The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JAN Only Cash Co UARY 20, 1932 Page ntributions Rushed Immediately Will Save Daily Worker! WHY. A “SECRET” CONVENTION STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL MINERS UNION ON THE U.M.W.A. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ‘U. M. W. A. organizers have trav- elled through the field and picked loyal “delegates’ for an international convention. These organizers have proceeded in a most secrective man- her. They arrived in a mining camp, a few close henchmen were gotten together, using whiskey as bail, and . &@ “delegate,” designated by the or- ganizer is supposedly “elected.” No more internal democracy in the union, No more regular election of delegates, for whom all members are given @ hance to vote. No more discussions of resolutions and suggestions to be made to the convention. Why all this serecy? What has happened? Are the U.M.W.A. officials trying to hide ‘anything? Is John L. Lewis afraid to ~Openly face his membership? The following are the reasons. A Record of Treachery ‘The reason is that Lewis brings to «this convention the blackest record of treachery and betrayal against sthose he is supposed to represent --ever known in the entire ristory of the American (rade union movement, ‘The record that Lewis brings is writ~ * ten in bleed from tens and hundreds ef thousends of miners whom he ~betrayed and left to the “mercy” of the operators, their Government and * thugs. The record begins with the betrayal of last year's Kentucky strike. The UMWA betrayed that most heroic strike and left the miners on the battlefield leaderless to bs .»§lugged, jailed and murdered, This is followed with the record of the be- .-trayal of the Glen Alden miners, in the anthracite. The Glen Alden miners struck twice last year and “twice they were betrayed by Lewis and his “progressive” agents. Then follows the 5 1-2 years agreement | that Lewis made with the anthracite eperaters which the operators are -. wiolating dailly, with the UMWA doing nothing about it. Then the ‘story of the role Lewis, and his little “brother, Pat Fagan, played in the rer cent strike of 40,000 miners in West~ PePnnsylvania, East Ohio and ‘West Virginia, against starvation. Cay the miners of the Pittsburgh ‘Terminal mines ever forget how they were stabbed in the back at the 4 tain the check-off. Then follows a copy of Van Bittner’s agreement with the West Virginia operators cutting the already miserable miners’ wages down to 22 12 cents a ton, a 25-per eent cut. And so bage after page the record that Lewis brings to this con- vention is filled with treachery-—be- trayal—treachery—betrayal. Uv. M, W. A. Future Program What is the future program which Lewis intends to railroad throush at this convention and for which he so carefully picked his “delegates”? The fact that his future program has not bea announced in advance is of “amall importance, The rank and file of the UMWA, the unorganized min- ers and the N. M. U. know exactly what his program is. The U.M.W.A. Miture program is found in Lewis’ past and present practices. ‘The fol- lowing is his program: 1, Collaboration with the opera~ ‘tors te further cut the miners pay »*and deepen the misery of the min- ers; 2, starvation of the unemployed and against unemployment insur~ ance; 3, against the six hour day and five day week; 4, Maintain the oheck-off system, im veturn for which the U. M. W. A. will act as : ‘Negro miners; .7, for de- of the foreign born mili- its; 8, for shutting down the so~ mines and caeiggtHits ial te H + B z “! ae Ess ti ij Htet a “progressives” would to save him. The tole of “progressives,” and their re- fs written on the same pages x 2 & if today? The miners are suffering hun- ger, disease and slow death. Over 400,000 or 60 per cent of the entire total. are permanently unemployed. The rest wi the most miserable conditio companies pPessing harder ¢ harder, cutting wages and cutting more, The operators’ “stabilize program means more profits for the companies and worse miners. For th the fullest support of and the U. r . . With its fake “progressives.” Here is a problem for the miners, it is a problem of life and death. What can the solve this problem for them? Is and his picked “delegates” interested to solve this problem for the miners? What about the unemployed and blacklisted miners? Will the conven- tion do anything about them? Will Lewis carry on a struggle for the six- hfour day and five-day week? WIil the U. M. W. A. fight for immediate yelief to the unemployed and for ynemployment insurance? Will they fight for the reopening of the mines? Will Lewis fight for the abolition of the blacklist? No, a thousand times no, Yet this is a vital problem for the miners. ‘The operators, through their goy- ernment and supported by the U, M. W. A., are carrying an a reign of tere yor against the miners and their Yeaders. Their most clementary rights, such as to strike, meet and picket, are taken away from them. They are clubbed, given