The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1932, Page 2

edi Two DAILY WORKER, N y YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 WOMEN WORKERS PREPARE FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, Plan — Against st Imperialist War, Wage Cuts and Capitalist Terror Against the Working Class NEW YORK.— ler to involve | 1932, comes in the mids 1e masses of g women and ing ee ment of workers he preparations wage-cuts, terrific speed-up, untold International Womer Day mist and starvation of the working March 8, the Comr , Dis- class, imperialist war against the al front Chinese Revolution, and increasing women from preparatoins by the imperialist pow- aployed women, ers for a war of intervention against the Soviet Union, where working wo- men have been freed from the slavery of capitalism and are helping in the successful building of socialism. ¥ ni the : sess fh In view of the increasing attac! Wome the Com- . on the working class, the prepara- tions for imperialist war and the | ney of working women, March 8, 1932, assumes tremendous import- ance. Inter nal Women's Day must be a militant day of struggle and demonstrations of the entire working class against the slavery and exploitation of working women. WRITERS EX POS E KENTUCKY MIN BOSSES MURDER AND HUNGER TERROR | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) attacks even of a lifetime of pellagra, rickets, and other ases due to diet of beans, fat | pota the only foods the | miners can afford, take their terrible malnutrition. volicy. Despite |toll daily,” she said, “especially among children.” Jim G nd, one of the striking | denounced the United Mine | Workers of America for its desertion of s, its jimcrowism, and king tactics which be- nto the hands of the Garland gave one in- other of the brutality itized gun-thugs imported vening had been | i of the South. He stated that 's welcome the aid of such erals as those on the writers’ com- tee, and appealed for continued but that the solidarity of the ss, North and South, was to win the strike. main force o s directed ¢ gz cli relief and defense’ The meeting unanimously adopted a resolution of- i by John Henry Hammond, Jr,, nding the reestablishment of of the workers in Ken- Hammond exposed “the un- ors hope to| fairness of the capitalist press into slavery.” .” he said, “misrepresented and n personal ex- ed the facts about terror and ron dictatorst ation.” He read some of the the liberal writ-) lies concocted by Herndon Evans, As- iated Press correspondent in Pine- e and head of the local Red Cross, Hammond said the. writers’ commit- tee was won over completely to sym- pathy with the miners’ fight against starvation. before the t of the w W. 1. R. of Doris d Harold gation, criminal 19 min- ton M. Ooak ustraied att tee to relie s of told tory of the w the of of Don to Speak on War at Forum rs and | he beating] NEW YORK.—“The Present War of the Situation and the Disarmament Con- , and Allan 1 , by Pineville | ference” will be the timely topic of ss men, and threats to “fill you lecture at Workers Forum conducted uuckshot if you come back.” | by the Work The murder of Harry Simms, 19| night, February 21, at 8 p. m. at year old ¥. C, L. organizer, was told) workers Center, 35 East 12th Street, by Polly Boyden, who visited Simms | 2nd floor. The lecturer will be Com- at the Barboursville hospital just|rade Sam Don. before he died. The findings of the ; Theodore Dreiser delegation were The direct imperialist intervention given | by Charles R. Walker, who | 28inst the Chinese Revolution and 4d the conditions of the min-|the most imminent war danger a- gainst the Soviet Union as being re- _ | vealed by the situation in China, the | war preparation under the mask of the “Disarmament Conference” now being held in Geneva, and the sharp- ening imperialist antagonisms over | the redivision of China, will be the essential points of the lecture. The hose of the peons of Mexi the coolies of China and the “un. touchables” of India. Mary Heaton Vorse described the “miserable shacks | of the miners, unfit for human habitation, the conditions of life broug living for years at bout ibsistence level.” Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell, who went to the Ken.|@dvances of Soviet China, and the tucky strike area to make a survey of | Socialist construction in the Soviet cial conditions and health in min-! Union; the tasks of the revolution- ne camps and was forbidden to do|4tY international working class in o by the local authorities, said that | the fight against imperialist war and | one glance was sufficient to see the /for the defense of Soviet China and |the Soviet Union will be brought | forth. All workers should not miss {this vital forum. What’s On— THURSDAY _'Hold John Reed Ball at Webster Hall Fri. NEW YORK.