The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1932, Page 1

bhi ied fi WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central (Section of the Communist , Norker unict Party U.S.A. ‘All Out for National Tag Days March 11, 12, 13—Watch For Address of Your Nearest Station —et _Vol. IX,No.49 ©” Entered as secowd-clase matter at the Post Office jew York, N. Y., ander the act of Marek 3, 1579 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _ JAPANESE SECRET NOTE REVEALS ANTI-SOVIET WAR PLOT GEN. HONJO STATES THAT 10,000 N.Y. Workers Demand Release of Mooney, Scottsboro Boys es DRESS STRIKERS FORGE ON TO NEW VICTORIES; MASS PICKETING TODAY United Front Strike Commit Committee Blows Lid Off Schlesinger Sell-out NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—With unconquer- able zeal and steeled organization, the striking United Front Dressmakers forged ahead yes- terday in their victorious march to new stra-! tegic gains. Eight new shops, all of them large RENT STRIKERS ones, left their machines and marched to the strike halls to join the struggle for union conditions. More settlements were concluded and more bosses, smarting under the blows dealt by the stubborn strike of the workers, rushed in their settlement phe SE IRR ne A pleas. ’ The picket lines were strong and effective throughout the day. Tam- many police, working in unity with the Schlesinger crowd of strikebreak- ers, attempted to terrorize the strik- ers by arresting ten of the most mili- tant pickets. The pickets were de- fended by the International Labor Defense. Nine of them were freed on the spot and one received a one- day jail sentence. Mass Picket Today. This morning the masses of dress- makers will show their strength in a mass picket demonstration through the lower section of Manhattan gar- ment center. The march mence at7:30 a. Mm ‘sharp. ~ ing from the ‘hall of the Industrial Union. 131 W. 28th St. the pickets will mareh through garment, section DURABLE BOSS'S TRICK FAILS TO SPLIT STRIKERS Workers Defy Injune- tion; Hearing This Friday NEW YORK. — The strike of the metal workers of the Durable Tool & Die Co, against a lockout, which has been going on for almost a month, is continuing stronger than ever, with the picket lines growing daily in numbers, militancy and ef- fectiveness. Members of many work- below 27th St. Fresh enthusiasm was shown at mass strike meetings held yesterday at the two main strike halls. Pro- posals to strengthen the committees, WIN RELEASE! Arnow ‘Avenue Rent Strike Holds Strong NEW YORK—The fight put up in| | court today in the trial of the five | worleers arrested at a rent strike demonstration on Arrow Ave., Bronx, resulted in a victory for the workers. ‘Two were dismissed. All the judge could manage to do in the case of the other three was to fine them $2 each or 1 day in jail. The charges were disorderly conduct and the workers had been under $500 bail. ‘The names of the workers are: Bres- law, Roller, Oberstein, Ackerman, a house wife, and Morrison. The arrests have not in the least deterred the workers from their de- termination to win tb wads for reduced rents and better w..ditions of the house. Saturday another demonstration will be held at 3 p. m. in front of 788 Arrow Avenue to rally the ten- ants in the neighborhood in support of the strike and to spread the move- ment against all attempts of the Gun Thugs Stop Trucks with Relief; Seek to Kill Miners by Hunger Drivers Threatened W ith Death If They Per- sist In Bringing In Food Workers! Show Your Solidarity With the Heroic Strikers By Doubling Your Relief Collections PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 25—Almost a thou- sand Brush Creek miners and their families are slowly starving to death as the result of a ring of gun thugs who are preventing all Workers International Relief trucks from en- tering the section and threatening the drivers with death if they persist in trying to bring food to the strikers. Food ship- ments arriving by train are also being turned back by the gun thugs, one of whom two weeks ago murdered Harry Simms, National Miners’ Union youth organizer. Some of the Brush Creek strikers. to consolidate a stronger United Front and to spread the strike to landlords to check it. Red Builders, help get subscriptions. | {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Worker- Organizations Pledge Support te Daily Worker Drive! The districts are giving signs of action in the Daily Worker Emergency Drive. More money came in yesterday than ni the last few days, but the $500 turned in yesterday is still far short of the $1,200 a day needed to pull the Daily Worker out of its financial difficulties. Chicago has at last awakened to the serious- ness of the present situation. 