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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
CBy a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

MILWAUKEE,, Wise, Feb. 21.-On
February 4th, thousands Of unem-
ployed workers presented demands
for immediate relief to single and
married unemployed, but the bosses
politicians at the regular meeting re-
ferred them to the committee on
County Institutions, When a small
committee of IS workers from the
Unemployed Council appeared at the
meeting Of the Committee on County
institutions Monday, Feb. 18th, the
board members told us that they
would have to come back again wed,
Feb. II.
On Feb. 18th, more than 500 work
ers, mostly single workers from the
Flop Houses, soup lines, employment
agencies, came down in an organized
manner to the county building. The
capitalist politicians were forced by
the mass pressure of the workers
there to hold their regular meeting
in large room, in the Circuit Court
room, instead of the small committee
room, where they were holding their
regular meetings.
More than a dozen workers, repre-
sentatives of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil, took the floor and exposed the
socialists, the Outdoor Relief Depart
ment, and Mr. Coffey, Notbohm and
George ziegler, who are starving the
workers. Negro and white. While
MIR. Notbohm's belly is getting bigger
every day, our belly is sinking in
more and more every day, said one
worker pointing his finger at Mr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
CLEVELAND YOUTH TO
DEMAND RELIEF FROM
NEW CLEVELAND
MAYOR

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Young work
ers, women and children will present
their demands for immediate relief,
feeding stations and free food for
children, to the newly elected mayor
OF Cleveland, in poster parade on
Saturday, March 5, at p. m. They
will come to demand that he carry
out some of his promises of helping
the needy" if elected. These pro-
misses for relief have been the main
campaign slogans of both Morgan,
Republican candidate; and Miller, re-
presenting the Democrats.
Young workers will present de-
mands here that they get relief
from the charities without discrimin-
alton on account of youth, and also
demands for weekly cash relief, with
demands for unemployment insur-
ance at bosses expense. They will
demand together with the working
women and children that children
OF unemployed workers get free milk,
free lunches and free school supplies
in the schools.
Each group taking part in the par
ade will make posters exposing the
conditions under which they live and
exposing the bosses who force them
to live under such conditions. Prizes
for the best poster will be awarded.
The parade will start at 2 P. M,
from three sections of the city: E.
55th Street and st. Clair, E. 38th st.
and Scovill, and w. 25th Street and
Lorain Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT

PINEVILLE, KY Feb. IA group of attorneys and
gangser elements retained by the coal corporations got
train at Corbn Kentucky and between drinks told of their
participation in the reng of terror in the mining fields
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
PLAN OF CAL. BUILDING WORKERS

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.--The pro-
gram Of the Building Trades Workers
Industrial League of San Francisco
is mode lone for all other sections
of the league, If it is carried out. In
order to organize all the building
ganization with militant program
Of action and struggle, the program
states:
1.-The officialdom OF the A. r. Of
I, must be kicked out from the ranks
of the labor movement; 2--The bar
Tier' Of craft unions must be broken
down; 3-a united front must be Or
ganized Of all A. F. of l.. rank and
file building workers, unorganized,
TUUL building workers and all I'M
employed and employed building
workers.
The program calls for the or
CARNATIONS of unified committee Of
action (workers of all building trades,
Including laborers), on all construc-
tons to fight wage cuts, speed-up.
unsafe working conditions, for the Z
hour day, day week with no re-
duction in weekly wages, against
discrimination of foreign born and
non-residential workers.
In an a. F. OF L. unions opposition
groups must be organized to free the
workers OF the corrupt officialdom
and to organize militant building
trades union. The program calls for
Instant struggles against the Off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
ON DRAWING YOUNG
WORKERS INTO THE.
STRIKE STRUGGLES

