The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1932, Page 2

wuss 18th Addresi New nd mail all 6 8 More Cities Pr epare Mass |AR Protests at Murder of Simms UNITY AGAINST. Workers to Demand Release of Class War Prisoners, Protest Kentucky Mine Terror PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. and the International Labor Defense are callir February 17th at the corner onstration on Wednesday, mond and Wood Streets again The International Labor Defense has sent a telegram to| French con-@— the high sheriff of Kentucky, @emning this murderous outrage as Well as protesting the kidnapping of writers who brought relief to the etriking miners, Gemands immediate release of all the Jeaders of the National Miners Un- jon, International Labor Defense, Workers International Relief who were arrested in Kentucky and de- manding the right to free speech, as- semblage, picketing and strike against wage cuts. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. Two hundred workers attended a memorial meeting held last night for Harry Simms, murdered youth or- ,@anizer of the National Mine: fon in Kentucky. Speakers Paul Erooks, district organizer of Young Communist League Weber, district Trade Union Lesgue organizer, Walter C. Negro Kentucky miner. A protest resolution was adopted nd sent to.Governor Laffoon of Bentucky. Arrangements are being meade for a funeral procession in @pringfield on Thursday. Simms’ Parents were absent from the meet. ‘tng due to illness, but expressed sol- M@erity with the workers in their struggle against hunger and terror- ism. t Cl see Philadelphia Protest Friday. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 15— A mass protest against the shooting of Harry Simms will be held at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Christ- February 19th of workers vill where thousands gather to protest the murder of the young National Miners Union organ teer in Kentucky, and to demand the KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. nk tional Secretary of the Workers International Reli¢ the Central Strike Relief Com bers of the committee have thr but operate continuously the ‘They know their mountains and reads and whether by light of day or dark of night, effect food deliveries to the farthest away sections in the strike area, Despite increased terror complete food distribution was effected yester- | day throughout Bell and Harlan Counties. A method of purchasing from sympathetic store keepers in the strike sections in being effected whereby they are giving wholesale prices and helping besides. Wagenknecht attended 2 relief meeting in the LaFollette, Tenn. strike section yesterday. He found a good collection machine’ established whieh is getting corn from farmers which is being taken to the mills for grinding and collecting home ° KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 14— Spurred on by the editorial in the Knoxville Journal which says in part, “The southland should rise to the defense of itself against godlessness and atheism.” Knoxville business men and po- lice are beginning a drive to try te crush the growing unemploy- ‘The first step is the eviction of Workers International Relief office on the ground 1. BR. is & Communist The judge took less @ minute yesterday to hand the decision that the W. I, must leave its office within five their the W. s ‘The courtroom was filled with . KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 14——The threat of the gun thugs to kidnap the jailed comrades in Pineville still eontinues and they have draped Blankets over their barred windows to spoil the sim of any gunmen who a eee earned jal quarters, damp amd overridden by rats, have re- sulted in five comrades falling and the remainder being by colds and indigestion. ars, W-1.M, secretary in Kipexville, gpd Marclé Niekereon, i : the telegram also 15. ne National st the murder of Harry Sir Telease of all of the as well as the stoppi age terror of the coz William Z. Foster speaker, will Southern LL.D. CHATTANOOG ‘The follo the Southe national Lal Laffoon the U. Logan Feb. 15 Wesl a \ “We protest the ki Simms, young mine strike organ- izer, while lead miners to rec mand the ce: terrorism inst the miners, ganizers and relief workers, the right of the workers to defend themselves. We demand the im- mediate and safe release of all tt workers imprisoned in connection with the strike. government responsible murderous terror in Bell Counties.” w s a delegation of de- t or- e relief, jon of gun Ve We hold the statr for Harlan the and NEWARK, N. J.—A meeting to protes Harry Simms, of the National Miners Union member of the Young Cor League, has been called Young Communist League Unit, to be held on ¥ 17th at 5 p. m. at Among the speakers ing Kentucky miner. young and old, Negro and white, em- ployed upon |the r and Mil will to ¥ ine sy miners’ strike bosses ‘Ke e 15.