The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1933 Page Three International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO CONFISCATED The “Communist Manifesto,” Marx and Engels’ masterpiece, printed ever since 1850 in millions of copies, has been confiscated in 1932 in Germany. The Berlin District Court quotes the following passages from the intro- duction to the new edition as grounds for confiscation: “Germany is on the eve of the proletarian revolution.” “Let the ruling classes tremble before a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose by it but their chains, They have the world to gain!” This fear of an eighty-year-old classic of political science, such as the “Communist Manifesto,” affords better proof than anyone could de- mand that the German capitalist class is really afraid of its impend- ing downfall. And what valuable lessons for the Proletariat of 1932 this pamphlet of 1847 must contain if the German Tuling class suppresses it today! “so COMMUNIST LEADER ARRESTED IN PERU LIMA, Peru., Dec. 29 (by mail).— Comrade Budocio Rabinez, chairman of the Communist Party of Peru, was arrested here today after a nation- wide search by police. The police are also actively prose- euting other leaders of the Commu- nist Party on the charge of secret Sten of revolutionary pamph- On the even of the outbreak of open warfere between Peru and Co- lJombia over the town of Leticia on the upper Amazon the Peruvian mili- tatists are trying to muzzle the only active anti-imperialist force in the country—the Communist Party. Their efforts will meet with no better suc- cess than those of the police in other countries—jailing the Party's leaders has never destroyed the Communist Party! Liss Sa BARCELONA JOBLESS DEMAND PALACE HOUSING BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 29 (By mail)—A demand that one of the great palaces of the Barcelona In- ternational Exposition be used to house the unemployed and homeless workers of this city was presented to | the Catalonian Parliament today by | More than two hundred workers’ del- | e@ates, who marched in a body to the parliament building. { ;The delegation was met by Deputy } Don ‘in Marrera, who merely | Promised to inform government offi- cials of their demand. { eas aes | 1,000,000 JOBLESS IN ITALY | Mussolini boasted that Fascism | would abolish misery and unemploy- | ment, but the official figures just re- | leased by the Italian Ministry of ) Labor reveal that on November 30th Xtaly for the first time had more than )one million unemployed. The exact / number out of work was 1,038,000, according to the government statis- tics, which usually are far too low. On the same date in 1931 the number of jobless was 878,000. In view of the fact that Italy {s not, Q lominantly industrial country, this of over 1,000,00 is extraor- dinarily high, And Mussolini’s cure for unemployment, as announced by him just a day or two ago, is the shutting down of more plants and the forbidding of “expansion.” Com- paré this with the “land without un- employment,” the Soviet Union. DEMAND RELEASE OF DUCROUX IN SINGAPORE PARIS, France, Jan. 6—The French section of the International Labor Defense has launched a cam- paign of mass pressure and protest to force the release of Joseph Du- eroux, French worker arrested at Singapore in June, 1931, and now held incommunicado and under con- sant torture in Saigon, Indo-China. The only charge against him is a minor one of having used incorrect Andentification documents. Send protests against the continued torture and imprisonment of Du- eroux, to the Prison administration, Saigon, Indo-China, the Minstre de Colonies, Paris, France, and copies to the Secoure Rouge International ( L..D) 12 Avenue Mothurin- ‘Moreau, Paris (190) France, the I. L. D. urges. . BULGARIAN WORKER HELD HELD ILLEGALLY SOFJA, Bulgaria, Jan. 6—Christo ‘Traikof, Bulgarian worker deputy, is in grave danger of being murdered in Sofia prison, where he is being held illegally since his acquital on ¢ of conspiracy. Send cables and fesolutions of protest, demand- ing bis immediate release, to the Prime Minister, Sofia, Bulgaria. SEENON RR POCKET BOOK LOST NEW YORK.—If anybody finds a pocket book with receipts and Daily Worker affair tickets some with the name of Dukaisky, return to Health Center. THE ROAD A COMMUNIST NOVEL By Castes Marlen 00 RED STAR PRESS PM. Rew 47. Keation TN. Y. SUPPLIES 450 MIMEQGRAPH 8 run St. Room 203 v OREN ROMS AM. ts —— RUSSIAN ART SHOP JASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS 100 East 14th St. N. Y. C. Imports from .S.8.R, (Ihussix) ‘Tea, “Candy, Cigarettes, Smocks, Toys. 4 wis, Novelties, Woodcarving, b ‘Work ‘Rhone: 44-0008 BARGES IN DRIVE Price of Competition Paid Out of Wages of the Workers NEW YORK.