The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Daily Central Orga Norker ~SdRrynict Porty U.S.A. The Tennessee Miners Are Joining the Kentucky Strike, Help Spread the Strike by Rushing Relief Funds to W.LR., 16 W. 21st St, w York City Eutered as accond-cl Sx Post Office 1879 Vol. IX, No. 22 at New York, N. Y¥., under _NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY, JANUARY 26 1932 ee Price 3 3 Cents _ UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE NATION-WIDE DEMAND FEB.4 SOVIET PAPER EXPOSES WAR AIMS OF JAPAN Warns Use. “of White Guards Threaten Peace Warships at Shanghai Japanese Attack Mass Movement Exposing the sham arguments of the Jap- anese imperialists in rejecting the offer of the Soviet Union for a non-aggre: ion peace pact, the Soviet newspaper Izvestia yes- terday warned that the mobili- zation by the Japanese of Rus- sian white guards in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia was a menace to world peace. Izvestia points out “that at a moment when the So- viet is trying to guarantee peace the Japanese government is pursuing aim | Japancse Government is Pursuing | aims which will lead to a breach of} peace.” Izvestia declares that the Tapacieass| by their many provocative acts | against the Soviet Union, inciuding their mobliization of White Guard VED ON PAGE THREE) DM EE PA, MINE STRIKE SPREADS: MINERS SPRIKE IN LILY 1,000 On Picket Line; UMWA Overridden By Young Miners PORTACE, Pa, — The 700 miners who struck Jan. 21 at the Hughes Coal Co. mine at Caseandra, Pa., have tied up the mine 100 per cent and are standing solid. One mine of the Hughes Coal Co. in Lilly have al- ready oined the strike wave, 85 min- ers walking out against the decision of the company to deny the miners a union checkweighman. National Miners Union organizers are in the town of Lilly trying. to spread the strike to other mines. The miners in Cassandra walked out. when the company fired the nightmen, Ill. in all. At a local meet- ing when the strike vote was taken the U. M. W. A. officials, who have an agreement with the mine owners, were dilly-dallying with the question, but the miners one after another took the floor and insisted on the strike. The U. M. W. A, officials are doing all in their power to keep the strike movement from spreading to Lilly. It was the young miners primarily who forced the strike over the heads of the A. F. of L. fakers. The young miners, of which there are quite a number in the Cassandra mine, were solid for the strike from the begin- ning. It was the vote of the youth that knocked the bottom out of the wishy-washy arguments of the U. M. W. A. officials. The sentiment and militancy of the strikers is splendid. On the first day there were about 1,000 on the. picket liae, including women and children. ‘The National Miners Union has is- sued a leaflet to the miners warning them against U, M. W. A. betrayal, and proposing the following demands be made: i 1, Teinstatement of the fired night- BES +0) ior union activity, ect'on of a broad rank and file ee to conduct the strike and on negotiations with the com- pay. 5, Spread the strike to the Lily mine (1) SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION- ARY STRUGGLE OF THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS IN EL SALVADOR, DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN WARSHIPS AND STOP SENDING OF MARINES. (3) WITHDRAWAL OF ALL MILI- (2) tion. * WORKER. THREE. TOO LATE. Collect Money Now to Save Daily Worker; Quotas Set by Party LL Party members, as well as all other readers of the Daily worker, immediate donations to save their paper from sus- pension. Start tonight in your unit meetings to col- lect funds to enable the Daily Worker to meet the debts that must be paid at once. united drive today, tomorrow and the next few days will allow the Daily Worker a breathing spell so that we are not swamped with debts before the masses of workers get time to rally to our defense. Every Party member should therefore, at unit meetings tonight, pledge himself to collect at least $5 from his fellow workers this week and rush the ‘ funds to the Daily Worker to pay part of the $50,000 fighting fund. We know that many Party members and their friends are unemployed. But many still have jobs. It is to the latter in particular that we address our appeal to make every sacrifice possible to saye the Daily Worker. ious. Delay now will be a serious blow to the revo- lutionary struggle against wage cuts and starva- Without the, Daily Worker the mobilization’ for unemployment insurance demonstrations Feb- ruary 4 will fall far short of the objective. out the Daily Worker the workers of America will be dealt a serious blow. The Daily Worker rallies the masses in demonstration to free the Scottsboro boys, to support the heroic Kentucky and Tennessee miners, to fight all boss terror and oppression. * * * Party members, save your paper. at once to-fill your quota of $5. contribution immediately. about the menace to their paper. is collected means something now. * * * COLLECT DONATIONS. RUSH FUNDS TO SAVE USE THE BLANK COUPON ACT AT ONCE. NEXT WEEK IT MAY BE must come forward with Only a strong The situation is ser- With- Get to work Send your own Let your comrades know Every dime that THE DAILY ON PAGE Flooring Workers Strike Against a 25 P.C. Wage Cut: All