The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1932, Page 3

> j ‘ «| % 1 ! __ DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1932 _ _ Page Three a DEFENDING THE FOREIGN BORN BEFORE A CONGRESS COMMITTEE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mittee: “Are you ® Comminist?” “Where were yoh born?” “Do yos be- lieve in overthrowing the govern- ment?” The “Gentlemen” Are Surprised The chairman of the governmental committee was the worried Samuel Dickstein, @ representative from New York. Beside him was his frequent spokesman, Mr. Johnson of Wash- ington, harsh and hard-featured, gtown old in Congress. At the other end of the table was the fat and genial Mr, Millard of New York and next to him the fat and kindly Mr. Cable of Ohio. Along the side of the table, and across from where the defenders of the foreign born sat, was the young and pompous Mr. Dies of Texas. The other two rep- resentatives, a Mr. Houston of Del- aware and an unidentifed Mr, Moon, sat apathetically in their chairs, their expressions gradually changing from dullness to a blank surprise. Opposed to the Representatives were J. Louis Engdahl, from the In- ternational Labor Defense; James W. Ford, from the national office of the . Trade Union Unity League; Charles Oberkirch, from the New York dis- trict of the Trade Union Unity League; Oakley Johnson, from the John Reed Club and the Workers Cultural Federation; and Max Levin, attorney of the League for the Pro- tection of the Foreign Born. What Is Behind the Drive Against Foreign Born Engdahl, despite a barrage of qnestions and objections,—“That's irrelevant, Mr. Chairman! I object to that statement about the police gassing their Committee last year, that can’t go in the record! That | stuff about strikes and unémploy- ment has nothing to do with this Dbill!"—despite these interruptions, te which he replied, Engdahl went on with the reading of his state- ment, He presented the unwelcome facts of nationwide misery, of wage euts and unemployment, of the struggle of the workers against all this; and exposed, then, the drive against aliens as a means to divide the workers, to terrorize the for- eign born, to harass trade unions. He cited the fact that there are 14,000,000 foreign born workers in the United States, that they form 58 per cent of the steel workers and 69 per cent of the clothing Workers, that Secretary of Labor Doak threatens to deport 20,000 during 1932; he/ gave the further facts that thousands of people are rounded up in raids, on suspicion only arrested without warrants, held illegally, frequently denied counsel, and generally terrorized in the effort to break strikes and break up the organizations of mill- tant workers. Engdah! declared himself a Combvwnist, and there- fore opposed to all immigration restriction. Communists Show the Way Oakley Johnson, a member of the teaching staff of the College of ‘the City of New York, in representing cultural workers generally, offered date from American school books as evidence of a long-established tradi- tion of America as @ refuge for political exiles. He read passages fromAmericanzation, a school reader publisheed by MacMillan in 1920, containing the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and articles, poems, and speechs by Abraham Lincoln, Felicia Hemans, Danieel Webster, Frank O. Lowden, Bliss Perry, E. E. Slosson, and scores of other prominent men and women, covering the subjects of political asylum, America as a home for the oppressed, America’s friend- liness to immigrants, the rights of minorities, the danger of tyrrany by majorities, the rights of free speech and assemblege, the right of all to hold diverse political opinions. He said that liberalism was hot a special growth in America, but a natural result of aur traditions, and that liberals now, disillusioned by govern- mental acts destroying the tradition of liberty, disilluisioned especially by the cruel treatihent aceotded im- migrants, were turning to Commun= ism. The Representatives were elec- trifieed by his statement that him- sif, along with thousands of other college and university teachers and students, would, at the coming pres- idential election, vote the Communist Party program fot the first time. Admits Terror Against Native Workers ‘The members of the Committee were disturbed by the repeated ac- counts of the mistreatment of aliens. Isn't it true,” said Mr. Cable of Ohio, “that in strikes the native born are treated just as harshly as the foreign born? Take this Ken- tueky strike, for instance, the na- tive born mountain whites afe beaten up just as bad as the foreign born, aren’t they?” “That's true,’ Oakley Johnson re- torted, “and that’s why native born workers unite with