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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

The editorial reviews in sar-
castle vein the disarmament ques-
tion.
TN short, says Izvestia, today
when the thunder of cannon in the
Far East is the strongest argument
to denounce the foul lies about
peaceful policy, the imperialist gov
ernments of the world, the press
and politicians are trying TO dinin-
ish the importance of the confer
ence and cvade responsibility for
the deliberate sabotage Of disarma-
ment by which they have fooled
the public during the past thirteen
years.
'The Soviet delegation, however,
will denounce this sinister comedy
says the editorial, and will put
biuntly before the imperiaIist pow
ers the question: Where is your
disarment?"'
ITO which, Ixvestia declares. there
Is only one true answer: We want
war, not peace. We want 10 disarm
others, but arm ourselves
"The editorial describes the
French prop sal as the 'frankest and
most finished expression Of the
French desire to establish a mill
tary hegemony over Europe in ad-
dftion TO the political and financial
Influences France already possesses
and nothing else but a carefully
prepared program for anti Soviet
Intervention because, 1t is thought
here, a so-calIed League Of Nations
army and air fleet, If ever ccnsu-~
tutcd, would enable France TO solve
the chief problem in the anti Soviet
projects Of the French general staff,
namely, the transport of troops
across Europe to aid Poland In the
face Of German opposition (Oppo-
sition Of the revolutionary German
masses--Editor, Daily worker.)
"rhe editorial ends on an unusually
vigorous note-musually vigorous
that is. in comparison with the re-
serve and silence of the Soviet press
toward world affairs in recent days
The writer says:
1.-THE imperialist powers are being
driven to war by the pressure of the
world crisis, but the Soviet Union is
not suffering from the crisis--to the
Soviet Union war is not necessary as
B desperate means OF struggling with
an economic catastrophe. The Soviet
needs peace for it's great work Of con-
struction and the Soviet's peaceful
policy is proof of strength, not weak
ness. Today when the international
situation is tenser than ever, when
war is raging in the Far East, the So
Wet will again show its will for peace
which is backed by power no enemy
can conquer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

Without Judge Jones aid they
could not so brazenly kidnap miners,
beat them up, drive them out of the
county, and threaten their lives.
with Judge Jones aid the gun
men have been able to confiscate food
and relief sent to the starving miners,
raid their relief warehouses, and
drive them away from stations where
food is being served. Here is an I'M
exannpled picture of the courts work
ing hand in hand with the armed
tools of the coal companies to starve
strikers into submission
With Judge Jones aid the law
Of Bell County deprives miners of
their mail and newspapers; carries
out raids ON union headquarters; ar
rests and holds inconlmulicado even
our lawyer, Allan Tsub, whoEl we
sent down to provide bali and defense
for arrested relief workers.
without Judge Jones aid the
courts, by every trickery and ruse,
doge hearings on writs of habeaus
corpus filed by Taub to secure the
release Of relief and defense agents
arrested over month ago and still
held victims Of this coal-company-
judge sheriff gunrnan conspiracy to
enforce peonage Of Kentucky miners.
"Forty-one murder frame-ups clut-
ter the docks Of the Harlan County
Cowt-Judge Jones Court. There
are 102 criminal Syndicahsm cases to
come up on March 21-all arising
from the desperate attempt of the
coal miners owners to keep the min
ers down in the pit Of debt, hunger,
disease and living death, where they
found themselves until they organ
lied their union.
Even the expression Of sympathy
for the miners is forbidden by this
administrator of the law in Harlan.
1t was Judge Jones who instructed
the grand jury TO indict Theodore
Dresser and the committee of writer's
last November with criminal 5ynd1-
calism.' This was done after they had
exposed this Judge as sitting on cases
where the mine property Of his wife'5
family was involved and had openly
accused him of Manipulating his
jury, rcilroading all miners on
trunped up offenses, and playing
hand in hand with the coal operators
against the coal diggers in every
case. .-.,.
''Ths International Labor Defense
is calling upon all its members and
sympathizers to combat this terror
by exposing all judges, sheriffs, depu-
ties and coal operators, and by a
campaign Of public Protest and con-
domination"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
ALL DISTRICTS MUST INCREASE 49,
WORK 100 PC. AT ONCE TO MAIN
TAIN FOUR-PAGE DAILY WORKER

