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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

and holding officials responsible for
their lives have been sent to Sheriff
John Henry Blair and Governor
Ruby Lafoon Of Kentucky by the
International Labor Defense and the
National Committee for the Defense
of Political Prisoners. .
The LID. telegram reads:
"We fear for the lives of Doris
Parks, Vern Smith and Ann Barton,
removed from Pineville, delivered to
Harlan Jail and threatened with
business mems and gunman mob I'M
der direction of the sheriff. we
again demand the release Of these
relief and defense representatives
held under trumped-up criminal syn
dicalist charges and hold you re-
sponsible for their safety from coal
company thug rule"
In telegram to Senator Costigan
Of Colorado the National Commit
tee wired: I'VE send you a copy of
telegram we have wired to Sheriff
Blair and Governor Lafoon of Ken
lucky: Word received Of removal of
Doris Parks, Vern Smith and Ann
Barton to Harlan jail from PineVille.
Local citizens fear attack on pris-
oners as result of this removal. We
will hold you legally responsible for
their safety. A copy of this tele-
gram is being sent to their sena-
torial committee now investigating
Kentucky coal conditions. Signed,
Melvin P. Levy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
AN OPEN LETTER TO EDSEL FORD

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEG
men were laid off from the Rouge
plant and thoss left at work were
almost driven to distraction to in
crease their output. 1 was working
in your Rouge plant at the time and
can repeat my own experience to you
should 20 ucare to listen to them.
Your company has persistently
published the statement that wages
are not reduced at the Ford plants.
Yet you know that long before your
officials admitted the reduction to
six dollars day that men were
being transferred from department to
department and their wages cut as
they moved; that men of long stand
ing in the company, who were maxi
ing So and ga day, we-e laid off
and rehired at Sc day. You know
all this-ard you raise no voice
against your company's lies.
For the last three years, at Christ
mas time, your company has pub
lished reports of hiring tens of thou
sands of men. You he'd. You knew
that at the m est you would be hiring
only ., few hundred. Ye. untold
thous9Dds OF us stood and frozs fer
nighs on end before your ROUGE
plant, relying on your faithless prom
'scs. We have not forgotten it.
To those of us who have worked
in your plant and come in contact
with your service department this
outrage was not wholly unexpected.
AS you know, your service depart
ment Is almost wholly recruited from
berry Bennett, the head Of
the department, is an expire fighter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
SUICIDE BARES CRASH OF
HUGE INT'L MATCH CARTEL

was forced to pay a hurried visit to
the United States last week in
search Of a loan. The refusal Of Wall
ST., itself up to the neck In the crisis,
to extend the loan put the final seal
on the ruin Of the mammoth mo-
nopoly that was already tottering on
its last legs.
So devastatingiy had the crisis hit
this ''invincible" trust that Kreuger
and Toll American certificates
dropped from a peak Of $46 in 1929
to IS a share on the day before Kreu-
gers suicide. The stocks of the In
ternational Match Co. selling at $1o2
in 1929 were being thrown around
contemptuously for S1750 q share.
The bonds Of + he company had
dropped down to less than $50.
So closely tied up Is the crash of
the Kreuger Match Co. with num-
Der of governments that the suicide
of Kreuger has had serious govern
mental repercussions. Already the
Swedish government has called al
special session of Parliament and
introduced a bill for a one months
moratorium on Swedish debts abroad.
This has been done to prevent bank
ruptcy of the Swedish government
which is deeply involved in the Kreu-
ger cartel
Kreuger is also notorious as the
bitter enemy OF the Soviet Union.
Two years ago, as part Of the huge
propa ganda campaign against the So
Wet Union in preparation for the
armed attack that had been sched-
uIed for 1880, Kreuger started a Vi
cious campaign of lies and SANDERS
against the Soviet Union and insti-
gated the whole movement for the
barring OF Soviet matches from
American and European markets.
1t was almost entirely with the
money Of Kreuger that the revolt of
the Hungarian workers and peasants
was drowned IN a sea Of blood and
the Hungarian Soviet Republic de-
stroyed. This open counter revolu-
tionary activity of Kreuger was ad-
mitted by Kreuger himself in g
statement of B. c. Forbes, financial
writer for the N. Y. American:
''We secure domination in the
fob ffaII
abled to carry out needed improve
ments. Greece repatriated one mil
lion and a half rcfugecs. HUN
GARY COMPENSATED LAND
OWNERS FOR PROPERTIES
SEIZED DURING THE COMMU-
r. euger, the international banker.
was financial supporter Of fascisrn,
particularly in Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
,,AlE2i| %,g G3558 500
Resolution on Situation in the Marine
and Strengthening M.WL.U.
1Adopted By the Bureau Of the National Cammitteel

