The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-19

Kentucky miners: to build the rev.
dictionary unions, the Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League, to fight hunger, terror and
the betrayals Of the A, r. Of L."
Foster closed his speech with q
stirring appeal for workers 10 Join the
Communist Party and Y. @. L.
I. Amter called on the workers 20
commemorate the death Of Conrade
Simms by rallying in great numbers
to the support of the miners and
dressmakers' struggles and 10 the
fight against imperialist war and de-
Tense of the Soviet Union.
LAS we leave Simns tonight"
said Amter, I'VE wish to say as was
said over the dead body Of our
German comrade, Klenke, who was
murdered by the fascists: his body
goes to the soil, but his spirit goes
to the masses"
Joe Weber told Of the heroic strug-
giles Of the miners in Kentucky and
Tennessee.
1.-THE death of Sinnns," said
Weber, was not only organized by
the coal operators and the govern
ment, but by the officials Of .ths
United Mine Workers OF AnsEeiz.
I'VE do not come here to weep,
to cry, to mourn, but to strengthen
the ranks Of the workers, to carry
on TO victory the struggle for which
Simms died. The ranks Of tbs
miners will not be broken By
terror"
Moore, Negro miner, described
the conditions in the coal fields, told
how the miners were starving while
working for a wage Of 81 20 a day
for two days a week and declared
the determination OF the miners to
carry on the struggle to victory.
Seven miners from Kentucky who
Joined the Communist Party received
great ovation from the workers.
There were miners on the platform
who faced rs years in tail in Ken
lucky on charges of criminal syn
dicalism, etc.
A resolution denouncing the tsrror
of the coal barons and the murder
of Simms and calling on the work
ers to take the place of Sinams in
the class struggle by joining the
Communist Party and z. G. L. was
unanimously adopted.
The memorial demonstration end
ed with all the workers standing
singing the international while the
body of the brave fighter vas carrisd
out by members Of the Young Com
munist League.
DETROIT, Feb. lS.-The workers
of Detroit are answering the naur-
der of young Sinns, 1s-year-oid or
ganizer Of the National Miners Union
who was murdered by the Kentucky
coal baronS by mass memorial
meeting on Sunday night. T:3o pm.
at Northern High School, Feb. 81.
On Woodward Ave. and Clairmont,
Detroit. This meeting called by the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League shall voice the
determination of the Detroit work.
ers, old and young, to rally to the
aid Of the striking miners.
Already over 20 mass organizations
recognizing this act of the coal bosses
as an effort to smash the strike
struggles Of the Negro and white
miners of Kentucky, have sent reso-
Iutions Of protest to the governor Of
Kentucky, demanding that the ter
Tor against the miners be stopped.
BOSTON, Mass, Feb. ia Har-
ry SinnlS Protest memorial rally
will be held in the Boston vicinity
on Saturday, Feb. 20, at pm. at
the New International Hall, a We
nonah Street, Roxbury, under the
joint auspices Of the Communist
Party, the Young Communist
League, the International Labor
Defense, Workers International
Relief and the Trade Union Unity
League. Nat Kaplan and Lowell
Wakefield will be the speakers.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. a.
A mass protest meeting under the
auspices Of the Communist Party, the
Trdae Union Unity League will be
held Friday night at Humboldt Hall
against the murder Of Harry Simms.