with a total of 1914, it looks as il
Cleveland will be giving Philadelphia
a fight for third place.
But there is no serious contender
yet with New York for first place.
Wake up, you districts. This Is no
time for half-hearted support. It's
all or nothing. Do you want to s@Fe
your paper? Chicago, enc Of cur
biggest hopes, is still far behind Do
you want to save the Daily Worker
for leadership in the wogkers' stEug-
giles. Your action In the Emergency
Fund Drive up to nov gives very MT
tie sign Of that desire.
Send US reports Of what you've
been doing. Are you setting quotas
Are committees active In MACS Of
CARNATIONS? Have you sent out bull
letins to the sections and unitSa II
you haven't done so. start at once.
If you are doing anything, ten us
about it. And let's see results. Rush
every penny you get, every day from
everywhere, 10 save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

patrolled by police and Civil Guards
Strike movements are developing in
Granada and Barcelona. Tho Trot.
skyite Maurin is doing his best TO
break the militancy Of the workers by
declaring himself opposed TO the
strike called for tomorrow. In this
he is aided by the anarchists and syn
diclaists whose tactics and adventur-
ist policies do nothing but split and
confuse the Spanish workers.
The & lernmcnt has lined u DILL
ly with the bosses and has issued a
statement threatening all workers
who strike with loss OF their Jobs.
The government promised to supply
the scabs themselves II the workers
dared strike.
In SPITE 81 tho rsasaouasy Hos up
Of Socialists, anarchists, syrdicars@
and yrosckyas& tie wxxey and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
Chattanooga Labor
Officials Line Up
With Coal Operators

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Feb. 10
The Chattanooga Trades and Labor
Council called on workers not to
support Mrs. Mabel Cox and John
Moore in their efforts to collect re-
lief for the starving kentucky miners
and their wives and children. 1t
called the National Miners Union,
an LW.W. and Communistic organ
ization, whose leaders have no I'M
derstanding with or in sympathy for
those institution of American gov
eminent which the Southern work
ing man loves so well.
1t also states that the legitimate
miners union affiliated to the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor maintains
relief stations and headquarters in
Pineville, with local miners in charge
and contributions should go through
them.
Mrs. Cox and John Moore have
issued statement replying that
their committee represent the rank
and file miners, unemployed, Negro
and white strikers denocratically
elected. The statement further says
that the miners have left the U. M.
w. A. on account of its long history
of sell out.
"Since coming TO Chattanooga"
the statement says, 1--WE are being
watched by a detective from Pine
vile together with a Chattanooga
detective. We believe they are try
ing TO fix up some kind Of frame-up
on us like they did on many Of
our organizers and fellow workers.
We are sure the workers Of Chat
tanOoga will not stand for any dirty
frame-ups on workers who are try
ing TO get help for starving women
and children"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
DEPORT OVER 100
SPANISHWORKERS
TO LIVING DEATH
Socialists Help In
Murderous Scheme

MADRID.-With tho streets Of
this city heavily patrollcd by Civil
Guards and police, the transatlantic
liner, Buenos Aires, left yesterday for
Bata In Spanish Guinea with 100
workers on board. These workers
had been arrested by the Spanish
Socialist" Coalition government
for their part In the series OF strikes
which have swept Spain In recent
weeks as the workers and peasants
began their offensive against the
Socialist" regime Of starvation and
terror. None Of the 100 prisoners
had been given trial.
Their arrest and deportation TO the
penal colony of Bats, notorious for
the deadly climate, was accomplished
with the full cooperation Of the fas-
cist socialist ministers who have act.
ed as the strong arm men OF the
Spanish capitalists and landlords I'M
der the slogan of defense Of the Re-
public"
The deportation was unprotected in
the Cortes, the Spanish parliament,
except by IA deputies who forced a
vote of confidence in which the so
cialists" voted their full support OF
the fascist government.
The ship bearing the 100 workers
ie scheduled to stop at Csdix where
therc Is another largo group ct work
ers arrested during the general strike
m spstn. Iats ctr 3 also heess1y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

