The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1932, Page 1

ss) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central LY aM unist Party U.S.A. _ (Section of the Communist eatin) Entered as eccond-cl at New York, N. Sn matter at th ler the act of March 3, 1979 ‘ont Office RALLY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURAN E CITY EDT?' Scrape Up to Save “Daily” TION UNION SQ. 1:30 TODAY JAPANESE PL PLAN ADVANCE. FROM HARBIN TO SOVIET BORDER [Demand Wav Funds Go to Feed Fight the Imperialist Invasion) of China! Stop the war acts of American imperialism! Down with the war provocations against the Soviet Union! Defend the Soviet Union! Organize the United Front ag ainst imperialist war! AR is on in China! War against the Chinese people. The preparations for war against the Soviet Union, threatening the whole working class of the world, is moving on with tremendous speed. The entire American battle fleet, along with the regular forces of the army and marines, is moving to the Orient, to the field of the growing imperialist war. All the imperialist powers are rushing and concentrat- ing their forces of blood and violence near Shanghai where the dirty knot of rival imperialisgs, and above all of Japan- ese and United States imperialism, is the tightest. All for the enslavement of China, destroying Soviet China. Each to guarantee its share in the enslavement and partition of China. Beware workers! Under the smoke screen of talk about “disarmament,” or ‘protection of American property and life in China,” to “defend the Kellog peace pact,” you will sud- denly be face to face with the disaster and carnage of a world imperialist war—a war against the Soviet Union, the father- land of the proletariat of all countries, to crush Soviet China, a war for suppressing colonial revolutionary masses, and for the re-distribution of the imperialist booty. The war against the Chinese people began with the oc- cupation of Manchuria by Japan, supported by the world imperialists, especially thé United States, for the creation of a baseo f war operations against the Soviet Union, and as a death blow against the rising Chinese revolution. Decpite the severely sharpening rivalries of the imperialist masters under the influence of the deepening world crisis, their common hate and for of the country of advancing socialism, brought them to unified ac- tien, entrusting the function of bloodhound of the East to Japan. The. hypocritical, lying protests and notes of the League of Nations and of slimy Stimson & Co., were not meant to interfere. Japanese im- periali m was assured if could excuse the strengthening of its hold’ in Manchuria by instigating war against the Soviet Union and by its moves to crush the independenee of China. Even now while the competition between the imperialist gangs in Shanghai assumes the form of military rivalry, they continue to act unitedly in the support of the Japanese seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the insolent attack on Harbin in Manchuria. ‘The mobilization of the czarist white-guard by Japan in Harbin is supported by similar attempts in all the capitals of the imperialist coun- tries to revive the foul remnants of the defeated counter-revolutionary ezarist armies for the object of provoking the Soviet Union. Workers! The Communist Party from the beginning of the crisis warned you that the main danger in the Manchurian invasion was the menace of war against the Soviet Union. The military provocations now carried on in Harbin and on the Eastern Railway with the open sanction and support of American and other imperialists, proves the correctness for the loot in China, the exchange of hypocritical diplomatic notes, must not close your eyes to the unity of the imperialists in their hostile actions against the Soviet Union—the flourishing land of socialist construction. ‘The Soviet World is extending. The completion of the 5-Year Plan in 4 years, the announcement of the 2nd 5-Year Plan, the growth of the Chinese Soviets, has thrown the imperialists into a state of desperation. Two Worlds. The Soviet Union growing in strength. The capitalist world bankrupt and dying. The perspective of the imperialists that under the blows of the in- tervention, and by vicious terror and threats would render China help- less before the invaders, proved false. The exposing of the treachery, impctence and foulness of the Kuomintang cliques, accelerated by the imperialist attacks, is accompanied by the growth of the national anti- imperialist revolutionary movement, and heightens the confidence of the broadest masses in the Chinese Red Army as the only defender of the independence of China. Following the first Soviet Congress of China which recently con- solidated the power of she Soviets, and inaugurated the spreading of the Soviet movement to wow territories, the workers in industrial centers are pushing forward the organization of their forces to give assistance to the approaching Red Army. Even in Manchuria, where the combined and uninterrupted terror of Japanese imperialism and the Chinese war lords hindered, the develop- ment of the revolutionary organizations, the growing resistance to the bloody occupation was and is carried on only by the workers and peas- ants’ partisan movement. Though imperialist intervention