The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1932, Page 1

(= Park Ave. shortly before dawn | i | a | ‘Illinois Coal Companies Kill Fifty-Four Miners; Entombed by Explosion 0 The Ninth Annive New Year's Eve, De: concert and ball Make this a powerful the fighting champion ‘ a demonstration for al : the Daily is leading. LY 5 DAYS OFF! sary Celebration of the Daily Worker is only five days off— have izer of the American workers. c. 31, A meeting. been arranged. demonstration for , leader and organ- Make this I the struggles that Bronx Coliseum, Dec. 31. Dail Central ™, (Section of the Communist International) y, Worker 2. Get your friends sympathetic greetings. organizations All greetings must be in IND GREETINGS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION! 1, Send greetings for the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker, Jan. 14, and shopmates and to send not later than Jan: 8, . Vol. IX, No. 308 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., mnder the Act of Mareh 3, 1819. NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents In the Day’s News SIX HURT IN ACCIDENT NEW YORK.—Two persons were seriously hurt and four others re-| ceived minor injuries when a taxi and.q private car crashed at 57th St. yesterday. 100 PARIS JOBLESS JAILED PARIS, Dec. 25—The parasites who | infest this city had their Christmas | orgies rudely disturbed shortly after | midnight when groups of hungry w employed workers, shouting: “Give us | bread and work!” tried to raid cafes | in the Place Blanche. Police vici- | ously attacked the jobless and ar- rested about 100. ATTACK JOBLESS IN CUBA HAVANA, Dec. 25.—Police fired on | starving unemployed workers who} demonstrated in the market place | yesterday morning and demanded food. Merchants also joined in the | assault, using clubs and other weap- | ons. Three workers were wounded. In the afternoon the police attacked another demonstration. The U. S.- supported terror continues to rage all | * * onsiration in Santiago yesterday. | TRY TO HAMSTRING JOBLESS LONDON.—In an effort to keep the) _eunemployed from fighting against | hunger the government is supporting | “self-help” schemes, The National | 54 “EMERGENCY | WORK” MINERS | ARE ENTOMBED Gaseous Mine Leased for Relief Work By Bosses | MINE WAS BURNING Workers Fire Was Blocked | BULLETIN | MOWEAQUA, IIL, Dec., 25.—The | first twelve bodies of the 54 min- ers trapped underground here have been recovered, The finding of these bodies indicates a practical | certainty that all the rest are also | dead. en ere MOWEAQUA, IIL, Dee. 25.| —Fifty-four unemployed min- | ers who had been working on} emergency relief jobs in the old abandoned “Shafer mine here were trapped underground by a gas explosion followed by a fall of shale and rock yesterday morning. There is only a remote possibility that they are still alive. No answer is. given by the imprisoned men, though | many attempts to signal them have | been made. Gas is so thick underground that | rescue crews rallied from all sur-} rounding mining towns are making Leader of Japanese Socialist Party Aids Robber War on China ‘Suzuki Tours Europe In Defense Of Japan) County Pledge Shoes, | zitts to the unemployed th Imperialists For Partition Of China, War Against U.S. S. R., | “Were Told Peddles Demagogie Promise Of “No Exploita- tion of Labor by Capitalism” In Manchuria; Supports Manchukuo Puppet State | By R. H. PRAGUE, Dec. 10 (By Mail), —Suzuki, leader of the Japanese socialist | | federation. party and head of the reformist Japanese trade union movement, is now in Prague. He was cordially received by various high government officials | as well as by Tayerle, the secretary-general of the reformist trade union | That his presence here is in the interests of Japanese im- CIDR EEK TO BLOCK FIGHT FOR “9” Official Fights Moves For Scottsboro Boys MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 25.— Gen. George W. Chamlee and Irving perialism is made clear in an inter- view with him published in the “Pra- | ger Presse,” government newspaer, on | Japan’s robber war in Manchuria. Suzuki states: “ “The Japanese working-class regrets | that Japan was compelled to inter- | vene in Manchuria with military force. Japan sent its army to Man- | churia to enforce its treaties. The) Japanese workers are against all} force, but in the concrete case of Manchuria THERE WAS NO OTHER | WAY. “ Schwab, attorneys for the Interna- “THE FORMATION OF THIS| tional Labor Defense, announced to- STATE (MANCHUKUO) WAS) day they would push the fight for a change of venue for new trials of the Scottsboro boys despite Attorney General Knight’s resistance. They NECESSARY FOR JAPAN AND FOR ITS WORKERS (!) We believe that Council of