The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1932, Page 1

=. oO : WORKERS All Out for “Daily” Tag Days ‘ THE WORLD. ral | © 3 March 11, 12, 13.—Watch = "GHEE nage a For Address of Your i % : i : Ce ntral Orga unist Party U. S. A. Nearest Station « ‘(Section of the Communist International) —=—— — = re wee _Yol. 1X, No. 55 eo Emtered as sccund-class matter at the Punt Office at New York, NW. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _ MASS DEMONSTRATIONS TO BE HELD IN KENTUCKY AGAINST 12 INDICTMENTS: = z | Miners to Protest in Many Places Despite Vicious Terror of Gun Thugs BULLETIN. PINEVILLE, Ky., March 3.—Mass outdoor demonstra- | tions in protest against the indictment of the 12 strike leaders | and relief workers in Pineville on criminal syndicalism charges | will be held in both Tennessee and Kentucky tomorrow and | Saturday. The Kentucky demonstrations will be held in open violation of Sheriff Broughton’s ban on thé legal activities of the National Miners’ Union. The. jailed comrades have not yet been arraigned. Resolutions protesting the indictment of the strike leaders for the crime of organizing the starving and bitterly exploited miners and of providing them with food and clothing will be | drawn up at the demonstrations and presented to Bell County officials. Educators Make Vigorous Protest Against Ky. Terror NEW YORK.—More than 175 prominent educators, scien- tists and scholars, representing the faculties of nearly every college and university in New York, made public a vigorous protest yesterday against the brutal terror of the Kentucky coal operators and their state, it was announced by the National Gommittee for the Defense of Polit-¢ ——— ical Prisoners. While the protest , Sarah Lawrence College, Long Island gives the false impression that the | University. capitalist state is usually impartial,| It was under the auspices of the the Kentucky situation being an ex- ception in their opinion, the state- ment nevertheless draws sharp at- (ention to the murderous terror in Kentucky, proving by facts them- selves the capitalist class nature of ‘the state. ‘The signers, who include George .S. Gounts, Lee Wilson Dodd. Leo Wol- man, Franz Boas, Corliss Lamont, R. G. Tugwell, Irwin Edman and Max Lerner, represent the following institutions: Columbia University, Columbia Law School, Columbia Col- lege, Barnard College, Teachers’ Col- lege, College of the City of New York, Hunter College, New York Univer- sity, Union Theological Seminary, New School for Social Research, En- @yelopedia of the Social Sciences and {CONTINUED ON PAGE THREED Brighton Strikers To Report Tonight NEW YORK, N. Y.—The strike | | committee of the Brighton Beach bread strikers will present a report on how te fight the injunction the bakery bosses are trying to secure against the strike at a mass meet- ing tonight at 3034 Ocean Park Avenue. | ‘This meeting is of, vital impor- | tance to all workers, since it will| | take steps to combat a threat to their right to fight for lower bread prices. Workers’ Cooperatives Issue Call TO SAVE DAILY WORKER Workers’ organizations of the United States, spread the Daily Worker Emergency Drive. Con- tributions are coming in too slowly. Suspension ig rapidly advancing. Follow the example indi- cated in the following appeal. Raily the workers to support their paper in its most critical hour. ll Co-Operators and Co- Operatives Comrades: | The Daily Worker is threatened with suspension because of lack of funds. is we cannot afiord. To suspend the Daily Worker, which gives leadersiip to the American working class, including the working class cooperatives, would be suicide in the face of the present day conditions when the workers throughout the country need the collec- tive organizer the most, when the farmers through the length and breadth of the land look for leadership in their struggle against worsening conditions, when the social .fas- ci8ts resort, to more and more deceptive methods to fool the workers to accopt 22 standard of life. F | Therefore, the ve Council of the Workers’ and | Farmers’ Cooy ive Unity Alliance calls on all cooperatives and cooperaiors to rally to the support of the Daily Worker, our paper, the paper of the American