The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1932, Page 1

Dail ~Edrs (Section of the Compmsintet Iatoratonal ) WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 7 second-class matter at the Pust Office ‘Vol TX, No. 46 .N. ¥. amder the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, ' TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932 aed frunict Party U.S.A. C/ SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! RUSH FUNDS TO 50 EAST NEW 13th STREET, YORK CITY! Voroshtlov Warns that White Guards, Imperialist Re Robbers Plan to Sieze Sovtet et Territory DRESS STRIKE DEMONSTRATION IN UNION SQUARE TODAY READERS HE DAILY WORKER asks the support of the workers throughout the country because it is the only nationwide English daily paper that gives the workers day to day leadership in the fight against starva- SPREAD UNITED FRONT AND SMASH SELL OUT DRESS STRIKERS URGE Carry On Picketing fing Despite. Legal Holiday; Picket All Shops Today at 7:30 A. M. Sehlesinger Conspiracy Exposed by United Front Strike Committee BULLETIN. MONTREAL, Que—The leaders of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union sold out 1,700 dressmakers to a 10 per cent wage out here Saturday when they announced that the fake strike called Thursday was called off. L. Fineburg, local labor misleader, declared that the union decided to accept the cut until conditions improved in the trade. Rank and file dressmakers in Montreal, in sending their greetings to the New York strikers. warned the dressmakers to repudiate the Schlesinger gang which is carrying on the same type of sellout in New York. Only by rallying to the United Front Strike will the dressmakers be able to defeat the Schlesinger ou iets . NEW YORK, Feb. 23, __While the Schles- inger clique is conferring with the bosses in order to put through a fake settlement and wage cut agreement, the rank and file of the dressmakers are mobilizing to continue the strugglé for union conditions over the heads of the bosses’ agents. The rank and file committee of 50 elected at the strikers’ unity mass meeting in Cooper Union is calling on all striking dressmakers to come in mass to the demonstration for one strike at Union Square today at 11¢ o'clock a. m. Leaders of this com-|on the line against any attempt of we of a ett Lda pea the bosses to utilize the legal holiday for uniting the ranks of! re dress- iaabers tan uniey Gn the Ditket lines| on cers eter See Were round the shops and against the | mittees of the Industrial Union were pees aR t : in the market to see that no one Belen ASree eae worked on the legal holiday. The Ticketing Despite Legal Holiday. | cettlement committee continued its Despite the legal holiday, there was| york and all other strike activities activity in the strike halls and on ae the picket line. The strikers were {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Thousands of Workers Roar ‘Hands Off China’ ‘Defend the Soviet Union’ One of the mightiest demonstrations New York ever saw. took place yesterday with a score of thousands of workers roaring in mighty cho- rus their determination to organize and strug- gle against the bloody Japanese war on the Chi- nese masses, for defense of the Soviet Union. The mass dem- onstration at Union Square followed by one of the most im- pressive mass parades and huge outpouring of the masses at Rutgers Square, was organized by a united front arrangements committee, representing the Communist Party, Young Com- munist League, Workers Ex-Service- men’s League, Trade Union Unity Council, Unemployed Councils, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and many others. About 20,000 workers filled Union Square which overflowed beyond the white dividing lines marked off by the police. At 12:30 the time the demonstration was called for, found the square filling up with many groups of workers still coming in. M. Scherer, national secretary of the Friends of hte Soviet Union, opened the meeting, and announced E. Levine, chairman of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and himself a former U. S, marine as chairman Party and Y. C. L. ‘Tom Mooney in his statement of the meeting. Great enthusiasm marked the meeting throughout, especially when Johannsen, speaking for the Marine | Workers’ Industrial Union, presented the banner given the revolutionary marine workers by the marine work- ers of Shanghai, China, and pledged that the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union would do everything possible to rally the-marine workers to refuse and stop the loading and shipment of arms and munitions against the Chinese masses, and the Soviet Union. A high point on the huge demon- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Members Attention! to