RETURN WORKERS All Tag Day Boxes Today to OF THE WORLD, Daily Worker Office, sth Floor, UNITE! 50 East 13th Street, New York DailuJJWbrkerCentral Party U.S.A. City. (Section of the Communist International) entered as aecond-claa* matter at the Post Office CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Vol. IX. No. 71 at New York. N. Y„ under the act of March S. 187?* NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932 IFoster Calls on Workers to Help MICH. GOVERNOR BACKS Detroit Workers Hail Mother ! Raise Bail for Ky. Strike Organizers Montgomery and Mother Mooney JAPAN TO SEND By WM. Z. FOSTER. DETROIT, March 23.—Hun- For three months 19 militant coal miners and strike leaders have FORD IN MURDER OF 4; dreds of Negro and white work- MOTHER MOONEY been rotting: in the cells of Plneville, Harlan, and Middlesboro, Kentucky, ers tumultuously cheered Mother Jails. Among them are leaders of the National Miners Union, together Montgomery and Mother Mooney MORE TROOPS with W.IJU, Daily Worker, I.L.D. workers. on their arrival yesterday at the Their crime is organizing the miners to fight starvation. For this SAYS “NO STARVATION” Michigan Central Station. they have been locked up in a bastille barely large enough to give them Mrs. Mooney, mother of Tom room to stand. For this they have been growing weak and sick on a Mooney, and Mrs. Violet Mont- diet of bread and beans. For this they are exposed to the rains which Even Mayor Murphy Is Forced to Admit That gomery. mother of one of the pour in through leaking roof and the water that backs up for boys legal TO USSR the BORDER Scottsboro Negro facing Many Starve in Detroit \** "£ jilt' inches on the rat-infested floor. lynching in Alabama, are on a All of these class war victims can be released for $1,350 premium joint tour of the country to help bond and $5,000 Japanese War Minister Calls for More Troops on their bail. Each of them is under $5,000 appearance “Confronting: Most Serious Emergency That build up the mass fight for the peace bond. Real estate bail has been arranged for them at a premium release of the Scottsboro boys, of to Hold Manchuria as Military Base of $66 each. Many of them are in danger of disease and death in their Ever Faced Detroit,” But Brucker Still Lies Mooney and Billings, the Harlan cells. If they escape this peril, there is the danger of lynching by the mine prisoners, the Imperial Val- Against Soviet Union rabid coal company agents and their hired killers. ley prisoners and other class-war to WASHINGTON, D. C.—lt was not many The Trade Union Unity League must immediately mobilize help prisoners. They are here to speak A “desirable consummation” of the “Man- raise this fund. Quotas must be set. Each union must raise its share days after Ford’s police shot down and mur- at a series of protest meetings. The Daily Worker, the 1.L.D., and the WM.R. is working with the League. For the first time in the history churian problem” calls for the conversion of Contribute at dered in cold blood four unemployed workers The 19 leaders are needed to carry on the struggle. once of Detroit, the stirring strains of Manchuria into a military base against the So- to the Kentucky Prisoners Bail Fund, Room 430, 80 East 11th St., New because they were in a demonstration demand- the “Internationale" were heard Fork City. in the Michigan Central Station viet Unon, Gen. Sadao Araki, Japanese Minister ing jbs or food at the River Rouge Plant when as the workers expressed their en- i:-..-.' of War, told the Diet on Tuesday. He said the Governor of Michigan declared along with thusiasm in cheers and singing. M. that Senator Bingham, was even larger forces than Japan now has in Man- in Long that there no starvation Such relief is 45 Workers left 26,000 families, formerly receiv- as is given of course churia should be stationed there, and declared in the United States. Brucker was among the ing some meager relief, to go entirely totally inadequate to keep children about 120,000 from One that Japanese troops probably be 39 governors who with their telegrams to Sen- unprovided for. Thus, and adults slow starvation. would soon Beach Trial Win Dis- persons were affected by the cut in meal a day is all that hundreds of withdrawn from Shanghai, So. China, for service in Manchuria. ator Bingham here tried to wipe out the star- the relief lists. Detroit’s school children get. An ad- He admitted that the Japanese ruling class considers the 12,000,000 Detroit is mission from W. T. Norton, vation of unemployed and their families. The situation outside chair- advance in Manchuria toward the Soviet border as more im- Brucker up by Senator La Follette man of the Feed-a-Family Fund, missal; Jury Deadlocked wired: summed portant than the aims of Japanese imperialism in the war the sentences: printed in the Detroit Times, reads: with “Facts at hand Mich, well able to care for its own.” in following- Czarist indicate “Conditions in the suburban “We are confronting the most Russia in 1905 and declared the situation arising out Party Even Mayor Murphy LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 22. the Communist and other of Detroit admitted starvation con- regions around Detroit, including