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

aa ~ Page Three _DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932 FARMERS ROBBED OF LAND BY GOVERNMENT TO BUILD ARMY BASE Tries to Force Widow Off of Homestead Near Fort Ripley, Minn. Army Officers Condemn Land; Offer Price Far Below Value (By & Worker Correspondent) RANDALL, Minn.—The U. 8. gov~ order to acquire land for an army base, is tak- force the farmers off them a price far berg, a widow. Her husband took a plege, of land thirty-five years ago a8 a homestead. The buildings alone cost $9,000. It cost forty acres of land to have the land ditched, to say Nothing of fencing. ‘There is no fortgage or back taxes on the land. ‘The following letters tell the rest of the story: 68 December 21, 1931 “Gubject: Purchase of Land. “To: Mrs. Norberg, R. F. D, No. 2, Randall, Minnesota “I. All land in Section 19-131-29 and Section 24-131-30 that have not been purchased will be placed in condemnation proceedings very soon. Priot to this, it is desired to pur- chase all land by negotiation where pricés are reasonable and within the appraised value. Request that you furnish this office with your price on a basis of an immediate cash sale. R. A. Rossberg, Lt. Col, Q. M. C., U. 5. P. & D, O, Minn.” Ft Ripley, Minn. Dec. 26, 1931. “Wat Dept. “Oamp Ripley, Little Falls, “Minnesota, “Sirs:— “Surprised to get your notice, but how can you condemn the land when we have had no offer. “My price is $65.00 per acre on condition, Mrs. Christina Norberg. ‘ + oe December 31, 1931 “Mrs. Christina Norberg, “Fort Ripley, Minnesota. “My dear Mrs. Norberg: “With reference to your letter of December 26th you are advised that when ‘lands are required for public purchases they may be condemned by the government and it is not ne- cessary to have made any previous offer in connection theriwth. In the event that we are unable to come to terms with you on the purchase of your lands, we shall institute con- demnation proceedings and, ir- respective of the outcome, will take possession of your lands on or before May 15, 1932. “Your offer of $65.00 per acre is out of all proportion to the value of the lands and buildings theron. We have made a very careful appraisal of the jands which you own in the SW% of the SW % of Section 19-131-29 and the NE ¥% of the SE % and the S 14 of the SE %, Section 24-131-30, and find the value thereof to be $4,575.00. This sum we hereby offer to you. “If you accept this offer, or in the event that you desire further infor- mation you are requested to call on or communicate with Colonel Ross- berg or Mr. Frederick J. Miller at Little Falls. Very truly yours, E. A. WALSH, The Adjutant General.” ss Tampa Workers Get One to Ten Years; Refused a New Trial ‘CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) riot, assault to murder, ete. The trial was an éxample of the most flagrant denial of elementary rights. The jury was picked from a group of openly labor hating business men. Skinner, the state’s attorney completely ignored any legal bounds and tried the workers entirely on their beliéfs and activities in the labor movement. Attempts at “red baiting” of the ‘Tampa workers during the trial failed and the workers responded with staunch solidarity and funds for the defensé, “The workers have not for a mom- ent been deceived by the race hatred, patriotism, bunk and religious preju- dice and other isstes with which the Seeret Committee of 25 outstanding citivens sought to confuse them,” writes MacDonald, one of the arrested workers now in prison. MacDonald explains the entire case with the statement in his. letter ¢hat “from the very first crac} of @ «lub upon @ worker’s head every tobac- co worker in Tampa has recognized | and met as such the drive of the Tampa Tobacco Manufacturers Asso- ciation to crush the Tampa Tobacco Workers Industrial Union.” ‘They were assisted in this by the Chamber of Commerce, Doak’s De- partment of Immigration, the Secret Comunittee of 25 Outstanding Citizens, composed of newspaper publishers, corporation heads, tobacco manufac- turers, lawyers, politicians, etc. “The concerted efforts of this im- posing list of capitalist henchmen, with all their mass arrests, lockouts, discharge of workers, police clubbing, eviction, coercion and threats have not shaken in the least the solidarity of the Tampa Tobacco Workers,” writes MacDonald, “On the contrary the solidarity of the workers has been fused in the struggle and they stand today more determined than ever to stand shoulder to shoulder in their fight for decent working and living conditions.” STRIKING MINERS’ RELIEF CAMPAIGN MUST SPEED TEMPO (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ()NE) & kitchen for the relief of active un. employed workers, serving 60 to 70 meals a day. Affairs, mass collections, ote. have netted substantial funds for the miners. A truckload of food is be- ing sent to Pineville; €000 pounds of uothes have been shipped by freight. NEW YORK NEGRO MINISTERS INDORSE CAMPAIGN Indicating the great sympathy of the Negro masses In New York for Vthe herole Kentucky and Tennessee | miners, is the indorsement of the / Wentocky-Tennessee Striking Miners’ Relief credentials by the regular Monday conference of Negro Baptist ministera, Pressure of the Negro ‘workers produced permission for ap- | peas to be made in all Baptist Ne- sro churches. New York reports a total of 22,000 pounds of clothing shipped to date to Star Casino, Sunday, donated $77. New York is mobilizing for a two- day mass cash collection. All workers’ bers for participation in the tag days which will be held February 13 and 14th, Workers’ Theatre Groups are in- Oocreasing activity for relief with a gala theatre nite to be held at the Manhattan Lyceum, evening of Feb- ruary 4, all workers’ theatre groups . participating with new plays. Febru- ary 21, the Arteff will present “Hier- wchlackert” at the Heckscher Thea- folk songs, will give a benefit their studio, February 7. for sale only at the W.LR., ‘W. 21st St. All seats will be sold in (Knexville, Tenn. where a large group «of miners ate tivity. A splendid local W.LR. branch has been formed. The South is being toured by a number of Kentucky miners who re- port great enthusiasm but little fands because of the severe impoverishment of the farmers and workers. The farmers especially are eager for or- ganization. Workers are called upon to do their share by reporting immediately to the Workers International Relief and signing up as Kentucky Tennessee Striking Miners’ Relief Volunteers. Every workers should participate in the local tag days! Japanese and White Guards to Unite in Move On U.S.S.R. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) churia.” Plan Attack On U.S.S.R. From Man- churia and Inner Mongolia. The Soviet newspaper carried a re- port from Harbin of a meeting of White Guards at which General Sichev and the editor of a Japanese newspaper, named Osava, made speeches urging closer White Guards- Japanese relations. Izvestia also pub- lished information of a society of White Guards in Manchuria and Mongolia headed by the notorious General Petukhov, an official repre- sentative of Grand Duke Cyril. One of the objects of the organization is to promote collaboration with the Japanese for armed intervention against workers’ Russia: ‘The murder of Chinese workers in Shanghai and Nanking, the rushing of imperialist warsh!rs against the Chinese Soviet Republic, and the ad- vance of the Japanese towards the Siberian border of the Soviet Union are all part of the war begun by the imperialists in the desperate attempt. to find a way out of the crisis at the expense of the international working T.U.U.L. Calls for Fight On Building Trades Wage Cut (OONTINVED FROM FAGE ONE) and unofficial scales, or by cutting thte work day with corresponding re- ductions in pay. Our fight must be resolutely for the maintenance of the Present day’s pay. This fight must be linked up with the struggle for the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and unem~ ployment relief; against the inhu- man speed up i nthe building indus- try; for the rotation of available work; for free union dues for the unemployed; for reduction in the salaries of union officials to prevail- ing union scales, etc. Employed and unemployed, stand united! Building trades workers! Organize and strike against wage cuts; set up united front job committees, made up of working members of all trades in each building, to endorse the un- | ion scales; form rank and file oppo-~ sition groups inside the AFL against the bosses and the corrupt union leadership; build action committees to develop the struggle against wage cuts; where strikes are initiated, take the strikes inte your own hands and set up rank and file strike com- mittees of the workers im all the building trades, Fight against the wage cuts! WILLIAM Z, FOSTER, Sev'y. BUTTE, Mont.—Unemployed work- ers here rallied to a Trade Union Unity League demonstration which exposed the rotten graft in the Sal- vation Army soup kitchen. The po- lice questioned one worker. Nobody was arrested. Due to mass action, the first eviction case has been won. Captain Pederson tried to pull the speaker from the chair, but was held back by the workers. DEMAND JAPANESE GET OUT; FOUR OTHER CHINESE CITIES GET BOMBARDMENT THREAT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the general strike into the Interna- tional Settlement in protest against the use by the Japanese of that so- called neutral area as @ base for their military operations against the Shanghai masses and the Nanking troops which defied the orders of Chiang Kai-shek and joined the workers in resisting the Japanese in- vaders. Demand Withdrawal of Imperialist Forces, ‘The Shanghai workers demand the withdrawal of the imperialist forces and # halt to the hunting down and murdering of Chinese workers by Japanese marines and gangsters in the International Settlement. Streams of Chinese workers, in- cluding thousands of women and children, poured across the Soochow bridges from Hongkew yesterday, ex- pelled by the Japanese from that sec- tion of the International Settlement. ‘The Japanese are using the Hongkew area to concentrate their nationals, ‘The 25,000 Japanese nationals in Shanghai are to be evacuated