The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1932, Page 1

= a All Out to Demonstrate Tonight! Huge Anti-War Meeting at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St St, WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ( Section of the Communist Le ae it nee Rnuniot Party U.S.A. Entered at New 5 sccond-clase matter at the Post Office N. Ys umder the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ll, 1932 DANGER TO “DAILY” IS INCREASING. UNLESS WE RECEIVE $7,500 BY SATURDAY WE WILL BE CUT DOWN TO 2 PAGE! Price 3 Cents MASS PICKET ALL DRESS SHOPS AT 12 orcLOcK NOON TODAY Thousands Demonstrate {TRY T0 HEAD | As Dress Strike Spreads| ()FF FIGHT Jailed Strikers Return to Picket Line; Enthusi- asm Mounts as Many More Shops Join Struggle NEW YORK, Feb. 11. — A mass picketing demonstration covering 5 full blocks was car- ried through by the striking dressmakers in the garment center Wednesday morning be- tween 8 a. m. and 9.30 a. m. This picket line was a really representative picket line of the various elements working in the dress industry today. Side by side marched Jewish, Italian, Spanish, and Negro workers, young and old. workers who have gone through years of experience in the union, Who are well acquainted with the treachery of the A. F. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Tears, Idle Tears--Or 100 Fat “Hunger Marchers” OOK at this spectacle! One hundred A. F. of L. leaders, none of whom gets less than $7,000—and up to $25,000 a year—not counting graft— headed by William F. Green, whose income is well over $25,000, marched one whole mile to the White House to present a petition for the “poor unemployed.” Contrast the treatment that these wage-cutters got with the treatment accorded the 1,670 Hunger Marchers to Washington! The National Hunger Marchers were slugged, beaten, starved by the bosses and their agents from coast to coast. In Washington they were met by the mightiest show cf armed force since the Civil War. Why the sudden scurry of the labor fakers about “federal aid?” It was not so long ago at the last Vincouver national convention of the A. F. of L. when Green and every one of his fat-bellied supporters voted for the “rugged individualism” of the hunger president. They voted against unemployment insurance. They declared it would degrade the “free American worker” to accept federal aid. What caused this sudden “change of heart?” Zvery promise from Hoover to Green about the end of the crisis has been blasted by the continued drops in the whole capitalist produc- tion by the huge swelling of the ranks of the unemployed, by the fin- ancial crisis which is now engulfing world capitalism, by the spreading spectre of hunger that haunts every workers’ family in the country. Not a day passes without fresh news of the worsening of the crisis. Only today we learn the steel industry has entered a worse stage of crisis. Down goes production in the basic industry of American capital- ism! Railroad transportation is worse off than ever. The stock market is crashing again. In New York all records of unemployment are smashed. Nearly half the workers in the wealthiest state in the union are un- employed! But above all, the mass discontent of the workers, expressed more and move in an organized form, in mass demonstrations as in the Hunger March, the Feb. 4th demonstrations for unemployment insurance, the growth of the Unemployed Councils, the spreading movement within the A. F. of L. itself, is bringing consternation to the capitalists and their bootlickers in the A. F. of L. Doesn't ,the A. F. of L. petition itself almost cringingly tell the master class that “Working people are thinking in more advanced terms.” What do you mean “advanced terms?” ‘The workers are increasingly thinking-and fighting afainst capitalism. They are learning that in the Soviet Union socialism is being constructed at a rapid pace, that there unemployment has been ended. ‘The workers are beginning to think along class conscious lines, which neither Green nor his masters relishes. What program does Green now offer? The crux of the whole mat- ter is contained in the slimy way in which these A. F. of L. fakers who started the wage cutting drive in 1929 by agreeing with the leading bosses TO PREVENT STRIKES, now say they ask: “A cessation of the wage-cutting policy which was relentlessly pursued during the year 1931.” The A. F. of L. leaders helped put over a wage-cut for 1,000,000 steel workers. They help cut wages in the coal fields. They helped and co- operated with the railroad bosses in a ten per cent wage clash for the railroad workers. These betrayers of the employed now come to “ask re- lief” for the unemployed. What « swell time Green and his cohorts must have had writing this tale of woe in their luxurious hotel, sweating away at their sumptuous banquet. “The number of unemployed is constantly increasing,” they suddenly discover. ‘‘More than 8,300,000 were suffering. . . The tragic feature of this