foreign born workers against the anti-alien bills. ‘These bills are directed against com- ) munists, Capitalist oppression rests on all workers, That’s why further- more, artists, writers, teachers, and white collat workers generally are uniting with all other workers against class oppression.” Neegro Communist Defends Foreign) Born James W. Ford, speaking for or- gawiized labor, and declaring himself a Communist, showed the reactionary purpose of the capitalist government in directing their attacks on the Negro native born workers do not want to restrict immigration—that in fact their interests. are identical with the workers of all countries in opposing capitalism. He exposed the demagogy of the Committee member, Mr, Johnson of Washington, who claimed that the restriction of im- migration would materially kelp un; employment, by showing that un- employment is universal and is in- creasing in capitalist countries and that it is due not to immigration but to the breakdown of the capitalist system. Ford’s presence at this meeting was something of a sensation. It was the first time that a Negro had testi- fied before this Committee for over a Score of years. Dies, the Southerner, asked Ford where he was borm “In Alabama,” Ford replied. Dies had not @ word to say when Ford included the immigration bills along with the legal lynching of the nine Scottsboro Negroés, as part of a campaign in the terrorization of one or another section of the working masses. Max Levin confined himself to the legal aspects of the policy of the Department of Labor under the leadership of Secretary Doak. He demonstrated even to the Committee that the raids on homes and on public meetings and the rounding up of crowds of workers on suspicion only, arresting them without warrant and holding them frequently without hearings and frequently with benefit of counsel was an abrogation of law and order and a cancellation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, calculated to bring the foreign born of the United States and their chil- dren who are born here, into a state of panic. Very nearly a third of our population, he stated, will be directly affected by the proposed restrictions, which variously prpose registration of aliens, frequent reporting to author- ities, finger-printing, and the like— entirely unjust and degrading im- positions. The proposal te wholly exclude alien Communists from en- trance to the country is a totally uncalled for discrimination, he de- Clared, against a political belief which is not at this time illegal in the United States. Bills Aim to Divide Workers Charles Oberkirch, in his testi- sedstre3imony,rd..s fi firfi? firm mony, stressed the necessity for labor organization along class lines and scored the American Federation of Labor which in its policy of “class collaboration” betrays the workers and fails to fight against wage cuts and unemployment and for unem- ployment insurance. He attacked the immigration bills as designed to di- vide native born against foreign-bor) workers. “It places another weapon in the hands of the bosses,” he said, “to break-our strikes when we resist wage cuts and fight for better con- ditions.” ‘The anti-allen bills have been lobbied for by dozens of so-called patriotic organizations-the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, the Amefican War Mothers, the Amer- jean Defense Society, inc., the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons ahd Daughters of the Pilgrims, the United Daughters of the Confeder- acy, the American Legion, the Na- tional Security League and so on ad naustam,—these organizations have supported the attatks on aliens and support every restrictive measure. The League for the Protection of the Foreign Born was the first to appear before Congress with a pro- test, The League’s delegates argued before the Committee, Tuesday, March 1, for three hours, and for the first time these members of Congress listened to the viewpoint of revolutionary workers. Both Ford and Oberkirch told the Committee that capitalism is dying, and that only a workers and farmers’ government can overcome the poverty and misery under which the pro- letatiat is now ground down, Liberator Anniversary Concert, New Star Casino, March 13th ‘The Liberator is the most important weapon of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Its weekly paper is at the same time agitator, propagandist and organizer in the struggles of Ne- groes and white workers. This im- portance is given to it by the im- portance of the struggles. ‘The struggle for Negro rights is im- portant not only to the 12,000,000 Negroes. The oppression of the Ne- gro masses is at the same time the measure of the oppression of the white