The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1932, Page 1

— WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Org. AS Section of the C Communist eee ‘Vol. IX, No. 27 SPs Enter, at New York, N. Y. the Pot Office of Marek 3, 1879 Norker Rnunict Party U.S.A. td Collect Money, Scrape Up dvery Penny to Save “Daily” FORM ANTLWAR COMMITTEES AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR ON } Price 3 Cents CHINESE MASSES! FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION! Local Reliet Struggles Pave Way For Unemployment Insurance Day February 4th KENTUCKY MINERS PLAN MASS STRUGGLE AGAINST INJUNCTION AND EVICTIONS Kentucky Miners Organize Feb. 4 Meets In Strike Area; Strike Executive Committee Reviews Strike Workers of New York! What Are You Doing to Raise Relief for the Heroic Ky. Miners? NEW YORK.—As the Kentucky and Tennessee miners battle on in the fifth week of the strike, the Workers International Relief, con- ducting the relief activities for the strike have issued a series of ques- tions to the miners in other parts of the country. What are the Pennsylvania and Illinois miners doing for their fellow worke:'s in Kentucky? Are they rallying all the miners in their territories for the immediate shipment of relief to help these fighting miners win their strike? What are the workers in Chicago and Detroit doing? The strike in Kentucky is entering a severer phase. Dozens of miners are being evicted. They need tents and food. . Workers everywhere must rush relief immediately. Send funds to | the Workers International Relief, 16 West 2ist St, New York City. | Morey rust be had for tents immediately, otherwise hundreds of strik- | ing miners and their children, badly undernourished, face death through | exposure as well-as starvation. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 31—The Strike Exec- utive Committee meeting at its last session made a number .of important decisions strengthening and extending the strike strug- gle against evictions and organizing the unem- ployed throughout the strike area. Unemployment meetings are to be held in three counties in the strike area on February 4. The meetings arranged are as follows: Straight Creek, Middlesboro, Ftur Mile Creek, Gatliff, It was-decided to organize mass re- sistance to the federal injunction authorizing 90 evictions in Straight Creek, and strengthen the mass pick- eting in the various concentration points. Mass meetings for this purpose have been arranged for Middlesboro, Straight Creek, Mathell, Jellico, Four Mile Creek, Clear Fork section and at the Block mine. Successful ‘section conferences were reported and further conferences are being held over the week-end. A de- cision was made to intensify the fight against the United Mine Work- ers fakers, and expose their connec- tion with the gun thugs, sheriffs and their Nes about relief. All members of the Strike Execu- tive have been instructed to organize bail bonds. for t heir sections, for the release of the Pineville prisoners. More than-150 eviction notices have been seryed in various sections and all strikers are instructed to disre- gard them, The District Board of the National Miners Union wil! meet Tuesday and take up two} .ain questions, building the National Miners Union and prep- aration fot the national convention. Reports received indicate new wage cuts to take place in Harlan County and the executive took special steps to meet this. Relief is entirely inadequate to care for the minimum needs, and two ex- ecutives have been appointed to meet with the relief committee in Pine- ville today to review the whole situa- tion and make the recommendations needed, chang?s in the personnel and in the campaign. A second letter has been sent to the opefators informing them that the Scalé’ Committee will be ready to meet jon the basis of the demands. ‘The Executive authorized the send- ing of a delegation of 50 miners and the holding of demonstrations at the post offices where the postmaster re- fused to give out the Daily Worker. On Monday there will be a mass march from Mathell, Brush Creek and Four Mile to Glendon to help the Straight’ Creek strikers to fight sgainst the federal injunction. Webruary 4 meetings will elect dele- ~etions to go to the county authori- | anti-injunction struggf, | the working class. He presented the program of the Communist Party, showing how the Party leads in the struggle for Negro rights, mobilizing the masses of the United States against the war danger and unem- ployment. A number of county elections will take place this coming summer and the Communist Party will put up its own candidates. PLAN FIGHT ON N.Y. INJUNCTION Conference _ Calls to Support Fish Strike NEW YORK.