The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1932, Page 1

The Tennessee Miners Are Joining the Kentucky Strike, Help Spread the Strike by Rushing Relief Funds to W.LR., 16 W;..21st: St. New York City WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! orker Porty U.S.A. Daily, Wo (Section of the Communist International) Entered an aecomd-cinus matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, 1879 ___ NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1932 ws f ——————— <== Vol. IX, No. 21 <Es CITY EDITION | 500,000 FA Feb. 4- Nat’l Unemployment Insurance Day “It is a dangerous, almost desperate undertaking upon which ‘he country is embarking .. . Let it be understood that we are tandling dynamite. A few false moves here could precipitate dis- aster not to be surpassed by anything short of another world war.”—N. Y. Evening Post, Sat., Jan. 23, 1932, ° ry . Yankee Imperialism in Action Workers, Peasants Revolt in _ Salvador Wall Street Rushes Gun Boats, Marines to Shoot. Down Starv- KY. STRIKE SPREADS DESPITE MACHINE GU CE STARVATION IN COOK CO, ILLINOIS cS divin SETS ie ood N TERROR GUNN MINE AND BIG BLOCK MINE, TENN. STRIKE 100 P.C: HUGE PICKET LINE OUI TODAY | Workers Must.Send Relief to Help Heroic Min- ers Establish Soup Kitchens Such are the prospects for the American working class as Febru- ’ if . 5 ee ary 4th approaches. The Hoover government prepares to hand out ing Masses Who Seek to Oust U. M. W. A. Organizer Poin Out Strikers for around $2,000,000,000 to the leading capitalists, in a desperate attempt Arrest; Miners Spirit High In Face to keep up profits, to keep American capitalism from entering worse phases of the economic and financial crisis. This year no spring revival is even promised. Every basic industry 4s in a worse position than ever before, Automobile production, for which so much was prophecied, is petering out. Steel production is ground 25 per cent capacity. Unemployment is still mounting. Every leading city in the United States is faced with bankruptcy. A story in today’s issue of the Daily Worker contains a telegraphic report from Chicago to the New York Times admitting that 500,000 people in Cook County face destitution, and 120,000 families in Chicago will starve if relief is not provided by February Ist. The Wall Street bankers, headed by Morgan & Co., and the Na- tional City Bank, have laid down theprogram of “no unemployment relist” out of city funds in New York City. Mayor Murphy of Detroit, the most skilfull demagogue of them all, admits he has $33,000,600 available, but to “avert financial disaster”, he proposes that the starving jobless depend on “private charity.” Not one step has been taken by the Hoover hunger government to provide unemployment relief. The hypocricy of the Hoover declarations, that the unemployed are being adequately provided for by state and local relief, is now so thoroughly blasted that Hoover himself chooses to keep silent about it. The cities which were providing some miserly relief are slashing this relief all along the line. As hunger grows, as relief is cut down or is completely withdrawn in many places, a new clique of misleaders like Father Cox becomes loud in an aitempt to keep the unemployed from carrying on r militant battle for real relief. ‘ ‘The February 4th demonstrations will be the first national mobiliza- tion of the unemployed and employed for jobless relief since the Na- tional Hunger March. The situation has grown much more serious since the day the unemployed shouted their demands so that Hoover and all the other representatives of the capitalist government could hear them. The capitalists are apprehensive about February 4th! They are dtawirg the strings tighter on their money bags and do not want to relinquish them. A mighty demonstration on February 4th will force immediate relief, it will develop a.more powerful movement for unem- ployment insurance. The next few days must gee intensive preparations for a mass out- pouring on February 4th of employed and unemployed demanding -un- employment insurance and immediate unemployment relief. Save the Daily Worker for the Spreading Fight of the Ky. Miners -- Rush Funds Now FROM a Southern Illinois mining town we receive the fellowing letter which tells a gripping story of the need for and a dependance on the Daily Worker, by thousands of miners and other workers all over the country today. ) “I was just going to write about my sub when I got your letter—and to tell you how I feel about the Daily Worker? . Well it can’t be did. Just try that on your- self.on a stomach that seldom has anything in THOUSANDS of letters are streaming into the Daily Worker begging and pleading that we con- tinue to send the paper to these workers. It must continue to come out and rally thousands of work- ers to protest against the bloody beating of Joe Weber in Kentucky and the entire reign of bloody terror of the coal bosses. It must be spread thru- out the entire striking mine area to give leadership and guidance to the militant miners and their fam- ilies. ie . * * T is your answer at this time when the Daily Worker is closely threatened with suspension? Can we allow the leader of the American masses in ! leadership of the International to Community Chest after being tricked struggle against the boss’ starvation and hunger a the rest i Cook County face | extort money from the workers. then Bitbere ae = by Webb, who answered a letter in- program to stop coming out for even one day? NEW YORK.