masses. “Labor in the white skin cannot be free so long as labor in the black skin is in chains” (Marx.) ‘The working class as a whole must take up the fight against the national oppression of the Negro, for equality and the right of self-determination, as a special part of its own struggle for liberation. The next issue of the Liberator will appear on March 9th. This issue will be a special anniversary number con- sisting of 10 pages and it is the duty of every mass organization, workers’ club, Party units, every subscriber, sympathizer, to immediately send in greetings to the Liberator for this anniversary issue. These greetings will insure this issue of the Liberator as well as future issues, In addition to the above, the Lib- erator is holding an extraordinary concert and entertainment at New Star Casino, 107th and Park Avenue, Sunday, March 13th. The following organizations will participate in the program: Freiheit Singing Chorus, John Reetd Club, Proletbuehne The- The JOBLESS FREEZE, STARVE FOR “AID” Sioux City ty “Job” Is Form of Slavery SIOUX CITY, Icwa. — “Relief” work here is being concentrated by Mayot Hayes on the Perry Creek pob where unemployed get 24 hours work out of 192 at 30 cents an hour. A married man with less than four children gets 12 hours work out of 192. A single man gets no work at all. He is forced to slave at the Wall Street mission for a bowl of soup or for a few rags. ‘The men working on the Perry Creek pob range in age from 18 years old to 70 yeats old. Most of these men afé undernourished and do not have sufficient clothing. They work in the most severe weather, snow, rain zero weather, and many, especially the aged suffer much from the exposure and cold. Many of the men are hardly able to speak or answer questions they lyecome so cold and weak from working in the cold, slop and mud. They dare not ffuit as they have only one choice work on this job or starve. (CONTINUED FROM FAGH ONE) mind for action there. The idea of a Russian attack upon Japan or of a Russian invasion of Corea is preposterous for both strategic and economic reasons, For both stta- tegic and economic reasons the idea of a Japanese descent upon the Siberian littoral is not quite so rous.” Admits Soviet Peace Policy. The New York ‘Tribune further ad- mits that the Soviet Union's “naval defenses in Siberian waters are 60 trifling that in contrast with the Japanese navy they are unworthy of mention.” Soviet economy is aimed at im- proving the conditions of the toiling masses, not in building up huge war machines like the imperialist powers. in the oviet Union jess than 5 per cent of the budget is spent for de- fense purposes, and this only because the oviet Union is surrounded by imperialist enemies who have at- tacked it before and are now frati- tically preparing another armed at- tack, in the imperialist countries, the largest part of the budget (82 cents out of the dollar) ts spent for. preparations for unperialist wars in vhe struggle between the imperial- ists for markets and colonies, for new sources of raw material, for new populations to rob and oppress. The imperialists also build up huge mill+ tary establishments for use against the home masses, to suppress their revolutionary struggles against stwr- vation, mass misery, evictions and Tuling-class terror. William Philip imms, foreign edi- tor of the Scripps-Howard: news- papers, sees Japan trying to wind up her disastrous affair at Shanghai in order to throw her full military foree against the rising revolutionary struggles of the Manchurian Chinese end Korean masses and for an armed attack against the Soviet Union. Workers! Rally to Fight Against Imperialist War. ‘The spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office a few days ago de- clared Japan’s intention of sending a huge new army to the Manchurian border of the Soviet Union. Workers! Imperialist wat is on! The robber war against China is a prelude to the planned armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union and its flourishing Socialist construction. The dying capitalist world is at- tempting to extricate itself from the crisis at the expense of the life blood of the world working class, at the expense of the achievements of the working class in the Soviet Union and in Soviet China! Dying capi- talism will stop at, no crime against the working class. Workers! Rally to the struggle against imperialist war! Smash the war plots of the imperialists to plunge you into a new and bloodier world slaughter! Defend the Soviet Union! Demand hands off China! Demand the withdrawal of all im- perialist troops and warships from China! Support the revolttionary struggles of the Chinese and Japa- nese masses! Drive out the diplo- matic agents of Japanes® imperial- ism, which is butchering the Chinése masses and acting as the spearhead in the war provocations against the Soviet Union! Imperialist dispatches from the Far East report a tremendous growth of mass resistance on the part of UNEMPLOYMENT WORRY DRIVES WORKER INSANE. NEW YORK, N. ¥.