During economic conflicts spe-
cial attention should be paid to
protecting the interests Of the
young workers and drawing them
into active work. III working out
the demands, it is absolutely neces-
sary to include special points re-
garding the labor of young work
ers, and during the election of
committees, young workers must
be drawn in on an equal footing
with adult workers. Young work.
ers can play decisive role OH the
picket line, III defense corps, in
the establishment of contacts, in
checking up the execution of de-
cisionS made by the leading bodies,
in the distribution of strike conf
mittee leaflets, etc, etc. A de-
termined battle must be waged
against the social democratic ira
ditiOn of considering young work
ers as a category undeserving of
any attention.
The activization of the whole
movement depends to a great ex-
tent upon its ability to draw mass
es of young workers into hte strug-
gle.-Decisions Of the International
Conference on Strike Strategy
January, 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
MASS TRIAL OF CHAUVINIST WORKER /
CALLED FOR FEB. 7BY NEEDLE UNION

Con rades. Only by branding out
with a red-hot iron every trace Of
white chauvinisn in our ranks. Only
by mercilessly fighting and exposing
every instance Of such chauWnisn,
only by energetic struggle for the
special demands Of the Negro work
ers, by mobilizing the white workers
in direct defense of the rights of the
Negro workers in the shops, will we
succeed in uniting the workers OF al
races, colors and nationalities in one
common struggle of the workers
against the bosses and their agents
the AFL misleaders, for better work
ing conditions.
Against the splitting tactics Of tI1g
bosses, raise the banner Of working
class solidarity!
National Buro, Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, AZ
filiated with the Trade Union
Unity League
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HCON y EIAS AhOAA - 80
The Communist Party has organ
lied several units among the striking
miners, rallying the most class con-
scious of the strikers into the ranks
of the revolutionary party of the
working class.
Governor Horton Of Tennessee,
who made pretense at 'investigat-
ing the kidnapping and beating of
Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, strike
leaders who were yiciously flogged
by Harlan County gun thugs, now
has dropped all pretenses and has
openly given up his sham investi-
CATION. This again proves what Joe
Weber told Col, Boyd, Governor
Horizons investigator, that the
Tennessee government officials,
along with the Kentucky coal OPP
orators officials, are doing all they
can to smash 1.-The strike and help
the gunner Of the coal bosses.
The Central Rank and File Strike
Committee met at Pineville Wednes-
day with $50 attending. The follow
ing steps were taken:
ID To build the National Miners
Union among the strikers not yet in
the union, as well as among other
miners; (2) strengthening of the re-
lief apparatus; to push relief activity
to help spread the strike; 80 draw
ing in of women; "a greater ex-
posure of the strikebreaking activi-
ties of the United Mine Workers of
America whom the operators are des-
perately trying to draw in to crush
the strike.
North Carolina farmers are coming
into the Knoxville office Of the
Workers International Relief and Of
fering food to the striking miners.
There is no demo- llization in the
strike activity of the Kentucky min
ers, despite the huge show of force
and terror of the coal operators ex-
pressed particularly last Sunday by
armed gunner watching the roads
like hawks to prevent the holding of
the "Spread the Strike" conference.
At Straight Greek, KY, it was de-
cided to organize mass march TO
Kettle Island Thursday to help the
strikers there picket.
The Pineville authorities are try
ing to exclude all miners from other
towns from this city. One miner
from Gatliff, rs miles from Pineville.
was arrested on the charge Of "vag-
rancy" All other miners were
warned by the police to keep away
on the pain of the same charge.
A number of Pinevillo residents de-
manded that the City Council re-
fuse to pay 81 a day to hundreds of
deputized gunner, and the mayor
has threatened to resign"
The Sheriff Of Bell County called
in strike leaders yesterday and told
them that he would sue the Daily
Worker because it said he hired gun
thugs. He said it was the mayor
who hired the gun thugs. The sher-
if has always posed as a friend of
the miners and is trying in this way
TO keep in good with them
The preachers of Bell County have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
JAPANESE ATTACK SHANGHAI;
SEIZE HARDIN; AIM BLOW AT
CHINESE REVOLUTION, USSR.

