The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1933, Page 3

eaas ATTEMPT STIFLE VOICE OF MOONEY Prison Warden Threat; | Plan Mass Congress ' SAN FRANCISCG, Jan. 25—In their attempts to stifle the rising thunder of protest against the con- tinued imprisonment of Tom Mooney, the California bosses are now’threat- ening to hold him incommunicado in San Quentin Prison in order to com- pletely cut off Mooney from the masses of workers and intellectuals who are rallying to the mass fight for his release. Warden James B. Holohan said yesterday he was considering such action. He declared he had received inany complaints, “some from high government officials, concerning the flood of Mooney propaganda being circulated, by the mails and other means under Mooney’s name.” He declared he “would not have San Quentin prisoners issuing political pronunciamentos to the \orld. The only way to stop it, it seas, is for us to forbid interviews vith Mooney.” The toiling masses rust answer immediately this threat to hold Moo- ney incommunicado! Rush protests | to Gov. Rolph of California and to Warden James B. Holohan at San Quentin. Elect delegates for the Free ‘Tom Mooney Congress in Chicago April 30! Strengthen the mass fight for Mooney's freedom: is SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25,—A call for a Free Tom Mooney Congress, to which representatives of workers’ ganizations all over the country invited, to be held in Chicago, April 30 to May 2, was issued today. The International Labor Defense is sup- | porting this Congress, and has called en all its districts, sections, and branches, not only to elect delegates to the Congress, but to bring the call to all other working-class organiza- | tions throughout the country, to se- cure the election of delegates. Following is the test of the call, issued by Tom Mooney himself, through the Tom Mooney Molders’ Defense Committee: “I hereby issue today, Jan. 21, 1933, this call for a Free Tom Mooney Congress, to be held at Chicago, April 30 to May 2, 1933, under the auspices of the Tom Mooney Molders’ Defense Committee, to plan the final fight for my freedom. I appeal to every A. F. of L. union—local, district, state and national in its jurisdiction; to the railroad brotherhoods, and all other labor unions; to all working- class organizations—political, eco- nomic, defense, social, athletic, fra- ternal or cultural; and to all liberal organizations sympathetic to the workers, to elect two delegates from every local, lodge, or section to at- tend this congress. Fight Wage Cuts, Hunger “Labor in the United States is be- ing shoved headlong into a state of peonage which even the coolies and chattel slaves never knew, while a few international bankers are becom- ing the uncrowned kings of. the world. Because I fought such condi- tions with every fiber of my being and was framed by the enemies of the working class for doing so, be- cause I have become the symbol of jJabor struggling for its rights, the fight for my freedom can become the center around whieh the workers will rally in their desperate struggle against unemployment, wage-cuts and_ starvation. “The Free Tom Mooney Congress will link my fight with every strug- gle of the workers. Now is the time when there is desperate need to in- tensify the fight for the freedom of all class war prisoners, and against the ruthless intimidation and terror- ization of workers regardless of race, creed, color or nationality. Every worker with a spark of militancy or revolutionary purpose or the small- est speck of self-respect, who is not a slave, who has a drop of red blood flowing in his veins, must now fight for his very life and that of his ‘women and children. It is your duty and responsibility to take part in this struggle. “Governor Rolph, tool of the labor- hating bankers and industrialists, had decreed that I die in prison. This decision is a deliberate and in- solent challenge to the entire labor movement. This challenge must be met. It can and will be met by the Free Tom Mooney Congress. The time has come when all organiza- tions fighting for my freedom must be welded into the widest possible united front, whose might and agressiveness will serve notice on my framers and jailers that my con- tinued imprisonment will no longer be tolerated. “Elect your delegates to the Free Tom Mooney Congress! “On to Chicago, April 30 to May 2, 1933! “Forward to victory! “TOM MOONEY, “31921.” LAWSON HEARD FROM IN CHICAGO Kidnapped by Thugs of Legion in Ind. CHICAGO, Jan, 25.