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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
BY NAT KAPLAN

Girls working for less than IS q
week. working overtime without pay,
being taken on as alleged learners
and then fired without pay, despi-
cable unsanitary conditions i
These, as well as other facts, we're
recently disclosed in an investigation
OF the conditions in the clothing
sweat shops of Fall River, Mass.
This is the bay" state which brags
about its labor laws for women. The
women here are supposed to have a
48-hour law, no night work in manu-
featuring industries, q minimum
wage law which provides for the
publication Cd of the names Of those
employers who pay below the mini
mum scale, etc. Try TO find an
employer who then abides by these
totally inadequate laws
The wholesale wave of wage cuts,
speed-up and part time work has
fallen with especial severity on the
heads Of the women workers Of New
England, In the textile industry
they have fought back with great
heroisn side by side with the men
workers. In the two Lawrence strikes
OF 1881 and in the Rhode Island and
Connecticut silk strikes of last sum
mer the women we're among the best
fighters. 1t was no accident that
such figures as Edith Berknan now
in the clutches Of the immigration
authorities) and Ann Burlak were
key leaders in these struggles. The
women slaves of the cloak and dress
shops of Boston are now energetically
preparing to strike together with the
men workers. Only in the Olney-
Vile, r. l., strike where the special
demands OF the women workers were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02

incorporated III Lfie OtllIleSS oOVleC'
Republic, is about 200 miles inland
from the port Of Swatow.
The Kuonlintang authorities at
Swatow are cooperating with ma.
rines from the British warship
Whitehall in an effort to capture the
Chinese Communists who carried out
the daring raid. The British war
ship Keppel is being rushed from
Hongkong to Swatow. demonstrating
the realization Of the imperialists
that the raid on the lighthouse Is not
an isolated action, bue represents the
revolutionary mood Of the Swallow
workers.
Chinese workers in Manchurla yes
terday blew up a huge powder maya
zine on the southern outskirts of
Hardin. One hundred Japanese SOL
diers are reported to have been killed
or injured in the blast.
The Japanese yesterday launched
new and more furious attack
against the heroic workers and SOL
diers defending the South China city
Of Shanghai. Under cover Of a fake
armistice, arranged by the United
States and British inperialists, with
the connivance Of the Kuomintang
betrayers of China, the japanese
landed large numbers Of fresh troops
in the International Settlement at
Shanghai for the new offensive. La
test Shanghai dispatches report the
Japanese advancing on the entire
Chapel Woosung front.
Powerful imperialist and Kuomin-
tang forces are at work in Shanghai
to effect the betrayal of the defense
of the city. A bloody attack LIS being
prepared against the revolutionary
masses of Shanghai and the rank
and file soldiers in the Nineteenth
Route Army, whose support Of the
revolutionary masses forced the Kuo-
mintang leaders TO make a pretense
of supporting the defense of Shang-
hal begun by the masses under the
leadership of the Chinese Army, has
already attacked the anti-Japapese
movement, ordering the discontinue
ance Of the strike of Chinese shop
keepers against the Japanese inya-
sion Of China. The strike has been
enforced by the revolutionary work.
ers of Shanghai. General Tsat has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02

speak at the Metropolitan Opera
House, Philadelphia, on March 2, at
9 pm. The meeting will be under
the auspices Of the International La
Dor Defense.
Mother Mooney, whose son was
sentenced to death Is years ago,
framed because s. his militant labor
activities, told $4,000 workers In the
Bronx Coliseum, New York, last
week: Nobody knows better than I
do how the mothers of these Scots
boro boys must feel. My heart bleeds
for them. Like them, I am mother
who heard her innocent son SEN
fenced to death, franaedup by the
courts OF the ruling class. feel a
deep bond Of sympathy with them"
Standing at her side at that moment
was little Mary Alice Montgomery,
sister Of Glen.
Following her Philadelphia appear
ance, Mother Mooney will return to
New York for farewell banquet in
New York, March 6, at pm, at the
Irving Plaza.
From there she will go to Wash
ington on March 4, where another
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
international WOmen's Day
in the New England Dist.

