The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1933, Page 3

Chats-with Our Worcorrs By ROBERT HAMILTON TWO YEARS FOR 14 YEAR-OLD =< POLAND. WARSAW; Jan. 6. (by mail) —A 14 year old boy named A. Milchtatch Was arrested on the streets and found in possessi¢n of a collection list for proletarian: political prisoners. The | Disttrict=Attérney demanded a heavy sentence. “because Milchtatch had been previously arrested for collecting money. fox. political prisoners. The judge agreed, stating that the boy “undoubtedly was an agent of the illegal Communist Party” and was} ite dldZenough to be aware of the | snegs7of-his offense. Milchtatch | was sentenced: to two years in prison. | This is-Paderewski’s Polonia Resti- tute, witha megalamaniac piano- playing foulider and another megalo- maniac, Pilsudski, now the country’s dictator. COMMUNISM IN JAPAN'S SCHOOLS. | TOYIO, Jan. 7 (by mail).—The| Jaanese Minister of Eductation has | ordered a closer check-up by inspec- tors of teachers in the provinces be- cause of the: spread of Communist | ideas among-them, and particularly in view of the fact that teachers have in many cases encouraged the growth of Young Communist groups. Thirty- two teachers have already been ar- rested in various districts, while 70 students have been arrested in Kobe, charged with founding revolutionary sroups.- - = COAL OUTPUT RISING IN SOVIET “SOVIET UNION MOSCOW, Jan. 5 (by mail). —The production~of coal in the Soviet Union is rising from month to month, In December 1932 the average daily output was 185,000 tons, com- pared to a daily average of 170,000 tons in-November and 164,000 tons in Octcber. A-total of 5,735,000 tons of coal were mined in December, or nearly one-million tons more than in the preceding month. ie te ame ARAKI THREATENS THE SOVIET - UNION. --BERLIN, Jan. 5 (by mail)—The Tokio correspondent of the ‘“Deut- sche Allgémeine Zeitung” has had an interview- with General Araki, the Japanese_Minister of War. In reply to a query whether “war between Japan apd Russia was inevitable,” Araki said: “I am opposed to Russia’s attempt to sovietize the world, and above all, I am opposed to endeavors to under- mine the loyalty of the Japanese people to its-ruling house. However, I do not think that war is inevitable. As far as F concerned, I am in favor of an ‘active policy towards Russia aslong as it refuses to aban- don Communism, but as soon as Russia gets.rid of Bolshevism I shall be Russia’s=friend.” The . Japanese militarists’ have shown in-Ohina what they mean by an “active policy.” They have also proved their readiness to place the world before one fait accompli after another. The only thing holding Japanese armies from Soviet soil to- day is the Japanese General Staff's deliberations regarding the suitable time to: start -marching. The Soviet Red Army in the Far East may. be another healthy deter- rent—buti-let us not be deceived— the Soviet Union needs to concentrate all its resources upon the huge job of Socialist_construction and cannot afford tozengage in warding off an imperialist “attack by force. There- fore, workers of America, your slogan must echo and resound: Embargo on all arms“to Japan! Hands off the Soviet Unilon. MANCHURIAN PROSPERITY MUDEN, Yan. 1 (by mail—Decep- tive reports have been printed in the capitalist -press, tending to show how Manchuria ts prospering under Jap- anese ruié; The actual conditions are illustrated by the following data. Spring sowing in 1932 were 11 per cent lower than in 1931, while the harvest dropped 33 per cent. The area sowed to the soya bean, Manchuria’s chief export commodity, fell 17 per cent. The 1932 rice and wheat harvest are conservatively estimated at about 30 per cent_helow those in 1931. The export of wheat has come to a com- plete standstill, and about 9,000,000 sacks of wheat and flour will have to be imported to t the shortage. The damage Manchuria’ by the crop shortage is estimated at about 100,000,000 Manchurian dollars. The flood damage is figured at nearly 300,000,000 dollars. Hundreds of thou- BERLIN, Jan, 6. (by mail) —The workers o fthe Zinn and Engels steel rolling mill in Duesseldorf have won all ther demands after a successful two week strike under the Daily’ Sub With 9 1 Ton of Coal . Pa—The Peop- Association here an- on of coat will get a month’s sub- _ eription=to the Daily Worker or any ither Paper published in this country. CALLS ALA. STATE RELIEF CONF. U. C. Leads Fight on Starvation BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 7.—The State Committee of Unemployed Councils of Alabama has issued a call to all unemployed and part time workers, both organized and unorganzed, Neg- ro and white, to elect delegates for a mass delegation to the special ses- sion of the State Legislature to raise the following demands: 1—$3 cash relef weekly for every family, in adition to the wholly inadequate local relief; and for State or federal unemployment insurance; 2—Free gas, light, water, ete., for unemployed workers and for part-time workers paid less than $7 weekly; 3.