The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS Collect Money, Scrape Up OF THE WORLD, Every Penny to Save <2 Entered as second at New York, N.Y. _Yol. IX, No. 29 te 7 SBice 3 Cents _ INTO THE STREETS TOMORROW AGAINST HUNGER, WAR! SHANGHAI WORKERS THREATEN 100 ‘ Ky. ‘Miners March i Sey DEMAND JAPANESE GET OUT; V4 ! 150 Cities Report Immense Increase In Unemployment Borah Asks Capitalists to Throw Crumb of Relief to Starving Workers in Order KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 2.—Hundreds of to Prevent Real Relief Fight | miners marched 12 miles in the bitter cold WASHINGTON, Feb. 2A sharp increase | | yesterday to attend an enthusiastic mass meet- in unemployment in 156 cities in the United | 2g at Jellico, Tenn. where Turnblazer, district = : ;organizer here of the United Mine Workers States was reported in the Senate Monday, on| of ‘America lives. Although the National Miners Union or- the eve of the February Ath demonstrations to | ganizers were prevented from reaching the meeting by flooded ONLY SPEED In Rushing Funds Will | Save Daily Worker — ae the face of the ghastly slaughter of tens of thousands of Chinese work- | ESSE SL Ss at ers, in the face of actual, bloody WAR | Werkers of the United Ststes Must Protest which the robber imperialists are now Rut 3 Butchery of f Chinese Masses; waging with murderous ruthlessness Fight Hunger, \ ar, Feb. 4 against the Chinese masses; in the face of the shameless and open advance by the Japanese to the Soviet border, it is unthinkable for the Daily Worker to suspend. Miles Thru Bitter Cold to ‘Hold Mass Meet at Jellico Flood and Freezing Weather Make Relief Im- mediate Necessity for Strikers |March to Rex Mine In Straight Creek In Determined Strike Move FOUR OTHER CHINESE CITIES GET BOMBARDMENT THREAT Japanese Rake bio ae of Refugees With Ma- chine Gun Fire; Prevent Medical Aid to Wounded Workers esterday to The move was con- { a neutral zone defenders ang officials s have no doubt. ed by a desire to alists them- be held throughovt the country to spread the | reads, local strikers addressed the miners. fight for unemployment insurance, Dire suffering has spread among the 8,000 Kentucky- Warning his fellow capitalist senators that they must| Tennessee striking families as zero weather and an increasing make some pretense at ‘dealing with unemployment,” Senator}~ ~~~~~~—~SCSOsntember of evictions add their toll of of whose readiness to sell out Chira the irap2ri: The establishment cf a neutral zene is motiy Laloiletie, who hid behind the Hoover armed forces when the Hunger March demanded the right to present its demands to Congress,’ urged the capitalists to® throw a few crumbs to the starving | unemployed to keep them from fight- | ing for real unemployment insurance. | Unemployment increased 50 per | (co in 156 cities, said LaFollette. In | MG ccities the increase was from 60 | to 100 ner cent; 85 cities reported an | | greater than 100 per cent. i¢d American Federation of | ‘ ficials who said there were | 300,600 unemployed, who with their | families meant there were 24,000,000 | “people in distress.” ‘These figures are a great under- | estimation of the vast extent of un- employment. They do not even con- sider the starvation among the part time workers, or among the farm laborers. One fact is not denied even by the most rabid spokesman of the. capi- | talists, and that is that unemploy- ment increases every day and with it grow the millions who face star- vation, This is the situation the American | workers have to face on Feb. 4th, Na- tional Unemployment Insurance Day. ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3 Masses of Workers to March to Union Square Tomorrow Workers Will Parade from Square to City Hall to Present Demands to Mayor NEW YORK.—Led by the Workers Ex- | | | | out the country sending supplies, | tents, food and funds immediately. | ville, Tenn. hardship to ‘he already starving and flood-stric!