was able to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Dressmakers in Huge Mass of this warning. The events in Shanghai, the rivalry of the imperialists | |night, the workers | the united front strike for union con- ALL CENTRAL CHINA HELD BY CHINESE RED ARMY Loot ‘Threntaned: W U. S.. Japan and Britain | Rush Warships Against Chinese Soviet Republic Pushing their campaign of ruthlessness} against the Chinese masses in the attempt to| crush their heroic resistance against the im- perialist armed ntervention for the looting and || partition of China, the Japanese are at the! same time carrying out their announced intention for an ad-| vance through northern Manchuria to the Siberian borders of the Soviet Union. This is a clear warning to the world working class that the present imperialist war on the Chinese masses and the} {CONTINUED ON PAGE Ky. Miners Mobilize to Smash Injunction Defense Corps Smash Attack On N. M. U. Leader and W. I. R. Organizer LA FOLLETTE, Tenn., Feb. 3.—Gun thugs of the Peabody Mine which is out on strike 100 per cent, tried to trap Dan Brooks, organizer of the National Miners Union, and Gertrude Logan, of the Workers International Relief | here yesterday on the public highway Just at nightfall. Only | the quick mobilization of the striking miners’ defense corps saved the two strike o rganizers from being shot to death or viciously flogged. Dan Brooks who has been organizing the miners solidly into the National Miners Union has been living with the miners THREED “CONTINUED ON PSGE THREED Meeting at Mecca Temple Vote for General Strike NEW YORK.—At a huge mass rank and file leadership can we wipe meeting held at Mecca Temple last | out the low wages, long hours, sweat- enthusiastically |shop conditions, discrimination and voted for a mass strike in the dress ; mass unemployment in the dress in- industry in the very near future, dustry and win better conditions for The meeting decided to elect a del- | #ll the workers in the dress trade. egation to go to the mass meeting; “We endorse the decision for # called by, the International to ask the | united front mass strike under rank workers in the International to join|and file leadership to include all workers in the dress trade, members of the International, members of the Industrial Union, open shop workers, Negro and white, young and old, Ital- | ian, Spanish, and all other workers in the dress trade on the basis of the following demands: 1. 40 hour, 5 day week. 2, ditions in the dress trade. The following resolution was adopt- ed by the masses of workers present at the meeting: “We, the dressmakers assembled at this mass meeting in Mecca Temple on February 3, 1932, at the call of the United Front Strike Preparation Committee, recognize that only Minimum guaranteed wage . | tions, through a united front strike under {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Starving, Une mployed M Millions! Daily Worker Is Sued by aaa | SHERIFF OF BELL COUNTY & $50,000 FOR EXPOSING HIM Beane MINERS S FOR | PINEVILLE, Ky., Mail).—A deliberate at- Jan. 28 (By | tempt to muzzle the Daily Worker, spokesman for the striking Kentucky miners, was made today. Vern Smith, the Daily correspondent, jailed a month ago when Bell County deputies raided the Southern district office of the National Miners Un-| ion, was handed a summons through v-~ the Jail door. ‘The summons was ad-, Of his promise, Floyd showed he was | Gressed to Compradaily Pubishing| im alliance with the Harlan killers. | Co, printers of the Daily Worker|John Henry Blair, sheriff of Harlan, and to Smith, calling on each of them |" his machine gunners were to appear and answer some unknown | rought in force to Pineville and and unstated charge in the circuit | @ssisted Floyd Broughton’s thugs to | court of Bell County, within ten days | Gtive people from the streets and from Jan. 28. drive back miners on their way to} The charge is brought by Floyd | Pineville. Broughton, chief deputy sheriff of] But Floyd Broughton, strange as it| Bell County and the actual head of | S¢ems, still hopes the miners will vote | the hundreds of deputized operators’ | for him, and, therefore writhes under | gunmen who have spread. terror dur- | the merciless exposure made of him | ing this strike equal. almost to that-in |i" the Dally Worker, He wants the | Harlan County. Daily silenced, and since arrests of ‘The Broughton family have held| those receiving it, confiscation of and swapped around county office, | DUNdles of papers wherever possible sheriff, clerk, county attorney, etc.,|°Ve™ refusal of postmasters on com- for 25 years. When the elder Brough- | P2PY Property to deliver the papers, ton died recently, he was high | have failed to prevent the Daily sheriff, His wife succeeded to his| Worker from speaking out and have ' likewise failed to prevent the miners unfinished term, and Chief Deputy | Floyd Broughton is her sou, PUty | vom reading the Daily Worker—why Floyd wants to run for sheriff him- | Floyd Broughton tries court action. self in the next election. He wants Eis the miners to vote for him. While a © the strike and the operators’ terror, 7 3 fa at ore hemp. insurance Demonstrations smashing of picket lines, breaking up of meetings with machine guns, evic- arrests and frame-up were mainly in Harlan County, Floyd Broughton