—The annual ball of Jonn Reed Club tomorrow eve- 1 Webster Hali which will be ed by all revolutionary writers, and cultural workers will be colorful affair with costumes sat- wing the canitelist press, school and ourseoisie.” One of the costumes in ; preparation will be an anti-religious pageant with a dozen people partici- ating The hall will be gaily decorated by members of the John Reed Club id a Harlem 10-piece orchestra will lay till 3 in the morning. 'The revo- itionary cultural movement urges all vorkers to come in costume depicting tists Alteration tonight pho bers ' the subject, 1e Wor hold Hast 1 Printing will meeti t | will also speak at this demonstration. A collection of $300 was made for | School this Sunday | | | Elect Delegates to ‘Labor Conference on United Front Strike eae | NEW YORK, N, ¥.—The Com- NEW YORK. unions, workers clubs, fraternal munist Party added seven strong tions should elect dele- | Working class soldiers to its ranks toda ven miners, two Negro and five write, most of them born and bred in Kentucky, joined the revo- lutionary fighting organization of the working class to become leaders in the struggle against the bosses and their system. All but one have families. Each has a story of con- stant struggling and suffering. “We've been struggling as far back as I can remember,” one said. In Kentucky the bosses try to keep | the miners away from the Com- NOTHER VICTORY munist Party with the cry of “Roo- ) sian Reds” and the hypocrisy about Communism destroying “home, re- IN FISH STRIKE ligion and order.” What will the | tucky miners in face of these seven NEW YORK —The eleventh week | Who not only were themselves born | of the Fish strike finds the workers | 0% American soll, but can name gates at once to the labor confer- ence to be held in support of the dress strike, Saturday, Feb. 29, at the strike headquarters, 559 Sixth Ave! Those organizations who have no meetings this week should be represented at the conference by officers or executive board mem- bers. Credentials should be sent to the office of the T.U.U.L. or be presented at the conference, | coal operators say now to the Ken- generations of their ancestors born holding solid and in good mood, withstanding all the terrorism used heres by the bosses. Another victory was|_ Why did you join the Communist | marked up today, with a settlement |Party, the miners were asked? And es 154 Burke Avenue in the Bronx. |¢ach gave a ready answer. They know inters, a picket, was arrested in the party through struggle and ‘were | front of a struck shop at 973 E, 165th won to it through its fight for them |St. and held with a bail of $100 on |and their fellow workers. |the charge being used against all| “I feel like this,” said one miner—| | the fish striker, “violating injunc- there was feeling in his voice, he} tion.” Information from reliable | spoke as if he would like to say more | | sources disclosed that the Brooklyn |but found it hard getting the right |fish bosses, in fear of the strike |words—, “I joined the Communist | spreading contributed $400 to a fund | party because I seen that they are the | to break the strike. only ones leading the workers to bet- The Wholesale Fish Dealers Asso- | ter conditions. I tried out everything | ciation are work\xg together with the |eise I belonged to the United Mine retail bosses to keep up the price of | workers of America, the A. F. L., the fish while they cut wages, dumping | junior Mechanics and I found out Cah te mnees 1 SN {that none of them was for the work- Z ers, they were all failures except the | Mrs. Whieht ena National Miners Union and the Com- | munist Party.” Mother of Mooney Speak February 24 The working class solidarity he (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of the Kentucky strike impressed one miner perhaps more than anything | jelse and he wants to send this mes- sage back home to his fellow miners: “We seed in New York, we seed in Philadelphia, w0e seed in Baltimore, everywhere we seed the workers are | backing the miners’ fight in Ken- tucky.” He also asked his fellow workers | ind Kentucky “not to believe the lies | }going in the capitalist papers, the | capitalists are against the working men”, he said. “I joined the Communist Party,” another miner solemnly said, “be- cause it stands for all races, color and In addition there will be William Z. | Foster; Ben Gold, leader of the dress strike; Robert Minor; J. L. Engdahl; B. D. Amos, president of the League | for the Struggle for Negro Rights; | and representatives of American Fed- | eration of Labor locals and rank and file in New York. Today more than at any time must | the working class speak louder against the growing terror. The same ruling class which in 1917 tried to murder Tom Mooney is today murder- | ing workers in Kentucky, Chicago, | nationality. I want to tell everybody Camp Hill, Cleveland, etc., and is|that the Communist Party platform sending foreign-born