The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1932, Page 1

i | TO ALL READERS AND WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS: The Daily Worker is in the most serious crisis in its history. $5,000 must be raised by next Monday at the latest. Our creditors, the printers, the paper company, notes falling due which have been stalled to the breaking point, these and other creditors have us pressed against the wall. If we don’t get this amount by Monday the Daily Worker will be forced to suspend. Use Airmail or wire to speed funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St. New York City. DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Orga 3 -EdRA unist Pasig > (Section of the Communist International) Vol. . No. 23 as Hatered am second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. ander the act of March %, 1879 IW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932. 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 “Price 3 Cents _ EB. 4 TO RING WITH DEMAND FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! Spread the Mass Struggle for Unemployment Insurance! iE New York Times published Monday a report from Chicago which T shows at the same time the desperate plight of millions of unemployed an dtheir families and the frantic alarm which is felt by the bourgeoisie as National Unemployment Insurance Day approaches. ‘The Times quotes Mayor Cermak of Chicago as declaring “where we had one applicant before, we have five seeking help today.” But, does Mayor Cermak show concern about the destitution which his own state- ment revecls? Indeed not! Noes this capitalist flunkey, who ordered his police gangsters to shoot down unemployed workers, propose that the unemployed shail be provided with adequate relief and unemployment insurance? No indeed! Here is what worries Mayor Cermak and his like all over the country; as they appeal for “relief” from the state legis- lature: “This is civic fire insurance. These Communist organizers are not new in our city. We had them in time of plenty. (!) But now they {ind men more ready to listen to them. I say to the men who may object to this public relief because it will add to their tax burden that they should be glad to pay it, FOR IT IS THE BEST WAY OF INSURING THAT THEY KEEP THEIR PROPERTY.” And then to show even more cleariy what he fears: “UNLESS RE- LIEF [8 GRANTED BY FEB. Ist, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT WILL BAPPEN.” “Mayor Cermak, as all fascist demagogues is alarmed. He pleads with his masters that they shall throw a few bones to the unemployed IN ORDER TO STOP THEIR MASS STRUGGLE FOR UNEMPLOY- MENT INSURANCE. Workers! Here is further proof of the necessity for sustained mili- tant mass struggle. Here is further evidence that the ruling class intends to permit millions of us to starve as long as we are silent. Reports from every city throughout the country indicate that the local authorities are everywhere trying frantically to prevent, by means of terror and demagogy, successful demonstrations no February 4th. The bosses and their agents know full well the power of the workers and the ef- fectiveness of their militant mass demonstrations. Successful demonstrations on National Unemployment Insurance Day will undoubtedly greatly advance our struggle for unemployment insurance and result in concessions in the form of more relief. Every worker must realize this and must not only participate in the demonstrations, but must work feverishly between now and Feb. 4th to bring hundreds of thousands of workers to these demonstrations. ‘The Daily Worker as the organ of the revolutionary workers is at the disposal of the movement for unemployment insurance. It can and will be the very spearhead in the campaign for National Unemployment In- surance Day. Here is what you must do in the few remaining days: Sharpen the struggle around the immediate demands of the against every eviction; fight for relief for every destitute family in your vicinity; fight against the miserable slop and flop houses. Resist mass lay-offs, wage cuts, overtime and stagger plan. Organize demonstrations in front of the homes of the Con- gressmen from your district, Make them take a stand. For or Against Unemployment Insurance Bill? This question must be put sharply to every public official, to every trade union official and to every individual and organization. Send us reports of every struggle that takes place in preparation for Feb. 4th. Send immediately all details on your National Unemployment Insurance Day Demonstrations. Where, when, how will it be held? Order and spread broadcast the literature issued by the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils. LET THE MILLIONS. SPEAK TO THE MILLIONAIRES ON NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DAY! MAKE HEARD YOUR PROTEST AGAINST HUNGER, TER- ROR AND WAR! DEMAND! UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EQUAL TO FULL WAGES AT THE EXPENSE OF BOSSES AND GOVERNMENT! Strikes Effective in Over Thirteen Spanish Cities MADRID.