—Adequate care for homeless young and single workers; 4.—Immediate re-opening of the schools, payment of back salaries to the teachers, hot lunches and free text-books for the children; 5.—The right to vote without payment of poll tax; 6.—Absolute equal treatment for | Negroes in the carrying out of these demands. ‘The Unemployed Councils have an- nounced their opposition to the sales tax, demanding instead a cut in the salaries of officials receiving over $2,500 a year, reduction by half in expenditures for courts, jails, police and military, increase in income tax and property and inheritance taxes, especially in the higher brackets. hTe Councils demand that the State se- cure a loan of $10,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for relief to the unemployed. ‘The Councils have called a united front conference for Feb. 19, at 2 p. m., at the Old Pythian Hall, 1524 1-2 Second Ave., North, Birmingham. Delegates are expected from Mobile, Montgomery, Gadsen, the mining camps and from many organizations |in various sections of the state. The conference will discuss the next steps in the fight against starvation and the increasing police terror against white and Negro workers. It will take up the question of militant sup- port for the nation-wide mass fight to free the Scottsboro boys, against the chain gang sentence against An- gelo Herndon and for the smashing of the whole vicious chain gang sys- tem and vyagrancy laws. FORCED LABOR VICTIMS STRIKE Fight Against: -Relief Racket - «+ BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 27. — The forced-labor victims of the East Bir- mingham charities went on strike to- day against the miserable conditions under which they are forced to slave for less than a dollar a day relief in groceries. The latest. scheme of the charities was an edict that the work- ers walk two and three miles to work. At a mass meeting in Stockholm Park, at which the workers were ad- dressed by the organizer of the Un- employed Council, they drew up a set of demands and elected a rank and file committee to present these to the “welfare” agencies. The de- mands are. 1.—No walking to work. The char- ities to furnish trucks for the work- ers, 2.—Establishment of a sub-relief station in East Birmingham, to eli- minate any necessity of the workers walking three miles back and forth eachday. 3.—Increase in relief. The feeble excuse the relief agent gave for making these workers walk was that Negroes rode in the trucks and she did not wish to see nice white workers riding in the same trucks with the Negro workers. These “nice” white workers think otherwise, and are vigorously fighting against this attempt to keep Negro rfid white workers apart. They realize that the purpose of this boss scheme is to di- vide the working class and prevent united struggle against Starvation and forced labor. Every move tends further to open the eyes of the work- ers and put them on the road to working class unity. URGES SUPPORT OF JAPAN STRIKE BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 27.— Workers in the local plant of the Singer Sewing Machine Company eagerly grabbed for leaflets distribu- ted yesterday at the factory gates calling on the workers to support the strike of Japanese workers in the Singer plants in Japan against a ten per cent wage cut. The employees of the local Singer plant had their wages cut 10 per cent about three months ago, and are fa- miliar with the vicious wage-slashing policy of the Singer Company bosses. ‘The leaflet, issued by the Communist Party, urges the Singer plant work- ers to join their fellow-workers to protest against the intervention by the U. S. Government in the strike of the Japanese workers. It calls on them to join their fellow-workers in Japan in struggle against’ wage cuts and the attempt’ of both the U. 8, Government and the Japanese Government to use the strike siti- ation in Japan for chauvinist incite- ment to prepare the toiling masses for war in the increasingly bitter riv- alry of the two bandit im powers for mastery of the Pacific and control over China. The leaflet points out that if the Singer Com- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933 Page Three Dirty Coal a | With Miners; | | POWHATAN, Ohio.