The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1932, Page 1

=. Dail ork ee OF THE WORLD, al Daily Worker Office, 5th Flos UNITE! Ce ntral : Orga enist Pe: rty 2 13th Street, New York (Section of the Communist International) a tee ete NEW YORK, THURSDAY) MARCH 24,1992) Price 3 Cents _| : Vol. IX. No. 71 Foster Calls on Workers to Help | Raise Bail for Ky. Strike Organizers | By WM. Z. FOSTER. For three months 19 militant coal miners and strike leaders have rotting in the cells of Pineville, Harlan, and Middlesboro, Kentucky, Among them are leaders of the National Miners Union, together W.LE., Daily Worker, LL.D. workers. Their crime 1s organizing the miners to fight starvation, For this have been locked up in a bastille barely large enough to give them room to stand. For this they have been growing weak and sick on a diet of bread and beans. For this they are exposed to the rains which been jails, with they pour in through the leaking roof inches on the fat-infested floor. All of these class war victims can be released for $1,250 premium on their bail. Each of them is under $5,000 appearance bond and $5,000 peace bond. Real estate bail has been arranged for them at a premium Many of them are in danger of disease and death in their | If they escape this peril, there is the danger of lynching by the rabid coal company agents and their hired killers. : The Trade Union Unity League must immediately mobilize to help Quotas must be set. Each union must raise its share The Daily Worker, the L.L.D., and the W.LR. is working with the League. The 19 leaders are needed to carry on the struggle. to the Kentucky Prisoners Bail Fund, Room 430, 80 East 11th St., New of $66 each. cells. raise this fund. York City. and the water that backs up for Contribute at once 45 Workers in Long Beach Trial Win Dis- _ missal; Jury Deadlocked LOS ANGELES, Calif., | March 2 22. Judge Charles D. Wallace granted the motion to dismiss the case of the 45 workers in Long Beach, charged with unlawful assembly, and.removed the case from the cal- endar, releasing all bail. ‘The jury, after a siormy thirty- hour<session of weighing the evi- dence, filed into the court room shortly after three o’clock in the “afternoon and reported a hopeless deadieck. Six were for acquittal and. six for a verdict of guilty. ‘The foreman of the jury reported that a vote had been taken on the proposal to find the “ringleaders” guilty and acquit the other work- ers, “Seven of the jurors voted for and cagainsts the proposal and it “was Impossible to reach an accord, said the foreman. At this point, Leo Gallagher, the workers’ lawyer, made a motion to dismiss the case, which, in face of the jury’s report, the judge had to grant. “Prosecutor Charles Devries, re- atizing he had no case, did not con- test. the motion. ‘thirten workers, however, are still fo be held by the federal offi- cials on deportation charges. ‘The actual trial has lasted over five weeks, during which the vari- ous witnesses for the workers, espe- cially Sam Darcy, editor of the Western Worker, exposed the star- yation and exploitation of workers inthe United States, comparing their miserable standard of living with the splendid achievements of the workers ard farmers in the Soviet Union. _The dismissal ef the case balks the attempt made by the authori- ties, especially the Chamber of Commerce, using the infamous “Red Squad” as its tool, to outlaw Kvery shop, scriptions. m‘ne and faciory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- the a ae Oommen Party and other militant workers’ organizations and is thus a signal victory for the workers and poor farmers of the state. ‘Warn Anthracite Miners Against Maloney Sellout | Picketing Has Almost | Been Stopped SCRANTON, Pa. March 23.—For | the third time, Maloney and Shuster, United Mine , Workers of America leadership of the General Grievance bodies, heading the strike of the an- thracite “coal miners in this district, are preparing a betrayal of the strike. | Due to mass pressure of the men, the | Maloney - Shuster leadership was | forced to call an “outlaw” strike, which the men have been carrying on militantly, despite all efforts of Gov- | ernor Pinchot’s state troopers, the | UMWA officials along with the Ma- | loney-Shuster disrtict leadership to crush it. Maloney has already nae it known he would be willing to negoitate peace if Boylan and Lewis so desire. As a result, picketing has almost ceased and a number of locals are returning to work. In a number of collieries the best fighting miners have been black- listed. The Rank and File Commit- tee issued an appeal for mass re- | sistance against police terror and warning the miners to be prepared against a betrayal by Maloney and Shuster. Locals are sending committees to the General Grievance bodies expos- ing their action and to win all the miners for the rank and file program of struggle. Fight for the Paper That Fights for You! Send Your Half Dollar! HE new struggle in the anthracite coal mines of Ohio and Pennsylvania brings out once again the importance of spreading a workers’ paper to give guidance to the working class. The workers’ paper, the Daily