long pail sen- tenees and even murdered. While this is written, Hightower, a ‘TT year old militant Kentucky miner, was given a life sentence on a framed-up charge by a Harjan County court for militant activities, The leaders of the present Kentucky, heroic strike have been thrown into Jail, Joe Weber, a leader of the strike, was taken for a ride and beaten. Tom Meyerscough, Leo Thompson, Adam Getto and others militant leaders of the recent strike of 40,000 are in jail serving sentences from two te five years for their strike activities. Here {s a baste problem for the miners— how to retain their most elementary political rights? Will the U. M. W. A, convention solve this problem for the miners? How many leaders of the U. M. W, A. are now serving jail sen- tences for strike activities? When was John Lewis last arrested for fighting the operators? The miners have num~- erous other equally important prob- lems, but they cannot look towards the U. M. W, A, convention to solve them for them, The National Miners Union Holds National Convention The N. M, U, is ailso holding a National Convention. The convention will be held February 27th in Pitts- burgh, and will last for four days. ‘The N. M. U. is not makinga secret of its convention. Not only will del~ egates, openly elected at our local union meetings, come to the conven~ tion, but there will be delegates from the unemployed branches, women’s auxiliaries, Youth delegates, Negro delegates and delegates from unor- ganized territories. What's more, fraternal delegates are invited from the U. M. W. A. locals. Wherever the reactionary officials of the U. M. W, A. will succeed to block the sending of an official del~ egates, then the Opposition group in~ side the loca] is invited to send a delegate, Our conyention is open to all miners and to the entire working-~ class, The main resolution for the convention will be sent to the local unions in advance for discussion. We have nothing to hide from our mem~- bership. We are not ashamed of our past activities and our future pro- grem. The record which the Nationa! Board of the 'N. M. T. brings to this convention is filled with experiences that of Lewis. They are a part of the machine, a art of the general of sharp struggles against the opera- tors end their agents, no matter in what cloak they may appear, The strike of 40,000, in Western Pennsyl~ vania, East Ohio and West Virginia; the present heroic strike m Kentucky- Tennessee, which is spreading to other fields; the struggles for immediate relief to the unemployed and for unemployment insurance; numerous demands, for youth demands, etc, This is the N. M. U. record since it second National Convention. The third Convention will consider ways and means of increasing the fight for better conditions for all miners in the immediate future. Unity of All Miners Needed A basic essential for a successful struggles against the operators is a UNITED FRONT OF ALL MINERS, regardless of union or political affi- ligtion, A united front between the organied and unorganized; solidarity between the white and the Negro miners; between the adult and young miners. The U. M. W. A, serving the interests of the bosses, does not want such unity, With the miners divided it)is much easier for the U. M, W. A officialdom to keep up its corrupt machine and continue checking-off in order to maintain this machine, MINERS: Fight for immediate relief to the unemployed and for unemployment JAPA (CONTINUED FROM a eruiser and four destroyers. Other Japanese warships are being rushed to Shanghai. A large crowd of Japanese national chauvinists turned out to Icome the invasion of nghai by the Japanese imperial~ forces he recent riots in Shanghai, ad- ted by Japanese resi~ nes, are used as the for the further extension of PAGE, ONE) China 3. That the Japanese actior med directly at the revolv ms of the Chinese m: he bankrupt counter-re government of Nanki! shown by the Japanese de- mand that the revolutionary organ+ ions and all anti-Japanese or~- ganizations be disbanded, They also demand that the anti-Japanese boy- cott be abandoned. The boycott movement, originally started by the Chinese bourgeoisie, has been taken out of their hands by the workers who have blocked the recent attempts of the Chinese bourgeoisie to curtail the boycott movement, ip line with the promises to Japan by Eugene Chen and other Kuomintang betray~ ers of the Chinese masses, that the boycott would be abandoned. Japanese Stepping On Toes of Other Emperialists. The Japanese action in Shanghai has brought them crowding onto the toes of the other imperialist looters of China, with the result that an extremely tense sityation has devel- oped. The United States imperial- ists who have large investments in Shanghai and in this section of China have expressed their concern to the Japanese. The Japanese naval commander at Shanghai, Admiral Shiosawa is said to have met repre~ sentations by the United States Con- sul with the promise that no action would ‘be taken involving the