—Dirty coal down the earnings of the miner. to deal with the company stores, which took all of their earnings, The mine belongs to Paisley or the Val- ley Camp Coal Co. There was no organization to protect the miner. The state law in West Virginia pro- | hibits company stores. The miners started a petition which almost | everyone signed. The prosecuting attorney of Marshall County took it to court and the company was fined fifty dollars. A few days after the trial the bos- ses visited every place in the mine and told the miner that he had to deal in the company store or they would take further action. The min- ers who had refused, were called into the foreman’s office on coming out at night, and told they had dirty coal and so they can take their tools and go. They carried on this practice, and just picked out the check num- ber they wanted. But they made a simple mistake one day, by calling one man to their office. This man happened to be working on day work. He had not Joaded any coal for two weeks, The boss said, well how much did you deal in the company store, and fired him anyhow. Miners have asked other miners to join the National Miners Union, and have found that they loaded dirty coal, a means of victimizing hundreds of miners in certain districts. In the same mine previously mentioned, miners having dirty coal have to per- form one day's work for the com- pany, other operators in the states of West Virginia and Ohio fine the miners fifty cents per car. ‘That means at thirty cents a ton about 75 per cent is taken away, from every car he loads. The coal co. has no way of finding out the miner who loads dirty coal, unless they unload a car by itself and examine it. In most of the mines the coal is dumped into a pan that holds probably four cars, then the coal goes from there on.to the shaker or screen, where the dock boss is stationed. If he sees any dirty coal he pulls the bell and notifies the weigh-boss of dirty coal, but he has to pick out a check from four cars previously dumped, and I maintain that it is merely guess work, How long are the miners going to stand for this stealing by the bosses at the mine? -I believe the miners are ready for struggle, and this point is getting to be a bigger issue every day. The miner is talking dirty coal all the time. There is only one way to step the bosses from their exploitation, and that is to organize, join the National Miners Union, demand that your representative appointed by the min- ers see that coal is weighed, and that there will be no discrimination used in docking the miner for dirty coal. The N.M.U. is a working class or- ganization. It believes that all con- ditions inside the mine should be made by direct representation of the miners themselves. They are show- ing the way out of the present con- ditions to the miners. Every miner in his mine should find the N.M.U. organizer, and join that organization. In Eastern Ohio section the min- ers are organizing rapidly. We can win conditions in the mines. We can put down discrimination against workers. We can win the fight by organizing and fighting in this strug- gle. The Negroes, the whites, and all different nationalities have to fight side by side. Let’s show the bosses that we are determined to win. Join the N. M. U. See the nearest office for necessary information in form~- ing a local and getting sppneeeicn blanks. WwW. —Powhatan Local, Ohio. UNION PRESIDENT RUNS NON-UNION MINE IN PA. OLD FORGE, Pa.—The Keheough- Berg Coal Co. formerly the old Jermyn Coal Co., has just stopped operations, throwing 350 men out of work, This means that more miners will face the boss misery. First they stopped right after Jan. 1, being idle for about a week. Then they again resumed operations, but only for a day, and on this day a miner by the name of Stanley Ste- fanowicz was gravely injured by a fall of rock, breaking his leg and one arm, also inflicting very deep wounds in his head and body. This victim of the ruling class will live, but he may never be able to do any kind of work for the rest of his life. The reason for this accident is that the miners work piece work, being paid by the car. The more loaded the more bread you can buy. Thus the bosses are responsible for crippling this worker, who tried his best to earn bread for his family. He gave all his energy and endan- gered his life—all for the greed of the bosses. It is impossible to put safety first when one is speeded to such a degree.. ‘We have a union here, the so-called Independent Anthracite Miners Uni- on. What is the Union doing to better the conditions of the miners? No- thing at all. | miner has to fight. In most of the modern mines today, the bosses use it | as a weapon to suppress the miner's activity, they use it to further cut This was proved true two years ago in Moundsville, W. Va. The mineis there were confronted with having @—— pany is successful in forcing down] This is the shadow of the U. M. W. wages of its Japanese employes, it|A., a fale outfit, which is ready, to will use this success to initiate new] sell out any time to the bosses. Yes, wage cuts in its plants in this coun-| the President of this union is given try. urges the Singer workers to or-|a permit by the company to operate ganize grievance and department |a small slope, where