—Forced labor is be- coming the insolent practige of the boss class of this country, this was the conclusion of Herman F. Klein, 324 East 82nd Street who worked 13% hours for the Eat-O-Mat Lunch Room but could not collect for his labor. After completing the jeb which he was hiréd to do by Sam Appel, the Manager, Klein submitted a bill for $3 material he had used up and $12 for labor. Appel insisted on paying only $3 for the matérial and nothing for the labor. Klein had to spend 15 hours in two courts trying to collect his pay. At first the judge ruled that he should be paid $14, but on finding that he was dealing not with just one lunch- room, but with a corporation he ruled that Klein get only $5. So Klein was “lucky” to get his $3 back for the material and $2 for 13% hours work and 15 hours in court. ORDERS PROBE OF MULLER AGENCY Judge Has to Grant Right to Picket NEW YORK —Judge Brodsky in the court at 314 W. 54th St., Thurs- day ordered the investigation of the Carl Muller Employment Agency, 1173 Sixth Ave., in the case of Charles Doly, whom the Clark Muller Agency had robbed of a $40 fee. In this way the judge tried to pass the buck and delay the trial, knowing full well that he could make only one ruling, and that was in favor of the worker. ‘The judge was also forced, by the success of the Job Agenoy Grievance Committee 58 West 38th St., in rally- ing the workers against the job sharks of Sixth Avenue, to say that the committee had a right to picket the employment agencies, and he even went so far as to praise the Job Grievance Committee for its work on behalf of the unemployed victims. The case of the four workers ar- rested by order of the Efficiency Agency for picketing was also post- poned. Judge Insults Girl | and Upholds Theft | of a Month’s Wages NEW YORK.—yYesterday morning in the court at 160 Madison St., Part 1, the judge insulted a houseworker and her fiance. The girl had worked three months as houseworker for Mrs. Etta Starkaman teacher at P.S. No. 91 and wife of an official of the Coward shoe company, living at 1478 Walton Avenue. In December she was taken {il due to the hard work she had been given and a doctor called and said that she should not be moved for at Teast four days. Mrs. Starkman forced her to get out within 24 hours, thereby aggravating her conditions. She also withheld her wages for the month that was due. ‘The girl sued and the judge ac- cepted the word of the boss and dis- missed the case after insulting the girl by asking her why she hadn't married the worker she was engaged to for three years. He threatened to jail her fiance for contempt when he told the judge that he “wasn’t making easy money like judges” and couldn't make himself a home so easily. The case has been taken to the Council of Workingclass Women. 2 KILLED AT SEA ON SPEED UP JOB NEW YORK.—An oiler and a fire- men were scalded to death on the §. S. Munlisto, of the Munson lines, on Dec. 23. The oiler had his clothes and shoes blown off his body. He died instantly. The fireman lived } until the next afternoon. It happened when they were forced to go into a shut down boiler to make some repairs. Speedy work was necessary, because the crew has been cut down so small, and the amount of work is so great. The Munson lines follows the principle that the smaller the crew and the smaller the wages—the bigger the profits. Gases exploded in the boiler, after the men had been hustled inside. Their bodies were taken off by a coast guard cutter from Wilmington. No pubiicity was given to the tragedy. When the Munlisto reached New York, the company refused to pay off the crew. The men were o*fered 25 per cent of their wages. The com- pany says it will pay the remaining 7 per cent when suitable; and is upheld in this robbery by the Ship- ping Commissioners, ‘The crew on the Munlisto is ready to organize to put an end to the mad. house conditions aboard. No Place to Sleep NEW YORK.—‘Seventy-eight emp- ty beds in the thirteenth floor of the Holy Dog House last night, and as many more on other floors, while thousands of seamen walked the streets without a place to sleep,” says yesterday's issue of the “Dog House News.” This is the regular publica- tion of the Waterfront Unemployed Council, issued at 140 Broad Street. It keeps close watch on the “Dog House,” the Seamen’s Church Insti- tute. The “Dog House News” remarks further in the same issue: “They shut down the ‘employment agency’ at the Dog House. Was it to save a city license fee, or because Barber doesn’t need any scabs right now?” ‘FORCED LABOR ON) OF PORT BOSSES | Discuss War Plan President-Elect Roosevelt and Secretary of State Stimson meet and talk over Republican and Dem- oocratic co-operation against the Japanese rivals of U. S. imperial- ism in the Far Kast, and for con- tinued provocation against the U. 8. 