Social Service is organizing | slow progress in their efforts to dig the self-help project which consists | through hundreds of feet of fallen chiefly of physical training, recrea-| rock blocking the passages. A dozen tional and so-called educational ac- | of the rescuers have been overcome by tivities. In some sections the unem- | gas (mostly ¢arbon dioxide gas) re- | ployed are being compelled to work | sulting from fire or explosion. | without pay under these schemes. | There is the usual horrifying scene x . ¥ | around the mouth of the shaft, with HONDURAN WAR CONTINUES | weeping wives and children of the TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec. 25.) men underground held back by club ~The Civil war in Honduras, winging deputies and troopers. which. insurgent “forces, evidently | Saving State’s “Fair Name” finanéed by British imperialism, are} john Milhouse, state mine inspec- trying to overthrow Wall Street's | toy is on the grounds making the} puppet regime, is continuing. Fifty-| usual excuses: pointing out that this two insurgents, after being attacked | js the first gas explosion since seven by government troops yesterday, fled | men were killed in the Old Ben Mine across the border and were arrested | af West Frankfort, Dec. 1, 1929, and by Guatemalan authorities. Govern- | 21 were killed on Jan,9, the year be- ment sources also report victories near | fore, at the Peabody Mine, West | Langue, near Perspire and at San | Frankfort. But he avoids mentioning | Marcos. Both groups are exploiting | that deadly mine accidents have been | the disconten@ of the masses, who are | increasing, falls of rock, electrocu- bearing the terrific burden of the| tisns, explosions of dust, etc. if no exploitation of labor by capital- ism is allowed in Manchuria—and here I speak as a representative of the Japanése Federation of Labor— Manchuria can be turned into a real declared they were here to (1) secure writs of habeas corpus for Eugene Williams, one of the boys, (2) to en- force the right of their clients to UNEMPLOYED OF ‘Xmas Cheer- | PITTSBURGH WIN | Suicide and | CASH RELIEF Starvation Delegates Make | A bumper crop of suicides, and misery were the chief Ch: thi: 200 Aid to Single Men | families were insulted with the | publicity blah of “Christmas bask-ts,” OTHERS TO CITY COUNCIL | Salvation Army “dinners,” “the 100 | neediest cases,” etc., with which the capitalist class tries to cover up its Win Cash Pay On Road |eriminat starving of mittions of men * | women and children. Work, Wilkes Barre In New York City, where, according to official capitalist estimates, 1,160,- PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 25.| 000 are unemployed a small fraction $ J, |of this number were given food by —A delegation of 200 Negro) i. gmergency Unemployment Relief and white representatives of | Committee, the Salvation Army, the r itts |New York American Fund, the Vol- ie wei ay ever Pepe: unteers of America, Tammany Clubs, with a delegation also frem otc. For this the unemployed had to Glassport which protested especially | submit to being doped with sermons, against forced labor, wrung important | “messages of good cheer,” etc. in concessions Friday from Allegheny | which they were told to suffer in sil- County Director of Relief Claney. jence, trust in God and the bosses, The delegation invaded the county | and above all, not to struggle against building in a body, and refused to| the starvation and misery to which leave when “requested” to do so by the | the capitalists have condemned them. county authorities. It refused point | Tammany Dope Peddlers blank to send in only a committee of | Among those who peddled this five spokesmen. The whole delega-| poison were Tammany Mayor-elect, tion saw Claney, though Phil Frank- | John P. O’Brien and Police Commis- feld, secretary of the unemployed | sioner Mulrooney. However, the councils of Pittsburgh; Ben and Er- | christian patience of five women and nest Carreathers, Negro leaders of the | a boy was evidently not great enough unemployed; Pete Chapa, acting na- | and Shey fainted in line while waiting tional secretary of the Steel and | for baskets that were being distributed Metal Workers Industrial Union,| by the New York American Fund at Deadmond and Marcus, unemployed | the 69th Regiment Armory. leaders from Glassport and Hazel-| While these spectacles were being wood, acted as spokesmen. They were | staged, workers’ families through the Negro and white, American and for-| city wore having Christmas dinners Aid Lynch-Incitement Toilers, Saying Cliff James Said, He Had Killed Deputies OFFICIALS OF ROCKEFELLER RULED COLLEGE TURN NEGRO - CROPPERS OVER T0 POLICE Drive Against I. L. D. Starts Fight To Force