—Alfred Wagenknecht. Na- met with mittee last night. Many mem- six warrants out for them, ribution without fez ee to food di canned goods and potatoes. Most of the strikers’ houses in Pea- body are dark for lack of kerosene. There is no soap either, but the spirit is splendid and great attention is be- ing paid to details of developing their tours to farmers for aid. Another meeting of the Central Re- Hef Committee will decile the question jot a WIR Pineville warehouse as & center to ship to. All shipments made to Pineville in the last days must be registered with the WIR at 16 West 21st St., New York City so that they can be called for at the Pineville freight station. The new address of the WIR warehouse where al shipments are to be sent, will be announced within the next day, coal operators, leading business men, officers of the National Guard, police chief, safety commis~ sion and a score of detectives. Unemployed Movement Grows. More than 200 unemployed workers attended an open air demonstration here yesterday afternoon addressed by Harry Jackson. The stool pigeon, Gon, asked to speak. He was per- before the workers by urging Knox- ville unemployed kers not to fight for immediate re.ef and unemploy- ment insurarce because Knoxville had nice parks and a big university, ete. The growing unemployed move- ment is forcing local charity fakers to treat the unemployed workers like human beings for the first time even though demands for increased relief have been turned down. 8 New York playwright, who were jailed on criminal syndicaltsm charges for speaking at ast Wednesday's demonstration in Pineville, will come up for hear- ing tomorrow in Pinevilie. A second raid has been made 8 two days on the home of Jin Gar land, brother of Aunt Molly Jack son and member of the Strike Ex ecutive by gunthugs. Garland is nov in Washington with the writers’ com mittee and his 19-year-old wife he been jailed on criminal syndicalism DEMONSTRATE IN WALL ST. TODAY AGAINST MURDERS IN KENTUCKY CCOWTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of columns of militant workers. ‘The picketers will include Michael Gold, editor of the New Masses, au- thor of “Jews Without Money”; Ed- mund Wilson, literary critic who was Kreym- EYEE iv promptly at noon at Broad and Wall Sts. The U. S. Steel and Morgan in- terer’s control the mines in Harlan and Bell counties and are responsible for the hiring of the thugs who have outlawed the union and killed and kidnapped miners and sympathizers,” WORKERS SCHOOL The Workers School Committee has decided to call off classes on ‘Wednesday, Feb. 17th. Students should attend the demonstration that evening at 7 p. m. at Bronx Coliseum protesting against the murder of Comrade Harry Simms by the Kentucky coal operators. ‘The School term will be extended tm make pp the lessons, mitted and made a fool of himiself) SOVIET Sup} imperial he veil united ¢ that the i impe ag. and the color is directed P. J. Philip, writ ew York Times, lets th out of the bag. The Tardieu pla dd upon favorably ‘by man: big powers. ne Philip “It uil says? has fe become are reac has boldly propos e who big to feel the weight of a heer numbers and t etting up of a of some kinc 2 preference going toward big interr which, from the skies, would at leas menace any offending party.” Thus the “disarmament” confer | ence moves on to the next act, all the imperialist powers arming j a mad attempt to crush the U-S.S.I and the struggles of the toiling mass- es at home, rance th ed, have that ional a | | | | KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb, 14—The Bell County Attorney is trying by threats to force all strikers arrested in the last 1ew days to sign affi- davits attacking and repudiating the National Miners Union such as were signed last week by three strikers. | Smith especially tried to force Gil Greene, a Negro strike leader now imprisoned on a criminal syn- dicalism charge, to sign such an affidavit, but Greene absolutely re- Is Conceale ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 15.— A wage cut scheme is being heralded by Governor Roose- velt of New York as an “un- employment insurance plan.” The proposal is contained in a report made by capitalist representatives of six leading industrial states issued yesterday, and endorsed by Governor Roosevelt. The commission which drew up the report, headed by Leo Wolman, has the support of the governors of Mass- achusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, New Jersey and Con- ne“ticut. | ‘the scheme provides that the boss- les take two per cent of their payrolls worker for “unemployment insurance.” The money would come solely out of the wages of the workers. The most that would be paid, if the worker does not lose his job of “his own accord” would be $10 a week, for not more than ten weeks. The commission admits that the workers would haye to stand the great burden, saying that the “greatest share of the burden of unemployment will still be borne by the workers whose benefits under UNION: i OaET Negro Siker, Re efuses to 3 pudiate N.M.U.; Attacks Gun Thug and make up a fund of $50 for each | Giambatista ‘S | aved ial from Deportation | | to Fascist Italy In vie | develop: Brownsville, a special meeting for Tuesday, at 8 p.m, at 181 w of some very important