The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1932, Page 1

4 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Daily Worker Devts and Current D eicit Require Immediate Donations 2) 2 See eee N NC (Section of the Communist International) EW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY Ne OR frumiet Party U.S.A. The Tennessee Miners Are Joining the Kentucky Strike, Help Spread the Strike by Rushing Relief Funds to W.LR., 16 W. 2ist St., New York City —=s : Price 3 Cents is EDITIO! TENN. MINERS AWAIT ORGANIZERS TO JOIN KY. STRIKE “Free the Scottsboro Boys! Ts Daily Worker prints today an appeal by the mothers of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys calling upon their class sisters throughout the world to rally to the mass fight which alone can save and free their boys, The appeal of the mothers is accompanied by an appeal by the eight boys in the death cells at Kilby prison, Montgomery, Alabama, to the young workers of the world. ‘These appeals are highly significant, They show a clear understand- ing on the part of the boys and their parents of both the class nature of the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and of the importance of the mass fight of white and Negro workers, backing up and supporting the legal defense in the courts of the murderous southern ruling class. These appeals are not directed to the Alabama Supreme Court which is now going through the hypocritical motion of hearing the appeals of the attorneys of the boys and the International Labor Defense against the lynch verdicts. The boys and their parents show that they under- stand the role of the courts of the white ruling class in suppressing the struggles of the Negro masses against starvation, peonage, lynching and the most barbarous suppression of the simplest elementary rights. The Scottsboro boys and their mothers have not permitted the mis- leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple to confuse them with reformist illusions of a “fair trial” and “jus- tice” in the courts of the oppressors of the Negro masses. They know from the bitter experience of the Negro toilers the quality and nature of the justice dispensed against Negroes (and white workers, as well) by the courts of the class enemy. Their appeal is directed over the heads of the murderers of Negro workers to the Negro masses and the white and Negro workers whose power alone can save the boys. In their appeal to the working class, the Scottsboro boys and their mothers express their confidence in the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, in the International Labor Defense and in the millions of white and Negro toilers who, roused by these two organizations and the Com- munist Party, have rallied in mighty demonstrations and vigorous pro- tests to the defense of these young victims of class justice and lynch terror. ‘The working class must greet these appeals of the boys and their mothers with a tremendous outpouring in militant demonstrations against the lynch verdicts and for the demand on the Alabama ruling class for the immediate and unconditional release of these innocent young workers. Raise the fight against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts in every meet- ing of workers! In your unions and lodges and other organizations! Flood the Alabama Supreme Court with protest telegrams and resolu- tions demanding the release of the boys! Extend and build the fighting alliance of white and Negro workers against the lynch terrom and starva- tion program of the capitalists! Lynch Gang Jury Takes Only 34 Minutes to Return Death Verdict Against Orphan Jones Bar Negro Workers From Hand-Picked Jury BALTIMORE, Jan, 21.—It took a hand-picked lynch gang jury 34 minutes to railroad Orphan (Lee) Jones, aged Negro farm hand, to a death sentence on Wednesday in the Circuit Court at Towson, a town ten miles from Baltimore. Jones was tried on the framed-up charge of murdering a GIBSON ADMITS CITY “RELIEF” IS ONLY TO A FEW Workers Must Pre- pare Feb. 4 Dem- onstration NEW YORK.