The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1932, Page 1

RURAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Orga nate orker Party U.S.A. pehdehin of the Communist Lv ahaaid acaual, Su Vol.“1X, No. 70 at New York, N. ¥.. Entered as sccond-class matter at the Pont Office ler the act of March 3, 187° / YORK, WEDNE JAY, MARCH 23, ETURN All Tag Day Bo xes Today to Daily Worker Office, 5th Floor, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. 1932 va —=—— = Price 3: Cents Trotsky Does His Bit for Japan OUNTER-REVOLUTIONIST Trotsky hastens, at the raoment when Japan is moving large armed forces to- ward the Siberian border, to assure the world that Japan really has no war-like intentions towards the Soviets. Ad- mitting such a thing as not “altogether excluded,” he hastens to add that “it canont be a first-line plan” of Japan. The Japanese General Staff also assure the world to the same effect. Trotsky sells his views, at a high price, to the imperialist press. The gentlemen who pay him are evidently certain they are getting their money’s worth, as they feature the story in big type on their front pages. For his services in helping confuse the workers, and cause them to doubt the imminence of the war danger, Trotsky is highly valued by imperialism, but this value declines as this renegade even more openly reveals his counter-revolutionary role. Forerunners of War a sécrét document of a leading Japanese militarist the “higher” strat- egy of Japan’s war moves against the Soviet Union is revealed. It states, “The western powers bordering on the Soviet Union (Poland, Roumania) can now come out togehter with us, but this possibility of joint action grows weaker and weaker year after year.” France, which is openly supporting Japan in its preseht war on China, is actively mobilizing its.western vassals for war against the Soviet Union. Japanese imperialism is pleading for speed and united action on the Eastern and ‘Western front against the Soviet Union. Pilsudski is at this moment in Roumania. The object of his visit is to put in force the military plan of operation worked out by the French general staff for war again the Soviet Union. Pilsudski’s visit to Rou- mania coincides with the Bucharest “atrocity” stories of revolts and shoot~- ing in the Ukraine. Of course, the “shooting of a woman protecting the church” took place close to the border. How else could it be? Trouble at, the Soviet border in the Far East, trouble at the Soviet-Roumanian border, the excuse for military provocations and war moves against the Soviet Union. Nor is-it accidental at all, that the embargo propaganda against the Soviet Union is brought to life again. American imperialism is fighting for leadership in the united imperialist front against the Soviet Union. ‘The call for joint action on the part of Japanese imperialism, the ex- tension of the Far Eastern war moves against the Soviet Union to the ‘West, must meet the united action of the toiling masses, in smashing the imperialist front against the Soviet Union. April 6th, the day of the anniversary of American imperialism’s par- ticipation in the World War, ise fitting day of demonstration and strug- le against imperialist war. Workers, demonstrate on April 6th against ‘the imperialist war on the Chinese masses. Demonstrate for the de- fense of the Soviet Union! Call Hanna Miners To Strike Against Wage Cut of 25 P.C. PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 22.— today announced a 25 per cent weze cut affecting 1,500 miners. The National Miners Union is ¢all- ing mass meetings at all mines to prepare for strike against the pay cuts. A leaflet issued by the N. M. U. calls for united action of all miners regardless of union affiliation. Mass meetings tonight will elect a broad delegation for a mass con- ference tomorrow in Dillonvale, National Miners Union field or- ganizers were sent immediately to organize for strike, The National Miners Union just completed its third national con- vention in Pittsburgh, laying the basis for a militant struggle against the mass starvation, unemployment, speed-up and part time hunger The Hanna Coal Company of Ohio | aE A. F. Votes for Jobless Insurance Bill), MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 22. A. F. of L. locals here met in cor ference yesterday to demand a na- tional* referendum be ‘initiated throughout the A. F. of L. for un- employment insurance. Thirteen lo- cals were represented, along with the Building Trades Council, which has thirteen locals affiliated to it. A resolution was unanimously adopted, endorsing a national ref- erendum in A. F. of L. anions in- itiated by New York A. F, of L. trade unions. At the invitation of the confer- ence, M, Karson, representative of the Unemployed Council, addressed the conference on the struggle for unemployment insurance, following which the conference went on rec- ord for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and for im- mediate relief. Resolutions were TUUL Functionaries to Meet Saturday on Anti-War ruggle L. Conference | Japanes passed demanding the release of all | class-war prisoners. | A committee of 12 was elected to