Worker, publishes the facts, and gives the miners daily guidance in their struggles, Send in your half dollars to save the Daily Worker. Send in your half dollars to save the paper that fights for the striking miners and for ilitant struggles of the working class. Over in California a jury has just disagreed . ina trial of workers whose only crime was that they were members of the working class party, the» Communist Party. Mass demonstrations on behalf of these class war prisoners, before and during the trial, were swelled to large numbers through the publicity broadcast Worker. in the Daily Send in your half dollars to save the Daily Worker. Send in your half dollars to save the \ only nationwide paper that works to organize mass pressure to free Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, and all class war prisoners. Your coupon is on page three. Cut it out aod mail it with your half dollar to the Daily Wor’ +, 50 Bast 13th Street, New York City. Get your shopmiate to contribute a half dollat and mail the coupon in with a dollar bill. bors. Get your mass organization active. Canvas your neigh- Fight for the paper that fights for you. Save the Daily Worker, Even Mayor Murphy I Is Many S in the United States. 39 governors who with Brucker wired: workers, asking for bread, were killed by police of Detroit and Dearborn, Mayor Murphy made the following statement: “By the time February, 1931, had arrived 48,000 families were car- ried on the public welfare rolls and more than 211,000 persons were provided for by the city govern- ment. ... We were notified by the banks that we could not borrow money to carry on welfare work on so elaborate a scale and that re- to follow. “We now carry 22,000 families on our welfare rolls. First, let me say during the height of this a half million people in Detroit were di- rectly affected. by unemployment. There were between 125,000 and 150,000 unemployed and many thou- sands more on part-time employ- ment. About a third of our popu- lation was ditectly affected.” (Con- MICH. GOVERNOR BACKS FORD IN MURDER OF 4; SAYS “NO STARVATION” Starve in Detroit “Confronting Most Serious Emergency That Ever Faced Detroit,” But Brucker Still Lies WASHINGTON, D. days after Ford’s police shot down and mur- dered in cold blood four unemployed workers because they were in a demonstration demand- ing jbs or food at the River Rouge Plant when the Governor of Michigan declared along with Senator Bingham, that there was no starvation Brucker was among the ator Bingham here tried to wipe out the star- vation of 12,000,000 unemployed and their families. “Facts at hand indicate Mich. well able to care for its own.” Even Mayor Murphy of Detroit admitted starvation con- ditions in his city. Shortly before the Ford Massacre of March 7, 1932, when four jobless, unarmed trenchment and welfare would have | 's Forced to Admit That C.—It was not many their telegrams to Sen- gressional Record, Feb. 2, 1932, page 3190.) How, then, did the city of Detroit meet this situation?—by taxing its many millionaires to provide food for the 26,000 families—about 120,000 per- sons—admittedly thrown off the re- lief lists? Of course not. Mayor Murphy goes on to explain how it was done: “When we were notified that our standards would. be limited to an amount almost half of that which was expended last year, we had, of course, to make our organization and its administration as efficient as possible—exclude certain groups | that we wanted to take care of. We | had to exclude, for instance, an | adult couple if they did not have children; we had to exclude couples with one child if the child was above 16.” By his own admission, then, Mayor Murphy and the Detroit city officials KNOXVILLE, Tenn., ‘March 23. —Tom John- ison, Frank Stewart, Si- las Byrge, Jeff France and Bige Wilson, coal strike leaders arrested near ‘Tagewell, Tenn., were held over to the grand jury yesterday no charges of sedi- tion, carrying concealed weapons and malicious mis- chief. Bond had been set at $1,700 each. Frank Mason, Frank Baker, Grover Partin, Bill Meeks, Henry Rutherford, Kelley Marlowe, Henry Shackleford, Chris Patterson and Will Henegar, who were arrested at the same time, are charged with malicious mischief and are held on bond of $250 each. Henry Rowe was released. A hearing was held before Squire Stanford at the Tazewell Court. The International Labor Defense lawyer, J. P. Kevett defended the arrested leaders of the National Miners Un- ion. Tom Johnson was not permit- ted to testify when he stated he did not believe in god. Wilson, Meeks, Patterson, Byrge and Rowe testifed. Charge 5 Strike Leaders with Sedition in Tenn. Johnson and four others were eating their supper when the house was raided. ‘hey had come to atke up strike relief plans. Habeas Cor- pus proceedings are being prepared on the ground there was no violation of the law, and against the exhor- bitant bail. The fourteen prisoners at Tazewell have only one bed. Stone | their attorney was refused permission to see them. J. Taylor, International Labor De- fense attorney, appeared in Harlan Monday in all criminal syndicalist cases, including the case of