—Jack Lawson, who was kidnapped by American Le- gion thugs, following his address at the Lenin Memorial and Anti-War Protest Relief Cut Plan of Pinchot DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JA on Demonstration of Philadelphia employed and unemployed workers before the county relief board against the commissary plan sponsored by the “liberal” Governor Pinchot. present inadequate relief for the jobless. This plan contains a big cut in the SMASH CHAIN GANG SYTESM Herndon Appeals from Georgia Jail (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) workers to live on, and they feel their system crumbling. Now is the time for all workers of Georgia, and the United States, Negro and white, to organize ourselves in a united and solid bond and to be prepared to give the bloody damn- able system of capitalism the final blew and take over the power that the capitalists now possess and turn it into the power of the pro- letariat, the class that produces everything and keeps the machin- ery of life turning. “IT appeal to you as my only refuge, for I will never cease organ:7i-7 and struggling against the system ci op- pression, hunger and unemployment, and the bloody rule of capitalism juntil it breathes its last breath, and the workers of alb races are free to live, under a government controlled by the workers, “Demand the abolition of the oid slave insurrection law of Georgia. On to a workers and farmers government in the United States.” ANGELO HERNDON. NEW YORK.— ‘Angelo Herndon must not die, and Angelo Herndon must not be imprisoned for eighteen or twenty years, even though ten thousand Angelo Herndons rose to take his place.” ‘This was the substance of a state- ment issued today by William L. Pat- | terson, national secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, calling on all workers and intellectuals, Negro and white, throughout the country, to rally to the defense of this youn: organizer of the unemployed. “The workers of America must Met. and cannot permit the blood- -Shitsty boss rulérs of Georgia to Yailroad “Angelo Herndon, or any other leader of the starving workers to jail and death,” Patterson said. “The defense of Angelo Herndon will be raised to a national and even an international issue, The entire forces of the International Labor Defense will be thrown into rousing the protest of the working masses of Negro and white through- out the country, organizing a mass defense to support the legal action taken by the I. L. D. lewyers, which include a motion for a new trial, and an appeal, and will inciude ap- peal to the highest courts. “Herndon is being railroaded be- cause he organized the starving Negro and white unemployed in a Struggle which won them bread. as the crisis deepens, the struggle will continue with ever-increasing inten- sity. The workers’ movement must not be beheaded.” BERLIN. WORKERS IN HUGE PROTEST Demonstrate Against Hitler, Schleicher BERLIN, Jan. 25, (By Radio).— Despite the intense cold, thousands of workers answered the call of the Communist. Party and joined today in one of the largest demonstrations held here recently, at the Buelow Platz in front of the Karl Liebknecht House, headquarters of the Commu- nist Party of Germany. The workers demonstrated against Hitler, leader of the National Socialist (Fascist) Party, and Chancellor von Schleicher who permitted the Sunday’s provocative demonstration of fascists in front of the Karl Liebknecht House. Parade Through Section The first columns arrived at 4 p.m As the square was too small to hold the masses of workers, it was de- cided that the columns should march through the square past the Lieb- knecht House and back into the working-class sections. Members of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party, includ- ing Thaelman, secretary, Pieck, Flo- rin, Schehr and Ulbricht, were wel- conied by stormy cheering as each new column passed. The demonstrations included large detachments from the big factories, such as the A. E, G. (Berlin electric General Electric—tdit.), Borsig, Sie- Meeting in Wabash, Ind., has been heard from. He was taken by the Legionnaires in a fast car to the outskirts of the town where he was further beaten up and kicked out into the road. ong K, C. Workers Meet KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 25.—A Lenin Memorial meeting was held here in the Brooklyn Hall, 1904 Brooklyn, the Forum Hall being re- fused to the workers, with 120 pres- ent. 600 In Butte BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 25—Six hun- dred workers attended a Lenin Me- morial and anti-war meeting at the Carpenters Hall last Sunday. A num- ber of subscriptions were received for the Worker. The program was \ psoas by ® play and revolution- General Electric—Kdit.), Borsigfi Sie- mens, Ostram, etc. Mass Support Workers are still marching eight deep, column after column, past the Communist Party headquarters, cheering the members of the Central Committee, the general staff of the German proletarian revolution. Unlike Sunday ,there is no need to “protect” the demonstration today or to estab- lish martial law, drive the population from the streets and mobilize 15,000 armed police, as happened at the fas cist demonstration. On the contrary, the pavements are lined with thous- ands of cheering men and women in eloquent support of tle united front against fascism and the struggle for a Soviet Germany. pital sche emaddeeanenye terion A crime against the working class to permit the Daily Worker to sus- pend, Rush funds today. . Under Green Fire | Louis Weinsteck, leader of A. F. L. Rank and File Committee for Jobless Insurance, who is threat- ened with expulsion by Green and Co. because he fought for the mem- bers S. DEFEAT ATTACK ON WEINSTOCK Is Big Issue for A.F.L. Membership NEW YORK.