The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1932, Page 3

a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932 Page Three Eye Witness Tells of Butchery of Women, Children | by J apanese A | Chinese Defenders at of Shanghai Throw Back Japanese Army Along Entire Front Chiang Kai-shek Prepares New Attack On| Chinese Revolution and Its Red Army The armed might of Japanese imperialism suffered a Se- vere set-back yesterday at Shanghai. In a fierce counter at- tack, featured by desperate hand-to-hand fighting the Chinese defanders of Shanghai threw back the Japanese Army along the entire battle front from Woosung to Chapei. Nineteenth Route Army, admittedly. The Chinese having strong Communist elements! in its ranks and fighting in defiance of the Nanking Kuomintang govern- ment, pushed its advance with charge after charge of infantry against the Japanese lines, The Chinese launched their coun- ter-offensive in the Kiangwan-Mia- shin seetor, forcing the Japanese to rush reinforcements from other sec- tors of the battle front, The Chinese then launched a terrific attack on the weakened Japanese sectors. The Japanese were forced to use all their reserves, even sending marines from their- warships into the line. The Japanese commander has sent a fran- Ue appeal to the Japanese govern- ment for reinforcements. Troops are being rushed from Japan, Unrest Evident in Japanese Army A Shanghai dispatch reports “an atmosphere of confusion about the (Japanese) headquarters ad a result. of yesterday's defeats.” Another dis- patch indicates the growth of unrest inthe Japanese Army, It says: “AM the Japanese soldiers seen have lost their exhilaration and at- titude of confidence met everywhere Saturday, and now their faces are somber and anxious.” Shanghai dispatches also indicate that the Japanese army would have been completely wiped out yesterday but for their mastery of the air and their superior equipment. The Nan- king and Canton cliques of the Kuo- mintang have large air fleets with hundreds of trained pilots but have traditionally refused to send these Planes against the Japanese invaders. ‘They have also withheld munitions and military equipment from the de- fenders of Shanghai. The Shanghai dispatch quotes as follows the opinion of foreign military observers at Shanghai: “The end of the third day ef the (new) battle of Shanghai demon- strated clearly that the Japanese would have been defeated except for their mastery of the air, their Possession of tanks and their artil- lery superiority. Except for these mechanical advantages they have been continually outfought by the Chinese.” Foreign military observers express amazement “at the strategic and tac- tical risks being run by General! Uyeda’s commanders.” ‘They clearly Indicate that the position of the Jap- anese Army would be “extremely pre- carious” but for the traitorous refusal of the Kuomintang militarists to give adequate support to the defense of Shanghai by the Chinese Nineteenth Route Army and the revolutionary Shanghaj workers. The Kuomintnag leaders, having prepared the way for the looting and partition of China by the robber imperialists, are now ac- tively supporting that looting as far as they dare. The butcher Chiang Kai-shek is in deadly fear that the heroic resistance of the Chinese at Shanghaj will further develop the na- tional revolutionary movement. Chiang Fearing Mass Fury, Sends ‘Troops Up to two days ago, Chiang Kai- shek was attempting to put an end to the resistance at Shanghai. In face of the fury of the Chinese masses and the anger of his own troops, Chiang has now been forced to permit some of his troops to joni in the defense of Shanghai, This is plainly an at- tempt to head the mass resistance movement in Shanghai in order later to behead it and again betray the Ohinese masses into the bloody hands of the imperialists, Chiang still re- fuses to declare @ state of war against the Japanese imperialists. He still naintains diplomatic connections with the murderers of defenseless Chinese workers and peasants and their wom- en and babies: Chiang’s present maneuver is aimed at exploiting the heroic defense of Shanghai towhichhewas openly ep- posed, and which he time and again |. attempted to disrupt. It is an answer to similar attempts by the Canton leaders who have had as little to do with the defense of Shanghai as Chi- ang himself. Rebuffed in every onslaught they had made against the Chinese de- fense at Shanghai, the Japanese in- vaders have unleashed the bloodiest terror against defenseless Chinese behind the Kiangwan lines. Imperialist press dispatches have carried admissions during the past ians, men, women and children by the Japanese. The report is by T, O. ‘Thackrey, managing editor of the Ameritan-owned Shanghai Evening Post - Mercury. Thackrey bisardes standing in the grandstand at the Kiangwan International Race Clu and