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success to Kentucky fighters. We
strongly protest against arrests OF
miners leaders. International Com
u1ittee is organizing solidarity miners
all countries"
KNOXVILLE, KY, Jan. 27.-De-
clartng that despite the efforts Of
the coal operators and their gunner
the Kentucky Tennessee coal strike
enters its fourth week fighting hun
ger and starvation, the strike relief
conference here held several days ago
has issued the following appeal to
all workers throughout the country:
In spite of all the efforts Of the
coal operators and their government
agents, thugs and gunner we have
reached the fourth week Of the
strike, determined to win our strug-
gle against starvation. Now they
have started to throw us out Of our
miserable company owned shacks.
Over one hundred have received eHc-
ton notices which take effect this
week. Charles Peters, the chairman
Of our strike relief committee, has
been arrested and placed under ST.
300 bond charged with criminal syn
dicalisn while he was distributing
relief.
"From the very first day when the
coal operators had nine Of our strike
relief workers arrested until today
they have done everything in their
power to stop relief from coming in
because the operators realize that
food is our ammunition!
Arrests, kidnapping and brutal
torture OF our leaders cannot stop our
fight for the right to live-to earn a
living wage-we develop new leaders
from among ou- ranks. Sheriff
Blairs threat to shoot our wives and
children should we attend meetings
called by the National Miners Union
which Is leading us in our uncom-
promising fight, has only increased
our determination to spread the
strike and build powerful National
Miners Union throughout the South
"Your help through the efforts of
the Kentucky Tennessee Striking
Miners Relief Campaign OF the
Workers international Relief. has
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~ z,1 @3t5 5EZ5!5 5a
STRUGGLE LOOMS OVER PAY-CUT IN
PITTSBURGH BUILDING TRADES

After two weeks of negotiation with
the Master Builders in the face of a
reputation Of the wage cut by the
rank and file this committee return
ed later to report that il could CONS
to no decision. Most certaily the d.
cision that it was to come to vas
definitely to set forth the repudigdon
Of the cut by the rank and file. That
they did not do so is evident that
a decision has been made between
them and the Master Builders and
that decision is the acceptance of a
cut. Perhaps not the Is per cent
but at least 10 or Is per cent.
Only the determined opposition OF
the rank and file Of locals prevented
it into going into effect on January
LIST. The maneuver of the bosses and
the leadership of the Building Trades
Council is a smoke screen behind
which the wage cut is being, pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-28
HOOVER TRIES TO HIDE IMITATION
MEASURES OF NEW FINANCE BILL

shaky position Of Wall st. finance
has this European opposition be-
come that President Hoover was
forced yesterday TO issue a state
ment to the effect that the imitation
program Of Wall st. is not initiation
sheerest rot and is only an effort to
pull the wool over the eyes of those
European capitalists who accept it at
its face value.
The tactic OF the Hoover govern
ment of putting over its inflationary
measures under the mask of an
"anti-deflation" move was clearly ex-
pressed by Senator Capper of Kan
sas who came out in favor of open
initiation but explained that he
would not speak of initiation because
there is a general warning in high
up circles that the word must not
be used"
In addition TO Capper's bill there
is also before Congress number Of
bills making for open and uncon-
cealed currency initiation chief
among which is the vandenberg
plan. BY means of these plans there
would be direct issue Of the Fed
eral Reserve notes without any at
tempt to disguise them. The Re-
construction Finance Corporation
will bring about the same effect in
a hidden way. 1t will create a huge
source of credit which has no foun-
dation but the frozen assets OF bank
rupt and near bankrupt banks and
business houses. In addition to this
the redisoounting powers OF the Fed
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American capitalism deeper than
ever into the crisis.
In addition, it will work untold
hardships on the masses Of work
ers and farmers by causing a de-
probation of the value of money
side by side with rise i'll COM
modify prices. This scissors be-
tween the buying power of the
little wages that the employed
workers still get and the inflated
prices Of various goods will slash
even still more the living standards
of the working class and poor
farmers.
Although the initiation program Of
Wall st. has the full support of the
capitalists here, 1t is meeting with
tremendous opposition in capitalist
circles in Europe who stand to lose
by such a move. Already there is a
dollar panic" abroad and French
bankers in particular are beginning
to remove the gold which they have
stored here.