membership February 16, in Avenue r members of Sect attend. » must West 21st Workers |\Save the paper of your class. Rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th Street. Rule fused and in militant class con- scious speech attacked the gun thug rule in the strike area and said all miners must join the Na- conditions, Collet, one of the three ch Vicious affidavits, appointed deputy has alrea sheriff by Bro money he and othe: The tbeen found. recet miss: leaders have ‘Governors ‘Insurance’ Scheme d Wage Cut than the wages he would have con- tinued to receive if employed.” Governor Roosevelt, in order to catch the votes of the workers and to mislead them in the fight for a heal unemployment insurance bill, has fully approved the new wage cut plan and is advertising it as “unemploy- ment insurance.” Every worker should expose this scheme and what it means to the | Workers, employed and unemployed. | The capitalist press will have a good ' deal to s out this plan in the six states mentioned and will try to palm it off on the workers/ PUEBLO, Colorado, Feb. 15.—The Pueblo Community Chest funds, of the Pueblo Citizen’s Unemployment | Relief Committee, ‘e completely ex- hausted and several hundred Pueblo families were told to “beg or starye.” About 500 men have applied for work on the “Chest Chain Gang” and have not received a day of work in the last year. Another ‘poor feed the poor” drive is under way here to raise $30,000 for this work, Workers of Pueblo! Organize more Unemployed Councils. Fight against these local charity rackets and de- mand Unemployment Insurance paid the plan would be considerably less | by the bosses and their government. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—On Wednes- day, Feb. 17th, 7:30 p. m., the workers of Milwaukee will hold a mass meet- ing at Jefferson Hall, 2617 W. Fond du Lac Ave., to protest against the imprisonment of Tum Mooney and demand his immediate release, The meeting is called by the Interna~ tional Labor Defense. The International Labor. Defense is organizing a mass fight against the growing use of “vagrancy” laws, against the unemployed workers, and especially the use of “vagrancy” and “non-support” charges against those unemployed workers who reuse to Mooney-Scottsboro Meet In Milwaukee Wednesday Curtis of West Allis, is threater .d with confinement in the insane asyl- um, if he continues insisting on food for himself and famit’, Under the influence of the social fascists, the persecution of the workers in Wiscon- sin takes the most insidious forms; such as the perjured testimony of “socialist” doctors and officials of th~ covernment. Meetings are also being held dur- ing the week of the 24th of Feb. on the South Sice of Milwaukee, in West Allis, Racine and Kenosha. At all of these meetings, where the local attacks upon the workers will be ex- work at the terms of the County on the forced-labor jobs. This persecution has gone so far that at last a crippled worker, Emory P .2 posed, the imniediate release of Tom Mooney will be demaaded as well as freedom for the 9 Scottsboro boys and the Harlan miners, WU MO. aswel geen By mat! everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; Foreign: of Manhattan and Bronz, New York City. excepti one year, $8: a NESE RED “ARMY CAPTURES NANCHANG; ENCIRCLING HANKOW | Japanese Threaten to Use Poison Gas to Crush “Unrest”; mperia nchang capit st pre | Kuomintang troops. peasants have of the thrown off Kuominiang landowners and their imperialist e Chinese Soviet Republic tao tie aroviieet dispatches report Chinese Red Armies are ng on Hankow, Hankow les up the from Nan > of that Yangt most the e of one of the China. Martia n the city seve iomintang mi a mass uprisine elcome the advanc Army, panese have been frantics f the Japanese concession The United States, Japan and Eng- land ‘have been rushing warships to against the Chinese Red and workers on one hand and mintang militarists and the lists’ forces on the other by in fear o! worker: hand, is expected soon. The Japanese iperialists are ming to use poison gas the revolutionary workers of 1ai, South China. Huge quan- ies of poison gas and other war including field guns, are landed in the International | lement, id Japanese General Uyeda yes- | y repeated his threat of another {blood bath against the Shanghai | workers, He declared the Japanese a was in the Chinese city of Shanghai to stamp out unrest. He | cannes the withdrawal of the troops and called for the ex- | pulsion of- the Chinese Communists jin the ci | The Japanese preparations to :j- | arm; Pouring Troops and Tanks Into City (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE l of Kiangsi province, have captured that city, s dispatches from Shanghai declare. one of the last few remaining Kiangsi cities held by the Over most of the province, the workers thee Nanchang tack the anti- imperialist masses o1 Shanghai are being supported by the United States and Briti imperial- ists. American and British troops arr busy throwing up barricades and erecting machine gun nests for use against the