watching with several other Am- ericans the slaughter of Chinese workers and peasants by the Jap- anese. The victims were all civilians, ‘Thackrey declares: “1 stood there in the grandstand Franésiane | ‘ith one of my reporters and watched what happened to these Chinese prisoners in the hands of the Japanese. “A Japanese officer turned one ef @ group of Chinese in peasarit garb to face the sun. His shining Sabre flashed up to the hilt in its human sheath. A second figure teok its place and once again the sabre found its pulsing scabbard. “Perhaps, as the official Japan- ese military these corpses once had been snip- rs or even perhaps, spies. I make no challenge, I just detail what 1 have seen. “There were women and chil- dren among the corpses. Women shot through their paddde coats, tun through with sabres. Chil- dren whose bodies were riddled with bullets. Men garbed as pea- sants were heaped grotesquely about, blood from their wounds soaking the ground.” The danger of an inter-imperialist conflict was sharply emphasized yes- terday in the U. S. Senate where Sen- ator Hale, chairman of the Senate | demanded the building of a huge navy, and declared: “With a nayy merely equal to that of Japan, we could not meet Japan on anything approaching equal terms in Eastern waters, where ni case of war, the seat of hostilities would undoubtedly be.” Chiang Prepares New Attack on Chinese Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek yesterday moved to exploit the mass resistance in Manchuria. In a hypocritical tele- gram te Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang, former governor of Manchuria, Cht- ang censured him for not moving to redeem Manchuria from the Japan. ese, Chiang had co-operated with Chang in the sell-out of Manchuria, instructing him to force the with- drawal of his troops from Chinchow and at the same time permitting the Japanese to land troops at Tientsin in the rear of the Chinese troops at Chinchow, thus making certain of their withdrawal, While engaging in these gestures of “resistance” to the Japanese, Chi- ang is now carrying out the erders of the Wall Street imperialists to launch a new attack against the revolution- ary Chinese masses in Central China. Kuomintang armies are being mo- bilized in the Central China pro- vinees of Szechuan and Kweichow for an attack on the Chinese Soviet, districts and the Chinese Red Army. The mobilization is being carried out under the pretext of fighting the Japanese imperialists. Partisan troops in Manchuria yes- terday drove the Japanese out of the town ef Imienpo, about 90 miles from Harbin. Partisan bands are actively waging guerrilla warfare against the Japanese and are seriously threaten- ing Japanese control of the con- quered territory. The heroic resist- ance at Shanghai and the victories of the Chinese Red Army in Kiangsi: province and other parts of Central China have inspired the Manchurian | masses to the most heroic resistance against ‘the Japanese invaders and their Chinese militarist tools. FASCIST THREAT TO UNEMPLOYED BLOOMINGTON, Ill.—A meeting of the Unemployed Council in Nor- mal, @ suburb of Bloomington, was broken up by the police. A demonstration is scheduled at the court house in Bloomington for Saturday. Comrade Mayer here received a let- ter from an unknown source order- ing him to leave town. ‘The letter reads as follows: “Relieve Mclean County of your presence on or before February 23 or you will be flirting with the angels. The pole and the noose are at the end of our trail. Signed, The Vigilantes.” Everything is being done to run down this letter and a protest meet~ ing will be held to protest against the sending of this letter, It is supposed to be from the Am- erican Legion or Klu Klux Klan or some other open fascist organization. The Bloomington Unemployed Councils which has grown in the last | 6 weeks to & membership of 1,500, is causing the cold chills to run up and down the hacks of the bosses. Correct Address of W.LR. In _ In Knoxville KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 23.— The new address of the Knoxville headquarters of the Workers In- ternational Relief is 800% ae pia Srl ae was incorrectly gen eg peso te communiques say, | Boston Dressmakers Strike Today; Build Strong United Front {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ers, pinners, examiners, shipping clerks and errand boys of all races and nationalities united! Do not go to work today. “Straighten your backs, refuse to slave for starvation wages, demand what is coming to you. Unite and we will win! “Strike today for the following demands; “1, 25 per cent increase in wages of the lower paid workers and en- forcement of the minimum wage seales provided in the agreements between the union and a number of employers, which were in ‘force up to Feb. 15, 132. “2, Strict enforcement of the 40-hour, 5-day week, “3, No overtime, in