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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
FRENCH PUPPET STATES PREPARE TO
JOIN JAPAN IN ATTACK ON U.S.S.R.

it can no longer ignore the over
whelming proof of imperialist war
moves against the Soviet Union. The
Soviet press makes it clear that the
Soviet Union will continue its
struggle for peace, but is ready to
defend it's people against invasion,
against the attacks of the imperial
list bandits and their White Guard
allies. Commenting on the Izvestia
editorial, Duranty says:
mot only was the editorial broad
cast last night, but it was reprinted
in all the other Moscow newspapers
today. In the writer's ten years OF
experience here, such publicity has
been accorded only to statements by
the most important leaders or vital
announcements by the central COM
mittee of the Communist Party.
From the foreign angle, the lives
tia editorial is, in the American
poker phrase, call for a showdown
on the part of Japan. In decided but
not unfriendly terms is asks Japan
Just what are you driving ado you
want peace of warp we want peace
it says in effect, but if you want
war, we are ready This, in the
present superheated atmosphere, is
bold speaking.
cat the same time the editorial
again stresses that however Soviet
Sympathies may incline in the Sino-
Japanese conflict, the Soviet Govern
ment will maintain the policy of
non-intereference and neutrality it
adopted at the outset and will not
use the powerful force it now admits
is concentrated in Far Eastern Sig
IBERIA unless directly attacked.
From the internal angle the edi-
torial is no less important. For the
first time the Soviet Government tells
its people that the war DOGGY which
has haunted them for years has be-
come positive and immediate men
ace. And it tells them frankly that it
will fight, if challenged; that it has
made preparations to meet the dan
ger and will meet it,"
Duranty, who, like the rest Of the
intellectual prostitutes of the CAPT
talist press, has always referred to
the realization of the Soviet masses
of the antagonismo of dying capital
ism as war DOGGY" now admits
that this war DOGGY is real-that
the imperialists are preparing for an
immediate attack against the land Of
flourishing Socialism.
Duranty tries to build up a simil-
arity between the sincere sympathy
of the Soviet masses for the Chinese
people and the fake gestures of sym
pathy of American imperialism, which
is actively supporting the japanese
robber war against China and has a
huge armed force in China to assure
its own desired loot in the partition
of China which is now being carried
out by the imperialist brigands.
A Warsaw dispatch admits that the
Polish capitalists see in the war
moves against the Soviet Union q
possible way out of the world CAPT
tahst crisis which is threatening the
Polish and other sectors of capital
ism. The dispatch says
TN Poland, where the economic
situation eclipses all other matters
at the moment, great interest is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