—The general strike in Spain is sweeping north- ward and now embraces more than thirteen main cities. Seville is paralyzed by an almost complete walk-out of all workers. A strong movement is ported to be in progress there for a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Scottsboro Boys Visited in Jail by I. L. D. Attorneys By PAUL PETERS. i KILBY PRISON, Montgomery, Ala.—They call Kilby a model prison. Far at the back end, barred and triply barred, is the death house. We file into the concrete and steel pen, one by one, the warden before us and two guards behind. ‘We have just come from the cap- itol of Alabama, where all morning the lawyers of the International La- —— bor Defense ripped away at the! (consNUED ON PAGE HREE) state’s case against the Scottsboro boys. Perjured testimony, lies, frame-ups, lynch hysteria; bit by bit the lawyers hammered into the court a grisly picture of the frenzy in which | the boys were railroaded to death | sentences. Here, in this death pen, it is dif- ferent. Heavy silence, Through barred, wire-fenced doorways you e 4TH MEET IN SPITE OF BAN Philadelphia Jobless Will Mass at City Hall Plaza Demand Relief at Once Present Demands to Lawrence Council PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 26—Despite the fact that the mayor of Philadelphia has de- elared he will not per- mit the unemployed to mass on February 4th to demand un- employment insurance, the Un- employed Councils of Philadel- phia have announced that a demonstration will be held at City Hall Plaza, The Unemployed Councils will rally the ‘unemployed workers to the City Hall Plaza on February 4th, to demonstrate for Unemployment In- surance and immediate relief, inspite of the Mayor, says a statement is- sued by the Council. “We declare that we will expose the mayor's statement concerning the unemployment in Philadelphia as a plain lie of the capitalist class. We ewill bring down to the City Hall Pla- za on February 4th hundreds of workers who are living on the gar- bage dump, at 4th and Oregon Ave., as well as the thousands of workers who are living on slop at the Shelter Home at 18th and Hamilton Sts. “The little charity that the Lloyd Committee is handing out to workers means nothing, but slow death to the thousands of families in Philadel- phia. The Unemployed Councils will expose this by a careful medical ex- amination of scores of unemployed and will prove that the city of Phil- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Joint Aimed Intervention Is Menacing Chinese Masses. | | Wall Street Interests Threatened, U. S. Plans, Sharp Protest to Japanese; Pushing Fleet Mobilization Nanking Government Crumbling; Masses Turning to Communism; Chinese Red pee Army Nearing Hankow | gets | BULLETIN. Following 2 Japanese-inspired riot in Harbin, the Japanese yesterday seized the city. ‘The riot was organized to afford a pretext for this action. Harbin is the most important Manchnrian city on the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. Its selzure is another step in the Japanese plans to grab the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Soviet Union on Monday signed a non-aggression pact with Poland, An imperialist dispatch reporting the signing of the pact de- | clares: “It was believed Poland would delay ratification of the treaty until a Soviet-Roumanian pact is concluded, thereby emphasizing the Polish-Roumaniian united front against Russia.” The Finnish government in signing a similar pact a few days ago declared it would not be ratified unless all the other border siates on the Soviet frontier signed similar pacts. . * . The Japanese threat to seize the important | South China city of Shanghai the gateway to! dous sharpening of the antagonisms between the imperialists. The Japanese threat greatly increasing the danger of immediate joint armed intervention | against the Chinese masses as well as the danger of war be- tween the imperialists over the division of loot in the process of dividing up China. At the same time, by further exposing | the complete bankruptcy and treachery of the counter-revolu- beets Nanking Shannon fase - — - — masses hes seatiy aickened [PUN Out Mei in Flooring Strike Chinese masses has greatly quickened the trend of the Chinese masses to Fight Against 25 P.C. | Wage Cut the revolutionary struggle as the only way out of Kuomintang betrayal and NEW YORK.