—The city Home Re- lief Bureau yesterday admitted that more than 13,000 families had applied for relief at its 79 stations since Monday when they were re-opened after the vigorous protests of em- ployed and unemployed workers against the brutal attempt of the Wall Street bankers to deny the un- employed even this meagre and wholly inadequate relief. The total number of applications recorded by the Bureau has now reached 50,066. Most of the more than 1,000,000 unemployed workers in New York City have been discour- aged from making application by reason of past experiences with the charity racketeers. This is especially true of the destitute Negro unem- ployed workers of Harlem. In a radio address broadcasted over WEAF, Harvey D. Gibson, chairman of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, admitted that the relief was entirely inadequate. He stated that relief will only be ex- tended “to those on the lowest fringe of distress,” and further admitted that even in these cases “it will not assure complete relief.” . It was the militant protests of the workers which ‘forced the re-opening of these stations after the Wall Street bankers had ordered them closed down. It is only the militant pro- test of the workers, expressed in or- ganization and demonstrations for relief and social insurance, that will de eat the Hunger Program of the bankers and force the bosses to give edeguate relief, without disotinvina- tion against militant workers, foreign born and Negroes. Workers! Pre- pare the February 4 demonstrations against starvation! Support the Insurance white farmer for whom he once worked at a dollar a day, and by whom he was robbed of even this meager wage. It was on the knowl- edge that a Negro worker had been robbed by the farmer that the’ police charged Jones with his murder. “NAACP Helps Lynchers Jones was held incommunicado in jail and every effort was made to even deny him the elementary con- stitutional right of engaging counsel or consulting with the counsel fur- nished by the International Labor De- fense at his request. As in the Scotts- boro case, the NAACP rushed to the defense of the best lynchers, the lo- cal attorney of the NAACP releasing a statement to the press that Jones was guilty. The same brazen denial of his con- stitutional rights featured his “trial” in the lynch court at Dawson, Mary- land. From the outset, the capitalist court exposed its hatred of the Negro masses and its intention to ride rough shod over the constitutional rights of the defendant. The demand of the ILD attorneys for Negroes on the jury panels was fiercely opposed by the prosecutor and turned down by the judges. Judge Frank I Duncan, who had charge of ‘Le selection of the jury panels released a flood of demagogy in an attempt to explain away this brazen denial of the most elementary constitutional rights. Duncan said he selected jurors +ithout regard to religion, race or creed, with regard only to their intelligence, respect- ability and other qualifications. Another consideration, he said, 1s that the jurors must be able to work harmoniously with each other. Bosses Fear Negroes on Jury This is an open edmission by one of the three trial judges that the rul- ing class fears the presence of Ne- groes on the jury would have slowed up or ‘defeated the attempt to rail- road Jones to a death sentence. The verdict against Jones is a lynch verdict, the same as the verditts sen- tencing the 8 innocent Scottsboro Ne- gro boys to death, the same as the lynch verdict which was carried thru by the State of Texas against the young Negro workers, Barney Lee Ross. ‘The death sentence against Jones (CONTINUED ON PAGH THREE) SMASH GIRLS’ EVIDENCE AT ALA. HEARING Scottsboro Defense Tells of Lynch Incitement Reads Boss Papers Affidavits Plainly Alarm Court BULLETIN TORONTO, Canada, Jan. 21—In the name of 25,000 Canadian workers, the Canadian Labor Defense League sent the following protest telegram against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts to the State Attorney of Alabama: State Prosecutor, Supreme Court of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama, U. S. A. The National Executive Commit- tee of the Canadian Labor Defense League, representing 25,000 organ- ized Canadian workers from Van- couver to Halifax, vigorously pro- tests the attempt to electrocute the eight Scottsboro boys and de- nounces this aitempi as a shameful act of class injustice caiculated to starve into submission the op- pressed Negro masses in the awakening South. The worekrs of Canada, faced with intense political reaction and attempts by the government to out- Jaw the working-class movement. and to railroad to prison its leaders, extend the warmest greetings of solidarity to the struggling Negro masses and white workers of the United States battling hunger, misery and terror, and demands the unconditional release of the eight Scotsboro boys. (Signed) A. E. SMITH, General Secretary ec aah BULLETIN MONTGOMERY, Jan, 21.