static copies Of documents" This
shows that the frame-up net of the
operators is very weak and they must
look for more manufactured docu-
ments in order to bolster up their
threat of as year Jail terms for the
arrested strike leaders.
All defendants are now held on
5000 appearance and 5000 peace
bonds. Clarina Michaelson who was
out on bond, and who Is now in q
Knoxville hospital, was arraigned In
her absence by the defense attorneys.
Judge Jones attempted to lecture
the defendants. He singled out vsrn
Smith and demanded that Smith tell
where he got the information on the
composition of the Grand Jury as
printed in the Daily Worker. The
facts published by the Daily Worker
showed that the grand jury had been
hand picked by the coal operations.
through Judge Jones, and other Of
ficials, with tbs specific purpose TO
frame-up and indict the defendants
because of their activity in leadinx
the miners in strike against mass
starvation and the terrorism Of the
gun thugs.
Smith refused to ten on tire
grounds that the whole court proceed
ure here indicated that the men who
gave the information we're not safe
from the county officials prosecution.
Judge Jones declared that some OF tbs
grand Jurors we're not coal operators
but when Smith asked Jones to STATE
to state the profession Of the jurors.
the judge refused to answer.
A spirited alteration occurred m
court when Judge Jones declared:
You people will find out can't cons
down here to spread your propaganda.
Why don't you get out Of the coun-
tr where you belong? You are only
trying to ket your pictures in tbs
paper"
yern Smith replied: I'VE came
here to organize and feed the thou
sands Of miners striking against
starvation. Such trials as this
make hundreds join the union for
every one you Jail, hundreds Join
the National Miners Union. We find
facts even though in Jail, and the
truth hurts you"
One Of the main reasons for the
pOstponement of the trial, o.
course, is the fear of mass demon
STATIONS by the striking miners iu
defense Of their arrested comrades
The prosecution hopes that BY MAY
when the trial is set the strike viii
be broken and the ten comrades
can then be railrosded TO Jail with
out arousing widespread protest.
For the same reason, this axrx4gr-
ing tck place ~ . smHtss snGss.
and vss kcM ~ NJ ssssereeA -
order to prevent shy aernssHoD<
t'2l u miners Al the cegt hss&
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COON iiNuED FROM PAGE ONE1
charge. ggyEsYT
a. +. of L. Locals Endorse Fight.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March g.
Keen interest is expressed among
the workers in the A. r. of l.. locals
for the Tom Mooney cottsboro pro-
test meeting which will be held in
Philadelphia on Saturday evening,
March 18th at the Broadway Arena.
The Moulders local and the Uphol-
stery WeaVers greeted enthusiastic
ally the committee of the Ipterna-
tional Labor Defense who had ap-
preached for the Endorsement of the
Mooney meeting and the rallying to
the defense of class war prisoners.
The Carpenters local 1851 elected
delegation of five to greet Mother
Mooney on her arrival to Philadel-
phia and collected $3.50 for the
Mooney defense. One worker dom
ated liberty BOND. Locals or the
painters and letter carriers have ac-
cepted committees from the T. L. D.
and promised support.
The speakers at the meeting will
include Mother Mooney, Mrs. Mont
gomery, mother of one of the
Scottsboro boys, Robert Minor, Ray
mond Pace Alexander, attorney de-
Tending Willie Brown, young Negro,
framed-up on murder and Anne Pen
nypacker, daughter of former Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania.
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3 MORE STRIKE LEADERS
JAILED IN MIDDLESBORO,
KY; BUILD UP N NJ u,
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mittee withdrew and refused to settle
on the terms of the operators, de-
claring they will continue the strike
with renewed intensity.
The district board of the N NJ u.
at its meeting Friday night decided
to send IS delegates to the N. NJ. u.
national convention to be held in
Pittsburgh March IT, These dele
gates are elected on the basis of one
from each local of more than so
men: smaller locals are combining
to elect delegates. The delegates will
arrive in Pittsburgh a day before the
national convention opens, and hold
a district conference.
The 10 union organizers selected
the previous week by the strike
executive which are now working day
and night to insure a thorough dis
cussion Of Che proposed union con-
stitution, and to insure the election
Of a representative delegation from
Kentucky mines.
The delegation will include not
only strikers, but representatives from
some of the largest mines in Harlan
County where the men are working.
To insure this the strike executive on
Friday sent Negro organizer and
two other organizers into some of the
biggest mines owned by the o. S.
Steel Corporation and the insult in
terests in Harlan County to start
organization work there and set up
N. M. U. locals.
At Lynch in Harlan County, a town
controlled entirely by the U. S. Steel
Corporation, a ruling was made last
week that anyone found on the street
without sufficient funds for a hotel
room or for ticket to the next town
would be expelled from the town by
the company police.
At the Anthers Mine in Clear Fork,
a section superintendent offered a
reward of $25 for anyone giving in
formation on how the Daily Worker
and the Southern Worker are dis
tributed in the camp and mine it
self The superintendent having dis
covered that small meetings are being
held in the houses of the camp, in
as much as the local cannot meet in
a large gathering openly, has in
structed the miners that all men
must be in their houses by six o'clock;
and that lights must be out entirely
in the camp by eight at night. The
superintendent got his training as an
organizer for the U. M. w. A.
Organizers of the N. M. U. are pro-
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ceeding TO work in those mines OUT
side Of the present strike area from
which men have come to the union
to ask for assistance in organizing
and preparing for local struggles on
a mine scale. Meetings have been
held at the Cambria mine, and the
mines owned by the Gatliff Coal Co.
at Carryville, Tenn. 1t is expected
local mine struggles will develop in
these mines shortly, as the response
to the N M U. program has shown
splendid organizational results.
At the Rex Mine. in Tenn, the men
are getting one day a week work, and
they are actually starving. The oper-
ators have called in the Red Cross,
which gives the men another days
work, in cleaning up, ETC., and pays
them 81 a day in groceries for ten
hours work, or about 10 cents an
hour.
A garbled report about a reward
for Harry Jackson has been issued,
the facts being that reporter sp-
preached one Of the lawyers for the
N. M. U. here saying that Harry
Jackson was Frank Borich in dis
guise, and that the reward was for
Frank Borich, and not Harry Jackson.
To Hold Communist Meeting.
The meeting Of the Communists
Party, scheduled for Monday night
at Floyd Hall, corner OF University
and College Streets, will be held
Monday at 7:3o p. m. despite all
threats to answer the lies spread by
the bosses against the CommuniS
Party.
Leaflets calling this meeting have
been distributed in all textile mills
Distribution has taken place in one
Of the largest mills in the South 10
Gated in Knoxville.
Harry Jackson, Tom Johnson and
Frank Burns are to appear in Birrn-
ingham for trial under framed up
vagrancy charges.
Despite the fact that the miners
are carrying on bitter struggle, and
that the terror is intensifying, the
relief activities throughout the com-
try have not measured up to the
needs. More relief is needed Every
worker must respond Immediately to
the call for relief, as the miners.
battling terror and starvation in the
present strike, must receive the sup
port of workers throughout the
country. Rush your support to the
striking Kentucky Tennessee miners.
Don't slacken in the fight at this
critical period s..
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Inc JUICE was complaining ABOUT
the facts being published in the
working-class press exposing the
mass starvation and the vicious ter
rorism of the coal baron's gun thugs,
stating to Vern Smith, Daily Worker
representative and one Of those held
in Jail, why don't you get better
infor1nation?"
Smith replied: every one who
comes looking for facts you put in
jail"
Judge Jones set the trial date for
May rs, declaring on the suggestion
OF prosecuting attorney. Walter Smith
that the Kentucky coal operators will
have to send to New York for photo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