—Going tempo- rarily insane by the worries and suf- fering brought on by his unemploy- ment, Martin Walsh, 38 of 31,72 33rd St., Astoria, Queens, tried to kill his wife and daughter and committed suicide, After cutting them with a knife he leaped from a third floor window on to a picket fence. At the rospital they report small chance for his re- covery. its anniversary: Robert Minor, M. Ol- gin, B, D, Amis and Ben Gold. J Oity, KUOMINTANG MILITARISTS BETRAY HEROIC MASSES OF CITY OF SHANGHA {CONTINUED FROM PAGE UNED develop into a route, with the Jap- anese hurling their troops forward, confident there would be little or no resistance. The Japanese report the slaughter of over 2,000 of the Shang- hai defense forces, with Japanese casualties less than 100. Japanese confidence in the Kuo- mintang disruption of the Shahghat defense is cléeatly expressed \n @ Tokio dispatch to the New York Times, which states: “It is not belived here that Chang Kai-shek or any other government leader will aid the Nineteenth Route Army or that any further resistance will be experienced, ...” U. S., British Engineered Fake Truce The sell-out of the Shanghai de- fense followed directly on the heels of the fake “truce” engineered by the United States and British Con- suls at Shanghai with the aid of Kuomintang militarists and bankers in the South China city. The sell- out was preceded by an attack on the mass anti-impetialist movement in Shanghai, the Kuomintang mili- tarists threatening with death any Report Japan Preparing for “Dramatic Happening on the Soviet Union Border the Korean masses against their Japanee appressors. Several armed uprisings of Korean peasants have occurred. The Japanese imperialists are also faced with the rising revolu- tionary struggles of the Japanese starving workers and ruined peas- ants, who are more and more turn- ing to the leadership of the Japa- nese Communist Party, which, in spite of the bloody police terror, is carrying on a heroic struggle against Japanese imperialism, against its robber war on China. In Manchutla, the 21st Brigade of the Chinese forces of the pup- pet Kirin government yesterday revolted, joining the anti-imperial- ist struggle or the Chinese and Korean masses in Manchuria, _ A Darien dispatsh reports the rapid growth of the mass anti-im- perialist struggle around Tunhua, near the Korean border. Chinese partisan troops are harrying the Japanese garrisons in the district, The Japanese are rushing fresh troops into the district. A Mukden dispatch reports that Japanese. are fleeing from Harbin, following the revolt of the 2ist Chinese Brigade ahd the blowing up by Chinese work- ers of a huge powder magazine on the outskirts of Harbin. ‘The Japanese are preparing to of- ficially inaugurate the new “indepen- dent” state in Manchuria on March 5, ‘They are still in doubt of the name for the new state. A few weeks ago they proposed to name it Anhua—“Land of Peace.” This piece of imperialist cyni¢ism did not go over 86 well, however, and later pro- posals were to nathe it Tatung— meaning “Great Unity.” ‘The rising resistance of the masses is giving the lie to both of these shameful ex- amplés of imperialist hypocrisy. Chinese worker or soldier daring to| attack Japanese or other imperialist | agents in the city. Gen. T8ai made an attempt to crush the anti- Japanese boycott, ordering the re- opening of Chinese stores and shops which had been forced to close their doors by the revolutionary masses. The Kuomintang hes agreed to the Japanese policing the proletarian district of Chapei, where in spite of the butchery of more than 10,000 men, women and children by t Japanes, th masss still living in the ruind district have shown the firee~ est resistance to the Japanese in- vaders. Masses and Many Soldiers Resist Sell-Out The Shanghai masses and the re- volutionary clements in the Nine- teenth Route Army are vigorously opposing the betrayal of the defense of Shanghai. A Shanghai dispatch reports that “retiring Chinese forces were subjected to heavy rifle and machine gun fire from supporting troops in their rear who disapproved of their enforced retirement.” ‘The heroic defense at Shangnai has The heroic defense at Shanghai served further to develop the na- tional revolutionary struggle through- out China, The defense of Sharighai ‘was coming more and more under the control and leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. The