order to pro- vide jobs for the unemployed. “4 3 per cent of the total weekly pay roll of every employer to be paid by the employer to the work- ers for an unemployment insurance fund, to ve administered by the workers, * 5. No discrimination against the Negro workers and the right of the | Negro workers to work in every shop on the basis of equal pay, and the equal right to work in every | craft. “6. Equal pay for equal work ir- respective of age, nationality or -color, men and women, worker, yoang or old, Negro and white, by the shop committee, “8. Equal pay for equal work for young worker, and pay for continu- ation school, “9. The right to the job after one weeq’s trial period. “10. Contractors and jobber to be responsible tor the wages of the workers. “11. Against Yellow Dog con- tracts. “18; Shop committees to settle prices and to see that all other conditions are carried through in the shops. “13. Abolition of injunctions, gangsterism and police terror. | “14, No intervention by the gov- ernment police and courts, and the unrestricted right to strike and picket. “Let no one remain working! “Altogether for ene united strike for one set of demands! “For complete unity of action! “On to victory! “March in a body to the head- quarters of the United Front Rank and File Central Strike Committee! | “151 Washington St. Boston, | Mass. telephone Devonshire 8204. “995, Washington St. “145 Harrison Avenue, Boston. CLOAK ANP DRESSMAKERS RANK AND FILE UNITED FRONT STRIKE COMMITTEE.” Strike Breaker Arrives. Edward MeGrady, progrom leader of the A. F. of L., has arrived in Boston to aid the international graft- ers in their attempt to sell eut the dressmakers to more wage cuts and vicious speed-up and to smash the United Front Strike. ‘The history of McGrady as an ene- my of the struggles of the working class is well known, It was McGrady who was sent in by the corrupt lead- ership of the A. F. of L. to sell out the furriers in 1927. He carried on *& wholesale expulsion campaign eainst all militant furriers, forcing the workers through gangsterism to |Fegister under the right wing fake leadership and accept wage-cuts and open shop conditions, For United Struggle. At the last meeting called by the United Front Committee a number of members of the International promised the mass of workers gath- ered that they will carry on an in- tensive fight for one united strike, one set of demands in the interests of all tthe workers and one united rank and file strike committee, based upon trusted elected reppenentatives from the shops. ‘These workers pledged to rally the workers in the International for one mass picket line and against the secret conferences tthat the mayor is carrying on with Halpern and Kramer in an attempt to sell out the dressmakers to further wage cuts and sweat shop misery. The workers in the International shops are warned not to rely on the Kramer and Halperns, but to take the matter in their own hands, to go back to the shops, elect their own shop strike committees and send delegates to the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee. Spread the strike to every shop in -Boston. Garlin to Speak in Frisco March 7; Ends Six-Months’ Tour SAN FRANSICO, Cal.— Coming fypm Oregon and Washington where he spent nearly seven weeks, Sender Garlin, asosciate editor of the Labor Defender, speaks in San Francisco, at California Hall, Polk and Turk Streets, on Manday evening, March 7, “The Soviet 5-Year Plan and the er Plan.” The lecture, illustra- ted, is arranged by the San Francisco district of the I. L, D. Other meetings include University of California, Berkley, Feb, 26th; Sacramento, Feb. 28th; Berkley, (I. L. D.), March 2; and Oakland, March 4. Garlin was one of the speakers at the huge Mooney demonstration in the Civic Auditorium, Feb, 24, and also spoke at the Harry Simms mem- orial meeting attended by several hundred workers in California Hall. Pho California, Garlin returns “7. Strict enforcement of the | equal division of work for every | “ANKUO—THE LAND OF PEACE” Beginning with today’s issue, the Publishing a series of six articles by on the Japanese seizure of Manchuria in its robber war aganist China and provocation viet Union. The war in the Far East is of vital con- cern to every worker. Already, 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 to fight for the interests and loot in China Every worker should read this series of short articles. Order your copy of the Daily Worker Contribute your share to save the Daily Worker to guarantee that the Daily Worker will not of Wall Street, in advance, be forced to suspend.