The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 3

Page Three <== 3 MORE STRIKE LEADERS JAILED IN MIDDLESBORO, KY; BUILD UP N.MU, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932 _ Parades, Pageants to Mark AFL BETRAYS Paris Commune Anniversary) SHOE WORKERS IN LYNN, MASS. | Special Red Sunday on| Mar. 13 for “Producers News”, Organ of UFL ‘The “Producers’ News” official or- gan of the United Farmers League and the only fighting organ of the masses of poor farmers is conducting Parades, pageants, street demonstrations, and mass meet- | ings throughout the world will mark March 18, anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871. This day, together with the Resolution Adopted at the N.Y. TUUC Conference Feb. 28 ‘The conference records the fact of , considerable intensification of the | offensiveot the -bosses against the | living standards of the bosses. The wages in most of the factories in this | ‘district have been cut three times in | the last two years. Unemployment and part time employment are on| the increase in most of the industries, | while the decrease in prices of com- Modities and particularly of apart- ments rents, is insignificant compared | with the decrease of the workers in- | come. | ‘The conference calls the attention | of the entire working class not only | to the increasing huge expenditures for war preparations, while millions | of unemployed and part time em-| ployed starve, but to the imminence | of a new world war. The slaughter of | workers and peasants has already | been started in the Far East by Jap- anese Imperialism. The capitalist class of the U. S.,) not satisfie@ with unloading the ef- fects of the crisi uspon the workers | is preparing a way out for itself | through war; war at the expense of | the workers directed against the | Chinese masses and the Soviet Union. | The workers of the U. S. who have} been called upgn to ‘sacrifice’ their upon basic industry, marine, trans- port, metal, chemical. 3. Very weak concentration upon the formation of shop groups and branches, and where such are form- ed, insufficient attention to their activization, 4. Organizational looseness and | considerable confusion in the uni- ons’ activities from the shop up. 5. Non-existence or weak func- tioning of the central departments of the unions, such as organization departments, law and defense, and education. | 6. Extremely poor strike prepa- rations and relief organization. 7. Opposition groups still remain | in an agitation stage and have not | evolved to independent leadership of struggle. | 8. Weak application of the tactic | of the united front from below. | 9. Weaknesses in organizing ac-. | tivities and leadership among the | unemployed in industry and linking them up with the employed workers. 10. Gret weakness in activities among Negro workers. | 11. Activities among young work- | ers and women in industry still re- main in the infancy stage. The conference calls attention to | | standard of living to save the rotten | the exceedingly bad financial situa- capitalist system, are to be called| tion in all the unions and leagues, upon to also give up their lives. |the lack of planning in the work of In view of these facts, the pro-/|the unions, lack of systematic draw- spective for the working class is one | ing in of the actives in the every day of increasing organization and strug- | work of organization and leadership, | talist “paradise” of Rumania (!) with lits severe economic crisis, its huge 5 eer gle against wage cuts, hunger and | the lack of check up as to the carry- war. The capitalists in their drive to | ing out of decisions, all of which are save their profits by destroying the | an outgrowth of the basic weaknesses living standards of the workers had | of the movement as an organizer, and have the assistance of all ele- | Politicalization. ments interested in the preservation) The conference points to the ne- of the capitalist order of society, be- | cessity of a far more rapid and sys- ginning with the leaders of the AFL. | tematic development of new cadres | down to the Lovestonites, Green,| of organizers and functionaries of | president of the A. F. of L. supports | the unions in order to enable us to| Hoover's regime, and Lovestone sup- cope with the growing demands for ports Green and his “socialist” allies | capable personnel. ‘The conference | against the dressmakers on strike. |zecords the following main weakness- | They all use different phrases and/es in the ideological work of the| pretenses in misleading the workers. | unions: ‘Their aim, however, is the same—to| 4, None of our unions engage in | disorganize and demoralize any re- | political struggles even of the every volutionary struggle, or organization | gay elemental variety. They are not against capitalism, and its labor lieu- | politically minded. They fail to tenants, to break the workers’ resist-| raise the basic questions of the ante against the wage butting offen-| right to organize, strike and picket. sive; to make the unions an append: Slow to move jointly, “each for it- age to capitalism. : = self,” they scek help when they are | The conference calls the atiention in trouble, but fail to show coopera- of the working people of the U.S. A.