serious emergency that ever faced ‘of that advance as “more serious —Judge Charles D. Wallace granted militant workers’ organizations and ditions in his city. Shortly before the Ford Massacre of March Oakland and Macomb Counties, are Detroit. You are all aware that than the Russo-Japanese War” (of the motion to dismiss the case of is thus a signal victory for the 7, 1932, when four jobless, unarmed* especially serious. Scrip is being people are hungry in our city; that 1905 >. the 45 workers in Long Beach, workers and poor farmers of the workers, asking for bread, were killed gressional Record, Feb. 2, 1932, page used to pay teachers and county people are cold; that children are FIRST STUDENT In American Imperialist circles, charged with unlawful assembly, state. by police of Detroit and Dearborn, 3190.) employees. The upper peninsula without shoes and adequate cloth- Gen. Araki’s speech has been hailed and removed the case from the cal- Mayor Murphy made the following How', then, did the city of Detroit also reports counties with much ing.” GROUP LEAVES as indicating Japan’s “return to the endar, releasing all bail. statement: meet this situation?—by taxing its distress and practically no financial “You are all aware that people are big objective’’—armed intervention “By the time February, had many millionaires to hungry to the against the Soviet Union The jury, after a stormy thirty- 1931, provide food for resources. . . . Grand Rapids is in our city,” according and its hour session of weighing the evi- Warn Anthracite arrived 48,000 families were car- the 26,000 families—about 120,000 per- feeling the need for either state or charity chairman. But Governor successful Socialist construction. The ried FOR KENTUCKY dence, filed into the court room on the public welfare rolls and sons—admittedly thrown off the re- federal relief, as their relief funds Brucker dares to claim that he is New' York Times editorially stated shortly after three o’clock in the more than 211,000 persons were lief lists? Os course not. Mayor are exhausted." not aware of this fact. yesterday: Against provided afternoon and reported a hopeless Miners for by the city govern- Murphy goes on to explain how it Total Delegation Is “The Far Eastern crisis thus deadlock. Six were for acquittal ment. . . . We were notified by the was done: shifts back to Manchuria and to and six for a verdict of guilty. banks that we could not borrow “When we were notified that our Over 150 the home front. Japan’s tactical Maloney Sellout money to carry on welfare work on standards would be limited to an situation may be thereby said to reported The foreman of the jury so elaborate a scale and that re- amount almost half of that which Communist Party Greets 50th BULLETIN have improved. Her legal and mor- vote taken the that a had been on trenchment and welfare would have was expended last year, we had, of PINEVILLE, Ky., March 23. al case stood far better before the to find the Picketing Has Almost proposal “ringleaders” to follow. course, to make our organization In a statement issued by Cleon Shanghai episode.” and the other work- Birthday of I. Amter guilty acquit Been Stopped “We now carry 22,000 families on and its administration as efficient Comrade Calvert, Pineville attorney, regard- This is an open admission of the ers. our welfare rolls. First, let me say as possible—exclude certain groups ing the students delegation, Calvert approval of United States imper- Seven of the jurors voted for and SCRANTON, Pa., March 23.—For during the height of this a half that we wanted to take care of. We The New York District ofl the rloe in the organization and strike declared, “If the visiting meddlers ialism for the Japanese war moves five againsts the proposal and it the third time, Maloney and Shuster, million people in Detroit were di- had to exclude, for instance, an j Communist Party hails the 50th struggles of the mine workers. Ar- are taken for a ride, it will not be so long as these moves are directed was impossible to reach an accord, United Mine Workers of America rectly affected by unemployment. adult couple if they did not have birthday of Comrade I. Amter, one rests, jail, brutal police assaults, only by the college and university against the Soviet Union and not in Ohio, said the foreman. At this point, leadership of the General Grievance There were between 125,000 and children; we had to exclude couples of the most devoted, fearless and intensifide his work in students.” the nature of challenging Wall Leo Gallagher, the workers’ lawyer, bodies, heading the strike of the an- 150,000 unemployed and many thou- with one child if the child was energetic leaders of the Communist Continuing his work in New' York, • ( « Street’s loot in China, stubborn, Comrade w'as very center NEW YORK.—A spirited Wade a motion to dismiss the case, thracite "coal miners in this district, sands more on part-time employ- above 16.” Party. His long record of Amter the crowd of “Shanghai has been sidetracked so the great struggles at the end of over 300 students were present at which, in face of the jury’s report, are preparing a betrayal of the strike. ment. About a third of our popu- By his own admission, then, Mayor persistent and ceaseless revolution- and the League has been duly re- of 1929-30. As a member of the March the send-off meeting given to the judge had to grant. Due to mass pressure of the men, the lation was directly affected.” (Con- Murphy and the Detroit city officials ary work, makes the life Comrade mass solved, or dissolved, into various

