The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS Of THE WORLD,’ UNITE! Dail ly, ae (s Section of the Communist International) orker ict Party U.S.A. Collect Money, Scrape Up Every Penny to Save “Daily” —— “Vol. 1X,No.33 Kintered as eccomd-clana matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1932 erry EDI T 10N- _Price 3 Cents _ DECLARE UNITED FRONT DRESS STRIKE; DOWNTOOLS 10am Soviets iets Expose Par Parts White ( Guard Plot Plot to Assassinate Litvinoff Chinese Red Army White Guards Admit Japanese Seizure of Harbin Is Step in Move to Soviet Border Imperialists Expect “Prompt Drive to Siberian Frontier”, Bringing “Japanese Face to Face” With U.S.S. R. The Japanese seizure of Harbin and their announced intentions to carry out an armed advance toward the Siberian border of the So- viet Union have been hailed with glee in all imperialist and White Guard circles. A Harbin dispatch reports that the White Guards in that city turned out en masse to cheer the invading Japanese army. The New York American in printing this dispatch gave it the significant head: “Japanese entry by exiles as portending revenge upon Moscow.” ‘That the imperialist war mongers | consider thae stage now set for armed intervention against workers, Russia is further shown by the lies printed | hailed with joy ‘? ave been concentrated at Vladi- vostock.” » This is not the first time that the Japanese have been forced, along | with the other imperialist bandits, to admit the first peace policy of the Soviet Union. But the imperalsts are on Saturday in the imperialist press |detaned to press their long-prepared that the Soviet troops were cencen- | plans for armed intervention against trating at Vladisvostock. These lies were immediately denid by th So- vit Union. ports: “Russia and Japanese autherities alike ridiculed reports published abroad today that Russian troops A Tokyo dispatch re-| the Soviet Union whese workers rule and where unemployment and na- | tional oppression have been abolshed. ‘The Harbin dispatch published by the New York American further ex- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Dressmakers--All Out in the Mass Strike FRENCH ASK WORLD ANTI- USSR FRORT Tardieu In i Coneia De- mands Imperialist Police Force U. S. FAVORS PLAN Means Increase of Armaments NEW YORK.—An-! dre Tardieu, chief of the French delegation to the Geneva disarm- ament farce and most extreme reactionary in Europe, erposed clearly the anti-Soviet aims of the imperialists at the! conference when he took the| floor Saturday and in his open- ing speech demanded an imperialist military united front agairfst the | UL 8. 8S. R. ) } An international imperialist army made up of the armed forces of the big robber powers to “guarantee the security of the world”—this is the brazen and shameless proposal’ of “peaceful French imperialism. Ob- viously such an army can have only | object—to attack the Soviet Union Call on Dressmakers to Defend Living Standards | gees Notice to NEW YORK, — Carrying | out the decisions of the masses of dressmakers who met last} |w eek in Mecca Temple, the! |United Front Strike Commit-| tee and the Needle Trades In- | | dustrial Union has declared a) | committees on the basis of the| strike throughout the New | united front of all workers in the York dress trade today at 10} | shops. ‘am. This election should take place | % only after a thorough discussion | Dressmakers of all national-| of the demands. The chop strike | ities—young and old, Negro | committees should work out special | and white—in Brooklyn, New | demands and send them to the York, Harlem, the Bronx and| | °ntral strike committee, all other sections of Greater | be started only with the approval New York—operators, cutters | and under the guidance of the | | | central strike committee, 'Greater New York | All dress shops should immedi- |ately elect strike committees to [replace the sirike preparation | || Negotiation with the bosses can (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Slow Response of Workers Endangers Life of Daily W Worker Up to the present. present, ime $3,353.79 has come through in the $50,000 Drive to Saye the Daily Worker for leadership in the struggles of the the hunger, war, wage cutting of- : Ne dressmakers are out on strike today. Driven by the outrageous con- ditions in the shops, the workers will be out in the streets fighting for decent conditions. The bosses have taken advantage of the lack of or- ganization of the large section of the newer elements in the industry— the Negro, Latin-American