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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
Steel Workers Greet
ScOttsbOrO Mother

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Dec. %. -
Over 500 steel workers attended the
Engdahl Memorial meeting at the
Ukrainian Hall last night. A large
proportion of Negro workers were in
the audience which extended tre-
mendous welcome to Mother Wright
when she entered the hall and also
when she spoke.
Huge banners decorated the hall,
which read. stop the Alabama MUIR
der drive against the Negro share
troopers" Free the Scottsboro Boys"
Free Tom Mooney Build mass
fighting I. L. D. as memorial to
Comrade Engdahl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29

nothing to do with that, that he had
to carry out the law. Mr.. Elder said,
Cliff I'm trying TO help you'll
az said: Mr.. Elder do you think
it will help me to take my COWS SO
my family can't have any milk?'
81 told Mr.. Elder, you're the law,
but I won't agree for you to get them
but to go ahead and get them
"'About that time Ned Cobb, he
come up. He said, Mr.. Elder please
don't take EN-
Mr.. Elder, he said, Boys I'll tell
you what L going to do I'm going
back and get some more men and
come back and kill you all in pilep
James then described how Elder
returned with an armed posse which
Immediately opened fire on the
choppers and rushed the cabin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
NEW JAPAN WAR
THREAT ON USSR
ReorganizingArmy for
Major Conflict
BULLETIN.


TOXIC, Dec. 28-Police yester-
day arrested four members of
reactionary patriotic society on
charges of plotting the assassina-
ton of Premier Makota Saito. A
similar plot was uncovered during
the military maneuvers in the sec
ond week of November. AS in the
case of the assassination of Pre-
mier Araki, the action was plan
ned to speed up the japanese war
drive against the Soviet Union, the
fascists and militaristS being dis
satisfied with the failure TO imme-
diately start this drive.
Huge Troop Concentrations.
The Japanese nilitariSts are CON-
pleting huge troop concentrations in
Manchuria for an advance toward
Pogranichnaya, an important Soviet
city on the border of Manchuria
Other Japanese forces are concen-
trating at Chinchow for continu-
alton of the drive into Jehol Province
and North China. Additional troops
are being rushed from Japan daily.
The Japanese war Office yesterday
announced plans for the complete
reorganization and INFLAMMATION OF
the Japanese army in preparation
for a major conflict. The proposals
include:
1. Increase of forces in Manchuria
strengthening of technical units
such as aviation, machine gun, auto
mobile and armored train detach.
mentS
2. Provision for training 100000
soldiers at home in mechanical war
fare at a cost OF 100000 yen about
$l,900,000) the first year and $780,
600 yen 3 year thereafter.
3. Extension of the military AGA
deny, intensified training of COM
pany officers, increased facilities for
training volunteer and reservist Of
ficers, establishment of new schools
to train aviation and tank corps and
schools in gas warfare.
The new Japanese war moves were
directly connected up with the Sow
let Union in the following statement
by war Office spokesman:
although Soviet Russia's atti-
tude toward Japan is at present
entirely friendly, it is impossible
to forecast the future. Therefore
we must bring out forces in Man
churia to a state of efficiency, mo-
DEGRADATION and mechanizatiOn
equal to that of the Red Army"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29

