The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1932, Page 1

ALL OUT THIS THURSDAY AT ST. NICHOLAS ARENA TO PROTEST AGAINST MPERIALIST WAR! Dail Worker WORKERS Collect Money, Scrape Up Of THE WORLD, Every Penny Save _ Central ist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist ee ) Px Eatered as seco: ss matter at the Post Office — ae CITY EDITION a i Ve Price 3 Cents _ at New York, N, _Vol. IX, No. 34 der the act of Marek 3, 1879 NEW YORK, , TUESDAY, FEBRUARY a 1932 UNITED FRONT DRESSMAKERS STRIKE SPREADS RAPIDLY THOUSANDS RESPOND TO N.Y. DRESS © STRIKE CALL Dress Workers! Down Tools and Fight Against Starvation! NEW YORK—Answering the strike call of | the Dressmakers United Front Committee and | the Needle Trades Union, thousands of dress- makers in Greater New York downed their tools yesterday and walked out on strike for union conditions in their shops. Mass picketing of shops in Manhattan, Bronx, Harlem and throughout the needle market took place throughout the day. The numerous enthusiastic The strike is spreading hourly. strike meetings held in all sec- tions of the city designated the workers’ determination to spread the strike and carry it on to? victory. The largest of these meetings was | held at the strike headquarters of | the United Front Strike Committee | at 559 Sixth Ave. Masses of work- ers overflowed the hall. Thunderous | applause greeted the speakers as they called on the workers to spread | the strike to every shop in New York. | The dressmakers, were addressed by | Ben Gold, A. Weiss and Maud White from the Needle Trades Industrial | Union and Taft, of the Workers In- | ternational Relief, who called on the | strikers to participate in the tag days | to be held Saturday and Sunday for the New York dressmakers Vad the Kentucky miners. | Another huge meeting was hela at the Manhattan Lyceum. All. the workers present pledged to carry the United Front Strike message to all makers in New York and fetch im into the struggle. Guile a number of the shops on strike were heretofore under control of the corrupt International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, which is doing its utmost to disrupt the strike and betray the dressmakers into | further wage cuts and worse condi- | tions. Arrangements were made yesterday | for picketing the struck shops. All dressmakers are called to picket the shops in masses today. ‘The Daily Worker is unable to an- nounce the number of shops on strike as it was impossible up to the time we went to press to make a complete check-up. A statement by the president of the Dress Manufacturers in yester- day’s “Women’s Wear” proved con- clusively that the International Ladies’ Garment Workers are in close collaboration with the bosses. The statement reads: “We have no inter- est in the present strike. Our main CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Many Organizations Support Anti-War Meet Thurs., Feb. 11 NEW YORK. — Calling on all workers to participate in the strug- gle against imperialist war, the Dis- trict Committee of the Communist Party of New York has issued an appeal for a mass rally at the anti- war demonstrations of the Friends of the Soviet Union, to be held at St. Nicholas Arena, Thursday, Feb. lth. ‘The International Workers Order, a working class fraternal organization has endorsed the meeting and has Knowing that war is on and is spreading*against the Soviet Union, the bosses are pushing forward the socialists, their dirty agents, who be- trayed the workers before the last world war. Norman Thomas talks about “our government” having a “great opportunity to prevent the present crisis in Shanghai.” “Our government”, which is one of the rob- ber governments has no intention of “preventing” war, for it is an open ally in the war against the Chinese Ky. Coal Operators’ Thugs Want to Take Them for “Ride” Arrested leader of the Kentucky-Tennessee strike and kept in the Pineville jail on orders of the coal operators in an effort to smash the strike. (Left to right) Marguerite Fontaine, Workers International Relief; Dorothy Ross, International Labor Defense; Julia Parker, Na- tional Miners’ Union; Ann Barton, labor press reporter; Clarina Michaelson, representative of the W. I. R., Norman Martin, W. I. R. MINE STRIKERS IN MASS MARCH; KY. MINERS ACT TO STOP LYNCHING OF 9 Prepare Mass Demonstration In Pineville to Greet Arrival of Relief Truck PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 8.—Marching in or- ganized fashion from mining camps within 20 miles radius, many hundreds of miners con- verged yesterday aftenroon in Morley, Tenn., whére they held an enthusiastic mass meeting with the Morley miners, who last Wednesday sent a petition to the Central Strike Committee asking for a National Miners Union organizer to form a local there. Scores of strikers from Gatliff. Jellico, Clear Fork and LaFollette slept overnight in Morley to take part in the mass picketing that was to take place this «+ — morning to pull the more than 200| the National Miners Union organ- miners who work the mine. izers, International Labor Defense Since most of the Morley miners| and Workers International Relief appealed to all its members to attend and participate in the struggle against the imperialist war. ‘The Unemployed Council of greater New York, in a statement issued yes- terday. called on all its members and sympathizers to swell the meeting. The statement of the Communist Party of New York, is as follows: War is on in China. Japanese im- perialism ‘acting as the advance agent of world imperialism has sacked Man- churia, and is now carrying on its destructive work in China proper. Shanghai, Chapei are in ruins. The Japanese government proposes that all the industrial towns of China shall