PINEVILLE, KY, March 81 will see to
it that you get hundreds more in Jail with you"
declared the coal operators tool here, Judge
"Baby Face Jones to the II strike leaders and
relief workers arraigned in court yesterday on
the criminal syndicast Indictment
Those included in the Indictment are Vern Smith, John
Harvey, Clarina Mchaeson Vcent Kamenovich, Doris Parks
Dorothy Weber, Julia Parker, Ann Barton, Norma Martin.
Marguerite Fontaine, and the miner Mason.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

international Reu A1u anniversaries.
In America, the /. L. D. is mobil-
izing its branches inevery city for
large demonstrations and protests.
The anniversary will be used to bring
forward the important campaigns
before the I. L. D. today. They in
clude:
/. The continued battle for the re-
lease of Tom Mooney, symbol of
working class oppression throughout
the capitalist world. When Mooney
sent his 84-year old mother across
the continent to speak to $4,000 work
ers at an 1. L. D. meeting in New
York City, he showed that he relied
upon the power of the workers to
set him free.
2. The fight for the nine Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

manifested in the ACCOUNTS of Sow
let Russian military activity in the
Far East on the Manchurian Dor
der.
Commercial interests here
expressed the belief that a Russo
Japanese war would benefit Poland
much as the British coal strike did
in 1896"
This assumption that Poland would
be as neutral is a nonstrous lie, in
tended to deceive the masses. Po-
land, like the other Vassal states Of
French Imperialism, like the whole
imperialist world, is prepared to join
in the attack against the Soviet
Union. The whole world of dying
capitalism is desperately seeking to
extricate itself from the crisis at the
expense of the toiling masses of the
world, at the expense Of Socialist
construction in the Soviet Union,
where unemployment has been sbol-
ished at precisely the time that tens
of millions of workers have been SEN
fenced to unemployment and stsrvs-
ton in the capitalist countries and in
the colonies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
ALL. BETRAYS
SHOE WORKERS
NLYNN, MASS.
Shoe Union Committee
Calls for Rank and
File Strike