5. R. TOKIO RULERS 10 KILL MORE Boss Press Breathes Threat Of Slaughter (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of Manchukuo’s territory, but it is not loyal to the Changchun regime. Some- times it takes orders from Chang- chun, sometimes from Chang Hsiao- ling.” The “lesson” to the Chinese people is being emphasized by daily flights of Japanese bombing planes over Jehol Province towns, and the scat- tering of leafiets threatening the populations with extermination if they do not hoist the Manchukuo flag and submit to the robber aims of Japanese imperialism. Imperialist war is now faging in China and South America. If there is not to be a transition of these wats into a general world slaughter, the workers and all persons opposed to war must act immediately and de- cisively. We must organize United Front Anti-War Committees in in- dustry, among the unemployed, in all organizations, for stopping the production and shipment of muni+ tions, for defense of our lives and limbs, for defense of the Chinése People.and the Soviet Union, which leads the struggle for peace. The Liebknecht ahd Lenin memorial meetings this month must be turned into mighty antl-wat demionstrations. ars Protest Here NEW YORK.—‘“War ts not de- clared,” says the Atherican Commit- tee for Struggle Against War, 104 Fifth Ave. “but a third of Para- guay's armed forces have been wiped out in struggles for oil, gold and mar- kets by American and British im- perialists, and the city of Shankai- kwan lies in ruins after bombardment by sea, air and land. “Today no war can be localized,” the committee continues, and points out that with the U: 8. government “selling” a battleship to Columbia and munitions to Bolivia, it is al- ready practically taking part in wars. A protest meeting is called by the committee, particularly against the] that slaughter in South America. It will be at Irving Plaza Hall; Jan. 12, at 8:30 p. m. Speakers include Alberto Rambao, Mexican writer; Robert Minor of the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party; Dmitri Ivanovich, Colom- bian journalist; Robert Dunn, of the or of “American Investments Abroad; Labor Research Bureau and co- author of “American Investments Abroad;” Nicholas Gutdrra of the Peruvian Labor Movement; Joseph Freeman, co-author of “Dollar Dip- Jomacy and William Simons, of the Anti-Imperialist League of U. 8. DEMONSTRATE AT ITALIAN CONSUL Protest Against Fake Amnesty by Duce The demonstration by the United Front. Committee for the liberation of Italian Political Prison- ers is to take place today before the Italian Consulate, Lexington Ave. and 70th St. Hundreds of workers will gather at the Hungarian Workers Center, 350 East 81st Street, at 11 a.m., and march to the Italian Consulate. The Consul had been advised that a del- egation of seven, including repre- sentatives of the United Front Com- mittee, the International Labor De- fense Committee and the National Defense Committee will be at his of- fice before 12:45 p.m. The United Front Committee {s made up of delegates from 27 Italian Mutual Aid, Cultural and Trade Un- ion organizations. The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, which includes among its members John Dos Pi , Sherwood Anderson, Wal- do Pronk, Edna St. Vincent. Millay, Prof. Franz Boas, Mary Heaton Vorse, Langston Hughes, whole-heartedly supports the fight that is being car- ried on by the United Front Com- mittee, to expose Mussolini's “am- nesty” and for the unconditional liberation of the political ers in Italy, declared Eliot E. sec- Tt has been pointed out that this “amnesty” applies to those pris- oners who have A A fe or organizational importance. Under the cover of this act, therefore, Mus- solini can and {s intensifying his per-| sectition of the leaders and the im- portant members of the opposition| take parties whose organizations aré a threat to the life of fascism. This “amnesty” is a sign of the weakness, not of the strength of the regime. The National Committee recognizes fully the importance of having a de- termined body of mien in this country who, by their militant activities, can do much to turn public opinion against the fascist terror in Italy. GREET HUNGER SILVER LAKE, workers gathered here recently at the Bellville Workers Club at Mio- ran’s Hall to welcome the returning marchers. The march to Washington was described by the aa MARCHERS N, J.