struggle of n workers |workers in New Kensington, Pa.| This Lenin Memorial meeting, de-|against the Hoover program. The in the fierce raging murder and lynch terror of the billionarie owners of the coal fields and the entire country. A delegation of Kentucky miners will be present to bring their greet- ings to the workers of New York and explain the issues of their strike. RELIEF WORK HIT IN PINEVILLE; URGE WIDER AID Wagenknecht Scores Jailings, Threats NEW YORK.—In a long dise tance telephone call, F. T. Rhea, Pineville, Ky., wholesaler and gene eral store owner who has been exe tending credit to the Workers Ine ternational Relief for food for the Kentucky strikers, yesterday re ported that an injunction has been | issued against him Prohibiting him from extending any more credit to the Kentucky and Tennessee strike ers. Commenting on this, as well as on the arrest of Charles W. Peters, chairman of the relief distribution for the W. I. R. in Kentucky, Alfred Wagenknecht, national secretary of the organization, declares that this should be met with an increased campaign for relief for the Kentucky miners. “In spite of these furious assaults,” said Wagenknecht, “we declare that our activities on behalf of the min- ers will not lessen and we will con- tinue to provide relief to the starved (CONTINUED ON PAGE TRREE) aily Worker for Mass Struggles! )