Recognition Of Civil Rights of Defendants to Confer Privatel y with Attorneys eign born. Win Many Demands There was a long argument, but the the | consisting of hunks of putrid meat, , coffee and stale bread and were try- ing to absorb some Christmas cheer BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Dec. The Western Union Telegraph Company refused to send a telegram from a group of rank and file veterans in Washington protesting the Alabama outrages unless they changed the word “demand” to “request” in the wire. The veterans refused to submit to this censorship and sent their protest by air mail to Governor Miller of Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dee- —The surrender of Cliff James, Negro cropper leader, to police on Friday was effected by the Negro reformist heads of Tuskegee Institute. James, the leader of the Sharecroppers Union at Notasulga, Tallapoosa County, scene of the murderous landlord-police attacks on the ’ croppers, had sought medical ANGELO HERNDON ON LOWER BAIL Mass Pressure Gains cropper refugee to have been be- trayed by the Tuskegee heads and turned over to the landlord-police lynch gangs. Tuskegee is financed by the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Moton and other Tuskegee leaders, in their anxiety to conceal their traitorous aid to the landlords have private interviews with their attorneys and (3) to get a transfer from death cells for eight of the boys. Attorney General Knight opposes all three moyes, declaring that the prison officials and the courts are the deciding factor, although under Ala- bama law the right of defendants to | talk privately with their attorneys is recognized, as also is the right of transfer from the death cells pending an appeal. Knight threatened that if pressed, paradise of modern labor. FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE SEC- OND INTERNATIONAL THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF MANCHUKUO IS ALSO NECES- SARY, BECAUSE IT IS PLANNED AS A BULWARK AGAINST. THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM. ... We are convinced that the existence of the State of Manchukuo as an ob- stacle to the further sperad of Com- munism in Asia will have only bene- ficial results for the Socialist workers of Europe.” representatives of unemployed | out of the prospect of being thrown presented their case with much deter- | out on the strect the noxt day. | mination, and Claney granted: ) Hide Suicides Ber da yt aes hg Mig ai hee Of the suicides of unemployed mitted by the delegation ispokesman, | workers over the weekend in New mine sb antag oe wee week re- | ¥ork City, only three managed to find lief for a family of two and for single| {Welt way into the capitalist press. fe whi Al gw. inves. recelyed | Charles Finn, a cabinet maker, Her- aan |man Woehler, a 60-year old laborer, |and Anton Stowic, also a laborer, 3.—Increase from 61c per wek to 90¢ made deseperate by hunger, put an for Hazelwood cases. Risen ee i hier in | nd to their lives. | |—Families will receive relief in ‘ ee 4 s, addition to $3 a week wages which |, Suicide, however, while It may re- liev the bosses, is not the way out for Victory In Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 25.—Angelo Herndon, young Negro organizer of the unemployed facing death charges for “inciting to insurrection,” has been released on $2,500 bail, pending . trial, which has been set for the first w in January. This big partial victory of the International Labor Defense was won by mass pressure and protest from all over the coun-| try, backing up the legal steps taken by the two Negro attorneys handling against the struggle of the croppers. are aitempting to make it appéar that James went to Tuskegee Insti- tute to get “officials there to ‘ac- company him to surrender.” | This lying version is sent out in a despatch by the Associated Press which °is co-operating in the effort to’ prevent exposure of the real role of Tuskegee leaders in order to prevent the destruction of their usefulness to the white lynchers. Dr. Motor, according to reliable confidential in- formation, hes suggested to the boss ( orld capitalism is sharpening more crisis, to further their own and their | imperialist masters’ interests. { JAPAN TO VOTE ~NEW WAR FUND Fascists Push Drive For Attack On USSR! The Japanese Diet convened on | Saturday to vote approval for the | huge new war budget proposed by the | Saito Ministry primarily to forward | Japan’s drive for war against the | Soviet Union. The total budget calls | for 2,239,000,000 yen (over $470,190,- 000 at the present low exchange value of the yen). It is nearly 300,000,000 yen greater tham any budget in the history of Japan, and is 70 per cent above the revenue. The