function as “The Minneapolis A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance,” An- other, larger conference is called for April 25. The attempt of one conservative delegate to disrupt the conference was unanimously de- feated by the other delegates. | A’ representative of William Green, president of the A. F. of L., arrived here and announced that | the charter of the Building Trades Council would be revoked for par- ticipating in the movement for un- employment insurance. The united front rank and file movement against wage-cuts and for unemployment insurance has been initiated, defying the expul- sion threats of Green and Woll. sw YORK. with the deci —In accordance Bureau of the Trad Unity has aries meet~ | {rom Soviet Border March 26, to | League, the Trade Union Fi h t i Corncil of Greater New York calied a special functi and trade ing of all unions, leag bodies for Saturday, e up the problems of struggle | of the T. U. d leagues, trade | Huge Forces on beards, shop groups, opposition ex groups in the reformist unions and Unemployed Councils must be rep- resented at this important meet- ing. ch The meeting will be held in the | Wide office of the Trade Union Unity | Council, 5 E, 19th St. at 3 p.m. | Saturday. with distributing anti-war leaflets Mass Starvation in Ohio Gives sailors. Fighting between e Carry 50 Miles | Use Revolt Situation in Manchuria to Mobilize Siberian Borders |Chnese Insurgents Reported Battling Japanese Invaders and Chinese Puppets On Area BULLETIN Tokyo police have arrested over 200 Japanese Communists charged among the Japanese soldiers and Chineas insurgents In wages of the miners, KY. PROSECUTOR WARNS STUDENT DELEGATION NEW YORK.—The delegation of WASHIN' GTON, D. crt pecially in those states where |the governors assured Hoover) recently that there was “no starvation,” the workers face} death by hunger. The Daily Worker has already published Lie to Statement of Gov. White: for food, although it is known that | Chhivekdtonal Record) many families of tour and five are Gives Some Proof | getting only $1 a week to buy their | bread and beans with. of Hunger At $150 a week for food for a |family of 5, each person gets 4 1-3 cents a day. Is that enough to keep | families. When he wants their votes! » chia or’ an /atult ftom ‘starving? | = Manchuria and the Japanese invaders yester- day spread to within a few miles of the Soviet frontier, bringing nearer the danger of a Jap- anese attack aganst the Soviet Union. The Japanese are reported rushing more troops to the Soviet border jon the pretext of crushing. the revolt. A Changchun dispatch | reports a bloody battle between the Chinese and Gen. Tamon’s Japanese brigade at Nanhuto, on the southern end of Lake | Birten. The dispatch adds significantly, “This is only a short “distance ‘from the |Russian borde! fifty miles north of the uncom: college students who are going to Kentucky next week, under the auspices of the National Students’ League, for the purpose of investi- gating the reign of terror carried on there against the striking min- ers and to bring relief, have been warned that they face the same attack perpetrated on the New York writers’ delegation two months ago if “they go too far.” In a public statement printed in Knoxville papers, the delegates of the National Students’ League are told point blank that they are not wanted and that they face the danger of being taken for a ride if they dare to bring to light the conditions of terrorism: prevailing Get After Those Half Dollars O fight the lies of the capitalist press, (did you notice, workers, the new barrage of lies from Baucharest about the Soviet Union), to rally the workers in mighty demonstrations against imperialist war on April 6 to expose boss terror, | to fight wage cuts, to fight for unemployment in- surance and against the bosses’ new “relief” schemes, these are some of the IMMEDIATE tasks of the Daily Worker. They are VITAL tasks. They MUST be done by a nation-wide workers’ paper. A half dollar from you wil save the Daily Worker for these tasks. You are one of the 70,000 workers upon whom we rely for that half dollar. We count upon your support. We count upon your _ Shopmate’s support. We count upon your neigh- bor’s support. Cut out the coupon on page three. Wrap it up in a half dollar and send it in. Or get your shopmate to contribute a half dollar and send a dollar bil in with the coupon. And canvas as many workers as you can to send in the half dollars. Also get your mass organization to contribute and to spread the drive for those 70,000 half dolars.! Get active, comrades, before you lose your paper. Watch the table on page three for the pro- gress of your district. Do your damndest to push your district into filing its quota 100 per cent. Walker Fails to Answer Letter ot AF of L Jobless Insurance Committee against the Kentucky miners. The statement of Walter B. Smith, Bell County attorney, says: “We will greet the visiting col- legians cordially and examine their credentials. If they come with a sincere purpose to learn the truth, we will do everything to help them. If they come to make demands to release political prisoners, rave