imperialists and their Kuomintang lackeys saw their rule of robbery and oppression threatened. This is the key to the frantic efforts of the United States end British imperialists and their Kuomintang lackeys to betray the struggle at Shanghai. ‘The im- perialists and their Kuomintang hangmen are now preparing a blood bath against the revolutionary Shanghai masses. The United States imperialists are openly supporting the murderous butchery of the Chin- ese masses by the Japanese im- perialists, United States troops and warships are a tShanghai menacing the revolutionary masses. United States warships are up the Yangize River attacking the Chinese Red Army and threatening the Soviet districts. The Wall Street Hunger government which has sentenced to starvation and misery over 12,000,000 American workers and their families is helping to butcher the Chinese masses, is playing a leading role in the preparation of armed interven- tion against the Soviet Union, American workers! Rally to the defense of the Chinese masses! De- | mand Hands off China! Hands off the Soviei Union! Demand the withdrawal from China of American warships and troops! Drive out the diplomatic agents of Japanese im- perialism which is supported by the Wall Street. government in its mur- derous attacks on the Chinese masses! Support the heroic struggle of the Chinese and Japanese masses against Japanese imperialism! Hail the soli- darity of the revolutionary masses of Japan and China! Show your own solidarity with them! Prevent the shipment of troops and munitions to the Far East! Smash the war pro- vocations against the Soviet Union! Imperialists Fear Revolutionary Chinese Masses Fear of the revolutionary masses in EVERY WORKER MUST CONTRIBUTE HIS SHARE TO KEEP UP THE PAPER OF HIS CLASS; RUSH FUNDS TO ‘DAILY’ District Quota To Feb. 2t Ree. Feb. 25 Total Feb. 2% = % of Quota District 1 $ 8.00 $293.45 19.5 District 2 141,97 6,113.51 District 3 ‘628.81 District 4 1.00 94.25 District 5 1.00 104:5 District 6 1.00 558.06 District 7 - 687.64 District 8 145.75 949.25 Dist 9 5.00 217.48 District 10 6.00 40.92 District 11 1.25 3.25 District 12 District 13 23.00 District 16 39.60 District 16 District 17 District 18 09 District 19 4.85 $108.92 $10,970.14 Mio zee - 101.20 $10,063.02 $408.32 $10,471.54 20.8 Harry Gelman, worcester, pisrrict DISTRICT 12 $22.50, to bo credited to Previously reported Previously reported. $129.88 Unit 3, Bec. 6. Pittsburgh, DIS' 2 Group comrades fh Jall.$1.00 DISTRICT 33 Previously reported. $6,111.51 ——-= Previously reported $873.62 ‘New Jerse $104.35 se reetorata ‘Lerner, Newark. 1.00 DISTRICT 6 Bhoel oP, 2, Long Island Previously reported $657.08 LOB Angeles 25.00 J Abbing: Pat Rock- hte — bye Mrs, A Holland, Nor- $398.62 brjcastoes ce, DISTRICT 15 New York City Previously reported..$156.55 $558.08 Connecticut Charles Werner = dada 2 Oguinick, “Norwich... 5.00 2 Friend — ar Previously eee $687.84 Books, Portehes! 4.00 G. Kertes DISTRICT 8 ‘Massacho: CORRECTION Previously reported.890.50 Books, springtie! 30.50 Massachusetts Chicago, I. ital ¥.0.L., Penbody—__ BE. 1.00 $198.05 Unlt $, See. 6, Wor- Section 5 27.00 cester H. Newton 3.00 DISTRICT 16 Section 2 3.25 previously reported__$14.40 $293.45 Section 6 —_____11.50 pistRict 17 Frishkof? —__—___— See. 5, Conference 100.00 Previously. reportes 678.50 Finnish Federation - er pevy DISTRICT 18 Bhule 34, Bronx. $545.25 Previously reported._$24.25 ‘Women's Counc! a DISTRICT 9 affair —— 15.00 previously reported...$212.48 Montana 1.80 Minnesota D. Comes, Butte. 1.00 1.00 Parmers’ Labor Club D. Dy, Butte... 1.00 15 N. ¥. Mills. 6.00 § Fafutis, Butte 25 3.88 —— 8 Gongs, Butte 25 4 $217.48 & tte § (aie, omen 28 . . Wikan, Butte. 125 0.00 DISTRICT 1 1 Mhiesetade: aad 390 Ba Butte 3 . M. R., Buttes 85 100 Unemployed Couineil, 180 Mo. ty Blew Clty 2.00 & Wits, Bille— AP ut J. Runvelman, Bt. Joo | eB Bae 3 os Se Section, Butto — 985 ‘59 Allen Ware, Houston 2.00 ae 50 — “ = DISTRICT 11 bia Py By tener, reviousl; rted..... $68.65 aia {028048 Previously ein wpenver, Colorado TRICT ‘Daxote Daily Worse, atratr..