he employs non- committees in preparation for the| union men himself. So we can see WORKER CORRESPONDENCE DEMONSTRATE TO HIT RACE HATRED } FREE TOM MOONEY INCITEMENT BY READY FOR ORGANIZATION, WRITE MINERS Great Issue Used by Boss is one of the greatest problems the UNION FORCES COMPANY STORE TO CUT PRICES BLAINSBURG HILL, Pa, — The robber prices which the Lilly Mine store of the Valley Camp Co. soaked the miners have been reduced con- siderably, but they are still much higher on many articles than town prices in private stores. The reduc- tion is as follows: Before - Now Flour, 5 lb. ‘190 68c Bacon per lb. 15e 9c Salt Side per Ib. 12c 5c Solt Pork lic lc ‘Canned milk is cheaper and butter is a little lower. The usual bad eggs remain at 32 cents a dozen. Strike feeling is very high because of the recent cut and these. robber prices, and the company has made this reduction, hoping to cool down the strike feeling, This reduction has been forced upon the company by the National Miners Union, which is busy here among the miners and has exposed the robber prices and forced buying throughout this entire vicinity —Worcor. PUBLIC OFFICIAL LETS CO. RUN ILLEGAL STORE ‘WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa.—Bur- gess Stevenson talks sweet to miners and then arranges yellow dogs to break the strike at Lilly Mine. A short time ago the N. M. U. Local of Lilly Mine called a mass meeting to take up how to put a stop to the wage cut the Valley Camp Co. announced. Mr.-Stevenson came and got up and said how “his sympathies are with the miners at Lilly.” He showed very quickly how his sympathy is with the miners. When the mine started up work he had 6 yellow dogs there to put down any ;move to strike the mine. He has two daughters working at: the company store. Robber prices and forced buy~ ing-is the iron rule ‘at this’ mine. He is a public official. He knows that company stores are illegal. He is of the same party as Hoover and Pinchot. He and Pinchot are only Defense Struggles to) Re-Open Court Case | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | in American labor history and will) develop the most sweeping ted | front action of the workers yet | | in this country. to Stifle Union Organization National Miners Union Making Active Fight Against This Boss Weapon in East Ohio | Tom Mooney's call for the Free Tom Mooney Congress, submitted through the Tom Mooney’s Molders Defense Committee follows in full: | Mooney’s Call. | “I hereby issue today, Jan. 21,1933, this call for a Free Tom Mooney Congress, to be held at Chicago, Apri) 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, athletics fra-| ternal or cultural; and to all liberal | organfzations 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 | BALTIMORE SHEET I. L, D., Other Bodies, | fag in Sharp Protest on | Provocation | BALTIMORE {d., Jan, 27 (CNA). —-Charges that the Ba more World. local boss weekly, is attempting to stir up S between Negro and white 3 to incite | lynchings of Negroes, contained in a letter itten to the editor of the ‘World and ed by th working- class org: tions of this city—the International Labor Defense @ Polish-American Club and the Work- ers International Relief. The World printed a story of the attack on the interracial dance held | by the Workers International Relief | on January 8, in the Polish Ameri- can Hall. At this dance, white gang- sters and police attacked Negro workers coming out of the building. The white wo came to the de-| fense of the Negroes and the two fought side by side. Two persons were stabbed and five of those attending the dance, one a Negro, were ar-| rested and thrown into fail. Since | that time, the city, urged by the po- | lice department, has condemned as “unsafe” the Polish American Hall| and other halls used for inter-racial | assemblies. In its vicious account of the af-| ir, the World said in part: ‘The Melting Pot of Baltimore is | about to boil over. “Blood has already been down its seething sides, and district cops, sitting on the slopped Eastern lid, are ard Loans Billion to Wealthy Farmers | | More than $1,100,000,000 has been| loaned by the Federal. Farm Board, | the Board has announced. | The Farm Board loaned the vast majority of the money to well-to-do farmers and ‘cooperative associations | and made $10,000,000 in interest on its loans. Although the Farnmi Board, has a balance on hand of over $30,000,000 the Board refused to lend any of its money to the scores of thousands of | poor farmers who are losing their last possessions because they can not borrow enough money to even pay the interest on their mortgages. | | PREACHERS CLOSE HALL TO JOBLESS Bo Attack Fight for Relief (By a Worker Correspondent.) PORTSMOUTH, Va., Jan. 27.