to Japan, in preparation for an ex~ tension of the imperialist slaughter of Chinese workers. Masses of Chinese refugees were several times raked with machine gun fire by the Japanese marines yesterday. An imperialist press dispatch reports: “On two occasions, municipal police reported Japanese marines allegedly looking for snipers, rak- ing the masses crowded in the nar- row, overhung thoroughfares, with machine guns.” IMPERIALISTS FEAR ARMED CLASH OVER DIVISION OF LOOT IN CHINA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) power would be included in the cate- gory of “irresponsible” acts. The British imperialists have already com- plained of “unreasonable” acts by the Japanese in Shanghai. Nor were they concerned over the frightful slaughter of over 10,000 Chinese workers by the | Japanese. Their concern was chiefly | business all over the world. over the Japanese threat against British interests and property in Shanghai. Sees Danger of Imperialist Clash Writing on the danger of an im- perialist clash, Julius G. Berens, fin- ancial editor of the N. Y. American, declares: “Frankly nervous over the trend of events in the Far East, the fin- ancial community still leaned to the view that American complica- tion may be avoided. The great danger, it was asserted, exists in the possible action of irresponsible interests in the ‘war zone”” ... .... Within the imperialist agreement itself, there is noticeable a constant sharpening of the antagonisms be- tween the imperialists. The fight over the division of the spoils in China already has resulted in a sharp diplomatic clash and in an elaborate maneuvering between the imperialists which may result in a world slaughter with the imperialists attempting to throw the workers at each other's throats in defense of the investments aud loots of the imperialists. Use Diplomatic and Financial Pressure on Japan Within the past few days, financial pressure has been added to the dip- lomatic pressure exerted by the U. S., Great Britain and France to force Japan to keep within the confinespf the agreement, that is to respect the right of these powers to participate in the looting of China. Japanese stocks have been attacked on the New York Stock Exchange, resulting in a mark- ed decline of Japanese bonds. That this is the result of American pressure on the Japanese is openly admitted in @ dispatch from Tokyo: “Today's session of the Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended this afternoon because of drastic de- clines of all kinds of stocks. “The drops were attributed to the situation at Shanghai and to the Anglo-American protests against Japan's actions there.” ‘The warships which the United States and Britain are rushing to Shanghai are for the double purpose of joining in the attack on the revo- lationary Chinese masses and for the purpose of seeing that Japan does nat gobble up the loot of the other powers. U. S. Forces Directed Against Chinese Masses and for PPressure cn Japan. Here is open admission from the New York Times of the double role of the United States armed forces in China, against the Chinese masses and for the purpose.of keeping Japan within the agreement for a joint loot- ing of China: “An extraordinary situation has arisen under which the mobiliza- tion of the International Settle- ment’s defense forces, at first un- dertaken against the menace of Chinese troops, now is maintained chiefly against the possibility of overt Japanese action which might precipitate a crisis likely to involve all foreigners.” Wall Street Approves Slaughter of Shanghai Masses. While exerting pressure on the Japanese for this purpose, Wall St. yesterday expressed frank approval of the Japanese seizure of Manchuria and their present attack on the Chi- of China and the Soviet Union. Workers! Rally to the defense of the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union! Organize anti-war commit- tees in your shop and organizations! Demonstrate Feb. 4 against hunger and war) aq Ss we! nese Revolution and the Chinese So- viet Republic. Yesterday's New York World-Telegram reports: “Wall Street today remained def- initely sympathetic toward the Jap- anese adventure in China, regard- ing it as basically a bit of Interna- tional policing which would benefit “This attitude centered attention upon the suppression of Chinese bandits (Red partisan troops and the Chinése Red Army.