be “internationalized”, that is be put under international control. This means a partition of China, and unity against the revolutionary workers and peasants fighting under the banner of the Chinese Soviets. masses and the Soviet Union, This talk of Thomas has the aim of mak- ing the workers of this country be- lieve that U. S. imperialism wants peace. Neither Hoover nor Thomas nor Wall Street wants peace. They are preparing the workers for war — just as the British Labor Party is helping the war against the Indian masses, as the Japanese socialists are | supporting the war of Japanese im- | perialism against the Chinese mas- | ses. Workers! Demonstrate! Come in thousands to St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66th St. Make this demonstra- tion a signal to the bosses that New York workers are ready to defend the Soviet Union against the Japanese— Wall Street war plans and actions! COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. 5. A. District Committee. Rent Strikers in Mass Protest Parade Against 12 Evictions Following the brutal eviction of 12 families from the apartment house at 665 Allerton Ave., owned by the “soicalist” landlord, Osinoff, more than three hundred workers demon- strated their solidarity with the rent sivikers by forming a mass protest parade in the vicinity. The marchers went first to the office of the land- lord, at the corner of Allerton Ave. and White Plains Road, where they denounced and exposed Osinoff’s “so- cialist” eviction policy. From there marched to Osinoff’s home at folland Ave, where a further deimonsivation was held, and wound up at 2704 Holland Ave. another apartment house owned by the same landlord, where @ rent strike is also in progress, At all points along the Ine of march fhe demonstrators were brutally \ ‘ handled by the police. Riot squads from three different Bronx precinct stations had been called out by Osi- noff to enforce the evictions, and a big detachment of these police, after beating up and injuring several wom- en and children on Allerton Avenue, followed the parade, using their clubs viciously at all points. They tried to break up the demonstrations and sup. press the speakers at each of the 3 points where the march was halted, but were successfully opposed by the militancy of the workers. After the demonstration, the Wil- |lemsbridge Unemployed Ccuncil, 3945 , White Plains Road, which ctgantsed | the march, announced that the work- ers in the vicinity would continue their demonstrations and mass ‘meet- attended the mass meeting, no op- position is expected. Miners Roused by Threat Against Strike Leaders, A wave of anger is sweeping through the 60 mile strike zone proper and in the Gatliff strike area 75 miles from Pineville, as the news spreads that the operators and the Bell County law,they con- trol, are preparing to hand over workers and Daily Werker corres- pondent to the Harlan gun thugs to be murdered, It is absolutely certain that only fear of the embittered miners has prevented the operators from.this ac- tion so far, The Central Strike Com- mittee has already wired Governor Laffoon and Sheriff Broughton that (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Vicious Frame-Up by Ky. Coal Operators Aimed to Kill Relief, PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 7 (Delayed).—Four strike leaders were on strike today in Pineville for robbery in one of the most vicious frame-ups yet attempted by the coal operators during the course of the present strike. Bill Garland, Charlie Peters, Rich Wolf and Henry Wil- THE DRESSMAKERS UNITED | FRONT MASQUE BALL to raise funds to support the strike, will be held at the New Star Ca- sino, Friday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. Excellent music, dancing, eats and entertainment will be the chief | features of the evening, All workers in New York are urged to attend this affair. liams, members of the Central Re- lief Committee, after searching for truckloads of food and clothing stol- en by cc: pany agents from the Pine- ville warchouse, found the truck and carried the stolen goods back to the warehouse. It has now besn proven that the thieves had been deputized by Sher- | iff Broughton just before they raid- «CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WIR Relief Kitchens to Be Set Up for Dress Strikers NEW YORE, Feb. chens will be up in the striking kers by relief committee, which will be ap- ‘pointed tonight at a meeting of the Central United Front Dress Strike ings until they forced the landlord to grant the demands of the striking ‘workers in cach of hie houses, Committee. It is planned to serve coffee and 8.—Relief kit- | sandwiches at two kiterens et the nedietely for | United Front St tho | 589 Sixth Ave, Workers’ International Relief and a | ceum, 66 E. Fourth ke Headyquariers, provided only, that all RG cay ilize immediately for the city-wide tag days to.taise money for the joint strike relief of the thousands of (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWe), Leaders of the Kentucky-Tennessee strike jailed for strike activi- John Harvey, of the National Miners’ Union; Vern Smith, representative of the Daily Worker; Vincent Kamenovitch, official of the National Miners’ Harry Collet and Bill Greene, local strike leaders ties under the “criminal syndicalist law”: rear, left ot right: Union; front row, and members of the N. M. U. ‘Removing Nationals Emergency Resolution Save the DailyWorker The Daily Worker, fight- ing organ of the working class is in great danger. The 4th District Conven- tion of the National Miners Union of Minn., Wis. and Mich. appeals to all the iron and copper miners of this district to Help Save Our “Daily Worker’. We need it in our fight to or- ganize the metal miners against starvation. (Signed) Passed Feb. 5.at the 4th W. MORGAN, District Convention, Na- ‘ional Miners Union, Su- Peary psininelen D. ROWE, SECRETARY Pics up this Appea!