about constitu- tional rights and proceed to hold mass meetings in violation of our criminal syndicalism laws they will be given all-day suckers, lollypops, a sprig of mountain laurel, and sent rejoicing to their schoolrooms, “We are through with visting radicals, and do not intend to let them inte our community to stir up trouble as they did in Detroit and then go away and publish a lot of miserable lies about conditions in the coal fields.” In spite of this open threat, the student delegation is determined to go to Kentucky. A broad delega- tion from eastern, mid-west and official government reports, as well as capitalist newspaper) reports smashing the lies of the| 89 governors who wired Sen-| ator Bingham recently that no one was hungry. We are ptblishing informa- tion on each state: Ohio (Governor White) “Have no authentic record of any present cases of starv- ation. Believe number of un- employed who ¢an find: no work of any sort to be under 500,000.” Again we let capitalist re cords answer the governor who thinks a mere 500,000 are job-| less in his state, and who says he has “no authentic record of | starvation.” Twenty thousand coal miners “dn dire want” in Ohio mining com- munities are beyond the reach of any relief, according ot the admis- sion of Pres. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, quoted by Sen. La Follette and printed in the Congressional Record. (Feb. 2, 1932.) Here is part of his testimony: “They live in Ssolated commun- ities so small ordinarily that they do not have a community chest southern colleges has been formed. , Sight, these starving miners and their or charitable organization, and it is impossible for them to secure any relief from the organized charities of the larger centers of population, so they have no place to go, because the local charities do not have the funds available to take care of them under the present emergency.” (Page 3179). Convertiently out of the governor's in the next election he may take a In Cleveland, the city daily papers, | tour of the more important mining) agmitted in February that from 135,~ centers and see a few of the gaunt! 99 to 140,000 persons “are totally and hungry miners. But the starv-| unemployed.” Yet only 19,050 fami- ing miners and their wives and chil- | Hes were given relief in February, dren are mostly hidden away in their | according to Secretary Howard Whip- remote cabins. They bury their dead] pjJe Green of the Cleveland Health in silence and no obituary notice| Council, reaches the governor's executive} ‘The Cleveland Chamber of Com- mansion. finan reports that city charities | In the cities, Toledo, Columbus,| ought to be taking care of 45,000 Cleveland and Akron, relief is at-| families—200,000 persons—by next tempted, but on a hopelssly inade-| December, 1932,, but says nothing of quate scale, acording to the testi-| the 20,000 or 25,000 families at pre- mony of Helen Hall, representing the|sent in need of help, but receivins _| National, Federation of Settlements. nothing at. all After a tour of these four cities, she | Early in February, delegations from reported: 12 cities presented facts on starvation “Everywhere an effort was being | conditions before Gov. White's Com- made to cut relief given for food | mission on Unemployment Insurance to a point so far below the mini- | and reported that even then charity mum standards that the health | organizations giving unemployment of the families getting relief must | relief in Ohio were cutting allowances necessarily be endangered ....Peo- | in half. “Thousands of the destitute Ple in distress through unemploy- | have been denied any aid whatsoever ment have not had the security of jdue to lack of funds,” according to any continuing coordinated plan of | these delegates. aid.” (Congressional Record. 2-2-32. The Columbus Family Welfare Bur- page 3181). eau is caring for only 12,000 families In Youngstown, Ohio, 4,000 desti-| this winter, admits Director Sara E. tute families are being supported | Coates, who states: from private and public funds, ac- “I am fearful that underpour- cording to Chairman Hammaker of! ishment and worry will take its the Community Chest Unemploy- | toll among children and adults ment Committee. Each family is| during 1932 unless we can actively supposed to be getting $1.50 a week’ combat the terrors of misfortune.” Mass Meet to Climax Drive on Tammany Block Aid Graft NEW YORK.