completely ignored, did we find tbs
women breaking the ranks and r.
turning to work.
In our work for International wo-
mems Day OVID We must strike 3
note of warning to the entire district.
We are not getting these militant
women workers into the Communists
Party. Out of the 14i new recruits,
since Dec. LIST, only 10 are women
and only small number ere factory
workers. And the housewives and
domestic workers we have attracted
into the left wing movement New
England Mothers Leagues. Finnish
and Lithuanian Women's Clubs)
have, with very few exceptions, not
been involved in struggles in the
neighborhoods against high rents
and prices Of necessities, for free
food for the unemployed workers
children in the schools, ete).
The direetiyes Of the Party Dis
trict Committee for the International
Women's Day campaign. stresses the
development Of preliminary actions
and organization before March Q. or
special importance is the carrying
through Of womens and children's
demonstrations on section scale,
the arranging OF meetings Of women
workers TO take up shop activity, the
carrying through of group meetings
in the workers homes, extending the
agitation on mass scale and stimuli
taneously, steadily recruiting women
workers into the Party. Our plan
provides for the holding Of 23 Inter
national Women's Day meetings or
March 9th proper. To succeed We
need the energetic backing OF every
man and woman in the left wing
movement Of this district.
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son responsible for the relief Of the
unemployed in each city block-pre-
ferrably by appointment from above.
A further phase Of the "block-aid"
plan, although as not yet universal,
Is to have an assessment Of IS TO so
cents per week levied on all employed
workers in a given block-the total
sum TO be placed at the disposal of
the block aider.7
In other words; the plan, when this
part Of 1t is applied under the high
sounding slogan Of help your less
fortunate neighbor." or some equally
deceptive catch phrase with which
capitalist charity programs cover iip
their basic role as part Of the whole
drive against the living standards of
the working class, actually accom-
plishes the delightful double result
of putting more of the burden Of
caring for the unemployed upon those
who still have jobs--at reduced wages
OF course-and OF having workers
themselves pay for the maintenance
of go-betweens and spies for the ca
pitalists, their various agencies, and
tn police
The 'block-aiding" scheme, there
fore, obviously is an attempt to or
ganize the workers against their own
interests-to place the control of all
relief of unemployment In the hands
of the capitalists responsible for the
mass misery.
1t is likewise obvious that this
scheme is designed to check and dis
rupt all struggles for lower rents, for
lower food prices, against eyictions,
against discrimination against Ne
groes. 1t is designed to prevent the
organization Of Unemployed Councils,
hunger marches and mass meetings,
organized demands upon the city,
county, state and national govern
ment.
1t IS designed first of all to prevent
militant organization Of the unem-
ployed. 1t is intended to keep any
organization which develops in con-
troll of the enemies Of the unemploy-
ed. 1t is designed to prevent the unity
OF the employed and unemployed
workers.
The whole scheme is one for the
fascising of the unemployed, for the
division of the working class into
warning groups Of employed and I'M
employed workers by the block aid
ing" system operating under the
CLOAK Of sweet chax11vt
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ordered its discontinuance under the
pretsxt that the strike benefited no
one land eventually would seriously
injure the poorer classes"
Two Chinese aviators, shot down
by japanese planes, are reported to
have been wounded by dunn dunn bull
lets fired by the Japanese planes
The use Of dunn dunn bullets is sup
posed to be illegal. British physt-
clans report that the wounds caused
by the dun dunn bullets would neces-
state amputating the arm of one of
the Chinese airmen.
Chinese doctors coming In from
the Chapel WOOsung front have
charged that their work is made
dangerous by Japanese aviators,
who SwOop low and send a hail of
maehinegun bullets into the little
parties of Red Cross workers
searching the battlefield.
Intense suffering is reported
among the thousands of Chinese
children, whose homes have been
destroyed and their parents killed
or MANNED for life by the ruthless
Japanese bombardment Of the
denseIy populated Chapel proleta-
rian district Of Shanghai. A story
in the New York Times quotes
Owen r. Roberts, an American
capitalist, as admitting:
THE condition of these innocent
victims Of war is pitiable beyond
description. Hundreds of them
were made orphans by the ruth
less bombing and machine gun fire
that destroyed the homes Of tens
of thousands Of peaceful non-corn-
batants."
Workers. Demand stop to the
robber war against China Stop the
butchery of the Chinese masses by
the Japanese irnperialistsI Demand
the withdrawal of all imperialist war
ships and troops from China Drive
out the diplomatic agents of Japa.
nese imperialism, the spearhead ir
the butchery OF the Chinese masses
and the war provocation against the
Soviet Unionl Support the heroic
struggles OF the japanese proletariat
against irnperialist war! Defend
Soviet Chinal Defend the Soviet
UnionI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
MORE WORKERS IN
BOSTON STRIKE
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dress and cloak makers moves on
spreading the militant struggle to
new shops. During the first part Of
the week pieketing was strengthened
in front Of the striking shops and
new sections of workers swung into
line with the United Front.
Press Ignores Strike
The newspapers of Boston, without
exception, have adopted the most
ridiculous position regarding the
strike under the leadership Of the
United Front Strike Committee,
which consists of members Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, members OF the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union and
unorganized workers.
BY ignoring the news releases and
statements issued by the United
Front Strike Committee, the news
papers show openly that they are on
the side of the bosses and their
agents, the I. L. C. W. U. officials.
Whatever mention is made Of the
strikers under the leadership of the
United Front Strike Committee, they
are mentioned as Communists"
REDS" Radicals" at the time when
there are also members on the
Strike Committee who are democrats
and republicans.
At the time when the streets are
full of pickets of the United Front
Strike Committee, the papers, like os-
triches, hide their heads in the belief
that this will make the fact non
existent.
Workers Challenge Takers
The workers employed in the Bin
der Bros. Cloak Co. challenged Mr..
Halpern and Mr.. Kramer, officials OF
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, to make no settle
ments in the cloak shops below the
conditions contained in the agree
ment signed between Binder Bros.
and the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union.
1--WE reject emphatically any state
ment," said the challenge, ito the
effect that the settlement agreed
upon by the workers Of the shop and
adopted at a mass meeting OF strikers,
held Thursday, Feb. Is, is against the
interests Of the masses Of cloak
makers in the city Of Boston"
The challenge accused Halpern
and Kramer Of doing everything in
their power to split the ranks of the
cloakmakers by expelling the most
militant members from the Inter
national.
You, were organizing for blood
shed between the workers of this
shop" continued the challenge. and
the striking cloakmakers. We know
your game, Mr.. Hslpern. We are not
afraid of fight. We will fight you
and fight the bosses until we clean
you out of the ranks Of the workers,
but we have no fight with the work
ers, You cannot split our ranks
again. We will continue the fight
for unity and for better working
conditions in spite of you and your
masters, the bosses. We decided not
to go to work, in order not to give
you a possibility TO divert the at
tention of the workers from their
struggle against the bosses to a
struggle within their own ranks.
Down with you, labor takers and
union wreckers! Long live the unity
of the workers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
FINNISH GOVT AIDS
FASCIST MARCH



