The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1932, Page 1

aN Pee r \ WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! ce eter Dail Central orker in; Or Porty U.S.A. = of the Communist aurernasiowal] SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! RUSH FUNDS TO 50 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK CITY! _ Vol. TX, “No. 48 " Emtered as eccond-clasa matter at the Post. at New York, N, Y.. ander the act of March 3, 1879 Office > NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932 “CITY | EDITION Price 3 3 Cents MORE SHOPS COME OUT IN DRESS STRIKE; 108 SETTLEMENTS TO DATE Boston Dressmakers Strike; NewYork Strikers Will Picket Shops Today Many Meetings Throughout City to Raise Strike Funds and Help Spread Strike EW YORK, Feb. e New York striking dress- rs, under the leadership of the United Front Rank and File Committee, chalked up more victories to their credit yes- terday. More shops downed their tools and more shops settled, the workers in the settled shops winning an increase in wages, shorter hours with provisions for fur->— - ae ther increases a sharper clarity to the united front tactic. The committees are function- ing like military units and the masses d.|of strikers are going about their in pay. of the s Each nev day of s determination, a new «0! U. S. Senator and Ex- Governor Try to Break Kentucky-Tenn. Strike Speak On “George W: o Waaliington” in Town Near Place Where Herry Simms Was Murdered — UED ON PAGE TWO) XVELLE, Feb. League National Organizer, was sentenced to fifty days on the chain geng in Knoxville today for his activity in organizing the first local Tenn., 24.—Harry Jackson, Trade Union Unity Unemployed Council, and Bill Sutherland, striking Kentucky miner, was given a like sentence, for collecting relief here for striking miners. Jackson was sentenced today after being held incommunicado for 24 hours and Sutherland was sentenced late yesterday afternoon. The technical charges on which both were given barbaric sentences is h Jackson and Sntherland have already been forced to don d overalis and-jackets and are being fed rice for breakfast and nd corn bread for dinner and supper. Sutherland has been put « in Rocky Quarry and Jackson will start similar work tomorrow. nteneing both comrades, the judge made no attempt to hide the they were sent to the chain gang for organizing the unemployed, in son’s case, and collecting relief on the part of Sutherland. Livery available detective in Knoxville is shadowing militant local workers as well as. Workers International Relief workers. . ° . PINEVILLE, Feb. 24.—United States Sen- ator J. M.Robison and former Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky yesterday testified to the spread of Communism in Kentucky by pleading with a larg eaudience in Barbourville, which included many miners to “turn away from the Reds who have gained a foothold in Kentucky and get back to the prin- ciples advocated by Washington.” That two national figures in the capitalist world should speak at the same time in the tiny town of Barbourville on {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) KEEP UP the Fight Against the Bosses Terror and War! Save the “Daily”’! ‘the mighty Mooney-Scottsboro demonstration at tho Coliseum last night in New York, at which Mother poke: was a high spot in the campaign being ly by the Daily Worker to free Tom Mooney, to free the Scottsboro boys and to free all class war prisoners. This campaign must go on and must be widened to include millions of workers throughout the United States. Without the steady day to day agita- tion and organizing power of the Daily Worker we can- not succeed in rallying the masses of workers to smash the bosses’ terror drive. ‘The bosses are rushing ahead with their prepara- fer a new world slaughter. Draft blanks are vinted. Ammunition plants are speeding up. italist press, under the smoke screen of paci- fist ‘and, socialist “peace” talk, is spreading its war poison. The workers need the leadership of their own paper now more than ever, to lexpose and organize against the plots against the Soviet Union and the reyolutionary workers of China, and to rally the work- ers of America in an effective fight against imperialist war. Vion BUT THE SLACKENING OF EFFORTS IN THE LAST ey, DAYS, IN THE DAILY WORKER l.cY DRIVE, HAS INCREASED THE i OF SUSPENSION. YESTERDAY ONLY $200 CAME IN, ALTHOUGH A MINIMUM OF $1,200 A DAY FOR THE REMAINING DAYS OF THE DRIVE IS NECESSARY TO KEEP OFF SUSPEN- SION OF THE WORKERS’ PAPER. We 5 rae TOILERS RESTORE EVICTED FAMILY TO THER HOME Demonstrate Friday at Home Relief for Un- employed Demands NEW YORK, N. Y.