But the answer is: Not only do
we have militant butchers union,
but it is going ahead, organizing
more and more shops.
"Can't Be Done?"
The ALL. Butchers organizers,
Geft and Gusnnan say that in time
OF depression shops can't be Or
gained. They do nothing when
workers are fired with or without
notice from the shops. The bosses
see it is easy and have no fear from
the ALL. leaders, so they started
to lock out one section after another
Of the butcher workers. Wage cuts
and more wage cuts went with this,
and longer and longer hours.
In one ALL. union local there are
l40 unemployed members, and only
II ever get a days work. The rest
get nothing.
In the butcher workers section of
The Food Workers Industrial Union,
what the DAY means by cleft
union" the employed still get skilled
workers wages: $45 to $50 q week.
Every unemployed member gets two
or three days work a week. And
TIE bosses don't dare try lock-outs.
This GniSn organized is shops in
the last four weeks.
They did this, although the A.FL.
union has often tried to come in and
give the bosses all possible conces-
sionS 10 sign up the shop. ALL.
union officials and bosses unite to
attack strike pickets, get out injunc-
tons, have them arrested and SEN
fenced to 80 days or so.
Among these Is shops just or
ganized is one at 1707 Liberty Ave,
Brooklyn, three working. Next to
that shop was organized that is
part Of a chain of six shops in Brook
lyn. Their main Office, now organ
lied by that Left Union" is at 1901
Liberty Ave.
Other shops organized within the
last month are at: 286 Brighton
Beach and 298 Albany Ave, Brook
Ign. Tr the Bronx, shops we're Or
ganized in the last four weeks at:
1904 Holland Ave-, 1850 Briggs Ave-.
236 East 1914 ST., 5649 Broadway and
222 West 231 ST., and SO East Gun
hill Road.
I believe that should answer the
question asked, but not answered, in
the DAY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
PROTEST NEW SLAVE LAW IN
SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN.-A law which re-
duceS the native workers and farmers
In the TranSvaal and Natal to a DO
sition of virtual slavery has recently
been passed by the South African
government. The Communist Party
here is calling for mass violation of
the law.
This law, known as the Native
Contract Service Bill, compeIs the
native farmers living on the land of
European farmers to sign contract
Of six months duration, during
which time he will receive no pay,
but will work merely for the right
to live on the land. Those who re-
fuse to sign such contract, the law
provides, are to be driven from the
land,
In addition, the Act provides that
no farmer has the right to employ
any native unless that native can
produce document signed by his
previous employer, permitting him to
leave for a period and look for work
This regulation gives the landlords
full control over the natives move
n1ents, and enables the landlords to
tie the Africans to the land.
A native "who appears to be not
more than IS years of age" and who
breaks his contract or in any way
disobeys this law, may be punished
by whipping.
The Communist Party of South
Africa has sent out an appeal urging
the native toilers to mass resistance
of this law. The call says in part:
Native toilers in Transvaal and
Natall Refuse to sign the contracts!
Refuse to be driven away from the
land you have been tilling for years.
Form committees on each farm to
fight against the contrs"+s and the
evictions."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
Only Men in Debt
Get Jobs in Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska-There are about
5000 people here, but only 900 or TOO
working, that is STEADY, in the mine
They don't need many men, but every
once in a while.
They have an employment agent
who is also an insurance agent
When he wants man he goes down.
town and gets names of workers
from his business acquaintance, to
whom the workers owe money. Then
the man has to buy a policy. He COL
lects $25 from the poor devil.
However, this agent is one of the
crookedest men ever. Some people go
in his office all year round two or
three times a day for work. You
can see four or five hundred every
day.
They better organize themselves
and fight for immediate relief this
winter or they are going to starve.
They are hard to organize because
they are SO suspicious. Longview.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
International
Notes
COMMUNIST PARTY CONFER
ENCE DISSOLVED IN BAVARIA

ENCE DISSOLVED IN BAVARIA
NUREMBERG, Dec 5 (By MsiD -
The Communist Party Conference
for the District of North Bavaria
took place yesterday and the day pre-
vious. Saturdays session went off
without interruption, but on Sunday
morning the conference hall was
raided by large police force armed
with rifles. The hall was surround
ed and the commanding police Off
Ger then declared the conference dis
solved! He read a document stating
that the Communist Party was Sec
ton of the Communist International
and that the decisions of the XIIth
plenary session Of the Executive
Committee of the G. I. had instructed
the German Communist Party to Or
gani5e an armed insurrection in Ger
many.
This appears to be the first step
in campaign to suppress the entire
Communist movement in Germany.
Although the Communist Party is
officially legal party, recent deci-
sions of the Supreme Court of Ger
many have held that the officials
of the Party comprise an illegal or
ganization, membership in which can
be punished at any time with i'm
priSonment at hard labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
BOraX Miners on
War Production
Win Small Demands by
United Struggle