Saylors, Sumners and Howard, and the cases of “banding and confederating.” ‘The cases were continued until the next court session. The Winchester and Mt. Sterling murder cases were postponed bape a. special term of court. Knoxville papers, referring to yes- terday nights city countcil meeting declared it would be “one of the stormiest sessions ever held as the Communists protest the passage of a city ordinance requiring a permit for public parades and meetings, and that all councilmen favor its pas- sage.” A committee of the unemployed council was sent to protest the or- dinance and to present the demands of the unemployed to the City Coun- cil meeting. troops went into action Wednesday night in the west mid-town section between 42nd and 53rd Street against the “Block Aid” scheme, originated by Tammany. The Mid-town unem~ ployed council is leading the shock troops composed of militant unem~- ployed workers in a driye to expose the scheme as a spy and blacklist em against militant workers and ethod to place the entire burden Slief upon the worlrers by bleed- int them of their last peyny. The enthusiastic, and while the neighbors hoods are aroused by the intensive campiagn carried right into thelr tenement houses, a series of flying open air meetings will bo held frema 100 Shock Troops Lead Fight Against “Block Aid” System NEW YORK.—One hundred shock response of the workers wes | a truck which will drive through the concentration section, ‘These street corner meetings are in preparation for the monster open air meeting to be hled Friday at 5! p.m. at Columbus Circle, from where, at 6:30, a torchlight parade will march through workingclass neigh- borhoods downtown to Bryant Hall, at 42nd St. and 6th Ave. At this indoor meet Herbert Ben- In 1927-28 he played a prominent |}Union, and upon thelr return report 2: DETROIT, March —Hun- dreds of Negro and white work- ers tumultuously cheered Mother | Montgomery and Mother Mooney on their arrival yesterday at the Michigan Central Station. Mrs. Mooney, mother of Tom | Mooney, and Mrs. Violet Mont- gomery, mother of one of the Scottsboro Negro boys facing legal lynching in Alabama, are on a joint tour of the country to help build up the mass fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys, of Mooney and Billings, the Harlan mine prisoners, the Imperial Val- ley prisoners and other class-wat prisoners, They are here to speak at a series of protest meetings. For the first time in the history of Detroit, the stirring strains of the “Internationale” were heard in the Michigan Central Station as the workers expressed ‘their en- thusiasm in cheers and singing. Detroit Workers Hail Mother | Montgomery and Mother Mooney MOTHER MOONEY | | | | | | left 26,000 families, formerly receiv- ing some meager relief, to go entirely unprovided for. Thus, about 120,000 persons were affected by the cut in the relief lists. The situation outside Detroit is summed up by Senator La Follette in the following. sentences: “Conditions in the suburban regions around Detroit, including Oakland and Macomb Counties, are especially serious. Scrip is being | used to pay teachers and county employees. The upper peninsula also reports counties with much distress and practically no financial resources. . . . Grand Rapids is feeling the need for either state or federal relief, as their relief funds are exhausted.” Such relief as is given is of course totally inadequate to keep children and adults from slow starvation. One meal a da all that hundreds of Detroit's school child An ad- mission from W. T. N n, chair- man of the Feed- Fund, printed in the Detroit Prins, ponds: “We are confronting the most | serious emergency that ever faced | Detroit. You are all aware that people are hungry in our city; that | people are cold; that children are without shoes and adequate cloth- ing.” “You are all aware that people are | hungry in our city,” according to the charity chairman. But Governor Brucker dares to claim that he is not aware of this fact. The New York District of| the Communist Party hails the 50th birthday of Comrade I. Amter, one of the most devoted, fearless and energetic leaders of the Communist Party. His long record of stubborn, persistent and ceaseless revolution- ary work, makes the life of Comrade Amter an inspiring example to all members of the Communist Party, to all revoluitonary class fighters. One of the founders, and always a lead- ing fighter in the ranks of the Com- munist Party, he has been an ex- ample of loyalty and Bolshevik devo- tion to the rank and file comrades wherever he worked. Forced to go to work at an early age, Comrade Amter has given his best energies and talent to the revo- lutionary movement. Joining the so- clalist party in 1902, he has been one of the staunchest fighters against the morass of opportunism of the Socialist party, and against the im- perialist war. The name of Comrade Amter is identified with most of the important and significant events in the post war class struggle in the U.S.A. Becoming the New York or- ganizer of the underground Com- jmunist Party in 1920, he was among the first leaders of the unemployed masses. Always a mass worker, he organized the rubber and metal workers in Ohio from 1925 to 1929. TAILORS PICK DELEGATE TODAY Amalgamated Worker | _on FSU Delegation On Thursday evening, March 24, Irving Plaza Hall will be a very busy place at 6 o'clock. The clothing workers of New York City will get together to nominate from amongst their ranks, a worker to visit the Soviet Union for the May Ist Cele- bration. This delegate will be one of the 50, who will tour the Soviet to the workers in their respective trades. In the same hall, at 8 p. m., Max Bedacht will speak on “World Cap!