—Forty-six workers’ organizations were represented at the preliminary Anti-Injunction Confer- ence held under the auspices of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, and the Trade Union Unity Council on Friday, Jan. 29th, at 5 East 19th St. The delegates represented eleven T. U. U. L. unions, twenty-one branches of the Womens’ Council, the I. L. D., twelve fraternal organizations and one cultural. ‘The delegates present were impres- sed by the necessity to help the Fish strikers morally and financially in the and even more s0, by the importance of wak- ing up the entire working class to the danger of the strike-breaking weap- on, the injunction holds for the en- tire labor movement. The delegates realized that in order to be able to organize the workers in successful struggles against the bosses’ wage cut and speed up campaign, we must de- feat the injunction by first rallying the workers, in mass protest demon- strations and draw in all the workers in mass picketing. ‘The organizations present pledged various sums to start the campaign with, and elected an Anti-Injunction Committee, consisting of one répre- | sentative of each organization pres- | ent, which will meet, together with | ues to present their demands. The | the Food Workers and T.U.U.C. Anti- meetings also will be used for pre-| liminary preparations for the Hunger | Marches to take place at a later date. William F. Dunne spoke to the Strike’ Executive pointing out the need for a united front struggle of | Injunction Committee, this coming Saturday, Feb. 6, at 3 p.m. at 5 E. 19th St., to work out a program for NO PAPER TO PRINT “DAILY”; RUSH FUNDS! Sufficient funds came in to- day to buy paper for this edi- tion. This is the last supply of paper for the Daily Worker. Sat- urday it was vital to have six pages. We could barely manage to get out four. We can not guarantee even four pages tor the Daily Worker from now on, unless there is a tremendous increase in activity to Save the Daily Worker. Go to every workers’ organi- zation. Approach workersevery- where! Make it your main task to Save the Daily Worker! 50 E.13St., New York City. DURABLE TOOL, DIE WORKERS HIT LOCKOUT NEW YORK.—The workers of the Durable Tool and Die Co. at 254 Ca- nal St., decided at their shop meeting Saturday to strike against the lock- out and appeals to all class conscious workers to join them on the picket line ‘*» front ‘of their shop Monday morning at 7 p.m. Two months ago, after a victorious strike unde: the leadership of the Metal Workers Industrial League, the boss was forced to recognize the Shop Committee and to grant the workers an increase in pay and shortening of hours. Since then the boss tried vari- ous maneuvers with which to force back the old rotten conditions on the workers on the excuse that he is not | making money. Finding that the Committee could not be out-maneu- vered he hired new workers and at- tempted to line them up agains: the Shop Committee and the union on fake promises of increasing their pay without “outside help”. On Friday without consuliivg the Shop Committee he notified the ma- jority of the workers that they were laid off and refused to give an ex- planation for tis action, retaining a smail crew of new workers. Tae work- ers saw through this as a lockout in order to break rhe union organiza- tion in the shop as a means «1 forc- ing them to accept the conditions that prevailed before the strike Those workers whom the boss re- tained as the skleton crew o1¢ also militantly sticking with the union and are refusing to act as scabs. When the boss on Saturday tried to force them to work overtime they re- fused to do so upon appeal of the workers who were laid off. workers took such a militant that the boss got frightened and called in the police. However, this | failed to intimidate the workers who are solidly sticking with the Shop Committee and are determined to win These | stand | Jobless Ins PROVIDENCE, R. L, Jan. Sq. (in rear of Post Office) at or Dunne: 1, Ten dollars per week for each unemployed and $2 per week for each dependent. 2. Free coal, gas and electric light for each unemployed worker. 3. No eviétions of unemployed families. 4, Endorsement of the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. 5. Free food and clothing for the children of the unemployed. 6. Single men not to be discrimi- nated against in the giving of relief. there will be a demonstration in front of the Mayor's home, where a delegation of unemployed workers will go and ask him to endorse the Unemployment Insurance Bill, ‘The unemployed movement is de- veloping rapidly in this city. A city- wide collection of signatures for the Workers Unemplayment Insurance | Bill is being conducted. ommittees house and the Salvation Army. CAMPBELL Ohio, Jan. 31.