The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1932, Page 1

a PROTEST FEB. 22 AGAINST HUNGER AND WAR--ALL OUT TO UNION SQ. 12; 30--MARCH TO RUTGERS SQ. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central a (Section of the Communist International) @atered ac accond-clacs atter at the Pust Office Vol. IX, No. 44 at New York, N. Y¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 ‘NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932 CHINESE RED ARMY IS TIGHTENING ITS NET AROUND CITY OF HANKOW Chinese Soldiers and Workers at Shanghai Defeat Kuomintang Efforts to Betray Defense Japanees Removing Nationals from Yangtze Valley Cities As Fury of Chinese ~ Masses Japanese civilians Yangtze Valley cities before the victories ad- vance of the Chinese Red Army and the grow- ing mass anti-imperialist movement. The Chi- nese Red Army continues to tighten its net]. around Hankow, important strategic and industrial Central Martial law, declared by the Kuomintang mili- China citv. Grows are fleeing from the tarists in Hankow is being savagely avvlied against the work- ers who are rallving to the support of the Chinese Red Army. A Shanchai disnetch to the New York Times reports: “Fifty Jonanese fleetne for sofety »-- ~ from Hankow arrived in Shanghai today be.md for Japan. They re- ported the Chinese Communist forces were tightening their lines around Hankow, that anti-Japanese sentiment was rnnuing high there nnd that 350 Japanese sailors hed been landed to protect the Japanese concession.” In Shanghai, the Chinese soldiers and workers defended the Chapei section have defeid the ultimatum of the Japanese that the Chinese forces should withdraw from the city, leav- ing it in the hands of the Japanese end other imperialists. The Kuo- mintang leaders vainly attempted to betray the struggle and to induce the soldiers of the Nineteenth Route Army to withdraw from the city. That they failed in this traitorous attempt shows clearly the strength of the revolutionary mass movement and its influence upon large sections of the Nanking and Canton troops. This is further confirmed by a Ge~ neva dispatch which states: “In a published summary of a telegram from the Japanese Consul General at Shanghai the Chinese Nineteenth Route Army is repre- sented as containing numerous Communist elements and being at odds with Nanking and the Mayor of Shanghai and a danger to every one” (of the imperialists!) The same dispatch states that the Nanking butchers of Chinese work~ Tour A.F.ot L. ers “share | the Japanese apprehen- sions” over the situation at Shanghai and have refused to permit the use of Nanking as an aerial base against the Japanese. U. S. Troops Attacking Revolutionary Masses Another Shanghai dispatch to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 80 Year Old Negro, Once Slave, Joins Communist Party “I am 80 years old, and was born a. slave. Have been working for my present boss for 18 years. He is @ rich man. ‘I live in the base- ment and fire the furnace to keep the boss warm. I have to cet up at 4 o'clock every morning. For this I get 50 cents a week. I have two other jobs, working one hour per week on each one at 25 cents. So I have $1 a week to live on, and I board myself. I heard of the movement that fights for better conditions for the workers, and I joined the Com- munist Party. I wish every worker would see like I do and fight the bosses.’ From a Negro Worker in North Carolina. Locals for Mooney Coliseum Meet NEW YORK.—Tens of thousands of rank and file American Federa- tion of Labor members in New York will be reached by 100 speakers, mob- ilized by the local Intérnational La- bor Defense to visit A. F. of L. locals in preparation for the great Mooney defense meeting to be held February 24.in the Coliseum. 25,000 workers are expected to be present to demand the freedom of. Mooney on the 15th anniversary of his frame-up sen- tence. Mooney’s message recently sent to the LL.D. on behalf of the Kentucky miners will be particularly stressed in the visits to the A. F, of L. locals. In this telegram Mooney stated to the American working class: “Your hopes for freedom lie in unfted work- ing class action. Today it is the Kentucky miners; yesterday the miners of Pennsylvania; the textile workers in Gastonia in 1929; the brutal master class murder of Sacco and Vanzetti; the lumber barons bu- ried alive*in the Walla Walla prison 9 Industrial Workers of the World; 15 years ago Mooney and Billings were sentenced to death; tomorrow it will be other valiant workers fight- ing in defense of their rights.” Supports Kentucky Miners Mooney further declared in his te- Jegram: “Workers, unite, fight for the Kentucky miners—you must not let these brave soldiers of the class war be slaughtered.” The mass meeting on February 24, will be held simultaneously with 16 other meetings in the New York