—The special session i proapaet Se Mentihubion. wn & | Take up ‘this call ta onoe. See) oust be intensified. viting him to a Public Hearing held . * * Taz Daily Werker must continue to come out and rally thousands of new workers to support the Workers International Relief Drive for the Ken- , constabulary, led by Lieut, Lee, three heads of Nicaraguan peasants they had captured, tortured and then decapi- tated. The brutality of the marines was shown during tho last earthquake in Nica~ Tagua when drunken marines shot down workers in order to be able to rob their ruined houses, Battleships are now being rushed to El Salvadore, where the masses are against imperialism, A group of Nicaraguan Imperialist Rulers WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — War ships and marines are being rushed by the Hoover hunger government to El Salvador to crush an uprising of the workers and peasants, reported to be led by the Communist Party of El Salvadore. The Wall Street government which condemns 12,000,000 American workers to starvation is greatly alarmed by the news coming from El Salvadore that the workers and peasants not only have captured many towns, but that tre movement is spreading to the extent that the fascist dictatorship previously established is faced with complete breakdown, Along wifh the American battleship, British and Canadian cruisers are rushing to to El Sal- vadore to help in the proposed slaughter of the hungry masses. - The State Department at Washington has issued a statement declaring: “The Depart- ment of State has been informed that serious disorders of a Communistic nature have broken out in the Republic of El Salvadore.” ‘Uhere- fore the state department orders a Special Service, Squadron at Panama to proceed to El Salvadore, under the pretense of “protecting American lives and property”, to endeavor to put down the workers’ and peasants’ move- ment, El Salvadore is the smallest of the Central American countries, with a population of 1,500,- 000. American imperialism has around $15,000,- 000 invested there and dominates the railroads and public utilities. The great mass of the popu- holding showing Captain fighting (Continued on Page Three.) Wall Street marine butchers in Nicaragua! Photographs American, Spanish language newspaper, by marine officers, who are paid $300/ a a month, with the decapitated heads of Nicaraguan revolutionary workers peasants who were fighting against the in- vasion of Nicaragua by Wali Street. executing the Jose Montero, | reproduced from a Latin Nicaraguan constabulary, manned | and Schwerin of the U. S. marines, Necaraguan revolutionist, 100 DELEGATES AT MBRT TO PLAN KY. MINE RELIEF KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24— Over 100 delegates of striking Ken- tucky and Tennessee miners met yesterday zt the Workers Inter- national Relief warehouse at a strike relief conference. They re- ported a great move for strike re- lief bas been inftizted in a! parts of the strike area. The conference was nof molested. It was decided to establish a sys- tem of relief distribution through committees in all locals. An army of 200 volunteers is to be organized to go out to raise relief around Knox- ville, Tenn. and in the vicinity of the strike area. A telegram of greetings was sent throughout the meeting as there were no chairs, and no hall could be hired in Pineville. Delegates reported there are many cases of evictions to take place this week, and declared that an appeal should immediately be issued for a campaign to provide tents or lum- ber for shecks when the miners are thrown out of their houses. miners are determined to fight a- gainst evictions. The | Japanese Land Troops in Shanghai; Attack Anti- Imperialist Movement Action Creates Tense Situation Between Im- perialist Looters of China; “U, S. “Concerned” In a savage attempt to crush the resistance of the Chin- ese masses against the dismemberment of China by the im- perialists, the Japanese on Saturday landed troops, armed with machine guns and heavy artillery in the Chinese city of Shang- hai. Japanese warships in the river have been reinforced by (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Nation-Wide Demonstrations NEW YORK. — Nearly 500,000 persons in Cook County, Illinois, comprising mainly the city of Chicago, face starvation if by February Ist there is no