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The daily worker., 1931-12-17

PNEVILLE, Ky, Dec. 16.-
In the heart of terror-ridden
Kentucky, the National Board
of the National Miners Union
held a meeting Immediately
proceeding and another follow
ing the adjournment of the
District Convention here to
prepare for the strike Jan. 1st.
Never in the history of Ken
lucky has such a thing hap
pened. Nor, for that matter,
has any convention Of miners
met openly during the past
decade.
United Mine Workers OF America
officials, before the last strike, would
direct" from distant points, and To-
cal points, and local miners came for
"orders" and brought reports But
all through the period Of terror and
strife, never once did the UMWA fat
bellied organizers who collected dol
lar head from the miners eager
for a union only to resort them, every
venture into the sphere of warfare.
Only recently, when this union ex-
posed itself completely as an excellent
tool for the operators and the UdwA
organizers are guarded instead of at
tackled, do they venture into the
heart of Kentucky. af.5
Thugs Didn't Dare Attack.
Frank Borich, national secretary,
held a conference two weeks ago
right in Harlan County. This con-
ference decided to call the memor-
able convention to which hundreds of
delegates walked in q driving rain
Others came in open trucks. The
convention was held thirty miles
from Harlan Opposite the hall, the
thugs were quartered in a house. But
so well we're the miners organized
lines OF them leading right up to the
hall on guard tllroughout--that the
thugs didn't dare attack. They knew
they'd get the worst of it.
At the joint meeting OF the Ma
tional Board and the District Com
nlittee of 27 elected at the Conven-
ton, an appeal to the workers Of the
country calling upon them to support
the strike, was issued. The meeting
recommended to the Workers Inter-
national Relief that it issue an ap-
peal for relief and mobilize all Of its
forces to help the coming strike. Pro-
visions were made for establishing
the relief headquarters in Kentucky.
Extensive organizational plan to
mobilize the miners of the state and
organize the strike in Kentucky, as
well as mobilize the entire union ma
tionally for the support of the strike,
were adopted.
"The United Mine Workers left us
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
Mass Anti-Imperialist Movement Con-
tinues Forward Surge In China

Chinese Soviets, which were already
strong, have been gaining tremen-
dousiy in power and influence within
the past weeks. After beating off
three major attacks by the Marking
militarists and their imperialist mas
ters, the Chinese Red Army is again
advancing.
Imperiaiists Growing More
Desperate.
Before this growth of the Chinese
Soviet Power and the upsurge of the
Chinese masses in Kuornintang China,
the imperiaHsts are becoming des-
perate and are frenziedly pushing
their murderous attacks on the Chi
nese masses. The imperailists are
rushing their plans for the partition
OF China and armed intervention
against the Chinese Revolution.
French troops have invaded Kwangsi
Province, in South China, and are
pressing their attack, at the same
time that the Japanese are rushing
additional troops to Manchuria to
crush the rising resistance of the
Manchurian masses.
Behind the iinperiaiist naoye TO
partition China Is the aim to get
out OF the capitalist crisis at ths ex-
pense OF the workers OF the world,
to control the Chinese market, to
maintain the present starvation level
in Kuonintang China and to force
the international working class down
to the standard of living now forced
on the Chinese masses. The attack
on the Chinese Revolution is an at
tack against the international work.
ing class, 1t is an attack ON the
rising revolutionary struggles of the
entire colonial world. 1t is part of
the imperialist plans for armed in
tervention against the proletarian
revolution in Germany and against
the Soviet Union.
The workers of the entire world
must rally to the fight against inn
perialism, for the defense of the
Chinese Revolution, the Soviet Union,
the German masses and the masses
OF Africa and other colonial coun-
tries. Workers! Organize anti-war
united fronts in your factories, in
your organizations. Hold protest
meetingsl Demand hands off China!
Demand the withdrawal OF American
troops and gunboats from Chinal
Stop the new world war that tina
bosses are preparing!
Pushing their plans TO convert
ManGhuE1s into a military base
The daily worker., 1931-12-17