French capitalism, has been increaS-
ing its war preparations near the
Soviet border.
The Lapuan movement has been
able to get behind 1t q large num-
Der OF peasants by means OF series
of lying promises. The development
OF the crisis has made the fascists
desperate, and the presnet move is
not being fought by the present
Svinhufvud government, which it
self grew out Of a similar fascist
grouping.
Only the Communist Party, which
has been driven underground, but
which is working through legal
workers organizations, is preparing
the resistance of the masses against
the fascist coup.
In July, 1880, the famous fascist
leader and present President OF Fin
land, Svinhufvud, organized a march
of peasants TO the capitol, where
with extra parliamentary methods he
made the peasants demand that en-
ergetic steps be taken against the
Communists. From that time there
has been an open fascist dictator
ship in Finland.
The papers now talk of a new
peasants march to Helsingfors. 1t
is apparent that President SWIM
hufvud needed" this kind of extra
parliamentary pressure as an excuse
to take stronger measures against
the revolutionary workers movement
The purpose of such maneuvers Is to
draw the attention of the impover-
islled peasants away from the real
causes of their misery.
Svinhufvud, who was premier dur
ing the civil war and who is notori-
Gus as slaughterer of workers, was
made president of Finland two years
ago with the consent OF England ano
other large powers, when big prep
arations were begun to make Fin
land a base of attack against the
Soviet Union. At that time SWIM
hufvud was given the job of clean
ing Finland of the Reds and of &C.
tivizing the people in every way tc
help the imperialist powers prepare
war.
Syinhufvud has faithfully carried
out this task, using every method tt
his advantage, and organizing Of
peasants marches is one of these.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
Chinese Communists Raid
SeVatoeU Lighthouse Used to
Aid ImperialiSt Warshibs
Chinese Workers In Manchuria Blow Up
Powder Magazine on Outskirts of
City of Hardin
Kuomintang Working With Imperialists to
Betray Heroic Defenders of Shanghai;
New Blood Bath Planned