unemployment relief forthcom- ing. ; , This statement, which shows the tremendous importance of the, February 4th demonstrations for unemployment in- surance, is contained in a special telegram from Chicago to Endorse the Call for Feb. 4 Union Sq. Demonxtration of the New ¥ Labor Conf: held at Manhattan Lyccum .on urday, unanimously endorsed the call ef the Unemployed Council of rence, Sai- Greater New York for a mass dem- the New York Times. ‘Chicago and the rest of Ilinols are experiencing one of the gravest financial crisis m recent years. “Nearly 500,000 persons in Chicago | Par ence calls for mobilization at Union Square at 1:30 p.m. and parade from the Square to City Hall at 3 p.m, Ss in all outlying parts of the city will lead*workers to central sub- way stations and then in groups to week's time, end several down-state communities are in the throes of ‘moratoriums,’ with an almost com- plete shutdown of business activities in an effort to restore confidence in financial institutions. PICKETING AT DRESS SHOPS: CONFER JAN. 30 Shop Delegates Meet | At Irving Plaza NE WYOK—The followjng dress shops are to be picketed’ Monday morning: Picketing at London D: Co., 245 7th Ave. W. R. W. 26th St., My Fa’ te, 345 W. 35 St., and Superfine, 341 W. 2@th St. | In addition to these shops, there are | a number of others to be picketed. Workers are saked to report to the Org. Dept. of the union early Mon- day morning to be gssigned for pick- eting. The Dressmakers United Front Committee has issued the following call for the conference: 253 decide on a general strike of the dressmakers. “The workers from all shops, open shops, Industrial Union shops, Inter- national shos, right wingers, left wingers, Italian, Spanish, Negro and white, young and old, are called up- on to discuss these demands and to elect delegates from their shops or shop committees to take part in the conference that will finally adopt the demands and make' all necessary plans for a real mass united front strike under rank and file leadership to improve the conditions of the dressmakers and not a fake lockout engineered by the bosses and the that your shop is represented at the conference on January 30, at 12 noon | at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving | Place. Down with the fake strike lockout of the bosses and the rack- of Terror Jail Miners for Criminal Syndicalism for Reads ing the Daily Worker (Special Telegram to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURG, Jan. 24.—The United Frant Conference held in Cover dale yesterday representing the Terminal Mines, elected a Provisional United Front Committee, three from each mine, including women, wn- employed and youth nad decided to prepare a strike against the pro- posed wage cut slated for February 1. The Conference called by the National Miners Union instructed the Committee to issue a statement branding the lies of Fagan, of the U.W. W., who claimed that the men accepted the cut. A broad mass Con- ference to be held in Coverdale Monday will take a strike yote. Im- mediate steps for relief are being taken. A big mass mecting will be held at Mollenhauer, Thiirsday, for all Terminal Mines, followed by mass meet- ings at each mine, The Terminal Miners declare they will not accept the cut. Fagan urged the miners to accept the cut but was repudiated. (The following dispatch was filed by the Daily Worker corres- Pondent who smuggled it out of Pineville, Kentuck ) miles away, while three gun thugs waited at the Pineville telegraph office for the miner who usually files the telegrams to the Daily Worker.) . * . PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 24—The largest force of gun thugs ever assembled in one county in Kentucky is today guarding every path, road, |bridge and railroad track leading into Bell County, Kentucky, where a huge demonstra- tion of striking miners, and the “Spread the Strike Confer. ence” was to take place at 3 p.m. j Every person, bus, car, wagon, truck and railroad car is being searched for miners, and none so far have been permit- ted to enter the county. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Workers Force City Council to Send Protest to Ala. Governor MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 24.