LOS ANGELES, Calf. - At the
Western Borax Companys mine the
miners enter the bowels Of the earth
to the tune of 1915 for nine hours
shift.
From this $110 is deducted for
meals, leaving the balance of $2.65
for their hard days labor. Incident
ly when a meal is missed, as is often
the case through sickness or too fati-
gued, the men are charged for it, The
nineh who works below usually takes
his lunch consisting of a few sand
wiches, and cookies. The predomi-
mating edible commodity of the sand
wich consisted of boloney or fish,
the latter being of the canned vari-
ETY..
Upon holding an underground
meeting we discussed the situation,
whereas every man piled his lunch
into the big bag, and then elected
one to be the delegate and accom-
pany the foreman to the cook house
After an hour of arguing the de-
mand was won, "That the men come
up ten minutes early and have a
hot dinner served in the dining room
in humane fashion"
Sorax mining is tough and very
unpleasant work. When one is bent
over a huge pile of this crystal like
mineral, digging his Intervals out,
the powder blends perfectly with
perspiration and causes a biting or
singing sensation which also in due
course starts a skin infection: the
eyes, nose, threoat and lungs be-
come parched.
The next big sensation comes when
we are through work and go to take
shower. The water is borax water
from the mine; after taking a bath
in this it makes you feel like cellu-
loid doll
Some of the men have to sleep
in an old warehouse which has a
beaverboard construction within, and
this, comrades, is the so-called DOR
mitory. And don't forget to supply
your own bedding!
The workers on the top side get
SIPS less than the men below, work.
ing conditions are just as miserable.
l gave them plenty of literature,
old copies of the Daily and Western
Worker, Moscow Daily News, Noon
Hour Talk on the c. p, etc.
This plant, as well as other Borax
industries are working full blast.
Why? Borax has a hundred or more
by-products which can be used for
war fare, especially explosives, and
like all other combines such as mu-
milton factories and dye works are
speeding up; while other factories
are closing or running part time.
Fellow workers, we can understand
this as preparation for the contem-
plated blood bath against the Sow
let Union, the workers only father
land.
Comrades, In every meeting ex-
pose these activities of the Borax
mines so as the masses should know,
what the boss class is doing behind
the smoke screen Of peace confer
ences and the League of Nations.
M a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
HOLLANDS CALL
Is ANSWERED
Dresser Statement to
Anti Meet
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

NSSAN OLlO 4ItOAl
bear to see them starve. We read Of
children starving to death, of the
jails being filled with young work
ers. Criminals go to the electric
chair at the age of 10 and 20. They
are the products of the American"
the capitalists way of running So
ciety. Over fifteen million without
jobs. Millions of young boys and
girls forced to leave school at an
early age to look for jobs. They find
none. Those who have been gradu-
ated from schools in the last three
years have never been inside fac
tory. Under capitalism they are
useless creatures, their potential
ability and talent disregarded and
wasted.
USSR Showed Youth Road to Life"
After the Russian Revolution,
there were hundreds of homeless
children. Apparently the Soviet gov
eminent has taken care of them, set
them on the Road to Life" We
have about 100000 homeless children,
not products of revolution, but of
capitalism's collapse. Most of them
are on the road to religious bigotry
and many to misery.
The revolutionary youth Of Ameri-
ca and of capitalist nations must
lead these millions of young workers
and show them where the enemy
lies. The World Congress Against
War was the beginning; the strug-
gle of the Communists against war
is bearing fruit.
The intellectuals are responding to
the call. And when Roman ROLAND
says he is ready TO take up arms
in defense of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics" he receives the
echoing shout of millions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
Destitute Family
Told to Gather
Weeds for Fuel

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Mrs. Chap
man, one of the women OF the Provi-
dent Association, told one family
when they applied for coal: 1--WE just
can't give you coal, Mrs. S. You will
have to help yourself some.''
When Mrs. S. asked her how she
could help herself without work of
any kind. Mrs. Chapman answered
that she knew wheer some tall weeds
grew which Mrs. S. could gather and
that she would give her so cents to
buy some slack coal and that is the
best we can do" When asked who
the "we" are, she answered: "Oh, the
Provident Association"
Workers here on the East Side de-
mand two tons of coal per family
and they are starting organizing in
order to get it. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
Last Words of Murdered Crobber
Denounced the Tuskegee Leaders