—Editor. ee Oe: By HARRISON GEORGE. HE Associated Press dispatches of Feb. 18th, from Mukden, relate the story of a “declaration of independence” on the part of what is called “the executive committee of Northeastern Manchuria,” setting up a so- called “republic” named “Ankuo,” a name that, translated, means- “land Simultaneously with a statement from the Washington State Department that it “will not recognize the independent government of Manehuria,” comes also a statement from the Tokio Foreign Office, declaring that Ja- pan, too, will not recognize the new “repub- “it has proved it has all the attributes of an independent nation.” Before we can award this piece of imper- ialist intrigue the prize for monumental hypo- crisy, let us observe that behind this hypo- crisy there is the evident purpose on the part ef American as well as Japanese im- perialism, of putting the rulers of Ankuo on trial, to see if they prove themselves pos- sessed, in the word of Tokio, of “the at- tributes of an independent nation.” lie of Ankuo” until... Daily Worker is Harrison George against the So- ialism, firstly more than eq Seen in this Ankuo” is a “non-recogniti viet Union. of peace.” Ankuo:” pacts” the false pre’ Ankuo” on th kio, Let the greet the acti serving to hid on the Soviet And by what other yardstick does imper- ialism measure the “attributes of an inde- pendent nation,” other than by the ability of its rulers to carry out the will of imper- masses and secondly: that Ankuo lies on the border of the Soviet Union—that it assume the task of an un- principled blackguard and gunman against the Workers’ Republic, the land of Socialism? ialism, since its existence as an ent” state,responsible ty nobody and nothing, and its actions already guaranteed by such perialism, give it every element of ruffianly irresponsibility desired on the part of an im- perialist agent to provoke war with the So- What, to the “independent republic of is such things as the Kellogg Pact? Or the “sacred” Covenent of the League of Nations? And can these hypocritical “peace or thei responsible for what ‘“‘the independent re- public of Ankuo” does? It is thus that workers must understand liberals, the “socialists” recognize” the were “opposed to war and conquest,” and those responsible for the coming attack in suppressing its own toiling but of equal er even ual importance—considering . light, the “non-recognition of positive advantage to imper- “independ- on” not to be charged to im- ir imperialist makers be held Of course not! tense of ‘“‘non-recognitibn of e part of Washington and To- workers understand that the and pacifists who ion of Stimson in “refusing to “republic of Ankuo” as if it are but e imperialist war and conquest. Union. IMPERIALISTS ADMIT PLOT FOR WAR AGAINST SOVIET UNION BY SPRING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sistently advecated a stronger and more definite policy toward China and the Soviets.” 'The opposition party is deelared to have been “weak-kneed in its foreign policy, especially toward China and to a certain extent toward Russia.” Broke Up Communist Election Meets ‘The Seiyukai Party, which controls the government, won 304 seats and a majority ef 142 in the new Diet in the recent elections in Japan. The government used the police and mil- itary in vicious attacks against mili- tant Japanese workers to prevent them from voting in the elections. Communist election meetings were at- tacked and broken up. Even the bourgeois. Japanese paper “Asahi” admits that the election has little sig- nificance because the government party, controling the police and mili- tary, always wins in general elections, Plan Spring Attack Against Soviet Union ‘The consistent reports in the im- perialist press during the past three months that armed intervention against the Soviet Union would begin with the coming Spring were further confirmed in the following statement in a Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times: “In many quarters it was expected that early Spring would witness a forcible Japanese occupation of the Russian half of Sakhalin, as well as an attempt to oceupy Primorsk. It is now revealed that the Rus- sians apprehended such a move, for there has been a steady, unostenta- tious movement of Russian women and children from Vladivostok to- wards the Siberian interior.” A dispatch to the New York Trib- une admits that “the White Guards, former supporters of the Ozarist re~ gime and bitterest foes of the So- viet, recently have given strong sup- port to Japanese military activity in Manchuria.” World Mobilization of White Guards. ‘The Japanese imperialists have mobilized tens of thousands of White Guards in Manchuria and Inner Mon- golia for an attack on the Soviet Union, These vicious enemies of the Soviet masses have been assured: by the Japanese that the attack would occur at an early date. The White Guards headquarters in Paris have sent out instructions to its connections declaring that the long-awaited day has arrived and ordering immediate mobilization for the attempt to over- throw the workers and peasants rule in the Soviet Union, Promises of territory and concessions have been made