Chinese Communists Saturday raded the Breaker Point
Lighthouse 80 miles southwest of Swallow captured
staff of foreign keepers Of the Lighthouse The lighthouse
has been used facilitate the operations Japanese other
mperalst warships in their attack the natmperast
movement in Swallow Swallow off the coast of Kwa-
ung Province in South China 1t has been practically block
AIDED by Japanese warshps in effort suppress
movement the city and to cut off the big Soviet district
Kangs Province The Kangsi Soviet District which is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
HUNGER SPREADS
AMONG MAHONING
STEEL WORKERS
BY FRANK ROGERS

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. A few
examples to show utmost poverty and
hunger among the steel workers in
the Mahoning Valley:
A few days before the resignation
of Mr.. Campbell, multi millionaire
chairman of the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Co., steel worker COM
nlitted suicide by jumping off the
South Ave. bridge In Youngstown. He
left behind him a wife and ten chill
dren. Also a note that he could no
longer stand hunger and see his IA
n1ily starve before his very eyes. This
worker was employed in the Republic
Steel Company for 27 years and was
unemployed only for little over q
year. His wages were so small that
he had no savings to feed his family
altho he had shaved for twenty seven
years in the steel company.
Scores of workers, especially Negro
workers, have been shot during the
past six weeks by steel and coal COM
pany police because they took coal
from cars and supply houses to keep
from freezing. Instead of receiving
medical attention after being shot
the workers were thrown into jail
and treated as high class criminals
and railroaded to terms of imprison-
ment.
A worker is in the county jail today
as a suspect In shooting q local build
Ing contractor. The worker claims
he was shooting blackbirds to feed
his family of ten. He has been I'M
employed for is months and receives
no relief from the local charities or
the city.
There has been several deaths at
the Infamous Hoover City" located
at the city incinerator. The deaths
have been from starvation but the
police record them as accidents
The denagog, MIR. Moore, Mayor Of
Youngstown, still presents reports to
the city council and the newspapers
that there is no hunger in Youngs-
town. But facts prove that his, lex
pertinent" to open one soup kitchen
in the city to see If there are hungry
people resulted in 500 workers storm
ing the relief kitchen for food To-
day the report shows that the number
has grown to 1000 within a few weeks
and today the city is discussing how
to cut down on the expenses of the
relief kitchens. Rumors are that the
workers will be forced to work two
hours before receiving any relief at
the soup lines.
The basic task confronting the re-
evolutionary workers in the Mahoning
Valley section is the building Of a
mass unemployed movement. Imme-
date steps must be taken to overcome
past shortcomings and the building
OF block and soupline committees Of
the Unemployed Councils everywhere
as a powerful force in the struggles
Of the steel workers fighting against
hunger, terror and war.
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and peasants against their imperial
lists! Demand the withdrawal OF all
armed forces from China!
Demand hands off Chinai Hands
OF tho so~ses unioni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
OF Two Famous Class
Victims to Speak in Phila.

NEW YORK, N Y-Mothers of two famous victims of
the frame-up system will plead for working defense
their the platform when Mrs Mary Mooney
old mother of Tom Mooney and Mrs Viola Montgomery
mother Of 16 year old Glen MONTGOMERY Scottsboro boy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02

We arc pronouncing in good faith
the words the dictatorship of the
proietariat' and We shall make them
q reality" LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
ployed themselves on a war basis.

ployed themselves on war basis.
The exposure of the true character
of these schemes and the organization
Of the working class for militant
struggle against them is especially
the task Of every district of the Com
munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-02
WORKERS! DO NOT PERMIT DAILY
WORKER TO SUSPEND! RUSH YOUR
CONTRIBUTION; COLLECT FUNDS