—About 200| © URGE PROTESTS TO SAVE H. PING China Trade Union Head Faces Death (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 6—The All-China Trade Union Federation has issued an appeal for mass protest action throughout the world to save the life of Huan Ping, arrested several days ago by the Nanking Government and subjected to most inhuman torture in the Chansuelyan prison. The ap-| Unemployed Council is putting up a| peal states, in part: “The chairman of the All-China Trade Union Federation, Huan Ping has been arrested in Peiping. One of the foremost pioneers of the revolutionary trade union movement; one of the most stead- fast anti-imperialist fighters, he is now being subjected to torture in the Peiping prison. Huan Ping is in great danger of execation or ex- tradiction to Canton. “In the name of the organized workers of China, we appeal to the workers of the world, to all fighters for freedom, all anti-imperialists, to act immediately to save Huan Ping and restore his freedom. “Your protest action saved the lives of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg. Your solidarity must now save Huan Ping from the Koomintang hangmen.” The appeal calls on all workers and anti-imperialists to send pro- test delegations to Chinese embassies and consulates in all countries and to Wite protests to Marshal Chang Hsiao-Ling at Peiping and to the pr tad Government, at Nanking, a. Negro Renegades to Be Exposed By Thompson on Sunday Louls Thompson, former social worker, and now secretary of the Na- tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners will speak at the Bronx Studio, 227 Lenox Ave., this Sunday, at 6:30 pm. She will talk on “Why the Negro Should Defend the Soviet Union,” and the truth about the postponement of the mak- ing of the film, “Black and White,” in the Soviet Union. The talk will be under the auspices of the Inter- national Branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Thompson was the organizer and sec of the group of 22 Amer- ican Negro Intellectuals, and workers who went to the Soviet Union last year to take part in making the film “Black and White,” portraying a cross section of the nationsl oppres- sion of Negtoes in the United States. Due to technical difficulties the pic- ture had to be postponed until this year. Lee Moon, Ted Poston, M. Lewis among the Negro intellectuals, became impatient and issued a series of lies to the American press rep- resentatives in Moscow. They alleged + the Communist International had been. .to..against dis- ctimination to Negroes in the Soviet Union. In America, the Associated Negro Press, which Poston represent- ed, and the New York Amsterdam Negro paper, which employed both Moon and Poston, also sent out news releases to the white captialist press in support of tHe lies and slanders against the Soviet Union. Schouten, Framed Up Marine Worker, Sends Letter from Prison NEW YORK.—Govert Schouten, unemployed seaman, who was sent- enced Thursday to fourteen months in jail on a framed charge of beat- ing up @ policeman, has sent a letter to the Marine Workers Industrial Union, of which he is a member, from Tombs prison, calling on the workers to’keep up the light against the bosses. The letter states: “This is one of the worst frame- ups I ever saw, but comrades, that won't stop our activity. We musi aignt and my spirit will be with you. “Don't let the Institute (Seamen's Churen Institute) get away with this dirvy trame up. It 1s one of the scab houses of the capitalisis. I am glad to say L am a member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. “I will think of you because your struggle is my siruggie and 1 wone pe quscouraged. ‘Lomorrow they are going to transfer me to the work- uouse. I send soviet greetungs to ail the comraues. Up and figut for @ wovies America.” Schouten was framed nine days af- ter @ aemonsirawion in front o: tae Seamen's Caurcn insusive wnica de- manded that: unempioyed marine workers, Wnose baggake had been contiscated by the insucute, be ai- jowed to gec @ change of clotnes. Scnouten was noo even present at unig demons:ration, in rorkers are asked to gebou wen, care of the New York County Workhouse, New York City. sb eeu Oe Metal Strikers Win Demands in Une Vay \ Waterfront Council | Hits Stagger Relief Gag of Height Group NEW YORK.