—Mrs. Goldman and her three children who were thrown out on the street yesterday by the city marshall, were restored into their rooms again through the militant action of workers, members of the Downtown Workers Club and the Downtown Unemployed Council Branch, Hundreds of workers and their families have been evicted on the East Side and many more face evic- tion. There is hunger in the fam- ilies, the children are going to school without food; electric and gas is being turned off. The Home Relief Bureau which began its career by big statements of what it will do to re- lieve the suffering of the unemployed js doing nothing. Therefore the Downtown Unemployed Council, lead- er of the unemployed on the East Side, will lead a demonstration in front of the Home Relief Bureau at 293 East Broadway on Friday. ‘The workers will begin with a parade at 2 p. m., from 7th St. and Ave. A, marching to Second St. and Second Ave., then Houston St. and Ave. A. An open air meeting will be held in front of the Home Relief Bureau at East Broadway and Shamel as the parade passes. Many families will be in the parade. ‘The demands of the workers are $10 minimum for food; rent, gas dnd electric to be paid; $1 a day for all single unemployed workers. Imme- diate relief upon registration; with- drawal of police and thugs from the relief bureaus. This last demand refers to terror used against the workers who come to make demands. The Bureau at 293 Broadway was picked for” the demonstration, because at this bureau cops and thugs have been mobilized each time the workers came and barred them from entering, DURABLE STRIKE REJECTS BOSS DISCRIMINATION Tool and Die Workers Unanimously Vote to Continue Strike The workers of the Durable Tool and Dye Shop striking against a lock- out had decided unanimously at their meeting this afternoon to reject pro- posal made by the boss that the strike be settled on the basis of union recognition providing the boss is per- mitted to decide who shall be taken back to the shop and who shall re- main out. The workers displayed the greatest militancy since the strike which is now in its fourth week and one striker after another took the floor in discussion and voiced a de- termination of all the workers to con- tinue the strike until the boss recog- nized the union and hires the workers only through the union. It is clearly seen that the boss is weakening and made his proposal to find out if the workers are determined to continue with the strike. The workers gave their answer not only at their meet- ing but at the picket line where the largest mass picketing since the strike took place, ‘The workers are preparing a mass reception to two of their strikers: Jack Scaglione and Carl Como, who were recently sent to jail on a frame- up charge and are being released on Saturday. This reception will take place on Saturday night, 9 p. m. sharp. at the Workers Center, 35 East 12th St. All workers and their organiza- tions should attend. MOTHER MOONEY ARRIVE! | MOTHER MOONEY, was present. prisoners. S IN NEW YORK ON NAT'L. MOONEY-SCOTTSBORO DAY accompanied by Wm. Z. Foster, as she arrived at Grand Central Station The Daily Worker " IMPERIALISTS SUPPORT _ JAPANESE FOR WAR ON USSR, SHANGHAI REPORTS |U. S., European Diplomats See Japanese In Early Attack on Workers’ Russia | Senator Moses Admits French Imperialists | Back Japan for War on Soviet Union BULLETIN. By MYRA PAGE. (Foreign Correspondent, Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 24.—The present Man. churian situation represents a serious danger of armed intervention against the Soviet Union. The Chinese troops of the Japanese puppet government of Kirin Province are reported damaging the Chinese Eastern Railway, which is jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. The Kirin government makes no move except at the instructions of the Japanese. Following a tremendous upsurge of armed resistance by partisan treops against the Japanese invaders, the Japanese are rushing troops to Kirin and are threatening a big counter- offensive against the Chinese. White Guard leaders are negotiating with the Japanese | authorities and have been ordered to¢- yesterday where several thousand workers greeted her. went to press too early tg report the tremendous demonstration at Bronx Coliseum at which Mother Mooney Yesterday’s meeting, on National Mooney-Scottsboro Day, was part tf a nation-wide mob- ilization of workers for the struggle to free Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, the Kentncky class war and other | form White Guard corps under Jap- | anege leadership. The Japanese gov- ernment organ is reported to have threatened the Soviet Union with 2 loss of rights in the Chinese Eastern Railway and in Manchuria should the Soviet Union refuse to recognize the “independent” Manchurian govern- | ment recently set up by the Japanese F.S.U. ANNOUNCES ANTI-WAR MEET Many working class organizations, including A.P.L, unions have already sent.in. their credentials for the Mass Anti-War and Support the Soviet Union Conference, which is* being held on Sunday, March 13th at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl, at 10:30 a.m., under the auspices of hte New York District, Fricnds of the Soviet Union. Working class organizations must combine their many vioces into one huge protest. Working class organiza- tions will absolutely fail down upon their revolutionary duty and will not fulfill their obligations to the work- ing class unless they show their sol- idarity with the Chinese and Rus- sian workers by immediately seeing to it that two delegates are elected to this Anti-War Conference, ‘Mother Mooney Deeply Moved [As Thousands in N. Y. Greet and their Chinese puppets. . . > Early armed intervention against workers’ Russia, with Japan in the role of the spearhead of a desperate dying world capitalism, is boldly envisioned in a Shanghai dispatch to the | | New York Times, NEW. YORK, N. Y.