Dist. I-MsBsschusetts
Previously reported : 2s4.2o
Amesbury-s
r, 3. Freeman as
Porter 50
2 Frisnds 80
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CONTINUED rRow PAGE ONE.
Smyrna times., 1932-04-27
GOVERNOR BUCK
AT RICHMOND
CONTINUED From Page Two)

accepted the conference invitation,
Governor Pollard said the Virginia
meeting will be the largest in the
history of the organization. The
opening event of the program was
the states reception at the gov
ernor's mansion. Seven major
problems have been set for discus
sion during the conference. They
are: Taxation in the farm states,
motor safety, banking, duty of the
state in relieving unemployment,
control of municipal expenditures,
extension Of state highway and
road operation, and reduction of
public expenditures in connection
with the reduction of taxes. IN
observing the Washington Bi-Cen-
tennial the governors will visit
many historic spots in the first
native state. After a
session they went to
Smyrna times., 1932-04-27
DELAWARE ID. A. r.
WOMAN HONORED
Mrs. Edw. w. Cooch, COoch's
Bridge, Vice President Gen
eral of National Body
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Mrs. Edward W.Cooch of Coocb's
Bridge, regent of the Delaware
Daughters of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, was honored
Thursday by being elected one of
the vice-presidents general of the
National body at a meeting of the
Continental Congress in Washing
ton. Seven others were elected
vice-presidents general as follows: /:
Mrs. Joseph Hayes Acken, Nash
vile; Mrs. Nathaniel Beaman. Nor
folk; Mrs. E. Thomas Boyd. Den
yer; Mrs. Joseph M. Galley, Phil
adelphia; Mrs. Frank Hamilton
Marshall, Oklahoma; Mrs. C. Ed
ward Murray, Trenton, New Jer-
sey, and Mrs. Walter L. Tobey.
Hamilton, Ohio. Mrs. Walker from
the platform denied rumors that
she had expressed preference" for
certain candidates for vice-presi-
dent general, in an attempt to per
petuate her policies regarding rad
icals. Secretary Doak, Thursday
scored the red flag "parlor pinks'
in an address before the Continent
al Congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. His
speech preceded the final report of
Mrs. William Sherman Walker, ma
tional defense chairman, a militant
anti-Communist, whose departure
from office precipitated the one
ripple thus far in the smooth run
ming session. Unopposed, the com
plete slate of Mrs. Russell William
Magma of Holyoke, Massachusetts,
was elected to administer the next
three years of the organization.
Secretary Doak told the delegates
it would be far easier for him to
deal with the alien propagandists !
IF it were not for the American
'parlor pinks', organizations of
sentimentalists and notoriety seek
ers." Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Ho- |
bart, retiring president general, |
publicly denied any rift between
herself and Mrs. Walker, adding I
that the latter had definitely stated |
almost year ago that it would be
for her to accept the /
national defense craftsmanship |
again. The congress voted a score
of resolutions, all urging an in
creased national defense and a
tighter rein on immigration and
naturalization. One was a meas
ure favoring legislation which
would give the President of the
United States power, in time of un-
emergency, to object
all aliens NOT ora ainfi1ll1x er,oraIouad
Smyrna times., 1932-04-27
NEW AND USED OAR SALES
Chevrolet Dealers Sell 17.452 New
and 26,573 Used Cars During April

and 26,573 Used Cars During April
Chevrolet dealers sold 17,452
new and 26,573 used cars during
the first ten days of April, H. j.
Klingler, vice-president and gener-
al sales manager, announced. The
performance was the best for any
ten-day period this year and ex-
ceeded sales during the first full
ten-day period following the an
nouncement of the present line of
cars on December 5, Mr.. Klingler
said. He reported that the April
sales mark was 1000 new cars
of the handsome 1882 models,
higher than for the previous ten
days, and 88.7 per cent above the
corresponding period for March.
Improvement was general through
out the country, many zones more
than doubling their sales perform
ance over the first ten days of
March, and a number of dealers
reported selling more cars in the
first ten days of April than during
the entire month of March, Mr.
Klingler said. In the month just
ended, Chevrolet dealers conducted
a used car campaign which result
ed in the sale of 81, ,298 cars to re-
tail buyers.