the American working class de- clared that only the revolutionary working class mobilizing the rest of the workers would be able to free him and all other class war prisoners, In this respect, Mooney is right and therefore it is necessary that all Party and Y. C. L. members turn out in full force at the demonstration on Wednesday, February 24th, at Bronx Coliseum. We must make this one of the most imposing mass demonstrations that have ever been held in New York and thus crush the efforts of Mayor Walker to revive his political prestige which is stained with all kinds of crookedness and at the same time nullify the efforts of the Socialist Party to build up its organization by exploiting the name of 'Tom Mooney—the same Tom Mooney that they expelled from the Socialist Party in California be- cause of his radicalness. Popularize this mass demonstration in your shops and neighborhood and bring along as many workers as possible to the Bronx Coliseum. All Party and Y. C. L. members must assemble Wednesday morning at the Pennsylvania Station at 11 o'clock to greet Mother Mooney who is arriving to speak at the Bronx Coliseum under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, DISTRICT SECRETARIAT, Greet Mother Mooney Wednesday at Penn. Station at 11 A. M. All revolutionary workers are called upon to give Mother Moo- ney a mass greeting at the Penn- sylvania. Station,» Wednesday morning, at 11 o'clock, when she arrives, to speak at the monster demonstration at Bronx Coliseum under the auspices af the Inter- national Labor Defense. Tell your shop mates about it and bring them along also to the Bronx demonstration. RALLY TO FREE RENT STRIKERS Call Workers To Pack Court Room NEW YORK, N. Y.—The tenants on strike at 733 Arnow Avenue, Bronx, have issued a call to all workers to rally to the support of 8 workers ar- rested for their participation in the strike. The trial will take place Wed~- nesday, 10 a. m. at 181st and Boston Road. “Pack the court room” call the workers. The lawyer for the landlord de- manded on Sunday that the workers be held without bail. The fight put up by the workers and Beitenkant their lawyer, forced the judge to make their bail $500. The bosses lawyer protested saying the judge took the case too lightly. The judge reassured him. He said that he understood the seriousness of rent strikes to the landlord and would send all rent strikers and workers putting back evictions to days in jail. Mass pres- sure in the court will show the judge that the workers intend to carry on ‘their rent strikes and fight against the capitalist police and courts. DRIVE OFF THUGS IN METAL STRIKE Durable Strike Gains Strength NEW YORK. — Mobilized in one of the strongest picket lines cf their three-weeks-old strike against a lock. out, the workers of the Durable metal shop, 254 Canal St., on Saturday suc- cessfully beat off an attack by scabs, routing them completely. This was the answer of the workers to the threat of injunction, the hearing on which was postponed till next Wed- nesday. Many of the scabs are mem- bers of the American Legion, who adinitted being sent by that organi- zation to help break the strike. Others told of being sent as scabs by the Bowery Y. M. O..A. and various police precincts, Three of the workers on Saturday were arrested and are being framed up on charges of felonious assault because they dared to defend them- selves when attacked by the scabs. The strike, now in its fourth week, is being carried on with renewed vigor Following the spirited fight of last Saturday, the workers are making preparations to continue to picket with increasing militancy, determined to fight on until the boss is forced to recognize their shop committee and the Metal Workers Industrial -}League. All workers should come to the picket line this morning and show their solidarity with these heroic strikers, 50,000 Endorse Anti- War Conference NEW YORK, Feb, 21.— 20,000 workers at the Woman's Confer- ence yesterday and 30,000 workers at the Anti-War Conference to- day, enthusiastically endorsed the Friends of the Soviet Union anti- War and Support the Soviet Un- jon Conference to be held on Sun- day, March 13, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place at 10:30 a.m, “All. organizations, _ workers’ ‘clubs, unemployed councils — all shops and groups of worers—or- ganize to fight against the im- perialists’ plans to attack the Sov- jet Union — elect 2 delegates to this anti-war conference,” calls the F.S.U, ma 8 4 | 2 tion and the whole hunger system. The bosses know well that such a paper is a pow- erful weapon in the hands of the working class. Vern Smith, the Daily Worker reporter, is in jail in Kentucky. Young Harry Simms, who spread the “Daily” among the coal miners, was