uncivilized, inhuman condition . . . millinos of children are suf- fering...” But what is the great fear of the A. F. of L.? “The masses of the people will feel that Congress has utterly failed to measure up to its duties and responsibilities, if, while in session as it is now, during a period of great national emergency, it fails to appropriate funds to supply food... .” At all costs, the A. F. of L. must preserve the masses’ faith in the capitalist government, eevn if they have to sponsor a fake “relief” bill to do it. Instead of unemployment insurance, the A. F. of L. offer an ihstitu- tionalized stagger system, a permanent wage cut for the entire American working class. They endorse the deportation drive of Doak, supporting the King bill “to deport certain alien seamen.” While the workers de- mand bread, the A. F. of L. leadership cynically repeats its cry for “al- eoholic content beer!” They call for the 5-day week—with wage cuts proportionately. This fig leaf of the A. F. of L. leadership to hide its wage-cutting crimes, to hide its scabby struggle against unemployment. insurance, should be torn to pieces. ‘The workers’ answer should be a wider campaign for unemployment insurance, building up the fighting ranks of both employed and uncm- ployed, fighting hunger and the rotten capitalist system which produces it, In the ranks of the A. F. of L. the movement for unemployment. insurance should be made to sweep the fakers off their feet. Yes, Mr. Green, hunger is growing, the capitalist system is sinking deeper into the mire of crisis. You, along with the rest of the labor lieutenants of the Morgans and Rockefellers, are trying to prevent the unemployed from fighting for relief, hc candi aera he Sa Force real relief from the bossesh aye mane PM ee wy OF JOBLESS A. F. of L. Leaders In Fake Relief Appeal to Politicians Admit Mass Suffering Silent On Vote Against Jobless Insurance WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—To help the Re- publican and demo- cratic Congress in their fight against unem- ployment insurance, 100 leaders of the American Federatino of Labor, headed by Wm. Green, yesterday presented a petition to Hoover, appealing for action to prevent the workers from fighting against capitalism, which Green himself admits starves 8,300,000 workers. and their families, ‘The fat, labor fakers were received by Vice President Curtis, and given a warm welcome, being assured that their petition would not be handed to the hunger president. Admit Mass Hunger. The petition admits wholesale starvation. It calls for the passage of the Costigan-LaFollette Bill which (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NOTICE! Workers’ Cultural Federation needs more volunteers to help striking dressmakers in their struggles. Comrades and sympa- thizers who can sing or play in- struments (harmonicas inclusive), in solos or groups, or who can act or recite, for the various strike halls during afternoons‘ or eve- aings, please report at once at © 63 WEST 15TH STREET, JOHN REED CLUBROOMS, ‘between the hours of 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. daily. Phone number is Gramercy 5-5587. Ask for Com- rade Pullman, ALSO—If comrades can loan us @ piano or radio please let us EMERGENCY BULLETIN Is the danger of falling te a two page Daily decreasing? No, it is increasing! WHY? ® We received only $228 92 making a total of $3939.01 to date. Steadily the danger is growing because Of the lack of activity of organi- zations and comrades in the districts. Two pagesand suspension face your paper. Answer! Do you want this to happen or do you want a four page paper? Forced to tury chil BIG ARMY OF WHITE GUARDS In Dump Because Is hea WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10. —Because jobless Albert Martin was forced to bury his dead child in a dump when he had no money to do it in the conventional way, he was given 30 days in jail by | Judge Guy A. Schuldt in the Dist- trict of Columbia Police Court GATHER AT HARBIN, MUXDEN FOR ATTACK ON U.S. S. RB. BULLETS SIMS’ WOUND DANGEROUS; OPERATORS MEET 10 KILL QIN JAIL; HAMPER RELIEF | Wagenknecht, W. I. R. Head, Jailed In Knox- | ville As W riters Are Faced by Gun Thugs | PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 10.