out with the local TU.UL., plan for
solving the local financial problem
that will enable the work to be car
ried on, on budget basis which must
be Immediately drawn up and ad-
hered to. The branches through mem
bership meetings and the ship dele
gates must carry on a wide campaign
for the prompt and regular payment
OF dues. Stricter check-up on supplies
issued must be demanded and prepa-
ration for inaugurating systems OF
branches paying for supplies issued
by the National office. A special
commission, composed Of members of
the National Bureau and others
should carefully consider every pos
sibility of placing the union on a
soundeP basis.
Press
81 The major ta-k Of the union is
the concentration of its activities on
individual ships and companies and
the development of Bgaggle there,
but at the same time, mass agitation
and work among broad masses must
not be neglected. In connection with
this, the regular appearance Of the
VOICE is imperative; also sticklers
and leaflets popularizing the I. S.
H. Congress. membership drive and
campaigns should appear. The sale
Of press stamps, the drive for sub
scriptions, must be pushed, and in
addition, the special commission on
finance must work out a special pro-
gram to insure the regular appear
ance Of VOICE.
LongshOre Department.
100 The establishment of a long
shore department in the N. o. and
the working out Of 1ongshore de-
mands must be accomplished. Special
1onoshore branches in all parts must
be Immediately established and mo-
where shall lorrshore work be neg
lected. In addition, concentration
POINTS for work among the long
shoremen must be. put into effect.
Special STRUGGLES must be carried on
for equal RIGHTS for Negro workers
of A. F.. of L. unions AGAINST dis
crinination in the distribution Of
work.
III The slow organizational con-
tact with the I. S. Fl. and the con-
sequent delayed instructions resulting
in insufficient guidance ard a slow
reaction to important problems must
be Immediately overcome and streng-
thened.
i2) The work Of the fnterclub, in
view of the developing war prepara-
tons, becomes especially important,
and therefore the Interclub work In
all parts, particularly New York and
New orleans and San Francisco must
be broadened and given Special at
tention.
13) The intensifying Of the class
struggle demands that the Marine
workers shall participate in the broad
struggles of the workiny-class, the
fight for the release of Tom Mooney
and all class war prisoners, the sup
port of the Kentucky strike, and
other struggles, and especially In the
struggle against the deportation
which the bosses and their govern
ment have launched against the
foreign born.
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this will-of-the-wisp Of the Give A
Million Jobs campaign to their
members?
One has to go back to the France
Of queen Marie Antoinette who,
when told that the masses had no
bread, asked: "Why don't they eat
cake?" to find q parallel for the
cruelty of these emisSaries OF wall
Street government and its program
Of hunger and iInperialist war.
Continued Exposure.
No effort is wasted which serves
to expose before the working class
the fact that every proposal and plan
put forward by these agents OF Wall
Street government has for its pur-
pose the checking and disruption Of
the fight against wage-cuts, the
"stagger plan" of work and Of the
fight for Workers Unemployed In
surance for all workers at the ex-
pense of the capitalists and their
government.
Organizing the Struggle.
The "Giye A Million Jobs" cam
paign is fairly well discredited, but
the propaganda part OF 1t, which is
the most important, must be still
further exposed.
OF the most basic Importance now
is the systematic organization of
Block Committees Of unemployed in
opposition to the spy, suppression,
hunger and war policy Of the Block
Aid" committees of the Hoover Glib
son Emergency Relief Organization
to carry the fight, under the banner
Of the Unemployed Councils, for inn
mediate cash relief and Workers IN
employment Insurance into every in
dustrial center with the backing of
solid phalanxes Of organized work
ers.
Immediate cash relief distributed
by Workers Committees millions Of
signatures for the workers Unen-
ployrnent Insurance Bill
Expose and drive the agents Of the
Wall Street hunger and war govern
ment out of the ranks of the work
ing class-employed and unemployed
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEI
match trust by the blind forces Of
the world economic crisis.
So weak had the Kreuger match
trust become with the deepening OF
the crisis that the Kreuger, who had
followed the practice Of loaning huge
sums to various governments in re-
turn for national match monopolies,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
THE EXPOSURE OF "NEW
TACTICS IN THE HUN
GER OFFENSIVE"
CONTINUED PAGE