—Daily Worker), rather than upon the in- vasion of territory. “Two days of inquiry in the fin- ancial district failed to disclose one strong criticism of Japanese seizure of Manchuria, At the same time, the firing on Shanghai (in which over 10,000 Chinese workers were slaughtered—Daily Worker) was re- garded with patience. Unanimous opposition was expressed to any American intervention of any sort. “Japan's action in Manchuria un- doubtedly will give security to for- cign investments there and it may open up territory for orderly busi- ness which has been closed in the past.” Admit Attempt to Solve Crisis at Ex- pense of Blood of the Workers The attempts of the imperialists to get out of the crisis at the ex- pense of the colonial masses and of the world working class is even more crudely stated by another Wall St. financier: * “It is a hard-boiled point of view, but history supports it,” he said. “There seems to be a kind of in- ternational (imperialist —Daily Worker) eminent domain, by which the strong take over the tasks and the territory of the weak.” The workers of the United States here have additional proof that. the Wall Street imperialists are respon- sible for the frightful slaughter of Chinese workers in Shanghai and of Chinese worker-peasant masses in Manchuria. Workers! The United States im- perialists and their government are directly responsible for the present Planned campaign of frightfulness against the Chinese masses, for the rushing of imperialist warships to attack the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Sdviet Republic, which | is today admittedly the only govern- ment in China, the only stable force, the only force that can liberate the Chinese masses from the slavery and oppression of the imperialists. Workers of the United States! The imperialists may soon be calling on you here to spill your blood in China, to protect their investments and loot. Here, is what you will be called: upon to die for: Imperialist Investments in China “The total foreign capital invest- ed in China, according to the most recent estimates, is about $3,000,000,- 000. Of this amount Japan is credited with $1,250,000,000 and England with a similar amount. THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT IN ALL CHINA, IN- CLUDING BOTH COMMERCIAL AND MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES, 1S PLACED AT ABOUT $250,000,000.” The Standard Oil Co. and other concerns engaged in wage-slashing and robbery against the American workers, are the owners of these in- vestments that you will be asked to die for. This and the imperialists right to exploit the colonial. masses, to seize whole chunks of China as they have seized Nicaragua, etc., with increased wage cutting in this coun- try as your standargs of living are forced down to the level forced on the colonial masses in order that the United States imperialists may be able to compete with Japanese and other imperialists in the low-price colonial markets. On February 4, National Unem- Ploy Insurance Day, all out against unge: and wash SRS , ‘This planned frightfulnéss is aimed } at crushing tho resistance of the Chinese masses. The United States and other imperialists are equally responsible with the Japanese im- perialists for this savage wholesale murder of workers. While claiming neutrality for the International Set tlement and threatening reprisals | against the Chinese if they carried on any resistance within the Set- tlement against the Japanese, the imperialist Settlement police “stood | by, unable to cope with the killings. Some of the Chinese sought refuge behind the police, only to be clubbed back into line by the ever-present ‘ronins’ (Japanese gangsters).” In plain words, the United States and British police in the International Settlement turned over these Chin-| ese workers to the Japanese to be/| murdered! | Use Fleld Guns Against Native City. ‘The Japanese yesterday resumed the bombardment of the Chapei na- as machine guns and bombing planes, the Japanese spread new havoc and murder among the 100,- | 000 workers who remained in Cha- pel because they had nowhere else | “The refusal to permit a Chinese ; to have medical aid was not an isolated incident. Two Hongkew police detectives asked permission to take a wounded Chinese to a | hospital, but the Japanese refused.” Bombard Nanking Masses. | On Monday afternoon, the Jap- anese opened a bombardment on the | city of Nanking, recent capital of the bankrupt and fleeing Chiang Kai-: shek (Kuomintang) government. | Nanking is 130 miles up the Yangtze | | hal and Nanking. They demanded | | imperis to go. Many additional thousands | Nanking, puts that service as well | were killed and wounded in the | 48 the army under a prince of the | latest bombardment. In pushing| royal blood. By this process the their campaign of utter frightfulness | emperor, who is commander-in- against the masses, the Japanese| chief of the army and navy, prac- even refused to permit medical aid| tically assumes personal com- to wounded Chinese workrs: mand.” | cember, following the Japanese seiz- frightful carnage inflicted by the Japanese on the workers of Shang- the abolition of the antl-Japanese | boycott Knomintang In Secret Conference With Japanese. While the mass murder o fOhinese | workers is being carried out by the| ists, the Kuomintang betray- | ers of China are in secret conference | with the Japanese naval and mili-| tary authorities in Shanghai. That the Japanese expect the fullest oo- operation from these betrayers of | China, that their only fear is the| resistance of the masses, led. by the| Chinese Communist Party, to which resistance many of the Nanking} troops are rallying in defiance of the Kuomintang, is clearly shown in a ‘Tokyo dispatch: “Asked today how Japan pro- Posed to put an end to that situa~ tion, Tokyo officials stated that if the Chinese troops were discip- lined