| tion when others are in need. The again to the fact that although the | result is that collective action can leaders of the A. F. L. two years ago| be brought about only partially and | at the Washington conicrence be-| that only under tremendous tween capital and labor presided over | pressure. by oocHvr, declared against wage 2. Qur defense organization (legal | cuts, they have done their utmost | | to disorganize and demoralize the| struggle against wage cuts, they have not only hoodwinked the workers, as| in the case of the railroad workers, | to accept the wage cut, but in their | eagerness to serve the bosses, as in| the case of the Full Fashioned Hosi- | ery workers, have taken the initiative | in imposing wage cuts upon the| workers. Nothing but rank treason | can be expected from them for the workers of the building trades and | printing industry now faced with a) wage cut. Wherever the bosses and| the A-F.L. leaders and thir supporters have not been able to make the work- ers accept the wage cuts, they have resorted to dictatorial police methods by the use of injunctions issued by | the federal or local judges, as in the case of the tobacco workers in Tampa, | Fila., in Kentucky, etc. In New York | we have had a veritable reign of in- | junctions, particularly against the | food workers; altho the A.F.L. claims to be against injunctions, like the bosses, it uses the injunctions to out- jaw the militant unions, such being the case in the injunction taken out by the “socialist” AF.L. unions) against the grocery clerks, butchers | ‘and furriers. | The A-F.L. leaders and their “so- | cialist” and renegade supporters work | hand in hand with the gangsters and the police. The conference there- fore points out the necessity of sharp- | ening the struggle against all “vari- eties” of traitors to the working class. Organizat The conference records the growth of most of the TUUL unions and op- position groups during the last year from 17,000 in Decerfiber, 1930, to 17,000 on February, 1932. It erepha- sises at the same time that this growth is far from satisfactory, con- sidering the objective possibilities, particularly in relation to basic in- dustry. The major weaknesses that have impeded the more rapid growth of the TUUL—namely, our weak base in the shops, absence of concentrated shop work—will, if not remedied, be- come disaserous, in view of the fact that the workers’ willingness to strug- Je against wage cuts, speed-up and unemployment this year will un- doubtedly increase, but the workers will not be in a position to put up effective organized resistance in the absence of effective shop unit or- ganization. It is necessary at the same time to considerably increase our in- the unemployed. Solidarity amongst the employed and unemployed is es- sential to win the demands of the workers, employed and unemployed. The conference calls attention to the following main weaknesses of the TUUL: 1, Weak organization and insu- TUUC in strengthening the daily activities of the unions and leagues and defense, defense against gangsters and police terror) is chaotic and haphazard, each union for itself. 3. United front activities are in the main stillin an agitation and not action stage. This applies parti- cularly to the food and marine unions, 4. Our unions generally are at the tail of events, they act more or less planiessly, only under tremend- ous pressure from below. In effect- ing turns in their accustomed inner tactics, they adopt the proper line only under great pressure from above. They, are a driving force in the main in an agitatién sense, only handling current questions and trusting to proper develop- ments, This lack of driving leader- ship is the main cause of tremend- ous disproportion between the ob- jectivity extraordinarily favorable situation, our great ideological in- | influence and the slowness of our | organizational growth. | 5. Self criticism remains ‘of a formal character. Remedies for | shortcomings are not seriously | worked out, nor is there a check | up on the carrying out of correc- tidns, the same mistakes yery often being repeated again and again, | 6. Practically no progress in or- ganization work in New Jersey, in- dustrially the most important ter- Tiory im ths district, has been. made, What Must Be Done. ‘The conference fully approves the Proposals of reorganization of the ac- tivities of the Trade Union Unity Council and the inner life of the union as regards organization, de- fense, finances, education, relief, along the lines indicated in the re- ports to the conference, The conference approves the plan of reorganization of the Needle Trades on the basis of factory build- ing and block organization as a suit- able method of mass organization from below adaptable to small shop industry, this to be followed up by the shoe, food, metal and the other union. 