—The ch: basis of which Louis W tional secretary of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance, and eight other members of Paint cil No. 9 were suspended last week. bear the clear impression of the hand of Pres, Green and the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. Although the pretext given for the suspension is the mock-trial held in New York, where in the presence of 500 rank and file members Weinstock exposed the treachery and corruption of the Council officials, the real forces behind the suspensions can be seen through that section of the charges which attacks Weinstock for his ap- pearance before the Senate Judici- ary Committee in its hearings on the Black Bill. Demanded No Pay Cuts. In his speech before the Senate Committee Weinstock thoroughly ex- posed the nature of Senator Black’s 30-hour bill, endorsed by Green and the A. F. of L. executive council, as to le- a vicious measure calculated! Green lied when he said Wein- stock was not an A.F.L. member. Here’s Weinstock’s card as delegate to the A.F.L. Painters Council. galize the employers’ share-the-work scheme, which means wage-cuts un- der the guise of shorter hours. Weinstock proposed that the bill be amended to provide NO FUR- THER REDUCTIONS IN WAGES, and stated that only on such a basis would the measure be acceptable to the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and the workers generally. It was but a few days later that the sus- pension move was made against Weinstock and the 8 others. In an attack on Lo Weinstock, Green stated that the A. F. of L. rank and file committee has no con- nection with the A. F. of L., in spite of the fact that Weinstock is a mem- ber of Painters Local No. 499 of New York City, and the rank and file com- mittee has the support of at least 1000 union locals affiliated with the A. F. of L. Blow at Membership. Enraged at the militant leadership of the rank and file members of the A. F. of L. which compelled the of- ficialdom to make a gesture in favor of unemployment insurance through their treacherous State Insurance plan, and at the tremendous response of the membership to the rank and file convention in Cincinnati, Green (COPS MURDER | NEGRO WOMEN Kill Mrs. “Edna Davis} | Without Cause; Freed BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 25.—De- | tails of the murder of Mrs. Edna | Davis, Negro worker by Birmingham | police officers on New Years Eve thave been obtained by the Interna- | tional Labor Defense in an affidavit by the husband and sister of the mur- \dered woman, The affidavit exposes in simple, dramatic language, the reign of terror against the Negroes of Birmingham, which is being inten- sified now in preparation by the lynch | bosses for the Scottsboro trial which | will come up in March and to break |the unity of the white and Negro workers in the Scottsboro defense. ‘The statement also exposes the role of the courts and county authorities in whitewashing all investigations of murder of Negroes. In spite of the fact that these same facts were re- lated to the coroner’s jury which “in- vestigated” the murder of Mrs. Davis, the three policemen, well known here | as “red baiters,” were exonerated. | The statement follows in part: | “Addison Rawls stated that he is | the husband of Edna Davis, and Noby | Robinson, that she is her sister. | Break Into House | “At about 10:30 p. m. of Dec. 31, 1932, Edna Davis, Addison Rawls, Belson and William Emery were to- gether in the front room where Ad- dison Rawis, Edna Davis and Noby Robinson live together at 913 16th St., North, Birmingham, Ala. At that | time Edna Davis was sitting on a chair putting on her shoes getting \ready to go to the Watch meeting with the others. Suddenly the rear and front doors were forced open and three police officers entered—two | through the front door and one from |the rear. The names of those who entered were Officer Norrel, Mozer and John Allen. Officers Norrel and Mozer had guns in their hands and we did not notice whether Allen had {his gun drawn but later on he did have it out. “All of us were sitting In various places in the room when the officers came in, Mozer kicked the door open and yelled “Gimme that pistol you got and get your damn hands up.” Ali of us put up our hands and stood up as ordered—except Edna Davis who was putting her shoe on and could not get up so fast. Officer Allen grabbed Edna Davis by the nape of her neck and as she was pulled to her feet the officer hit her over the head with a pistol and kick- jed her at the same time. As she ® | was falling towards the bed, Officer Norrel hit her over the head with his pistol—and she fell between the bed and trunk, Officer Allen then shot her and the bullet struck her on the left side. She was sinking to the floor when Officer Mozer shot her for the second time. He shot her in the left arm. the floor for thirty minutes and they would not let anyone go to Edna Davis while she was dying. She died while we were kneeling. Try Frame-Up “On Tuesday, Jan. 27, two officers, those names Addison Rawl did not know, came and said ‘did Edna Davis move for the shot gun?’ Addison Rawl replied that she did not. “One of the officers said: ‘If Mr. Mozer ever finds that out, there will be another dead nigger in this town.’ “The police claimed that Edna Davis reached for a shot gun. This is absolutely untrue. The only shot gun in the house was lying down all taken apart. The gun belongs to Ad- the day before. The gun had snapped and he Had taken it apart to fix it.” “We were called as witnesses be- fore the coroner and we all testified to the same statement as the facts are stated here. We were not per- mitted in the room when the officers testified. We were never told what decision the coroner made.” and the Executive Couneil obviously intended the attack against Wein- stock and others as the beginning of @ general attack on the membership. This drive must be checked with a flood of protests from the local unions of the A. F. of L. The real issue is whether the rank and file have the right to fight against pay cuts and for jobless insurance oy not! i CO. STEALS LARGE SUM IN FRACTIONS OF CENTS ROCKFORD, Ill—At the National Lock Co. in Rockford there are work- ers who are coming a long way on the street cars and busses to work for an hour or two (and some times thete is no work at all), where the pay is from 11 to 20 cents an hour. If you have a street car slug it ,costs you twelve cents for the trip, ¥ WORKER CORRESPONDENCE | and if you pay cash it costs you 20 cents for the trip. These workers do not know that the factory is stealing up to as high as six dollars a day from them by not giving them credit for the deci- mal units of a cent that they have coming to them and this amounts to $1200 or more every four months, and this is not the only thing that they steal from the workers in this plant. —Former Worker. Noby Robinson, Viola Smith, Hubert! “The officers forced us to kneel on! dison Rawls who had been hunting} 5.000 SCORE A) =| N.Y. DISTRICT SL IN “DAILY” DRIVE CUT BY PINCHOT) Parade in Philadelphia Present Demands | PHILADELPHIA, Jan —~Over | 5,000 workers, Negro and white dem-| onstrated on Reyburn Plaza yester- day (12 noon), protesting the starva ot tion Commi Gov. Pinchot. William Powell, org 2 retary of the Philadelphia Unem- ployed Council was chairmar of the meeting. Ed. Bender, secre 'y of the Unemployed Council District 3, ex-| plained to the workers why the rul- ing class were trying to put over on the workers, a plan that would mean a 75 per cent cut in relief, regardless} of the fact that the relief given out at the present time is inadequate.} Comrade Bender told the workers how the Commissary Plan works, and| what the workers can expect to re- ceive in the line of food. Reading} from the capitalist press, this is what} the workers of Philadelphia will re- ceive in there food bundles. Instead of fresh meats, fat pork, instead of fruit, can tomatoes, corn meal, beans and black eye peas. Reading further from the capital press; Miss Anna Bowes, head of the State Children’s Health Department claims the Unemployed of Pennsyl- vania are extravagant. That they buy jam and other luxuries, instead they should buy salt pork and food of |a cheap price. She agrees with Pin- Plan “liberal ; workers can and should live on 41 cents a week, and a child on 27 cents, Present Unemployment Demands | The demands of the Unemployed Councils were adopted unanimously by the demonstrators calling for the defeat of the starvation Commissary |Plan of Pinchot, and $7 cash relief |for the head of every unemployed family, with $1 additional for each child in the family, and $5 cash per week for single workers, the aboli- tion of the state eviction law, and |of discrimination in the distribution lof relief against Negro or young | workers, or the foreign born. A com- mittee of fifty workers was elected from the crowd to present the de- ;mands to the State Emergency Re- lief Board at 1450 Cherry St. Parks was the last speaker. He unmasked the two faced liberal Gov. |riachot, and asked the 5,000 or more workers present to go to the relief headquarters with the committee of 50 to back them up when they pre- sented their demands to the Phila- delphia Emergency Relief _ Board. When the committee left the Plaza, 5,000 workers swung in line in back of them. When the committee | started to enter the Emergency Re- Hef they were told that only 2 would] |be allowed in. When the workers) were told this, such a roar of pro-| |test arose that the officials of the bureau told the police to let the full committee in. The committee was “received” by Mrs. Coyn, head of the distribution department of relief, who told the committee that she thought lit best that the committee go in an- other room. Get Rid of Police Comrade Bender opposed this, be- cause he wanted the 400 to 500 wor!