The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 2

* @ressing room only 3 girls can get Page Two N. Y¥ ew York City. Published by tee Comprodafy Pyblishiug Co. tne, daily excep! Sunday, at 60 Bast S Telephone ALgonquin ¢-7956. alt checks te the Daily Worker, 506 East 18th Street, New York, N. Y. ATI Cable “I 5 SURSCRIPTION RATES: six months, $3; New York Gity. By mail everywhere: One year, $6; ef Manhattan and Bronx, two months Foreign: one yeur MASS SMASH THE A MORE RALLY TO UNITED FRONT DRESS STRIKE) Foster to Speak at Huge Strike Meeting at Strike Headquarters Tonight Walker, Malone, Hillquit Confer for Fake Schlesinger Strike NEW YORK.—The beginning of the sec- end week of struggle of the New York dress- makers against starvation and for union con- ditions in their shops finds the strike 'still spreading. Many new shops from the outlying sections have joined the strike. Many more shops will be stopped this week. The effectiveness of the strike can be seen by the fact that each of the outlying sections have already made at least one settlement, Winnine an increase in pay» a reduction of hours and recognition of the shoné committees and the union. | Soods, raincoat makers, and all other One of the shops settled is the| needle trades workers are called to Beauty Girls Shop in the Harlem.| this mass meeting. William Z. Fos- ‘The workers tn this shop have settled | ter, secretary of the T. U. U. L, J. for # $2 to $8 increase in wages and | Migdol, chairman of the Strike Com- a. reduction of hours from 52 to 40.| mittee, Ben Gold, secretary of the All the workers in this shop, who] United Front Strike Committee and ere chiefly Spanish, have shown great and file members of the Strike militancy in the struggle. They have | Committee will report on the strike all joined the Needle Trades Union| and further plans for spreading the and have pledged to assist the other shops on the picket line. | The following letter to the Daily trades workers must mass meeting without needle come to this Worker describes the conditions in| fail. the Beauty Girls Shop before the n the New York dress market workers won the settlement: the Schlessinger company “Dear Comrade Editor: “I am a young worker of the Beauty Girls Shop, at 4. E. 116th St. who went down on strike Tues nion is preparing to call a fake ike lockout on Tuesday, the bosses have let the cat out of the bag. It became known yesterday that there day, Feb. Sth. Our main aim is to better our working conditions and to get an increase in our wages, “The boss treats us worse than 4 slave. He calls us names and has me respect for young girls. The wages are so low that I am ashamed to tell. We receive an average of $5, $6 to $15 a week. “The place is just like a stable, ~ "ne air only two windows, and no light, with only one sxit. At the end of the dey we are almost blind working under continuous lights. From our low wages we have to :. spend for eye glasses. “They cheat us im our salaries, health and ererzy, because we have ~fe work from 8 2. m. to late at Right. During these working hours we cannot talk to the girls next to ts, because the bosses holler and ) tell us if we want to talk we should “go home. “We are about 20 giris, and in the in at-a time and we don’t even have @ mirror in there, | “We 20 girls are sticking to- gether until the boss gives us our demands for less hours, hicher ‘wages and generally better condi- tions.” Mase Picketing Today. A mass picket demonstration throughout the dress market will mark the first day of the second week 6f the strike today. The demon- stration will commence at 7:30 a. m. sharp at 35th St. and 7th Ave. The strike committee, which will lead the | picketing, will assemble at 131 W. 26th St. All workers in greater New York are called upon to rally support of the striking dressmakers | to)" on the picket line this morning, Foster Speaks Tonight. | At 6:30 this evening, all needle trades workers are called to a mass meeting to mobilize in support of the United Front strike of the dressmak- ¢ ers and to help smash the fake strike conspiracy planned jointly by Tam many Mayor Walker, Dudley F: ‘. Schlesinger s, fur workers, men’s knitgoods, ’ white- | was a conference in Mayor Walker's office, where Dudley Field Malone, chief of the dress bosses, Hillquit who the Schlessinger fake union ve Planned a fake strike. Saturday’s “Forward” stated that this conference was incidental, that Hillquit came to ask that the police adopt a friendly attitude toward the fake strike, and incidentally that Malone was In Mayor's office at the same time ‘The spreading out of the dréss strike which cannot even be disputed by the bosses is indicated in the statements of the bosses which show that the strike is spreading and em~- bracing an ever larger number