kong. The main United States Ash
attic fleet is at Manila. three days
steaming distance from Shanghai. In
Manila, also, are us. naval aircraft.
The dispatch lists, in addition,
1889 officers and 23,3l8 men of the
U. S. Army in Hawaii, the Philippines
and China. The Fourth Regiment
of marines, consisting Of 81 officers
and Its men, is stationed at Shang-
hal. The dispatch adds:
U. S. Battle Force On Way
to Pacific.
ain event OF serious outbreaks in
the Chinese area, this country prob
ably would be forced to dispatch war
ships from San Diego ard other sta
tons on the Pacific Coast
1t states that there is only a small
naval force at present at Hawaii, but
significantly adds:
However, during winter maueu
yers off Honolulu, Feb. ell, and
throughout the remainder Of Feb
ruary, the entire battle force OF
the United States fleet viii be in
Hawaiian waters
This concentration is already I'M
der way.
The g,nboatS Sacramento and the
u. S. Asheville aer now on the way
TO China.
In addition to the us. forces i'll
Shanghai, the British have 2,17O men
and 100 officers in the city Three
British gunboats are now off the
waterfront, with 7 more patrolling the
Yangtze River against the Chinese
Revolution. The French have LOCO
men and 30 officers i1f@ the French
concession in Shanghai. This ire
mendous force is being prepared for
q bloody onslaught against the Chi
nese Soviets and the Soviet Union
British Cool TO us. Request for
Joint Action.
The British imperialists are re-
ported to be in Sympathy with the
Japanese. A Tokyo dispatch few
days ago reported q rapprochement
between Japan and Great Britain
The British-American rivalries are
rapidly sharpening, with the British
resisting the United States attempt
to grab British markets and attempt
ing to wrest from the United States
the leadership in the antt-Soviet
| front.
The Japanese continue their wal
of suppression against the Chinese
masses in NTanchmia and are push
ing steadily forward toward the
Soviet frontier.
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beers, affairs, etc. The per capita tax
for the National Office must be paid
regularly. The finance committee
shall consist of three Union members
and two non-marine workers as
signed by the TUUC.
Recruiting Drive.
The work as laid down i'll this pro-
gram shall be intensified in the form
of recruiting drive commencing
Feb. 18th. This coming recruiting
drive must not be merely conducted
on the basis Of getting members at
large but on the basis of struggle
against wage cuts and worsening of
general conditions on board ships
and docks. This recruiting drive
must be closely liked up with the
election Of delegates to the coming
World Congress of the International
of Seamen and Harborworkers May
20, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany. The
delegates to this congress must be
elected on q united front basis from
ships especially those where we will
be able to promote job action and
Unorganized docks and locals of the
reformist unions. We must especially
try to get delegates from locals
where there are signs Of revolt
against the leadership of those To-
Gals. In order to carry ON a success
full campaign the Port Organization
Committee must pay the closest at
tention to ships delegates so as TO
familiarize them with our policy, es-
pecially with the policy of promoting
job action on the ships on the united
front basis. We cannot stress the
fact enough to the ships delegate
and to any other union member that
when there is any wage cut or any
other grievance that he must ap-
proach every member of the crew
who he thinks is able to assist him
in organizing the crew to fight
against this existing grievance re-
CARELESS of whether this worker is a
member of our union, reactionary
union, or unorganized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29

organized a meeting with the coal
operators of Greasy Greek for the
purpose of naneuvering for "arbitra-
ton" of the strike.
Section strike meetings are being
held in Gatliff, NIiddlesboro and
Clair Fort Thursday
Miners throughout the strike area
want the Daily Worker but cannot
get them at the post office where
the authorities are acting, in many
cases, with the coal operators and
keeping the Daily Worker from the
miners They do not want the min
ers to know the truth about the
strike in other sections or about the
struggles of the workers in other
parts of the country against hunger
and the coming imperialist war.
NEW YORK.-The role Of
the Red Cross in Kentucky as
a strike-breaking organization
is clearly revealed again by a
special article Oh the Kentucky
coal strike published in the latest
issue Of the liberal magazine, "The
Nation" written by an eyewitness
of the strike, Oakley johnson.
Referring to his conversation with
Herndon Evans, editor of the Pine
vile (Ky.) "Sun" and chairman of
the Red Cross, johnson writes:
"Is the Red Cross, as charged,
denying help to the families of the
miners on striker I asked.
"'Why, we must have some policy.
I'm chairman of the Red Cross in
this country. We have to check
up whether the people deserve help
or not, and of course We call the
operators to know whether a min
err who asks for help has been
working or not. And we have wom-
en- who know them report on them.
We have to check In different
ways. And, of course, we can't en-
courage the strike. We have a lot
of poor to look after regularly. We
made it a policy--a local policy,
whether it is in conformity to the
national organization or not--when
men on strike come to us for aid,
TO turn them down because of linz
tied funds. We tell the men
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PREPARING FOR STRUGGLE IN
MARINE INDUSTRY
PLAN OF ACTION OF THE NEW YORK BRANCH OF THE
MARINE MORKERS, INDUSTRLAL UNION