--2 strikers. ROLIEF! RELIEF! ‘The operators are proceeding to evict thé most militant strikers in each mine. The militancy of the miners is shown by their wading Comrades, this is an histovic period. The Daily Worker is needed now more than ever to rally, mobilize, educate and organize the American working through water up to their hips to attend a strike meeting last Sat- urday. The growing hunger of the miners must be answered by workers thru- Funds should be sent to the Work- ers International Relief, 16 West 21st St., New York City. Food and clothing should be sent to WIR, Room 506, National Building, Knox- The Liberty Mine i- Straight Creek, Ky., where the federal court recently (CONTINUED ON PAGE. THREE) Tampa Workers Get 1-10 Years; Refused New Trial class. The paper must not suspend. Every worker, conscious of the gigantic tasks before the American working class, will sec that it does not susperd. Send every nickle and dime to fight the workers’ fight against war. You, worker, must throw every ounce of energy into the Drive to save the Daily Worker—to lead the workers of America in mighty protest and in struggle against the wer danger to the Soviet Union and the imperialist attack against the Chinese masses. eliminate the growing danger of a clech between the im | selves, which threatened in the ccurse of the vicious fi Japanese forces rained death against the Chinese masse: the Internztional Settlement. It is 2’co inte=ded to hold Japan from seizing more than her share of the Chinese loot, with which in and around A furious wave of mass anger against the | frightful slaughter of Chinese workers by the | Japanese in Shanghai~is sweeping over all |China. Far from crushing the heroic resistance of the Chinese masses to the imperialist war ot looting and partition of China, the Japanese atrocities have | rallied new sections of the Chinese masses to the mass anti- imperialist struggle, with a tremendous growth in the influ- ence of the Chinese Communist Party. Yesterday, in Shanghai the workers prepared to extend (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Japanese and White Guards to Unite i in Move Toward USSR “Chao have been resisting the Japan- | Their past attempts ese advance for several days now. to push the Soviet! There nave been several fierce battles : A ee . between these forces and th Jap- Union into war having | snes, supported ty the /Ohines Servicemen’s League, which will arrive in| Union Square at 1 p. m., scores of Unemployed | Councils, block ecommittees, unions, and frater- | nal organizations will lead tens of thousands of workers in mass parades into Union@ TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 2—Judge Pettewary has refused a |new trial to the 15 workers arrested in connection with the Sentences for assault to murder were handed down, McDonald, Lezama and Lima, nine and ten years respectively in the penetentiary; Alvarez, Marrero three years, with Cruz, Rod- °—--—————--—— | November 7th meeting held in Tampa. Rush immediate funds to keep the Daily Worker alive and fighting. Soviet’s firm peace pol- icy, the Japanese have an- nounced t intention to send en army directly to the Soviet | frontier. failed in the face of the | troops of the puppet Kirin govern- ment, which is controlled by the Japanese. Japanese Mobilize White Guards. Several Japanese are reported te have been killed by angry Chinese workers in Harbin. The Soviet newspaper, Izvestia, yes- Square in a gigantic demonstration on Feb. 4 against the hunger pro- gram of Mayor Walker, against the war maneuvers of the imperialist countries, against unemployment and for unemployment insurance and immediate unemployment relief. The _ Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League will parade from Cooper Square, Eighth St. and Fourth Ave., arrive in Union Square at 1 p.m. and take its place at the Broadway end of the Square. The rest of the or- ganizations will arrive in the Square at 1:30 p.m. Mobilization Points. The Food Workers will mobilize at Bryant Park, on 40th St. and Sixth Ayve., at 10 a.m., hold a mass outdoor rally and parade down 40th St. to Fourth Ave., past the gyp agencies, gathering the workers, and bring them into Union Square. The Needle Trades Workers will gather in the Needle Market, at 36th St. and Eighth Ave., at 12, noon, will march down Seventh Ave. to 28th St. on 28th St. to Sixth Ave., passing the headquarters of the Needle Trades Minn. A. F. of L. Members En- dorse Unemployment Insurance Bill. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 2. —Two hundred A. F. of L. mem- | | bers, meeting at the A. F. of L.