The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 24 Sn Eatered . W YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932 _ Norker oat Party U.S.A. NOD (Section of the Communist pee ) “cHY. SECOND F IVE-YEAR PLAN TO BRING NEW GAINS 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 EDITION __ Price 3 Ce ents_ TO SOVIET WORKERS WHILE MILLIONS HUNGER IN CAPITALIST AMERICA RELIEF CONFERENCE CALLS Mass Hunger March Fri. Soviets Forge toPaveWay to February 4 New York Workers to March on Home Relief Emergency! f ALL WORKERS TO SUPPORT KY.-TENN. MINERS’ STRIKE 4 Weeks of Heroic Strugde | Is Battle of All Workers Revolutionary interintioual Miners Greet Kentucky-Tennessee Mine Strikers PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 27. — Miners all over the world, organized through the Inter- national Miners Committee in Berlin have sent their, greetings to the Kentucky-Tennessee striking miners. The greetings sent to the na- tional office of the National Miners’ Union follow: “Secretariat International Miners Committee sends fra- ternal fighting greetings to Kentucky miners. The heroic Ken- tucky miners have the sympathy of miners of all countries. ™ the name of all miners International Committee wishes full {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Demand U.S. Withdraw Gun Boats from Salvador NEW YORK. —Despite the epee of the Wall Street Charge d’Affairs, McCafferty, who sends reports to the State Department that the revolution in El Salvador has quieted, cables to capitalist newspapers from Panama City and Tegu- cigalpa, Honduras, tell of severe fighting still going on, with the workers and peasants by no: means having been crushed. cable, “refused at first to fire on An Associated Press story from Honduras states: “Rebels have succeeded in seiz- ing four towns in the Republic of El Salvador and were attacking two others, dispatches from El Salvador said tonight, “The towns reported to have fal- len were Metapan, La Libertad, Sonsonate and Ahuachapan, “Latest dispatches said the rebels were attacking San Miguel and Chaltenango, It was reported that a battle had been going on for two days in the vicinty of Santana and that the, result still remained uncertain, In the vicinity of San Salvador the government forces were reported to have captured hundreds of pri- soners, although sporadic fights still were going on.” The Panama City dispatch reports that at first the army officers had great difficulty getting the troops to fire against their fellow workers. “The regular soldiers,” says the the Communists.” It is with the support of American and British warships and marines that the capitalist scum in El Salva- dor becomes bold enough to shoot down lone workers suspected of be- ing Communists. In San Salvador, 10 workers suspected of being leaders were executed. The bankers and business men are supplying money for the arming of the “aristocracy,” the large land owners and business men of El Salvador. With the wholesale slaughter against the workers going on under tthe protection of the guns on the American war vessels, the Ameri- can workers must come to the im- mediate support of their brothers in El Salvador. The workers and peasants theretare fighting against hunger, imposed by American im- perialism. Demand the withdarw- al of the gunboats and marines! Stop the murder of workers and peasants! All support to the revo- lutionary workers and peasants of El Salvador! R.LL.U. Callson Revolutionary Unions to Push Fight Against Scottsboro, Ala. Lynch Verdicts Denouncing the fascist terror in the courts as emphasized in the at- tempts to legally lynch the Scotts- boro Negro boys, the Harlem white and Negro mine strikers, Orphan Jones, Willie Paterson. and other class war victims, the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions calls upon the proletariat of all countries “to come forward determinedly against the iynching of Negro toilers in America, against white terrorism in your countries.” The call states, in part: ‘The growing consolidation of the working class, the growing class- consciousness of the Negro working masses, give rise to more and more attempts to set the black and white workers against each other. This capitalist method is one of the means applied by the ruling Ameri- can bourgeoisie. Capitalism fears the united front of the revolutionary workers and the Negro toilers, marching under the militant banners of the Communist Party and the rev- olutionary trade union movement. ‘With the most active support of the reformist trade union bureaucracy (CONTINUED ON P4SGE THREE) Hoover Tries to Hide Inflation Measures of New Finance Bill NEW YORK.—Faced with a deficit by this June of $2,- 200,000,000, with a drop in the value of exports of almost one and one half billion dollars, with an equal amount of currency withdrawn from circulation in the form of hoarded money, with a cataclysmic drop in wholesale commodity prices of more than 32 per cent and a fall in in-—— dustrial production of 44 per cent, the Wall Street government at Washington is seizing on the des- perate remedy of inflation to “cure” the festering sores which the crisis has produced on the body of Ameri- can finance, The Reconstruction Finance Cor- varation which is now awaiting the signature of President Hoover before going into effect provides for just such inflation on a gigantic scale. While the inflation that will follow will give temporary relief to the fin- anciers, railroad magnates, and in- surance companies and bond issuers in general it will only serve to drive (CONTINUED ON fAGH THRED) Shall the Daily Wor- ker be forced to suspend publication? This is the question facing each reader of the revolution- ary press and every rev- olutionary worker. The failure of many Party units in the New York District and, perhaps, other districts to take up collection of tunds for the Daily Worker imme- diately at their unit meet- ings, hasplaced the Daily Worker in a very grave position. There is no further supply of paper. Unless something unforseen takes place between the timeof publication ofthis paper and tomorrow night we will beabsolute- ly without paper to pub- lish tomorrow’s edition. Rushevery dollar, halt dollar, nickel aud dime you can scrape ub or bor- row. Save the Daily Worker!RUSH FUNDS AIRMAIL, SPECIAL DELIVERY AND BY WIRE TOT HEDAILY WORKER, 50 E.13 St. NEW YORK CITY. DAILY WORKER MGT. COMM. \ ‘ Bureau Tomorrow NEW YORK.