of workers. The only answer that the dressmakers can give to these con~ spiracies is to strengthen the picket line in front of the striking shops, to represents |bring more shops down on strike, or- ganize the block and building com- ees, involve every striker into ac- tive strike duty, and unite all strikers those that are locked out of the shops by the bosses and the Schlessinger y union together with the strikers of the United Front Commit. comp: tee for joint action on the picketline and joint struggle to secure union conditions in the shops. “Out of the shops and into the United — will be the slogan of ference Satuntay 2 o'clock was issued today by the ted Front Strike Committee, en- 1 by the Trade Union Unity 1, to all trade unions, frater- izations and sympathetic, or- to elect delezates to an erence which will be £ Feb, 20, at 2 the United Front Strike 559 fth Ave. ations. are called upon ly. elect..delegates. and to help raise financial support for the strike fund Open at call conte ir mesctines have be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the hall JAPANESE PL \N NEW Bi 000 ' BATH IN PRESS SHANGHAI TO SUP MASS MOVEMENT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) fas just arrived at Shanghai to take ver the command of the Japanese of invasion, also showed alarm @hat the revolutionary masses may e the sinister plots of the Jap- ‘and other imperialists for the and division of China, He gated on Saturday: “T understand that owing to the attitude of independent @himese troops in Shanghai the Settlement is being turned into 2 of unrest and terrorism.” General Uyeda added that he was r “to co-operate with all the in removing from Shanghai.” ™ Giving voice to the frantic fears ef the robber imperialists over the forward surge of the revolutionary 1 it in China, Upton Close, student of Far Eastern af- predicted in Saturday's New ‘Times that the Chinese Red gon capture Hankow and would ) the entire Yangtze valley, and that the Communist movement would evict the imperialist forces China and bury the rotting corpse of the Kuomintang party of the land- owners, bankers and foreign im- perialists. Close also predicted that the vic- tory of the Chinese Communists would cause tremendous repercus- sivns in Janan itself, with the pos- sibility that the starving Japanese workers and ruined peasants would also take the revolutionary way out of the crisis of capitalism. The Times article says: “Within the next few days the fate not only of the Japanese naval and military demonstrations in the Shanghai area but of all foreigners in China will probably be decided, according to Upton Close, student of Oriental affairs has spent many years in Cu. \ Japan and other parts of the Far East.” ‘The imperialist murderers who butchered over 15,000 Chinese workers TI. FOREIGN-BORN BILLS! let AL MARTIAL LAW PICKET ALL DRESS SHOPS AT 7.30 THIS MORNING _PROTEST TONIGHT AT WEBSTER HALL, “11th ST., 3rd AVE. PREVAILS THROUGH THE WHOLE STRIKE AREA; RAID MINERS’ HOME BULLETIN. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 14.—Clarina Michaclson, representative of the Workers International Relief, who has been in the Pineville jail en criminal syndicalism charges for six weeks, was removed from the prison at 5:30 Sunday night in an ambulance and taken to St. Mary’s hospital in Knoxville. She is suffering from laryngitis and pharyngitis, with pneumonia an imminent possibility. The International Labor Defense provided her bail. Bail had been provided for her two weeks ago but the National Surety Co. representa- tive. in Pineville, Ray--Moss, is a-coal operator, and he refused to affix his signature. The Loutsville Surety representative had to sign the bond, The Knoxville doctor who came with the ambulance was at first refused permission by the Pineville doctors to treat Michaelson. Judge Van Beber, coal operators’ tool, and County Attorney Smith, who threatened lynchings for all the jailed strike leaders, tried to force Clarina Michaelson. to come to the courthouse to sign a bond, even though the doctor and nurse said she couldn't walk. Michaelson had ® temperature of 104 for several days, but the miners warned her not to let the Pineville doctors treat her for fear of the consequences. Pine- Ville’s leading doctors were participants of the night- riding expedition which resulted in the kidnapping and beating of the writers’ committee. Four other jailed comrades are sick because of the damp cells. They are Marguerite Fontain, Norma Martin, Dorothy Weber and Julia Parker. All have colds and sore throats and are threatened with ser- lous illness, PINEVILLE, oy Feb, 1, —Original plans for the mass funeral and burial of Harry Simms, 19-year-old organizer for the National Miners Union, murdered by gun thugs in the employ of the