The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1932, Page 3

ai DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, . ~ Page Three == PREPARING FOR STRUGGLE IN MARINE INDUSTRY PLAN OF ACTION OF THE NEW YORK BRANCH OF THE MARINE WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION ‘The Marine Workers Industrial ; Union with the fullest assistance of | work out together with the Union the TUUL and the support of the;and the various language buros a Party is making a sharp turn. Never | plan of how to carry on work be- before were the shortcomings of the | tween the longshoremen and on Union brought out so sharply as in| board ships where there are workers the recent German seamen’s strike | that do not speak English for this First of all the greatest shotrcoming | purpose each: language buro shall a: is that it is purely a seamen’s organ- | sign one comrade to be at the d ization and would remain so if dras- | posal of the Union for a period of tic steps had not been to depart- three months commencing February mentalize the Union, along the long~ | Ist, : shore department has only been | > functioning one week in the port of New York a longshoremen’s group has been established, something we | ‘were never able to do before. Finances. Until sufficient finances are raised the Union must live within the two hundred dollar per month budget. | The finance committee to work out The program of work for this port | plans how to raise funds in visiting which has been carefully worked out | organizations, donations from mem- with the assistance of the TUUC and | fully discussed with the membership | | 4s as follows: Seamen’s Department. | We shall concentrate on certain | ships where we already have some | Members and we shall try to| strengthen our organization in order | to promote job action in answer to) wage cuts, All members must try | their utmost to get aboard the ships. | ‘The ship delegates must be closely | checked up on and the secretarty and | organizer of the seamen’s branch | must keep at all times the ship's | delegates informed as to what is) going on and special attention must be given to the education of the} | ship’s delegate. } Longshore Department. | In Brooklyn the work must be | tied up with the Unemployed Council. | ON DRAWING YOUNG WORKERS INTO THE. STRIKE STRUGGLES | During economic conflicts spe- | |cial attention should be paid to| protecting the interests of the | young workers and drawing them into active work. In working ont | | the demands, it is absolutely neces- | sary to include special points re- garding the labor of young work- | ers, and during the election of committees, young workers must be drawn in on an equal footing with adult workers. Young work- ers can play a decisive role on the picket line, in defense corps, in the establishment of contacts, in checking up the execution of de- (CHIEF CITIES "PREPARE FOR | FEBRUARY 4 | {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | tne unemployed in the form of un- astaed a insurance. In Milwaukee, the Feb. 4th dem- | onstrations will rally the workers, jemployed and unemployed for a The Central Language Buro shal! strusgle for immediate relief and) , the against the capitalist lacke; city socialist administration. In St. Paul nearly 400 members of the A. F. of L. endorsed the Feb. 4th call and are carrying on | their struggle for the mobilization for employment relief within their own local unions. MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Jan. 28.—The |Pebruary 4th demonstration in Mil- waukee, coming at the opening of the election camr m, will be the answer of the over 70,000 unemployed to the demagogic premises of the bosses’ politicians, Hoan, McCarthy, Metcalfe, ‘Higgins and other “non-partisans’ and “socialists” looking for re-elec- jers instead Tu?ETAOI ETAO ETAOE | tion. ‘There is plenty of talk going }on about relief for single men, food |to be gotten from groceries through | vouchers instead of the relief station, jete., but these are only talks. | The special session of the Legislature, in session for the past two months, jeven goes further. They passed an | “unemployment insurance” bill which go into effect in July, 1923, pro- | vided “no voluntary scheme will be | adopted by the manufacturers” and |the maximum $75 that can be drawn |by ® worker will only be used in | “future recessions.” : By gathering at 2 p. m. at Hay- | market, 5th and Vilot and marching | down at 3 p. m. to the County Court | House, the workers of Milwaukee will demonstrate for the Unemployed In- points One of the basic tasks of the long- shoremen’s department shall be to call a membership meeting of the ILD “where we can put forward our demands on unemployment, utilizing tthe situation for the building up of an opposition within the ILA. We shall immediately draw in five work~ ers from the contacts which we have between the members of the ILA into a committee and train them for the giving of leadership to the op- Position. Agitational work must be carried on condemning the New York agreement. Our concentration in Manhattan