—In preparation fo! Feb. 4, National Unemployment In surance Day, the Midtown Unem- ployed Council will conduct a Hun-| ger March on Friday, Jan. 29, cul- minating in a mass demonstration in front of the main office of the | Home Relief Bureau, at 10 E. 34th St. There will be two lines of march. | On the West Side the marchers will | assemble at’ 11:30 a.m. on the corner of 63rd St. and Amsterdam Ave., from where they will march down Amsterdam to 53rd St., then east to Ninth Ave., south to 40th St., east to | Eighth Ave., south to 38th st., and} then east crossiown to 10 E. 34th St. | The East Side marchers will as- semble at 12:30 p.m. at 29th St. and Lexington Ave., marching north to 34th St., and thence west to veal Home Relief office. At noon a series of open-air meet- | ings will be held in the needle trades market, awaiting the marchers, and | joining their ranks as they pass. The West Side column will pass through 40th and 34th Sts., between 12:30 and 1 pm., making it possible for em- New Future for Working Masses Second Five- Year Plan | Plan to 0 Raise Standards of Living of Soviet Workers In Contrast to Starvation In Capitalist Countries ’ to Demand Relief workers in this section to come | y into the march from the| F.S.U. Issues Feb. 4 Call. The New York District of the Friends of the Soviet Union in con- sidering the tremendous unemploy- ment in the United States, the cuts, stagger plans and the v ing of conditions—in contrast with | the 7-hour day, 5-day week, the | shortage of over two million workers in the Soviet Union, the raising of the economic and cultural levels of the workers and peasants of the U. | S. S. R.—go on record in favor of the | Feb. 4 Demonstration on Union | Aims at Complete Elimination of Classes In Soviet Union By End. of 1932-1937 Plan of Construction ages | MOSCOW, Jan. 27.—While industries and To Demonstrate In Williamsburg Saturday. In preparation for the Feb. 4 Dem- | onstration, the Williamsburg Unem- ployed Council has arranged a dem- onstration for Saturday, Jan. 30, at 2 pm., at Scholes and Graham Ave., | to protest against the eviction of an unemployed worker by the landlord trade in the United States and other capitalist countries continue in a sharp decline and un- employment and the mass misery of the work- ers, farmers and white collar workers mount skyward as the skyscraper Empire Building, j\inscribing a gigantic question mark across | capitalism’s twilight sky, the working masses (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) and the building bosses on Feb Meeting i in Support |= of Striking Seamen. Wm. Z. Foster. German Striker to Speak NEW YORK. — To strengthen the strike front of the German seamen, | spread the strike and rally the sup- | port of the workers of New York, a/ big mass solidarity meeting will take | place tonight at 8 p. m. at the Hun- | garian Workers’ Home, 350 E. 81st St, at which Wm. Z. Foster, national sec- | retary of the Trade Union Unity League will be the main speake:. Rep- resentatives of the striking German seamen ‘and of the Marine Workers | Industrial Union will also speak. October were forced to accept a wage cut of 13,5 percent, by the latest edict | of the Bruening dictatorship had their | wages reduced by another 10 percent. Against this brutal attack on their living standards the International of Seamen and Harbor Workers has | called upon the German seamen to go on strike on January 1. Many crews of German ships have followed this call. In New York alone the csews of thee Geman steames have gone out on strike under the leadership of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, the American section of the Inter- national of Seamen and Harboor Building Contractors Plan 25 Per Cent nt Wage Slash A. F. of L Officials t to a itelp Put It Across— Workers Must Prepare to Fight; Demonstrate Feb. “‘h! the Soviet Union on the basis of unequalled |Successes of the first Five-Year Plan to be | completed this year, unfold the banner of the second plan of 1932 to 1937. This will bring further achievements of so- cialism add 4 raise the population’s standard of living. As the great drama unfolds in the world arena which will | decide humanity’ 's fate, it is already clear that the final victory ‘Sov —* will not be of capitalism and its dis« aster, but socialism and its freedom for the toiling masses and the op- pressed peoples of the entire world. tens of thousands of workers in New Yor strate for unemployment insurance in Union Square, against | | just one day before | rk City will demon- ruary 8rd, Aten cuts and against imperialist | The latest wage cut order was an- nounced by C. G. Norman, chairman | of the Board of Governors of the Building Employers Association. Every building trades worker, be- longing to an A. F. of L. union should | know that Mr. C. Norman did not | NEW YORK. _Wage cuts 0 cuts of nae per cent for building | FOLL OWS