—Bed- dow, of the Birmingham law firm of Fort, Beddow and Beddow, at- torneys of the N.A.A.C.P., has joined the State prosecution as special prosecutor against the Scottsboro Negro boys. Beddow also defended Dent Williams, white Bir- mingham attorney, who murderous- ly assaulted Willie Peterson, uncm- ployed Negro miner, in a prison cell. * cae (By Telegram to Daily Worker) MONTGOMERC, Jan. 21—Argu- ment on the appeals against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts began to- day in the Alabama Supreme Court, with George W. Chamlee, Joseph Brodsky and Irving Schwab, attor- neys of the International Labor De- fense, presenting the arguments for the appeal, The hearings have been continued to tomorrow, as the Su- (CONTINUED ON Fe THREE) Raid Los Angeles Headquarters of Communist Party Destroy the Books and Take Furniture Away LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 21—Six giant plain clothesmen without a search warrtnt, last Tuesday flashed badges at the night watchman de- manding entrance to the Commu- nist Party ofice while the regular watchman was engaged in street sales of the Daily Worker. Every piece of literature and all private correspon- dence and records were taken, as well as slogans, announceemnts. Pictures of Lenin and Stalin were torn from the walls and sevéral public library books on the Soviet Union were ruined. A, whole outfit, including rubber stamps and pads were loaded on to a truck and carted away. The value of the literature is estimated at $100, Desks were jimmied and locks broken, Comrade Penn is still in the Long Beach jail. Bail at $22,000 has been set for 44 of the workers. arrested last Sunday at a raid of the Red Squad on charges of suspicion of criminal syndicaism. Many Cities Are Preparing for Mass A. F. of L. Delegates’ Elected to Butte | Conference | Demand Unemploy-, ment Insurance | | | NEW YORK, N. Y.— In Butte, Montana, many locals of the A. F. of L. will send del-| | egates to a conference, to prepare for February 4th. On that day, throughout the! United States, there will be!| Daily Worker. mass demonstrations of em- * ployed and unemployed work-| ers demanding immediate relief and unemployemnt insurance. In many cities preliminary demon- strations, rallying thousands, have been held, putting the demands of the unemployed to the city demon- stration. pay the bill past due. due. Chedit for paper ....... Credit for printing ... Collect Donations to Save ‘Daily’ for Leadership in Workers’ Struggles! The telephone at the Dail; off yesterday because the Daily Worker was unable to This has come at a time when it is necessary to keep every means of communication open with Kentucky, Chattanooga and all over the country, and is also crippling the circulation activities of the Yet we simply did not have the $125. We have other, bigger, more pressing debts falling Here are a few of them: Loans by workers which we have pledged to pay back (past due) . y Worker office was shut + -$10,000 7,000 10,000 MEET SUNDAY TO PLAN “STRIKE.SPREAD IN HARLAN, ~ BELL CO. AND TO 7 STATES Tennessee Miners Organize Own Relief Com- | mittees In Preparation for Strike; Work- ers All Over Country Must Respond Miners and Families to Stage Giant Demon- | strations Sunday Before Pineville Court ‘Knoxville, Tenn., Police Raid Office of Ken- tucky-Tennessee. Relief Committee of W. I. R.; Ransack Office BULLETIN PORTAGE, Pa., Jan. 21.—Seven hundred mirers of the C. A. Hughes Coal Co. at Cassandra Mine No. 2 struck when the company | laid off the night shift of the mine working under agreement with | the United Mine Workers. The strike is called despite the wishes of the UMWA officialdom. Mass picketing is being held by youny workers. There is a The Port Chester, N. Y. police are refusing a permit: The Feb, 4th dem- onstration is now the leading issue before all the workers of that city. Feb, 4th is approaching rapidly and the final preparations must be made immediately. ee Oe BUTTE, Mont. Jan. 21—The United Front~ conference here to work for unemployment insurance and for a big demonstration on Feb. 4th is as- sured of its quota of delegates from A. F. of L. locals, Through contact with the members of the A. F. of L: it is reported that they are nearly 100 per cent for unemployment insurance. The Silver Bow Labor and Trades assembly, a central body of the A. F. of L., will also haye a deegation present, eer eee EXPOSE PITTSBURGH WELFARE. | PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 21.— Twenty-two delegates of the Unem- ployed Council of the Hill here who walked into the Family Welfare on Forbes Street Tuesday and were re- fused relief, issued a statement calling on all workers to come out on Feb- ruary 4th and fight against the star- vation policy of the bosses. The 22 deelgates with a list of more than 50 needy families demanded food and clothing. While the spokesman was putting (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Red Vote Gains 800° Over Last Year in Minn Steel Town VIRGINIA, Minn. Jan. 21.