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 28.-
The death of Cliff James, murdered
Negro cropper leader, in Montgomery
County Jail followed closely on the
heels of threats of lynching him
made by the sheriff deputies.
James betrayal to the police by
the reformist heads of Tuskegee In
stitute was accompanied by vicious
lynch Indictment statement by DIR.
Eugene A. Dibble, Negro physician in
charge of Tuskegee hospital where
James had gone for treatment of his
wounds received in the battle of No
tasulga (Reeltown) when armed
posses attacked the troopers and at
tempted to appropriate James mule
and COW. In that statement, Dr.
Dibble told the police that James had
declared to him that "he was sorry
he didn't kill any of the officers"
Interview with James
A few days before his death, the
Montgomery Advertiser published an
interview with James in which he
denounced the reformist heads of
Tllskegee and vigorously repudiated
the statement attributed to him by
these assistant hsngmen of the Ala
bama lanlortls. The Advertisers
story stated;
His (James) statement, too, was
at variance with one he was re-
ported to have made to DR.. Eugene A.
Dibble, Negro physician in charge of
the Tuskegee hospital. 1t was re-
ported that he told DIR. Dibble he had
remained In his home to fight land
tfAt h would have been fighting yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
The Story of Many
WOrkingclass Women

BALTIMORE, Md.-My husband
killed himself three months ago. My
Oldest boy works in the mill, but he
only gets about two days a month.
My husband worked for 10 years for
the lumber veneer factory and then
he got blind from the furnace job.
At the hospital he recovered the use
OF one eye and then the company
rehired him for three weeks. Then
they fired him because he was too
old"
My furniture will be taken away,
as will my house, in February be-
cause I can't pay on them. I am not
going to give up. I'll fight on my
block for relief with the rest.
MRS. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29

To All Workers e Organizations!

Dear Comrades:
ON SUNDAY. JANUARY IL. A COM
BINED LENIN MEMORIAL AND NINTH
ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE
DAILY WORKER WILL APPEAR. In
cluded In its pages will be special features
and articles dealing with the life and
writings of Lenin and with the high
lights of the history Of the Daily Worker.
As the central organ Of the Communist
Party, the Daily Worker has rallied the
workers for the support and defense Of
the Soviet Union.
1t has constantly carried on the fight to
mobilize the workers in the struggle for
better living conditions, against wage cuts,
for unemployment insurance!
II fights against the oppression Of the
foreign-born workers, against deports-
tions, for equal rights Of the Negro masses
and for the freedom Of all class-war pris-
oners-Tom Mooney, the Nine Scottsboro
boys. and many others.
This combined Lenin Memorial and
Ninth Anniversary edition is great event
for all workers. We ask you to express your
solidarity and support the Daily Worker
by sending greetings to the only revo-
Iutionary Daily In the English Iansuagsl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
1,5OO RUSH DOOR
OF CHARITY Inn
Were Denied K m a S
Meal After Long Wait

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. %. =
Three thousand hungry unemployed
waited for hours in line three blocks
long in front of the Friendly Inn"
charity for a Christmas meal.
Only half of them were given
tickets. The rest, bitterly disap-
pointed, rushed the doors, and hot
fight resulted with the police guard
ing the doorway. Many aged men
and women tainted Others had their
clothing torn TO rags and their heads
bloodied by the police. But they
didn't get fed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
Renort to Iron Miners

IRONWOOD, Mich. Dec. 28-The
National Hunger March delegates
from Gogebic County, an iron mining
district, will report at the following
times and places:
Ironwood, Jan. 2; Newport, Jan. 8;
River Branch, Alonens Farm, Jan. a;
Van Biskirk, Jan. 5; Plymouth, Hills
Place, Jan. s.; Hurley, Jan. 9 and
North Bessemer, Jan. 10.
All are invited to these meetings,
and If workers and farmers in any
other locality want the delegates to
come and report they should get in
touch with the Ironwood Hunger
March Committee, Box 2o4, IRON
wood Mich.
The supervisors of Gcgebic County
have agreed without argument to re-
duce taxes on the Steel Trust mines
by S215,00O
Unemployed workers are forced to
work for clothing and groceries, and
get no cash. Young workers are
especially Disseminated gain S t..
Youth committees are being organ
lied among the jobless, and there
will be demonstrations before the
county board Of supervisors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29

FOOD WORKERS LETTERS.
Letters from food workers viii
make up the entire Worker Cor
respondent Section on Tuesday,
Jan. 3. Districts alId union groups
order special bundles for distribu-
ton. Rate: IL cents per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
Butcher Workers Organize
Is NY. Shops in One Month
Did 1t Right in the Midst of Depression, and
While AF.L. Leaders Help Bosses
BY SAM FTNKELsTEIN.