POLICY trades workers will be arranged by building union officials | : OR PEACE Ss Non-Agression Pact With Poland The peace policy of the So-| viet Union and its sincere de- sire for disarmament stands | | out in shining contrast with the Discuss Seccad Five-Year Plan Everywhere in the Soviet Union one hears workers, collective farm- ers, students and engineers enthu- siastically discussing the main tasks and perspectives of the second Five- | Year Plan as set forth in the thesis |of Molotov and Kuybishev and ap- | proved by the Political Bureau of the |Communist Party for its presentation at the approaching seventeenth Party |conference. Besides being members jot the Political Bureau, Molotov is chairman of the Council of the Peo- ples Commissars, while Kuybishev is | president of the State Planning Com- announce the forthcoming 25 per| imperialist war preparations of | | mission. cent wage cut without ing the leading building t officials. In many ci |euts have been put over, | ways been with the consent and help | of the A. F. of L. union of | railroad union leaders @ | tiating a 10 per cent The proposals of the jow nego- building | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWor icials. The | consult- | the capitalist countries and their ac- 's union | s where wage | it has al-| tual carrying on of against the Chinese mas ing the initiating of similar agree- |ments with France and Finland, the bloody war | aggression pact with Poland yester- day. Like negctiations are now un- der way for the signing of non-ag- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Follow- | Soviet Union entered into a non-| To Abolish Classes The seventeenth Party conference will be composed of delegates elected | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) EIGHT MORE DRESS SHOPS JOIN RANKS The German seamen, who only last | 7 S.. Japanese Clash Is 0F STRIKERS Workers. Tense; Chinese Masses)> "<5 Face Armed Intervention | Washington Giweak > Sounds Britain and | the dressmakers w Italy On Joint Action In the Far East The revolutionary the threat of immediate joint ferialists, with the possibility armed intervention by the im- of an armed conflict between the imperialist powers over the division of the loot in China. Bither alternative threatens hte world proletariat with a new | conference. Spanish Comm The Communist Party of Spain has directed the following de- mands as a basis for a united front to all working-class organizations: Support the demands of the striking railway workers. For the immediate expulsion of | all the large landowners, the con- | fiscation of teh land without pay- | ment and turning it over to the farm workers and poor peasants, Increase the wages of the peas- ants by 100 per cent. Unemployment insurance, im- mediate relief in the form of food, housing and fuel for the unem- unists Fight Socialist-Capitalist Gov’t Workers Seize Four Towns; Army Officer Says Troops Refuse to Fire On Workers ployed. Increase of 25 per cent in the wages of all workers. For the 8-hour day. Against tke law of the defense of the republic (which strengthens the fascist forces). Against the prohibition and per- seeution of the Communist Party of Spain and other worker and Peasant organizations. The right of meeting without re- strictions of all workers and peas- ants. Refuse the use of the railroads (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | (ooNTINUED ON FAGH TuREM 8 W. 37th St. at 2p, m ‘ ®world slaughter and increased misery | and suffering. The Japanese move to seize Shang- | | gateway to the rich Yangtze Valley, | has brought a sharp protest from the | United States government which sees in the Japanese move a direct threat mintang Chnia, The Washington government has openly threatened naval and military Street's loot and investments in China. The United States is inviting the British to join in joint naval and military action. In the meantime, Tokyo reports “an impending Anglo- | tion against the Chinese masses. The situation became more tense yesterday with Japan handing the Nanking government a final ultima- tum, demanding compliance with the Japanese demands by 6 p. m. Thurs- hai, important South China city and | to Wall Street’s hegemony over Kuo- | action in the Far East to “protect | | American rights”—which means Wall| Japanese rapprochment” for joint ac- | s Membership Meet to Hear Report of Drive NEW YORK.—Tonight at 7 o'clock, the general membership meeting of hear a full ree | port on the shop strikes which began | with the month of January, the nume | ber of workers that have returned to Chinese’ masses are faced today with | work under’improved conditions and | the plans for the mobilization for the |dress strike. At this meeting the dres: kers will also elect fraternal delegaies to the united front shop The dress membership meeting to~ |night will be held at Stuyvesant | Casino, 140 2nd Ave. at 7 p. m. Dressmakers Conference to Decide on Strike. The final decision on the demands }and the organization of the machin- y to make final preparations for | the strike will take place at the con- |ference on Saturday, Jan. 30th, 12 o'clock, at Irving Plaza. |The conference will also take proper | steps to expose the fake strike lock- out planned by the International, together with the bosses and Dudley Field Malone. All workers from open shops, Ine dustrial Union shops and Internas tional shops are urged to discuss the | drift of the demands and to elect | their full quota of delegates. Today a meeting of unemployed pressers and unemployed cutters will be held to take similar action. The pressers will meet at 422 7th Ave. at 2p. m. and the cutters will meet at N ‘