and Italian workers—and have driven down the conditions so low that the workers are beginning to revolt. Thousands of workers in the intlustry are unemployed. The crisis has weighed down heavily on the working class, and the manufacturers have taken advantage of the situation to systematically cut the workers’ wages, so that today some of them earn as little as $6 a week at long hours of work. Even the skilled workers have had their standard cut and they are going out today, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the unskilled workers. This strike is led by the United Front Rank and File Committee and the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, who are uniting the ranks of the workers in this struggle. Workers belonging to the International Ladies Garment Workers Unton, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and unorganized workers have united their forces in the united front, for the purpose of carrying on a UNITED fight against the bosses. The enthusiasm at the United Front strike meeting on Wednesday showed conclusively that the idea of United Front as one of the most powerful weapons in the hands of the workers has convinced the workers, and they will go out into the streets under the leadership of the United Front Com- | mittee and the Industrial Union determined to win. Against this united st®uggle and the United Front stands the com- pany union—the International Ladies Garment Union—and its socialist and renegade leadership—Schlesinger, Zimmerman and Co. These people, acting as open agents of the bosses, are carrying on the most shameful maneuvers to keep the workers from uniting, together with Dudley Ficld Malone, the fake liberal lawyer, they are negotiating with the bosses to sell out the strike. They are calling a fake strike, not to win conditions for the workers but, with the afd of the police, to break the strike of the workers who will go out under the leadership of the United Front Com- mittee and the Industrial Union. This is a repetition of tehir strikebreak- ing activities in Paterson, Lawrence, etc. Dressmakers: Your strike is part of the strike movement that is sweeping the country and the entire world. The bosses are determined not to bear the cost of t he crisis which is the product of their own system, but to put it on the shoulders of the workers, by refusing unemployment insurance, by cutting wages and by imperialist war. The Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia miners answered this attack a few months ago by a militant struggle. The miners of. Kentucky and Tennessee are now out on strike. You are joining your ranks with those of the fighting miners. New York dressmakers are known for their militancy, and it is sure that in this strike they will stand the test. The bosses and the socialist- renegades will try to disrupt the strike with the aid of gangsters and thugs. In the drive that has been going on in the past few weeks, more than 100 shops involving more than 2,000 workers were struck and as large group have gone back with decidedly improved conditions. The gang- sters have tried to do their dirty work, but have been defeated. The rank and file must organize their ranks to defeat any move of the bosses and the authosities to break the strike through gangsterism, injunctions, ar- rests, € te, ‘This means that in every shop in which there is a strike preparation committee, it must immediately be changed into a shop strike commit- tee. Where there is no such committee, elect a shop strike committee. First discuss the demands in the shops and elect the best fighting elements into the strike committee. Go to the strike hall in the vicinity and get your instructions. e ‘The union will need funds to carry on the strike, which will be of historical significance for the workers of New York. It is the forerunner of strikes in the cloak, fur and building trades. Therefore this strike must be won, It must enlist the support of all the workers in New York—the unions of other trades, the workers’ clubs and fraternal organizations. ‘This strike must be spread into the outlying sections, to which the manu- facturers have removed in order to work open shop. The workers are willing to fight—the other workers must support them. The Industrial Union and the Workers International Relief are carrying on the work for raising the strike and relief fund. Dressmakers: You must make this strike a mass strike. The workers of other trades and industries in New York are watching this strike and its leadership. Proper strike strategy