S~AASNAASCo AOA 4ASAAbAAl6 bAAC dII1iy
OF the coal companies, their Sheriffs,
and deputized gunner"
Every juror is an Operators mar"
according to the organization which
is defending the 102 miners and de-
Tense or relief agents charged with
criminal Syndicalism because of strike
activities. The Labor Defense ac-
cuses Judge Jones of slipping quietly
into Pineville on February S, late In
the afternoon, getting the names of
prospective grand jurors from the Of
flee of the circuit court clerk, going
into a private room with the draw
ing machine, and without a single
witness, selecting his own grand jury
to be called into session the third
week in February"
The telegram from the Interna-
tional Labor Defense reads:
1.-TWO hundred thousand supporters
OF the International Labor Defense
denomce your secret picking
Of grand jury composed of coal COM
pany agents to railroad miners, I'M
ion leaders, and relief agents to long
prison sentences for fighting peonage
and starvation in coal camps. We
demand right Of workers to hold
meetings without interference of the
armed thugs. Right to get relief
without having food for starving
miners stolen by sheriff's gunner.
Restoration of all constitutional
rights, mail, literature, free assem-
blage, free speech now denied by the
ruthless despotisrn Of sheriffs abetted
by you and your court. Release of
all prisoners framed for murder, cri-
minal syndicalism, liquor possessions,
robbery and other phony charges to
outlaw union and smash strikes. The
quashing Of indictments against $50
miners victims of coal company tyr
amy working through armed gun
men, sheriffs, and your ONCE
That Judge Jones had been one of
the chief agents Of the coal compan-
les in maintaining a. reign of feudal
terror over starving coal miners" and
has supported every savage and bru-
tai device Of Sheriff John Henry
Blair and Sheriff James Baker to
outlaw the miners strike and smash
their union" is the charge made in
a statement issued today by George
Maurer, assistant secretary of the
International Labor Defense.
without the cornivance and sup
port Of Judge Jones and other court
officials in the coal war area" says
Maurer, "the hired gunner and the
sheriffs OF these counties could not
so well carry out their ruthless policy
Of terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

ST. PAUL, MINI. I'm the South st.
PAU Packnghouse there are close
to 1000 workers employed. For the
last two years series Of wage cuts
have been instituted. At the same
time in the Swift, Armour, Cudahy,
an impossible speed-up has been in
stituted called the "B" system. This
system works 50 that the worker
has standard Of production and if
he should go over it, he gets p bonus.
However, the meat trust uses this in
it's interest by raising the standard
and making it physically impossible
to make the higher standard. OF
course, this cuts into the wages Of
the workers with the result that
wages for the butchers is down to
Al cents when before they we're paid
50 cents, the common laborers were
getting 421s cents are now getting
SO cents. Young workers that pre-
vously got IS cents are getting only
"a cents now. Women workers get
ting IS cents are now getting 20
cents.
The last wage cut was given in
Arrnours and Swifts in November,
which amounted to Is per cent. At
Cudahys only recently on January
9Th the butchers we're given 2 20 per
cent cut.
Shop Groups Set Up
The officials Of both Swift and
Armour have made statements to the
effect that another wage cut will be
put through In the near future. They
want to have the 1912 wage scale of
Is to 20 cents an hour.
The packing house workers are be-
ginning TO see the necessity for Or
ganiEation and for militant action.
Shop groups have been set up in the
Swift, Armour, Cudahy, and United
Packing plants. The Food Workers
Industrial Union is carrying on an
extensive campaign among the pack
ing house workers. The packing
house workers are Joining the union
very fast because they see that this
is the only militant organization that
will fight for them.
The packing house workers still re-
member the strike Of 1921 and when
they we're sold out by the misleaders
OF the A. =. Of L. The. A. F., Of L.
was trying to approach some Of the
workers 10 join their union but the
workers fatty refused, knowing the
KIND Of leaders" they are. Only q
NV days ESQ IN unswploye9 brunch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

capitalists hope TO pay by means OF
worthless paper money. will also
cause the levying Of unbcarable tax
alton on articles of mass consump-
ton From every side. the initiation
policy Of the Wall st. financiers
means intensified starvation for the
working and farming masses and
ruin for the petty bowgeoi5ie.
II is another quack policy Adopted
by the capitalists as their way out Of
the crisis by putting the burden Of
the crisis on the shoulders Of the
workers In opposition to this, TIRE
Communist Party raises the slogan Of
a revolutionary struggle against the
whole system of hunger, starvation.
terror and warrior revolutionary
way out OF the crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
ST. PAUL PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS OR
CANNING TO FIGHT PAY-CUT

was o rganized among the packing
house workers in South ST. Paul.
About half of these are employed
workers who realize the Importance of
having both employed and unem-
ployed fighting against the bosses in
their efforts to cut wages, etc. The
time Is not far off when the workers
will come out on strike against the
bosses under the leadership of the
Food Workers Industrial League affil-
lated to the Trade Union Unity
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
NOTHING TO EAT
MINERS WIFE
Need Funds for the
Prisoners Families