122 delegates rep- resenting 99 workers’ organizations of Chicago met last Sunday and pledged full support to the drive. This is a step that must be taken by every district. Emergency conferences must be called all through the United States to rally the work- 99 Chicago =: have been starved back to work as a result of this fiendish maneuver of the operators but the majority of the miners are still striking and are eat- ing grass and buds rather than work for starvation wages under gun thug rule. Having exhausted every means of terrorization at their command to break the heroic strike and being thus | | far almost completely unsuccessful in operators are more and: more relying on starvation and ex- posure to force the miners back to work, More than 200 eviction notices have been handed out to strikers in the last few days and the miners’ relief committees are warned almost every day that if they don’t soon stop dis- tributing food to the strikers they will either be jailed for criminal syndical- ism or shot. ‘The patience of the starving miners is almost at the breaking point, how- ever, and according to an uncon- firmed report today three gun thugs who attempted to hold up a WIR. relief truck in Gatliff yesterday were CALL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE TO | FIGHT ON WAR Sunday Mar arch 18th at, Irving Plaza NEW YORK. — , — Beeause of the prominent part that women will play in the coming war, special attention | is being made by the New York Dis- | trict Friends of the Soviet Union to invite Women’s Organizations to send delegates to the mass Anti-War and Support the Soviet Union Conference, which will be held on Sunday, March 13th at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St., and Irving Place at 10:30 a. m. This conference is the second step | which the New York District, Friends | of the Soviet Union is taking to fight | the war on and partition of China and to stop the invasion of the Soviet Union. The first step was the huge mass meeting of February 11th, with seven thousand workers protesting against imperialist war. Thousands of organizations were invited to this conference. Not only will A. F. of L. unions, revolutionary unions, groups of unemployed work- ers and all kinds of working class organizations be represented at this conference—but workers from shops and factories who realize the néces- sity of adding their strength to an organized protest against bosses’ war, will be there as well. To insure the safety of the Chinese shot by the miners defense guard. that+2nd Russian workers and peasanis— accompanied the truck. ‘The Daily Worker learned today the Frances Jéllico Coal Company of Jellico, Ky., paid teh expenses of two miners who attended the U.M.W.A. convention in Indianapolis recently. Mother Mooney Hears Pledge of Nation-Wide Fight to Free Tom, All Class-War Prisoners French, German and Japanese Workers Send Pledge of Support Ten thousands workers crowded into the Bronx Coliseum Wednesday night in the most enthusiastic of recent demonstrations to de- mand the “immediate and unconditional re- ingclass organizations have respond- ed to the strikers’ appeal for assist- ance on the picket Ifne, which has ers to save the paper that leads the struggle against the bosses’ starvation and terror pro-: lease of Tom Mooney.” The meeting was part of the over a hundred held all over the country by the Inter- national Labor Defense for the defense of the Scottsboro boys, resulted in a number of scabs being persuaded to stay away from the shop. ‘The proposed settlement made re- cently by the boss on the basis of union recognition with the provision } that nearly all of the most active strikers remain locked out perma- nently, has aroused tremendous in- dignation among the strikers, who are pledging to stick it out until a 100 per cent victory is gained, Their splendid militancy displayed on the Picketline in the last few days shows that the strikers are already carry- ing out their pledge. Three workers who were arrested jast Saturday, when the strikers suc- cess fully beat off an attack of a gang of hoodiums, were released to- day under bail ranging from $500 to $1,000 on the charge of assault. ‘This despite the fact that one of the cops who arrested them admitted that he did not see them at the scene of the fight. * The hearing on the injunction the boss is trying to obtain in an effort to break the strike is coming up in court on Friday after several post- Ponements. One of the affidavits which served as ground for the com- plaint in the injunction has been repudiated as an. outright forgery by the workers who is alleged to have made it to the bosses’ attorney, and has signed a counter-affidavit to this effect. The strikers are giving a mass wel- come to the two young workers, Jack fcaglione and Carl Como, who are being released from jail after sery- ing 15 days because of their militant participation in the strike, All work~ ers, especially young workers, and their organizations, are urged to at- tend this affair, which will be held on Saturday, February 27, 8:30 p.m. sharp, a khe Workers eeu 35 EK. lath st ant gram. Here is the resolution adopted at the Chicago conference. We want to hear resolutions like this one from every other district. RESOLUTIONS OF JOINT URESS DRIVE “We, one hundred twenty-two delegates rep- resenting ninety-nine workers’ organizations of Chicago at the Emergency Press Conference held Sunday morniaz, ebruary 21st, at People’s Auditorium, pledge ourselves and our organ- izations to support the drive for $10,000 to save the Daily Worker for the working class move- ment of the United States and to establish a Workers Weekly Newspaper for the Chicago District. We realize that without a workers’ press we cannot carry on the fight against the in- creasing misery caused by this crisis: the worst in the history of capitalism. We