The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central ily, Worker Orders of the Communist International) SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! RUSH FUNDS TO 50 EAST 138th STREET, NEW YORK CITY! ——— Eatered as accomd-elase at New York, N. ¥., 7 ol. IX, No, 43- der the act of March 3, 1879 matter at the Post Office ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents = — TRY TO DENY KY. MINERS RIGHT TO BELONG TO N.M.U. Fascist Organization of the Unemployed ‘HE “block-aiding” system—the latest scheme of the Hoover-Gifford committee for enforcing slow starvation among the unemployed masses and shutting the mouths of workers who fight against it—IS NOTHING MORE OR LESS THAN THE INTRODUCTION OF FASCIST METHODS TO STOP MASS etree Al Smith and Hoover see eye-to-eye on this question, The scheme is to organize the unemployed under the supervision of the police department,the American Legion, capitalist organizations like the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, etc., to force weekly contributions from fam- ilies where there is a member employed for a pooled sum which is to be paid to a stool-pigeon called a “block chairman,” under the guise of “relieving the misery of the neediest family.” This is organizing the unemployed against their own interests, It is intended by this method to put the unemployed strictly under the control of the bosses and their various agencies, to keep out the Un- employed Councils. Especially is the scheme directed against the Com- munists who are the only section of the working class that organizes their fellow workers for militant struggle and expose the reactionary schemes of Wall Street-Hoover government and its local, county and state agencies. The block committees of the Unemployed Councils have now the task of organizing the unemployed to fight this latest fascist scheme at every point. The Anti-Imperialist Struggle in China {Bate stubborn defense of Shanghai by poorly armed and equipped Chi- nese troops has confounded the Japanese general staff and amazed the capitalist military experts of the whole world, The resistance to the imperialist invasion of Manchuria, which springs from the ranks of the workers and peasants themselves, and which must be clearly differentiated from the bombast and traitorous pretentions of the militarist, has likewise upset all the forcasts of the imperialist military experts. The Chinese today are a people in arms—led by the Chinese Com- munist Party and the Chinese Red Army. This is not always true in the strict organizational sense but it is true in that the heroic resistance around Shanghai to the Japanese advance is not led by Kuomintang— the official government of China—but by the workers and students who support the anti-imperialist revolution in China led by the Communist Party and the Soviet government of China—now including more than 80,000,000 workers and peasants in its territory. Japanese imperialism and its 50,000 to 70,000 troops with all modern equipment, supported actively or passively by the other imperialist powers headed by America, has suffered disgraceful defeat at the hands of the Chinese forces. This is clear to anyone with a smattering of military knowledge. ‘The Japanese government was sure of the support or neutrality of its fellow imperialists, but it did not umderstand what, it means to meet AN ARMED PFOPLE LED IN THEIR FIGHT FOR LIBERATION BY: THE COM- MUNIST PARTY ALL SUPPORT TO THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Pea) ° li © P. ® Stabilizing Pauperism is a new crop of proposals to “relieve” unemployment. re being brought forward by the various capitalist agencies, or Roosevelt's unemployment commission, and the confer- ence of governors of some six states, because the number of unemployed is increasing—while relief funds are decreasing. ber of totally unemployed is over the 12,000,000 mark today. state and “relief” organization reports a decrease in the funds for feeding the vast army of hungry and starving workers and their families. The widely government has blown up with a loud bank, The emphasis now is on “economy.” . Republican, democrat and socialist parties are united in declaring for “a reduction in government expenditurés’—bow servilely as usual to the wishes of the big bankers. The mass starvation in the United States, which exceeds anything ever hinted at by the official statisticians of unemployment and part time work at reduced wages, is being used to boost the fortunes of this or that capitalist politician. This applies with especial force to the ‘unemployment insurance” scheme proposed by the commission appointed by the governor of New York State. All these schemes have one thing in common—THEY MAKE NO PROVISION FOR THE MORE THAN 12,000,000 UNEMPLOYED WORKERS NOW IN THE UNITED STATES. These proposals are to deal with “future emergencies.” The way in which they intend to deal with them is a question which the Daily Worker will take up in detail in a series of articles, the first of which will be published in na early issue. Today we warn the working class that all these miserable schemes