- of to Prosecutor Charles Devries, re- Maloney Shuster leadership was Amter an inspiring example to all 6th heroic unemployed delegation, he the first delegation students commission of inquiry. The main to was by for of Ken- alising he had no case, did not con- forced to call an “outlaw” strike, members of the Communist Party, sent to jail the Whalen Tam- leave an investigation the objective returns to view,” is the test the motion. which the men have been carrying on all revoluitonary class fighters. One many ploice. Immediately upon his tucky coal fields, under the auspices cynical statement of the New York Gov- of the founders, and always a lead- release he resumed his revolutionary of the National Student League. Tribune, Thirten workers, however, are militantly, despite all efforts of wich further declares: ernor Pinchot's state troopers, the ing fighter in the ranks of the Com- activity and leading work in the The meeting was held on the steps “Gen. Sadao appeal to still to be held by the federal offi- Charge 5 Strike Leaders Araki’s UMWA officials along with the Ma- munist Party, he has been an ex- Party as the New York District Or- of the Columbia University library the Japanese Diet for support cials on deportation charges. of loney-Shuster dlsrtict leadership to ample of loyalty and Bolshevik devo- ganizer. A staunch fighter for the and was marked with the utmost, the policy in Manchuria, which The actual trial has lasted over crush it. tion to the rank and file comrades Leninist line of the Communist In- enthusiasm and the 40 students left his reactionary group has made for five weeks, during which the vari- with he worked ternational agianst the counter-re- in a special chartered bus and auto. Sedition in Tenn. wherever nation, Maloney has already made It known the is the most authori- ous witnesses for the workers, espe- go to an early volutionary Lovestoneites and Trots- The group of the delegation, he would be willingto negoitate peace Forced to work at first tative statement of that policy that cially Sam Darcy, editor of the Comrade has given his kyists, he has been a tireless driving a ap- if Boylan and Lewis so desire. As a Johnson and four others were age, Amter which will number total of has as yet been conveyed to the Western Worker, exposed the star- KNOXVILLE, Tenn., force in the struggle to root proximately students, result, picketing has almost ceased eating their supper when the ho’ise best energies and talent to the revo- our 150 contained outside world vation and exploitation of workers lutionary movement. Joining the so- Party in the shops, to develop mass students from Columbia University, and a number of locals are returning March 23.—Tom John- was raided. They had come to atke “The army of 30,000 men, which In the United States, comparing 1902, he has been struggles of the employed and unem- New York to work. up strike relief plans. Habeas Cor- cialist party in University, City College, General Araki says is inadequate their miserable standard of living i son, Frank Stewart, Si- pus proceedings are being prepared one of the staunchest fighters against ployed masses against hunger, impe- day and evening sessions; Harvard in a situation ’more serious in with the splendid achievements In a number of collieries the best war and for the of on the ground there was no violation the morass of opportunism of the rialist defense of University, Hunter College. These some respects’ than the Russo- the workers and farmers in the fighting miners have been black- las Byrge, Jeff France im- Soviet of the law, and against the exhor- Socialist party, and against the Union. students were elected at mass meet- Japanese conflict of 1905, is not Soviet Union. listed. The Rank and File Commit- I T. Amter! and Bige Wilson, coal bitant bail. The fourteen prisoners perialist war. The name of Comrade Long life to Comrade ings in the various colleges from only in complete control of all tee issued an appeal for mass re- Many long years of his re- The dismissal of the case balks at Tazewell have only one bed. Stone Amter is identified with most of the tireless whose student body they go as dele- south Manchuria, which Japan sistance against police terror and strike leaders arrested events in volutionary activity. Long live the the attempt made by the authori- their attorney was refused permission important and significant gates. The next bus and automobile once thought sufficient to her na- warning the miners to be prepared near Tagewell, Tenn., were in Communist Party! Long live the ties, especially the Chamber of to see them. the post war clqfs struggle the group will leave tomorrow at the tional defense,’ but is In actual oc- against a betrayal by Maloney and International, and Commerce, using the infamous held over to the grand jury U.S.A. Becoming the New York or- Communist