to the imperialists for aid in the effort to re-enslave the Soviet masses. White Guard munition fac- tories in France and England are turning out war supplies with the support and sanction of the French and British imperialists, U. S. Imperialists Prepart War Against Soviet Union In the United States, the U. 8. War Department already has erdered a rush printing of thirty-three mil- lion draft blanks in preparation for drafting the American workers for the new blood bath being prepared by world imperialism. Workers! Dying capitalism is try- ing to find a way out of the -crisis at your expense, at the expense of your life blood, at the éxpense of the intensifying of your present misery under capitalism! ‘The imperialist war mongers are turning to war to distract, your attention from the ne- cessary struggle at home against star- vation, against their cold-blooded denial of relief, against their mur- derous attacks on your living stand- ards! They are trying to mislead us with the illusion that war will mean “prosperity” and employment for the more than twelve million destitute unemployed workers and their fam- ilies. The employment they will of- fer, workers, is employment in the army, to be pushed into bloody slaughter against your fellow work- ers, and especially against the work- overthrown capitalist oppression nad have established the dictatorship of the proletariat. Workers! The example of the So- yiet Union is your hope for the fu- ture! In the Soviet Union unem- ployment has been abolished. In the Soviet Union the living standards of the toiling masses have been raised! In the Soviet Union, Socialism is vic- toriously advancing precisely at the moment when dying capitalism has sentenced tens of millions to starva- tion in the imperialist countries and in the colonies! In the Soviet Union race hatred has been wiped out! The Soviet Union has shown the world working class the way out of the cap- italist crisis of mass misery and star- vation! Dying capitalism sees the writing on the wall and hates the Soviet Union! Dying capitalism is rushing forward its preparation for a war of desperation against the Soviet Union, Workers! Defend the Socialist Fath- erland! Defend the Soviet Union! Defend the Chinese masses! Demand the withdrawal of all imperialist arm- ed forces from China! Demand the expulsion of the diplomatic agents of Japanese imperialism which is mud- dering defenseless Chinese men, wom- en and children at Shanghai and in Manchuria! Organize United Front Anti-War Committees in your shops, unions and organizations. 20 JOIN COMMUNIST PARTY AT DETROIT SIMMS PROTEST {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) night at the Humboldt Hall in honor of Comrade Harry Simms, myrdered by the Kentucky coal operators’ thugs, adopted @ resolution of con- demnation against the terror now raging in Kentucky, and demanding the safe release of all strike leaders, Chas, Karson, spoke for the Young Communist’ League, M. Karson for the Trade Union Unity League, and N, Barnick for the Communist Party. Elmer Lapakko was chairman, In response to an appeal by the Young Communist League, two young work- ers joined the League. east, concluding @ six-months' tour) Mass meetings were also held in SEE SPA accrooned mearts 14 " Superior on Monday, and Duluth on ‘Tusatay. eer | L Pa, Miners Protest. COEVRDALE, Pa.—-A protest reso- lution against the murder of Harry Simms was passed by the following locals of the National Miners Union: Local 126, Loeal 157, Local 164. Be- sides protesting the death of Simms the resolution demands: “The un- conditional release of our comrades who are logked up in the jails of Harlan and Bell counties.” MWA Locals Protest Murder BENLD, Il.—Three UMWA locals here learning of the murder of Harry Simms by the coal operators, passed @ resolution declaring: “We vigor- ously protest against the shooting of ‘Harry Simms and brand it as an act to smash the miners’ strike and drive fee men back to work under the en settee A ers of the Soviet Union who have/ Demand Release of Jobless Leader In Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The Inter- national Labor Defense held a mass meeting February 17 to protest the) vicious one-year sentence and fine | of $500 that was given to Ted Luesse, | a young working class leader of In- | dianapolis. In addition to mass protest and committees of workers, committees of local lawyers and business men are going to see the governor and de- mand that he release Luesse, since even the judge and the county offi- cials signed for a remission of the fine under mass pressure. Workers are meeting all over the State and sending letters and tele- grams demanding that Luesse be re- leased, SCOTTSBORO | MOONEY MEET IN PHILA. FEB. 25 Open Fight on Flynn Sedition’ Law The International Labor Defense has arranged a mass meeting to demand the release of Tom Mooney and the