Intere national Settlement without “first forewarning the foreigners there.” Shanghai isedivided into three sec- tions—the native city with a popula< tion of 2,100,000, the French cances- sion with 400,000 and the Interna- tional Settlement with 1,000,000. The last two are practically colonies of the imperialist powers. The United States has a perma nent force of 1,190 troops in Shang hai. United States warships are con- stantly stationed at Shanghai. The destroyer Truston is at -present in the river. -At various points along the Yangtze River, up to 1,500 miles into the heart of China, are three more U. 8. destroyers and seven gun- boats. The main part of the U. 8. Asiatic fleet is stationed at Manila, three days’ sail from Shanghai. As 4 result of the preparations for the joint army and navy spring war maneuvers in the Pacific, the United States now has in the Far Mast, or en route, the largest military and naval force ever assembled in that part of the world. This concentra. tion is primarily aimed against the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union, for armed intervention” to forward the partition of China among the imperialists and for war against the Soviet Union, whose solution of unemployment and the national question, pointing the revolutionary way out of the capitalist crisis, has aceclerated the revolutionary strug+ gles of the working-class and the colonial masses throughout the world. British Want Joint Partition Move. The concern of the United States and European imperialists over the dapanese action is connected not only with the threat to their own in- terests involved in the Japanese ac- tion, but with the fear that the Jana~- nese seizure of Shanghai will arouse the Chinese masses to further fury against the imperialists and their lackey Nanking government. A Lon- don dispatch clearly expresses ‘this fear ‘It is notorious that the author- ity ef China (the Nanking govern- ment) is at @ discount and that the government's power to contro! irresponsible elements is limited. Agtion calculated to aggrevate the situation and weaken the govern- ment, it is urged, should, therefore not be undertaken withont general internationa! approval.” The same dispatch reminds Japan = the defense of the Soviet Dnion, the workers’ fatherland! Down with John UL. Lewis, the head agent of the operators! Read the Mine Worker, national organ of the National Miners Union! Send Fra- ternal delegates to the N.- Mv U. Convention! E LAND TROOPS IN SHANGHAL ATTACK MASS ANTH-IMPERIALIST MOVEMEN | ahead of the! | ordey |end the “left” leader, Wang Ching | ties are not succeeding, as more and that Shanghai is not Mukden, The attitude of the British imperialists is that the Japanese are unjustified in beginning by themselves armed intervention in Inner China Jooking toward the partition of China; that such a move should be carried out in unison by all the imperialist Joot~ ers together. The Japanese, who have publicly suggested joint im- perialist action against the Chinese masses, are now trying both to ace celerate such action and te jump in imperialist rivals in to seize the best prizes in the looting of China. Chiang and Wang Return to Complete Sell-out. | In the meantime, Chiang Kai-shek ze plar Wei, have returned to Nanking to complete the betrayal of the Chi- nese masses. They both had a con- Terence .yesterday with other Nan- king government leaders. The con- ference made a fake gesture of sev- ering diplomatic yelations with Japan. It rejected a proposal for armed resistance against the Japa- nese aggressions in China. A pro~ posal to refuse to enter into direct discussions with the Japanese over Manehuria was similarly rejected. ‘The Nanking traitors are again at- tempting to deceive the Chinese masses into looking to the League of Nations for a way out. Their tac- more sections of the Chinese masses are daily turning to the rev_lutionary way out, and, inspired by the suc- cesses of the Chinese Red Army and the existence of the powerful Chi- nese Soviet Republic, are taking up the armed struggle against the im- perialists and their Nanking agents. Bosses Take Inflation Road; Means More Mass Suffering (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONH) played with American banks. The Federal Reserve System, first estab- lished to “prevent” bank failures, has completely failed to accomplish its purpose. There were in 1931, 2,200 bank failures wtih deposits of $1,- 759,000,000. Of this total of banks. 