—Jane Street Mis- sion, a patt of the Seamen’s YMCA, used to house seamen whder tre} charity of the Haight Committee, is| starting a plan to stagger the sea-| men on relief. The Haight commit- | tee is discontinuing its drive for| funds, and each seaman in the Jane Street mission will be staggered to conserve the funds the committee has at the expense of the hungry seamen, | The local branch of the Waterfront fight against this variation ef the “stagger plan.” It is demanding an open accounting of the finances of the charity racket, and organizing the Iceal unemployed to fight against the effort to cut mer. off the list. One obvious aim of the plan is to Tid Captain Page, director of the Jane Street Mission, of the group of organized unemployed in the mission. ‘The Haight committee is composed of men promnient in shipping cir- cles, Its activities are to weaken the demand for unemployment insurance | and relief of the seamen at the ship- | owners’ expense. The “stagger plan” has already been applied at the Sea- mens Church Institute, and is rous-| ing great dissatisfaction there. | GREEN SIDETRACK OF INSURANCE Now Out for the Boss’ | Black Bill (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Congress that greater effort is ne- cessary to divert the fight for un- employment insurance into harmless cheannels. This is the real motive behind, the Black 30-hour bill which, without prohibiting further wage scales re- auctions and further decreases in TOTAL income of workers, would do nothing but legalize the present star- | vation level of living prevailing even among workers still employed. The fight for the shorter work day is an integral part of the fight against wage cuts and for higher wages and living standards to which the A. F. of L. leadership gives lip service but even if the Black bill) were enacted and enforced it would make no substantial reduction in un- employment for the 16,000,000 now Jobless. Its pretenses in this respect is what Green is endorsing. It is a handy device to distract the atten- tion of workers—especiaily members of A. F. of L. untons—from the struggle for compulsory federal un- employment insurance. It is a handy device for checking the struggle for immediate relief at the expense of the government and employers and creating the illusion that by such proposals the crisis can be solved and a measure of pros- perity restored. TUUL to Give Facts Facts which will be placed before the Senate Committee by the Trade Union Unity League delegation and the Unemployed Councils eariy next week show that part-time work is almost universal throughout the country today. The ayerage working week at the present time, it will be shown, is much less than 30 hours; that there are whole industries like Steel where employees getting any- where from one to ten days’ work per month are rated as “employed.” Teagle’s Admission. | Writing in the Sunday Magazine | section of the New York Herald Trib- une for Jan. 1, Walter C. Teagile, head of the Standard Oil of New Jersey, whose “share-the-work” plan Green endorsed, stated that “about 67 percent of the manufacturing in- dugtries in the United States already haye some form of job sharing.” But unemployment continues to increase. Green stated in endorsing the Teagle “share-the-work plan of spreading hunger, that “if om- ployers of labor throughout the na- tion -will give the share-the-work movement their fall and complete support, increasing employment will be noticeable within a very short their} the working class against the hunger situation.” Green Had to Back It Up. This statement aroused such great indignation among members of A. F. of L. unions that Green was forced to repudiate it. But he now appears in support of the Black bill which is intended to legalize the whole system of work-sharing on a Poverty basis. Green, according to dispatches, said nothing about the need for higher wages and the pro- hibition of wage cuts. He appears in response to and in support of an- other demagogic adventure by the leaders of the Democratic Party. Will Expose Green. ‘The Trade Union Unity League delegation will expose both the Black bill and its false pretenses of solv- ing the question of mass unemploy- ment, and the attempt of Green and the whole A. F. of L. leadership to divert the mass fight against star- yation into support of the maneuvers of capitalist party politicians. Tt will also expose Green's ments about “universal for the shorter work week and his attempt to divide ahd draw a line between “organized workers” and the millions of wnorganized in the basic industries upon whom the misery of mass unemployment, wage cuts and @ starvation standard of living rests even heavier than upon the .organ- ized, The hearing of such & measure as the Black Bill shows that the gov- ernment servants of Wall Street are compelled by the growing depth of the crisis and the mass struggles of" $ state- action” offensive to adopt new tactics; that still stronger struggle can and will bring victories in checking the hun- ger offensive which Green aids. struggle against militaria: must not be pentponed ‘until the it when war breaks out. it will be teo Iste. The igele og: war must be car- @ pew, daily, hourly.” jing carried on to recruit new mem-| ¢ in the industrial and economic 5 MEET 10 EXPOSE |Illinois National Guards Raid Union Office, Relief OHIO WHITE BILL Sunday Conference to Lay Plans CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 6.