Seottshoro Negre boys on Thursday, February 25th, at 8 p. m. at the Hungarian Hall, 1144 No, 4th Street. The meeting will also open the campaign for the re- peal of the Pennsylvania Flynn Sedition law. Bill Lawrence, who was sen- tenced from 2 to 4 years on the charge of the sedition will speak at this meeting. George Maurer of the National Committee of the I. L. D. will be the main speaker. | compose grand jury list for February, | term 1932—D. C. Jones, Judge Bell, NEW YORK. — ‘Workers fight for the Kentucky miners—you must not let these brave saldiers of the class war be slaughtered,” was the call Tom Mooney wired from his living tomb in San Quentin to the International Labor Defense, which | has announced a monster mass meet- | ing February 24th in @ hundred cities | to demand immediate freedom of| Mooney on the 15th anniversary of his frame-up sentence to death. ‘The mass meeting in New York City 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 I. L. D. as! unite, | “Workers Unite, Fight for Kentucky Miners”--Mooney Frederick Douglass Week, in “honor | of the great Negro fighter for Uberty. Side by side with the demand for Mooney’s immediate freedom will be the call to liberate the 9 Negro Scottsboro boys and all class war prisoners. The mother of one of them, Mrs. Viola Montgomery, has expressed eagerness to speak ih the mass meeting. Among the speakers will be Ben Gold, a leader of the striking Needle Trades Industria’ Union, and of the masses of othe: needle trade workers now on the picket line; J. L, Engdahl, nationa secretary of the I. L. D., and Robert Minor. des were whisked away f Jail and placed on train for Kingston, The local press states: “a veal of secrecy surrounded the departure of the sheriff's party. Only a few minutes before the | train was due, the party arrived at | the station from the Don Jail. The | prisoners were shackled to a long chain and escorted by seven offi- cers from the sheriff's office.” Canadian Labor Defense League ‘The Canadian Labor Defense League is making efforts to secure “preferred treatment” fro the eight | prisoners in Kingston penitentiary. Aimed At Masses In a statement issued directly after the trial ended the C.L.D.L. points out that the dismissal of the appeal “is an introduction to a renewed of- fensive against the living conditions of the Canadian workers and farm- ers.” “It paves the way” said the statement “for the crushing working class resistance to the war prepara- tion ef Canadian capitalism. It is the carte blanche for unleashing Sec- tion 98 against the workers and farmers,” The “Red Herring” ‘The capitalist, court attempted to justify before the masses this ruth- m the Don | crown prosecutor | the © | ers. 8 CANADIAN COMMUNISTS SENT TO JAIL IN CHAINS; SENTENCE HITS ALL CAN ADIAN MASSES ae denial of workers’ rights by dragging out the now putrid req her- ring of “Moscow connections”, The made a statement to the press where he pretends to make the remarkable disclosure that dian Labor Defense League had cabled the International Red Aid for financial assistanee in the defense of the 8 working-class lead The bosses lawyer aimed there- by to establish a “connection be tween the O.L.D.L. and the Commun~ ist International. This pretended disclosure of a secret was no dis- closure at all, since the teat of the cable was also sent to and published in working-class papers, where al! workers could learn that the ©L.D.L. is @ part of a world wide organiza- tion that fights for the victims of class justice and terror. The C.L.D.L. wiil not content it- self with requesting the repeal of Section 98 of the Criminal Code from Premier Bennett. It will continue to mobilize workers and farmers througheut Canada for the exertion of a mighty mass pressure for the repeal of Section 98 and of all anti- labor legislation. The C.L.D.L., the shield of the working class, will in- tensify its efforts to defend the work- ers and farmers from the brutal at- tacks of an arrogant ruling class. (OONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) foregoing list of names were by me drawn from the Jury Wheel sameto Cireuit Court.” Jones does not state the eccupa- tion of the 24 but when we, here in jail, made inquiries among thte rest of the prisoners, we found that “chance” as administered by Baby Jones, gave us just three workers in the whole list of 24, four we can’t find out anything about bust most of whom are probably coa! operators’ henchmen, and all the rest business meen hooked up with the coal in- dustry or former coal operators them- selves—some of them still coal op- erators. ‘Thus the “Jury Wheel” under the eye of Baby Jones rolled out for us: J. C. Knuckles, mine and dairy own- er; Geo. Veal, garage owner, auto dealer, and former mine owner; Joe Bosworth, coal company politician and former coal operator; J. H. Me Giboney, chief detective of the Louis- ville-Nashville