but one purpose and that is to confuse workers and divert their n from the struggle for federal workers’ unemployment insurance at full w paid for by the bosses and their government, At the same time these proposals, like that of the New York gov- ernor’s. com: ‘ion, providing only for a maximum of $10 per week for ten weeks of unemployment, are a brazen attempt to give official govern- ment endorsement to starvation wages now paid throughout the country and to put unemployment insurance on the basis of these starvation wages. But even on this starvation level no provision is made for the ex- isting army of more than 12,000,000 jobless workers and their families. To qualify even fer t pauper standard of unemployment relief— YOU HAVE TO HAVE A JOB. This is the kind of fakery we have to expose and fight. A. F. L. AGENT WHO JAILED FOOD WORKERS NOW HEED FOR TRYING TO SEUL STRIKE FOR 1,09 / NEW YORK. Feb. 19—Irvine “Enston, “Tobor faker and business agent of Local 302, A. F. L. C-feteria Werkevs’ Union and leader in the injunc- tion fight avainst the Food Workers’ Industrial Union last year in the Zelzreen Cafeteria, and who was respontible for sending hundreds of our militant workers to jail and be beaten up, was last night arrested for ex- tortion and held without bail before Judve Gottlieb in the Night Court. Epstein called a fake strike at the Seward Cafeteria, 149th Stre-* 3rd. Avenue. a "t and After the strike was called. and a picket line thrown around the cafeteria, he entered the shop and demanded 41,000 from the boss on | the condition that he would take the picket line off, arrested for extortion. Today his case was heard before Judge. Mogulesky in the 6th District Magistrate Court. He was defended by the attorney for the Cafeteria Bosses’ Association and held for $2,500 bail for further hearing. Workers can now see the utter corruption of the whole machinery of the A. I. of L., and especially this arch labor faker who is responsible for continuing the injunction campaign against the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. He was promptly ® MASS UNITY MEET AT COOPER UNION HAILS UNITED FRONT STRIKE 57 Shops Settle; Mass Picket All Shops at Noon Today tt BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—Today is the last day to elect delegates to the labor conference in support of the United Front Dress Strike to be held to- morrow at the strike headquarters, 559 Sixth Ave. All unions, leagues, workers’ clubs and fraternla organizations are urged to be represented in this conference. 5 ew) ie NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—The Schlesinger gang was thrown into open confusion yesterday as masses of workers called out | by the International swung enthusiastically into the ranks of the striking dressmakers under the leadership of the Rank and File United Front Strike Committee. The desertions hastened frantic efforts on the part of the@ company union officials to save the sell-out conspiracy from complete collapse. While Schlesinger’s maneuvers in the interests of the sweatshop bosses were being shaped, rank and file members of the International were holding a huge mass meeting yester- day afternoon in the Cooper Union. Masses of International workers cheered the call for the united front. Long before 2 p. m. the Interna- tional members came to the head- All workers are called upon Anti-War Demonstration to Be Held on February 22nd quarters of the United Front Strike, 859 Sixth Ave. At 2 o'clock the workers moved out of the headquar- ters, where they were joined by more International members, The proces- sion mrached with banners past the International headquarters, where the union officials locked the doors in a frantic attempt to keep the workers from joining the demonstra- tion. Despite these moves of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) by the United Front aE ments Committee to prepare to turn out in. mass to the two anti-war mass demonstrations on February 22nd. onstration will gather at Union Square, Feb. 22nd, at 12:30 p. m. and march from there to Rutgers Square. One dem- The other will assemble at Whitehall and South¢- Streets at 10:30 a m. and will march Workers, don’t be fooled by the fake advertised “public works program” of Wall Street-Hoover | Geneva disarmament conference. This conference, as all previous conferences is in reality war preparation confer~ ences against the Soviet Union. Work~ to Union Square. These deimonstra- tions are arranged by the united front of workers’ organizations including | the Communist Party, Young Com- | ! Our Socialist Fatherland ts in munist League, Trade Union Unity | °S |Council and all union and leagues, |4nger of imperialist Intervention. the Workers’ Exservicemen, Teague |The imperialist powers are carrying i on war against the Chinese masses. of Struggle for Negro Rights and Na: aie ab dis. viet beta: ofthe tine many others. Several local unions perialist slaughter. of the American Federation of La-| All out to demonstrate February 22, bor are included in the United Front. | to Union Square, 12:30 p. m. Report That Rising Mass Movement