| | headquarters on Monday adopted | a resolution endorsing the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill | and the Feb. 4 demonstration, de- | nouncing Mayor Anderson’s re- fusal to give a permit for Bridge Square. Thirty-five thousand leaflets have been issued mobiliz- ing the workers to defy the ban on Feb. 4th and to spread the strug- gle for unemployment insurance. | Workers’ Industrial Union, will go along Sixth Ave. to 25th St., then on to Broadway and on to Union Square. ‘The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers will march from 126 University Place, march up Fifth Ave. to 15th St., the headquarters of the Amal- gamated Union, and on into Union CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Striking Ky. Miners Relief Campaign Must Speed Tempo NEW YORK.—All efforts are being |S directed by the Workers International Relief to speed up the tempo of the campaign for strike relief for the Kentucky-Tennessee miners in order to overcome the late mobilization in many sections of the country, it was reported by the W.LR. today, ..... .. In spite of police terror and se- yerely cold weather Chicago reports a splendid two-day mass collection of fonds in which thousands of volun- teer collectors operated from over 30 stations. Funds came in from Mil- waukee and Waukegan. The full re- sults of the Milwaukee tag day are not known as yet. ... 25-5 es0 seree . Little or no activity is reported from Anderson, Terre Haute, Clinton and Indianapilis. St. Louis is mobilizing for a tag day on February 7. Chicago leads in revolutionary com- petition, with W.LR. branches being formed on the North and South Sides. The Lenin Branch has organized (OONTINDED ON PAGS THREE) riguez, Cabrera, Campo, Hevia and Lopez receiving one year. Two wo- men workers, Romero and Vasquez | received one ye: Further sentences | | for rioting have been withheld, with | | no bail alowed | | The arrest of these fifteen workers | | was made on November 7th, the pol- jice, American Legion and fascist thugs, raided the Labor Temple in | Yhor City where the workers were | celebrating the 14th anniversary of the | Russian revolution, A sixteenth worker | arrested was later released. During the | raid, which was conducted with the | most savage brutality, a shot was | | | fired, wounding a policeman. This | | served as the excuse of the whole- | sale arrests and charges of inciting to | i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | T.U.U.L. Calls The New York building trades con- | tractors have announced a 25 per cent wage cut. This is in line with what has already taken place in many cities, both in the official un- jon scales and by forcing the workers to accept less than these scales. The New York cut is a signal for further wage slashes in the building industry throughout the United States, face the heaviest unemployment of any section of the working class, ranging from 75 to 85 por cent. Tke so-called high wages in the buildin» trades are a myth, the great mass | of these workers are now facing star- vation conditions, The proposed wage cut would force the building trades workers still deeper into pov- | jerty and destitution, » bi** The building trades workers now | What Are You Doing | to Spread the Daily Worker Only the Daily Worker tells the | truth about the bloody carnaze. | the slaughter of thousands of the |Chinese workers and farmers | Only the Daily Worker educates — the American working class to the | | true significance of the moves of | | world imperialism to war against the Soviet Union. | All District Daily Worker agents, | | unit agents, must spread the Daily | | Worker, must see to it that now | more than ever the Daily Worker gets into the hands of masses of | American workers and farmers. | Answer immediately! for Fight on Building Trades Wage Cut The worker will resist these fresh assaults on their meagre standards of living. But they will get no as- | sistance from the AFL leadership, On the contrary, these leaders are working hand in glove with the bos- Ses and the government to force the acceptance of the wage cut, as they have done in the other industries, including steel, coal, textile, railroad, tes It is the task of the TUUL forces | under the general leadership of the | Ewildins Trades Werkers Indzs‘ria! | Leazuc, to give orzanizetion ond leadership to the building trades workers, We must fight against the wage cuts io whatever form they are proposed, whether by cuts in official (CONTINUED ON PAGH TERME) {Ord we will set our iron unity, our! ernment, “Success of 5-Year Plan: Based on Correct Party Leadership--Bukharin MOSCOW, Feb. “2.