working class. Send | funds immediately. Organize collections. Help the Daily | Worker over the present crisis. Other organizations haye | already done so. Act immediately! Our paper needs aid. | Managers and employees of the cooperatives, you are respon- sible, we are all responsible that the Daily Worker will not Appeal to CORRECTION Save the Daily Worker | Conference. | Save-The - Daily - Worker | Conference, New York City, will be held on Sunday morn- ing, March 6th, at 10 o’clock at the Workers Center. | | Disregard any other date| and hour mentioned in the] | Daily Worker. Workers’ organizations be sure to send your delegates to this conference. || JA Home Relief Bureau at 12 Noon Today NEW YORK.—Today at noon un- employed workers, under the leader- ship of the Downtown and Midtown Unemployed Council Branches, will march to the Central Home Relief Bureau, 10 E. 34th St., and make the following demands: Relief immedi- ately upon registration, relief to all unemployed workers regardless of how long they have lived in New York City, cash relief of $10 minimum to families for food, cash relief of $1 a) day to single men and women work- ers for food, rent of both married and single workers to be paid, gas, electric | and fuel to all unemployed workers, | sufficient and adequate clothing to be furnished, free medical and dental attention, withdrawal of all police and thugs from Home Relief Bureaus, | endorsement of the Workers’ Unem- | CHINESE WORKER DEFENDERS PANESE IMPERIALISTS MURDER CHINESE WORKERS of Shanghai Guarded by Japanese Invaders, who shortly after murdered them as part of the Japanese campaign of deliberate frightfuIness which is aimed at crushing the heroic resistance of the Chinese masses. Tens of hundreds of Chinese workers have been slaughtered by the Japanese military for the “crime” of defending their homes. Thousands of Chinese non-' children have been ruthlessly butchered by the Japanese whose attacks on the revolutionary Chinese masses of Shanghai are supported by United States, British and French imperialisms. combatants, including women and ployment Insurance Bill. | The Downtown Council will hold | an open-tir meeting and start with | @ parade from Seventh St. and Ave. A at 12 noon. The Midaown Coun- cil will start at the same time from | Masses Use Lindbergh Kidnapping Story to Distract from Struggle Against War, Misery 59th St. and Columbus Circle. Block | committees on the West Side will] hold open-air meetings in the neigh- | borhood of Ninth and Tenth Aves.,| the route of the march. The Needle Trades and Food Workers Unem-! ployed Councils have ararnged meet- ings in the gzxrment center ‘and. wil | | The capitalist class is using the Lindbergh kidnapping case to turn the attention of the entire working class away from its horrible suf- fering, mass Starvation, gro’ unemployment, and jping. With streaming head- |lines, full page pictures, long | editorials, statements of lead- ing figures in the capitalist | world, the prostituted. capital- list press is attempting to focus the attention of the entire working class on the kidnap- | ping of the Lindbergh baby. | No worker must deceive himself into believing that this | is an ordinary case of the press capitalizing on a “dramatic” join the parace there. Yesterday, the power of organized 2 mass action wes demonstrated at a| the acute danger of an im- local home rieief bureau, the 35th) peria!l’st attack on the Soviet St. station. Three block conunitiecs; Union. sent delegates to demand relief for | a number of families, and their pres- | sure forced the bureau to give relief | to two cases that same diy. On one block alone, 13th St., be- WO days ago, the baby of Charles Lindbergh was re- ported to have been kidnapped. tween Aves. B and C, 2 families | Immediately ry capitalist | !8sue for the purpose of in- have gotten rolief through the pres- | nar Oe ee, creasing its circulation. The sure of their block committee and|2@WSpaper seized upon the | very intensity with which the capi- the leadership of the Downtown Un-/news and magnified it into a) talist press is playing the story up employed Council. Many of these national fe. for Whos eadics points to a very definite plan behind were starving and