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| WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail : Central ¥ UY | (Section of the Communist ies Ea Norker Rnumict Party U.S.A. DANGER TO “DAILY” IS INCREASING. UNLESS WE RECEIVE $7,500 BY SATURDAY WE WILL BE CUT DOWN TO 2 PAGES Vol IxX,No.37 = at New York, N, Y.. Watered an eccond-clase matter at the Post Office ander the act of March 3, 1879 _NE EW YORK, RIDA’ Ve FEBRUARY ee 1932 ary, Price 3 Cents Dress Strike Spreads to 250 Shops; Mass Demonstration Mon. 80 Bosses’ Pleas for Settlement Proves Effec- tiveness of Strike Rank and File Committee Organizes for Fur- ther Spread of Strike NEW YORK, Feb. 12—Thousands of strik- ing dressmakers continued! their courageous march yesterday toward victory. Picketing was intensified and extended throughout the city and outlying sections. More shops were called out. Scores and scores more workers quit their machines, put down their tools and joined the marching battalions of the militant workers in the fight for better shop conditions and against the tyrannical boss rule. And as the workers solidified their ranks, factory owners in many districts: were thrown into {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) U. S. CONSUL CALLS FOR — WAR AGAINST CHINESE MASSES AND RED ARMY Workers of America! Defend Chinese Masses! Prevent Export of Munitions to Far East! Alarmed at Growth of Communist Influence, Imperialists Plan New Slaughter of Shanghai Workers BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—Three hundred students of the New York University }esterday held a protest demonstration in Washington Square denounc- ing the slaughter of Chinese workers by the imperialists. The demonstration was called jointly by the Social Province Club of the University and the National Students League. It was addressed by Max Wels of the Youpg Communist League and West of the Work- ers International Relief. the Social Province Club. The chairman of the meeting was Seidel of United States Consul General Cunningham, at Shanghai,.South China, yesterday issued a call to the imperialists to push the war against the revolutionary Chinees workers of Shanghai and against the Chinese Red Army in Kiangsi and other provinces. The United States is leading an effort at Shanghai to break down the resistance of the Chinese soldiers and workers agains’: the Japanese invaders. This is being done under the pretext of “excluding the Shanghai area from hostile operations.” A Washington dispatch says: “In an informed diplomatic quar- ter it was learned today that = for- mer Chinese government official at Shanghai is bargaining with the Cantonese to keep them from send- ing reinforcements. Certain Japan- ese are understood to be willing to co-operate in byying off the Can- tonese.” The Wall Street government is leading the attempt for a new sell- out of China by its Kuomintang agents for the partitioning and loot- ing of China! In preparation for a new onslaught against the Shanghai workers, Amer- ican imperialism is taking steps to remove its missionary and commercial agents from Shanghai. More Ameri- can warships have been ordered up the Yangtze River against the ad- vancing Chinese Red Army. The U. S. destroyer Edsall has been dis- patched to Wuhu in Ngwanhwei pro- vince, against the growing mass anti- imperialist movement in that city. Washington has called upon the fu- gitive Nanking government to send troops to attack the Chinese Red Army forces beleaguering the impor- tant South Kiangs! city of Kanchow. New secrecy instructions were sent last night by the Wall Street govern- ment to its consular agents in China. A Washington dispatch reports: “A new outbreak of what diplo- matic reports called ‘red’ activity, meaning bandit activity, today com- plicated America’s efforts to protect its nationals in China.” ——— the more than 800,000 homeless refu- gees in that city would rise, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, against the imperialist powers responsible for their misery. Shanghai workers are vigorously pushing the anti-Japanese strike. Vigilant picket- (CONTINCED ON PAGE THREE) Kush every penny to save Daily Worker or leadership in workers’ struggles, Wm. Z. Foster Appeals to Save “Daily” The critical financial condition of the Daily Worker is forcing it to re- duce its size--already too small for the tremendous struggle ahead--to two pages. Suspension faces the “Daily”! This would be a tremendous blow to the whole working class. We must not let this happen! The Kentucky miners must have the Daily Worker to lead their fight against actual starvation and murder. Every strike, struggle and mass pro- test of the American working class in the coal, steel and other basic indus- tries, on every front--against hunger and war--demands the guidance of a daily working class organ. The Daily Worker must not go to two pages. Suspension is unthinkable. ’m ‘ confident that workers everywhere will rally to the support of their fight- ' ing paper. Waiting will be fatal --to- morrow may be too late! Only imme- diate action in rushing tunds today-- NOW--will save the Datly Worker! WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Sham Jobless Bill, Gift to Millionaires WASHINGTON, Feb. clever and demagogic speech, Sen- ator Borah yesterday advised the Hoover government how to cover up its tracks in handing over §2,- 500,000,000 to the rich bankers and railroads by passing a sham bill for federal “unemployment aid.” He feared that the open gift to the | bankers would shatter the faith of | the mlilions of hungry unemployed | in the capitalist government and | would enlighten them as to its true class nature. The speech of Borah