There is also a strong possibility
that there will be raid" on Wall
st. similar to the raid" on London
when Great Britain went Off the
gold stadard. Wall Sc. is openly
afraid that the more than 100000
900 worth of short term balances
which European capitalists have here
will be withdrawn with a resulting
weakening of the position of the
American dollar.
So dangerous to she already
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erosion pacts with series Of Eu-
ropean countries.
The initiative taken by the Soviet
Union in offering these pacts to the
various countries is proof Of its clear
cut policy of peace in the face OF
the most despicable acts Of provoca-
ton committed by the imperialist
countries. They are in line with the
Soviet proposal made at the last dis
armament conference for complete
disarmament in Europe and with the
policy which the Soviet delegates will
bring to the forthcoming Geneva
disarmament conference.
The nature of the pacts was clearly
explained in statement by Maxim
Litvinoff, Soviet Comnissar for For
eign Affairs, in d statement issued
just before his departure for the
Geneva Conference:
The contents Of the pacts pro-
posed by the Soviet Government
are simple and aim at eliminating
causes which may infringe peace
full relations. If the contracting
parties fear no peaceful obligations
and pursue no indirect aims, they
may be effective. The negotiations
already conducted have been COM
pleted quite speedily, as is exempii-
fled by the treaty with Finland,
which was accomplished in two
weeks"
A similar statement was carried
editorially in the columns Of the
Soviet paper Izvestia:
eve don't make a fetish of these
pacts and similar international
agreements, but we believe that no
step that may lead to the main
tenance of peace in the present
alarming world situation should be
neglected by u.s."
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r. L. L. u. Calls For
Fight Against Scots
bOrO Lynch Verdicts
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and the Negro national bourgeoisie,
capitalism is trying its best to divide
the ranks of the unemployed from
those of the employed, the ranks of
the white workers from those of the
Negro workers.
Thus, for example, In the American
paper, the Pittsburgh Courier, of Dec.
y, we read that the Communists do
not intend to defend the young
Scottsboro Negro workers. BY this
means they only again want to carry
out the orders Of the bourgeoisie and
distract the attention of the working
class from the bloody attempts of
bourgeois justice. Facts OF their
treacherous activity in connection
with the Scottsboro case say, that in
July, 1881, the "Nationa Association
for the Advancement of Colored
Peoples" tried TO openly sabotage the
defense Of tn eyoung workers. In
spite Of the repeated calls OF the
Defense Committee" Comprised of
revolutionary workers. to join in the
united front for defending the Ne
gro workers, the leaders Of the Ma
tional Association refused to respond
to these calls, justifying itself with
the argument that the Defense Com
mittee is led by Communists, with
whom they do not wish to have any
thing to do. However, as the cam"
paign developed and as the Negro
masses openly began to go over TO
the wide united front of the ''De-
tense Committee" which mercilessly
kept on exposing tn eNegro traitors,
the National Association" under
this pressure, had to issue pacifist-
liberal manifesto.
The Scottsboro case must draw the
attention of the whole of the Inter
national proletariat. This trial viii
be followed by the trial of the Har-
Ian tKentucky) miners. Only by
means Of intensifying the work Of
the revolutionary trade union move
ment in the United States of Amer
lea among the Negro and white
workers, with the full support Of the
international proletariat, Will it be
possible to free the young Negro
workers. The lesson Of the famous
Sacco and Vanzetti case is again be-
ing repeated. Only the organized
forces Of the working class can and
must save the Negroes from the cleo
trio chair.
The Red International OF Labor
Unions and the Negro Workers IN
ternationa1 Trade Union Committee
jointly with the International Red
Aid CGOPR), are mobilizing the in
ternational proletariat for voicing its
mass protest and for taking action to
1iberate the sentenced workers.
Proletarians Of all countries, come
forward deterninedly against the
lynching of Negro toilers in America,
against white terrorism in your coun-
trieSl
Demand the immediate liberation
of the young Negro workers.
Do not permit the repetition Of the
Sacco and Vanzetti case!
Demonstrate your solidarity with
the Negro and white workers in the
United States in the struggle against
white terrorism, against the attacks
of the bourgeoisie and its social-fas-
cist and acknowledgements agents.
Check the hand Of the hangmen!
The revolutionary trade union move
ment must be the instigator of this
struggle!