- talism and the Soviet Union.” This meeting is part of the Anti-War cam- paign being conducted by the New York District of the F. S. U. Bedarht will expose the imperialists’ moves against the Soviet Union To Hold Conference for May Day Friday in Paterson, N. J. Workers in the shops and work- ing class organization are called uron to send delegates and to at- tend in mass\the May Day Anti- jamin, secretary lof the Nations! | nem ‘oyed Council and leader of | he bictory-making Hunger March to Vashington; and Carl Winter, sec-, etary of the Unemployed Councils «f Greater New York, wil! speak. A ‘workers’ newsreel, and the stirring taovies of the National Hunger Ydarch, will be shows, i War Conference, ‘The conference will be held on Friday, March 25, 8 p. m. at 3 Governor St, This Conference will Communist Party Greets 50th Birthday of Comrade I. Amter work out plans for the May Day Celebration, ak tloe in the organization and strike struggles of the mine workers. Ar- rests, jail, brutal p: saults, only | intensifide his work in OF | Continuing his rk in New York, Comrade Amter was the very center fo the great struggles at the end of | 1929-30. As a member of the March 6th heroic unemployed delegation, he | was sent to jail by the Whalen Tam- many ploice. Immediately upon his release he resumed his revolutionary activity and leading work in the Party as the New York District Or- ganizer. A staunch fighter for the Leninist line of the Communist In-, ternational agianst the counter-re- | volutionary Lovestoneites and Trots- | kyists, he has been a tireless driving | force in the struggle to root our| Party in the shops, to develop mass | struggles of the employed and unem- | ployed masses against hunger, impe- | rialist war and for defense of the | Soviet Union. Long life to Comrade 1. Amter! Many long years of his tirefess re- volutionary activity. Long live the Communist Party! Long live the Communist International, and the Communist Party of the Soviet Un- ion, under whose firm Leninist lead- ership, the U.S.S.R. is making giant strides in the struggle for complete abolition of classes in the Soviet Un- ion, towrad the world proletarian re- volution. Join the Communist Party of U. S.A.! Let the work of Comrade Amter be an inspiration to the thousands of fresh proletarian forces entering the ranks of our Party. District Committee, Communist Party. TO USSR || Japanese War Minister Calls for More Troops to Hold Manchuria as Milita JAPAN TO SEND MORE TROOPS BORDER Base Against Soviet Union A advance in Manchuria toward | portant than the aims of Japanese imperialism in the ¥ |Czarist Russia in 1905 and declared the situa tion arising out FIRST STUDENT GROUP LEAVES FOR KENTUCKY | Total Delegation Is Over 150 “BULLETIN PINEVILLE, Ky., March 23— In a statement issued by Cleon Calvert, Pineville attorney, regard- ing the students delegation, Calvert declared, “If the visiting meddlers are taken for a ride, it will not be by the college and university students.” NEW YORK.—A spirited crowd of over 300 students were present at the send-off mass meeting given to the first delegation of students to leave for an investigation of the Ken- tucky coal fields, under the auspices of the National Student League. The meeting was held on the steps of the Columbia University library and was marked with the utmost enthusiasm and the 40 students left in a special chartered bus and auto. The first group of the delegation, which will number a total of ap- proximately 150 students, contained students from Columbia University, New York University, City College, day and evening sessions; Harvard University, Hunter College. These | Students were elected at mass meet~- ings in the various colleges from whose student body they go as dele- gates. The next bus and automobile group will leave tomorrow at the same time. Robert Hall, president of the So- cial Problems Club of Columbia Uni- versity and member of the Executive Committee of the New York Student League, was chairman at the meeting in which Arnold Johnston of Union Theological Seminary, Forest Bailey of the Civil Liberties Union, Allen Taub of the International Labor De~ fense and a striking Kentucky miner, “Smoky Joe” Lawson, spoke. A col- lection for relief of the Kentucky miners was taken and a substantial sum collected. Long Branch 1, LL. By t0 Hold Mass Trial of White Chauvinist Friday Night NEW YORK, — Determined to stamp out all manifestations of white chauvinism in its ranks, the New York district of the International Lbaor Defense will hold a mass trial on March 25 of a member of the Long