2 In order that the proposals made be carried out, it is essential that each union and league arrange a well prepared city conference of its industry to put the line of this conference into effect, The next conference of the TUUC, to ,be held within six months from date, to check up the carrying out of the decisions of the conference. The conférence sets as the goal for the next three months: 1, Trebling of the membership m marme, metal, transport, and the formation of a leagye amon; chemicalfi workers, : _% Moupling of membership in all other unions. es ‘arepimg ot the number ot groups and improvement of their activities. % 4& Realization of the inner re- | tolerate the seizure of the tiniest spot a circulation drive lasting until April Ist. A special Red Sunday has been ar- ranged for March 13th on which a wide distribution of sample copies will be held and subscriptions con- vassed, All organizations are asked to con- tribute and help build up the fight- ing organ of the tolling farmers and strengthen the alliance of the work- ers and toilers on the land against tthe capitalist system. Subscription rates are: $2 for one year; $1 for six months; fifty cents | for three months. A special offer of twenty five cents for seven weeks for | lots of ten subscriptions is also being offered for a limited time, Send all subscriptions and remit- tances to “Producers’ News,” Plenty- wood, Montana. International Red Aid anniversarie: before the I. L. D. today. Sacco-Vanzetti anniversary on August 22 and the Canton Commune day on December 6, is the most important of the In America, the I. L. D. is mobil- | boys sentenced {zing its branches inevery city for| Scottsboro, Ala. in a lynch coyrt in| ‘They are now in the large demonstrations and protests. | death house in Kilby prison, Mont- The anniversary will be used to bring | Somery, awaiting the decision of the | Alabama Supreme Court which forward the important campaigns | They in-| heard their appeal. The trial of Roy clude: | Wright, youngest of the boys, will be 1. The continued battle for the re- | held immediately after the decision lease of Tom Mooney, symbol of | 18 anounced, according to George W. working class oppression throughout Chamlee, I. L. D. attorney in Chat- the capitalist world. When Mooney | tanooga. Should the Supreme Court sent his 84-year old mother across | Tule against the boys, the case will the continent to speak to 15,000 work-| be carried to the U. S. Supreme ers at an I. L. D, meeting in New, Court. “But regardless of what the York City, he showed that he relied / courts do, it is worker protest, work- | upon the power of the workers to set him free. 2. The fight for the nine Negro FRENCH PUPPET STATES PREPARE TO. JOIN JAPAN IN ATTACK ON U.S.S.R. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Chinese troops, a Mukden dispatch significantly admits: “General Amano’s Japanese bri- gade arrived at Imienpo today with- out sighting hostile Chinese troops and proceeded eastward to Hailin.” A Paris dispatch reports that the French Chamber of Deputies on Sat- urday voted 325 to 20 to approve an agreement with Czechoslovakia whereby France will guarantee a loan of $24,000,000 to be issued by Czecho- slovakia, Czechoslovakia is one of the puppet states of French im- perialism on the western borders of the Soviet Union, The French im- perialists maintain huge munition plants in Czechoslovakia, Poland and other border states. French military officers are in close contact with the armies of these states. The Japa- nese imperialists in their war moyes against the Soviet Union have openly admitted that they expect these bor- der states “and other powers” (United States, France and England) to join in the attack against the Sov- iet Union. “From Rumania, another ~ vassal state of French imperialism on the Soviet border, comes a barage of anti-Soviet lies, of Soviet peasants “fleeing” from the land of successful Socialist construction into the capi- army of unemployed, its increasing mass misery! These lying stories are similar to the tales being spread by the Japanese imperialists of “upris- ings” in Siberia, Their purpose is to attempt to cover up the robber aims of the war being prepared against the Soviet Union and to cast the imperialist robbers and murder- ers in the role of “liberators” of the Soviet masses. Following the publication. last week in the Soviet press of Japanese docu- ments calling for an immediate armed attack on the Soviet Union, the Soviet government assured the masses that steps had been taken to strengthen the Red Army forces on the Siberian border, An editorial published by Izvestia on the develop- ments on the Manchurian border has been re-printed in the entire Soviet press. The editorial openly called the hands of the Japanese imperial- ists. While re-stating the known peace policy of the Soviet Union, the editorial warned the imperialists that the Soviet. masses while coveting not a single inch of foreign soil will not of Soviet soil. in part: “No unbiased politician can ig- nore the symptomatic meaning of the fact that during the past two months the Japanese government has not deemed it necessary to re- ply to the Soviet proposal for a non-aggression pact,” “Those who conduct the Japa- nese policy in Manchuria,” Izves- tia continues, “cannot evade the responsibility for anti-Soviet ac- tivities in Manchuria, We could cite numerous proofs that these ac- tivities are directly connected with the Japanese occupation of Man- churia. “Such are the facts which de- mand necessary measures for the Protection of Soviet territory, be- cause the peaceful policy of the ‘U.S.S.R, is not a policy of ignor- ing facts. Our neutrality does not in any sense mean the Soviet will allow anyone to violate the secur- ity of our frontiers or to seize the tiniest spot of Soviet soil.” Walter Duranty, Moscow corre- spondent of the New York Times, reports that the present tone of the Soviet press, while “not directly hos- tile,” is “in sharp contrast to the extreme resérve of its earlier com- ments.” This, in itself, is an ad- mission of the tremendous struggle the Soviet Union has been carrying on to maintain peace. Now, however, organization as indicated. 5. Fulfillment of the goal of 25,000 members in the recruiting | campaign by the end of May, to guarantee the reaching of the goal set by this conference for the next The editorial states, it can no longer ignore the over-| whelming proof of imperialist war) moves against the Soviet Union. The Soviet press makes it clear that the Soviet Union will continue ~ its struggle for peace, but is ready to defend its people against invasion, against the attacks of the imperial- ist bandits and their White Guard allies. Commenting on the Izvestia editorial, Duranty says: “Not only was the editorial broad- cast last night, but it was reprinted in all the other Moscow newspapers today. In the writer's ten years of experience here, such publicity has been accorded only to statements by the most important leaders or vital announcements by the central com- mittee of the Communist Party. “From the foreign angle, the Izves- | tia editorial is, in the American | poker phrase, a ‘call for a showdown’ on the part of Japan. In decided but not unfriendly terms is asks Japan ‘just what are you driving at—do you want peace of war?’ ‘We want peace,’ it says in effect, ‘but if you want war, we are ready.’ This, in the present superheated atmosphere, is bold speaking. “At the same time the editorial again stresses that however Soviet sympathies may incline in the Sino- Japanese conflict, the Soviet Govern- ment will maintain the policy of non-intereference and neutrality it adopted at the outset and will not use the powerful force it now admits is concentrated in Far Eastern Si, beria unless directly attacked. “From the internal angle the edi- torial is no less important. For the first time the Soviet Government tells its people that the war bogey which has haunted them for years has be- come a positive and immediate men- ace, And it tells them frankly that it will fight, if challenged; that it has made preparations to meet the dan- ger and will meet it.” Duranty, who, like the rest of the intellectual prostitutes of the capi- talist press, has always referred to the realization of the Soviet masses of the antagonism,of dying capital- ism as a “war bogey,” now admits that this “war bogey” is real—that the imperialists are preparing for an immediate attack against the land of flourishing Socialism, Duranty tries to build up a simil- arity between the sincere sympathy of the Soviet masses for the Chinese people and the fake gestures of sym- pathy of American imperialism, which is actively supporting the Japanese robber war against China and has a huge armed force in China to assure its own desired loot in the partition of China which is now being carried out by the imperialist brigands. A Warsaw dispatch admits that the Polish capitalists see in the war moves against the Soviet Union a possible way out of the world capi- talist crisis which is threatening the Polish and other sectors