JOBS CONSIST OF EVERYTHING FROM A FEW HOURS
REPAIRING A FRONT FENCE TO A FEW DAYS WORK
WASHING DISHES IN A RESTAURANT-AND EVEN
THESE AT STARVATION WAGES"
There is not single instance and there will be single
instance of workers by the thousand returned to the basic
result of this campaign Capitalism does not work that
way. OUTSIDE OF A NEGLIGIBLE NUMBER OF JOBS
GIVEN BY KIND-HEARTED BOSSES WHO FIND THIS
METHOD OF AIDING THE UNEMPLOYED CHEAPER
THAN CASH CONTRIBUTIONS, THERE WILL BE NO
CEANGE-EXCEPT THAT MASS UNEMPLOYMENT WILL
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used by all the inperiarst forces in
SHANGHAI and their Kuonintang
lackeys TO break the resistance of
the masses.
Revolt Grows in Mauchuris.
The revolt against the Japanese
and their Chinese puppet govern
ments in Manchuria is spreading.
Thousands OF Chinese soldiers in the
armies of the Chinese nilitarist tools
Of the japanese are deserting and
Joining the armed peoples struggle
against the japanese A Darien dis
patch to the New York Times reports
the Japanese puppet regime IN Man
churis menaced by the mass resis-
lance and increasing desertior1s Of
Chinese soldiers. Mutinies Of Chi
nese soldiers occurred on Frmlay and
satUd7- in the Heiho district Of
Heilungkiang Province. japanese in
ana around Aigun and Sakha1ar, on
the A-2ur River, we're forceddou flee
across the Soviet border. Tltersol
Oilers are reported to have teWlted
when they we're ordered to raiss the
flag Of the newly created Jabsnese
puppet state of which Henry -Pu "
has been appointed head by the
japanese.
The Japanese landed additional
troops at Shanghai on Saturday. A
Shanghai dispatch to the New York
Sun reports
Additional thousands Of Jan.
anese troops were landed in trans
ports at Woosung and sent to
places on tire thirty mile front
around Shanghai
''The Japanese have ufrther rein
forced their elaborate defense lines
from Nanziang to Yangtze Road.
IAN the villages along the front
were heavily ga-rlsoned with Jap
aness troops. LiUho, Rating, Liu-
hang and Nansiang, with a normal
POPULATION of $4,000, remained viz
tually deserted except for the an
- streams OF soldiers"
japanese Push Drive Up Ysngtge.
The japanese are pushing their
advance up the Yangtze valley, while
80 Lel0ue C Nations and the United
States hypocritically talk of nego-
tiat'ng peace.' The truce, engineered
by United States and British consular
agents at Shanghai. had as it's objec-
tive the betrayal of the heroic masses
CT Shanghai and the effort 10 stern
he growth Of the national revolu-
tionary struorle a7ainst the in1peTfal.
st plunderers and their KuornintanE
zoos. .o.
Workers Rally to the defense OF
the revolutionary Chinese Inassesl
Uemand. Hands OF Chinal The rob-
Der war against China is apre1uds to
ne Planned attack by the irnperiaI-
ISIS AGAINST the Soviet Uniorii Al
ready Japarese troops are on the
frontiers Of the Soviet Unsoul Jap
"nese White Guard too's have crossed
the Soviet border and have been
driven back by the Red Arnyl
Workers! Ring the Soviet onion
with an iron Defense! Push the
hght against your own imperialists
as the best defense OF the Soviet
Union! Demand all war funds for
the unemployed! Demand unemploy-
ment relief and Unemployment In-
surancei Fi9ht against starvation,
wage cuts and terrorI Drive out the
diplomatic AGENTS Of Japanese i'm
perialism, which is butchering the
Chinese masses and moving to attack
the Soviet Union! Support the revo-
.r'+'~-7"-v e 'uggles OF the Chinese
and japanese massesl Prevent the
transport Of troops and munittonsl
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the bosses and their police guilty OF
the shooting clubbing and riding
down of workers
The Communist Party cells upon
all workers and their org n.zations to
protest this brutal terror agsaRat the
worki. g-clsss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
3 KY. Strike Organizers
Transferred to Harlan
Jail; Fear for TheirLive

NEW YORK, N. Y March 13-Fear for the lives of Vern
Smith, Ann Barton labor press correspondent and Doris Parks
of the Workers international Relief expressed by the In
ternatona Labor Defense upon receipt of information that
they had been removed from the Pneve Jail Harlan County
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