government has been borrow- ing lavishly and plans new loans to neet the present big deficit, thus di- verting funds from industry, with the (eal that the catastrophic crisis of yapidly in Japan than in any other part of the crisis-torn world. Most of the budget is Jor war pur- ' poses, with comparatively small ap- | propriations for “relief” of the ruined capitalist Emergency Work The facts are leaking out of events leading to this mass slaughter of | mint Instead of giving relief to| unemployed miners, the iocal author- ities formed a citizens’ relief commit- tee, which formed a fake co-operative of the unemployed miners, secured a “Joan” of the abandoned Shafer mine, | 635 feet deep, and with all its ma-| chinery in bad repair and practically no safety apparatus at all. It is ad- mitted that the men working on this | scheme got rather less than starva- | tion pay. That the work was already known to be dangerous is proved by the fact | that the mine was on fire several) days ago, and men going down Sat- | urday were told that the fire was in a passage that had been blocked off. The working crew, 115 ‘men, went in at 7 a.m. Saturday. The part work- ing around the point where the main | tunnel is crossed by another passage- way were not heard of after 8:15. There is absolutely no excuse for a gas explosion. Even very simple ap- | paratus can detect quantitics of gas much too small to cause dangerous | explosions, Only very bad timbering | could allow for a fall of rock of this | amount, without an explosion, so | whateverthe original cause, the blame | lies with the whole scheme of ‘make | work” instead of relief, and emer- gency work that makes use of such an obviously dangerous working place. Avoidable | | | | ...) Japanese farmers. While this relicf| Most of the men buried under: ‘The remarks of this prominent rep- resentative of the Japanese Socialist Party give the lie to the pacifist phraseology of the Second Interna- tional and clearly reveal the traitor- ous role of the socialist leaders of more and more open support for im- perialist wars and for armed interven- tion against the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union. The support of the Japanese Socialist Party for Japan's robber war on China is wholly in accord with the policies of the Sec- ond International, which in 1914 be- trayed the world working class into war, and whose leaders today support the betrayal of the Japanese toiling masses by the Socialist Party of Japan, In pretending to speak for the Japanese working class, Suzuki is sig- nificantly silent on the heroic resist- ance of the Japanese toilers, intellec- tuals and students to Japan's seizure of Manchuria and drive for war against the Soviet Union. Suzuki, whom the Berlin Socialist “Vorwaerts” calls “Comrade Suzuki,” is a worthy member of the Socialist Second International, which has openly or tacitly aided every imperial- ist war for the past 18 years, Ale caret Socialist workers of America, join the world-wide fight against im- perialist war, against the looting and partitioning of China, against the armed atack on the Soviet Union! Socialist workers should support the Amsterdam World Con- gress Against War, in which So- cialist delegates participated. They are also called on to support the Latin-American Anti-War Congress | | | 25 of the organized Bank of United | he would transfer the boys to some small town, intimating that he would thus hand them over to lynch gangs. On the I. L. D, demand for a change of venue, Knight hedged, declaring this must be left to the court of Judge Hawxins. Hawkins is the judge who handed down the original lynch verdicts, Knight stated he would not consent or participate in an agree- ment consenting to change of venue. He attempted to represent the ef- forts of the I. L. D. attorneys for a change of venue as an attempt to compromise or bargain with the state of Alabama. The boss press plays up. this fabricated angle, declaring in big | headlines, “All Deals Off on Scotts- boro Case.” | Both Chamlee and Schwab visited | Kirby prison in an attempt to have a private interview with the boys. This constitutional right was brazen- ly denied, and three guards insisted on listening in, DEPOSITORS HIT THEFT OF FUNDS State Refuses Them Information on Loan | NEW YORK—The Committee of | States depositors, cheated out of the bulk of their savings by the bank crash two years ago, have sent the following letter to the District At- torney: “At our regular meeting, held in the HIAS Building, 425 Lafayette was formerly denied them. (A worker who worked one day a week or month earning a few pennies or dollars could not receive any relief from the county previously. This form of discrimina- tion has been partly eliminated.) the millions of unemployed. Only by organizing in the Unemployed Coun- cils and Block Committees and fight- ‘ing for immediate relief, unemploy- ment insurance, against evictions, etc., }can enough be wrung out of. the press the suppression of all news of the struggle in Tallapoosa County Back Lynch Inciters. John H. Geer and Benjamin | Jr. | The Rev. John Hudson, assistant solicitor for the state. who is prose- cuting the case, vigorously opposed The Tuskegee reformist leaders not only betrayed refugce croppers, -but | ployed Councils. . 