—Enraged at the stubbornness of the strike of the Kentucky- Tennessee miners, the coal operators have let loose one of the most vicious reigns of terror in their long history of murder and Jailings. Harry Simms, 19-year old youth organizer of the National Miners Union, who has helped the miners organize aganist hun- Protest the Murderous Terror | Against Ky. Strike Leaders | A new wave of terror is sweeping the Kentucky-"ennessee coal fields. | Harry Simms, a young organizer for the National Miners’ Union, was | shot down by coal operators’ gun thugs. He is near death. Alfred | | Wagenknecht, secretary of the Workers International Relief, was jailed | in Knoxville, Tenn. There are no charges against him. As we go to | press, hundreds of gunmen have flocked to Pineville on orders of the coal operators in an effort to smash a miners’ meeting, in an effort to keep | out the writers’ committee, bringing in strike. relief. . The arrested, lead- | ers in the Pineville jail are threatened with kidnapping and lynching! | Every werker should meet this vicious drive by the coal operators by a nation-wide protest. Wire your protest immediately to Governor | Laffoon at Frankfort, Ky.; to Judge Van Beber, at Pineville, Ky.; to Sheriff Broughton at Pineville, Ky.; to Sheriff Blair at Harlan, Ky. | Demand punishment of the gun thugs who shot Harry Simons! The | eity and state government is responsible for this murderous attack and terror. Redouble the work of collecting relief. 16 West 21 Rfcret New York City, Send funds to the W. I. R., ger disease, wage cuts and starv ation, \ was dangerously wound- ed whenhe was shot by Alden Miller, a coal operator’s gun thug at Brush Creek, Kentucky, at 7:30 this morning. Simms was wolking along with a miner¢— —— — named Lawson when the gun thug, National Cc-amittee for the Defense drew out his revolver and cold-blood- | of Political Prisoners, and now with edly shot Simms. the writers in Kentucky, has issued a statement demanding to know why Wagenknecht was arrested and pro- testing this new sign of increased terrorism against the miners and their leaders. Wagenknecht was in charge of getting four trucks of food into Pineville with the writer's com- mittee. May Die was taken to the Logan at Barbourville, 10 miles from Pineville, by three dep- uties, Parton, Miller and Davis. The bullet lies in his abdomen, six inches above the hip bone. He will be op- erated on today, but is not expected to live. Harry Sims, youth organizer of the National Miners’ Union, was deliberately shot in the abdomen Simms This again shows that the Tenn- | essee authorities are working with the Harlan and Bell County gun thugs in an effort to smash the strike of know promptly. here today- ‘The Judge fined Martin, and his mos friend, George F. Sutton, who Get your shopmates to helped him, $50 each, after Martin «had explained that he had been cotribute to Save the unemployed for months. Negroes ’ 1 |itol are subjected to every sort workers’ paper. Ge t , here under the shadow of the cap- Daily Worker donation | ; of jim-crowism and discrimination ' | and are locked up on the least books at 50 E. 13th St. |! (oes AFL Jobless Insurance Comm. Condemns Green’s Action NEW YORK.—The Friends of the Soviet Union calls on all work+ ers of New York to demonstraie their solidarity with the Chinese masses and the workers, of the U. S. S. R. in a huge mass meeting tonight at the St, Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66th St. The seizure of Harbin by the Japanese imperialists marks a step forward by the robber nations in their intervention plans against the Soviet Union. Rally against the imperialist warmakers tonight! A! out in masses in defense of the Workers Fatherland and the Chinese Soviets! Mass demonstrations against the imperialist war are increasing in Japan in spite of the murderous police and military terror. A Tokio dispatch to the New York World-Telegram reports an anti-war demon- stration of 800 students at the Imperial University in Tokio yesterday. Twenty-five of the students were arrested and many others beaten up by the police. The students distributed thousands of handbills de- nouncing the imperialist war against the Chinese masses. . . . Significant of the rapid develop- kiang government, under Japanese in- ment of the moves of the imperialists | fluence.. The armies of these two Chinese traitors will be used Japanese to a demonstration to greet the W.LR. relief trucks, Sims was charged with carrying concealed weapons and is held on $300 bail. He is in a critical condition after an operation, Jail Relief Head Alfred Wagenknecht, national sec- reatry of the Workers International Relief wag arrested in Knoxville at 2 a. m. as he left a meeting for the liberal writers committee that is tour- ing the strike area distributing relief to the strikers. Wagenknecht is be- ing held for “investigation.” ‘The police came to Wagenknecht's room, tore apart the bed, searching by the thugs, Arlan Miller and | the miners. George Babin, at Benisville, Ky., | § Leaders Put in Solitary Confinement railway station while on his way Further brutality and terror is di- rected against the nine strike leaders now in the Pineville jail. Not content with keeping these workers in jail without any pretense of covering up the fact that the “law” is written from day to day to suit the coal op- erators’ efforts to break the strike, an order has come down from the coal operators that the prisoners are to be secluded. No visits will be al- lowed them. It is expected they will be put on a bread and water diet in an effort to break their spirit, un- dermine their health, and possibly to kill them off. Their lawyers must get an OK first from the coal op- erator’s Judge Van Beber before they can visit the prisoners. NEW YORK.