the workers in the Self-Me- chanic’s Flooring Company went on strike protesting against a 25 percent wage cut. These workers are now on part time work making an average of from ‘8 to 12 dollars per week. When a committee of 3 workers were dele- gated to protest “against this unbear- able reduction they were fired. In going on strike the workers are protesting against the reduction of the already starvation wages. They also plan to have the workers who were fired re-employed. The workers are now picketing the office of the boss. A group of men who were work- ing on @ job for this company went on strike as soon as they heard of the conditions against which their fellow workers were protesting. The Building and Construction Workers Industrial League is leading these 22 workers of the Self-Mecha- nics Flooring Company of 1838 Park Ave. near 125th St., on this strike. TRAM STRIKE IN LODZ LODZ.—Tramwaymen are striking under the leadership of a self-se- lected strike committee. Reformists are sabotaging the strike. Shoe Workers Mass Meeting Tonight Shoe workers are called to a mass meeting by Shoe and Leather Work- ers Industrial Union, to be held at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St., Tuesday, January 25th, after work, to start a drive to unite the shoe workers of New York in a solid front to take up the struggle against the attack of the shoe manufacturers. The struggle of 120 workers at the Pincus-Tobias shop inspired all shoe workers in New York to start a wide campaign for organization. Shoe and Slipper Workers come to the mass meeting*right after work. o i LAFOLLETTE, COX EVADE CHALLENGE Do Not Want to Speak About Jobless Insurance NEW YORK—United States Senator Robert LaFollette of Wiscon- sin, following the pol- icy of the priest,Father Cox, misleader of the unem- ployed in Pittsburgh who ran out of a meeting when he heard that Herbert Benjamin, of the Unemployed Council would speak, has referred the in- vitation of the International Work- ers Order to debate the question of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill and the action the unem- ployed masses are going to take on February 4th to demand immediate relief. Several weeks ago, when Herbert Benjamin appeared before La Follette’s Senate Commitee on Manufactures in order to present demands for Federal unemployment La Follette tried to prevent Ben- | jamin from speaking. Signed by N. Shaffer, secretary, the International Workers Order wrote La Follette, who claims he is for relief, that “the International Workers Order, a national fraternal organization with a membership of 10,000, of whom 7,000 are located in New York City, wishes to arrange a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Shut Down Banks and Stores in 2 Ill. Cities for 5 Days AURORA, Ill—The bankers of Aurora, after a conference with the mayor and civic heads, closed the city’s five banks and all stores excep tthose providing food for five days. While the banks remain closed an army of 800 men and women will carry on a “confidence cam- paign” to persuade the workers and other depositors to continue to allow their money to be used to prop up the failing banking system, Pastors of all the churches will also lend themselves to the cam- paign and in their Sunday morn- |ing sermons will have the gentile Christ drive the workers into the banks to leave the little they pos- sess in the hands of the money changers. The City of Mendota, IIL, also closed down business en Jan, 23 for the period of a week. Demagog Evades Debate on Federal Unemployment Insurance Mnifed Gtates Senate 22 January 1952 ir, N. Sheffer, 32 Union Square, New York City. Dear Mr. Shaffer: During these busy days in the Senate, it is imposeidle for Senator La Follette to take on any additional md while he appreciates your invitation, he eske me work, advise you that it will be impossible for him to teke pert in this debate. Sincerely yours, Foxe Secretary. ChicagoMayorAdmitsHunger :: Rampant; ToGet Worse Feb.1 : Says Communists Are is Gated Leadership of Starving Thousands As Besses Cut Down Meager Relief CHICAGO, Jan. 25.— As the Chicago work-| ers prepare for a huge February 4th demon- stration to demand relief in the fact of a sharp slashing-of the hunger rations of the city, Mayor Cermak has issued an alarming report to the exploiters and property holders of the city stating that he deos not know what will happen if relief is not furnished by February Ist. ‘Unless relief is granted by Feb. 1, nobody knows what will happen,” said Mayor Cermak. Meanwhile, Cermak orders (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Order Militia to Be Ready to Shoot Down Starving Masses Workers Demand 1 Unemployment Insurance, But Hoover and State Gov’ts Answer By In-| struction: “Don’t Shoot Over Their Heads!” CHICAGO, IIl., Jan. 25.—“Shoot to kill the unemployed,” is the new slogan of the National Guard as shown in the latest instructions re- cently issued here in a 104-page pamphlet pub-| lished by the headquarters of the 33rd Division, Illinois National Guard. The detailed instructions on how to murder workers who refuse to starve follow th epolicy of President Hoover when he declared last fall that he would mobilize the army to handle the problem of “unemployment relief.” Not only are the latest deliberate U. S. Rushing Warships to Salvador As Masses Revolt Against Starvation NEW YORK.