—The di discussion on port to the Seventeenth Conference of the Leninist Communist Party on the Soviet Union was coacluded yesterday. The del- egates under high tension listened to the speeches of the nv- | merous comrades who dwelled pa:ticular’y cn the question of |the economic independence of the Ordjonikidze’s re- | Boishevist unity. After Ordjonikidze’s concluding Nicos: the conference adopted his | |report as a basis for the thesis, At this morning session, (Tuesday) Mol tov will deliver a repozt on the dizec- | tions regarding the c nd Five-Year Plan. pointed out the role of the Central Committee in the development of new industries, In his speech yester- day Bukharin said: “The tremendous successes in the | | socialist construction of our indus- tries are fully based upon the correct Soviet Union from the capitalist | world. | “Long live the iron Bolshevist Party All speakers without exception , and its Leninist Central Committee.” | terday denounced the sinister war aims of the Japanese imperialists. Iavestia pointed out that the Japan- e: are mobilizing all the rotten White Guard elements in Manchuria for an armed attack on the Soviet Union. It said: “A stronghold of White Guard adventurers that is strictly anti- Soviet is being created ‘in Man- of this patiling Chinese forces of Harbin, principal city cn the Chinese which | The advance guard ey is nov Japanese have captured Harbin, Chines? troops under Gen. Ting) icoxTINUED. ON P4GE THREED Imperialists Fear Aimed Clash Over the Division of China Strive to Subordins he Differences in Action Against Chinese Masses Fears that an armed clash may develop between the {me ist robbers now sneezed in looting China and murdering d yosterday in fine as pointed out, roments but ty of unauthorized openly e:cpr 2 daage £ tae im n the x political line of our Party. This pcli- |cy presupposes a struggle against all | deviations; in the first place, against the right deviation to which, at a certain time, I subsczibed and the | erroneousness of which I oaiaate | recognized. “For the successes in socialist con- struction, the highest merit belongs to| N&W YORK. — Denouneing “the the Party and its Central Committee | Murder of the three militant work- | Dennunte Fascist iad: ae Workers’ Leaders in Salvador jon by * | the war zone. nsible interests” in joint armed int perialists are carrying out against the revolutionary Chinese masses is proceeding on the basis of an understanding between the imper- jalist murderers. The fear of the “Wwe denounce the bloody murder | of these workers and will call upon Marti,! Workers and poor farmers in the/ financial interests is that this under- standing may be disrupted by irre- mobilize enormous ma. of the working class for heroic class siruggl2 Against the regression of the ca) tal- | ist world we will set the tremendous development and technical progress of the USSR. Against the capitalist Decry corner ean Tae Peo ere eeu nl 5 arene | United States to demand an end to! was absolutely right! In the struggle | Mario Zapate, end Alfonso Lune,! tne continued savage terror against | egainst these deviations it was able to “excouted" by order of a military| i.5 workecs and ‘ inthe ants of El Sal- tribunal at San Salvador, the Inter-| \ador, The massacre of the wo jhational Lebor Defense, through its| ers and peasants was carried out by General Secretary, J. Louis Enzdahl,| armed fascist. mobs organized and sent telegrams to the El Salvador! simeq by the Salvadorean exploiters legation at Washington and to the ed bi kta dal manne or tis Hadvar' Gove encouraged by the presence of Wall ane i (CONTINUED ON P ON PAGE TWO) sponsible acts of the armed forces of the imperialists, thus precipitating an armed clash between the imper- | ialists themselves. No doubt any attempt of one or | the other imperialist power to seize } the desired loot of another imperialist (CONTINUED O8 PAGE THREE)