518 were members of the Federal Re- serve System which “guaranteed” its member banks against failure. Far from helping to overcome the crisis, this inflationary measure will only deepen it, The Reconstruction Corporation is one with the Glass Banking Act which proposes to use government funds through the Fed~ eral eserve for payment to depositors of failed banks up to 7 to 80 per cent of the amount of ‘deposit. The National Credit Corporation to ex- tend credit to bankrupt business is of the same nature. The result of these measures is the open adoption of a policy of inflation by the Amer~ ican government. It is an indication of the terrific damage which the eri~ sis has done to the financtal struc-~ ture of American capitalism. Side by side with these special or- ganizations created to put into the open a huge credit. issuc that is based on thin air, is the policy of the Fed~ eral Reserve System of extending its “easy money” policy. The latest sign of this has been the lowering of its rediscount rate from 4 per cent to 314 per cent. In addition, Hoover signed the bill giving #125,000,000 additional capital to the Federa) Land Banks. This is done to prevent the immediate smash up of the whole artificial Farm Loan system. Alveady European capitalists are getting as far away from American capital as they can in anticipation of the break down of the American financial system. France and Bel~ gium are beginning to draw the geld they formerly held here in huge quantities. France has begun the first of its withdrawals of $175,000,000 in gold which they have stored in American vaults. A broad “dollar panic” is developing in Europe as the Policy of inflation continues to grow in Wall Street and the supposedly solid gold standing of America be- gins more and more to show signs of weakening. Although the capitalists say that they are merely putting into effect a@ temporary measure, it is certain that the policy of inflation will very rapidly get out of all control. This is admitted by the Financial editor of the Journal of Commerce who wrote on Jan. 18: “There is yo assurance, however, that the expansion policy can be stopped in time and that a new 500 Knoxville Workers Meet (GUNN MINE AND BIG BLACK to Aid Ky. Strike Relief Drive INE IN TENN. STRIKE 100 PC; HUGE PICKET LINE IN STRIKE AREA TODAY KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24 —In spite of all the “Red scare” headlines carried in the local newspapers against the mass meeting arranged by the newly opened headquarters of the Kentucky-Tennessee Striking Miners Relief Campaign of the Worker’s International Relief in Knoxville, over 500 workers attended the spi- rited meeting. Workers, looking 2s though they needed aid themselves gave their pennies and netted a collection of $31.04. Many who could not give any- thing until payday signed @ pledge to contribute 1 and others sign- ing the “volunteer to help win the Kentucky Strike” pledge promised to give from 25 cents to $1.00 per week. Several old men who had been through strikes in their young years came up. to the platform after the meeting offering to help canvass homes and stores, apoligizing for not giving anything because they didn’t have anything to give. ‘Two ex-service men now members of the American Legion said they had wanted to take the floor but didn’t know we would have given it to them. One stated he would never give another nickle to the Ligion after he heard what they were doing against the strikers. The other David Jean Rainwater came all the way from St. Charles, Va. to tell that he had seen thekid~ napping of Joe Weber. He was ter ribly grived when he realized he should have taken the floor to tell all those present, He went down to the Knoxville News Sentinel with Joe ‘Weber and made a statement of the facts. He was passing by the filling station where Joe Weber and Bill Duncan were picked up. “It ap- peared strange to mé,” he said “that so many deputies should be taking in only two men. I asked what was going on. Some of them told mes bootleggers, others said. reds. So T thought to myself afterwards when I read the papers that they were or- ganizers of the National Miners Union and that the coal operator Creech denied they had been kid~ napped but I wen right on thru to Knoxville, thought I had beter come in and tell what I saw. Doris Parks, secretary of the Kentucky Tennessee Striking Miners Relief Headquarters set up at Knox~- ville after the raids and arrest of relief workers in Pinevile on the first day of the strike, opened the meeting. Lloyd Lowe, Blanche, Ky and Bill they sat by themselves. Garl: Ar y., told of con- ditions of the miners and declared they would fight until they won a] living wage. Weber Speaks. } Joe Weber just recuperated from | the beating which the thugs gave him when they kidnapped him and | 11 Duncan, was greeted with the eatest applause Caulkens a miner's wife r pass! appeal! to the to help the strikers win: out We cannot’ bear starve any longer ing against starv to see our babi and we wome! so our men ca: they go to stop dyi lowed her speech our children flux. “She fol- with one of the Kilgore spoke of the horrible condi- tions in their schools, “kesp house for my father and the children’ be- cause I have no mother and it is pretty hard to do so on $48 which he gets in compensation for he lost his leg in the mines and can’t work anymore.” | “Could you keep house for 6 people on $48, a month?” she challenged. We children are so helping to win the strike for it will be for our good and we ask you to helpus by