dis- trict. All will be held during the period set aside by the. L. D. as Frederick Douglass Week, in honor of the great Negro fighter for lib- erty. Demand Scottsboro Freedom Side by side with the demand for Mooney’s immediate freedom will be the call to liberate the 9 Scottsboro boys. The mother of one of them, Mrs. Viola Montgomery, has expres- sed eagerness to speak in the mass meeting at which 25,000 New York workers will attend at the Coliseum. Among the speakers will be Ben Gold @ leader of the striking Needle Trade Industrial Union, and of the masses of other needle trade workers now on the picket line;. J. L. Engdahl, National Secretary of the I. L. D, and Robert Minor, Widen Powerful Mooney Fight As is well known to hundreds of thousands of workers in America to- day, Mooney was sentenced to death February 24, 1917. Demonstrations internationally, begun by workers in Leningvad, forced the hand of pres- ident Wilson to commute the sen- tence to life imprisonment. Now, in face of the smoke screen issued by Walker and other demagogues, it is More than ever necessary for the working class to make a powerful and concerted drive to tear open the gates that enclose Mooney and set him free. The fight for Mooney is also the fight for the 9 Negro Scotts- boro Boys and the terror now raging in Kentucky. “CITY eo 10N SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! RUSH FUNDS TO 50 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK CITY! “Price i Cents sn Delay Is Dangerous! Declare Canadian Com-DRESS STRIKE RECORDS Rush Funds to Save Daily Worker! Workers all over the country are gathering their forces to push the Daily Worker Emergency Drive. From across the country in Pasade- na, California, the Pasadena Friends of the Daily Worker Group reports that all the funds brought in by this club’s collection box will be turned in to the Daily Worker. We welcome the aid of the Pasa- dena group, we welcome the self- sacrificing efforts of the thousands * of other workers to save their paper. But we must repeat our warning that the actual financial results of the drive are so far not enough to keep the Daily Worker from sus- pension. The drive cannot sineteil unless at least $1,200 comes in every day from now on. Ye' Last Thursday on Yesterday only $6' Workers! Rush Funds, save t what do we find? lv $815.67 came in. 05.30 came in. Delay is dangerous! the Daily Worker! The bosses are going ahead with the plots to crush the revolutionary workers of China and to crush the workers’ and peasants’ Soviet Union We must be swift to answer. The Daily Worker must rally the work- ers to fight the bosses’ starvation, terror and murder. Yet the Daily Worker is at this by lack of funds. very moment tied The Daily Worker finds itself at this very moment in danser of being cial difficulties. gagged by finan- Rally to support your paper that leads the struge! e in all the work- ers’ battles, to free class war pris- oners, to fieht wace cuts, to fight for fight the bosses’ RUSH FUNDS unemployment insnrance, to war plots. TODAY TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. munist Party Illegal; 8 Leaders Get 5 Years Eac h| TORONTO, Canada, Feb. 19 —The appeal against conviction of the eight Communist leaders arrested last year in an effort to smash the growing Communist movement of Canada been dismissed and the Communist Party declared an unlawful taken to serve five-year sentences A deputation from the Eastern to Ottawa on Monday with resoluti senting a membership of 170,000 workers and A. F. of L. trade unions, and over will demand the repeal of Section 98 ssociation. The comrades were will go , Tepre- Canada repeal conference ions from 765 0 6,000 individual signatures. " and the release of the eight leaders, the end of deportation and anti-labor laws. In the meantime the terror is being intensifie deputation of unemployed t> the Quebr up and arrested. Workers! Canada! of the ruling class of Cana”> against your mighty protest heard! Show your solidarity Protest against this latest outrage! ec provincial with the revolutionary workers of inst the attack Make the Canndian working class! 