—Four | to five hundred delegates are ex- pected to attend the mass conference | called by the Ohio Joint United | Front Committee on Unemployment Insurance and Immediate Relief, to| be held in Columbus, Ohio, on Sun- | day and Monday, January 8 and 9, in the Pythian Hall, Mt. Vernon and Monroe Avenue, The conference will open at 12 p.m. | Sunday. rendered by A. R. Onda, secretary of | the state committee. Report will consist of an analysis of unemploy- | ment in Ohio, exposure of the dema- @ogic methods utilized by the White administration, contrasting Governor White's bill and the Workers Unem- | Dloyment Insurance Bill, and will) terminate with organizational pro-| posals for immediate and future| struggles. | Icor Carrying on Membership Drive) NEW YORK —The Icor is carrying | om an active campaign of registers ing the whole membership for the| year 1933. | An extensive campaign is also be- | | bers. Every friend of the Jewish col- | onization in the U.S.8.R. should join the Icor. | Membership $1 per year, which in- | cludes subscription to the Icor Monthly. | Join the Icor, help the Jewish | Pioneers in Biro-Bidjan and learn all about the situation of the Jews | in every country in the world. | ICOR, 799 Broadway, New York, Room 514. } Mrs, JAMES TELLS MURDER STORY. Vivid Picture of Negro| Oppression in South —_ | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) me’ that the sheriff told him he was coming to take all of the stock. On Monday morning a deputy sheriff, Olifford Elder, came to the farm and walked over to my husband, who was at the woodpile. The deputy told him he came to get the stock. Cliff told him if he took the stock off the farm the family would all starve. We have seven children, from seven to eighteen years old. Ned Cobb came out of the house and pleaded with Sheriff Elder not to take the stock. Elder pulled his gun and threatened to shoot both of them. He couldn't scare them, so he said: “Ym going to get the high sheriff and help, and come back and kill you all in a pile” “Oliff could see trouble coming, so he told me to take the children to a neighbor's house. I went to the home of John MoeMullen, about 200 yards away, and Mrs. McMullen and I watched my farmhouse from the window. My children continued to play with Mrs. McMullen’s children in front of the house. Shooting Staris At about 1:30, Sheriff Elder and three others came to the gate and walked up to the house. They called for Cliff and Ned, who immediately came outside. Only a few words were spoken, but almost immediately Sheriff Elder pulled his gun and shot Ned Cobb in the hip. Then Cliff and Ned started to run away from the house, with the sheriffs shooting after them. The sheriffs began to shoot into the house, too, and some men in there returned the fire. All the sheriffs ran away and hid, and continued to shoot into the house. John McMullen was shot and killed as he was going towards his own home. Then the sheriffs began to got in all directions, and bullets ‘were flying all around the McMuilen home. Preston McMullen, the young son of John McMullen, was shot in the leg while in his front yard. “I was awful scared, and I started down the road to the home of my brother, Judson Simpson, with bul- lets flying all around me. About 4:30, some men came to Simpson’s home, beat his wife on the head with a pistol, and shot him twice while he was sitting im a chair. He was shot in the face and hip. One of the white men picked up an axe and was about to finish Judson off, but a white farmer stopped him. This white farmer also helped hide Judson away, but later Judson was arrested, and he is now in the county jail at Dade- ville. A Ruined Home “I didn’t go back to the house for several days. * When I did go back, I found all the stock had been taken away, and most of the food, and some clothes. The house was all torn up with bullets, and all the furniture was smashed and broken. “E never saw CIff alive again. But I was told that he had gone to see Dr. Eugene A. Dibble, of Tus- kegee Hospital, who looktd after the family when they were sick, for years. I found out too that while Dibble was pretending to look after. Cliff's wounds, he sent a student to the sheriff's office, and a deputy came right over and took him to jail, where he died. “My seven children are being taken care of by a relative. The farm has been taken away, and we are all left destitute. “I want to thank the International Labor Defense for their help in fight- ing for the release of all the croppers, and for arranging the funeral in Bir- mingham. I want to call on all the workers of the South, both Negro and white, to join and support the In- ternational Labor Defense in its great fight for the Scottsboro boys and all the ‘and persecuted Negro farmers.” | miners shows itself | every Peabody mine be closed. ‘Station in Mine Strike | Terror Continues in Christian County; Miners Want Mass March on Taylorville Armed Scabs Recruited byLewisUMWA Gang; | Hold Funeral of Miner’s Wife Killed by Thugs TAYLORVILLE, DL, Jan. 6.