will win these workers for struggle— for a fight against hunger, and for wage increases. The whole revolution- ary movement must support this strike. ‘This is not a dressmakers’ fight -alone—it is a fight of the whole working class. Dre:zsmakers: Out into the streets! Bring along the workers in the other shops in your building. Fight against hunger conditions! Join the United Front in this ctruggle! Build your union—the Needle Trades Workers Indnetr'-* | and the revolutionary movement -in cites * the colonial semi-colonial countries. This is a gain The American delegation, accord- ing to th elatest press dispatches, will consider the suggestion seriously. Other reports state that the pro- posal aroused lively interest and was received with an open mind. average of about last 4 days. This pace will In commenting on the proposal editorially, the yesterday's issue of the New York Times, which speaks for the American bankers and in- dustrialists, says: “It would seem that the true course for American statesmanship would bé not to make vain en- deavors to break it up (the united | front against the U. S. S. R. ed), but to take advantage of its exist- reed. ance to bring abeut understandings | which might in the end lead to 4 world ‘front’ instead of one merely European or American.” In face of the advance of the Japanese troops to the Soviet bor- der in Manchuria and the open financing of the Polish and Rou- manian armies by French imperial ism, the meaning of the “world front” stands out clearly as a call for a decaying capitalist world front ency conferences Worker, 50 East York City. since last Thursday’s figure. fensive of the bosses. of about $1,000 An $200 a day for the never save the Daily Worker. Mass organizations workers clubs, sympathetic organi- zations which responded so splen- didly to the appeals of the Daily Worker in the past have not yet answered this call of their fighting paper in the hour of its greatest Speed Up all activity! Visit every workers’ organization! Collect and remit funds immediately! up all district activity! Cali emerg- Speed in all districts RUSH all funds to the Daily 13th Street, New All Dressmakers In || | | | | TO DRIVE \| Geneva Ceateores Was To Be Scene of Murder | PLOTTED IN Moscow Reveals Name of A NEW YORK, N Y.— Maxim eign Affairs, at the Ge-| neva “disarmament” confer- USSR TO WAR PARIS) A plot to assassinate| 1 Litvinoff, So-| viet Commissar of For-' PLAN AIMED | Five Miles From City of Hankow Imperialists Rush Warships Up Yangtze As As Workers Threaten Uprising to Welcome Red Army |Washineton Admits Armed Attack On China Aims at Revolutionary Masses, Chinese Soviet Republic BULLETIN. Latest dispatches rom Tokyo report that Soviet officials at Vladl« vostok have indicated grave concern over the Japanese seizure and occas pation of the city of Harbin, chief point on the Chinese Eastern Rall- road, which is jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. atch says: Russian officials have denied any concentration of troops near Manchuria, the message said the Vladivostok officials considered it certain that Harbin would become the center of anti-Soviet activities of the white Russians, or exiled Czarlsts, as a result of the Japanese occupation.” ence was uncovered by the So-| | viet authorities and officially! The guns of the advancing Chinese Red announced Sunday night This plot is part of the imperialist | and white guard efforts to provoke the Soviet Union into war and at | the same time shows up the real | nature of the general conference | _Oificial notification of the anti- Soviet conspiracy was sent to Sir | Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the.League:of Nations, by-acting | Foreign Commissar Krestinsky. | The following telegram was sent to | Sir Eric by Krestinsky on Feb, 2: | “Our authorities have | reliably that certain Russian emi- mirey and Shatiloy, were given orders to make an attempt upon M, Litvine!f’s life dering the first few days of the disarmament con- ference.” “I am convinced,” Krestinsky’s message continued, “that the deed would be attempted by one Uri Ladijensky, © ist representative of the International Red Cross. “tn the absence of diplomatic relations between Russia and Swit- zerland and since M. L ceeded to Switzerland to attend to conference, I fecl it my duty to inform you of th FROM A BUTTE MINER BUTTE, Mont—Three thousand miners here are only working half time and are earning on an average and do some organizing here. A Miner. | backbone of the revolutionary press. | Build your press by writing for it against the growing Soviet world. It is the world front upon which all imperialist nations agree and in which all of these nations are at present participating against the Chinese revolutionary masses and the Soviet Union. The speech of Tar- dieu serves merely to solidfy this Mass Trial Finds White Worker Guilty of White Chauvinism; Hits Race Hatre front and prepare for the final armed steps against the Soviet Union. ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3 FATHER BLACKLISTED MIDDLESBORO, Ky.—My father he has been blacklisted in many a place. He is 61 years old and is union from the soles of his feet to the top of his hat. —A Miner’s Child. Red Builders, help get subscriptions. yesterday afternoon at the mass trial of Joe Birns, a white member of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, charged with harboring anti- working class ideas against the Negro masses, | insulting a Negro organizer of the union and making the state- ment that it would be better if there were no Negro workers | in the industry. : The trial, which was called by the Needle Trades Indus- trial Union, was held at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and TUUC Backs Anti-War Meet Thurs. at St. Nicholas Arena NEW YORK —M.Olgin, W. Z. Foster, Israel Amter, Scott Nearing, Japanese and Chinese workers, and a Negro workers’ delegate who just returned from the Soviet Union, will speak at the monster anti-war meeting which will be held under the auspices of the New York District of the Friends of the Soviet Union this Thursday, February 11, at* ———--———__. 8 pim,, at the St. Nicholas Arena, 69/in& the period of intervention at the W. 66th St. at 8 p.m. time of the Russian Revolution in bahia 1919, to China, is a further attempt ie isies ae tea Lay the borses to send their armics burning of Shanghai is a step for- | to attack the Soviet Union. The only ward for the invasion of the Soviet thing that will save the workers from Union, The sending of the United another disastrous world war in which States 31st Regiment (Polar Bears),|'¢NS of millions of workers will be which was stationed in Siberia dur-" (conwINUKD ON PAG ®W) Lenox Ave., and was attended by a large crowd of Negro and white workers. The trial was opened by Phil League, who stressed the program of the revolutionary trade unions in fighting against all tendencies of race prejudice among the ranks of the workers. Aronberg pointed out that the race hatred poison is used |by the bosses to divide the workers |and prevent their united struggle eee the bosses’ wage-cutting and | starvation program. consisting of 9 Negro workers, Spanish workers, 2 Italian workers, 1 Greek worker and 8 Jewish workers. | Lloyd Brown, a young Negro worker, was foreman of the jury. ‘The judges were J. H. Cohen, sec- (retary of the Needle Trades Union; Aronberg, of the Trade Union Unity | 300 U.S. Workers in USSR Protest Scottsboro Frame-up A ‘ury was elecied of 24 members, | a Irish worker, 1 Armenian worker, 1) NEW YORK.—Race hatred was pilloried | two rank and file members. learned | | gres in Paris led by Miller, Drag- | off pro- | $50 per month. There are 5,000 to- | tally unemployed. We must get busy | Army in Shanghai are keeping their Workers Correspondence is the | Rose Aurbach and Rose Thompson, | Army are flashing five miles from Hankow, important Central China industrial and strat- egic city. Foreign imperialists and Kuomin- tang landlord and banke relements in the city are in a panic. Martial law is being savagely applied against the workers in the effort to prevent a threatened mass up- rising to weleome the Chinese Red Army. The Japanese forces are frantically fortifying the Japanese concession in the city, | The Hankow forces are so furious over the Japanese butchery of Chinese workers at Shanghai that > the Japanese for days have not dared , reinforce their defeated marines with to go outside of their frtified con- | cession. imperialists Ready to Attack. Strong United States, Japanese and British naval forces are in front of the city with orders to fire on the Chinese Red Army. Other warships are being rushed from Shanghai, where the fleets of the imperialist powers are carrying out the armed intervention inst the Chinese Revolution, for ation of China in preparation for armed attack on the Soviet the Union. With ‘the advance of the Chinese Red Army and the rapid develop- ment of the national revolutionary | struggle throughout China, the Kuo- m} tools of imperialism are now maneuvering the betrayal of the Chinese soldiers: and workers who are heroically defending Shanghai against the Japanese assaults. The officers of the Nineteenth Chinese troops on the defensive, thus per- mitting the Japanese ample time to e looting and par- | two army divisions being rushed from | Japan. | The Chinese planes, which, after much delay, were sent to Shanghai to placate the growing mass anger against the Kuomintang, are being used only for defense, when they are used. No efforth has been made to carry the attack to the Japanese lines and against the Japanese warships in the river, The Kuomintang betrayers of China are paving the way for the imperialist advance up the Yangtze River, against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Chinese Red Army. Kuomintang Aids Robber Powers, By maintaining a truce throughout the rest of China with the Japanese armed forces the Kuomintang mili- tarists are making it possible for Japan to concentrate most of her naval and military forces against the defenders of Shanghai. The troops in Shanghai are forces which re- volted against Chiang Kai-shek and | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Famous Writers toTake Truck ‘Load of Food to » Ky. Strikers NEW YORK, N. rye Nceompanted by four truckloads of | flour and food, 10 well-known writers, artists, and liberals will | start today for terror-stricken Harlan and Bell counties, Ky., in {an effort to bring relief to starving mine strikers and break down the machine gun tyranny The committee is sponsored by a*— | Ben Gold, president of the union, | newly organized group of liberals and acted as prosecutor, with Charles Al- | sympathizers, headed by Sherwood | exander, Negro worker and working- | Anderson, Waldo Frank, Sidney ‘Ho- | class leader, acting for the defense. | ward, Maicolm Cowley, Mary Heaton | Birns admitted at the outset of the ‘vee and Charles Rumford Walker. trial that he was guilty of white| Liston Oak, a representative of the chauvinism. In a _ statement, he} | National Committee for the Defense pledged himself to carry out the de- jot Political Prisoners will accompany | cisions of the workers’ mass trial. |the delegation. Other delegates have | The jury found him guilty and rec- |been co-operating with the Interna-| ommended to the union that he be | tional Labor Defense in defending | placed on probation for six months. workers framed for criminal syndica- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) {lism and murder under the savage Three hundred members of the American colony in Leningrad, all working on construction jobs for the Soviet Union, cabled a protest against the Scottsboro death ver- dict imposed on eight young Ne- gro boys in Alabama. The cable, dated February 6, was sent to the International Labor Defense, whose lawyers argued the appeal before the Alabama Supreme Court on January 21 and 22, with instruc- tlons to forward it to Chief Jus- | \ tice John C. Anderson. The cable reads: “A gathering of 300 American workers in the Lenin- grad colony protests the Scottsboro death verdict.” It is signed “Amer- ican Constraction Workers.” The eight Negro boys are imprisoned in the Kilby prison death house, Montgomery, Ala., pending decision which is expected from the judges within the next ten days. A ninth boy, 14 years old, is in Birmingham - County jail, awaiting retrial follow- {og a hung fury on bis case, of the coal operators. |rule of Sheriffs John Henry Blair and Jim Baker, | The commitiec will remain in the strike zone about a week. Here they | will hold test meetings to break down |sheriff edicts denying the National Miners Union right to meet and out= |lawing the strike. Members of the committee, like the writers who went |into Harlan last November with The. odore Dreiser and John Dos Passos, | will cross-examine Judge D. C. Jones, the sheriffs of the two counties, and other officials, chiefs in the war against the starving miners. They will also make a probe and exposure of the denial of U. S, mail to striking miners, of the strike-break- |ing activities of the Red Cross, of the arrest of Allan Taub, I. L. D, lawyer sent down to bail out union leaders and relief workers, of the confiscation of relief by the sheriff, and the patrolling of all highways leading to Pineville, so that no strik- |ers can attemd meetings. One of ‘the relief trucks will leave | from New York and will be accom- ,Panied by members of the delegation. Other trucks will start at once from Philadelphia and one from Knox- ville, Tenn. The delegation will consist of Liston ea MOUTINVED O8 PAGE TWO) cll seat 2