— Anderson, Communist candidate for mayor, polled 381 votes, while the Communist candidate for al- dermen, Hagg, polled 185 votes. Nykanen and Kortesoja, candi- dates for aldermen, received 145 and 153 votes respectively. The Communist vote last year amounted to 45 votes. The mayoralty is an 800 per cent gain gain in this steel trust town. Preparations are in full swing for February 4th, the National Day of struggle ment insurance. - 10,000 - 5,000 Debts incurred in extra strike Normal notes falling due soon . This does not include items such as rent and post- age. And in addition to money to pay for these debts, we must have $8,000 more to keep printing the Daily Worker for the next five weeks. ‘ There is not one item in the list that is not ubso- lutely necessary. No real workers’ paper can. possibly avoid taking militant leadérship in the struggle of the American working class. It is then that a workers’ paper is of the utmost importance. Nor can we desert the Kentucky and Tennessee min now. Nor can we desert the Scottsboro boys at this most crucial time. Nor can we, to save money, cut out the work of rallying the workers for mass demonstrations February 4 for unemployment insurance. * No worker can desert his class at this time of in- tensive terror and starvation. Keep the Daily Worker in the vanguard of the workers’ struggles. Send your donation in at once if you want to save the Daily Worker. Use the coupon on page three, and mail it in today with as much as you can possibly give. Boss Press Admits Chinese | Masses Turn to Communism As Only Way Out for Them Japanese Reject Offer of Soviet Union to Sign Pact of Non-Aggression Imperialist press dispatches from China yesterday made the following significant admission: The Nanking government is tottering under the avery blows of the Chineso masses. Mass hostility to the K mintang Party is evident in every part of China. The ma are decidedly turning fo the revolu- tionary struggle lead by the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Red Army as the only way out against the tremendous suffering, poverty and | ‘exploitation at the hands of the im- perialist and their attempts to dis- member China and further enslave its population. Even the Chinese Retty-bourgeoisie and student ele- ments are included in the leftward swing which threatens to engulf the Kuomintang party and its arrange- ments with the imperialist looters of (CONTINUED ON SHOE WORKERS SPREAD STRIKE The result of the recent strike at Andrew Geller Shoe Co., the strike at Pincus & Tobias Shoe Co., now going on under the Shoe and Leather PAGE THREE) Unable to Shake Stories of Workers in Tampa Trial BULLETIN. (Special Telegram to Daily Worker) TAMPA, Fla. Jan. 21.— All 15 workers, arrested here following a Noy. 7th demon- stration, were found guilty of assault with intent to murder first degree. They will probably receive a maxi- mum sentence. * . ° TAMPA, Florida.—The trial of the 15 workers (one has been re- leased), arrested while celebrating the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution at the Labor Workers’ Industrial Union, are bring- ing tangible results to the workers in many other shops. A widespread movement is devel- oping in many of the largest fac- tories in Brooklyn and New York against the miserable wages the shoe workers have been forced to slave under for the last two years. Workers come to the Union for help and organization every day. ‘The mass meeting which tis called by the union will lay the basis for a United Front Rank and File move- ment of all shoe workers, in order to link together the isolated struggles and strikes in the shoe industry and develop a mass resistance against hunger, unemployment, discharge and the ruthless terror tactics of the bosses’ Board of Trade. “The strike at Pincus & Tobias is also a fight against the Board of Trade, of which Mr. Pincus, one of the partners, is the chairman,” is the statement issued by the AOONTINUED ON faGm THREE) | Union, Temple Nov. 7, continues, with Skinner, the bosses’ attorney, tla- grantly ignoring the most elemen- tary laws supposed to be in torce in order to give prisoners a “fair trial.” Although the charges are inciting to riot, manslaughter, etc., Skinner is bringing in everything possible to convict the workers on their beliefs. Yesterday he brought in the Scotts- boro case and produced as evidence of the workers’ guilt a postal show- ing a white and Negro clasping their hands in solidarity. Today he brought in “God,” when examining 16-year-old Yorquina Romero. “Do you believe in God?” Skin- *aeMee of ¢s the U.M.W.A. officials, PINEVILLE, Ky., miners tonight crossed call the mines out. | Tennessee, ‘Truden, Tenn. A mass march WEBER, 25 MINERS DEMAND RELIEF FROM KY. GOV. Demand Governor End | Terror Rule FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 21.