—Ne- gro and white preachers here joined the landlords in exerting pressure on | the owners of is to clase their | halls to meetings of the Unemployed | Councils, The which the councils have been m ing, wrote to the council that ‘ will have to close your this hall because the Ni preachers have held a joint meeti to protest against the Unemployed Council meetings and they asked me | to close this ha—Agent.” In supporting the attempt of their capitalist masters to smash the strug-| gles of the starving unemployed} workers for relief, the preachers | “FREE HERNDON’! SAY VA. WORKERS 300° at First Lenin Meet Denounce War NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 25. — Over 3,00workers attended the Lenin Me- morial meeting, the first ever held in Norfolk, last Monday night at the Oddfellows Hall on Church Sto A telegram was sent to theGovernor Russell of Georgia, supported -by unanimous acclamation and. furious anger, demanding the immediate re- lease of Angelo Hendron and the repeal of the Old Slave law that sent him to a living death on the chain gang. A fiery resolution denowncing ish war preparations, demariding prevention of war shipments from this point, and all war funds for the unemployed was adopted to be sent to President-elect Roosevelt, who at the time of the meeting was basking in the sunshine of Warm Springs, Ga A telegram was also sent to Jand- lord Hardee—owner of2,000 miserable Shacks, and cruel dispossesser of starving Negro families. Hardee evic- ted Julia Jones of St. Pauls St. twice, removed the only door and window of the room she and her daughter ved in, even though she was near the point of death from hunger and spinal injuries incurred by a 3 feet | fall from a broken porch callously neglected by Brute Hardee, The te- legram demanded immediate return of door and window, full compensa- tion for injuries and declared that a | mass tenants strike would be organ- ized against him soon if he did not stop evictions, reduce rents and paint and repair the death traps he de- mands rent for. All present voted labor struggling for its rights, the | fight for my freedom can become the | center around which 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 | finding it pretty hot to hold. “The big cauldron, which has sim- | mered quietly for generations, turn- ing out wholesome stock, has been | violently isturbed by the admix- ture of new ingredients. “Baltimore is due to learn, as other communities have learned, that. the | charge that the councils are taking| to strike any time they were called away their followers, that is, winning | Upon for these demands and pledged the masses for struggle for immediate | eae blocks for the com- relief and away from the propaganda | /é 5 of the churches for meek submission} The presence of 7 husky dicks did to capitalist starvation and misery| Dot intimidate but only increased as something “god-ordained” and not | the militancy of the workers, to be challenged by the slaves of| The fundamental teachings of Le- 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 of 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 wonien 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) aggressiveness will serve notice on my | framers and jailers that my con- two-faced demagogic politicians of Paisley and the rest of the coal ope- rators. It takes them 2 minutes to get yellow dogs and state police to break strikes against wage-cuts and forced dealings in stores, but for ten years they refuse to take action against the law-breaking Valley Camp Coal Co. store. Fight against the two-faced Re- publican tools of the éoal operators, Stevenson and Pinchot! Suport the Communist Party and its working- class program and candidates in the coming elections. Brownsville Worker. U.M.W.A. AGE. T GYPS SCOTSRUN EX-MINER OSAGE, W. Va.—The U. M. W. A. reresentatives of Scottsrun, W. Va., Nick Alleo and his brother are typical representatives of the U. M. W. A. misleaders. Next to the U. M. W. A. hall a poor miner, Steve Morris, Keeps a little lunch room, and tries to make a living for his family of 8 through hard work. Nick Alleo is getting $10 a day from poor miners for expense. He and his brother have been eating at Steve Morris place for 28 days, and the bill amounts to $40 or $50. When Steve asked him to pay, Nick won't recognize his bill. Then Steve knocked Alleo down and Alleo organized his gangsters and sent one to Steve's place and told him and his wife that if they don’t keep quiet about his bill that they would blow his place up with his family, Nick answered that he was in France for 22 months and that Alleo and his gangsters can’t scare him. Many U. M. W. A. members were present when Steve and his wife ran Alleo out of the restaurant and knocked him down, and they were glad to see him get hit. They fought for about 2 hours, and when the police came they refused to arrest Alleo. So Steve told then that he would take care of him himself. This is the way the U. M. W. of