$21.00 Provioully, repasted_sete.ts men’s Education 7 A in igor — “eu collection at Pr yas ‘ ve 9.85 few. York (2 REO ‘Unit 2, ae 1.00 \., SER) $99.50 co preveeg Prashett WA we ML Tote eee ttO TO _|targe fleets of Nankin | ialist dispateh from that c Shanghai is expressed in an imper- | city “There are lively troubles in the International Settlement. Chinese snipers become active at every op- | portunity. . “An attempt to explode the | Japanese cruisers Ole and Idzumo | —the latter the flagship of Admiral | Nomura—with mines floating in the Whangpoo River yesterday | gave the foreign settlement its | worst fright.” } The Kuomintang militarists imme- diately denied responsibility for the | attack on the Japanese warships and | apologized to the Japanese and other | imperialist enemies of masses. U, S,, British Troops Attack Refugees | United States and British troops | yesterday attacked Chinese veic cs | attempting to escape an | bombardment by Japanese planes | dropping 250-pound bombs on crowds of refugees. The refugees, attempting to get into the Inter- national Settlement, were met by the Unied States and British troops whe attacked them with clubs and rifle butts, holding them up and making their rear ranks an easy target for the Japanese bombers. Many hundreds were killed and maimed by the Japanese bombs. A Shanghai dispatch reports in- tense activities on the part of Chin- ese Communists in rallying and or- ganizing the destitute refugees and| tens of thousands of unemployed workers for resistance against the imperialists and their Kuomintang | agents. Many soldiers in the Kuo- mintang armies rallying to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, leading the Japanese to ex- press doubt of the ability of the Kuo- mintang “to keep its troops to the terms of the armistice.” Communist Agitation Among Japanese Forces The Japanese slso gravely con- cerned on the growing unrest in the Japanese forces at Shanghai which is fostered by an extensive campaign of Chinese and Japanese Commu- nists among the troops. A Shanghai dispatch reports: “The Japanese charge that Chin- ese Communists in Shanghai have | become extremély busy and are now even distributing Communist literature urging a mutiny by Jap- anese soldiers and sailors.” Eugefie Chen yesterday admitted that China has been betrayed again, but attempted to cover up his own part in that betrayal by placing full blame for the latest treachery on the Wall Street Butcher Chiang Kai- shek. Chen admitted that the latest | betrayal of China had “made of the gallantry of the Nineteenth Army a | | leadership - competent te give impuisés of the masses.” This is the se Chen who has} many limes engaged in bloody at- tacks on the revolutionary Chinese clared that Chiang continues a non-resistance policy toward the Japanese, a policy which many in- volve “the abandonment of all China’s ceastal river ports and the retire- ment of the Chinese armies to poltts in the interior difficult of attack.” Kuomintang Planes Sent Against Soviet Districts Chen further admitted that Chiang and other Nanking officials had blocked the sending of reinforcements to the Shanghai defenders, He ed- mitted that the failure to send the z and Canton planes against the Japanese was be- cause these planes weve being uséd in the interior agains: revolutionary masses and their Red Armics. Chen, who 2 few months ago openly supported the Japanese seizure of Manchuria, predicted (on good information, no doubt) that the Japanese “will begin a military movement up the Yangtze coast Chinkiang and Nanking as Volutionary strugé] against th im- pralst brgands and hr5?jKragainedts far as Hankow. Such a move would be directed against the Chinese Soviet Districts and the Chinese Red Armies, the only force in China leading @ re- yolutionary struggie agaiast the im- perialist brigands and their Kuomin- tang tools. Japanese troops are al- ready at Hankow, where they have turned the Japanese concession into a fortress against the Hankow work ers and the Chinese Ret Armies op- erating around Hankow. Japanese, United States and British warships are attacking the Red Armies and the Soviet districts. Japanese Business Men Admit U. 5. Support, ‘The Denkikoyokai, the Hiectricat Association of Japan, yesterday broadcasted an appeal to foreign in- terests to support the Japanese im-~- perialists against the rising anger of the masses in the American and European imperialist hountries. The th | appeal points out that the the acts of Japanese imperialism in Shanghai are supported by the United Btates and Esropean imperialists. It states, in part: “Second, in the present case it was the Chinese who created snch a sitdation in Shanghai that the authorities of the International Settlement deemed it necessary to declare a state of siege and to carry out a scheme of common de- fense through the instrumentality of all the various foreign garrisons, including the American and Jap- anese.” With typical imperialist cynism and hypocrisy, the new Japanese Commander at Shanghai, Gen, Shira- kawa denounced the Chinese workers and soldiers defending Shanghai for their “obstinate insistence on resist~ ing the Japanese forces” attacking the Chinese city of Shanghai. ‘The Japanese are bombarding the railway between Shanghai and Nan- _.. | king in order to afford the Nanking government a good excuse for noi