—Age: up with joy, thrilled with. the today, Naitonal Mooney Day iom of Mooney, the 9 Scott ‘Another AFL Local For Jobless Bill PORTCHESTER, N. Y—The | movement for unemployment in- |curamce which is spreading thru the A. F, of L. ‘locals is increas- ing. The latest local to report endorsement of thie bill is on Carriers and Common Laber Un- |ion No. 141, Stagger Plan, Part ot War More Pay Cuts Preparations NEW YORK.—The Feverish war preparations of the Wall ‘@and others. Her on Mooney-Scottsboro Day| 1 Mother Mooney’s fase lighted | sizht of Grand Central Station | 'jammed with workers greeting her as she got off the train | and day ‘of sirvggle for the free- | vo boys, the Kentucky prisoners | The station resounded vith the mighty cheers from the throats of the workers milling around hi A delegation which included Wil- liam Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, and Louis J. Engdahl, secretary of the Interna- tisnal Labor Defense, was on hand} to welcome her in the name of the New York workers. When the Daily Worker corre- spondent told her that these were all workers greeting her, she said very emotionally, “Oh, the workers, oh, the workers.” Even before Mrs. Mooney arrived in New York, the gray haired, 84- year old fighter, felt the mass solid- erity backing the fight for the free- dom of Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, the Harlan miners and all class war prisoners. Railroad workers, on discovering The dispatch reports that American and European im- Watch tomorrow's Daily | Worker for an important ex- || posure of the plans of Jap- | anese imperialism for armed | intervention against the So- | viet Unjon and its successful | Socialist. construction. PHILA. WORKER IS GIVEN 2-4 YEARS FOR 1928 SPEECH PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2A.—Bill Lawrence, a Philadelphia worker, will zo to jail on Friday to serve a two to four year sentence under the Flynn sedition law. Lawrence was arrested in 1928 while speak- ing during the Communist election campaign. The Superior and Su- who she was rushed to pledge their) preme Courts of Pennsylvania Street imperialists are being carried on under the lash of an ever deepening crisis in all branches of American capitalism. Instead of the looked-for the Annalist reports that Am new low record of 62.8 against 74.4 for January of last year. Building construction on which the capitalisis based their hopes for “recovery” has reached the lowest point since 1914. Together with the tightening of all the knots in the crisis of American industry comes the unwilling recog- nition that every single measure adopted by the Wall Street financiers to mitigate the financial crisis have been smashed. Turning \away trom the proposed remedies of the Hoover moratorium, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Set quotas, start revolution- ary competition, in fight to save Daily Worker. 800 Workers on Chain Gang Strike Against Wage Cut RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 24.—Un- der the leadership of the Unem- Ployed Council, 800 workers on the county chain gang in Richmond went on strike yesterday morning against s cut in the hourly wage paid in scrip and groceries. The cut was from 30 to 20 cents, The strik- ers demanded 40 cents an hour paid in cash, and a three-day mini- mum week. They demanded free milk and hot lunches for the school children; no discrimination against Negroes; 25 immediate cash relief from the county and endorsement of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, pa At 7 o'clock yesterday morning, 800 picketed the County Court House and City Hall, and 300 pa- raded through the city. The County Commissioners re- fused the demands and say their hands are tied. ‘Twenty-five were elected to the strike committee, Eugene Stanten, unenioyed leador of Indian polis, “was teken for a ride out of town for 25 miles and then beaten up by six police thugs. Local workers are Preparing for a mass fight calling out pea working for baskets of Reconstruction Finance Corporation, | increases in business activity, erican industry has touched a ‘FORD COPS USE TEAR GAS AGAINST 800 UNEMPLOYED DETROIT, Mich. | Feb. , 24.