Kentucky coal operators, have! been changed at the last minute. Not satisfied with having assassinated § Simms, the coal company thugs have planned to steal and desecrate the body of Simms if it were kept in Kentucky. This was verified by a for this dastardly, ghoulish act. the coal operators have placed in jail Scores of sympathizers have of- fered in recent weeks to supply bail bonds for the jailed comrades, it was learned today, but Judge Van Beher, coal operator’s henchman, refuses to accept htem, More than 30 persons have offered to supply boxds for Dorothy Weber alone. All have been refused. The coal operators’ local government insists on keeping the arrested leaders in jail at all costs, or to prepare their murder. ‘The Strike Executive Committee, in view of the growing danger of the lynching of sll the arrested strike leaders and sympathizers now in Jail, has decided to throw a per- manent guard of miners around the jail. Harold Hickerson, New York play. wright, who was jailed along with Doris Parks, Workers International Relief secretary, on criminal syndi- calist charges for speaking at a Pine- ville miners’ demonstration yester- day, was offered his freedom if he would take the next bus out of the state. He decided to stay in jail. His ancestors come from Kentucky. Parks was told she would remain in jail until “the law got ready to let her go.” Each has been put on $5,000 appearance bond and $5,000 peace bond. KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 14.— Matt Curry, striker from Clearfield, ‘Tenn,, was brutally slugged by a coal operators’ deputy Monday night after Curry had led picketing at Virginia Jellico mine in the morning. The thug fractured Curry’s elbow and his nose and put a deep gash in his fore- head. The company doctor refused to treat Curry for four days. Curry finally managed to reach the National Miners’ Union office in Pineville and he was taken from statement of the Barbourville deputy sheriff. In preparation | "= ie a pe eee ‘Three persons, one a former mem- ber of the UMWA, who has always boasted htat he took a $75 bribe to a guard of American Legionnaires around the body of Simms, with the excuse that “nobody but the Commu- nists will steal the body of Simms.” This statement was made to pre- pare th eground for charging the Communists with responsibility for the act of the Kentucky coal thugs in stealing and mutilating thé body of Harry Simms. ‘To prevent this, the body of Simms will be shipped to New York imme- diately after. the mass protest méet~ ing is held in Barbourville 6n Mon: day. T hefuhéral will he held in New York. The father of Harry Simms yes- terday authorized the National Min- ers Union and the Central Strike Committee of the Kentucky miners to make all arrangements for the fu- neral and burial. He sent the fol- lowing telegram to the chief of po- ice at Barbourville: “As father of Harry Simms J hereby authorize National Miners Union and authorized representa~ tives of Central Strike Committee of Kentucky miners to take pos- session of his body Stop I also au~ thorize them to make all arrange- ments for memorial in Barbourville and for transport to New York Stop Since I have heard of intentions and their children in the proletarian district of Chapei, Shanghal, who made homeless and threw into the bitter cold over a million workers and working-class children, are preparing @ new and blodier slaughter of the Chinese workers in Shanghai. The workers of the United States must sharply protest against the leading role of American imperialism in the Preparation, of this new terror. Workers! Demand the withdrawal of all American armed forces from China! ‘Prevent the export of muni- tions to China! Form United Front anti-war committees in your shops, your unions and other organizations. Organize an iron front for the defense of the Chinese masses and their Chinese masses and their Chinese Soviet Republic, for the defense of the Soviet Union, against whom the bosses are preparing war at the same time that they are butchering the Chinese workers and attempting to drown in blood..the Craps a sialic tion, % The German Communist Party has called on German harbor work- ers and seaman to prevtnt the transport of war materials to the Far East as an act of solidarity with the Chinese workers ‘and peasants and the best defense of the Chinese Soviets and the Soviet Union. When the Winter Winds Begin to Blow You will find it warm and cory Camp Nitgedaiget ot! provement. ‘The food te and fresh and especially well prepared. SPECIAL RATES FOR WEEK- ts ENDS For further information cal! tho— COOPERATIVE OFFICE 2800 Bronx Park Enst Tel.