sending troops ta Shanghai. - the Chinese | § |tures and other things tragic sacrifice because China today | i direction to the great Hsing patriotic | KY. STRIKE EXECUTIVE ACTS TO GET (CONTINDED OM PAGE ONE? and have been literally | relief driven bi y starvation and on their re- turn to work only to take an imme diate wage cut. Cuts are | place throughout the entire field. ‘The need for relief in this’ critical stage of the strike was never greater Warrants for evictions have now) soared to over 200. To house these 200 evicted families 12 tents are available with no funds to buy ir It is imperative that relief collections throughout the entire country be in- tensified if the miners are not to he re. | starved back to work. Relief distributions took place to- day in the Brush Creek and Four Milés Section despite the attempt of thugs to prevent any relief from coming in. The Central Relief, de- spite the terfor and with the little relief available, is going into all sec- tions. Every worker should intensify his activity for relief! The coal oper- ators through their murders and| jailings are now attempting especial- ly to smash the National Miners’ | Union and vic ize the most mili- tant strikers blacklisting them. Relief is needed now moxe than ever | to face the terror and hunger pro- gram of the operators by 2 PINEVILLE, K —Indictments against the t mine strike leaders were re-| turned yesterday in the Bell| County Circuit Court, on the March charge of criminal syndicalism, The} indictment states that the defendants “did unlawfully, willfully, wrongfully and feloniously conspire, confederate and band themselves together and with other persons unknown did agree to and with each other and among themselves to print, publish. utter and circulate and have in their possession newspapers, circulars, pic- | advocating | rebellion and advised forcible res: tance to constituted authority and| advocated criminal syndicalism and sedition forcible abolition of govern- ment and the change by force andj yiolence of the form of goyernment,! vee JELLICOE, Ky., ) of more than 50 gun t hugs, ment officials and the relatively miners from struck and workin, area met here today for a succes: to augment the 38 local gun th | was to be held and boaste reds could meet openly in tucky.” But the “reds” did meet, and, although the threat of an armed attack by the gun thugs hung over the conference, the day ended with- out blood being shied. Aside from the terrer and the seventy-mile distance that some of the delegates had to traverse there was the difficuliy of getting a mect~ ing plaed that had to be overcome. ‘The chief of police of Jellicve, an ex-miner, who was appointed a few weeks ago in a demagogi¢c attempt to convince the local miners that they ate represented in the town- ship's government, is a member of the National Miners’ Union and ts on the relief committe? of his local. He hed promised the executive board | of the suwike that the city hall would always be available for meetings of the National Miners’ Union. When he was put to the test by the strike executive and told that the confer- ence would be held in Jelliclé he weakened enough to ask the advice of the town board, which, of course, ordered that he break up the con- ferenee. Caught betwetn the fear of the local operators and the anger of the miners, with whom he had worked for years, the chief of po- lice, after being satisfied by a local lawyer that the N.M.U. is a legal or- ganization, decided not to interfere, although he did break his promise to allow the delegates to meet in his gatage. It was this split in the armed forees of the operators, as! Well as the certainty ot bitter re sistance to attack on the part of the miners, that held the gun thugs oft, | although a struggle had been fore- shadowed earlier in the day When @ Carload of the thugs had tried to jockey a carload of delegates off o cliff on the road to Jellicoe. The delay caused by the difficulty in finding @ place to meet shortened the conference, bul there was suffi- cient time before the sun had set lo lay down the policy for the future conducting of the sirike. Briefly, the policy follows: R: ognizing that the strike has been weakened, and that, despite the face that several thousand miners are still striking, a really effective strike exists in but 12 to 15 mines, the main task in the immediate rune must be the strengthening of the strike wherever possible, and the calling off of the strike in the 12 to 15 mines where the strike has been broken; with the view to making set- ilements where the strike is strong- est, The strike committee considers that with the weakening of the coal operators that settlements bringing definite improvements in