—Following a week of intensive canvassing in the West 42nd-53rd Sts. section, the militant drive of the Mid-Town Unemployed Council in exposing the Tammany Hall “Block-Aid” extortion and blacklist scheme, will reach its cli- max in an open air meeting at Columbus Circle, 5 p. m. Friday, from where a march will start at on behalf of her son’s pardon. California State Prison, San Quentin, Calif., March 15, 1932. “Mrs. Mary Mooney, ¢.0. Coliseum, Chicago, Ill. Mooney Hails Mother’s Fight for. Scottsboro Boys, Harlan Miners ‘Tom Mooney wrote to his 84-year-old mother, Mary Mooney, thanking her for risking her life in crossing the continent on behalf of his fight for a pardon. - Mary Mooney, now touring the United States sympathizers who rallied behind you to demand that the reactionary powers, who have advanced by cause immeasurably. “My profound gratitude and deep appreciation goes out'to the millions of militant workers, friends and because of my. loyalty and devotion to Labor, relin- quish their strangle-hold upon me and grant me an unconditional pardon. see how the toiling millions in this country, even at the end of my sixteen years’ imprisonment, are not 6:30, passing through working class neighborhoods to Bryant Hall, at 42nd St. and Sixth Ave., where a monster indoor mass meeting will be held. Herbert Benjamin, secretary of the National Unemployed |Council, and leader of the historie Hunger March to Washington, will speak, as will Carl Winter, secretary hte Unem- ployed Councils of Greater New York. The motion pictures of ‘National Hun- ger Marchers will be shown. So stirringly does this living drama portray the unforgetable march of 1600 workers to the nation’s capitol, so eompletely does it expose the meth- ods of police terror used against the workers, and so inspiringly does it have welcomed you so warmly, and kept me entombed for sixteen years It is an inspiration to me to NEW YORK.—The N. Y. A. F. of, This dlegation is making prepara- \. Trade Union Committee for Un-|tions to appear before the Board of employment Insurance and Relief gent out the following letter to James G. Walker, Mayor of the City of New York and Joseph V. McKee, to appear before ce Saher of the city to lay this intolerable situation talers them and present de- to the City Administration for Aldermen on Tuesday, March 29 at 2p. m We, therefore, ask your Honor to make the necessary arrangements to :|recelve the delegation and extnd to these representatives of the workers the right to present their demands to the Board of Aldermen. Very truly yours, Secretary. TEL ites 9 The Committee has thus far not re- ceived a reply to the above. How- ever, the delegation has been ap- pointed by A. F. of L. members in their locs! unions, and will present demands for immediate relief for the unemployed of New York City to the Board of Aldermen a ttheir meeting on March 29 at 2 p. m. A mass meeting of members of the aA. F. of L. to spread the fight for unemployment insurance will take Place Wednesday, March 23, 8 p, m., Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. My Dear Mother: “Words fail to express my thanks to you, dear moth~- er, for the great sacrifices you are making on my be~- half of. the cause of Labor, which I symbolize. On top of the terrible strain of the sixteen years’ struggle we have gone through together, you risked your life in crossing the continent to inspire the nzilitant work~ ers, friends and sympathizers in their fight for my unconditional pardon. History records no greater de- votion. You are a symbol of the millions of militant self-sacrificing and toiling mothers. You are like the beautiful old mother in Gorky’s novel, “Mo-her,” who, when her son had fallen in the struggle, seized the banner from his death-stiffened fingers, and unflinche ingly carried it aloft in the procession of the heroic workers struggling bravely against the Czarist despot-~ ism in old Russia. “It gives me the greatest pride and Joy that your motherly affections are not limited t6 your own flesh and blood, but you are demanding the liberation and support for the embattled miners in Harlan, Ky., and the Scottsboro victims of race and class prejudice and all political prisoners. “The word ‘spot-light’ has been thrown upon you. And how you have gladdened my heart by the grace, dignity and poise you displayed therein. You have ‘ ways inspired me with your faith and devotion. How- relaxing their effort on my behalf. The masses are stirring and their insistent demands for my uncon- ditional pardon grow louder and louder and cannot continue to go unheeded forever. Though your body is feeble and your voice has lost its resonance, yet the strength of your spirit and your deathless determina~ tion is sufficiently eloquent to inspire all of those who come to see you and to hear you. “I confess, dear Mother, that I miss your regular visits to San Quentin. You know how you have al- ever, the vision of your radiant face is impressed in- delibly upon my memory. It is before me now and makes me more than ever determined to continue the struggle begun more than sixteen years ago. “In expressing my thanks and appreciation to you splendid sacrifices and struggles, I ask in my name all of those who are light- e by their militant support. “As I have become the symbol of the oppressed and down-trodden workers, you have become the symbol of the courageous working class mothers who, unher- alded and unsung, give their all to the cause of a ‘better world for the toiling masses. “With wreatest admiration for you, I am, * for all your you to thank ning your task record the enthusiastic response of the workers in other cities to the Hunger March, that police have tried tepeatedly to destroy the film. A workers’ news reel fromtheSoviet workers news reel from the Soviet Union will also be shown. Continue Canvassing Canvassing will continue up until the last minute fefore the open air meeting, Fridey at 5 p. m. Volunteers are urgently needed, and should re- port to the special campaign head- quarters ofg the M.T.U.C. at 418 West 53rd St. WAGE CUT TO BONE IN UNION TRON WORKS (By a Worker Correspondent) SPOKANE, Wash.