10 Guatemalan Execution at Hand ot Fascist Ten militant working class lead- ers are facing death sentences in Guatemala, before a fascist “Trib- unal Militar,” accused of sedition, | rebellion and treason, A wave of | white terror has swept the coun- try under the iron grip of Jorge | Ubico, a lackey of American perialism. | More than 150 workers are in | jail, being brutally tortured by | ,Ubico’s henchmen, because they | dared to protest against the starva- tion conditoins in which the Gua- teinalan ‘masses are forced to live, oppressed and doubly exploited by the ‘nafive landlords and imperial- | tst_ enterprises. Hundreds of homes of Indian peas- ants andicity workers (if s hut made | of, strawvand sticks can be-called a home) have been rai by the blood- thirsty, secret police, Specially organ- ized by the murderer, Ubico, in his attempt to crush the resistance of the masses, as'the crisis deepens and hundreds. of thousands are facing | actual starvation. | The brutal attack on the Gommu- nist Party of Guatemala by the fas- cist government of Ubico, will not destroy the revolutionary movement | of the Guatemalan, masses that are rapidly realising the necessity of a continuous struggle against the tyr- anny of the Wall Street puppet. American imperialism has a firm grip on Guatemala, having over $50,- | 000,000 invested. Nearly all the rail- roads are owned by Wall Street; the | public utility companies are owned by | American capitalists. Many Amer- | ican oil companies have grabbed up the most valuable oi] lands. | ‘The United Fruit Co. owns 141,000} acres of land and nearby 4 quarter of the railroads. In the crushing of the uprising of | the workers and peasants Wall Street | had an importent band, strengthen-| ing the maorderous fascist govern- ment by sending gunboats to Guate- | i | | “Unemployment Insurance” in Name-- =: Starvation Program in Fact Report of the Interstate Commis: In behalf of the millions unemployment, we vigorously of six states. This plan is the direct antithesis to the plan proposed by the Unemployed Council in the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. Whereas the Workers Bill provides for the safe- UNION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS — | on the conference will take place, 66 E. 4th St.; St,; Office Wo1..ers’ Union, Friday, ‘League, Thursday, Feb. 25. within a few days. PREPARE FOR TUUL CONFERENCE ‘The organizers and other functionaries of the revolutionary unions and industrial leagues have received the call for the T. U. U. L. con- ference with great enthusiam. Th2 unions are already in full swing, preparing for the conference that will take place Saturday, Feb. 27th, | 2p, m,, at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave., N. Y. C. The following is a schedule of special union membership meetings where a lactis Marine Workers’ Union, Wednesday, Feb. 24th, 140 Broad St.; Metal Workers League, Friday, Feb. 26th, Place; Shoe Workers’ Union, Thursday, Feb. 25th, Manhattan Lyceum, Furniture Workers’ Union, Thursday, February 25th, 108 E. 14th St.; Transport Workers League, Thursday, Feb. 25th, 5 E. 19th Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Feb, 26th, 242 E. 14th St.; Printing Workers League, Thursday, Feb. 25th, 5 E. 19th St.; Photographers The, meeting of the other unions and leagues wil] be announced sion on Unemployment Insurance. of unemployed and part time workers and of the entire working class which is affected by condemn and denounce the so- called “Unemployment Insurance Plan,” embodied in the report of the commission composed of representatives of governors PUSAN IAS NE WR Th CINE guarding of the living standards of the masses, the Governors’ plan is | designed to stabilize and legalize a standard that has been reduced to the lowest possible starvation level. Although one of the main purposes of this plan is t- pacify and create illusions among those now suffering as a result of unemployment, the TWELVE MILLION WHO ARE NOW TOTALLY UNEMPLOYED AND THE ‘TEN MILLION WHO NOW SUBSIST ON PART TIME EARNINGS ARE COMPLETELY EXCLUDED FROM ANY BENEFIT WHATSOEVER. The will become unemployed one year aft- er (and if) this plan is enacted into a law. employed Councils for unemployment insurance equal to full wages, this fraudulent scheme proy:des that even those few who come under its pro- visions shall receive a beggarly pit- tance of not + .re than $10 per week for ten weeks of the year, Thus the plan of the governors intends to es- tablish a standard of living based upon a maximum of less than $2 per miserable dole provided for by this | plan covers only those workers who | tion on February 22nd, Washington's As against the demands of the Un- | Statement of the National Committee, Unemployed Councils of U. 8. On the| the widest, masses would be put on | week. This means that by this pien a level of existence which is even less than the present miserable charity basis. Whereas. the Workers’ Unemploy- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FTVED Workers ve {mala and landi down th olutioni Prote: militant Down with the the fascist 2 against the Conference for Women’s Day { 0 Women’s Groups Have Del Irving wom: Working from unemr from lang tions have been munist Party, D en from block comr The mobiliz of masses of women for ac pation in the dem March 8 will be the the conference. March 8 must day of struggle of the entire w The now carrying on a 1 against the sweat-; forced upon them in the indust ‘The womer March, Demor Hunger and War on Feb. 2 NEW YORK.