shall be two specific docks. On these docks the first step shall be to organize a grievance committee and several small groups which will be able to give leadership to a mass movement among the unorganized longshore~ men. One organizer shall be as- signed the task of this work. Towboatment. A meeting of the towboatmen shall be organized within one, month to! formulate the sprogram of action and carry on oppositional work within he United Marine Workers Ass’n, We shall get together immediately all those towboatmen who are members | of our Union. Harbormen. A committee to be called together | of barge captains to work out a pro- | gram of activity. Unemployed Work. — ‘The Unemployed Council to move immediately from headquarters of the Union. A committee of five shall be formed to organize committees to | work in the Institute where demands shall be raised. To work on board ships with lists containing demands to be presented to the federal gov- ernment at the same time when the lists for Unemployed Insurance are presented. Furthermore committees | should be formed within the Ship- ping Board and other shipping offi- ces to mobilize the seamen to put forward our unemployment demands concerning those organizations, Educational. Open Forums shall be held regu- larly once a week. Membership shall always spend one hour on some subject of TUUL work. Classes shall be held regularly twice a week. New members are to be supplied with lit- | erature to educate themselves when going to sea and special attention shall be given by the secretary to the ships’ delegates and by the longshore organizer to longshore job delegates. |surance Bill and the immediate de- |mcands of the County Unemployed | Council, $12 a week cash relief and {$5 meal ticket and $2 cash to single workers, The demonstration will also cisions made by the leading bodies, in the distribution of strike com- | | |mittee leaflets, ete, ete. A de- termined battle must be waged | | |against the social democratic tra- dition of considering young work- ers as a catagory undeserving of | any attention. | jelection campaign, in which Fred Bas- : |se-Blair will be the Communist can- The activization of the whole | |ditate against the bosses’ “Miracl movement depends to a great ex-| | Mayor Hoan. | |tent upon its ability to draw mass-| | es of young workers into hte strug- | | | gle-—Decisions of the International | |Conference on Strike Strategy The Unemployed Council here has | called a public hearing to take place | January, 1929. in | Jan. 31st, at 2 p. m. at Workers Cen- i | ter to expose the capitalists and their | bers, affairs, etc. The per caplta tax |Jackeys who uphold the present sys- |for the National Office must be paid | tem of starvation and to mobilize for |Tegularly. The finance committee | rep, 4th ¢ : shall consist of three Union members sean and two non-marine workers as- signed by the TUUC. Recruiting Drive. ae ee, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. 28— | Committees have been sent to gov- ernor Leslie, Mayor Sullivan, J. L. | Lewis of the United Mine Workers of | ‘The work as laid down in this pro- | America. The charity officials the | gram shall be intensified in the form | Negro misleader of the NAACP, and lof a recruiting drive commencing | ™22Y others, to invite these enemies Feb. 15th. This coming recruiting jot the workers to come to the hearing drive must not be merely conducted | to defend their position before the on the basis of getting members at | Masses. |large but on the basis of struggle) The Public hearing will mobilize against wage cuts and worsening of | for the mass demonstration at the |Seneral conditions on board ships | court House on Feb. 4, National Un- moat ain Lagat ater el oe employment Insurance Day. ‘The |must be closely liked up with the | i ‘ election of delegates to the fotattia |= cuca ner tae ae ebsenatasi World Congress of the International | vee ore 6 oe paras eee ‘of Seamen and Harborworkers May | will be thats re ae . vs ee ees 20, 1932 in Hamburg, Germany. ‘The | 09 nemo Ree eee | delegates to this congress must be He! POs Reece Sn te elected on a united front basis from | "SHt of free speech. | Ships especially those where we will | b3 -s be able to promote job action and| BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 26—Full unorganized docks and locals of the | Preparations are being made for the reformist unions, We must especially | Feb. 4th demonstration which will try to get delegates from localy | take place at the City Hall plaza at where there are signs of revolt|2p.m. A Committee of unemployed against the leadership of those lo- | workers will be elected at this demon- cals. In order to carry on a success- stration to present the following de~ ful campaign the Port .Organization mands to Mayor Jackson: (1) $5.00 Committee must pay the closest at- | minimum immediate cash relief for tention to ships’ delegates so as tO al! unemployed workers. (2)Free coal familiarize them with our policy, es- for all unemployed families. (3)Free pecially with the policy of promoting | food