Railroad; Cyrus How- ard, politician for the T. J. Asher crowd most vicious enemies of the A conference against the Flynn Sedition law will be in Philadelphia on Friday, February 26th at the Young Friends Association, 15th & COberry Streets. Anniversary Edition of The Liberator to Appear on March 13 The special anniversary edition of the Liberator will be off the press March . All mass organi- zations should rush their greet- ings te appear in this issue. The issue will contain many special features, and will be of the greatest interest to every worker engaged in the struggle for Negro rights. The number of copies is limited, so send in your bundle orders now. Groups of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights all over the country are working hard to in- sure the success of the anniver- sary celebration on March 13th, which will be held in the New Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue. Send in your greetings and bun- dle orders to the Liberator, 50 E. 13th Street, New York City, slave terms of the operators. “We extend our hand of solidarity te the Kentucky miners and hail their struggle for the establishment of decent conditions and a union to protect them. We pledge our sup- port to our Kentucky brothers, finan- cial as well as moral.” 9 TDS Sel More Protests, NEW YORK.—The Association of Russian Proletarian Writers passed a resolution protesting the murder of Harry Simms and pledging support to the irae peagi og Ya. N. M. U.; C. C. Byrely, grocer; C. G. Covey, dry goods merchant; 5. P. Corm, retired garage owner; Newt Hoskins, retired capitalist; Harry Hoe, owner of a foundry; J. M. Green, retired hardware merchant; Guss Colton, civil engineer; Richard Barker, owner of a fitling station; B. B. Campbell, dry geods store owner; Joe Knox, retired land owner. ‘The three who may be called work- ers are Chas. Busic, conduetor on the L. & N.; Rich Ross, bricklayer (@ Negro), and Ernie Goodin, handy- man for the Kentucky Utilities. We are reliably informed that there is not one miner on the grand Jury list and that every one on the KY. GRAND JURY, PACKED, WITH OPERATORS’ AGENTS, IS IN SESSION lst is for the operators and against, the miners. There are undoubtedly degrees of hatred among those on the list, and the most servile to the coal operators ean be selected to ac- tually serve on the grand fury-—se- lected by “chance” as the lags of chance operate under Baby Jones! The 36 names for the petit jury lst we have mot traced completely jections, etc.) without a trisl jury being secured, then, under Kentucky law, Chief Deputy Sheriff Ployd Broughton’s deputized thugs of the coal operators go out om the streets and among the scabs, corrals and pick whomever they please to make up the next panel. No, it does not follow from this that we will be convicted and sent to not on either the law or the rear’ ‘The packed jury will con- sider neither. It will, subservient to the necessities of the coal operators, decide to convict or to acquit us, en- tirely in accord with the amount of mass support the workers give us. We will use this trial to show up the horrors of coal company rule in these fields. We rely on the mass.gdemon- strations of the workers, roused by the exposures made in our case, we rely on the resulting increased sup- port for the strike, increased relief, especially, to hammer discretion if not “justice,” into even Baby Jones’ fat head. And if the pressure fells short of winning an acquital for ug, the ex: pana of capitalist justieg ree Edith Berkman In Jail Reviews New Profits Pamphiet Writing from jail, where she is still held for deportation because of her activity in the Lawrence textile strikes, Edith Berkman, organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, reviews the new pamphlet, “Profits and Wages”, by Anna Rochester, pre- pared by Labor Research Associa- tion and just published by Interna- tional Pamphlets. “I read this pamphlet with great Interest.” she states. “It is just the kind of information that our ac- tive workers should learn by heart. In this pamphlet, the usually. dry figures become pictures of ‘profits and wages’. We should use this pamphlet in the thousands, It is of great agitational value and should be read by every worker.” Copies of “Profits and Wages” may be secured at the Workers Bookshop or by writing to Workers’ Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City, Price 10 cents each. Bundle order rates 60 cents per 109, J | Oe Ree ee eS 35,000 IN POLISH CO. WARSAW, Feb. 23. situation in the coal brova and Cracow is intensifying. The bourgeois press reports 27,000 ers out in Dombrova and 8,000 tn Cra- cow. Collisions oecurred the strikers and police. All meetings and demonstrations were led by the Com- Whee the Winter Winds Begta to Blow You will spn i¢ warm and cozy Camp Nitgedaiget Wor further tnformation ERATI ornemertanstote eerste J.