- ers who had been waiting in the of- fice all morning for relief to hear what the committee had to say. Mrs. Coyn was forced to hear the demands in her general office. The commit- tee also demanded that the police leave the room. (They were scattered all around). The police left the room. Mrs. Coyn, after hearing the de- mands of the committee, said that the committee should attend the mecting of the executive committee of the Emergency Relief Board, which were meeting that afternoon at the office of the chairman, Mr. Philip | Staples, who is also vice president of the Philadelphia Bell Telephone Co. But this meeting was postponed. However, the fight is going on and involving larger numbers of workers. Some Notes for Hungry Toilers NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 25.—This city has its share of the 16,000,000 unemployed, but the incomed resi- dents of New Orleans are now buy- ing corsages for dogs. The corsages, said Charles H. Grakelow, prominent florist, are “being developed this year for style extremists . . . for a Peki- nese a brown button chrysanthemum or callendullas; for an Airedale a burnt orange chrysanthemum. .. .” i ane HIAWATHA, Kan. Jan. 25.— Twentieth century capitalist economy has reached such fine fruition that farmers here have discovered that Ja load of ear corn is not worth as much as a load of cobs without the corn. A farmer explained: “First I buy a load of corn—I can get it from 10 cents to 20 cents a bushel, perhaps cheaper if I haul it myself. “I shell the corn, which I use for feed. Then I take the cobs to town, selling them at $3 a load. “I get back the price of my corn with the money I obtain from selling the cobs. This leaves the corn with me for profit.” PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.—Taking milk for your hungry kids is a crime punishable by death. This is the inference of the de- cision just rendered by Judge George C. Parry, who ruled that the slaying by Bernard Beese, a grocer, of Wal- lace Mitchell, 32, an unemployed worker and father of six children, constituted “justifiable homicide.” Beese shot and killed Mitchell when the latter attempted to take two hot- tles of milk from the grocery, and escaped a prison term, He was in- stead placed on two years’ probation. SENATE REJECTS SILVER MOVE WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25— By a vote of 56 to 18 the Senate yesterday defeated the amendment proposed to the Glass bill by Senator Wheeler with the object of remone- tizing silyer. The victorious oppon- ants of the silver move argued that the “road of inflation is paved with ARY 26, 1933 that remains is action on the part of | Cr | organization |chot on the commissary plan that! District 8 (Chicago) has sent in a program of action in the drive, All ago workers in carrying out the Chicago recognizes the need for stimulus in the drive and suggests the initiation of revolution- ary competition, scale, city challeng- city, section versus section, one challenging another, | group challenging group, ete. ‘The response from District 2 (New York) on Tuesday fell down badl; Had it not been for the contributions secured at the gathering of intel- lectuals and professional people at the Radamsky Studio, the district tota] for this day would have been only $7. More intensive activity is essential even though the New York district is leading the field. R Analysis of ‘Daily’ Drive Shows Most Districts Lag Badly The analysis by districts of the results of the campaign so far that appeared in yes- terday’s issue was printed in such a Way as to make it difficul to understand. We| are therefore reprinting it in its proper| form. This analysis shows the results up| to Monday, inclusive, | 8 | past 14-week Total as of January Percentage of Quota District 2 2 STRESS PEACE POLICY OF USSR Molotov Scores the War Provocations (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Rumanian government to sign such a pact with the U. S. S. R., Litvinoff said “it is possible that the refusal of the Rumanian government to sign the non-aggression pact with Russia is explainable not by the opinion of the Rumanian government itself on the subject, but by some so-called external reasons. In the political encyclopedia the list of so-called “in- j dependent” countries erroneously often includes countries that are really not independent, say, in their foreign policy, but are in reality subordinated to the foreign policy of other countries who are stronger