$50 .,!srs, heip sos soOA .oDs,
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F.euger, the international banker
was a financial supporter Of fascism
in Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
SEVERAL CONN
 PEOPLE RETURN
 FROM SHANGHAI
Terrifying Scenes Were Witnessed in Streets of That City as Guns ROared

San Francisco. Feb 1S-UP)- ShanghaiNits native quarters fired by air bombs and warship shells while screaming troops raced through the streets, was described to-day by passengers aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru, first ship to reach here since hostilities started in the Chinese city. The Japanese ship was equipped with armor. plated portholes as a grim remind- CT of its voyage. Officers described how a Japanese destroyed escort. ed them from Shanghai.
 "The noise of the fighting was terrifying" Miss Lorraine De For. est, New Haven, Conn, art student said. T lived in the French con- cesion, where l could see smoke and flames rolling upward. heard the bombardment of the north sta- ton when Japanese marines were landed" Chinese refugees. clamor- ing at the barbed wire entangle- ments of the international settle ment and sometimes gaining entry, were among the sights witnessed by MT and Mrs J. s. Calmer, hon. eymooners from Bridgeport. Conn. Among the passengers was Juan Francisco de Cardenas, new ann bassador from Spain to the United States, en route to Washington. His last post was Tokio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
GERMANY PROPOSES SWEEPING PLAN OF DISARMAMENT AND
 STRIKES HARD AT FRANCE

Geneva, Feb 18.-UP)-Ger. many, practically disarmed under World War treaty terms, submitted far reaching disarmament pro- posals to the world disarmament conference today. They included abolition of all air ornaments. de- struction of all air reserves or stocks, abolition of conscription, and prohibition of heavy artillery and tanks. Limitation of the size of warships, and prohibition of air craft carriers and submarines. Ger many asked that warships be limit ed to 10000 tons and guns to 280 millimeters caliber, about II inches. She urged the prohibition of gases and germ warfare and a ban on the export or import of warlike ornaments.
 Other recommendation were: Fixation of the percentage of army officers to the lowest possible level; prohibition of use of police forces. gendarmes, and similar organiza- tions for military purposes. The proposals were presented by Ru-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
POLICE RECORDER WHO HAD
 TWO BOYS WHIPPED MAY BE ''..,. CALLED UPON THE CARPET

one of the boys, who was not in court at the time, has threatened legal action against what she termed 'the most outrageous &C., ton I have ever heard of." Par ents of the other boys said they would await developments before taking any action. Some members of city council termed the action of Recorder Johnson as "undigni- fled" and a most unfortunate oc- currence."
 Johnson. an attorney. was elect cd to the position of police re- corder last January 5. II is his first term. He admitted his "order" had been a mistake He said he merely meant to ridicuIe the boys, but instead the punishment has tended to make "heroes" of them.
 Prospect Park. Pa, Feb 1S- tUP)-Magistrate Hand has or- dcred good old-fashioned lick ings" for two boys. charged with taking an automobile sro., a gar age without permission. The boys al Herbert Still and Harry Haak. Tie fathers of the two boys must administer the sentence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
Mayor Maloney
 Of Meriden As
 The Chairman
TWENTY NUNS DIPPED FLAMES TO SAVE
 CHILDREN .

Hawthorne, N. Y., February 18- (UP) - Twenty nuns today defied the flames that de- stroyed their St. Hyaeinth school to carry their g children charges to safety.
 One nun lost her life in res euing the children. Firemen searehing the ruins found the body of Sister Bernard, 65. She had been missing since shortly after the fire was discovered.
 Another sister, 85 years old. was rescued from the eollapsins roof of the three story strue- ture by volunteer firemen.
 The children boarded at the school and ranged in ages from 8 to l4. The fire was diseov- cred in the attic. The sisters awoke the children, but the flames had reached such height that they were forced to carry. them out in their night clothing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
De Valera Holding Slight Lead In The
 Election Returns