of capital- ism. The dispatch says: 1 “In Poland, where the economic situation eclipses all other matters at the moment, great interest is er support that will be the determin- ing factor in saving the boys,” stated J, Louis Engdahl, secretary of the Lis D. 3. More than 135 miners, union leaders, relief and defense agents are | facing 20 year terms in prison as| a result of fighting against ‘starva- tion in the coal fields of eastern | Kentucky. Fifty others are charged | with murder, obvioysly framed by the | army of plug-uglies and thugs hired | by the coal operators. Hundred more have been framed on fake liquor, rob- | bery, and vagrancy charges. Terror greater than any known in American labor history before has denied starv- | ing miners even the right to receive relief from committees of liberals. | ‘The terror must be fought back, and | the right of the miners to organize, meet, strike, and spread their union be upheld. | 4. Over 20,000 foreign-born work. ers were deported in 1931. “Depor- | tation” Doak, Secretary of Labor in Hover’s Hunger Cabinet, rounds up| and ships away nearly 500 workers | every week. Some of them are re-| turned to fascist countries like Italy, | Poland, Finnland and other places) where militant workers are certain | to be killed or plunged for long per- | iods into dungeons. \ 5. Lynchings are on the increase. | Even in the North now, young Negro | boys are being framed for “rape,” | railroaded to jail in trials lasting from three minutes to half an hoyr. | Mobs of white “leading citizens” ter- rorize the Negro belts of the South. | In Chicago and Cleveland Negroes | are shot by police for resisting evic- | tion, for taking part in worker dem- | onstrations. The anti-lynch cam-> paign must be strengthened in the March 18th demonstrations, | 6. In 34 states, criminal syndical- ism and sedition laws, some of them | centuries old, are being revived to outlaw the Communist Party, in some | cases tevolutionary unions and work- | er Organizations. Police terror | ploughed through the leaders of the | Tampa tobacco workers and dragged them into the prisons. In Long | Beach, California, 45 workers are fac- ing bitter persecution because they attended a lecture on Russia. | 7, With the * economic crisis | growing ever sharper, the danger of | war becomes greater. Workers must organize anti-war committee to con- | duct a determined struggle against imperialist. war. manifested in the agpounts of Sov- iet Russian military activity inthe | Far East on the Manchurian bor- der, “... Commercial interests here expressed the belief that a Russo- Japanese war would benefit Poland much as the British coal strike did in 1926.” This assumption that Poland would be as neutral is a monstrous lie, in- tended to deceive the masses. Po- land, like the other vassal states of French imperialism, like the whole imperialist world, is prepared to join in the attack against the Soviet Union. The whole world of dying capitalism is resperately seeking to extricate itself from the crisis at the expense of the toiling masses of the world, at the expense of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union, where unemployment has been abol- ished at precisely the time that tens of millions of workers have been sen- tenced to unemployment and starva- | tion in the capitalist countries and in the colonies, | Police Forces and Crime—Some Con- clusions from the Lindbergh Case (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ‘Capitalism needs them badly to make war on the working class. These are plain facts. They have been proved by the investigations and city government and police scandals in a half-hundred American cities. Police do not prevent crime. They aid crime and criminals. Their job is to keep down the masses-—to defend capitalism, not from 6 months, | 6. Setting up of a functioning TUUL center in New Jersey. | 7, The initiation of a broad sus- tained anti-injunction struggle. | 8. Considerable improvement in the organizing activities amongst } the unemployed, the goal being the | setting up of unemployed organi- zations in the building trades, mar- | ine, food and shoe, | A > criminals, but from the hungry and jobless millions of workers and ex- Ploited farmers, to proceed with unrestrained brutality and vigor, not against gangsters and other criminals, but against workers and their revo- lutionary leadership—the Communist Party. Workers! American capitalism and its government, which has com- placently condemned millions of workers and their children to the utter | misery of mass unemployment and a starvation level of living, American capitalism, which is preparing a war of conquest in which the lives of millions of workers are to be sacrificed, American capitalism which con- spires against the Soviet Union—the only