—About | 800 workers looking for the 30,000 jobs Ford promised over a week ago, were tear gassed by Ford’s. police, while fighting to releasb a worker atrested for distributing leaflets. The work- ers had been standing in front of the unemployment office for over two hours, when the Ford cops came and told us that there won't be no hiring on. account of Washington's Birthday. We hooed the cops and some members of the Unemplyed Council tiarew leat- lets into the air explaining why Ford lured them to the plant, celiing upon them to join the Ford Hunger Merch, on Monday, March 7th, et 2. P. M., and fight for jobs and Unemployment Insurance. ‘The cops tried to pinch the workers who had thrown the leaflets, but the workers militancy forced them to beat a hasty retreat. A second and third arrest was attempted by the cops, but frustrated by the angry workers in |spite of the fact that the cops used |teargas to kecp the workers off. They were finaly sversusful in 2 rexuing one joung worker, who wes standing by himself on the outskirts of the crowds, when the polico car came by. He was hustled into the car by a couple of husky bulls before any- one could interfere. ee : OM ‘ Get Credit, Charities CLEVELAND, O.~-Parmo Branch of the Unemployed Council reports that one unemployed ‘worker who went to the charities was told that if they Industries. Then he told them that be wanted food for his children, and ‘ald him that if he has credit in solidarity. | have rejected the appeal for a new Uspecially stirring was the presen-| trial, The International Labor De- ties ®fens. : (CUNTINUDD ON PAG THES Meise, will ‘Row appeal ae Tell the Unemployed | he wanted clothes for his children, | would send him to the Goodwill | ores, he should keep on taking | the United States. Supreme Court if necessary (ynds are raised. Funds are needed immediately for the appeal in order to keep Law- rence from jail. All workers’ or- canizations should rush funds im- mediately to the I. L. D., 315 Wash- | ington Square Building, Seventh and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. A protest meeting for the defense of Lawrenes and freedom of Tom Mooncy will be held on Thursday, | February 25, at the Hungarion Hall, 1144 North 4th St. BU Law- rence and George 4Maurer 4will | speak. Fierce Battles fe by Inpsecore) Feb, he'd Nae Fifteen thousand ote arched to the Town Hall in Bris- tol demanding the reception of their committee. Following the refusal of this demand the police charged the workers. The fight lasted two hours, over thirty being injurcd, including six _ police. Crowds repeatedly repulsed the po- lice with sticks; stones and ban- ners, In a domonstration at Boo- {to 2 1 ng the sireet and vetarning the furniture into the houses. The workers battled with the police who called for reinforce- ments. Many were injured on both ata: and twenty-one were ar- iid ed Jobless s Demonstrations ndveds prevented evic- | in British workers met in wing which a pro- marched to Parliament | Square demanding en interview | with Lansbury, folowing the re- fusal of the Ministry of Labor to receive a deputation, Hundreds of MacDonald's socialist police had been concealed in adjacent build- ings. The firing of a rocket gave the police the signal for a simul- tancous charge on the workers within the banned area. The work~ | ers gave strong resistence and many were arrested, A Communict organizer was ar- rested in Todmerion when police charged fifteen hundred demon- strators, | aMportant ——7U, 8, WARNS JAPANESE ON CHINA LOOT Stimson Sends Letter to Senator Borah The policy oe U, U. S, imperial- ism on the war in Using was announced again by Secretary of State Stimson yesterday in letter to Senator Borah which curiously was made public af- ter the prestige of Japanese military prowess suffered” a setback at the hands of the embattled Chinese de- fenders in Shanghai and after Jap- anese troops there were swelled to over 100,000, » Stimson’s statement makes no pro- tests against the robber war of Jap- anese imperialism against the Chi- nese masses. This robber war is sup~ ported by the Wall Street Government. The note does no! mention the wholesale butchery of unarmed, defenceless Chinese men, women and children. The Washing- ton government supports this butch- ery. The ‘sole concern of the United States imperialists is with their own finaneial interests and desired loot in China. On this the statement its most emphatic. It says: “The possible encroachment om American trade rights has been # grave subject ever since the Man- churian occupation. The fighting at Shanghai has greatly aggravated the situation, even apart from the threat to American lives and prope erty.” Stimson gecyses Japan of violsting the treaties which guarantee the open door in China to all of the rob- ber imperialists. The Japanese have been trying to grab alf of China and open door in the face of the S. The United States t ns the Japans Neos 1 Sivest’s right to loot “Chi na is recognised, and une less Japan refvains from treading on Wail Streei’s interests, the United States will proceed with the building of a huge navy against the Japanese, British imperialists have made it clear within the past few days that they do not intend to take any pres- ent action against the Japanese, since such action would endanger the united front of world imperialism in its war against the Chinese masses and its preparations for armed ine tervention against the Soviet Union, Successful demonstrations, it is reported, were held in all the in- * Every shop, mine and factory « fertile field for Daily Worker sub- ets a TEE, Both the United States and the °