—Tuesday morning after a full mobilization of all the imperialist enslavement. men striking in the Self Mechanics The Wall Street government was preparing yesterday a sharp note of protest to Japan as the Japanese con- tinued to rush warships and troops to Shanghai to reinforce the troops and ten warships already at that port. A Washington dispatch quotes offi- the Yangtze Valley, has resulted in a tremen-|; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Flooring Co., pickets were sent out T0 HOLD FEB. i Poavens Clash Over Shanghai; T ERMINAL MINERS PLAN STRIKE FB. 1 Fight Against Ten Per Cent Wage Cut N. M. U. Leads Them United Mine Workers In Strike-Breaking Move PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 25.—Unanimously deciding to strike on February Ist against a ten per cer wage cut, rom four Pittsburgh Terminal Coal. Co. mnies met at a United Front the Na- Conference called by tional Miners Uni The 10 rer cent Strike Demznds, A printed stvike call has been is- sued and four macs meet ganized Thursday for mass ing. The demands being 7: abolition of the chee! recognition of the mine comrnittee, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) to the miners. | | Pian Mass Marches on Unstruck Mines in Tenn.; Ala. Miners Pledge Aid Workers International Relief to Hold Tag Day for Kentucky-Tennessee Striking Miners In Knoxville, Saturday Reports Show Miners In Entire Tennessee | Coal Fields Are Famine Stricken i en KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 26. — The major |point of attack this week of. the 10,000 Ken- tueky and Tennessee miners fighting an ag- |gressive and heroie fight against starvation and lynch law, will be the unstruck mine in the Ten ee , a full meeting of the Strike Executive ; Committee d d last night. With their living and working conditions on a level with | the coolie s ard prevailing in Kentucky, and with members eir families dying of starvation, while the Hoover gov- nds a $2,000,000,000 dole «——— ior tnaendy "ates (MASS AT BRONX ‘cee | BORO HALL SAT, DEMAND RELIEF The ¢ lesson that was learned as a result of last Sanday’s ex- | | — [Tenants Who Won Rent Strike to | Lead erence, the Strike Executive Com- | mitt imoucty declared, was the weakness of organtzation im NEW YORK—Led by tenants of 2802 Ollinville Ave., who won a rent | strike last week in spite of police that th ae Most of the discussion at the meet- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Salvador Bosses Arm Fascist Gangs to Shoot Communists NEW YORK.—Em the various sections, The Execu- | tive Committee also regards this | weakness as the prevailing ont of | the strike, | tenants, a demonstration of employed jand unemployed workers will take |place Saturday, Jan. 30, at noon in |front of Bronx Boro Hall to demand immediate unemployment relief, and to rally the workers for the Feb. 4th demonstration for unemployment in- | surance. ; As Associated Press dispatch from The workers of the Bronx will Condemn Individual Terror; ; Demand Release of Lazaar The Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania has upheld the de- cision of the lower court, finding Comrade Lazaar guilty of sedition and sentencing him from two to four years in the penitentiary. The Su- preme Court of the state of Pennsyl- vania headed by Pinchot has once again shown its vengeful attitude toward the revolutionary workers, fighting against the hunger offensive of the capitalists. In order to justify the vicious character of this sentence they make use of an alleged state- ment of Comrade Lazaar in court. Comrade Lazaar declared: “This government murdered Sacco and Vanzettl, This is a strike- breaking government.” Indeed Com- rade Lazaar was correct, But he is further represented as saying: “Let us teach our young workers in time of war to shoot down peo- ple who ordered us to shoot other people.” As a Communist, carrying out the policies of the Party, Comrade Lazaar could not have made such a state- ment, which is contrary to the line of the Party. Such a statement would mean that the Party policy for overthrow of the capitalist system on the job on 125th St. The pickets discovered that three A. F. of L. floor layers took the jobs. A picket com- mittee went upstairs and succeeded in taking down these three A. F. of L, men, all members of the carpen- ters’ local unions. The boss is trying to spread ru- mors that he gives up his jobs and that new contractors are going to finish them, But this doesn’t fool the trikers. They are determined to consists not in preparing and organ- izing mass revolutionary action but in applying individual terror. The Daily Worker in publishing this alleged statement, without cor- win the