and therefore dictate their will to some “independent” governments. At any tate, only Rumania and its govern- ment will lose by it.” Pointing out the “failure of the League of Nations to solve the prob- Jems in the Far East, Molotov de- clared: “The question of international relations in the Far East affects us closely. We must in this connec- tion undertake a series of meas- ures. The Soviet Government more than a year ago proposed to conclude a non-aggression pact with Japan. Recently the Japanese governntent informed us of its re- fusal to conclude such non-aggres- sion pact at present time,” Japanese Provocations, Referring to the persistent cam- paign of war provocation by the Japanese imperialists and their press, Molotov continued: “Recently it went as far as pub- lication b ythe Japanese War Min- istry of a provocative communica- tion about the Soviet Government and its future embassy in China, and despite categorical denial on our part of these anti-Soviet in- ventions, the Japanese Foreign Minister Uchida repeated them in the Japanese parliament on Jan- wary 21.” Summing up, Molotov states “the international situation again reminds | ‘us of the necessity of increased vigilance, particularly of special at- tention to the situation in the Far East. This must find its expression in all our work and in all our con- struction which is basis for the growth of our economic and political power.” U.S. S. R. Vs. Capitalism. In an earlier portion of his speech, devoted to the tasks of 1933, Molotov gave much attention to the great and constantly growing contrasts be- tween conditions in the Soviet Union and conditions in the crisis-torn, decaying capitalist world. Regard- ing the tasks of 1933, he observed that the best proof of the fulfillment of the first Five Year Plan is the plan providing for increasing industrial production during 1933 by over 16 per cent. Can another country be found, he asked, which will show even 1 per cent increase? He pointed out that during 1933 wages will again be increased, this time from 9 to 10 per cent. Can another country be found which is even giving a pledge not to reduce wages, he asked, Regarding the plan to increase the yield of the harvest by 10 per cent, Molotoy pointed out that in the capitalist countries agriculture Was in a state of ruin, He showed how the development of planned economy in the Soviet Union was made possible only by the aboli- tion of private property, land and the means of production and sub- stituting socialist property held and controlled by the toiling masses. While the tasks of the first Five Year Plan were the reconstruction of heavy industry and transport, the | new tzsks, he declared, will be the | mastery of industrial organization and agriculture on the basis of the | TUESDAY Page Three MPS A Non-Contributor Muggsy says: “All they're good for is to make trouble, them reds, they're showing up my racket all the time.” The Daily Worker exposes not only the corruption of the Tamma- ny police, but their role in breaking strikes, beating up at demonstra- tions and doing other dirty work for the bosses. Support the “Daily.” Tt needs your contribution to 1 e. CONTRIBUTIONS Total received Tuesday SW Previously received “ Total to date all districts DISTRICT 2 | V. Reuther . Martin . Stays . Gross |. Sarnoff (New York) | Spartacus Greek | Workers’ Club $4.00 202 West | Coney Is. Eugene Unsec H. Williamson Affair at Radam- sky's Studio 1 03 10 1.00 L. Bothanen Huge Cameon Total st de pistaicr 3 | wi" (Philadelphia) A. 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BALTIMORE, Ma, Jan. 25.— Traveling over the Lincoln Highway out of Philadelphia to Baltimore late at night on Jan. 19, I passed a string of army trucks which had stopped for a few minutes at a town called Kenneth Square. I stopped and asked a Captain on one of the trucks where the war was. I got no information from him so tried among the buck | Here I was told that they | privates. were moving on secret orders, but that over the rank and file grape- vine, reports were that they were pro- ceeding to the Far East. The boss press carries no mention of the movement of these troops W/ of the U. 8, °| the FAKE PEACE MOVE BY WALL STREET IN ITS OWN WAR 6,500 Casualties in 5 | Day Battle in Chaco BULLETIN AIRE Santa BUENOS Far | semb voted today ‘e Provine , ase La Kosa, unanimously to strike on Feb. 1 to enforce their demands on the goy- ernment for relief. Santa Fe Prov- ince is one of the greatest pro- ducing agricultural districts of the republic, SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 25.— Grave fears were expressed in bourgeois circles today for the Cen- tral Bank, whose reserves have been depleted by the government's policy of subsidizing the bankrupt nitrates industry under the pre- tense of “progressive nationaliza- tion.