Both De Valera in County Clare and Cosgrave in Cork were over- whelmingly reelected. Cosgrave's total poll reached the figure oi siS,125 votes. De Yalera's chiei I,lieHtanant Sean; Leppass. Wasselect cd from south Dublin, which oc. asioned some surprise as Cosgrave was conceded a clean sweep tn what practically amounted to his home district.
 To offset this result, General Richard J. Mulcahy, minister of local government in the adminis- tration, was reelected from Dub lin, north. Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne, independent, also. was re- elected from Dublin. north. Min ister of Defense Desmond Fitzger- aid was reelected from Carlow. Kilkenny, and Minister of Finance Ernest Blythe retained his seat from Monaghan.
 An analysis of the election today indicated that in Dublin the Elan na Fail had increased it's poll by 12,OO0 while the administration poll had decreased 5000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
P|E|CUL].lARCASE OF FORMER MAYOR
 OF EVANSTON
Wife Sues for Divorce and He Claims Marriage Took Place to Save Her Honor

Evanston, III, Feb 1s.-(UP)- The suit for separate maintenance brought against former Mayor Harry P. Pearsons by his wife to- day revolvedS around his testimony that he married to "save her honor" Pearsons testified that was the only reason for the mar riage. He said the ceremony was to be kept secret and a divorce ob- tained if an operation Mrs Pear sons was about to undergo was successful. Mrs Pearsons then was called as 8 witness and said she was not about to become a mother and did not sumbit to any operation.
 Society residents of this wealthy Chicago suburb crowded the court room as the 59-year old ex-mayor was questioned as to a possible parallel between his case and that of Parke E. Simmons. "A, promin- ent Evanston attorney. In his wife's suit for separate mainten- iance, Simmons claimed he had been tricked into marriage when his wife told him she was about to become mother. "Our case wasn't anything like that" Pear sons said. ''I married Mrs Pear sons when she was about to be- come a mother with the under standing we would be divorced if she recovered from an operation"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18

Woodbury, N. J.. Feb 1S-(UP)
 Police Recorder Frank l.. Johnson will have to explain to the city council his actions in con- ducting public flogging of three schoolboys. John s. Twells, presi- dent of council, in making this an- nOuncement, however. expressed the belief to-day that Johnson did rot do a foolish thing" T only know the facts in the case from what | have read in the papers,
 Twells said. T will confer with my colleagues. At any rate. the police recorder will be asked to explain the matter at the nextx me eting of council Tuesday night
 The William Elliott. i2. Franklin Hieser. 16,i and Norman Redfield, 15-were arrested on complaint of a theater magnate who accused them of annoying pstr"ns of the theater' by slam m,ng uv.a.. Johnson assisted a 2t0.pound sergeant in administer. irg 10 blows across the back of each boy. A ieather belt was used ard the parents of a. least two of the boys were present.
 Mrs Georee Rsdfisld. mother of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
SILK INDUSTRY
 OF NEWMARKET
 GOES TO LOWELL
New Hampshire Town Is to Lose the Only Manu- featuring Plant That It Owned

Newmarket, N. H.. Feb 18- (UP)-The Newmarket Manufac- turing company, century-old silk producers and sole industry of this town Of2, ,00O inhabitants, probably will abandon its local plant and transfer all of its operations to Lowell. Mass. 1t was. learned to- day.
 Directors voted unanimously for such a transfer at a meeting in Boston yesterday, and decided to ask authorization from stockhold. i. CTS at their annual meeting in Boston. Tuesday.
 The Newmarket mills used to employ about 1,500 hands but fol lowing a prolonged strike three years ago a subsidiary plant was opened at Lowell. At present about 65O persons, representing virtually all of the towns working folk. are employed in the mills here. It was feared hundreds might be thrown cut of work if the projected trans- fer Is. made.
 Contributing to the directors' de. cision to abandon local operations are tax dispute with town off, cials, recurrent labor troubles, and ln estimate that as much as $100.- ,ee in operating costs might be .aved annually If the Newmarket and Lowell plants are consoli- dated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
PREMIER LAVAL RETRES BUT E
 WELL PLEASED
Believes He Has Done Ca- pable Job in the Rec0n= struction of Europe, in One Years Time

Paris, Feb 1S.' (UP)-French ef- forts at rapprochement with Ger many and her agreements with the United States and Great Britain will continue despite the fall of the Laval ministry, Premier Pierre La val told the United Press. Laval said he hopes to take complete rest, and may make second visit to the United States. He has re- ceived many invitations. And he received scores of telegrams from American friends when his minis try was overthrown in the senate.
 "Quitting power after more than n year, I am very happy and very proud of three concrete accom- pIishments," Laval said. These are the rapprochement of the French position on the most inn portant world problems with the positions of Germany, the United States. and England, with whom France must share the burden of the problems of the world" Laval said he felt that in the past year more had been done for the re- construction of Europe and the orld than during the previous eleven years since the World war.