which is wide- ly displayed in the capitalist press followed the A. F. of L. officials’ pet- ition in favor of the LaFollette-Cos- tigan Bill which is supposed to pro- vide $375,000,000 for federal unem- ployment aid. The money is not to go to the unemployed, however, if the bill is passed, but to the city grafters, such as Mayor Walker and | his outfit in New York; Cermak in} Chicago, etc. | Borah, with his eye on votes, talked about the dignity of the poor stary- | ing masses. He vaves the American flag frequently saying: “A government which does not protect its people is, flying a flag which is a dirty rag and contam- inates the air.” He had nothing to say about un-~ employment insurance, however, and said he fully approved the bill pro- viding $2,500,000,000 for the bankers, but thinks it should be covered up by a fake move of “federal aid.” PAINTERS STOP 11—In a BRONX EVICTION Put Furniture Back In} Apartment NEW YORK.—Ralph Eskine, who} was evicted with his wife end five children on Thursday was put back into his apartment on Stebbins Ave near Boston Rd., by the Unemployed Council and the Alteration Painters. This worker, a painter, came to the painters headquarters for relief, after having been refused by the city relief stations. ‘The Unemployed Council of the Bronx, in co-operation with the alter- ation painters of the Bronx. put his furniture back in spite of the police terror and also mobilized the tenants and neighborhood for a rent strike. THE DRESSMAKERS’ UNITED KY. COAL THUGS FILL HOSPITAL AS SIMMS NEARS DEATH Jail 30 Miners, 2 Writers; Slug Taub and Waldo Frank 2 Gun Thugs Sieze Truckloads. of Food, Jail All Writers; Force Release of Wagen- knecht, ] Relief Head PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb, Le -Harry Simms, youth strike leader, is dying at Logan Hospital, Barbourville, as the result of a murderous as- sault made on him by a coal operators’ gun thug. Simms was shot in the abdomen yester- day morning and is no¥ on the point of death. He was oper- ated on yesterday, but is unconscious. He has had two blood transfusions. and needs another to keep him alive the rest of the day. Gun thugs streaming into the hospital are trying to | get the W. I. R. nurse to say that Simms is Joe Weber, strike leader. Simms, who was walking along oe highway with a striking miner, was accosted by three armed gun thugs . Without provoca-| the business men in Pinéville to help tion one of the gun thugs shoved his | the coal operators, the arrest and gun into Simms ribs and fired point | jailing of two of the writers in the blank. Pineville jail, along with the raid on The shooting of Simms, the kid-| the miners relief headquarters and napping and exiling of the writers’|the jailing of 30 miners is arous- committee who were bringing food to| ing mass resentment among the min- the striking miners, the arming of |ers throughout Kentucky. . . . PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 11.—Deputizing businessmen, the coal operators here, in order to stop the group of writers from distributing relief to the striking miners, have kidnapped a part of the delegation, are holding two in jail, have arrested 30 miners and have broken into the Workers International Relief warehouse. While distributing WIR relief on the outskirts of Pineville. the entire writers’ group which left for Pineville with four truckloads of food were arrested and taken to the police court: Doris Parks, Southern secretary of the » Workers International Relicf and} Edmund Wilson, Mary Heaton, Vorse, Harold Hickerson, New York play-| Polly Boyden, Benjamin Leider, Dr. wright and members of the writers’ | Else Reid Mitchell, John Henry grovp were held on ‘open charges | Hammon, Liston Oak, Quincy Howe while the others were held for dis- orderly conduct. Only one-half truck- load of food was distributed and the balance confiscated by the deputies. When the court room was cleared. they were all told they could go, pro- viding they would leave the state. The group was then put into cars and driven out of town by 70 or 80 business men who were deputized yes- terday. On their way out, Waldo Frank and Allan Teub were hit over the head with automobile jacks b, the business deputies headed by Hern- don Evans, Editor of the Pineville Sun, who in an effort to cover up their actions, made the absurd state- ment that Allan Taub, International FRONT MASQUE BALL TONIGHT to raise funds to support the strike, will be held at the New Star Ca- sino, tonight, 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. JAILED RELIEF LEADER CALLS FOR - MORE INTENSIVE STRIKE-AID DRIVE NEW YORK.—Alfred Wagenknecht, national secretary of the Workers In- ternational Relief, who was arrested and finally released, has issued a call from Knoxville, Tenn., for the mass support of the Kentucky-Tennessee Striking Miners’ Relief Campaign of the Workers International Relief. He says in part: “An immense fund of money must be raised immediately for gigantic shipments of food into the ‘strike area. Such an action on the part of the workers throughout the country will be received with tre- mendous enthusiasm by the miners who will defend with their lives the strike relief donated by the workers of this country. They will be able to strengthen and spread their strike and VU. S. Consular General Ounning- | i? all demands. ham reported to his government in- exeasing Communist “Mase support of the relief cam- activities in| paign of the W.LR, will, by rallying picketing, smash the terror, strength- en the National Miners Union, unify the struggle against hunger, terror and for wage increases and bring new militancy to the struggle of the working class of this country against the despotism of a decaying, corrupt and brutal ruling class. “Workers! Mobilize immediately in- to the Workers International Relief! Bring in thousands of recruits into the Gentucky-Tennessee Striking Miners Relief Volunteers! Forward to a gigantic strike relief fund which will develop fearless, enthusiastic picket lines to smash the terror, to win the strike demands of the heroic Kentucky and Tennessee miners!” In New York on Saturday and Sun- day, February 13 and 14, there will be an intensive tag day drive to raise funds for the Kentucky miners and {OONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) 4 Newark Workers to Protest Scottsboro Frame-up Sunday NEWARK N. J.