workers. The British | troops are far remoyed from the present area of fighting. The imperialist press continues to censor news of the activities of the Chinese Red Army operating in the Hankow district. Press dispatches daily report, however, the rushing of additional United States, British and Japanese warships up the Yangtze river towards Hankow. These war- ships are being sent against the Chi- nese Red Army. The imperialists, aware that their Kuomintang !ack- eys can no longer block the Chinese Red Army, are engaging in direct armed intervention against that army. The United States yesterday or- dered the removal of Americans from Soochow, Wusin, Changchow, Changshu and several other Chines. cities. This indicates the growth 0’ the mass anti-imperialist movemen’ in those cities, as well as the matur- ing preparations of the imperialist for a more terrific onslaught agains the Chinese Revolution than has ye occurred, Workers! Fight against the impe- trialist war plots! Fight against th imperialist war on the Chinese mass. es! Defend the Chinese Revolution! Defend the Soviet Union! Preyen the shipment of arms to the Fe East! Demand all war funds for the unemployed! Intensify the fight against the Wall Street imperialists Union and the Chinese Revolution! | | vation in Kentucky. in affidavit form. Jim Garland, talking of the murder of Harry Simms, said, “Harry and me was pals. He was liked by all the strik- ers, He stayed at my home most of the time and seemed like one of the family. GAR! ‘ND TELLS OF MURDER. “ibe sast time I saw him was at 5 o'clock on the morning of the shooting. Me and him had expect- ed to be taken for a ride as the thugs threatened, so we spent the night with comrades at Tensley. “We waked up Green Lawson to go with Simms on the bus. I warned Harry not to go as he would be shot as thugs were patrolling along the railroad and Harry would meet them, They had threatened they would break up the meeting called by the W.LR. to receive the food brought by New York writers. “Simms said, ‘I'll have to take the chance, it’s my duty to the strikers, He went off with Lawson. Seon as I heard about the shootin- I went to Barbourville and saw Lawson in jail, He told me that thugs Miller and Davis met them on the railroad, pulled their pis- tols and Miller shct Simms with- out warning and arrested Lawsov for concealed weapons, they took them to Barbourville where Simms was left lying outside the hospital near an hour because the hospital demanded a guaran- tee for the bill. When I arrived they wefe jf ORCAS on Simms. Jim Garland, Kentucky Striker, | Tells Story of Simins’ Murder WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15.—The liberal writers’ com- ; mittee will hold a mass meeting in the National Press Club Auditorium on Tuesday night, reporting on the terror and star- Senator Borah refused to hear the testimony of the strik- ers, but the committee will submit it EP Eee se een When I saw Simms he said he was glad we were safe. I said, ‘Buddy, I’m sorry I wasn’t with yout.’ He went to sleep, After a while he roused again and said, ‘I’m not feeling so bad, but awful tired. Lucky I wasn’t killed.’ “He went back to sleep and I walked out mighty near tears. When I got back to Pineville 1 found the deputies had raided my house and arrested three strikers from Gatliff who were staying there, on criminal syndicalism anc seized all union literature, “I sure would have told them senators plenty if they’d given me a chance. Maybe they didn’t want to hear it.” ‘Wallace, a Negro miner, Smith, Cecil and others whose testimony the senators refused to hear stated thei: experiences with the gun thugs. Tr Negro miner stated that the UMW. discriminated against him and be- trayed the strikers, The miners sai. the Congressional investigation woul: whitewash the coal operators becaus: the federal government is on the sidc of the bosses, same as the local gov- ernment. Get your shopmates to ‘otribute to save the workers’ paper. Get Daily Worker donation books at 50 E. 13th St. 50,194 People Have Seen Soviet Russia’s First Talkie! 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DRESSMAKERS PICKET IN SOLID RANKS; WARN OF SCHLESINGER SELLOUT Call International Workers 4 na Rally to the United Front Picket Shops Today; Mass Demontsration At 9 A. M.; The Central § makers’ united Strike front, Bosten Prepares Strike Committee of the dress- which met yesterday, issued a ringing call to he dressmakers in the International Ladi lies Garment ‘Workers Schlesingers to repudiate the ites, agents of the sweat shop strike lockout today like 1929 and the dressmakert’s ij “You can and must des call, “by joining ranks on the strike of all the dressmakers. The interests of all the dressmakers ‘ are the same. We all want to | fight for union conditions, We can only get them through front struggle. a united “Do not permit yourselves to be confused by the publicity heom of the capitalist newspapers, who are interested in heiping the bosses and the International, the agency which serves the bosses, “When you go down from your shops or