The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1932, Page 1

Insurance A. F. of L. Delegaies Dail Demand Referendum for Unemployment orker The Tennessee Miners Are Joining the Kentucky Strike, Help Spread the Strike by Rushing Relief Funds to W.LR., 16 W. 21st St., WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Central -Orga (Section of the Communist International) o INTO THE ST Consolidate StrikeinKy.; > > CHIEF CITIES -Ce min unist Party U.S.A. ~ Warning! Mass Mobilization In Newark Tag Day for Ky. Miners’ Retief New York City CC eee oe ee EC 2 a REETS FEB. 4! RALLY AGAINST HUNGER, WAR! JAPANESE TAKE SHANGHAI: ! Take Up Struggle from PREPARE FOR ‘the next few days are cru ccs cz SBIZE HARBIN; AIM BLOW AT | Mine to Mine; Build NWU More Mines to Come Out In Tennessee; Miners Prepare to Demonstrate Feb. 4; Many Join Communist Party Strike Committee Takes Steps to Strengthen) Relief Collection FEBRUARY 4 400 A.F.L. Members In St. Paul Back Fight | For Unempl. Insur. 4 New Cities Report In all leading cities! in the United States, as) well as in hundreds of | cial in the life of your “Daily.” So tar we have received only : $685.87 and we are still $4,315 short of the $5,000 which we must get by Monday if we are to come out at all next week.' We were able to come out at will mean tt rally in miners! and tomor New York Cit for starvin winning ng hunger CHINESE REVOLUTION, USSR In 1} erialist War Over China Threatens as U. S. Divi of Loot Japan in Clash Over Shanghai E According to the Harbin corres Must Answer Threat of New World aughter With Mighty Demon- strations February 4 PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 28.—A hearing on a writ of habeas corpus small industrial cen- | See NTN OS Ne ft te Ren: 0 panese) | for te release of the 9 arrested strike leaders will be held Friday morn- |teys, preparations for i : a ee : Vaiesas’ “eect RE inigas A We pyaay. Geylaces tint #40: ectmitnal syndicalist isw, under which huge February 4th demonstra- | all only because money received Changchun, owned jo! ot Un aS be A iated Press dispateh fem the coal operators seek to break the strike through the arrests, is un- constitutional. The 9 arrested are Vern Smith, John Harvey and Vicent Kamenovich of the Clarina Michaelson and Norma Martin of the Workers International elisf; Dorothy Ross Weber, of the Ba: Parker who have been working for ducting the strike. . PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 28.—Spread of the} ‘on, of labor press correspondent, and Margaret Fontain and Julia correspondent of the Daily Worke ational Miners’ Union; International Labor Defense; Ann the National Miners’ Union in con- tions are advancing rapidly. penetrating all working clas organizations, As hunger and _ starvation} grows in the United States, with a| new wage-cut offensive started by’ the bosses, the danger of war looms larger as the. capitalists look to aj new world slaughter in an attempt! to get out of the cr to piunge able to negotiate a last minute ON W2 loan from a workers’ organiza- on the subscription drive con- est COAS SAN F CO, Cal—At a ese Red Army cz w is one of the big, pander of the has consulted with the other impzr e Red Army. Latest di between Chine Chinese troops in th ‘s from are preparins to aticck the Red A: anghai rez articipating in the anghai repo s that a section f kow yesterday. of the Yangtse Valley. ny. Admiral Yan- 1 forces on tae river, t atiack against the sts for a jo * ort a fierce battle proceeding and the Japxnese invading forces. gainst the Japanese. d h Bie vnheey hiseee iain Gee eee mass meeting called Wednesd 2 hat the entire city 9] atrilce j a 7 ra. | : pap > apres ie 2 th nk and fil ommi upied by the Japanese after 7 hours of severe fighting. coal strike in Tennessee 1S expected as the re ae and against the Soviet Un- | tion thereby endangering both cen ae ik cy A se troops were reported in a dispatch on Thursday to be sult of a huge meet in Jelicoe, Tenn. next Sun- |!» ) Poo eae ome inst the Kuomintang program of abject sur of L. ers’ 19 and 115 ‘day. The strike is being consolidated in Ken- tucky, and an effort being made to reach all) the local mines in a united front. directed to activizing the local struggles, in intensifying the fight against all local operators. Preparations for the February 4th struggle for unemploy- ment relief is being taken up throughout the strike area. Special efforts are being | The February 4th demonstrations, in