giving} money ,foed and clothes. A resolution was unanimously car- ried demanding the immediate un- conditional release of all those ar- rested during the struggles of the coal miners for the crime of fighting starvation, especially that of Williaw Hightower, 77 year eld coal miner member of the U.M.W., sentenced to 4 life term in jail and Dorothy Weber arrested together with the other eight, on the openfhg of the strike, because of her illness. ‘The meeting also carried motion, by an overwhelming majority to send a telegram to the State Supreme Court in Montgomery, Ala., pro- testing the attempt to carry through @ legal lynching by electric chair sor any other way of the nine innocent Scatisboro boys, now before the State Supreme Court om an appeal.. The few who voted against, were laughed down when the chairman decided to take q vote by hands after a few no’s were heard. Quite a number of Negro workers were present although SPANISH STRIKE WAVE SPREADS: BARCELONA WORKERS NOW OU (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ‘Troops, naval destroyers and air- planes have been sent to all chief in- dustrial centers of Spain with particu Jarly heavy concentrations at Madrid, Barcelona, Manresa and Seville. The entire Liobregat section of the pro- vince of Barcelona in Catalonia is under the heel of an open military dictatorship. Even harsher measures are being prepared aond carried into effect as the general strike over all of Spain scheduled for today, begins to take shape with the calling of a general strike in Barcelona. Al! commercial and industrial activity in that city has come to 2 complete standstill. All large factories have been closed down as a result of the walkout of workers. ‘Trolley cars are not operat~ ing and busses are driven and man- ned only by civil guards. As usual the socialists are playing ee easy money campaign may not In the course of time get out of hand.” Another important outcome of these inflationary policies is the sharpening of the antegonisms be- tween the imperialist countries, es- pecially between France and the United States. The easy money pol- ey of the Federal Reserve System is in flat violation of the agreement arrived at last October by American and French bankers whereby the French capitalists agreed to stop their reid on the American dollar in return for concessions by the Fed~ era) Resreve in the form of stopping {ts easy money policy. This policy was the cause of losses for the French investors in the United States. The withdrawal of French gold from the United States is art indication of this sharpening of imperialist differences. Roll up thousands of Daily Worker subs in the fight against wage cuts. ; YANKEE IMPERIALISM IN ACTION lation are poor peasants, depending on the cof~ ee crop for their livelihood. ‘With the steep drop in the price of coffee and the huge over- production, the peasants have been ruined, their land being taken from them, and most of them being faced with starvation On December 3, 4 group of army officers took gosa and La. Libertad) When the great majority of the population be- gan to support the revolutionary struggles, the American Charge d’Af- (CONTINUED FROM VAGE ONED over power by a coup detat. The workers and peasants, fearing further hunger decrees from the new fascist outfit, decided to take matters into their own hands, proceeded to take over the large estates and capture various towns. = ria verpetual marine domination and the wholesale murder of militant workers and peasants. The movement centered at Santa Tecla, Gar- dcrous attack of the Hoover hunger government against the workers and peasants of El Salvadore, their reactionary role as strike break- ers by issuing orders to the workers in the unions controlled by them not to join in the general strike. With the exception of the socialist workers and the unorganized workers in’ the smaller shops, the entire city of Bar- celona has been struck and the move- ment spread to the surrounding towns. With the growth of the revolution- ary Movement to ever larger propor- tions, the attack on the Communist Party of Spain, as the only consistent and revolutionary leader of the Span- ish masses has increased. The of- ficial organ of the Spanish Commu- nist Party has again been suppres- sed, twenty-seven workers connected with it arrested and all Communist Party headquarters raided. Despite the fascist measures aimed at it, the Communist Party of Spain continues to carry out its main task of winning the majority of the Span- ish workers and peasantry for its pro- gram of the overthrow of the bour- geois coalition government and the establishment of @ real Workers’ Re- public. More and more the Spanish | masses are rallying te its banner and | away from the dangerous and suicide! | policy of the Anarchists, Syndicalists and Trotskyists. A feature of the upsurge of the Spanish masses is the growing tene dency of the movement to spread te hitherto untouched sections of the Spanish workers and peasants. Often there are