LYNN, Mass, March 4-The Of
ficials of the Boot and Shoe Union,
"a. F. of L. who took hold of the
workers who walked out Of the Styler
Shoe company 100 per cent against
starvation conditions, have already
betrayed the workers on strike. Dur
ing the course of the mass meetings
taking place in the Lasters Hall
eevery morning at 10 o'clock, business
agent Lucier and other officials of
thesunion have consistently been re-
porting to the strikers that the man
ufacturers have signed agreements
for a IS per cent increase in wages
to become effective Immediately. The
shops that have signed to date are
the Made Well Shoe Co, Federal Shoe
Co., Gray Shoe Co., and Liberty Shoe
Co.
The workers in their respective
shops took part in the above nego-
tiations, but on the conclusion of the
agreements between the bosses and
officials, were told to return to work
On Wednesday workers of the Made
Well Shoe Co. and the Federal Shoe
Co. were informed that there was no
stipulation in their agreements for
any increase in wages as reported by
the officials of the union at the mass
meetings.
At a mass meeting held in Laster's
Hall on Friday morning, rank and
file workers demanded that the
signed agreements be produced and
read before the strikers present. The
chairman and other officials refused
their demand and referred the work.
ers to the settlement committee in
order to sidetrack the issue.
The refusal to produce the signed
agreements can mean only one thing
and that is that the reports of the
officials are false relative to their
claims to having obtained a Is per
cent increase.
This present betrayal linked up
with the past history of the Boot and
Shoe proves conclusively that sellouts
are still very much the order Of the
day, and that no good can be hoped
for from their officialdom.
The Shoe and Leather Goods
Workers Industrial Union which en-
dorses the Shoe Workers Unity Com
mittee of Lynn calls upon all rank
and file workers, organized or un-
organized, regardless of their political
beliefs, to put into effect the following
program in order to spread the strike.
Demands
1. Elect rank and file committees
from all struck and innsbruck shops
and departments.
2. Delegate these committees TO a
broad central rank and file strike
committee who shall be in charge
of the conduct of the strike.
3. The central strike committee
must elect settlement committee
with representative from every
shop; that no agreement be signed
until the agreement is read and ac-
cepted by the workers in their re-
spective shops and only after such
an action can any agreement be
concluded.
Spread the strike under rank and
file leadership Prevent further be-
trayal by ousting the Boot and Shoe
leadership! Fight for the abolition of
the yellow dog" contract and for an
immediate refund of all money COL
lected by the manufacturer to en-
force It'll Demand minimum living
wage and a general increase in wages
Of Is per cent! Smash the injunction
by mass picketing to effectively
spread the strikel All
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organization as indicated.

organization as indicated.
5. Fulfiilment of the goal of
25,OO0 members in the recruiting
campaign by the end of May, to
guarantee the reaching of the goal
set by this conference for the next
6 months.
s. Setting up Of a functioning
TUUL center in New Jersey.
2. The initiation of broad sus-
tanned anti-injunction struggle.
8. Considerable improvement in
the organizing activities amongs,
the unemployed, the goal being the
setting up Of unemployed organi-
cations in the building trades. mar
inc, food and shoe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
Parddes, PageantS to Mark
Paris Commune Anniversary.

Parades, pageans street demonstrations and meet
ng throughout the world will mark March 49, anniversary of
the Paris Commune of 1871. This day. together with the
SaccoVanzet anniversary August % and the Canton
Commune day December is the most important of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07