fighting war, will demand that all war funds—over $1,000,000,000 is pro- posed immediately by Hoover—go to (CONTINUED ON PAG THREE) the organization and the Daily ‘Worker if enough funds do not: two Stipper us come in immediately to make this good. workers denounced and overruled the district council! and A. FP. of Le fermed a new union known as the National Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers Union, | The dézirict council of the pain- | Jeadership- and. enthusiastically plans for armed intervention ag: na. nese demar and The. present. res mayor and other off British have mobilized ail able-bodied natidnals in Shanghai ntang support o it the Chi the imperialist e Revolution and the idently in defiance of jals who are reported to have imperialists have their troops * (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)? ° | ters refused to cell a strike when The lan anese move a rainst Shanghai a verwhe! ss 1€ vdpve esi ) ra s s nd Co Out On Strike members voted overwhe ly to rene a ere Se a Condemn Vancouver Hunger Policy of A. F. of L. Leaders NEW YORK.—Expressing the wide and growing organ- ized fight in the American Federation of Labor against the Vancouver convention hunger mand of unemployment ing 20,525 A. F. of L. members who voted for the initiation of a refer- endum throughout the A. F. of L. and in the Railroad Brotherhoods for unemployment insurance and for participation in the February 4th un- employment Ccemonstrations. The conference was opened by Baskoff, who represented Local 2717 of the Carpenters, He outlined the growing struggle against unemploy- ment which brings 12,000,000 workers to the brink of starvation. Brother insurance, a conference was held| Wednesday night at Labor Temple of 19 local A. F. of L. unions, with 42 delegates represent-%- policy and rejection of the de-| jed is as follows: Resolution on Unemployment Insurance, “There are 12,000,000 totally unem- ployed workers and at least 10,000,000 working only part-time in the United States and the industrial crisis gets deeper from month to month, with the employers throwing further mil- lions of workers into unemployment, and “The relief policies of the govern- | ment, local, state and national, leav- | The Vincent Horowitz Slipper Co. | and the Columbia Slipper Co. are out | on strike. | The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union declared these two slipper shops on strike Thursday morning, Jan. 28. The Vincent Horo- witz at 64 W. 23rd St. New York, employing between 75 and 100 work- ers, locked most of the workers out | and those the firm called back to| work were given a wage-cut up to about 30 per cent. The locked out workers, together with those that the boss wanted to re-hire on lower pay, | joined together in a common fight | against the wage-cut. The demands | are all workers to go back to work, | no wage-cut and recognition of the | union, | The Columbia Slipper Co., 686| Broadway, was declared on strike on | account of the firm’s refusal to live | up to the agreement which he had} ith the union. In both cases the | Only you, the workers, can save the Daily Worker! What will be your answer? RUSH FUNDS BY AIRMAIL, SPE- CIAL DELIVERY OR WIRE strike egeinst a two dollar cut in pay that was posted by the bosses to apply to the whole San Fran- ck o arca, When a gorous protest made aca the seil-out from the ffoor of the locals several militant was workers were forcibly ejected from the mecti Sayenty per cent of those present left in protest, |the tremendous mass upsurge against the imperiali Jalley is aimed primarily at the Chinese Revolution. The Japanese are heading directly against the Chinese Red Army and the powerful Chinese S is today the only stable force viet Republie, which in all China The Japanese demand that the Chinese anti-Japanese organizations be crushe ed is an immediate armed thr and their revolutionary orgar TO THE DAILY WORKER, Prepare Thruout City to 50 E.13St., New York City. | Demonstrate in Union 16,000 Families Evicted in N.Y.| This Year; May Total 200,000, NEW YORK.—A grave situation, The startling revelation is also Square on February 4 NEW YORK.