had been regis- tered for weeks at the Home Relief Bureau. “Workers cannot live on the fake promises handed them,” the council ber of other pages says. “Organized mass pressure, and |important sections of the nev opportunity of carrying to an e: only organized mass pressure, has |. , phe rape Hl ys -_| treme limit their traditional policy forced relief from the Home Relief |P@Per- A national radio hook-| of geuberately suppressing news of Bureaus.” jUP was put into service “in| the burning issues which confront the All unemployed, demonstrate to-' order to popularize the kidnap- | working class, day! Demand relief and build the | fight for unemployment insurance! | | Mother Mooney to Be | at Banquet, Mar. 6th NEW YORK.—Revolutionary work- ers of New York and all the friends of Tom Mooney have one more op- portunity of meeting Mother Mooney at a banquet to be held this Sunday night, March 6th, 8 p. m., at Irving the entire unanimous elevation of a kidnapping case to a position of “paramount” importance. . | It is clear that the capitalist news- IM | papers have long been waiting for an } cussion eve | shunted off }a num type of news was he front page and x= Dressmakers Repudiate Sellout; More Workers Join United Front Plaza. |Pag Pd t yee tt . Although 64 years old, with a 1ite-| YOSSCS Revive Frame-Up Against Ben Gold; time of hard toil and suffering be- | Attempt to Railroad Leaders hind her, Mother Mooney is still | Sees. Wane baat 5 fighting for the release of ‘Tom | 4 , March 4.—Striking dressmakers attending years of a life term in San Quentin | 2 mecting at Cooper Union yesterday expressed their con- jail on a framed charge. | demnation of the Schlesinger wage cut, reorganization agree- All workers should attend the ban- | ment and decided to continue the shop strikes for union condi- quet and in this way again send their | tions in the dress trade. Mooney, who has already served 15 Se ATi inate Gane Workers participeting in the discussion exposed the sell- on i oF: ga trike g a 2 a ro rien members of the Food jout and th ake strike as a maneuver to extort money from | Workers’ Industrial Union, wen) the work A resolution to that effect was unanimously known speakers will attend the ban- quet at which there will be music and entretainment Tickets are 175 cents, adopted. United Front Strike Spread in new masses of workers. Addi- Meanwhile, the United Fvront | tional settlements were made yes- strike continues to develop, drawing | terday and new shops came down jen strike. Among them were {number of shops that were previ- ously in the halls of the Interna- | tional. At a meeting of the strike com- miite> held Wednesday night, the strike was analyzed and it was un- animously agreed that the strike is to be continued and that there are * the best possibilities of getting the “| workers of the International Ladies ds Socialists Collect Money fo Wer Moves Against UsSR NEW YORK. - The outspoken, , the work is being carried on by counter-:evoluuicuary Anti - Soviet! Abramowich and Yougov, * Position of the Socialist Party of the| Ing the Social Democratic Labor! Garment Workers Union to conti- U. 8. was again evident at a ban-| Party and the Bund in Soviet! nue the strike under the leadership quet arrangéd by the Socialist Party | Russia.” of the United Front Strike Com- through an alleged “Auxiiliery Com- At this banquet, which ‘mittee. be ‘suspended even for one day. Take the inatter up imme- diately. There is no time fo loss, Long live the Daily | Worker! | Workers’ & Ws mors’ Cooperative Unity Alliance, | Uxecutive Council, | W. A, Harju, Seeretary. Send ail funds to the Daily. Worker, 50 East }ath Street, New York City, N. Y. mittee” at the Menhattan Oddfellows tended by 60 people, speect The strike committee decided to |'Temple on Ssturdas, February 27th.) ade ia Rvesion and Viddie’. issue a call to. all workers in the speak wero: Abe) the'r Hina may be antvored from '2! 