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-"My son and
I went to the County Welfare for
help. They said: You go to the
Ntional Miners Union for help. If
your husband is fighting for them,
let them help you"
So writes Mrs. Pauline Crillo OF
East Pittsburgh, wife of the militant
miner, Tony Grille, who is serving
a Jail sentence for strike activities
in the mine area here last year.
Mrs, Crillo has received some funds
from the international Labor De-
Tense, but not enough to live on.
"If you send me something, / will
find place to stay at, my mothers.
Please do something for me, for we
haven't anything to eat"
Another letter Of stark hunger In
the mine camp comes from Mrs.
Ruth West. Of Evarts, KY, She
writes:
MY husband belongs 10 the Ma
tional Miners Union and some thugs
framed a whiskey case on him and
he is now in jail serving six
months sentence. I have three small
children, 2, and years, and they
are in need of clothes and food
Anything you send would be appre-
ciated."
Hundreds OF mine strike prisoners
families are suffering from hunger
and exposure. Relief funds must be
gspt 1t opce to Nine Prisoners AID,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

CONTINUED FRoN PAGB oNBt
-
ing OF the shops Of the Chinese ner-
chants has forced them TO keep their
doors closed
A Shanghai dispatch reports that
business was done only surrepti-
tiously, the threat OF the street unions
being sufficient to keep doors closed"
The demands OF the workers are re-
ported to be complete withdrawal of
the Japanese forces from the settle
ment, the return Of missing Chinese
and a guarantee from the Municipal
Council that there will be no further
provocative attack by Japanese"
Japanese airplanes yesterday bomb
ed the Wington cotton mills while
5000 Chinese operatives, mostly wo-
men and youth, were at work. -Four
women workers and one man were
killed. Scores were injured by the
bursting bombs and in the panic
which followed.
The Wington Cotton Mills are in
the so-called International Settle
ment The United States has made
mild protest against the activities
Of the Japanese planes over the
Settlement, but has attempted to pass
off the bombing Of the mills as ian
accident"
The Wall Street imperiahsts are
helping to finance the Japanese ag-
gressions In China and their war
moves against the Soviet Union. Huge
quantities OF munition and raw ma
terial are being sold the Japanese on
credit. The Japanese are now sending
to the United States $18,50o,o0o in
gold to strengthen their credit with
the Wall Street bankers. Five million
Of this amount arrived last Sunday.
Since the first Of the year, the Jap
anese have sent $2s.5ooo 900 in gold to
the United States. Since the invasion
Of Manchuria, they have sent . total
Of s1S1 10000 In gold TO San Fran
cisco.
A few days ago, the Japanese Cab
met decided to appropriate 81 600, 900
Cat yesterdays exchanged TO push the
war against the Chinese masses.
Workers. Fight against the impe-
rialist war plot. Form United Front
Anti-War Committees In your facto-
ries, unions and other organizations!
Organize protest demonstrations
against the slaughter Of the Chinese
masses.
Smash the war moves against the
Soviet Union---the proletarian Father
land! Prevent the export OF munitions
to the Far East! Defend the Chinese
Revolution! Defend the Soviet Unionl
In its fight for peace, the Soviet
Union will push its demands at &C.
neva for real disarmament. 1t will ex-
pose the hypocrisy Of the imperialist
powers. A dispatch from Walter Du-
ranty, Moscow correspondent Of the
Times, reporting On editorial Ia Isves-
ia. The Land ct eosoats wM shys-
~ for AeaceS. aAyvs - 7e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
~ &2it e$ + G3t5 $50
OHIO TU.U.L. CONFERENCE
LAYS PLANS FOR EXTENSIVE
ORGANIZATIONAL CAMPAIGN
T49E nFHEDIATE AIM MUST BE TO PREPARE STRIKES
AGAINST WAGE CUTS