The Central Language Buro shall
work out together with the Union
and the various language buros a
plan Of how to carry on work be-
tween the 1ongshoremen and on
board ships where there are workers
that do not speak English for this
purpose each language bUUo shall as
sign one conrade to be at the dis
posai of the Union for a period Of
three months commencing February
1st.
Finances,
Until sufficient finances are raised
the Union must live within the two
hundred dollar per month budget.
The finance committee to work out
plans how to raise funds in visiting
organizations, donations from mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE

groes and the native against the for
eign born,
The takers Of the international La
dies Garment Workers Union support
the bosses in this policy Of race hatred
as they do in everything else. The
ILGWU discriminates against Negro
workers. Recently a most outrageous
example Of chauvinism and race dis
elimination occurred in Philadelphia.
where Mr.. Reisberg, vice-president Of
the national organization, stated
openly at a meeting Of the Jewish
pressers that he can create Jobs for
them by removing the Negro pressers
from the shops and has actually
carried this policy into effect Our
own union in Philadelphia was en-
tirely too SLOW in fighting this policy,
and in pointing out to the Jewish
workers that it is not the Negro work
ers who are responsible for the TN
employment and bad conditions in
the industry, but the bosses and their
system, which Mr.. Reisberg and his
kind uphold and support,
Our union, the NTWIU, has rs its
policy the unification Of all workers
for common struggle against the
bosses, and a fight for the rights OF
the most oppressed workers in the
trade, the Negro workers. The recent
struggles Of the furriers united Negro
and white workers sohdly for their
common interests. Our union has
also taken part in the mass campaign
to free the innocent Scottsboro boys.
Yet the poisonous boss idea Of race
division has penetrated even into our
own ranks. This is most sharply
shown by a recent incident in New
York, when a white member Of the
union, insulted and attacked one Of
the Negro organizers. This white
worker stated also that 'it would be
better if We had no Negro workers
in the trade at all" In this, he
showed very clearly the vicious in
fluence of the bosses and their COM
pany union
The New York local of our union
has decided upon a mass trial of
this worker at the New Harlem Ca
sine, 100 West 116th St., on Sunday,
Feb. z, at 2 o'clock. The National
Buro heartily endorses this decision.
This trial should he the beginning
of a determined struggle in the
union to root out race division
among the workers,
The coming mass strikes can be
successful only if the workers refuse
to allow themselves to be split on
lines Of race and nationality; L ali
the workers fight together for the
rights Of the most oppressed workers
in the industry, the Negroes. The de-
nands of our union in the coming
strike include demands for the aboli-
ton Of all forms Of segregation and
discrimination against the Negro
workers in the shop, for the right Of
Negro workers to work nj every shop
and in every craft, at the same wages
and conditions as white workers
White workers must be IN The very
forefront Of the struggle for the rights
Of Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29

Gals dictation and against their class
collaboration policies; for the forma-
ton of a committee of action of all
unemployed and part-time workers to
fight for such specific needs of the
workers as exemption from dues
stamps while unemployed, etc. The
organization of Central Unemployed
Council Of all locals regardless of
craft, on the basis OF struggle for
immediate cash relief for all unem-
ployed workers and their families is
also on the program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
Is CHICAGO ORGANIZA-
TTONS START COUNTER
OLYMPICS