country where unemployment has been abolished and no worker's child goes hungry, is not shocked by the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. It is concerned only with the possibility that the working class will see in this case the beginning of a breakdown of “law and order,” that it will draw the correct conclusions from it in regard to the connection of the police forces with the underworld and their role as the military Section of the capitalist dictatorship. Gangsterism will be destroyed only by the might of the proletarian dictatorship. » While the working class trains itself for the struggle for power—the overthrow of capitalism—the Communist Party calls upon all workers to fight against growing “repression, against all suppressive laws against workers and their organizations, to expose at every opportunity the close connection between the police forces of capitalism) the leadership of the A. F. of L., the vicious underworld gangster ‘orces—all of which are the instruments of Wall Street government and are used continually against the wording élasa : ApS 4 Neen nee SE InnEEENEEE nee ene aan | gomery, Shoe Union Committee Calls for Rank and File Strike LYNN, Mom, Macs 4—The of- ficials of the Boot and Shoe Union, (A. F. of L.) who took hold of the workers who walked out of the Styler Shoe company 100 per cent again: starvation conditions, have alreai betrayed the workers on strike. Dur- the course of the m meetings taking place in the Hail 'y morning at 10 o'clock, ness agent Lucier and other officials of thesunion have consistently been re- porting to the strikers that the man- ufacturers have signed agreements for a 15 per cent increase in wages to become effective immediately. The | shops that have signed to date are the Made Well Shoe Co., Federal Shoe Co,, Gray Shoe Co., and Liberty Shoe Co. The workers in their respective shops took part in the above nego- tiations, but on the conclusion of the agreements between the bosses and officials, were told to return to work. On Wednesday workers of the Made Well Shoe Co. and the Federal Shoe Co. were informed that there was no stipulation in their agreements for any increase in wages as reported by the officials of the union at the mass meetings. At a mass meeting held in Laster’s Hall on Friday morning, rank and file workers demanded that the igned agreements be produced and read before the strikers present. The chairman and other officials refused their demand and referred the work- ers to the settlement committee in order to sidetrack the issue. The refusal to produce the signed agreements can mean only one thing —and that is that the reports of the Officials are false relative to their claims to having obtained a 15 per cent increase. ‘This present betrayal linked up with the past history of the Boot and Shoe proves conclusively that sellouts are still very much the order of the day, and that no good can be hoped for from their officialdom. The Shoe and Leather Goods Workers Industrial Union which en- dorses the Shoe Workers Unity Com- mittee of Lynn calls upon all rank and file workers, organized or un- organized, regardless of their political | beliefs, to put into effect the following program in order to spread the strike: Demands 1, Elect rank and file commitiees from all struck and unstruck shops and departments. 2. Delegate these committees to a broad central rank and file strike committee who shall be in charge of the conduct of the strike. 5. The central strike committee must elect a settlement committee with representative from every shop; that no agreement be signed until the agreement is read and ac- cepted by the workers in their re- spective shops and only after such an action can any agreement be concluded. Spread the strike under rank and file leadership! Prevent further be- trayal by ousting the Boot and Shoe leadership! Fight for the abolition of the “yellow dog” contract and for an immediate refund of all money col- lected by the manufacturer to en- force it! Demand a minimum living wage and a general increase in wages of 15 per cent! Smash the injunction by mass picketing to effectively spread the strikel be HOOVER REFUSES MOTHER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ; pa A. F. of L. Locals Endorse Fight. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 6.