boys sentenced in lynch court in
Scottsboro, Ala. They are now in the
death house in Kilby prison, Mont
gomery, awaiting the decision of the
Alabama Supreme Court which
heard their appeal. The trial of Roy
Wright, youngest of the boys, will be
held Immediately after the decision
is announced, according to George w.
Chamlee, I. L. D. attorney in Chat
tanooga. Should the Supreme Court
rule against the boys, the case will
be carried to the U. s. Supreme
Court. But regardless of what the
courts do, it is worker protest, work
er support that will be the determin-
ing factor in saving the boys" stated
]. Louis Engdahl, secretary of the
I. L. D.
3. More than 1876 miners, union
leaders, relief and defense agents are
facing 20 year terms In prison as
a result of fighting against starva-
ton in the coal fields of eastern
Kentucky. Fifty others are charged
with murder, obviously framed by the
army of plug-uglies and thugs hired
by the coal operators. Hundred more
have been framed on fake liquor, rob-
berry, and vagrancy charges. Terror
greater than any known in American
labor history before has denied starv-
ing miners even the right to receive
relief from committees of liberals.
The terror must be fought back, and
the right of the miners to organize,
meet, strike, and spread their union
be upheld.
4. Over 10000 foreign-born work
ers were deported in 1881. 'Depor-
tation" Doak, Secretary of Labor in
Hover's Hunger Cabinet, rounds up
and ships away nearly 500 workers
every week. Some of them are re-
turned to fascist countries ike Italy,
Poland, FINLAND and other places
where militant workers are certain
to be killed or plunged for long per-
iods into dungeons.
5. Lynchings are on the increase.
Even in the North now, young Negro
boys are being framed for rape"
railroaded to Jail in trials lasting
from three minutes to half an hour.
Mobs of white leading citizens" ter
rorize the Negro belts of the South.
In Chicago and Cleveland Negroes
are shot by police for resisting evic-
ton, for taking part in worker dem
onstrations. The anti-lynch cam
paign must be strengthened in the
March 18th demonstrations.
6. In "a states, criminal syndical-
ism and sedition laws, some of them
centuries old, are being revived to
OUTLAW the Communist Party, in some
cases revolutionary unions and work
er organizations. Police terror
pIoughed through the leaders of the
Tampa tobacco workers and dragged
them into the prisons. In Long
Beach, California, As workers are fac
ing bitter persecution because they
attended lecture on Russia.
Z. With the economic crisis
growing ever sharper, the danger of
war becomes greater Workers must
organize anti-war committee to con-
duct determined struggle against
imperialiSt war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
Speaks in wilkesbarre, IA.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, March g.
Mother Mooney will be present at a
mass meeting here to be held March
9th 7:30 p. M, al the Y, M c. A.
Auditorium.
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KANSAS CITY. Mo, March g.
On March 18th large mass meetings
under the auspices of the Holhns,
ScottsboEo Defense Committee. will
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HOOVER REFUSES TO SEE
MOTHER OF tom MOONEY

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The Washington times., 1932-01-08
PAID; CHARGES
GRIDDER

EUGENE, Ore, Jan. 8.-ProSe-
lytism of athletes in Oregon col
leges was under fire here today as
the result of testimony given in
a court room by a former Will
liamette University football star.
Harold Mckenzie, star guard on
the Willamette team in 1925
and 1927, charged that he was
lured to Willamette from the
Oregon Normal School on a
promise of receiving a passing
grade in hygiene, his tuition, SIS
in cash and $40 a month.
His charges we're made in an.
swer to a suit brought by the
Sigma Tau fraternity, claiming
that Mckenzie owed for board
and lodging.
SALEM, Ore, Jan. 8.-Leslie
Sparks, graduate manager of Will
liamette University here, today
denied that Harold Mckenzie had
been hired by the college to play
football. He said that some
times the college found work for
football players" but that Nc
Kenzie had never been employed.
The Washington times., 1932-01-08
RENO MEN HOPE
To MATCH JACK

RENO, New, Jan. SACK
Dempsey today renewed his cam
paign to come back as heavy
weight champion of the world.
He said he would shadow box
six rounds daily until February l
when schedule of fights against
actual opponents would be
started.
Efforts of Reno business men
to raise money to promote a
fight between Dempsey and a
capable opponent were meeting
with success.
81 want to fight here"
Dempsey said, "but of course
want to hear what the Reno
offer will be before I make any
decision. James Mckay in.
forms me Reno is ready to top
any other offer for my services
and would like to fight here
because this is my home, and
my friends are here. III meet
the best man they can get"
The Washington times., 1932-01-08
COLORED F | Y {
OPENS SEASON

The Armstrong High School
cagers open their basketball sea,
son today meeting the Howard
High School quint of Wilmington,
Del, in the local gymnasium.
Tech copped the local md
South Atlantic championship last
year and is out TO repeat this
season.
From last years title quint is
Captain Gross. Best, Hager,
Mitchell, Mozzell, Baskerville and
Taylor, while the new men who
are showing up we'll are CoVing-
ton, Hayes, Payne, Quarles, Good
loe and Logan.
The visitors are bringing to
town a team of first class cali
Der but one which is not eX-
pected to defeat Tech.
Techs schedule calls for two
contests with Dunbar and one
with CardoZo. The Poets will be
met February IL and %, while
the Cardozo game falls on Feb
ruary "a. Contests with Balti-
more, Annapolis and several local
teams have also been arranged.