killed by the coal operators. The bosses fear the truth. Last Friday, the home of Turner, a coal miner, a subscriber to the Daily Worker, was burned to the ground by the coal bosses so that his bullet-riddled home should not remain as evidence of the murder and terror in Kentucky. The\ Daily Worker will not desert the workers’ battles in this most critical peried of bosses :\terror and starvation and of im- perialist slaughter. Neither can the work- ers desert their paper now in its present fin- ancial criss. A mnimum of $1,290 a day is needed to keep the paper going, $1,200 today, $1,200 tomorrow, and $1,200 for every day until the drive is completed. If you have not yet contributed, do so with no further delay. If you have already contributed, try to contribute again. Fight the bosses’ terror. Fight to keep the work- ers united. Rush funds to save the Daily Worker. Eisenstein, Soviet Film Director, Is Barred from U. S. NEW YORK~A report from Laredo, Texas, states that Sergei M. Eisenstein, well known Soviet film director who was making a movie in Mexico City, was re- fused admission to the United States at the border here by im- migration authorities. No reason was given for the exclusion, but the indications are that Eisenstein is charged with | | making a “political picture.” The | | Soviet movie director was given a visa by the United States consul in Mexico City, and had been in the United States before. Eisenstein was the director of the famous Soviet films “Potem- kin,” “Ten Days That Shook The World,” ete. ‘MOTHER OF TOM MOONEY SPEEDS ACROSS CONTINENT FOR MEETING BRONX COLISEUM TOMORROW NITE JAPANESE, :, TWARTED AT SHANGHAL, WREAK FURY ON CHINESE MASSES | Workers and Truck Farmers Shot Down Flee- ing from Homes, Fired by Japanese United! States Demands Nanking Send More Troops Against Chinese Red Army in Kiangsi Province NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Warning that “the White Guards supported by certain groups of imperialists are openly planning to seize Soviet territory in the Far East,” War Commissioner Klementi Voroshiloy yes- terday called upon the Soviet masses to be prepared to defend the workers’ fatherland. Voroshiloy’s call was issued on the eve of the 14th ry of the establishment of the Red Army. Kast and West, they are laying plans for intervention and pre- paring public opinion for an attack on the Soviets.” Voroshilov de- clared. “They are organizing bands of white guards for the attack.” Voroshiloy said that the Soviet masses will defend the slogan issued by Comrade Stalin, “We do not want a single foot of foreign soil, but we will not give up a single inch of our own.” ‘The entire Soviet Union celebrated the anniversary of the Red Army, Yoroshilov contrasted the hypocritical pacifist phrases of the im- perialists at the Geneva “disarmament” conference with the robber war of the Japanese imperialists in China. He declared that the Soviet Union wanted peace as it has shown again and again. particularly in the fee of the most brazen provocations in the Far East. The Chinese soldiers and workers defending the South China city of Shanghai yesterday continued their heroic resistance against the combined military, naval and aerial forces of Japanese meprialism. They successfully held the town of Kiangwan against the most terrific onslaught of the Japanese troops, big guns and bombing planes. They counter-attacked severa] times with deadly effect. at one time threatening an entire Japanese brigade with annihilation. The Jap: infuriated at the stubborn resistance to Se as their armed forces, yesterday fur- _ ther developed their deliberate cam- paign of murderous terror against | the Chinese masses, Tens of thou- | sands of Chinese workers and truck farmers were added to the huge |army of destitute refugees made | homeless by the Japanese aerial | bombing of the working-class sec- | tions of Shanghai. The suffering and misery inflicted upon defense- less. Chinese men, women and chil- dren is indescribable, according to | the admission even of the imperial- jist press. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times reports: “...As far as I could see In all directions there were leaping flames and smoke from the burn- ing huts of Chinese truck gar- Citizenship Rights ; Wreckers Are Jailed | | (Cable by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Feb. 22.