—Wide preparations throughout the city are | scheduled for the entire week leading up to the huge demon- | mn Gales. | against the Chinese masses ms and is designed to crush Ss and their Kuomintang lackeys and to block the rapid growth of Commus nist influence throughout China. Must Rally Masses to Defense of Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union, The Japanese are removing their nationals from the Yangtze Valley in preparation for a savage attack on the Chinese Soviet Republic. At the same time, Japanese troops have oce cupied the Manchurian city of Hare bin, on the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly operated by China and the Weinstock of Painters Local 499 was |ing to each community the care of| strikers are enthusiastic and deter-| with starvation facing hundzeds of | made that there were 198,738 evic- |stration in Union Square on February 4th, National Unem-| ie aiken elected chairman. He pointed out|its own unemployed by means of) mined to win their conditions. | thousands of workers, with more | tions in 1931, and the prospects are | ployment Insurance Day. tluthe:oa the ons sheets ‘Ral ' the hunger program of Hoover and charity collections, have failed total-) ‘The strike at Pincus & Tobias is/ than 16,000 families having been | there will he over 200,000 in 1932, | Fifty-two open air meetings throughout the territory of | ay tot teaaport oie Ee the capitalists which Green and the | ly to relieve the famished condition) now going on the third week, in| evicted thus far this year, and with | unless the workers organize to re- |the Bronx will prepare the workers }———————— ——| Harbin, and threaten to seize the erie last national convention of the A. F. of L. endorsed. He declared it was necessary within the A. F. of L. to initiate a struggle for unemployment insurance, to be paid by the bosses’ government at full wage rates, and that this should be brought to the attention of the A. F. of L. and the Railroad Brotherhoods through a ref- erendum and through general agita- tion. The resolution unanimously adopt- of the workers and their families, | with the result that there is now prevailing the moSt terrible state of mass hunger, destitution, and actval starvation in the history of this coun- try, and this is rapidly getting worce, and “This devastating situation de- mands the immediate establishment of national government unemploy- | | {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOr El] Salvador Revolutionists Capture Three More Towns Mass NEW YORK.—Latest reports from Central America show that the workers and peasants of El Salvador, despite the odds against which they are fighting, with Wall St. gungoats helping the fascist government, are making important advances. An Associated Press dispatch from ‘Tegucikalpa, Henduras, states: “Communiss vebels in Salvador today beat back Federal troops in the interior, inflicting ineavy losses and were tonight reworted in control of Acajuila, it. whose harbor lie two American destroyers, “New officers, crossing the Hon- duran border, rallied the retreating Reds to a fresh attack on the eastern seabord, with the object of taking | San Miguel before sweeping on to} San Salvador, the capitol. “Communist troops declared in control of Sonsonate, Ahuacpan, Me- tapan, Cojutepeque and La Libertad. The dead in the five days of fighting total 5,000.” | | | PROTEST AGAINST EVICTION | | All workers are asked to come | to 166 Scholes and Graham Ave., | to protest against the brutality of | | the landlord to his striking ten- ants, and to form a march to 167 Ten Eyck St. to protest against | eviction eviction and police bru- spite of the boss's schemes to break | the ranks of the workers, in spite | of arrests and police intimidation around the picket line. The strikers | are as determined as ever to win| their demands, The two workers who were ar-} rested at Pincus & Tobias are out, on bail. Their names are E. Greeco | and John Catania. The number of | workers out on strike under the Shoe | and Leather Workers’ Industrial | Union are over 200, The union calls upon all shoe and slipper workers to | support the strike financially. the prospects of over 200,00 evic- tions in 1932, is admitted by the leading capitalist newspapers in the city. ‘The New York American, through investigation of the files in the ot- | fice of Chief Marshal Charles Ja- cobs, says “unemployment distress _ has reached such a degree this month that more than 16,000 cases _ of eviction have been placed on court calendars or in the hands of the marshals since the first of the year.” sist the evictions, demand immedi- ate unemployment relief and un- employment insurance, The situation is made worse by the virtual shutting down of the City Home Relief Bureau, which already has 75,000 families regis- tered applying for relief. Because these families are not being fed, the city now refuses ¢o register any others, Jeaving hundreds of thou- sands with no possibility of any re~ lief whatever, for the mass demonstration that will | | be heid on Saturday, Jan. 30th, in| front of the Bronx Boro Hall at 12) noon to demand immediate unem- | ployment relisf and unemployment insurance. | The workers under their own ban- {ners and flags will gather at three | places in the morning at the follow- jing places: Washington and Clare- |mont Parkway, Wilkins and Inter- | vale, and 187th St. and Cambrelling Ave. Workers of the mass organizations, NEW YORK.