A. officials do around here in Scottsrun. ‘This happened Sunday, Jan, 15 at 2 Pp. m., during the U. M. W. A. mass meeting, —A Scottsrun Miner. WORCOR CALENDAR Mon., Jan, 30—Farming Tues., Jan. 31—Forced labor and Relief jobs. Thurs., Feb, 2—Steel and Metal Fri, Feb. 3—Food. Sat, Feb. 4 — Unemployment Struggles Mon,, Feb. 6--Vets and Soldiers Tues., Feb. 7—Exposing the Mis- | leaders Your letter must arrive 3 days in advance of publication. Address it to Worker Correspondence. Or- der an extra bundle for special distribution when you send the letter. District D. W. Agents, organize special distribution at selected places, po Ms The miners are looking for leader- 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.” “Center of Struggles.” ‘The Congress, as stated in the call, will be under the auspices of the ises.” | red of Russia, the black of the Congo, and the white of European nationals will not mix. “Residents of the neighborhood did not approve of these dances, Proud of their racial integrity, they resented black and white promiscuity. Lights in the dance hall were turned: off from time to time and water. spigots tampered with, flooding the prem~- Filthy Race Hatred.Poem - The World prints with the story a poem referring to thosé who par- ticipate in the mixed dances as “wild beasts” on their way “back to the jungles.” “At this writing,” concludes the World, “it appears likely that the Workers International Relief will at- tempt to bring Manhattan’s Lenox Ave. to East Baltimore. And it ap- | pears as likely that there will: be | more trouble when reds, whites and blacks mix.” In their letter denouncing this vi- cious chauvinist attack on the Ne- groes, the three working-class organ- izations wrote in part: “On behalf of a membership of | hundreds of white and Negro work- jers of Baltimore, the International Labor Defense, the Polish-American Club and the Workers International | Relief wish to register an “indignant protest against the vicious attack upon Negroes published in the first number of your paper. Your actount of what happened at the dance on Broadway and Eastern Aves. on Jan. 8, is worthy of the lowest sort of | of economic “ills” and “remedies,” and nin against capitalism and i rial- hector oe in | ist war was sirikingly and. avidly : +g | brought home to the work idst Senate Shirks Relief burnt (qttuslasm and refolubioa~ ° . é i . Legislation; Another |“? “T2Sts “ A 599 | t Investigation Voted R F ( L0 ANED WASHINGTON, . Jan. -27—The|"“* > ° Ve democratic and republican members | combined in a newW Senate move to| postpone “indefinitely any-sort of ef- fective relief legislation for thé un-| employed and the bankrupt farmers, | and unanimously passed the Harris | “study” resolution, With three years of growing crisis, | and the fourth year showing all in- dications of increased misery and hunger among the toiling masses, the resolution passed by the Senate provides for an exhaustive “study” only after the beer bill. legislation does Mr. Harris propose to begin the “investigation.” Bankers’ Conference Plan New Onslaught BILLION TO BANKS Only $55,000,000 : Was Spent on Relief ‘The report of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation revedis° that during the last five months {t has “loaned” $1,171,983,307 to. barks, trust companies, insurance companies and railroads. Scores of millions of dol- lars were loaned to banks-connected with officials of the R. F, C., the report also revealed. While the R. F. ©. was loaning more than one billion dollars to the largest banks and railroads in the country, it refused to disburse even the totally inadequate sum for relief | which Congress had empowered it | to lend to the various states. Congress | had voted $300,000,000 for relief that was to be distributed to the various states through the R. F. C., but of that sum the Congress had distri- OL The huge loans to the banks and ion Living Standards NEW YORK—Methods of further “economy” at the expense of the un- employed workers, city employees and other sections of the toiling pop- ulation were discussed Thursday at/ railroads, and the miserly sum loaned the regional savings conference of | to the states for relief purposes, clear- the: American Bankers Association at/| ly reveals the Reconstruction Finance the: Waldorf-Astoria, | Corporation:to be another attempt of Tom Mooney Defense Committee | gutter and muckraking journalism. } with headquarters in San Francisco And then to top it off, your people |. att |the capitalists to bolster the totter- Carl P, Dennett, of Boston indica-| ing financial structure of the country and with:Tom Mooney’s personal re- | have the hypocrisy to” announce- in presentative, Louis B. Scott, in charge | your editorial proclamation that of the Eastern Office at 104 Fifth | “truth, fairness and decency will be .