—National Guards, heading the terror station and soup kitchen. | forces of the coal operators and their government against the striking The main report will be| miners battling starvation, raided the Christian county headquarters ef | the Progressive Miners Union here and closed it up, as well as the refief Today is the funeral of Emma Cummolato, wife of a striking miner, who was killed in front of a mine by® Coal operator's thugs. About 1,000} miners are expected to attend her | funeral. Want March on Taylorville, SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (By Mail) The situation in the Southern Nlii- |nois coal fields remains very tense | as the militancy of the rank and file | The miners, | disgusted with the rotten leadership | of the Progressive Miners of America, | want @ Mass march on Taylorville. | In Springfield the S are picketing five of the Peabody mines. At Peabody No, 51 the imported | scabs are forced to buy guns from the company. These impor check their guns when the the mines in the morning and them from the s when out at night, y seven ¢a of scabs were sent in here to work Peabody Mines No. 57 and 59. The miners here demand that Word has been received that the Lincoln Tine has voted to go Progres . 3 mines in West Franklin, the F county mines which the mine’ to get out last summer, will voie to- night on the walk-out. —H. B. {| Demonstrate Against Peabody. CHICAGO, Jan. 6. — The Unem- | vioyed Councils, Trade Union Unity | League, and International Labor De- fense are calling for a demonstra- tion in front of the main office of the | | Peabody Coal Company at 20 North Wacker Drive, tomorrow, Jan. 7, at 12:30 p. m., against the bloody terror | carried out by the orders of the Pea- | body Company against the striking | | miners in Christian and Williamson | Counties. | In Christian County there Is acti ally a little civil wer going on. orders of the Peabody company, the | newly elected Democratic Governor | Horner, ally and part and parcel of | the Cermak-Tammany machine, sent | five companies of the Illinois Na- tional Guard, who according to the story in the Chicago Tribune “with fixed bayonets, were enforcing peace in Christian county coal fields.” In} addition to the 300 militia men, with helmets and armed with ma- chine guns, rifles, and bayonets, there, are 50 deputy sheriffs with re- volvers on their hips, walking -the streets, terrorizing the miners. Be- sides these forces, 200. strike-break- ers, recruited by the order of the Peabody Coal Company, by the of- ficlals of the United Mine Workers from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and counties in Illinois outside of Christian County, have been depu- tized and another 1,000 strike-break- ers are allowed to carry guns. > All these forces have been “mbb- | ilized in war againstj the striking | miners of four Peabody mines in Christian County. These miners re- fuse to submit to the rule of John L. Lewis and his company union, the UM.W.A. They are fighting for the right to live and build their own or- ganization. ‘The leadership given the striking miners by the officials of the Pro- gressive Miners has been of the most uncertain kind. These are the same officials that signed individual agree- ments accepting wage reductions and thus allowed the Lewis United Mine Workers gang to gain a foothold in Christian County. The P. M. A. of- ficials also rejected the united front offer of the militant National Miners Union, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. The sentiment of the rank and file is for unity of all miners in the struggle against the coal operators and their tools, the government and the Lewis gang. DEMAND PAYMENT FOR EXTRA WORK NEW YORK.