—I am a worker in the Union Iron Works. The work here is unnecessarily heavy. The safety appliances are insufficient and ‘wages have been cut to the bone. The shop is very unsanitary, Miners of Hocking Valley Stone Nat'l | UMW Tries ‘to Betray | 7000 Strikers A railroad spur track in the Hock- ing Valley area, at the Sunday Creek Co. Mine No. 6, where a strike is on, was blown up. United Minte Workers officials as- sured Governor White, who is pro- posing sending the National Guard to break the strike of 7,000 miners, that they “will cooperate to end violence.” .-In an effort to break the strike of the miners in the Hocking Valley bituminous coal fields, Governor White is threatening te send the Na- tional Guard to the strike area, according to an Associated Press dis- patch from Athens, Ohio, The miners have been conducting mass picketing, and are in a militant mood, despite the fact that the United Mine Workers leadership do all they can to quiet the men down in an effort to betray the strike. On Monday the miners stoned an automobile carrying ten National Guard officers who were assigned to help the Sunday Creek Coat Company Plan its scab activities at Mine No. 6. Adjutant General Frank D. Hender- son said the attitude of the miners was “a serious problem.” About 7,000 miners are out against wage cuts. A tense situation exists throughout this field. The miners have been putting up a heroic strug- gle against mary odds, particularly against a rotten, betraying leadership in the U. M. W. A, Governor White, though using all sorts of phrases about “the right to operators. Governor White insists that the bosses can use all the scabs they desire in any way to put over the wage cut, Set quotas, start revolution- ary competition, in fight to save Daily Worker. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 22. —After viewing the slaughter of unemployed workers by Ford~ Murphy gunmen at the River Rouge plant, Gustay Hanson, = salesman and a resident of Cleve~ land, Ohio, wrote the following letter which was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer of March 15th: “Editor Plain Dealer—Sir: Just read your editorial in the Plain Dealer, March 9, ‘at Ford's Gate.’ In my opinion you misjudge the Communist leaders when you write they wanted nothing but tronble. I heard Foster, the Communist leader, speak. Such zeal and frankness I had never seen be~ fore. In fact ¥ would give him a lot of credit for his endeav- ors to better the conditions of his so-called proletariat, for which he and his followers are ready to stake their lives. Guard Officers. strike,” has the National Guard ready | to rush into the field to help the coal | pleted branch of the railway leading toward the Korean border.” The dispatch reports that lesser frays occurred at the same time over a wide area. Chinese insurgents at- tacked the Japanese garrison at Hu- angniho, killing two Japanese and j wounding one. Another insurgant |force attacked Tatun, on the Soutt Manchurian Railway and destroyed the railway tracks. Japanese sources at FE day sent out reports o: movements of Soviet troops betw Irkutsk and.Chita...The Soviet Go: ernment while making no attempt tc conceal the fact that it had sirengthened its frontier garrisons denied large scale movement of So- viet troops. Anthracite Strike Misleaders Prepare to Sell Out Miners Rank and File Comm Warns Against Move by Maloney-Schuster SCRANTON, Pa., March 22—The greatest enemy of the striking miners of District 1 is the great confusion and disorganization, for which the Maloney and Shuster leadership and general grievance bodies is responsible. Instead of meeting the fierce loca! and state police terror that is breaking up picket lines and send- ing miners to the hospitals, the general grievance bodies decided to send a committee to Governor Pin- chot, who himself is responsible for the terror and strike breaking. There is already talk in the gen- eral grievance bodies of arbitration, preparing for a sell out. The police terror is the fiercest in the upper mid-Wyoming Valley, where the rank and file committees are leading the struggle. Spread Daily Worker fund drive into every working class neighbarhood to save workers’ paper. Salesman, Eye-Witness to Ford Killings, Tells Story “I had seen the whole affair at Ford’s plant. The Dearborn police are wholly to blame for what I would call » massacre. They started to throw tear gas bombs and the mob in defense threw bricks, which resulted in shooting and death to four men and wounding of scores of others. “Of course you may wonder why I write in such a tone. I am not a Communist. By oc- | enpation Tam # salesman and T have nothing to gain by any revolt, but I am human and not too blind to see the other side of the story. There is only one way to end such dis- turbances; that is to put all unemployed back to work. Po- lice clubs only aggravate more riots and may lead to a Soviet United States.” GUSTAV HANSON,