—Martial law has been decared in El Salvador, where the workers and peasants have seized a number of towns in the interior and are agitating for setz- ure of all large landed estates by the residents and the establishment of a workers and peasants govern- ment,’ The El Salvador fascist govern- Scottsboro Protests Pour In on Ala. Supreme Court NEW YORK.—The national office of the [nternational Labor De- fense yesterday received the following telegram from Langston Hughes, outstanding Negro poet and writer in this country who . at present in Alabama: “This morning I visited Scottsboro boys in Hiey Prison. They were hopeful (of) soon being free. I congratulate you on splendid presenta- tion made by Brodsky before court as reported by friends here. several poems to thi sent story Barnett, Chicago. cess to you in appeal. Read Have Suc- LANGSTON HUGHES.” * . * PARIS, Jan. 25.—L’Humanite, French Communist paper, ha. been carrzing on an active campaign among the French workers and peasants in behalf of the Scottsboro boys. In many articles and editorials, it has urged French workers and TARY FORCES IN EL SALVA- Lead by Communists, Workers and Peasants Seize Several Towns ment, which was completely de- moralized when the revolutionary uprising took place, has now been strengthened “sufficietly by the ar- rival of Wall Street gunboats to declare martial law. .-The bourgeois of the cities and the rich land owners are being armed by the fascist government to shoot down workers and peasants, At a cabinet meeting today it was admitted that the uprising has mass support. A New York Times cable from San Salvador says that the Cabinet said “The Conmmunist trouble ran throughout this tiny Central American republic.” Despite the rushing of U, 38. marines to El Salvador the revolu- tionary forces are preparing to resist the Wall Street buichers. A cable report from El Salvador Sietes: “The railway from ?cajutia to San Salvador had bec cera up by Communists near Sonsonate, and this would make it difficult for a landing party to proceed had that their onmanieations to cable demands for the release of these AGORTIRUED ON PAGH THREE 2 4 | murder orders directed against the) | jobless, but they are aimed with éspe- cial vehemence against the militant | leaders of the unemployed and strik- | ing workers, the Comunists. These orders to kill the unem- ployed, from which the Way Worker publishes important quota- tions, come at a time when unem- ployment is growing and when the unemployed are increasing their struggles for relief. On Feb, 4th there will be dem- onstrations throughout the country for unemployment insurance and , immediate unemployment relict. These are not just military orders, ‘but are part of the capitalist city and federal government’s program of “bullets not bread” for the unem- ployed. In Chicago, Mayor Cermak's in the masses of assing workers and peasants of El Salvador. These workers and peasants suffer from the domination of Wall Street as well as their own exploiters, and are carrying on the same fight against hunger that the 12,000,000 unemployed are carrying on in this country, Demand Kall Street keep tts hands off El Salvador! Support the revolt of the worekrs and peasants! Unite in the fight against the hun- | ger system. {CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER: General: Strike Spreads in Spain; Workers | Fight Gov’t MADRID.—With the general strike already on in Bar- celona and other centers preparing ot come out solidly today, the workers and peasants here are ready for a smashing blow at the Coalition “Socialist” and capitalist government of Spain. Aleala Guadaera, chief bread producing center for the city of Seville was filled with civil guards and government troops after the bread bekers had voied to svp- port the geveral strike called for a “policeman was s killed ned ateen workers arrested when the suzeet car company attempted to con- tinue its services with scabs after the | this made it possible for the gun MINERS AROUSED BY COAL CO. TERROR; SPUR FIGHT AGAINST DEATH BY HUNGER Build N. M. U., and Many Join Communist Party As Workers Learn Role of Bosses’ Government Establish Strong Section Strike Bodies; to Fight for Elementary Rights PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 25.—Collecting their forces after the powerful array of gun thugs, armed with machine guns which prevented the scheduled “Spread the Strike” conference and demonstration from taking place in Pine- ville yesterday, the 10,000 striking Kentucky and Tennessee miners have set themselves the task of consolidating their gains and building the National Miners’ Union. Reports that continued to come into Pineville from every point in the strike area showed that the operators had posted a icra Set BIG RESPONSE TO UNITED FRONT STRIKE CALL distances that separate the scattered mining camps precluded the possi- bility of the masses of miners from IW orkers from Open Shops Respond NEW YORK.