your bosses lock you out, march together with the strikers who are fighting under the leader- ship of the United Front Strike Committee, If you are forced to go to the strike halls of the In z tional, you must immediately coming to the halls elect a committee in every shop, in every building which will guard against a sellout of your interests and lead the fight toward organizing joint action on the picket line. “You must act promptly because the International, the bosses and Tammany Hell haye already pre- pared to sell you out just as they did in the fake strike in 1930. “The International officials will try to terrorize you in the strike halls through the gorillas in order to keep you in check and make you submit to the sellout. Don’t fear them. Follow the example of the militant strikers who are fight- ing the gorillas on the picket line, Mobilize in mass around your shops. Organize in masses in the strike halls. Take the strike in your own hands. Fight together under the leadership of the United Front Strike Committee and the Needle Trades Industrial Union, “Down with the fake strike lock- out of the bosses and the Interna- tional! “Forward in one united front strike, for unity on the picket line of all dressmakers! “Forward to victory!” This morning all striking dress- makers will picket from 7:30 until 9, From 9 to 11 there will be a mass picket demonstration throughout the dress market. The strikers will then Proceed to the strike halls where mass strike meetings will be held at 12:30. The executive strike commit- tee will meet immediately after these meetings. Masses of striking dressmakers signaled the beginning of the second week of the United Front strike against starvation yesterday by rally- ing into the streets of the dress mar- ket in one of the largest and most militant mass picket demonstrations in the history of the industry. Cheers and strains-of working class battle songs echoed and reechoed up and down the street canyons of the sweat shop district, striking fear into the hearts of the profit hungry bosses. The picketers marched in solid ranks in a line that extended Union, and Lovestone- bosses: who are calling a fake strike of the cloakmakers in this conspiracy,” says the picket line in one united mass several blocks. The march began at 7:30 a.m, Ike ended at 10 o'clock. The ranks of the workers swelled and tripled dur- ing the two and a half hours of dem-= onstration. It grew more militant. Along the side of the streets stood the Tammany police and Schles- singer thugs, who glared at the strike ers in silence, awed into passivity by the stubborn and determined mood of the workers, The line swung down 28th St. to ith Ave, west on 34th St. and down. 8th Ave. Workers going to work, unemployed workers, housewives from the windows cheered the strike ers in their victorious march, Swings = to the right and then to the left, up and down the streets, the great line wove its way through the dress market. The line swung past the struck shops, where committees of strikers patrolled up and down before the doors. Deafening cheers swelled from the masses of strikers, as if coming from one great throat, as they marched past the striking shops. Negro and white, native American, Jewish workers, workers of many nationalities, men and women work- ers, marched side by side spreading the word of struggle, spreading the United Front strike’ to new shops, A large percentage of the demon- strating strikers were youth. Along the edge of the great file were many youthful captains who led the sings ing, the cheering, the shouting of the strike demands. The slogan “Out of the shops and into the United Front” was hailed by workers in the Schles- singer company union shops who came to the windows to watch the demonstration. At 10 o'clock the demonstration divided into sections and the work» ers marched to their respective strike headquarters where meetings were held and the tasks of the day for spreading the strike were taken in a precise and businesslike manner. Throughout the day many more shops joined the strike. Applications are still coming in to the strike com- mittee for settlement. A settlement headquarters has been set up by the Central Strike Committee at 799 Broadway. All the rooms from 629 to 636 have been rented by the United Front Committe. All cases of settle. ment will be taken up at this head« quarters, Oe Sire BOSTON, Mass.—Over a hundred delegates from 65 dress shops have authorized a strike. The prepara- tions committee is speeding plans for militant struggle. The United Front Committee of Action has scored an attempt of the mayor, bosses and labor fakers to call a conference to betray the work- ers. A general membership meeting of the Needle Trades Industrial Union is called for today at 3 p. m. to prepare for the strike. Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue BRONX, N. ¥. UNEVERSITY DELICATESSEN 100 University Place, N. ¥. C. Telephone AL. 4-1307 DELIVERIES ANYWHERE RUSSIAN MEALS For Poor Pocketbooks KAVKAZ 332 E. Mth Street, N. Y. 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