— Keen interest is expressed among the workers in the A. F. of L. locals for the Tom Mooney-Scottsboro pro- test. meeting which will be held in Philadelphia on Saturday evening, charge. | March 12th at the Broadway Arena. ‘The Moulders local and the Uphol- stery Weavers greeted enthusiastic- ally the committee of the Interna~ tional Labor Defense who had ap- proached for the indorsement of the | Mooney meeting and the rallying to the defense of class war prisoners. The Carpenters local 1051 elected a delegation of five to greet Mother Mooney on her arrival to Philadel- phia and collected $6.60 for the Mooney defense. One worker don- ated a liberty bond. Locals of the painters and letter carriers have ac- | cepted committees from the I. L. D. and promised sypport. The speakers at the meeting will | include Mother Mooney, Mrs. Mont- a mother of one of the Scottsboro boys, Robert Minor, Ray- mond Pace Alexander, attorney de- fending Willie Brown, a young Negro, framed-up on murder and Anne Pen- nypacker, daughter of former Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. aie} Speaks in Wilkesbarre, Pa. WILKESBARRE, Pa., March 6.— Mother MBoney will be present at a mass meeting here to be held March 9th, 7:30 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A Auditorium, ran ieee “KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 6.— On March llth large mass meetings | under the auspices of the Hollins. Seouishoxo Defense Committee, will {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mittee withdrew and refused to settle on the terms of the operators, de- claring they will continue the strike with renewed intensity. The district board of the N. |at its meeting Friday night decided | to send 35 delegates to the N. M. Ui national convention to be held in Pittsburgh March 17. gates are elected on the basis of one | h local of more than 50 m; smaller locals combining to elect delegates. The delegates will arrive in Pittsburgh a day before the national convention opens, and hold a district conference. | The 18 union organizers selected | the previous week by the strike | executive which are now working day | and night to insure a thorough dis- cussion of the proposed union con- stitution, and to insure’ the election of a representative delegation from Kentucky mines. The delegation will include not only strikers, but representatives from some of the largest mines in Harlan County where the men are working. To insure this the strike executive on Friday sent a Negro organizer and two other organizers into some of the | biggest mines owned by the U. S. Steel Corporation and the Insull in- terests in Harlan County to start organization work there and set up N. M. U. locals. At Lynch in Harlan County, a town controlled entirely by the U. S. Steel | Corporation, a ruling was made last week that anyone found on the street | without sufficient funds for a hotel | room or for a ticket to the next town would be expelled from the town by the company police. M. U. from are These dele-! ceeding to work in those mines out- | side of the present strike area from which men have come to the union to ask for assistance in organizing and preparing for local struggles on a mine scale. Meetings have been held at the Cambria mine, and the mines owned by the Gatliff Coal Co. at Carryville, Tenn. It is expected local mine struggles will develop in these mines shortly, as the response to the N. M. U. program has shown splendid organizational results. At the Rex Mine, in Tenn., the men are getting one day a week work, and they are actually starving. The oper- ators have called in the Red Cross, which gives the men another day's work, in cleaning up, etc., and pays them $1 a day in groceries for.ten hours’ work, or about 10 cents-an hour. A garbled report about a reward . for Harry Jackson has been issued, the facts being that a reporter“ @p- proached one of the lawyers for the N. M. U. here saying that Harev Jackson was Frank Borich in {dis- guise, and that the reward was. for Frank Borich, and not Harry Jackson. To Hold Communist Meeting. The meeting of the Communist Party, scheduled for Monday night at Floyd Hall, corner of University and College Streets, will be held Monday at 7:30 p. m. despite al! threats to answer the lies spread by | the bosses against the Communist Party. Leaflets calling this meeting have been distributed in all textile mills Distribution has taken place in one | of the largest mills in the South Jo- cated in Knoxville. Harry Jackson, Tom Johnson and At the Anthers Mine in Clear Fork, | Frank Burns are to appear in Birm- a section superintendent offered @|ingham for trial under framed up | reward of $25 for anyone giving in-| vagrancy charges. | formation on how the Daily Worker | Despite the fact that the miners | and the Southern Worker are dis- | are carrying on a bitter struggle, and | tributed in the camp and mine it- | that the terror is intensifying, the self. The superintendent having dis- | relief activities throughout the coun- | covered that small meetings are being try have not measured up to ithe | held in the houses of the camp, in| needs. More relief is needed. Every | as much as the local cannot meet in| worker must respond immediately to a large gathering openly, has in-| the call for relief, as the miners, | structed the miners that all men| battling terror and starvation in the | must be in their houses by six o'clock; | present strike, must receive the sup- | and that lights must be out entirely| port of workers throughout the | in the camp by eight at night. The! country. Rush your support to the | superintendent got his training as an | striking Kentucky-Tennessee miners. | organizer for the U. M. W. A. Don’t slacken in the fight at this | Organizers of the N. M. U. are pro- | critical period! t m - - a ce PINEVILLE, Ky., March 6.