realize that without a political organ such as the Daily Worker is, a political move- ment deserving the name is impossible and that the great struggles against wage cuts, unem- pleyment, evictions and Criminal Syndicalist Laws demand a district_weekly newspaper to give proper attention to the agitation and or- ganization of these struggles. In order to save the Daily Worker and in- sure the immediate issuance of a Workers’ Weekly Newspaper for this district, we pledge s ourselves to carry out all the decisions of this emergency conference and to bend every effort to popularize the workers’ press among the masses of workers in our territory and to se- cure their financial support to the $10,000 joint press drive, The secretary of this conference is instructed {o mail a copy of this resolution to all workers’ newspapers and to urge the workers of this district to join us in this important task. M. W. Good, cyattmay yk yy PS ap sino RR z the Kentucky prisoners, the release of Mooney and other class war prisoners. haired mother of Mooney stressed this. Demonstrate with Empty Pots and Pans Saturday in Bronx Corliss Lamont, assistant professor of Philosophy at Columbia Univer- sity pointed out to the workers that the Mooney case was not an isolated incident as the liberals would have us believe but only one part of the «frame-ups, terror and misery of the whole capitalist system. ‘The causes behind the war of the imperiaticts in China are the same as those be- hind the 16 year imprisonment of Mooney. And the only way to put an end to all this is to put an end to the capitalist system. The fun- damental task is to bring about the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE And every speaker, including the aged, white- The first speaker. it is imperative for workers in the United States to do their share to- ward stopping the war now going on in China, which is threatening to extend to the Soviet Union. All organizations must show their international working class solidarity by sending 2 delegates to this Anti- War Conference to be held on Sun~ day, March 13th, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place at 10:30 a.m Spread Daily Worker fund drive into every working class neighborhood to save worktrs’ paper. Demonstrate In Front of Home Relief Bureau Today at 2 p. m. there will be a demonstration in front of the Home Relief Bureau at 293 Broad- way to demand immediate relief for the workers of the East Side, married and single, without dis- crimination against Negro, foreign born or youth. The demonstration will begin with a parade from 7th Street and Avenue A. The lower and middle Bronx Un- employed Councils are organizing an empty pot and pan demonstra- tion on Saturday, Feb. 27th, at 12 noon in front of Bronx Borough Hall. All the mass organizations of the Bronx are actively prepar- ing for this demonstration. This Japanese Writer Exposes Japanese Imperialism; Calls for Chinese Masses’ Defense S. Fujimonri Tells of ‘Powerful Workers and Intellectuals Movement in Opposition to Ruling Class NEW YORK—Speaking Wednes- day night at a meeting of the John Reed Club, 8. Fujimonri, prominent Japanese revolutionary writer,. ex- posed the role of Japanese imperial- iem in the looting of China and pro- vocation against the Soviet Union He called for the solidarity of Am- erican workers with the Japanese and Chinese workers to stop the rob- ber war against China and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Comrade Fujlmonr is a membtr of the Executive of the Left Wing Writers Group in Japan. He des- cribed the proletarian cultural acti- vities in Japan, especially in their relation to the struggle against the attacks on the Chinese masses. He reported the existence of a powerful workers and intellectuals movement. in opposition to the Japanese ruling class. He told of the strong sym- demonstration will be an exposure of the inadequate relief given out by the Home Relief Bureaus and the hundreds of families that are without relief. We ask all the mass organizations to gather at the following points: All mass organizations in the lower Bronx will gather at 149th St. and Prospect Avenue at 10 a. m. All mass organizations in upper and middle Bronx will gather at Wilkins and Intervale Aves. at 10 > JAPAN’S AIM IS TO SEIZE SOVIET UNION TERRITORY iW ould Grab Chinese Easter Eastern Railway; Crush Soviet Mongolia, Take All Man- churia From China |Japanese News Agency Spreads Lie That Red Army Is Massing On Siberian Border The Japanese are reported concentrating |great numbers of troops at Harbin, 200 miles west of the Siberian frontier of the Soviet Union. Under directions of the Japanese, Chi- nese troops of the puppet Kirin government are damaging the Eastern Chinese Railway. The sinister purpose of these monstrous provocations against the Soviet Union are glar- ingly revealed in a secret memorandum which General Honjo, Japanese military commander in Manchuria, sent to the Japanese War Ministry on August 38, 1931. press, this memorandum said: GENERAL HONJO STATES WAR AIMS AGAINST U.S According to reports in the Europe ean Imperialist S.R. “Tn order to strengthen vie position of our r country and its power, it is necessary immediate- ly to take advantage of the diffi- cult world economic position, as well as of the