5.—On forced labor Mr. Claney pro- mised the committee that no victim- ization would take place of those workers who refused to work for their groceries. Christmas Relief Refused A demand for cash Christmas reliet was denied by Claney on the grounds that Governor Pinchot himself was directly responsible for the distribu- tion of cash. The demand for cash bosses to keep working masses from starvation and suicide. Only in this way can the whole boss charity racket be exposed. ‘Force Archbishop of | Greek Church To Give $100 For Jobless Aid payments on road jobs was also oe : AAs denied on the same grourids. On the | joey eR The United | Front question of representation. on the employed Workers of Greater New County Emergency Relief Board, this matter will be further discussed by the County Relief authorities and an answer to this demand will soon be given. Prior to this delegation to Claney a committee from the South Side went to City Council with numbers of cases needing shoes and this demand was won. Edith Briscoe of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union headed thig delegation. Commitees of | archbishop be not. disturbed. tingle meré went to the Relief Agen-|" In spite of all provocations, the cies Saturday, Dec. 24th, to demand! ranks of the 60 Greek workers re- | a dollar a week relief. mained solid and they forced the At a meeting held following the archbishop to send to the bank for conference with Claney the delegation | $100 for the unemployed group. endorsed the call for a United Front The United Front Committee of Confernce to take place Feb. 5th in) Action divided the money on the Walton Hall. It also endorsed the spot according to the size of the calling of a statewide Hunger March | families. Single men received $2 and 14 workers joined the Unem-jeach. This is the second time that the archbishop has been forced through organized mass pressure to | give immediate cash relief. « York won an important victory Fri- day. Sixty workers, including 24 families with women and children and single workers, forced the arch- bishop of the Gr Church by or- | ganiz2d mass pressure to give $100 | Telief in cash. The bishop's assistant used all jkinds of demagogy, pretences and threats. Two cops were called to see that “order prevails” and that the . Cash Pay for Road Work the lowering of bail from the $25,000 | originally set. It was on his request that the court postponed the case. over objection by the I. L. D. attor- neys, who wished it brought to trial immediately. This victory follows on the heels of the previous one, won last week, when Geer and’ Davis forced from Hudson the statement, on the wit- ss stand, in a hearing on a writ of as corpus, that “Negroes have been systemorically excluded from juries for years” in Georgia. This action lays the ground for ripping open the whole Jim Crow and exclu- sion system of Georgia, as was done | in the Euel Lee case in Maryland. | Herndon is charged under an an- cient statute, the same under whieh the famous “Atlanta Six” face death charges, which would make it pun- | ishable by death to advocate unity of | Negro and white workers. He was arrested immediately after he had organized and led a successful dem- onstration of starving Negro and white unemployed to obtain relief | from the city authorities. Wage-Cutting Tire Co. Profit Is $5,151,977 AKRON, Ohio—The ‘irestone Tire and Rubber Co., which together with other large concerns, has put through its share of wage cults, speedup and | lay-offs of its employees, has made a | profit of $5,151,977 during the year gave landlords and their police ma- terial for a vicious campaign. of lynch incitement against the Négro croppers. Dr. Dibble, Negro doctor in charge of the Tuskegee hospital told the sheriffs that James told him he “wished he had killed deputies.” James denounces this statement and denies he ever made such a rem Dr. Dibble also offered the informa tion that James had staved in cabin to resist by force of arms the attempt to expropriate his’ cow and mule, and would have continued the fight had the other croppers not “run away.” James also denics ziv- ing Dr. Dibble any such ipformation. As a matter of fact, the other crop- pers had not “run away” but heroi- cally resisted the landlord-police terror until overwhelmed by superior numbers and armament. The Dibble story is being used by the landlords and their press as a basis for new lynch threats against the Negro toilers. The press is now attempting to justify the formation of the landlord-, police lynch gangs on the basis of the alleged statement of James that he “wished he had killed de- puties.” Eleazor of the Atlanta Commission on Inter-ra¢gial Relations, visited Montgomery yesterday in an attempt to whitewash the bloody terror against the Negro croppers, the Sharecroppers Union and the LL.D. He conferred with boss editers who . 