CHICAGO, Ill.-Twenty-fiye mass
/ organizations including two clubs
from the Socialist Sports Intcrna-
tional. also the International Order
of Good Templars endorsed and
started work for the Labor Sports
Union Counter olympic Meet for
this summer.
The program was endorsed at the
/ Provisional Counter Olympic Confer
/ cnce held January Oath, 1882. The
delegates pledged that on the follow
/ ing issues they win mobilize their
membership for the largest Interna-
tional Campaign ever to be held in
the United States.
I. To build an International Coun-
ter Olympic Campaign in direct op-
position to the bosses Olympics.
?. To mobilize tens of hundreds of
workers in and around Chicago for
this campaign.
3. To prepare for a Mass United
Front Conference Of Mass Organiza-
tons during March.
T. To protest against race discrin-
iation in the Olympics. For an open
/ Counter Olympics meet
/ 5. To demand the release OF Tom
Mooney who is honary chairman of
the Counter Olympics Committee.
6. To mobilize thousands for the
welcoming of the Soviet Union
spCrtSmen to Chicago.
A provisional United Front Com
representative of each organization.
Tens of thousands Of leaflets are i'm
mittee was elected constituting one
mediately to be issued, to the factor
les, YMCA., ct, popu1arizing the
decisions of the Conference calling
upon them TO Join into the United
Front
The John Reed Club of Chicago, is
preparing an International Poster
Contest, in order to select the Off
Gail Counter Olympic Poster,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
ONE FASCIST KILLED; FOUR
WOUNDED IN ESSEN

There were fierce collisions be-
tween workers and fsscists in Essen,
Tuesday evening. One fascist was
shot dead and four wounded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
GREEN ADMITS
MINERS STARVE::
LAUDS co. PLAN
John L. Lewis Favors
Coal Operators
Scheme

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan.
27.-Admitting that ''every
night, particularly in the coal
mining fields, thousands Of
children go to bed hungry"
William Green, president Of the A
p. Of l., speaking before the hand
picked convention Of the United
Mine Workers of America being held
here, did all he could to lie about
the responsibility Of the leadership
of the UNTWA for the starvation Of
these children.
! Green failed to mention the fact
that the UMWA helped the Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Illinois and Alabama coal bosses cut
wages to the level where the miners
could no longer feed their children
nourishing food.
! one Of the features Of the con-
vention was a report by John L,
Lewis favoring the coal operators
scheme drawn UP by James L. Davis,
/ U. S. Senator for the coal interests
in Pennsylvania.
NEW YOBK.-While 10000 Ken
/ lucky and Tennessee miners fight
starvation that is sngulfing the
working population of a whole coal
area, and as Pittsburgh miners In
the Terminal Coal Co. prepare 70
strike against wage-cuts, put over
by the Pittsburgh district of the
United Mine Workers, a "conyen
ton" of the U.MW.A., created and
engineered by John L. Lewis, Is
now meeting in indianapolis.
The UNIV members at the Ter
/ minal Coal Co mines wired pro-
test against the Lewis gang as d
strike breaking outfit.
In order to give the. convention
the fake stamp of acting in the in
terest OF the workers, John l.. Lewis
/ invited Thomas N. Taylor, president
Of the Indiana State Federation OF
Labor, to speak at the U.M.W-A,
gathering
Forgetting for the moment that ne
supports william Green, who is
against any form Of unemployment
insurance or relief coming out of the
pockets of the bosses, Mr. Taylor
said.
II don't care whether you call
il A dole or Motive want food"
This demagogy, however, IS an in
dication of the extent to which the
rank and file of the A. F. of L. is
opposed to the official hunger pro
gram.
Taylor himself is well paid and well
fed, and does not speak for the work
ers. He went on to say:
1--WE are perfectly willing TO work,
but whether or not we get work-we
want food
We are going TO have food,
whether or not we have to take it
by taxation from millionaires and
billionaires."
1t is with the aid of the U.M.W.h..
John L. Lewis and Mr.. Taylor that
the bosses have been starving the
workers, slashing pay and attempt
ing to keep the workers from or
ganizing for real relief.