Threatens to Overthr owGov't in Japan ene Diplomats Admit Japanese Tmper- ialists Are Suppressing News of Rev olutionary Struggle Chinese Mass Resistance Grows; Boycott Food | Supplies for Japanese Warships _ On ¥ angtze - BULLETIN American capitalists are warned in a con- fidential report that the revolutionary mass moyement is developing in Japan on such a scale as to threaten the overthrow of the Japanese imperiailst government. The con- fidential report, which is sent out by Whaley Eaton Service, under date of Feb. 16, 1932, stat “COMMUNISM IN JAPAN: Reports are current in European diplomatic circles that Japan is suppressing news domestic Communist disorders, and that these d'sorders are so grave as to threa‘en' the stability ~ - Pe F * pepeiches tem, shanghal ses. (> U4 Birthday of Piatn'tsky Grected by CommunistParty terdry also re“‘ccted the crit'cal condition of Japanese capitalism. -A Shanghai d'spatch sta‘ed: “Military circles here are be- ginning to wonder how many ad- ditional divisions Japan DARE send to Shanghai without calling on her The following “cable was sent to Comrade Piatnitsky by the Commun- ist Party U.S.A. on the occasion of his 50th birthday, | Pianitsky. Comintern, Moscow. Central Committee CPUSA sends 's peacetime army strength is seventeen divisions, or 220,000 men. Therefore, the dispatching of those divisions to Shanghai WOULD REDUCE JAPAN'S HOME GARRISON FORCES TO A PERI- LOUS MINIMUM.” (emphasis our’s Daily Worker) ® ° ° ‘The Japanese have offered a pro- (CONTINUED ON PAGK hy mapeaed ‘ heartiest revolutionary greetings to the firm consistent Bolshevik leader of the Communist International on the celebration of Fiftieth birthday we wish you many years of fruitful services for the world party. Central Committee Comparty USA be sa Special TUUL Conference to Be Held February 27th The Executive Committee of the Trade Union Unity Council has decided to call a special conference of the Trade Union Unity League on February 27th, at 2 p. m., at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave, A main order of bus: will be the growing injunction menace. Th growth of the TUUL unions, leagues and opposition groups, the in- creasing number of strikes led by the TUUL, the deepening of the struggle ageinst unemployment, the rising discont within the ranks of the American Federation of Labor unions, makes it absolutely neces- sary to call such a conference. The agenda for the conference is as follows: 1. Address of the National Buro of the TUUL—by William Z. Foster. 2. The conditions of the workers, employed and unemployed, and our tasks. The fight against injunctions—by Joseph Zack. 3. Report on organization.—by John Steuben. 4, Discussion. 5. Resolutions. 6. Election of TUUC officers. ‘The call sent out to the unions gives details in regards to repre- sentation as well as preperations for the conference. @ SHERIFF OF BELL COUNTY DECLARES UNION ILLEGAL; | ALL COUNTIES TO FOLLOW Doris Parks Gives Program of Communist | Party in Kentucky Court; Try to Use U.M.W. | Negro Misleadesr to Break Strike OPERATORS PROPOSE LAW TO S OF MINERS OUT COAL THROW THOUSAN | OF THE INDUSTRY Make Solid the Ranks of New Members with a Stronger ‘Daily’! RUSH FUNDS! Workers all over the country are gathering to protest the bos- ses’ brutal murder of Harry Simms Seven of the Kentucky finers who brought Harry Simms’ body at the Coliseum Tuesday Nite joined the Communist Party. These are the answers of the workers to the bosses’ murders. These and more answers like them will smash the bosses’ terror wave. Who will keep the new recruits to- gether? Who will train the nev members? Teo the Daily Worker, the work- crs’ only English nationwide, daily paper, falis tae task of rallying ever more and more workers and of training the workers for leader- ship. Yet at this period, when the flask is greater than ever before, tre Daily Worker is threatened, by f'nancial difficulties, with suspen- sien. The Daily Worker Emergency und Drive is not going forward f--t enough to overcome the dan- ger of suspension. Qnly $713.18 came in Tuesday. This money represents heroic sacrifices on the part of many workers. But many thousands of other workers are able to help and have been putting it off from day to day. To these workers we want again to state that the Daily Worker faces a real danger of sus- pensicn, not next month, but in the next few days. To these workers we want again to state that the Daily Worker must not be sus- nended, or even redced in size, in this critical period. To these workers. and to workers who have contributed in the past, we again rnveal to rush funds to save the Daily Worker for leadership in the struggle against the bosses’ wage cuts and murder campaign. SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! ra Terorr Fails to Stop Relief Distribution to | Starving Strikers; Workers Must Spur Aid — KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 18.