—Esterbrook $-1400 of ee or agents to steal the | vote for Lewis at the last convention, body I hold you responsible to see | have signed affidavits that the Com- that no interference with above munists try to “destroy home, reli- arrangements,” gion, the government, etc.” All three; With the murder of Simms and the | who are hungry and starving, were shooting of the driver of one of the given lump sums of money to sign W.LR. relief trucks, actual, though not nominal martial law obtains here | throughout the entire strike area. Gun thugs are patrolling all roads and allowing no strikers to enter Pineville. Several local strike leaders are stlil Missin; including Bige Wilson, one of the best local leaders recently The Pineville Workers International charged with criminal syndicalism. Relief warehouse was again raided and its doors completely smashed and torn off their hinges. It was discovered that the thug who murdered Simms was in the employ | of @ Rockefeller subsidiary company, the same company responsible for the massacre of men and women and the roasting to death of children in the Ludlow, Col., strike of 1912-13. The reign of terror following the murder of Simms has been Iurther intensified with a Knoxville, Tenn., city detective threatening to kill J. M. Andrews, a Kentucky striker working in the offices of t he Workers Inter- national Relief, if he does not leave Knoxville immediately, Bell County orerators are busy sending telegrams to Representative Fisk and Eslick urging further na~- tional repressive measures be taken against Communists. PINEVILLE, Ky. Feb. 14—The danger of lynching the jailed strike leaders, along with the two recently , arrested when they were distribut- | ing relief to the strikers, 1s increas- ing daily as deputized mine guards, | armed with revolvers and machine | guns, began to mill around the Pineville jail all night. } The strike executive committee ts making plans to throw a permanent , guard of miners around the jail to | .| prevent County Attorney Smith's threat of murder from being put into} effect, Warrants are out for Ed. Hickman, one of the most capable strike lead- ers. Several of the leading local | strike leaders have been missing since | yesterday. Clarina Michaelson, one, of the arrested strike leaders, has) taken a turn for the worse, She is/ seriously ill. She is still being kept NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES EAST 6SIDE—BRONE RKO cio aon SEFFERION Today to Tuesdsy | <RKO Acts— | —OP the Screen— Wary Wel Helen Harry Welsh Tyvelvetrees with Harry in Frawaun |x ANAMA ~- FLO” Harrison with Chas. Bickford i} Company Charles Ry rink Schwartz ta TCHEROV PLA Hu os & Per- civa son Tipe Bight Allez Botox { | | 27 Rob Amstong the affidavits. The coal operators | have incorporated all three affidavits in @ leaflet which they have sent throughout the strike area. ‘The NMU ts answering the propa- ganda of the operators with 2 spe- cial leaflet. A real estate company is suing to ‘evict the Workers Iriternational Re- lief office in Knoxville on the ground that the W. I. R. is a Communist or- genization. The case came up in court, yesterday, Allan Johnson, editor of the W. 1 R. organ, “Solidarity,” precipitated a near riot at a meeting of Knoxville’s Jeading business men’s club where b> had been invited to “present the other side.” When’he called the gun thugs murderers, and the coal oper- ators exploiters and robbers, and the Red Cross strikebreakers, attempts ‘were made to stop him. He told of the work of the Workers Interna~ tional Relief. AIM TO GET MILLIONS OF SIGNATURES (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) which acts as their executive. com- mittee, cannot altogether conceal and are forced to admit the appalling misery and destitution of millions of and part time workers. “Fearful lest the movement of the workers for real relief, through un- emnioyment insurance as provided in the Workers’ Bill, shall develop such mass support and militancy as will overwhelm and sweep aside all the insttiutions and instruments which help enforce the poli¢y of mass starvation, these various agents are making desperate efforts to stem the movement. “The march.organized by the tool of the coal and steel barons of Pennsylvania, “Father” Cox; the miserable pittance proposed in the La Follette-Costigan Bill; the similar measures proposed by Senator Wag- ner; the caricature of unemployment insurance passed by the Wisconsin state legislature; the march of the fat bellied bureaucrats of the A. F. of L.; the “Block Adoption” scheme of the Gibson Committee in New York and the similar schemes in other cities, the “recreation huts” of the socialists; all these are but a few of the many tricky schemes that have been recently developed in the further effort to devitalize and smash the militant movement of the workers for’ real unemployment in- surance and relief. “The signature drive of the Unem- ployed