CLEVELAND, ohio.--A rising spirit
of working-class militancy was re-
ported to the district conference of
the Trade Union Unity League by
delegates from all over Ohio. The
conference was held in Cleveland on
Jan. 81 and was attended by 102 del
egates representing the revolutionary
trade unions, minority groups in
American Federation Of Labor locals,
4 unemployed and fraternal organiza-
tions. The rubber, steel and railroad
industries were well represented, del
esates were present from Cincinnati,
Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Akron,
Canton, youngstown, Mansfield, War
rem and Erie, as well as Cleveland.
Tho growth OF the auto workers
union in Cleveland and the feet that
IN increasing number of building
workers are turning to the T. U. U. l..
were cited as recent gains. The con-
ference recognized, however, in the
resolution adopted, that insufficient
organizing activities constitute the
weakest point on our trade union
work In the past"
Our immediate aim must be the
preparing for strike against wage
cuts and to this end, the center of
our activity must be in the shops"
the conference resolved. points of
concentration IN this district must be
the steel, rubber, chemicals, railroads.
The building of the r. U. U. L.
leagues and unions must be done
primarily through activities In the
shops, factories, mills and railroads
BY establishing groups In the vari-
ees departments as basic unities
and milking them mp with other
departments INTO q shop branch,
ssnbraesng the whole shop, factory,
MN or railroad yard"
Werk In Old Unions
In regard to building up the left
wasas opposition inside the old unions,
the conference resolved that such
sxcupe SHOULD be developed under
tsae leadership Of the T. U. q. L. on
tzae basis OF the following demands:
Unemployment insurance, opposition
10 dropping unemployed members for
Hcn-psyment Of dues; cutting OF ex-
rssasss by eliminating business agents,
cx1bzng officials salaries ETC.; fight
tew the reduction Of high initiation
ices and dues; fight against the sys-
tenn Of favorttiSn, demanding cleo
tscn Of rank and file committee to
control and give out jobs on a rota-
tin basis; demand for the release Of
Tom Mooney and other class war
prisoners; spread OF anti-war litera-
tre; support OF Kentucky miners
strike and fight against wage cuts
and speed-up.
steps were also taken to promote
work among the unemployed, through
the creation Of special trade union
committees within unemployed or
carnations, and to develop fighting
alliance Of unemployed and employed
workers.
"Anti-war propaganda and agita-
ton must become part Of our day-to-
day activities" the conference re-
solved. Through shop meetings, mass
meetings, fraternal organizations and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

in all other gatherings of workers we
must fight the bosses war prop
uganda and mobilize the workers,
ideologically and organizationally
against imperialist war and for the
defense of the Soviet Union and the
revolutionary movement Of the toiling
masses of China and the Central and
South American countries"
Bob Sivert of the National Miners
Union addressed the conference and
Hazel Strong greeted it on behalf of
the Workers International Relief,
Joe Schiller on behalf of the Inter-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
Correction in Ann Damon A.rssc..

Correction in Ann Damon Aarsscle
In the article Bourgeois wcrsr
Pacifists Screen 1mperlalist war Pre-
parations," by Cornrsde Anna Damon
printed in the Daily Worker on Feb.
10th, line was omitted.
The 6th paragraph last sentences
should read out Of this confer
ence will come new irnpsrialist align
ments, further common under
standing Of imperisliss powers to- q
VIZ d Ms~vuntaoa aUalnnt ~
seSo1 udkoe Sn6 ,unoA1ed euusf
mi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

national Labor Defense and Phil Bart
on behalf OF the Communist Party.
kilograms Of solidarity were sent
to the Kentucky and Tennessee min
ers, Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro
Negro boys. kilograms of protest
were sent to the governors Of the
states concerned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12


For the working class initiation
means a fall in the value OF all
money. The fall in the purchasing
power of money will lead to a rise in
prices that viii further reduce the
STANDARD Of living Of the starving
millions.
Imitation will not cut down unem-
ployment because the additional
money put into circulation will not
and ID not intended, 10 be used for
production but to bolster up the fin
ancial position and make easier the
financial transactions OF the Wall
st. parasites.
The government deficit OF almost
two billion dollars, part Of which the