workers out of |has been misrepresented to me or I the country by the tens of0 thousands | would have been a member 27 years as “undesirable aliens”. This same | ago.” ruling class is trying to send the eight | The lies used by the bosses in Ken- Scottsboro Negro boys off to a legal /tucky are the same yellow lies being lynching on framed-up rape charges. | used all over. “We was told,” the min- | Only the mass protest of the work- |er said, “that the Communist Party | iOng class can set Mooney and these |is the head of the Catholic Church class war prisoners free. Tammany’s | and we was agin the Catholics, or else Jimmy Walker and the rest of the | we was told that the Communist Par- politicians who entered the case, did |ty takes a man’s wife away and breaks so only to make political capital for | your home up. They said the Com- themselves, and their political parties | munists was awful people but I found will not free Mooney. Only the work- | the Communists to be the best people ing class to free Tom Mooney after |I met in my life, they’d take their his 15 years behind stone walls. shirt off their back for you. Through | —_--——— the learnin” in the National Miners 1A. A. Heller to Talk |Cm™oh 7, %eermt the benefit of the Communist Party to the laborin’ man On Soy. Union Thurs. 2241 want to say to all workers that | want to change this system of capi- A. A. Heller, editor of “Soviet Rus- | t@lism for the laboring man’s benefit sia Today” is one of the men who |to join the Communist Party.” made possible the laying of an oil-| A Negro miner told of his hard life, line from Baku to Batum, because of Suffering, besides hunger, Jim Crow- his knowledge of autogenous welding. ism and discrimination and found in The group he worked with is now |the Party the unity of all colors Every shop, mine and factory a laying a line from Arnavir to Don- | bass, which will mean increased pro- duction, higher wages and better liv- | fertile field for Daily Worker sub- ing conditions for the workers in that | scriptions, | region. During the time he spent in the | U.S.S.R., from 1921 to 1928, Comrade | | Heller became well-known to the | | students of the Soviet Union. He! | knows the Workers’ Land not as an | outsider, but as one who has con- | tributed a share in the building of it. His lecture on “The Rising Stand- , ard of Living in the Soviet Union,” which will be given Thursday, Feb- j Tuary 18, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place | |and 15th Street, under the auspices , jof the New York District of the | Friends of the Soviet Union, MENUHIN, MYRA HESS SOLOISTS WITH PHILHARMONIC The Philharmonic orchestra, under the guidance of Bruna Walter, will play on Thursday evening and Pri- day afternoon at Carnegie Hall with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist. Saturday night at Carnegie and next Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Myra Hess will be the solo- ist. Menuhin will play the Brahms violin concerto. Mr. Walter has sched- uled the Second Symphony of Dan- iel Gregory Mason and the Sym- phony in E flat major, Kochel 543, of EAST SIDE ‘Today, Tommorrow & Sat! CONRAD VEIDT in The Last Company A Love Drama of Thirteen Meo and a Girl—A Story of the Napoleonic War “A TRIP TO SWEDEN” Acme Theatre 14th Street and Union Square Beginning Sunday! DOSTOYEVSKY’S “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” ALSO— |“WE_ STRIKE” and “ON THE BOWERY” Two Revolutionary Acts By DR. MORRIS LEVITT Published by 1.W.O, Pricelse At WORKERS BOOKSHOP 50 E, 13th St, N. ¥. ©. found everywhere he went in support | ‘Seven Kentucky Miners Join | Party and Tell Reason Why against all of this Mathew Armstrong, a miner who jwent to the Soviet Union with a | workers’ delegation told how he start~ ed working in mines since eleven |years old and contrasted conditions lin the Soviet Union with Kentucky. “In the Soviet Union a miner works six hours a day; in Kentucky a miner works 12 and 14 and starves.” [Rush All Tag Day Funds to W.LR. Rush all funds collected on Tag | Day to the Workers International | Relief, 16 W. 2Ist St. Money meed- | ed immediately. edie ‘Trades Youth Fraction: A special meeting of the Y.C.L. to- night, 7 p.m., at 35 E. 13th St. Also all Yclers that participate in the dress strike, District Buro of the Y.C.L. HUGE UNITED FRONT STRIKE MEETING AT COOPER U (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lit was disclosed thi that over 300 shops are striking under the leadership of | the Dressmakers’ United Front. A huge mass meeting of strikers, a large percentage of whom were in- | ternational members, at the Manhat- tan Lyceum yesterday afternoon ex- pressed enthusiastically their pledges to carry on the fight to victory under United Front leadership. Strike committees of all’ struck | shops met jointly yesterday and took | up the problems of strengthening the strike