—On Sunday, Feb- ruary 14, at 3 p.m, the workers of Newark will stage a mass meeting protesting the lynch verdict against the nine Scottsboro boys in the Qkrainian Hall, 57 Beacon St., New- ark, NJ. Mrs. Montgomery, mother of one of the convicted boys, and Charles Alexander will be the prin- cipal speakers. The meeting is be- ing held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense. ‘The Dram Group of the Jack Lon- don Club will present the stirring mass recitation, “Scottsboro,” at this meeting. Everyone must be out this Sunday efternoon at 3 o'clock atiw Ukrainian Hall, 57 Beacon St., New- ark, N. J. Set quotas, start revolation- ary competition, in fight to gave Dally, Worker, = Litvinoff Proposes Total Disarmament, NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Maxim “Litvinoff, Soviet Com- missar of Foreign Affairs, standing alone as a representative of the working class in the imperialist “disarmament” eon- ference at Geneva, placed before the peoples of the world yes- terday the proposals of the Soviet workers and peasants for total world disarmament and peace. Speaking in English throughout, Union had no illusions bout pro- posals of the capitalist nations for reduction of arms; but to call the hands of the imperialists and to re- assert the Soviet's insistant and firm desire for peace and disarmament the Soviet representative said the U, 8S. 8. R. was ready to begin with partial cuts. No Ilusions. In pointing out that only a com- plete abolition of world armaments ‘would bring security egainss wars to the the at Peoptes of ‘world and at the Fe ati dette 4 same time expressing the Soviet’s toward a partial cut, Litvinoff said: “It is hardly to be denied that if our proposal had been accepted four years ago the events in the Far East would not have occurred,” Litvinoff declared. “There would have been no threats of a world war and the economic crisis now being almost universally exper- jenced would undoubtedly have been lees acute. “It would be wrong to infer from this, however,” he continued, Labor Defense attorney, and Harold Hickerson, had entered into a sham fight, badly bruising one another. ‘When the state line was reached, they were dumped out of the car and told never to come back to Pine- ville. « Frank is now in the Knoxville Hos- pital, with a severe gash in his head. The group will go to Washington when Frank recovers, to protest against this latest terror on the part of the coal operators and their gov- ernment. Harold Hickerson and Doris Parks a still being held in the Pineville aie writers who were arrested and kidnapped, then driven out of Bell County are: Waldo Frank, Malcolm Cowley, age sea KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 11— Alfred Wagenknecht, National Secretary of the Workers Interna- tional Relief, who was arrested yes- terday, was released today after an unsuccessful attempt to finger- print him. The Knoxville suthor- ities have two alibis, namely, that he was mistaken for a Bell County man who is wanted for murder, and was mistaken for Frank Borich who has a $1,000 reward on his head in Harlan County, Opinion here is that this was an attempt to stop the final arrange- ments being made for the relief trucks to come into Pineville with 17,000 pounds of food and 1,000 bot- tles of milk today. However, all the food was bought yesterday and four trucks left with the W. I. R. strike relief early this morning. Harry Sims, youth organizer, is in a critical condition in Barboure ville Hospital after an operation. The deputies who shot him were arrested and are being held under $3,000 bail. Dorothy Wilkes of the W. I. R. medical aid was sent to the hospital to nurse Sims. Doris Parks, Southern W. I. R. sec- retary and Harold Hickerson, play- wright, members of the writers’ groups, on their way with W. I. R, relief trucks, were arrested and are now in the Pineville jail with the other ten prisoners. START MASS DRIVE TO DEMAND FREEDOM OF MOONEY AND BILLINGS Litvinoff pointed out that the Soviet | willingness to take immediate steps) a4 vorK—The immediate free- dom of Tom Mooney will be de- manded by 25,000 New York workers jamming the Coliseum on February 24, the 15th Anniversary of the death sentence imposed on Mooney, it was announced today by the New York District of the International Labor Defense. Simultaneously with this meeting there will be 16 demonstra- tions held in surrounding cities such as: Paterson, Newark, Passaic, Perth Amboy, Bayonne, Ontning and Schenectady. held in the 16 year history of the fight to free Mooney by the working class, will be addressed by Robert Minor, Ben Gold, and J. L. Engdahl, The Coliseum meeting and the others occur during Frederick Douglass Week—February 20-27—one if the main aims being the freedom of the Scottsboro Negro boys. This will be a central demand at these demon strations, Sentemed to Dis. ‘Fifteen years ago, on Februssy M4, This masting ne of the le! copemeeD on Fae THES oa

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