and reliable a plan could be found, but, as the Chinese authort- ties were unable to keep truces, the solution must be left to the men | on the spot.” That this statement means that) the Japanese intend to push their war of frightfulness against the Chi- | nese masses is further emphasized by | the reorganization of the Japanese} chief of the neval general staff. A| ‘Tokyo dispatch states | “The change in the command of the navy, which has had charge of the operations as Shanghai and Field Marshal Prince Kohohito| Kanin was made chief of the genera) staff of the Japanese army in De-| ure of Manchuria. Munitions Stock Go Up As War Spreads. Munitions stock issues went up on the New York Stock Exchange yes- terday as the imperialists speculated on the war developments in China and on the Soviet frontier in North- ern Manchuria, The New York Times reports: River from Shanghai. The Japan- ese attack on Nanking shows clearly | the imperialist advance against the | Chinese Red Army and the Chinese | | Soviet Republic in Central China. | Hankow, 400 miles further up the | Yangtze (from Nanking) is stated to be the next objective of the Jap- anese warships. Hankow is at pre- | Sent surrounded by the Chinese Red Army. Japanese forces in the city | already have set up machine guns | | on the streets in the effort to pre- | vent a threatening uprising of the} workers in Hankow to welcome the | Chinese Red Army. United . States | ‘and British warships are at Han- kow and other points along the Yangtze River. ‘That these forces are there to make war on the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet Republic has been openly admitted by the U. S. Rear Admiral Yancy Williams, who held } @ conference with other imperialist | naval commanders a few days ago| to work out plans for the attack on the Chinese Red Army. U. 8. Con- sul-General Cunningham in Shang- hai has also admitted that the war- ships and troops the United States is rushing to China are to be used against the revolutionary Chinese workers and peasants. Both in Shanghai and Nanking, the imperialists and their Kuomintang tools were successful yesterday in breaking down the resistance of the Chinese troops. Many of these troops are reported on the verge of revolt a8 a result of this betraya lof China. The imperialists are plainly afraid that these troops will go over to the Chinese workers and their leader, the Chinese Communist Party. Following his failure to disarm the troops which were fighting the Japa- nese in Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek has refused to send reinforcements or munitions to these troops. Al- though there are 50,000 crack »Chi- nese troops in Nanking, there was little resistance yesterday to the Japanese landing of marines under cover of a bombardment of the city. | Nor did the Nanking forts reply to the fire of the Japanese warships | whieh were spreading death and ter- | ror @mong the workers of Nanking. While Japanese planes are wiping out whole populations in the con- gested districts of Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek refuses to permit his planes to proceed against the Japanese! Chiang Kai-shek and the rest of the Kuomintang traitors are “faithfully adhering” to their agreement with the imperialists for the looting and partition of China. Only the Chi- nese masses, led by the Chinese Com- munisé Party and inspired by the victorious advance of the Chinese Red Army, are fighting back. ‘The workers of the entire world must rally to the defense of the Chi- nese masses, to the defense of the Chinese Soviet Republic. The at- tack on the Chinese masses is an attack on the entire working class. An attack engineered and being car- ried out ‘by the very imperialist mur- | derers who have sentenced tens of} millions of unemployed workers and | their families to starvation and death | in the “home” countries and in the | colonies, The attack on the revolu- | tionary Chinese masses is a prelude to the armed attack on’ the Soviet | Union, now being prepared in North- | ern Manchuria, where the Japanese | with bombardment by the Ja} anese imperialists. These cities are Tien- | tsin, Chefoo, Tsingtao and Foochow. | ‘The Japanese demanded that the) workers of these cities cease their monstrations of protest: “A spirited advance on the Stock Exchange yesterday in the shares of steel, aircraft, arms, munitions | and chemical companies was ascribed largely to the situation in the Far East, “Trading in these issues was un- commonly heavy by comparison with the markets of the recent past, Among the issues which the Wall Street community classified as ‘war babies’ were United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Savage Arms, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and others. United States Steel was up 35-8 points on the day, | Bethlehem, 21-4, and the others | closed with net gains of from a fraction to more than 2 points.” U.S. Congress Wants Bigger Navy and Army. A big drive was started in Con- gress for increased appropriations for the army and navy. The New York} Times reports: “In the Senate, Chairman Hale urged that Congress