conditions for the miners can be made, such as the recognition of the mine commit- tee, no discrimination, checkweigh- men, payment for dead work, etc. In certain mines an increase in wages can also be obtained, the stri.c executive believes, The strike is thus brought to a sectional basis, and individual mines will be struck for improved condi- Pineville. FAVORABLE INDIVIDUAL SETTLEMENT constitution and laws of the state of Kentucky and of the United States.” Witnesses were deputy sheriffs, gun thugs, including Frank Baker, deputy sheriff, who led the raid on warehouse of the W.I. R. in Another witness against all defendants was Pearl Osborne, chief of police, who participated in thé kidnapping and brutal beating of Joe Weber and Bill Dunean with the cooperation of Harlan gun thugs. rr ae The Executive Strike Committee at its meeting last night decided to issue 10,000 leaflets exposing the railroad- ing to jail of the ten strike leaders and calling on the strikers and min- ers who are at work to join in a mighty protest against this attack on all workers. Protest meetings havé been ar- ranged in the Clear Fork Seétions for Friday at 2 m., at Middlesboto on n., Dean Brancii or Straight Creek at 1 o'clock, Gatliff on at 2 o'clock. on Satu Saturday Local unions of the National Min- ers’ Union will immediately flood the Commonwealth attorney's office with resolutions denouncing this latest attempt of the coal operators to deprive the strikers of their lead- ers and to force them back to the mines defeated and demanding the immediate release of all prisoners and the repeal of the labor baiting Kentucky criminal syndicalism laws. Workers throughout the counrty are urgéd to pass similar resolutions, to send protest wires and organize protest meetings against the indici- ment of the ten strike leaders on a charge of criminal syndicalism with & possible penitentiary sentence of 2C years. The Central Strike Executive et its meeting last night elected @ Cen- tral Defense Committee of 11 miem- bers and worked out plans for the holding of a broad defense confcr- ence representing thousands of strik- ers and working miners in Kentucky in two weeks’ time. Section defense organizations are already on the job attempting to raise bond to releace the indicted leaders, . farch 2.—Overcoming the armed threat the treachery of the local govern- huge distances, more than 100 g mines throughout the strike sful conference. Three carloads of Bell County deputies travelled 35 mile: ugs who were deputized today by thte town board to smash the meeting. They cluttered up the roadway in front of the pool-room where the conference hat they would see to it that “no n-@ that the present. strike can under no circumstances be considered a do- feat, for not only has the strike stoppd short the flood of wage-cuts that the operators were putting into effect, but the National Miners’ Union has been established and is daily growing stronger in prepara- tion for the future strike struggle: that will inevitably take plact under its leadership in the Kentucky-Ten- nessee field. Set quotas, start revolation- ary competition, in fight to save Daily Worker, WORKERS IN LYNN MASS, RESISTING CUT IN GE. PLANT LYNN, Mass., Feb. 29. — A wage slash in the General Electric River Works plant here has been tempo- rarily stopped ty the fighting spirit of the workers. However, unless the workers prepare for organized strike action, the bosses afte determined to put over new wage cuts, The Lynn “Sun.” reporting the. wage cutting ‘campaign and the re- sistance of the Workers, says: “Although there was a continuanct of the wage slashing campaign at the General Electric River Works plant last week it was learmed yesterday that the genéral slashing of wages which Was predicted in the Sunday Sun has been deferred to @ later date regahas the West Lynh plant Phe most sensational developmnénta at ihe General Blectrie works duriag the wetk was the reported smashing of windows last Thursday th Building 40 when workers were informed of a pay slash in that building. “Also during the week workers’ | groups held méetings in @ downtown hall to discuss organization into labor unions and possibly striking. “The spirit of unrest that has been breeding and milling for a long time is rampant throughout both plants, While most of this feeling is under cover, occasionally there is an out- break of open threats and the strike talk persists in spdreading.” Worker permanent sustaining fund. Get your pledge cards and contribute now as much as you can to Save the Workers’ Paper. KIDNEY AGONY? cea. tions in that particular mine, It was pointed out by Tom Johnson, National Organizer of the NMU,, wid, rea etAD BER GAtARAG “renter wagner aHaTET Tf i *