Councils, must serve to regis- ter the determination of the great masses to fight on for unemployment insurance equal to full wages at the expense of the bosses and govern- ment. It must serve as a means of winning additional millions for con- scious support off this struggle. Every block in working class dis- tricts; every factory; every union; every fraternal society; every bread- line and flop house; everywhere where workers ‘gather, committees must be established that will secure” 100 per cent endorsement of the workers’ Bill. “The drive for signatures, whole struggle for unemployment in- surance must be an integral part, © means of stimulating and the means of uniting all the local struggles for ,|the immediate, partial demands i? tthe localities. This drive must b the means of developing and buildings fighting unemployed committees an: councils, in all places where workers | who suffer from unemployment are. The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils, recognizes that this important campaign, can be suc- cessful only if tens of thousands of workers are activized; if ie organi- | AMUSEMENTS BY America Is Startled FIRST SOVIET TALKING QW PICTURE OF RUSSIA'S “WILD CHILDREN” (WITH TITLES IN ENGLISH) C OAD to LIFE “Unprecedented Throngs” and hothouse enough.” SCAMEO = The Theatre Gulld Presents REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy -By ROBERT BE. SHERWOOD Martin Beck $072", $52 St. & 8 Ave. Eve. 8:40 Mats, Thurg.Sat.2:40. QUEENIE SMITH * A LITTLE RACKETEER The New Musical Comedy Hit! «BEST DANCING SHOW IN TOWN. 4ith St. THEATRE, West of Bway, Evgs. $:30, Mats. Wed, & Bat, 2:30 42nd $1 Binay —N. Y. Times, “The whole picture is bursting with a vitality and animal spirit which makes most of our films seem pallid —N. Y. Herald Tribune, 3rd Capacity Week ALL SEATS 25¢ COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW the NEW YORK.—Willlam Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, Max Levin, attorney for the Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Michael Gold, author and play- wright and Louis Engdahl, General Secretary for the International Labor Defense will \idress a mass-protest meeting against the anti-foreign born zations of the working class rally their maximum forces in intensive | Systematic, sustained activity, during the ten weeks of the drive. “We count on the splendid spirii of unity which was shown and ‘te- flected in the National Hunger March, in the demonstrations on Na- tional Unemployment Insurance Day and in the many local struggles that are taking place daily in the-war against hunger. We call upon all workers and their organizations for even greater efforts, to the end that the masses shall be fed and housed. that the lives of millions who are now threatened shall be assured; that the working class may fight back the at- tacks upon its living standards and go forward to new and greater vic- tories, through a sucessful struggle for unemployment inusrance,, equat.to full wages, at the expense of the bos- ses and government. “On with the struggle against hun- ger and destitution! “Mobilive thousands of Unemploy- ment Insurance Volunteers to get millions of signatures and thousands of collective endorsements! san “Join in the election and endorse~ ment of the workers’ delegation that will present our demands to Congress on May 9th!” NATIONAL COMMITTEE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS OF U. 8. Herbert Benjamin, National Sec’y. iPROT EST MEET AGAINST ANTI- FOREIGN BORN BILLS, TODAY ——— and Supeaiied communist bills, which will be dealt with upon Tuesday, Feb, 16, by the immigration committee of the United States Congress. The mass-protest meeting will be held on Monday, Feb. 15, 8p.m. atthe Webe ter Hall, 118 East 11th Street. At this meeting the New York workers will endorse the deleation, sent by the Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the Internas’ tional Labor Defense to get a hearing on the anti-foreign. born , bills. The Trade Union Unity League ap called on al} workers, native and fore eign born, Negro and white to rally’ to the mass protest meeting. Similar statements have been issued*by the International Workers Order and the International Labor Defense. A telegram in support of the Come mittee was received today from Harry ‘W. 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Thars. & Sat. 2:20 700 SINGERS National Concert of all the Freiheit Singing Societies SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20 Mecca Temple, — 55th St. and 7th Ave. Choruses from New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Newark, Patterson, Providence, Fall River, etc., in revolutionary songs ‘Tickets 50c., 15c., $1.00 and $135—On sale in the Frethelt oftce. « cn hac SIRS ce I Ica HE co RMN EC pod