—The workers of the Stanley-Patterson Co., at 150 Varick Street were working up till now 5 days a week. Their working week was reduced last summer and their wages were also reduced accordingly. Now the workers are forced from this week on, to work again a half a day on Saturday, but they will not get any pay for it. ‘These workers are working on gov~ ernment orders. They are producing fire-alarm boxes, signal apparatus, | etc. At the time when the politicians in Washington and the American Federation of Labor bureaucrats are speaking about the introduction of the 30 hour week without reduction in pay, in actual fact they are in- troducing longer hours without any pay increase. ‘The Metal Workers Industrial Un- ion calls upon the workers of the Stanley-Patterson to organize them~- selves in order to defeat this forced labor on Saturday. In order to help the Metal Workers Industrial Union to organize the Stanley Patterson co. and all the other metal shops, it is necessary that all members and sympathizers intensify their collections for the $1,000 Strike Fund. BOSS STARVES MINERS SCRANTON, Pa.—The Glen Alden mines, closed by that company some time ago, are permanently shut down, according to the statement made by Worthinton Scranton, presi- dent of the Scranton Chamber of Commerce, before the meeting of the | Advertising club, AGAIN POSTPONE WEINSTEIN. TRIAL Now Set for January 19;! Intensify Defense NEW YORK, Jan. 6—The trial of Sam Weinstein striking furniture worker who was framed on charge of murder, was postponed in the Bronx County Court Thursday. The new | date for the trial has been set for 88 | January 19 1932. When told of the postponement, 100 workers gathered at the Weinstein defense meeting at 3159 Coney Island Ave. pledged to inten- sify the fight for Weinstein’s uncon- ditional release and unanimously’ ac- claimed the resolution of protest which was sddressed to Charles B. McLaughlin, District Attorney, Ber~ gen Building, Bronx, N. Y. Hall Jammed The meeting hall, which is the headquarters of the Bill Haywood, ILD Branch was jammed to capa- city, but a loud speaker carried the words of the speakers to many work- ers assembled on the sidewalk out~ side. n Weinstein was listened to with closest attention as he told the story of his frame-up, and how step- by-step his eyes were opened to the role of the police as capitalist.agente an dhow he was won tii the wage-| ing policy of his ) and the sti to the support of he rev- olutionary movement. qt. Intensify Fight rene The fight to smash the degame-up of this worker is being intertsified. The local office of the Ini Labor Defense has publishe: 4 let exposing the frame-up, are urged to read and distribate*this pamphlet which is entitied, \“The Frame-up of Sam Weinstein—An-~- other Mooney Case.” It can be ob- tained at the following places: District office of the ILD, at 796 Broadway, Room 338, Woreksr Bookshop—50 E. 13th St. Literature Dept. of the Communist Party—50 E. 13th St. The ILD urges the workers to send, with the least possible delay, all .available funds to the Weinstein De~ fense Committee, 799 Broadway, Rm, 388, Resolutions and telegrams of pro- test should be sent to: Charles B. McLaughlin, District At- torney, Bronx County Court, Bergen Building, Bronx, N. ¥. ‘WORKERS CENTER BANQUET SUNDAY Lots of Fun for All; Good Program NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, sec- retary of the Communist Party of the U. S., James W. Ford, recent can- didate for vice-president on the C.P. ticket, and Joe Brodsky, will be among the prominent speakers at the mass Bankuet on Sunday, Jan. 8, 1933, at 7:00 p.m. in the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th Street on the Sec~ ond floor. An excellent program {js being ar= ranged; it includes illustrations by members of the John Reed Club, (William Gropper and Yosel Kotler) and recitations and other acts by the Prolet Buehne. These features will be prepared specially for this acca~ sion. rari All mass organizations, Trade Un- ion Groups, and Party Units are urged to elect delegates and to help the Center in its present crisis. The New York Workers picket housing all revolutionary tions of the Party such as No, 2, Daily Worker, Morning Fret- heit, Eteenpain, Workers Finnish Federation, most of the Janguage buros, and the Committee of the aPrty. bs Need 250 Workers for Lenin Pageant NEW YORK.—With the Lenin Memorial meetings in New York and Brooklyn only two weeks off, the committee in charge of the commem~ oration announced yesterday that greatest pageant ever shown in York is being prepared. Hundreds of workers, men and women, young and adult, Negro and white will par- ticipate. However, there is still an urgent need for about 250 partici+ pants. Workers who desire to participate can still enroll if they are sure to attend the next four rehearsals on Monday, Jan. 9; Thursday, Jan, 12; Monday, Jan. 16; and Thursday, Jan, 19 at 8 p. m. at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St. NEWARK. FORUM SUNDAY Ave. (just below Berien St.),