against the Soviet Union and the
Chinese Revolution, the Japanese are
strengthening their p,ippet govern
nents in Manchluia. As the masses
sweep forward in armed struggle and
militant protests against the i'm
perialists and the Kuonintang party,
the Chinese nlilitarist generals, land
owners and bankers are coming out
II, more open support Of the Japar
nese invaders. General Tsang Hsih-
vi, former governor of Fengtien Pro-
vince under Marshal Chang Tso-lin,
was released by the Japanese yes
terday after entering an agreement
with them. Tsang is to head the
japanese puppet government in Muk-
den. A Mukden dispatch to the New
York Times reports:
MiIitarists, Landowners Sup
porting Japan.
"This re-emergence of General
Tsang Hsih-yi is an extremely i'm
portant advancement for the Japa-
nese In their aim of founding a
stable Chinese government In Man
churia which will have the respect
and support Of the better classes Of
Chinese residents. II Is confidently
expected that under Governor
Tsang's leadership many high
class Chinese will soon emerge from
retirement and join government
circles in attempting to make the
best of the existing situation"
While this betrayal of China by
the Iandowning classes is going on.
the Manchufian workers and peas
ants are increasingly taking up arms
against the Japanese invaders. Three
Japanese soldiers we're killed yester-
day In q fight with Chinese irregu-
lars about 80 miles from Mukden,
Another clash occurred 20 miles
northeast Of Mukden. Encounters be-
tween Japanese and Chinese irregu-
lars took place within radius of ten
miles of Tsitsihar. Two Japanese
were killed and several wounded. The
Japanese are rushing reinforcements.
Fierce fighting occurred near Tieh-
ling, when fifty Chinese police sent
there by the Japanese were repulsed
by force Of Chinese irregulars Chi
nese peasants from the surrounding
districts flocked to help the irregu-
lars and the police were beaten off.
Japanese soldiers arriving to rein
force the police were also beaten
back.
The Stock and Rice Exchanges in
Japan remained closed again yester-
day. A Tokyo dispatch to the New
York Times reports that because of
the confused exchange situation the
bank refrains from stating official
quotations for yen. Some exporters
were reporting doing business at 40
cents per yen and bankers at Al Ia
cents" The fall Of the yen followed
the collapse of the gold standard last
week in Japan ~, ear~
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
Kentucky Miners Prepare to Strike

in a coal mine. ! got q wife and
five children who ! left home with
out any breakfast this morning. MY
kid died of starvation, and by wife
couldn't go to the burying ground
without going in her one calico dress,
I came here today TO see If the N.M.U.
could tell me what l can do. Now I
know. You all can count on me-"
A miner from Tennessee described
the house he lived In. 1--WE don't
have to call the cat and dog in
through the door 10 get something
to eat. They just walk in through
the cracks. I'm ready to lay down
my tools any time"
"We're not red-we,re hungry"
young miner stated. There are two
classes, as can see 1.-THE rich and
the poor. And hope to see the time
when the line will be smashed. Then
we can live like human beings. It'll
be peaceable If 1t can, but forcible If
1t must"
:@They're trying TO force us coal
diggers down TO rice and water for
a living You can't get nothing from
the Red Gross without they see the
coal operator first" one quiet-spoken
miner stated
Mary Smith, women'S organizer for
the National Miners Union, ad-
dressed herself to both men and
women. you've got to get the
women into the strike-their place is
not in the home when there's a strike,
but on the picket line alongside you.
Afterward, there will be food in the
house to cook, clothes to wash--but
you got to fight for them first"
The newly elected District Board
OF az will draft an appeal TO the rail-
road men not to haul scab coal, and
to give support to the strike OF the
Kentucky miners financially, with
food and clothing, as well.
Alfred wagenknecht, for the Work
ers' International Relief, gave as
surance that the miners would be
backed up by the workers organiza-
tions, and that measures would be
taken Immediately to assure them
sufficient food and clothing to
strengthen their strike.
The National Board of the National
Miners Union will Immediately issue
an appeal to all workers and work
ing-class organizations to mobilize
Immediately, funds, food and cloth
ing, so that Immediately, Jan. 1, when
the miners lay down their tools, the
support of the working-class will be
there.
Fifty per cent of the miners in
these fields are organized into the
National Miners Union. The rank
and filters themselves go out and Or
ganize it. Every day they come back
to the center, their hands filled with
application cards. The Union is al
ready mass organization here, and
has an even greater support and sym
pathy- The weapons Of the coal OPP
orators are sharp and severe ones.
But II the working-class stands back
Of the miners and exerts its great
est capacity in support of the strike,
neither the coal operators, their
thugs, their rifles, or any other tool
Of the coal operators can stop the
march of these Kentucky miners to
victory for their demands.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17