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U. S.-Japanese Clash Tense; Chinese 9
Masses Face Armed Intervention
BULLETIN.

yesterday bombed Chinese troops defending Harb
against Independent" Kn
Japanese chief Banchuan city tbs
operated China and the Soviet
newspapers the increasing tension
Shanghai With the head
AMI
League conference
Ranking
dipatc reported League officials expressing the
japanese Shanghai "WOud create the
international since the World War"
Washington is reported sounding out the British
hupe7als question joint and military
actio II Far
Secretary StmOn yesterday the
OF
press the Japanese the first time
protesting against
liz No.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-28
STRIKES ARE MILITARY
TRAINING COLLEGES IN
THE ART OF CLASS WAR

"Strikes are the military train
ing colleges of the workers, they
are the schools wherein the pro-
letariat is prepared for its entry
into the great struggle which is
inevitable; they are the proclaim
atoms whereby individual sections
Of the workers announce their
adhesion to the labor move
ment as a whole. . AS r school
in the art of war, strikes can find
no equal"
. (EngeIs, The Condition Of the
Working Class in England, p. 224.)
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technique. The work is changing the
country from one of importing ma
chimes and equipment into an indie
pendent one Of producing all the
necessary equipment which was be-
gun in the first Plan. The Second
Plan assures the economic indepen-
dence of the Soviet Union from cap
ltahst countries.
The deep crisis of capitalism is the
best proof Of the approaching ruin
Of the capitalist world.
Workers of Workers Loos to USSR
The successes Of socialism in the
Soviet Union is the best evidences Of
the advantages of the socialist system
over the capitalists. In the Soviet
Union unemployment is FOREVER
abolished. All this makes the Soviet
Union the center of the worlds work.
ers and all oppressed peoples.
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eral Reserve Bank will be liberal
lied" to allow many kind Of CONNER
cial paper to be rediscounted which
cannot be at present.
Since the Federal Reserve can Is
sue notes TO the value Of 60 per cent
Of the paper it accepts for reds
counting, any increase In the COM
mercial paper which 1t does auto
matically increases the amount of
money 1t can issue and despite Pres
ident Hoover's cainouflage "sets the
printing process in motion"
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to transport the Civil Guard o.
other troops against workers and
peasants on strike
For the immediate liberation %
all working-cIass political prison
ers.
For the immediate liberation o.
soldiers and sailors prosecuted by
the bourgeois military justice.
For the immediate dissolution Of
the Civil Guard
The immediate arrest and public
trial of all the sssassinS of work
erS and peasants.
For the dissolution and expui~
sion of all religious orders
Against the government of hun
ger, misery and murder.
For a revolutionary government
Of workers and peasants,
For the Soviets.
For the Revolution. US
MADRID. Fierce repreSztys
measures against the sweeping
series of strikes in Spain marked
the third day of the general strike.
In the face of the harsheSt terror,
however, the workers Of Alicante
have come out making the four
tenth city reported thus far as
being completely tied mp by = gen
eral walkout Of workers,
The strike Of 10000 textile workers
in Manresa has now spread TO the
entire city as all workers declared a
sympathy strike with the textile
workers. In Sollano, workers en-
gagged the Civil Guards in stub
born armed battle when the city
government attempted to put down
the strike by force. Two Civil Guards
and Judge we're killed in the fight
ing which followed an attack on the
strikers by the police, The workers
stormed the city hall and burned all
municipal records.
In Seville, two workers were woun-
ded following police attack on a
group of strikers. The shooting oc-
Cured on the same street on which
the imperialist general Luis Trillo
military commander OF Andalusia,
had fred on workers lining the
streets yesterday. The plans for at
tempting physically to exterminats
the striking workers were exposed,
by the statement Of this lingo to the
effect that the general striks re-
minded him Of the Moroccan CAM
paign. At that time the Spanish
imperialists had carried on bloody
war against the Moroccan masses
Not only is the Coalition govern
ment with the support Of the social
lists trying to break the strikes by
armed attacks on the workers but
also by confusing them and splitting
their ranks. Under pressure OF the
bourgeoisie, the syndicalists issued
orders to the workers in their ,u1ion1
not TO come out on strike.
Roll up thousands Of Daily workei
subs in the fight against wage cuts
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. q. .