—“I will see to | it that you get hundreds more in jail wth you,” | declared the coal operator’s tool here, Judge | “Baby Face” Jones to the 11 strike leaders and relief workers arraigned in court yesterday on the criminal syndicalist indictment. Those included in the indictment are Vern Smith, John Harvey, Clarina Michaelson, Vicent Kamenovich, Doris Parks, Dorothy Weber, Julia Parker, Marguerite Fontaine, and the the facts being published in the working-class press exposing the mass starvation and the vicious ter- rorism of the coal baron’s gun thugs, stating to Vern Smith, Daily Worker representative and one of those held in jail, “Why don’t you get better information?” Smith replied: “Every one who comes looking for facts you put in jail.” Judge Jones set the trial date for May 26, declaring on the suggestion of prosecuting attorney, Walter Smith that the Kentucky coal operators will have to send to New York for “photo- TO SEE OF TOM MOONEY be held throughout this District. In Sioux City, Omaha, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Little Rock, Arkansas, thousands of Houston, Texas, Oklahoma City, No. workers rallying to the call of the defense committee will protest | against the increasing terror and per- secution of Negro and white workers, | and will demand the immediate and unconditional release of the Scotts- | boro Boys, Jesse Hollins, and Tom Mooney. All working class organizations are called to send protests to Governor Murray, of Oklahoma, demanding the | | release of Jesse Hollins, a young Ne- | gro worker who was sentenced to | electrocytion on March 11th, and for ‘whom @ stay of execution was forced | through the activity of the I. L. D., Y.CL., and other militant working class organizations, who brought pacer to bear on the governor. Ann Barton, Norma Martin, miner Mason. The julge was complaining aboute————_—______________. static copies of documents.” This shows that the frame-up net of the operators is very weak and they must look for more manufactured docu- ments in order to bolster up their threat of 25 year jail terms for the arrested strike leaders. All defendants are now held on | $5,000 appearance and $5,000 peace bonds. Clarina Michaelson who was out on bond, and who is now in a Knoxville hospital, was arraigned in her absence by the defense attorneys. Judge Jones attempted to lecture the defendants. He singled out Vern Smith and demanded that Smith tell where he got the information on composition of the G Jury printed in the Daily W 5 facts published by the we showed that the grand had hand picked by the through Judge Jones, other of. ficials, with the specific purpose frame-up and indict the because of their activity in the miners in strike against starvation and the terrorism of gun thugs. Smith refused to tell on the grounds that the whole court proced- ure here indicated that the men who | Bave the information were not sale from the county official's prosecution. Judge Jones declared that some of the cbugel {HAE l to state the profession of the jurors, the judge refused to answer, | A spirited altercation occurred im court when Judge Jones declared: | “You people will find out can’t come down here to spread your propaganda. Why don’t you get out of the coun- tr where you belong? You are only trying to ket your pictures in the paper.” Vern Smith replied: “We came When the Winter Winds Begin to Blow You will find it warm and cozy Camp Nitgedaiget | it well hea hot water SPECIAL RAVES FOR WRK. ENDS 1 Day tam & Daye ere x) For further information cal the— i here to organize and feed the thog- sands of miners striking against starvation. Such trials as this make hundreds join the union for every one you jail, hundreds join the National Miners Union, We find. facts even though in jail, and truth hurts you!” - One of the main reasons for postponement of the trial, “6 course, is the fear of mass demon- strations by the striking miners tn defense of their arrested The prosecution hopes that by May when the trial is set the strike will be broken and the ten comrades can then be railroaded to jail with: out arousing widespread protest. For the same reason, the arreigs- ing tok place as = and wae hell im the order to prevent ang , the the a.