—Arguments were com- | pleted Friday on the hearing before the Alabama Supreme Court of the appeal against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts ‘ sentencing 8 innocent Negro boys to burn in the electric chair. The boys were defended by the International Labor Defense attorneys, Joseph Brodsky, George »-—-—— barat para Pate Allan Taub DEMAND RELIEF FROM COMMUNITY The defense attorneys proved that the boys were sentenced to death at a trial held in a tense lynching at- mosphere, with lynch gangs sur- rounding the court. The State pro- secutor attempts to deny the tact, generally reported eevn in the cap- The court has taken the appeal ‘under advisement.” Usually the court hands down decisions within a month, but there is no limitation to the time it may take to make public its de- fense. In this case it is likely to take sev- | eral months in the hope that the | working-class will relax its vigilance and that the mass protests against these lynch verdicts will die down. The white and Negro workers in the united front movement to save and free the boys and to smash the lynch terror must guard against such manouvering on the ‘part of the Ala- bama Supreme Court of the ruling CHEST FUND IN N.J. ‘ it but water, and you will soon find out my to the Pittsburgh united front relief Ripcoeerane ea! seereeetber,, TAME: | state, t sburg! J t re x ist press at the time of the orig- Joslinas: without the: Daily Workér?! sagt ze P b 4th fi J bl J ary 30, 12 o'clock noon. ‘The Mass | 2st Press § NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—Thou- : y Work centres being tit tos. | AN Dy Or Jobless Insurance): cries. a acting |i “ea” Ina fly seech be] gas af snctnee wesiea ns * . * 8 oe Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, to for the 8 boys. |who are facing the third year of starvation and misery, without get- ting any relief from the city or from the fake unemployment relief organ- izations that collected thousands of dollars, mostly from the employed and part-time workers, are expected t odemonstrate under the leadership of the Unemployed Council on Tues- day, Jan. 26, at 10 am. in front of the Community Chest. i A delegation, elected by the work- ers, will demand immediate relief and endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill from the bosses and Mr. Webb, the faker at the head of the Community Chest. The workers decided to go to the to expose the bosses’ lies of “everyone being well taken care of.” When individual cases were brought to him, he attempted to dispose of them by promising an investigation. Eerie DETROIT, Jan. 24.—Mass pressure forced the Hamtramck City Council to agree to send a telegram to the governor of Alabama protesting eteer International! Forward to the | against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, | The workers, familiar with the empti- tucky Miners. onstration at Union Square and/the Square. From Bryant Park, the) «with available unemployment |mobilization for a united front | oe "| ness of investigations, insisted on a ‘ - ‘* parade to City Hall-on Feb, 4, Na-|Needle Market, Madison Square, strike for union conditions.” vED Tare | definite answer, Pressed tional Day of Struggle for Unem-|Cooper Square, Tompkins Square | Fellef cash exhausted, actual star- : banal org . ; nats ea E Daily Worker must go on rallying masses of workers to the fight of the Unemployed Coun- cils against starvation. * * a HE. Daily Worker again calls upen all workers to'rally to its support’ to help build a $50,000 ployment Insurance. Delegates from Unemployed Committees in working- class neighborhoods, breadlines, flop- houses, A. F. of L. locals and othe: and other nearby. points, unions and block committees will march under their own banners. A special parade to the demonstratign will be led slorg the West Side’ waterfront” by ccamen and longshoremen from South all workers’ ganizations are vation threatens 120,000 families here unless ald is forthcoming by Feb. 1.” Starvation in New York as Feb. 4 Nears In New York City there is a break- down in the promised $20,000,000 re- Barcelona Wor Spanish Strike Wave Spreads; Webb told them to return at 4 p.m. But when the workers returned they found the door of the Community Chest locked. Enraged, the workers decided on the demonstration and Mass pressure to force the bosses to give immediate relief in the form of $5 in cash, free food for the chil- kers Now Out fighting fund eacbling it to wipe out its present gle, Each teid ¢2 the loc’ acv>~ |icea to. eall speolal membership |ilef program, Tt is becoming clearer) MADRID. — With the myth of a “Workers Republic”| Shoes, tres medical aid, vot aug and debts and continue the workers fight, being undertesen in the {ght for /meetings to prepare for their par-|every day that Morgan & Co. which| thrown by the board, the Spanish coalition government sup-| ination against Negro, youth and Save the Daily Worker! immediate relief and agreed that these actions should mobilize the workers of all New York for the Feb. ticipation in the mass demonstra- tion. The Unemployed Council at headed the financing of the *y bud- get demanded that not oné cent of Wet Bes . ported and defended by the socialists has embarked on a reign of terror directed at the quickened revolutionary activity of foreign born. tions . 4 ‘ . Send in your dona today! i Peigititestion, Hace he ie be informed oe the new bond issue go for unemploy- | the Spanish workers and peasantry. ‘Mite mo testa a ened 7 ar ca ‘The plan adopted by the Confer-! worl, : | ment wy weer ors (OONTINUED ON RAGE THAREA m4 Lal ame oie