—In answer to the “march” led by Green of the A. F. of L. of a hundred labor officials to the White House in support of the Costigan-LaFollette Bill for the ap- propriation of $375,000,000 for Unem- ployment Relief purposes, the New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance representing 25 locals of the A. F. of L. opposed to the decisions of its last convention against unemployment in- surance and themselves in support of National Government Unemployment Insurnace issued the following state- ment: “From the very outset of this eco- nomic crisis, the leaders of the A. F. of L. have on every occasion fought the demand of the workers for unemployment insurance. At the last convention of the A. F. of | L, they, in spite of numerous reso- lutions of the rank and file work- ers demanding unemployment in- surance, defeated the proposition and have joined hands with the bosses in fastening on the millions of unemployed and part-time work- rs, the Hoover Hunger Program. Their present proposition of sup- porting the Costigan-LaFollette Bill is part and parcel of their previous program to defeat the demands of the American workers for unem- ployment insurance and to subject the 12 million unemployed work- ers to a state of charity and starvation, $375,000,000 for 12 million unem- ployed workers would give about $30 to a family for the next two years, which obviously means slow starvation. The A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief, representing tens of thousands of workers of New York and expressing the sen- timents of millions more, all over the country, sharply repudiates this action of Green and his fel- low-leaders and proposes to con- tinue and develop a relentless struggle to mobilize the rank and file members of the A. F. of L. to fight for unemployment insurance, which will maintain the standard of living of the American workers.” for armed Intervention against the Soviet Union, the Japanese delegates at Geneva yesterday came out in a vicious attack on the Soviet Union. A Harbin dispatch states: “Meantime hundreds of thousands of White Russians are arriving at Mukden and Harbin for a confer- ence under Japanese auspices.” Gen. Ma Chan-Shan, notorious Chinese militarist tool of the Japanese who a few months ago cold-bloodedly sacrified thousands of Chinese sol- diers in a fake resistance to the Japa. nese advance on Tsitsihar, is helping the Japanese to suppress the resist- ance of the Mancharian masses against the Japanese. He is acting togother with Gen. Chang Ching Hu, head of the “indepéndent” Heilung- * . With the sources admit “to stamp out opposi- tion to the Tokio regime”.. The Japa- nese are reported to be considering the appointment of Gen, Chang as president of a puppet Manchuria, A Shanghai dispatch states: “Lively apprehensions exist lest be- fore long the Communists, working through a minimum of 300,000 unem- ployed, foment serious disturbances. United States Consul General Cun- ningham has sent a special report tr the Wall Street government in which he states that the Chinese Commu- nists have been distributing leaflets “urging Chinese policemen, soldiers and the masses to seize arms from the ‘imperialists and Kuomintang govern- ment’, and conyene a mass meeting to organize their own government.” pretext of protecting “Japanese they said “for guns.” He was taken to the jail and held incommunicado without charges, He was not allowed to see an attorney nor phone any- body. Charles R. Walker, member of the . * PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 9.—A conference ‘was held by the coal operators in the Contin- ental Hotel here this morning at which the sole order of business was the question of how the nine jailed strike organizers and relief workers should be murdered without creating too much mass resentment among the strikers. Twelve or fifteen operators and their agents attended the conference, including Mayor Brooks of Pineville. Lee Creech, nephew of the president of the Harlan County Coal Operators Association, Chiet of Police Perl Os-©=—a--anq murder them probably born and several clergymen. After} monday night. discarding several compromise sug- A dragnet has already been spread throughout Bell County for all strike leaders, including local miners, in preparation fro smashing the meeting which is scheduled for today. . residents elsewhere in China,” the Japanese imperialists yesterday re-stated their intention to push their armed forces into the heart of China against the Chinese Soviet Republic and, SCORSINOED OM SAGE HREM nro a ae - gestions like flogging the prisoners and dropping them on the other side of Tennessee lines, the meeting decid- ed to call in the Harlan County gun | thugs in armored cars and machine guns to take the nine comrades fer if ' Miners Learn of Plot Strikers managed to learn meeting late last night and immedia- tely assembled a group of mine® stone ch Watea ices wane Saree