—The opening gun in a campaign of deter- mined struggle by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union against race discrimina- | tion on the part of the bosses | and white chauvinism in its) own ranks, will be fired Sun- day, Feb. 7, with the mass trial | tality. vicious attack upon a Negro or- ganizer of the union, The trial Trial of Chauvinist Worker Called for Feb. 7th by Needle Trades Industrial Union *To Be Opening Gun In Relentless Struggle Against Attempts of Bosses to Split Working Class With Race Poison A Call to Struggle Against ‘trial Union calls attention to the renewed attempts of the bosses to split us along lines of race and nationality. In the now will take place at the New Har- lem Casino, 16) West 116th St. at 2 o’clock. Negro and white) workers will be on the jury. In} calling for the mass trial, the ers, Negro and khite: of a white union member for a, National Bureau of the Union, Fellow Workers: has issued the following state-| ment: IN attack which they are }making upon our wages and |conditions of work, one of the \ best weapons they have against jus is race hatred—pitting the | white workers against the Ne- Race Division Among Needle Workers To all Needle Trades work- The National Buro of the eedle Trades Workers Indus-| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) House and Block committees, unions, Trade Union Unity League groups will participate in this demonstra- tion on Saturday by the thousands and will arouse the workers for the Feb. 4th huge city demonstration. March to Sirovich Home A parade of workers starting from 7th St. and Ave \A, accompanying a delegation elected at a United Front Conference called by the Downtown Unemployed Council, will go to the house of Congressman W. I. Sirovich, Monday, February 1, 2 p.m., to de- mand the following for the unem- | Council of the ployed workers of the East Side: Un- employment insurance at full wages for all unemployed workers, full pay- ment of bonus to all ex-service men, the opening of all armories, public buildings; clothing and cash relief for the single workers; schools to supply free hot lunches and milk for the children of the unemployed, free rent, gas and electricity. Block committees of 13th, 12th, 10th, 7th, 5th and 3d Sts., have ar- ranged open air meeting to meet the parade on the line of march. A letter has been sent to Siro- vich informing him that the dele- gation is coming, stating: “We are sending this letter with the belief that you are given sufficient time to arrange your affairs so as to be perfectly free Monday.” “Thou- sands of families in the congres- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘STOP EVICTION * tire southern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway. This is another act of monstrous provocation by t@ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE , IN MID-BRONX On January 28 the Unemployed Middle and Lower Bronx, stopped the eviction of Rose Dropkin, living at 17C5 Bryant Ave, Mrs. Dropkin is an unemployed work. er who owes only a month and a half rent. Her husband is also jobless. Hundreds of workers from the neighborhood organized and put the furniture back into Mrs. Dropkin’s apartment. On Saturday, January 30, at 10 a.m, thousands of workers of the Middle and Lower Bronx will assemble at Wilkins and Intervale Ave., in a deme onstration against evictions, for une employment insurance and immedle ate relief. At 11 am., after a short meeting, the workers will march to Boro Hall. A committee will be elected by the workers which will present demands to Boro President Bruckner. At Boro Hall the line of march will be joined by thousands of workers of the Upped Bronx, All Report a ‘ t Today and Tomorrow for Newark Tag Days in Support of the Striking and Starving Kentucky Miners! ,