tation to Great Britain. Their crime
Is that they led active organization
work to unite the textile workers
against the starvation conditions that
exist in every section of the textile
industry, Just q few months ago,
the department OF labor tried unsuc-
cessfuily TO deport the native born
Anna Buriak, q prominent leader OF
the NTWU In Paterson the bosses
framed up of the local leaders for
murder.
One of the most courageous cases
that this union and the TUUL gen.
orally, have had to contend with was
the arrest and threatened deportation
of Edith Berkman, leader of the Feb
ruary 1891 Lawrence strike of 10000
workrs, and on of tn organizers Of
the recent Lawrence strike OF $4,000
workers.
Comrade Berkman was arrested in
the midst of the strike, along with
Comrade Murdoch and local COM
rades. The purpose OF these arrests
WAS to prevent the National Textile
Workers Union from establishing a
solid organization among the striking
textile workers and securing their
leadership. At the time of the ar
rests the masses we're rallying very
strongly TO the lead of the NTWU.
Undoubtedly the seizure of the lead
ers at this strategic moment worked
very much against the NTWu and
very tayorably for giving the A. =. OF
l.. union a foothoid in Lawrence, with
hter Disastrous results 10 the texttss
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The daily worker., 1931-12-17
PHILADELPHIA War
Veterans Demand
Bonus Payment

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14.-Fifty
world war veterans began hike to
Washington today TO place before
Congress demands for the immediate
full cash payment of the soldiers
tombstone bonus. The Workers Ex-
servicemen's League, which is leading
the fight of the war vets for the
bonus, supports the demands of these
veterans and all veterans for the pay
ment of the bonus and calls for q
solid united front Of ex-soldiers to
carry on the fight TO victory.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
THREATEN TO JAIL CALF.
JOBLESS

MONROVIA, Calif.-We have been
informed here through the boss press
that the jobless men will either have
to work on the roads here for their
room and board or be arrested for
and forced to work on the
roads under guard. Sounds like
forced labor, Ell? And not in the
Soviet Union either-W. r. L.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
STORM srUDEBAKER PLANT

DETROIT, Mich. - Thousands Of
workers are Storming the Studebaker
plant on Piquette st. every day as
result of the company announcing
that it will begin work on a new
model. The bosses, however, have
hung a sign on the door stating that
no help is wsnted.-F. S.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
TACOMA,s ANTT-RELrEF PLAN

TACOMA, Wash.---When the work
ers here sign UP for jobs at the free
employment bureau, they are forced
to sign over their rights for relief.
After the jobless register there are
no jobs forthcoming. In this way the
bosses keep the workers from getting
either relief or Work.-R. M.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
JOURNEYMEN TAILORS
STRIKE SOLD OUT BY
CHICAGO MISLEADERS
Union Heads Cut Off Strike Benefits And
Urge Workers Accept Open Shop Conditions
Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union
Urges Tailors to Reorganize
(By a Worker correspondent)

CHICAGO nThe A. F. of L. misleaders pulled another
Of their dirty tricks here recently and sold out journeymen
sailors.
The Journeymen Taors' Union Local No. notified
by the bosses last September that they would discontinue the
agreement that exsedthat s that would have to return
to the shops October under open shop conditions On
October membership adopted resolution which
presented by the left wing calling for resistance and putting
The daily worker., 1931-12-17

Forward demands for the ~ hour
week with no wage-cut. Over two
thirds majority voted for the left
wing resolution and we struck.
Struck for 8 Weeks
For nine weeks we have been
striking in 8 most militant way. Mass
pcketing, rank and file strike COM
mittee-we had 1t all. But the treach-
srous leadership, which from the be-
ginning was soaring with all kinds of
defeatist talks, finally succeeded in
dissolving the rank and file strike
committee. They said the committee
was unconstitutional T.! sso 4f
Denied Strike Benefits
After they pulled that dirty trick,
we exposed them, and they went
further by refusing to pay strike
benefits.
While we we're on strike for nine
full weeks only $50 per member. The
labor takers said they could not de-
piete the treasury. They told us that
the money was all tied UP in banks
that went bankrupt and advised us to
return to work.
The tailors and helpers did not
want to go back to work. During
the strike, out of 600 strikers only 20
went scabbing--arld that was because
tsne union refused to pay strike bene-
fits, q deliberate strikebreaking act,
Betrayer HoIzknecht
After nine weeks one of the mem
bers OF the G. e. B., Holzknectt, came
to the strike meeting and told the
members that everything was all up
and advised us to go to work. He
told us that everything was settled,
which was lie.
We went back and now it is piece
work, no regulation OF hours and no
union agreement at all. Over 200
helpers lost their Jobs because we
have to make our own work now by
piece. All this because the union Of
ficals want; to hold on TO our money
so that they can get their fat salaries.
Must Organize
We tailors must organize ourselves
in the shop from now on. But not in
the takers outfit. We must organize
under the leadership of the Needle
Trade Workers industrial Union on
the basis Of shop units based on the
class conscience principle. Organize
right now. and wait for. call for
action. ,s,s e
The Journeymen Tailors Union is
dead. Long live the N. w. I. U.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17