260 Rast 138th Strret, js wholly inadequate and more of a gesture than anything, it throws light on the bankrupt condition of Japanese agriculture and the growing | fear of the ruling class in face of the rising struggles of the Japanese who, ‘im many instances, are resisting the Jandlords and government tax collec- tors with arms in their hands, Solidarity of Negro And White Wins Strike At Fairway Laundry NEW YORK—Alter 3 weeks of s‘rike under the millitant leadership jof the Laundry Workers Industrial ion the workers of the Fairway undry return to work this morning victcrious. The bosses have agreed ‘to reinstate all the workers, including Marie Hanks, the young Negro work- er whose firing caused the resi of | the workers to declare the strike. An ent was signed by the union BR hoses in which it was agreed that there was to be no wage-cuts, ground belonged to the Progressive | Miners of America, whose leaders have lent themselves to all these | shady practices, The National Miners | Uniion not only makes a point of winning safety underground but pro- posed to the Progressives a united front and form of struggle in the last strike that would have won a living wage and relief for the unemployed. to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, WILKES BARRE, Pa., Dec. 25.— Wilkes Barre City Council at its ses- The United Front Committee of Action of Greek Unemployed Work- have been howling for the blood of ending Oct. 31, according to the re- | the arrested croppers, and with Gov, Feb, 28, to organize greater mass resistance to the two wars now raging betwen Bolivia and Paraguay and between Colombia and Peru, and daily threatening to plunge the entire continent into war, Oppose the traitorous collaboration of the Socialist leaders with the imperialist war-mongers! MRS. MOONEY NAILS LIE Boss Press Twisted Interview on Russia NEW YORK.—Mrs. Mary Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, flatly de- nied yesterday the lie in the New York Times and other capitalist papers of Friday that she “confessed that Russia was far from the ideal place to live, and that she would not, as a matter of fact, live there if invited.” union, and that none of the) remain on the job. | “The greatest factor in this strike was the unity of the Negro and white strikers who fought shoulder to shoul- | ler on the picket line against the | Phe tn without the permission of A general membership meeting of He" stet-ment is as follows: “As soon as I land in the United Stae, (am met by the les of these who framed my innocent | son, It is terrible how the N. Y. ‘Times twists my words and tries to put lies in my mouth against the Russian working people. It is dirty work for them to say ‘I did not the union will be held Thursday, at Jike Russia.’ 1 didn’t like the cold weather, but like Russia and 1 Jove the Russian working people. For I know they saved my inno- cent son from hanging by their great fight in 1917, “I stayed in the National Hotel in Moscow and got the finest care and treatment in my whole life. I was thrilled by the new life that I saw. It was a great thing to take part In the World Congress of the International Red Aid and in the November celebration. I was happy to see the Russian working people celebrating their freedom. My heart beat with new hope that the day will soon come when T can join with my son Tom to cele- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO). called for at this time.” 4 | St., on Thursday, Dec. 23, the mem- bership brought out the opinion that Mr, Whyneman, who is now under indictment. for fund embezzlements, perpetrated against the depositors as | a result of his liquidation activitics,¢ is a very serious crime against’ the impoverished 410,000 Bank of U. S. depositors, “Tt was also brought out that Mr. Whyneman may NOT be the only one concerned in this’ wholesale! steal. We feel that he was not alone. perhaps the officer under whom he was working, by lack of proper audit, gave him the opportunity to do so. At any rate he was connected with the Attorney General's