Branch section of the LL.D. The trial will take place befroe a workers jury and audience at 619 Broadway, Long Branch, N. J., be- ginning promptly at 8 p. m. this Friday. In the Perth Amboy section the I. L. D. has made great headway among the Negro workers. More than 300 Negro workers have been brought into the organization. Recently, how- ever, there has been an expression of white chauvinism which is seri- ously undermining the activities of the LL.D. in that section. A white member of the organtza- tion by the name of Caroline Haxo, who has a bourgeois origin, has caused considerable dissension and ill-feeling because of her crass dis- eriminatory actions and her general attitude toward Negro workers, Spe~ eT cific chrages brought agianst her in- clude impermissible use of the in- sulting term “niggre”’; refusal |to visit a sick Negro worker because there were Negro members on the visiting committee; and statements to the effect that she has been hu-~ miliated because fo her association with Negro workers. To further emphasize the impor- tance of this-mass trial, two of the most prominent working class lead- Jers in the New York district, Com- rade Richard B. Moore, well-known Negro orator, and Comrade 1. Am- ter, district organizer of the Com- munist Party will particplate in it. Comrade Amter will act as prosecut- ing attorney, Comrade Moore as de- fense attorney. All workers are invited to attend the trial. Workers from New Bruns- wick will attend in a truck. A large group of workers from Perth Amboy and Lakewood are also making ar- rangements to attend. Members of the jury have been elected by work~ ing-class organizations in all of these cities. “eh ; ee 4 “desirable consummation” jchurian problem” calls for the conver Manchuria into a military base against the |viet Unon, Gen. Sadao Araki, os gs Minis lof War, told the Diet on Tuesday. |even lar ger forces than Japan now has churia should be stationed there, and fe 1a that Japanese troops would probably b withdrawn from Shanghai, So. China, for service in Ma He admitted that the Japanese ruling cla “Man- sion of So- of the Hes the the Soviet border as more im- var with than the Russo-Japanese 1905). In American F Gen. Araki’s speech has as indicating Ja big objectiv against the Si successful Socialist co New York Times yesterday: “The Far circles, en hailed to the Eastern crisis shifts back to Manchuria and to thus the home front. Japan’s tactical | situation may be thereby said te | have improved. Her legal and mor- al case stood far better before the Shanghai episode.” This is an open admission of the approval of United States imper+ |ialism for the Japanese war moves |so long as these moves are directed against the Soviet Union and not in the nature of challenging Wall Street’s loot in Chi “Shanghai has been sidetracked and the League has been duly res solved, or dissolved, into various commission of inquiry. The main objective returns to view,” is the cynical statement of the New York Tribune, wich further declares: “Gen. Sadao Araki’s appeal to the Japanese Diet for support of the policy in Manchuria, which his reactionary group has made for the nation, is the most authori- tative statement of that policy that has as yet been conveyed to the outside world...... “The army of 30,000 men, which General Araki says is inadequate in a situation ‘more serious in some respects’ than the Russo~ Japanese conflict of 1905, is not only in complete control of alt south Manchuria, which Japan once thought sufficient to her na~ tional defense,’ but is in actual oc~ cupation of Harbin and of Russia’s Chinese Eastern Railway. What more does Japan’s security de- mand? No Chinese force is now in a position to make the situation one-tenth as serious, in any re- spect, as was Japan's posi on the mainland in 1905. No one, in- deed, can put Japan again but Russia. One ii | to the conclusion, therefo t Mr. Yoshizawa's reference to Siberian fisheries dispute, which has for the first time in a quarter of a century played no part in Japan's diplomatic intercourse with Russia, supplies a part if not the whole explanation of General Araki’s appeal for sufficient force, with the nation’s backing, to take and hold what he regards as es sential to his country’s security.” Woolworth Backs Hitler Fascists With Money BERLIN, Maren 23.—Last night the Japanese Consul of Hamburg was seriously injured. Five men attacked with bludgeons .and knives, It is unknown whether the motive was personal or political. The police suppressed the Rote Fahne today for five days on ac- count of an editorial comment on the police against the fascists whereby the police and the gov- ernment are allegedly ridiculed. In the prosecution of the fascist leaders of the Erfurt organization in which Ballhoefer was named on having stolen party funds, it was revealed that the Woolworth Five and Ten stores contributed funds to the fascists, This re- velation explains Hitler’s caution answer to the New York Post cor- respondent, Knickerbocker’s ques- tion concerning the fascist at- titude toward Woolworth’s German branches. Hitler promised to treat Woolworth the same as a German store.