—As the time for the | walking into Pineville in a body, and strike-“in the needle trades industry approaches, th eresponse to the call thugs to turn back the individual cars and trucks that carried ois groups of miners. Resentment at yesterday's brutal suppression in an attempt to prevent the miners from exercising their ele- mentary rights is mounting among the working as well as striking miners, | by route.” all of Spain. A demonstration of un- employed and employed woxkers in Seville was viciously attacked by po- lice who arrested nineteen workers. the Communist increased tremendously The prestige of Party has among the miners who see more and} more the correctness of the Commu- nist analysis of the alliance between the coal operators, the city and state governments, the courts and police. Many Join Communist Party. Just as hundreds of miners joined the N. M. U. the day that Hoover and Congress refused to listen to the demands of the National Hunger March for unemployment insurance, so hundreds of miners have become conscious of the role of the Commu- nist Party as the organizer and lead- ke of the working masses and many have become members of the party of their class. The new Communist Party mem- | bers are already taking a leading role | among their fellow strikers and are rapidly building a firm backbone of militant and disciplined miners throughout the 60-mile strike zone. ‘The union is proceeding with the establishment of strong sectional strike bodies and with the recruit- ment of union members, a task which has been left in the back- ground because of lack of forces since the beginning of the strike. Determined to Combat Hunger. The miners’ determination to con- tinue to fight against certain death starvation has increased along with their devotion to the N. M. U. The word is spreading throughout the strike area that Bates, United Mine Workers of America, organizer in Pineville, rode with the sheriff in| the latter’s car all day Sunday point- | ing out strikers to him, and as a consequence the UMWA has fallen still lower in the eyes of the miners. Politicians Use Demagogy. The more vicious the attacks of the operators, their government, the press, the courts and the church, the more demagogic do they all become. | Capitalist politicians calling them- selves “friend. of the miners” are grooming themselves for the coming election. The Bell County churches have called a conference of pastors to urge the miners in their congre- | gation to leave the “Red Union” a: to let the pastors arbitrate their dif- ference with the operators. So complete and ruth was the terror in Bell County yesterday that ‘k of the Circuit suspicion of being a striking miner. Capitalist newspaper men from Knoxville were even afraid to attempt to enier the county, for fear of being mistaken for strikers. COMRADE AMTER ON RADIO THURSDAY, Jan. 28th, 9:45 p. m. W. O. R. Broadcasting. All workers possessing radios or heve possibilities of listening in, ire advised to tune in on the WOR, 420 M. 710 ke, this Thursday,’ Jan. general strike has been declared. In the same town, the sight of a group of petty-bourgeois youth danc-~ 28th, 9:45 p. m. Comrade Amter will speak on “What the Commu- of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union and the United Front | Committee grows ever larger. Yesterday the office of the Needle Trades Industrial Union was packed with workers from shops which came down on strike, as well as with com- |mittees from numerous open shops, who came to make arrangements for taking their shops down on strike. On Thursday, Jan. 2j, at 7 o'clock, |the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union js calling a general mem- jbership meeting of all dressmakers jat Stuyvesant Casino, 140 Second Ave: to discuss the strike demands jand to hear a report on the organ- ization drive and all other plans con- nected with the strike preparations, All dressmakers, members of tne Industrial Union, as well as members of teh company union and dress- makers of the open shops, are in~ |vited to attend this meeting. Ben Gold, secretary of the Indus- | trial Union, will speak on the latest developments in the dress trade, Conference to Decide On Strike, | On Saturday, Jan. 30, at 12 o'clock, delegates from dress shops—Interna- tional Industrial Union and open shops—will come to the Cooper Union meeting to discuss the de- mands that have been proposed to the dressmakers at the Cooper Union mass meeting and to make a final decision on these demands to be sub- mitted to a huge mass meeting of dressmakers prior to the strike call. Final plans in preparation for the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | SS ee (CAL HARLEM | NEEDLE MEET |Nesro and White to | Discuss Demands | NEW YORK.—Addressing the Nee gro and white dressmakers in Hare lem, the Nee Trades Industrial Union has issued a special leaflet calling a meeting Tuesday, Jan. 26, at St. Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th St site Ny 8 p. m. Nevo end white needle work- i to c delegates from ss shop delegate ld January 30 a makers says that the United Front Committee presents the fol- lowing Jemands: 1. 40 hour, 5 day week. 2. Equal division of work. 3. Figiht, against injunctions, against gangstersim and police ter- ror for the right to strike end picket, 4. The right of coloved |dress- makers to every craft. 5. The right of colored dress- makers to every shop. sesh: oveecaba Naka seta a | een eee amas Be AOoNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) nist Party Stands For”. Inform|| § The abolition of all forms your friends and shop mates. of segregation and discriminatiom against colored @yessmakera, ren : t