4 a of L. unions to. bring their Rahn, Morris Hiiquit, 2. Viadet, N. following: “Viestn'” (Soeiolics Mos- | eorptaints ts the United Fron Chanin, J. Weinberg, all prominent | senger), it is complained, “is written Gommittee and to intensify the ac- in the socialist ranks. in too hee a@ languaze. ab ii The purpose of the banquet was to| tended to reach the intelligentsia in collect funds for the “Social Demo- | Russia in order to give them the | cratic Cause in Russia.” What this; cause is is evident from the fact that| ivities in giving these workers lead- ership in strikng. ther shops. The settled shops, not content (OON TINUED 08 PROB TWOP CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) The disgustingly hypocritical sym- pathy which the newspapers extend to the Lindbergh family, the croco- dile tears they shed over the viola- | tion of “glorious babyhood,” the ten- JAPANESE GIVE OFFICIAL RECEPTION TO WHITE GUARD TROOPS ARRIVAL AT HARBIN Japanese Fire Homes, Pour Machine Gun Bullets Into Dense Crowds of Chinese Refugees U.S. Troops Shoot Into Crowd of Defenseles Men, Women and Children Seeking To Escape Terror Japanese military and diplomatic agents recently gave an official welcome to a detach- ment of Tsarist White Guards arriving at Har- bin, Manchuria, a Tass dispatch from Peiping reports. The detachment of White Guards wa the sec- retary of the Japanese Consulate at Harbin a wel- comed by Japanese military officers and the Chinese milita 'y puppets of Japanese imperialism, who went from Harbin to Goubantze station on the Peiping-Mukdea Railway to meet @them. A Javaneso cavalry detach- I Sy Re |'ment formed part. of the reczption Okla. Coal Miners |committe. Special barrecks were | " y prepared for the White Guards in | “Storm: Town: De-", || 2inn case ¢ ddecntsaan oan || mand Food, Get Jt) 14 i front ct the Chinese Bastern | ae Railway buildine, with the Japanese HARTSHORNE, Okla. — Mayor Joe A. Brown and a group of busi- ness men were forced to contribute and their V against Soviet citizen: British Shin te Guard allies threats in Harbin War Supoiies to the $2,200 for immediate unempioy- ment relief when a mass delega- tion of unemployed coal miners | stormed the downtown section, de- manding food. Fearing the mass militancy of the workers in Okla- homa, the Chamber of .Commerce immediately got, in touch with “alfalfa” Bill, the demagogic -gov- ernor; who promised that an effort would be made to obtain $10,000 aid for the county. This is another attempt of the demagogues to feed | the unemployed workers with pro- mises, in order to turn the masses | from organizing into militant un- | employed councils and committees | der professional solicitude with which | | they plead withthe kidnappers not | to neglect the aristocratic diet of the | Lindbergh baby must utrn into ice | the blocd of the countless working | | class mothers and fathers who watch their children slowly dying, racked with the awful pains of starvation. What a mockery to the mothers and fathers in the total of over 12,000,000 unemployed! What a cal- Jous, brutal disregard for the 500,000 who are admitted by the capitalist press itself to be facing starvation in ployment insurance’ and imme- diate relief. The workers of Oklahoma are fast realizing that only through organizing and demanding relic! from the bosses and their govern- ment will they be able to make the | fakers come across with some of their fake promises. | for new slaughter, for a sustained fight for unem-| | Japanese th from Lon- don reports the shipment on the SS Sicilian Prince of a large cargo of aeroplane engine:, nominally for Egypt, but it is strongly suspected for Japan. The British Chemical Trade Journal announces a big pick-up in the. chemic de, owing to the war, Di picric ac: plate indus Japanese war or Poland, whose war industries have beep running at top speed the past several years turning ovt machines hes found it necas. sary to appeal to American imperial- carbolic acid, tals, ng, ete. ‘the Welsh tin i ag hard on ism fo help enlarge its apparatus for wholesale humen destruciion. The news of this move by the Polish vas- sal state of French imperialism was revealed by Lieut. Col. F. S. Matler, | U. S. Army, to a group of members of the United, States Reserve OfM- cers Assotlation. The capitalist press {CONTINUED ON PAG THREE) Chicago! What a cy1 refusal to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE ‘WIN STRIKE IN ~ BRONX LAUNDRY, Betrayal of | Walkout at New Style Still Strong NEW YORK. Superfine Laundr