demonstrations and armed clashes in which the masses take part without any leadership whatsoever, The Communist Party of Spain is working under the most difficult con- ditions of terror to give organized ex~ pression to these spontaneous out~ bursts. The absolute poverty and worsened conditions of the workers and peas- ants under the fake “Workers’ Re- public” with which the socialists are fully co-operating has produced a serthing discontent signalized by weeks and months of intense revolu- tionary activity. In the province of Jaen, whole vil- leges have marched to the capitol city of the province demanding work, The workers of the Grandia province have come into armed clashes with the civil guards who ettempted to prevent them from gathering firewood in the surrounding forests. Demon~- strations against the socialists in Pu- ebla Salobrena, ended in bloody fights between the peasants and civil guards Similar clashes in the province of Badajoz, in Castelblameo, in San Sebastian and in other provinces and cities have taken place as the peas- fifteen years old William and Ruby | \ (CONTINUED PROM PAGE UNED Pineville from the rounding hills, and gun thugs are stationed at evers mine within a of 40 mile threatened ves told them that the miners death -today strikers songs w she sang w she led the march into Pineville a| few days ago—‘Put, Your Shoulders to the Wheel.” | than that of bloody a Two miner's children thirteen and|County. The whereabouts of the s leaders in Pineville was time this telegrar nt to the Daily Worker Allan Taub, attorney for the s ing miners, and To: tional ’ Union orga: held on the road near 3 ville by the Pineville chief of police and eight armed gunmen. Tt? were turned back from Pineville. m was Jones zer, were jards~ The strike continues in Tennessee and a huge picket line is planned for Monday in Harlan and other places. Miners at Cold Creek, Tenn., 60 miles from Pineville, are begging the N.M.U. to send in an organizer. Beck Creek miners are preparing to strike. Your hundred Rush Creek miners will | mi ence’ walk 16 Miles Monday to help the | Gatliff miners picket. Miners at King Mountain, Tennes- see, picketed despite the command to stop given by five deputies with automatic Winchesters, whe raised their guns and aimed, but were afraid to fire into the ranks of the militant muiners. ‘The sheriff of Woodley County, Tennessee says he will arrest any Miner carrying N.M.U. leaflets on the charge of eriminal syndicalism. Operators are resorting to the wider use of the frame-up to crush the strike. Noah Turner, striking miner of Stoney Fork, Ky., is in jail charged with stealing dynamite from the Gunmer Mine. Warrants are out for six other miners on the same charge. - Miners continue te be jailed for criminal syndicalism on the ground of reading the Daily Worker. Post. offices throughout the strike zone are refusing to mail the Daily Worker. Johny Hodges, 65 year old miner of Dagoit, Kq., was jailed for criminal syndicalism yesterday when he called at the post office for the Daily Worker bundle. Harlan gun thugs arrested him and took him to the Harlan jail. Joe Phillip was arrested for putting his furniture back into his home at Pruden, Tenn. where 77 miners have been evicted. Tents will soon have to be furnished by the Workers Inter~ national Relief. Sixteen miners were reported to work at Brush Creek, but 600 miners immediately formed a picket line and now the entire section is out again. A successful Bell County youth conference was held yesterday, as well as the relief conference, attended by 150 representatives from mines. Section conferences will be held in Wallins Creek and Middlesboro, * . PINEVILLE, Ky.; Jan 23.—'The striking of new mines in Tennessee and the forcing of Governor Laffoon to list to the miners delegation’s demands for the cessation of terror |bers and thr for unemployment insurance with increased picketing, ifusing fresh enthusiaam into 10,000 striking and blacklisted who are fighting for the right. e on the 60 mile strike front. for the huge demonstration ‘Spread the Strike Confer- for Sunday, as well as for the vigorous defense of both, were laid re the the The Committee pointed out the following weak points in the strike nsufficiens soup ers can meet and strike problems, insuf. of women and + exposure of the perators’ courts, news- papers and the American Legion The strike spread to new mines in Tennessee Thursday. The entire Gunn in Pruden came out solid and the Big Block mine is reperted to be out 100 per cent and 100 more |are out at the Pruden mine, leaving only a few left there. New Warrants Act The spreading of the strike in Ten- nessee is followed by an immediate inorease In the terror. Warrants are out for National Miners Union mem- miners have voted to send a picket line of 500 around the nm mine in Bell County to an- swer the threats of the operators whe say that anyone trying’to picket the mine will hot A mass picketing march will alse be thrown around the Big Fork idze Mine in Bell County