immediately enact legislation to bring the navy up to London treaty strength, while the House Committee on Ap- propriations took cognizance of opposition to proposed redical re- ductions in army appropriations for the fiscal year 1933.” Orders for Warships Scribbled In Frantic Haste. In the House, Representative Thomas L. Blanton indulged in a fake pacifist gesture, but admitted that the United States was rushing warships and troops to China to protect American loot and invest~ ments. He said: “That is exactly what we are doing. They were so hurried yes- terday that they wrote the orders on a scratch-pad on their knees to send our battleships and men over to the East. IT am not willing to involve the United States govern- ment in war to protect those few Chinese merchants over there, and I think Congress ought to give our powers-that-be to understand we are not going to permit it.” Senate Supports War On | Chinese Masses. | This is just so much ballyhoo de- | signed to deceive the masses. All groups of the imperialists, all of the capitalist political parties, including the socialist party, are supporting the present war on the Chinese masses. ‘The “progressive,” Senator Borah, last Friday joined with other sen- ators in opposing an economic boy- cott against Japan. These senators also opposed an embargo on arms to the Orient, and gave thé hypocritical explanation that such an embargo “would work to the detriment of the Chinese.” As if the world imperial- ists are not already engaged in an arms embargo against the only force in China that is fighting the Japa- nese invaders, against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Chinese Red Army. “PEACE” TALK IN GENEVA IS A MOVE 70 HIDE WAR DEEDS (OONTINUED FROM PAGE UNED ing to news dispatehes, has sssumed an extremely front row position in the conference and it is reported that all the American delegates, including Hugh Gibson and Hugh R. Wilson are comfortably located in aisle seats Indeed the American “peace makers” are as much in the forefront in Geneva as the American troops are in the forefront in the occupation of Shanghai Arthur Henderson, the British labor faker, speaking for British imperiel- ism, is in the chair. Socialist’ Hen- derson’s task, according to a foreign press report, was “to impart a sense of optimism and reality to the dele- gates,” that is, in the face of the actual war the imperia are now waging in China. The capitalist press, however, has been forced to admit the general bankruptcy of the whole maneuver, the New York Times stating that the delegates “realize very keenly that this is not a con ference to inaugurate a millenium “No one expects any sensational ac complishments.” says the Times tive section, in which over 10,000 | navy under a prince of the imperial] It is plain that the conference i Chinese workers were murdered in| family. Admiral Prince Hiroyasu| an international imperialist move to previous bombardments during the|Fushimi, member of the Supreme| hide the war preparations that all Past week. Using field guns as well | War Council, has been appointed|the capitalist mations are making against the Chinése masses and the Soviet Union. At the same time the conference is part of the imperialist struggle among the various powers each jockeying for supremacy. | According to the published agende five weeks of the conference will be devoted to speeches. ‘These speecher will be for the press and general public and are in bitter contrast tc the actual war which their armed ss are waging in China. The speeches will be made during the morning sessions. ‘The afternoon sessions will be devoted to “neces: ary conversations of ’a more private character.” In other words the afternoons will be given over to secret. diplomac: During these sessions the secret plots will be hatched, plots against the Soviet Union, plots to crush the workers’ revolutionary movement throughout the rid, plots against the Chinese masses and inter-imper- ialist. quarrels and contradictions will be aired The disarmament conference, in face of the feverish war preparations and the murderous events in China attempting as it is to put on a sober and peaceful face, will go down in history as one of the greatest bits of farcical hypocrisy of the twentiett century Workers, don't fooled by the fake Geneva Conference. Build anti- committees in your shop, your be war neighborhood. Defend the Chinese evolution against the robber na- tions Defend the Soviet Union! Demonstrate against hunger and war Feb. 4. Into the streets tomorrow! Ky. Miners March 12 Miles Thru Bitter Cold to Hold Mass Meet at Jellico (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) granted an injunction, has been de- clared bankrupt. | With a view to a determined strike offensive in Harlan County where | Sheriff Bloody Blair rules for the coal operators, @ mass march will be made Wednesday to the Rex Mine near Harlan. Some miners who remain at work in large Harlan mines have | received two wage cuts since the strike began. Starvation is rampant throughout this area. | A mass meeting will be held at Big | Black mine near LaFollette, Tenn.! The president