--Dhe| Mayor has refused a permit for a) demonstration of unemployed be- Preliminary to this demonstration, | are being organized in the City flop- | the strike at all costs. The Metall fore the main gate of the Youngs- the calling of an enlarged confer- ence of all workers’ organizations, without exceptions, * Workers Industrial League calls upon ‘town Sheet and Tube Company all class conscious workers and their organizations to support the strike, v i Lee Providence Workers To Demand Mayor Endorse urance Bill Youngstown Mayor Threatens to Use Tear Gas On Workers Demonstrating Feb. 4th Jobless Workers Clash With Police In Okla- homa City Preparation Meet 81.—Full preparations are being made for the demonstration on February 4th, National Un-| |employment Insurance Day which will take place at Memorial) 2p.m. A committee of unem- | ployed workers will be elected at this demonstration to present the following demands to May-*--——-——-—— UMWA Convention Marked By Lewis- Walker Loot Fight Starvation lof Miners Not Even | Touched On INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 31.—The third day of the In- |ternational convention of the | UMWA was marked by the fur- them development of the fac- tional fight between Lewis and Wal- ker, president of district 12. The is- sue arose as a result of a resolution presented calling for the lifting of an | injunction against John L. Lewis se- cured by | yeer ago. | tense of the district gang, fully sup- | ported action in securing injunctions, | stating “that it was a matter of the weak being defended from the (conmiaven en rack rummmy | gouNTINUED ON PAGE THREE busines, gy y Not Be Bolsheviks MOSCOW, Jan. 31—The dreyev Hall of the Kremlin Pal mittee and made the Seog “The pr esent conference,” stated, “is a meeting of Fe torical moment, the year 1932 | will be the year of completion | | of the first Five-Year Plan and | Says Soviet Daioh: - for Peace, But We W ould to Pass by Present Dangers to Soviet Union Seventeenth All Soviet Union! Communist Party conference opened at 5 o’clock in the An- ace. Molotov, amidst great ap- speech.: ADMIT JAPANESE DRIVE ON HARBIN /Chinese Red Molotov Declares Soviet | Workers Must BeOn Guard | Against Sur prise War Moves, - POWERS FEAR MASS UPRISING IN SHANGHAI Army Sweeps On In New Victories elcomed By Masses Japanese Slaughter 10,000 Workers In Shanghai Ro bate ae aerial bombs on the densely popu- lated native sections of ining g | plause, opened the conference in behalf of the Central Com- Shanghai, Central Chi- na, using marines, troops and Japanese civilians, and thugs to fire the huts of the workers, shooting them | the preparation for the second Five- | . ‘ acre minlce Year Plan. This primarily dtermined | * ‘ONT down with machine the tasks of the conference. | i } t Ni jguns as they attempted to es- “Tt is already evident that the in- | \eape their burning huts, the } structions of the Sixteenth Party con- Threatening. the Soviet Un- Japanese imperialists are car- ference for the completion of the Five | jion and Soviet officials of the | nee t Year Plan in four years is being vic-| Chinese Eastern Railway for ny ne oe ra toriously fulfilled. “Our industries are | 7° permit qithout Chi. || WEE against the revolutionary developing at Bolshevik tempo. De- | Te spite all the difficulties, the founda-| nese sanction the transporta- | shi The United |States, British and other im- tion of socialist economy of our coun-| tion of Jananese troops to Harbin, | try has been cren‘ed, the fundamental | the Japanese are rushing troops by | perialists are rushing warships ruthless district 12 officials over a} Walker, in making a fight in de-| Leninist question of ‘who will beat’! whom” has been decided against cap- italism in favor of socialism. Therein | les our greatest world historical his- tory. “It is especially simnificant on the | background of the unprecedented world crisis and the growth of un- employment and destitution testify- ing to the approach of the end of | capitalism. on the decisions of the tasks of the second Five-Year Plan. At the sami time special vigilence is necessary re- | garding the facts and tendencies which make themselves felt more and more forcefully in the international | situation, particularly in connection with the deepening world crisis and | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BULLETIN Latest Washington dispatches re- port 400 U. ordered to proceed from Cav Philippine Islands, Shanghai, along with 1,000 regular troops now in the Philippines. The French imperialists are meshing an armored cruiser from Saigon, China, to join the on- slaught on the heroic Chinese masses of Shanghai, Nanking troops which disobeyed the orders of the Nanking govern- ment and joined the Chinese work- ers, led by the Chinese Communist Party, in resisting the