—The United Front, | of all workers’ organizations calls. upon all workers from shops, unem-) ployed - councils, workers ex-service- | men, the striking dressmakers in- cluding the rank and file members of the A, F. L. all unions and work- ers’ organizations to rally in masses to the mighty anti-war demonstra- Birthday. The deinonstration will arsemble at Union Square at 12:30 p.m. There it will be joined by an- other demonstration called by the | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, and Down Town Unemployed Coun- cil for 10:30 at, Whitehall and South Streets, near the Japanese consulate. This demonstration will join up at Union Square with the central rally, and will proceed jointly to Rutgers Square. All workers’ organizations are requested to come out with their banners and signs. Workers! ‘The Japanese imper- ; the Chine strate A sage ia sist ‘bandits now talk op: about the division of Chin: | ful butchery Shanghai an the United s importan' perialisis with the United Stato; are the war further in same tir barding ("> ight- s in 1 by ending to all panese im- of the Q azainst the Chinese masses, for lootin: and division of China is on! must defend the Chinese Revolution! Rally in masses!’ Demand immediate withdrawal of all U. S, armed forces from China. The, most, victous war provocations against the Soviet Union, our social- ist fatherland is going on at the same (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | | } | i} | We | x, | | t idest | ci- | back window and escaped to the hills. of | Three gun thugs are in Harlan Hos- | | Kentucky | spiracy, | to open the door of his } | miners is welcomed by NEW VICTORIES; LABOR CONF. RENCE ON TODAY Mass Unity SET SER on Union Square Tuesday; Settled Shops Total 70 YORK, Feb. le spirit and th iking dressmakers, late di to the demands of t tee yest nde mi 20. the uncon- rganization of bosses capitu- e united front strike hoi Nhile the settlements s to negotiate and meantime the l-out con- to sell out the work- h attempts at Faced by more apace, In new shops joined strike. the with the lid blown } f.the se nger gang went, despera One of to work tryir hte ers. tri ¢ workers. The pell-mell through their and the workers were ,| chased out to join the fake strike. 4 aut to join the fake strike these ent OF | workers refused! They banded them- into a trap, had re “| selves together in one solid body and the aa hed straight to the headquarters the Sc Thun. of the jered a gang to Front Strike. nee (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) GUN THUGS SHOOT UP _ AND BURN KY. STRIKER’S HOME; 3 SENT TO HOSPITAL Miner Escapes After 3 Auto Loads of Harlan Thugs Try To Arrest Him on Criminal Syndicalism Charge eo PINEVILLE, Feb. 19. —- Three automobile loads of breast-plated Harlan gun thugs early esterday morning burned the home of Plez riking Harlan miner, to prevent the to!strikers from photographing hundreds of bul- jlet holes that the gun thugs had prev yusly torn in the walls of in an atte es differ with their mpt to mu to when rated the they Turner’s machine hen the se | found that Tu set fire to hi dence of the gun thugs returned and r had escaped they roy evi« us fire. deputies, one of whom red Harry Simms. ng to Brush Creek the gun thug: for reinforce ed out of the h besun by deputized | s when they ordered Turner | and kill any to protect the gun heats ge that who would izers. The Brush Creek military for- in preparation h on the gun thug this and are mere- submit to calism charges r to hi murdered and ba ed to g would United Mine Workers Head Admits Strike Breaking Role VILI Te he Uni representati has openly ¢ ir deputized thu st the OX ine ed Workers and its itself with the ls in an attempt ) organization tional Relief. nn. es re ccal operators, the to break the present miners’ land ir relief organi: Qn. This w made clear in a si breaking ment by James M.} Shellhorse, the representative of the United Mine Workers of America, as hed in the Knoxville 1 of February 16th ery organization which is gen- ie uinely for the relief of the strik the peor Wor lan County, and 'y Broughton, Bell tly friendly to the f America, the Associated Charit < Shellhorse de= and protected by the la ‘se Shellhorse, sien eo ayaa I gunthug. terror will not tolerate any ners, the Na+ which is attempting to and the Work- ief have offi- letters of en= breaking ac- { of the United “Worke rs, which the previous brase nly sold out the miriers of organizations,” Shellh ling that the officials of Bell a Harlan counties have end “relief” campaign and are vely | yy aiding him in his strikebreaking | i work. " P ie the giniies sna the itnneeens | ment of the Unite lynch mob when he said that the) the omcials who writers’ delegation did not come to} <4 4 aid the miners and that the assault|“"* ° “trom an attempt of coal on Waldo Frank and Allan Taub was (CONTINUED ON PAGE #iVm) 5)