After repeated delegations TO the City
Council and militant demonstration
last Monday night before the City
Hall per1nia was granted by Mayor
Moore of Youngstown for a meeting
on Telegram Square for February 4th
National Unemployment Insurance
Day.
This is a victory for the Unem-
ployed Council as all meetings in the
central section of the city have been
prohibited since the riot on National
Youth Day when several workers
were shot by the police. Plans are
going forward to fill Telegram
Square on February 4th with thous-
ands Of unemployed steel workers
and their families to demand imme-
date relief and unemployment insur-
ance. Marches from several sections
Of the city will precede the main
demonstration.
LONG ISLAND, N. Yin an eff
fort to keep the masses of workers
from demading unemployment in
surance on February 18th, the William
Clinton Story Post of the American
Legion at its last membership meet
ing attended by 500 Legionaires
voted to act as a fascist band to
break up the February Attn demon
strations in Long Island.
The Brooklyn Union Standard, re-
porting this Legion meet, says:
Following a meeting of the 500
letter was sent to the District At
torney as a result of the announced
plans Of Communists to hold dem
Onstrations in the principal villages
of Long Island on Feb. 4, In favor
of unemployment insurance by the
national government"
The Legion letter stated that
these fascists we're ready to break up
any demonstration Of workers called
Gin favor of unemployment insurance
by the national government"
JAMAICA, N. Y, Jan. 2T-fn
spite Of local and county police and
dicks who must have made up fully
one-third Of the audience, the Mas
sau County Unemployment Confer
ence held last Sunday, January oath
in Hampstead was q great success.
It was called to prepare Tor Febru-
ary 4th. The show OF force which
accompanied threats in the Nassau
press that this conference would not
be allowed did not deter the delegates
and many unofncial delegates from
coming to the conference.
There were 20 labor and fra
terna1 organizations directly repre-
sented and "a individual and unoh-
ciaI delegates who came in answer
to q general mass call.
For instance from InWood there
were eight Negroes representing a
number Of lodges end churches
the mass call was read in their or
carnations who instructed them to
go and find out more about the I'M
employed movement which in In
wood has been heard of for the first
time. These delegates pledged to
give their undying support to mo-
bilize the workers Of Inwood and es-
peCially the Negroes for February 4,
and the struggle for unemployment
insurance.
Many of the delegates were elected
from groups Of workers in streets and
blocks, Fifty dollars was raised from
the floor and more pledged by the
organizations to make the February
4th demonstrations successful. Over
1000 workers were directly represen-
ted and perhaps indirectly the same
amount.
The conference pledged to support
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MORE CITIES REPORT PREPARA-
TIONS FOR FEB. 4 DEMONSTRATIONS

( the Daily Worker and the Kentucky
strike for which two stirring resoiu-
tons we're read and adopted-an Or
ganizations will attempt to raise
immediate donations and arrange
affairs.
Demonstrations we're decided upon
in the following places February 4;
Hampstead p. m. at the Town Hall;
Hicksyille $3.50 p. m. at the Court
House; Huntington p. m. at the
Town Hall; Elmont, $3.50 p. m. at
the Hampstead Turnpike; Inwood no
definite time and place. Workers in
other villages and town will be called
upon to march and demonstrate be-
fore their Town Halls and Welfare
organizations February 4th. jamaica
one of the large center of Long
Island will have a large demonstra-
ton before the court house at 1890
from there masses will go to Union
Square by truck and subway.
All organizations at conference
pledged to elect Unemployment In
surencc Committee and raise thous-
ands Of signatures for our Unenl-
ploylnent Bill. 1t was also decided
to distribute 10000 leaflets in the
towns for the demonstrations
wherever possible preliminary DEM
constructions will be held. Very good
results are expected for February 4th,
which will give an added impetus to
organization and struggle. for IN
employment Insurance and imme-
date relief.
NEW CASTLE, Pa, Jan. 27.-Pos-
ing as a liberal and a friend of the
unemployed, the Mayor Of New
Castle, Pa, exposed himself last
Saturday when he threw out a dele
CATION Of unemployed asking for
permit for q meeting on Feb. 4th--
National Unemployment Isurace Day.
He told the delegation that he would
care for the unemployed but the
delegation called his attention TO his
own statement in the local paper that
the city cannot take care of its I'M
employed and that the relief of the
city was exhausted.