NEW foRkA worker had question
o Of
tried to "Day" they print my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29

Hold an Open Hearing on Hunger
in your neighborhoOd; invite all
jobless and part time workers and
keep a record of their evidence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
INDIANS SEND
STATE MARCHERS
Support Fight of the
JobleSs
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oND
the State Hunger March.
Work for Carrots

Work for Carrots
While the meteing was going on
the relief was distributed" A family
of five, whose head puts in a days
work on the roads, gets in return for
the toll, not cash wages tuo small
quantity of thin, frosted CARO-, wilt
ed lettuce, shriveled potatoes and Csh-
er rotten food.
While the organizing of the march
proceeds, block committees are being
organized
Pat Chamber and Jess Shapiro, field
organizers Of the Southern California
delegation, are making arrangements
for the trip up the coast They re-
port success at Santa Barbara, Santa
Maria and San Louis Obispo. At
Ventura the chief of police refuses so
far to give an answer to their demand
that the narchers be housed and fed.
Gasoline for the trucks is promised
at San Louis Obispo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29

if his crowd hadn't run away on
him.. He is also reported to have
told the physician that The was sorry
he didn't kill any. of the officers"
The Advertiser further quoted
James, as follows:
James said the trouble was about
some money he owed w. S. Parker.
Nctasulga merchant, on a 77-acre
farm he had bought in 1924 for 81 500.
He said he owed $3.50 on the farm
and had not been able to pay any
thing this year.
"Have To Sell IT.
''Mr. Parker not long ago came to
me and said: Cliff, if you can't pay
for your place I'll have to sell it. the
Negro said.
ct said, Mr.. Parker that will be
tough on US I asked him to lust
give a little time to raise something
and buck up SO I could have
showing.
"'He told me he'd give me this
years interest on the place if I'd
make note for $50 and that If
would agree to pay him the $50 could
go on and owe him another year.
L told him didn't have $50 and he
told me TO make him a note for it.
told him I would study on it,
Monday Mr.. Elder came. He said
he had an attachment on my two
mules and two COWS.
''I told Mr.. Elder that IL looked
like Mr.. Parker amt doing what he
said. and that Mr.. Parker had said
he would allow me a showing.
"Mr. Elder said he Didn't have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
New Club Hears Marchers

SALEM, Mass, Dec. 2S.-The first
public meeting of the Salem Workers
Club was held Dec. % to thear the
reports of two returned National Hun
ger March delegates from here. The
meeting was we'll attended.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-09

veranda. Observing Don Jaime at
peace in the arms of Morpheus, the
stranger removed full cartridge
belt. with two pistols, and hung his
armament on one of row of huge
spikes driven into the adobe wall
of the house. Quietly he drew an
other chair alongside Don Jaime
and disposed his tired body In 1t.
Don Jaime murmured. without
troubling to open his eyes. "Who
the devil are you?"
wake up, you lazy greaser, and
see" the visitor retorted.
"When you speak in your natur-
ally loud, vulgar and lrreverent tone
Of voice | recognize you. do not
have to look" Don Jaime spoke
perfect English, but the faintest
clipped accent denoted II was not
his mother tongue. He added in
Spanish: welcome to my poor
house II is yours. gringo."
Il don't want your poor house.
All | desire is accommodation and
food for my horse and myself un-
til morning and"
Thou graceless one" Don Jaime
murmured drowsily but without Of
fense. But what else can one ex-
pect of a Texan-and particularly a
| Texas ranger? But what brings you
here, my friend?
"a desire to be neighborly and
| to offer a slight return for your
many evidences of princely hospi-
tality-that and a natural desire to
enjoy 1t again. Since when did you
go into the sheep business, Jimmy"
Don james dark eyes opened
widely and the hint of an ever-ready
smile faded from his handsome fea-
lures, leaving them unbelievably
stern. where" he demanded.
about ten miles south of here
came across country from San Ysi-
dro and bumped into them on your
range. About forty thousand of
them. | should say, although I'm no
Judge of sheep In quantity. The
brand is Circle A"
TON Antrim's outfit. Well, II
he's only ten miles from here he's
trespassing on my range Thanks
for the information. Ken. Feed is
pretty scarce to the east OF me and
suppose Tom Antrim got desper-
ate. Yes, you have your uses.
gringo."
"If you care to run into Los Algo-
dones and swear TO warrant
charging him and John Doe and
Richard Roe and James Black and
Thomas Green and say dozen 9th.
er off color gents with trespassing.
I'll pick those boys up and lodge
them In the Juzgado; then you and