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — The Wall Street government, the chief instigator of the wars now raging in South America, today engaged in a fake ma- neuver to “avert” war between Colombian pupp: and | Peru. The maneuver was lead by Secret of State Stimson who held a conference with representa- tives of the imperialist powers signa- | tory to the Kelogg-Briand pact which 4s supposed to have “outlawed” war jalthough imperialist wars are now ‘aging in South America and the Fat and the S. Government is preparir r an armed r the mastery and control over China Meet of Rivals The conference took up the charges mbian puppets that ressor in the present between Colombia ong the powers re- reat Britain, with is in fierce struggle outh American mar! and re- S, ndit powers using keys to carry on the armed struggle; and Japan which has contemptuously torn up the Kellogg- Briand pact in launching its. robber war on China with the seizure of Manchuria and now the invasion of Jehol and North China. U. 8. Backs War, The action of mson in calling conference is intended as 2 |checkmate to the British attempt to | have the question of the South Am- erican wars taken up by the League Nati Aware that the League is rolled by Britain | and France ana any decision it makes }on the question would be in favor |of the British bloc of puppet states jin South America (Paraguay, Argen- | tine, Uruguay, etc) as against the |U. S, bloc (Bolivia, Colombia, and | possibly Brazil), the Washington Government seeks to forestall the British move and at the same time to | deceive the toiling masses of the U. S. as to its “peace” aims. But the same government which is staging this farcial conference is supporting lits Bolivian and Colombian puppets by permitting and endorsing huge | shipments of arms to these two coun- tries, by permitting the sale to Colom- bia of the U. S. freighter “Bridge- | town which was converted into an | armed troop transport in a Brooklyn shipyard and sent to South America under command of an American |captain and with an American crew, |The Washington Government also permits open recruiting in American \ cities for the Colombian army and navy. American captains are in com- mand of most of the Colombian war- ships now moving up the Amazon River to attack the Peruvian forces at Leticia. The workers of the U. S. must answer these war instigations and the present hypocritical manouver of the Wall Street Government by strengthening the international proletarian front against imperialist war, by a decisive struggle against | the capitalist war mongers, and with firm support for the South American anti-war Congress which will be held Feb. 28 in Montevideo, Uruguay. its of the Pac which is carried out so secretly dur-| Bolivian and Paraguayan forces ing the small hours of the morning. | see ide youeaminer fect mates | with the Bolivian forces, armed with educational level of teh masses of|war material from the U. S., prac- new technique. These tasks, he said, involve the further raising of the the masses and the organization of} the whole Soveit economy to a still higher plane, constituting an under-| taking much greater than anything! we have’ done in the first Five Year| Plan. These tasks, Molotov pointed out, demand a tremendous work of clarification and explanation among the masses to secure the maximum activity of the workers. It is also| necessary, he declared, to strengthen the fight against the class enemy in| agriculture and industry. The class enemy has been allowed to creep in, but must have no place in the Soviet system. Molotov’s speech was greeted with prolonged applause, the whole audi- ence standing in enthusiastic accla- mation. The present session of the Central Executive Committee of the U. S. 8. R. is taking place in the former tsar- ist palace in the Kremlin. The| opening of the session is attended by | a large representation of the shock | troop workers of Moscow. Te foreign! diplomatic corps are also present. tenance. I contribute 8. . Name Address Wire, air Mail, rush funds to the Daily Worker, 60 East 13th St., New York City. tically encircling the strong Gran Chaco fort. Latest reports are that over 6,500 have been killed and wounded the bitter five day struggle in Jobless Councils in Idaho, Win Victory COUER D'ALENE, Idaho, Jan. 25 —The Couer d'Alene Unemployed Council won a victory over the Wash- ington Water Power Company, Mon- day, January 16, when an employee | of the power company was prevented from shutting off the water of @ workers home. It is rumored that the W.W.P. Co. took the matter up with the City Council and asked for police protec- tion and were promptly referred to the county authorities who advised them to go easy with the Unemployed: Council—it had too much support. The Daily Worker is your fighting paper, Contribute and collect to keep it alive 1 recognize the necessity of the Daily Warker as a mighty weapon in the day-to-day struggles of the working class and wish to contribute to its main- . to the Daily Worker Fund.