circumstances that the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union has not yet been completed and that China is not a united rountry. All these factors must be utilized for the purpose of the more intense occupation of Manchuria and Mongolia and for realizing the | active aims of the former Siberian expedition. The unity of China, the existence of the Soviet Union and the penetration of America in the Far East, all this does not ac- cord with our interests. If we de- sire to prevent the penetration of America in the Far East, we must strengthen our defensive power and obtain full material fadbocetdianae Before we go forward against Amer- ica, our troops must take up a de- fensive position in China, occupy the Far Eastern region of the Soviet Union and secure these-conntries for ourselves, The influence of Amer- ica in the Philippines must be de- stroyed and this group of Islands brought under our control...” This exposure of the naked aims of Japanese imperialism for a robber war against China and the Soviett Union is reprinted in 2 new pamphlet, “War In China. The pamphlet is being published by Inter- national Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New York City. Ths Daily Worker (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 100 Knoxville Business Men Meet to Fight Jobless Council KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 25—A secret vigilante com- mittee of 100 prominent business men, which in this city means coal operators, textile mill owners and bankers, was formed yesterday by Director of Public Safety Anderson for the pur- pose of helping the police department crush the rapidly develop- ing unemployed movement in Knox-@—————___________ ville and disrupting of relief appara-| tingly revealed today in an editorial a.m. From there proceed to Bor- ough Hall. tus for the Kentucky-Tennessee strik- ers which the Workers International Relief set up locally. In the few weeks since it has been organized, the Knoxville Unemployed Council has already forced the City Council to give hundreds of workers on the city charity lst two days work a week instead of the previous onc. Local leaders of the Unemployed Council have been approached repeat~- edly by leading business men with offers of jobs if “They would only leave the Reds alone.” In Turley, Tenn., where last week a miner fell dead of starvation while working in a mine and where it is a common sight to see working miners picking grass for their supper on their way home from work, several hundred miners who were invited to attend a meeting called by the operators to discuss the strike arose and ordered a preacher who launched an attack on the Na- tional Miners Union to leave at once. ‘There is no N.M.U. local at Turley, but as a result of this meeting, miners in Turley sent a delegation to ask the Kentucky District of the N.M.U. for organizers. Proceedings of a meeting of Knox- ville business men which was never reported in local papers were unwit- Because of the large delegations cided to have a two day conference Sunday at 6 p. m. unions and leagues met during all pathies of the Japanese masses, Two Day T. U. U. L. Report on R. I. Conference; Ford to L. U. Plenum that will attend the conference and the many problems that wil! be taken up, the Buro of the Council de- instead of oneday. The conference will begin its deliberations Saturday, at 2 p. m., and will adjourn Comrade Ford, who has just returned from the Plenum of the Red International of Labor Uniens, held in Moscow, will give a report on the Plenum. The preparations for the conference are in full swing. The week, electing delegates and parti- cipating in the discussions and preparations. All delegates must come on time to the conference. This Saturday, at 2 p. m., Casino, 142 Second Avenue, corner 9th Street. at Stuyvesant in the Knoxville Times which ex- presses agreement with the National Guard officer who said at that meet- ing, “We shouldn’t worry about the Sino-Japanese war as much as about the spread of Communism in Ken- tucky and Tennessee. In my opinion the National Guard will be called on to suppress disorders at home before {t will be mobilized for foreign war.” In preparation for widespread are rests of militant workers on framede up charges the Knoxville police broke a century old precedent yesterday with the announcement that heres after no reporteds could look at the Police blotter to find out who had been arrested on the previous day and why. Nearing Opens Drive For Membership In Friends Soviet Union NEW YORK.—Scott Nearing, well known lecturer, is the first big gun used by the East Bronx Branch in their drive for 1,000 new members in thetr vicinity. They are inaugurating this drive for membership in order to combat the war on the Chinese workers and peasants and to prevent the attempted invasion of the Soviet Union. For this purpose, the East Bronx Branch has received the co-operation of Scott Naring, who will spak on “Capitalist Anarchy vs Planned Economy in the Soviet Union”, on Friday evening, February 26, at Am- bassador Hall, 3875 Third Avenue (near Claremont Parkway) Bronx, at 8 pm. Workers must understand that a war on the Chinese masses—a war on the Russian workers and peasants, means # war on the working elass as 2 whole. ‘Turn out to this Bast Bron rally im 4