Japznese, are running short of ammunition. The Nanking government is with- holding reinforcements and muni- tions, A Shanghai dispatch to the New York American (Feb, 1) reports: “Many Japanese atrocities are reported. ‘They apparently are carrying out a planned policy of frighttulness, Many innocent persons have been shot and taken prisoners in the bullet- filled, smoke-covered region.” A Mukden dispatch reports that the early fall of Harbin is ex- pected as a Japanese army inflicted tremendous losses on Chinese troops defending the city, Martial law was declared today in Nanking. S. merines have been to army CAFETERIA WORKERS MEET MONDAY On Monday, February 1, at 8 p.m. there will be held a membership meeting of the Cafeteria section of the Food Workers Industrial Union at the union headquarters, 5 E. 19th armored automobils and lorries to| and troops to Shanghai and the | that city. Harbin is the principle | entire Yangtze Valley to carry Manchurian city on the Chinese Bast- | through the joint looting and parti- jer Railway, which is jointly operated | tion of Chine. That these troops and | by China and the Soviet Union. | warships are aimed first of all at the The Japanese Ambassador in Mos- | Chinese masses is admitied in vari- | cow yesterday made a request of the | ous imperialist dispatches and in the | Soviet Government for permission to} statements of officials of the impe- The | “The conference will have to pass | ° |use the Chinese Far Eastern. Soviet Union replied that the per- | | mission of the Chinese was neces- as they are half owners of the ! road. The Soviet Union’s reply was com- municated by Assistant Commissar |for Foreign Affairs, Karakhan, who said a misunderstanding already was | Probable over the fact that Japa- |nese authorities had appealed to the railway officials for permission to jcarry troops 12 hours after the} Japanese had already seized trains | and transported troops. That the present armed interven- tion in China is both for the looting | of China and in th enature of a war | |} of desperation by the dying capitalist ‘world against the rising world of } Socialism is clearly stated in the fol- lowing London dispatch: | “.. today’s Evening Standard | followed the line adopted in this | morning’s Daily Express, Lord Beaverbrook’s other newspapers by taking the side of Japan and main- | taining that the choice for the rest | of the world is not between Japan | | and China, but between Japan and | Russia as to which shall control China,” | That the imperialist interveation |is directed against the Chinese | masses and their Soviet’ Republic | | and is a prelude to armed attack on | the Soviet Union is further expressed. jin a speech by Takashi Komatsu, | Japanese shipbuilding executive, yes- terday to the Bond Club in New | York. He said: “In that portion of the world (Russia) there exists a state which | is upholding principles of govern- ment and social order utterly in- compatible with the principles pre- vailing i our country.” rialist. governménts. Imperialist press dispatches admit | that at least 10,000 Chinese workers have been-killed during the last three (CONTINUED ON P. THREE) CHINESE RED ARMY BEFORE CITY OF HANKOW Japanese Plant Guns In Street: U. S. Rushes Warships The British imperialists or- dered another warship to pro- ceed to China. This warship is carrying a battalion of infan- try and a battery of artillery. | This additional force is being sent, |London dispatches state, “in response to an appeal to reinforce protection * of British citizens menaced by fight~ ing between Chinese and Japanese.” At a conference yesterday called by Hoover with the secretaries of state, war and navy, it was decided to send to Shanghai the 3lst Regiment of about 1,000 men, now at Manilla, to. gether with 400 marines, on the trans- port Chaumont, leaving tomorrow, The cruiser Houston and 6 destroy= ers left Manilla yesterday for Shang- hai, While the United States and the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Only the Chinese Soviets can liberate Chine! |tions against the Soviet Union ‘everywhere, against imperialist \fense of the Soviet Union! | Hands 5 Off the Chinese Masses! Defend the Soviet Union ! Workers! Demand Hands Off Chinese Masses and Their Soviet Republic! Down with the monstrous war proyoca- | Form United Front Committees in the Struggle Against | Imperialist War! Form anti-war committees and adopt reso-, lutions of protest in all workers’ organizations, in the shops, and the Chinese Red Army ! war in China and for the de- Demand the withdrawal of American warships and St. The organization drive will be taken up as well as other pressing | "Met a saa ihatinns * ‘troops from China! Down with the war maneuvers of the United States fleet in the Pacifie!