apparatus. Plans were made for strengthening the block commit- tees, the shop strike committees and for better picketing, Meet at Cooner Union Today~ The Rank and File Committee, in preparing a huge mass strike meet- ing at Cooper Union, 3 p. m. today, issued the following call: “Dressmakers, we must make an end to the divisions and splits in our ranks. The jobbers, the bosses and contractors and all the enemies of the workers are interested to keep the ranks of the strikers di- vided. “But to us dressmakers, the aues- tion of unity and one united strike of all dressmakers, right wingers, left wingers, employed and unem- ployed, Negro and white, young and old is the most burning problem. “Sisters and brothers—let your voice be heard. Demand and fight for unity, for one united workers’ strike and the interests of the NION TODAY Acatenent arenas wiles baa at Cooper Union, 8th Street and 4th Avenue, today, February 18th, at 3 p.m. “Eyery dressmakers striker must come to this meeting. To demand unity, to fight against division. Every dressmaker must fight with all his might against all those who stand in the way of a one united workers’ strike, “Dressmakers, do not permit yourself to be misled by the hypo- critical and lying provocations that are made against One United Front Strike. “The writers of the ‘Day’ and ‘Forward’ who receive fat salaries do not suffer in the shops. They don't know the meaning of hunger, they are well-paid for the work of undermining and interfering with every attempt of the workers to unite one strike fr better condi- tions. “We must fight these enemies of the workers no matter who they are. We must all stand for unity. “We must unite immediatel: other ranks of all strikers on the picket line. Let us fight together and win our just demands. For- ward to unity over the heads of all those who stand in our way. “Through unity, through one united front strike we will secure better conditions in the dress trade. Rank and File Committee of In- ternational Strikers, For One Strike, One Picket Line, Under Rank and File Control.” All sections—Negro, youth, women, dressmakers. “A huge mass meeting of all etec—reported on the progress of the AMUSEMENTS THE THEATRE GUILD presents EUGENE O'NEILL'S Trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra Composed of 3 plays presented on liday HOMECOMING, THE HUNTED THE HAUNTED Commencing at 5:30 sharp. Dinner In- termission of one hour at 7. No Mats. GUILD THEA., 524 St., W. of B'way The Theatre Guild Presents REUNION IN VIENNA A Comedy .By ROBERT E. SHERWOOD ‘, THEA, 45th Martin Beck sr. e@"s Ave. Eve. 8:40 Mats. Thurs.Sat.2:40 COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW By With ELMER RICE PAUL MUN} Capaiy = Soviet Russia’s First Talkie! ROAD TO LIFE DRAMA OF RUSSIA’S “WILD CHILDREN” (Titles In English) SCAMEO 4una St. & Bway Now 7) Th Ww. 4 . Plymouth Fittrware at sat, 256 By JOHN Al in Workers School 35 E. 12th St. “STEEL” (A PLAY IN THREE ACTS) WEXLEY (Author of the Last Mile) Direction of ROBERT ROSSEN Played by Professional Cast Iso First Public Exhibition MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE’S Remarkable Photographs of Steel Production the U.S.S.R. and Other Industrial Centers Webster Hall, 11th St., bet. 3rd & 4th Aves. AUSPICES:—Workers School and Daily Worker February 17th and 18th at 8:30 p.m. Tickets On Sale At: Workers Bookshop 48 E, 12th St. Admission—$1, 75c, 50c Mozart on this program. Myra Hess, will play the Brahms Concerto in D minor at the Philharmonic concerts Saturday night and Sunday after- noon, The program will also include Workers! Do the places binders are urged to att ome phase of the struggle like the | Pr ae ae paacnine” Prolec Muehne, German - tiiumphs of the Soviet Union, the |Mczart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik re Vi ; Mitiescr cat chee renee arias 5 : bape and Strauss’ Till Bulenspiegel. At where you spend Sa CIT RIS aT needle strike, Harlan miners and the | ®! play in English. will be rehearsed Scotisboro frame-up. ee brad medion uu rahe) your money Al) German and English speakir i : vert! te e 3 al Pre ra Wopitera are invited Foe ee iste ceratintions in_|thoven and in Brooklyn the Weber advertise in the whe West Bronx ranch of the ¥. ciuding the Workers Book Shop, 60|CVerture to “Oberon”. Worker? * Trent Mts a ‘The RKO Manhattan and Bronx — 1) West Mt. Hden 1, 13th St. and the John Reed Club, i AN members and 6 ws stn gt theatres, including the Coliseum, ASK THEM 0 DOI m shia eae \ _| Fordham, Chester, Royal, 81st ond Whe N,V. Disteiet HS.U. will hold 58th St., will have “Trapped In a Sub- A mass ineeting at Irving Plaza Hall BLADDER WEAKNESS? marine”, as an extra screen attra: SI Peth Street und Isving Place, A." A. BEMIS, ccelding sensations, treaaias pemags bask. Heller, editor of Soviet Rursis Today Saniat Miay: ‘Preveribed by doctors ter ener 198 |t0n Wednesday to