—Governor La- |foon wsa forced yes- |terday to receive a del- agation from the strik- | ing coal field in Bell and Harlan Counties which presented him with the demands to stop the |bloody terror waged against ten thousand © striking | blacklisted miners and their families. At first, when Jim Garland and Charles Tyree, tw oof the delegates, came to the state capital to make the appointment for the delegation with the Governor, they were noti- fied by his secretary that he is busy and when they insisted they were told “maybe five days later, the gov- ernor will have time.” But the 25 delegates, elected last Sunday at the section conferences and mass meetings and who repre- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) American Workers In U.S.S.R. Greet Workers in USA (Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan, 21.—On the oc- casion of the eighth anniversary of the organ of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, the leader of the proletarian revolu- tionary movement, the American workers are participating in the construction of Magnitostroi and send their revolutionary greetings to: the American workers. The American workers are working in. the advanced section of victorious socialist construction, fulfilling the wtll of the working-class. They pledge regular workers correspondence with the Daily Worker and also ask that cor- respondence be organized to be sent to the workers here in care of the plant. Signed by Fifty American Workers at Magnitostroi. and} possibility cf spreading the strike. Efforts are being made to lish rank and file strike committees to Prev-at a sell-out of * . Jan. 21.—Tennessee the mountains to Pine- | ville, Kentucky, to urge the National Miners’ | Union organizers to come into Tennessee to The miners in LaFollette, are out. 100 per cent. Almost as many are out in is being organized to the Rex | Mine, Tennessee, where the miners have asked the nearby struck mine to come and picket. who travelled to Kentucky to urge the NMU to send organizers, According to the miners “every mine in the Tennessee coal field will come out on strike if or- ganizers are sent in and a relief apparatus is set up. “i Weak with starvation the Tennes- see miners are organizing relief com- mittees to gather food from the farmers in the nearby hills. Farm- ;ers are more than willing to con- tribute food to the miners, but gen- | erally they are almost as near starya- tion as the miners themselves. The relief conference for the La- Follette section was held tonight and it was expected that this measure combined with the increasing relief that the WIR will send will alle- viate the terrible starvation routed among the Tennessee miners. The Tennessee miners are so poor that they often cannot afford to buy the kerosine necessary to ‘light the min- ers’ shabby homes, Secret strike meetings are held at night by light of open fire. Tennes- see striking miners get their meals in the following manner: the miner (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) COURT ATTACKS FISH STRIKERS Protest Injunction at Meet Sunday NEW YORK.—Judge S. A. Cottilo has issued an injunction against the Food Workers’ Industrial Union which outlaws and prohibits the fish strike conductedw by it. This is one of the most brazen decisions ever is- sued by any judge of New York. It is an openly fascist act, setting a precedent to entirely take away. the right to strike from the workers. In this case the judge violates even capitalistic ethics and jurisprudence. This injunction must not pass un- challenged. The right to strike which has been won by the working class through the sacrifice of workers’ lives must be fought for and retained. The Food Workers’ Industrial Union is determined to smash this injunction. While appealing this de- cision to higher courts in order to further expose all bodies of capital- ist justice, we appeal to the workers of New York to rally every possible support, organizational, moral and financial to defend the right to strike. The Food Workers’ Industrial Union calls upon all workers’ organ- izations to realize the danger ahead. held Sunday afternoon, January 24th, 2p. m, at the Prospect Workers Settee UT Ao. Bink oT