—Raflway- |men responsible for the crash near Tosko when six workers were killed and thirteen injured were | sentenced today. The station master received six years impris- onment, the engineer three years and two signalmen received two | yeare each. | The Presidium of the Central | | Executive Committee of the Soviet | Union today deprived 37 emigrants | | | | | Possessing Soviet passports Of || deners. Few houses remained un- Soviet citizenship, They were burned.” }charged with counter-revolution- || shoot Down Workers Fleeing Burn- Mother Mary Mooney is speeding by express train to the | Bronx Coliseum meeting against the advice of her physicians | who warned her that in making the 3,000 mile journey the con- dition of her heart endangers her life. She is particularly 25,000 ary activity, included among them are Trotsky, Abramovitch, Garvy, Dan and Petresov. ing Homes | The Japanese were wantonly des- | er (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Red Builders, help get subscriptions. | anxious to aid in the demonstration to be attended by seeking a pardon for Mooney be-* cause Governor James Rolph, of Ca- lifornia today denied a report pub- lished in New York that he had de- cided to pardon Mooney on March 15, The bosses are determined to have Mooney die in jail. Only tre- mendous demonstrations by the working class today can force his freedom. Sujimorl, member of the executive committee of the Left Wing Writers of Japan, and a member of the In- ternational Committee of Revolu- 1917 War Scenes Reacted in N. Y. on Washington Day NEW YORK, N. Y.—Washing- ton's birthday celebration here was turned into an occasion for a for- midable display of American imper- jalism's armed forces, Fifth Avenue resembled a scene like that of 1917 when United States entered the war. Thousands upon thousands of soldiers, mar- ines, National Guardsmen, Amer- ican Legtonaires, militia, every army department of American im- perialism marching with guns on their shoulders, bayonets fixed and shining, ready for wse. Dozens of machine guns, anti- air guns, tanks, army wagons, mu- nition carriers, giant searchlights mounted on trucks rumbled up 5th Avenue as if in war mobilization. Overhead airplanes roared out their participation. Very significant to the hungry workers who were among the crowds watching was the armed display of the police. Instead of the usual club, a large division carried heavy figles with fixed bay- onets. The fear of Amevican cap- italism of the hungry workers could never be more plainly told than in these guns on the shouldlers of the polilce. Another division added to the story; they carried gas masks and belts of tionary Writers, just arrived in this country a few days 4go, will address the assemblage on behalf of Mooney. Among the speakers, in addition to Mother Mooney, Thaelmann, and Sujimori will be William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, Harold Hickerson, playwright just released from Kentucky prison, Harry Pierce, of the New Federa- tion of Post Office Clerks, A. F. of L.; A. Walenchek, of Carpenters Lo- cal Union No, 2717, A. F. of L.; B.D. Amis, president of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, J. L. Engdahl, of the L.L.D., Ben Gold and Robert Minor. * oe Endorsement of Mooney Meeting in Coliseum Wednesday Night by Trade Union Unity Council Upon publication of the news that Governor Rolph of Califor- nia today denied reports that. he would pardon Tom Mvoney. the Trade Union Unity Council of New York issued the following statement: “The fact that Governor Ro!pir continues the capitalist refusal to release Tom Mooney proves fur- ther that only by greater mass demonstrations of the working- class can the raling-class be for- ced to free this brave fighter for the proletariat. “The meeting in the Bronii Co- liseum, Wednesday night, must vipat On htt Two) U.S. War Dep’t Orders Rush Printing of Draft Blanks in War Move American Workers! On Guard Fight Against Imperialist War! Defend Chinese Masses, Soviet Union! The United States War Department has or- dered a rush printing of thirty-three million draft blanks in preparation for the drafting of American workers for war. The United States printing office has been ordered to sidetrack all other work in order to rush this job through at once. This means, that the war preparations of the Wall Street Hunger Government are now in the final stage. For several months now the war industries in this country have been working overtime speeding out huge orders for the United States Army and Navy and for the »—-—————. Japanese imperialists. Wages of the| sions being spread by the capitalist workers are being slashed in these] press and the “socialist” lackeys of industries at the very time that these} imperialism that war will mean tremendous orders are being handled. | “;rosperity” for the working class, The bosses are using the crisis in the} with employment for the unemployed other industries to force down the! twelve million in this country. wages of the workers in the war! rhe well Street. Hunger Govern- industries. , ‘This completely exposes the illv- (qommmWeRD on FAGE THREE) 2 5