the same time. cupation of Harbin and of Russia’s Shuster. J. Taylor, International Labor De- underground Party of the Soviet Un- “Red Squad” as its tool, to outlaw yesterday no charges of sedi- ganizer of the Com- Communist Robert Hail, president of the So- Chinese Eastern Railway, What fense attorney, appeared in Harlan among firm lead- Locals are sending committees to munist Party in 1920, he was ion, under whose Leninist cial Problems Club of Columbia Uni- more does Japan’s security de- expos- tion, carrying concealed Monday in all criminal syndicalist unemployed ership, U.S.S.R. is making giant the General Grievance bodies the first leaders of the the versity and member of the Executive mand? No Chinese force is now Every shop, m'ne factory a ing their action weapons and malicious mis- cases, including the case of Saylors, Always worker, he in the struggle for complete and and to win ail the masses. a mass strides Committee of the New York Student in a position to make the situation fertile Daily miners for rank and program chief. Bond had been set at Sumners and Howard, and the cases metal abolition of classes in the Soviet Un- field for Worker sub- the file organized the rubber and League, was chairman at the meeting one-tenth as serious, in any re- scriptions. of struggle. of “banding and confederating.” The from 1925 to 1929. ion, towrad the world proletarian re- $1,700 each, workers in Ohio in which Arnold Johnston of Union spect, as was Japan’s position on cases were continued until the next prominent volution. In 1927-28 he played a Theological Seminary, Forest Bailey the mainland in 1905. No one. in- Mason, Frank Baker, court session. Join the Communist Party of U. Frank deed, can put Japan in such a hole r S.A.! of the Civil Liberties Union, Allen Grove Partin, Bill Meeks, The Winchester and Mt. Sterling Taub of the De- again but Russia, One is forced Let the work of Comrade Amter International Labor Henry Rutherford, Kelley Marlowe, murder cases were postponed until fense and a striking Kentucky miner, so the conclusion, therefore, that Fight for the Paper PICK be an inspiration to the thousands Henry Shackleford, Chris Patterson a special term of court. TAILORS “Smoky Joe” Lawson, spoke. A Mr. Yoshizawa’s reference to the Henegar, of fresh proletarian forces entering col- and Will who were arrested Knoxville papers, referring to yes- lection for relief of the Kentucky Siberian fisheries dispute, which at time, are the ranks of our Party. That Fights for You! the same charged with terday nights city counted meeting miners was taken and a substantial has for the first time in a quarter and are TODAY District Committee, malicious mischief held on DELEGATE century part declared it would be “one of the Communist Party sum collected. of a played no In bond of $250 each. Henry Rowe was stormiest sessions ever held as the Japan’s diplomatic intercourse Send Your Half Dollar! released. Communists protest the passage of Amalgamated Worker with Russia, supplies a part if not A hearing was held before Squire a city ordinance requiring a permit FSU Delegation the whole explanation of General rpHE new struggle in the anthracite coal mines Stanford at the Tazewell Court. The for public parades and meetings, and .on Araki’s appeal for sufficient force, 1 of Ohio and Pennsylvania brings out once again International Labor Defense lawyer, that all councilmen favor its pas- On Thursday evening, March 24, Long Branch I. L. D. to with the nation’s backing, to take the importance of spreading a workers’ paper to J. P. Kevett. defended the arrested sage.” Irving Plaza Hal! will be a very busy and hold what he regards as es- sentia! to his country’s security.” give guidance to the working class. The workers’ leaders of the National Miners Un- A committee of the unemployed place at 6 o’clock. The clothing Hold Mass Trial White ion. Tom was not permit- was sent protest City will get of r Johnson council to the or- workers of New York paper, the Daily Worke , publishes the facts, and ted to testify when he stated he did dinance and to present the demands together to nominate from amongst Woolworth Backs gives the miners daily guidance in their struggles. not believe in god. Wilson, Meeks, of the unemployed to the City Coun- their ranks, a worker to visit the Friday Night r Chauvinist Send in your half dollars to save the Daily Patterson, Byrge and Row e testifed. cil meeting. Soviet Union for the May Ist Cele- Hitler Fascists bration. This delegate will be one Worker. Send in your half dollars to save the NEW YORK. Determined to cific chrages brought agianst her in- With Money of the 50, who will tour the Soviet BERLIN, Marcn 23.