and carfare for the shcool chil- job action on the ships on the united | gren. (4)No evictic mployed front basis. We cannot stress the | 1 ebicss dora eaeainant) rally the workers behind the spring | fact enough to the ships’ delegate and to any other union member that when there is any wage cut or any other grievance that he must ap- proach every member of the crew who he thinks is able to assist him in organizing the crew to fight against this existing grievance re- gardless of whether this worker is a member of our union, a reactionary union, or unorganized. ~ PLAN OF CAL. BUILDING WORKERS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—The pro- gram of the Building ‘Trades Workers Industrial League of Sen Francisco is a mode lone for all other sections of the league, if it is carried out. In order to organize all the building trades workers into one militant or- ganization with a militant program of action and struggle, the program states: 1—The officialdom of the A. F. of 1, must be kicked out from the ranks of the labor movement; 2—The “bar- rier” of craft unions must be broken down; 3-—4a united front must be or- ganized of all A. F. of L. rank and file building workers, unorganized, ‘TUUL building workers and all un- employed and employed building workers. ‘The program calls for the or- ganizations of unified committee of action (workers of all building trades, including laborers), on all construc~ tions to fight wage cuts, speed-up, unsafe working conditions, for the 7 hour day, 5 day week with no re~ duction in weekly wages, against discrimination of foreign born and non-residential workers. In atl A. F. of L. unions opposition cials‘ dictation and against their class collaboration policies; for the forma- tion of a committee of action of all unemployed and part-time workers to fight for such specific needs of the workers as exemption from dues stamps while unemployed, etc. ‘The organization of a Central Unemployed Council of all locals regardless of craft, on the basis of struggle for immediate cash relief for all unem- ployed workers and their families is also on the program. COMMUNIST SENTENCED TO DEATH EN WARSAW. WARSAW.—Press reports state that two Communists were sentenced to death, accused of espionage in behalf of the Soviet Union. 6 eS a POLITICAL PERSECUTION INCREASES PINSK.—Minister of the Interior Peracki published figures showing great increases in political persecu- tions in Poland. In the first nine months of last year over 8,000 polit~ ieals were imprisoned, . ’ : ONE FASCIST KILLED; FOUR WOUNDED IN ESSEN ‘There were fierce collisions be- tween workers and fascists in Essen, Tuesday evening. One fascist was shot dead and four wounded. workers. | Following the demonstration at the | City Hall a march will then take |place upon the Family Welfare As- ‘sociation where demands for immedi- | ate relief will also be presented to this |fake bosses charity outfit. A full ex- | posure will be made of the refusal to |grant by this outfit upon a number of occasions to Negro and young workers any relief. The unemployed movement Is de- | veloping with rapidity in this city. | Approximately 22 unemployed block branches have been established with ‘a total membership of over 1000. A | city wide collection of signatures for Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill is being conducted, A committee is also being organized in the City flop-house, ELIZABETH, N. J., Jan. 28—A Conference of representatives of vari- ous Labor and Fraternal organizations in preparation for the Feb. 4th de- monstration will take place this com~ ing Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Workers Center, 106 East Jersey St. Elizabeth, N. J, On Feb. 4th, the International Day of Struggle for Unemployment In- surance, a demonstration will take place at Union Square at 4 p. m. in Elizabeth, at which all workers em- ployed and unemployed will turn out in a demands for unemployment in- surance. 6 res Te MINOT, No. Dokato.—Leaflets cal- ling the unemployed workers to come out in masses to the February 4th demonstration for. the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill and im- mediate relief is being spread here. ‘The workers and farmers, here, in the northwest are uniting on the common ground of poverty piled on theb by their common enemy the bankers and hosses. JAPANESE ATTACK SHANGHAI: SEIZE HARBIN; CHINESE REVOLUTION, USS: | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) { | Japanese imperialists against the | Soviet, Union. | | The Communist Parties and the | | revolutionary trade unions in every | | country are faced with the imme- diate and pressing duty of mob- ilizing the toiling masses against the imperialist plans for a new and | bloddier world slaughter as 2 way | out of the world economic and fi- nancial crisis of capitalism through | the slaughter of millions of workers | | and the conguest and monopoly | control of new colonies (China, the Soviet Union, cte,). | The February Fourth Demon- strations in the United States for | | unemployment insurance must also | | be a