| Moony’s expressed wishes will be ob- Avenue, N. Y. City. | With the publication of the call the eyes of all working class organ- izations will be focused upon this organization, working in response to Mooney’s call for further steps to be taken in the Congress preparations. One thing is quite definite, Tom served, and the fight for his free- dom will become “the center around which the workers will rally in their desperate struggle against. unemploy- ment, wage cuts and starvation.” FORCE MEASURE AGAINST C. 8. LAW Repeal Bill Now Up in Calif. Legislature LOS ANGELES, Cal—The South- ern California Conference for the Re- peal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law, to be held here Feb. 5, 10 a. m. at the Knights of Pythias Hall, 124 Townsend St., Belvedere, was given added impetus by the Provisional | Committee with the organization of special committees to rally delegates from labor, student and professional groups. ‘The precsure of this campaign, ini- | tiated by the International Labor | Defense has already been reflected in the State legislature where As- semblyman T. A. Maloney has in- troduced a measure to repeal the Criminal Syndicalism Law. Support of this measure has been pro: od to the Provisional Committee by a num- ber of legislators, | the Southern plantation owners— (your) household’ gods.” “Now let us.see how much ‘truth, | fairness and decency’ there is in your story. First, your reporter paints the dance as a redlight booze joint, a brothel. Everyone present at this} dance knows that it was conducted in a most decent manner. The only | disorder was that created by the white-chauvinist young hooligans who came looking for trouble. “Your vicious, outbound hatred of Negroes is shown by the degenerate poem published containing such lines as “thick black hands on a slim white back,’ ‘black paws fondle a white girl's charms,’ ‘back to the jungle The wild beasts prance,’ etc. This vile sort of propaganda could only ema- | nate from a mind that is.drunk with | race hatred and the lynch spirit of carried over from days of chattel | slavery and the present.cruel oppres~ sion of the Negro people. “It is very significant that in your warped account ef the fight you omit the fact that Negro work- ers stood their ground most cour- ageously and were in turn hero- ically defended by their white friends. It was this splendid f’~ht- ing unify of the Necro and white workers that enab'ed them to beat back the attack of the misicd young | heodlums—and the police who as- sisted them! Naturally you do not have anything to say about this becauce the whole intent of your story is to arouse racial hatred, to rut whites atainst blacks, to mike it scem as thhvvh a race riot took piace, In @ thts you are onty carrying thro 6 hig Bostes an: To Get 225,000 Signatures Not relying upon these promises | alone, however, the Committee for | Repeal of the C. 8, Law has decided | upon measures to bring the issue | directly before the voters. On Fes- | ruary 4th will beyin circulation of | petitions for signatures to effect a} direct vote. The goal of 225,000 names to be obtained by December 31, 1933, has been set. The campaign now centers around the case of Peter Pan, indicted by the Los Angeles Grand Jury, under the C. S law for possession of work- ing-class literature. During 1932 alone 150 persons were arrested and charged with “suspicion of criminal syndicalism,” ‘but never tried. In 1930 the law was invoked | to break the struggle of the Im- ship and sooner or later they will join the ranks of the revolutionary fight against wage cuts and for bet-| very clearly how the union fakers ter conditions. , work hand in hand with the bosses. workers, as this is the only way out. —S. M. perial Valley agricultural workers. | Lawrence Emery, who was among the nine workers convicted, is still serving in San Quentin prison. \ hhh ACC order to keep them down the more easily. They ore trying to do this by inciting the whites a: Nerrees, the Ame foreigners, cne acainst an 5 “The three unde signed - organiza- tions pledge themselves to continue with the work of organizing all work- ers regardiess. of nationality, religion or coler, in united. effort towards se- curing unemployment relief, towards stopping wave cuts, evictions, etc. Regardloss of all incitement and at- tacks, the struggle to secure equal rights for Negroes, as guarantesd them by constitutional law, will be continued and intensified, The Daily Worker is your fighting paper, Contribute and collect to keep it alive. \ ¥ sie } ted new demands for relief cuts and| other. attacks on the workers when he said that “Bankers and other pur- chasers of municipal securities will be more discriminating in 1933,” un- | less drastic reductions were put through so the bankers could collect interest and other payments upon} their bonds. 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