—The Workers International Relief was informed that the Knoxville Red Cross officials, accompanied by gun thugs, went to the railroad depot today and demanded that the freight clerk hand over to the Red Cross food and clothing that had been shipped to the W. I. R. from New York. There is no confirmation of this but the source of the information generally reliable. STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 18— Answering the call of the Com- munist Parity and the Young Com- | munist League, hundreds of work- ers jammed the railroad station here at 9.21 a. m. long before the | funeral train carrying the body of | Harry Simms arrived. clenched fists tionale. Then the crowd marched in @ sponateous demonstration through the center of the town past the city hall to the Workers Center which they jaiamed. There they were addressed by Ford, Peska, Dominic and Wofsey. | Twelve applications for the Com- munist Party were made and many volunteered to distribute jeaflets advertising the Simms sang the Interna- | A wreath was placed on the cof- | fin and a member of the Y. C. L. jumping onto the platform of the | funeral car, ‘addressed the crowd | and as the train pulled out the | memorial meeting tonight at 49 entire crowd of about 300, with Parific Street. PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 18.—Complete and | official illegality of the National Miners Union in Bell County, Kentucky, was ordered today by High Sheriff Broughton. Meetings of any sort, Union locals: are absolutely exceeding all those that have | iNevalizine of National Miners’ Union |in Bell County means that the union | will be iegalized by city and county governments throughout the 60-mile strike front This open fa eighty miles est point in the strike I. R. was evicted from the office building toduy und was forced to move into a four-room apartment real estate agent in Knox- ed to vent it of space despite hundreds of yacancics This attempt of the billionaire coal operators to drive the N. M. U. un- | derground is taking place simultan- eously with moves on their part to remould the United Mine Worke: f | America into an efficient st | breaking weapon | Leading strike leaders are being | approached every day by the U. M, | W. A. officials and offered bribes to | become organizers for that scab or- | Sanization. Every strike leader thus | approached has refused to even let |fakers finish their argument. So | devoted are miners to the N. M. U. |that locals in most sections meet two and even three times weekly, al- | though regular meetings are nor- | mally called for but once weekly. | Union meetings now encompass the entire social life of bitterly repressed miners. Six miners in Wells Mine Tennes- see have been fired for protesting to the superintendent against the mur- der of Harry Simms last Thursday and the N.M.U, local has called a meeting with the entire mine to strike it. Evictions of strikers is increasing throughout strike area. Eighteen miners and families in Pruden, Ken- tucky, are to have their furniture thrown on highway tomorrow. | tionablv nrecared bv this rew order. including meetings of National Miners prohibited and the army of Broughton’s gun thugs has been ordered to search for all secret union meetines and break them up. A new wave of terror, already taken place is unques- Unquestionably, too, the ren tents have been shipped into this section by the WIR but the number is_entirely tnadequate. Kettle Island mine in Bel! County owned by Ambassador Hackett hes increased jits gun thugs to 25, all armed with machine gune. The capitalist newspapers here are outdoing each other in misfepresent- ing the program of Communist Party as presented in Pineville courthouse yesterday by Doris Parks, W.LR. or- ganizer, jailed on criminal syndieal~ ism charges last week. Each outdid the other in misrepresenting what she had said before the 300 miners who jammed the court room. Eight column lines in the Knoxville papers reported her denouncing religion and the news stories had her calumniat- ing Christ, advocating the destruc- tion of the home, etc, The following is a brief resume of the actual proceedings in the court- house, where she had been brought from her cell for a hearing. When asked to take the oath she answered that she preferred to affirm instead. As can be expected, county attorney &§ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Party for Daily NEW YORK.—More units of the Party have rallied to the campaign to save the Daily Worker. Unit 409, Section 4, is giving a house party at 191 Lenox Avenue. 3rd floor, Saturday night, with all the recelpts going to the Daily, DRESS STRIKE FINANCE COM- MITTEE MEELIS TODAY. NEW YORK, Feb. 19. — The Fi- nance and Relief Comittee of the United Front Dress Strike will meet tonight at € p. m. at the headquarters of the Needle Trades ft, tut:ialUniom, 131 W. 28th St. A.F.L. Building Workers Vote for Unemployment Insurance By Unit No. 409 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 18.—The building la- borers union at a meeting Wednesday night unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing unemployment insurance calling on all American Federation of Labor unions to elect delegates to a local A. F. of L, conference to be held soon for unem- ployment insurance, ' 4 ae ee ee a ; r