—workers in all in- dustries—unemployed werkers, Negro and white workers, native and foreign- born workers. The Daily Worker is your paper, fighting shoulder to shoulder with you on every working class front. Mobilize your erganization! workers’ homes! Rush Fuads. SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Visit all ImperialistsPlan to Seize Hankow As Chinese Red Army Advances on City from Yangtze Valley Cities In Preparation for Joint Attack On Chinese Soviet Republic . Japanese In Open Proposals for Partition and Looting of China : LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Answering fhe imperialist war on the Chinese masses and the war moves against the Soviet Union, District 15 (Connecticut) of | the Communist Party has raised it’s quota of shop nuclei to be or- ganized during the present recruiting drive from five to eight. Dis- trict 15 calls on all other Party districts to follow this example. | The best defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviet Re- public is the intensification of the fight against our own imperialists! Join and build the Communist Party which leads in this struggle! The Soviet delegation at Geneva yesterday announced a regrouping of the local Soviet garrisons on the Manchurian frontier. It pointed out that this was done for the purpose of strengthening the frontier garrisons, primarily in the Zabakayle region, with a view for defense against the threatened aggressions by White Guard forces armed and concentrated in Mancharia, The Japanese Consul at Vladivostok admits that the movement of Soviet troops “were merely precautionary.” The delegation denied that there was any concentration of the Soviet Red Army at Vladivostok and re-affirmed the Soviet’s firm struggle for peace in the face of the most monstrous provocations by the Japanese and other imperialists and their White Guard agents. Japanese and White Guards in Harbin yesterday held a grand | military parade with airplanes and troops participating in celebration of the Japanese selzure of the North Manchurian city, the chief point on the Chinese Eastern Railway, jointly operated by China and the Sovict Union. A Harbin dispatch reports that “the ‘White Russians’ were wild with joy.” The events in the Far East fully confirm the warning of the Daily Worker to the American working class that the war against the Chinese masses fs aceompanted by definite war moves and provocations against the Soviet Union. Wor'ers! On guard! Rally to the defense of the Soviet Union! Demand the withdrawal of all imperialist armed forces from China. . + ri The sinister purpose of the present armed intervention by the imperialist powers against the Chinese masses is clearly shown in the pro- posals made yesterday by the Japanese to the United States, British, French and Italian im- perialists. Assuring their fellow bandits that they have no intention of hogging the loot in China, the Japanese imperialists pro- posed the immediate seizure by the imperialist powers of the five principal cities of China. This is intended as the next step in the partition of China which the imperialists are now «CON INURD ON PAGE THRED) Chester Sedition Trial Held Over; Start Fight Flynn Act CHESTER, Pa.—The trial of Harry the former a member of the C the Young Communist League, dition Act was postponed from January | 13. to an indefinite day in the week of March 21. Roth and Adains were arrested Oct. gree ete }a member of violating the Flynn § | 2 of last year while speaking at an open air election campaign rally of the Communist Party. Arrested for | Violating the Flynn Act they were indicted under 11 counts. The charges leveled at both Adams and Roth in- volve the existence of the Communist | Party as an organization whose “pur- poses aré seditious” and make mem- bership in the Communist Party a crime. The best that the frame-up experts | could pin on Roth was his bitter ex- posure of the unemployment situa- and his call upon. workers to anize for a determined — fight against it and for Unemployment In- surance. The charge against Adams is that he called upon the worker: present “to take up arms and fight. Communist Party and the Daily Worker have regularly fought against individual t m", of police ol pigeons and not of Commun . The policy of the Com- munist is the organization of the masses for militant struggle. The trial was postponed because of justice man on the scheduled day. At present both Roth and Adams are} about 400 clerical workexp out on $2,00 bail, ee + This is clearly a frame-up, since | | the Communist Party is not a terror- | | ist or adventurist organization. The | | | urgent it was for the Kentucky which is the policy | y Rot h and John Adams, ist Party and the latter on charges of ommu “Get Out”, Socialists Teli Kentucky Min- ers Collecting Relief | Soin || NEW YORK.—Socialists drove | |out two Kentucky miners from the lobby of the Academy of Music, where the socialists were running a debate last night, when tried to pass through the y funds for their fellow-workers in the © miners approached one of -the le: ng socialists standing near the office and showed their credeniials. The socialist said, “I don’t care who you are or what it’s for, you can't collect.” |The Negro miner told him how | miners to get relief, that they were |starving. The well dressed social- ist, smoking a fat cigar, told them PRAGUE, the prosecution could not obtain the| Works in Pilsen is about to dis- expert lying services of a department | miss 600 clerical workers and sev- Feb, 8—The Skoda eral thousand workers, Last year