nation-wide mobilization of the starving unemployed and em- ployed white and Negro warke: and the ruined poor farmers tor 4 relentless fight against imperiatist war, for the war funds to be turned over for the relief of the | 42 million unemployed. | It must be a nation-wide dem- onstration of the workers in de- fense of the revolutionary struggles of the American masses against | | starvation, mass misery, wage-cuts | and the increasing lynch terror, and | for the defense of the Chinese | Revolution and the Soviet Union. | U.S. Tells Japan Shanghai Ts | Not Manchuria. | | Declaring that the Japanese at-} | tempt to seize Shanghai “presented | an entirely different aspect from the | standpoint of the United States than did the Manchurian occupation” (by | |Japan), the Wall Street government | | yesterday ordered Japan not to land | | troops in Shanghai or blockade the | port or otherwise interfere with the interests of United States imperial- ism in Kuomintang China. A Wash- | ington dispatch reporting what is | practically an ultimatum to the Japanese, adds the significant state- ment: | “This position was made known | officially today as dark news of threatening warfare came in from China.” ‘That the situation is considered serious by the Wall Street govern- |ment is shown by its publication of some of the secret notes exchanged with Japan over the Manchurian occupation. ‘This diplomatic corre- spondence which was published yes~ terday in the imperialist press shows no real note of alarm or warning on the part of the Wall Street govern- | ment over the Japanese seizure of | Manchuria. The acauiescence of the | Washington government on the loot- |ing of Manchuria is im sharp con- | trast to its present alarm and anger now that the Japanese are directly | challenging Wall Street's financial | interests in Shanghai and United | States hegemony over Kuomintang | | China. While Japan confined its ac- | tivities to grabbing Manchuria, there |was a tacit understanding that | Japan would convert Manchuria into | @ military base against the Soviet | Union and lead the armed attack on | the Soviet Union from the Far East. | Ignoring the sharp protests of the Wall Street government, the Japa- nese yesterday bombarded the Shang- hai forts and landed 1,000 marines to reinforce 4,000 Japanese troops lalready in the city. Latest dis- patches report that this Japanese force. is advancing on Chapai, the native city, from positions in the In- ternational Settlement. An imperial~ ist dispatch from Shanghai reports: “Japan decided today te occupy the Chinese portion of Shanghai, | despite a complete Chinese surren- der to its demands for cessation of the anti-Japanese boycott and other anti-Jtptnese activities.” Chinese Workers Fight Betrayal By Kuomintang. ‘The surrender was made by the Kuomintang city government and is | not participated in by the Chinese workers, who continue their demon- strations against the Japanese and the Kuomintang betrayers of China. Chinese workers and students yester- day demonstrated against the Kuo- mintang mayor, stoning his office | and smashing windows in an expres- sion of their indignation against this | new betrayal of China, The mayor ordered police and troops to break up ther e volutionary, anti - imperialist, anti-Kuomintang organizations of the masses. Japan Threatens Break With U.S. ‘The Tokyo government is reported to greatly resent the publication by the United States of ‘the correspon- dence with Japan. A threat by the Washington government to invoke an econongic boycott against Japan brought a threat from Japan to break off diplomatic relations with the United States. ‘The Japanese have begun the re- moval of their nationals from the Yangtze Valley towns, in prepara- tion for all eventualities. U.S. Troops tn Shanghai Called to Arms. United States marines and troops have been called to arms to patrol the International Settlement in Shanghai. The U. 8S. destroyer ‘Truxton, which has ben at Shanghai for some time, has been reinforced by the destroyer Borie. The Japa- nese have 13 warships in the river before Shanghai, with other naval forces on the way. A Washington dispatch checks up the American naval forces in the Far East. It admits that there are 10 ‘United States gunboats and 4 de- stroyers patrolling the Yangtze River. Within 1,500 miles of Shanghai, “pa- trolling Chinese waters,” are 14 more United States warships, with com- bined forces of 85 officers and 1,031 men. In addition, the destroyer Mc- Cormick has jus tarrived at Hong- AIM BLOW AT kong. The main United Si atic fleet is at Man: steaming distance fror Manila, also, are U.S. naval aircraft. in addition, The dispatch lists 1,589 officers and 23,318 men of the U.S. Army in Hawaii, the Philippines and Chin: The Fourth Regiment of marines, consisting of 52 officers and 1,173 men, i ationed at Shang- hai. The dispatch adds | 25 CHICAGO ORGANIZA- TIONS START COUNTER OLYMPICS = MASS TRIAL OF CHAUVINIST WORKER ( CALLED FOR FEB. 7 BY NEEDLE UNION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ast the for- as they ILGWU di: workers. Recer example of cha crimination oce whe th U. 8. On Way Ill—Twenty-five mass | openly including two clubs | pressers thi “ID “€v outbreaks in| from the Socialist S | them by r the Chinese area, this country prob- | tional, also the Int from t ably would be forced to dispatch war-|0f Good Templars endorsed carried | ships from San Diego and other sta- | Started work for the Labor 8; own union in F tions on the Pacific a }Union Counter Olympic Meei for | tirely too slow in fighting th It states that there is only a small | this summer jand in pionting out to the Jewish! naval force at present at Hawaii, but endorsed at the | workers that it is not the N ic significantly adds: Provisional Counter Olympic Confer- | ers who are responsible for the un “However, during winter maneu- | cnee held 1932, The |employment and bad condit vers off Honolulu, Feb, 6-11, and | deleg that on the follow- | the industry, but tie bosses and their throughout the remainder of Feb- | ing issues they will mobilize their | system, which Mr. Reisberg and hi ruary, the entire battle force of |membership for the largest Interna- | kind uphold and support the United States fleet will be in | tional Campaign ever to be held in| Our union, tt Tiawalian waters.” \the United States. policy the unifi This concentration is already un-|1. To build an International Coun- | for a con s der way. |ter Olympic Campaign in direct op- | bosses, and a fight for the rights of ‘The gunboats Sacramento and the | position to the bo Olympics the most oppressed workers in the U. S. Asheville aer now on the way| 2 To mobilize tens of hundreds of | trade, the Negro workers. The recent to ‘China. | workers in and around Chicago for | struggles of furriers united Negro In addition to the U.S. forces in| | Shanghai, the British have 2,170 m and 100 officers in the city. ‘Three British gunboats are now off the waterfront, with 7 more patrolling the | Yangtze River against the Chinese Revolution. The French have 1,000 men and 30 officers ifthe French concession in Shanghai. This tre- mendous force is being prepared for @ bloody onslaught against the Chi- nese Soviets and the Soviet Union. British Cool to U.S. Request for Joint Action. The British imperialists are re- ported to be in fympathy with the Japanese. A Tokyo dispatch a few days ago reported a rapprochement | between Japan and Great Britain. | is campaign To prepare for a Mass United Front Conference of Mass Organiza- tions during Maret 4 To protest agai he Olymp Olympics meet Counte! 5. To dema Mooney who is honary chairman of the Counter Olympics Committee. 6. To mobilize thousands for the welcoming of the Soviet Union spertsmen to Chicago. A provisional United Front Com- tepresentative of each organization. ‘Tens of thousands of leaflets are im- mittee was elected constituting one mediately to be issued, to the factor- | ies, Y.M.C.A., et., popularizing the | race discrim- | For an open | 1 the release of Tom | rs solidly fo and white wor common. interests also taken part in the mass |to free the innocent Scott: nous boss i penetrated even This is most y a recent incident in New York, when a white member of the | union, insulted and attack ked one of |the Negro organizers. This white | worker stated also that “it would be | better if we had no Negro workers jin the trade at all.” In this, t ; showed very clearly the vicious in- | fluence of the bosses and their com- | pany union. The New York local of our union has decided upon a mass trial of The British-American rivalries are | decisions of the Conference calling | this worker at the New Harlem Ca- | | resisting the United States’ attempt to grab British markets and attempt ing to wrest from the United States | the leadership in the anti-Soviet | front. ‘The Japanese continue their war | of suppression against the Chinese | masses in Manchuria. and are push-| the words ‘the dictatorship of the | successful only if the w the | proletariat? and we shall make them | to allow themselves to be split on ing steadily forward toward Soviet frontier. | Front | The John Reed Club of Chicago, is | preparing an International Poster | Contest, in order .to select the offi- cail Counter-Olympic Poster. “We are pronouncing aoe | in good faith | @ reality.” LENIN. | CONSOLIDATE STRIKE IN KENTUCKY; AKE UP STRUGGLE FROM MINE TO MINE; BUILD N. M. U. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ie { The Communist Party has orran-| ized several units among the striking miners, rallying the most class con- | scious of the strikers into the ranks of the revolutionary party of the working class. Governor Horton of Tennessee, who made a pretense at “investigat- ing” the kidnapping and beating of Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, strike leaders who were viciously flogged by Harlan County gun thugs, now has dropped all pretenses and has openly given up his sham inyesti- gation. This again proves what Joe Weber told Col. Boyd, Governor Horton's investigator, that the Tennessee government officials, | along with the Kentucky coal op- erator’s officials, are doing all they can to smash gthe strike and help the gunmen of the coal bosses. The Central Rank and File Strike Committee met at Pineville Wednes- day with 150 attending. The follow- ing steps were taken: (1) To build the National Miners’ Union among the strikers not yet in the union, as well as among other miners; (2) strengthening of the re- lief apparatus; to push relief activity to help spread the strike; (3) draw- ing in of women; (4) greater ex- | posure of the strikebreaking activi- | ties of the United Mine Workers of | America whom the operators ‘are des- | perately trying to draw in to crush the strike. | North Carolina farmers are coming into the Knoxville office of the Workers International Relief and of- fering food to the striking miners. | There is no demovalization in the | strike activity of the Kentucky min- ers, despite the huge show of force and terror of the coal operators ex~ pressed particularly last Sunday by armed gunmen watching the roads like hawks to prevent the holding of the “Spread the Strike” conference. At Straight Creek, Ky., it was de- cided to organize a mass march to Kettle Island Thursday to help the strikers there picket. ‘The Pineville authorities are try-| ing to exclude all miners from other | towns from this city. One miner! from Gatliff, 75 miles from Pineville, was arrested on the charge of “vag- rancy.” All other miners were warned by the police to keep away on the pain of the same charge, A number of Pineville residents de- manded that the City Council re~ fuse to pay $4 a day to hundreds of deputized gunmen, and the mayor, has threatened to “resign.” | ‘The Sheriff of Bell County called in strike leaders yesterday and told them that he would sue the Daily ‘Worker because it said he hired gun thugs. He said it was the mayor who hired the gun thugs. The sher- iff has always posed as a friend of the miners and is trying in this way, to keep in good with them. | ‘The preachers of Bell County have | le organized a meeting with the coal | operators of “Greasy Creek for the} purpose of maneuvering for “arbitra-| tion” of the strike. Section strike meetings are being held in Gatliff, Middlesboro and Clair Fort Thursday. Miners throughout the strike area want the Daily Worker but cannot get them at the post office where} the authorities are acting, in many! s, with the coal operators and | keeping the Daily Worker from the miners. They do not want the min- ers to know the truth about the} strike in other sections or about the struggles of the workers in other} parts of the country against pune | and the coming imperialist war. * * * | NEW YORK.—tThe role of| 3 |the Red Cross in Kentucky as | a strike-breaking organization | lis clearly revealed again by a special article on the Kentucky | coal strike published in the latest | issue of the liberal magazine, “The | Nation,” written by an eye-witness of the strike, Oakley Johnson. Referring to his conversation with | Herndon Evans, editor of the Pine-| rapidly sharpening, with the British |upon them to join into the United | sino, 100 West 116th St, on Sunday, Feb. 7, at 2 o'clock. The National Buro heartily endorses this decision. This trial should be the beginning of a determined struggle in the | union to root out race division among the workers. The coming mass strikes can be | 8 refuse | lines of race and nat ty; if the workers fight together for the| rights of the most oppressed workers | in the industry, the Negroes. The de- mands of our union in the coming strike niclude demands for the aboli- tion of all forms of segregation and discrimination against the Negro workers in the shop, for the right of Negro workers to work ni every shop and in every craft, at the same wages and conditions as white workers. White workers must be in ithe very forefront of the struggle for the rights | of Negro workers, on strike that they'd better go back to work, even if there is water in the mines and conditions aren't what we'd like to have them.’ TURLEY, Tenn. Jan. 24 (By | Mail).—Here there is a mine oper- ated by Black Coal and Coke Co. Tn it Billy Wildman starved at the face of the coal working for 42 cents a ton, three or four days a week so that he fell while at work from hunger and went home and died shortly afterwards. This happened in August, 1930. Wildman couldn't pay his house rent. He left a wife and two children. The coal here is four or five thick and has a foot of dirt in it, » for which nothing was paid. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 24 (By Mail). —The mass demonstration called to | meet here today was broken up by a! !concentration of 200 special deputies | armed to the teeth. The demonstra- | tion was called to meet at the court ville (Ky.) “Sun” and chairman of | house here at 3 p. m. It was to be the Red Cross, Johnson writes: “Ts the Red Cross, as charged, denying help to the families of the miners on strike?’ I asked. “‘Why, we must have some policy. I’m chairman of the Red Cross in this country. We have to check up whether the people deserve help or not, and of course we call the operfators to know whether a min- er who asks for help has been working or not. And we have wom~ en who know them report on them. We have to check tn different ways. And, of course, we can’t en~ courage the strike. We have a lot of poor to look after regularly. We made it a policy—a local policy, whether it is in conformity to the national organization or not—when men on strike come to us for aid, to turn them down because of lim~ ited funds. . . . We tell the men \held in support of the “Spread th Strike Conference” with delegates |from all the mines . The conference | | itself was to be held in the Workers | Interhational Relief warehouse at 145/ Pine St. Early in the morning the swarm! | of deputies took over Pineville. They were augmented by carloads of Sher- iff John Henry Blair's Harlan gun! thugs. The town was like a fortress. ‘The court house Was closed and @ra- | ricaded. All visitors were denied the |ten union prisoners in the jail and | | the jail office was filled with deputies’) | The streets were cleared of women | |and children. Machine guns were | | struck around out of sight, but handy | {for use. | All marching delegates approaching | town were pounced upon before they | reached the city limits and broken ‘up and driven back, Con rades. with a Only by branding out iron every trace of in our ranks. Only ghting and exposing ance of such chatvinism, energetic struggle for the ads of the Negro work- by mobilizing the white workers in direct defense of the rights of the ers in the shops, will we ced in uniting the wrokers of aI races, colors and nationalities in one gle of the workers red-hot su itting tactics of the banner of working hy 2 the olidarity! National Buro, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Af- filiated with the Trade Union Unity League. Onmyy GREEN ADMITS ‘MINERS STARVE; LAUDS C0, PLAN John L. Lewis Favors Coal Operators’ Scheme INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 27.—Admitting that “every ight, particularly in the coal mining fields, thousands of children go to bed hungry,” William Green, president of the. A. F. of L., speaking before the hand- Picked convention of the United Mine Workers of America being held here, did all he could to We about the responsibilty of the leadership of the UMWA for the starvation of | these children Green failed to mention the fact that the UMWA helped the Penn~ sylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mlinois and Alabama coal bosses cut | wages to the level where the miners |could no longer feed their children nourishing food. One of the features of the con- vention was a report by John L, Lewis favoring the coal operators’ scheme drawn up by James L. Davis. U. 8. Senator for the coal interests in PennsyJvania NEW YORK.—While 10,000 Ken- tucky and Tennessee miners fight starvation that is engulfing the working population of a whole coal area, and as Pittsburgh miners in the Terminal Coal Co. prepare to strike against wage-cuts, put over by the Pittsburgh district of the United Mine Workers, a “oonven- tion” of the U.M.W.A., created and engineered by John L, Lewis, is now meeting in Indianapolis. ‘The U.M.W.A, members at the Ter- minal Coal Co. mines wired a pro- test against the Lewis gang a6 a strike-breaking outfit In order to give the convention the fake stamp of acting in the in- terest of the workers, John L. Lewis invited Thomas N. Taylor, president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, to speak at the U.M.W.A. gathering Forgetting for the moment that he supports William Green, who is against any form of unemployment insurance or relief comirig out of the pockets of the bosses, Mr. Taylor said “I don’t care whether you call it a dole or not—we want food.” This demagogy, however, is an in- dication of the extent to which the rank and file of the A. F. of L. is opposed to the official hunger pro- gram. ‘Taylor himself is well paid and weil fed, and does not speak for the work- - ers. He went on to say: “We are perfectly willing to work, but whether or not we get work—we want food. We are going to have food, whether or not we have to take it by taxation from millionaires and billiona ” It is with the aid of the U.M.W.A., John L. Lewis and Mr. Taylor that the bosses have been starving the workers, slashing pay and attempt- ling to keep the workers from or- ganizing for real relief. DAILY RAIDED {IN AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM.—-Police raided the editorial and printing offices of the Communist Daily Tribune. Much material was confiscated, including books, The daily now has eight pages instead of six. alee BERLIN, Jan. 21.—Police raided and searched the local quarters of the Communist Party in Munich and Soligen. Much legal material was confiscated, but nothing of impore tance was found. Protesting workers were batoned off the streets, a TS a For $50,000 Fighting Fund! FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION NOW! My Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program and Capitalist War! » I Contribute $ ...... Name . Street 50 EAST 13th STREET