on Tues- day. The Section Strike eonfer- | ence which was held in Gatliff, Tennessee, yesterday, is similar te the conferences to be held in Wal- lins Creek and Middlesboro over the week end. ‘Two workers in the Middlesborc ove fac reported at the Na tional Miners’ Union meeting in Mid- dlesboro that they witnessed the kid- napping of Weber and Dunean. A discussion in the Pineville high school of “the red menace” led to @ passionate defense of Communism by a miner's daughter who now faces dismissal. Dean, of the B: Coal Co. plans to evict 2 striking miners anc their families today in Grassy Creek Bell County, where the mines are shut down tight. Miners say they will refuse to be evicted Raid Soup Kitchen. The Harlan soup kitchen is raided almost daily for Daily Workers. The constable in Gatliff resigned te join the National Miners’ Union. Harlan miners report that their let- ters to the Daily Worker are being stolen by the deputies The Creech Mines in Wallins Creek filed a petition of bankruptey. Creech is amoTng the most vicious of the operations. He supplied three girls with money ahd clothes to spy on the miners. The operators are charging that the, “reds” drove the Bell County National Bank inte cankrupicy, A miner's wife marched on the Glendon picket line against her own husband and said she would leave him if he continued seabbing, His mother Joined his wife and the miner is now striking. A big mass meeting of the Wor! ers’ Internationa! Relief is to take place in Knoxville toight, A min- ers’ orchestra will play. A meeting of all the relief committees will take place on Saturday te reorr ganize the relief on the basis of soup kitchens wherever posstbis. WORKERS FORCE CITY COUNCIL TO SEND PROTEST TQ ALABAMA GOV. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) The pressure was exerted by 2 demon stration of 1,500 Negro and white workers who marched through the streets with red torches on Jan. 19 to the City Hall, where the City Counsi] was in session. ‘The demonstrators elected 2 com- mittee of three, George Kristalsky, Communish PaPrty candidate for Mayor; Cass Baily, # Negro worker candidate of the Communist Party for Councilman, and Yaronski, Com~ munist, candidate for councilman. The Committee presented the follow- ing telegram to the Council de- manding that the Council adopt it and send it to the governor of Ala~ bama: . “The City Council of Hamtramck, Michigan, Jan. 19, protests attempt to legally lynch nine innocent working-class Negro boys in Scotts- boro, Alabama, on framed-up charge of ‘rape.’ We denounce ef- fort of white ruling class of the South to legelly lynch these boys. We demand the immediate and unconditional relesse of the nine Negro boys.” Bristaleky in presenting the tele- gram spoke on the Scottsboro case and denounced the discrimination against and segregetion of Negro workers in the city of Hamtramck, exposing discriminatior agsinst Ne- Councilman Dibble, who has broked every promise made to the Negrd workers who helped to elect him, sev~ eral times interrupted the Communist candidate with the statement that he ‘don't like the statement made by the if he was chairman, he would set have allowed Kristalsky to speak in behalf of the Negro masses. : The {Council chamber was packed with workers, while 1500 others can- tinued their meeting outside, cheering: for the Communist candidates. The counci! hearing the demonstration en. the outside was shivering tn its boots, fter the speech of the Communist candidates, a copy of the telegram was given to the City Clerk and the Copmittee demanded acceptances of this telegram; motion was made by a councilman to refer this telegram to city attorney authorizing him to send it to Governor B. M. Miller of Alar bema and the Stete Supreme Court “with necessary changes.” Feb. 4th must be 2 continnaiios of our struggle for the freedom ef Seottshore boys, Tor Mooney, Bil- lings, Ymperial Valley workers, the Kentucky miners and all gther poll. tical prisoners. Feb. 4 must be 2 day of struggle against stervetion, against discrimination of Negroes, against eviction and for unempley- Ment nsuraswce. insurance ageinst wage cuts and for | fairs immediately cabled for war] lvery worker In the United States, ‘ ants and workers become more mili-|/gro workers by the Hamtramck wel-| All out to the Demonstration Feb. 4 better conditions for ell miners! {readers ean now suffering wage cuts, unemploy- Ltn the " of the | tant in their hatred of the coalition fare department and demanded un-|at Grand Circus Park, Detrelt, Mish- Support the Kentucky strikers | Wall Street now seeks to make of} ment and starvation, dhould protess | Central American Workers! De- | sovernment of starvation and terror |conditional gqual rights for Negro |igan parade will start from Ferep MaN against starvation and terror! For Hi Salvadore another Nicaragua, with and fight against this latest, mare f mand Hands Off E! Selvadors! and in their action against it, and foreign-born workers 1 pm. to Grand Olsens Park. . ‘ i ,