and Immediate relief were yelled
into the ears of Congress. they pene-
trated the innem sanctums Of the
White House, and they drove william
Green to a frenzy of rage. The mere
fact that the marchers did not Off
cially get on the floor OF congress or
into Hoover's private office did not
keep out Of the demands.
AT all meetings last night the
workers pledged to organize the Un-
employed Councils, to continue the
fight against evictions and for relief
from the city, and to prepare a giant
demonstration February 4.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17

Coming on tho heels Of Dis
trict-wide mobilization, Chicago
issues this effective messenger
for action and solid work In the
5000 12-month Daily Worker
Drive, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve-
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
SAW MILLS FIRE MORE

SPOKANE-The saw mills here are
laying off more men. Those who still
have jobs work only three days a
weekly. B.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
MORE SPEED FOR FURNITURE
WORKERS

NEW YORK.-At the Chesterfield
Furniture Co. in Long Island City we
are working on the average of four
hours per week. The slogan Of the
bosses is SPEED. Apprentices are
doing the work OF journeyrnen.
NJ M.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


scores of other cities. Coincidert
with the sweep Of the anti-imperial-
TIT movement in China proper, armed
mass resistance famed up yesterday
throughout Manchuria. Scores OF
armed clashes occurred between the
Jere-r-e invaders end Chinese work.
srs and peasants. In several Of these
zashes the Jaganese were defeated.
Imperialists Alarmed at
Mass Movement.
The League OF Nations which re-
Gently legalized the Japanese seizure
of Manchuria is reported worried
by this tremendous upsurge of the
Chinese masses which now threaten
to upset the plans Of the sInperialist
robbers for the partition OF China,
George E. Sokolsky, writing in yes
terday's New York Times, sees the
attempts of the Canton clique to take
up where Chang left Oft, already
nenaced by the tremendous anti-im-
perialist movement. Sokolsky writes;
Fear Chinese Communist Party.
e. But 1t Is mot at all impcs-
yible that the Cantonese may be
too late. The students movement
has all the earuiarks Of having
plan and purpose. Eighty thou
sand students cannot gather In
Nanking without organization. The
question arises Is to whether they
were organized by the Communists,
by the Cantonese or by General
Chang Kai-shek."
Sokolsky pays an unconscious tri-
lte TO the Chinese Communists and
unconsciously reveals the role of the
Kucmintang militarists as 1ackeys OF
foreign imperialism, in his next para
graph:
1 '1fs they were organized by the
| Cc--stnists then no government
will be able to take hold In the
Southern Yangtse Valley for
months, for the student agitation
will grow In volume and Importance
and Independent generals will seek
to suppress them In their districts,
which will lead TO constant trouble"
Chinese Soviet Power
Strengthened.
More than ever today, the Chinese
Soviet Power Is the only stable gov
c-nnent in China. The events Of the
past few months have conclusiyely
proved that the Chinese Soviet Power
Is the only force in China capable OF
leading and prosecuting q successful
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
DISTRICT s 5OOO-sUB DRIVE BULLETIN IE

recently
that the DAILY doH developed support hs sUsI-
na11y this obtaining 5000 yearly subscribers
tdonary
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ont Vi h bundle crdor Thru changing the irregular buying The
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the 2 lily AoRKR to Get out poEea
establish
mobilize
rel1ef
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only II make Of best organr
THE Oily
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GER In the building Of nuclei Porty.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
Correspondence Briefs
SELLS TOOTH FILLING FOR

SEATTLE, Wash-An unemployed
worker sold his silver filling in q
tooth for twenty-five cents this week.
He had been eating on the soup line
for long time. He is g worker past
the sixty mark and can never hope
for work again. This is capitalism.
p. M. .
The daily worker., 1931-12-17

land so far are the only Districts
which have issued Drive Bulletins
to Sections, Units and Mass Or
ganizations. Where are the
other Districts?
The daily worker., 1931-12-17

Workers Correspondence IA the
backbone Of tho revolutionary press.
svssd scw fsess ~ yEsttrs & n
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
A. T. |. WORKERS
HELP MARCHERS
FIGHT TERROR
Kalamazoo COPS Break
M e e tin G +; Reynolds
Speaks from Window
Column Two Successful