ran around telling the strikers he was all for them anc nothing like that could happen in Bel County. In particular he assurec the miners that he would never let the Harlan gun thugs, their hands reeking with murder, come into Bell County. But the strike took firm hold in Bell County, and the operators is- sued their order for terror. Floyd deputised scores of the operators’ hired killers, raided the N. M. U. offices, arested many and played a full part in the blockading of Pine- ville Sunday, Jan, 24, and the smash- ing with a force of 250 machine gun- ners and riflemen, of the meetings | called there that day by the ae leadership. In particular and in flagrant breach | | | RALLY TO SUPPORT OF YOUR PAPER! SAVE DAILY WORKER FROM SUSPEN SION! RUSH FUNDS IMMEDIATELY! | | | | carrying on a bitter battle against | starvation and against the machine / ‘Masses March : Today to City Hall from Union Sq. | Will Present Unemployment Insurance Bill to Mayor and Demand Immediate Relief NEW YORK.—AII New York City today will be the scene of action for tens of thousands of workers who will answer the call of the Unem- ployed Council to demonstrate for Unemploy- ment Insurance. In Harlem, the Bronx, Brook- lyn, and Queens, workers will parade and then come in mass by subway to Union Square: From Bryant Park, Madison |Square, Tompkins Square, Cooper Square, the Battery, Needle Trades market, and the Clothing market, workers will march to the main demonstration under the banners of their unions, clubs and fraternal orders. = Saree At Union Square, workers promi-| tion of the working masses will ex- nent in the fight for unemployment | Pose the unger program of | the relief, agai wage cuts, against im-| Tammany government, aswell as the perialist war, and for the organiza- {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOY . Employed Workers Suppert Struggle for In- surance Equal to Full Wages at Expense of Bosses Stark hunger faces a tremendous section of the American working class as huge masses gather in mighty demonstrations, throughout the United States. Growing out of the National Hunger March, the February 4th actions will carry forward the struggle for unemployment insurance. The Unemployed Councils, that have been established in hundreds of cities and towns are leading these demonstrations. In every large industrial center as well as hundreds of small industrial towns in the United States, thousands of em- ployed and unemployed workgers will > — march and assemble on the streets, tion of the’ first Unemployed Council under the leadegship of the Unem- | ! this city and endorsed the day of ployed Councils, the Trade Union struggle for unemployment insurance. Unity League and the Communist | In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., thousands Party, in united demonstration for pe white and Negro worekrs of Brow- unemployment insurance. |ard County have endorsed the Work- ‘The Daily Worker has already re- | @nd will take part in the February ported the extensive plans made in| 4th demonstrations, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Minnea- | 6 3 re, polis, Boston, and many other cities PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 3.—Wide for February. 4th, mobilization for a determined strug- gle is taking place in the Pittsburgh District for February 4. No permit has been granted for Reports received from the South} tell of the spread of the organized | t r y t i ce | | fight for unemployment insurance) semonstrations in Pittsburgh City, into this section of the U. S. In Ken- | East Pittsburgh, McKeesport, Verond, | tucky, where the striking miners are | ; Ambridge or Brownsville. The Pittsburgh District wil lead the | gun terror of the bosses, National| Workers in determined struggle to a a k k the armed police terror of nemployment Insurance Day de- | beat bac eae : the Bosses. The struggles of the monstrations will be held in many places. Four hundred unemyloed workers in Knoxville, Tenn., crowded into a mass meeting Monday and enthusi- | astically participated in the forma- | workers will be carried forward on @ | broad united front basis. The de- | mands of the unemployed in the unemployed in blocks, flop houses (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Thousands Forced to Live on Garbage; Demand Unemployment Insurance! THIS NEGRO WORKER, after being evicted from his home, was forced to move to the city dump near the Delaware River in Philadelphia, The demonstrations today will demand adequate relief and hae aad ai ppenrence fer: thle worker and the hel ara 1 A SECTION OF THE COLONY of unemployed living on thePhiladelphia dumps. This is only part of the misery and degradation forced upon the American workers by the rich ruling class which boasts so proudly of individual initiative and sends its police against workers, clubbing and jailing them for demanding unemployment insurance. Led by the Communist Party and Unemployed Mnseaie the masses of workers will today [ demand homes and food for these workera, PAM dee os ese ge a abs 2 THOUSANDS OF PHILADELPHIA WORKERS come to these dumps daily to filch for scraps of food among the garbage. The boss politi- clans boast how they are feeding the unemployed. This scene proves the utter bankruntey of copltalicns's charity prograt, , Posts sae ten te