The Mayor t1nally grew angry and
told the delegation that the unem-
ployed were agents of Moscow and
that he would drown every unem-
ployed in the river who would join
or support the Unemployed Coun-
ellis"
Preparations are being made for
the February 4th demonstration here
and next Sunday at political sym
postum the Communist speaker will
call for mass support for Feb. 4th,
expose the hunger conditions in New
Castle and call for support for the
workers political party in the COM
ing presidential elections-for the
Communist Party.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. I'll
I'VE will shut off the water supply
Of those who haven't paid their
water rent" says the Water Bureau
OF Philadelphia. The Unemployed
Councils of Philadelphia call upon
all workers to mobilize on National
Unemployment Insurance Day, Feb.
4th at the City Hall Plaza to protest
against death by starvation the new
suffering imposed by the city, and
to demand the enactment by Con-
gress of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
To raise money for this purpose
the Unemployed Councils, together
with the Trade Union Unity League
have arranged a Cabaret and Dance
to be held at Girard Manor Hall on
Saturday evening, January Both. 8
p. m. Tickets of admission are So
cents to the unemployed and 10 cents
to the UNEMPLOYED.
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FURNITURE WORKERS MEET
TONIGHT.

NEW YORK-A membership meet
ing of the Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union will be held Thursday,
Jan. IS, at 7:30 p. m. at 1o8 E. 14th
st. All furniture workers are invited
to attend this meeting.
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day, Jan. Is. The Japanese demands
call for an apology by the Marking
government for attacks on japanese
marines and national chauunists by
the infatuated Chinese masses, and
for the suppression Of the anti-Jap-
anese boycott and of ali Chinese revo-
lutionary organizations,
Marking Reary for New Betrayal
The Marking traitors are ready to
concede to the japanese demands,
and have already sent troops to
Shanghai in an attempt to crush the
mass nti-imperialist, anti-Kuonlin-
tang movement. Foreign observers
in Shanghai openly admit that the
Marking government is only helping
the japanese who they see as de-
termined "to take drastic action, re-
| gardlesS of the tenor Of the reply
Of the Chinese authorities to their
demands" AS usual the Kuomintang
traitors are merely facilitating the
plans Of the ilnperialists Tor armed
intervention against the Chinese
Revolution and for the partition of
China.
In the meantime, japanese marines
and troops have been landed in
Shanghai. Eleven Japanese war
ships and other imperialist Warships
are standing by ready to deal out
death and terror in their plans to
attack the revolutionary movement
in order to further enslave the Chi
nese masses. Thirteen additional
Japanese Warships are on their way
to Shanghai. Another American gun
boat left Manila last night for
Shanghai. The main U. S. Asiatic
fleet is being held in readiness at
Manila, three days sailing distance
from Shanghai. The q. S. mobiliza-
ton Of other warslnips and the army
is proceeding rapidly under the pre-
text of joint naval and army ma
neuver in the Pacific. ,All of the
imperialist powers have strong naval
and military forces III China. Their
gunboats are actively engaged hun
dreds of miles up the Yanktze Valley
helping the Marking troops against
the smashing advances of the Chinese
Red Army.
Kuomintang Aids Partition OF China
That the policy Of the Kuomintang
is accelerating the splitting up of
China in line with the partition plans
Of the impertalists is admitted by
George e. Sokolsky, in an article in
yesterdays New York Times
China Is cracking up, but the
partitions art not yet clear. It would
seem that the splits will show gov
ernments in Marking, Mukden,
Peiping, Tsiran and Canton, with
smaller units in Yunnan, Szechuan
and Chinese Turkestan."
The split between the Canton and
Marking cIques caused by the res
ignatoin from the Marking govern
ment of Eugene Chen and Sun Fo
has already set in motion the ma
chinery for a new independent" gov
eminent in Canton. The designations
Of these Canton leaders were followed
yesterday with the designations by
DR.. Huang Han-liang, Minister Of
Finance and his Vice Minister.
At present, the tottering Marking
government is headed by Chang Kali
shek and the cleft" Canton leader,
Wang Chiang-wai. This alliance is
not expected to last, however.
In the meantime, the imperialists
have been forced to admit their con-
Germ over the tremendous growth OF