Column Two SucceSSful
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 16.-Three
meetings in different sections of
Buffalo last night gave hundreds Of
workers their chance to hear the
report of the National Hunger March
ers of Column Two, which finished
It's march here In highly successful
style yesterday.
Immediate results of the march are
shown by the establishment of new
center for the Unemployed Councils
here at 161 Elhcott ST., and by scores
joining the council.
Throughout the return march the
delegates we're greeted with utmost
enthusiasm, and the hyening up of
the drive of the jobiess and workers
with Jobs. for unemployment insur-
ance, relief, and for bigger struggles,
was evident.
In Binghampton, 800 workers pack
ed the hall to capacity and a crowd
assembled outside The windows
were opened SO they could hear the
reports.
There were 300 assembled to greet
the returning marchers at Syracuse.
At Rochester 500 attended.
At Lackawanna, q steel town, 200
were present.
Two hundred more were at the
meeting in Tonowanda.
There we're 200 in Niagara Falls.
Lawrence Organizing
LAWRENCE, Mass. Dec. i6-Over
200 workers gathered in Lawrence,
Mass, to hear the reports OF textile
striker and other worker delegates
from this city who went with Column
one of the National Hunger March
to Washington.
Speakers were Fred Biedenkapp,
captain of Column One; Angelo
Sasso, young worker. A report in
Italian was made by Tripoli.
The meeting pledged to carry on
the fight, and sent atelegram of
solidarity to Edith Berkman, Jailed
for activities during the strike and
held in Boston for deportation.
Martha Stone, secretary (Succeed-
ing Berkman) of the National Tex
tile Workers Union in Lawrence, and
Rubin Pizzer, district organizer of the
N. 7. W., spoke on the problems of
unemployed workers and called for
stronger organizations of the union
and of the Unemployed Council as
an answer TO the attacks on the Job
less by Hoover.
Miners Pack Hall
LIBERTY, W. Va, Dec. i6.---At Q
O'Clock Monday afternoon Liberty
Hall was packed with miners, their
wives and children who came to hear
the report brought back by the DEL
egates OF Column -Four who rep
resented North and West Virginia on
the National Hunger March to Wash
ington. Much enthusiasm attended
the meeting. The delegates were
cheered by groups of young workers.
In the reports made, the delegates
told of the struggle with the Helping
Hand in Pittsburgh, where the city
and its welfare agencies lied 10 and
swindled the marchers and were
finally forced to apologize, and told
of the great demonstration in Wash
ington itself.
Some of the crowd at this meeting
marched later in the day TO Usage.
where the unemployed won pitched
battle with the thugs sent against the
meeting by the United Mine Workers.
tThis fight is described in Wednes-
days issue of the Daily Worker
Editor.
The daily worker., 1931-12-17
5000 Greet Marchers
Returning To Chicago

,CoNr1NuEp FRon FACE ONE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
1tt MRmnriaitt.

BLAND, LUCY. A tribute Of love 70 the
memory OF cu- dear mother, daughter and
sister. LUCY BLAND, who left us twenty
one years ago today, March 81, 1910.
Remembrance is the golden chain
as srsd to ov break 9 3Ss al L IN vein;
Is the greatest sorrow OF orr hearts.
MRS. LEOLA B. LONAx, MRS. M. W.
HOLMES AND FAMILY.
FTNAGIN LIE ROY. In loving memory Of our
dear son, LIE ROY F1NAGTN, who passed
eway eight years ago today. March 81,
Eight long years ago today
Nay s our od S e n n s ovs sY sIses
Permit US again to see his face.
MOTHER AND FATHER.
ULRTCH. WILLIAM r. In sad but loving
remembrance OF our dear husband and
father, WILLIAM r. ULRTCH, who de-
parted this life eight years ago today.
The month Of March once more Is here,
TO Us the saddest Of the year.
Your memory is as dear today
As 1t was the hour you passed away
HIS DEVOTED WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
ULRICH, WILLIAM n. In loving remem.
brance OF my dear son, WILLIAM n. UIs-
RICH who departed this life eight years
ago today, March 81, 1925.
This day brings forth sad memories
OF our dear one laid to rest
AND the ones who think OF him today
are the ones VINO loved him best.
LOVING MOTHER.
WEIGH, NELLIE. In sad but loving remem-
hrance Of our dearly beloved one, NELLIE
1895.
You have gone where those who love
FAMILY.