The strike in the , conducted by the |Laundry Workers Industrial Union, St., was settled. The Shanghai Masses Followed by Frightful Butchery British Ship War Supplies to Japan: United States Rushes War Preparations, Support War Moves Against U.S.S.R. ses were forced to reinstate all the workers and not to discriminate mst anyone. The bosses also ‘eed to pay the strikers for the me of the strike, to raise the pa) of one young worker who was under- paid to the level of the others. . The laundry workers in the 'Bronx feel much elated over this victory after a short strike of 3 days against one of the richest laundries in the very The Japanese yesterday unleashed a mur- derous terror against the heroic masses of Shanghai following the shameless betrayal of the Shar, hai defense by the Kuomintang trai- tors. United States troops joined in the bloody butchery of Shanghai workers. This deliberate, cold-blooded terror is aimed at crushing the resistance of the Shanghai Chinese masses and destroying their rev olutionary organiza- tions. Bronx, atid this in spite of the fact | that the day before the strike the é f m bosses threatened to close the plant | Were put to the “torch by the ad-? jand to spend $50,000 to fight the} yancing Japanese. Japanese sol-| | Union, |diers swept dense crowds of home- The strike in the New Style, 16th | les: 5 fugees with machine- St. and 3rd Ave. is being intensified. | SS Chinese refugees | This boss is very rich and stubborn. | 8Un bullets, mowing down men, | He says that he will never deal with | children and women with babies in} a Union. We must show him that he | their arms. Crowds of refugees at- | | must either deal with the Union or| tempting to escape this butchery} jclos> up entirely. ‘The workers are| Were fired into by United States | out 100 per cent and are determined | troops at the gates of the Interna | to carry the strike to victory. A}l| tional Settlement. Only afier care- | downtown workers are asked to come | ful sorting, to bar workers suspected | to the help of the strikers. Most of | f militancy, are the refugees being |the strikers are Negro women who | Permitted to enter the Gethements | heve no experience in strikes and or-|A Shanghai dispatch to the New ganizations, and therefore need the | help and advise of other workers. ACONTINUED ON PAG “Anti-War Conference Called by Friends of Soviet Union | ‘This conference will take up con- cretely the tasks of the workers in the fight against ‘the robber war of frightfulness which Japanese im- perialism, supported and encouraged | by the American and French im- Perialism, is carrying on. Contrasting the imperialist policy. China of the capitalist countries with the consistent peace -policy of NEW YORK.—With the danger of war of the imperialists against the Soviet, Union rever so sharp as it is now, the New York District, Conmit- tee of the Friends the Soviet of | Union has issued a call to all work- ‘ers and working-class organizations | to support the Anti-War Conference | scheduled for March 13 at Irving} PalaceCl, SHRDL- shdin -cfwp-mw Plaza, SCONTINVED ON FaGy two a hk ok ee || Yard; Sveed Work Large sections of Chapei and other working class districts Revive 1917 Days At Portsmouth Navy NORFOLK, Va., March 2—In- tensive war preparations are being made at the Portsmouth Navy Yards. Workers at the navy yards} compare the present activities with | the days immediately before the | United States entered the last | war. More crews have been assign- |ed to the task of preparing war- | ships now in dry docks for action as quickly as possible, and navy yard employees report that night | work is soon to be started at the | yards, | A navy transport ‘here is ordered | to sail for the Pacific on March 7, | (and {wo destroyers about Marcti | | 15. Work on the battleships Idaho | | and Mississippi is being completed | as rapidly: as possible, Much of the work at the Ports- mouth Navy Yards is béing done | by the sailors, who do the same | work as civilian employees for a fraction of the pay received by regualr Navy Yard workers. Work |on one warship here is to be done entirely by the ‘enlisted men, though many of the former em- Ployees of the Portsmouth Navy ‘Yard are unemployed. * 2