Friday. On the will speak on "The Rising Standard years Sold by drogetsy, same program, Lew Ayres in “Heaven of Living in the Soviet Union,” All workers invited, i osh Branch FS. vill have an ops membership meet- at their new headquarters, 267 Echgnectady Ave, at 8 pm, snes \4 phe Bast Plat FoR SLADDER cAIARRES On Earth”, will be the screen feature. Teh Four Mills Brothers, well ; known on the radio, are now appear- ing in person at the 86th St. Theatre, PA Daily, qWorker 50 E. 13th St., N. Y. THE WESTERN WORKER RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 Name Oty .. A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West BUILD IT! 26 Issues $1 SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c Slate cccsccee cone Western Worker Campaign Committee 1164 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, Calif. CHICAGO, II. Kentucky. | League, Relief, and the International Labor Defense. . CLEVELAND, Ohio, ae} Feb. strike at a meeting of the Central) | Strike Committee yesterday. It was) | decided that the settlement commit- tee should begin to make settlements | in shops whre the bosses will concede | to the demands of the strikers, Over a hundred bosses have applied for | settlement. The settlement commit- | tee has taken up headquarters in | eleven rooms at 799 Broadway. 17.—A | Workers in Leading Cittes Protest Murder of Simms Feb. 17._The Communist Party and the | Young Communist ‘League are calling a mass protest meeting |at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. on Friday, Feb. 19th to protest the BAY of Comrade Harry Sims in This mass protest meeting is en- ; memorial meeting to commemorate |dorsed by the Trade Union Unity | the death of our murdered Comrade the Workers International | Harry Simms will be held in Cleve- Jand on Friday, Feb. 19th at the Slovian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair. The Young Communist League has already prepared a series of anti- war meetings for th coming Friday but all these meetings have now been called off and the League will | work together with the Communist ‘party for this mass meeting to mob- ilize the workers of Cleveland agatnst the terror. The District Committee of the Party and the Young Communist League calls upon all Cleveland workers to answer this terror by (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) | | | || Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT | 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR AD Work Done Under Persona! Care ot DR. JOSEPHSON MELROSE DAIRY ‘YPORTARIAN RESTACKAN1 Comrades Will Always Find it Pleasant to Dine at Onr Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx (near 174th St. Station) TELEPHONE INTERVALE 9—9149 Rational Vegetarian Restaurant 199 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetarian food SOLLINS’ RESTAURANT 216 EAST 14TH STREET 6-Course Lunch 55 Cents Gegular Dinner 65 Cents RUSSIAN MEALS For Poor Pocketbooks KAVKAZ 332 E. 14th Street, N. ¥. ©. LUNCH 35c; DINNER 50c (For Comrades) Workers are members of FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION Part of receipts goes to I. L. De and Workers’ School RED STAR 49 EAST 12TH ST. ERROR EIN SENET NI TESS Friends of the Soviet Union presents MIDNIGHT SHOWING ROAD 2° LIFE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 11:30 P. M. CAMEO THEATRE 42nd ST. & BROADWAY Prominent Speakers Rerservations 50c., 75. 61.00 799 BROADWAY, Room 239., Stuyvesant 9-5562 aaa Second Series of Lectures On NEW RUSSIA H A. A. HELLER (The man who made possible the building of the Ofl Line from Baku to Batum) “The Rising Standard of Living in the Soviet Union” Thursday, Feb. 18, at 8 P.M. IRVING PLAZA 15th Street and Irving Place AUSPICES:—N, Y. DISTRIST F.S.U. See Who Advertises in Your Own Daily Save the Daily Worker! What is your Unit or Branch daing? HERE ARE SOME SAVE THE DAILY WORKER Attend the one nearest you; spend an enjoyable evening! Help your fighting paper! BRONX CONCERT & & PACKAGE PARTY proceeds to the Daily Worker—Fun Galore Sun., Feb. 21, 2 p. m. 3882—3rd Avenue, Bronx Section 15—Unit 11 AGmission 25 Cents BROOKLYN DAILY WORKER Building Fund Affair Sun., Feb. 28, 3 p. m. Finnish Hall, 764-40th St. REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM Section 7, Communist Party Admission 25 Cents BROWNSVILLE Brownsville Workers Club Concert and Vecherinka Sat. Feb. 20, 8 p. m. 118 Bristol Street All proceeds DAILY WORKER Good Program LONG ISLAND __ Concert and Dance Daily Worker and Kentucky Sun., Feb. 21, 2 p. m. Finnish Hall 109-26 UNION HALY. STREET Jamaica, Long Island iat Good Program HICKSVILLE, LI INTERNATIONAL Singing Contest and Dance Daily Worker and Kentucky Sun., Feb. 21, 2-p. m. Ukrainian Hall, 57 Broadway Hicksville, Long Island Section 9—Unit 2 and 3 Report all Daily Worker Affairs to this column Tel. 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