fight against the 25 per cent boldened by the pres ence of American and Canadian gunboats and marines. the ex- ploiting and rich-landing own- jing classes in El Salvador are roaming the streets, shooting down workers suspected of be- ing Communists. ‘The latest report from Panama to San Salvador, tells of the arming of all of the aristocratic scum of San Salvador, with the express intent of shooting down workers and peasants. The cable dispatch says “The flower of Salvadorean | aristocracy, heavily armed, roamed | the streets of this capital city to- | night to aid their government in stamping out the last vestiges of | ‘Communist insurrection,’ “On the suggestion of a promin- gather their forces at 10 in the morn- ing on Saturday, Jan. 30 at the fol- lowing places: Washington and Clare |mont Parkway, 187th St. and Cam- |brelling Ave., and Wilkins and In- tervale Ave. from here they will all |march to Boro Hall, Tremont and 3rd | Avenue, This demonstration is organized by the Bronx Unemployed Councils, | Thousands of workers, men, women ent banker, Rodolfo Duke, adult citizens were equipped with rifles and children, members of mass or- | Sanizations, house and block commite rection, in its issue of December 28th, as a result of lack of vigilance, com- mitted a serious mistake. This error is contrary to the line of the Daily Worker which has \been regularly combatting any idea of individual terror. The working class knows that the Communist Party has nothing to do with the policy of individual ter- ror, which fs the policy of petty bour- geois despair, and which facilitates the work of agent provocateurs, The capitalist state, in conformity wage-cut and discrimination. ‘This shop strike is led by the Build- ing and Construction Workers’ In- dustrial League. NEW YORK.—Expressing the full with its sharpening attacks against the working masses and especially against its revolutionary vanguard, is preparing to send Comrade Lazaar to prison. All workers must protest against this action of the state courts of Pennsylvania, governed by the demagogic, republican governor, Pin- chot, and must demand the freedom of our revolutionary fellow worker, Comrade Lazaar. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, OPUS. A. solidarity of the revolutionary work- ers of the United States, the Trade Union Unity League through its Na- tion Secretary, William Z. Foster, sent the following telegram to the striking tobacco workers of the Ha- vana province: Torcedores Huelgistas San Miguel Num. 216 Habana, Cuba, Trade Union Unity League ex- presses full solidarity of revolu- tionary workers of the United American capitalist newspapers, say that between 600 and 1,000 were killed in the workers’ and peasants’ uprisings, Call for Support of Havana Province Tobacco Strikers States with the striking tobacco workers of Havana Province and has called on all American work- ers to send money to support strike. Stop We will do everything possi- sible to assist your struggle Stop Workers take the strike in your own hands do not trust your un- jon officials Stop Build up united front strike committees with rank and file leadership which should lead the strike Stop Fight and de- (CONTINUED ON PSGE THREE) and revolvers and received carte | blanche to shoot any Communist on sight. More than 300 sons of the first families, both foreign and | native, also were alarmed and turned loose to snare any radicals still at large.” to El Salvador by Wall Street. The United States destroyers Philip and Wickes arrived at Acajutla Monday, ready to land marines to help the aristocratic scum shoot down rebell- More battleships are being rushed | tees, will participate in the demon- stration to demand immediate uneme ployment relief, $16.50 for every une | employed family for a week, no evic- |tion, lower rent and unemployment insurance, This demonstration on Saturday will be a mobilization of the workers for the February 4th National Unems ployed Day demonstration, Jobless Dressmakers fous workers. Every American worker must come to the support of their fel- low workers in El Salvador. The fight there against American im- perialism is part of the struggle of the American masses against wholesale starvation and mass wage cuts. Support the Salvador- ean workers and peasants, Fight the terror of Wall Street and the rich exploiters of El Salvador! Demand the withdrawal of all troops from El Salvador! Meet Today to Take Up Their Demands NEW YORK, N. Y.—A meeting of unemployed dressmakers will be held on Wednesday afternoon, 1:30 p. m. at 422 7th Ave. where the demands of the unemployed will be taken up and discussed. Delegates will be elected to at- tend the coming conference to be held Saturday, ean