of the NMU local there has just been discharged, and 1,000! miners in this section said they would follow the Big Black miners out on) strike. | Farmers in Tennessee who are sup- | plying relief to the strikers ask con- | stantly for copies of the Daily Worker. Commenting on the %50,000 suit against the Daily Worker, brought by Sheriff Broughton, the Middles- boro News calls on all coal oper- ators and their agents to sue the Daily Worker. The operators are attempting to use a recent article in the Daily Worker on religion, to tell the miners the only reason the National Miners Union is in the field is to destroy religion. This has caused a great deal of discussion amongst the miners op the question of religion and fs act- ing as a boomerang against the coal operators. The miners are asking questions about the Soviet Union and about religion. They discussed the use of religion by the coal op- erators in an effort to keep the min- ers in starvation by the use of religion. 150 CITIES REPORT INCREASE The International Labor Defense demanded today that police officials throughout the country keep “hands oft” the demonstrations to be held on February 4th by unemployed workers in New York and more than 100 oth- er American cities. Through its secretary, J. Louis EngdahI, the Labor Defense protest- ed against the instructions issued the National Guard of Illinois to fire upon the unemployed of that state when they assemble before the city halls and relief agencies to demand food and relief. Branches of the International La- bor Defense in every section of the country will mobilize thir member- ship and sympathisers to prevent police attacks on démonstrators, Engdah! said. In these demonstra- tions, the organization will take part demanding the release of Tom Moo- ney, the Scottsboro Negro boys, and the Harlan, Kentucky, mine strike prisoners, according to Engdahl. Demonstrations have been arranged before city halls or other official buildings in Milwaukee, Indianapolis, St. Louis, New York, Baltimore, Bos- ton, Chicago, Providence, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, San Francisco, SHARP IN UNEMPLOYMENT unemployed; 5.—No discrimination in unemployment relief against single men and girls, aged or childless couples. Bosses in Phila. Call On Fakers to Stop Feb. A Rally Form Sham Committee On Unemployment of Labor Misleaders PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 2—Tht struggle of the capitalists against unemployment insurance does not only consist of police terror, prohib- iting the use of the City Hall Plam to the Unemployed Council, but ther are also calling into action all the labor misleaders and the socialist party. ‘Through quick mobilization, there has been established in Philadelphia the joint committee on unemploy~ ment, the purpose of which com- Butte, Montana, Minot, North Dakota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Campbell and Youngstown, Ohio, Johnstown and New Castle, Pennsyl- yania, and throughout the Kentucky and Tennessee coal strike area, as well as in many other cities. “In some of these cities, mayors or police chiefs have banned the Feb- ruary 4th demonstrations” said Eng- dahl, “Press dispatches state that officials threaten to disperse unem- ployed workers with mounted police, national guards, machine guns and tear gas. The Unemployed Councils under which these demonstrations are being held are determined to hold their parades and make their relief demands despite these bans. Demands to be made upon city authorities by the unemployed on February 4th include: 1—No evictions of unemployed families; 2.—Endorsement of the Un- employed Insurance Bill; 3.—Free gas, coal, and electricity for unem- ployed; 4—-Free food, clothing, and school supplies for children of the mittee is determined by its compo- | sition which consists of Rieve, Edel- | man and McKeown of the Hosiery Union who gave the hosiery workers a forty-five per cent wage cut. | Included in this committee dre: | Baruch of the Central Labor Un- |ion and the Philadelphia Record, | which is part of the republican ma~- | chine and who elected Mayor Moore; | Kelley of the United Textile Work- ers Union, Morris of the Carpenters District Council who insisted that the carpenters take a wage cut; the | Amalgamated Clothing Worker; the Conference for Progressive Labor | Action and the socialist party. The purpose of this conference is to endorse the LaFollette bill which | the Daily Worker has recently exe |posed as aimed to prevent the growth of the struggle for unem~- ployment insurance and approval of | the Workers Unemployment Insur- ~. | ance Bill for which the workers of | Philadelphia will demonstrate on February 4th. are rushing their troops to the Soviet NSM ics aan one |< bose eee Street .. 0». Four additional cities in Inner Cit: ia China were yesterday thre tened i alll a. auttighd ae I Contribute $ and Capitalist War! Vow ete sb amc ce cecewcccccepins ss 50 EAST 13th STREET si For $50,000 Fighting Fund! FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION NOW! My Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program UA NEW YORK CITY.