—Last night paper that fights for the striking miners and for stamp all manifestations of white clude impermissible use of the in- Union, and upon their return report out working chauvinism in its ranks, the New sulting term "niggre”; refusal Ito the Japanese Consul of Hamburg all militant struggles of the class. to the workers in their respective seriously York district of the International visit a sick Negro worker because was injured. Five men Over in California a jury has just disagreed trades. bludgeons 100 Shock Troops Lead Fight Lbaor Defense will hold a mass trial there were Negro members on the attacked with .and In the same hall, at 8 p. m., Max Itis unknown whether the in a trial of workers whose only crime was that “ on March 25 of a member of the visiting committee: and statements knives. will speak on "World Capi- they were members of the working class party, Bedacht Long Branch section of the I.L.D. to the effect, that she has been hu- motive was personal or politicaL Against Block Aid” System talism and the Soviet Union.” This The police suppressed Rote Communist Party. The will take place be(yoe a miliated because so her association the the Mass demonstrations on meeting is part of the Anti-War cam- trial jury and audience at 619 with Negro workers. Fahne today for five days on ac- behalf of these class war prisoners, before and hundred through paign being conducted by the New workers NEW YORK.—One shock a truck which will drive the Broadway, Long Branch. N. J.. be- To further emphasize tfie impor- count of an editorial comment on large action York District of the F. S. U. Bedarht during the trial, were swelled to numbers troops went into Wednesday concentration section. ginning promptly at 8 p. m. this tance of this mass trial, two of the the police against the fascists expose imperialists’ moves through the publicity broadcast in the Daily night in the west mid-town section These street corner meetings are will the most prominent working class lead- whereby the police and the gov- Union Friday. between 42nd and 53rd Street against in preparation for the monster open against, the Soviet ers in the New York district, Com- ernment are allegedly ridiculed. Worker. Amboy section the the ‘'Block Aid" scheme, originated air meeting to be hied Friday at 5 In the Perth rade Richard B. Moore, well-known In the prosecution of the fascist Send in your half dollars to save the Daily L. D. has made great headway by Tammany. The Mid-town unem- p.m. at Columbus Circle, from where, I. Negro orator, and Comrade I. Am- leaders of the Erfurt organization your To Hold Conference among Negro workers. More Worker. Send it} half dollars to save the ployed council is leading the shock at 6:30, a, torchlight parade will the than ter, district organizer of the Com- in which Ballhoefer was named May Day Friday Negro workers have been brought only nationwide paper that works to organize mass troops composed of militant unem- march through workingclass neigh- for 300 Party will partieptate in It. on having stolen party funds, it Recently, how- munist Mooney, ployed workers in a drive to expose borhoods downtown to Bryant Hall, into the organization. Comrade Amter will act as prosecut- revealed that the Woolworth pressure to free Tom the Scottsboro boys, mi Paterson, N. J. has an was the scheme as a spy and blacklist at 42nd St. and 6th Ave. ever, there been expression ing as and Ten stores and all class war prisoners. seri- attorney, Comrade Moore de- Five contributed tin workers and work- of white chauvinism which is against militant At this indoor meet Herbert Ben- Workers in the shops and fense attorney. funds to the fascists. This re- Your coupon is on page three. Cut it out ;-c’d to place ously undermining the activities of ¦ method the entire burden jamin. secretary [of flic National ing class organization are called All workers are Invited to attend velation explains Hitler’s caution your half the Daily c, : relief upon workers by bleeU- the I.L.D, in that section. mail it with dollar to Woi' the TJnem ‘eyed Council and leader of upon to send delegates and to at- the trial. Workers from New Bruns- answer to the New York Post cor- ir. - of 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Get jour them their last penny. he I ory-making Hunger March to tend in mass the May Day Anti- A white member of the organiza- wick will attend in a truck. A large respondent, Knickerbocker’s ques- shopmate to contribute a half dollar and mail the The response of the workers was Vashington: and Carl Winter, sec- War Conference. tion by the name of Caroline Haxo, group of workers from Perth Amboy tion concerning the fascist at- will be held on has Lakewood also coupon in with a dollar bill. your neigh- enthusiastic, and while the neighbor- t etary of the Uluemployed Council! The conference who has a bourgeois origin, and are making ar- titude toward Woolworth’s German Canvas Friday, March 25, 8 p. ro. at 3 considerable dissension and rangements to attend. Members of to bors. Get your mass organization active. Fight hoods are aroused by the tntenalTi c< Greater New York, will speak. A caused branches. Hitler promised treat campiagn carried right Into thrir workers' newsreel, and the stirring Governor St. This Conference will ill-feeling because of her crass dis- the jury have been elected by work- Woolworth the same as a German for the paper that fights for you. Save the Daily tenement houses, a series of flying movies of the National Hunger work out plana for the May Day criminatory actions arid her general ing-class organizations in all of these store. Worker. open air meetings will tot held tmm March, will be show*. Celebration. attitude toward Negro workers. Spe- cities.