office under the direct supervision of Mr. Max Steur, and this matter coming up at a time when we are bending all efforts to scrape up every penny, so as to pay off indigent depositors, it calls for immediate and effective ac- tion on your part.” ‘The Depositors’ Committee has re- ceived a letter in response to their demand on Lieutenant Governor Lehman as to the status of legisla- tion for a loan from the Recon- | struction Finance Corporation to re-) pay the dépositors for what they Jost in the bank crash. The letter was from August Ihlefeld, Jr., Dep- uty Superintendent of Banks, who explains that Lehman gave him the letter from the committee, and that “we do not see that any comment, is sion Thursday night approved a bill | which provides that unemployed | workers doing county and city work’ The Empros, the Greek Communist | be paid in cash instead of in “orders,” | Daily, was very active in supporting | as_until now. | this struggle of the Greek Uneme| There is no doubt that this action | ployed Workers in their fight for re- was prompted by the mass resentment | lief. \ ers is affiliated to the West Side Un- | employed Council, 478 Tenth Ave. | against this form of forced labor. In| port made by Harvey S. Firestone, president. |B. M. Miller, himself a large land- owner in the “Black Belt” and with Build a worsers vorrespondence romp in your factory, shop or | neighborhood. Send regular letters | to the Daily Worker. Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, the | unemployed went on strike, demand- | ing that they be paid in cash, at union wages, for all work ‘done for the county. Even John Gelagher, travel- | ing auditor for the United Mine | Workers, was compelled to appear be- Pope fore the City Council and argue for cash payment. During the preparations for the ROME, Italy, Dec., 25.—Pope Pius “SILENCE ON CRISIS!” Hopes for Quiet in “Holy Year” | the sheriffs directly involved in the attack on the Negro croppers. Wounded Croppers Brought Vo Jail, Five of the arrested croppers were brought here Friday night to the Montgomery County jail by Sheriff Riley of Macom County. Three of them, Clifford James, Milo Bentley and Thomas Moss are seriously (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) United Motors Gets National Hunger March and after the march, there was a continuous prop- aganda carried on by the Luzerne XI took the million lire ($51,100) | | Yaised as a Christmas present for him by contributions levied on Cath- County Unemployed Committee for cash payment for all work done for the county and city. Wilkes Barre is a city of 90,000 in- habitants in the center of the anthr- world at the re- of the olics all over the peated demands through its offi- | ¢lal organ, L’Os- Vatican acite coal fields. [eee Doe a SIX KIDS IE IN FIRE | Holy "¥ean,. to BIRMINGHAM, England, Dec. 25.— | start April 2, 1933, Six of the children of Patrick Weir, during which he a crippled unemployed ex-serviceman, | says he hopes he were burned to death yesterday when) won't hear any fire trapped thme in a small upper | more about dep~ room where they were sleeping. Weir, | ression, wars, Bol- his wife and baby escaped, but the) shevism, etc. The later two were seriously burned. The | official excuse for */gfe os! house was one of the usual fire-traps| a “Holy Year” is the 1900th an- in which workers are farped io liye, “ niyersary of the death of Christ. \ Re ‘The Pope performed the age-old | christmas ‘teremonies of having the | cardinals kiss his hand, saying three masses one after the other, and an- Big Sum from Gov’t mare WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—While | Spain and Mexico. He took partic- nouncing the joys and sorrows of the whole past year. “Crisis Worse” He was realis, enough to admit that there has been a “worsening of a universal financial and economic crisis.” He lamented the “very sad condition” of the church in Russia, ular pleasure in the gesture of En- glish and American imperialism in his favor, by their calling a few hour's truce over Christmas, in the Chaco war, and in the Eucharistic congress held this year in Dublin. Eucharistic congresses, however, are easy to ar- range and have become quite com- mon tal a the government refuses to give & cent to the starving unemplyoed and is preparing to slash veterans’ dis- ability allowances, it continues to hand over huge bonuses to corpora- tions. The Internal Revenue Bureau announced that a refund of $1,127,~ 113 and an abatement of $31,967 have ben given the United Motors Corporation and subsidiaries, for called overassessment of income profit taxes in 1918, The U. S. Steel Corporation, the Melion Aluminnum Trust and many other corporations have already ceived Talons rom Sea i